I've found that I enjoy entertaining parties. Our apartment has a great set-up, and including ourselves, there were 13 people at our place for Melissa's birthday party.

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Not much ( Read more... )

So Peter's been getting me back into Magic: The Gathering. (It's the first popular CCG/TCG made, pretty old, etc.)

For about half a year I've been holding onto a blue/black deck that's a bit unconventional in how it plays. I saw a card I liked, then built a deck around it; Peter, who has more experience (and more fun) building decks refined the ( Read more... )

Peter and I woke up this morning to a cold, dark and rather quiet morning. We had lost power overnight ( Read more... )

Whenever I send my kid to their first examination, I check their clothes.

( I talk about clothes. )

The weekend before, I started telling people we were planning a get-together (I hesitate to say 'party', we aren't partying types). Since it was a LARP weekend, I didn't get a lot of responses, and figured okay, smaller intimate group. Then the next weekend the LARP group was planning a day at Canada's Wonderland - the big amusement park - and ( Read more... )

The first chicken sales have been acquired by my kind-of-sister-in-law Melissa: she saw that I was trying to sell them and thought they would make great gifts for a baby shower. I feel validated!

She gave me a lift downtown, where we met Matthew, another LARPer for lunch. I showed them the House of Gourmet, probably my favourite restaurant ( Read more... )

Despite not actually doing anything constructive today, I still feel accomplished ( Read more... )

I picked up new students - an hour each for two sons preparing for upcoming examinations. She's a friend of my mother's who's looking for a supplement for her regular teacher. It made Saturday really exhausting T.T But I have to admit...I like money, and I like teaching ( Read more... )

A light layer of snow this morning, which wasn't too bad ( Read more... )