tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55870852011-10-08T00:12:27.032-06:00Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.comBlogger6181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-18292979183002254892010-06-25T08:56:00.004-06:002010-06-25T09:31:13.871-06:00

I started this blog in July 2003 and after almost seven years, I'm finally making the switch to a new blog - but bringing this blog along with me for the ride. Because that's just one of many great features on Wordpress, the ability to take all my posts AND comments so that the move has been fairly seamless.The new blog is Five Days in May and can be found here.Clara's getting new digs too - her

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I've been working on the new blog whenever I get a second (and trying to keep Clara's blog updated - posted her three month update the day after she turned four months :s) but in the meantime, Jody tagged me in this meme over on her blog so here goes. At the end, I'm supposed to come up with my own five questions and tag others but whether or not that happens depends on the world's shortest

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I've been doing the whole "single parent" thing this week with Clara while Tay's been in Europe with his dad and today, while they were on a bicycle tour of Paris, I was washing poopy diapers in the bathroom sink and instead of having wine and assorted cheeses for dinner, I ate my dinner out of a plastic bag that I threw in the microwave (those Joy of Cooking frozen dinners? Not as good as

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(34 Things I've Learned the Hard Way in my 34 Years)1. If you live in a rental property you can (and should) take as long as you need to find the perfect house because once you're living in your new home and you realize your neighborhood is less than ideal, it's not so easy to just go out and get a new house.2. When you're driving on the highway and the check engine light comes on, you're

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True to form, when I found out I was (finally) pregnant, I started a new blog, like I've done for so many other chapters in my life. The pregnancy blog was the sequel to the getting pregnant blog, which, I guess in many ways, was part two in the trilogy of blogs which I guess you could say began with the wedding blog, oh-so-many years ago (does this coming Wednesday really mark our 6th wedding

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As much as I love my daughter, I've come to realize very quickly that I'm going to sometimes need a break from her, a break that lasts more than the thirty or forty-five minute nap that she's taking. Of course, she does go to bed now anytime between 7 and 9pm, but when that time rolls around and the house is quiet, I'm usually too zonked to want to do anything other than get in my last pumping

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One of the things I was asked the most when I was pregnant was whether or not I was planning on breast-feeding. Just the nature of that question used to annoy me because it really wasn't anyone's business whether I was planning to or not, and yet I never responded to that question by saying that it was in fact, none of their business. Mostly, I guess, because the people that asked only meant well

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It's not even eleven o'clock and I've had my breakfast, showered and dressed. Substantial improvement over yesterday where I remained unshowered and didn't actually get dressed until almost three o'clock when we went out for a walk.Today is a new day however, despite the fact that someone was awake at 2:30 this morning and refused to go back to sleep until almost 5am, only to wake a half an hour

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Clara Haley Hughes B.* was born Saturday morning, February 13th at 6:27am. Her birth weight was 8lbs 1oz and she measured 21.5 inches long. From start to finish, my labour and delivery with her was 49 hours (and 18 or so minutes).I spent probably an hour or so last night Saturday night starting a post and then another couple of hours finishing it this morning Sunday morning - it was a super long

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I finally got around to having Taylor take some photos of me - my friends kept telling me to hurry up and do it before it's too late.These photos were taken a couple of days ago - but as of today, we're in the single digits. Only 9 more days before she's due to arrive.Despite the little bit of complaining that I allowed myself throughout, I have enjoyed every single day of being pregnant.It was

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I'm understanding now why most people still think a pregnancy is only 9 months and I'm guessing it's because no one wants to talk about the last few weeks. Would women still get pregnant if they were told that from weeks 35 until I guess week 40 the following could/would happen?First, that a good night's sleep would be a rare occurrence and would be the nights where you only wake up about three

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For the first time that I can remember, I woke up on Christmas morning more excited about others opening their gifts from me than I was to open theirs. I don't know if this means that I've finally grown up, and have accepted the Christmas holiday for what it truly is, or if I just put more thought into picking out gifts than I have in years before. It certainly doesn't hurt that I've been more

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From Jody's Blog:"The purpose is to list 10 things that make you happy and then pass it on to ten people in the blogging community. I've taken it upon myself to follow suit however I won't be tagging anyone; You all know who you are and one thing that would make me happy is knowing the little things that make you happy :)"My happy things:1. A box in the mail from Chapters2. The adrenaline rush

