You won’t believe it, but it has been actually hot here the past couple of days. Not just warm, but HOT. It’s beautiful. Nothing teaches you to carpe diem like a hot day in Calgary. It’s like the whole city is well aware that such a gift may not ever happen again, and so everyone […]
Sears and Anthropologie: Reunited and it feels so good.
April 11, 2013 by 8 Comments
It’s snowing, again, huge fluffy flakes that would fill me with appreciation for their beauty if it were not mid-April. But! I am not going to focus on that. Instead, let me tell you about receiving the “Hello Summer!” Sears catalogue. I love clothes and fashion. I love browsing through fashion magazines and thinking about […]
Hippos and Spring
March 28, 2013 by 8 Comments
Important Boyhouse update for those of you who have been reading for a while: we visited the zoo yesterday for the first time since the tragic (for us) euthanasia of Foggy the Hippo. There is a new hippo; his name is Ghost, courtesy of his Halloween birthday, and he is Foggy’s grandson. I wasn’t sure […]
Come to think of it, Superman is a douche
March 19, 2013 by 15 Comments
There is this strange phenomenon I’ve noticed this winter: no matter what the weather is like at all other times of the day, it will surely become much, much worse at school pickup time. I’m not sure what it is about the 3:30-4:00 time slot, but lately it’s been nothing but gale force winds, snow, […]
Back to life, back to reality.
February 25, 2013 by 27 Comments
The house is SO QUIET. I had gotten used to a certain level of excited chatter all day long and now the kids are back at school and my husband is back at work, and it’s just me, with not even the dog for company as he is at the groomer’s. Back to reality, I […]
February and Friday Happiness
February 1, 2013 by 8 Comments
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 […]
Fun with the Sears Catalogue
November 12, 2012 by 20 Comments
This was the view out my back door last week: It has been cold and snowy forever, I think. In reality it has been more like three and a half weeks, but it feels like forever. At least the sun came out yesterday, which makes me feel less like stabbing people who complained about the […]
