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I’m resigned that in the future, I have to live in the “‘burbs” and drive or (shudder) take transit to get to work. One day, I will have a live-in partner and we decide together where to live. Until then, I continue to be loathed to have more than a 10-minute walk to work, hah!
At first, I thought I’d get a Concord CityPlace apartment, perhaps even in LV’s building. But Lil Sis and I noticed the Pinnacle development and particularly their amenities. During a whirlwind tour …

While it seemed like everyone was throwing up Year in Review posts at the end of December, I was too busy living those glorious holiday/time-off/traveling days. So, a few days behind (but this isn’t my real new year anyway), here is my first ever Year in Review blog post.
January I went to Toronto twice, once on the way back to Vancouver from spending Christmas in Halifax and once for Lil Sis’ graduation ceremony. I was in month 3 of being really restless about my future and over breakfast that Leo …

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I thought I would save time writing out this blog entry in my notebook in the odd downtime but–what do you know?–on a bleary red-eye flight on Tuesday-Wednesday, I left it on the airplane! Oh well, I needed to move on and start using a new notebook anyway.
My mini-holiday to Vancouver over Christmas could be described as perfectly splendid. I want to do it all over again but in fairness, I think next year will be in Halifax and it will be 180o different. Sniff, sad already.
Friday. …

Yikes, so we closed November 2011 and my NaNoWriMo word count is 27,638, half of a fairly short 50K-word novel. I outlined quite a bit ahead but life happened. For full disclosure, I actually wrote seven days’ worth in October (!) because I knew I would be in New York 1-7 November and only wrote 8 days in November proper. :o
My very first gap in writing started on 11/11/11, the day I went from unemployed with no prospects to unemployed with future employment. Then there was the scramble to get …

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On Monday, as we were watching the latest episode of Being Erica, I noticed the ad spot inviting watchers to submit a 15-second video of themselves enjoying McCain Ultra Thin Crust Pizza for a chance to win a cameo spot in an episode in the final season of the show. The final 10 videos will be chosen by the judges then voting is open to the public.
Me, shoot video? Expose myself like so? But somehow the idea stuck with me because as opposed to gratuitous and uninvited video, …

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I recently learned Big Uncle and Second Uncle (my mother’s brothers) are working on the family tree and some documents have been circulating between them. Although I attended a one-night Chinese geneology seminar at the VPL over the summer, I have no idea what Chinese family tree and history documents are like. There was the family tree page, of course, with the names of all my male ancestors dating back six generations. There were also pages and pages of a poem or story that Second Uncle, a …

After four tense hours of driving between Toronto and Detroit (I am not a long-distance driver so I applaud myself on that one) we tucked into our Westin Heavenly Bed, heads nestled in Heavenly Pillows, breathing in heavenly spa by Westin white tea aloe scent diffused throughout the hotel, and I had a dream that–surprisingly–I ended up remembering when I woke up.
In my dream, I was having a meltdown because I realized that I might not be able to accommodate two invitations to go camping, one from an aunt and …

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He says, “Happy 1st Birthday to D–!”
Indeed! It’s so hard to believe that D– has entered our lives and our married friends’ lives have changed so much as those who have married approximately five years ago moved on to the next stage. Earlier this year, we attended another first birthday party where I bought clothes and felt a twinge because the birthday girl was far more interested in imaginative gifts like toys. So, before I left, as much as NPY and I like buying …

We just got back from a surprisingly nice weekend to “the Island” (Vancouver Island)–food post coming soon, of course–and the rest of the month, one more week, promises to be busy and stressful. This is one of those annoying “I’m too busy to blog” posts.
On Friday, I’m writing the first exam I’ve written in several years and the darn thing is worth 90% of the final grade. While studying during the week, I also have to arrange selling or getting rid of all of my furniture and packing things up… …

I hate to admit it but sometimes I find it difficult to get into CBC television programming. I like Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Tudors, but if there is a large demand for what gets recorded with my PVR, CBC shows tend to get the short stick. Thank goodness for getting complete seasons on DVD and long summer days….
The premise of Being Erica has been vaguely familiar to me: by some mechanism, a grown woman gets to go back in time and re-do significant life events. Anyone who is plagued …