My favourite time of day. Magic hour. At Pan Pacific with this fella.
No better day to start working than on Canada Day.
Call me crazy, but I just couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to manage the social media for Pan Pacific Vancouver. Double duty! Fortunately, this is a part-time, contract position, so I’m thinking slash hoping that this might just work out with my new job at Providence.
So why not start on July 1 – a day in which 450,000 Canadians descend on Canada Place for fireworks and festivities?
This week I started a new job! In this newly created position, I am managing the digital and social media for Providence Health Care, one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada.
I’ve always had an interest in medical advances and scientific breakthroughs, especially when technology plays a part of it. As well, with each passing year, I’ve become acutely aware of the importance of disease prevention and living a healthy, balanced life. I’m getting to the time in my life where people close to me are facing illnesses and aging.
As such, I’ve been looking for work that would be meaningful to me, a career that would not only get me up enthusiastically in the mornings, but stoke that fire in my belly and contribute to something that would help people live healthier and longer lives.
On what was without a doubt, the hottest day of the year (so far), Sean and I made our way out to Maple Ridge to hang out with some hawks at Raptors Ridge, a conservation for birds of prey.
In the car. Not driving. But rather in the parking lot, waiting for the a/c to kick in and imagining myself on a road trip. Far away and for an extended period of time. I have been having dreams of the Pacific Coast Highway and of Big Sur lately.
I don’t normally like to have my picture taken at work (I’m usually the one behind the camera, taking snaps of my cohorts), but this one I don’t mind. It was for a chapter event for students and I was laying down some social media expertise. Always up for a mentoring bit. Plus it’s at a healthy distance to hide all the flaws. Ha.
It was the golden hour. I was outside walking Charlie, when Sean wanted to capture this moment. No filter needed. Just sun flare.
Second time to Seattle in so many months. This time we stayed at this quaint little house on Mercer Island, where my friends also live. I adore Mercer Island. It’s only 2 stops away from downtown Seattle, but it feels completely removed from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Unlike our most recent trip, we were able to spend some time with my friend and his family. Sean and I also got to visit Bruce and Brandon Lee’s graves at Lake View Cemetery, something we were not able to do on our last trip. To be fair, we crammed a lot in that trip: Cirque du Soleil show, 2Cellos concert and Star Wars exhibit at the EMP.