This is the way I’ve been naming posts this year, playing catch-up on summer activities posts in late September. So I’m slotting this in, this remarkable 10-day episode this year that can’t be ignored for the other pleasant things that happened. I had posted about this on September 25 on my Instagram which may have…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E09 “Subspace Rhapsody”
Once upon a time, I would blog about the Asians in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds because (1) Asians on TV and (2) it’s a show I watch and love. But it feels like a potentially bad idea however much I want to highlight Christina Chong (La’An), Rong Fu (Jenna Mitchell) and Andre Dae Kim…
August 19-27: solo parenting trip to Halifax
As we wrapped out our to Halifax in last year in May, MY said, “We have to do this every year,” more so to herself because – who can enforce that on others? This year in May, we went on a cruise so I planned for a summer trip. The flight prices are at the…
Better living: Swapping out secretary desk for standing desk
When I was preparing to return to work in January 2021 after 18 months maternity leave, only NPY had a “home office” which I created in a corner of the living room. I thought secretary desks were cute, and clever to hideaway the clutter. I wasn’t keen to add another desk like NPY’s if I…
July 23: double birthday party
Earlier this year, Baby went to a jungle gym party for her daycare friend turning 3 where the family rented out the whole jungle gym in the morning. Thereafter, she expected a party when she turned 4! After years and years of park parties, I decided to save myself the grief of setting up a…
July 14-16: camping at Alice Lake
After a one year “hiatus” in 2022, we went camping again this year! In 2021, after a schoolyear with Covid, we went to Fort Camping in Langley with the OTs, Chos and Aus. The OTs and us, we rented cabins because we didn’t have equipment and it was our first time since high school for…
June 24-26: graduation, Whistler, Peak 2 Peak
As “per usual”, NPY booked our annual Whistler trip in June (one week before Canada Day weekend) back at the end of 2022, when his annual travel credit card rewards were about to expire. Based on the positive experience I had at the Whistler Village Pan Pacific last year, I didn’t want to try out…
Darned injury
I don’t want to write about it but it forms a relatively large part of Life Right Now. On July 10, Kiddo was out of camp and we went for a walk to the library. He brought a soccer ball to make the walk more fun for him and he egged me on to dribble…
Spring-Summer 2023 wardrobe refresh
Dress for the body you have. Wear clothes that fit and they will look fabulous. It’s the confidence you have that makes the clothes look fabulous. So much stuff to fill your ears and mind and to drive consumerism. That being said, because I’m seriously in some danger of losing track of what I buy,…
Conqueror Virtual Challenges
Have I register for a whole pile of Conqueror Virtual Challenges? Yes, undoubtably. I don’t know how many, I can’t remember which ones and which are still on my wishlist, which ones I want to do before others. Every now and then, they have a bulk discount and the ones I gather on my wishlist…