Tag: Thanksgiving
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It’s Already Fucking Winter
It snowed on Thursday. IT SNOWED ON THURSDAY. It’s October AND IT SNOWED ON THURSDAY! I am trying to be accepting. This is a thing that occurs in Canada, especially in Northern Ontario. This is the land of snowsuits under Halloween costumes. But every year that I have lived here it hasn’t snowed until about…
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Thanksgiving is usually a holiday I spend alone. I have grown not to care, it started when I was in university too far away and too broke to come home for just a weekend and continued when I started working Thanksgiving so that I would have Christmas off. However, now I am off both holidays,…
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Holiday Scroll: 10/07/22
I didn’t have my shit together enough to get this up on Saturday, so since it’s Thanksgiving in Canada today I thought I would just push it to Monday, and here we are. I had such a productive weekend, I deep cleaned my bedroom and living room, finally hemmed my living room curtains that I’ve…
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October in Review
October was a surprisingly great month. I am really starting to feel settled here and like I am building a community here. It was a really good feeling to have social plans again. It just felt good to be around people outside of work. I have been saying for months that I was going to…
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Saturday (scratch that) Sunday Scroll
We’re back to this on Saturday, for now at least (well that was the plan, I had no wifi Friday night and all day Saturday). I wanted to do a candle round-up for Wednesday, because I’m running low on candles and there’s something about being cozy for fall and burning candles. I have been dreaming…
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Preparing for Holidays Alone
This coming weekend is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. The technical day is this coming Monday, the second Monday in October. And while I might feel a bit hypocritical writing this when I actually do have plans this Thanksgiving, I wasn’t expecting to, and I have spent most Thanksgiving weekends alone since I went to…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 