Updates: Dec 23 – 29

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/ December 29th, 2012 / 14 Comments
We are over a week into our ‘staycation’ and have been enjoying every minute of it. We have knocked off numerous coffee shops, restaurants and entertained a number of guests. We’ve only been here a month and we’ve almost had more people over than we did in an entire year at our last place. I love it. We are still waiting for our couch to arrive, and for our closet system to...

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Discarding toxic people from your life

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/ December 26th, 2012 / 24 Comments
Every year around Christmas, I marvel at how quickly time had passed by. Is it really another year already? As morbid as it is, I can’t help but want to make sure my time is well spent. Earlier this month, I started receiving emails, tweets,  LinkedIn messages, and even Facebook messages from my former lab coworkers. Every day they bombarded me with requests to sign off on some forms to authorize...

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Twas the night before Christmas

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/ December 24th, 2012 / 2 Comments
It’s Christmas Eve and Brian and I are busy enjoying some time off and getting ready for the holidays.  There’s apple cider simmering, rum and eggnog to drink, and even a cute little Christmas tree to make our little condo a bit more festive.  We both have the week (and a bit!) off of work and we plan on enjoying every last moment. Our (tiny) tree In the spirit of end-of-the-year laziness,...

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Updates: December 16 – 22

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/ December 22nd, 2012 / 8 Comments
After all the times we’ve moved in the past five years, this morning we repaid some karma and helped a friend move. We even scored a free BBQ, as an upgrade from our current free BBQ. I love free upgrades. Apparently Burnaby didn’t get the memo to melt all the snow as there is still lots on the ground out here from the winter storm earlier in the week.   Photo Credit: brockvicky via...

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