Jul

16

One Year Later…

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On July 13, 2007 I sent this Facebook message to my sisters:

WOULD you guys like to set up a collaborative blog? I not just a blog for blogging’s sake, but something we can monetize and make money off of. Ad revenue could be worth our time.

Quite honestly I think we have pretty exciting lives that others might find interesting. Mom’s a terrific writer and could have a section. If we can each commit to writing at least an article a week, we could have some fun.

I can register the domain name 5sisters.ca right now for $20 for a full year. Doesn’t include hosting but I can look into that. We likely will need to invest a little bit into having some graphic design work done, unless we can manage it.

Interested? Have a different suggestion for domain? Let me know…

And so Five Blondes began. As you can see, my initial idea had a different title. After a quick day of tossing around names, Micaela came up with the name “FiveBlondes.com”. Katelyn worried that if she were to dye her hair brown again she would “wreck EVERYTHING”, but we all decided that it was a risk we were willing to take.

On July 17th, I blogged (warning: really boring). Then I introduced myself, followed by Micaela, Katelyn, Leah, and Lauren. Sorry for the lack of link for Leah, I can’t find her intro.

It wasn’t until the beginning of 2008 that we really began to ‘bloom’ as a blog. We moved off of Wordpress.com and went self-hosted, joined some blogging networks, and gained what I would say is a good readership. I guess what we’re trying to say is…

Thank you to our readers, to Wordpress, to Entrecard, to BlogHer, to Project Wonderful, and to each other!

Thanks for reading! Did you know you can get Five Blondes delivered (semi) daily? Just click for our RSS feed. See you soon!

Jul

5

Picture Every Day for a Year

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So after getting my new camera:

I’ve decided that I’m going to take one picture a day for one whole year. I’m going to try to find a theme to do each month, but I need one to start off with! Any suggestions? It can be anything!

I’ve made a flickr account, and once I get a theme I’ll put pictures on it, and put the address up on here so you all can look at my super exciting life…which includes driving to Ottawa a lot, and working!

Edit-by the way, the cameras name is Sophie Dallas, because there is an SD in the type name.

Jun

7

Tagged, by Leah.

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Bonjour all my friends and family, and greetings from the West of Canada.

I will write a totally, awesome, picture-filled post once I can figure out where my camera cord is, but for the meantime here is my tagalicious blog.

What was I doing 10 years ago? I was 11. That means I was in between gr.’s 5 and 6 (approximately?) and that is the summer my family took a trip out East. We drove to PEI and back with our camper, visiting fun and exciting things along the way like my mom’s cousins in Maine, the Bay of Fundy and Anne of Green Gable’s house. It was the first time I broke my baby toe (tripped over a rug while packing up the camper) and my second ever bee sting (right smack dab on my broken baby toe while running to the bathrooms in a campground in New Brunswick). That summer I got a new backpack, which I absolutely adored. It was navy and white striped, canvas material and had anchors on it. Erica got a hat that summer that was, sorry Eri, pretty ugly and it costed her $26.50 and we all made fun of her for days but she loved it and wore it forever.

What five things that were on my “to-do” list for today.
1) Spy for lynx’s and cougars outside my bedroom window (Tim and I were staying in Panorama, B.C. and saw one right outside our bedroom window the morning before) which was done periodically between 6.45am and 8.45am.
2) Clean the condo and check out. And not forget anything there. I always forget at least one thing.
3) Drive back to Calgary and watch for wildlife on the way (we saw two bears, many deer and a moose on the way back.)
4) Pick up Tim’s dry-cleaning with him in town.

5) Hang out with my family in Elbow Valley. We played Cadoo with cousin Ethan, and BrainAge with Aunt Lisa, Uncle Jez, and Ethan (I got the highest score out of everyone - 1032 which is pretty good in this house), Tim and I cooked dinner for everyone, drank wine, had good conversation, played MORE BrainAge, did dishes, called the Pub and talked to all my friends, and now I am getting ready to go to bed after a nice relaxing shower.

