{"id":563,"date":"2010-01-22T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T23:03:31","slug":"january-at-the-duck-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/january-at-the-duck-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"January at the Duck Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pip and I out and about yesterday afternoon.
Tabs Birthday party tonight. Twelve little girls. Karaoke, piniata, musical chairs and hot potato. Tabs insisted on an in-house party. She also insisted on a DQ cake with yellow and blue roses around the edge. She is going to decorate the rest of it herself using icing tubes and gels.
Beautiful sunshine today. Spring seems to be here rather early–but I am not complaining! Rented “Whiteout” last night partly because it is a Canadian film and partly because it is supposed to take place in Antarctica. It was entertainig enough. Made me realize that I have lived through -60 oC with the wind chill! I remember being so grumpy (as a sales associate at Filenes Fashions) if anyone dared come into the store because I thought the entire city of Saskatoon should have shut down and was irritated that I had to go to work in that weather. Oh, those prairie winters–what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger–they never leave the psyche.
School for me tomorrow. I had too big a break from it. My mind isn’t there. I am nervous to start again as I feel so removed from my Masters at this point.
As for travel…Tibet is a no go for me. But it looks like Peter and I will do Malaysia and South Asia–if we can find a babysitter! My dream is to visit the orang utan refuge and photograph the orag utans and then paint a portrait series of them.
I am still leaning toward doing a PhD after this MA. But of course, these are big, hard decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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