Actually, this resolution is going to have to wait until tomorrow. I’m positively exhausted after three days of no sleep. Not because of the kid, mind you. Just my own insomnia eating my brain out. Sigh. Must. Go. To. Bed. zzz

The disappointing results of my vegetable tracker a couple of weeks ago prompted me to rethink how and when I eat vegetables. I’ve spent much of my adult life associating breakfast with fruit and pastry (main of pastry, side of fruit). But I love vegetables and who’s to say they wouldn’t taste great at brekkie? So that’s today’s resolution: vegetables for breakfast. This morning, I added one cup of bok choy to my scrambled eggs and it was deeeelightful. Nom nom nom.

Update on previous resolutions: Right, so I’ve been doing yoga almost every single day for a few months now and may I just say: WOW! If you aren’t doing 30 minutes of yoga each day, you are missing out. Even on days when I get absolutely no sleep, 30 minutes of yoga can put the bounce back in my sleepy step. Rids me of bad moods, crushes depression, and generally rocks my namaste socks.

Yep, so it’s been a busy couple of days. My mum came back from Europe and now officially lives in Ottawa – madness. Her and Frenchie stayed with us for a week before their house was ready though, hence the lack of posting. Then Will and Kate arrived, which really didn’t impact my life except that I took a sudden and surprising interest in what Kate was wearing. Huh. And then Canada Day! Check out this cuteness:

OMG so cute. And then the weekend was Wimbledon finals (poor Sharapova and Nadal). A busy past few days.

But I’m back again so we’ll jump right into today’s resolution because I have a few other writing projects I need to catch up on. Resolution for today: hang up the birdseed bell that is sitting on the railing of our patio growing sadder by the day. Poor little birdseed bell. I purchased it a couple of weeks ago thinking that we had a hook in our backyard to hang it. We don’t. How am I dreaming up hooks in my head? Sigh. Anyway, the raccoons have started to take an active interest in it so it must go up. Today.

Update on previous resolutions: well clearly I’m sucking at the regular posting these days but the coffee reduction is going very well as is the sugar reduction. Pizza Friday didn’t happen because of the Canada Day bbq at our place but this week I’m thinking of making a spicy pizza crust with pineapple, mozzarella, mushrooms and spicy sauce. Nom.

I almost forgot – I’m switching this blog over to a different address. Still a WordPress blog (because my blogging skills aren’t up to the task of much more than WordPress) but the new address will be http://ezmywrites.com. If this works that is….we shall see. Anyway, time to update your address books folks!

Update: it worked! And everything redirects by itself so no need to change your links. Well unless you want to. Spiffy!

I started this post thinking that I would take pictures as I went along. The resolution for today is to safe-i-fy this house. Check the smoke detector, research carbon monoxide detectors, attach cupboard thingamabobs so that the kid doesn’t drink BioLife fake apple smelling cleaner or eat an entire box of baking soda or what have you. I was thinking pictures of the thingamabob attaching would be amusing but when I went to attach them, I realized that my little screw driver isn’t really up to the task. I needs me a drill! I’m going to rent one but that is the next house purchase for sure. Ezmy + Powerdrill = awesome. And danger. But mostly awesome.

So I’m just checking the smoke detectors and gathering up info for carbon monoxide detectors and how to build a survival kit for emergencies and such. Boring resolution. Pictures of fun things tomorrow perhaps.

Update on previous resolutions: Epic fail with the handprint kit. Entirely my fault. Forgetting that plaster, you know, sets, I mixed it for too long and before I even got Budsie’s hand in, the damn thing had set. So now I have a lovely tin filled with plaster memories of the air. Sigh. I’m keeping it anyways though. I think Budsie will appreciate that I tried. And probably laugh at my attempt. Or sigh…silly mummy.

