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Well, you may have noticed not much new is happening around here. That's because I'm doing my posting on My Created Life these days. After about a year of contemplation, I've made the decision to merge my two main blogs. I'm going to put this blog (Thinking Out Loud) up on the shelf labelled "Days Gone By", and continue on with My Created Life.It's been a very difficult decision to make, but I

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Well, here it is, folks. I've arrived at that ripe old age that no one believes you actually are when you're honest with them. I'm 39 years old. Not "39 and holding." Not "39 for the fifteenth time." Just plain old 39.I shouldn't say "old", exactly. I don't feel "old" per se. I just kind of feel like I've grown into myself. I remember when I turned thirty, and my mother-in-law told me

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Hi!Just posted a progress picture over on My Created Life. C'mon over if you'd like to see how it's shaping up!I wish I'd spent more time hooking this week, but c'est la vie.

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I know I've been kind of quiet here lately, but even I got sick of listening to myself whine about the weather. The final straw came early last week, when we had more than 40 cm (16 inches) of snow dumped on top of us (and all the previous snow that had fallen since December).It was pretty much my breaking point, leaving me curled up in a corner, whimpering softly to myself. The weather,

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I have several posts in my head (like the recent "weather bomb" that buried us in more than a foot of snow; progress on the rug; geocaching adventures; hugging horses, etc.) but I'm just not up for it right now. I swear, my head is an entire percussion session these days.Piper's take on the "weather bomb", however, can be found here.I'll play catch-up with you kind folks later.

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Moose skating on the roadOriginally uploaded by ~CelticCastOn~This is from my friend, Kelly.I told you it was icy here!

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I spent the best parts of this weekend hooking my little heart out, and I'm so excited to see it develop. Have a peek for yourself. (Click it to see it larger)

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Taking a break from hooking to pop in and say hello. Hope your Valentine's Day was a good one! Hubby and I went out to lunch at Mexicali Rosa's. The plan after that was to come home for a bit, and then go to a movie, but this low-lying headache I've had for days on end now wanted a nap.The rug is coming along nicely. I'm really pleased. It's exciting to see something in your head and then be

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The night before last, I had severe "rugger's block". I'd decided that my promise to myself to not start any new hooking projects until I'd finished the other two simply meant I wasn't hooking at all. In fact, I think it had been since last August, and since I was going to an all-day rughooking retreat, I needed a new project.On Tuesday night, I sat there staring at a blank piece of linen that

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My hubby loves me. He really is thoughtful in so many ways. For example, because he knows I get so cold, particularly sitting at the computer, when he saw the ad for Snuggie ("The Blanket With Sleeves!"), he picked up the phone and ordered one.Well, he'd hoped for me to open it on Christmas morning, but they were backordered, and the package finally arrived today. It contained not one, but TWO

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If I look out my window on this sunny Saturday, I can see snowshoe tracks in the distance. These are not tracks I've made, but I am, nonetheless, responsible for them. Some intrepid geocachers have braved the waist-deep snow to reach one of my puzzle caches, and have left their marks behind. Looking at those tracks this morning made me smile.What makes me grumble, however, is the fact that

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Haven't got quite enough Diet Pepsi into the bloodstream yet this morning, but I've gotten my 2317 pieces of paper under control, so the day is off to a great start!I came in early today, partly because my car is in the shop (power steering decided to be optional, rather than optimal), but mostly because I was starting to feel like the paper was starting to get a little out of control. I have

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For the last few months, I've been following the work of a local artist named Jessica Doyle, after seeing some of her work for sale in a framing shop. Her work is such fun -- whimsical and colourful!In celebration of the launch of her new blog, she's having an art giveway! Check out her work and the details here.(I especially like Sunflowering Times, Emily the Fish and The Nameless Ones... no.3

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A man had 50-yard-line tickets for the Super Bowl. As he sits down, a man comes down and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him."No," he says, "The seat is empty.""This is incredible," said the man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world, and not use it?"The man replies, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. I

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Yesterday was a great day for geocaching! I went down to Calais with some caching friends, and the highlight of the trip for me (besides finding Chubby Hubby ice cream!!!) was logging my first international cache!One of the guys on the trip loaned me his snowshoes, so when I got home, I set out to move my latest puzzle cache. The listing had been rejected because it was too close to another

