Via social encounters, random coworker questions, discovered acquaintances and Interactive Internet Music Videos:
Dear Megan,
No one gets to escape their past.
Love,
The Universe

We went back to work on Monday, when our holidays ran out though the renos had not. Monday and Tuesday night we came home, had a quick, simple supper and went straight to work.
We were up until 2am Tuesday morning, getting everything together before Ethan and Rachel came home Wednesday. That evening, we finished assembling [...]

The walls are painted. The ceiling paneling is installed and painted. The floor planks are installed, treated and sealed. We have yet to replace any trim - no window trim, no door trim, no baseboards, no trim around the paneling, no threshold pieces.
Ethan’s light fixture is installed, Rachel’s is not yet.
Headboards for both beds are [...]

The older children are in BC with their dad’s side of the family and Ian and I are fixing up their rooms. Hey remember that time when they were in BC for a week and we re-did my bathroom? That was crazier times than this one, fo’ sho’. That was removing three giant plumbed fixtures [...]

I’m big into cottage style and vintage shit these days. More so since we moved into this awesome vintage house with its cottage-y sun-room and poplar-shaded backyard.
Webleigh reminds me of my first house, just, all grown up. Double the square footage and with some upgrades in its past. But the cost of a house having [...]

We’re moving Hannah to a new daycare next month. I guess we’ve always had little reservations about the woman running Hannah’s current daycare, but we stayed because the young woman who actually worked with the kids was so great.
The woman running the daycare, we’ll call her Sunny, is one of those thin, blonde, outspoken women [...]

I have still not entirely figured out how to reconcile belly dance with feminism. That is, I love it. And it has certainly helped me to make friends with my body. And it’s wonderful to have an activity in your life where striving for mastery is challenging and fun. And there’s this community of women [...]

He: “I still prefer you without makeup.”
Me: “Still?”
He: “What does that mean?”
Me: “Well I thought you’d get used to seeing me in makeup and be like, ‘yeah, this is better.’”
He: “Nope.”
Me: “But these are the trappings of sex-class submission to a patriarchal culture that benefits you. You don’t find that hot?”
He: “And here I prefer [...]

I wore my glow-in-the-dark robot t-shirt to work today. I was totally excited to wear it to work, thinking I had a number of coworkers who would appreciate it. But it turns out it’s not appropriate to invite your coworkers to join you in a dark closet to “see my robot light up”.
Live and learn.
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So busy-busy.
I got married almost two weeks ago.  I panicked in the last couple weeks about whether I was going to get that dress as decorated as I wanted it and I recruited some belly dance friends to help me bead and sequin it. So I had two ladies give up several evening for me. [...]