Day two of NaBloPoMo! Today’s question is: If you knew that whatever you ate next would be your last meal, what would you want it to be? At first I thought that I would like to have my favourite goodies. Maybe some tasty potato chips, some poutine, some pasta. You know, pig out on all the things I love to eat (and probably already eat too much of). But, you know, I think I would want something special, like very fresh salmon sashimi, tuna and salmon sushi, filet mignon teppanyaki, baked bire with cranberries spread over a soft French loaf,…
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November is a lot of things: Movember (which I can’t participate in for obvious reasons, and the husband can only grow a creepy Asian guy moustache that is likely to get him put on a sexual offenders list), NaNoWriMo (which I can’t participate in as I have a 3 1/2 year old child at home who demands feeding and bathing, and there are all those Christmas gifts I need to make still…), and NaBloPoMo. And since NaBloPoMo only requires a short blog entry every day (prompts provided if needed), I can manage that. Except, well, I didn’t find out about…
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Last month the husband and I managed to escape to Las Vegas for a much needed, if somewhat short, holiday. We stayed in a fabulous room at the Cosmopolitan, ate some great food, and saw a wonderful show. Even though the view from our room was amazing… … that really wasn’t the best part. If you look around in Vegas, you will find quite a bit of beauty mixed in with all the harsh glamour and brittle façades. One of my favourite places to look for beauty is the little rain-forest garden in the middle of the Mirage. Old fashioned…
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I’m not the most relaxed person in the world. I like to get things done rather than doddle along. I don’t spend a lot of time standing around thinking about how to do something, nor do I stop to smell the roses along the way. I want my errands done and all my tasks taken care of so I can get back to my book or my stitching. But, having a preschooler to shepherd around all the time is making me slow down and notice things. Funny how pests can be so pretty.
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I was lucky enough to recently be given a Kobo by my husband. And, while I have never really given up reading (I currently average about four books a month), it has more than rekindled my love affair with a good book. Being able to have so many books at hand all the time has meant that I’ve been searching out really good reads, and coincidentally, NPR has just released their list top sci-fi and fantasy novels as voted by their listeners. It looks like there is a good several years of great books here. (I have read all the…
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I’ve been hearing a lot about happiness over the past year or so. I read Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project and the study that ranked the world’s countries in order of happiness (Canada came in at a respectable number 8, tied with Costa Rica, New Zealand and Israel; the US came in at number fourteen, tied with Austria), and there was also the Ted Talk from the Babble.com publishers that examined the highs and lows of happiness throughout our lives. Happiness, I think, is both transitory and absolutely necessary. And, as a mother of a rambunctious pre-schooler. and also…
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A little while ago I posted a bit about [amazon_link id=”006158326X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Happiness Project[/amazon_link] and some of the guidelines I came up with for myself. One of the most important to me was “What you like is what you like, and realize it is okay to want to like things but still not like them.” And, today, just when I needed a reminder, this quote showed up in my inbox this morning, from the Happiness Project daily email: “I should like to like Schumann’s music better than I do; I dare say I could make myself like…
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Well, it sure has been an exciting year so far, hasn’t it? Protests in the Middle East, an earthquake New Zealand and another one in Japan that has nearly lead to a serious nuclear event, more protest in the Middle East, the royal wedding in Britain, the death of Osama bin Laden (that means terrorism is over right? Yeah, I didn’t think so), and finally, a federal election here in Canada. At the risk of sounding trite, the world really is a small place now. A century ago, many of these events would have barely registered up here in Canada.…
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