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You know how sometimes you have something on your to-do list and you just have a hard time making yourself do it? Something that normally you'd enjoy doing, but, for some reason, this time around it just doesn't want to get done?I'm so there right now.Part of it is just the time of year. I know that, and knowing, as they say, is half the battle. I also know that the longer this task hangs over

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... they will come.It's been an exciting few days around the house, especially for me and Piper. On Saturday night, you see, I placed my very first puzzle geocache. A puzzle cache (for the unaddicted) is a geocache listing where the posted coordinates are fake, and you must solve a puzzle in order to determine the cache's real location.I had fun designing the cache and the puzzle, but the real

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I've just finished reading this amazing book.Check out my thoughts here.(Now, to put in time until the next one ...)

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Well, our snowstorm turned into a freezing rain storm, and it looks like everything has been dipped in glass. When Hubby went to shovel the front steps, he found a thick layer of ice covering wet snow covering slush. A pretty little mess indeed.Knowing full well that I wouldn't go outside unless I had to, I asked him to start my car for me on his way to work. (Given the option of going out or

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After a while, you get so used to staying inside that you simply don't go out again. Given the insanely cold weather we're having, I was afraid of that happening, and I was afraid that if I let Betsy sit any longer, she wouldn't start.So I finally dragged myself out of the house today (after bribing Hubby to start my car). The lure to get me out? The only thing that would work -- books.I just

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Warnings: Saint John and County4:51 AM AST Thursday 15 January 2009Wind chill warning for Saint John and County continued. Wind chill values of below minus 35 expected this morning tonight and Friday morning.An extremely cold Arctic airmass will persist today tonight and Friday. Light to moderate northwest winds will produce wind chills between minus 35 to minus 44.(whimper)

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Wow -- I hope the rest of winter goes this quickly!You've probably been wondering where I've been (although the Twitter feed at the left would have given you a pretty good idea). It's been a pretty hectic week, but things are coming back to normal now. You should have seen Piper and Zaphod when I walked in the door at lunchtime yesterday. Piper went absolutely bonkers, and Zaph refused to let

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There are so many things I love about the holiday season, and towards the top of the list is choosing, smelling, decorating, and sitting in the glow of my Christmas tree.This year's tree (pictured left) did not get decorated until Christmas Eve, which is pretty late. And now I'm about to go downstairs to take it down. In this house, that's pretty early. You see, I dread taking it down. It

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I'm beginning the journey again. The little voice inside my head said it was ready, so I'm going to believe it. I haven't heard that voice in more than three years.Since it's part of the life I'm creating for myself, I thought it only right that I keep track of it on My Created Life.Please feel free to leave comments. I thrive on them.

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When my late grandmother was moving out of her house and into a seniors' apartment complex several years ago, one of the pieces of furniture I was given was a large handmade yellow and green cabinet with storage compartments.My grandmother did a lot of cross stitch and other embroidery work, and the cabinet was full of spools and bobbins and skeins of floss and thread. My youngest sister had the

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Christmas was good, and it's been a nonstop happy dance since. My sister Krista and her family came up today to watch the Sea Dogs play against the Halifax Mooseheads, and aside from the fact that Halifax won, we had a good time. *grin* This was after a great family meal at a local restaurant which included exchanging of gifts.Everything was great until Hubby and I pulled out of the parking

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My husband.Tow trucks.My husband.The tailor who put a new zipper in my winter coat so it closes now.My husband.XpressPost.My husband.A gorgeous tree waiting to be decorated.My husband.My husband.

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So, we had a wicked storm last night that is now spitting freezing rain.Betsy, my car, is stuck halfway down our steep, narrow driveway, with a house on one side of her and a fence and trees on the other. She has also died -- the engine won't turn over.At the top of the driveway is my husband's car, the car that needs to be at the family business in an hour.Eighty-nine days 'til spring.

