August 18, 2008 – 9:41 am
A friend directed me to this blog the other day. It’s a great place to take a fluff-break.
Not that my taste is universal, but I adore the author’s commentary. Of course, sometimes she shares the stage and it’s just as good. Like here, where I laughed until I cried (appropriately, it appears, as that’s the [...]
August 10, 2008 – 4:26 pm
The whole family is in Montréal, hanging out while Husband brings music to the people. The VIA One train ride from Toronto to Montréal is like its own little vacation. For $150 or so, you get six hours of beautiful people carrying your bags, serving you food and drink, and using silver tongs to hand [...]
Here’s to same-sex marriages, universal health care, and curling! Today, we’ll have Pancake Breakfast at the Dundas Driving Park, hang out with some friends, and watch the fireworks over Lake Ontario–Kid’s first fireworks ever. Yesterday, we picked our own strawberries and played some hockey in the back yard.
At this rate, I’ll be Canadian by Labour [...]
Since there were no sociologists in attendance at the Kathleen Edwards show in Madison (I’m looking at you, OW), I’m going to have to bring the goods to you in the following video. This particular song may be a little too Canadian for everyone except Ken–if so, please click over to the Cheapest Key video–but [...]
This weekend, while the blog was self-absorbed in a lull, we were out filling our brains with knowledge about every 4-year-old’s favorite creatures: dinosaurs. It was a very special day, because we even got to bring along Kid’s Friend, who knows everything there is to know about the dinos.
Among the things we learned yesterday: flying [...]
The Scatterplot International Mario Kart Wii Party is only a week away, and we all need to get those codes to each other in advance of the party date, since the WiiInternet is as wonky as a mongoose in a mango tree. If we don’t do it in advance, we’ll spend the whole evening troubleshooting [...]
