I've been meaning to do this for sometime, and now that there's no question about it, I will begin immediately. Every time I come across a particularly interesting or moving blog, I am tempted to write about it. I haven't written one yet, basically because I have been distracted, or time was running out. However, after reading Jepel's Points Systems, Blogging and Ants... (2) , I felt that I must single out this fantastic piece of work. The time and effort put forth into this ...

Blogging about personal relationships, for me, is just too damned depressing. Mostly because, I don't have a personal relationship with anyone , but feel the need to explore the reasons behind this sad state of affairs. I can narrow it down to one thing... I have serious control issues. The second I feel like things are not going the way I determine them, I back off. Fast. (Yes, it's great that I know this about myself, but it still doesn't do me a whole lot of good.) These control issu...

It seems like everyone is interested in film. Everybody seems to be making their own films, writing for film, or acting in film. Coming from "an artistic haven" (as our city was once recently described), I enjoy the process, but from a distance. Yes, I considered it, since everyone else seemed to have good things to say about it, but in the end, I have admitted that my pleasure in entertaining people through my own imaginative efforts really lie either in print or online. I find the sol...

I'm not good with ending relationships. I'm pretty good with confrontation, in general; I'm an assertive and diplomatic person. However, when it comes to not wanting to see somebody again, I would rather they just 'got the hint', than actually say the words that will make them leave. Which is puzzling, in a way. I know in my heart that what is done is done . I don't think that anything can be gained or received in continuing on with something that is destined to go nowhere. For al...

Kole and I are going on a trip with the rest of her class to Six Nations, near Brantford, ON. It's funny; when most classes start to discuss end-of-the-year trips, schools in this area tend to book for places like Canada's Wonderland, the Toronto Zoo or Centreville... I never would have dreamed that my daughter's class would be discussing trips that involved medicine walks, longhouses, and pow-wow weekends. Some of the places where we will be visiting and staying at are: Link ...

Mondays are the best days of all for me, typically. Generally though, I only feel this way because of my child. She's back in school after a weekend spent at home, and while I love having her home with me, I am kinda glad when she returns to school so I can start putting some resemblance of order back into the house. How many people are faced with a complete write-off of a home come Monday morning? I've been wasting time on the computer after dropping my neice off at daycare, but I am in ...

This is the time of year when people I know start to do some serious planning. Living in Ontario, Canada, does have its perks. One of them is that almost everyone either has or knows someone else who has a cottage. My hometown is surrounded by hundreds of lakes in either direction, so the option to get away from it all and still end up in a different spot every time is actually favorable. Lakes in this area are relatively unpolluted; the only health concern is bites from those pesky mos...

Before my crush on a guy who is now a good friend, I had another crush. It went somewhere but it was a weird scenario. He was a 'reeler and pusher'. He'd reel me into thinking that something special was going on, and the moment our relationship started to go in a certain direction he'd push away. This happened over and over. And I took it for a long time. See, we were friends, but I was definitely more interested in him at the start, and he knew it. I never did anything regrettable, but ...

I've been strutting around a bit and have been feeling very relieved. I got offered a job, signed the papers and start at the end of the month. Yay for me! I've had a perma-grin for awhile now, and am just glad to be finally in the position of getting off welfare, starting my career and having more money than I've every earned in my life. It means no more daytime blogging, but it also means, that, eventually I will be able to upgrade from my CrapComputer to a real kickin one. However, I ...

There are just some days when a beer would go down so nicely. I've been trying to stop drinking. I have never been the kind of person to keep alcohol at home and since I am only able to get out once a week at the most often, I don't actually do a lot of regular drinking. I'm also usually the kind of person who likes to be in control, so even if I do go out, I'm always sober enough to know exactly what I have done, how many drinks I have had, and who I have been hanging out with. Add tha...

This morning, in Toronto, police initiated an Amber Alert that had hundreds working together to help in a matter which is seriously becoming a common crime, to much dismay. Child abduction. At approximately 8:50 am, several witnesses saw and overheard a young boy screaming. The phrase 'I don't know you.' was overheard and immediate action took place. Several 911 calls were made, and police quickly rounded up potential witnesses who revealed that they had seen a small red-headed boy...

There's no method to my madness of blogging today. I can't seem to put forth a fully formed opinion on anything, and any particular item that I would bitch about isn't maddening enough... just a minor annoyance. Then again... Ordered list, anyone? If Trinitie is 'gone' from Joeuser, why does she continue popping up in the comments section making decidingly bitchy comments? I would have responded to one of her so-called challenges, but that would be on someone else's blog, not mine...

I mentioned it in my latest blog, but I'm slowly going crazy with my 6 year old's incessant chattering. I love her voice. It's such a sweet, girly voice. It's cute to listen to, because there's some word sounds that she still can't say properly such as mixing up W's for R's, and pronouncing other words incorrectly, like 'hopsital' for 'hospital', etc,. But, lately, she's just been going on and on about anything and everything. Since she was by my side for over 72 hours, I was going batty...

i know that it doesn't take much effort, but i'm just too tired to capitalize my sentences today. why? i think it all began when i stepped out of the car this morning and saw snow falling from the sky... again!!! okay, i realize that i live in canada, and that there's a great many people from outside of canada who think that this is the norm- snow in may... but it's not. there's nothing normal about walking into my apartment last night to a living room that was 91degrees, and then waking up ...

it's sunday. it's raining. i have to go grocery shopping. i need to clean the bathroom. i am currently doing laundry. i have a movie that is 14 days overdue. I still haven't brought it back yet. i kissed somebody that i shouldn't have. i cut someone from my friend list. i went to the movies. i'm trying to eat more veggies and less bread. i am dying for fish and chips. i want a coke. i need to drink more water. i've got to go.