Oh, you guys, the sun has come out. The glacier in my back yard is shrinking, the boys are wearing t-shirts, and there are teeny tiny sprouts of green coming up in the warmest and sunniest part of my garden. Daylilies, those tenacious little sweethearts. I think they would probably survive nuclear fallout, but nonetheless I’m […]
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
April 3, 2014 by 7 Comments
I hear that it has been the coldest, longest, grossest winter since 1978, nation-wide. I think all those people who cheerily say how much they love winter are even down in the dumps about it. So I’m a little shy to say that I skipped out on the last two weeks – missing snow and minus-double-digit […]
One Size Fits All
February 12, 2014 by 11 Comments
For those of you who follow such things, the federal budget contained an intention to legislate an end to the price gap between goods sold in the US and Canada. It’s about time! In this day and age I find it ridiculous to find an online price that’s 30% higher on Canadian websites compared with […]
Summer’s Almost Gone, Almost Gone
August 30, 2013 by 16 Comments
Here it is, the very last week of summer, and I’m trying to squeeze every moment out of it. I always feel kind of gloomy at the end of summer – I’m a summer-tastic kind of girl – but the gloominess is getting overridden by my excitement about September. My social life, which seems to […]
The Opposite Of Extreme Makeovers, and a Giveaway!
August 13, 2013 by 22 Comments
Lawsy, I’ve been busy – relatively speaking – since returning from vacation. It’s amazing how much piles up after an eight-day hiatus from the homefront. I’ve been multi-tasking like a motherfucking riot; taking the boys to the playground while mentally composing posts, responding to constant “fun facts” about animals while making 16 litres of tomato sauce, preparing frantically […]
A Darker Shade of Pale
February 23, 2013 by 12 Comments
Aloha! It feels like I haven’t written forever, but that’s because I was on vacation in Maui! We flew in on the red eye last night, and so I’m feeling a little red-eyed. Pardon the incoherence. Despite sleeping only about five hours last night, the boys are shockingly energetic and pleasant, which indicates that a […]
