Just Do It.

December 31, 2009 Random Grumbles

Over the years, I’m finding I’m less inclined to make resolutions for the New Year. I think it’s in part because I’m a bit of a slacker, and I loathe failure. Heh.
It’s also because since my birthday is about a month before the ball drops, and I’ve already been thinking about my New [...]

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One Kid Manages the Other, and That’s the Truth, Ruth.

December 22, 2009 Conversations With Oliver

The baby doesn’t listen to anything I say. It would appear that her brother rules the roost.
I say, “No running!” and she only runs faster. If her brother tells her not to, she will (usually) stop dead in her tracks.
I say something like, “Miss? Can you please put that wrapper in the [...]

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My Little Houdini

December 10, 2009 The Ava Scarlett Show

Earlier this week, one of my girlfriends came over for lunch and a chat – she brought McDonald’s (because that’s just how ladies-who-lunch do, yo!) and I’d just put Ava Scarlett to bed for a nap about thirty minutes prior, but I could still hear the little demon making noises. Chatting with the devil [...]

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The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Posting on a Friday

December 4, 2009 The (misc.) Adventures of Grumble Girl

Okay, it’s not much of a guide… it’s just another list, thanks to the hot cyber-crush I’m stalking my pal Adam Avitable, I’m using this survey-test he invented last weekend – it’s okay – he said we all could. I like to do what Adam tells me to do. It is for safety [...]

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Thirty-eight.

December 2, 2009 The (misc.) Adventures of Grumble Girl

So, I turned thirty-eight last Tuesday. Birthdays always mark a natural New Year kind of thing in me, as it should in everyone. I love my birthday. I love celebrating it. In the days leading up to it, and afterward, I feel very… reflective. I think of where I’m going, [...]

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In the Mood For a Par-tay

November 21, 2009 The (misc.) Adventures of Grumble Girl

My birthday is on Tuesday. I will turn Thirty-eight. I feel pretty good about that.
Tonight we are headed to my neighbour-friend’s cafe, The Claremont, to have eats, drinks and debauchery. I feel quite in the mood for this. I want to see the faces of my peeps… peeps from far and [...]

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Chinky and Weird

November 18, 2009 Random Grumbles

Over the last several months, I’ve become friendly with some peeps and Tweeps/creeps in the cyber-world. Mostly, these are other bloggers, living in other cities, so we’ve not (yet) met in person. This matters little when you talk about “caring.”
Reading the stories about daily life with work and family only affords a person [...]

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Pillars and East of Eden

November 16, 2009 On The Shelf

It feel like ages ago that I read Ken Folett’s Pillars of the Earth and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. It was the end of the summer, and all the back-to-school trappings meant no-more-getting-sucked-into-story-land for this mummy. And since it’s been a while, some of the details of these stories have since faded, [...]

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11:11

November 11, 2009 The (misc.) Adventures of Grumble Girl

On Remembrance Day I usually think of soldiers everywhere – of the ones who have fallen to keep our country secure, and of the ones who are currently serving, and of the iron bravery it must take to do such a job. I’m pretty sure I don’t have that kind of bravery. I [...]

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