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May- The month I got my BMW

May 2017December 2022 in Blog

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May- The month I got my BMW

May has been a tad trying, to say the least, however, as always, I trying to keep my head up and be as optimistic as possible. That’s the only thing you can do, right?

So this was a month where I did a lot of wishing and I got what I ‘wished’ for, which can be good and bad thing.

Let me explain…

I have always wanted to get a BMW, and this month, after losing my license (long story; here is the short version – got 5 tickets in a span of 2 years lost all my points), and failing my second attempt at the written exam. I basically ‘GOT’ my BMW wish and hubby reminded me; “Well Danie you finally got your BMW – bus, metro, walk.” GRRRRR. I’m retaking my written exam end of June so fingers crossed!! (OUFFAAAA boy do I NOT NOT need this!!)

I also wished I’d get to go to C2 Montreal, the annual high-end business conference held here in the city. And with my media credentials; thanks to my weekly Travel Blog with Suburban Newspaper online. It was a great experience. For this year, I decided to be an ‘explore’ and ‘observer’ so I can soak it all in. Next year, I will register for the Master-Classes, Brain-Dates etc… (although…I did sneak into some, just for a few minutes, and you could tell they were fantastic). Most of the 2 days I stayed in the Big Top where the main keynote speakers were, can’t express how exhilarating it was – gosh I’m so grateful!! (thanks universe for the opportunity). See you next year C@MTL.

The first two-ish weeks of the month I was still on vacation in Florida, meanwhile Annie (my partner in crime) ran a corporate event for me at Time Supper Club.

When I got back, summer classes started and am now teaching the usual Event Management classes at Lasalle College as well as the online version for ilasalle.

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We were graciously invited to Hotel Carling Golf – Resort for the weekend .. it was very nice. It used to be a very prestigious property back in the day (celebs used to go there for reclusion) any how it is going to be renovated. We got a sneak peak of the new look .. all I can say is WOWZER ..

Then I got a last-minute call to go to help out in Vancouver to give the Wedding Planner Certification course of WPIC (the instructor whom was supposed to do it had a last minute emergency). So hoped on the plane and spent a weekend in GORGEOUS Vancouver. (couldn’t say no to that!!)

All in all we (Annie and I) did few sites with the added industry networking activities this month with the continuously added tireless detail work on upcoming projects for clients. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but thank God they’re spread out properly!

So, in the end, I got my wish to go to C2MTL,(this was the good part)

However folks, be careful what you wish for .. because I also got my BMW wish -> Bus – Metro – Walk!!! GRRRRR

Here’s to a MORE promising June!

Murphy’s Law … April showered on me!!

April 2017December 2022 in Blog

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Spring has sprung, and while we haven’t had the warmest temps, the ‘rain’ has been plentiful. Pun totally intended. Hence why I’m quoting this month’s blog “Murphy’s Law”… what has to go wrong has gone wrong… (with a sliver lining)

Allow me to explain:

Here is the good part; on the business side Montreal Event Planner ‘s first quarter has been quite fruitful. All due to the rolling out of clients’ Incentive programs (6) and to boot I locally executed (3 events) Annual Health Fairs.

As usual, I’m constantly in search for and needing to be up-to-date with, new &/or renovated sites, so off we went to The Montreal Casino (did you know that they recently went through some renovations? It’s gorgeous now, and they even have spaces now for meetings, etc.), definitely a space to be reconsidered/reintroduced to my clientele. Also, scoped out the newest rental trends at Gervais Rentals and Celebrations Group.

On the school front; Lasalle College’s winter session is all wrapped up. The summer session begins in Mid-May.

Then, later in the month I headed to Ottawa for the weekend to certify future wedding planners WPIC (what an awesome group this was). Watch out Ottawa Wedding Industry, fierce new certified wedding planners are on the loose.

