Posts under ‘family’

About a month ago, the man and I were out to dinner at a surprisingly quiet Caplansky’s (mmmm…knish). While we waited for dinner, I watched a young family at another table waiting for their meal. There were two young boys, happily colouring away. It triggered a memory of when I was a kid, and I [...]

There are times when you just have to face the facts of a situation, and cut someone loose.  It could be a friend, a relative, a co-worker; it could be that you’ve grown apart, that you never had that much in common in the first place, that you’ve grown weary of the one-sided nature of [...]

Keith and I have been hanging out the last few days, going for drives both purposeful and aimless.
Why driving? Because once more, I have returned from Okie Vegas limping. Unlike last year, it’s not because I drank too much and tripped in a hole 2″ deep. I was perfectly sober, and walking across the smooth [...]

My last post was 3 weeks ago you say? Good grief, where does the time go?
Sometimes I have to go backward before I can go forward. Of course, it’s not like I have to pull an OhCaptain and go three months back *grin.
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Three weekends past.
Three weekends ago was the all-girl cottage weekend. Jules was in [...]

Many thanks for all the well wishes for the Mother-In-Law. The situation is not looking good; it was a right brain stroke which has translated into left-side paralysis. It’s looking like she’ll be in the hospital for rehab for a very, very long time.
Keith says she was in good spirits today - she was joking [...]

Friday found me, as usual, playing the rebuy madness known as the donkament. I lasted about a  half hour when I was dumped from the game; it seems it doesn’t matter if you have the auto-rebuy button clicked if you find yourself disconnected after going all in with 83 offsuit (I cannot believe that did [...]

What it’s like outside on this Christmas morning:

What it was like inside:

Almost finished a client site.
Bought Keith one of his Christmas presents.
Booked a cottage for our 3 day getaway.
Made a double batch of Keith’s favourite steak and Guinness pie.
Knitted a bunch. This is almost done. This has been cast on. And I saw something I think I’ll make for my bounty.
Played a token peep on Full [...]

My older brother has long been an amateur photographer. Now that he’s retired, his winter project is to go through his boxes of slides and scan them into digital format. Which means that lately I open my email from him and find some pretty cool photos rather than the usual joke and hoax emails.
Like these.

Here’s [...]

Today, I’m remembering this guy:
There’s others, near and far in both time and place, that I’m remembering today.