For the longest time, I wouldn’t let Rissa play with Barbies. I was taking a stand. We bought her Groovy Girls – the flopsy, cuddly, ethnic, pre-pubescent dolls. She probaby had 6 of them – all sporting fabulous 60s-inspired fashions. (One had a faux raspberry suede coat with some sort of shaggy fur-like trim…
Praise be to every deity in the universe!!! After a week of insomnia – I slept through the night!! Halle-freakin-lulljah!! (insert angels’ chorus here) There’s been a heat/humidity wave in Southern Ontario. A direct result of this is my morphing into the biggest belligerent bitchy bitch in several galaxies. (I think there’s a multi-breasted female…
So yesterday evening when we went into the basement and gave Rissa the task of going through her cubbies of long-forgotten toys, she discovered this in her dress up box… The pic really doesn’t do it justice. It’s way more fuschia-y in real life. The sentiment upon the chest of an adult would be enough…
If you knew nothing about me other than the combination of pills I take in the morning, how old would you think I am? 70? 80? To be fair, most of them are pretty innocuous. Most of the pills are to up my immune-system so that the colds and flu that I used to suffer…
Why, oh why don’t we listen to our bodies? When they’re full, I mean. Of food. I either need to throw up or ingest vast quantities of TUMS. I am smarter than this. This chipmunk is me. The peanut is the last chocolate-covered pretzel. I made a bad choice. I should just know better. Yesterday…
I turned 44 today. That’s right the big DOUBLE 4!!!! I have lived, breathed, loved, hurt, gasped, screamed, laughed, fallen, jumped, dived, wallowed, basked and enjoyed life for the last 44 years. Yes, I have wrinkles on my face. You know why? Because I smile and raise my eyebrows and I’m 44 freaking years…
You know the phrase “Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow”? Well I must be a freaking Clydesdale. Never in my life have I glowed. I don’t participate in group exercise for this very reason. Why, oh why would I want more than a dozen people at a time to see the sweat stains that evolve…
We have Netflix. We hardly ever use it, but we pay our $7.95 a month and have it. Every now and again we discover something on it. Like the TED talks – which if you haven’t been watching you MUST – but in addition to the TED talks there’s something else you HAVE to watch……
I received my first 6 rabies shots Tuesday at approximately 4:00 p.m. By Wed evening we were up at a family cottage enjoying the beauty of Macgregor Lake in Quebec. At approximately 7:00 p.m. I was touching these!!! Because why? Because they LET me!! They were begging for it in point of fact. Or perhaps…
So… I couldn’t catch the silver-grey tabby. It didn’t follow the cleverly laid trail of kitten treats to its trapped siblings in the cat cage… in the garage. The mother cat showed up. Along with the father/brother/uncle cat. I couldn’t turn in the captured siblings to the animal shelter. I just couldn’t. All I could…