Anya ,'Touched'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I loved that when I was in Ireland five or so years back, the big radio stations were giving away trips to America for SP's Day. It's such an American holiday.
I really wish we had a nationally recognized silly hat day (Derby Day could just become a bigger deal) or dress fancy day or pajama day.
I was thinking aneurysm too.
Poor Natasha, poor Liam, their poor sons (12 and 13). There's never a time in life when it isn't awful to lose a parent, but early adolescence is already so full of out-of-control changes and huge inarticulate emotional tidal waves--oh, those poor kids.
I should look into a bubble wrap suit for mac.
One for Noah and Grace too, please.
But we should do St. Pat's like the Newfs, who have a holiday.
They have that in Boston, too -- but not for St. Paddy's Day, oh no! It just happens to be the day the British evacuated Boston. Therefore, Evacuation Day.
Newfoundland also used to have a holiday the Battle of the Boyne, just to be fair to all sides of the Irish conflict. I don't think that's a statutory holiday anymore though.
Newfoundland public holidays. Outside the usual ones:
16 Mar St Patrick's Day.
20 Apr St George's Day.
22 Jun Discovery Day.
13 Jul Orangemen's Day
I have a busy week or so coming up--a business trip to Minneapolis all next week (which is full of what promises to be kinda stressful meetings), then I get back Friday night. Early Saturday morning, we drive up north to take care of my MiL, who is having surgery next week. The DH stays there, but I get on the train late Sunday to be at work Monday morning. Not terrible, but tiring nonetheless.
However, once I get through that I just found out that I get to go with DH to a schmancy Audi weekend event, being held at this place nest weekend: [link] I am really excited! This is the fanciest hotel I will have ever stayed at--so gorgeous. And they pay for dinner on a boat one night and for a bike trip around Santa Barbara, which sounds really fun.
Do most people wear helmets while skiing, though? Or beginners, anyway?
Not in my experience -- though I've never been a huge skier.
Every year here in Utah we have a few people who die on the ski runs from running into trees or whatnot. Trees don't yield.