Lately, I've been nit picking. No, not at plot inconsistencies this time - the real deal. My sister is a kindergarten teacher and one of her little ones passed on head lice -nice. Join me in a massive, "Ewwwwww!" Or "eeeeek!" Anyways, I've become somewhat of an expert nit picker in the last couple of days - not exactly something I ever wanted to be ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting or even commenting much lately because of computer problems - the 'r' key on my laptop was crooked (the horror, the horror) so my ever-so-slightly OCD sister started fiddling with it and broke it off. And when she took the laptop in for repairs, they had to replace the entire keyboard (!) so the laptop is currently still in ( Read more... )

I haven't posted recently as I've been so busy with the holidays. No idea where all the time went, though I did get in lots of baking (though not as much as last year - I focused on my favourites instead this time round), shopping (not just my own but I also stepped in for my sister and got a few for my nephew as well), cleaning (ugh) and all round ( Read more... )

Yikes, just over two weeks to Christmas!! I've got the Christmas tree up finally though I'm a bit dissatisfied with it. I didn't notice until after I'd added the garland and ornaments that one of the strands of lights, which I ran along the bottom branches, doesn't have any yellow lights in it. So there is this kind of subtle disconnect in the ( Read more... )

From huzzlewhat

I'm sure mom would be so proud.

svgurl introduced me to this quiz - the result was scarily accurate...

Your result for The Golden Compass Daemon Test...
Independent Soul.


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Sorry I haven't been online lately. Christmas was a lot of fun but kind of frantic with the shopping and cooking and cleaning and visiting. My giftees were quite impressed by the container of goodies I'd cooked for them: fudge, caramels, turtles, creamy pralines, glazed almonds, peanut brittle, candied orange peel, almond butter crunch, spicy ( Read more... )

 Sorry for being so incommunicado lately - just so much to do around the new place! But the roof is done (big job, although my part was largely restricted to writing the checks), I'm almost done with the computer room renos and the garden is ready for winter. We then have to redo the living room ceiling (because of water damage from the formerly ( Read more... )

Conditionally, but still... Less than a week on the market! 

Hi all! Sorry I haven't been in touch much lately. I made the big decision about a month ago to sell my condo in Toronto and move to the countryside to be closer to family and old friends. It's going to be quite a change!

In order to get the house ready for the market, I've spent the last month de-cluttering and cleaning and painting and cleaning ( Read more... )