From the monthly archives:

October 2009

The really odd post-script to the missing bra story

23 October 2009 Life, the Universe and Everything

So I did, in fact, find my bra. It was behind the little end table beside the wing chair, but it had only slid part way down in behind and gotten stuck, so it never actually hit the floor. Aha! The really weird part? This morning, I was at work and went to use the [...]

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Project 365: Getting competitive

23 October 2009 Project 365

I’ve reached a funny place in my 365 photo project. I really think a lot of the pictures I’ve taken in the last ten days or so have been some of the best I’ve ever taken. The pictures I’m discarding as not-quite-good enough are better by far than the ones I would have said were [...]

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The case of the disappearing bra

22 October 2009 It IS all about me

I may be losing my marbles. I have, in fact, lost my bra. I’m not sure which is worse. Not just any bra, mind you, but one of the fancy ones I bought this summer at Bra Chic. Remember the cherry red one that made me look 10 lbs thinner and five years younger and [...]

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In which her dream job disappears into the ether

20 October 2009 It IS all about me

Remember this? Poof, it’s gone. Hiring freeze. The day before I was supposed to start. It’s taken a while to get the paperwork together. (Only about nine weeks.) We were waiting on an hourly basis for final approval from on high, and just before that happened — department-wide hiring freeze. No signatures, no new job. [...]

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Coveting

19 October 2009 It IS all about me

When I was a wee lass of nineteen or twenty, and I’d just quit university to work full time in retail, we were living a pauper’s life in a tiny apartment in the west end of Ottawa. We barely had enough money to pay our rent, let alone buy groceries, and I remember putting $2 [...]

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HP Photosmart A646 Compact Photo Printer WINNER!

16 October 2009 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

Congratulations to lucky Chantal of Two Hands Full, who will I have no doubt make excellent use of her new HP Photosmart A646 Compact Photo Printer when she prints out images of her pending brand new baby boy! (There’s a print-screen of the random.org page confirming the winner that will be inserted into this post [...]

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Project 365: One of these things is not like the others (sing it with me!)

16 October 2009 Project 365

There’s no doubt that the dominant theme in this week’s project 365 pictures is autumn: rich reds, yummy yellows, outrageous oranges. Is it just me or is this one of the most spectacularly colourful autumns we’ve had in years? Thank you Mother Nature! But, in the way the exception proves the rule, my favourite image [...]

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Talk to me about scarves

15 October 2009 Life, the Universe and Everything

I’m wearing a scarf today that I got for a tremendous discount at the end of last season at the Gap. It’s gorgeous, a creamy white in the centre that changes to a colour somewhere between tangerine and coral at the ends. I love how scarves look on other people, and really think they add [...]

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Tune in to All in a Day on CBC radio today!

13 October 2009 Mothering without a licence

Remember when I mentioned that the producers for All in a Day, CBC radio’s excellent afternoon drive show, were looking for parents to debate when it’s safe to let kids walk to school by themselves? That’s happening today at 4 pm! Lynn from Turtlehead will argue a more conservative approach, and I will defend the [...]

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A Thanksgiving Portable HP Photo Printer Giveaway

12 October 2009 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

Here’s a Happy Thanksgiving gift for my Canadian bloggy peeps: a chance to win an HP Photosmart A646 Compact Photo Printer! Remember this? That was from my blog post back in the spring, when my lovely friends at Hill and Knowlton sent me a free HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One printer. And then they gave [...]

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