knitnut.net: Quite the Week
It has been Quite the Week. There was a more-or-less last-minute switch-about at work, which meant that I got to go to a conference in Montreal about HIV and housing, from Tuesday to Friday. Since I...
View Articleknitnut.net: Sad chalk message on the sidewalk
Friday morning I was walking to work along Somerset Street. It was a drizzly morning, so this sidewalk chalk message was probably still fresh yet destined to disappear almost immediately. As I stopped...
View Articleknitnut.net: Doubting Thomas
The other morning as I was waking up, someone on CBC was talking about a project called ShareThanksgiving.ca. Basically, it’s an online matching service, in which host families in Canada are matched...
View Articleknitnut.net: What is she saying?
Kazoo is a 16-year-old Double Yellow Headed Amazon parrot. She talks. We don’t always know what she’s saying exactly, but we always know what she means because she’s remarkably expressive. Take a look...
View Articleknitnut.net: Which bedside table is which?
One of these bedside tables is mine, and the other one is GC’s. But which is which?
View Articleknitnut.net: Introducing our newest family member
Look! We adopted a bunny! This is not just any old bunny either, this is the sweetest, mellowest, most inquisitive bunny EVER. He’s got the funniest little bunny bum and a twitchy little bunny nose...
View Articleknitnut.net: Bunny love
Thanks to everybody who voted on the bunny’s name. We ended up going with Ivan. I know, it wasn’t even on the list…but I decided to name him after Ivan Coyote, who is one of my heroes. GC and I built...
View Articleknitnut.net: Mayor Rob Ford: Way worse than Larry O’Brien
I’ve been riveted by the Rob Ford debacle, but I am conflicted about it. On the one hand, Rob Ford is – and always has been – a repugnant, pugnacious, pig-headed, hypocritical, right-wing bully, so...
View Articleknitnut.net: Alessandra
Death is such a sudden and jarring thing. It doesn’t matter if the person was living on borrowed time, or if death came swooping in out of the blue, years ahead of schedule, it seems we are always...
View Articleknitnut.net: Fifty shades of white
GC and I have kind of lived together for years. But our living arrangement has always involved maintaining two houses, with his stuff in his house and my stuff and us and the animals in my house. We...
View Articleknitnut.net: Bunny fokz is weeyud
Let me just say this right upfront: I used to think bird people were a little odd. Bird people don’t hold a candle to bunny folk. I’m not naming names because I don’t know if bunny folk even know how...
View Articleknitnut.net: Nothing that a whack on the head can’t fix
I’ve been crazy busy lately, at work and at home. The move is scheduled for February 1st, so I’ve been packing and decluttering and running stuff over to Value Village and throwing stuff out....
View Articleknitnut.net: Also, I look like shit
My neurologist switched me to daily Topamax for migraine prevention a couple of months ago. Topamax is an anti-seizure medication. At first it didn’t work. I had a non-stop headache for weeks. But...
View Articleknitnut.net: Almost there
You know what? I don’t care how scattered or stressed I am, how many hours of sleep I have lost to insomnia, how many IQ points I have lost to meds, or how bloody awful I look and feel. The moving...
View Articleknitnut.net: The move – Part I
So we moved! It was stressful, as moving always is, and we’re still digging out from under all the boxes, but at least the move is behind us. The movers were great. We’d never heard of them but they...
View Articleknitnut.net: Such sad news
First picture of Duncan (OHS 2008) I have such sad news to share with you. Duncan Donut, the Glorious Dogcat, the big old Puddin’head, the best cat ever…Duncan died on Thursday afternoon. I know some...
View Articleknitnut.net: Gender Failure: Highly readable, highly recommended
I got an advance copy of Gender Failure, by Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon. It’s not quite available in the stores yet, but it’s coming soon and I urge you to get yourself a copy. It’s an extraordinary...
View Articleknitnut.net: Someone bought my house
Living Room So I kind of got busy there for awhile and didn’t write much about what was going on. Among other things, we fixed up my house and put it on the market. By fixed up, I mean painted the...
View Articleknitnut.net: Great Glebe Garage Sale – 2014 Edition
Here are some of the things we got and did at the Great Glebe Garage Sale yesterday: An authentic persian rug, 4×6, for $25 A pretty leash for Rosie for $1 2 gorgeous light switch plates, painted with...
View Articleknitnut.net: Where have I been?
Where have I been the last few months? I’ve been depressed. I still am, but I’m doing better now than I was. It was bad. It started in December and peaked in February I think. Between crazy workload...
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