Home Sweet Wireless Home

The Eastern holiday was lovely but, oh, it’s grand to be back home in Vancouver where posting is not painful!

Speaking of “home”, here are a couple of displaced ones I brought back with me.
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Trailer Park Fantasy

Had the chance to spend the afternoon and early evening at my brother’s trailer in New Glasgow. Never thought I’d say this, but given the right one I could vacation quite comfortably in a trailer park.
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Happy Birthday To Me

Nice day, brief visits with immediate and extended family, gorgeous homemade cake (photos to come, possibly tomorrow), several hours of frivolous cable TV watching.

What more could a birthday girl ask for?

Early Tragedy

Tonight Mom, Andrew and I braved the possible threat of thundershowers and tornadoes and traveled one hour north of London to Stratford.
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Suburban Summer Nights

Mom doesn’t have her brand-new-still-in-the-box-computer functional yet (that’s a job for Andrew tomorrow) therefore I am back on A’s iPad writing tonight’s post. Which means it is going to be short and sweet.
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Today I Knelt In Cat Pee

Last full day in Belnan. Extreme winds followed by late afternoon showers turned into quite a downfall by evening.
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Scenic Route

Todays’ temperature: 32 degrees Celsius in the shade. Andrew and I decided to take an air-conditioned drive through the east part of Hants County.
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Red Baron

The mosquitoes in Nova Scotia adore me. I can assure you that their love is unrequited.
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Sweet Burn

It’s been a long time since I last experienced a summer day like those I remember from childhood…
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So Classy

After only a few delays and 10 hours of traveling we’ve made it to Andrew’s family home in Belnan, NS. On both flights we were sitting just behind the Class Curtain (the cloth barrier used to separate first class from economy) so we had a grand view of what we weren’t entitled to.
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Packing It In

Tomorrow is the start of our 10-day Halifax/London vacation. Today was spent scurrying about taking care of last minute details and having the inevitable packing meltdown.
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Back To Basics

Our Shaw Internet service has been down all day. I am composing tonight’s post on Andrew’s iPad. It’s great that he downloaded the WordPress app but I am, metaphorically, a long way from Kansas.
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Elvis Site-ing

Elvis now has his own tumblr site: Elvis Unleashed…
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Cold Comfort

Yesterday I made something divine. The recipe, titled “best-ever rice pudding”, is as good as – nay better than – Kozy Shack. You can find it in the June/July issue of Fine Cooking:
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Like A Virgin

Always on the hunt for tasty, alcohol-free summer cocktails I was struck with a curious notion to mix up a blueberry-basil combination.
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Waking Up On The Right Side

My Friday began with a dog retching in the bathroom.
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If Elvis Had His Own Twitter Account

It would read – with the exception of flying and cawing – very much like this.

Of Mice And Moths

The following is a re-enactment of last night’s events.
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Good, Clean Family Fun

Andrew and I will be taking a trip back east in a week’s time to visit family – first to Halifax to see Andrew’s kin and then to London for mine. Our research for things to do while in London turned up nada. Seems all cultural activities and events are on hiatus for the five days we’ll be there. I’d resigned myself to lounging around my mother’s house not doing much of anything when Andrew sent me this link:
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Debrief (No-Video Challenge)

My 30-day no-video challenge ended at midnight on August 6th. Aside from a few short videos included as resource materials for the mentorship I’m doing, I successfully completed the challenge. On Sunday I shamelessly binged on some reality TV (though only after spending a good 3 hours in the studio).

You’re probably wondering if I accomplished everything I had hoped to during the blackout.
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Parking Violation

Parking like this is really just another way of saying “Please, key my BMW”:
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Funny Girl

I was out for a stroll today with my trusty Canon Powershot capturing images of scenery for potential backgrounds when I walked past this:
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A Dog By Any Other Name

Would smell like the beach.
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Brake Dance

I’ve had my driver’s license since I was 19. I don’t drive very often (not ever having owned a car plus only having learned automatic equals a sporadic driving record) but for over a year I’ve thought that the time was ripe to expand my vehicle operating skills. This past Sunday I had my Standard Driving Orientation.
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Allegro Vivace

In addition to fostering a consistent studio practice, I’m doing my best to consistently practice the piano.
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Holiday

Yep, it’s a civic holiday today so the only post is this one announcing that there will be no post. 😉 Whether you were celebrating British Columbia Day, Natal Day, or Insert-The-Name-Of-Your-Province-Here Day, here’s hoping it was special.

Sweet Library Sunday

There is still a week left to my self-imposed video moratorium so today I returned the last of the library books I checked out three weeks ago and brought home four new books.
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All Work And No Play

Makes Jody reach this week’s studio work goal.
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Mutt-mories

Today I was up at Urban Source buying more veneer scraps to augment my “Scrabble tile” production.
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