Yukon Jen: A Series of Random Events

Instead, I photoshopped.

I am delinquent in everything: blog posts, getting fit after pregnancy, thank you notes to everybody who came to the Yukon this summer, sorting through 10, 000 or so pictures from the summer, more things that I dare not even start to think of. I think I am just overwhelmed. To top it off, I have also been sick for the last few weeks.

I will blame it all on the J-man.

However, what I am NOT delinquent on is taking him to the park everyday. That, we manage to do. Today, he swung in a swing on his own. HE LOVED IT.

I did manage to run 10 kms yesterday as part of the Lausanne Marathon. My time was 1:08:50. I ran the same route in 2009, with a time of 1:07:31. Hmph…just over a minute slower. DAMN! Also I was four minutes faster than my 10K time in April. So–overall–fitness-wise–I am doing great.

I didn’t really train much for this race. I mentioned that I was sick for the last few weeks (getting up with the J-man and not getting enough sleep doesn’t help). But I have been going to the gym at least once a week on Saturday mornings and do a workout from the Nike training app. I walk with another new mum (Lisa and her son are from Austria) on Wednesdays.  We start from across from the metro station at Ouchy and walk uphill to the Lausanne Cathedral. We push the baby buggies all the way.  I am thinking about getting t-shirts made up:

I should just go ahead and order them.  I have a plan for a pair of workout pants too…got to get on that design. I will. Once I get a few things from above out of the way.

Villain red corduroy pants
I was suduced by your boldness
I knew from the moment I put you on the J-man
You would wreak havoc in my life
But I was seduced by your boldness

Villain red corduroy pants
You were lurking
Lurking in  the washing machine
AFTER I had removed the other colours
YOU KNEW I HAD WHITES TO WASH

And now you are a little less bold
And my whites are pink

Last week we went to a few events at the Adäka Cultural Festival in Whitehorse. Here is a video and some of the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers.

I have been an expat from the Yukon for 20 years and an expat from Canada for ten. From all of those years living outside of the Yukon and now, outside of Canada, I feel the one thing that makes Canada distinctly unique is our First Nations peoples and cutlures. Here are some more pictures from that event.

He has started eating solid food. We started with boiled and blended carrot. Two carrots to be exact. We had a bit yesterday, and a bit more today, and there is still some left over–even after there seemed to be more on than in.