{"id":2926,"date":"2013-04-16T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:33:49","slug":"determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2926","title":{"rendered":"Determined…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a blog today by Dannie Wallace<\/a>, that asked me to describe myself in one word. I took about a minute to come up with the word “determined.” My life, in general, has been easier than some. I don’t struggle with a major medical condition. I was able to go to university, get a job and change careers, when I needed to. Fortunately, I married a wonderful person and life has been good, but not without its challenges.<\/p>\n

I had my bucket list:<\/p>\n

1. Hitch through Europe – I left Canada after a few years of teaching to spend two years on the continent, living from time to time like a nomadic free spirit, going where the wind took me. I have never regretted it.<\/p>\n

2. I returned to teaching, married, bought a house and settled down.<\/p>\n

3. Determined to raise children, we adopted three!!! That journey has been wonderful.<\/p>\n

4. I was determined to have my own business in a field that I enjoyed. I have had a few businesses – all enjoyable.<\/p>\n

5. I have a few things left on the list and I am determined to realize them. One is being a published author. This is one of the reasons I blog daily.<\/p>\n

The post that I was reading suggested other headings you could respond to with one word, for example:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Rug Bag from Istambul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

a. Your body and their suggestion was “shapely.” My answer is yes, if you like blocks.
\nb. Your cooking, again their word was “interesting.” Mine would be more eclectic or re-purposed – I do a lot with leftovers.
\nc. Your career – the suggestion was challenging – that might be an understatement – how about “life-threatening.”
\nd. Your hobby – enjoyable – nice but I think that, if you have a pastime, you should really be passionate about it, unless you have made it your career and you now need to escape into a hobby, which may be just a way of taking your mind off your full-time passion – still with me?
\ne. Your style – colour was their suggestion. OK my car is red. I like bright colours, but my style right now is tending to minimalism, except where my garden is concerned.
\nf. Your blog – heartfelt. It’s not the word that I would actually use. Although I am committed to writing, I like to comment on the randomness of life – the eclectic and the idiosyncratic!! How about “warmly insane.”  \ud83d\ude42
\ng. Your house – maximized – there is not an inch of free space and I de-clutter regularly. Five people and friends live in a three bedroom inner city home…and did I mention the three cats!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rug Bag Souvenir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nThe pictures are of one of the souvenirs that I still have from my days as a nomad in Europe.<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across a blog today by Dannie Wallace, that asked me to describe myself in one word. I took about a minute to come up with the word “determined.” My life, in general, has been easier than some. I don’t struggle with a major medical condition. I was able to go to university, get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}