Rehearsal

I'm rehearsing for a bunch of things right now, a contemporary opera at the end of March, a musical theatre fundraiser/competition and an opera vocal competition.

Tonight we rehearsed for the second one, Showtunes Showdown which is held annually and organized by Tone Cluster. I'm a member of the Orpheus Musical Theatre team.

It felt like a great rehearsal tonight. The numbers are coming together slowly but surely. And I recorded a couple of our songs and they sound pretty awesome.

There is still a ton more work on learning the harmonies, but they sound like we know what we're doing, which is a nice accomplishment.

I love the learning and the rehearsal process...it makes me want to audition for a full show again. I just worry that I'd be taking on too much.

More to come regarding the rehearsing, performances and competitions :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Quinoa (pronounced Key-nuah)

I know...weird topic...but it really does make me happy!

Last week I went to see a naturopath. One of the recommendations she made was to increase my protein intake at breakfast and at lunch. When I was concerned about how to add extra protein every day, my naturopath recommended Quinia. More than that he gave me a list of homework, and one of the items was "experiment with quinoa".

And I have.

And I like it.

Quinoa is a natural grain, reminds me o a round brown rice but has a good deal of protein (for a grain). It's easy to work with and quite versatile.

I whipped some up for dinner tonight using homemade vegetable stock (haha) and then fried it up with some diced veggies in garlic olive oil; onions, peppers, mushrooms and zucchini. Then threw it all on top of a garden salad with homemade oil and vinegar dressing.

Totally versatile and I'm kinda hooked on quinoa! :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Cultural Cafe

What a wonderful event! What a wonderful evening! What a fabulous turnout!

Tonight our school hosted a "Cultural Cafe" for all of the families. It was a potluck, multicultural show and fundraiser. We had some of the students from the local high school perform some traditional dances. All the families who attended paid a small fee and everyone brought food to eat.

Students and families alike were encouraged to wear traditional dress, so many beautiful outfits, countries represented in bright and gorgeous colours. I wore my Stewart dress tartan sash with a rosette that I received on my wedding day.

There was tons food...from pierogies to many varieties of rice dishes...to hummus and salads to pastas and dips. And the desserts, which being off dairy I stayed away, looked glorious!

The thing that I loved the most about the evening...no sorry...it wasn't the food. It was all of these families, these cultures, these differences, all in one place. Our school has so much diversity and tonight it was so beautiful. To see such a great turnout and so much happiness, respect and love from this large school family. It made me very proud to be part of this event and mostly to be a part of this school!

I look forward to more of these events :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Wedding Bells

WooHoo!!!

My baby brother proposed!!!! A wedding is on the way!!!! And his fiancé is awesome...and I get a new sister.

I am truly blessed with such an awesome family, and that awesome family just keeps growing.

My brother actually called me at work yesterday morning from Whistler, BC. I held off this post, because they hadn't announced on Facebook yet, and I was respecting their online privacy (what a world we live in!).

So he called me at work yesterday morning. I almost didn't answer because it was a long distance call and I didn't recognize the area code. Am I ever glad I answered :)

Of course I offered huge congratulations...but me...I'm all about the parties...there's the engagement party, shower, staguette, possibly a stag'n'doe, the rehearsal dinner, and then the big day (and I'm sure I can throw in another reason or two for more parties). My gawd I LOVE weddings and everything about them!!!

I think I love them more now that I've gone through the process myself...I consider myself a pro...and my goodness did I ever love my wedding and all those details.

So...basically...YAY!!!! how can happiness, and love, and weddings not be something to be happy about?!?!? ;)

WooHoo!!! :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Bed

It's such a wonderful feeling to be tucked all cozy into bed. Covers pulled up to the chin. Teeth brushed, face washed, contacts out, radio set and only dreamland laying ahead of you on the horizon. A little moment of heaven. Bedtime. :)

Goodnight. Sweet dreams.

With Love
~sarah~

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A Clean House

Now don't get me wrong...we don't live like slobs...but every so often it's easy for a house this size to kind of get out of control, even if we're only two people. It doesn't take much.

