Under Wraps

November 22, 2010 house stuff

It’s been a while since I’ve been here… we’re holed up in only 2 rooms of the house (well, three if you count the bathroom) so besides writing over here I’ve basically been doing my best not to murder the children, who have literally been underfoot lately. Man, they make a lot of noise. Thankfully, [...]

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Notes To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self

November 5, 2010 Random Grumbles

Twitter is all abuzz these days with #tweetyour16yearoldself notes from all kinds of people. It’s been kinda fun to watch, read, and play along. It can be a bit poignant too. I found myself with tears in my eyes once or twice, after reading some of the tweets of others, and re-reading my own, right [...]

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Getting Started

November 4, 2010 house stuff

Well, in the end we hired the apprentice to our Excellent House Painter, who it would appear is far too busy to help us with our place until after Christmas… so enter New House Painter. He aided our first painter on the apartment downstairs, and I think in our own apartment years and years ago, [...]

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Two Gifts

October 22, 2010 The (misc.) Adventures of Grumble Girl

We sold the crib and the bookshelves, and in a matter of days, my baby’s nursery was reduced to boxes of books on the floor and lots of dust bunnies in the corners. Watching the crib get loaded into the back of someone else’s truck, with a bag full of freshly laundered bed linens that [...]

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On Gayness and Useless Things

October 21, 2010 Random Grumbles

So, you’ve read the papers – gay youths are taking their lives in epic numbers (not just lately – it’s just in the news more these days…) and it’s all just… tragic. And so very sad. I’m heartbroken for the families of these young people. I love and admire the “It Gets Better” campaign running [...]

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Picking Paint. Picking Painters. Picky Business.

October 15, 2010 house stuff

There’s this issue that’s been making my brain hurt for some time now. Ever since we renovated the apartment downstairs earlier this year (ohmygoditsgorgeous) we’ve been gearing up to make about a million a few changes around our place too. It starts with the parts that are necessary (like finding a 6 drawer dresser to [...]

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Moose Hunting

October 12, 2010 Random Grumbles

Relax, I’m not a moose-hunter. We went to visit Martin’s parents who now live in cottage-country full-time. The scene around us is a glorious riot of colour, especially at this time of year, with the turning leaves half fallen to the ground, and the green farm lands of summer now reaped, and dried, and browning. [...]

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Little Girl

September 26, 2010 The Ava Scarlett Show

She’ll be three in January… it’s still some time from now, but lately I notice how much taller she is, and how many more words she has, and how her face has changed… albeit slightly. Sometimes she’s not cute AT ALL. Mos def. She can be a complete terrorist. Yes. Believe it. But that’s just [...]

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Ten.

September 16, 2010 The (misc.) Adventures of Grumble Girl

So, ten years ago I married this really cute French dude, and we’ve been living happily-ever-after ever since. Seriously. I’m having so much of a blast, it should be criminal. How lucky I am. Everyone knows that marriage isn’t always a walk in the park. It’s not always easy. It’s not always sexy. Stress comes [...]

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