First, I'd like to make the obligatory comment on the wonderfulness of technology by telling you that I'm typing this on a bus. A bus that not only has outlets for me to plug my laptop in, but also has free wifi. Thanks, Greyhound! Currently I'm somewhere in the District of Columbia, where we will be stopping before continuing on to Richmond and ( Read more... )

what did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
-became a permanent resident of Canada!
-got a permanent position at work
-drove to Ohio and spent a week there
-successfully got EI (after a denial and appeal, but still)
-knit a pair of socks (and then a second one)
-rented a cottage with my girls for the weekend
-went to a live hockey game
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Epic entry will be epic! Consider yourself warned ( Read more... )

Day 11- Put your iPod on shuffle and write ten songs that pop up.
Day 12- Bullet your whole day.
Day 13- Somewhere you'd like to move to or visit.
Day 14- Your earliest memory.
Day 15- Your favorite livejournals.
Day 16- Your views on mainstream music.
Day 17- Your highs and lows of this past year.First let me just say how much I really would ( Read more... )

I'm doing this one a little bit earlier than I usually do, because I was thinking about it, and this really has been quite a year of firsts for me.

what did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?*Got a work permit to work in Canada ( Read more... )

End of year/New Year's survey stolen from thejoysofjess

what did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
- Drove all the way to Florida by myself
- Graduated grad school
- Completed an internship
- Became a Nationally Certified School Psychologist
- Turned 25
- Moved to Canada
- Got a Canadian job offer
- Applied for a work permit
- Got a visitor record

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New year OMG wooooooooo! 2009 feels a little unreal still, but the new year usually does in the beginning. Nothing like 2007, though - for years, 2006 had been like THE year that mattered. It was the year I'd be graduating, the year I more or less defined myself by (hence why almost all of my screen names had 06 in them). Not that I hadn't ( Read more... )