A few weeks ago I came across an article on Raptitude that I found very interesting. You can read it here, but the basic idea is presented in the first few sentences: “After you’re established in your career, and you have some neat stuff in your house, you take a whole year in which you …
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Week 21: Reflections at 40
Birthday week complete! I’m writing this from the other side of 40, and things are about the same as they were last week, but for one: I feel like I’ve now paid my dues and I no longer have to care what anyone thinks. Admittedly, this was not a sudden change; I’m really just using …
Week 20: Birthday Week
It’s my birthday this Friday so, obviously, I took the whole week off. I would highly recommend it, if you have the option to do so. I think last year was the first time I took a birthday week, and it was mostly a lucky coincidence that I was able to do it. I was …
Week 16: Blues Dancing
I wrote a post a few months back about Swing dancing and what I love about it. Swing dancing is definitely one of the great pleasures in my life, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Recently, we’ve also started exploring Blues dancing, and have really been enjoying it as an extension of our …
Week 13: October Check-Up
October starts tomorrow, so I thought it would be a good time to check in on the Fall Focal Points situation. I wrote that post just about 2 months ago, in eager anticipation of gaining my weekend hours back, and as of yesterday, our basement project is 100% complete. Big sigh of relief. To say …
Week 11: Pentastic Weekend (pt 2)
If you’ve read last week’s post, you’re already pretty well informed about what the Pentastic Hot Jazz and Music Festival is, and how it works. There are a bunch of different bands playing around town in a number of venues, and it’s up to you to decide who you want to see and where. In …
Week 10: Pentastic Weekend (pt 1)
This weekend, for the second year in a row, I attended the Pentastic Hot Jazz and Music Festival in Penticton. This event has been taking place for 23 years and is a super fun time. Starting on Friday afternoon and going until Sunday afternoon, there are 5 bands playing in 5 different venues around the …
Week 9: Going Dutch
This week’s blog is a crossover post with our best brunchmates, Catie and Dave, from Late for Breakfast, Early for Lunch. This long weekend they are in town for some swing dancing-related activities, and we felt it was important to get a brunch in, so we’re back at Angelina’s, our go-to breakfast spot. As mentioned …
Week 5: Fall Focal Points
This week’s “me” day has been taken over by a stat holiday, forcing me to share it with everyone else and re-categorize the day as ‘weekend’. I guess if this is the only bad aspect of having Mondays off then things are still looking pretty good, but it does change the landscape of my week …
Week 4: Swing Dancing
In a previous post, I wrote a bit about the process of Life Energy Valuation and my quest to simplify my life in order to make more time for the things that bring me great joy. Swing dancing is one of those things. I came across swing dancing unexpectedly. It was 6 years ago this …
Dancing In Irreverence 