Payday!

The title of today’s post refers not to the candy bar, which is unavailable in Canada (that’s okay: we have Mars) but to the fact that I finally have a pay cheque headed for my bank account at midnight. Normally, getting paid isn’t that big a deal: it happens most months, after all. What? Just…

Cold Water Wash

When it’s ten twenty-nine at night and I am finally sitting down to write today’s post, all signs point (with wailing sirens, tinkly bells and flashing pink lights) to a very full day. While I waited at Wal-Mart in the line of the slowest cashier in the history of discount stores, I drew a (rare)…