From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Ottawa Olympic Torch Relay meets Parliament Hill Christmas lights!!

17 November 2009 Happy holidays

How cool is this? According to the NCC’s website, the annual Christmas Lights Across the Capital festival, otherwise known as the lighting of the downtown holiday lights, will this year coincide with the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Ottawa: On Saturday, December 12, at 7 p.m., the 25th edition of Christmas Lights Across Canada [...]

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And I thought the list was limited to “breasts.”

17 November 2009 How I love the Interwebs

Another laugh-out-loud search return from the traffic log! I mean really, what kind of odd things *would* someone put in a bra???

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Canadian Toy Testing Council: Best Toys for 2010

16 November 2009 Consumer culture

This time of year, it seems like every website, TV show and magazine is offering up the “Best Bet” toys for the holiday season. I’m always a little bit skeptical though: can I trust Disney to objectively assess the other guys’ toys, or am I just getting a thinly disguised “Best Disney Toys” list? That’s [...]

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The lion that roared

16 November 2009 Away we go

We zipped down to Southern Ontario this weekend to visit my brother’s family for my neice’s and nephew’s joint birthday party. The low point was standing at the side of the 401 on Friday afternoon, having just cleaned vomit off a toddler and his car seat, unable to get the lock on the Thule roof [...]

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Project 365: I am running out of titles for these posts!

13 November 2009 Project 365

I think I’ve managed to clamber over the brick wall of uninspiration that’s been sitting on my Muse for the last week or so. After about 10 days of feeling completely uninspired and worse, feeling like a talentless hack who happened to luck into a few good shots, I am feeling rejuvenated and excited about [...]

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Five things I love about my Mazda 5

12 November 2009 5 things

As you may remember, I made a (ahem) somewhat involuntary switch from driving a Dodge Grand Caravan to a Mazda 5 last July, when I wrecked the van and it burst into flames. (You know, I’m still a little twitchy even five months later?) I’ve been meaning to write a follow-up post for months. Even [...]

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So Dani, what was your first clue that maybe you reveal a little *too* much of yourself on your blog?

11 November 2009 How I love the Interwebs

Um, it was this search return. I’m really afraid to ask…

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A whimsical walk

11 November 2009 Ah, me boys

My to-do list today had about 357 items on it. I’m sad to say that “take two hours out of the morning to go for a walk and play outside with the boys” didn’t even make the list. I’m hoping the fact that we actually did it redeems me just a little bit. And what [...]

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Celebrating four decades with 5 things about Sesame Street

10 November 2009 5 things

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the debut of Sesame Street. I love Sesame Street madly and deeply, and have since I was a preschooler. I may have mentioned that once or two dozen times before. You know who else loves Sesame Street? My kids. Of all the children’s programming we have on DVD and [...]

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Canadian kids don’t count to corporate America

9 November 2009 Consumer culture

Sheesh, as it if it weren’t bad enough that gullible Canadian parents have been excluded from the Baby Einstein refund offer, now comes news that Canadian parents aren’t included in the recently-announced recall of Maclaren strollers, even though the strollers are the same in both Canada and the US and all strollers are apparently a [...]

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