Hi!

  Hi! Did you miss me? I haven’t written since February because I had a baby (more on that later) and have been rather busy since then. I wrote a whole post shortly after giving birth on what the experience was like but haven’t decided yet if I’m going to put it up, since I [...]

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The odours of Dundas Street

Tonight I went to “Walk on Water”, a recital of saxophone/cello music put on by Contact Contemporary Music. This isn’t a review of the concert (tomorrow’s post!), except to say that it was really good and I’m really glad I got off my butt and went. Which is good, because I biked all the way [...]

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Actually, I should be telling YOU to be careful

Here’s something I didn’t know: Activity/Fatalities Per Million Hours Skydiving –  128.71 General Aviation –  15.58 On-road Motorcycling –  8.80 Scuba Diving  -  1.98 Living (all causes of death)  -  1.53 Swimming  -  1.07 Snowmobiling –  .88 Automobile Driving  -  .47 Water Skiing  -  .28 Bicycling  - .26 Flying (domestic airlines) –  .15 Hunting  -  .08 [...]

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Do you do what I do, or something like it? Then watch this movie

I was planning on going to the Friendly Rich gig at the Cameron House tonight, but I had a blood test today (yay pregnancy!) and they took FIVE VIALS OF BLOOD and I feel almost as good as the one and only time I donated blood. That is, dizzy and exhausted and generally awful. So [...]

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In which I tell all

As I know you are all consumed with curiousity as to why I have been light on the blogging and tweeting and podcasting lately, why I have been living the life of a tuberculosis patient in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps, why I have been mostly hanging out at home and doing very little, [...]

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Public Service Announcement: Gus

You all know Gus, right? Yes, THAT Gus. Gus the Beagle-Basset. In case you don’t, let me tell you more about him. Gus has a few problems. When we got him at 6 months, he was overweight and had almost no training (including house-training…that was fun). He didn’t make eye contact with people. He had [...]

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It doesn’t take much to make me happy

So today. In numbers: Woke up at – 7 AM. Would be OK if I had gone to bed before – 1:30 AM. So have to get through the day on – 5 hours of sleep, starting with sending – about 10 important emails about – a zillion important things I’m juggling, then practicing – [...]

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Reasons today was awesome

1. Warmth! Precious, precious warmth! It got up to FIVE DEGREES CELCIUS today. I walked around for about a minute with no gloves on and I was fine! Amazing. 2. Due to said warmth (and Monday’s warmth), about a foot of the 15 inches of snow we had has melted. I even saw some bald [...]

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Karma gloves

So while it was beautifully, gloriously warm yesterday – that is, it got above 0oC – today the temperature plummetted and the wind picked up and god was it bad outside. Aaaaaaaaand of course I had to take my bike out to work. I biked to my first lesson (because I had to drop something [...]

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Happy new year! Resolutions + the approval of random strangers

Hello!  Happy new year!  Did you miss me?  I spent most of the holidays arguing with various family members and eating.  I also played a lot of Plants vs. Zombies on my Ipod – in fact, I beat the game! – and watched all of the Star Wars movies again, except with Rifftrax.  I didn’t [...]

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