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Here it is, folks! The picture that allows me to log my 100th find! This particular cache is a webcam and in order to claim the cache, you have to have someone at home capture a picture of you on the webcam. I had to hold a sign with my geocaching name on it, and my face and GPS had to be clearly visible. (The GPS is in my left hand.)Given that it's only four days to Christmas, naturally I

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I have a theory. I bet if you observed someone who had been marooned on a desert island for months and months, he'd still act differently on Mondays. He'd have a harder time waking up. He'd move slower. It would take three times as long for him to get the fire started, and a seagull would poop on his head. (Of course, if you just observed him for months and did nothing to help him, I'm not

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Hi, Gentle Reader!Just thought I'd say hello and let you know that I'm making some progress on my rughooking frame cover. I've posted some pictures on My Created Life.It's been a busy weekend. The shopping for all sixteen nieces and nephews is all finished, though, and my cold is on its way out of town. For that, and Simon and Garfunkel, I am thankful! *grin*Talk soon.

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Only 99 days until spring!They say we talk about the weather too much in Canada (so I've heard), but really, it can be just plain bizarre here. For example, we had a night full of snow and freezing rain (mostly the latter). Everything is covered in a thin sheet of ice. Now it's raining on top of it, as the temperature climbs.The real crazy part, though, is the forecast for this afternoon.

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Creating makes me happy, and in the winter, I can use all the joy I can get! *grin*I've decided that I'm going to try to create something -- anything -- every day, and post it on my other blog, My Created Life. Having just made a couple of holiday-themed ATCs, I've just posted them over there.Feel free to take a peek!

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One of the more intriguing (and yet frustrating) aspects of SAD in my life is that I tend to become nocturnal. I suspect that the amount of sunlight isn't enough to send clear enough signals as to what is "Day" and what is "Night". That, coupled with the intense drive for sleep during the day, gets me all turned around. This isn't something that normally happens until February, but, like

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Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart.To a customer, service.To all, charity.To every child, a good example.To yourself, respect.- Oren Arnold

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My first conscious thought this morning was how nice and cozy I felt, lying in bed, listening to the wind and snow blowing around outside, with a little black and white dog nestled under the covers, curled up next to my hip. (Yes, that's one heck of a run-on sentence, but I don't care very much about grammar before my eyes are open.)Piper is a good little dog; we're very attached to her and she

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So, last night I watched Question Period on CPAC (which is essentially the Parliamentary Channel). I watched various politicians rail and stomp and applaud and hurl words at each other (all through the Speaker of the House, of course), and it was all very entertaining. But I'm pretty baffled.First of all, I don't envy Michaelle Jean, who, as Governor-General, has to sort this mess out somehow.

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Lisa Vollrath is having another countdown!Head on over for some great holiday printables. (This is my favourite Advent calendar!)Thanks, Lisa!

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I usually get a little glum this time of year. Part of it is purely biological -- the dark days aren't good for my poor little brain. But more and more it's that I feel myself hating the holiday season, or, to be more precise, what the holiday season has become. In so many ways, it's now nothing more than a commercial feeding frenzy.While I understand that this year's "Black Friday shopping

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My goal was to have 100 geocache finds under my belt before the snow flew. Well, I made it to 90, and considering I didn't start until September 20, and there was a sprained ankle in there (and now bronchitis), I would say I did pretty darn good.Even before I got out of bed this morning, I knew that it was snowing. The wind sounds different when it's blowing around the white stuff. We're

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In geocaching, there is a whole lingo that it takes a bit to get used to. TNLNSL means "Took nothing, left nothing, signed logbook", for example. Also, there is a great deal of prestige in being FTF ("First To Find") when a new geocache is first posted on geocaching.com.Well, today I discovered the mixed emotions of being LTL. If FTF is "First to Find", then I'm declaring LTL as "Last to Log".

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Dear Paul Gross,Thank you so much for making Passchendaele. By making this movie that finally shows Canadian soldiers in WWI combat, you have single-handedly given Social Studies teachers in this country new material to show how and why Canada became her own nation during that conflict, and now students will finally "get it".I can't tell you how excited I was when I first saw the trailer and

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Sorry to have disappeared off Planet Earth. Too many terrestrial concerns at the moment. Nothing bad, just stuff. You know how it goes.This year's edition of Seasonal Affective Disorder seems a lot more "affective" than usual. I'm wandering around in a zombie state usually reserved for much later in the season, after months of lack of sunlight. You know, like February. In February, my

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Thank you, Fawn!

