Here is where we insert the mandatory “John is great and I love him now I’m going to make all my readers cry by being SUPER sappy but he won’t be impressed by just a blog post so maybe after I write this I’ll go make him coffee and bring it to him topless”. You [...]

I usually don’t do Happy Birthday posts, well okay sometimes I do and I make them REALLY sappy and toss in some childhood photos and tell my mom, dad and Jenny that I love them very much (which reminds me I have to do a post for my brother in October cause I love him [...]

I didn’t write a post about my mother on her birthday, I figure - how many sappy mushy things can you write year after year on a blog for all to read? Then I realized I didn’t make a post last year.
I’ll have to make up for it by Mother’s Day because I [...]

Today was my niece’s 7th birthday. She’s the beautiful, brilliant daughter of my sister, Jenny - who also writes for this blog. Lexi and I discovered a few things this afternoon that I would like to share.
First off, she and the other kids loved Photobooth. It was definitely a challenge on my part to keep [...]

Couple things my dad helped me learn:

Milk actually used to be delivered by a man with a horse-drawn carriage. In the winter it was a sleigh and the horse’s droppings (road apples) made for excellent hockey pucks.
Never underestimate the power of a hot water bottle at the foot of your bed on a cold night.
Just [...]

While sitting at Fogg n Suds Sunday night watching the Canucks cruise into a 7 game win streak [chb], I noticed that they have a birthday special. Being a couple that tends to spend little money, and just to milk the fact that it’s my birthday, I thought I would check into the kinds [...]

Jen is my big sister and yes, my mother used to dress us in matching clothing (exhibit A is to the right).
She and I argue(d) over clothing, friends, and just because we needed something to do. We’d always know how to do the most damage on each other (physically and emotionally) yet - we’ve always [...]

Free facials, fingerless gloves, aero bubbles, the rain followed by the sun, not being cold in November (thanks global warming), American voters sending a message to GW and of course, the glorious nation of Kazakhstan.
Also check out popular UK band Razorlight, latest single ‘America’, which is all over the radio there or my fave ‘in [...]