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Strawberry fields forever
Left the house at 7:30 to go pick strawberries. By the time we were leaving, around 10 or so, the fields were packed and the parking lot almost overflowing, and a school bus had arrived with more eager pickers ( Read more... ) -
Did you know Ottawa has the largest IKEA store in all of Canada?
Daniel thinks it's silly that the Civilisation games only allow one unique power to each civilisation (eg, Rome has the power of Roman Roads, better than all other roads, Japan has Honour, China has Myriads, or strength in numbers). He thinks there should be one special ability for ancient times and one for modern times. So, for example, ancient ( Read more... ) -
Culture shock
Daniel's in IB*, a pretty demanding academic program. He's had a tough year, having gone from home schooling, to junior high where he did very well with little effort, to high school in amongst all the other kids who also did very well with little effort. Mostly it's the academics that have been a challenge, but part of it has also been the ( Read more... ) -
Aaw :)
It's funny when your kids let you know you got something right without even realizing they're doing so. Like Daniel, the other day, when we were listening to the Fiddler On the Roof soundtrack and he remarked, "It's funny how this is both the least romantic and the most romantic love song in the whole musical."
It is. I'm glad he can see that :)
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16 years
Chris writes: "This Friday marks 16 years of wedded..bliss...or drunken stupor, I'm not sure. As my lovely wife says 'Oh my god, has it been 16 years?' Humour keeps us together, which is to say we love to mock and laugh at each other." -
He's done
Sixteen Black Belt candidates: ten going for their 1st Dan, one for 2nd, one for 3rd, one for 4th, three for 5th.
- 10:15: Warmup, oath
- 10:30ish: Patterns
- 11:30: Step-sparring
- 11:50: Self-defence
- 12:06: Free sparring
- 12:24: Breaks
- 1:04: Oral questions
- 1:35: Feedback
- 2:00ish: Belting :)
So, we have another black belt in the family. Congratulations to ( Read more... ) - 10:15: Warmup, oath
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Off to Chris's black belt test
(Hopefully) last chance to use red-belt icon :) -
Right, so, our first tournament as black belts
Went well. Mostly. Justin wasn't there, as he was camping, and I was kinda glad about that. He gets so into it, and wants so much to win, that when he doesn't it's devastating to him. I walk around with a lump of dread in my stomach until his matches are over :(
- By far the coolest thing ever in the tournament was Daniel's sparring, his first time ( Read more... )
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What the...
Don't ask me why, but I wanted to know where the word "Maya" came from (as in, the Mezoamerican culture). Google led me directly to:
I’ve surfed the web abit about the origin of the word maya, she was Mahamaya, the great Maya, of the hindus in India, but in Mexico, it seems the word origin is unknown to mainstream scholars, because they refuse to ( Read more... ) -
The weekend was so awesome
...that I can't wait for the week to begin, so I can relax.
- Thursday Justin was sick at home so none of my regular Thursday stuff got done and Friday Daniel was home with a PA Day, and I drove around town to meet with a criminal lawyer (mentoring), picking up our tickets to see the Dalai Lama (got the wrong directions so went to three different ( Read more... )
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