• Screw the Algorithm

    19/07/2018 - By 

    I have noticed something in my social media feeds. As I have fussed and worried about the algorithm on Facebook and Instagram, my feed has become less “me”. So, screw the algorithm. I love IG, and I used to love posting to it, but lately people have been branding themselves and making really polished feeds. Which are beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but then I started to look too closely at them and second guess myself. I began to question the mood, colour scheme, filter and juxtaposition of every one of my posts. And, although my posts look slightly less…

  • Creating an Independent Human.

    10/11/2014 - By 

    I failed to write a blog post a day *sad face!!* because I didn’t come on yesterday. I had a headache, Izzy was hacking up a lung, and Hunter had to go to the dr yesterday. He had a temp of 104F and we found out he has a double ear infection. Poor little guy was feverish for 4 full days. His fever broke today at his nap-time and I have never felt such relief!! Isabella has the strongest immune system. This cough is the longest she has been sick. She gets a cold here and there but usually a…

  • Respect for a Squirrel

    26/10/2013 - By 

    I have a confession to make. Well two I guess. I don’t really like squirrels. But I have a lot of respect for one. I dislike most rodent-like or rodent animals. There are exceptions. I had a school friend who owned a large white rat and when I looked in to her pink eyes, I fell in love. She used to crawl up my leg, make a circle around my waist and then settle on my shoulder while resting her nose in my ear and fall asleep. Or more often than that, she would crawl in to my pocket and…

  • Summer Bucket List

    16/05/2013 - By 

    Never mind New Year’s Resolutions. Spring is it. Spring is the season when we all renew our vows to ourselves that we will become fitness gurus. Just now the timeline has shortened. We realize in a panic that since our Christmas bingeing we did not keep our promise to ourselves to stick to the detox/get a personal trainer/run ten miles every day. (Unless you did, but then stop reading, this post isn’t for you). We also realize in a dread sweat that we have a much shorter timeline now to get the rock hard abs we dreamed of. We buy…

  • Life Update

    07/05/2013 - By 

    I had an excellent day yesterday. First I had to take the guilt of having free time and being able to sit and pack it away in a dark recess of my brain. I put my guilt in a timeout. Yes sirree. Frequently it had to be shushed and put back in to its corner but eventually I did it. I went to my ultrasound appointment, got a clean bill of health and came home. I checked the interwebs for news, found some good news stories and then some sad ones so I turned it off (who wants to read…

  • Babbling.

    24/04/2013 - By 

    Another day wasted. I feel well enough to not spend the day napping but not well enough to actually accomplish anything. I feel lazy. I plan to attempt yoga tonight with the hubby. Maybe it will help even if I’m not up to all of the moods. If you want to know what we do every night, it’s Jivamukti Yoga DVDs. And they are amazing. That may help get things in line so this stomach bug dies. It’s just an annoyance at this point and I am no longer contagious but it makes me want to shout, enough already!!! On…

  • A Short Comment About the Boston Marathon Tragedy.

    24/04/2013 - By 

    I was sad to hear about the Boston Marathon. Guns and bombs seem to be the violence of choice these days. In Canada we worry about it far less than our neighbours to the South. And across the world in many other countries it is a daily occurrence and fear. As the blogger from “Apartment 34” says, “The tragedy in Boston is so heartbreaking. Seeing video footage of the bombing actually happen makes me think of all the people around the world who live in fear of such violent acts on a daily basis.” And I have to agree and…

  • Dear Ryan Gosling: Take a Break If You Wanna

    07/04/2013 - By 

    Dear Ryan Gosling. take a break if you wanna. I don’t know where girls got this crazy, you’re-the-only-heart throb attitude. You haven’t played a romantic character since The Notebook (which I wasn’t as crazy about as Crazy Stupid Love but have been told umpteen times to re-watch cuz apparently I missed something important). You have played a psycho, an obsessive simpleton, a killer, a drunk, an emotionally shut off player, a criminal, a politician… and none of those roles (though thrilling) are particularly romantic. Even your brilliant band Dead Man’s Bones doesn’t write love songs, persay! You write about ghosts…

  • Birthday Year Resolutions.

    21/03/2013 - By 

    Every year on my birthday I mentally make goals I want to keep or things I want to accomplish that year. I know most people use New Year’s, but what better time than the day you began to exist! <3 Tomorrow is my birthday so I have been thinking about my list. I usually just mentally make a list and promptly forget it or roll the whole thing over to the next year. But this year I am making it more realistic and publicly declaring it. My Birthday Year Goals: 1. Learn how to bake properly. 2. Learn to do…

  • LOL is in the Dictionary?!

    08/09/2012 - By 

    My husband told me “LOL” is going to be entered in to the dictionary. I’m all for keeping the dictionary current but this is ridiculous. I hate that people use LOL at all, except for in chat rooms or in texts.   And even beyond that it is more of a phrase than a word!   Are we getting more stupid as the years pass? Who are the people who decide this? Jeez, it bugs me.