March 31, 2005
It's spring time here and along with all of the soggy parks, dirty walkways and debris filled streets, I saw something a bit unusual today and I'm not sure if it had anything to do with spring or spring cleaning. Driving by a local funeral home I saw a car leaving the driveway with two double mattresses strapped on top. It was so a Six Feet Under moment!
March 27, 2005
Happy Bunny Day! We had a successful early morning hunt (inside due to the piles of snow still hanging around). While the weather outside is getting balmy, we need several more balmy days and a bit of rain to get rid of the stubborn and dirty snow as well as all the dirt that spring exposes from a long winter! Not to mention the landmines and pudding pops left all over, compliments of those that don't stoop and scoop after their dogs (and in some cases, themselves).
Looking for a fun, laugh out loud, kinda nostalgic movie to get lost in for 90 minutes or so? Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a good pick! It's been on t.v. a few times in the last week or so and I still find it funny. Maybe it's the nostalgia aspect-remembering my own high school days and the many scams that I was involved in both inside and outside of the academic walls. Perhaps it is a lusting after something that I can no longer get away with since entering adulthood. Either way....oh and if you want to watch a 'today's' version, again to reminisce about high school, both the good and the not so good memories, rent Napoleon Dynamite. What, you haven't heard about this film yet? Then either forget it or go rent it!
March 16, 2005
I saw the movie Robots yesterday. It's March break here and I want the kids to have well-rounded activities so I took them to the movies:) There's a line in this comically animated film that made me stop dead in my popcorn bag, made me stop vigorously chewing my 50th tootsie smidgee. It's when one 'bot' says to the others something like, "If you have a dream, follow it. You don't want to regret it later in life." This line provided fuel for my fire. I've had writers block lately. It's not that I'm not writing. I am-lots for the paper, mags etc but I have not worked on 'the book' in a bit. I've been well aware of this but have felt unable to do anything about it until now. Just at the right time, my NYC friend Rob http://www.emptybeach.typepad.com/emptybeach asked me again if I had picked up this wonderful new book entitled Encyclopedia of An Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I hadn't yet as I have lots of new, yummy and more importantly, unread books lying all over the place. But, I went right out and bought it because Rob told me too:) I looked at it and it's a smart looking, witty feeling book with a beautiful blue wrapped cover that I can't wait to open! Thanks Rob!
March 9, 2005
I'm back to the weather again. After fighting a cold and hoarse, almost non-existent voice (which those around me seemed to enjoy), I was ready to face the world today...until I stepped outside. The wind is brutal. I knew that it was already -20C thanks to the weather network but wasn't quite sure about the wind-chill until I drove to the school and saw that the kids were going right in to keep them from turning into popsicles. I should have known when my mountain dog Yukon didn't want to frolic much in the snow this morning. I guess I should just be happy that he went outside to do his business. I don't know if I would be so brave in such cold weather. I'd be sure to have an indoor accident or two if I had four legs rather than two.
Happy International Women's Day!
March 6, 2005
It's up! You can read my yoga magazine article by clicking on 'columns and musings.' This is a bi-monthly magazine in Ottawa and I will be a contributing writer on a regular basis.
In other news, it's snowing like there's no tomorrow or happily ever after here. I don't find it amusing or entertaining. Instead, I find it a pain.
March 4, 2005
Welcome home Martha! If I knew you were coming I'd a baked a cake!
March 2, 2005
Well, my little 'something something' is coming out tomorrow in City Health Magazine so pick one up. Even if you don't eat healthy or exercise regularly, read it. It counts as a healthy activity. So easy so just do it!
And just in case you're reading, Nick Lachey I'm mad at you and it’s more than 98 degrees in here! I used to like you, almost feel sorry for you. The way you put up with Jessica, take care of her and guide her to higher learning about what we the viewer see as mostly everyday stuff. But then you wronged me and I am guessing, many other true and free maple leaf clutching Canadians and I don’t know how you’re going to right this situation, especially if you want your new cd to sell well here.
Recently I was in the great city of San Francisco and compliments of the W Hotel, I had unlimited access to MTV and VH1, both of which we don't have at home. This meant that if I wanted to, I could watch lots of current episodes of The Newlyweds and Ashlee Simpson and-I did. This leads me to my problem with the 30 year-old-boy toy. In one episode, Mr. Lachey and his brother and former 98 Degrees sidekick Drew, entertain family in NYC over the Christmas holiday and while shopping for a real tree that he ends up smuggling into his hotel (no real trees allowed-fire hazard he was told by the front desk), he bashes every tree with Canadian roots.
Now Canada may not have much going for it right now in the eyes of the average U.S. citizen other than the fact that George W. isn't in charge here but we do have our vast and great lands with rugged terrain and real winters, all precursors to growing great evergreen trees. Nick stuck up his nose to a Nova Scotia pine and an Alberta balsam and instead played it safe with a tree from somewhere like North Carolina. And it wasn't the actually tree buying that bothered me but the continued reference to Canada's trees and how he did not want one. I always thought he was the down to earth one in the relationship.
Pick you battles Nick, your looks will only get you so far, just ask Mr. Bush.