Author: Me

Yesterday, I was reminded of just how odd a music selection I choose to listen to at times. I listen to my personal collection of tunes daily but I guess I associate a lot of it with specific experiences rather than genre, specifically. For example, right this moment, I'm listening to Aerosmith and remembering my… Continue reading Music, music, everywhere… but to what shall we listen?

Let's just for the moment forget the other meaning of Black Friday (referring of course to the 1987 Edmonton tornado), and instead think about Black Friday the shopping event. Putting aside the fact that while I definitely prefer Boxing Day sales, and the fact that I ACTUALLY like January shopping the best of all, Black… Continue reading Black Friday… the shopping extravaganza?

People often say that if life gives them lemons, they ought to make lemonade. And well yesterday was a good example of that: You see, Monday night I started having back pain which interrupted my sleep horribly (it didn't help that someone snowblowed the sidewalk by my bedroom window at 4 in the morning). My… Continue reading Making lemonade

So every year around this time, I go through my home and attempt to declutter a bit. This is done partially with the intent of helping keep my pack-rat-ish tendencies under control, but also with the side benefit of helping other people. You see my Kiwanis club (and other Kiwanis clubs and the local CKI… Continue reading Decluttering and the Buy Nothing Day Free Market!

Won't be a traditional one this year, really. Seeing as family have started to post/send their wishlists my way again, I figured it was time to type a bit about mine. And mine is pretty simple. I still have my Amazon wishlist which I try to keep updated with items I find around the internet… Continue reading The Annual Holiday Wishlist Post

So today was the day that the JoCo Cruise announced (and eventually opened for booking) the shore excursions for the cruise for 2016. And I was over the moon excited — even though that means today was a pretty expensive day (this week will be expensive with lots of bills to pay of various sorts… Continue reading Cruise (and vacation planning) Excitement!

Some folks really like playing games casually. Others really like playing competitively in one off games. I think, based on my experiences as of late, I rather enjoy playing board and card games in tournament format. This is a reason I seek out and make the trek down to Table Top Cafe when they put… Continue reading Tournaments…

Since early in the summer, I've been poring over the genealogy records I have access to from my father and slowly (and I mean it when I say slowly) entering them into wikitree. I've been ever so pleased with this free wiki-based website, especially since it does a good job of preserving the privacy of… Continue reading Genealogy… one of the world's most popular hobbies

So it's not actually winter yet — I mean sure, it's starting to get cold and all, but it's not really wintery yet and the start of winter isn't officially until December anyway. But I've gotten into the habit of drinking more wintery beverages as of late and for me that feels good. I mean… Continue reading The hot beverages of winter

So I attend a lot of meetings. Sometimes they're for whatever job I have at the time, but more often than not, they're related to my volunteer passions. Sometimes they're stressful, frustrating, and feel unproductive. At other times they feel convivial, fun, productive and enjoyable. The question is always how does this dichotomy work and… Continue reading Effective Meetings