You know what can send you into a panic quicker than the internet dropping during an important Zoom? When your house makes weird noises for no reason at all.
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TGIF everyone, another week in the books. How was it for you? Before I get going on what’s going on, welcome to a few new subscribers. Feel free to take a look around. This week was all about experiencing totality – and of course, I am referring to the solar eclipse on Monday.
I have lived in toronto for just over 12 years. Part of that was without kids and part of that was with kids. Why do I mention that? Because the very same city you thought you knew, can be seen very differently when you have on your parent glasses. Something you previously thought of as a tourist trap, or a place that looked boring, now has a jolt of life brought to it because you are experiencing it through your kids. I admit once we had kids and moved back to Toronto, I started seeing everything like I was new to the city again.
Toronto has so many things to offer and so many places to experience. Why not grab the family and check out any (or all) of the 150 fun things to do in Toronto listed below.
Can you believe we are coming up on 8 years of living in Parkdale? It’s crazy how time flies when you are having fun.
For those that don’t know, Parkdale is a neighbourhood in the west end of Toronto and is one of the oldest parts of the city.
This west-end neighbourhood that we call home, boasts a rich immigrant history, with waves of Polish, Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and Vietnamese immigrants have called it home. Today, Parkdale hosts one of North America’s largest Tibetan expat communities—and if you walk around, has the restaurants to prove it.
Many years ago, Parkdale was a part of the city I rode my bike through as quickly as I could on my way to work. It did not have a great rep. Funny enough, many years later it is where I ended up living. And I am very happy it worked out that way.
Today I wanted to quickly list some family-friendly activities in Parkdale. Whether you have little kids, big kids, or no kids, I think they all work.
Good morning all, I hope you had a great weekend. I also hope the time change did not mess you up at all. Here I hardly noticed it. I was telling the kids, with so many automatic changing clocks now, I wonder how many people would not even know the time changed if the news did not talk about it all week leading up.
It’s March Break in our house this week and in past years there would be a lot of plans made to entertain the boys. But now they are older, there are less plans and fewer reasons to be out and about each day. But, with the weather forecast looking like early summer, that could change. Makes you wonder, where was winter in Toronto this year?
Just when you are about to be out, they pull you back in. That’s what the Toronto Raptors did to me last night.
My overall interest in the Raptors this season has been moving further and further into the background. The past few months has been a rollarcoaster of good, bad and really ugly moments. The faces keep changing. The losses are piling up. Everything is leading to a rough end to the season and ending up in the lottery, where they may not even have a pick.
But last night, I felt a glimmer of hope. I felt a real interest in this group. I actually watched most of the game and cared about the outcome.
Well that was a dramatic title. No the blog is not over.
What I am referring to is how yesterday was the first weekday this year where I did not file a post. I opened up the screen and nothing. Nothing came to mind. Nothing seemed interesting to write about. I scanned Twitter, which is usually my idea generator, had nothing of note. I think we are all tired of Taylor and Travis.
So I thought about the streak. I thought about how I had written 500 words every weekday since 2024 started. I really tried, but all that was going to come out would feel very forced and the whole point of what I am doing is to not force it.
Pretty bold way to start a Thursday right? Hope you have had your coffee. I’ve been holding back some feelings. As we near today’s trade deadline at 3pm EST, I am hopeful that we have some clarity on what this team is and will become. Because, watching what the current product is as a whole from on the court, to the broadcast and even the social media discourse, has become unenjoyable.
Let’s start with the actual team. In the past several months, any remnants of the 2019 title team has been removed. No more FVV, no more OG and no more Pascal. It’s clear how much we miss those guys due to how much we now focus on the Houston Rockets, New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers. FVV, OG and Pascal became part of the family.
At least in our household, we talked about them like we knew them.
Every January 30th is a small celebration for us. It’s the day in 2016, that we moved into our current house. Our Toronto home that we never imagined we would find. Its the day that we reflect on how much we have enjoyed it and how much our family has grown. You remember the new furniture. You remember figuring out how things worked. You remember planning where everything was going to go.
Every January 30th, I do take a few moments to remember a lot of these things. What always jumps out to me is how lucky we were to get the house in the first place. So many things went our way to make it happen. The right place. The right time. It could have gone so different.
Even just a year later, I don’t know if we could have been able to do it. With the housing market and just how expensive things became, we scored.
Well it happened. Like I mentioned yesterday, it felt like the time was coming. The Toronto Raptors finally pulled the trigger on a Pascal Siakim deal. He’s off to the Indiana Pacers for a less than thrilling haul of stuff. The 2019 championship team is gone. It’s really hard to believe.
So before I start to welcome Bruce Brown Jr. (if he isn’t traded again) and start to wonder who these first round picks can become, I want to focus on Pascal.
One of the truly wonderful stories, not only for the Raptors, but for basketball.
