I can't believe I'm saying this, but... aren't the damn playoffs over yet ( Read more... )

My comic book reading has been on a steady decline for a number of years now. A lot of it has just been due to choices being made in books that don't interest me = me dropping the book (i.e. Barry Allen becoming the Flash again = me no longer reading the Flash as Wally is my Flash). Other times, books have ended their run (Jack of Fables) or I've ( Read more... )

I know. I haven't talked much about hockey here in a long time. It's not that I don't still pay attention to it or watch it, 'cause I do. But the thing is I'm no longer a fan of the hometown team, and the hometown team is what everything is devoted to, so it's more difficult for me to talk about my favourite team as I don't get to see them play ( Read more... )

Farewell 2010. You went out in such a spectacular display of sickness for most of the family and that's rather tainting my view of you right now. I will try to reflect more favorably in my annual meme as follows ( Read more... )

Of late, I find myself with a couple of new obsessions. Well ok, neither are really 'new' per say, but they've both intensified to become my foremost obsessions for the last/next while ( Read more... )

So yes, it's my birthday today. And yes, I have hit the big 4-0. I won't like and say I haven't been dreading this, because I have. 40 is just... I don't know, it sounds so definitive in some unsettling way. I know it's not old persay, but it certainly isn't young anymore either. And there is a stigma society attaches to 40 (and post 40) year old ( Read more... )

I have a hard time with the whole idea of letting Laurel cry it out. I understand there are times when I know she is just being difficult about going to bed, but even then, I don't like doing it. I don't like hearing her cry for long periods of time. So I guess that's why my method of letting her cry it out is to let her cry for a few minutes, then ( Read more... )

Where I ramble about my feelings on the family cottage being put up for sale:

( Farewell Echo Lake )