Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
So, it’s heeeeeere. The great annual candy extravaganza, Halloween. I know my children will be racing from door to door tomorrow in at attempt to collect the most candy ever! After all, whoever gets the most candy wins, right? So the kids come home and you sort through the booty, looking for the tampered stuff …
We are all guilty of buying into convenience such as bagged salad, cut up veggies, and frozen food. We’re busy, right? Sometimes though we’re being sold a bill of goods. Like store bought hot chocolate. Nothing bothers me more than hot chocolate because it may just be the ultimate sham. Seriously. Here’s an example of …
1. A snake in my toilet. Seriously, sometimes I’ll just be sitting there and that’ll pop into my head and I have to look. I wonder if this is a recognized phobia? Related. I once had a squirrel in my toilet. Oddly enough I have no phobia of a squirrel coming up and biting me …
Today I am sitting at my desk, begrudgingly writing out cheques for my children’s annual crappy photo shoot, A.K.A., their school pictures. It pains me to pay for these because they are spectacularly bad, although not as spectacularly bad as last year where I refused to purchase them all together. I seriously don’t get it. …
My daughter is in Grade 4 this year and we’ve been very lucky; she has loved every teacher she has had so far. That is until now. Her teacher this year is stressing her out. I didn’t expect of course that she wouldn’t ever get a teacher she wouldn’t mesh with. That’s unrealistic. Doesn’t everybody …
I may be mistaken but isn’t Halloween supposed to be creepy, scary, otherworldly even? It is, after all the day when the dead are supposed to roam the earth if we go back to it’s origins. Sure, we’ve morphed it into a day when people dress up and get candy at strangers doors, but it’s …
I’ve been giving lots of thought to what I walked away with from Blissdom this year. So far this is what I’ve come up with. Five Things I Learned 1. That I need an HST number. Apparently I’m an actual business. 2. If I want something, I need to ask for it. This is way …
I had such an incredible time reconnecting with old friends, meeting new people, and getting to know others better at Blissdom this year. Looking through the pictures I realized my bliss was spending time with all of you. Thank you for being so wonderful.
