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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Toasting Our New House (November 2019)

This week was the three year “house-iversary” of us moving into our new place. Cheers to us!

¶ Posted 24 November 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

A 41 Year Old Addict Says Good-Bye (And Shares His Observations and Regrets)

The amount of stress I’m seeing in the world right now is overwhelming.

People I know from Ukraine and Iran worried about home. People navigating our Covid-filled world whether they’ve never tested positive or tested positive multiple times. Parents trying to find needed badly needed medicine for their kids while teachers face half empty classrooms. People who don’t know if they can afford their next months’ rent or the extra fees being charged by schools. People battling addictions and mental illness. People sleeping in ER hallways or in cold back alleys.

Sometimes it feels like everything and everyone has an edge right now.

But then you read something that helps restore perspective about how amazing life is, no matter how bad it seems…

I wish I had not worried so much about the little things. I wish I had not worried so much about the numbers in my bank account or the punch of the time clock. All that time working. I had enough money to keep a roof over my head and to invest in what few hobbies I had, yet I still kept racking up overtime. And for what? Only to find myself here. It all came to nothing in the end. I robbed myself of the most precious commodity I had, time, in exchange for green pieces of paper and little metal discs. A perverse and twisted trade. Only now do I see the truth.

¶ Posted 23 November 2022 § Meme § Randomness § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, philosophy, reddit

Happy House-iversary To Us!

Hard to believe we’ve been in our house for three years today. And what a wildly unexpected three years it’s been!

Of course we didn’t know it at the time but when we ended up moving to a house that was a little newer, a little bigger and a little better than the starter home we lived in for fifteen years, this house ended up having a lot of things that made it perfect for the arrival of Covid – a south-facing, sun-drenched home office that we didn’t have in our old house and which was perfect for working from home, a backyard that opened onto a large green space with a nearby park which was perfect for socially distanced walks, plus a lot more room generally which would’ve been useful if we did have to isolate from each other (which luckily never happened!)

¶ Posted 22 November 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics

Music Monday – In Which Jason Programs The Grey Cup Halftime Show…

Nothing against Florida-Georgia Line but it’s right there in the name – no connection to Canada, let alone Saskatchewan.

In fact, two of the three performers in the halftime show were American and the third was from Ontario.

Why you wouldn’t feature Saskatchewan artists on a giant stage like this boggles my mind.

Using a similar format to what they did (three different performers – oh wait, another difference – I’m also including a woman as one of them!)

So how’s this for a setlist?

“I Think About Savanna” – Blake Berglund

“Town to Town” – Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine

“Laila Sady Johnson (Wasn’t Beaten By No Train)” – Belle Plaine

“Is It Cheating” – Belle Plaine and Colter Wall

(And then, depending on how you wanted to end, mellow or a bit more rocking, one of the following songs – either with Colter Wall solo or joined by the other two who are all friends in real life…)

“Thirteen Silver Dollars” – Colter Wall

“Western Swings & Waltzes” – Colter Wall

¶ Posted 21 November 2022 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan, television, unitedstates

Secular Sunday – Decorated For Christmas Today…

The top decoration is one my mother-in-law stuck onto the back of my car at Christmastime years ago (and yes, I think I drove around for a week or more before noticing it!)

The other one is a camping neighbour from when we had a seasonal site at Echo Lake Regional Park. I made the custom “Kiss My Ass” pictures for a holiday party with our camping neighbours the following December.

¶ Posted 20 November 2022 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, parents

Saturday Snap – Tumbleweeds in the Tylenol Aisle

Good thing the pandemic’s over or else I’d worry about this shortage of children’s medicine!

(Funny story – we’re out of kids’ meds at home too and Sasha’s been sick a lot lately so Shea asked the pharmacist and managed to snag a mini-bottle of kids’ Tylenol. Then we got home and didn’t see it after unloading our groceries. Shea looked at the bill and didn’t see it on there either. “Was someone so brazen to grab it out of our cart when we weren’t looking?” we both wondered. Woke up this morning and Shea realised we had one place we hadn’t looked – a bag full of Xmas gifts that was stored immediately in our bedroom closet without it being emptied. I go and check and…there’s the kids’ Tylenol. Then I look at the bill a bit closer using my librarian super-skill of “searching by last three numbers of the barcode” and find it immediately. The code for Tylenol was a bit obscure “CTYB” and the price was a lot lower than we expected it to be – under $10. But again, it was a mini-bottle, not the bigger one we’d normally buy so understandable how we missed it.)

¶ Posted 20 November 2022 § Family § News § Politics § Sad § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health, science

Friday Fun Link – Crocheted Dog Hats

Life goals ??pic.twitter.com/8r7rGP66fm

— Pastor Alex (@PastorAlexLove) November 14, 2022

¶ Posted 18 November 2022 § Animals § Charlie Echo § FridayFunLink § Humour ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – CW: Possible Butt Crack (April 2013)

Our neighbour sent us this photo, taken from her kitchen window, of me trying to fit more stuff into our recycling bin at our old house. Also probably an OH&S violation…