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I was asked by the United Way last week to visit the offices of RBC and do a speech for their campaign and one of the things they asked me to address was the impact of the economy on the social services industry and how we're seeing a lot more people using our homeless program for meals and overnight accomodations, as well as our Employment and Training programs. It was an issue that I was more

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As thrilled as I am to my very core to be pregnant and having this baby, her timing could have been a little bit better.At first, my slight frustration with my being due in February was two-fold. First, it was because it would be mean that I would miss the entire 100th Anniversary of the community centre where I've worked for the past five years - and the knowledge that pretty much everything

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Remember this post that I did in September, 2008 called A Man's World? In which I confessed to my "fanatical obsession with Don Draper and his confidence and smoldering good looks" and also included a picture because I think he's just so damn hot?That was over a year ago. And today, the rest of the world seems to agree."According to over 500,000 voters on AskMen.com, "Mad Men" character Don

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A friend lent me a pregnancy book this weekend that claims that at sixteen weeks, the baby growing inside me is the size of a small gerbil. I was horrified when I read that to Tay, much preferring the produce comparison that most books and websites stick too. According to them, the baby is about the size of an avocado and that is a MUCH better comparison for me, and not just because I love

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I ate a lot of yummy things in Halifax last week including some of my favorites: May Garden chinese, a Kaisers Sub and finally, a donair, at 1am Saturday morning after getting back from downtown (I purposely had just a soup and a small salad for my dinner to save room for the donair).We spent the day at the beach on Thursday, and ate sandwhiches and Doritoes on blankets on the sand while we

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We left for Halifax the day that the tornadoes blew through Toronto. Our flight was delayed because of the weather, which we fortunately found out even before we left the house and so we sat in the kitchen, watching the rain fall and the wind blow, listening to the lightning crack in the very close distance.The storm caused a power surge in the house that blew Tay's server - he spent that extra

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Sunday morning I was awake at 6:30 so that I could get out into the garden before the humidity hit. The garden has been flourishing this year and if I don't stay on top of it (which I haven't been) it becomes incredibly dense, which makes it difficult to get at the vegetables as they ripen.I spent a good eight to nine hours in the garden four weeks ago while Tay was finishing the patio stones

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We went to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs last week at the Kool Haus - Tay recently bought their latest album, It's Blitz off iTunes and we've been killing it lately. A few weeks ago, when we went to see Santogold at the Phoenix I had said to Tay that I was done with concerts and this would probably be my last. Except then, a couple of days later he msn'd me at work to tell me that Yeah Yeah Yeahs were

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Because what's he's doing instead is so much better.Last summer's project was the installation of a raised vegetable garden in the back yard, which Tay did mostly himself over the course of a week. I helped a little bit, by helping digging the perimeter of the garden itself but to say that was helping is a big joke because of the amount of work that Tay did throughout the following week.Last

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The summer is normally the time of year that slows down for me at work. In late May/early June I finished my year end report to the United Way, completed my annual funding submission to the City for our homeless program and finished the 2008 annual report, a full color booklet that ended up being 36 pages and summarized everything the agency did throughout the past year. The booklet was handed

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Whenever my husband used to come visit at my parents' house, he almost never got the same reaction from Polar, the family dog. He could walk in the house and Polar would greet him, with his tail wagging, pressing his wet nose against his hand, looking for a pat on the head. But if he, say, forgot something in the car, and left for a minute to get what he had forgotten and came back, Polar might

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Last week after we finished running around getting me my new ID we stopped at Danier to see if they had any more of the wallets that I had gotten for Christmas (and that I, ironically, had bought a second one as a birthday gift for a friend of mine that loved mine so much). I didn't hold out much hope that they would have one, at least not in the color that mine originally was (eggplant), and

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I had an appointment this morning and the woman that I was dealing with asked where I've been because she hasn't seen me in forever. It hasn't been forever, I see her every month but maybe it felt like forever to her. I'm often not very nice when I go to these appointments and so I would think that she would have been happy to NOT see me for a few weeks but perhaps I'm not as rude or as difficult

