I'm nearing the end of week 2 of this bronchitis (or broncho-pneumonia as the doctor called it), and I'm getting REALLY tired of this pesky cough. It keeps me up at night (sometimes even when I take the special narcotics-laced syrup), it hurts my abdominal muscles (the abs workout isn't even an incentive anymore), and is makes me irritable ( Read more... )

With pre-season games in full swing, and the start of another NHL season just around the corner, French Canada is in a frenzy. Gary Bettman has said that he would like for an NHL team will return to Quebec city in time for the 2012 season!!! With Pierre Karl Péladeau (head of the Quebecor media empire) with his cheque book already in hand, the ( Read more... )

So 2 weeks ago I fell on ice and hit my head on the stone steps outside my house. I'd been going to get the mail, and upon stepping back onto the asphalt driveway, I slipped on a patch of ice, fell backwards, and hit my head... HARD! Hard enough that my glasses went flying into the snowbank nearby.

I was lucky as I didn't bleed at all, which meant ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the last day of class before final exams for this term, and let me tell you that it couldn't come any sooner in my opinion. I've spent the entire week in exam review and preparation, and it's the most exhausting thing ever.

You'd think that during exam review, I could sit back relatively speaking, and let the kids take the reigns and ( Read more... )

That's how I feel about art, and painting in general. Painting soothes me, allows me to express myself in ways that I would normally never dare, and gives me much needed "ME time". Until this past fall, I had never taken formal art classes before. In fact, except for the art class I had in intermediate school when I was about 12, I hadn't ( Read more... )