Another week has passed on the shore of Lake Superior in my hometown. It began with the glorious victory by the Riders in the Grey Cup game! There were some down times during the season, to be sure, but the Riders were dominant during the playoffs and the championship game was an impressive win featuring a record-breaking rushing performance by Kory Sheets. The week also opened with our first snow, so we had Green and White simultaneously! Go Riders! Bus driving has faced a few extra challenges with the snow creating slippery conditions and resulting in several spectacular accidents that closed streets and impaired traffic flow. Some of our buses got stuck after sliding off rural roads. The markets have continued to be inconsistent with the American holiday causing a lot of distraction and low volume. Despite TSX being up only 0.27% for the month, my portfolio did well gaining above quota both this week and for the month. I am feeling very blessed—thank you, Lord! However, I would need a spectacular December to make my annual quota. Football is over, but the Olympic Curling trials start tomorrow, so I'll be fully occupied with that in the coming week. Wendy has kept busy at the Big Lots store; the shifts remain irregular—they often call for her to start earlier and usually ask her to stay longer than scheduled. Is this a system?
Eric/A and the boys have had a busy week. Erica's was consumed in meetings and music practice. They broke out the Christmas stuff and decorated the tree as you can see. The family enjoyed the new Hunger Games movie. Eric is really enjoying his work, now through two weeks! He is getting more and more clients. Liam has a break from hockey compared to last week when he had three practices—one at 5:44am!
Erica is experimenting with gluten-free cinnamon buns with little success. When Eric asked what was needed to fix that batch, she replied, "Gluten!" Haaken had a good week. He's enjoying borrowing movies from the small group host—they have a good selection of The Simpsons and Monty Python.
Erin and Kristian seem to be doing well. Erin has a cute new hairstyle courtesy of a friend who needed a subject for her journeyman's (Watch for a new gender-neutral version of this term!) test in hairdressing! Last evening they joined us via FaceTime to sing Happy Birthday to Travis.
Travis, Joanna and crew continue their busy lives. Here's the report on a recent hockey game. Hockey photography has occupied a lot of their time and efforts. We celebrated Trav's birthday Friday evening with a steak and pasta supper here. Wendy prepared a gluten-free cake; it looked great, but the taste did not match up!
And that's about it for this week.
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