1 word survey: Can. Only. Type. One. Word. Not as easy as you might think ( Read more... )

After "But I digress" our family's motto probably has something to do with doing it later. I tackle this habit by doing things immediately or never - there seems to be little middle ground when it comes to procrastinating for me. So I'm often to be found doing things now that aren't due for months ('cause otherwise they won't get done) or busily ( Read more... )

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So . . . never one to resist a challenge I too have set up a photobucket account and am having a go at posting a photo in the hopes that I can help Megan answer the deep question "how do you get them to be little?"

This is a picture of the Vancouver skyline taken from the Coast Inn on Stanley Park a couple of years ago.


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As you all know, cleaning is not my favourite thing. But the house looks so good these days that I am inspired to at least have a go at keeping it that way. So this weekend involved vacuuming and mopping and all that stuff - I even did a window or two. There is less and less stuff just lurking on the floor to move out of the way which helps a ( Read more... )

I am stuck in a school without email access (at least through the school system) and feeling rather cut-off from the world. There are all these things that I should do but they involve sending people stuff by email, or asking questions by email or whatever and now I'm unable to do them. I have resorted to several 'getting up from my desk' tasks ( Read more... )

I told you it would be infrequent ( Read more... )

FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE ( Read more... )

It is November - that means report cards at the school - the teachers have been great this time round and I have already been able to print several classes worth for my boss to read through. (Also already reprinted several corrected ones.) She isn't too sure about the way I have been doing report cards as it is sort of non-standard (in that I, ( Read more... )

Things are mostly settling down around here - the house is fast approaching the finish point (and about bloody time all our friends will say) and work is mostly under control (just in time for report cards ( Read more... )