This morning Jake was playing with his Star Wars Lego when I heard a frustrated yell. The back window had fallen out of his Palpatine’s Arrest set, and when he tried to fix it, a couple of other pieces came off. There was no time to figure things out before school, and so I decided […]
Don’t masquerade with the guy in shades.
March 8, 2013 by
This morning I was driving to the yoga shala, and the radio was playing Sunglasses at Night. Boy in the Box was one of my favourite albums back in 1985, and so I turned it up and sang along. I pulled into a parking stall, still singing. You’ve gone to bed with a guy in […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things, Aloha Edition
March 1, 2013 by
The book fair is done! All loose ends are tied up; everything is finished until next November, when I will be relating my book fair sob stories once again. For those of you who have asked WHY I do this to myself, over and over like one of those fifty-shades types of girls, well, I […]
February and Friday Happiness
February 1, 2013 by
It’s the first day of February! January is over, for those of you who had a case of the January blues. And here in Calgary, the weather today is unseasonably warm, the snow is melting, cars are filthy. This warmth is in sharp contrast to earlier in the week, when it was minus 37 with […]
Being a MILF
January 29, 2013 by
I was driving home from yoga this morning and I heard “You Shook Me All Night Long” on the radio, and it occurred to me – not for the first time – that the line “knocking me out with those American thighs” had much different connotation back in 1980 than it would today. American thighs […]
Oooh, I hated the Colonel, with his WEE BEADY EYES
January 24, 2013 by
After my last post, I had a few people grumpily say There is NOTHING good about January, to which I respond, sunnily, There is only a week left! One week and then we are into February! So there’s a positive thought for you, even if it is just time tick-tick-ticking away. Also, tomorrow is Robbie […]
One Week
January 7, 2013 by
The first week of January is gone, and I’m completely scattered, so here are some random things going on in the Boyhouse:1) The boys go back to school tomorrow, and I am having my usual last-day-of-vacation mixed feelings: happiness about the return to routine, and melancholy about the fleeting nature of time, and what city […]
