Looking for that Invincible Summer

It's a grey and snowy day, the kind that makes me feel like taking a whole bottle of Vitamin D supplements in the hopes of perking up. Or perhaps a bottle of wine might work better, I'm not sure, but at least it is Friday and so the wine will be … [Continue reading]

Photo of my rack

Well, okay, since you ALL want to see my amazing rack: ********************************* There are lots of benefits to living in a senior-heavy community: my children are doted on by my neighbours because they are novel on our street, … [Continue reading]

Be the change you want to see in the world

We all have our triggers; those little things that cause us to feel like raging against the machine, those issues that have our blood pressure soaring and our heart rates pumping. In my case, this is seeing shopping carts left carelessly in the … [Continue reading]

All that time spent searching, and it was right there in front of me.

In further Adventures In My Back Alley, last week there was a dead rabbit. Now, my neighbourhood has a lot of big jackrabbits running (hopping?) around, and their numbers are exceeded only by the squirrel population. We are overrun. Anyway, given the … [Continue reading]

Middle Sister

Wow, what a week! It wasn't a bad week, just a very long and hectic one. On Wednesday afternoon I wrote "liquor store" on my Thursday to-do list, which is kind of telling. I dropped the boys at their karate class and hot-footed it to the liquor … [Continue reading]

Ma’am, that is not a bunion.

Today has been one of those crazy-hectic days that make me feel that if I stop moving, all will be ashes. Do you know what I mean? I am quite proud of myself, though, because this morning I managed to exercise, shower, have breakfast (and several … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: Homemade Eye Makeup Remover

Regular readers and people who know me in person know that I am not an "au naturel" type of girl. Unless I'm deathly ill, I put on makeup and do my hair every single day. I have done this so long that I have it down to a science. I could fairly … [Continue reading]