Tag: Northwest Ontario
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Saturday Scroll: 12/18/2021
When this goes live, I will hopefully be well on the road on the way home. Editing Laura: I was on the road, that’s why this isn’t going up until Sunday evening. I didn’t finish this because I got busy packing Friday night, drove all day Saturday, and just arrived at my parents like an…
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Northern Diaries: Plans for Christmas and New Years in Southern Ontario
I am so excited to be heading home and to bop around Southern Ontario for 17 days (well four of those will be driving to and from Southern Ontario). I am a bit worried that Ms. Omicron will ruin this for me, but I am keeping my vaccinated fingers and toes crossed in hope. I…
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Saturday Scroll: 12/11/2021
Cute stocking stuffers. Why do long drives feel so good? I have wanted to do a sleepover at Ikea ever since I saw that Kelsey from The Sorry Girls got to do one as part of an influencer trip. Well, a bunch of random Danish people got to do that after a snowstorm and it…
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Simple, Hand-Me-Down Decorating for Christmas
I love Christmas, I love how people decorate for it, I love the parties that are planned, the opportunities to dress up, the food, the thought put into gifts that people get, the music. Heck, I even like the Christmas Eve service with the candlelight singing of Silent Night, and I don’t go to church.…
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Pet Safety During the Holidays
I have been very hesitant to wade into animal health related content on here. I’m not a veterinarian and I haven’t worked in a vet clinic in nearly a year. However, I learned a lot in my many years of working in clinics and wanting to be a vet that I believer more pet owners…
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Spending Check In: November Review, December Plans
So like I said last month, I hoping that putting my money choices and realities out there (loosely, without super explicit details, that feels weird). And well, November was a disaster. It would have been fine if I hadn’t needed to spend $1000 on winter tires, I would have pushed my budget to the limits,…
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What I Read in November
I am definitely still in a bit of a reading rut. I read just one book in September, nothing in October (to the point where I had a post planned for early November about being in a reading rut, but then I read a book in a day (a snow day) and I thought I…
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Friday Favorites
Honestly, yesterday, Thursday, I was having a sad day. Work was really getting me down. Working in public health is getting really hard, I can’t stop caring about encouraging people to get vaccinated, I can’t stop patiently having conversations with people about masks and vaccines and physical distancing and mental health and coping methods and…
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November in Review
Did anyone else kind of miss the mess that is getting ready for a night out, getting ready has always been one of the most fun parts of going out. My friend brought over this gold flake champagne, I didn’t actually have any of it, but it sure looked pretty in the dishes the next…
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Christmas Movie Marathon
Even though I haven’t lived in the USA since 2006 I still mark the start of the Christmas season by American Thanksgiving. I do not start listening to Christmas music, I do not watch holiday movies, I often don’t even start my Christmas shopping before American Thanksgiving. But American Thanksgiving was this past Thursday and…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 