Saturday and Sunday and Monday were gorgeous days in Toronto! As a family we were utterly compelled to walk and walk and walk and enjoy the blissful weather. Simon’s mohawk was also behaving admirably which added to our mutual satisfaction. Mostly mine. I like his hair. I like him.
This is about the time of night when I get so tired—to the point of nausea—and feel like I could fall into bed and sleep for fifteen hours. 9:40 PM is the precise time this feeling sets in. Just like at precisely 3:30 PM my need for coffee suddenly hits me like a ton of [...]
Sitting in my local Second Cup, and by local, I do mean local. This Second Cup is just up the street from where I went to highschool. Actually when I was in high school there was no Second Cup. But now there this, and all the cute highschoolers come here and hold hands. At least [...]
What’s a blog? I’m so out of practice. What day is it? Month? Year? Everything’s a blur. I’ve forgotten what it means to write. To have things to say. But the fact that my computer even started (it was threatening to not) is a sign that I need to remember. Soooo….the last two weeks of [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
I’m on day four of a cleanse right now. I won’t get into all the specifics. But suffice it to say my sugar binge over Christmas caught up with me. So for the last four days I have been eating raw veggies and a little fruit and juicing extraordinary concoctions (and when I say extraordinary [...]
Okay. So there were a few low moments during the holidays. But let me just zero in on the major cause of my holiday discomfort. Not that there weren’t other down moments. I mean there were definitely other moments. I would hate to leave you with the impression that everything is peaches and roses and [...]
Decadent movie watching. Don’t get any ideas. When I say decadent, I’m talking about the amount of movies and not the content (As if you would expect anything less from me, particularly first time readers who may or may not be confused by the title of this blog, which in my opinion evokes only images [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
Everybody, listen up. Elsie would like you to pay attention to what I have to say. (Thank you, Elsie Pants. You are so good at getting everybody’s attention—you have a knack for turning heads. Now, what did I want all that attention for again? Oh right.) Everybody, please share in our moment. Thank you for [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
One of my favorite coffee shops in Toronto is Manic. It feels nice inside. Lots of wood. And the beans they ‘pull’ are mostly Intelligentsia, which deals in direct trade. Direct trade pays above the fair trade price and is more respectful of the farmer. Today I had a Mexican coffee with hints of raspberry, [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
This whole Halloween thing has me a little riled up (internally). Yesterday at the grocery store the clerk asked me if we were taking Elsie out for Halloween. An innocent question—which had the potential to be answered with corresponding simplicity. Like ‘Yes!’ Or even ‘No!’ Or to elaborate just a wee bit, ‘Not this year.’ [...]
