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As someone who flirts with extremes (read good and bad, right and wrong etc.) I assumed people were either good at gardening or not … They had a green thumb or they didn’t.  I can not be alone in this. I was pretty good at keeping my outdoor garden and summer pots alive and thriving.  Then I moved and my garden predominantly moved indoors.  Now I’m less sure about my gardening and green thumb theories.   I had to pull out my jasmine.  I think I over-watered it.  Some of the s

When I was little we used to spend New Years Eve at my grandmother's.  My aunts, my cousins … all there.  There would be food, games, party hats, noise makers and all the customs that came with the New Year.   Having New Year’s at my grandmother’s, Auld Lang Syne sung with crossed hands and in a circle and sending my father outside with bread, salt, a coin and a few other items - because my father was the only male sibling and a brunette - all our customs.   While I’m not sur

Does anyone else struggle with their storage? With its function - or lack of function?  I can’t be alone in this?  My closets are driving me mental at the moment.  Mostly because they lack function and this is incredibly frustrating.  Or at least it is to me - so I am left mentally fighting with my closets.  This escalated when I moved some things around so my hats, mitts and scarves were more accessible - it’s that time of year.  I think I’ve pinpointed why this is aggressiv

Holiday lights are one of my absolute favourite things.  I know I’ve written about them before … but they bring me so much joy I’m writing about them again. Spoiler - this is probably not the last time I will write about them either.  I have the lights on my tree on, all evening - every evening.  One of the perks of it getting dark around 4pm.  I can enjoy my lights for several hours.  Sometimes I just stare at the tree … it makes me calm … it makes me happy. Slight left turn

I’m a sugar baby … I will almost always choose sweets over salt.  Chocolate, cookies … yup … This time of year is a danger zone for me … Chocolate orange - yum … Turtles … yes please (read: anything with caramel) … Cookies - especially sugar, shortbread and ginger … heaven.   I also enjoy baking - especially at this time of year.   My body - well, it doesn’t love these foods as much as I do.  Sighs.  Will I still do holiday baking?  Yes.  Will I keep what I bake?  Hard no.  

I used to volunteer … when I was away at school, when I moved back to this area … in various forms, at a variety of organizations … but it’s been a while and I missed it.  I had been looking - admittedly passively, but I hadn’t found anything that aligned with my interests, strengths and/or availability. I have a few organizations or types of volunteer or donations that I relate to or am drawn to but sadly their needs and my capacity to give aren’t aligning.  Then there are f

Have you ever taken steps to improve your well being only to feel like everything you are doing is having the opposite effect?   Fun right? I keep reading that this is where most people quit … I get that, I feel like I’ve lived that - been there, done that.  Not this time.   I recently had some bloodwork done to rule out anything medical causing my migraines.  Hilarious right?  I’m really ruling out things like a tumour - you know … major changes on the medical front.  Upside

Someone recently asked me if I was lonely during COVID.  I was thrown by the question … I wasn’t lonely and I hadn’t considered myself alone.   I had a Georgie Cat.  Answering I wasn’t alone apparently wasn’t answering the question.  While I appreciate the concern, it struck me as such an odd question.  While I’m sure a lot of people were lonely, I get some people need to be around others - in a sitting in the room, face to face kind of way … I’m not. I still worked - had sev

When I was in grade 5 we had to write and deliver speeches as a part of English.  Not my favourite English assignment. I remember sitting on the floor in one of the pods listening to a classmate talk about her grandmother receiving a letter from the Queen on her 100th birthday.  I thought it was so cool that I decided - in that moment - to live to be 100 too. It’s never occurred to me that I wouldn’t.  Like somehow that decision made it so. The truth is - I still don’t doubt

I recently went horseback riding with a friend. It was one of those mornings - sun barely out, hiding behind the clouds, a bit windy, cool … it was just the two of us - even though it wasn’t a private ride, it turned into one.  It was perfect! I love horseback riding.  I have as long as I can remember.  There is something about being out on a trail … it feels like magic … like being suspended between two worlds. What’s odd - I’ve been on several trail rides as an adult - so t

There is something about this time of year …  My calendar always blows up and finding any downtime becomes a luxury.   Part of it is events, outings, holidays … Part of it is birthdays - which in my world seem to cluster at the back half of the year.  Some of it is shopping, decorating, baking - so all self-induced stressors that go with this time of year.  Don’t misunderstand, I love Christmas decorations, baking and spoiling the kiddoes in my life! LOVE! I also love celebra

I’m currently in that headspace of placing my Christmas decorations throughout my condo.   Before you come at me with your judgement, your “it’s only October” …  I am not actually decorating, I’m doing a mental exercise … I love Christmas decorations, the colour, the lights … They make me happy.  It’s the first Christmas in this space and I’m not sure how my decorations will work … I was certain my wreath would be too big - so I measured the door and the wreath - too big.  It

I go through periods where I like to bake.  I like homemade things … well made things.  My grandmother was one of those grandmas that baked - and she was good!  So I was exposed to that growing up.   I moved away from it at my last place - I had very little counter space - practically none and that’s an understatement.  I have more now - so I’ve been baking more … not as much as I’d like, but more.   This is another area where I feel like a foundational understanding of scien

I have this fickle curiosity about how the body works … not because I want to be a doctor or have an interest in science … because I’m...

Have you ever had the overwhelming urge to blow up multiple areas of your life?  Which includes cutting off all your hair - obviously! ...