{"id":5920,"date":"2011-08-09T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:45:02","slug":"42-is-my-new-lucky-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/42-is-my-new-lucky-number\/","title":{"rendered":"42 is my new lucky number"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span>learly, I have done something to please the Universe, because this has been a month full of wonderful news and awesome surprises – and it’s barely begun. Do you mind if I take a quick moment to share my joy?<\/p>\n

Last time I was talking about<\/a> good fortune, I mentioned that I had been offered a job (my former position!) working in social media for the Canada Revenue Agency. I was gathering the paperwork so they could prepare my letter of offer when I realized that (gah!) my French levels had expired, and so rather than the leisurely three weeks of vacation I had been planning, I spent at least an hour each day curled up in a heap of practice tests and grammar workbooks. Then there were more misadventures when one of my two prescribed tests was delayed when the building’s air conditioning system failed. I tell you, I never manage to find the easy road! And speaking of easy, the reading test was not. At all. In fact, I was so sure that I’d missed the required grade that I was sick about it all weekend.<\/p>\n

To my surprise and delight, I found out Monday morning that I passed with exactly the levels I required for my new position at the CRA. My letter of offer is now signed, and I start my new\/old job at the end of the month. Yay!!<\/p>\n

While I was tapping the refresh key and hoping for an early peek at my results late last week, I got an e-mail from my friends at Mom Central Canada<\/a> and Fisher-Price<\/a>. It turns out the PlayPanel<\/a> program has been so successful that they’re extending it and even expanding it. More details will be announced at this year’s Blissdom Canada<\/a> conference — and the whole PlayPanel team has been invited to attend. I was heartbroken last year when I had to sell my Blissdom 2010 ticket because the conference coincided with the closing date on the new house, and ticked off at myself for totally missing the wafer-thin window of ticket sales this year, so you can imagine how excited I am to be actually going this fall after all! (Speaking of Fisher-Price, don’t forget to sign up for their Celebrating Milestones program<\/a>, where you can win a $200 prize pack of Fisher-Price toys AND a $200 spa gift card for you! \/plug)<\/p>\n

And! As if that weren’t enough excitement… I was on my way to one of the infernal French exams when I happened to catch a tweet <\/a>from Andrea: “Hey @DaniGirl – I just opened up my copy of @Canadian_Living and noticed that you are ‘blog of the month’ Congrats!”<\/p>\n

To which I said, “Whaaaaa?” I had no idea! And it took about a week before I was able to track down a copy of the September issue of Canadian Living<\/a> (sadly, my subscription lapsed last fall, but I am definitely going to remember to renew it now!) And lookit that, she was right! Postcards from the Mothership is <\/em>Canadian Living’s blog of the month!<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow. What a month! I’ll tell you this much — 42 is turning out to be a very lucky number indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clearly, I have done something to please the Universe, because this has been a month full of wonderful news and awesome surprises – and it’s barely begun. Do you mind if I take a quick moment to share my joy? Last time I was talking about good fortune, I mentioned that I had been offered … Continue reading “42 is my new lucky number”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}