life, the universe, and donna

Warning: Epic long post. Also, a lot of mention of blisters. Sorry if you’re easily grossed out. So for the last year, I’ve been talking about this little walk I was going on. And by “little walk” I mean “60km over two days”. So, as I’ve mentioned a million times, my mother was diagnosed with [...]

So this? This is the wonderful woman that I’m walking for in August. No hardship, she’s put up with me for 31 years so far, the LEAST I can do is walk a measly 60k for her. Want to Donate? Please do!

So here’s the State of the Union as far as that whole cancer thing goes. The background: In February of 2010, my mother found a lump and went to her doctor about it. Since approximately 95% of lumps are nothing, they weren’t very concerned. Well, crap – it’s cancer. Well, okay. 95% of breast cancers [...]

So, no surprise, I’m a transit junkie. I was raised by transit employees – today, April 20th, is my mothers 30th anniversary. Given that I am 31 and a half years old, it would seem that I was about 19 months old when Mom was hired on as a driver. So, despite the motto that [...]

This is so worth being dead on my feet. Weeks ago, I heard about the Bootlegger’s Ball, put on by one of my favorite local attractions, the Vancouver Police Museum. This is a pretty awesome place in general, putting on a fantastic Sins of the City walking tour around the Downtown Eastside, super awesome looking [...]

So, during downtime at work, we’re pretty restricted on what we’re allowed to do. One of the things we CAN do is read the local papers. Which sort of suck, but they’re better than nothing, and I’m getting pretty good at the crossword puzzles. Anyway, so because of this, I’m much more up to date [...]

I have a rant about snow. I started this rant in an email, I’m expanding it JUST FOR YOU! So, Vancouver doesn’t deal with snow well. Several reasons: One, we’re a hilly, hilly place. I don’t know if you noticed those big mountainy things over there, but it turns out that even being at the [...]

So I had a 6:30am shift on Friday. This worked out really well, as it meant we could leave for Ursulmas on Friday night, instead of waiting until Saturday morning and leaving reaaaally early. But, 6:30am shifts mean I have to be up at around 4am so as to have enough time to walk the [...]

So on Friday, I shuttled the dog out to Maple Ridge (to the amazing Erin, who takes the worlds best care of my crazy dog), packed up my garb, my loom, my camera and headed down to Monroe, WA for Ursulmas, a super awesome SCA faire with a great heavy fighting tournament. Before people start [...]

So, especially with my bizarre work schedule, I require a calendar to keep my life straight. I am a busy, busy little Donna. My mother is also curious as to when I work (she’s technically a coworker… ish… well, we both work for the same company at least) and so I have shared my calendar [...]