Okay, so I’m watching The Tudors on CBC, and this trailer is shown during the commercial break.

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What is it with this recent Anne Boleyn craze, anyway? Not that I mind, ‘cuz I’m a sucker for historical fiction, especially in film, but it really can throw a person who’s watching a show about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to see a trailer for a movie about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with different actors…especially when that person is using the commercial break to write her blog. And she hears the phrase: “…an opportunity has arisen to be mistress to the King of England…”

I had a conversation with one of Girl1’s friends this afternoon. It went like this:

BOY: Tomorrow’s Hanukkah

ME: I think you’re right.

BOY: Do you celebrate Hanukkah?

ME: No. Do you?

BOY: What’s Hanukkah?

Umm…I’m thinkin’ the answer to my question is no, then… Read the rest of this entry »

So, I’ve decided to follow the Sacred Heart Diet for a week.

It’s not really a legitimate diet at all, actually. It’s totally a fad diet. Just about every hospital anywhere in the world with the words sacred or heart in its name has disavowed this diet.

But I needed to get some discipline back and this seemed like it might help. If you wanna know more about my reasons, or the diet itself, check out my last post on Losing It at urbanmoms.ca.

So…all day yesterday I ate nothing but fruit. Except bananas. You’re not allowed bananas on your fruit day. So of course, I really, really wanted bananas! And all day today, I ate nothing but vegetables.

Today was haaaard.

Because you don’t get to have a nice big cobb salad with ham, boiled egg, cheese and creamy dressing. Noooo…just vegetables. Plain, unadorned vegetables. And your “treat” is a potato.

Interestingly, though, if you take my food intake today and measure it up by Weight Watchers standards, I didn’t do too badly. Read the rest of this entry »