Here is the bad part; keep in mind what I am about to explain all happened in a span of three days consecutively… Started off a Thursday morning with taking the theory exam for my driver’s permit (yes I lost it due to points – yes I hired a lawyer went to court, won, got an extension with the premise that I needed to take a written exam regardless.) Well I took the exam and did not pass … Sooooo, yes my reality at the moment, is I’m without a license for the next 28 days. (as if that wasn’t bad enough) Later on that morning went back to the office to get some work done despite my disappointing experience. As I’m running my business, I suddenly realized my computer was being hacked into; I immediately called my IT people to handle the matter (thank god). Once all this was managed I went to do some online banking and BOOM … I realized that 1800$ was transferred from my account without my authorization.. Realizing I was frauded, I called the Bank and dealt with that… GRRRRR … so that was a day of hell. Then if that was not enough trauma. A few days later we are leaving for our planned vacation to Florida, when, as we were sitting on the plane, I realized I forgot the keys to my parent’s condo. So before the plane went airborne, I called in a panic, the property manager, explained the situation, asked if they could leave us the spare key to get in, with the intent to make a copy and return it, of course. Well did I get a rude surprise reply. BOOM … they explained to me that with the new condo regulations recently put into place. We are not allowed to have it nor where we allowed being there with out the owners!! DOUBLE BOOM.. WHAT?!?! Picture this, I’m in the plane about to take off and now realizing I would have no where to stay??!!?? What dictatorship!!! I mean it’s a private residence (my parent’s) and they are dictating who can be invited or not!?!?! WHAT?!?!? OUFFFAAA let me tell you, those three and a half hours in the air UBER stressed me out … I did not need this considering my health situation!!! Any how long story short ended up call a locksmith to open the door.. all is well that ends well. OUFFFFFAAAAA the first few days we felt like fugitives … then we calmed down. But let me tell you my stress went off the charts … it took the first 4 days of my vacation to calm down and to completely unwind… so much for the much needed R&R.

Let me wrap it up by wishing you all a great start to spring, and I will hopefully have new positive adventures to share with you next month.

Ta ta for now!

And the WINNER is ?!?!?!?!

March 2017December 2022 in Blog

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And the WINNER is ?!?!?!?!

OK, so it doesn’t quite feel like spring, but it is spring, and here’s what I did this month…

I was happy to execute two back-to-back corporate events. I also met and closed the contracts with a few future brides for 2018 with this we did some site visits.

Speaking of weddings was invited to facilitate a Wedding Workshop for a day this was fun fun fun.

Since we (Annie and I) were already on a mission to explore new venues for our clients’. We decided to get in the car and visit/revisit a few spaces. Especially since some recently underwent renovations and other changes, it goes without say, we also discovered some new spots too;

HeliCraft – great for team building
Le Richmond had a power lunch there, however, it’s great for 5@7 of a private corporate luncheon
Lemonade Work Space perfect spot for small private meetings
NK Tailor Design OMG OMG power suit heaven
Joe’s Props House needing some props for upcoming gigs
Sofa to Go new location plus new designs to discover
Eventex technology technology technology – GEEKY WOW
Bonaventure Hotel just GORGEOUS

About a year ago, I had won a night stay at the GRAND DAME Le Ritz Carlton Montreal and finally got to use it this month. I had been there a number of times for my clients’ events, however, never experienced it as an overnight guest. Goes without say the staff was superb, they treated us like royalty so much so that my husband and I had a couples massage, which was FABULOUSLY perfect.

And if that wasn’t enough, I received a lovely surprise from a supplier 2 tickets to the Impact Montreal Season Opener at the Big “O”.

And here is the part where my Blog title is explained; at the end of March, I decided to attend and fully experience the Canadian Special Events Conference and Trade Show .

A little bit of background: this where I was asked to be on the judging panel. You see last year, I just came and went. I felt I did not get the full experience. So this year I decided to invest more time and went for the FULL experience (Monday to Friday). Not only was I a judge, a few weeks in I find out I was also nominated for the Canadian Special Events Readers Digest Award in the category of Favorite Event Planner Independent!!!

