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If anyone out there is still reading this, my apologies for the unintentionally long hiatus my blog has taken as of late.  Our vacation kind of melted into Christmas, and I was rather too busy eating nanaimo bars to properly gather my thoughts.

Besides, ever since we got back from Australia, it has been a little difficult finding any alone time at ( Read more... )

I have a friend who always says that one of the most important discussions to have before getting married is about being tucked or untucked in bed.  She says that if one partner likes to have their feet covered at the end of the bed, and the other is an "exposed dangler" it might end up being a dealbreaker for the marriage.  What she neglected to ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I picked Mike up at work and we went to a flu shot clinic at our doctor's office.  I am a big (huge, gigantic) baby when it comes to needles, but I've had the good ol' influenza a couple of times and in terms of misery, it's no contest.  (Last year was the first year I didn't have an office flu shot clinic to go to, and I never did ( Read more... )

... If in some smothering dreams you too could pace ( Read more... )

Sometimes it feels a little strange about being 27 years old, married but without kids, especially compared to what seems to be the remarkable fertility of the people I grew up with.  Some days I still feel like a kid, like I haven’t really lived at all, like there’s a lot left to do because I didn’t really do the kind of things you’re supposed to ( Read more... )

So I was driving along, as I am wont to do, and I was listening to the radio (as I am not very often wont to do, since my iPod is chock full of music I actually like to listen to) when a song came on, introduced by the DJ as a very popular new single.  This song, apparently, is called “Man of Two Minds” and it is by a band called “The Trews”.  The ( Read more... )

Occasionally (i.e. extremely rarely) something will happen that will make me miss working in a big office.  Sometimes it's news of a potluck.  Sometimes it's the steady paycheque.  And sometimes it's because I think even the cats are judging me for talking to them ( Read more... )

COMPLETED

• Purchase winter hat that looks like a sock bunny
• Wear said hat out in public and look ridiculous yet adorable
• Purchase new winter coat, to replace the old one that has a giant stain on the side
• Get yellow paint on new winter coat

IN PROGRESS

• Regularly perform prescribed physio exercises to enhance general muscularity of back & shoulder for ( Read more... )

I had a dentist appointment the week before last, and it was awful.  I’ll spare you most of the details, but it was the worst one I’ve had since the time the dentist gave me too many drugs and I hurled in the car on the way home.  I will never understand why hygienists feel the need to lecture me about the problems with my teeth that aren’t my ( Read more... )