My eldest, who was away the evening we did Sliders Part 1, decided that he would like to try making some. He hadn’t cooked much at home, while he was working in catering and complained regularly that he didn’t have time for his Art. Now that he is supposed to be working at Art full-time, […]
Every year my husband’s company takes all its employees away for three days and two nights to a series of workshops punctuated by very good meals and the amenities of an upscale hotel in the country. I have to make the best of being left at home. It reminds me a little of the movie
About eighteen months ago, I moved my office across the hall. The hall is three, maybe four feet wide. So I guess you could say that I moved about four feet away. I vacated one room and opened up another. No big deal! Life went on. Letters arrived, parcels arrived and the postman picked up
Today, June 6, is DDay. The day the allies landed on the beaches of Normandy and began the liberation of France, which ultimately ended WWII. Usually DDay commands the front page of both daily newspapers. It didn’t today, eclipsed by the tragedy in Moncton – another war on a different front. Yes, there were a
Have you ever had one of those days when everything seems to go wrong? Well yesterday was one of them for me. It started with a note on my windshield about parking to close to a driveway. I may have written before about permit parking, street parking and parking pads. It’s an ongoing battle. 1.
Last night we drove out to Etobicoke to visit friends for dinner. They had moved, so we looked up their new address in Goggle maps to get directions. My husband, not a Toronto native, relies heavily on Google maps, I rely heavily on the Gardiner Expressway. Gardiner eclipsed by a speeding Go train I read
I rarely do the laundry. I have written about this before – my mother never ironed and I have taken it one step further and rarely even do the laundry, much less iron it!! The kids and my husband muddle through and we wear grey a lot. If cleanliness, as far as laundry is concerned,
No I am not about to give up everything and just leave or change directions without some thought to the matter. Yesterday, I posted about challenges and skydiving – a challenge, I am not about to take. However, I am approaching a turning point. My husband will retire in a year and a half and
I’ve been out of the loop for almost three weeks. That is, I’ve been on vacation and life has been easy!!! It was all about spending money, not making money. It was all about easy choices – where to go, what to do, without worrying about the must do’s of the daily grind. Blogging was
