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Headtale Blog Birthday Review

Continuing my birthday week festivities, thought it might be nice to review my posts on July 18 since this blog started…

I guess the other big realization going back through the years like this is that I’ve been blogging, pretty much on a daily basis for over seven years.  This blog has increasingly been a great way for me to remember different significant events in my life – both personal ones like birthdays but others too – when was the first time I mentioned Facebook?  What did I write about some library issue in 2009?  And so on.

Okay, two days left to the big 4-0!

Posted 16 July 2013 § Blog § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “They say life begins at 40/Age is just a state of mind/If all that’s true/You know that I’ve been dead for 39”

Probably no better song to post this week with three days left in my 30’s, written by the best songwriter of my lifetime!

“Life Begins at 40” – John Lennon

Posted 15 July 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

“A Mother’s Prayer” – by Tina Fey

And a father’s prayer too (especially that part about not lying with drummers)… 😉

Posted 14 July 2013 § Baby § Humour § Meme § Sad § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Nickle Lake Hail Storm

Spent the weekend at Shea’s parents’ seasonal camp site at Nickle Lake.  Had a bit of an adventure as there were tornado warnings on Saturday afternoon.

(When Pace was a baby and we found ourselves in similar circumstances, we headed for town.  I often joke about “Second Baby Syndrome” and Sasha suffered it here as we decided to stay in the campground instead of heading for safer ground.  Luckily, the worst we got was hail.  Others, only 15 minutes away, weren’t as lucky!)

Here’s Pace running in the rain before it got really bad…

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My father-in-law got about an inch and a half of rain in about half an hour…

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After the hail, Pace decided to go “skating”…

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We didn’t have time to clear off the deck completely before the storm hit…

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The clean-up crew… (a neighbour joked that “Only in Saskatchewan do we still end up shoveling snow and ice in July”)

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We didn’t get golf-ball sized hail like some did but pretty close (and luckily we weren’t on the highway for it either!)…

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Surveying the aftermath, there was damage to tents, awnings, vehicles and more…

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with much of the park underwater…

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Luckily, nobody was injured, either at the park or in any of the other areas affected as far as I’ve heard.

Posted 13 July 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – 25 Signs You’re Addicted To Books

This one made the rounds on social media awhile back but I’m posting it here for truth – I agree with pretty much everything on this list!

Posted 12 July 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

10 Fun and/or Memorable and/or Unique Things To Do With Your New Baby

  1. Take a photo of your new baby every day after they’re born
  2. Or you can take a photo of the baby every few months with a favourite doll
  3. Write a book for your new baby
  4. Write them a song
    (I won’t put audio of this one but the song I’ve sung to both Pace and now Sasha goes…
    This is my hair/It’s way up there
    These are my eyes/They play “I Spy”
    This my my nose/It smells where I go
    These are my lips/They’re fun to kiss
    This is my chin/It helps me to grin
    These are my cheeks/They’re full when I eat
    And these are my ears/They help me to hear
    And this is my face/I take every place/Except outer space (or whatever rhyme suits the occasion – “Except this parking space”, “When I’m having a race”, etc.)
  5. Take some fun baby photos 
  6. Take a really long video of the baby as it sleeps (I have this but haven’t uploaded it to YouTube yet because, although cute, it’s also quite boring)
  7. Create a baby-themed Tumblr that’s guaranteed to go viral  (this is getting into toddler/pre-schooler land, I know)
  8. Pretty standard but make a cast of their hands/feet
  9. Another standard one – keep a baby book which tracks growth, milestones, etc. etc. – although digital versions are growing in popularity
  10. Oh, and don’t forget you can start taking photos of the baby before it’s born! 😉

    Bonus: Saw this idea on a mommy blog and thought it was great.  Ask family and friends to not give a card (which can cost $5+ unless you shop at the Dollar Store or something and instead, ask them to put that money towards one of their own favourite children’s books and put an inscription in the book!)

Stages of Childhood

Posted 11 July 2013 § Baby § Family § Humour § List § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Because Imagination Has An Unlimited Budget For Special Effects

GRRM, a producer on the “Game of Thrones” TV show provides a great visual example of why books are almost always so much better than TV/movies.

This is a comparison of the artist’s rendering of his vision of The Iron Throne and what they eventually got…

[Edit: I’m an idiot – GRRM is an acronym for “George RR Martin”, the author of the Fire & Ice books and this rendering was *his* vision!]

Posted 10 July 2013 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Why Is the UK Losing Its Religion?

“Because they’ve thought about it.”

But the times they are a-changing, and if the world wars of the 20th century began to erode religious faith in the west, then the proliferation of the world wide web has only exacerbated that process. “Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever, and this is all breaking down,” asserts Daniel C. Dennett, the co-director of Tufts’ Centre for Cognitive Studies.

Posted 09 July 2013 § Internet § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “You got the Mormons and the drinkers and the Mormons who drink/Well pay attention ‘cause it ain’t as simple as you think”

I posted this song when I attended a Hammond family reunion a few years back so it’s only fair to post it again (live version this time) as a very enjoyable Peet family reunion comes to a close…

“Family Reunion” – Corb Lund

Posted 08 July 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

It’s A Small World (Or At Least A Small Province)

So after yesterday’s post, I got a comment from a friend that he was related to the Peets who are from the same area as my mom’s family (Mom’s maiden name is Peet). After a few messages back and forth, we determined that the connection was that my mom’s cousin was married to his stepfather’s brother.

Then, later Shea and I were at the beach when Pace came running in from the water: “Dad! Dad! That guy out there says he knows you from university.” I looked out to where he was pointing but couldn’t make out the guy. So I went out for a swim with Pace and as I got closer…I still didn’t recognize the guy. But after chatting a bit, he said we had a few English classes together and he wasn’t sure why he remembered me but he did.

Embarrassingly, I was drawing a total blank on who he was – even after he told me his name and that we’d been in some classes together (I usually think of myself as someone who’s pretty good about remembering people’s faces and often little details about them – eg. sharing a class – even if I’m not the best at remembering names. It was doubly embarrassing because I don’t particularly think of myself as memorable in my undergrad years to be remembered by people, especially in comparison to what I was like in my Masters program where I was much more outspoken and active.)

Then, to put the cherry on top of this random connection, when I tell him I’m now a librarian and that I was responsible for his hometown as one of the rural branches I supervised in my first job, it turns out that his mom was the assistant librarian in that branch and I even attended her retirement party!

(In fact, that experience has become my “go to” story for why working in a rural Saskatchewan library system is a very unique experience. The quick version is that I drove four hours round-trip to do a five minute presentation at that retirement party! Yes, I stayed longer than that but still a four hour round trip, even if I stayed at the party for an hour, is something you simply don’t end up doing at an urban library system!)

Posted 07 July 2013 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: