Owner: Assertagirl URL:http://www.assertagirl.com Join Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:16:33 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: My name is Amy and I’m a 31-year-old wife, daughter and work-at-home editor, which means I spend mosts of my days working in my pajamas. I live with my very handy (and handsome!) husband Graham and our cats Farley and Rudy in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. Site statistics:Click here
The swirling. 2008-07-23 22:16:58 I’m struggling.
I really want to write about my experiences at BlogHer this year, but I’m kind of at a loss for words. My feet are aching, my mind is tired, and quite frankly, I’m finding it difficult to articulate all of the things that are swirling around in my brain.
Things like how amazing it [...]
Can’t…stop…thinking about…burritos… 2008-07-23 00:06:57 Attention BlogHer attendees: Did you know that San Francisco has an OCEAN? Sure, you got to drink champagne among shoes and purses and schmooze with personal shoppers whose services you will never be able to afford (was that just me?), but you didn’t see the ocean.
Fortunately, I’m still here in California, and my [...] Read more:thinking
My journey of seven miles began with a single step. 2008-07-21 00:08:01 Right now I’m sitting with my throbbing feet up in my friend Derek’s La-Z-Boy in his apartment in Palo Alto. That’s right, the BlogHer conference is over, but my trip to California is only about half-way through. Finally I am out of the frigid San Francisco air and in a more appropriately balmy [...] Read more:single
Highlights. 2008-07-19 10:37:11 Highlights of BlogHer ‘08 so far:
Very dry gin martinis in the hotel lobby bar.
Meeting awesome bloggers I’ve been reading for years.
Giving and receiving sincere, squishy hugs.
Roast beef sandwiches at a dive called “Lefty O’Doul’s” at midnight.
Handing out Canadian chocolate bars (Deb and Julie, I still have Flakes and Smarties for you).
Learning that boobs ca Read more:Highlights
This is how much fun I’m having! 2008-07-18 20:26:50 Jess, Me and Jenn. Photo courtesy (”or should I say, ripped off of the Flickr site”) of Jennster. Taken at the People’s Party Thursday night at BlogHer ‘08.
There’s No Pleasing Everyone 2008-08-08 16:32:39 Today is one of those days I feel the internet is just exhausting. I know I’m not alone in this sentiment.
Without naming The Incident Which Shall Not Be Named, I just want to say that you shouldn’t mistake my silence on the matter as a lack of opinion or lack of caring. I [...]
The Moth and the Butterfly 2008-08-07 07:47:17 There’s no denying it. Lately I’ve felt like there is something missing. Life is a simple flurry of editing work, writing activities, gardening, cooking and cleaning. Once in awhile I meet up with a friend for coffee or lunch. I visit my community garden. We go to the movies. [...] Read more:Butterfly
The First Ever Assertagirl Caption Contest 2008-08-05 10:32:34 I posted this photo to Flickr the other day and Belinda commented, “Uhhh…Eskimo hookers?” Then I smacked myself in the head because I didn’t even think of that joke (get it? An Eskimo, or Inuit, as we Canadians prefer to call our neighbours up north, would have a frosty john…). I was [...] Read more:First
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Scenes from a Canadian Long Weekend 2008-08-03 19:32:43 This evening on my way home from visiting the community garden plot, I passed a house on the corner near our place. On the front lawn sat about 12 teenagers wearing hoodie sweatshirts and concert t-shirts, sitting on cheap lawn chairs, perched among several coolers.
They had propped up against the stop sign post on their [...] Read more:Canadian
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It’s a good thing Bert & Ernie weren’t there. 2008-07-30 10:22:31 Every year around Christmastime, I sit down by myself with a glass of wine and watch Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. I pretty much cry the whole way through it. But that’s okay…it’s a good cry. It’s the kind of cry that comes from way, deep down inside.
You see, I grew up [...] Read more:Ernie
A Little White Dress and a Whole Lotta Leather 2008-08-21 09:14:11 There’s nothing like ending a blog post with a teaser and then failing to follow through, is there? That last line of my previous post should have ended with something like, “Stay tuned sometime later this month to find out what the baptism had in common with hot gay men in leather,” instead.
Last Sunday [...] Read more:White
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Try this on for size. 2008-08-18 17:08:18 Graham, me and Ellis.
Ellis is my new little god-daughter. She was baptized this weekend. After the baptism we went for some brunch…stay tuned tomorrow to find out what the baptism had in common with hot gay men in leather.
Today’s Specials 2008-08-14 12:30:17 It looks like my next-door neighbour had a tough day, recently. I took this photo of her driveway last week.
I think I’m going to start writing the daily dinner specials on the end of our driveway. Read more:Today
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31 going on 13 2008-08-12 20:54:42 1990—I walk slowly down the concrete ramp to the area where the grade seven and grade eight students are supposed to wait for the bell to ring. My heart beats rapidly in my chest, as it does most mornings on my way to school. My knapsack is slung over one shoulder, the way [...]