Snacks I enjoy? Popcorn, cookie dough, aaaanything with chocolate, dry cereal, Oreos dipped in milk, and chocolate milk and pepsi to drink.

Things I would do if I was billionaire? NEW WARDROBE! For sure. I would fly my whole family and friends to El Mango Moon in Costa Rica, then to South Africa then Australia and pay everyone to come and hang out with me so they could take time off work and just have fun and relax and be cool. Then I would pay Vera Wang to help Mom make Erica’s wedding dress and all of our bridesmaid dresses. Then I would buy me and Tim a verrry nice car, perhaps a Porsche Cayenne, or a hybrid SUV. I wouldn’t buy us each one because I like it when we go everywhere together. Then I would buy my Mom and Dad a convertible, maybe a Bentley if they wanted or a BMW. Then I would buy my all of my sisters new (or old) cars. I would donate A LOT of money to the Sexual Assault Centre where I worked this past year, so they could do some amazing things for all the women in Guelph. I would also donate money to the Gerontology Students Association at UOG so they could have an amaaazing year. I would also hire Jessica Claire to do Erica’s wedding photography. I would do a lot of other cool things, like hire the Dixie Chicks to sing at Eri’s wedding, and maybe Rascall Flatts and ACDC for the Stag and Doe. Okay, apparently I would throw Erica the hugest, most amazing wedding ever that even Prince Harry would want to come to. Lauren - he can be your date!

Places I have lived. Thorndale, Ontario; Oakville, Ontario, St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec; Guelph, Ontario; Nakina, Ontario; Llano Bonito, Costa Rica; Calgary, Alberta.

What types of work have I done? Strawberry field worker, Marlene’s cashier and beer seller extraordinaire, front desk and pro shop worker at our golf course, Beer cart and kitchen staff at the golf course, I did banquet catering for a local caterer, a nanny for my cousins in Oakvile for a few summers, Cook at a fly-in fishing lodge for a summer, I worked at a day camp in Quebec for a bit of a summer, Server and Bartender at Le Duck, worked on the family farm “sloppin’ hogs,” and as a Public Educator at a Sexual Assault Centre in Guelph. Oh yea, I was a snowboard instructor at Cobble Hills. Probably other ones too that I forgot about already.

That is it my friends! Untill next time, keep fit and have fun!

Jun

6

Tagged- Katelyn Style

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Mom tagged us all, so here are my answers…

What was I doing 10 years ago? I was 12, hmm what grade is that I seriously can’t remember back that far. I just finishing up grade 7 at my elementary school (which was a choir school). Probably getting excited for summer!

(I wasn’t 12 in this picture, but it’s still a summer picture!)

What five things are on my “to-do” list for today.

Mic and I have an exciting weekend, we are going camping (in cabins) with our brownie unit! So I have lots to get ready for because I need to get there at 5 to clean (so we don’t kill our peanut/egg allergy child) and to set everything up.

1) Finish work

2) Go to the barn to check on the pigs (and get all smelly)

3) Pick up things from mom & dads- croquet, bocce ball, sleeping bag & cell phone

4) Go home shower and pick up all freezer/fridge food from the fridge/freezer and pack everything into my car

5) Get to the camp and unload my car, clean and wait for brownies!

**Not these brownies!**

These Brownies! (I hope ours are this happy after the weekend!)

Snacks I enjoy?

Chocolate anything! Chips! Ice Cream! I love junk food. Mmmm and Burgers.

Things I would do if I was billionaire?

Quit my job. Go on a lengthy vacation. Buy Scott new farms. Buy/build/renovate a house, get a place of my own to live in. Buy a new wardrobe.

Places I have lived.

Thorndale, Ontario; Guelph, Ontario. I don’t move very much

What types of work have I done?

Family farm labourer, Corn pollinator, strawberry field worker, Snowboarder instructor, Golf course maintenance worker, Research & Development student (for agricultural chemicals), Real Estate administration. And probably more that I am forgetting.

**Below, me in our snazzy work uniform.**

**Really far below Leah showing off her great balance doing a sort of warrior move while on a day trip to Bristol**

See Mic’s answers.

See Lauren’s answers.

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