It’s Stampede Week in Calgary, and on Friday my husband headed into the office, wearing cowboy boots, a plaid shirt, and jeans. He looked pretty hot, by the way, but his usual work wear is a suit and tie (which is also hot. Hello? Hooters for women would just be guys walking around in suits […]
Not THE most boring post ever, but close.
June 19, 2015 by
All week, I’ve wanted to write more about my Las Vegas trip. I wanted to write about the rowdy plane ride down there and the near-silent plane ride home. I wanted to write about the guy next to me on the plane who took off his shoes and passed out, leaving me to stare at […]
Do you feel lucky, punk?
April 16, 2015 by
Yesterday I got an email saying that I was the possible recipient of $6.5 million dollars, due to the passing of someone who MAY be related to me. All the money was in a Tongan bank just waiting to be transferred. Then, this morning I got TWO emails from “China Shenhua” saying that “company picked your […]
Boots and songbooks: where have you been all my life?
January 9, 2015 by
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
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
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
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 […]
