Fifty shades of white
GC and I have kind of lived together for years. But our living arrangement has always involved maintaining two houses, with his stuff in his house and my stuff and…
Zoom!
Alessandra
Death is such a sudden and jarring thing. It doesn’t matter if the person was living on borrowed time, or if death came swooping in out of the blue, years…
Mayor Rob Ford: Way worse than Larry O’Brien
I’ve been riveted by the Rob Ford debacle, but I am conflicted about it. On the one hand, Rob Ford is – and always has been – a repugnant, pugnacious,…
Bunny love
Thanks to everybody who voted on the bunny’s name. We ended up going with Ivan. I know, it wasn’t even on the list…but I decided to name him after Ivan…
Introducing our newest family member
Look! We adopted a bunny! This is not just any old bunny either, this is the sweetest, mellowest, most inquisitive bunny EVER. He’s got the funniest little bunny bum and…
Which bedside table is which?
One of these bedside tables is mine, and the other one is GC’s. But which is which?
What is she saying?
Kazoo is a 16-year-old Double Yellow Headed Amazon parrot. She talks. We don’t always know what she’s saying exactly, but we always know what she means because she’s remarkably expressive.…
Sad chalk message on the sidewalk
Friday morning I was walking to work along Somerset Street. It was a drizzly morning, so this sidewalk chalk message was probably still fresh yet destined to disappear almost immediately.…
Quite the Week
It has been Quite the Week. There was a more-or-less last-minute switch-about at work, which meant that I got to go to a conference in Montreal about HIV and housing,…
It’s complicated
Now that we’re married, GC and I are thinking about moving in together. Like actually formally officially living together. Getting rid of the duplicate toaster and bed and microwave and…
Warning: Graphic Images
So here’s a crazy thing. GC had to have a medical test a couple of weeks ago as a follow-up to an earlier test a few months ago. The doctor…
The Fountain of Youth contains….water?
GC and I marched in the Pride parade last weekend! First time for both of us. I was working there and GC volunteered to pitch in. It was a terrific…
Ernie does St. John’s
Ernie here. This is my third and final honeymoon post. Then I’ll turn the blog back over to Zoom, and I’ll go back to sitting on the shelf with Bert.…
Honeymooning in Dildo, by Ernie
Hi, it’s me, Ernie, with Part II of our honeymoon. After our five blissful days in Trinity East, we headed back to St. John’s for a couple of days. Along…
A Guest Post by Ernie: The Honeymoon, Part I
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter H and the number 3. That’s because the 3 of us – Zoom, GC and me – went to Newfoundland for…
GC has been violating the neighbours
GC has been violating the neighbours this week. Four-Dog Neighbour Two doors down from me is a woman with four dogs. For three evenings last week, two dogs barked incessantly…
Stolen Bunny!
I saw this sign on Percy Street today: “STOLEN!!! WTF? Last seen on washing line in our BACKYARD! The person responsible, who, incidentally, ought to be ashamed (no matter their…
Pharmacists: Not just pill counters
I recently discovered that pharmacists can do way more than count pills and warn me not to operate machinery. This newfound knowledge came as a result of two surprisingly positive…