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Free music and free rice for a good cause 2007-12-11 07:16:15 I may well be one of the last people to know about this, but I thought it was pretty cool and thought I’d share it with you.
I’ve long been a huge Queen fan. I remember writing out the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody by hand, copying them carefully from the album liner of my mother’s copy of A Night at the Opera, when I was about eight years old. They’ve always been one of my favourite bands, and I think the loss of Freddie Mercury is on par with John Lennon’s death.
I have to admit, I was a little skeptical when I heard that band members Brian May and Roger Taylor had reformed the group with new lead singer Paul Rodgers. Who could ever fill Freddie Mercury’s shoes?
But then I heard that they released a free single called “Say It’s Not True” and I had to check it out. The single was originally written back in 2003 to support Nelson Mandela’s 46664 World AIDS Day fundraising concert. It was recorded as a single this year and
Christmas thoughts 2007-12-24 06:07:24 It’s Christmas
Eve, early in the morning. Today will be a chaotic day from end to end, and I’m almost reluctant to launch myself into it, knowing when the dust finally settles that Christmas will be more or less over.
The boys and I are taking the bus downtown to my work (an adventure in itself, their first ride on public transit!) and Beloved will join us later for the office children’s Christmas party, complete with a visit from Santa himself. I have to make one last stop at the Rideau Centre, which promises even more chaos. Then home for an afternoon visit from my entire side of the family - fourteen or more of us, crammed into my little townhouse! - which will meander its way into our traditional Christmas Eve gift exchange after dinner.
I’m so lucky to be at the centre of this family. I remember the Christmases when my brother and I were young adults, and there were no children racing through the house on Christmas Eve. Though it was always wonderful t Read more:thoughts
Drama at the Canadian Blog Awards 2007-12-23 17:58:35 Sigh. When I was asked, maybe a month or so ago, to help out in determining whether nominated blogs were eligible for their category in the Canadian
Blog Awards
, I was happy to do so. As I said, the CBAs have been good to me over the years, although I had always been concerned that maybe they were a little too deeply mired in the political end of the Canadian blogosphere. Over the years, I’ve been fairly careful to avoid the political blogs because I find the participants particularly combatitive, confrontational and often disrespectful. Life’s too short for that kind of conflict and stress! So when I had the opportunity to jump in and represent both the family blog community AND maybe even the PR and marketing and social media blogs where I spend all my time, I thought it was a good opportunity to offer a diverse perspective to the organization of the CBAs.
So far, it’s been an unpleasant experience. There was a request for a Best Feminist Blog category, to whi Read more:Blog Awards
A Christmas Story 2007-12-22 14:16:47 (No, not that Christmas
Story, although it is among my favourites of the season.)
After my ultrasound Friday morning - all things are good, placenta is out of the way, baby is up to six pound and looking fine - I went to Toys R Us for a few last-minute things. It was first thing in the morning, barely 9 am, and the place was blissfully unbusy. It didn’t take me long to find what I was looking for, and I found one last inspiring gift. I waddled up to the cash register, and nearly choked when the total she announced was about $30 more than I was expecting.
“Um,” I said, looking at her display,”this thing is supposed to be $24.99.”
“Oh!” said the cashier, “It rang through as $59.99. Can you show me the sign that said it was $24.99?”
Sure enough, we got to the shelf, and there was actually two shelves of them with the $24.99 label - but when I peered down to the lowest shelf for a better look, the small print on the label clearly n Read more:Christmas Story
The nice thing about having a blog is getting the last word 2007-12-21 07:05:46 I’ve vacillated quite a bit about what to post today. Late last night, tears still stinging my eyes, I was going to turn off the comments and not post anything until after Christmas, or at least until after the weekend, to take a little break from blogging. The level of judgementalism in some of the comments yesterday really got to me. (When I re-read them this morning, I could clearly see that it was only a few - but once I was feeling defensive, hurt wasn’t far behind.) Lying awake after my 4 am pee break and unable to go back to sleep, I thought maybe I’d try to make a joke out of it. An hour ago in the shower, I thought maybe it was best to just ignore it and write about something else entirely.
Since my muse has deserted me, you get this stream-of-consciousness instead. For those of you who are curious (or, in some cases, disturbingly judgemental) about our choice to send the boys to Catholic school, beyond this post here’s the gist of it our reasonin
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