It's that time of year where I decide to take on that herculean task known as Christmas cards. This year's offering started out as something ridiculously labour-intensive (the prototype took about three hours to put together -- and looked pretty damn good, too) but it has now been whittled down into something a little more manageable to possibly ( Read more... )

adam and i finally became a legitimate married couple by purchasing a queen-size bed, mattress and box spring last month. it replaced a double mattress and squeaky 1940s era bed frame that both of us figured was good enough. i had a bit of an attachment to the old bed -- it was my grandparents' guest bed and i'm a sucker for antiques -- but as we ( Read more... )

so i think only one person i know actually stayed up (or went to bed super early and got up super early) to watch the real-time coverage of the royal wedding. i'm not much of a monarchist; i don't follow the royal family's every move, nor am i terribly certain what they do except for nebulous charitable endeavours, but i do like the tradition and ( Read more... )

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canadians will be heading to the polls this may for another federal election, and that means i need to decide who gets my vote. the following is a discussion that adam and i had on the subject:

adam: i'm looking at the party platforms and all i'm seeing from the opposition parties is that they're not the conservatives ( Read more... )

in february i acquired a large number of knitting needles and yarns c/o a lady in my homegroup. i have wanted to knit for a long time, but was reluctant to spend too much money buying the supplies only to realize that i absolutely abhor it ( Read more... )

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it snowed quite a bit on tuesday night and restored my wavering faith in the folk at the weather centre (really, i do sometimes suspect that all they do is sit around drinking scotch all day pulling predictions out of their arses ( Read more... )

i can't seem to shake whatever this illness is. i've had it for nearly two weeks and it doesn't feel like anything is improving. thankfully it's just a bad cough and there has been no fever or (much of a) runny nose, but i've been coughing an awful lot and my ribs are really starting to complain ( Read more... )

a lot happened in 2010 and looking back, i realize that it's been a long, convoluted roller coaster ride of events and i can't remember half of what happened (we had the winter olympics? it seems like that was aaages ago!). the first eight months of the year were particularly painful and felt something like this:


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