Back in 2001, I got sick and was brought to the ER. It was an unusual experience since the people who brought me were people from work – an officemate and two students from China who just arrived in the country to study (that was what my job was about at the time). When you […]
I just realized something today: in December 2018, I will officially celebrate my 20th year of working. I may not be in the same company where I had my first job, but I have been working for that long and it feels overwhelming! As most young people do, I jumped from one job to the […]
The past week has been crazy…I don’t know how best to describe it really. So much has happened and yet I feel like the week passed me by with me not even realizing it. I felt like a viewer of my life last week, like I was in it but not quite — you know […]
One of the reasons that I haven’t been able to blog much lately (aside from my recent writer’s block issues) has been my health. I don’t want to bore you with the details, but it’s just been difficult for me to do much of anything these days apart from work because I feel tired all […]
Last month marked the anniversary of my father’s death. It doesn’t feel like it’s been years. It still feels like it happened recently. Remembering my father on his death anniversary reminds our family all over again of what we lost, of a person we wish we still had around. Missing my father after his death […]
Writing is the dream that I want to reclaim this year. As I mentioned in my previous post, I have several story outlines on hand waiting to be written. I thought that for my playlist this month, I’d share some of the songs that have either inspired me in my writing or evoke the feelings […]
One of the TV shows that I was watching a few months back was Roswell New Mexico. Based on the book series called Roswell High, this is the second incarnation of the books to TV. I was familiar with the older show but I never followed it. I decided to give this new version a […]
As a single person, I’ve often received comments about when I will ever get married. Either that or people would want to set me up with someone (something that I don’t really like). Living in the province where I am stuck in my home-work-home existence, dating just isn’t possible unless I were willing to succumb […]
One of the things that I was obsessed with when I was younger was learning about the saints — Catholic saints, in particular. I loved learning about them and wondered how they lived. It was a thing for me as a child that I sort of forgot as I got older. I was raised as […]
(Reposting an older entry from an earlier version of my blog because someone has been looking for this!) The holidays are over and summer is just around the corner. I promised myself over the holidays that I would buy a window type air conditioner for my room that the kids can use for the summer […]
I have a problem with gray hair. I have a lot of them. A LOT. It’s not even gray, to be honest. It’s white. It’s upsetting because the hairs just stand out from my actual hair color. It doesn’t look good. And I am only in my 40s! I am aware that there are people […]
Whenever I poke around on Pinterest I can’t help but pay extra attention to recipes that I would like to try. One of those recipes that I saved and tried was Mario Batali’s Eggs in Hell. Eggs in Hell is an egg and vegetable recipe that is based on the North African and Arab meal […]
First week of work for 2020, all done! How was everyone’s first workweek for 2020? As much as I would like to say that the holiday has left me feeling refreshed and ready for work, it really is very far from that. My brain is still on holiday mode and it’s difficult to adjust to […]
Has anyone else noticed how bad the weather has been lately? It is already late into the year and we have not had that much rain. Most of the time it is just terrible heat that does not seem to go away. It feels like we are in a perpetual summer with the heater turned […]