Cuddly Time Travel

tardis

  Question 1: What is this? If you answered Police Box, dummy. It says so right on it! Twice!, this probably isn’t the post for you. Perhaps you would enjoy listening to the theme song from Night Court? If you answered it’s a Time and Relative Dimension in Space, or T.A.R.D.I.S., dummy! Clearly its chameleon circuit is faulty, [...]

The Little Things That Crowd My Brain

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Hi, Internet. Miss me? Shhhh, it’s okay, mommy’s here. I do apologize for my absence. It’s not like I haven’t been thinking about you. It’s just…how shall I put this…ah, yes. All of my ideas for blog posts have been incredibly lame. It’s true. Every time I sat down to write something, bad ideas flooded [...]

Hook, Line & Sinker

Moose

Have you ever had one of those moments when the universe grabs you by the collar, smacks you upside the head, spins you around on your heels, grabs your chin and forces your head in the direction of someone, screaming, “Him (or her)! You belong with HIM (or HER)!” My boyfriend and I spent last [...]

The Long Journey To An Oscar Starts With A Single Step

TheBirds

My dreams of becoming a famous film maker date back to high school. My friends and I saw group assignments as an invitation to whip out the video camera and make a (we thought) hilarious movie. This was the mid 90s, so by “whip out” I mean “beg to borrow my uncle’s 100 pound camera that probably cost [...]

My Big List of Books

My Sisters Blue Eyes by Jacques Poulin

I started doing this thing. Many years ago I started writing down every book I read. This was driven by: My passionate love of lists. A belief that a really long list of books I had some relation to would make me look cool. A (relatively reasonable) fear that over time I would forget what [...]

My New Toaster

Toaster

You know how it is. You move, you unpack, you try to make dinner. That’s when you discover that, somehow, all of the things that made your kitchen functional have disappeared. The bowls, the spices, the potato peeler, the frying pans, the saran wrap, the cutlery, the table, apparently these all belonged to your former roommate. [...]

The Great Wedding Present Caper

Gwen

My sister Angie and her man Nathan finally got married! You may remember Angie and Nathan from our exciting adventures in Ecuador together a few years ago. They did the exotic travel thing, and then the “having a baby” thing, and then finally, Finally, they decided to go ahead and get married. The proposal happened last fall, [...]

Disaster Cookies

cookies

Day One Moved into a new apartment. Day Seven Wanted cookies. Investigated cupboards. Shocked to find we didn’t have any cookies. Day Eight Thought about making cookies. Investigated fridge. Shocked to find we didn’t have any butter. Day Nine Bought butter. Day Ten Left butter on counter to warm up for baking process. Forgot about butter. [...]

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Aberration

hersheyreeses

When you write a world renowned blog followed by millions of super important people, it can be tempting to succumb to your blardom (blog-stardom) and post all the time about really trivial stuff, just to keep your adoring fans happy. That’s why I haven’t posted in so long. I’m dedicated to ensuring the quality of [...]

Where Have All The Hockey Fans Gone?

Cancucks1

Loyal readers (Hi Mom! Hi Granny!) may remember my post last year about the NHL playoffs. If not, click here for hilarious accounts of crazy things men do for sports. I was hoping to put together another such article in honour of the current playoffs. But I can’t. Want to know why? There are no men [...]