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Schools out for summer …..
Yesterday was the last day of the school year for The-9-year-old and with mixed feelings, we have summer break …. Mixed feelings because they are off school for what seems like FOREVER! Well, 10 weeks to be precise, not that I’m counting or anything (1 morning down and only 68 days to go).
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Things I’m loving this week
The ATO and The CRA This week I’m loving the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) and the CRA (Canadian Revenue Agency). Weird right and not something you hear often, someone actually loving two of the most hated government agencies. Having previously been a small business owner the ATO would often be a name muttered under my breath along with several expletives in the same sentence. What has brought on this sudden love fest?
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Brain games
A few things have been throwing me off lately. One of the things I can’t my head around is Seagulls …
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Spring Break
This week it is Spring Break so the 8-year-old has a week off school. As we don’t have Spring Break in Australia when Spring Break comes to mind I think of American College students partying on a beach with hardly any clothes on, copious amounts of alcohol, sex and vomit. Disappointingly this is not how Spring Break is going down at our place this week.
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Weekend in Muskoka – Ice Fishing and Arrowhead Skating Trail
Move over Bear Grylls because a new outdoor adventurer is on the scene and that would be Moi! The Canadian celebrated a milestone birthday over the weekend and so on Friday, school and work got ditched and we took off for a long weekend away in Muskoka.
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Promises
Yesterday, I visited the Dentist and after leaving with a very sore mouth I had a hankering for something soft for dinner so we went to Momofuku Noodle Bar for Ramen and Noodles (delicious, if you haven’t been I suggest you do).
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Ice Skating on the worlds longest rink, the Rideau Canal.
It was a public holiday in Ontario on Monday so we took advantage of the long weekend and went on a road trip to Ottawa (about 4 1/2 hours from Toronto).
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Brass Monkeys!
I woke up this morning to our first extreme weather warning issued by Environment Canada. My phone told me it was -18, the dude reporting the weather on TV told me with wind chill it was, in fact, colder. It was my first real Brass Monkey’s Day.
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How I became a bearded hipster!
It has been a yawn, yawn couple of days. I have been house bound with the 8-year-old who I suspect picked up something at the world’s skankiest Doctors surgery last week (refer to previous blog post). Trapped at home and with time on my hands, I decided it was time to take care of the lady garden growing on my chin and re-open “Danielle’s house of hair removal”.
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The Toronto Christmas Parade
Yesterday we had our first snowfall (if you could call it that). We were viewing an apartment and out the window it was snowing, 5 minutes later when we walked outside it stopped. Master 8 and I got very excited at the first sign of the white fluffy stuff, the Canadian among us knowing what is ahead not so much. KILLJOY!
