When my husband brought home a Fuji Instax Mini-7 camera, aka the modern day Polaroid, I will admit to thinking it was a bit lame. After all, why would anyone want those tiny pictures and what would you do with them all exactly? But one visit to Pinterest is all it took to open my eyes, and I was suddenly …
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Every year I buy a bottle of Egg Nog, and every year I glance at it as it sits in the back of the fridge and waits for someone to enjoy it. Poor old Egg Nog. I just can’t bring myself to drink you. This is why: Definition: egg·nog ?eg?näg,-?nôg/ noun noun: eggnog; plural noun: eggnogs; noun: egg flip; plural …
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I have always been someone who loves the mall. When I was young and single I’d walk that mall like nobodies business, hitting store after store and burning plastic until my signature had disappeared off my Visa and the shopping was done for the day. Although you’d be just as likely to find me lurking in the mall during the …
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Oh 3 am, I’m seriously unhappy to see you again. It’s dark, cold, and there are hours until I have to get up, but here I am staring at the ceiling again and wondering exactly how I’m going to get back to sleep. On the plus side? I’m learning a lot about old Hollywood, because that seems to be the …
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This is the story of 4 pillow pets. No, they weren’t just any old pillow pets (are there just ‘any old’ pillow pets??) – these pillow pets, Marie, Bullseye, Perry, and Tigger, are special. Special because they went on the most epic journey a pillow pet can take, starting from Downtown Disneyland, and still made it back to our place …
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I’ve always been someone who finds something I like and sticks with it through thick or thin. Take food for example – because I was brought up with simple food from the Prairies, the idea of trying things like sushi or…well anything other than meat loaf and mashed potatoes felt really insane to me after I moved to the West …
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A few weeks ago, I was walking through Costco looking for Halloween candy when the Holidays suddenly stood up and smacked me in the face. There were Christmas trees beside skeletons and mini chocolate bars displayed by the Christmas poppers. As I stood there, I finally understood how Tim Burton was inspired to do the Nightmare before Christmas. Fast forward …
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I don’t know anyone who doesn’t look at a certain toy and have flashbacks from their childhood. For me, it’s Cabbage Patch Dolls. At age 13, when all of my friends were starting to think about boys and makeup, my parents gifted me with one of the coveted Cabbage Patch Dolls. And even though part of me felt like I …
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In the grand scheme of things, I’d like to spend less time cleaning and more time doing other stuff. Like sleeping. Or, well, just not cleaning. So I was happy when Best Buy asked me to test out the Neato Robotics XL Signature Pro Robot Vacuum. I’ve tried the iRobot Roomba, and one of my favorite parts of any day …
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Vancouver isn’t exactly the place you might like to end up if you suffer from the winter blues. I grew up in Saskatchewan, land of the endless sky and even more endless cabin fever, and even though it was damn cold outside, I never remember feeling blue in the winter. Why? I’m guessing because the sun came out. A lot. …
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