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Obssessive? Me?

It is always funny how other people’s perceptions of you contrast with your own sense of self. I had a conversation with a friend recently where this was well highlighted: Me-I could never be as in to something as a Trekkie. He(looking at me weird and snorting into his beer)- Yeah. Right. You’re not obssessiveContinue reading “Obssessive? Me?”

Art, Juno and a Total Eclipse of the Moon=mini vacation

What does one do when one is single? I ask myself this constantly. It seems that time must spread out like an ample serving of Skippy peanut butter over white bread for those who have no children. I am pretty sure that this is an erroneous presumptious, but, nevertheless, the possibilities seem endless when youContinue reading “Art, Juno and a Total Eclipse of the Moon=mini vacation”

A little nostalgia and just in time…

Look what some beautiful soul gave us for Valentine’s day… But enough of the mushy stuff already.Nomeansno. The sweet sound of my youth. Okay and my adulthood. Nothing makes me happier than listening to these two sounds. Except for maybe listening to the whole album. And God knows I need happy these days. I don’tContinue reading “A little nostalgia and just in time…”

It makes you ponder…

Valentine’s day. Yeah, yeah, I know I’m late. But that is what happens when you get stuck in four and a half hours of school meetings the night before- suddenly you don’t feel like celebrating love. Quite the opposite in fact. Of course, one could take poor old St. Val’s martyrdom and our sadistic/masochist needContinue reading “It makes you ponder…”

The Ecosystem that is your child

For all those who have not had children yet, or who are not at the daycare/ school stage, here are a couple of gems that nobody tells you about and which we conveniently forget about from our own childhood. Lice– Although my contact with these has been thankfully low, the hair checks and the frighteningContinue reading “The Ecosystem that is your child”

Parental Advisory

I watched the movie Stardust with the kids the other day and was confronted with this Parental Advisory note at the beginning: Rated PG-13 for some fantasy violence and risque humor. Hmmm. Fantasy violence? Risque humor? After I stopped laughing and spluttering my herbal tea everywhere, I asked myself the only sane question a personContinue reading “Parental Advisory”

Why you should never judge a book by its cover

« You disappoint me, » she said. « You disappoint me greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless. You might as well leap from this shelf right now and let yourself shatter into a million pieces. Get it over with. Get it all over withContinue reading “Why you should never judge a book by its cover”

A fistful of whiskey makes the medicine go down

I would like to say it was because of my super organizational skills, my calm demeanor and in the immortal words of Hansel (he’s so hot right now) from Zoolander, my ability to go Monk and pull my underwear out of my ass. But no. My favourite time of the year had crept up onContinue reading “A fistful of whiskey makes the medicine go down”