Last week was a very busy and stressful week for me. Weeks like that, not everything gets picked up or put away or thrown out. And it's not so much dirty, as it is disheveled.

We're rushing and need a bandaid, so the first aid basket comes out of the bathroom closet and left on the counter, along with the band aid box left open. And Ian was packing today, so there were his shoes on the bed. And the shoes from my competition are on the kitchen chair. I've got pots soaking in the sink and all the pillows piled up on my throne (part of our couch that I call my throne).

Everything is just in disarray. So we straightened up this afternoon, and I finished up when I got home this evening. And although Ian is out of town on business for a couple of days...and I'm lonely...it's a nice feeling of being in a tidy home.

I look forward to the sleep of the comfortable, a person who knows there's nothing to do (except for the pile of work on my desk!) :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Inventing

Yup, it's basically another blog about the kitchen. Less than 2 full months and this is the third time I've blogged about the kitchen! But I really do love working in the kitchen.

But today's blog is about inventing in the kitchen...inventing and experimenting.

I made cookies for the band's bake sale tomorrow, full of shortening and white floor and white sugar. I didn't have chocolate chips, so I raided my mother's house (for less than 1/2 a cup of chips and then hit Macs milk for some M&Ms...Family Day today, grocery stores closed).

But after I made the unhealthy cookies to raise funds...I wanted to make something healthy. I tried to make healthy cookies...whole wheat flour, brown sugar, rolled oats, applesauce and honey...no fat, no oil, no eggs. They were doughy little piles of delicious...but not really cookies. I had only made a dozen and had a ton of batter left so I sprayed my muffin tins and turned them into muffins instead of cookies.

I have yet to create a healthy cookie...but I've come to the conclusion that if it's healthy, it's probably not a cookie. :). I think I can keep my muffins healthy and my cookies...well...cookies.

After the cookies and muffins, I whipped up a batch of broccoli soup w/ some of my homemade vegetable stock, and a huge pot of quinoa with onions and carrots, for my lunch for the week.

With Love
~sarah~

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People

Yup...that's right...people make me happy. Random people, new people, old people...just people.

Yesterday I was in a singing competition...and I was really nervous. I spent a lot of time chatting with one of the other students of my teacher and it was just really nice. We had fun, we laughed, and it relaxed me. I also met and chatted with some of the competition. They were lovely and not at all stand-offish or rude. Just like me, nervous, excited and ready to sing.

Today I popped in quickly to the Cuban cigar store to grab some of our favourite Cubita coffee and the man behind the counter chatted with me and was lovely and happy.

I also went wedding dress shopping with a bride-to-be friend today and the sales ladies in both stores were lovely and friendly and chatty and funny.

One of my group, from another singing event coming up, sent me an unexpected text yesterday. She told me to break a leg. It was unexpected and just a lovely gesture, and more than that, it meant a lot to me.

Both my singing teacher and fellow student congratulated me on a job well done, even though I didn't make it to the finals. They both said some really nice and supportive things and they made me proud to have worked so hard, even if my nerves didn't serve me so well.

Every so often I go through bouts where I have difficulty interacting with new people or with strangers and I wonder "what's wrong with the world". I realize that it's just myself being reflected right back at me.

When I'm relaxed and open I don't put up so many barriers, I make it easier for people to get to know me, which it turn makes it easier for me to get to know them.

The last two days have reminded me just how much I like other people; like talking with them, listening to them, learning new things. I really like people and it reminds me that people are mostly pretty wonderful.

Give people a chance and they will make you happy!

With Love
~sarah~

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Taking Care of Myself

It feels really good to take the reins when it comes to my health.

I consider myself to be extremely healthy. I've been working in a school going on two years now and the only sick I've felt is a hint of a cold each fall when school starts. All the sickies come through my office, use my phone, borrow my pens and touch my stuff and yet I am one of the healthiest people at work.

However, I have some nagging ailments that I've been trying to get under control. From 8+ years of chronic back pain, to some mild eczema, to major hair loss due to alopecia areata. Sure I'm not sick and I barely ever take time off, but these issues plague me.

