I can almost pinpoint the exact moment I got sick. We were in the car, on our way home from my mother’s place … where Mark built a giant compost heap this weekend:
… and the girls did a lot of this:
Me: I sawed a lot of wood (you didn’t think I could do that, did you?) and when I wasn’t busy raking or sawing I just poked around:
I have been shlumping around the house with barely enough energy to do much of anything this week. I have a ton of things to do today. I’m being flown to T.O. on Friday on a weekend-long bloggy/media junket (more about that later) and I just realized I need to do laundry. Send me some energy, stat!
19 May, 2009
By andrea tomkins in Ottawa
As seen in LexnGer’s photostream:
Yesterday marked the launch of Toronto a la Cart with 4 of the 8 new street food vendors opening their carts for business.
No longer restricted to just hot dogs carts we now have access to a biryani cart with lassi and a souvlaki cart with salad (yes! Salad!) in Nathan Philips Square
Why can’t Ottawa do the same? (Are we really so square that we can only legislate the distribution of HOT DOGS and SAUSAGES? How backwater.)
What street food would you like to see served up here in O-town? Sushi? Pizza? Shwarma? Salad? Pad Thai? Jamaican Patties? And more importantly, would you buy it if it was available?
I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
Turns out one of the best gifts you can give a 10-year old girl is a big set of books and a book light:
She also received her own personal library kit (which I really had to explain since the only book-signing-out she’s witnessed has been entirely computerized).
And as per tradition she had a birthday breakfast in bed. Her request: fruit, waffles from our new waffle iron, hash browns, and apple juice. Here she is, wearing a new nightgown made by Nana. Very Laura Ingalls, n’est-ce pas? :)
