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2025

19 Nov Friendship through blogging All in the past.
15 Nov Life happened Becoming mortgage-free.
01 Nov Weird Web October, recapped My 10 favourite creations.
31 Oct This is Halloween A very uneventful one.
22 Oct I was a little one once Down the memory lane.
19 Oct The old Web: lost & found Why I stopped blogging.
16 Oct Awake and nerding out Being a night owl.
15 Oct Blogging is hard The struggle is real.
01 Oct Weird Web October Such a fun challenge.
29 Sep Happy birthday, Mama! She'd be 82.
29 Sep Bring back the blogs I miss reading your blogs.
17 Sep Not Nordic About my better half.
16 Sep Energy vampire How people drain me.
13 Sep 2024 was a good year A good skygazing year.

2016

18 Sep Like a River Songs to grieve to.
18 Sep Winging It Still coping with grief.
16 Sep The Losses Content warning: parental loss.
09 Sep The Playlist How to create a road trip playlist, my way.
08 Sep The Self Sleep-deprived vagueposting.
07 Sep To the Sea I'm the happiest by the sea.
06 Sep At Sunset Meeting a blog friend in Ottawa.
05 Sep The Unwritten I thought I was going to be a writer.
04 Sep The View It's quite a trip.
03 Sep Home, Sweet Home All the places I've called home.
02 Sep Happy Thoughts All about travelling.
01 Sep At the Cemetery What came to my head at a funeral.
31 Aug Seeing Red Having a colour identity crisis.
30 Aug Mean Swans Ways a swan can ruin your day.
29 Aug Bacon & Eggs When the husband cooks.

2015

15 Mar My First Panic Attack (Maybe) Why I'm no longer a confident swimmer.
14 Mar Why I Chose Photography I cannot draw to save my life.

2014

20 Mar Happy By The Sea With proofs of my happiness.
10 Mar Basia Bulat, I Love You, But... My feet hurt so bad!
28 Feb Hey, It's My Name! In a Magazine! My five seconds of fame.
20 Feb The Obligatory 14th Blogiversary Post And self-congratulary, too.

2009

09 Dec To Be Unholy A rebel with a piano.
07 Dec For Goodness' Sake Religion is not my thing.
25 Nov Sure Sign of Twitter Overdose I don't care, but I do.
24 Nov Ouchie Getting vaxxed against H1N1.
15 Nov Weathered My fashion statement.
04 Nov Splish Splash Post-swim ramble.
28 May Four Years Already Of married life, that is.
24 Mar Dreams are nothing more than wishes Homesick and missing my mum.
24 Feb (Impatiently) Waiting for Spring My first garden plan.
09 Feb Hillside Inside 2009 Not really a review.
06 Feb The Piano What the piano means to me.
05 Feb When I started using the Internet My Internet history.

2008

26 Nov On The Day Spent in Toronto It was a long and busy day.
20 Nov On Parties I'm not a party person.
14 Nov On Canadian Music Scene But only the opening acts.
13 Nov On TV Medical Dramas Content warning: parental death.
11 Nov On The Lack of Indonesian Food Bonus: recipe!
10 Nov On Mixtapes A song list included.
09 Nov On Things of Comfort All about plucking fleece.
08 Nov On Dangerous Childhood I'm a survivor.
07 Nov On Coming Home The drive home from the Soo.
06 Nov On Sault Ste. Marie Lovely day, lovely place.
05 Nov On Long Drives Road trip to the Soo.
04 Nov On Travelling Prepping for a long road trip.
03 Nov On Being Sentimental Life in a new hometown.
02 Nov Memory Lane Living without electricity.
01 Nov (Not) Hallowe'en (Anymore) First Halloween in our own house.
07 Oct Today's Contemplation Contemplating a career in photography.
24 Aug Home is... Redefining the concept of home.
17 Jul It's Getting Closer! Moving in to our own house.
04 Jul Mostly Furniture Rant Bonus: fried rice recipe!
27 May And So Life Goes On Two funerals and no weddings.
05 May Our House All about our new house.
30 Apr OMGLOLWTFBBQ We bought a house!
22 Apr My Ideal House What I really, really want.
03 Apr Stale Weekend Wrap-up What we did in Toronto.
27 Mar Let's Talk About My Addiction Plant addict for life.
26 Mar Picture the Cure Again Photography auction for charity.
02 Jan Happy New Year! My plans for 2008.

2007

22 Dec Days Gone By It's almost Christmas.
09 Dec Busy Bee? Another lazy life update.
27 Nov Refragmenting Fragments A meeting with Bruce McDonald, the director.
13 Nov I'm a Film Hoarder Condoms and photography.
03 Oct Travel Stories from Western Canada Mostly observations.
26 Sep Home Sweet Home Back from the trip out west.
29 Aug Cookie and Photography A few photography firsts.
24 Jul Because I Like Photography Random photography ramble.
13 Jul Happy Friday the 13th (Again)! Happily spooked.
03 Jul Picture The Cure Participating in a charity show.
25 Jun I Hate Summer What I've been up to.
08 Jun Garage Sale Pet Peeves Based on true stories.
28 May Wedding Anniversary #2 Manifesting an Internet boyfriend.
09 May Photography and Serendipity Achieving local fame (not really).
16 Apr Too Much Love (Not Enough Hate) Some happy thoughts.
11 Apr Belated Birthday Post It was happy.
23 Mar Positive Vibes Needed For a favourite aunt.
20 Mar Stream of Consciousness Just a random rambling.
06 Mar I Still Like Winter, Really A bitterly cold winter.
23 Feb The Proper 7th Blogiversary Post I Said I'd Write How blogging saved my life
22 Feb A Week in Review A fairly eventful week.
09 Feb It's All About the Photo Ops Getting published.
22 Jan The Toronto Turkey Treat Turkey and looking for a Wii.
15 Jan The Long Overdue Update Just boring stuff.