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WOW I was super stunned and honored for this. Reality is I knew the competition would be UBER fierce. Why?? Well I’m in Quebec and the competition was mostly in Ontario. Understand that the market in Quebec compared to Ontario is uber small… so already my chances of winning where slim .. please I’m not being negative … I’m being realistic. Although I didn’t win, the fact that someone recognized me was a super honour. For me, I won, especially because I am a ‘small fish’ in the ocean of ‘bigger fish’. All this said I was asked to present two awards at the gala. UBER HONOURED and HUMBLED !!!!

(I think this means I have arrived)

Ouff so this was my Crazy March = “Marzo Pazzo” …

Hopefully Spring is truly around the corner?

A LOVE-ly February

February 2017December 2022 in Blog

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Hello everyone! Hope you had a great month and a love-ly Valentine’s Day too!

It’s been a fantastic JAM-PACKED four weeks… excited to fill you in…

Started the month in Ottawa for an industry show specifically geared for the Associative market, as per usual it was enriching and awesome. There is always tons of learning to be done at this event, so I really enjoy going and reconnecting with my peers.

After Ottawa took an overdue scouting trip to Aspen, Colorado so worth the wait, needless to say it was awesome. I was quite surprised by how small (and quaint) of a town it was, don’t be mistaken it boasts BIG PERSONALITY, with beauty, peacefulness and let’s not forget the “APRÈS” (a.k.a. Après Ski for us. Anyhow, a fun-time was had by all.

BTW to read more about Aspen check out my online travel weekly blog on the Suburban Newspaper here.

Contrary to popular ‘assumptions’ .. YES I do work and of course rolled out several client events:

Workshop / Educational Seminar for my Technology clientele
Think Tank for my Financial Agency clientele

As per the past 6 years the English Montreal School Board does a Career Day for the local high school students. Whenever they get requests that some students want to become Event/Meeting Planner I get invited to speak on this subject. Of course (as some of you may know by now) I LOVE LOVE LOVE to share; “Aspire to Inspire”. Had the opportunity speak with two young ladies aspiring to become Event/Meeting Planners, loved to see the sparkle in their eyes.

Speaking of Inspiration… out of the blue, I was invited to speak (share my expertise) on Social Media Marketing at Dawson College’s Entrepreneur Incubator program. (ironically enough I was so impressed by them that they ended up inspired me too)

What an HONOUR … This year I was asked to be a judge (again) at three

Industry Award Show Extravaganzas;

The Canadian Special Events Show 2017 (held in Toronto)
Ottawa Wedding Awards (held in Ottawa)
RISE Awards is all about Corporate Events (held in Las Vegas)

Boy oh Boy you need to understand how HONOURED and THRILLED I am to partake in these …

It’s a BIG DEAL considering I’m a Montrealer and they came to get me …. WOOT WOOT !!!

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In between all this we managed to squeeze in a few site (re)visits all in the name of R&D for clients’ upcoming programs and events. So I’d like to thank the following venues and vendors for their usual hospitality;

Manoir Maplewood

OMG it’s gorgeous – perfect for a corporate retreat or small wedding

Hotel SPA Chateau Sainte-Adele

Uber spacious and tons of SPA treatments available

Hotel Quintessence Tremblant

OMG cannot justify my description a MUST experience all of your sense will be pleased

Evenko

SUBLIME they are taking over the event scene in Montreal and beyond this was a class outing with my Event Marketing students from College Lasalle

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Hyatt Regency Montreal

Not only is it a ‘Sexy Hotel’ … I can add it’s the BEST placed Hotel in town come Festival season

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Meet/Event Planner’s luncheon basically the movers and shakers of the Montreal Corporate meetings scene.

Sucrerie de la Montagne

All I can say is YMMO YUMMO food porn

Bridal Boudoir

Always a pleasure to see what is new and reconnect with the vendors

Salon de la Moto

My personal indulgence … YES I LOVE LOVE LOVE motorcycles – (no I don’t own one) However, I HAD to go get my fill!!

