In my old life, a typical weekend would involve work. Baking. Watching Euro-movies on my laptop in the background. Lather, rinse, repeat. In my new life this weekend, there was work… there was A LOT of baking. There was watching Euro-movies on my laptop in the background. AND THEN… there was a baptism? One of …
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More of the unknown
So I spent New Year’s in my old stomping grounds. And I *loved* it! It was confusing—I was so socially unhappy there, but I had a career. I was respected, I had authority, I had value. In Canada, I have a social life. I have a job. I’m still respected (so much sometimes that I …
The Return of Goals
Sipping Absinthe and enjoying some pre-schnitzel appetisers: I’m up in Prince George, experiencing one of the last New Year’s of the globe. And I, for one, am SO GLAD it is over. It was a hard year—not bad, per se, but not easy at all. I’m not afraid of a challenge, but some of this …
Christmas Spirit
… and Audrey asked me to post again fast… here we have it: I have a job. I LOVE my job. This is a GREAT day for me: Me, my laptop playing Christmas carols, and the endless binders I sift through doing research. SWEET! But even better… see that cup? The ampersand means love. Love, …
Catching up
… … … … … … how to start, after almost 3 months? Hi! How are you? I’m fine, thanks. And a few people have asked me if I’m “ever coming back”… so to them I say, “thanks for asking!” and, “I guess so!” For awhile, it didn’t seem like it. I never did my …
Gifts and memories
Truth: I *love* to give gifts… but only the RIGHT gifts. Christmas and birthdays stress me out because I don’t *want* to just give for the sake of giving, I want it to be something that SCREAMS someone’s name, not something that they say “thanks!” to, and then forget about for a couple of months. …
The Real Acai
Yesterday, I spent 3 hours at the gym, all of it working out. I went slowly, admittedly, because through crossed wires and SP traffic, my trainer was SO late that it was funny, and I became seriously dehydrated. Dear Brazilian Standard Time, I will NOT miss you. 😀 How to replenish from a calorie spend-a-thon? …
A Last Attempt at Freedom
Because this *had* to be here… after all—what else do you think of when you think of Rio, but this? This is just any given Sunday, at Ipanema. And if you were wondering, I was wearing sensible clothes, a sunhat, sitting in a chair directly under one of those umbrellas. Because I am “muito brancinha”—a …
A Quick Recap
This is not a trip recap. That will come later… however, 83 days ago, I wrote a post by (almost) the same name. And since then, my days have changed. I also had a lot of ideas about how my trip would go, and it hasn’t quite been what I expected… Now that my final …
Remembering Machu Picchu
OK. I wrote this DAYS ago, but during most of Peru, I was either somewhere I couldn’t plug my laptop in, or somewhere without internet. And then, I came back and have been since suffering from what some Brazilians have referred to as “North American tummy”—let’s just say, I’m not really absorbing much nutrition from …