Yah, I know… it’s Friday, again. Apparently to publish things, you have to actually press Publish. *sigh*. I’m seriously thinking that I should just rename the Thursday Throwdown to something else… like The Stombo Show‘s Magnificent 7, and then my cavalier attitude about the day of the week doesn’t matter. And while Strombo ain’t a […]
A fortnight ago, my gentleman associate and I finally (FINALLY!) finished building our patio project. It started in 2020 when everything shut down for Covid. We couldn’t go on vacation, so we decided to invest in some capital projects that Future Us would enjoy. Because some year you vacation, and some years you Staycation, but […]
At work, on our Slack App, we have a Music channel where someone throws out a theme, and all the members of the channel pile on. It’s pretty great to get amazing new recommendations. Because I’m not saying that my playlists are well worn in, I’m just sayin’. So this week’s inspiration comes from one […]
The last few weeks at work have been full. Not sucky, exactly – just teetering on the edge of Too Much. I’ve been trying to do more fun things so that I don’t just hide in my house and become an Old Lady. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m 50 now. I’m not a […]
As it turns out, you don’t outgrow the intense seductive lure of the grab bag and the mystery pack.
I meant to post this last week for Women’s Day, but I realized today that I never did that. HA! So here it is now, because it’s a pretty good one. Rock out, friends!
When I was in high school and university, I would periodically move all my furniture out in the hallway or shove it around my room to different walls. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not so much. Every single time, though, I was procrastinating doing something else. And moving all your worldly possessions was a doozie of […]
I was just thinking to myself, “Self, we should do a Grati-Tuesday”. And then I realized that not only was I superduper late for Grati-Tuesday, I was also late for Thursday Throwdown (this being almost 2am on Friday, and all). Oopsie. The beginning of this week was the Family Day statutory holiday for me, so […]
I don’t shop at Walmart – I haven’t been inside a Walmart in over a decade. I’m someone who much to the exasperation (sometimes) of my family, votes with my money. I know exactly when I decided to never be a Walmart shopper again – it was in 2012 after a fire ripped through a […]
Ash Wednesday is one of my favourite days in the liturgical calendar. As RC kids, we don’t have an outward sign of our faith in the same way as hijabs, niqabs, dastārs, kippahs, and turbans announce the faith of other religions. But on Ash Wednesday, we declare our faith with a smudge of ash on […]
Sweary Parent Chronicles 