Parking Fail

My kids sent this to me last night and I thought you'd find it funny!

Parking Fail

So Young

A Nice Car on Main Street


It's a lazy Sunday, sweater weather really. It is almost September, so I suppose it should be getting colder.

One of M's nephews has decided to take a semester off university to backpack through Europe with a friend. It was a surprise, but he assured us he'll be back to start his second year of university in January. I do know some other people whose son decided to take a whole year off with no definite plans after. Even grown adults have trouble 'finding themselves' and these kids are so young.


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Summer Fun

The kids had fun swimming at my sister's pool yesterday. I think that's a floating chlorine dispenser that they use in their pool.

I've made plans to meet with a friend September 20th to celebrate her birthday a week late. She was busy next weekend, I was busy the next, so it will be the week after. I don't know where the time goes. I should probably start planning Christmas get togethers before everyone gets booked up! Although I'm not really a long term planner, preferring to let things take their natural course.

It's M's sister's birthday today, so we're celebrating at his mom's place this evening. I just heard on the news that Michael Jackson would have turned 51 today.

It rained a lot last night and is overcast today. I may still be able to go for a quick walk. K's getting a haircut as part of getting ready for school! M and L enjoyed a long tour of a local university yesterday. They learned a lot and it's on the short list, its benefits being that it is close to home and has suitable academic programs, although it's likely not L's first choice.

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The Passage of Time

It's fall weather today, a bit and they say a lot of rain is coming overnight.... There was a wedding limousine outside one of the neighbour's houses this morning and they were taking wedding pictures by the side of the house. It made me a bit sad when I thought that someone might be moving away from home, the passage of time, you know.

M and L went to tour a local university today, it seems we missed a lot of the summer tours at the outlying universities. For some reason, I thought it would be better to do that in the fall, so had a late start on our research. It will be busy this fall, thinking about L's university and making preparations, not to mention that K is starting high school.

K and I are going swimming at the cousins' and L will join us later.

Sun's Kitchen Adventure

My sister will be returning with her husband for a short visit in a few weeks. There is a 50th anniversary party that they want to attend. My brother-in-law wondered if we had seen a restaurant where he could see and eat fresh Chinese noodles being made. He remembered seeing this on tv. Then my sister found this video at about the same time I located an article on Chowhound. So after my haircut this morning, I detoured to the Pacific Mall and located said restaurant called Sun's Kitchen, so I think he will enjoy this. I was telling my hairdresser the story, and he only said 'I don't like Chinese food'. Hmm.

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Your Personality Type

Sources of Insight has an interesting post called '6 Personality and Work Environment Types'. I think we got a lot out of reading it. The article is based on the Holland codes which attempt to match personalities with jobs. It was interesting just deciding on our personality types.

It was humid in step class today. They tried something different and asked us to introduce ourselves to a partner before one of the numbers. Then during the number they asked us to switch positions with our partner for a part of the number. We may have already forgotten each other's names but it was fun.

I'm following this blog called 'My Dearest Love,'. The author is a 15- year-old girl who was inpired by another blog to write occasional 'letters to her future husband', among other life events. She seems very organized and her bloglist reflects a lot of maturity and personal taste. It made me realize that 15-year-olds are just on the threshold of adulthood and they have a lot to say that's worth listening to. (Especially with me being the mother of teenagers).

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Create Tuesday 04

Here's my entry for Lissa's Create Tuesday 04. Click on the link in the sidebar for more details if you would like to participate.


This week's theme is:

"The Wreck of My Memories"

Lissa set a challenging theme this week. I was a bit stumped at first, then it hit me that 'the wreck of my memories' is a metaphor comparing fleeting memories to a sinking wreck. So I decided to interpret these memories as a fractured puzzle:

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