2006

29 Dec 2006 Recap A good photography year.
13 Dec Yesterday Was Da Bomb! Sarcastically speaking.
08 Dec My Brand Spanking New Digital SLR Camera A rollercoaster of a post.
04 Dec Sweet Bejeebus! Anticipating my first DSLR camera.
30 Nov In Which She Complains About the Weather I'm much happier when it's cold.
27 Nov Blast from the Past An awkward and mildly infuriating conversation.
22 Nov Not Nice Somebody's grumpy.
22 Sep Can I just say "Untitled"? When the husband got hospitalized.
24 Jul I Like Weekends Just another weekend update.
21 Mar Capote and V Some kind of a movie review.

2005

17 Dec Goodbye, Finnegan! Losing our first pet.
16 Dec Screw the Weather
15 Dec I'm the Queen of Procrastination Winter and me.
13 Dec Always Broke Not just from buying DVDs.
11 Dec Good News vs. Bad News In equal amount.
08 Dec Vintage Camera Junkies The trials and tribulations.
05 Dec The Little Chocolate Bar Boy
30 Nov Poked and Prodded
22 Nov The Maple Tree
22 Nov The Wayback Machine Old family photos.
14 Oct Totally Random Another lazy post.
07 Oct Autumn Is Better Than Fall Our Canadian Thanksgiving plans.
30 Sep Finnegan the Galactic Wonder Fish Meet our first pet!
07 Sep Labour Day Weekend Report A weekend of firsts.
30 Aug Canadian Observations
29 Aug Because Random is Good Random life tidbits.
24 Aug Home Sweet Home My new definition of home.
17 Aug It's Picture Time! A few honeymoon pictures.
16 Aug Message in a Bottle A message sent to whomever, wherever.
08 Aug Hello from Nova Scotia! An update from our honeymoon.
28 Jul 2nd Wedding Monthiversary Celebrating two months of married life.
27 Jul Our Wedding Reception Modest but festive.
20 Jul Sore Body, Tired Mind
15 Jul I'm a Zombie Now A sleep-deprived ramble.
14 Jul Random Things in My Head
05 Jul On Web Design & Photography Out with web design, in with photography.
01 Jul Dear Canada, A love letter to Canada.
30 Jun Those Pesky People
23 Jun Bad Monkey!
14 Jun Wonderfully Random More random than wonderful.
09 Jun Crazy Hot Spring Melting in a late spring heatwave.
01 Jun Rabbit Rabbit!
30 May Happy Happy Joy Joy! We are married!
27 May A Stale Entry
11 May The Ghost of Me
10 May Busy Weekend Did I mention we were getting married?
03 May Toronto in Spring
26 Apr The Pop Shoppe! A Canadian nostalgia item.
25 Apr A Thrifty Weekend
20 Apr Mishmash, Hodgepodge, Whatever A haiku and some random things.
18 Apr Long Walk, No Opossums A visit to Rock Point Prov. Park.
18 Apr On Photography A very insightful article that changed my photography.
11 Apr An Eventful Weekend Another rollercoaster of a post.
07 Apr Odd Dream A high-tech, futuristic dream.
01 Apr It's My Life Just another boring post.
21 Mar Last Day of Winter All the things we did.
16 Mar If We Were in the Amazing Race I would whine a lot.
02 Mar The Piano Player An Illustration Friday submission.
23 Feb We're Open, But We're Not! A new pet peeve.
20 Feb The Obligatory 5th Blogiversary Post
18 Feb Curling Thursday All about my curling watching experience.
17 Feb Curling As A Sport Getting ready to watch a game of curling.
15 Feb The Flight of Three Feathers Another Illustration Friday submission.
09 Feb Misery Loves Company Newsflash: I got sick after being social.
31 Jan Port Dover in Winter A winter wonderland.
24 Jan Mmmm, Cream Collon!
24 Jan Music Meme One of the few times I did a meme.
20 Jan A Dining Table, Finally!
13 Jan Slow Blogging Day
10 Jan Mario Party 5 vs. Halo 2 I'm horrible at video games.
07 Jan My Mother and Music A sad kind of post.
05 Jan A Mixed Bag of Randomness Just as the title suggests.
02 Jan Yearly Wrap-Up A rollercoaster year.

2004

15 Dec Fortune Cookies and Other Tales Meeting Mama Hanh for the first time.
28 Oct An Update, Finally! I'm back in Canada.
05 Oct To-Do List Planning my return to Canada.
29 Sep Happy Birthday, Mama! My mom's second birthday since her passing.
12 Sep The Last Day My last day in Canada.
19 Jun When Mosquitoes Attack My first encounter with Canadian mosquitoes.
12 Jun A Wok in the Clouds What it takes to find a wok.
11 Jun Harry Potter the Third A Canadian movie theatre observation.
04 Jun It’s A Canadian Thing Observations after being in Canada for a week.
30 May Isn’t Life Exciting? My early days in Canada.
29 May Greetings from Canada! Meeting Troy for the first time in real life.
18 May Off to England I Go! Leaving for my first international travel.
14 May Look! An Update! Have visas, will travel.
22 Apr Excuses, Excuses Depressed but getting ready to see the world.
07 Apr A Birthday Post A letter to self on turning 31.
02 Apr Current Status: Alive Sick but alive and hopeful.
24 Mar Telephonophobia
05 Mar Big, Blue Bag of Happiness When Amazon deliveries still excite.
02 Mar A Sign of Life Life update after some radio silence.
24 Feb Not Feeling Well Dengue or not dengue.
17 Jan This Saturday
01 Jan Happy New Year

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