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 […]
Reasons I’m Losing My Mind, or How Did Lee Garner Jr Make You Hold His Balls?
June 18, 2013 by 5 Comments
Dogs and flowers and not much else.
May 22, 2013 by 7 Comments
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 […]
Sweep, sweep, hurry, hard!
May 7, 2013 by 20 Comments
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 […]
Sears and Anthropologie: Reunited and it feels so good.
April 11, 2013 by 8 Comments
It’s snowing, again, huge fluffy flakes that would fill me with appreciation for their beauty if it were not mid-April. But! I am not going to focus on that. Instead, let me tell you about receiving the “Hello Summer!” Sears catalogue. I love clothes and fashion. I love browsing through fashion magazines and thinking about […]
The only way out is through
April 9, 2013 by 7 Comments
Yesterday I was having a fabulous hair day, which is not something that happens frequently at the best of times, and especially not when it’s T-3 days until my appointment at the hair salon. Generally, at this time in my hair cycle, my hair resembles a cross between straw and the fur on the old […]
Hippos and Spring
March 28, 2013 by 8 Comments
Important Boyhouse update for those of you who have been reading for a while: we visited the zoo yesterday for the first time since the tragic (for us) euthanasia of Foggy the Hippo. There is a new hippo; his name is Ghost, courtesy of his Halloween birthday, and he is Foggy’s grandson. I wasn’t sure […]
Fun with the Sears Catalogue
November 12, 2012 by 20 Comments
This was the view out my back door last week: It has been cold and snowy forever, I think. In reality it has been more like three and a half weeks, but it feels like forever. At least the sun came out yesterday, which makes me feel less like stabbing people who complained about the […]
