So, in spite of having spent hours and hours exhausting her body in dance intensive camp – Rissa was still wired at bedtime. I made her chew a mental calmness stress-relax tab as soon as she got into bed. Before she read for 10 minutes. I was trying to forestall the onslaught that is Rissa. …
So pretty much every time I’m in the shower, I lose half of my hair. David says I’m exaggerating. But it’s not like he can feel the ever-widening bits of scalp on his head. Okay, I might be exaggerating… The math wouldn’t work. If it were true, I’d be completely bald by now. It…
Okay… So neck hair… What the pooh? First off, why do women even GET neck hair? Does HRT get rid of neck hair? If it does, damn the health consequences – I’m in! Yes, I’m that vain. You get more vain the wrinklier and hairier you get. Secondly, half the time you can’t SEE the…
What Canadians say instead of “um.” I am not rich enough to warrant my politeness. I paid $26 for a buffet breakfast this morning, because I didn’t want to offend the waitress. See, she’d already poured me juice… I was unwilling to abandon a tumbler of orange juice on account of the fact that I…
So as I’m up to my armpits in rock opera, I don’t have a lot of spare time, so I thought I’d post this from June: Eggshells Under Their Feet Yesterday morning I awoke in the midst of another horrific hot flash. Stumbling and growling all the way down the stairs – David and Rissa’s…
No time to post this yesterday – better late than never… Couldn’t find a pic of Alfred E. Newman in drag as an over-protective mother So today is the first day of Rissa’s aerial arts circus camp. At the end of her day, she will be catching a bus, riding to the subway, then taking…
Rissa has always been a little off-centre. I was about to say that I blame David for that, but I couldn’t type it with a straight face. Instead, I shall say that we are equally bad influences, but in good ways. I do think that she gets her sense of humour from him. The pair…
I have a thing for shoes. Not quite a fetish, but close. I used to have lots and lots and lots… before I got pregnant and developed duck feet. ‘Cause after you’ve had a baby, your feet aren’t the same size. If you look at my feet when they’re not touching the ground, they look…
This is the story of how Rissa almost blew chunks on the family room rug. My mothers-in-law came over for dinner the other night. They brought regular fruit crumble and gluten-free, possibly sugar-free crumble. David’s Mom is doing the gluten-free thing, I’m doing the gluten-free thing. The rest of the folks got the sugary-gluteny-oaty-goodness and…
Aaron Sorkin has a new series on HBO. The Newsroom. Thank the freaking universe!! It’s been so long since Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and even longer since The West Wing and Sports Night. David PVRd the show without my even knowing that there was a new Sorkin show. He presented it to me…