Friday, May 16, 2025
Friday Favourites
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Work Trip Habits
I don't travel that often for work but when I do I tend to adopt the same habits. I have been to Mexico, Peru, and Miami for this job but the place I visit the most often is Timmins Ontario (as I am in the mining industry and Timmins is a big mining town). Here are some of those work trip habits:
Eat alone at the bar. When I travel I am usually by myself for dinner and I like to sit at the bar for my meal. I'm usually not the only lone traveler eating there, and occasionally I will strike up a conversation with someone.
Leave TV on. When I go out for dinner I like to leave the TV on while I'm gone so I can come back to some noise in the room. I prefer that to coming back to a quiet dark room when I am by myself.
Get Tim Hortons for breakfast. I used to go to the hotel breakfast buffet but really all I want is a breakfast sandwich and hash brown from Tim's so I started going there now. And it saves me time so go through the drive thru and eat it when I get to the office (although to be honest, I eat the hashbrown immediately).
Snacks for room. One of my fears is that I will get hungry and have no food, so I always get some good snacks for my room (even if I just end up taking them home). This time I got some trail mix, Lara bars, Stacy's pita chips and hummus, and Vitamin Water.
Bring treats to the office. I always show up with some cookies, candy, or Timbits and deposit them in the kitchen for people to help themselves.
Use the hotel gym. I admit I did not do a workout this last time I travelled, but usually I bring my workout clothes so I can do a Peloton tread workout, and lift a few weights. It doesn't have to be much, but it's always good to get a little movement in.
Sleep. With no one to look after the evenings I can just go right to bed when I want. And on this last trip since I had to leave for a mine site visit at 4:30 am, an early bedtime was the right choice!
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Let's Look - Wellness Routine
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Weekend Recap
Another busy spring weekend for us here in Toronto. The Leafs played Game 3 on Friday evening so we decided to go out to a local pub for dinner and to watch a bit of the game. The pub has the Golden Tee game so the boys played that.
Monday, May 12, 2025
Sharing our Lives - How we celebrate our birthday
Happy Monday! Thank you for joining us today where we Share our Lives with you. My co-hosts are: Adrienne, Dara, Jen, and Joanne. We are here on the second Monday of each month. If you have a blog and posted on this topic, please link up with us below.
For May we are talking about how we spend our birthday, which is convenient because my birthday is next month.
I've always thought June is the best time for a birthday since it is nicely spaced out from Christmas, the weather is getting nicer so people usually want to go out, and summer holidays hadn't started yet so when I was little it meant my friends were still available for a party.
I've had a few birthdays that stick out in my mind:
13th - I invited a couple of friends and we went to Pizza Delight in Barrington (about a 30 minute drive away) and got a frisbee with the meal.
21st - a bunch of us went out to the bar, and finished up our night at a 24 hour restaurant, we started singing "Sweet Caroline" and got the whole restaurant to join in.
30th - We hosted a house party and I was pregnant with E.
40th - It was COVID but my dear friend Megan came over to my house early that morning and put up some balloons and banner outside to surprise me. And gave me a bottle of Veuve Cliquot.
Now they go more like this:
Cake - I like a white cake with white icing, usually from Bake Sale.
Gifts - Some combination of wine, clothes (yes, Dave is good at buying me things), book, gift cards, and things from Sephora.
Special Food - Smoked Salmon with bagels for breakfast, out to a nice restaurant for dinner, and I always get my free birthday drink from Starbucks.
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Weekend Recap
We had a weekend of Opening Days, and lots of fun was had, despite the weather never really warming up.
I had to run around a bit on Friday afternoon to send a FedEx package for work and the return some shoes. On my way home, I stopped at Freebird Market. When we were at friends' house a couple of weeks ago, they had this Green Goddess dip and I could not get enough, and I knew I needed to get it for myself when I had the chance. This store is the cutest and has so many nice things, not least of which is the dip.
I was on score keeping duty.