I’m having one of those moments where it’s simply too difficult to do anything but enjoy the moment. Mother Nature is playing a nasty trick on us – making us think spring is here already. It’s a bright, warm day out… ohhhh… we are going to pay! I just know in my little heart that [...]
One of those moments
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Drawing & sketching · Going to the birds · Weather
Why, oh why…
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Why, oh why do people use language like this:
A spokesperson would only confirm that six jobs “were impacted.”
I pulled it from a story I found over at the CBC website. What happened to plain speak? I’m sorry, the jobs were not impacted! This useless verbiage is nonsense. Check the definition from Oxford dictionary:
• adjective 1 [...]
Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Illiterate
I get lazy now and then
March 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Every now and then, I get in a mood where even logging on to blog seems like a monumental effort. I sit in my little comfy chair and say “I should write about this and that” and then … I realise I would have to make that teeny, tiny effort.
So I continue to sit [...]
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Yet another embarassing confession
February 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments
When I was a kid I collected bugs. Hmmm …. yea … I know stamps, books, bugs, can you get any geekier? One of my all time favourite bugs was and is the praying mantis. I would collect their eggs and hatch them. Can you imagine my delight when I ran across this video?
Makes me [...]
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