http://obvious-child.com Living this crazy life one day at a time... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:20:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/156 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/152 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/149 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/140 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/135 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/134 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/133 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/132 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 ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/131 This is some photos that we've taken driving around town... you can tell we're country folk when we go to the 'big city' (which is a town) and take pictures of everything. But, some are kinda neat... it's still about 25 minutes from where we live but thought you may ... http://obvious-child.com/archives/130