It’s cold here, but not unusually so, by which I mean today was -22 without windchill and that is the coldest it has been all week. The rest of the week sat around -15 without windchill, which is certainly par for the course for January in Calgary. My usual morning routine is to drop the […]
According to Buzzfeed, Elvis is my boyfriend from a past life.
October 15, 2014 by 5 Comments
Happy Belated Thanksgiving! I had full intentions of writing an emotionally-charged gratitude/ thankfulness post, but then my post-Blissdom cold morphed into a Super Cold which left me unable to sleep or function in a semi-coherent way. I was also at my in-laws’ for five days and now I’m catching up – again – on the […]
Cash Cab, Here I Come.
September 30, 2014 by 6 Comments
I’m so glad there are so many of you on the same page as me, in the “ladies’ holidays” way. It makes me feel much less insane, although the word “peri-menopause” is coming up a wee bit more than I would like it to. As an aside, my grandma had some very helpful advice regarding […]
Snow-pocalypse
September 11, 2014 by 6 Comments
It has been such a strange week. It started out like this: Which morphed into this: We put on a happy face, after all, the kids were all building snow forts and having a blast. The snow was going to melt, so no big deal, right? Yesterday morning I drove to yoga at my […]
The 2010 Olympic Mascots, Four Years Later
June 16, 2014 by 6 Comments
Approximately fifty-two months ago, something magical happened; that magical thing was the 2010 Olympics. The kids at the time were in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, and they were extremely interested in the Olympics: the events, the location, and the mascots. Especially the mascots. At one of my myriad book fairs, there was a book about the […]
Sex Ed, Who-Gives-A-Fuck-About-Volunteering, and The Simpsons
June 4, 2014 by 7 Comments
Today I realized that as of tomorrow, there are only three more weeks left of school! June is a bit of an odd month, isn’t it? On the one hand, I’m desperately ready for the summer to begin – lazy days, no more running back and forth to the school six times a day, no […]
39 Clues…about being 39
April 22, 2014 by 20 Comments
Yesterday was my birthday and I turned 39. It’s the start of my last year in my thirties! Some people feel gloomy on their birthdays, but not me. I love birthdays, and also, I don’t want to be dead, which is the alternative to aging. Bring on the age, I say! One step closer to […]