And that’s all folks! Spring is slowing creeping in – see you in March!

To my cousin Roberto Pastuch

January 2017December 2022 in Blog

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OUFFF this month is dedicated to my late cousin Roberto Pastuch

Happy New Year to you all!!! May 2017 bring you HEALTH and tons of LOVE!!!

As for my start, well it’s been a rough one, one of my close cousins (same age) succumbed to liver cancer, @#$%^&*! Sorry but I needed to let it out … Cancer is always very difficult (I know been through it myself). However to lose a loved one so young and so fast sorry this is HARD to swallow!! “ROCK ON Robert ROCK ON”

Ok, moving forward, there was allot of work distractions to keep me busy this month.

First off I went on a three-day site visit to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; one word SPECTACULARLY SUBLIME (ok ok two words) and quite an eclectic spot, interesting to say the least.

Side Note: Gosh I am blessed, on behalf of my client’s needs I get to see and experience all this world has to offer … thanks universe (humbly).

Ok, back to Yellowknife … very rural and very naturally beautiful. You can read more about it on my weekly travel blog here is the link.

Also in the name of research and development we (Annie and I) did a few site visits this month for some of our clientele;
• Showcase 4Saison Event

• Bord’elle

• St. James Hotel site visit, including the luxurious penthouse suite, due to a client wanting to hold a private soiree there. OMG OMG no words can describe it .. one needs to see it.

• Intercontinental Hotel’s newly renovated GRAND Ballroom – FANTABULOUS it was…

As for my teaching ‘gig’ at Lasalle College , I’m very excited this session why you ask? Well started to teach Event Marketing (new class/challenges and LOVING it)… By the Way this is sooooo my true background.

I also traveled to Ottawa for an annual conference regarding the association market.
(I will share more with you next month on this)

One silver lining to my rocky January is that my health is fine.
All is healing and I’m feeling good.
I have a check-up with my oncologist end of February.

It’s been an action-packed January, to say the least. I’ll check back with you all in February!

Happy holidays to all, and to all a good night!

December 2016December 2022 in Blog

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Happy holidays to all, and to all a good night!

Ouffffaaa boy does time fly, and we’re into the last month of 2016.
Wow – what a year it has been, full of ups and downs (but I’m grateful for all of it!).

This month I went to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for an annual destination weddings educational conference. It was a relatively quick trip there and back, but great!! Ask what the new destinations trends are and I will comply. Hint; Punta Mita.

I also threw a total of five corporate holiday parties this year. Yes, that busy we were. I was not required to be there except one; my team and I needed to be present for this one because it was quite different approach and quite large as well (guests totaled 1500pple). It was a whole day thing for the entire offices here in Montreal. Which included and it included teambuilding activities and creative workshops.

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Side Note: I was amazed by the artistic-ness that came out of this event.
It was awesome and really fun to see employees and executives in suits become kids again.

Once all that is done; I also starting to gear up for a new winter session at Lasalle College, which starts early January. LOVE IT – LOVE IT – LOVE IT !!

December is about families/friends reconnecting, shopping, get togethers, cooking, drinking, eating, shopping, sharing, being merry and more shopping … ‘cause we just like the craziness, right? (if you ask me this should be done all year round… I digress)

I squeezed in some time to catch up. With friends/colleagues before we all get immersed in our collective Holiday routines. Once all is done hubby and I are off Florida for a few days.
OMG I’ve got to go and start packing … Yay baby – I’m unplugging!!

Update: you are all asking how things are going with my health situation … thank you for being so kind and considerate. I had my first follow-up appointment with my Doctor (surgeon), and all was good.

That’s about it! Happy Holidays everyone – wishing you all the best.
Remember; let’s remaining positive about what lies ahead for 2017!

A month of “radio + activity” pun totally intended

November 2016December 2022 in Blog

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November, the calm before the December storm… it’s been a very busy month; however a good one, and I’m super grateful for that.

