Road Trip!

As you read this, I am not here.  I have left the building, disappeared from view and am no longer available.  It is time for us to be on the road again, and on the road we will be for the next three weeks.  

Yet have no fear for you will not be alone.  Thanks to my dear friend Annie, who introduced me to the wonderful world of scheduled posts, you will not be without new posts to read.  And, thanks to my other dear friends Mum, Micheal, Spaz, Sarah, Evyl and again Annie, those new posts will not be my own random rumblings, but well thought out and put together posts of seasoned writers and bloggers.  I expect you to be nice to my guests and leave them lots of lovely comments to respond to.  🙂

So, the place is yours for the next few weeks, and while I don’t mind a little mess, I do expect the damage to be minimal and the walls intact.  And remember, if you party, there is always the morning after to contend with.  A little Amanda Marshall for your viewing pleasure as you wait patiently for the first post to appear.

Snow in Toronto

Last week it really did snow in Toronto and Montreal.  Kids were home from school and the roads were a mess.  Here’s a clip from the Rick Mercer Report.  Rick Mercer is a very funny man, and I think I’ll be posting more from him in the future.   

Hibernation

Symbolically speaking, winter is the time to become introspective. To go within and examine, sort, and prepare for the coming spring and renewal.  When I think of winter in this way, I envision a type of hibernation.  A feeling of peacefulness steals over me and I start to think of meditation, yoga, and good herbal teas. 

In reality, my hibernation time has been nothing like this.  My days are a blur of kids, laundry, cooking, cleaning, refereeing, and diapers.  Tea?  Forget about it, unless it is a caffeinated replacement for my lunch, just to keep me going.  Time for myself just does not exist, never mind meditation, introspection, or creative thinking. 

As a result, the only thing taking a winter hiatus around here seems to be my brain.  My sluggish thinking simply cannot do even basic tasks, such as patience, wit or math.  January seems to be the month of automatic pilot for me, and I’m afraid it is my blogs and you readers who will suffer the most. 

Before I fry any more of my circuits by trying to put coherent sentences together, I leave you with this, an eerily accurate rendition of a typical day in my life.

 

 

 

Now that’s Christmas!

This will be my last post until sometime after Christmas. I’ve decided to leave you with this new song and video from Brad Johner. He is a performer from Saskatchewan and has travelled the many miles to our small town in Alberta to grace us with his music and help out with a couple of fundraisers over the last few years. He is a great entertainer and a good guy to boot.

Merry Christmas everyone. Wishing you only the best!

Jennifer