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We celebrated our 5th anniversary while we were in Florida and since we spent our actual anniversary in the Keys with Tay's father and girlfriend, we decided on our last night in Florida to go back to Joseph's for a quiet dinner.Both Joseph and his son were there to greet us, we once again sat outdoors at one of the sidewalk tables. We ordered an appetizer, indulged in bread and olive oil and

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Atlantis Begins Pursuit of Hubble Space TelescopeMon, 11 May 2009 03:46:45 PM EDT"After a smooth countdown and picture-perfect liftoff, space shuttle Atlantis and a crew of seven astronauts are in space, beginning their 11-day mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis lifted off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 2:01 p.m. EDT. "It took us 2 and a

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I've come to the conclusion that there are so many old people living in Florida that flavorful food has ceased to exist unless you're serious enough about your food to search for the best places to eat. Proof in point, we ran some errands today and noticed the big crowd of people outside of the Red Lobster at 2pm in the afternoon and then I realized that it was Mother's Day. I guess eating at the

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We spent the day in Miami today, shopping along Lincoln Road before spending an hour or so at South Beach before heading out to Little Havana for some cuban food. From there we drove back to Delray Beach for their Art and Jazz Festival and I wandered into a little store that was selling out it's summer stock and these shoes caught my eye.The guy that sold them to me said that they're Brazilian

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-81909990499698010252009-05-06T19:46:00.004-06:002009-05-06T19:55:18.706-06:00

We drove down to Key West yesterday and at the last minute decided to stay the night so that we could get on a snorkelling and kayak charter the next morning. We left the dock at about 9:30 and were on the water until 2.I don't see how any other moment of this trip will top those few hours when we were on the blue, blue water, beneath the blue, blue sky.

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I am probably one of the palest people that I know, and I blame it entirely on my mother's genes and the resulting red hilights that I tend to get when my hair is it's natural color.I'm not a sun goddess and never have been and prior to the trip to Florida I bought two different cans of Aveeno sunblock - a 45 SPF and a 30 SPF. My logic was that I would use the 45 the first week and, once I've

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We're at the house in West Palm Beach, having arrived last night just after midnight.We spent today settling in - had breakfast at the local IHOP with the local seniors (it's just up the street and we were hungry) and went to the local discount liquor store to stock up on Strongbow and Dos Equis and then over to the mall in Boco Raton where we happily discovered they have a Grande Lux Cafe - we

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Probably eight years ago, when I was wearing my hair really short, I got tired of going to get my hair cut once a month and paying $60 for it. I started shopping around for a stylist and found V who had just finished school and was getting started in his career and charged a reasonable price for a haircut ($35). V and I got along really well and I quite liked what he was doing with my hair and I

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Perhaps one of my most vivid memories of my childhood is me with my eczema, standing in the living room, naked and on display, standing impatiently while I waited for my mother to lather my entire body with cream to keep my skin from drying out. I would keep one eye on the television, which kept me distracted while she rubbed and rubbed and one eye on the apartment door, terrified that an

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Friends of ours recently had a baby and named her Taylor.One night, when I was out with my friend at another friend's house, as we were leaving our hostess called to us as we were getting into the elevator, "Be sure to give Taylor a hug and a kiss for me."As the doors closed, I looked at her in obvious bewilderment, trying to figure out WHY my friend that barely knows my husband (and may have

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I bought these boots on my lunch hour yesterday in prepartion of our rainy season that's right around the corner, and I only bought them because I needed something that would keep my feet warm and dry for my walk back and forth to the train station each day. Of course, that's the PRACTICAL reason for buying them but the REAL reason is because they are so damn cute that they were impossible to

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About three months ago, I was in a bit of a lull on blog topics and invited people to suggest ideas for me to write about. I ended up using just one of the suggestions (so suggested by two people) but had filed the remainder away until I faced another mental block and was scrambling for something interesting to blog about. An anonymous commenter had suggested I blog about Prop 8, perhaps out of

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1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami (borrowed from Kat)2. Empty ice cream bowl.3. Furry brown blanket4. Prescription drugs5. Half glass of ginger ale6. Empty gingerale can7. My iphone8. Laptop9. Stero remote control10. Bright Shiny Morning (James Frey) which I finished and was really disappointed by.

