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Last night, I got a phone message for someone named Catrina. As we know, my name is not, nor ever has been, Catrina. Clearly, this was from someone dialing a wrong number. Unfortunately for Catrina, I have a slightly odd message on my voicemail. My message goes something like this: “Hi. You’ve reached the voicemail […] →Read more
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How many times do I have to say this? SPIDERS DO NOT BELONG IN MY HOUSE!!! This morning when I turned on the tap in my bathroom, I discovered one hella big motherfucking daddy long legs spider1 sitting directly under the spout, so that when the water turned on, the motherfucking big spider came crawling […] →Read more
Fortunately for me, I’ll take 9 degrees and rainy1 over -11 degrees and sunny any day! 1I’m not sure how this is possible, but I just noticed that I didn’t have a tag for “rain” on my blog2. How, exactly, one could blog for 2.5 years from the city of Vancouver *without* having a tag […] →Read more
Happy New Year’s all y’all. My New Year’s was rung in in low key fashion, having caught some sort of nasty virus from, no doubt, germy Ontarians on my flight home to Vancouver. I’m sitting in bed, about to go off to dreamland, but *had* to blog today because I’ve decided to make the same […] →Read more
My sister’s cat, Monkey, died yesterday. This is a picture of Monkey from better days. She never much liked anyone other than my sister and my niece, but one time I tricked her into thinking I was my sister and she let me pet her. She will be missed. Rest in peace, little Monkey. →Read more
I’m writing this on the train from Ottawa to Toronto. I’m too cheap to pay to use the VIA Rail internet access1, so I’ll post it later. But there’s an electrical outlet at every set of seats, so I can actually use my laptop for the whole trip and not worry about the battery dying. […] →Read more
Either Ottawa hates1 or loves me so much that it really, really wants me have a reason to return, because everything we tried to do today was a no go. First, we couldn’t go to the Diefenbunker as the tour was all booked up when we called to make a reservation. Then, The Green Door […] →Read more
For my Christmas present, Sarah and Dave offered me a “choose my own Ottawaian adventure.” In the interest me not having to carry a bunch o’ stuff back on the plane, they gave me some options of fun things to do in Ottawa, including: Canada Science and Technology Museum Museums of Civilization and/or War The […] →Read more
I’m now on the second leg of my Christmas tour – at Sarah & Dave‘s place in Ottawa. Tired and should go to bed soon, but first I thought I’d show y’all a few Christmas photos. Like this one, a picture of my niece with the stuffed Quatchi1 that I gave her: And here, she’s […] →Read more