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March 12, 2009 · 10:35 pm

Birthdays and such

Today my youngest granddaughter became one year old.  Kimia is getting to be a girl with some character.  And mobility.  And size – over 27 lbs last I heard. Tomorrow we are going to her house to celebrate this significant milestone.

But tonight, I was participating with the Prince Albert Strings inour local music festival.  We did fairly well – 87 and 89 in our catagory.  I think we did well for a group that went from a  fairly experienced group last year to a group of near novices.  These songs were simpler than what we attempted last year but I think Dean, our conductor, was pleased.

Kimia has her big party tomorrow but my big day is approaching.  Saturday.  60 years.

It has occurred to me that this is a fairly long time.  As the span of life goes it is likely at least 2/3 of my allotted days.

So, maybe to keep me thinking I am young, my hubby bought me this nice new little computer.  At least it has given me a new toy to play with and try to get all up to date and get files transferred over and all those little chores.  I have no pictures on this baby yet.  So bear with me.  They will come.

And this one is little.  I chose a little one for ease of transport – a 13 inch screen and only 4.6 lbs.  I think it will fit nicely into my purse actually.  Another Toshiba because I like their durability.

So, life goes on.  Birthdays or no birthdays.

I wonder if it will take all my life to figure it all out and come to terms with who I am and what I really need to be about.  I think that maybe now and then I see shadowy glimpses of the person I might be becoming but then I stumble back to the reality of me and everyday life.  Sometimes I just get lost and lonely even at 60.  But I know that overall,  I have been blessed and am glad that my life has, for the most part, been full of interesting challenges and opportunities.

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March 10, 2009 · 8:09 am

Wonders Never Cease – or The case of the parking lot microwave

I got a call from the security company that monitors the alarm at my office early this morning.  Back door(staff door) sensor had gone off and should they dispatch the police.  I said “no” that I would go and check on it.  Although it was only 4:45 am I was up and moving.  (Leo had to leave for Lloydminster early this morning.)

I arrived at the parking lot to see a microwave sitting there with the light on, plugged in to one of our parking lot plugs.  No door left, broken glass plate beside the sidewalk.

I immediately thought that I had misjudged this call, that in spite of
-35 temperatures someone had been wandering around or had entered our office and done some vandalism.  But the doors were both locked and as I gingerly opened the back door I could see no evidence that we had had a break in.  I walked through the clinic and nothing was out of place.  Our microwaves were both in their places down in the staff room.

So, I have no idea who was out cooking in the parking lot last night.  It will likely remain an unsolved mystery.  Maybe we will have to turn off the outside power at night to prevent late night snacking at the office in the parking lot.

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March 8, 2009 · 6:37 pm

My weekend

This has been one of those weekends when I will be glad that my stint of being on call is over.  The cases that kept me occupied were bona fide emergencies and I don’t regret that I was called out to help.  but it disrupts the days – and nights.  Saturday, after getting a fitful sleep waiting to be called in the middle of the night, I was tired all day.  I probably would have been no more tired if the Dr in Emerg had called me at 2 am.  But he was kind and was able to handle the bleeding patient without my presence.

Last night I did go in around 11 PM.  A young girl playing had slipped and pushed her front teeth backwards so that she could no longer could close her teeth well and had lacerated her gums so badly that stitches were needed.  I got home around 12:30 this morning and then was wide awake.  I had to settle a bit, before crawling into bed half an hour later.  It wasn’t that I was upset, more on a sort of high that comes with doing a good thing and feeling pleased.

Then this morning, we were victims of the time change in Ontario.  Rachelle actually woke us up when she called at 7 our time thinking she had better catch us before we left for church.

Tonight my day wraps up reading Scot McKnight’s The Blue Parakeet with the superintelligent group of women that I call  friends.  We have a good time together and it is good to read, study, talk and pray together.

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March 6, 2009 · 6:34 pm

Its a bit like recovering a lost coin

It feels good to have the computer back.  Nothing lost.  The wizard who does these things failed to find a real problem, couldn’t make it give that dastardly message about hardware fatalities at all.    So, my means of expression is back in order, tuned up, backed up and we are back in business.

Hmmm – wonder if I lost my spell checker?   Nope it picked up the Hmmm just fine. But is underlining words that it shouldn’t.  It does not like contractions for some reason.

So, I guess we see what happens from here on in.

