Category: personal

  • Foot Injury Update

    Ok, so you know how that doctor told me my foot was broken and sent me for x-rays? Turns out my foot isn’t broken. I went to get x-rays the day after he told me to. Two weeks go by and I’ve heard nothing. Meanwhile I’m paranoid about my foot and start imagining that it…

  • Surprise! Your Foot Is Broken

    Yup. 3 weeks ago I dropped a very heavy coffee table on my foot. Pain and really awesome bruising ensued (I even took photos!). My foot turned a delightful shade of purple, and I couldn’t touch it…not even to put an ice pack or cold cloth on. I thought nothing of it, and went on…

  • Do you like the Madonna look?

    I totally have an eyebrow malfunction. I went to the spa on Friday to get my lashes and eyebrows tinted, and the girl left the dye on too long and now I have super-dark eyebrows that make my (already unusual, but natural) hair look like it’s fake-blonde. Lovely. I don’t know whether to laugh or…

  • Avast, ye scallywag!

    I went to the Pirate Festival last weekend and have been meaning to post some photos of my booty! …Not that booty, guys! Sheesh! The haul is as follows: Handmade chainmail necklace (yes, that’s me modelling it in my pirate garb) Next up we have a beautiful handmade beaded necklace. The woman actually strung the…

  • Delicious Roast Beast

    That’s right, I said beast! It’s a family tradition, after all… I love roast beast, it’s actually one of my favourite meals, come to think of it. It’s right up there with a turkey dinner with all the fixin’s and pizza. Yummo! One of the bloggers over at Wisebread wrote a great post on roast…

  • A Financial Reckoning

    So I’ve been whinging on here lately that I don’t know where all my money is going, my savings are depleting, yadda yadda. Well tonight I finally sat down and took stock of everything. I’ve had to reevaluate some things and cut others out completely, but I think I have a plan in place now…

  • Sleeman Summerfest Recap

    So last night was pretty cool. Almost everyone I invited to Summerfest showed up last night, so we all sat around and listened to a band and drank beers, then myself and my friend M’s husband J graduated to double whiskey & coke’s, getting smashed and talking about cooking the whole time. It was totally…

  • I love vinyl wall stickers. Oh yes.

    I just can’t help myself, I’m in love with the wall stickers over at Loomis/DeSerres. There’s a shop right near my office and I walked by the other day and caught my eye on their window display. I went in and picked up a booklet on all the designs available and now have sticker lust…

  • Spider Attack!

    I witnessed a murder in my apartment today. And I got it on film. In case you were wondering why my bathroom looks so disgusting, I shall remind you that I live in a giant old Victorian-era house. It’s well over 100 years old and has many nooks and crannies where the debris of life…

  • And I’m Back!

    Thanks for your well-wishes everyone, I certainly appreciated them! Finding out that I needed(?) surgery again was a hard pill for me to swallow. While I don’t regret getting LASIK done the first time, it was (and still is) the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I have a terrible phobia of…