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Cake day: March 18th, 2025

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    1. Canada (I live here)
    2. USA (many many family/friend visits since I was a child; also lived there for ~6 years as an adult)
    3. England (one week in London, one week in the South Downs)
    4. Denmark (three weeks for a family visit)
    5. France (a weekend in Paris)
    6. Belgium (about 2-3 days in Bruges)
    7. The Netherlands (about 2-3 days in Delft)
    8. Germany (roughly 6 hours, driving from Belgium to Denmark)








  • My spouse and I were broke grad students with a baby on the way. We needed a car. Someone in our tiny town was selling a 1992 Accord for $1000 (this was in the early 2010s). We bought it and put in another $1000 to get it to run.

    The only problem? It was a stick shift. I didn’t know how to drive standard; at the time, my spouse didn’t drive at all. I tried to learn, but I was so nauseated from my pregnancy that I nearly puked every time the car lurched… which was often. I never did get the hang of it. Eventually we bought a newer automatic car and traded the Accord in for a whopping $250.

    These days we could weather a $2000 mistake without too many problems, but back then… yeah, that one hurt.











  • I had a second-hand bread machine that served me very well for several years, until one day when it started vibrating like crazy and threw itself off the counter mid-knead. The whole lid smashed into about seven pieces and the dough went all over the floor. We still refer to it as “the time the bread maker committed suicide.”

    Anyway, that’s how I ended up making all our bread by hand for the next four years or so.