I procrastinate

I admit it. I procrastinate.
I procrastinate when the task feels overwhelming.
I procrastinate when I don’t feel like doing something.
Mostly, I procrastinate because the task feels overwhelming, and so then I don’t feel like doing it. That’s likely why I can’t manage to succeed at blogging every day
I put off updating my website. It seemed [...]

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A Blanket of Fresh Snow

I know spring is officially only a few weeks away, but I love a good snowfall. And we had another one last night. I enjoyed watching the big snowflakes start to fall as I was beginning preparations for supper. The snow continued all evening, and when I headed to bed last night at 1 am, [...]

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Email Woes

Well, I’ve experienced my first issue with Vista – I just lost 2 weeks worth of emails We got Vista about 2 months ago, and ever since I’ve had some quirks with my business profile set up through Outlook. Our personal profile worked fine, but for some reason, anytime I would open my [...]

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School’s Out!

Today was my son’s last day of school. They had quite an active morning, and boy was he tuckered out! We’ve got a busy July planned, but I’m not sure what I’ll do to keep him busy in August. That being said, I know that my blogging will fall to the bottom of my to-do [...]

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Mother’s Day Gift

I received my son’s gift for me for Mother’s Day today when I picked him up from school (I think it’s a marigold plant):
The poem on the paper watering can reads:
I planted a seed, and watched it grow. I watered it daily, so you would know, that this flower for you is to show, [...]

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Happy Easter!

I know it’s late in the evening on Easter Sunday; in fact, one more hour, and it’ll be Monday, but I just wanted to wish everyone a “Happy Easter!”
We had a wonderful church service this morning. While I did miss singing “Christ the Lord is Risen Today,” we sang another favorite of mine, “Low in [...]

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Spring is on its way!

My last post (in February!!) was about snow, and we did have quite a lovely snowfall that day. In fact, we’ve had a few since then. This week, though, the weather has been warming up. It finally feels like spring is on its way, although I know from experience that we could still have more [...]

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Snow!

It’s snowing big, fluffy snowflakes!! Yea!! Ever since I heard the forecast last night for 5 cm of snow, I’ve been looking forward to it. I find these snowfalls so pretty to look at. I know that tomorrow it means I’ll have really poor driving conditions, and my husband is not looking forward to driving [...]

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One Week Later…

…and not much has changed. I still don’t have a laptop, and it’s still quite cold outside. I guess I should clarify – I do have a laptop, it’s just sitting in a box, waiting to be picked up and sent for yet another service repair. We got it back this morning, had it running [...]

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Brrrrr!

The city where I live is definitely living up to it’s nickname “Winterpeg.” We’ve had some pretty cold weather over the past while, with temperatures dipping down to -45ish Celsius with windchill. We did have a few nice days over the weekend, and yesterday it was a wonderful -5 C. Unfortunately, a blizzard blew in [...]

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