Profiles of a Restaurant Server 2008-09-15 07:41:22 Graham and I spent all weekend inside the restaurant for training sessions, and before we go any further, yes we got to eat the food, yes, there was meat on it, and yes, we did eat it. Moving on…
During our training sessions I’ve taken interest in the many different kinds of personalities that are [...] Read more:Profiles
Wishes 2008-09-11 07:34:52 The other day I had to pick up my mom and drive her to get her car, which she’d left overnight after…ahem…havin’ a few with her friends. Good girl, mom.
As we drove on the 401, I told her that Graham and I would be filling out our Power of Attorney forms, and that she [...] Read more:Wishes
Demand Democratic Debates! 2008-09-10 07:54:45 Aaaaaand….here we go with Canadian election madness.
A consortium of television networks has once again decided not to let the Green Party participate in the nationally televised debates for this election.
I call bullshit.
The consortium announced on Monday (as reported at the National Post):
Three parties opposed the Greens inclusion in the debate, the consortium said in a [...] Read more:Democratic
Dangling Carrots 2008-09-04 21:10:15 Last week I wrote a post about a great opportunity that had been presented to Graham. A big, fat, juicy carrot was dangled in front of us and we just sat there, our mouths gaping open, ready to eat that sucker.
Except it turned out that the carrot wasn’t so much fat and juicy and brimming [...] Read more:Carrots
Float On 2008-09-04 13:21:38 There’s been a slight shift of gears here at our house, but we’re coping. With dancing cats and beer.
Gramma’s things. 2008-10-01 07:01:14 Last week I took a personal day from work to go with my step-mom to visit my gramma. My gramma is a remarkable lady who will be celebrating her 84th birthday this year. My dad told me yesterday that he would never have thought, if you asked him 20 years ago, that my gramma would [...] Read more:things
Four meats and an ER spoiler. 2008-09-29 08:13:56 Today feels like a good day to stay cozy inside, your favourite mug filled with a hot drink. I’m looking out my home office window as I type this morning, and the tree out front is turning a brilliant, deep yellow. It’s really something against the backdrop of an overcast sky. This is the time [...]
My feet deserve ‘em. 2008-09-24 16:22:29 I think I need shopping therapy. And when I say “shopping therapy,” I don’t mean that I need to shake off a little tension by purchasing shoes, clothes or pretty little things for the house. I mean that I need somebody to show me again that shopping can be fun.
With all this frugality happening I’ve [...]
Everybody’s working for the weekend… 2008-09-23 07:43:57 Well, we made it through the weekend. Graham worked 30 hours at the restaurant last week and I did 29, in addition to our usual full-time jobs. By Sunday night we were both so tired, but so proud of the hard work we’d done all weekend long. We stood in the upstairs [...] Read more:Everybody
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Moonlighting (not like Bruce Willis or Cybill Shepherd, though) 2008-09-18 18:30:53 My body feels totally exhausted. That giant “editor knot” is back again, tucked neatly in behind my right shoulder blade, and my uterus is tied up in its monthly painful little muscular ball. Yet here I sit in front of my laptop pounding out a little something. I’m going through one of those “meh” blog [...] Read more:Bruce
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With pride. 2008-10-17 09:59:18 “It’s pretty amazing, what she’s doing, isn’t it?”
I was sitting across from my dad at a restaurant, where we had lunch together a couple of weeks ago.
“Well, you know, Heather’s got this ‘bucket list’ that she’s made up and she’s been focusing on actually doing the things on her list,” he replied.
That’s the kind of [..
Cute schmute. 2008-10-15 17:29:21 This was supposed to be the post wherein I show you all pictures of my feet outfitted with new shoes. That’s right, my feet earned those cute green American Eagle heels and I wore them to one of the many Thanksgiving dinners we went to over the weekend. The shoes were a hit…moreso even than [...]
Overdose. 2008-10-14 09:44:47 On the way to dinner at my mom’s last night, Graham and I remarked about how pretty the leaves on the trees were. The sun was setting, so the lovely autumn leaves were all glowing with their new colours.
“You know, all in all this hasn’t been too bad a weekend,” I said. [...] Read more:Overdose
Pennies are money, too. 2008-10-09 05:18:25 To our server at the Village Inn pub in Bowmanville, Ontario,
A couple of days ago I went with a friend to your restaurant for a bite to eat. At the end of our meal we paid our separate cheques in cash to you at the table. When we told you that we didn’t [...] Read more:Pennies
Put a pumpkin-scented candle in the window… 2008-10-07 07:15:19 We had a light frost last night. I can see the places across the street the sun hasn’t yet touched and those places are covered with a thin film of crystal ice.
Thanksgiving is on its way to us here in Canada and instead of being excited about eating turkey and pumpkin pie and seeing [...]
Chalk Outline Cat 2008-11-14 11:08:02 We’ve reached the portion of NaBloPoMo in which I get all lazy and just post photos of our cats.
We like to call this pose, “ChalkOutline
Cat.” If this was the crime scene for a cat murder, Farley’s chalk outline would look exactly the way he’s lying.
(Rudy is clearly still quietly grieving the loss of [...]
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