Slowly but surely I'm managing these problems. The back pain is a work in progress, with a miracle worker of a physiotherapist (if you need one I recommend him in a heartbeat!) and my regular appointments with the chiropractor.

I've been seeing a dermatologist for the hair loss, but I feel like I've reached the end of the line and need something more.

Today I sought out that something more with my first appointment with my new naturopath. She seems wonderful and although she sent me home with homework (!!!!) and asked me to make some major dietary changes (I'm giving up dairy...*le sigh*), I feel as though I've taken control of my health from a more active perspective...I feel like I've already won half the battle!

So although my love of cheese is temporarily (if not permanently) put on hold...I feel in control and better for it.

I really felt good, out in the country at the holistic medical centre today, being part of my own solution :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Old-school Kids Television

Every so often an old kids tv show pops in my head. Earlier this week my accompanist was playing the theme, something that we both recognized but that neither of us could remember what it was. Then a day or two later he emailed me this link and I was like "oooooh yaaaaaaa!" :) it wa only on for a short period of time but I must have caught it in re-runs in the 80s because I was born in the years when it first aired. And now I can hear the song words as all! :) check out the info...some pretty famous folks had appearances!
Cucumber

Then in remembering this show I started thinking about and remembering others that I watched and loved from TVOntario...sing-a-long if you remember...

Fables of the Green Forest

Jeremy

And one of my favourites a little unknown called The Secret Railroad...I can't find a clip of it in English, but I remember it fondly!

I hope some of these clips have made you happy the way they've made me happy :). As well a the other clips you stumbled upon while you were watching these! :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Rest

I've been feeling a little run down of late. I have a lot on the go right now, and my body definitely needed a break.

So I'm listening to my body and I'm resting.

Last night I was in bed before 7:30pm and slept right through (with a short break for dinner just before 9pm) until I woke up this morning. My body needed it.

Tonight I've already had a half hour nap and now I'm already in bed and will post this and hopefully be asleep before 8:30pm.

It might seem like a lot of sleep, but I'm trying to listen to what my body is requesting and giving it the best I can. Right now that request is rest in the form of sleep.

And yes it makes me happy. :). It makes me happy because I feel better when I listen to my body. It makes me happy because I feel rested and can feel happier when I'm awake. It makes me happy because I want to enjoy moments like this when I have the luxury to really allow myself to rest.

G'night all...sweet dreams!

With Love
~sarah~

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My Secret Friend

For the past week the staff at work have been doing a "Secret Friend" (like secret Santa, but at Valentine's Day instead of Christmas). And all I have to say is...what fun!

It's nice because when you take part you both are a secret friend and you have a secret friend. Every day you give your secret friend a little something and then on the last day you get them something a little bigger.

I started off giving some yummy chocolate and sea salt covered caramels...while I received a scratch'n'win ticket and a great little plant...green with pink on the leaves...LOL perfect for me.

Day two I made mini-chocolate chip cookies which I put in a little heart tin, with some measuring spoons. I got an adorable frame surrounded in pearls...which I promptly printed one of my wedding photos and filled.

Day three, I made muffins...and gave them in a heart shaped basket, with some measuring cups (baking was a bit of a theme) and I received two champagne flutes, beautifully wrapped and filled with candy.

Day 4 I gave a little treasure box filled with silky cocoa covered truffles and I received a couple of chocolates and fizzy bath bomb.

Today was the last day and I gave a bottle of wine, and received one in turn.

All in all it was a wonderful week of fun gifts and gift giving. I LOVE baking, but hate having it in the house making me eat it all, so this was a great way to get some baking done with no eating problems.

I also baked a large batch of valentines smartie cookies for the office. :). They love my cookies.

To top off the perfect secret friend week, my husband surprised me with flowers and lunch and lovely new thermoses.

I love happiness :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Happy Birthday Mum!

Today is my Mum's birthday, and Ian and I cooked dinner for the family. It's so awesome when the 8 of us get together :) It was a night of fun, food and family.

