Message from my answering machine this morning:

Hi guys, it's Matt calling. It's 10 to eight on Friday morning and I just wanted to let you know I was at the grocery store last night and picked up chocolate milk. See you on Sunday.

Dear cold virus currently making my nose run like a tap,
Thank you for sparing the baby from your mucus mania.
Love,
Leah
PS You still suck.

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Ten Top Trivia Tips about Leah!

1. Until the 1960s, Leah was not allowed to enter Disneyland.
2. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw Leah into a volcano it would stop erupting!
3. Leah is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than Leah!
4. In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially ( Read more... )

I no longer work for Conrad Black (not that I was working). Glacier bought Hollinger's Canadian holdings.
I feel funny.

After a trip to Winners (I love that place), where I didn't buy a cute green blouse (anything that doesn't button up the front doesn't appeal to a nursing mom - ease of access is key) but did buy a new laundry hamper, a pink sweatsuit for Marah and a new wallet for me (it's pink and brown leopard print! and looks ridiculous in my mec pod bag!), ( Read more... )

Have you caught a commercial for Hockey Day in Canada (which is what I'm watching, btw)? The song, the folky one with the guy with the Scottish brogue, is Skating Rink by David Francey. He used to live in Ayer's Cliff (and beat out Bruce Cockburn for a Juno), and the song is about the rink on the fairgrounds. It's weird hearing it on TV all the ( Read more... )

The past few hours have been about everything going awry ( Read more... )

In the year 2006 I resolve to:

Train my cats to hunt hamsters.

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