no mow

I haven't mowed the back lawn for a while as the grass has mostly stopped growing and it allows for happy birds. The robins were there chasing moths or something, happily. They also like my green bin because of the maggots!

amber alert

A few days ago there was an Amber alert at 4am. Depending on the phone you have these are designed to send an emergency alert to all phones. My phone never gets the emergency alerts. However, apparently James' does as he said that it woke him up. Then he had a hard time getting back to sleep because the sound of the ringing was still echoing in his ears. He had to listen to a podcast to get it to go away. The system seems brilliant though because now the whole country would be awake, thousands of eyes and ears.

Yesterday I went in to work and mostly finished getting probation students in their courses.
I still have transfer students to work on and then all the emails in my inbox.

Tomorrow I have to launch some websites so not much course adding. Nice that it is something different.

pause

Today our computer system at work needed a pause day to run reports so I traded some time for Saturday.
Today was a beautiful day for most of the day. Irene and I went to Lake Ontario Park and did some work for CR.
A thunderstorm rolled through around 4pm but did not last long. I had pulled the laundry in before.
I made Vegetable Lo Mein for dinner. It was very good.
Tomorrow we are doing some filming at work. Time to be a movie star again. lol.

Montreal

We made  a flying visit to Montreal for a birthday party. It was at Concordia, which has a beautiful campus. All James wanted to see was the hockey arena though. As Concordia seems to leave most of their doors open on a Saturday we got in to see the deserted arena.

The motel was close to the water in a very ritzy neightbourhood,with many signs by the water marking things as "private"

 Flower picture for my mother

 Concordia

Fine

All day of meetings, though I took lunch scooting downtown to the post office and Food basics walking very briskly and made good time, making it back for our enrollment summit.
Then went straight to Rustle for Celebrate Recovery.
Also, had some finance things to look into for Rustle.
Tomorrow I have one meeting to sort out TA roles for September but then have the rest of the day to deal with all the things in my email.

sleep

Today was my day off so I could sleep in- I slept until 10am! It means that I am not tired now though and I need to sleep to get up early tomorrow.
When I woke up the Chef's plate had already arrived.
I got some things done around the house.
Made steak in the instant pot as well as the turkey enchiladas from the box.
Tomorrow is a long day- I have meetings in the morning, then an enrolment summit in the afternoon, then celebrate recovery in the evening. Hopefully, I will be able to sleep soon!

bitten

The risk of being out in the evening means that the hordes of bitey things look at you like their meal. So my legs are covered with bites.

On Wednesday we had an open session of Celebrate Recovery

On Thursday I went to Al and Shari's to pray through their house.

On Fri-Sun there has been a "Kingdom Powwow" at Stony Plain Alberta that I have been watching the livestream of.

Sinus

Yesterday was stressful at work as there were a lot of things to try to fix from the upper year block load (not really my department but became my department as I can fix things)
I had a bit of a headache but attributed it to the stress.
We had a worship night at Rustle, then I watched the Bach-ette.
In the morning today I woke up with weird sinus juice pouring out of my nose. So maybe the headache yesterday was sinus, though the headache went away after dinner and was not present in the morning. Just weird gunk in my nose.
Today I had a day off because I worked on the weekend.
James was happy to have me home.
I mowed the lawn and got a lot of ironing done.
Made Chicken cacciatore from Chef's plate tonight. James got plain chicken.

Pineapple

I was guessing it was about 10 years since I had the big problem with pineapple making me sick, so I decided to try it again in a fruit salad. It was not a large number of pieces but I did feel ill for a few hours. Then it passed. But that ends my attempt at pineapple again.

Yesterday was summer orientation so I was kept busy running the whole day!

Brock St.

On Monday I spent all day getting the schedules out for the new students in September. We are also working on wrapping up the grades to start student assessment. Also, tomorrow summer orientation begins so we are getting ready for that.
We had our "practice" session of CR before we go "open" last night and pretty much everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Good that it was a practice!
Tonight we have a board meeting.
One morning this past week there was a fight/assault early in the morning on Brock St, close to the route that I walk in on. I guess they had not found the person who left the scene (1 person was unconscious) so as I walked in I was passed by 6 Police. Clearly they were still looking!

schedules

10 hours. 882 schedules. Still standing!