Putting the OM in OMG
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]
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]
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]
Since nothing says romance like spending the weekend with one's in-laws, that is exactly what I did. Well, technically we visited my in-laws because it was a long weekend - the kids had Teacher's Conventions and Monday was Family Day - but the former … [Continue reading]
Yesterday my husband realized that he did NOT have another month's worth of blood pressure pills in the hall cupboard, and he had exactly one pill left. I went to the Co-Op pharmacy to get refill his prescription, and on the way out I saw a display … [Continue reading]
It's almost Valentine's Day, and because there is no semi-holiday that goes by uncelebrated by sugar cookies, I spent some time this morning cutting out round cookies. Heart-shaped cookies have been deemed too embarrassing for words, but round … [Continue reading]
Here's a little tidbit about me that some people (read: my husband) find quite un-endearing: I have a really, really hard time spending money on non-essential items. What often happens in my house is that my husband will suggest a purchase, and no … [Continue reading]
