Well, I realize that I've been gone for quite some time and there is a good chance hardly anyone reads this anymore...but I'm going to write something anyway. If anything this is for Julie, Lowell, Duane, and Kevan. The ones who won't let me forget about this blog.
It sort of seems as though I should be writing this from a distant country where there are new and exciting things happening aroud me everyday. Writing about daily life in Edmonton is a much more challenging task. I suppose this means I'll have to be creative. Either that or write about how this city seems to sneak farther north everyday and how, if we're going to live in such a artic climate, we should at least get to have penguins waddling about. How awesome would that be? In BC we had herds of deer in our yard all the time. I'd much rather have to walk through a herd of penguins in my yard to take the trash to garbage cans in the alley. Perhaps it is all wishful thinking. sigh. I'd even settle for polar bears. anything to take my mind off of this harsh weather...I'll bet it's really hard to be concerned with -40 degree temperatures when you have a ravenous polar bear nipping at your heels.
Back to the whole blogging thing, does anyone really blog anymore (other than Lowell, Julie, Duane, and Kevan)? I mean, is it just me or was blogging just a phase that died out as soon as facebook came on the scene? Am I trying to relive an era long gone? Luckily I am into myself enough that I don't need an audience to write to:)
I really don't have much to say this time around, but it is a start right? Like Cher, even though I probably should have stayed in retirement, I am back on the scene. But before I go I want to share a video of the new dance I have been learning in my swing dance class. Actually it's a really old dance, but still really awesome. A couple of months ago my grandma wrote to me and told me how she had been doing the jitterbug at a senior dance over christmas. I didn't really know what it was at time, but now that I have been learning the jitterbug I find myself impressed with my grandma's agility. I mean, she is old. Maybe this is arrogant, but I find that I am sweating buckets by the time I'm done the jitterbug stroll. I am starting to worry that my 87 year old grandma is in better shape than I am....
7 comments:
I'm still here. I have the ever-vigilant eye of Bloglines aimed steadily at this blog. Nothing escapes my notice.
I might even still be blogging too. I was doing this long before it was fashionable, and it'll take more than Facebook to shut me down. Unless I just get bored with it. That might happen.
I still read your blog too (when you post)... So please keep writing! Are you in the video of the jitterbug class? It look like so much fun!
Oh Jenna, so glad to have you back!! I think there is a whole secret blogging world to be discovered out there. Blogging groups, contests, awards....
Facebook's got nothin on blogging!
Hee heee. Welcome back hun. Hopefully Lowell and I will see y'all on Saturday!!!
PS- REMINDER: You have precious popsicles in your freezer...eat them!
joel! I'm so glad to hear you exist in this world (and you're right, you brought the coolness factor to blogging). and alisha. and lowell and julie!
lowell and julie...I really hope you come on saturday! and thanks for the reminder...I'm all over the popsicles.
I still check your blog almost every day...so glad you've written something again!
Oh, and I blog too :)
~K~
Hello Jenna,
I still check.
To find penguins you would need to move further north and then suddenly (and magically) fall off the north pole and land at the south pole. The furthest north penguins are probably at the Calgary Zoo or Sea World in San Diego. They are a southern hemisphere creature. We think of them living in the cold but there are still penguins in South Afica, New Zealand (I think), and definitely in Chile and Argentina.
Polar bears. They are at the north pole.
P.S. If doing the jitterbug keeps you warm then maybe you should do it between buildings in the cold. Start a revolution. A dance dance revolution.
P.P.S. Please take none of this seriously - except for the take none of this seriously part.
Aaron
seriously...penguins in South Africa? you are just full of random, interesting trivia. you must own a bathroom reader or two.
I think you should start the dance, dance revolution with me. I've seen your "lawnmower" and "sprinkler", it's good stuff. I will teach you and megan the jitterbug. we will dance dance dance the rest of our lives away...
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