THIS … is Queen Victoria. We in Canada are remembering the Mother of Confederation and celebrating her birthday today with the day off, BBQs (grilling to y’all), 2-4′s (cases of beer) and fireworks. Truth is, I was speaking to one of my sisters about this the other day and neither one of us really understood [...]

Happy Easter everyone. Or Passover. Whichever works for you. If neither works for you, Happy Random Day off. Sorry you don’t get any ham or kugel by the way. I don’t particularly care for ham but I know a lot of people do. Not you Passover celebrators of course. I’m taking the day off to [...]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Easter.  It’s the ugly holiday.  At least it used to be.  In recent years Easter and spring decorating in general has gone through a bit of a transformation.  Sure you’ll still see the odd straw stuffed buck toothed rabbit wearing overalls but for the most part [...]

  Happy Valentine’s Day all.    

  When I was younger I fancied myself a bit of a chocolatier.  Thought I was pretty special.  Being a chocolatier and all. While other kids were playing with their lemon twists I was also playing with my lemon twist.  And around 5 years after that, I was learning to melt pieces of chocolate to [...]

    As you may  have noticed, we have entered the New Year. The fella and I personally, rolled into it fairly quietly as we normally do.  I, because I hate forced fun, and he because he’s not allowed to have forced fun without me.  So we sat around, played our yearly scratch and win [...]

And where the hell have YOU been? Oh right.  I’m the one who disappeared.  Well, I’m back now so listen up. I got PRESENTS!  Presents, presents, P R E S E N T S!  And I would like to take this opportunity to show them off.  Because we’re never too old to show off our [...]

This will be my last post of the year. The Art of Doing Stuff will be dark until January 3rd. I will be taking a much needed rest. During my time off I plan to  … Wear the same pair of p’jamas for a week straight. Eat all of the leftover Polish Sausage, crackers and [...]

My house looks beautiful. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. I probably shouldn’t say that. Humility and all that stuff. But … it does look beautiful. I love it. I really don’t feel bad saying that for a few reasons which I shall list for you right now. 1. It was a lot of work 3 days, no elves, 2 [...]

Surprise! It’s Christmas. I know. It happens every year. Nothing …  nothing …  nothing …  hmm … Christmas is coming in the sort of far off, can’t be bothered to think about it, distant future. BAM!! CHRISTMAS IS HERE OUT OF NOWHERE! WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? What’s next? UFOs? Parachute Pants? Easter? God [...]

    I was supposed to write a post today. I know that because that’s what I do. I write posts. And just so we’re clear, today isn’t actually today, but yesterday. You see, I write my posts at a bare minimum of a day in advance. Sometimes even a week in advance depending on [...]

O.K.  Fair warning.  The writing portion of these posts is going to get shorter and shorter the closer we get to Christmas.  Even though I got everything done I wanted to by the Christmas Pledge deadline I’m still screwed. I have no idea how this is possible, but it is and I don’t want to [...]