I started off the month with Splash and Dash (a not-for-profit organization), as I was asked by a former student to be involved. She chose me to be her Celebrity; which, quite honestly, I was honored and humbled (this is when I realize the power of influence a teacher can have on someone). It was an event for kids who suffer from all sorts of cancers, what a wonderful experience it was for me. I chose to do the splash part, and I was so honoured to be involved.

On the Lasalle College front, the semester is winding down for the year. And as per usual I take my students to several site visits in the downtown area

Scena Scena in the Old Port
La GRAND DAME Ritz-Carlton Montreal

I also invited a few speakers to class too help share and expand the students’ horizons.

Awesome time was had by all and THANK YOU to my collaborators.

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As per every year in November I attended the Elegant Wedding Show , which is always spectacular.

I also facilitated a WPIC certification course (in Ottawa), the students there were just gems… this speaks allots for the Ottawa area populous.

I did a mini familiarization tour of Vaudreuil-Soulanges area. It was awesome to explore that area of Montreal.

Invited to facilitate an educational conference on Osteoporosis at a local health fair.

Completed another client event at the Intercontinental Hotel , which was great (as per usual).

We did a site visit in Chambly ; visited the Chambly Old Fort (so much history there who knew) this is for potential mini-festival we are bidding on.

That same day we also visited an Art Studio for a private VIP meeting happening in the new year.

As you can see we are busy busy bees finalizing and working on new upcoming client projects, go ahead ask us how excited we are.

Lastly, we graciously were invited grand opening soiree at brand new venue located in a swanky up and coming area of town – Le Studio Griffintown

On one last note; I feel the need to share with you my progress in my journey since my diagnosis a few months ago. The month of November I did my radiation treatments as scheduled.

The 20 treatments went well. (it was 5 days a week for 4 weeks straight) And YES I’m DONE with it!!! I’m often asked; “how are you feeling”. I am feeling fine (of course I have my moments however I’m good) Physically I am however a little soar. The skin surface where the radiation was done to looks like a super bad sunburn. I’m told however, it will go back to normal eventually in a few months. Look, the way I decided to look at things is it’s worth it – I want those little buggars gone and KILLED!!

Also, I’d like to ‘help’ demystify radiation and cancer. Everybody is different, and now a days cancer isn’t always a death sentence. You fight it!!!

Having said this, I don’t want people to be uncomfortable around me. And please please don’t feel sorry for me!! Should you want to ask me questions, please do so, ask away! I’ve been very open about my health situation since my diagnosis. My main purpose for this “openness” is TRULY to help demystify things … in the meanwhile, if I can help or encourage people, GREAT!!!

Once again, I want to THANK EVERYONE for your thoughts, messages, and prayers. I welcome it all … LOVE YOUSS!

Last but certainly NOT the LEAST a MASSIVE HEARTFELT shout out to the ENTIRE TEAM at the Glen Site Hospital’s Breast Cancer Clinique & Cedars Cancer Center what PROFESSIONALS with tons of HUMANITY in them WOWZER!!!

You guys are not only CLASS ACTS but also SUPER ROCK STARS!!!!

See you all next month!

In case you MISSED it … this HAPPENED

October 2016December 2022 in Blog

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Hope you had a great month with lots of tricks and treats? Allow me share with you some of my treats…

This month managed to I squeeze in some travel. I went to THE TRENDIEST and HOTTEST place to go right now: Reykjavik, Iceland . What an adventure it was. I will however emphasize, to go there you NEED to be the type of traveller that WANTS to embrace experiences. What I mean by this is you MUST MUST MUST be the outdoorsy / sporty / roughing it type, especially if you to pick a destination like this one. I say this simply because it’s not your typical vacation spot. I have adventurer type of clients and well for them it is a PERFECT destination. BEST way I can describe it is one truly feels like you landed on MARS, what a FANTASTICAL place. Another way I can describe Iceland to you is that fundamentally you are on an island that is purely 1000% volcanic. Other descriptive words that come to mind is SPECTACULAR – REMOTE – NATURAL – PURENESS – AUTHENTIC – LOVE of the OUTDOORS…. (you’re getting my drift correct?)

