Tag Archive | positive change
My Student Loans are History, Part 1
I just paid off one of my student loans this week! I feel elated! I’m free! I’m light as a feather! This feeling is amazing! I wish I had more money so that I could pay off the other one right now, it feels so good! That’s a lot of exclamation points… but I totally mean […]
Gratitude Gems: Dog-Gone Distracted!
Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! My gratitude is coming late this week as I’ve been a little distracted… we got a dog!! Finally, we got a dog! I won’t get into the saga that adopting a dog has turned into over the last […]
Gratitude Gems: Handy Hubby
Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! My husband is pretty handy. Yesterday as he started to build a couple of garden planters, one of our new neighbours came over and asked if he was a carpenter, to which he replied, “No, my dad just taught […]
Gratitude Gems: So Many Reasons
Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! In contrast to last week, today I find myself feeling thankful for a great number of things. For example, we went camping this weekend and though it rained all day on Saturday, Sunday and today were lovely sunny days […]
32nd Year, 32 New Goals
I’m 31! Yep, my birthday was almost a month ago already, which just goes to show how time flies when we’re super busy! We just moved at the end of March, so since the new year our lives have been consumed with finding a new place, getting things at our old place in order, organizing, […]
Adventures in Chess – Argh!
I’m really not good at chess. Try as I might, even with my hubby 3 pieces down, he’s still able to corner me and take me down. And I really, really suck at losing. Honestly I’m astonished that he’ll even play chess with me anymore. We played twice again recently and, surprise, surprise, it didn’t go well. I […]
There Goes My Year
A year ago I finally took a chance and I started a blog!! A blog, people, a blog! I’m a blogger. What?!? This was one of the goals I made for myself on my 30th birthday – I love to write and I needed an outlet and I decided the whole world was just waiting […]
Accident-al Reflections
Life can change instantaneously, and the ripples created can spread as far as the eye can see. One second I have a car and a dog, and the next I have neither. That day was terrifying, excruciating, and life-changing, and recovery over the last 10 months has been difficult. But I have recovered. Shortly after […]
Taking Back the Black Hole
We have a dirty little secret. Literally, it’s filthy. And I suspect it’s not really that secret, from our friends and family at least. But we’re still shamed by it so we keep it hidden… again, literally. I take some small comfort in knowing we’re not the only ones with this particular problem but still, […]
Some Thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions
Since mid-December I’ve been thinking about New Year’s resolutions, both in terms of purpose and recognizing the cliché. Now that January is almost over, I thought I’d talk about making resolutions any time of year, and why January maybe isn’t the best time to start. In typical English nerd fashion, I’ll start with a definition: […]
Life Loofah 