I took a number of days off in the first half of the year coinciding with PD (professional development/inservice) days at school. NPY will do it too, if I tell him I’m not able to, but he also likes to create for himself four-day holidays taking a day off after a long weekend. To be…
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Side hustles & passive income & entrepreneurship
I tell you, I know how my mother would react if I told her I wanted to start a business. “You don’t have the education for that. How will you succeed?” Or did I just internalize a lot of stuff. I sure as 1,000% don’t want to own a bricks & mortar business, have employees…
March Break 2023
The first year Kiddo was in elementary school, I took one whole week off. I had plenty of vacation to burn after having returning to work from mat leave just two months earlier. Last year and this year, I only took three days off. March Break (or, as they call it around here “Spring Break”)…
Summer plans 2022
This blog post will be a “live document” that I’ll add to until summer wraps. We kicked off summer with a three day, two night trip to Whistler on June 24-26. We went to Whistler last year with my sister over Canada Day weekend and it was great and feels familiar and comfortable and firmly…
Kiddo’s 7th birthday party
In his frustrated moments, NPY says that Kiddo is spoiled to have a birthday party every year. I don’t know what NPY had growing up but I had one every year and it was available for a while after I wanted them. It was never at a venue – I think – but instead in…
Summer begins
Summer begins several times for me…. June 21, 2022 – the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. June 26, 2022 – we’re back from Whistler and while packing away and laundering stuff, also setting up the AC because we returned to a heat dome event. June 29, 2022 – school is out for…
A slice of life
For the rate that I post these days, I do in passing think about combined the two domains but it’s not so expensive, the .CA domains with built in privacy. When the restaurant isn’t footing the bill for hosting I’ll have to think about another, cheaper hosting. I just don’t want to give up either…
Year in review 2021: Music
When I look at the songs that I downloaded this year, it seems to reflect a lot of the moods but also the fun discoveries. Download? Yes. I’m a dinosaur and instead of letting Spotify take over my life, I want to have a collection. I really hate YouTube Music that took over Google Play…
Kiddo’s first virtual Conqueror challenge (Inca Trail)
Between gorgeous medals, rapid-fire new releases, new release specials and their fifth anniversary registration special, I (we) are now signed up for enough Conqueror Virtual Challenges to take us years LOL. The challenges I’ve registered for are a mix of “high & low” (longer and shorter distances) and the aesthetics of the medals reflect what…
Three weeks off
I must have been so annoying when I was chortling with delight – I really hate that word, so I use it now – about my three weeks of summer vacation. But it’s now over and I’m back to my full work schedule, too “9-5” instead of 1.5 hours less each day. I made my…