No more dumpster diving
In addition to getting rid of stuff, successful decluttering also requires that you stop bringing stuff home. Stop buying, stop thrifting, stop dumpster diving, stop online shopping, stop bringing more…
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Bowls I love
I love this bowl, too. Chandler Swain, my favourite potter, made it. I haven’t actually used it, since it hangs on a wall, but I’m pretty sure my Shreddies would…
Decluttering, again
Everything tastes better in my Maureen Marcotte bowl, which I bought at the 260 Fingers pottery show last Fall. I’ve launched a new decluttering campaign at my place. I’m trying…
Last chance to join
I’ve pretty much always voted NDP, but now I’m an official card-carrying member. I signed up last week so I can help choose the next leader of the Official Opposition…
Spam and philosophy
This morning, while I was out for a walk, my computer was sending spam to everybody I’ve ever corresponded with. I’m sorry if my computer spammed you. I thought Macs…
An unusually romantic Valentines Day
We don’t usually make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day, but this year we got swept up in it for some reason. Maybe it’s because you can’t ignore Valentine’s…
Some cuteness and some happy news
I found all these on Pinterest.com. I hope they’re not too cute! In other news, blog reader Dawn contacted the NCC about my Skateway Robbery post, and the young man…
I love public outrage
Sometimes I feel bad about how hard it is to change the world. It seems that change for the worse happens so much more quickly and easily than change for…
Yoplait says it’s not actually their insect
The other morning I went to grab a yogurt out of the fridge. I buy the 16-packs of Yoplait Source. Eight containers on top of eight other containers, all wrapped…
Skateway robbery!
GC and I went skating on the Rideau Canal Skateway yesterday. We weren’t actually planning to, and we didn’t have our skates with us. But it was such a gorgeous…
Rosie’s a happy dog
Rosie’s a very happy dog. I can tell because she smiles and her whole back half wriggles when she wags her tail. GC took her to the vet yesterday for…
Peanut butter blues
A naturopath recently told me I should eat nut butters. I hate peanut butter. Even the smell of it makes me gag. One time my mother married someone who loved…
The politically (and otherwise) incorrect former mayor
I see Larry O’Brien has apologized. At the official unveiling of his portrait at City Hall last night, he told a reporter he was sorry about the racial slur. Instead…
Larry O’Brien steps in it again
Our former mayor, Larry O’Brien, has managed to publicly disgrace himself once again. This time it was by being openly racist on his public Twitter account. David Reevely, of the…
I borrowed a blind octogenarian
The Human Library took place yesterday at the War Museum and five branches of the Ottawa Public Library. There were sixty “human books” which people could borrow for one-on-one 20-minute…
You’re only as old as other people think you look
I have new next-door-neighbours again. In the five years I’ve been here, I’ve had five different sets of people living on the other side of my east wall. The most…
He’s got altitude
Guess who flew??? Yup. All the way from me to his house, which was about five feet. It was a wobbly and fluttery flight, but a glorious one. I’m SO…
A little scattered
I’ve been a little scattered lately. I arrived home from work on Monday to the sound of Kazoo cackling in the dark. The whole time I was taking my boots…
A sign
Yesterday morning I was walking to work along Gladstone Avenue when all of a sudden a dead bird came hurtling out of the sky and crashed head first into a…
The high cost of loving an animal
Oboe at the Vet's I know there are people out there wondering why anyone would spend twelve hundred bucks to save the life of a bird that could be replaced…