As mentioned in my last post, I have two jobs – a full time “career” job as an Arts Educator/Administrator, and a part-time/seasonal job as a Bar Manager – both at the same theatre. For the most part, I like both jobs, but it’s become clear in the last 6 weeks that I just can’t do this anymore. “Working a …
I’ll admit it – when it comes to personal finance, and budgeting (and more importantly following a budget) I’m pretty awful. As a kid, I was pretty good with money management and saving money – but with sweet babysitting gigs, no expenses, and no malls or fast-food joints within 300km, it was pretty easy. Even as a university student, I …
Last summer when I returned from my very first trip overseas (to London, England), I realized that the travel-bug had bitten, and immediately began thinking about my next trip – New York City. Why New York? I’m not sure, but I’m assuming it had something to do with Broadway and the relatively close proximity of another of the “world’s best …
Last week, I went to see my massage therapist. I’ve been having issues with what I think is a pinched nerve in my back/shoulder/neck; I was in a lot of pain, and unable to get in to see my family doctor. She wasn’t able to really help the pain at all, but while she tried, we began talking about how …
Dear blog, I am sorry I have been neglecting you for the last two months. It was not intentional; things have just been busy. If it’s any consolation, I’ve also been neglecting my gym membership… You see, that whole mouse infestation situation got way out of hand, and after a lot of flip-flopping on what I should do, I found …
I hate my body. No, wait… let me re-phrase that for you, Shelley: “I am unhappy with the current state my body is in”. And it’s my own damn fault. I know I’m pretty lucky; I’ve never weighted more than 150lbs, never broke a bone, never had surgery, and I am healthy. I’m just weak, and somehow surprised that I …
I have a serious mouse situation happening in my apartment. I first noticed the mice two winters ago, but after catching a few (humanely, thanks to the trap I “borrowed” but still have from a friend) they went away. I had a few more last winter, but again, they went away pretty quickly. In the past 2 months, I’ve caught …
I’ve had a pretty rough week at work. I’m not sure if it’s because I haven’t been sleeping or if it’s the cause of the sleeping problems. Either way, I’m ecstatic that it’s Friday. It would be easy for me to write a novella about what made this week difficult, difficult, lemon difficult, but I won’t. Instead, I’m going to …
Last week I went out for (belated) birthday drinks with a good friend of mine from high school. The topic of how much we’ve grown since high school came up, as we now both teach high school-aged kids. Although I know there was definite personal development for me between the end of high school and the end of university, I …
While I’m far from being any sort of expert on the subject, these are a few things I learned about saving money on my trip to London, England that I thought would be good to share (or at the very least have a record of it for future reference). 1. Put everything you can on your credit card. It’s safer …
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I have always wanted to travel. More specifically, I’ve always wanted to travel to England. I’m not sure what the draw to that country is over the rest of Europe but it likely has something to do with my interest in theatre, the fact that I’ve had some friends live over there before and heard nothing but wonderful things and …