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We're having a few people over tonight for poker and potluck.The other evening, when Tay was at hockey, he extended the invitation to some of the guys he plays with. I wasn't there to witness the conversation, but from how Tay described it to me, I guess the coversation went something like this, with or without my embellishment:Tay: So we're having a get together at our place Saturday night,

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A couple of weeks back I met my friend Kat one afternoon after work for coffee, except she ordered a vanilla bean latte and my latte was green tea. Since I don't drink coffee, most of my coffee dates are actually latte dates and I much prefer it that way since me and coffee do not like one another. Sometimes, when I'm being sensible, I may forgo the latte for a hot apple cider which, while not as

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My walk to and from work from the train station each day is about 3km round trip, and I do this walk year round, regardless of the weather. On most mornings, I'm one of the few people braving the -25 degree weather while the other commuters chose instead to ride the subway to their offices or, at the very least, be one of the hundreds of people that crowd the underground, all of them going in the

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When I was in Halifax back in October, Stacy, Dawn and myself had a conversation while waiting for a table at Cora's that was my first real indication of what a pretentious gal I've become when it comes to travelling. Dawn posted about it on her blog and you can find it here (it's the second post from the top, dated October 20th) but basically, we had been arguing about whether or not there was a

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I listened to a lot of music in 2008, new stuff that I had never listened to before. Some of it was passed on to me by friends or family (Adele), or I read about it online (Duffy) and some of it I heard downtown (Dylan Murray at a community festival downtown). A lot of it came to me through playing Rock Band with Tay and our friends Dave and Jackie, and I have to give that game credit for

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2008 was, for all intent and purposes, a quiet and uneventful year. It was a year where I laid-low and kept to myself - it was a year where I put my nose to the stone and worked hard and threw myself into running the homeless program at work (Junior and Karma Gods Went Tsk, Tsk) and any travelling that I did was more about rest and recovery, including my two trips to Halifax (Going Home and

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One of the things that I've started doing while reading a book that I am particularily enjoying is to underline passages that stand out to me. Like this one: "Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering." (Bel Canto) I'd never really done that before and I do it now partly because I want to be able to find the

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I did a blog a few months ago that was very much anti-Martha, mostly because I was tired of having people tell me what a Martha I am when I would entertain (the blog is here). I don't consider myself a Martha during the year when I'm simply entertaining but when Christmas comes, there's definitely a little bit of Martha that starts to take over my sensibilities and whether I'm decorating, baking

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-52248857523691100362008-12-02T18:20:00.009-06:002008-12-03T10:52:10.351-06:00

Tonight, as I was standing at the bathroom sink, washing my face of my makeup that I wore all day, seeing my makeup case just out of the corner of my eye, I began thinking again about the idea of makeup and why women wear it, especially when it seems men are always telling us that it's not neccessary, that they don't like it, that they think we are beautiful without it.You don't have to wear

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-45184474753135988612008-11-25T20:48:00.008-06:002008-11-25T22:57:58.505-06:00

A few weeks ago my pal AL did a blog about makeup, which coincided coincidentally with a trip we took to Sephora one morning for their preferred client 20% off sale. I wasn't going to blog the same thing, for fear of being accused of copying her or of having no originality but I happened to confess to a couple of people that I spent over $200 during that trip, which follows two earlier trips this

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-75282484695307098102008-11-18T07:53:00.003-06:002008-11-18T08:05:51.537-06:00

I randomly loaded up my blog last night, for no real reason - it wasn't to check comments like I sometimes do because I haven't blogged since the end of October - and then it struck me that I haven't blogged since the end of October.I haven't been a fan of facebook in the past year or so because too many people that normally blog now choose instead to facebook (I won't mention names but they both

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On the drive up to Mersey River Dawn and Stacy told Ryan and I stories of the general-type store that they had discovered during a trip with Jody when they'd blown a tire. Ryan and I listened in disbelief as they described a store filled with faded packages of food covered with dust and stacks of newspapers from years before. We refused to believe their description of the empty store, silent

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When I was home last week, Stacy spent a considerable amount of time playing with my iphone, despite her initial mistrust of the device, which, according to her was not practical since if you lost it, you would lose your entire life. This is true in the sense that the phone does everything, but it’s not the phone’s fault because it’s so cool. It’s like hating the prettiest girl in your class just

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-60917554869776071322008-10-19T22:09:00.004-06:002008-10-19T22:24:50.205-06:00

