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Vaccines Vs Vanity: My Quest for a New Happy Place

September 30, 2021

Ah, the hair salon. A woman’s happy place. Where else can you go and sit for 3 hours, enjoy some pleasant conversation AND a scalp massage, and come away feeling all shiny and new?

It’s been nearly four months since I visited a salon. Not because I couldn’t get an appointment – I’ve booked two, but cancelled when I learned that the stylists either hadn’t been vaccinated or wouldn’t disclose that information. One seemed well and truly offended that I would ask in the first place. Through friends and colleagues, I’ve found three more stylists, only to learn that they, too, were choosing not to be vaccinated.

Have I inadvertently stumbled upon a niche of anti-vaxxers?

It’s 5 o’clock in the morning

August 9, 2020

When my alarm (chirping birds) goes off at 5am, I hear Lily Allen’s voice singing “It’s 5 o’clock in the morning…”. You know, from the song she did with T-Pain back in 2011. Find it online if you haven’t heard it before and give it a listen. Then you, too, can have her lovely British accent stuck in your head, repeating the same 6 words on loop, for the rest of your life.

Since January of this ~~ridiculous shitshow of a~~ year, my morning ritual has involved getting up between 4:30 and 5:00am.

Most people look at me like this when I tell them that:

Go towards the waves

August 4, 2020

In many parts of Canada, cottage is a verb as well as a noun. We are a country of cottagers. We go cottaging.

(I mean, there are a lot of people who camp too. But I’m sure we can all agree that people who choose to sleep on the ground and pee in the bushes are not normal.)

And let me be clear: a cottage does not have quartz countertops and 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and a wine fridge and white furniture. That, my friends, is a lake house.

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