stmargarets

Today’s our 26th wedding anniversary, which makes me an “old wife” which means I’m allowed to tell old wife’s tales and impart all sorts of wisdom. Since I don’t have any tales, I thought I’d share what I’ve been thinking about lately in the guise of quotable quotes. I’ll wax philosophical after the cut.

“Thoughts are not facts.”
--Meditation Practice

“Lather. Rinse. Repeat.”
--Shampoo Bottle

“YOLO”
--Kids these days

“I just got tired of the bullshit.”
--Kerry’s mom

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I’d love to hear more quotes or found wisdom or an old wife’s tale from you in the comments!

It's Victoria Day weekend here in Canada. The stores try to cash in on the three day weekend by having sales on summer clothes and barbeque and camping supplies, but it always seems rather futile. We have frost warnings all over the place and the wind is howling today. It feels more like March than May. :) Still, it's nice to see the seasonal businesses opening up for summer. (Which really starts July 1, Canada Day)
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That's all the news. Hope everyone is well on my flist! Let me know how you're doing!

So every year on the first Monday in May, all/most of the schools in Canada stop what they're doing and sing a song at the same time. It's a nationwide event to promote music education. With the magic of the Internet the schools are able to sing along with the conductor in Toronto. This year they had a new twist, the commander of the International Space Station led the singalong from space.

I tutor at the elementary school on Monday, so I got to see it. It was really kind of moving, listening to those little voices lustily singing along (The music teacher had obviously drilled them)and not missing their place even when the link froze for a few seconds.

This year's song is just lovely.

Bel's comment in my last post made me think of this funny-cause-it's-true video about bullying.

A short satire by Key and Peele (Caution, some bad language):

Eddie watched this at school and insisted I watch it, too. It's a spoken word poem about bullying and its effects and it's very intense. I almost couldn't watch it because it's so unrelenting, but there are some powerful words of hope at the end. We had a good discussion afterwards. Watch only if you're in the right frame of mind (not too depressed to begin with).

Ros's novel, The Oil Tycoon and her Sexy Sheikh, is nominated in a March Madness Romance Novel contest. Let's help her out! You don't have to sign up or do anything special to vote. Just click. The voting for this bracket is only open until midnight tonight Central Time. http://dabwaha.com/

Hello! Happy Spring! I have mixed feelings about March in general as you can see below:

The Good: The days are getting longer and we have many hours of light.
The Bad: Daylight Savings time is torture.

The Good: St. Patrick's Day. A favorite holiday in our house. St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers. I have a William Patrick who is an engineer and loves corned beef and cabbage. The red flannel hash the next day was divine.
The Bad: Is there anything about bad about St. Pat's? A hangover, I guess, but we just indulged in the salty, bland goodness of a boiled dinner (jig's dinner as they call it in Newfoundland).

The Good: March break. Yay! Time off.

The Bad:We didn't do a thing because the weather was awful and Eddie was still recovering from a virus that laid him low in February. He slept 12+ hours for a least three days of the break. All of his friends did the same thing, so we didn't even have a sleep-over or a trip to Halifax or any of the usual March break activities. Still, it was a nice break after a busy February full of science projects and French speeches and research papers.

The Good: On paper, it's the first day of spring.
The Bad: We're in Canada where spring comes much later . . .
Cut for weather complaints updates!

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Be sure to check out the Google homepage today. It's amazing how many romantic (and not so romantic) pairings they have crammed into their little widget device. Very clever.

I haven't been writing at all, so no original fluff from me. However, I can share a cute video of clips from one of my favorite fluffy movies, Disney's Tangled. Flynn Rider, aka Eugene, is such a fun hero - perfect for Rapunzel, who is sooo serious and fun-deprived. The fact that they don't fall in love instantly, but really get to know each other as they work toward separate goals is very satisfying to watch. These are clips from the funny moments, not the romantic ones, but you can get a sense of what this particular hero is like.

I'm hoping that since I'm a day early posting this, you'll get this birthday greeting on your actual birthday in your time zone. *so confused*


Anyway, I hope you have a great day and an even better year. While fifty is now the "new forty" and they've moved the goalposts to sixty before we can "let ourselves go," it's a lot easier to play the curmudgeon card at fifty. :) So enjoy your day, my friend. I wish you all the best things in life. *raises glass* Happy Birthday!

All my good intentions about posting to lj flew out the window this month, but I do want to wish two special flisters a Happy Birthday! I hope 2013 brings you both health, peace of mind and lots of laughter. *flu-free hugs and love* from chilly Nova Scotia.