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682 days ago
I had planned to get the Mexico and Germany pictures up here before moving on, but then I thought, well, why not put them on the new blog? (Whenever I get around to it, I mean...) So, from now on, you can read all about my comings and goings at the new blog: http://fawnahareo.com
683 days ago
After last Tuesday's disastrous attempt to walk Nanuq between work and suppertime I realized that I really would need help in order to survive the two weeks without Michael. And the help came, sometimes from unexpected places. My neighbour Heather took Nanuq out with her dog Kodiak on Wednesday. Tim took him on Thursday (and again yesterday). Hugh and Anissa walked down from their neighbourhood to take on the Friday walk. I got a suprise e-mail from Carole (Yukon Chatterbug) on the weekend, offering to take Nanuq out with her dog if we happened to live close by (which we do). Thanks so much to all of you! Nanuq and I are both very grateful. Speaking of help and surprises, I was reading through my blog stats last week and came across a referring site that included my name in it. Curious, I clicked on it and was brought to a page that included my most recent post ("The green, green grass of home") and a couple of pictures of Jade from the Halloween photo ...
684 days ago
It's not often that I actually stay home because of a cold, but Jade and I both started sniffling yesterday and she woke up twice last night because she couldn't breathe. When we got up this morning, Jade looked pretty awful and by the end of breakfast, I'd decided we'd better not inflict our pestilential presence on the world. The strange thing is that I wasn't feeling so very terrible myself, but by the time I'd called work and the daycare, I felt as though I'd been run over by a train and just wanted to crawl back into bed. Jade, on the other hand, started running around like a wild child. Fortunately, I was able to doze on the couch for an hour (not sleeping, mind you) while she read books, banged on the piano, knocked over the guitar, asked me to pick it up, righted it herself, and strummed the strings. I have never had so many colds in my life as since Jade started daycare last January. I hope that this is something we'll both outgrow, starting about now. We both just ...
685 days ago
Darn, it's almost 11 p.m. again. I was hoping to get a few more things done tonight, like reading more of the midwifery material I need to have done before a big meeting on Tuesday, and also posting photos from Germany and Mexico because I promised these would be on my blog in the annual letter I sent out to friends and family last week. Most of the letters have arrived at their destinations, but the photos have not! Sorry folks. If you're here for pics, keep checking back; it's near the top of my list. Many of the evenings where I haven't been getting things done, it's been because I've been getting stuck at the piano. The Big Band has a dance coming up on Saturday the 26th, so I've been practicing for that, but I've also been working on a new song. I was pleased with it when I finished it, and then I got disenchanted with it, but tonight I made some changes that have got me excited about it again. So I just couldn't leave the piano when it felt so close! I just wanted to ...
688 days ago
Part I was posted yesterday. It's possible that at other times I would have made a different decision, but this time I decided that the only thing to do was to phone the cash machine company. Feeling foolish, I went into a meeting room so that the call would be more private (the joys of working in a cubicle) and dialed the toll-free number. "Help Desk, " I heard. "You're probably going to think I'm crazy," I said. I explained the situation to him. "Let me make sure I understood you," said the man. "You requested $160." "Yes" "And you got $180." "Yes." "So you got 20 bucks extra." "Yes." I must give him credit for not sounding completely incredulous as he clarified the situation. The poor guy didn't quite know what to do. I didn't have the cash machine receipt with me in the meeting room and I had forgotten to check the bank records online to make sure of the ...
