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New Year Questionnaire – Looking back at 2024

Posted on 22 February, 2025 by dilovelyadmin

It’s a new year! Actually not that new. Mid-to-late February, for Pete’s sake. This post takes forever, especially now that I consult my family for authenticity. But linear time be damned! (It’s all a construct anyway.) I wonder if there’s a formula for calculating how fast time flies for a person in any given year….

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The New Year Questionnaire – What Was Up in 2023

Posted on 31 January, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

Here it is! Been working on the New Year Questionnaire since New Year’s, predictably. It’s still January (barely) and not yet Lunar New Year, so it’s still “timely”. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before? D: Attended the Annual General Meeting of the provincial Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in Toronto….

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I’m 45 and working on making friends with aging.

Posted on 17 May, 202317 May, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

On May 11th, it was my birthday – forty-five trips around the sun, as they say. I’d say 45 puts me pretty firmly in middle age. I have many thoughts about my current stage of life, and since it’s my belated “birthday post” (I actually started this post more than a year ago, when I…

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Why I Love My Bullet Journal

Posted on 30 April, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Do you know about Bullet Journals yet? If you’re into self-organization trends, you probably do. That is to say, you probably heard about them way back in 2016 or so, when The Bullet Journal was an actual trend. Now it’s been long enough that it’s no longer trending, per se, but has settled firmly into Fad…

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Dilovely’s 90s Coming-of-Age Playlist, Vol. 2

Posted on 29 March, 202329 March, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Hello again, lovely 90s music fans! If you read Volume 1 of my coming-of-age playlist and thought to yourself, “But, hey… what about so-and-so?”, take a look below and see if your special band/artist is there after all. As stated in my previous post, there is still no Nirvana (although if there were, it would…

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The New Year Questionnaire – a look back at 2022

Posted on 25 January, 202323 June, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Here’s the New Year Questionnaire! As per tradition, not even close to “on time.” (Though not as late as some New Years.) Also – shorter than it used to be, and adjusted this year to be a bit more contemplative, inspired by my amazing cousin-sister Quinn at The Retreat Space. AND… guess what, I’ve been…

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Giving Blood Might Be More Rewarding Than You Think

Posted on 27 November, 202227 November, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

A couple of weeks ago, I made my 46th blood donation. That might sound like a lot if you’ve only given blood once or twice or never, but it’s not nearly as many as my younger sister has done (73 at last count). Or my mom, who has done 131 over the decades and was…

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Dilovely’s New Year Questionnaire for 2021

Posted on 16 January, 202213 February, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

Here we are! The fresh (2-week-old) new year of 2022! Off to a roaring start with Omicron. A friend of mine on Facebook was reflecting this New Year’s that at the end of 2020, we were so happy to see the year finish, full of hope for an end to the pandemic. Then, 2021 crushed…

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New Year’s Questionnaire for 2020: The Year The World Stood Still

Posted on 27 January, 20218 February, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

It’s always fun to post a piece so late that it’s basically irrelevant… Sigh. (And this piece would still be waiting to be finished if it weren’t for the long dentist appointment the kids and I had last week that gave me an hour in which I couldn’t work on report cards.) At least I…

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Some Leftover Gratitude for 2021

Posted on 4 January, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Hi, lovelies, Happy New Year! You might have noticed that I was going strong with my gratitude posts for almost all of November, then suddenly posted nothing at all for more than a month. Yep. In case you wondered, it doesn’t mean that I had no gratitude during that time. Quite the contrary, I was…

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