Posted in blessings, ordinary joys on Aug 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Luxury is leaving work at 1.00pm, browsing in a bookstore for an hour or so, snoozing in the sun on the train home, catching an afternoon movie, (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. It really is a comic book come to vibrant, hilarious life. Loved it. How can you not love a movie with a character […]
Posted in ordinary joys on Jul 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
What is luxury? Tonight it’s a quiet night in, heaters on, lights low, eating three-mushroom and walnut ravioli, watching Mary and Max, rugged up in my PJs, fleecy jumper, and ugg boots, wearing a beanie indoors, and looking forward to either a mug of chili hot chocolate or some sweet milky Grey Earl with a […]
Posted in ordinary joys, simple living, food on Jun 7th, 2010 1 Comment »
Weekend Meditation is one of the best kept secrets on the Apartment Therapy website. I forget how I stumbled across it, but the writing is delightful, warming, soul food. How can you ignore an article that starts: “Sometimes when life gets too full of stress and obligation and disappointments, I lock my door, bury my […]
Posted in ordinary joys, family & friends on Jan 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Yesterday was a Molly Day, meaning that I spent the day with Brother Mark, Sister Keryn, and my darling niece - Molly. She is now walking, starting to talk, and testing boundaries. (Just how close to the water can I get my drink bottle, even though Daddy told me not to.) Mostly she just plays […]
Posted in ordinary joys, movies & tv on Dec 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Since The Informant wasn’t playing in town for reasons unknown - it was playing everywhere else - Tom and I saw Where The Wild Things Are instead. I was curious to see how Spike Jonez was going to translate a 10-sentence picture book into a feature film, but figured that anyone with the imagination to […]
Posted in ordinary joys on Dec 3rd, 2009 6 Comments »
Raspberries and blackberries for $3.98 a punnet. Happy with that. On another note - does anyone else think that strawberries are overrated? Or do I stand alone on that point?
Posted in environment, ordinary joys on Nov 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
It’s the little things that make life enjoyable. Like an afternoon spent shredding ten years of bills and receipts. Feeding the beast became strangely hypnotic, as sheet after sheet after sheet was quickly gobbled up in a whir of grinding metal teeth. The sound of munching was music to my ears. Poor thing became overheated […]