I have been pushing myself too hard at work lately. I called in sick last week on Wednesday and rested. My chest hurts all the time and I always feel like I am halfway to an awful cold ( Read more... )

Usually by this time of year Rebecca and I would have turned our dining room table into Valentine Central ( Read more... )

I just got back to Ottawa at 2am this morning ( Read more... )

went shopping today.
I always used to buy her presents on my trips here. today in the store i kept seeing things i would get her, and i wanted to cry. It's been exactly one month and she still won't talk to me ( Read more... )

Kira 'update', aka constant state of affairs: I am sad and stressed but also having really nice times ( Read more... )

Nov 10, 2011 NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF OTTAWA 25.00 $3,994.75
Nov 08, 2011 VENUS ENVY INC OTTAWA 18.85 $3,969.75
Nov 02, 2011 PAYMENT - THANK YOU 88.00 $3,950.90
Oct 24, 2011 ITECH/WIMAC TEL PAYFONE CALGARY 3.94 $4,038.90
Oct 24, 2011 NETFLIX 866-716-04 7.99 $4,034.

The past 7 days have been so busy ( Read more... )

How how how how do you feministly shack-up? Living together seems like it could be a domestic Betty Friedan nightmare! Help? I am temporarily sharing my home with a male boyfriend for the first time. OOOPS. What do I do? How do I do it right?

A lot of people are re-posting this obituray of Wendy Babcock.
I can't help but identify with it:

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Wendy had, by all accounts, a horrible childhood. She was abused by her parents, lived in a group home, became a ward of Children’s Aid Society, aged out of care, dropped out of high school, became a child sex trade worker (her client list ( Read more... )

yesterday was my one day off work ( Read more... )