Putting the OM in OMG
"You know when you get a little bit drunk and then put a whole bunch of books on hold at the library?" I asked my friend Jen while we were enjoying coffee and sunshine Saturday afternoon. "That's what happened last night." I felt I owed Jen (HI … [Continue reading]
On Monday I was at Costco, and I noticed something very interesting: other than one rogue cart inexplicably shoved onto the median rather than neatly wheeled back to the corral not twenty feet away, the parking lot was devoid of carts. My faith in … [Continue reading]
Last Friday, two days before my first road race, the road race I've been training for over these past many months, I went for a light run. My hip was a bit achy but I thought I would push through; this was apparently a big mistake as suddenly I had … [Continue reading]
Earlier in the week I was so tired; it was the kind of exhaustion that makes me wonder if something is seriously wrong. Why am I so tired? I kept saying, over and over, like the world's most boring broken record. My husband gently reminded me that … [Continue reading]
Several times a week - sometimes even several times a day - I peer into the mirror and notice a smudge of mascara under my eyes. It's only after I've taken a tissue with makeup remover to it that I realize the exercise is futile; that the smudge in … [Continue reading]
On Sunday I was returning a book to the library - A Mind Unraveled, if you're interested - and I noticed the sign on the door stating that, as usual, the library will be closed on Sundays from Victoria Day weekend to Labour Day weekend. Victoria … [Continue reading]
How was your weekend? Mine was filled with birthday festivities, not all of them mine. In fact, the only birthday festivity that was mine was a birthday lunch with my dearest friend, who I don't see often enough but we always catch up on our … [Continue reading]