And it was lovely for all of us to get together and celebrate our Mum, Mom, Mamma.

We served homemade hummus and bruschetta to start, with champagne cocktails. For dinner we started with my famous curried cauliflower soup (made with my homemade stock). For the main Ian made his famous Beef Wellington, with garlic green beans and frites with truffle oil.

Then we served store bought red velvet cake for dessert.

A Huge Big Fabulous Happy Birthday to my awesome Mum. I love you very much, and you make me so happy to have you as my Mum and as my friend. :)

With Love
~sarah~

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The Kitchen

What an absolutely fantastic day. I spent most of my day doing something I love, working in the kitchen.

A couple of months ago I was visiting my girls and we were enjoying the soup I made. One of the girls was "shocked" that I didn't make my own stock. This became an inside joke.

So today when I started to make soup, I realized I didn't have any vegetable stock...so I went into my green bin in the kitchen and made my own vegetable stock. And of COURSE I emailed the girls and let them know! Bwahaha :)

But I digress :) yup, I spent all afternoon in the kitchen...making stock, then soup, crostini and bruschetta mix and a casserole for tonight's dinner. Tomorrow my lineup is hummus and valentine smartie cookies, while Ian makes Beef Wellington. It's my Mum's birthday tomorrow and we're making her a wonderful feast :) and I'm having a fabulous time doing it.

I love creating delicious food in the kitchen. I like inventing, testing, baking, cooking, stirring...I just love the kitchen :)

Yay to weekends in the kitchen!

With Love
~sarah~

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Connecting

Three couples, six friends got together tonight for the first time in a long time.

Short but sweet...it's been too long and having the six of us (plus one) get together was wonderful. I love when we're all able to get together and share food and laughter and love :)

It's a moment of pure joyousness ;) a reason for being. Thank you.

With Love
~sarah~

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Working in a School

Not only does it make me happy, it is also something I absolutely LOVE doing.

I love working with kids. I love hearing and seeing their brilliance every day. I love the way they can break my heart, the way they make me proud, how they can make me laugh, and the way they can change how I think. I can't imagine another job as fulfilling is one where I can work with children.

I think the intermediate students are still my favourites. There is something about the 12 to 14 year olds. They are not quite children, not fully teenagers. They are at this amazing stage of such brilliance and potential.

There are so many stories, situations, personalities that I experience every day. Every day a million little things make me happy with the 500 kids I get to see and work with...and I'm not even a teacher. I work in the office and the mix of what my job entails and why I am doing this job fill me with perfection.

Today was a day where no matter what I was doing another student flooded my heart with emotion. And it reminded me about how happy I have been since the day I first walked into the school.

I write about happy things every day, but this is something that makes me happy...every day!

With Love
~sarah~

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My Favourite

Yes, it's true. I have favourites.

Last year was my first year working in a school office. I was given the opportunity to "hire" some student assistants to watch the phones so that I could take a lunch break, being the only administrator in the office.

A couple of the students were hired because they needed a chance to help out the school and learn a skill, however a couple were hired because they wanted to work in the office.

One of these office assistants was my "favourite". Right away I was amazed by this student; intelligent, confident, lovely, happy. At the end of the school year I was sad to see her go off to high school. I told her she could always come back and volunteer, and that if she ever needed a reference for a job, to please use me.

She has been volunteering with a teacher in the school and continues to visit regularly.

She was in today, and I was in a meeting and missed her when she came in. I was coming out of my meeting just as she was leaving and she was writing me a lovely little message to say that she was sorry to have missed me. :) She just brightens my day, and she made me grin from ear to ear.

She is only 14 years old, but I look forward to seeing where her path takes her. I joke that I'll vote for her as Prime Minister one day. Yup, she's that good :)

Family

I received an email from a relative overseas yesterday and have just finished replying to it. It was just a quick message and a slightly longer reply, but the short communication warmed my heart and made me very happy. Not just for this one piece of communication, but for the love of family.

I love family, I especially love my family. You can go months without speaking, but they are so easy to pick up with from where you left off, whether it was last week or last year.

