Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
Things I meant to do last night: -Laundry -Change bedsheets -Write strata council treasurer’s report -Upload pictures of closet (so I can finally blog about it) and cool fire dancing photos -backup blog so I can upgrade wordpress Things I did instead: -Watch TV -Bake cookies -Go to bed early Perhaps today will be better. Continue reading Best Intentions
Meals eaten involving BBQ’d meat: 5 Times I had cheesecake for breakfast: 1 Hours spent cleaning our apartment top to bottom: 5 BBQs hosted: 1 BBQs attended: 2 People crammed into my apartment at once: 15 Degrees it reached in my living room while 15 people were crammed into it: 30 C (that’s 86 F) … Continue reading Weekend by the Numbers
I was going to write something substantial, but I couldn’t thing of anything. So I give you this: Found at Lifehacker. The Emergency Party Button Continue reading Emergency Party Button
In the past couple months, I’ve reached critical mass of “things” in my life. There are a lot of balls in the air (without sign of lessening that load any time soon – more likely increasing it), and I am at serious risk of dropping even more of them. Since we came back from the … Continue reading Getting Things Done
I started writing a general update-slash-stream of consciousness post, but I was boring myself (so can’t imagine what anyone who might read it would think). So I deleted it and decided random short paragraphs would be better. ******** The title of this post has nothing to do with anything, except the fact that I have … Continue reading Get Whitey
I was all set to write a ridiculously upbeat post about how excited I am about our upcoming wedding, rambling on about all the little details that are coming together and confessing my complete and utter surrender to being one of those overly giddy and completely wedding obsessed brides to be. But I’m just not … Continue reading About Face
I was pretty surprised the first time I was chewed out – no pun intended (you’ll get this eventually, I promise) – for expressing this long-held and apparently errant belief. It doesn’t help much that the people “in the know” have been battling the stereotype for quite a while, so they tend to get a … Continue reading Clearing up Misconceptions