Now that I've gotten my Spring Rage About Time Change out of the way, I'm feeling much better. Coffee helps. My body feeling like it's 3:30 in the morning when it's really 4:30 in the morning is making it very easy to get to sleep at my usual hour. … [Continue reading]
At least we can calculate the volume of a sphere.
March 14, 2016 by 8 Comments
It's a good thing today is Pi Day - pancakes for lunch to celebrate the fact that we can calculate their area! - because otherwise I would be in a complete state of bitchery, rather than a partial one. Time change fills me with impotent rage every … [Continue reading]
The old grey mare, she ain’t what she used to be. But she can still do anything good.
March 11, 2016 by 4 Comments
It has been a long week. My husband was travelling for work, which made it feel even longer. All day Tuesday I thought it was Thursday, which was kind of distressing. Then the same thing happened on Wednesday; I was doing some work and I thought … [Continue reading]
Mammograms and Crocuses and My Ability To Misunderstand Basic Instructions
March 9, 2016 by 4 Comments
In what must be a new record for me, on Saturday Jake and I cleaned up the two warmest gardens in our yard. It's so early! Most years everything is still frozen and snow-covered at this time of the year; believe me, I'm not saying that cannot still … [Continue reading]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Beauty Products (and wine) Edition
March 4, 2016 by 3 Comments
This morning while I was driving to yoga, I noticed the moon. The sky was perfectly black and the moon looked exactly like an illustration in a children's book: a perfectly golden crescent shape. When I left the shala, the sky was beginning to … [Continue reading]
Leaping With Joy
February 29, 2016 by 4 Comments
Happy Leap Year Extra Day, everyone! Leap Year Extra Day seems to be the least appreciated of the holidays, probably because it's just an extra day in February. I celebrated by shovelling a tiny bit of snow for the first time in a while. Have you … [Continue reading]
I’ll never look at Cookie Monster the same way again.
February 22, 2016 by 7 Comments
If I was a person who analyzed my dreams, or took the interpretations to really mean something, then I might be worried. Usually my dreams are incredibly dull; folding laundry for hours on end, for example, is a common dream of mine. But Saturday … [Continue reading]
