Summer 09 in Review

The nine weeks of summer did go by fast … well it seemed to me. But I really enjoyed this summer even if I didn’t go camping or on any fancy road trips. Here are some of my highlights of the summer:

Got a bone bruise on my ankle early July and it STILL hurts (not sure what I did)
Celebrated my first anniversary living in this house
Drove to an out of town dragon boat festival with someone who is the worst backseat driver ever!
Hosted a BBQ
Created a dragon boat team of basically Vancouver twitters for a BC Childrens Fundraiser
My Carbon Fiber paddle broke
Got a new look, chopped 13 inches of hair off and got myself a new clothes and shoes
Lost a childhood pet
Danced six hours straight at my cousin’s wedding
Attend my first WordCamp Fraser Valley
Attend my first Renaissance Festival
Hosted two themed movie nights
Failed at my 30 day challenge of eating normal food but only having water to drink (no sugary crap ) .. Lasted 15 days
Did not huli (flipped) when I paddled in a oc1 (1man outrigger) all summer long
Changed PGN’s layout
Last but not least…… H2O Geeks placed 7th overall out of 24 teams – I am very proud of these guys

How was your summer?
What did you do?

Post on: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Category: Dragon Boat, life, site
Tags: Canada Day, db, farewell, Friends, Kimm, newhouse, online, PaddleForKids, pets
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Happy Friday

Paddling-Geek.Net(PGN) turned six years ago back in June (where did the time go?) since then I was working on a new layout for this site but it wasn’t until two Fridays ago, when I was finally had time to change the layout to “Dancing in the Wind”. The photo reminds me that without the wind everything would be standing still, looking lifeless. I took this photo last year when I was one of the people teaching grade 6-7 students how to dragon boat for a month.

Still can’t believe that this is the ninth layout ever made for PGN. Still have to fix the Exit/Link page (never update when tired) and update the Domain page and tweak the layout a bit, not sure why I can’t view the site on my ipod’s touch with the wptouch plugin. Guess its time to start tinkering, if anything else is needing to be updated/fixed please let me know.

When I was looking around for ideas on how I want this layout to look like, I noticed not that many people do the calendars with the icons or use smilies anymore. I may be a few web trends behind because I still like using them, though I find they help break up the page instead of just seeing a full screen of text

Speaking of changes, last Friday, I just fed up with my long hair. The heat wave that we recently had did a number on my hair so I decide to cut 13 inches off to just above my shoulders. Now that I have all natural coloured hair (stopped colouring it about four years but for the tips. [as they were already damaged/coloured hair]) Now I’m finally able to grow out my hair (again) but this time it will be donated for a child’s wig. Which I’ve wanted to do for the last ten years.

With the new hair cut, I went shopping and to my amaze I was able to find two pairs of shoes and three of the five pair of clothing I found on sale. Normally, I am never that lucky. Now if I could be that lucky in the guy department. LOL!

Thank you all for the lovely comments in the last post. I too never knew that birds could live that long. It wasn’t until she passed on I google about the life span on Cocktails and some websites say they could live until they are 30. I think I was in more tears when I cleaned the bird cage and her stuff for the last time then I noticed she had passed on.