It’s Monday! I realized, while driving the eldest minion to school this morning, that I haven’t blogged in over a week, but I promise that I have good reasons for that.
Last weekend I went out with friends on Friday night and saw Daybreakers (pretty good movie, but unless you’re really into non-sparkly vampires, I would wait [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2010 in Life List, Photos
I do.
I also remember $2 bills, Atari, and rotary telephones.
That really has nothing to do with this post, except to point out that gaming systems have come along way since the early 80’s.
In 1982 we did not have cell phones, or the Internet, and we walked 3 miles to school each day, uphill, both ways.
What [...]
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Things I learned over the weekend:
Metal shoehorns will leave bruises with hardly any effort at all
People get kind of excited when you serve Cornish hens and leave them whole. Like “We get a WHOLE bird? Each?”
Kolach, while the most beautiful of breads, is less like bread and more like a giant pretzel
Even candles that are [...]
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I think I may have mentioned last year, here in the Gibson house, we celebrate Christmas twice.
First on December 25th, like most everyone else, and then again today, which is Ukrainian Christmas.
When Jack and I got married, there was some sorting out as to how holidays should be observed. We combined our separate traditions into our own [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2010 in Life List
After the creation of my Life List, rather then setting forth resolutions at the beginning of a new year, I prefer to select a number of things that I hope to cross off in the coming year. I’ve selected 25 things that I’d like to accomplish in 2010, and gathered them into my mini-list for [...]
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I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the tail-end of the holidays, since the departure of Jack’s parents on Tuesday.
After dropping the in-laws off at the train station early Tuesday morning, the kiddos and I drove out to Aiden’s and picked him up, and he’s been here since. He has to go back to work on Monday, but [...]
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I woke up early Saturday morning, packed up my things, left a goodbye note for my siblings, who were sleeping off our late night out, and then walked to the 7-11 on the corner for a coffee. Caffeine in hand, I walked to the skytrain station, bought my ticket, and waited for my train.
I got [...]
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I’d set my alarm for 9am on Sunday morning, but after waking up just long enough to shut it off, Aiden and I went back to sleep until around 11. After getting up (which seems, for some reason, to take us a while, LOL) and putting some clothes on we ventured out to find some [...]
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Isn’t it always the way, that for weeks one has very little desire to write, and nothing much to write about, and then suddenly all hell breaks loose and there are more things to recount than there is time to recount them? Certainly seems so around here.
Saturday at Tease was a mix of awesome and [...]
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Note: Any names/details involving other people have been posted with their permission.
Friday morning at Tease dawned bright and early. Fortunately my sore throat was nearly gone, so I was geared up and ready to go.
Most of the morning was spent watching the BDSM games, the Fox Hunt, and the Pony Games. I won’t get into [...]
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I’m still recovering from the four days I spent at Tease last week. I’m generally not prone to sub-drop, but I certainly have Tease-drop. On the way home from camp I felt emotional and weepy. Since then the adjustment to ‘regular life’ has been slow. Last night I went to a local kink munch and [...]
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My recent date with Kade (The Virgin) went exceptionally well. We met for breakfast in his neighbourhood, and although I could tell that he was nervous, we hit it off immediately. He looks less like K in person, to my great relief. We had coffee and bagels before driving to a nearby mall to do [...]
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On Saturday morning we woke around 9:30am. The first order of business was to dial room service and have them bring up a $14 pot of coffee and a pitcher of ice water. As mentioned in my previous post, there were no coffee makers in the hotel rooms, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
The [...]
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Journal Entry: Originally written on Thursday, March 26, 2009
I’m writing this from on board the plane. I’ve been awake since 3:30am and have already consumed at least 4 cups of coffee.
I caught a flight out of Toronto, to Montreal. I managed to make it through customs without a fuss. I’m always so lucky when it [...]
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Last night, when the clock struck 12:00am V and I celebrated the end of February (and our month of raw eating) with glasses of gin and pineapple juice, a bag of chips, and a rotisserie chicken. Yes, I went and bought one of those pre-cooked chickens because I’d been dying for meat and that was [...]
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We are already two months into 2009, and I’ve managed to cross half a dozen items off of my mini list thus far :) To summarize quickly, before launching into photos and details for most of them, here they are:
296. Watch all of the Harry Potter movies in a row
301. Take my kids to a Rainforest Cafe
317. Make [...]
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Good fortune must be the theme of 2009, as I’ve found myself luckier and happier every day since the new year began. I feel more energetic than I have in ages, and everything seems to be working out just as it should.
Today I had my first ever set of passport photos taken. It happened to be [...]
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After a somewhat disappointing weigh-in on Tuesday, we’ve thrown ourselves into eating better and working out with renewed fervour. I did lose some over the 6 weeks since our initial weigh-in, but the holiday season took it’s toll, and the numbers were not what I hoped. I skipped the gym for two weeks in a [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 in Life List
While I am not making any resolutions for 2009, after successfully completing my 50 Things Mini List in 2008, I have decided to select 75 life list items to complete in 2009.
My 2009 Mini List:
2. Visit the Toronto Zoo
7. Run a 5K marathon
8. Plant a garden
12. Make myself a koi fish teapot
14. See New York [...]
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We made it through the holidays with only minimal strain, and all of that was self-induced. Leaving shopping until the last minute, indecision over what to buy for family and friends, that sort of thing. Still, we pulled it together, had a wonderful Christmas, and I feel pretty good about how everything went.
Jack spoiled me, [...]
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