July 5, 2009
Wolfy!!  Don’t ask me how I found this - I swear I wasn’t even looking for it but then all of a sudden there it was!!  It seems my nephew was shockingly accurate in his visual portrayal of life under the sea after all!  
Wolfy!!  Don’t ask me how I found this - I swear I wasn’t even looking for it but then all of a sudden there it was!!  It seems my nephew was shockingly accurate in his visual portrayal of life under the sea after all!  

I suck at Catan

but I’m great at learning to play a waltz duet on the piano in one night 
July 3, 2009
this is not a subscription bill!
this is not a subscription bill!

a boy named Hot Dave and a girl named Naomi made my day today...

first they rolled into my store to say hello

then they bought one of my favourite antique glass pendants

then they met up with me after work and we went to Craft Burger

then we sat in a park and looked at dogs together

then we had tea and hot chocolate AND biscotti at a coffee shop

then we helped out a poor blind man

then we all went for a romantic stroll up to my rooftop and gazed over the city

now they have left, but I get to see them tomorrow night too!  

And now Kindergarten Cop is on the telly!!  

July 2, 2009
Unicorn Apocalypse tied our first game of the summer season tonight.  We played well… we fought hard… we had good team spirit (even when a mean bumbling woman on the other team had a shit fit at second base).  AND I even got to play first base for two whole innings!!  I even got someone out! It was almost magical - that is until I ran too fast trying to beat the first baseman to the base, tripped over my own feet and took a horribly awkward somersault-fall that resulted in me scraping up my elbow and looking like a complete nork.  I bounced up quickly though, right into a double handed high five (technically high ten) jump with the first base coach - bonus spirit points for me!  Unfortunately I lost the race and was out.  Nothing a long bubble bath and an episode of House can’t fix.  Unicorn TapestriesThe Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum, New York. early 15th century 

Unicorn Apocalypse tied our first game of the summer season tonight.  We played well… we fought hard… we had good team spirit (even when a mean bumbling woman on the other team had a shit fit at second base).  AND I even got to play first base for two whole innings!!  I even got someone out!

It was almost magical - that is until I ran too fast trying to beat the first baseman to the base, tripped over my own feet and took a horribly awkward somersault-fall that resulted in me scraping up my elbow and looking like a complete nork.  I bounced up quickly though, right into a double handed high five (technically high ten) jump with the first base coach - bonus spirit points for me!  Unfortunately I lost the race and was out.  Nothing a long bubble bath and an episode of House can’t fix. 

Unicorn Tapestries
The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum, New York. 
early 15th century 

July 1, 2009
Watched the fireworks at Ontario Place from my balcony and ate some peanut butter toast and a lean cuisine. Frankly, Canada Day in Trafalgar Square last year felt far more Canadian than this.

Watched the fireworks at Ontario Place from my balcony and ate some peanut butter toast and a lean cuisine.

Frankly, Canada Day in Trafalgar Square last year felt far more Canadian than this.

I’m sleeping in tomorrow morning - Wednesday, July 1st. I have not done so in weeks.  

DO NOT WAKE ME UP! 

That includes you Anne - and you Nomes - and you Sue.  

Thank you.

June 30, 2009

I get SO bummed out when I see that Nova is on, only to find I don't get that channel...

this seems to happen about once a week - you would think I’d have learned by now.  On the upside, an episode of House is on that I have never seen before!  Huzzah!  
I sold my first engagement ring to the most darling young man today!!!  It was surprisingly thrilling to participate in such an important milestone in someone’s life like that!  He will probably always remember the day he spent an hour with a redheaded shopgirl deciding between the square cut diamond with sapphire’s and palm shaped engravings, and the sweet little art deco diamond ring that he ended up with in the end. He was such a sweet guy - so clueless, so excited, so lovely.  He is about to make some little lady very happy.  And as cynical as I can be, it all gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.
I sold my first engagement ring to the most darling young man today!!!  It was surprisingly thrilling to participate in such an important milestone in someone’s life like that!  He will probably always remember the day he spent an hour with a redheaded shopgirl deciding between the square cut diamond with sapphire’s and palm shaped engravings, and the sweet little art deco diamond ring that he ended up with in the end. He was such a sweet guy - so clueless, so excited, so lovely.  He is about to make some little lady very happy.  And as cynical as I can be, it all gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.