'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 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.
The obvious solution to the wooden menace is to have real trees removed from all ski slopes and replaced by breakaway plastic models.