So, Gracie barks at birds, but treats frogs with gentle curiosity 😂

Love that the middle school sends emails to dress your child for the weather, as if I have any control over what my 11 year old is willing to wear. We once had an OT who said “most kids will get uncomfortable if they’re cold and wet and start wearing a coat.” M is not most kids 😂

Drove J to school, the rain had sort of died down but at that point she had missed the bus anyway. Got home and it started picking up again so I drove M. Now it is absolutely pouring and I’m going to get soaked going from the car to the house 😂

It is raining so hard right now! Might drive the kids today.

Can I turn reposts off? It’s fine if people like my cat, but strangers don’t need to repost me. Is that a thing?

Kitty fangs.

I spent all day at the Housing Symposium today. By all accounts, it was a good day. Great speakers, engaged audience, good questions. Some of my colleagues stayed after for cocktails. I am home, laying in bed, eating a peanut butter cookie and recovering from the socializing 😂

Lol the scoreboard at figure skating tonight. IYKYK. 😂

Went skating in my new skates. What a difference! Still going to take some getting used to but u am very happy. The kids skated too, then J helped out pre-can skaters. Now taking a break while M watches a friend’s hockey game and J warms up.

Happy birthday @hfxgirl.bsky.social!

My mom gave me money for skates 💜💜💜

Took the dog and kid for a walk. It was raining lightly when we got here, then it cleared up, and now it’s raining again.

I spent the morning cleaning - laundry, dishes, tidying, sweeping, cat litter, bathroom - and now I am tired. But I need to dry my hair and take the dog for a walk, and go to Bedford.

Has anyone tried to go through the process of returning bras to Understance? Of the 5 that I ordered, 2 absolutely do not fit (can’t do them up in the back) and one is really too tight to be worn comfortably. The other two are okay although I probably wouldn’t have paid full price for them.

Y’all, barking at blue jays at the feeders is exhausting.

There are 3 blue jays fighting over the feeder this morning. Squawking and causing a ruckus. One will eat and then be scared off by another waiting in the wings (pun intended) Don’t mine the dead plant and gross hummingbird feeder - they regularly land on both lol.

Me: I cannot possibly close any of my tabs, they are too important, I will lose track of documents if I close them. Also me: has the same document opened in 4 different tabs without realizing it 🤦🏼‍♀️

I bought a 2-pack of pillows from Costco yesterday and neither D nor I are really impressed. Can I return them? Is that acceptable?

You know that fairy tale about the magic pot that keeps producing porridge? I think I have one except it’s a hamper and produces laundry. No matter how much I empty it, when I turn around it’s full again.

@eastcoastknits.bsky.social no baby cows but the animals they have seem pretty delightful!

Follow up, because it’s been so long since I’ve been a regular transit user: Is there a way to get google maps to include the ferry as an option? I’m assuming it’s faster without traffic to take the bus, but if the problem is traffic between Woodland and Scotia Square, the bus is not the solution.

Dartmouth peeps: Where is the closest park and ride to MM Mall? I want to look at routes and crunch some numbers.

Holy smokes! I bet that’s what fucked up traffic more.

Traffic was moving slowly on Woodland but now is not moving at all. Anyone know if there’s another accident?

Gracie’s being a cozy lazybones in bed but Luna’s been begging me to feed her for the last 2 hours so I gotta get up. I would much rather stay in bed though.

Gracie thoroughly enjoyed turkey, carrots, peas, potatoes, squash and even cranberries - little bites here and there but she wants everyone to know that she still has room for more 😂

J and I took Gracie for a walk this afternoon before I came home and made turkey dinner. Nothing really went as planned this weekend but I’m still feeling thankful.

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.” Food - salmon. I have tried it every which way, and I just cannot. Movie - Signs with Mel Gibson. What a terrible movie. Song - Little Drummer Boy by Bob Seager.

Went to Withrow’s and for $38 I got 10lbs honeycrisp apples, a dog bone, a squash, a turnip, a cucumber, 4 heads of garlic and some cheese.

I think we should normalize Thanksgiving breakfast. Strawberries were $1.99 at Superstore the other day, and are local.

The flannel sheets are on the bed. I also have a quilt, a bedspread, a weighted blanket and a comforter on me. My feet are icicles. I will definitely wake up sweaty from the shoulders up later.

I feel like I’m slowly unraveling. I didn’t finish work until almost 5, picked up J and came home for less than a half hour before we went to the rink. That was fine but when they finished skating there was a hockey game, they were supposed to have off ice, but it got moved and then cancelled.

Morning meeting went over. I didn’t plan for lunch. Went to take some chicken out and the whole pack had gone bad 😭 So much for my meal planning.

Dropped J off at school and went for a walk in the new Kiln Creek subdivision. The extension to the trail is beautiful.

I just remembered J needs 3 more rocks for her rocks and minerals project that is due today. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Today was a shitty day so I am in the McDonald’s drive thru. And so is a cybertruck! And now I feel better about my day lol.

I made a big thing of pasta tonight so I would have leftovers in my lunch tomorrow, but somehow I glutened myself and I can’t be sure it wasn’t the pasta 😭 I made KD for the kids, and the only thing I can figure is that I spilled some of the powder and cross contaminated it.

Gracie is pupset. These cows and sheep should not be loose like this 😂

I’m finished watching Wayward. I liked it so much. So nostalgic with the soundtrack and clothing and the ancient computers lol. I also just really loved how the characters had to plan without modern technology. It was also so creepy. And Mae Martin was great.

Gracie was barking so I put her in the bedroom with me and closed the door. I have the window open though, and now she’s snoozing but I keep hearing a sound outside that I can’t identify. Do not recommend.

J was explaining a YouTube short to me where a person thought a dog bone was a bone from a dog. Which made me think: Why do cartoon dog bones and milk bones have that shape? I’ve never seen an actual dog bone that looks like 🦴

And to think I was going to put the flannel sheets on the bed… I am a sweaty mess after making supper and doing the dishes 🙃

Also if anyone wants some nightmare material, I had to have my husband pull a tick out of my boob today. It was very embedded but not engorged. I did not feel it at all, only noticed it while getting out of the shower.

Where do you find the smoke forecast? It smells very Smokey outside.

Made shepherds pie tonight. Added lentils to bulk it up more because I didn’t have as much meat and they’re such a cheap protein and add fibre. It was so good. D doesn’t like lentils usually and he said he could barely tell they were there.

I just picked a tick off my face 🤢

Round 2!

I made a dog bandana! I didn’t have a pattern so I made one. It’s too small for Gracie unfortunately so it’s back to the drawing board.

Went for a walk in the woods this morning. Let the dog off leash. She rolled in something dead and we’ve picked 30+ ticks off her 🤦🏼‍♀️

The kids had an hour of ice time today but it was early, and we don’t have to be up early tomorrow, so I am making tea, watching the Lilith Fair doc, and playing around with watercolours.