iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had such a wildly emotional day and then I finished a book at midnight so I think I’m going to ride out the night on adrenaline, unable to sleep.

110

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They’re painting my classroom! I was so pumped and willing to take whatever colour (the walls are terrible) BUT THEN they brought me a whole book of colour swatches to choose from and now I have can’t choose! Any favourite colours (dulux paint) for a jr high classroom (going for peaceful vibes)?

000

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve been hyper focusing on a spreadsheet for approximately (checks time) 10 hours now. A hyperfocus doesn’t stop just because I’m exhausted or because it’s bedtime so I’m in bed WIDE AWAKE. I really thought I’d only spend an afternoon on it. Anyway. It’s pretty cool.

010

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

VLADDY GOT HIS HOME HOME RUN!!! We knew it was coming! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

080

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A reminder to parents (only because I’m seeing it in my older kids) summer to school transitions are tough. The schedule and expectation and social change is a big change. Kids need grace and a safe place to decompress after school.

050

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s the night before school starts and I can’t sleep but I also can’t keep my eyes open because they are watering and burning (I must have rubbed some of my face cream into them).

110

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For the first time ever I was the mom of a player on (& manager of) a winning sports team. We made it to semis & lost 6 shots into a penalty shootout. We won our 3rd place game with no subs playing shorthanded. The top 2 also ended in a pen shootout. It’s wild that pen shots dictated the top 3.

020

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ok fam. I wasn’t able to watch the Blue Jays game today. Any big stories from the game? Instead my kid played soccer and I PROMISE there were good stories there.

230

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t want to say anything lest I jinx it but Jeepers, this blue jays game is stressful!

021

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s too hot. These types of summer days are such write-offs. It’s unbearable.

030

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m so curious: is anyone else in Halifax dealing with asthma over these past few weeks? My husband only has asthma issues for a few weeks each summer. This season it’s getting so bad.

100

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

School has been out for almost month now and I just am coming to terms with the fact that I am feeling bleh mentally. It isn’t like I’m upset. I can’t do anything. I don’t want to do anything. #teaching

210

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Its 3am and I can’t sleep but luckily I have to wake up with my alarm tomorrow because no one remembered to take out the garbage tonight and tomorrow is garbage day. Of course, I remembered about the garbage at 2am.

000

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is such a lovely summer rain. I love sitting here by the window, smelling the petrichor and listening for thunder. If this could last into the night so I could see the dark light up with lightning, it would be perfection.

040

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Nothing discourages me more about the state of how we act towards one another in society like a Costco line up that goes to the back of the store. We’re civilized, we line up, but heaven forbid we make space for people to actually shop the aisles.

111

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A reminder that having a public broadcaster like the CBC is an important staple that we should be happy to fund so we don't leave our local journalism to the whims and profit-making decisions of private companies like Rogers. #LocalJournalismMatters

212847

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Last day of school. Another classroom change. Lots of goodbyes and good-lucks and hugs and I-promise-you-that-you-are-going-to-do-awesomes and a staff party. I didn’t realize how tired I am but now that I am home I am dead tired.

040

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Sometimes when I’m watching World Cup soccer, I feel like I’m watching an old timey silent film with all the dramatics and over the top gestures.

030

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I think I slept 14 hours last night. I still have so much to do but was SO TIRED I let myself rest. I went to bed early, and my dog let us skip our morning walk (how did she know?) so I slept until 11:30am. I’m still feeling tired. If you want to know what June as a junior high teacher is like.

130

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Sitting here a few minutes ago watching the World Cup and talking with my husband and all of a sudden I stopped because the smell of the air changed completely with the pre-rain storm smell wafting through the window. It was intense and lovely.

160

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I have an emergency. All my grading pens are running out of ink.

310

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What an incredible soccer game to watch.

010

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

THE CANADIAN MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM HAVE WON ITS FIRST EVER GAME AT THE #FIFAWORLDCUP! 🫨🇨🇦

1760875

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m normally not a fan of large goal differentials unless it is baseball, but it seems like more goals is better to get us through to the next round? So I’m all for it here!

130

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some days (most days) I like teaching and some days a kid whips something at your head.

010

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sometimes on a whole teaching can feel discouraging and frustrating. But then I go out and get pizza and I happen to see some of those same students who yell my name from across the parking lot to say hi and it reminds me that I’m pretty lucky to be doing what I’m doing.

020

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I got my family a 3d printer for Christmas. My middle son loves it and uses it a lot. He has decided to try to sell some things at a small fundraiser craft sale in a month and a half. Does any one have some suggestions of items that would be good for him to make and sell?

310

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I’m getting over Covid and for the first time ever I have completely lost my sense of smell and taste. Like I can’t even get a whiff of a scent even when my nose is clear. Weirdly though, for a split second when blowing my nose, I get a very strong taste of whatever I’ve eaten most recently.

240

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Heartbreaking. But those Canadian boys played so well. I’m so proud of them. So proud to be Canadian. #Olympics

150

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

Mike Bloom @michaelbloom.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Very on brand for an American to use his whiteness to escape accountability

1943

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

If you voted to defund the CBC, you better get your ass back to bed. No hockey for you.

02512

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Ngl, the whole curling controversy feels like exactly what I deal with every day teaching junior high. On so many levels.

020

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

As someone who knows nothing of hockey rules, that call was annoying.

000

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

After watching the Olympics all morning, my cbc gem app had completely crashed.

030

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026

No Kings includes Draft Kings

178258806018

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

As someone who definitely always cries at Olympic opening ceremonies I don’t know why I thought I could watch these on my phone while at my son’s soccer practice.

020

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I just had one of those wonderful nights where I could stay up and finish reading the book I was reading because I was so into it. But now I’m too wired to sleep.

030

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

Canadians Against Trump @canadiansagainstt.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s just a misunderstanding. See, they’re actually Bored of Peace.

1323

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

When it’s a snow day and you put out your back trying to get the snow pants you need to go outside. You couldn’t even survive to get to shoveling. Why yes I am turning 40 this year. Why do you ask?

040

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I stepped in to help coach our school’s soccer team this past year and I essentially managed to find my way into main coach territory. (I’m qualified to occasional assistant coach at best). But man. I can’t stop my coach voice as a spectator now at my sons’ games.

040

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Strange question alert: is there a way to find out what beginning sequence of license plates are being issued in Nova Scotia right now? My son and I always look at and talk about license plates and were curious.

210

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Only a few hours of wrapping and I’ve gone through an entire roll of tape already.

010

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Has anyone seen actual real maple butter around Dartmouth or Cole Harbour? I don’t even know where I might start looking.

300

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Ah, it's that time again...

Joseph Scrimshaw tweet from 2022:

"Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, 'What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is.'

And my stove is left blinking and screaming, 'IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!' "

21051328

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

Marked for Life @markdykeman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Good mourning, fellow Jays fans. An extra hour to reflect on physics and fickle fate and then reset our hearts for hope, like love, is a muscle. #BlueJays

0959

Laura’s elbows are up @laurao.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Heartbreaking. But what an incredible series.

170

Reposted by Laura’s elbows are up

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

9 more innings

1193