It’s been a beautiful, unseasonably warm September, and I’ve been enjoying it thoroughly; it has managed to stave off the sinking feeling of doom that comes with the seemingly endless winter that Calgary generally has. I find winters to be difficult what with my Reynaud’s syndrome and my poor circulation and, well, my love of […]
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 […]
Summer, So Far
July 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
Because of all the flood craziness around here, it feels like it’s been months since the kids were in school, when in reality it’s only been, officially, four days. It has been sunny, warm, and dry here which I am hoping will expedite the death of the billions of gargantuan mosquitoes in the city. The […]
Reasons I’m Losing My Mind, or How Did Lee Garner Jr Make You Hold His Balls?
June 18, 2013 by 5 Comments
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 […]
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 […]
