Hello there! It feels like a long time since I’ve posted, so I’m hopping right back in the saddle. Things have been busy around here. I’ve oscillated from overwhelming love for the city and all the generous and kind people in it, and overwhelming despair that it will never be enough, no matter how hard […]
Reasons I’m Losing My Mind, or How Did Lee Garner Jr Make You Hold His Balls?
June 18, 2013 by
There have been, strangely enough, tornado warnings around here. Tornadoes! Where AM I? In any case, yesterday the rain held off all day until the moment I had to leave to pick the kids up from school. I stood in the playground, in a torrential downpour, while I waited for them. The rain tapered off and the […]
Denim skirts, non-Mama-Duggar-style
June 10, 2013 by
If you can’t beat them, join them, is the somewhat defeatist attitude I took up this weekend when I went shopping to Lammles’ Western Wear. I am a Calgary girl, I’ve lived here my whole life, and yet I just can’t get behind the concept of western wear. This is an attitude I felt needed […]
Field Trip Extravaganza
May 31, 2013 by
Just to set the stage, here, it is 3:24 pm and I’m considering opening my SECOND beer. Listen, I’m just impressed I made it until Friday to start drinking. It’s been a very involved week, parenting wise, and by that I mean that I was chaperone to an all-day field trip to the museum on […]
Dogs and flowers and not much else.
May 22, 2013 by
Did you have a nice long weekend? Despite our original plans falling through, we managed to have a lovely one. We spent a night at my parents’ cabin – the “cabin” that is three times the size of my house and has twice as many bathrooms, which is my idea of camping – and played […]
Naked Shuffleboard
May 17, 2013 by
My weekend plans got kiboshed, and so yesterday I decided that since we were staying home, I may as well get a little bit of gardening done. It’s too early to really plant anything, I thought to myself, So I’ll just get a couple of really hardy plants. I walked into the garden centre and […]
Sweep, sweep, hurry, hard!
May 7, 2013 by
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 […]
