I was very tempted to give up on mini-wrimo this year and just not write at all after Extra Life. My heart didn't seem into it, or anything and today I simply felt too tired (I blame Extra Life and the time change, and will go to bed shortly). But then I turned my computer on to see if I could churn out a few words and at least write anything ( Read more... )

So I keep mulling over the idea of starting up a new blog on the Medium platform instead of continuing this one, and then I just choose to keep writing here partly for comfort's sake. I mean I've written here since January 2004 and it still works ( Read more... )

Won't be a traditional one this year, really. Seeing as family have started to post/send their wishlists my way again, I figured it was time to type a bit about mine. And mine is pretty simple. I still have my Amazon wishlist which I try to keep updated with items I find around the internet and Amazon that I might actually rather appreciate, though ( Read more... )

I'd like to think not. I mean, I know that my idealistic ideas of what it was to be an adult when I was a child are not what adulthood is all about, but my wants/needs/desires currently are a bit more realistic. I want a job where I can feel helpful, where I can utilize some of my skills and knowledge, and where I can make enough that I can keep up ( Read more... )

Yesterday at 10:15pm I emptied my locker, handed in my first aid room key and other items that I no longer needed, hugged folks goodbye, and left Save-On-Foods. It was my last shift as an employee of this wonderful store where I worked for 14 years. I am fortunate to say that I worked with some amazing folks -- not all of whom I was fortunate ( Read more... )

I don't often talk politics directly online. But I feel like I ought to capture a bit of my reaction to tonight's dramatic shift in the political landscape of Alberta, which I realized only AFTER the end of a very bizarre day (which included working 15% Tuesday, voting, some interesting observations, playing awesome arcade games at Denizen Hall [I ( Read more... )

Lately there's been a lot of talk about whether working for free is worth it. And the consensus is no, no WORKING for free, unpaid internships etc. are not usually worth it. That said, volunteering is often placed in a completely different category than those jobs where someone is devaluing work by not paying someone for it. And rightfully so ( Read more... )

Today I could write about a number of things, from the fact that I had people over for board games (and round food) last night, or the fact that I watched the season finale of Doctor Who this afternoon (after I finally got vertical enough to transfer myself to the couch to watch the episode). And I probably have much to say about both (though I ( Read more... )

Life has a tendency to provide ups and downs but one thing that's a constant is change. And change is hard (and I don't just mean the change that is given back after a financial transaction though that too is hard! ;) ). 2014 has been a year of change for me, and that might be one of the reasons I chose not to blog for months at a time and why I'm ( Read more... )

This topic comes up every time we shift from Standard Time to Daylight Time or back to Standard Time. The reasons we chose to have a time change aren't necessarily all that relevant anymore. Saskatchewan and Arizona do pretty darn well without changing clocks, so why do we all have to deal with this change? And given that it happened over Halloween ( Read more... )