So here it is, May 23, and we are still here. I guess the rapture didn’t occur after all, or, if it did, I was seriously excluded. I wore my special Judgment Day panties for nothing? NOTHING? I spent the weekend celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria by way of a road trip to visit my in-laws, and […]
I once had a poster of a fish riding a bicycle.
March 8, 2011 by 6 Comments
Yesterday, according to the internet – which is never wrong, correct? – was Booty Appreciation Day. A moment of silence, please, while we all absorb that riveting information. Strangely, Booty Appreciation Day is immediately followed by International Women’s Day – so happy girl power to all of us! Fish on bicycles, women’s work is never […]
A Tale of Two Closets
March 5, 2011 by 12 Comments
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 […]
At that moment I knew. I knew the way you know about a good melon.
March 4, 2011 by 7 Comments
A while back, I read Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP newsletter, something I never do unless my attention is directed to it. This particular newsletter – which I cannot find archived, for some reason – dealt with how to be organized. I was particularly interested because, not to overly congratulate myself here, I consider myself to be […]
The Elderly and the Fireplace Channel
December 8, 2010 by 9 Comments
So no one died or was dismembered from the swim lessons yesterday, happily enough. They froze, because our lovely city seems to be practicing the utmost frugality when it comes to heating municipal swimming pools, and also it is December, but they are still in one piece. So that’s a win. To warm ourselves up, […]
I just want to eat my COOKIE!
November 22, 2010 by 9 Comments
How was your weekend? It has been painfully cold around here – so cold that I gave the boys the warm fleece pajamas that I was saving for Christmas – and so I spent a large part of the weekend pleasantly bustling around the house, baking things and making batch after batch of cookie dough […]
Inch by inch, row by row
June 6, 2010 by 4 Comments
On Friday I went to a neighbourhood volunteer appreciation dinner with a friend who is a lot of fun and excellent company. I have to admit that I was a bit leery to go at first; it was to take place in our local sportsplex, and I had visions of a potluck meal on long […]
