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Friday Links March 13
I spent a lot of this week thinking. I've been thinking about our society and sexism. I've been thinking about yet another case of boys rallying behind a "Consent is Overrated" cry and wondering where...
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I don't know how it happened but for me spring is Montreal. It's specifically my first spring at McGill. Despite the fact that January saw so much ice it closed down the city for over a week and people...
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Meal Plan Monday April 27
I've been struggling with meal planning lately. Oh, I've still be making them because I am totally lost when I don't. Lee was out of town for a week recently and I even planned breakfast and lunch in...
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Pain Demands to Be Felt
I listened to to Alan Cumming's Not My Father's Son this past weekend. I find it hard to stop thinking about it. It's not an enjoyable book, though I could listen to Cumming narrate a book about just...
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I Let My Husband Put "Bad" Photos of Me on the Internet
My husband puts bad photos of me on the internet.I don't consider myself an especially vain woman. I rarely wear makeup and in most of my selfies I'm not wearing makeup at all. I dye my hair but I wait...
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What I Read in May
May was all about the home DIY projects (in progress, none finished, such is my life). DIY projects are actually really good for me in terms of reading because when I'm DIYing I'm all about the...
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Drab to Fab: DIY Black and White Painted Stairs
From Drab to Fab: DIY Black and White Painted Stairs I'm sure you've heard all the cliches about Canadian winters. They are longer. They are colder. We walked to school uphill both ways in the snow...
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Happy Ice Cream Month: Breakfast Trash Ice Cream
I am a heavy library user. Every Saturday we head off to our local branch of the Ottawa Public Library and I pick up half a shelf of holds. The OPL doesn't have a limit on how many holds you can have...
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Thoughts While Doing Yoga
"Hmm I need a flow-y yoga. But not too flow-y because when I don't know the flow it's annoying. And not too much down dog but enough to test my new gloves. Oh! Found one. Thank you YouTube." "Mountain...
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Sassymonkey's Favourites: July 2015
A few of my favourite things in July I have been trying to focus on the things that make me happy. The things that bring me joy. Sometimes they are small things. Sometimes they are big. Here are a few...
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Sassymonkey Reads: June and July 2015
I felt like I didn't read much in June and July until I looked at my list. Not bad! My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor. I wanted to like this more than I...
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Road Trippin'
We headed out on our annual road trip to PEI this morning. It was a slightly more eventful departure in the wee small hours of the morning as the raccoons, who are attempting to move into our attic...
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Beaches and Food
We spent Saturday morning getting to PEI. We crossed the bridge. Crossing the Confederation Bridge. Then it was off to the Charlottetown Farmers Market to buy new potatoes and mini doughnuts. To be...
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Cavendish Beach Homestead Trail
We made a decision before we went on this vacation. Before we plopped our butts down on the beach for the day we wanted to try to walk. We needed to move a bit. We knew from our previous visits there...
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Greenwich Dune Trail, Prince Edward Island Provincial Park
When we were in Prince Edward Island, we were very into plopping down on various beaches. We were also very into moving our bodies around a bit before we hit we the beach. It mostly worked out really...
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Sassymonkey's Favourites: August 2015
A few of my favourite things August was one of those weird months that seemed really long and yet flew by. I have not completely reconciled my brain to the fact it's now September. I'm not ready for...
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Let Me Tell You A Story About A Squirrel
This is a story about a squirrel named Stubby.He only has about two-thirds is his tail. Stubby has a nest in my neighbour's (dying) ash tree. Stubby gives exactly no fucks. Stubby. On this...
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Sassymonkey Reads: August & September
August saw me reading a lot of library books on my Kobo because road trip + beach = all the reading. I tend to stock up on romance novels for these trips because they hold my attention well enough even...
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Sassymonkey's September Favourites
I, for one, was not sad to see September go. It felt like a really, really long month and it was totally not my favourite. That doesn't mean I disliked everything about it. Here are some things I liked...
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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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