Ah, people.  It’s been a long, long time.

I did buy a cell phone.  I use it tentatively as though it might blow up in my hand at any moment.  (And it may well:  I don’t know how these things work.)  We went away on a lovely, long vacation.  Three weeks of touring around the east.  It’s cold there for people who don’t know.  (I didn’t.)

On our way ( Read more... )

I’m going to get a cell phone.

I think.

I was actually at the place, about to buy one, and instead I just walked. Both Ulysses and I think they’d be useful for school in the fall. With both of us away from home and no one with an office, it’s difficult for the kids’ school to reach us in case of emergency. And although it would be rare for a real ( Read more... )

One week from right now, we’ll be driving to the east coast. (I hope we’ll have passed Kingston, by this time of the day.) I can’t believe we’re really about to leave. We’ll be gone until July 11th. When we get back, it will be almost the middle of the kids’ vacation, almost time for me to sign up for classes, almost time for school ( Read more... )

During our last instalment, we ate steak, my children pretended to run a restaurant, and my garden grew.

Not a lot has changed.  My garden is growing like. . . like something. Weeds?  Wildfire?  Hotcakes?  Who can say?  All the stuff that was supposed to come up, came up.   I’d had serious doubts about the chinese lanterns and the moonflowers, ( Read more... )

I walked to the butcher’s yesterday.  I used to go quite often because it was enroute to work, but I don’t seem to get out that way anymore.  It’s a nice little shop.  I picked up some little lamb steaks to barbeque.  I also swung around to the dollar store and bought a lunch bag to keep them cool.  Yesterday got hot and I was looking at a 30-40 ( Read more... )

I luve you and you Luve me.  You almeito do stuf that I’m not alt to do you almeto ked around yes I LUVE YOU! MoMY.

(I love you and you love me.  You allow me to do stuff that I’m not allowed to do:  you allow me to kid around.  Yes, I love you, Mommy!)

Heh.  Allowing people to kid around is obviously one of the better things to be remembered for.

Saturday’s party was delightful all around.  Thanks to everyone.  There were thirty of us, so that’s a lot of thanking. 

So, my apartment is a mess.  I thought it’d be a good idea to clean it up on Thursday.  But Thursday turned out to be beautiful, so I put my headphones on and walked to Kitchener.  I bought a pair of pants, shorts, and a t-shirt for myself as well as a pair of capris for Mia at Clothing by the Pound.  At Worth a Second Look, I scored a wooden salad ( Read more... )

Our dear friend M. went with Ulysses to pick up the credenza on Friday afternoon.  Even though I had been worried in the shop that it was too small, it’s the perfect size for our living room.  We got it in and started pulling off the backing.  I’d thought that we’d have to take the backing off, remove a couple of internal shelves, put a lot of ( Read more... )

I have a cold.  Around six o’clock last night, I thought I might have some seasonal allergies, or maybe allergies related to dust, but after a fitful nap from seven to ten, followed by hours of lying in bed begging sleep to show up and take me away, it became clear that I had a full-out cold.

Fortunately, I spent most of yesterday cleaning up.  ( ( Read more... )