I didn’t have time to write this yesterday – for February 14th – but here it is a day late and a dollar short… My February 14th started at 5:00 AM without me remembering that it was Valentine’s Day. My work/life balance has been off as I pour myself into hard work and my weeks…
Category: Humour
Hot Mess
Our weather patterns are a hot mess. While Hurricane Michael built itself up to a Category 4 storm in stealth mode, we were breaking heatwave records in Canada. Hot weather makes me cranky. After volunteering in the Emergency Room many years ago, I realized that there was a pattern connecting heat to tempers … violence,…
It was a dark and stormy night …
Few opening lines are as infamous as Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s much maligned sentence. Even if you’ve never heard of him nor his novel, you’ve read his parodied phrase. It embodies bad writing. “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent…
My Lucky Day!
I caused my first car crash on a Friday the 13th. I had been working all night and was heading back to the office. Sick with a sinus infection, I sneezed blood all over my dash, and momentarily lost sight of the car in front of me. I rear ended it at the intersection of…
Look In The Mirror
She laughed as she read his comment, and handed the phone back to her dinner companion. “When he gets his own shit together, then he can call me a coward.” Derek* chuckled and agreed. “It’s amazing who cries the loudest. Those are the cowards who have the most to hide, don’t they?” “Really, they are!”…
55 of the Best Questions
The 55 Best Questions To Ask To Get To Know Someone Mild: Any upcoming travel plans? Montréal, Québec! What brought you here? To Toronto? Love, school and work … in that order. He and I broke up six months after I moved here, but I stayed for school and work. ‘Tis home now … How…
It Can Always Be Worse
My feet suddenly slid out from under me, and I crashed down to ground with a “thud”. Stunned, I sat in the thick mud puddle, trying to figure out what the hell happened. Did I break anything? My legs were splayed out to the side and my left hand was buried in the sludge on…
15 Totally Random Things About Me
I picked this idea up off another blog, and thought it would be a good entry for today. I was writing another swan dive slash tear jerker of a post and decided I needed to lighten up. So here it is … Fifteen Totally Random Things that people don’t know about me. I’d really love…
Stubborn or Tenacious?
My Oncologist Dr. F read me the riot act today … for not going to Emerg when my fever hit 39.6C/103F on the weekend … a whole degree over the GO TO EMERG IMMEDIATELY level. I told her that I had no one to take care of my son and dogs. She said “You’re useless…
It’s All About Me
It’s all about me right now. I will admit that I have an ego. Without being a narcissist. I have lived thirteen years with one of those and can tell you that is much different than being selfish and self-centred. It was that pride that refused to allow me to give up on the narcissist. …
Batman was a Six-Year-Old Girl
God, I wish there was a photo of 6-year-old me in my Batman costume. I *LOVED* Batman – and dressing up – as a child. Born in the last hour of 1965, I spent my early life as a little girl on my Dad’s knee watching Batman and Star Trek and the Carol Burnett show. …
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