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Let Me Tell You A Story About Raccoons
Like all homeowners, we've encountered a few pest problems. Fruit flies. Ants. We have a few mice though I'm happy to say Piper stopped bringing mice up to our bedroom at 2am and has settled for...
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Sassymonkey Reads: October 2015
October was a weird month. It seemed really long. I'm guess that's because we didn't have a fully functioning main bathroom and shower for ten days. I'll write about that eventually. Maybe. Best...
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My 4 Favourite Lush Products
My friend Tarrant's youngest daughter just got a part-time job at Lush, which launched a discussion about what products they should try. I generally pop into Lush a few times a year to stock up on...
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Tilting at Windmills in the Middle of the Night
Credit: Davis Staedtler Sometimes you wake up at 3:30am from a bad dream in which someone is trying to bring you down. Emotionally. Professionally. You think of all the things you could have said....
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Someone I Used to Know
Sometimes I see a recent picture of you and think you look like someone I used to know. But I didn't. Not really. I only ever saw the parts you let me see—the parts that made it through the cutting...
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Last Minute Gifts Under $25 (Canadian!)
Gift guides are awesome. I love a good gift guide. But one of the problems I encounter with gift guides is that they aren't always Canadian-friendly. Either the products don't ship to Canada, or the...
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Should
"Should" is a small word that belies the enormity of feeling behind it. I feel like I'm all about the shoulds these last few months. All the things I should be writing. All the things I should be...
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The Absolution & Grace of the KonMari Method
"I'm starting to feel like a KonMari crack dealer," I texted a friend this past summer.Since I finished reading Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up I've been unable to stop myself from...
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Hope Springs
It was a tough winter. I spent most of 2015 feeling run down. I didn't feel like me. I felt like a pale shell of myself.I was a pale shell of myself except you didn't really see it because I stopped...
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The Ebbs and Flows of Blogging for 12 Years
I didn't mean to be a blogger. I really didn't. A long, long time ago the first post on my blog was about how I was never going to be a real blogger. I was just getting a Blogger (was it Blogspot at...
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My Favourite Things: March 2015
Hey, remember when I used to do a monthly list of favourites? Those were good times. Let's try that again. MinoSharp Water Sharpener We were at Grace in the Kitchen before Christmas and almost bought...
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Spring Cleaning Your Social Media Accounts
I didn't really intend to spring clean my social media accounts. It started simply enough. I was clicking around on things on the internet, reading all the things as I do, and a link led to another...
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Currently, April 19
Watching: Nothing at all because Lee is on a business trip and I'm having a tv-free night. Reading: Wildflower by Drew Barrymore. Listening: To The Milk Carton Kids latest album and trying to decide...
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Piper 1999-2016
Yesterday, August 16, we said goodbye to Piper, a.k.a. the #fakecat. Piper 1999-2016 She was my constant companion for 17 years. I got her as a stupid 20-year-old university student who had no business...
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Sassymonkey Reads: October 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a novel as much as I enjoyed this one. I really liked his first novel and this one is really quite different. He...
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Reset
I've spent the last three months mostly offline. Oh, I've been online a little bit every day, but by and large my hours online have been minimal. My computer has barely been touched as my online...
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Goodbye, 2016. Hello, 2017.
It's easy to think of 2016 as a dumpster fire. For many people, and in many ways, it was exactly that. It wasn't the easiest or best year for anyone I know. I said three big goodbyes in 2016. First, in...
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I've been thinking a lot about routines. Or more to the point, I've been thinking about a lack of routines. I haven't worked since September. Some of that is by choice, some by circumstance. I knew I...
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Friday Five, March 31
It's been awhile and I realized I've missed making these lists. I still love reading what other people discover on the internet and I have a wealth of time on my hands so let's give it a go again. How...
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Friday Five: The Anne of Green Gables Edition
Now that I've watched the first three episodes of the new CBC/Netflix Anne of Green of Gables and had some time to digest it, I'm having thoughts. I have a somewhat complicated relationship with Anne....
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