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Well, "weekend" is a bit premature since I'm writing this on a Sunday morning and there's still a whole other day left before the weekend is over. But yesterday was just so fantastic I'm hoping that regardless of whatever happens the rest of today, nothing can undo how fabulous yesterday was. Context? Here we go. First of all let me start by saying that it was mine and Eduardo's 14th anniversary. Fourteen years since we started dating. FOURTEEN. We meant to celebrate, go out to dinner, that kind of thing, especially since we already missed celebrating our last wedding anniversary due to both of us having a stomach flu. Long story short we didn't go out but did end up having Vietnamese takeout in bed for dinner. I ravel at how quickly our years together jumped to fourteen. I feel like the last time I counted we were just at seven It wasn't always peaches and cream but I feel like since the last time I counted, it has all become peaches and cream. ...

So... remember when I got selected to do this project? (Which I realized I never wrote about in my blog so now I feel compelled to have a record of it so that I don't forget that it ever happened. For context, the rest of the information about this project can be found on the  Citizens in Action  website.) The Institute for Canadian Citizenship has now contacted me again to ask for my help. I got their email a week ago, but didn't reply right away because it took that long to recover from the fact that they asked me if I would sing the national anthem at the citizenship ceremony they're planning to host in Victoria. Me? Sing a solo. In a federal government event. NOT happening.  It also took that long for me to compose how I was going to decline this ridiculous but flattering offer. But apparently that was too long of a wait time. In the meantime while I was busy composing my let-down email, they have even made an effort to contact the opera and were busy tr...

I signed up to attend a writing workshop! It's a women only workshop run by yoUnlimited , a group of women who serve other women by delivering women-centric wellness and networking workshops. Another thing I learned from my new-found feminist environment. It's a series of monthly workshops, and actually the writing one only happens on Tuesdays so the fact that I attended this time meant I skipped choir rehearsal, but whatever. Better now and not closer to the concert. I still have plenty of time to learn the music. I should probably start with learning the name of the pieces, which is in German... and I always blank out on... like right now. Anyway... back to the writing workshop. Why did I want to take it? After my creative writing 101 class back in university, I learned pretty quickly that creative writing isn't what it was cut out to be. It was actually a lot of really serious mental work and after all the critique, I couldn't even remember what I was writing abo...