Exactly one year ago today, I loaded up the car and drove eight hours solo, with only Rex and a queue of podcasts for company, to move from Calgary to Kelowna. The entries from my one-line-a-day journal from this time last year are kind of nuts; … [Continue reading]
Feel The Heat
It's Getting Hot In Herrre We are having day after day of hot, sunny weather, and I am here for it; this is what I have always dreamed of experiencing in the summer. I love it. When it comes to outdoor activity, it is a little toasty, and … [Continue reading]
Poison
My husband is always incredibly supportive and encouraging of anything I decide to do, and so last August when I told him that I wasn't up to teaching yoga in our new city - the thought of starting over was overwhelming and discouraging, and it felt … [Continue reading]
What Have I Become?
One thing I didn't realize would happen, with a retired husband and children no longer in the public school system, is that long weekends don't really register for me anymore. Every weekend is a long weekend, therefore no weekend is a long … [Continue reading]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Landscaped Edition
I realized just as I wrote that title that I have a sugaring appointment this afternoon, but lest you get the wrong idea, what I am going to talk about today is NOT that kind of landscaping. It's full on summer and I am enjoying the gorgeous … [Continue reading]
Joy (pump it up pump it up now) Pain (keep it going keep it going now)
Recently my husband and I were at a birthday party for a friend; a video of that party was created and shared with me. I watched it, my eyes widening, and then I watched it again. I called my husband over to watch it with me. Do I really look like … [Continue reading]
Influential
It's been a hectic week, full of super-boring and tedious errands and chores, including, but not limited to, Costco, Superstore, the post office, the mall, a meeting with the lawyer to get our updated wills signed, and not one but two trips to … [Continue reading]