It has been a long week. My husband was travelling for work, which made it feel even longer. All day Tuesday I thought it was Thursday, which was kind of distressing. Then the same thing happened on Wednesday; I was doing some work and I thought that’s strange, the computer’s date is off. March 9th […]
Archives for 2016
The old grey mare, she ain’t what she used to be. But she can still do anything good.
March 11, 2016 by 4 Comments
Mammograms and Crocuses and My Ability To Misunderstand Basic Instructions
March 9, 2016 by 4 Comments
In what must be a new record for me, on Saturday Jake and I cleaned up the two warmest gardens in our yard. It’s so early! Most years everything is still frozen and snow-covered at this time of the year; believe me, I’m not saying that cannot still happen, but at the moment there is […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Beauty Products (and wine) Edition
March 4, 2016 by 3 Comments
This morning while I was driving to yoga, I noticed the moon. The sky was perfectly black and the moon looked exactly like an illustration in a children’s book: a perfectly golden crescent shape. When I left the shala, the sky was beginning to brighten. One of my favourite things about this time of year […]
Leaping With Joy
February 29, 2016 by 4 Comments
Happy Leap Year Extra Day, everyone! Leap Year Extra Day seems to be the least appreciated of the holidays, probably because it’s just an extra day in February. I celebrated by shovelling a tiny bit of snow for the first time in a while. Have you noticed that I have not been complaining about the […]
I’ll never look at Cookie Monster the same way again.
February 22, 2016 by 7 Comments
If I was a person who analyzed my dreams, or took the interpretations to really mean something, then I might be worried. Usually my dreams are incredibly dull; folding laundry for hours on end, for example, is a common dream of mine. But Saturday night I had a vivid dream that I was supposed to […]
Eating, Playing, and Making New Friends: It’s A Dog’s Life
February 17, 2016 by 2 Comments
Since nothing says romance like spending the weekend with one’s in-laws, that is exactly what I did. Well, technically we visited my in-laws because it was a long weekend – the kids had Teacher’s Conventions and Monday was Family Day – but the former sounds funnier. It was a really nice weekend, and like the […]
Getting VD from naked yoga
February 12, 2016 by 2 Comments
Yesterday my husband realized that he did NOT have another month’s worth of blood pressure pills in the hall cupboard, and he had exactly one pill left. I went to the Co-Op pharmacy to get refill his prescription, and on the way out I saw a display of “long-stemmed strawberries.” These strawberries were sold in […]
