Category: events
So remember last year how I cyber-baked with my family over the intertubes? Not this year! This year I got to do my baking in person! Baking, and especially Christmas baking, is one of my fondest memories from childhood. Every year at Christmas time, my Aunt Wendy would come over to our house and bake […]
So one of the things on my 101 things to do in 1001 days list was to do the Polar Bear Swim. For the uninitiated, The Polar Bear Swim is where you go for a chilly swim in the ocean (or a lake or some other outdoor body of water) on New Year’s Day ((I […]
The last time I was in Ottawa, Sarah and Dave’s attempt to bring me to the Diefenbunker was thwarted by holiday closure of said bunker. On this trip, to make it up to me, Ottawa gave Sarah & me free admission! More specifically, the Ottawa Public Library offered free admission and Sarah, a regular at […]
Since I live so far away and rarely get back to Ontario to visit the fam, when I do get to visit, I’m a rock star as far as my six-year-old niece is concerned. She insists on sitting next to me at every meal, she insists that I sleep with her every night and she follows me […]
Or should I say, the 11 bars and *barf*. Being that this was my 5th years of 12 Bars, I decided to do something special. Like puking at Coppertank. Because I’m classy like that. But I’m getting ahead of myself! The very first year that I went to 12 Bars, I managed to drink a […]
I’m all dressed up in my Christmas finest ((which I would totally post a photo of if I could only figure out how to add a photo to my blog posting through the WordPress app on my iPhone)), have stowed my car safely at Linda’s place ((where I’m staying tonight, as I figured that after […]
Remember last year when I complained about how difficult it was to sneak my Secret Santa presents into my Secret Santa recipient’s office at work? It must have taken me a dozen tries to get to her office undetected, get in, drop off her present and get out without being spotted. And since my office’s […]
In addition to the chili peppers, I decided that my Christmas tree needed one more thing, which I made this weekend: The Flying Spaghetti Monster now graces my tree. May he touch you with his noodly appendage this Holiday season.
I came up with a solution to my insufficient-supply-of-Christmas-tree-ornaments problem. And it allows me to cross something off my 101 in 1001 list to boot! That solution: chili peppers. When I was in Mexico for Christmas 2008, there was a Christmas tree that was decorated entirely with chili peppers. I love love loved that tree! […]
So I *finally* got my marking done, which meant I was allowed ((where by “allowed” I mean, I allowed myself to put it up. It was my reward to motivate me to finish my marking.)) to put up my Christmas tree! I actually finished my marking earlier this week, but I was in Vancouver for […]