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Just got home from the hospital. Ankle is sprained. The snap-snap I heard was likely the ligaments across the top of my foot letting go.So ... Ibuprofen every eight hours, wearing two or three sports socks on that foot, ice four times a day, and, oh yeah, it could take three months for the swelling to go away.If it were broken, I'd at least have a cast and a nice obvious reason for limping

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I'm taking the ankle to the hospital after school today. Actually, Hubby will be taking it, along with the rest of me.Standing on it and walking around on it are not two of my favourite things at the moment, and as stubborn as I am, it hurts enough that I'm thinking I probably should get it looked at. I was also talking with another teacher who has a degree in kinesiology and is very involved in

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The vet called this morning with the results of Piper's tick from a few weeks ago.Bad news: I was wrong. It was a black-legged (deer) tick, the species that carries Lyme Disease, and not the harmless wood (dog) tick as I had thought.Good news: Piper's tick tested negative for Lyme Disease, so she's okay.We'll get her vaccinated and then have no more such worries.I think Hubby is even more

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-88095984672117085752008-11-02T11:04:00.003-04:002009-07-30T00:44:00.768-03:00

I've found 17 caches in the last 48 hours. I would go find more, but I've been grounded.Yesterday, you see, I went out caching with my brother-in-law Calmen and his son, and walking back to the car down a wet, grassy slope, I had a little accident. The grass under my right foot let go and my right leg went sliding downhill with the rest of my body lagging behind. My ankle made several snapping

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Usually if the week has been too busy to blog, I catch up on the weekend. Well, this past weekend was even busier than usual.On Saturday morning I got a phone call from my sister, Krista, in Halifax. Her father-in-law was in the hospital and she sounded like she could use a hand, so I hopped into my car and drove down. I arrived on Saturday and then left to come back yesterday morning.Although

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Baby, it's cold outside!It's the first evening this fall when I've felt the urge to eat a big ol' bowl of comfort food, put on flannel jammies, and go crawl under about eight heavy quilts, with the dog, the cat, a hot water bottle, and the remote. (Hubby can come if he promises not to let the heat out.)Life has been busy (geocaching, hurting my back, teaching, etc.) but I'm too cold to tell you

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If you go down to the woods todayYou're sure of a big surprise ...At about eleven o'clock last night, after getting home from searching the site of a former lunatic asylum, a flagpole, a bunch of big blue recycling bins, and a deserted parking lot, armed only with a flashlight (guess who lost her Palm, only to find it in the car?), Hubby, Piper and I hopped into bed for some much needed rest.As

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For those of you who are wondering how/why I've become so addicted to geocaching, I have posted my answer on My Created Life.Since one of the added benefits of this obsession is that I'm getting exercise and losing weight, it seemed most appropriate to post it there. Enjoy. I'm going caching now, before the muggles get up. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

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I'm trying to hit #100 before the snow flies. Wish me luck! Only 64 to go ...

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Piper and I graduated from our first agility class tonight!(She still doesn't know "target", but that's okay.)Visit her blog for her take on it and the video.

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There's a special place in my heart for the Halifax Mooseheads. After all, they are my second favourite QMJHL team, and the first junior league hockey team I ever saw play. My sister, Krista, has been a Mooseheads fan pretty much since they first took the ice back in 1994, and my niece Emily has been a serious fan since she was in the womb! (She's now the unofficial team mascot, I think, given

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In the sidebar you'll note an indication that it is now October: I have placed my NaNoWriMo participant's icon.For those unacquainted with this literary adventure, NaNoWriMo is short for "National Novel Writing Month", a yearly November endeavour in which writers all over the world strive to finish a 50,000 novel in just one month. According to their website, this banner will show my progress

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(Click the picture for the video on YouTube.)After being away since they left Halifax in late July, the HMCS St. John's returned to port yesterday. (The newscast didn't quite get it right; although the ship helped out in Haiti in early to mid-September, that was on their way home.)In any case, Emily and her Canadian flag were ecstatic to see "Daddy's boat"!