On Friday afternoon, before flying into Halifax, I decided to say good bye to blonde and hello (again) to brunette. It seemed to be the right thing to do with summer being a distant memory and with fall deepening - the air is cooler, the days are shorter and the colors of the leaves are a brilliant back drop to each day. Warm blonde is appropriately replaced by cool brown.I am still startled when

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When we were at the cottage in the summer, I fell in love with the secluded, wooded retreat and had mentioned to Dave and Jackie that they should find out if the owners of the cottage ever rented the place out for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was enthusiastic as I described how great it would be to be there during the fall, with the leaves changing color, the stillness of the lake, the crackle of

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Our friends Dave and Jackie ended up having to go to Montreal for the weekend for a trade show and they asked us if we would mind watching their dog Flex while they were away.We've had Flex over to the house on numerous occasions; he's spent countless hours hanging out at our house with us and he also came to the cottage with us earlier this summer. Tay and I haven't had him stay with us though

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-48919680509612383742008-09-29T20:46:00.001-06:002008-09-29T20:49:28.005-06:00

Because this is what my desk looked like today when I left work at 6:30 to catch the last train.

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My latest television obsession:"Set in 1960s New York, the sexy, stylized and provocative AMC drama Mad Men follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising...and depicts authentically the roles of men and women in this era while exploring the true human nature beneath the guise of 1960s traditional family values."We began watching this series last year

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This time last year I was busy training for the half-marathon - 21km, which I completed in 2 hours and 24 minutes.I have not ran a half-marathon since then, and will not be running the half-marathon next month either. Nor have I gone on any runs that have lasted more than an hour, nor can I remember the last time I hit the double digits in distance. A lot of this is a bit puzzling to me since my

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Our friends Jackie and Dave came over tonight to enjoy the last part of the summer's long weekend. I raised an eyebrow in question when I saw the rather large box that they carried into the house from the LCBO. The Strongbow wasn't too much of a concern and neither was the Coronas but the bottle of tequila did cause some alarm. We settled into the backyard with Strongbows and chips and salsa,

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The Toronto International Film Festival begins next week and this was the year that we were going to scale back with neither one of us planning on taking time off work to attend the festival. Although, that's not quite true - I did have plans to take the entire week off but there is so much going on at work right now, quality assurance reviews and funding proposals due and events scheduled for

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I got home from work late this evening and as I was chatting with Tay and I pulled my phone from my bag, I mentioned to him that I had ran into my friend Chantelle and she saw my phone and boy, was she ever jealous. Tay kind of rolled his eyes and said yes, I'm sure but listen, you really need to stop blogging about your phone because if I read another post about it, seriously, I don't know what

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I didn't realize how much I missed my nano until I got my iPhone a couple of weeks ago and I started transferring all my music to it. I carry my phone everywhere I go, more often than not with my earphones plugged in and music playing. I listen to it on the train when I'm writing, during my walk to and from Union, when I run errands on my lunch, removing one ear piece so I can order the beet

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I ended up spending some time last night going through my computer and clearing up some space on my hard drive which meant I sorted and deleted a lot of photos that were just taking a bunch of unneccessary space. As I flipped through the folders, picking which photos to keep and which to pitch, I was able to see just how often I change my hair over the years. Other than the time I dyed my hair

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We bought fresh produce from the local farmers all last week when we were in the Muskokas.There's nothing better, I think, then eating fresh vegetables thats been grown locally.Unless, of course, it's fresh vegetables that you've grown yourself. I went out to clean up the garden this morning since it's become a bit of a jungle this past week with all the rain.This is what I came indoors with:

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We rented a cottage up in the Muskokas last weekend with our friends Dave and Jackie and Chris and Amanda and we drove up on Friday afternoon. Dave and Jackie had gotten us the cottage through some family members and had booked the cottage for the entire week - Amanda and Chris left late Monday night and Tay and I made plans to leave Tuesday afternoon since he had to work the rest of the week.I

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10. There is something so cool about walking from room to room while reading blog feeds. Maybe not as cool as being able to walk down the street while doing the same thing, but for now, I'm happy tapping into wireless hotspots whereever I can find them.9. I'm having fun assigning certain ringtones to certain people that call me. When my husband calls and the eerie, alien sci-fi music starts

