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Music Monday – “It’s our party we can do what we want/It’s our party we can say what we want.”

So everybody’s talking about the raunchy Miley Cyrus performance last night at the MTV Video Music Awards (including perhaps the weirdest MetaFilter thread ever where a discussion of whether the Miley Cyrus performance is pushing the “real” news about Syria off of front pages leads to a long parallel thread that jumps back and forth with people alternating […]

Friday Fun Link – 15 Unmistakeable Outrageously Secret Signs You’re An Extrovert

With all the recent books, blog posts and articles about the care and feeding of introverts, I thought this response from an extrovert’s point of view was pretty funny (and true!)

¶ Posted 23 August 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Camping at Crooked Lake

Spending a couple nights camping at beautiful Crooked Lake, one of the few campgrounds I know with lakeside sites. Wish I’d seen this list of camping hacks before we’d arrived!

¶ Posted 22 August 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – A Pink Flamingo Appears: My Birthday at RPL

Okay, after tomorrow, I promise the 40th birthday-themed entries will stop! (Probably.) But I did want to recap how my day went at work. RPL has a tradition of passing along a pink flamingo to whoever is celebrating a milestone birthday (for some reason I only thought it went to people celebrating their 50th […]

¶ Posted 20 July 2013 § Humour § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

“A Mother’s Prayer” – by Tina Fey

And a father’s prayer too (especially that part about not lying with drummers)… 😉

¶ Posted 14 July 2013 § Baby § Humour § Sad § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, language, philosophy

10 Fun and/or Memorable and/or Unique Things To Do With Your New Baby

Take a photo of your new baby every day after they’re born Or you can take a photo of the baby every few months with a favourite doll Write a book for your new baby Write them a song (I won’t put audio of this one but the song I’ve sung to both Pace and […]

¶ Posted 11 July 2013 § Baby § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Who Do Our Kids Look More Like?

Recently rediscovered My Heritage’s “Look-A-Like” app where you can upload photos of different people and it will tell you who looks more like whom. (Usually you’d upload pictures of two parents and their child to see who the child resembles the most but we also experimented with comparing my aunt to my sister and I […]

¶ Posted 03 July 2013 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Some of The Best Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) Chat Sessions of All-Time (And The Absolute Worst)

Reddit has a recurring feature where notable (and not-so-notable) people can show up for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) interactive chat session. [2013-08-26 – Update: This probably isn’t too surprising but there’s some strong evidence that many celebrity AMA’s – including the Ethan Hawke one listed below – are actually done by a PR person, […]

¶ Posted 27 June 2013 § Humour § Internet § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: reddit

Friday Fun Link – My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter

This Pinterest site takes photos of youngsters dressed in fashionable clothes and provides hilarious write-ups to narrate the life of Quinoa, the trendy perfect child of trendy perfect parents. Funny stuff. Everything went fine at Quinoa’s playdate with Booker until she realized that when he said he loved vinyl, he meant jackets not vintage records.

¶ Posted 21 June 2013 § Humour § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

Poetic Variations

Google Poetics Book spine poetry (Google Images) Invented Poetry Forms

¶ Posted 20 June 2013 § Humour § Internet § Library § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, google, language, philosophy