Category: Life Musings
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Massive Fisher-Price Toy Recall
Just a quick note this morning but a very important one; Fisher-Price is recalling some ten million toys and baby products including high-chairs. One of those toys is the trike that our girls love to stunt ride around the house. And do you think I can find a picture of that trike at this time?…
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Dawna Friesen Joins Global National
On my way to work the other day I saw a bus stop poster of Dawna Friesen, the new anchor for Global TV’s 5:30pm program, the National. As I approached the bus stop I was saddened to see that someone had defaced the poster making her face look like an angry devil. Then as I pulled…
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CBC Radio One; Earlier
I had to wake up extra early this morning to get the family off to work so I turned on my CBC Radio One an hour earlier than I usually do and what a pleasant surprise! I stumbled into the show that comes on before Rick Cluff’s Early Edition, a show called Earlier. Earlier is hosted by…
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Vancouver Timeraiser; Thursday, September 23rd
How cool is this; instead of asking people to donate their money, an organization has set up a way for people to donate their time. I love it! Timeraiser, is the innovative organization that inspires 20 and 30-somethings to get more involved in their communities. Now in its third year, the Vancouver Timeraiser has had…
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BC Human Rights Tribunal to Hear Case Against Shark Club
I read a thought-provoking letter to the editor in the Province newspaper earlier this week. The topic of the letter was the complaint that a group of young women have brought against the Richmond location of the Shark Club Bar & Grill around the type of clothing that the women are required to wear. The…
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In Case You Were Wondering Why the Emotional Overload
I remember a television show from the late 1980s, a show titled thirtysomething. In case you are too young to remember, or in case you have forgotten the 1980s (I’m still trying to forget that I paid to see Def Leppard in concert) the show was about a group of friends who were, wait for…
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Emotional Overload
I’ve got to say that there is a ton of stuff going on in our lives right now but I am too emotionally exhausted to write anything substantive at this time. Just to be clear, our family is okay…just lots going on that is difficult to process and accept. We’ll be back soon.
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Hiking through Lynn Canyon to Rice Lake
We left the house this morning with the intention of driving over to North Vancouver and going for a walkabout around Rice Lake. Not knowing exactly where it is, we figured the good old Garmin GPS would take us there. So we tapped in Rice Lake and… So we cancelled that plan and decided to…
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Bucket List Question on Canadian Destinations
I saw this question posed on Twitter by @theseboots today; what Canadian destination would you have on your bucket list? What is the ONE place that you want to visit before your best-before date is up? If you are on Twitter, post your answer there so that our not very scientific but fun little survey…
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The Three Most Essential Items
My Sweetheart and I were talking on the way home from Spanish Banks. The conversation turned to the “what do you think are the three items that are essential to us in regards to our babies.” She immediately said, well, “You.” Making me quickly adjust my mental list to place her at the top of…