That Just Happened!

Ha!  I am gaining a following.  While chatting with my friend Mille I found out that her partner (aka boyfriend, for the non-politically-correct crowd) enjoys reading my blog.  Awesome!  I love being loved!  Because I am such an attention-whore (for my blog,  people) I offered to do a shout-out to her partner aka boyfriend.  With a picture, of course. 

Although now I am not sure if I am going to.  Why?  Because I just found out that Mille has decided to stay in Alberta for another year.  Do you know how long that is?!  Too.  Long.  She has already been gone 3 and for someone who used to meet her at the coffee shop at 10 and leave at 4am, this is a very  long time.  Now, she says  it is because she hasn’t explored enough yet.  Ha!  She says  it is because she has been working so hard and wants to enjoy all the outdoorsy stuff (crap) Alberta has to offer.   Ha, I don’t care!  Actually, that’s a lie.  As a rez-life coordinator she is on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week and frequently works 14-24 hour days and I do care.  And of course it is also because she met her partner aka boyfriend.  I guess the plan is to stick it out in Alberta until he is finished his degree and then he will be making the trek with her to Ontario.  However, after keeping her out there for a year…I don’t know if he’ll be welcome.  *Sniff*

I really wish they didn’t look so happy in that picture.  It makes it harder to stay mad  disappointed  mad…

Yeah, That Just Happened!

Shields, Carol.  The Stone Diaries.  Vintage Canada (2008).  Originally 1993.

 The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.

Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.

From The Publisher

I enjoyed this book, Daisy was slightly reminiscent of the kind of woman Betty Friedan would disdain.  However, I think there are a lot of women who can relate to this.  Daisy is trying to figure out what makes her happy while, at the same time, trying to fulfill her role as mother, wife, daughter, friend, etc.  You can see her struggle with this her whole life and even at the end she is wondering if it was enough.  If she  was enough to everyone.  I liked how the book was divided into the major events most women go through.  I also liked how there were a few pages of pictures in the middle of the book.  It really added to the illusion that you were reading a diary or scrapbook. 

I am writing this review a little bit later than I had planned, but the fact that I had to reference the book a few times means it was not very memorable.

Themes include self-discovery, relationships, and family.

I hate winter. I hate. Winter. I. Hate. Winter. 

I think you get the point.  Every winter I feel like a potato that just shrivels from the cold.  My brain shrivels to the size of a peanut.  Teeny-tiny.  I find it difficult making long sentences and can never remember the word for this, or the person who did that.  

I need to smell spring.  Spring is what wakes my brain from it’s half slumber.  Until then I swear if I shake my head I can hear it make the same sound that Angus’ tooth made when he spit it out the other day.  This ticking-rattling-type sound.

On the plus side, the tooth that was loose in Angus’ mouth finally dropped out which means he just saved us from a $300 vet bill to have it pulled, thankyouverymuch. 

    I wonder what the tooth fairy will bring him.  Probably peanut butter.  Definitely peanut butter.

Yeah, That Just Happened!