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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I went to the Rebecca Cohen on Saturday for the second time in a few months and my partner and I have decided I can never go to the Rebecca cohen again. The older I get the more torture it is.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nobody gets stung more than I do but today a giant hornet got me on the finger when I was on Teams in an important group project and he got stuck in the wires of my headphones and I was screaming and almost two hours later it’s still throbbing! Just terrible all around! But probably funny for them.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Friday I’m going to bike 26 km as we visit wineries and I just got a bike like a few weeks ago, but I’m like I can do this! I am good at athleticism and drinking wine.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I went to nature folk for a massage and actually had the best time and they gave me my own sauna for 30 mins because I was super tight and had a tough few weeks? I want to be a regular.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How do you avoid feeling like a rat in a cage when you have to be a computer for 10-12 hours a day?! I have a standing desk, a walking pad, weights, and a sit-stand ball, but I still feel insane.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want a new phone but I always get iPhones just because I do but I always get old ones because I’m cheap and I refuse to pay for a phone. Is there any other phone I could get because the batteries on my iPhones are always terrible quickly.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I only have to go to the office one day a week and sadly it’s today. It normally takes me 15 minutes and I’ve been in the car almost an hour and I’m still in Dartmouth.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s a beautiful day for a traffic jam on the way to your office from Dartmouth!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

First week of school as an employee, , first full weekend of taking classes at the Mount for my Masters, my brain is dead but we are having a party tonight? I’m dead.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I thought it wasn't raining that much so I walked the dogs and we're 10 minutes away from home and oh boy we got soaked but it’s fun?!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't really get into Spring cleaning or make New Years Resolutions, but I am a Virgo who is going back to school for the first time in 20 years, so I am currently looking and cleaning every object I own in a bid for feeling "organized".

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am so glad my office day is today so I don't have to deal with the hellscape of back to school traffic commuting tomorrow.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I walked through the entire Costco carrying a big case of Bubly, the big carton of eggs, and my lettuce and dog treats because that’s how much I hate those giant goddamn carts.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m supposed to go to rent tonight but after being cancelled twice as I was on my way, I just don’t think I’m gonna bother. I literally cannot imagine making my way downtown again.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The water temperature at Rainbow Haven is absolute perfection.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Leave us alone mother, we are sleeping. (My dogs hate getting up before noon)

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh my gosh I am on my way downtown after getting ready so fast to go to our retry to see Rent after our first booking got cancelled and it got cancelled again!!!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I really struggle with the surveillance state, and am growing consistently more uncomfortable with the amount of cameras everywhere.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m not sure if I’ve ever watched anything more than twice so there was no re-watching of the concert for me today and I didn’t know it was a thing. I’m never on trend though and I realize I’m OK with that apparently, you’re not supposed to have Swell water bottles anymore.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m making such good progress with my local crow and he comes to me and leaves me things and then one of my dogs manages to sneak past me and chases it away and I get so mad no, I’m sorry crow!, I yell.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I am not really a movie gal, and there are so many books being made into movies, I am always like what? What's happening? "The Dog Stars" is a movie? A book I loved in 2012 that no one else had every heard of?

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I gave a dig up clams lesson to my pals and then dug up so many giant clams and I loved it so much. They are like lil aliens waiting under the sea, looking outerwordly.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I just tried to get a free tree from like the Halifax tree giveaway and it was the most frustrating process of my life. I’m literally embarrassed for them and now I’m angry and of course I did not get a tree.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Me and the dogs are out for a long walk because I love the soft rain and the sounds of all the birds and how green everything is and also not a lot of people!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is my street and I am not home.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have applied and been accepted to start my masters part-time in September. I’ve always wanted to do this and I’m excited but I haven’t been in school for almost 20 years. Eek!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I have been to four Guys Frenchys in the last two days and I have never done so incredible in my life and we’re going to two more today on the way home! Blessed!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My brain is very busy. At almost 43 year old pottery is one of the only things ever that literally makes me less stressed and shuts the ol’ mind down. I can’t wait to see my fired and finished seagulls fighting over a French fry.

two seagulls with French fry sculpture with Ceramics

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

College graduation days sure take a lot out of ya!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I went to a really fun giant party last night for a dear friends 50th and then got dropped off at the Buffalo club where my partner’s band was playing and I knew 1 million people and then after party here and I had such a blast but damn your girl be tired today!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Life’s hard. these are tough days, make ducks.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So, so many amazing colleagues of mine on the library team lost their jobs today and I am absolutely feeling so sad and heavy. And I’m sure my roll will change.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I was at a comedy show and that alarm went off so many times and I was so overwhelmed that I almost couldn’t handle it, also my alarm has never made noise once, am I just lucky?

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

At the Irving big stop I expressed awe and wonder at the children’s toys so the waitress also gave me two.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Alanna and I are having a great time in Amherst.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The never get up until noon crew.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today is the first time in their lives my Covid era dogs are all alone for the day. Thanks a lot Tim Houston!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's lovely out and Dickie and I and the dogs did 7 km around Bissett lake and Cole harbour heritage trail and saw like 40 turtles sunning themselves and eagles and cardinals and an owl!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I just heard something on the radio about how luddite boyfriends were a green flag. I’ve had a Luddite boyfriend for almost 15 years. It’s the best.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My partner works for the provincial government so he’s back in office full time on Monday and I’m more worked up than him because it’s more work for me. I’m in charge of all the dog care and I’ll have to start dinner? Boooooo. But also he’s mostly going to teams meetings in a cube. Makes no sense.

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Trevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Where chefs go to eat: Find good food made with heart and you’ll find the Maritimes’ culinary leaders when they’re off duty. New Saltscapes story by Colleen Thompson. (No paywall)

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Where chefs go to eat - Saltscapes Magazine

Find good food made with heart and you’ll find the Maritimes’ culinary leaders when they’re off duty

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

They still have not cleared my sidewalks, and I am getting real tired of walking my dogs in the street and being scared.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Winter makes me feel so restless. Even with going outside for a walk, every. single. day and walking like two hours a day on my walking pad. Stupid ADHD, and inside.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

They still have not touched the sidewalks in my busy neighbourhood, and we have so many walkers and people who use transit. The children are out on the street walking, hardly enough space for a car to pass.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

As someone who teaches learning strategies at the college level, I have become obsessed with critical thinking and finding strategies to make sure the students use their noggins. In love with my new T-shirt.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

And all of the pipes at our cottage on the sea which feels like -28 are frozen and no one can go to the bathroom. Wah.

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We drew names at girls weekend and I got the king bed! La la la yah!

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Laurie Burns @lauriecburns.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I went out two nights in a row for live music this weekend and it was fun as heck but I am le tired as I am the 42. But I saw sooo many people I knew it felt like a Halifax indie 14 years ago music extravaganza reunion!

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