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Friday Fun Link – Find Out What Your Name Would Be If You Were Born Today

This site uses census data to match your name’s popularity the year you were born (Jason = #3 in 1973) with the same ranked name from this year (Mason = #3 in 2015) as well as some other years as well. For the record… Shea would be Amaya Pace would be Abriel Sasha would be Zara […]

¶ Posted 22 May 2015 § Family § FridayFunLink § Meme § Pace § Sasha § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, language, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The NDP Surprised People By Taking Quebec, Alberta and…

…soon! (Photo from June 2006 when Shea and I took a caravan of library school students to Ottawa for the CLA conference!)

¶ Posted 07 May 2015 § MemoryLane § Politics § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, travel

Friday Fun Link – How-Old.net

Microsoft recently launched a new site called How-Old.net that went viral due to its use of fancy math algorithms to guess the ages of people in pictures you upload. (Full warning – Shea read some article on Facebook saying the site has fine print that Microsoft obtains rights to re-use your photos or something so […]

¶ Posted 01 May 2015 § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cool

Saturday Snap – New Playhouse

Sasha loves her birthday present…

¶ Posted 18 April 2015 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Before Target, There Was Zellers (September 2009)

Target is now closed for good in Regina after teaching a lesson in how not to run a business. (I still remember reading an interview with some Target big wig right before they opened who said something like: “Oh, we don’t intend to have lower prices than our competition. We’ll price to match the market.”) Even if […]

¶ Posted 02 April 2015 § Canada § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

26 Cruel & Funny Lies Parents Told Their Kids

I’ve had many of these told to me by my parents and now, I’m doing the same to my kids – it’s the circle of life! 😉

¶ Posted 22 March 2015 § Family § Humour § Pace § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, language, parents

Saturday Snap – Some More Dominican Republic Pics (From A Waterproof Camera)

My waterproof camera started acting up halfway through the trip – not quite dead but definitely not working well either. So once it started being tempermental, I stopped using it in the water. Luckily, my mom brought a disposable waterproof camera so we had a few other water pics… Shea loves my Tom Cruise circa […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, travel

Five Funniest Moments During Our Trip To The Dominican Republic

Before the trip, Pace and I kept playing The List Game (“Name five things you’re going to do on the beach”, “Name five things you’re going to eat at the buffet”, “Name five things you’ll do on the plane”) and that’s continued after our return home. Tonight, we (okay, mostly *I* since the things Pace remembered […]