Edited to add: I just discovered that today is Pi Day! I didn’t even know Pi Day existed, but the fact of its existence has made me so suddenly happy that I almost deleted this post. Almost. But now I feel like dancing around – PI DAY! Please, a note of sympathy for my poor […]
A Tale of Two Closets
Well, it’s one closet really. The other day I was making my bed and I looked up and saw this: From this view it would appear that my husband has bogarted all the closet space. All those shirts, neatly hung on the upper tier, meanwhile I have a couple of hoodies squished on the bottom […]
Groundhogs, The Bachelor and male pattern baldness.
Certain special days do not translate well for everyone. For example, Robbie Burns Day – does anyone who is not of Scottish heritage really want to eat haggis and listen to bagpipes? I’m half Scottish and I certainly don’t want to – or President’s Day, which does not carry over very well to countries that […]
These boots were made for walking in the winter.
I am perpetually cold. I wear a minimum of two layers at any given time for ninety percent of the year. The other ten percent belongs to the days that are spent vacationing in warmer climes and the two to three weeks a year in Calgary that temperatures actually warrant the removal of a sweater. […]
Nicole’s 300th Episode!
It’s my 300th blog post! If this were a sitcom, I would totally make this a clip show. As it is, I looked back through some of my archives and discovered the following things: a) I write a lot about being insane and germ-phobic, b) I talk about the weather as much as someone who […]
Where the hell is my invincible summer?
“Mom! It’s going to be hot outside!” Jake shrieked from the living room this morning, where the seven-day weather forecast was being shown on the “news”. “Look! It says it’s going to be sunny!” I had to explain the difference between sunny and actual heat, but the conversation didn’t really take and I have to […]
All the cool kids are doing it!
And so will I – a Year in Review. Yes, I know it is the sixth of January and most year in reviews have already been posted, but I was far too busy writing about people who eat toilet paper and watching When Harry Met Sally. So what happened in 2010 over at the Boy […]