Category: About Me

My only special skills are being below average in height and being able to get out laundry stains, which doesn’t get me a place in line to audition for America’s Got Talent.  My husband is quite talented at playing video games (insert sarcastic wink here).

Neither one of us can draw worth diddly squat.  We don’t even attempt to play Pictionary, heck we fail miserably at hangman, so you can imagine our immense surprise to find out our combined genetic make up produced a daughter who has an amazing talent of drawing.

Clearly I am a woman who likes to live on the edge.

I push the limits, eeking out the very last of everything, to get the most value – but I might have been presumptuous recently, when it came to how much ink I had left in my printer.

When we got engaged, my aunt filled a photo album full of recipe cards of tried and trued dishes, and gave it to me at one of my showers. It was one of the best gifts I got. A lot of those recipes are my staple go to ones still twenty years later.

Regular readers of my blog will know that our family is trying to move to Texas. I say trying because we’ve had our home on the market for nearly seven months now, and we can’t move until we sell it. Besides that though, things are going great.

To catch up those of you who may not know about this ongoing saga, our daughter wants to attend UTD next year to get an arts & technology degree, and since my husband can just switch his location to one in the DFW area and we have no family or roots here, we decided it would be a good time to move South.

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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while then you’ll know that my family and I immigrated to the United States from Canada. In 2010 we became US Citizens, after a very, very long paperwork process. When you become a naturalized citizen there are only two documents you can use that prove your citizenship, your naturalization certificate and a passport.

A funny thing happened to us the day we became citizens – it likely wouldn’t have occurred if we lived in a metropolis, in NYC passports can be issued expediently without a very long wait at all. But we live in a small city and the only place you can apply for a passport is the post office.

So as many of you know, we currently have our home for sale. It’s actually been for sale for much longer than we had hoped, the housing market where we live is still pretty weak, as is evident by all the Signs For Real Estate in our development.

Amid the waiting for the right buyer to come along, there has been a pretty humorous incident though.

Back in November we went to Canada for my brother’s wedding. Since we weren’t going to be around anyway, we told our agent to go ahead and hold a couple of open houses to showcase our home while we were away.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I LOVE to travel. It likely has to do with the fact that before I could even walk or talk, I was on the go. Being the child of immigrants, much of our family lived overseas, and that included my grandparents. Every few years, we’d make that jump across the ocean and spend holidays with them. In between those travels we’d squish in the car and head south to Florida or west to the Mountains. Before the days of compulsory seatbelt laws…you’d find us sprawled across the back seat, on the floor, between my parents (those old Buicks were HUGE, they didn’t call them ‘boats’ for nothing)….

In 2010 I moved my blog from Blogger to my current platform SquareSpace – which is an all in one platform and hosting solution.  I chose it over WordPress which a lot of my blogging friends use, and I’ve been very happy with the ease of use, and the ability to change things up on my blog with little coding knowledge. I’ve also been happy with the load times (when my blog loads slowly it’s due to the ads I run that help pay for my hosting) and the unlimited storage and bandwidth I get with my account.

After I finish schooling, cooking, cleaning and blogging, I grab a cup of coffee and sit in front of the computer and peruse the home listings in the area of where we want to move to. 

I don’t know what the market is like for Kanas City homes, Chicago homes or San Francisco homes, but I know there are plenty of homes in the place we’re moving to that I’d gladly purchase.

LOL, you’re probably wondering about the post title of this one! I never tire of telling this story, and most people that know my husband are kind of surprised when they hear it. I tell people that he probably would have walked to an Alaskan, New Mexico or Indianapolis florist, but the truth is he’s just a romantic at heart.

It all started nearly 20 years ago on New Year’s Eve. I was having some friends gather at my home to celebrate the entrance of the New Year, and my husband was one of the people there. I fell asleep long before the clock struck midnight, but as he tells

Our daughter has always been interested in video games and drawing. Over the years she has excelled at digital drawing using a Bamboo Tablet and Photoshop Elements. She also really enjoys the stories and lore of video game franchises, and writes her own parallel stories and comes up with ideas for quests and characters to go along with those games.

So it’s not surprising to us as parents that for the past couple of years she has shown interest in going to college for Video Game Design.