Well, clearly the posting resolution hasn’t been going as well as some of the others. Ah well. So I start with a quicky update:

Resolution for June 24: start a Friday night pizza tradition. When I was a kid, the Fabulous Four (group of cousins, which includes Fialonia) had a Friday night pizza tradition and I remember thinking that this was SO cool. So I’m going to do the same. Plus making pizza is super easy and the crust freezes well. This week we had an oregano-spiced crust with fried zucchini, mushrooms, fresh basil and extra old cheddar. Deeeelightful and relatively fructose free!

Resolution for June 25: Originally, it was to set up Budsie’s kiddie pool. But the weather was poopy and I was tired from going out the night before. Man, Present Day Ezmy cannot party like 19 year old Ezmy. Or 25 year old Ezmy, for that matter. Lame. Anyway, I ultimately resolved to eat peas. WHY!? Why do I do this stuff to myself? The thing is, Budsie and A. like peas and sometimes I just don’t want to cook two different greens and well, there were peas in the freezer and I needed to add something to the shells and cheese so….blech. Dinner ruined.

Today was supposed to be sunny. My iPhone lied to me. Ok, so it did get sunny but not until after I needed it to be. Sigh. So I decided to make today’s resolution tackling the bathroom cupboard. Sometimes my life is so exciting that I don’t even know how I stand it. Whatever, it needed to be done. We used to have Budsie’s changing station with diapers and whatnot set up in there and the cupboard still had a distinct ‘I used to house a bin for diapers’ smell to it. Now it smells like fake green apples.

Hmm I was going to write more, but I’m feeling kind of sleepy. Yep, it takes two days to recover from one night out. Pa-the-tic.

A quick post because frankly, I’m exhausted with writing today. It’s been a long day – up at 5:30am for some unknown reason, couldn’t get back to sleep, went for a run (win!), cleaned the house, dealt with my first mini temper tantrum from the kid (fail), wrote wrote wrote, and then tried to attend a work lunch party of A.’s (epic fail on my part as am too tired from the morning). Blech. So I’m going to go read Vogue and snooze for the ten minutes that Budsie might allow. Yawn!

But I will write this much: today’s resolution is to make a plaster hand print of Budsie’s little mitt with a kit that we received from my Aunt S. We’ve had it for a year and it’s high time. Besides, I’m simply not in the mood to do much more than this. The lack of sugar in my life has caused me to suffer some pretty major withdrawal headaches and this makes me a generally icky and lazy individual. I’m told this will improve – I hope so.

God, I’m boring myself just writing this. I hope you aren’t still reading. Until tomorrow!

Overall, I’d say I’m not that bad about going to the dentist. I usually get there about once every 1 1/2 years – not great, but not the worst either. When I left home, I decided that I didn’t need the dentist anymore and didn’t go back until I was 23 and then not again until I was 26. Needless to say, both trips were rather unpleasant. That’s the thing about the dentist – the longer you wait, the worse it likely will be, and then the more you don’t want to go, and then you put it off some more, and so on. People are funny.

I have pretty lame teeth, I’d say. My current dentist disagrees and I guess he knows better, but I’ve always hated them. First, white they are not (thank you, fifteen years of on and off smoking). Second, they are ridiculously crooked because my jackass childhood dentist thought it would be a great idea to remove half of my teeth rather than put me through two years of braces. Now whenever I go to a new dentist, they look in my mouth and ask “where did all of your teeth go?” and shake their heads. Sigh. Oh and I have receding gum on one tooth, due to an ill-advised but oh-so-cool labret piercing that I still miss. Yep, a mouth model I am not. Still, it could be worse. I know a couple of lovely ladies who have gone through terrible teeth problems – jaw surgery and the like – so I suppose I should be thankful for my simply crooked yellow gems.

Anyway, it’s been about a year and the dentist is calling (and I’m assuming sending reminder postcards but I don’t know – please come back Postal people!). So today’s resolution: return his call and make appointments for the whole family. Dentisty good times for all.

