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Vancouver, BC

Place 72 – Dec 25 2021 to Jan 16 2022: Vancouver, BC – Christmas, Snowboarding Another Dog & A New Job!

Kim & Curtis Hale

Christmas

Well hello! It’s been a while, as expected, but we have some recap to do!

Christmas happened and we had no plans, but that was great. We had a nice veggie roast and had some chats with our families throughout the day.

Snowboarding

Kim went out snowboarding with a colleague. They went for an evening and got back fairly late, but had a really fun time! Kim basically had to re-learn from scratch, but her friend was happy to teach her again.

Kim loved it so much and is going again this coming Tuesday!

Another Dog!

We fostered another dog! August, the previous dog, went on to a long term foster and we didn’t have a dog for a bit, but then we went down to the boarder to pick up Harper!

He’s a very good boy! He’s a German Shepherd, Husky, Malamute & retriever mix!

Very lovable dog who loves cuddles and we’ve loved having him around.

We took him out to Steveston today. He loves car rides and seemed to enjoy Steveston and meeting all the dogs. We let him run around a bit (on the lead) and he was having a great time.

A New Job!

Curtis is starting a new job in a week!

Curtis will be joining Legible, where Kim works, as their solo IT person (as a Senior IT Specialist). He’s very excited and glad to be able to get in and help them out with IT and also advance his career!

Mr And Mrs Hale

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Vancouver, BC

Place 72 – Day 447: Vancouver, BC – Research & Meta Data

Kim & Curtis Hale

Curtis’ Day

Most of Curtis’ day was very similar to yesterday, doing a lot of tickets and helping people out as they messaged him.

In the afternoon, Curtis was able to get a little bit done for the issue he was trying to fix from yesterday, but unfortunately a lot of that is just waiting.

Kim’s Day

Kim started her day by getting notes ready for the weekly company meeting. The meeting was then delayed so Kim worked on other notes and reorganised a few things in her filing system.

The meeting went really well, Kim gave a few updates and went over a couple of things that will be happening over the next few weeks. Everyone also sung Kim happy birthday, which was so kind and so funny!!

After the meeting Kim spent a lot of her time working on ideas for a few events coming up. She out together a proposal for a winter party and also took the time to find delivery options for people if Kim ever needed to order something for them as the usual services like UberEats and others dont service that area yet.

In the afternoon Kim added the metadata for another page which was cool! This time she had to include more information and it was so interesting to learn more and see how things work.

During this Kim also got a message about another project she will need to work on so Kim spent some time in the evening to research, get a better understanding and pull together some early options for the project. Its an exciting one and Kim is really looking forward to working on it!

Evening

We had some pizza for dinner and watched some TV, as well as played some games.

We plan to do not very much tomorrow, as it’s a day off (in the middle of the week)!

This Time Last Year!

Mr & Mrs Hale

Vancouver, BC

Place 72 – Day 442: Vancouver, BC – It’s So Dark Now!

Kim & Curtis Hale

Curtis’ Day

Curtis had a lot of tickets to do this morning so he got those done.

At 11:45, he left the apartment and went to get a haircut! The haircut was fairly quick and once he got that done he got a coffee for himself and Kim and then headed back home.

When Curtis got home, he ate some food but also had a lot more tickets to do so he did those.

Curtis also did a little bit of project work at the end of the day and then finished up.

Kim’s Day

Kim had a busy day today. She started by drafting up and invite for a potential event next month and then did some research into activities and things that can be done virtually. She also did some more research on a different software that the company needs.

Just before lunch Kim decided to see if anyone would like to play a game of Skribbl, no one had time today but were interested in doing it next week, so she sent out an invite and how to play for next Friday!

In the afternoon Kim got stuck into her research for the new software, so much so that she was late to a HR meeting. The HR meeting went well and it was great to see how they work. She took notes and had a quick meeting after with her colleague to go over some questions Kim had.

Before a catch up meeting with the HR software company Kim has been talking with this week Kim took some time to make some plans and notes for the next few weeks and added to processes that she has started writing up.

Kim had a few questions for the HR management software company so they organised a call to go over all the questions. It really helped Kim have a better understanding of the product and how it will help and work within the company, so that was great!

To end the day Kim had training on how to set up a new mailbox. Kims colleague toom her through step by step so Kim could do the process and take notes!

Evening

It got dark around 16:00 today, now the days are so much darker!

We did a lot of housework once we finished work and then we had some pizza for dinner.

We played some games and watched some TV, the usual stuff.

This Time Last Year!

Mr & Mrs Hale

Vancouver, BC

Place 72 – Day 438: Vancouver, BC – Day Before New Job!

Kim & Curtis Hale

We woke up to a strange loud noise, which we think was actually just people moving things upstairs, but it was around the time we needed to get up anyway, so we got up and had some cinnamon buns for breakfast.

We slowly got ourselves ready and went out for a walk. We hadn’t planned to, but the weather looked really nice so we went anyway!

We got a coffee and walked along the seawall and to the beach.

We turned around at the end of the beach and walked back home.

Once we got home, we went back out to do our shopping.

We got that out of the way and once we got home we had yesterday’s leftovers for dinner. Kim made Curtis’ less sweet and much more spicy, which was delicious!

We watched Bake Off with dinner and some other TV after, as well as playing some games.

Kim starts her new job tomorrow and is mostly super excited, but also a little nervous.

This Time Last Year!

Mr & Mrs Hale