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Fixing The Old Lady Hair

Fixing The Old Lady Hair

In February I got my hair cut, and cut, and cut again. I always tell any stylist I go to to do what they think would look best.  They are, after all, the professionals and should be studying up on what would be current and look good on me. The challenge is that my haircuts lately have been pricy, very pricy. Sure they look great, but I was getting tired of forking out that much money. So I decided to go back the hair dressing school in my neighbourhood.  I’ve had wonderful success there in the past.  The cuts were…

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Breaking the Virgin Diet

Breaking the Virgin Diet

I figure if you are going to reintroduce gluten, sugar, and dairy back into your diet, why not do a three-fer! At last that way what ever payback you experience, and I expect it will be uncomfortable, unpleasant, and unfriendly, it’s worth it. Right? Hey, there’s a rumour there’s peach in this peaches & cream doughnut too, so that makes it healthy. If you were off gluten, sugar and dairy for 2 weeks what would you break your fast with? If you were going for a doughnut, what would you have?

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Booty Camp: Round One To The Knees

Booty Camp: Round One To The Knees

First night of Booty Camp finished!  All in all the experience was great and at the end of the class  I was mostly intact with only a slight tweaking of my knee and some bruising of my ego.  But isn’t that always the way when you jump into a new fitness regime. I’m the slowest, heaviest and possibly the oldest in the crowd… so as I mentioned above my ego is getting a bit of a work out alongside my body.  But in general the crowd seems pretty non-judgy.  Trust me, that’s not always the case in groups of women……

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Fat AND Beautiful

Fat AND Beautiful

I wrote this great piece recently that I was going to title Fat AND Beautiful. It was about the people who hear me say “I’m fat” and immediately jump to reassure me that I am, instead, beautiful.  Now don’t get me wrong, I like hearing that I’m beautiful, and it’s very kind of them to be protecting me from what they see as bad self-talk, but I AM fat. Thing is, I am beautiful too. Fat is not the opposite of Beautiful, they aren’t mutually exclusive either. But it has happened a number of times and every time it happens…

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What I Looked Like When I Was Here Last

What I Looked Like When I Was Here Last

What I Looked Like When I Was Here Last — Originally uploaded by LexnGer Or almost last, I found this one the wall of my high school! I can’t get a good shot of my High School Commencement photo from my cellphone. It’s too high on the wall. (So that one is coming later)

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Do Not Wait!

Do Not Wait!

I am fine, it was an ocular migraine! That is a very important first sentence because yesterday I went to the Mount Sinai Emergency with one of the 5 signs of a stroke – vision problems. All of a sudden, while I was in a cab I could not see.  More accurately I could see, but what I saw looked like chaos – 2 streams of visual data coming in at the same time.  Colours, bright, shapes, out of focus, and completely unrecognizable.  Kind of like a kaleidoscope without any patterns at all. Each eye was giving me different data…

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Missing the Basketmobile

Missing the Basketmobile

Two weeks ago, we were working our asses off. My primary joy in each day was waking up and cycling to our new office, and at the end of the day getting on the basketmobile and cycling home.  I love biking in the morning when the tree-lined streets are dappled with sun and the birds are singing, and again late at night when the empty streets are dark and the air is thick and heavy. After working 10-12 hour days, even in my great new office, it was sheer joy to open the door, see my bike and know I…

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New Office Space, So Exciting!

New Office Space, So Exciting!

I'm very excited to be moving CheapEats HQ into a dedicated office in the Camaraderie coworking space at Adelaide and Jarvis.  (if you came to my photo show last year, it's the same location) As of August 1st this will be the view from my desk. It's a bigger space than our current office, much closer to home and we're very excited to be joining our friends at Camaraderie.  Though we will miss our LaunchPad buddies, we have a whole new group of friends to make, a park across the street and the St. Lawrence Market just 2 blocks away. …

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5YAT: Hey, Are Those Voices?

5YAT: Hey, Are Those Voices?

8 January, 2005 – Grey & Clear –10º Snapped awake at Midnight. Heard 2 male voices out my bedroom window, and then a low chuckle. It sounded like they were very close, as if they were just down the path at the School House. So I rolled out of bed onto the floor so I couldn’t be seen through the window. Got dressed and went down to see what was happening. Nothing. No dogs barking. No loud skidoos or ATVs. No voices. But it’s pitch black outside, the dogs are agitated and I am completely shot through with adrenaline. I’ve…

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Remembering Mal

Remembering Mal

Today I am remembering more than just the fallen. On this Remembrance Day I remember Marilynn Fox, my step-mother, who died last month and whose memorial shebeen is being held in Nauwigewauk this afternoon. Marilynn drove into my life down a gravel road when I was 3 and she was 37.  We played gas station and she became a part of my life forever. Our relationship was tumultuous and challenging but there was always love. Often hidden behind some other more urgent passion or emotion, but it was there. Marilynn was generous,loving, strong, willful, smart, creative, resourceful, inspired and protective. …

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Too Many Beers Raises the Question:

Too Many Beers Raises the Question:

After a night of drinking, why does Tara look like this? When I end up looking like this? I think it’s patently unfair that even with years more practice, and the weight advantage, my beer tolerance is obviously lower. Of course we weren’t just drinking, we were planning a Toronto leg of her Whuffaoke tour for early August.  Work, work work ;->

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Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

Oh how I’d love to be in the kitchen kneading the dough for Hot Cross Buns. Or re-making the tart shells for the lemon tarts I have planned for tonight’s dessert but got a little overcooked because I’m sick and got distracted. Instead I’ve been relegated to bed. Again. I’m kind of tired of this being sick thing and it seems I only blog when I’m sick these days… and that too sucks. This particular one involved a big pudgy face (no “how could you tell” comments thank you) and a trip to the hospital. Luckily it’s not the evil…

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