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Can you grieve the loss of a truly loved one you have never met?Since 1995, I have been part of an extremely close-knit online group of dogowners. Besides talking about our dogs, we share each others ups and downs, successes and challenges, joys and heartbreak. It is difficult to put into words just how much we share each other's lives, and how close we really are.Shan has been one of the

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Given that we are about to get hit with a massive dose of water courtesy Hurricane/Tropical Storm Kyle, Piper and I decided to get in some geocaching before the storm hit.We went out to the **GYW**Saint's Rest Marsh cache that we helped place last week, then found two other caches that we looked for but couldn't find (A View with a Cache and Park and Grab with a View) last Saturday. Finally,

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Let's hope that Hubby's repair job to the roof is as good as it looks! *grin*

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Well, since I knew that this weekend was going to be a wash-out, weather-wise (besides plain old rain, Tropical Storm Kyle is actually going to make landfall here in the next 48 hours), I decided we'd better cache before it got too bad!Piper and I headed out at 7:30 AM and went to It Comes from Below. I had been here earlier in the week, with my dad, but because there were children hanging

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Well, the teacher I've been filling in for since Day One of this school year returned today. I've gone back to being a day-to-day substitute. No more lesson planning. No more trying to keep track of 9632 pieces of paper. I came home today after looking for a geocache, then hung out with Piper at the Bark Park for a bit. Then I ate supper and played The Sims 2. And now I'm going to bed.No

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-15129232419301762482008-09-21T19:20:00.008-03:002009-07-30T00:46:05.146-03:00

Last night was an event I've been awaiting for months: the first home game of the Saint John Sea Dogs' fourth season.We hosted the Foreurs from Val D'Or, QC, and all evening, it was "Val D'Or -- no score". A shut-out for the home opener! Not too shabby, guys.The slogan for this season is "Our Team -- Our Time", and the festivities yesterday were certainly, well, festive. They had a fan party,

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Geocaching is something I've wanted to do for quite a while now, and my brother-in-law Stephen (an avid geocacher) keeps inviting me, but something always comes up. Well, when I found out that the school club was having its first meeting/hunt of the year, I decided that it was time to check it out. And, because I knew she'd love it, I took Piper along too. (Note: She's wearing her official

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School has been a bit surreal the last few days, and will be tomorrow as well. Our school has lost a member of its family, and the sadness in the hallways is tangible. My normally boisterous classes on Friday were practically silent.A year ago, Jonathan Ingersoll was healthy and happy, charming his teachers and cracking jokes. Around Christmastime, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and although

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-80907370660383629472008-09-13T20:19:00.002-03:002009-07-30T00:52:48.069-03:00

I can't tell you how overjoyed I was that I didn't have to go in to the school today. In fact, I was so overjoyed that I went in anyway. I was there almost five hours, but I got a lot of stupid, piddly little stuff that kept getting shoved to the back burner done.Then I came home and ate ice cream and took a nap.(Somewhere in there Piper hurt herself, which was pretty upsetting, but it's

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-1507436329136496312008-09-10T19:08:00.002-03:002009-07-30T00:22:05.208-03:00

I'm feeling pretty tired again tonight, but it's an okay kind of tired. It's the "you've been working hard -- you'll sleep well tonight" kind of tired. I feel like I'm getting the hang of this somewhat regular teacher thing, and although today wasn't 100% hunky-dory, 80% of it was close enough. *grin*(Do people even say "hunky-dory" anymore?)Piper and I start agility tomorrow night. I'm

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Dear Universe,Thank you for the reminders today of why I'm planning to go scrape teeth. Please don't feel the need to remind me again tomorrow. Okay?