I am blessed to have such wonderful relations, whether immediate, extended or in-laws. I am grateful to be surrounded by so many loving, intelligent and wonderful people that I get to call family.

To all of my relatives; in Canada, in the US and across the pond. I love you all very dearly and hope to see you all soon!

With Love
~sarah~

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Being Spoiled!

Last night I worked late and then went straight to rehearsal. I didn't end up getting home until 8:30.

I don't regret the long day and late night. I got a lot of necessary things accomplished.

And my return home was greeted by my husband, slaving over a roast in the oven. My evening last night had a roaring fire in the fireplace, a glass of a big bodied Cabernet Sauvignon, roast beef with broccoli and roast potatoes.

Talk about perfection :). It was exactly what I needed after a long and busy day. I am truly spoiled...and I love it :)

Now, in this spoiled brat's defense, Ian did have the day off :)

With Love
~sarah~

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The School Newsletter

I occasionally take work home with me...shhh...the union probably doesn't approve. I only take stuff home if I really want to get it done or because it's something I really enjoy doing.

So this weekend I brought some work home that was both. The School Newsletter. The deadline for submissions was more than a week ago, and it's going out on Monday, so taking it home only makes sense when I received 90% of the articles on Friday (a week after they were actually due).

Luckily the newsletter is one of my favourite parts of my job :). It's not my favourite layout, but it's what the Principal likes and I'm able to work within the boundaries.

I just love all of the different aspects, the formatting, the layout, the editing, making everything balanced, making everything fit. I like throwing in graphics and just playing around until it's just perfect :)

I spent about an hour at the office on Friday compiling all of the articles and then about 4 hours today getting it just right.

I'll probably end up putting in another hour tomorrow after getting the approval from the Principal before turning it into a .PDF and sending it out.

It 6 hours for something I wish I could allot more time, for something that I love to do and the end result is something of which I'm very proud. :)

With Love
~sarah~

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A Troll

Do you remember the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff who went trip-trapping over the Troll's bridge to eat the lovely green grass on the other side? Well I hadn't thought about it in years.

I bring it up tonight because I was "attacked" (for lack of a better word) by a "Troll" on Twitter.

For those of you not savvy of the lingo, here is a description of an Internet troll...
- A troll is someone who inspires flaming rhetoric, someone who is purposely provoking and pulling people into flaming discussion. Flaming discussions usually end with name calling and a flame war.

Now, why would I blog about something seemingly negative on my happy blog? Because although my immediate response was to feel hurt and upset, I quickly moved to a place of wonder and excitement.

Being called out and insulted for no reason other than for standing up for what I believe in and making me feel stupid for doing so is what upset me initially, as that was what the comment was designed to do.

But the reason I felt more of a joyful feeling quickly and the reason I'm blogging it as my happy thing today...is because the Troll has given me power. I'm not just a small voice that nobody hears. Something I've said or shared has upset someone with a different view or opinion than mine, so much so that they feel like their only recourses is a negative attack.

How exilerating :) I must not just be a small voice amidst the white noise of the Internet. Although I love knowing that I make people happy with the things I say, it is rather ego-boosting to know that I managed to stir up someone so that all they could do is try to growl to silence me.

I feel like I'm "making it" on this world wide web now. :) So thank you Mr. Troll. Thank you for trying to make me feel small, and stupid and insignificant. Thank you for helping me find something wonderful out of something intended to be negative. Thank you for teaching me that my voice has strength, and power, and the ability to be heard. Preaching to the choir is lovely, but is easy as well. It makes me happy to know others are listening.

With deep gratitude I thank you ;)

With Love
~sarah~

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Snowboarding

I say that it made me happy today, but I'm afraid it might make me less than happy tomorrow.

For the first time this winter season Ian and I hit the slopes. Earlier this year I had purchased two passes to Pakenham on one of those one deal a day sites.

We'd never been to Pakenham before and although it's a small Ontario slope, it wasn't too bad at all. It's perfect for a newbie like me. I've been boarding for 4 years now, but I only ever make it out a couple of times a season. The weather was absolutely perfect. Not too cold, and nice and crisp and clear.

