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Dan and Tamara Gauld and GizmoMeet Gizmo!
Posted on August 31, 2011
Maui Pictures and Video
Posted on January 10, 2011Home from Maui
Posted on January 01, 2011We arrived home yesterday from our Christmas vacation in the island of Maui. Best Xmas ever. Tamara will be posting some pics soon.
es·tranged
Posted on December 15, 2010Inflected Form(s): es·tranged; es·trang·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estrangir, estranger, from Medieval Latin extraneare, from Latin extraneus strange — more at strange
Date: 15th century
1 : to remove from customary environment or associations
2 : to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness : alienate
I always knew it would come to this.
I can’t wait to see this girl again
Posted on December 01, 2010
Stay-cation
Posted on September 20, 2010Finishing up my stay-cation today. Overall it was balls. The weather sucked and I had to put my cat down. Hereis some advice to myself to ensure future stay-cations are a little more exciting.
1. If you absolutely must put your cat down, do it before the stay-cation starts.
This could not really be avoided in my case. I thought about pushing the stay-cation back, but I really needed to get out of the office. It was nice having a chance to spend some time with the meow meow before the big day and we did it right at the start so I only wasted a couple of days stressing.
2. Plan activities
Tamara makes our vacations awesome because she plans all sorts of fun things to do while we are away. A stay cation should be no different. I had a few things planned, but not enough. It would have been better to keep busy as I spent some time bumming over the cat.
3. Make it all about you
Stay cations are usually solo ventures. So it’s best to clear away any normal day to day obligations and really be selfish. Tamara was very understanding of this and took the bus most of the week.
Either way I feel a little recharged and look forward to getting back to work.
Good Bye Meow Meow
Posted on September 17, 2010I had never really had a pet that I cared for. Then I met Miao-Yin. Tamara and I had been dating for about a year when Geoff gave her the cat. I can’t say I was super stoked about the idea. Tamara and I had just started speaking about moving in together someday and now she was in possession of a cat that was at times incontinent and also seemed to throw up a lot. It was soon after that the vet informed us she was diabetic and Tamara started giving her insulin twice a day. Sometime later Tamara and the cat moved in with me to my little condo in bankview. I had at this point decided I really liked Tamara, but I wasn’t sure about the cat. After a while the cat started to grow on me. I loved how Tamara would speak with the cat like she understood every word and sometime’s the two of them would get into arguments. (Usually in the kitchen around dinner time) It was very entertaining.
At this point I was surprised at how much I liked having a cat. My favorite thing was when Tamara would come to bed at night with the cat and we would spend some time giving her scratches and pets before she would curl up and go to sleep with us. The cat had been there through a few tough times with us and every night she would come to our bed. We would rub her belly and then things maybe didn’t seem that bad.
Meow meow was 19 and had a myriad of problems. She had kidney disease that caused dehydration and resulted in us giving her subcutaneous fluids, a thyroid condition that required pills twice a day, arthritis that required another pill twice a day. We had been visiting the vet and were going to get some tests done to diagnose the source of her bloody urine when her diabetes returned. Around the same time I found blood in her stool and she had become incontinent. Because of this we could not allow her to come upstairs or to sleep with us anymore. I felt really bad at times leaving her downstairs. She would sometimes surprise us in the morning by somehow getting around the gate and joining us in bed in hopes of prodding us to get us downstairs to feed her.
At the end of the day I’m confident we made the right decision. She will be missed by us and her previous friends and owners. All in all I think this little cat brought us all a little happiness and I feel very lucky to have met her and spent some time with her.
A very boozey christmas
Posted on December 25, 2009Well I think christmas 2009 has been very successful this year. |
Snow – check
Family – check
bOOze – check
Awesome gifts – check
Sherlock Holmes – check
I think that everyone made out like bandits for xmas this year, it sure makes one appreciate how good life is when others have so much less, sorry if that sounds cliche to say but tis true. This year has broken traditions of years past,christmas presents opened a little later in the morning, my first theater movie on christmas day and no turkey to be seen (turkey has been bumped till tomorrow). Dan spent a bit too much buying me a garmin forerunner but I couldn’t be more pleased. By Dan standards I’m pretty sure he was happy with his gifts now I just need to figure out his bday gift in a week LOL oh dear.
Well its now small finger food time in place of turkey time YAY!
Hope everyone else had a really lovely day.
SpeedCross
Posted on August 07, 2009Tomorrow is the fourth race of the 5 peaks trail running series. Salomon is the main sponsor and is there every race with demo shoes. I’ve demoed this same pair every race this year and fell in love with them. Finally bought my own today for tomorrows race at Nikiska.
