Things That Are Random - Monday in Hawaii Edition

So, one of the search terms that led someone to my blog today was "duvet toddler urine clean".*

Then, we came across this on a wander around the neighbourhood after dinner:

You guys, it's like they knew we were coming.



*For which I rank a surprising third when I do the search on google.

Things That Are Random - Mid-November Edition

So, today - just now, in fact - I did something I've never done before. I wrote an article submission to a print magazine and pressed send.

Whether it gets read or not, whether it's liked or not, I don't care. I sent it. (Of course I care. I care desperately. Shhh. Don't tell anyone.)

Oh, look! Here's me in an evening gown!

And, uh, scrambling for something to distract myself...

Well, this just happened:

Turns out, ice cream is always the answer.

Things That Are Random - Thursday in November Edition

File under: Things I do when I am not here

I've been spending some time over at Vancouver Mom:

I hit the West End Farmers Market.
I rounded up Halloween stuff for downtown Vancouver kids.
I wrote about one of our favourite little restaurants on Robson St.
I wrote a couple of articles about basic cycling gear.
And I've been getting some exercise other than cycling.

File under: General update

I've been sending out resumes and looking for full- or part-time work. Going away for a three week chunk at the end of December is making that search a bit more difficult than I'd like, but at this point it would cost a lot of money to cancel. Plus, I really want to go to Paris, so.

I've been getting things organized over at Chill Monkeys.

The carpets stay. Everything else goes.

I've been purging like mad. Another six or seven bags of junk left the house yesterday.

I've been not sleeping much. I've been cooking a lot. I've been thinking about going back to school. Again.

And as soon as I hit "publish" I will have posted something here ten days in a row. I don't know if I've ever done that before.

G'night, all.

Things That Are Random - Thursday Night Edition

While I have not been here, I have been doing other things:

I wrote about why cycling rocks.

I wrote about sandwiches to salivate over.

I wrote about my five favourite things on Denman St.

That's right, I'm the new downtown contributor for Vancouver Mom!

I also waged battle against another Cold of Doom. I used to get the sniffles, feel yucky for a couple of days, and get over it. Now a cold lasts weeks, I'm unable to function for many days, and traces of it linger on long after the worst has passed. What's up with that? (I am not getting older. I am not getting older.)

Oh yeah, and I turned 41. (I am not getting older.)

BlogHer '11 was seventeen kinds of awesome, and then some. Every time I sit down to do a recap post, my head explodes.

Traverse Trip was seventeen different kinds of awesome. I'll do a recap post of that, too, when my head's done exploding from the other one.

Honestly, there's so much awesome in my life at the moment that I need a thesaurus to describe it.

You know what else is awesome? Sidewalk chalk, and a boy who won't stop moving, that's what.