Every year as New Years eve approaches, I cautiously start to make plans. I’m not a big partier, unless you count parties thrown at home between The Mister, myself, and our puppies but I like to get up to something a little special. This year I think that something special is going to be very [...]
December 2008
When your family is getting together for Christmas dinner as a whole group for the first time since your parents were divorced 18 years ago, and mom’s new boyfriend is coming along, your Christmas Day could go one of two ways: you would be filled with an overwhelming sense of foreboding or you could relax [...]
Thank you all so much for the kind comments on my glasses! I have to say that I was really surprised by the amount of interest in seeing my new frames – and I’m glad I’m not the only one who was geeking out over them just a little. I’ve been blogging seriously since June [...]
This weekend was home made waffles and glasses and thrift shopping. It was finding out that one of my best friends in the world will be moving into a beautiful house five blocks away from me. It was scheming about meeting up for ice cream and lemon aid and bike rides. It wasn’t a blazer, [...]
This week I’ve been under the weather, and while I can be single minded at best some times I really locked in on making myself comfy but productive – because I had a problem that needed fixing. I lose my bus pass. Frequently. There’s something about my jacket pockets that make them literally expel my [...]
A few weeks ago I read a number of pre-holiday posts by people who were looking forward to Christmas, and who were openly wondering about people who celebrate Christmas about aren’t Christian. These posts made me perk up because I was able to wave my hands above my head in the comments sections and go [...]
Living in our first house has taken more getting used to than I thought it would. In spite of our crazy budgeting and years of saving to make this move, it has been more expensive than we thought it would be. The weather in The Prairies has been unseasonably cold lately, making it -27° C [...]