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I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm teaching tomorrow, my headache is down to a dull thudding, and the dog and the cat are just sitting here quietly with me. In a few minutes, Hubby will come in and we'll all drift off to Dreamland.The topic in Family Living tomorrow will be "what is a family?"Well, this is mine. :)

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- The unsettled weather seems to have settled in my head. It's hurting ... bad. Bad enough that I requested a substitute teacher for the substitute teacher.- We're having an election. The campaign just started today and we'll still be finished well before the Americans.- Hanna did a pretty good job of soaking us. The eastern part of the city is probably still underwater and the rain stopped

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-17923166494043628132008-09-07T08:47:00.003-03:002009-07-30T00:49:38.721-03:00

Well, as I type this, Hubby is climbing around up in the attic, trying to find the source of the puddle he just discovered in his office. It has been a deluge all night, and the worst of the rain isn't even here yet. That's supposed to be around 1 PM, which, coincidentally, is the beginning of Piper's last obedience class. My street is already flooded and it's really looking wild out there.In

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Hi there. It's me. You know -- the 38-year-old girl who used to blog here. The same one who has spent the last four days juggling 863,046 pieces of paper and 140-some teenagers.I'll write something coherent in the morning, when I'm conscious again.Right now I'm fascinated by the fatigue-induced hallucinated plotlines of the ads on the TV Guide channel.In French.

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It has been four months and nine days since the last time the Saint John Sea Dogs played a game at Harbour Station. And for this hockey fan, those 131 days have been long!I'm not the sort of hockey fan who can quote stats and predict which team will win the Cup. I'm not even the sort of fan who really knows exactly what's going on all of the time. I'm the sort of fan who stands behind her

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-55725579352686527102008-08-28T21:49:00.000-03:002009-07-30T00:37:24.095-03:00

Just a quick hello. I'm pooped!I worked yesterday and today, attending the "beginning of the year" meetings. It's not something I've done before, and I found it to be pretty interesting. Usually everything is well underway by the time I'm walking down the halls, surrounded by 1100 teenagers. This was the first time I really got to see the nuts and bolts of education, and I was fascinated.The

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-68542758185579525532008-08-26T22:47:00.000-03:002009-07-30T00:37:24.095-03:00

So, I'm heading back to work tomorrow. Although the students won't be there until next Tuesday, I'll be filling in for someone on Day One. For that reason, I'm going to attend the administration days so I know what's going on. Part of me is in shock that my summer is over, but I'm pretty psyched to be going back.Went up to River Gallery with Dr. Munchkin today. I love going up to see Sande

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I want to scrapbook tonight. Problem is, I don't really have any pictures that call out to me.In many ways, this blog is my scrapbook. I journal, share pictures, and generally keep an ongoing memoir. My personal scrapping style has always been very "documentary". Now that so many scrappers are into basically taking one picture and embellishing the heck out of it, I kind of feel like I've been

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-69615686734155114672008-08-23T19:14:00.007-03:002009-07-30T00:52:48.069-03:00

It was quite the adventure.Hubby saw online that there was a piece of land for sale in the middle of nowhere. Just for the heck of it, he decided to go check it out, and Piper and I went along for the ride. And when I say "the middle of nowhere", it's pretty accurate. It took three gravel roads to get there!After navigating with the help of three maps (including the main one which happened to

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The dark side to this infernal coughing is that I've been unable to sleep for the umpteenth night in a row. Within ten minutes of my head hitting the pillow, I start coughing. If it doesn't abate within ten minutes, I get up so that I don't wake Hubby (and Piper, who would think it was morning and therefore would go find a tennis ball).There is a bright side, however. I'm finding it oddly

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I can't believe that it has been a whole year since I brought this little girl home. Happy Adoption Day, Piper!

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So, I won't be attending a chemistry course at the local university in a few weeks.Click here to find out why.(It's a good thing.)

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One of the things I really love about rughooking is what got me interested in it in the first place: looking at some of the amazing pieces of artwork that people are creating.This past week many of the rughooking blogs I read featured posts from/about Sauder Village which is a yearly rughooking gathering in Ohio (I believe).Gene Shepherd is a rughooker extraordinaire. His book, The Rug Hooker's

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-37072721192434297102008-08-21T10:15:00.005-03:002009-07-30T00:52:48.071-03:00

One long, pavement-right-up-to-the-base-of-it wall. Piper and I have to do our homework.We're taking obedience lessons and working on "heel" this week. The idea is to have Piper walk between my left leg and a substantial object so that she has to stay in position. In class, we practiced with chairs, going around and around them. At home, we have tried this too, but I'm a little woozy on my

