I did it.

I booked a trip to Egypt, leaving May 19th. I've always wanted to go, a deal came across my in-box, and the rest is history.

What good is money if you don't spend it on things you really want, right?

Always on my mind.

The Georgia disaster has been on my mind, big time, of late.

What would have happened had I been a full-on hockey wife for a year or two?

I feel kinda cheated of my opportunity to do nothing but work out and cook for my hubby, but at the same time, the failure of my hubby's biggest dream (well, the end of his professional hockey career) made us who we are today.

Had he not been cut, we never would have survived a tornado, a contract at the soul-sucking company I 'grew up' at, and wouldn't be in this content state of mind as it is right now.

Part of me wishes I could have lived as a hockey wife for a few years, but I know the way it turned out was for the best. It's always in the back of my mind, and I know B still has nightmares about that time in our lives.

It's who we are. It's what makes us, us.

Crazy how life turns out that way.

Reading more

I have paid up my library fines and have decided to read more Canadian classics in my free time.

So far, I've finished Larry's Party by Carol Shields and am half way through The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Any suggestions on what to read next?

PS: There's no underline in Blogger's little formatting box, so once again, I'm not using proper APA or MLA style. Sorry.

I love wine.

And night's off. And cheese. And cuddly cats.

In the last year...

I have worked with reporters on stories for the following publications:

New York Times
Washington Post
Seattle Times
San Fran Chronicle
National Post
Globe and Mail
Canoe.ca
Montreal Gazette
The Gazette (UK)
Virtuoso Life Magazine
Incentive Magazine
Canadian Incentive Magazine
Sales & Marketing XP

Among others... and I still make a starting communications salary AND will not be traveling anywhere fun on the company's dollar this year.

Sure, I'm 'on my way up' in the company, but after two years of consistently proving myself as an employee... I'm frustrated. Again.

I am going to have a talk with my boss when he's back from Mexico. I'm fine with the shitty salary if I get to travel more. However, I have garnered media placement for the Beijing Games in almost every publication on the list above and I am still not considered to travel to that event?