In other news, this limited coffee drinking is *gasp* working. I am certainly not able to go the whole day without one cup. But spearmint tea has been a fantastic replacement for the early morning cup, leaving me to enjoy hot coffee while writing when Budsie goes down for a nap. More to the point, drinking spearmint tea first thing prevents me from wanting to eat my own hand due to caffeine withdrawal the whole time leading up to his nap. Healthy.

I love Kozy Shack rice pudding. Love it. It falls under the category of Foods I Eat Even When I’m At My Most Vegan (which includes cheese at parties, sushi at parties, and yogurt anytime). When I was meeting up with A. all around the world two years ago, I discovered travel cups of Kozy Shack – OMG so good. It’s just the tastiest little dessert a girl could ask for.

But here’s the thing about Kozy Shack – one serving has 14 grams of sugar. And do you think I ever actually stick to one serving? I mean come on, it’s Kozy Shack! Sigh. It really needs to be a once in a blue moon treat. But that also means I need something to replace it. I do not have fond memories of rice pudding as a child, probably because my mother was sensible and didn’t put 12 pounds of sugar in hers. Still, I think I could make my own and have it taste at least ok, which would go a long way to helping me with my inevitable Kozy Shack withdrawal. One serving of the recipe I’ve cobbled together has 4 grams of sugar. Oh and no “natural flavours” A clear winner, health wise. So that’s today’s resolution: make good homemade rice pudding. So long, Kozy Shack. I’ll see you during my next international flight, I promise.

Update on previous resolutions: “Great Expectations” is just not happening. Maybe I’ll try again some other time. Blech. On to ‘The Count of Monte Cristo.”

Completely off topic, but does anyone else missing getting the mail? I mean, I rarely get exciting things in the mail but the daily anticipation is important to me. After all, I might get something exciting. Who knows? Come back to work postal people!

Anyway, let’s get right down to it shall we? Today’s resolution: remember to click “post” for all of the my damn resolution posts. So that I’m not three billion years behind and writing novels in order to catch up. Yeesh.

I’m not even going to bother posting the drafts. A quick run down will suffice, methinks:

June 15: Resolved to be happy for Boston if they won. Which they did. And I wasn’t.

June 16: Resolved to start hanging out in the backyard more (this actually kicked off a few days before but really got going on the 16th). We never went out there last year…I’m not sure why. But look at how happy it makes Budsie:

June 17: Resolved to return the stuff that Fialonia was storing at our place to her. Because I have the car right now and might as well right? Well, I packed it all up, put it by the front door and promptly forgot about it. Until today! But hey it’s done so whatever (Update: totally forgot to give her back her baking stuff. Perhaps my subconscious at work? Hmmm).

June 18: Resolved to get a garden hose. Simple enough but for some reason I keep forgetting to do this when I go to the hardware store which is never. Success! I purchased a green garden hose that looks exactly the same as the green garden hose of my youth. Memories of sprinklers and kiddie pools. *beams*

June 19: Resolved to make A.’s Father’s Day super special. I think this was a success. First, I picked up the charcoal bbq that we’ve been meaning to get with our Home Depot gift card. Then I got him some spiffy bbq accessories – skewers, tongs, flipper, charcoal chimney starter, etc. I also purchased some fancy steaks AND tasty breakfast sausages. A. is a pretty good sport about being vegan/vegetarian for 90% of his diet, so a day of meat products was clearly in order. Finally, I made it sunny. Ok, I totally had nothing to do with that but I did think good sun thoughts and things worked out. It was a very nice day.

Oh and an update on previous resolutions: the vegetable tracker revealed that I average about 5 servings of vegetables and fruit each day. Which ain’t bad but it ain’t great either. So I’m going to restart it today and shoot for 7, the daily recommended amount. So far, I’ve eaten…5. Damn it. The fructose limited existence is going ok. Even with baking, there is significantly less bread in my life which makes me sad. And my stomach feels better which makes me sadder. It’s bittersweet, all of this. Bittersweet. The coffee reduction is also going well, strangely enough. Peppermint tea rocks my socks.

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