If interested and wanting to get more details on my trip and what to do there please read/follow the upcoming travel articles my online weekly Travel Trend Blog for the Suburban News.
Here is the link: http://www.thesuburban.com/blogs/travel_trends/

In other traveling news this month, I went for a quick trip to Las Vegas, Nevada . This is an annual congress for Incentive travel experts (like me). I religiously try to attend this show basically to be educated and to keep up to speed on the newest incentive travel trends in our industry … (my clientele depends on me for this). As they say, education is key and the power of knowledge is priceless.

Speaking of the business; although I’ve attained my sales goal this year (in August) yes it was a “KICK ASS” year for Montreal Event Planner, contracts and inquires are continuously coming in for the upcoming 2017 and 2018th; Annual Sales Meetings – AGMs – Congresses – Workshops – Product Launches … just to name a few. Needless to say it’s shaping up to be pretty awesome.

Locally, I attended this ACCRO FUTURISTIC industry conference all based on the future of technology in our meetings and events. It was held at TOHU, and it was pretty cool, can’t wait to implement/introduce this to my clients’ upcoming meetings.

Speaking of future and education, this month I kicked off the season with the annual WPIC Wedding Certification courses here in Montreal. As per usual I proudly educated and certified a new batch future wedding planners! LOVE doing this and enjoy passing my knowledge forward.

More Education: as per every session with the classes I give at College Lasalle I had a fantastic industry speaker Mr. Dan Vigderhous from Event-ure come and share his fantastical industry knowledge with my students. Later this month it was my turn, I had the honor to be invited by Champlain College’s Tourism Program Department , not only to speak and share my knowledge but also to partake at a “Shark Tank” kind of forum from the tourism class. Their presentations were AWESOME. Side Note: the future of this industry is looking bright!!

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To concluded and on a personal note, many of you have been kind enough to ask about my Breast Cancer prognosis and status. I was advised that I’ll be starting my radiation treatments in November. It will be 20 treatments – 5 days per week for 4 weeks… OUFF… and yes I’ll keep you all ‘abreast’ of this journey… (pun was totally indented). Thank you again for all the continued support!

November here I come!!!

Happy Birthday… to me!

September 2016December 2022 in Blog

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September is always a great month. After all, it’s my Birthday month!

It goes without say that work needs to get done, so after much preparations this month I got to finally execute a few of my corporate and association clients’ programs (a.k.a. events).
One was in the beautiful city of Ottawa; it was a oone-day educational forum for a Technology client (basically an in-and-out thingy) however, being a business woman, and always looking out for the next contract I took advantage of the trip and did some sales calls and hotels/venues site visits the day after. Ottawa region is really building up for me.

I came back to Montreal stayed overnight and left to execute a 3 day Annual Conference (AGM) program in Toronto for an Association client. This went pretty smoothly thanks to the help of the great team at the Chelsea Hotel .

I’m also working on a few upcoming weddings for 2017, and was awarded a fairly large Corporate (1 weeklong conference) contract that I will start work on soon even though it’s due summer 2017. It’s exciting because there’s a lot of organic business happening for me in Ontario. My hard work is truly paying off. (thanks universe)

Found some time with Annie (my trusted freelance partner in crime) to spend a day for a road trip visiting the South Shore and some of its surroundings. We were on the hunt for spaces and activities for upcoming client programs. Ended up in La Roue du Roi found in Hemingford, Quebec; where we did a trap-shooting team-building like activity. This is AWESOME activity for 2 of my clients. They will LOVE it and it was very cool for us to experience it!!

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Since its September everything kind of “restarts” after the summer holiday break:
which means participating in a few industry events like; networking / galas / educational forums etc… all held during this time in different venues. And of course the usual back to school process. Basically it’s a back to everything month.

