After being a student for like…. ever, and completing my studies…. and waiting for a job to fill in the void, I’ve had time on my hands. Yes, it’s been less than 2 weeks since I’ve finished but I am absolutely bored stiff.
And, I’ve been getting into the post-school funk…. the one where I [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2008 by admin
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A few weeks back, Canadians went off to the polls to decide who would run their mighty country. The six-week campaign and election cost an amazing $300 million dollars.
$300 000 000 dollars. That’s a lot of zeros.
Canada’s estimated population is 33,390,141. That works out to just under $9 per Canadian to foot the bill for [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by admin
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Warning: A long, meandering post which touches many subjects without going into one specifically. Sorry if I jump around, I’m just writing what comes to mind Mii’gwetch!
On January 22, 2008 I began this blog. My first entry was entitled, “New Beginnings” and I believe now more than ever, I can truly say that. At [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2008 by admin
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Warning: A long, meandering post which touches many subjects without going into one specifically. Sorry if I jump around, I’m just writing what comes to mind Mii’gwetch!
I can’t believe it. I’m absolutely, positively FINISHED school. In the past three months I have got both my Bachelor of Arts and my Bachelor of Education! I’m an [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2008 by admin
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As autumn draws to an end and winter approaches, Thanksgiving seems to be a time when for some of us, our lives draw to a close.
In late 1998, my grand-father Scotty passed away from a sudden illness. He was in to see his doctor on the Friday before Thanksgiving, given a clean bill of health [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by admin
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Classes are finally over and I have just my last placement to do and then I’m finished! This has been a very busy, long year of classes and more classes but the end result is a finished BA, and a near-completion of a B.Ed! I still have a bit to go with my goals but [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2008 by admin
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Soon yet another chapter will close, as I finish up the last little bits of school. I still need to do my placement but I’m not too worried about that. I found out I can do it in two spurts this year (instead of one long one, which we had to do last year) which [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by admin
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With about 16000 square feet of yard, you can imagine that it’s a pretty big job to keep up. But our problems go further than just a lot of grass to cut. Most of our grass is a very poor quality because we live in an area that used to be an ancient ocean and [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by admin
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We aren’t totally finished with the pathway yet but we’re on our way! We still need to get a few more blocks to finish off the end where the path leads into the gated yard and a lot of the bricks need to be leveled and then finally, add the little rock thingys, er… stone [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by admin
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This past week we had to go to Ottawa and ended up staying at the Novotel (which I can’t say enough how it rocks because it let us bring Uma with us AND it was professionally decorated in a very nice, hip style)… which of course, brings me to the ideas I got there for [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by admin
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