Because I don’t think you want to hear about how we’ve started on the scary road to soother elimination for Abigail (or do you?), I give you this instead. When I moved back to Ottawa after living in London (the London in Ontario, not the good one) for a couple of years at the start [...]
I’ve been writing half-posts all week, and inevitably they fizzle out because I can’t really find a point to them. It’s been pretty much business as usual around here, with the marked addition of a head cold that has left me feeling like I have a large foreign object permanently lodged behind my nose. I’m [...]
It’s official: today is “Delurker Day 2010.” Who made it official? I have no idea. But someone came up with the idea, and someone else designed this nifty drawing, so I totally stole it: I know some people read this blog (Mwahahahahaha, I can see blog stats, ha!), and a few even leave comments. I read blogs for months before I [...]
So our furnace is fixed (on day 13 of our repair odyssey, ugh) and I’ll stop whining about it here (that’s what my Facebook status updates are for). As promised, I’m going to tell you about one of the – many – awesome Christmas presents that Abigail got this year – one specifically designed to give [...]
You know how in my last post I gushed about how nice it was to get a break on a major home repair? I take it all back. I still have a broken furnace, and now I also have a broken cat. Erik is still having to do some fate-tempting wire jiggling to restart the [...]
Home ownership is a risk. This is not news to me. But when the furnace craps out in -10 degrees Celsius weather, it makes me long for the days when I could call the super and demand that he come fix what ails my home. NOW. Actually, the part that I miss is that it [...]
