Just to set the stage, here, it is 3:24 pm and I’m considering opening my SECOND beer. Listen, I’m just impressed I made it until Friday to start drinking. It’s been a very involved week, parenting wise, and by that I mean that I was chaperone to an all-day field trip to the museum on […]
Archives for May 2013
So stabby.
May 28, 2013 by 9 Comments
I feel like I must be mere minutes away from the start of my ladies’ holiday, given my current state of stabbiness. It is a good thing for the world that I am not walking around with a knife tied to a broomstick, a la Peggy OIsen, elsewise everyone I encounter today would find themselves […]
Super Quick Friday Randoms
May 24, 2013 by 5 Comments
1) I’m going on a girl’s night away tonight, and I seem to be experiencing equal parts excitement and guilt over leaving. I texted my husband “I miss you” and he replied “Already. It’s just a regular day.” Yes, it was ten in the morning and yes, normally it would be eight hours until I […]
Dogs and flowers and not much else.
May 22, 2013 by 7 Comments
Did you have a nice long weekend? Despite our original plans falling through, we managed to have a lovely one. We spent a night at my parents’ cabin – the “cabin” that is three times the size of my house and has twice as many bathrooms, which is my idea of camping – and played […]
Naked Shuffleboard
May 17, 2013 by 11 Comments
My weekend plans got kiboshed, and so yesterday I decided that since we were staying home, I may as well get a little bit of gardening done. It’s too early to really plant anything, I thought to myself, So I’ll just get a couple of really hardy plants. I walked into the garden centre and […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things – Spring Edition!
May 13, 2013 by 12 Comments
It was such a long, cold winter, wasn’t it? Snow on the ground from October solidly through April, but I tell you this: May has been absolutely stunning in YYC. I keep expecting snow in the forecast every day, or at least hard frosts, and yet it’s been warm and beautiful. It feels like spring, […]
I AM living life to the fullest, dammit.
May 10, 2013 by 11 Comments
My friend Nan came across the “50 Ways To Live Life To The Full” on the Daily Mail site and described her reaction to each of those 50 ways. I don’t know, I kind of feel like I’m living life to the fullest right now, given that I had popcorn for lunch instead of my […]