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My friend Tina has been loyally reading the stuff that I've been posting to my writing blog and after the latest installment, she left me a comment saying that her only complaint was that I use the F word a lot in my writing and she found that it was taking away from the story. I wasn't overly surprised to hear her say that, nor was I surprised when I did a search and saw just how often it came

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The past couple of times that we've entertained, there's always at least one guest that will stand in the kitchen, observing the food that I've carefully prepared and have commented that I'm a regular Martha Stewart.The last I checked, my name's not Martha.I recognize that the comment is meant to be a compliment of sorts, and for the most part, I get that, but there's a small part of me, the part

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I've been listening to a lot of music while I write, or at least I was until I lost my ipod a few weeks ago. Yes, my brand new nano that's less than a year old and was a gift from Tay when I completed the half-marathon in October. Yes, I recognize how much of an idiot I am for losing it. I know very well how careless it was to carry it in my jacket pocket. And I'm very aware of how much it cost

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-71689918832724172802008-07-04T22:38:00.004-06:002008-07-05T00:28:41.606-06:00

I've not blogged in over a month for various reasons that amounts to mostly just life getting in the way. Work has been absolute madness and the past four weeks especially has been such a complicated, worrisome mess that for a while I wasn't sleeping properly and my boss had to pull me in her office and ask what was up because three people had gone to her to ask if I was okay. I can usually put

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-39098393947245707922008-05-28T22:04:00.005-06:002008-05-28T22:38:50.613-06:00

I did an interview with a CBC radio reporter on Queen Street this afternoon.And I was nakid.This is what happens when I actually take a lunch and leave my office.I end up nakid. On Queen Street.To be fair, I wasn't completely nakid. I still wore my sunglasses, big ones that obscured most of my face. And I was standing in a changing room style booth while I undressed and I didn't have to leave the

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-82152524431441550532008-05-16T10:43:00.002-06:002008-05-16T11:11:25.035-06:00

A few weeks ago I started writing again, using my laptop on the train as I go back and forth to work. I haven't written anything in a very long time, and started off by using a writing prompt to get me started (the prompt was from Toasted Cheese and was After the Funeral).I thought I would write for a few minutes, or maybe the duration of the train ride and on my next ride, I would use another

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-4042113166556671052008-05-13T11:16:00.009-06:002008-05-13T11:48:53.540-06:00

We flew back from Vegas last Wednesday afternoon. I wore my swimsuit on the plane, underneath a tank top and summer skirt, having stayed by the pool until the very last moment before I had to go meet Tay for a quick lunch before we headed to the airport.This has been my fifth time to Vegas in the past four years and I still love the city in all it's excessiveness, the bright lights and the

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-17298870507954000292008-04-29T20:22:00.007-06:002008-04-30T07:07:21.222-06:00

Next Tuesday marks mine and Tay's 4th wedding anniversary and we plan on celebrating by going to Emeril's for dinner and then to Cirque de Soleil's Love. Of course, there is no Emeril's in Toronto and there's only one place in the world where you can see Love and that is, of course, Las Vegas.I don't know if I love the Beatles more than I love Las Vegas, in fact if I had to chose between never

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On Saturday, Tay Jackie and Dave and I piled into the car and made the short trip across the border to spend the day shopping in Buffalo before heading back and stopping at our favorite winery in the Niagara region where we bought two cases of wine and two jars of hot red pepper chardonnay jelly which, come the warm weather, I am obsessed with because it is so damn good when you pile it on some

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-54740466298428073822008-04-07T21:03:00.009-06:002008-04-08T07:41:07.180-06:00

A few weeks ago Tay and I purchased a second Xbox 360, pooling together some money from our entertainment budget that we give ourselves each month and then making up the difference with contributions from each of our personal allowances. As soon as we purchased the second 360, I began referring to it as MY xbox, mostly because the other xbox is kept in the basement which is where Tay does most of

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I'm a creature of habit and I don't much care for crowds so when I take the Go train in the morning and again in the evening, I always board the train in the very first (or last car) depending on the direction it's travelling. The most western car, I suppose is the best way to describe it. It means when I get on the train in the morning I end up walking the entire length of the platform, and in

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-16255801281871782152008-03-25T14:58:00.001-06:002008-03-25T15:24:02.974-06:00