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Can you believe it?! I actually was able to enjoy some time for myself. I mean solid weekend to myself!! Of course, I took advantage and got back to the basics; I really enjoying the harvest season. What I mean by this is the ‘harvest cooking and jarring’. You have no idea how much I LOVE this and I’ve missed it.

Finally, a quick update on my Breast Cancer diagnosis: Doctors got the results back from my operation and it was decided I’m going to get radiation treatment … it is estimated that the duration will be the entire month of November. And then we’ll go from there.

Once again I wanted to send out a heartfelt humble THANK YOU to you everyone who reached out since I mentioned it last month. I’m keeping a super positive attitude and planning to be a WARRIOR.. (quote from my good friend Ilana)

Ok it’s time to celebrate me … MY BIRTHDAY !!!
“ Garçon Garçon apporter une bouteille de votre meilleur champagne s’il vous plait!!! “

See you in October!

Rest – Relaxation & Reflective – Rousing

August 2016December 2022 in Blog

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Every so often you need to take a little time for you. I have especially learned that this month… which is why I jet-setted to Florida for two whole glorious weeks. It was part-vacation and I also celebrated our 30^th wedding anniversary. It was the first time in 10 years that I ACTUALLY unplugged – I wasn’t preparing for an event nor tying up any loose ends, ahhhhh what luxury this was for me.

So, once there we made it our mission to go to different beaches everyday and re-discovered Fort Lauderdale, Florida and its surrounding area. I will go into it more on the weekly online travel blog I write for the Suburban Newspaper. With the help of an industry friend, that lives there. We picked a day and spent it on various excursion; starting with the Everglades, which was awesome. Then went on to the Hop-on Hop-off Miami Tour Bus and of course took a VIP Miami Yacht Boat Tour of all the surrounding islands were the uber rich celebs and who’s who in the “billionaire world” live. It goes without say that all of these houses are super ginormous properties;

Star Island &      Venetian Causeway
South Beach     &      Hibiscus Island
Palm Island      &      Sunset Island
Biscayne Bay   &      Belle Island

On another day we decided to re explore the Florida Keys; yes we went allll the way down to the furthest point of the continent Key West. Confession; I’ve taken Florida for granted over the years .. I must say it was GREAT to rediscover it. JUST WOW ….

Got back to YUL and within 24hours I left for Toronto on sales calls and an annual Educational conference regarding the Incentive Market. Speaking of Incentives, I am happy to share I closed a few more (lucrative) Incentive Client Programs. Yuppie 2017 – 2018 is looking mighty fine thank you universe!!!

Then this Happened…

Once, I got back to Montreal I needed to prepare to be operated on after a breast cancer diagnosis (which I’ve kept on the down-low…).  All went well. Step #1 is done on to the next step!! (will keep you posted on the progression)
No worries – it was caught early and “my medical team” at the Glen’s Breast Cancer Centre  have been not only on top of things they are SUPER TOP NOTCH. They’re just amazing and I feel I’m in good hands!!
HEARTFELT THANK YOU – GRAZIE to my Family – Friends – Colleagues
Love that you are all constantly keep tabs on my progress and for being there for me …
LOVE YOU ALL to INFINITY !!

Goes without saying that the rest of the month was spent recovering and preparing for my upcoming client programs (corporate/social) and welcoming a new batch of future event planner students at Lasalle College , which starts back up in September.

I’ve been in Business Development mode; which basically means sales calls and working on a fairly large new event challenges from new clients.

TRUE, it’s been a trying yet relaxing month, however, my focus is on what lies ahead.
Can’t wait to see you all in September!

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May- The month I got my BMW

Murphy’s Law … April showered on me!!

And the WINNER is ?!?!?!?!

A LOVE-ly February

To my cousin Roberto Pastuch

Happy holidays to all, and to all a good night!

A month of “radio + activity” pun totally intended

In case you MISSED it … this HAPPENED

Happy Birthday… to me!

Rest – Relaxation & Reflective – Rousing