After watching The Wedding on Friday, I sank into what can only be described as a state of complete obsession and sloth. I performed the absolute minimum in terms of child maintenance, instead staring at the television, watching and re-watching the highlights, pausing only to trade wedding-related analysis with my mother and grandmother over the phone about […]
The Royal Wedding, or The Reason I’m Going To A 2:30 a.m. Tea Party
April 28, 2011 by 9 Comments
So THE wedding is tomorrow and I’m sure I’m not the only person bourgeois and/or pedestrian enough to be excited about it. Hey, I’m a Canadian girl. One of my fondest memories is when, thirty years ago, my grandma woke me up at four in the morning to watch The Wedding with her, and although […]
Celebrity, Marky Mark, and the Big Egg Hunt
April 26, 2011 by 11 Comments
I was at the grocery store on the weekend, picking up only a couple of items and scanning them through the self-checkout lane when one of the cashiers, a fairly young guy, ran up to me excitedly. “I saw you on CBC!” he said. “I was watching the hockey game and then you were on […]
High Maintenance Girl
April 7, 2011 by 8 Comments
Sally: Which am I? Harry: Oh, you’re the worst kind. You’re high maintenance, but you think you’re low maintenance. Sally: I don’t see that. Harry: You don’t see it? Waiter, I’ll have the house salad, but I don’t want the regular dressing. I want the balsamic oil and vinegar. But I want it on the […]
I’m used to nice things!
March 30, 2011 by 7 Comments
I had a plan to write a really funny post about how yesterday’s Costco trip destroyed my faith in humanity, but my neighbour restored it; and how the entire city suddenly got over their collective seasonal affectedness disorder because the sun came out and the temperature got above freezing and this was the actual, number […]
Serendipity
March 20, 2011 by 7 Comments
Do you believe in serendipity? And I don’t mean the movie, which was fine and all but lady, let me give you a hint here: if John Cusack asks for your phone number, don’t write it on a five dollar bill or in a random book or throw it away. GIVE HIM YOUR DAMN NUMBER. […]
The Hunger Games versus Harry Potter
March 16, 2011 by 9 Comments
I’ve been unwell for the past couple of days; I’ve had the cold that has been going around the kids’ school, and while it isn’t devastating, it is annoying in one of those “I just went through an entire box of Kleenex” sort of way. Yesterday was spent in a cold medication-induced fog, the kind […]