Every time I go home to Halifax I always find myself feeling more and more removed from the place where I grew up. This is in large part a result of how much I continue to change between visits, and the more deeply entrenched I become in my life in Toronto, the more noticeable the distance is for me. The longer I live away from the place where I grew up, the more aware I am of the constant shift

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-582340192671906532008-03-23T21:25:00.004-06:002008-03-23T22:39:47.970-06:00

Stolen from So Anyway...1. What was the last blog you left a comment on? Kat's, when she was looking for a poker game.2. Favorite black and white movie? From the classics? The usual - The Philadelphia Story, It's A Wonderful Life, Psycho. From the past ten years? Clerks, definitely, and Sin City.3. What’s in your freezer right now? Two kinds of vodka, margarita mix, daquiri mix, bucket of

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I love working downtown, love being able to walk to my office from the train station regardless of the weather and especially enjoy it during the holidays. During Christmas, I was walking along Queen Street the morning that Chum turned their parking lot into a Christmas tree lots and sold $10 trees. That day, as I walked to work, I couldn't resist slowing down to watch the families as they

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Whenever my sisters and I get together in the same city, the temptation to rummage through each others suitcases is irresistable and what follows is the trying on of the clothes that don't belong to us. Following that, the negotiations begin and can last for a number of days as we barter back and forth for each others clothing that we find ourselves desperately coveting.I flew home last week for

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According to the marquee above the Hooters at John and Queen it is.I don’t know if love is blonde or even what that means really, but I am finally blonde and my love for my blondeness is complete. I’ve gone back to short again as well – having gone in to see my stylist a week ago Saturday with the determination to chop it all off. I showed him two photos of Judy Dench from Casino Royale,

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This week is International Women’s Week.We held a workshop at work today on domestic violence, during which they played a 911 call made by a little girl who was sobbing into the phone because her daddy was hurting her mommy and her mommy said that daddy was drunk again and she wished he would stop but it’s been happening forever and ever.I can’t even begin to describe the sound of her voice as

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-30791364814330736982008-03-02T22:11:00.005-06:002008-03-03T00:17:52.175-06:00

Last night was the second Aphrodite's Pink Nightie - the first one was about a year and a half ago and was blogged about here, here and here. All my same girlfriends were scheduled to come but then Kat got a migraine, Renu succumbed to the sickness she's been battling all week and Elisa got tied up with some crazy work stuff so our second round ended up being just me, Jackie, Anna Lee and Amanda.

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-423928770419419602008-02-26T22:38:00.009-06:002008-02-27T08:42:10.533-06:00

Knock, knock.Who's there?Orange.Orange who?Orange you glad we bought a Fit?Introducing our new car, which we test drove last night, and purchased this evening, and will (hopefully) be ready to bring home on FRIDAY:We knew when we went into the dealership that the Fit was likely to be the car we'd purchase, for a number of reasons. The functionality of the car, and all it's cargo space is

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All along Queen Street West this morning are bright fuschia hearts, spraypainted onto the snowbanks with some kind of stencil. I followed the hearts as I walked to work, and almost missed turning up my street because I was so captivated by them. It was almost like having my very own secret admirer and at the very least, it brightened up another dreary, slushy Toronto morning in February.Happy

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-11217260064629399862008-02-11T09:20:00.000-06:002008-02-11T10:11:57.154-06:00

A couple of weeks ago I was downstairs hanging out with Tay and for whatever reason, agreed to play one of his first-person shooter games with him. I didn't last very long playing against him though as he's an experienced gamer on so many levels and I was having so much difficulty getting used to the controls much less being able to locate him on the map, maneuver my gunman to where he was

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-5638409887009707472008-02-03T17:22:00.000-06:002008-02-03T17:45:31.045-06:00

Just before Christmas I went to a workshop dealing with homelessness and as a group, we did an exercise that I learned a lot from. I was talking to my boss last week about the exercise and told her how I wanted to present the exercise at a team meeting we're having this week at work. When I sat down the other day to write up some notes for the exercise, I couldn't quite determine if I'd

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-4998283601553052122008-01-30T19:02:00.000-06:002008-01-31T21:59:36.841-06:00

