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Halloween Help for Mummy

October 31, 2016 By Tara Leave a Comment

Halloween Help for Mummy

It’s pretty widely known that Halloween is right up there on my list of annual things I hate, that I just have to “get through,” along with invasive gynaecological procedures and wasp season. So I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: holiday, humour, sponsored, things that are trying to kill me, tv Tagged With: #streamteam, costumes, dora, Halloween, netflix, pumpkins, science, STEM, tv, word party

The 9 People You’ll Meet in the Woods

May 13, 2015 By Tara 1 Comment

The 9 People You’ll Meet in the Woods

      I go camping every year with my family. I hate it. I go unwillingly. My family loves it, and judging by the trouble we have booking a site each year before they are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: humour, roadtrip, things that are trying to kill me Tagged With: camping, family vacations, sketchy people, tents

12 Monkeys

January 22, 2015 By Tara Leave a Comment

12 Monkeys

If you've been following my Facebook page lately then you will see the complaining that I have been doing about this week.  Monday reached new levels of suckage.  Maggie caused a riot at Target, which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: autism, sponsored, things that are trying to kill me, tv Tagged With: 12 monkeys, apocalypse, illness, meltdowns, plague, shopping

An Apple a Day

January 1, 2015 By Tara 2 Comments

An Apple a Day

My computer is limping along and I spend more time fighting with it than doing anything remotely productive on it.  My favourite is when I am mid-sentence on a deadline, or just about to fire up an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: humour, things that are trying to kill me Tagged With: apple, FaceTime, macbook pro, teachers

The Christmas Kitten – A Book Fair Menace

November 12, 2014 By Tara 5 Comments

The Christmas Kitten – A Book Fair Menace

It's book fair time.  Dangerous territory at the best of times.  Sure, reading is great...GO BOOK LEARNIN' and all that...yada yada.  But let's be real...that's not why the kids really go is it?  It's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: book, holiday, things that are trying to kill me Tagged With: Christmas, elf on the shelf, scholastic book fair, the christmas kitten

The Continuing Saga of Things that are Trying to Kill Me

October 9, 2014 By Tara 2 Comments

The Continuing Saga of Things that are Trying to Kill Me

...this time it's furniture... I was going to write this post last night, but I had to wait until the muscle relaxants wore off.  Yes, I know many of you are sitting there trying to process the fact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Our House - Don't Lick that Either, things that are trying to kill me, tv Tagged With: furniture, humor, humour, office, tv, where I write

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like they Used To – Or Do We Have the Repair Skills of a Rock?

July 15, 2014 By Tara 2 Comments

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like they Used To – Or Do We Have the Repair Skills of a Rock?

  Bikes.  Damn the bikes all to hell.  Now before you go thinking that it's my discomfort with the outdoors (I can HEAR you calling me 'diva' inside your head you know) or you decide to get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: humour, things that are trying to kill me Tagged With: bike, broken crap, outdoors, shopping

Things in the Universe that are Trying to Kill Me – A Series

February 2, 2014 By Tara 2 Comments

Things in the Universe that are Trying to Kill Me – A Series

(or merely just indications of my stupidity)Our New Minivan - with some help from my husbandThis one I never saw coming.  On the surface it would appear that replacing a 10 year old death trap … [Read more...]

Filed Under: clumsy, minivan, things that are trying to kill me

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