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Surprisingly, I don’t have a long drawn-out story for the items we’re saying goodbye to this week.  Paddy is throwing out a DVD that never worked, and I am donating some romantic comedies that have a significant layer of dust on them.  Blame Netflix or my recent addiction to sci-fi/fantasy and really bad disaster movies,… Continue reading one thing a week, short and not-so-sweet

Well, it seems that we’re always a week or so behind in reporting, but we are making the effort to pick one thing each week – I promise! For week 7 I had to say goodbye to some old picture frames, and it was rough.  As a photographer (and a person who doesn’t get to… Continue reading saying goodbye to more things

It’s been a long time since I’ve been out shopping.  Over summer there were moving expenses to plan for, and since then my job situation has been such that we’ve been keeping a close eye on spending money (while we pay off the remainder of those nasty moving expenses and try to stomp out our… Continue reading Trading Up (week 6)

I’ve never really had much of a problem finding work. When we moved to Fredericton (despite a minor panic attack at the prospect of a whole new – and bilingual – job market) it was simply a matter of walking down the street and talking to a couple of shop owners.  Before that, I was… Continue reading Looking for Work

One month in, and I’m really enjoying this one-thing-a-week challenge – it feels great to be getting rid of some of the excess stuff we’ve accumulated, and week 4’s choice is making this apartment feel a bit more like ours. When Paddy first moved in here, the previous tenants offered to leave a few things… Continue reading Throwing things out … and making the place feel a little more like home!

(beware all, this might be a little on the sappy side!) I have been so blessed to have had one set of grandparents with me for so much of my life.  My grandparents on my mother’s side passed on much earlier – early enough that my sadness at their passing was empathetic:  I was sad… Continue reading Remembering

Now that I have myself a full time job (still working shifts, sadly) it’s been getting a bit tricky for Paddy and I to actually spend time together.  So, when my schedule was actually open this past Sunday, it was an opportunity not to be missed.  Being Remembrance Day, of course our day started out… Continue reading spontaneous date adventures are the best!

New city means new adventures, and Toronto Island was our first stop.  (I think Paddy was keen on showing me some of the natural pretty away from the huge skyscrapers that have been overwhelming me lately – and it definitely worked!) We picked a partly cloudy Saturday for our adventure and set off in optimistically… Continue reading Toronto Island

Well, it’s been quite the adventure, but we’re finally starting to get settled in in our new city. After a week of packing, moving and un-packing, the apartment is even starting to look a little bit like home.  Hopefully by the time garbage day rolls around I will have gotten the office sorted and some… Continue reading new city!

This summer I have created a Maritime bucket list:  all sorts of things I want to do on my last summer (for a while) on the east coast.  Fundy wasn’t even technically on the list, because we had managed to see it a couple of times over the years that we’ve lived here … but… Continue reading a little Fundy adventure