On Sunday I did my first shift with our homeless program and in the hours leading up to when I actually went to work, I tried to mentally prepare myself for the nasty names that I would get called and the verbal abuse that would follow. I thought about whether or not I would be safe walking to my car at the end of my shift, if I would need security to escort me to my car, what I would do if I

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-82079238715217518092008-01-27T11:11:00.000-06:002008-01-27T11:31:35.585-06:00

So here's yet another blog, that I will hopefully maintain better than some of my other blogs, which I won't mention but still exist, in all their neglected form and are listed on my sidebar.Disorderly Kitchen is all about my adventures in cooking, mostly a result of my acquiring a number of cook books for Christmas including Cook with Jamie and the Joy of Cooking. My copy of Cook With Jamie is

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-8320539157316853742008-01-22T22:09:00.000-06:002008-01-22T22:20:46.931-06:00

I didn't see all his movies but the ones I did see him in, I always had a quiet appreciation for him and a growing admiration. When we saw Brokeback at TIFF two years ago, I joked that there were worse ways to spend my birthday than in a theatre with him and Jake Gyllenhaal. It was that movie when I first began to think that he could be the next biggest thing in Hollywood - and when I saw he was

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One of the big changes for me for 2008 will be a change in my position at work - effective January 2, my position changed from just being responsible for communications within the agency to now being responsible for resource development and special projects. With the change in position came a change in title which I am still getting used to as it is a much bigger title, and more impressive and

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-17999941857977966592008-01-10T12:54:00.000-06:002008-01-10T13:19:05.353-06:00

On Tuesday night, a few of us got together at our place to play poker and Kat came by my office after work so we could take the Go train together. When we got to the train station, I checked the time and saw that it was 5:09 and mentioned to Kat that if we got up to the platform in time, we might be able to catch the 5:10 train if she didn't mind standing for part of the trip. We decided we'd try

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She teaches Body Pump and I LOVE her.She was guest teaching one morning at the Superstore with one of the other instructors and as soon as the class ended, I went up to her and told her how much I enjoyed the class and inquired where she regularily teaches. The good news is that she teaches at a club that's very close to me, the bad news - it's Monday mornings when I'm at work. She invited me to

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-60836665820612282892008-01-01T22:19:00.000-06:002008-01-02T14:39:45.658-06:00

In 2007, I travelled to New Orleans and sailed to Mexico (The Point in My Life When I Discover How a Margarita Should REALLY Taste), I ran the Toronto Half-Marathon (The Race Report), discovered Bala and had an unforgettable time (Purely Bala), had my braces removed (No More Muffin In My Brafes), bought a house (The VERY BIG THING), and saw a therapist (Feet On Ground, Heart In Hand*).It was a

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The list below are the movies I've seen this year that were released in 2007. There were dozens of movies - my list works out to 48 and doesn't include the many other movies that I watched throughout the year (released prior to 2007). Of those 48, I saw 4 of them prior to 2007 at the Toronto Film Festival. At the bottom of the list are additional movies I saw this year at the festival that

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I did a lot of reading in 2007, especially towards the end of the year when I started taking the Go train. The below list all first-reads and is mostly complete, but I'm sure there are some books missing - brain candy books that took a day or two to read and therefore got lost in the shuffle. The books I've bolded are the books I enjoyed the most and would gladly read again. The books in italics

Tawnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623105395017259000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587085.post-24206755554202406332007-12-27T13:29:00.000-06:002007-12-27T15:00:47.387-06:00

Tay's family joined us for our first Christmas in our new home and in prepartion of their arrival, I took advantage of an extra week's vacation I had remaining from the year and took the time off to finish my Christmas shopping, do my wrapping, bake some shortbread and clean the house. I also scheduled in some down time and made it to the gym for Body Pump every other day, went for a very

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Because my mother was here with us when we moved into the new house, she has a visual of the layout and as soon as I told her we had put up the tree and did some other decorating for Christmas, she had questions about where did we put the tree and how big is it and did we have to move any furniture around and did I have a Christmas tablecloth on my dining room table. I answered all her questions

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The first time I colored my hair was when I was in my teens - I decided to color my hair red, which was pretty drastic since it was dark brown and halfway down my back. The color turned out much more vivid than I had intended, and since my hair was so curly at the time, I ended up coming home looking like some kind of Julia-Roberts-Pretty-Woman-Wannabe. When my mother saw my hair she was

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