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I didn't even get to sleep this time before the coughing made me get up.I'm sore, and exhausted, and I just want to sit down and have a rip-roaring old-fashioned ugly cry.And then eat pizza.And Kentucky Fried Chicken.It's just a cold, for crying out loud! Why is it taking so damn long to go away? I'm doing everything I'm supposed to -- lots of fluids, tonnes of Vitamin C, and all the other

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Not much news to report today. The biggest excitement I had was going in to the school to do some alumni association work. We worked for about three hours or so -- wore me right out. I've only got two weeks before I need to be back in full form! Where on earth did the summer go?Fall is actually my second favourite time of year (taking the silver medal after spring taking the gold). I'm

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So I haven't watched much of the Olympics. (I only watched a few minutes of the opening ceremonies because I stumbled across it and Canada was about to enter, flag waving. so I waited to cheer them on.) Does that make me a bad person? It's not a boycott. I'm just not into it. I'm more of a Winter Olympics person to begin with, and, even then, I don't think I've even followed the figure skating

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SisKris and Emily arrived from Halifax on Thursday, and on Friday the three of us plus Dr. Munchkin loaded up in the car and headed for the United States. The purpose of the trip? Krista wanted to pick up some food items not available in Canada, including Cookie Crisp cereal for her deployed navy husband.I opted out of the whole "leave the country" thing, mostly because I had no money (and

KJ McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04331405773442425990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425484.post-54832950848419540542008-08-16T12:02:00.002-03:002009-07-30T00:56:52.982-03:00

I was visiting some rug hooking blogs and stumbled across this adorable YouTube video. Had to share!

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Want something cool in your mailbox? Check out Postcrossing. It's awesome. This map shows where I've sent postcards to and where I've received them from.Received a postcard from Finland today, so I just registered it. I have some postcards I need to send, too.

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My new/old friend Fawn shared with me one of her favourite pastimes: watching the Polar Bear Cam at the San Diego Zoo. Well, I think I've become just as hooked as she is!It's kind of hard to tell in a still, but there are two bears in this pic. The obvious one is by the rock down at the bottom, and the other is pulling himself out of the water by the floating log.The zoo has a few other webcams

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Okay, next time I start whining -- about anything -- just hand me my rug hook, would you? I kind of forget everything else while I'm hooking. Nothing matters but the strips of wool and the hook pulling them through.I'm working away at the inch-wide border that goes all the way around. It's a very dark red colour (almost black until you hold it up against something else) and I can't really tell

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1. Hook.2. Read.3. Sleep.4. Repeat.I spent a wonderful afternoon yesterday with my sister affectionately known as Dr. Munchkin, but in my desperation to escape my house, I probably overdid it. At the bookstore, watching me stare randomly into space like a zombie, Doc chuckled, "You're going to have a good nap when you get home."I probably should have taken a nap, because I got almost no sleep

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So, I'm getting better (and the Buckley's didn't kill me). This is FABULOUS! I still feel sub-par, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to need a trip to the doctor and a prescription, so as far as I'm concerned: KJ 1, Cold 0.I've been inside the house since Saturday afternoon, though, and cabin fever is starting to settle in. I'm not exactly roaming the house talking to myself (although it's

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After coughing pretty much non-stop for 90 minutes straight, in a fit of desperation I let Hubby stuff a tablespoon of Buckley's Mixture down my throat.It tastes bad.Really bad.And it's five months' worth of expired to boot.But at least I've stopped coughing so much.

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... I'm reading them!Yesterday I decided that I needed a smart car fix (and let's face it, the poor guy at the dealership is getting tired of entertaining me when we both know I'm broke) so I decided to look for "smart car" and "Canada" on Google.Before too long, I stumbled across I AM AHEM, which is a blog by a talented, creative woman named Angela who lives in Victoria, BC.As I read her blog, I

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... but I've already designed a vanity plate for my smart car.

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The more I learn about the smart car, the more I'm convinced it's the right vehicle for me.Now the trick is just figuring out how I can afford to buy one.

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Vitamin C -- check.Lots of salsa -- check.Dog and cat to nap with -- check.Virtual bubble wrap popped -- check.Whined on blog -- check.Going to bed now ... -- check.

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