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February 19, 2009 · 8:32 pm

I am thinking

I really am.  I am sure there are some thoughts in this brain somewhere.

There is just a lot of other stuff going on around me these days.  Starting to set up plans for vacation.  Hope to take Kieran with us on our cruise up to Alaska.  Arranging that.

Tax stuff which has to be worked on soon.  Starting to gather together my stuff.

Studies.  Hope to hear about  midterm marks.

Tomorrow is free.  It feels as if the day is a gift but it is not without its limits as far as getting things done.  And I have to go by the Bison for coffee.  Laura was asking where I am.  Lots of other little odds and ends to tie up tomorrow too.

What I would like to do is have time to put together some thoughts I have had as I’ve been reading Joan Chittister’s book Wisdom From The Daily.   Daily life for me is full of work; good work and useful work but sometimes hard to see past the humdrum steadiness of it to appreciate it as God’s gift to me and to others through me.  So maybe I will get some time to sketch that out this weekend too.

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February 18, 2009 · 1:33 pm

Day Two

Half way through day two of a three day work week.  I think I will make it.

It is going to be fun having Friday off – will check out the art exhibit, have coffee, maybe take in the snow sculpture at Winter Festival.

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February 17, 2009 · 8:28 pm

Another annoying call

It seems as if telemarketers have decided that since we are not at home during the day, they will call us after 8 at night.    I am just a bit tired of answering their calls.  Tonight was a new one – for me anyway.  The Canadian We Don’t Do Drugs Society.

I’m sure it is a worthy cause among the many hundreds of other worthy causes that have called us this year.  I just do not have a clue who they really are.

And I am tired by this time of the evening and they just disturbed me from something I would rather be doing.  They never, never, never pronounce our last name right.  Just one other little irritating factor.

So, sorry, Mr Caller.  I’m sure it is not really your fault.  You are trying to make some kind of a living by bothering people like me and I feel for your situation but please, please stop calling.

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February 14, 2009 · 10:22 pm

Enjoying life

The Mid-term is done and I think was good.   Now, of course, I have to wait to hear how I did and all but I feel good and the translations we were asked to do were no way as difficult as the ones in the workbook.

That was the first mid-term I have written in about 36 years.  All week I’ve been just a bit anxious.  Last night as Leo and I returned from a retirement party I confessed to him that I was a bit anxious.  He replied to that understatement with, “You think?  I’ve noticed it for the whole week.”

So, today after the exam, we went out snow shoeing, had a few glasses of wine with friends, had some of her gourmet appetizers that were more like a twelve course meal than appetizers and had a very relaxing time visiting.

Now, we have just finished watching Gran Torino from a friends copy.   Great movie.  We may have to go to confession for watching a copied movie – and I honestly do not know where he got it from or who Leo’s friend is.  But I am so glad we got to watch it.  It left the cinema before my midterm – when I was still in the too anxious to go to a movie stage.

Today was about enjoying life, even enjoying the course I wrote the mid-term for, and enjoying love with the man I’ve spent the past 381/2 years with.

And I did not even eat one piece of chocolate.   Such restraint.

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February 12, 2009 · 10:36 am

Quiet

This week the quiet around here means that I really am studying and have no time to think deep or even shallow thoughts.

Oh yeah and in spite of trying to study have obligatory meetings or activities scheduled 3 out of 5 nights.  I sit nervously thinking of all I should be studying during the evening, hoping my brain remembers the right stuff.

See you after the mid-term.

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February 8, 2009 · 6:09 pm

Every Now and Then

For my sanity, I have to get away by myself.  I need solitude in order to regain my balance.

Solitude plus nature is just about pure bliss.

So – this weekend was a treat for me.  It was needed for many reasons and it was good.  Here is where I stayed.

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But now, I’m back and this week will hold many things, including my midterm in Greek.  I spent a lot of good time studying this weekend and I guess that  is what every spare minute this week will be composed of.  It seems as if every time I go back over the paradigms, there is something not quite remembered, so I repeat it again, write it out, read it out, look at it, listen to it.  I have learned a lot but there is so much more to remember perfectly.

Well, I don’t suppose I will do perfectly, but I will do my best.

Anyway, I have put a few of the pictures I took this weekend up over at Flikr if you want to check them out.  I’ll also be posting some of them this week on my Click blog.

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