My Creatively Random Life

The last Friday of the month is time for The Cephalopod Coffeehouse, a chance for bloggers to get together and discuss the best books they have read in the last month.  Hosted by  The Armchair Squid  it is among my favourite of the blog hops I regularly participate in because I get to add books to my ever expanding to be read list. This month in the pile of books I consumed it was a reread of Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile that stood out for me.  I got the first three volumes for Christmas a few years ago and it was love at first read.  The art, the storyline, there's nothing to not love about Fables.  Then I had trouble finding Volume Six and we have been at a stand still as far as progressing ever since. Then on a trip to  The Silver Snail  for an unrelated graphic novel (which I also could not find) I picked up Volumes Six and Seven so that prompted the start of a reread, because who wants to start in the middle? Reading this aga...

When I was going through my pictures I came across this picture of Cat and Ace from the summer of 2011. I just thought it was the best picture, they look so adorable.  And clean, it's not often they look clean.  It must have been taken at the start of the day.

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  I have been reading it for a while and I always want to jump in but I have been hesitant to bite off another thing to do right now.   However there will never be a perfect time to do something, so I decided to just jump right in and figure it out as I went along.  The question this week is what did you want to be when you grew up? The first thing I ever remember wanting to be was a doctor, my doctor when I was a kid was just the coolest woman and I wanted to be just like her.  Until the first time she gave me a needle and I discovered that doctors just like nurses have to give needles.  That just wasn't going to happen, I hate needles. After that it was a succession of little kid ambitions mermaid, firefighter, princess and then I read A Wrinkle In Time.  Since that day I have wanted to be a writer and though there have been many bumps in...

Last year we went on a awesome walking tour of the battle ground of The War of 1812 with Richard of Muddy York Walking Tours .  It was a great experience and the kids had a blast. This is my favorite picture from that day, happy family.

The Wednesday after he got back from Calgary I skipped out of work for the afternoon and kept Ace back from camp and we headed out to  Canada's Wonderland  for the afternoon.  They are taking down the  SkyRider  this year and I wanted to make sure he got a chance to ride on it before they did. I think it was fitting that my last ride on SkyRider, which has been one of my favourite roller coasters in twenty odd years of going to Wonderland was Ace's first.  He approached it very bravely given that he is not a roller coaster kid.  I got the best video of his reaction after though. After his roller coaster experience Ace wanted to do something that was a little more his speed so he dragged me on  WindSeeker .  Then proceeded to laugh his butt off while I tried not to cry for my mommy as I may have an issue or two with heights.  Revenge received. Then we went on  Time Warp  for a little less scary roller coaster time...

I found this tag on  Geek Gets Glam  for a blogger confession and I thought I would swipe it and answer the questions even though I didn't get tagged.  Because I'm a rebel like that as you all know. When did you start your blog? My first blog post was Wednesday, January 18, 2012.  It feels like so long ago now. Have you had any past online presence before (other blog, YouTube)? No, this is my very first attempt at making myself known in the internet world. Why did you start a blog? To encourage myself to write more and to decrease my fear of letting other people read my writing.  The stuff I put on my blog is not quite the same as writing a novel but it's still writing and sometimes I still lock up in fear.  I am getting better though. When did you become serious about starting a blog? I am still not entirely sure that has happened yet, I am getting better about blogging on a regular basis though, What was your first post? My first post,...

I got this book in a  Library Thing  member giveaway in exchange for an honest review. Book Summery: An eggplant wails, a ladder breaks, and the guise of civility shatters... A professor of festival studies, a potato hunter, a deadly career councilor and a part-time terrorist are struggling to retain their sanity in a magically mundane city.  Their carefully laid out plans fall apart when they meet Mr. Pearson, an everyman who suspects a conspiracy of evil polygons behind his company's absurd practices.  Theirs is a world in which people use raw produce and wasted time to alter reality.  If it were not for the stringent safety standards on fruits and vegetables, the citizens would live in misery.  Most live a life of willful ignorance instead, desperate to avoid facing the threats surrounding them.   Festival season is about to begin, but the colorful banners cannot hide the tragic past any longer. The above was taken from ...