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We have no pictures to remember this day with, but I just wanted it recorded in writing that Eduardo and I celebrated our fifteenth year together. FIFTEEN!!! We went out to dinner, and just like any old couple, we tried to go earlier than our reservation so we can go home early. LOL.

What is it with events! Big event, small event... they're all the same -- they all make my feet hurt! But when the event is successful, aching feet don't matter... Eduardo and I chaired the South Park Valentine Dance again this year. Last year we noticed that we did not get a very high attendance and we just wanted to come up with ideas to make the event a little more engaging. Eduardo, the brilliant husband and event planner that he is, came up with the theme of "I HEART South Park." This allowed us to shift the focus from 'love for individuals' to 'love for the community' and it played out really well in our design concept. Admittedly, I struggled a bit with the playlist this year. It seems silly to say that, considering music is and will always be what I gravitate towards regardless of the project. I wasn't struggling with the volume or selection of music. As this is our fourth South Park Valentine Dance, we've accumulated enough dance...

After fifteen years together, Eduardo and I figured that we were probably done trying to impress each other and finally take the leap towards ditching the whole Valentine hype. In reality he's been done with the hype for a while now, but due to my annual persistence to surprise him with a present on this particular holiday, he's been compelled to give me pity flowers and/or chocolate for the last few years. One year he actually got his act together and got me KFC dinner-in-bed after I got home from a late night event. Now THAT'S a winner! Screw the flowers, just give me chicken! So this year I finally came to terms that I was out of ideas so, I was going to let it go. Okay, no ideas and no time to think of ideas was more like it. That is until I arrived to a third-party fundraiser I had to attend for work on February 13th. There was a vendor there from Lovewinx . As the representative of the beneficiary charity, I of course took the time to chat with all the vendors to co...

It's BC Family Day today. I made breakfast for my family, the very rare opportunity that we are all home in the morning and not hurrying to go anywhere. Then as soon as breakfast was over I went upstairs and placed myself in front of the computer to start working on the South Park Valentine Dance playlist, which for some reason has been stressing me out for no reason this year. It's ridiculous I know, I can do playlists in me sleep! It's an activity I know I can do well and enjoy doing, that's why I've signed up run the VDay dance for the fourth year since the kids started going to South Park. But this year, my music mojo is all over the place. I tried to get some feedback from the kids but I keep hearing the same thing from them, not a lot of students listen to music anymore, which for an arts administrator that I am, is of course even more disturbing. So not only do I have no info on how I can make the dance playlist exciting and up to date, I'm becoming mor...

The things I learned about myself after one month of diligent data gathering. 1. I really thought that I normally don't sleep much. After all, with a full-time job, kids, husband, hobbies and a million volunteer gigs, how else can anything get accomplished with only 24 hours to a day? Well it turns out I sleep an average of 7.5 hours every night, and I have to say it was a pretty consistent thing. I actually spent the majority of my time during the month of January - sleeping. Research says that a decent amount of sleep every night for a person my age is anywhere from 7-9 hours. So okay, I'm on the low end of that spectrum, but I made the cut. I consistently sleep an adequate amount of hours for a normal person. This is shocking to me, believe it or not. But then again, maybe I should've done this research when I still worked in the arts so that I would've gotten the results I expected. But oddly enough, it's been a year since I left the arts and I needed a dail...

I haul my ass off to Toastmasters every week to help improve my self confidence and public speaking skills, but Raine... he stands up in front a gym full of parents, who are apprehensive about the school giving students access to technology as part of their learning, and just talked about the benefits of Chromebooks and iPads to students' education. To back up, Raine was invited by the school principal and vice principal, to share his experience and give examples of how using gadgets and technology have helped with his learning this term, as a student testimonial to support the school's request to the PAC to fund the new set of Chromebooks that they wanted to purchase for the school. Raine was super excited. I came home a few days before and he ran to tell me that he will be at MY meeting. My meeting being the PAC General Meeting that I was going to chair that week. He had no issues about sharing his online digital report card to a room full of parents, some of which hav...