Browsing Archive: July, 2013

Keep Calm and Carry On

Posted by Brandy Appleby on Wednesday, July 31, 2013,

It feels great to be needed, to be the one people turn to for advice and decisions, and to be the one who is always "cool as a cucumber". I know I'm that person to some people. My husband looks to me often to make the decisions, to be calm and comforting, to be the rational one.

But there are times when I don't want to be that person, when I want someone else to take on the burden of command. There are times when the burden is too much and the emotional eruption is inevitable. These moments...


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Geeking Out

Posted by Brandy Appleby on Thursday, July 25, 2013,

I'm a geek and pretty proud of it too. I discovered today that two of my very favourite actors are going to be at the Toronto FanExpo in August. My inner voice was squealing in delight and drooling over the thought of going. And now I have convinced myself I must go. The world will end if I don't! Life will be meaningless!

Ok, its not quite that bad...yet.

Sometimes in life you have to reward yourself with some frivoulous spending. How else are you going to motivate yourself to be good the res...


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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Posted by Brandy Appleby on Wednesday, July 24, 2013,
I was born in the 80's, an era of social change, load clothes and crazy hair styles. New wars broke out all over the world, the Berlin wall fell and the cold war came to an end. We rocked out to one hit wonders and great bands from previous decades. Bands like Duran Duran, A-ha, Blondie, Rush and Queen. We moon walked to Michael Jackson tunes like Thriller and Billie Jean. I sang along to all these songs and more, belting out the lyrics to "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls without really knowi...
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The hot days of summer

Posted by Brandy Appleby on Tuesday, July 23, 2013,
Summer has been hot, busy and stressful. We spent part of it melting and trying to get access to a/c; another part of it not so melty, when we were able to rent a portable a/c unit for the house; and then another part melting again when the a/c overloaded the breaker for the front of the house, fried one of the plugs in our bedroom and nearly set the house on fire!

We were able to get the plugs in our bedroom fixed, the breaker back on and find a work around to have the a/c unit running withou...

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