We hit the hill right after work and got a couple of hours in. The chair lift scares the bejeezus out of me...but I managed. We did some green runs, and then moved up to some blue ones.

I like being different, so not only do I ride goofy, I ride duck and I insist on practicing on both sides. Then to make it even more different...I do turns down the hill. I use ballet arms and I spot as I toe side and heel side edge down the hill.

I discovered tonight that the turns work best when you've got some speed on your side...unfortunately that makes falling a bit rough, buy only one major spill this evening.

I am trying to figure out a snow-dance or snowboard ballet sport. All I've got right now are the arms and the turns...but it's a ton of fun and I think it would be awesome to add to music. Now to figure out what else to add.

I'm hoping to enter Snowboard Ballet as an Observation Sport in the 2018 Winter Olympics ;). Let's see if I can get it started! :)

I'm gonna hurt tomorrow!

With Love
~sarah~

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Full Circle

I wrote this blog to note things that make me happy throughout my day. Which in turn I've discovered has made you happy (yes. You. The person reading this right now.). Which in turn has made me happy knowing that it made you happy.

A nice, neat little circle :)

I love making people happy. Now every so often I check my stats on this blog and I see there are a few folks who are actually reading it, and some have mentioned the happiness they've received. So when I check my stats and see that people are reading I think about them enjoying themselves and it just makes me happy!

I'm very happy that I started this happy-blog and that I've stuck with it. Writing about happiness on a daily basis makes me pay more attention to it during my day. Instead of just enjoying the moment and moving ahead to the next thing, I often think...I'm so happy and I can't wait to blog about it. Then I'll tuck away some mental notes while I continue to enjoy the happy moment. And later when I write the blog I get to go through the happiness again ;)

Plus, I find that focusing on the happiness is just bringing more happiness to me. Or maybe I'm just more aware of it...like happiness is my super-power or something. That would not be a bad super-power to have at all...so that's the one I'll choose if I'm ever given the choice :) (although I think I've chosen it already).

Thanks for reading and continuing to bring me happiness :)

With Love
~sarah~

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The warmth of happiness

Ian and I went out cross-country skiing when we got home from work tonight. We stayed out until after it got dark, but luckily there was enough street and city lighting that we were able to see.

On the trail back we didn't have to work as hard and I was just enjoying our surroundings. The snow was like small, white, crystal feathers. All delicate and twinkly, almost ethereal, lying on the ground.

And the houses with the warmth of their lights shining out. I love looking into those warm rooms, imagining the loving and happy families in those homes.

It reminds me of one of my favourite childhood novels "A Little Princess", after Sara had become a scullery maid, and she'd look into the windows of the homes she passed and make up stories about the people who lived inside. Happy family stories. I do that too.

The orange glow from homes against the night backdrop and the sparkling snow. It gives me the warmest and happiest feeling in my heart.

Remember, when you're snug and warm at home, to feel that feeling. Let the image your dwelling presents to the world on a cold winter's night be the feeling you always keep in your heart, warmth and love and happiness and family. :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Snow

I know...it's a snow day and panic for drivers has set in. But I love snow days, even if it means more work for me. Working in a school I'll be spending the rest of the day calling parents who didn't think to let us know that their child isn't coming in.

But this is the first forecast storm this season that has actually hit, and it means that we'll have a good layer of real snow on the slopes.

I'm feel sorry for all of the folks who hate the snow and the cold. But just like I tell people who hate their job...don't waste time complaining, do something about it. Your options, figure out a way to change your situation or change yourself. Find a way to love winter like I do, or find a way to not live in this climate.

I can't wait to hit the canal and do some skating. I've been out a number of times for cross-country skiing and we're planning a couple of trips out to the slopes to do some snow boarding.

If you just can't get behind the winter sports, there are many winter festivals, at least 3 in the Ottawa area last weekend. So get out and fall in love with winter. It's here for at LEAST 4 months (if not 6), find a way to get through it without hating it.

Bring on the snow! And drive safe :)

With Love
~sarah~

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