Namaste, Josie.

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...in rebuttal, seeing as I wasn't actually there after all.   Boohoohoo #73

1. I don't think that 2 people actually count as a meetup, so there.
2. Okay, it does count -- but I'm still going to pout about it if I want to.
3.  I'm a Namasté'ing-sunflower-wannabee.  I'm going to ha
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...before having another "just us" vacation, would I have been able to stand it? 

(responding to a challenge from Brian, as I return to the OS fray)

BACKSTORY & TIMELINE:

1994-7:  met Brent (for the second time), moved in together within 6 weeks or… Read full post »

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
~ Emilie Buchwald ~

Being such a bookworm,… Read full post »

BENIGN!!

'nuff said :)

Babies, I'm-a gonna sleep tonight!!!! 

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I thought that icemilkcoffee's post was so much fun, that I decided to play it too, in the hopes of catching up with Brian (beep beep!).

In no particular order:

1. When we moved from Montreal to Toronto when I was young, the plane we were supposed to/
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 (a card I made recently)

 Thanks to all my OS peeps for the support this past week after I found a lump in my breast.  It's been hugely gratifying to read all the BTDT comments as well as those of encouragement.

My mammogram and ultrasounds went… Read full post »

this is going out to all my OS friends, particularly those
of us who struggle daily with anxiety and depression.

I'm not one for traditional New Years Resolutions, but I still find myself brimming with excitement whenever I start a new calendar off.  The tabula rasa, the sheer expanse of space… Read full post »

Dang, I was all in kinds of  a peachy keen kind of mood after reading my Northern friend Brian's Monday list this morning.   You know, the whole back-to-work-with-a-whole-new-year-ahead-of-me, my yummy coffee (Spicy Mayan Chocolate) while typing away at emails and doing some workity work ki… Read full post »

Like the man said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times".  

The days of October… Read full post »

39 years old and I've already wasted 9 words.  Feels like a metaphor for most of my life.

Born in Quebec, raised in Ontario, I still identify as French-Canadian.  Spent my first two decades trying to be everything to everyone, last two working on excavating the real me under the… Read full post »

(building off my 25 things about me post, here's a very long elaboration of my #5 point -- more about Morgan's would-be home birth, almost 8 years later.  If birth stories freak you out, move along please... there will be lots of TMI, birthing jargon & fluids, etc)

Prologue:

April  2001… Read full post »

Here's my response to #16 of my "25 things about me" where I wrote:

16.  The 2nd time I met my husband, he asked if I had a dress & makeup he could borrow.  Long story :) 

Before we address the 2nd time, I'll backtrack to the first time I… Read full post »

I've been trying to wrap my brain around previous New Years Eve memories, most of which are pretty generic and not really worthy of much reminiscing. 

Those of my teen years were spent either hanging out with friends or any of the serial boyfriends I had.  A little illicit alcohol… Read full post »

Here's one way to introduce myself to the OS community, I guess!

1.  I was such an avid reader as a child that to ground me, my parents would withhold my library card.  I'm still a book nut and can recall cancelling dates to stay home with a much anticipated… Read full post »