December 2008
20 posts
Christmas has been super good to me this year. Apart from getting tons of lovely presents, my hubby and I got lots of cash… which of course, came in handy since we were planning on doing reno over the holiday, plus we needed a new couch and I needed a new phone, etc.
BUT! I managed to still save us money. I found a perfect couch at United Furniture Warehouse, but Johnny and I were fighting...
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
– Julie Andrews (via kari-shma)
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via breathsoftruth) (via kari-shma)
After almost a year, I am knitting and crocheting again. All is right with the world.
This is the way you left me, I’m not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending. This is the way that we love, like it’s forever. Then live the rest of our life, but not together.
Jason Natural →
Skin care for hippies (like me).
I have a theory: maybe the reason they didn’t recast Katie Holmes as Rachel in The Dark Knight is because Aaron Eckhart would be playing her love interest - yet again - and it would look all too familiar…
After finishing The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, I told myself that I would re-read The Tao of Pooh again and again, until I had memorized it. Because doing so would surely change my life, as simply reading the book has - or at least had, because of course, I started to forget. But I didn’t. It was a simple task, one that was guaranteed to bring me eternal joy and insight, but I...
How To Talk Like a Canadian
The Infamous “Aboot”
First up: Canadians do not say “aboot”. Let me say this again: THEY DO NOT SAY “ABOOT”. However. They do not pronounce it the way we (American/British/etc accented people) do. They pronounce it quite literally, actually. Take the word, “about”, and then take out the “a”. What are you left with? Boat. A - boat....
My 50's Year →
Pure genius.
