File 100 - Bubble Bath Bombed
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3y ago
It has been a bit of a rough couple of weeks.  Everyone getting back to it.  Virtual work.  Virtual school. Puppy school.  With the transition back to the day-to-day grind, comes the usual muscle pains, headaches and deep breathing, while counting back from 10, to ensure that you don't lose your shit.  It is on these wearisome winter days, that I yearn for a warm bubble bath.  So, the other night, that is exactly what I did.  Or tried to, anyways. It was after supper and my hubby decided that he was going to take the puppy for a walk.  I gently suggest ..read more
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File 99 - Fairish New Year of Loungewear Limbo
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3y ago
Happy New Year!  Okay, maybe not so happy.  As happy as to be expected during a global pandemic. Fairish New Year?  It is a new year, right?  It's kind of hard to tell, when you are living the same day, everyday.  Existing in some kind of loungewear limbo.  Fairish New Year of Loungewear Limbo?  Sure.  F**k it.  Let's go with that.   This holiday was clearly different from years past.  Family dinners were replaced with family Zoom meetings.  Half of my face attended most of these gatherings.  There's only so much room in the co ..read more
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File 98 - Sleuths of Christmas Spirit
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3y ago
I have always loved Christmas.  It is such a magical time.  I adore the lights, decorations, music and food.  OMG - the food!  It gives a great excuse to just eat your face off, for the entire month of December.  Not to say that I do that.  Okay, I do.  Which brings me to another thought.  How come no one has ever made an appy advent calendar?  A different delicious appetizer, for every day until Christmas - Dec. 1: sausage rolls, Dec 2: shrimp cocktail.  Mmmm, shrimp cocktail.  I think I may be on to something here.   The one thing ..read more
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File 97 - Stranger Salutations
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3y ago
If you are driving or walking around your neighbourhood and you see a child with big, dark brown eyes, a lopsided beanie, boots on the wrong feet and mismatched mitts, waving at you, please don't worry.  That's my kid.  He has become our neighbourhood welcome wagon.  I have seen so many people take a second look or squint through their windshield, when this small boy waves his arm or yells out "Hello!".  Trying to figure out if they know him or how he knows them.  Then, contemplating the split second decision of whether to wave or say hello back.  And I will giv ..read more
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File 96 - Pillow Gate
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3y ago
We got new pillows.  Not the standard, run of the mill pillows, either.  We invested in fancy AF pillows. We waited for the BOGO deal, and combined that with the Black Friday sales, and we pounced. However, perhaps I should have taken the many failed attempts at completing the online order as a hint.  This may not be the dream that we had envisioned.   Once the order was completed, our new custom cushions arrived rather quickly.  I say custom, because the promotion allowed us to mix and match between a few options.  Ya, that's right.  We fancy.  I opted ..read more
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File 95 - Observation Grenades
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3y ago
"When is your hair going to go back to normal?" You know that saying about sticks and stones?  I understand why this rhyme is something that is taught to children.  It is because they are ruthless. The drop these "observation" grenades and the cooly walk away from the explosion.  Putting the little in belittle. The insults packaged in big brown eyes, chubby dimpled hands and hair that smells like sugar.  It's all very confusing.  Cuteness and criticism. It is a match made in some kind of infantile inferno.   The afore mentioned hair comment was not a total surpri ..read more
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File 94 - Poop and Pitey
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3y ago
Anxiety is extremely passionate.  Maybe passionate isn't the right word.  Obstinate.  Stubborn. Annoying AF.  This week I had to take our puppy boy for shots.  This is one of those situations where Anxiety really gets turned up.  I mean, her verbal battery starts days in advance.  She is relentless. Always leaving unease and awkwardness in her wake.   This puppy appointment reminded me of when my boys were babies and I would take them in for their needles.  Anxiety would start her tirade the week before.  He hasn't been sleeping very well, he ..read more
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File 93 - Wand of Eternal Inferno
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3y ago
People have taken this isolating time during the pandemic, to pick up an old hobby or to learn something new.  My social feeds are filled with gorgeous knit and crocheted goods, incredible home DIY's, and, befitting the time, eclectic mask styles.  Some are learning new languages and others starting businesses.  I have also taken this opportunity to return to a neglected passion.  I have started to work on the book that I have been talking about forever.  You know, just becoming an author in my spare time.  No big deal.  Okay, that's not exactly what it's l ..read more
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File 92 - Bonbon Businessmen
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3y ago
Have you seen the plague doctors from back in the day?  I am talking like back in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.  They wore the most terrifying masks you have ever seen, with these long, horrifying beaks. They would also be cloaked in these long robes.  Attending the sick, looking like some depraved birdmen from the depths of hell.  That shit is sca-ry.  I feel like I missed a good opportunity for a Halloween costume this year, though.  Trick or beak.  Ewww! Halloween was definitely different, this year.  No one in our family donned a costume. &nbs ..read more
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File 91 - No Dread Dilly-Dally
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3y ago
"I need to talk to you about something that I am afraid of."  It is an hour and a half past their bedtime and this is the third time that this small boy has appeared in our bedroom door frame.  The first time was to ask a question about the following day.  The second time was to repeat something that he had said earlier that day, which was clearly, in his opinion, witty and hilarious.  Then, he wanted to let us know that he had set up the dog with his own lounging area in his room.  As much as I appreciate someone's ability to find themselves amusing and his home des ..read more
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