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10 “Better her than me” reasons you’re happy not to be engaged

I hear it’s engagement season. By which, of course, I mean I read it on Jezebel.

I can only imagine how hard times like this must be in the brave, new era of social media. Back in my heyday, you could enjoy months of blissful ignorance before hearing about your ex’s engagement to that skinny bitch from work. You only had to deal with your good friends lording their diamond-laden fingers over you while you were actually with them. And you could honestly not give a shit about casual acquaintances because you never had any idea what they were up to and we were all better for it.

But rather than pine for a time that has come and gone, it’s far better to to take a page out of the sour grapes playbook and think to yourself, “Better her than me.”

Here you go: The “I don’t want to get married and start a family anyways,” guide to why you are over the moon about being not engaged this year. Take it from me: I got married at 23 and now I have three kids.

1. Everything about him instantly becomes annoying. There is no bigger downer on a relationship than realizing you have to live with this guy’s inability to recap a tube of toothpaste for the rest of your life, so help you god. You do.

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17 Signs You Went to Catholic School in Ontario


1. The school gym was where you took communion, cheered on the basketball team and got groped during your first slow dance.

 

 

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5 Summer Vacation Lunch Ideas

As part of the ongoing effort to maximize Facebook list making serious and important work time while the kids are home, I thought up five summer vacation lunch options that require little if any prep on your part.

1. Peanut butter and a loaf of bread.

Get it yourself.

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13 Parenting Tips That Can Bite Me

1. Pack up 3/4 of their toys and then cycle them back in so they don’t get tired of them.

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Great! I just need to figure out where I shall send my kids for a week while I sort through and pack up toys according to three different and ever-changing gender or taste and age-range groupings and then hope they have no medium term memory whatsoever about that toy they never played with ever but must have RIGHT NOW since it’s been packed away. I need to build a storage unit for all of the boxes too while I’m at it and then padlock it against my children.

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Things You Need to Buy at Costco Because You Shop at Costco

At the risk of hurting my hip, urban family image (just play along), I will admit that I shop at Costco. That’s right, I’m a member. Every year I agonize over whether the membership fees are worth it but I am drawn to the big boxes of breakfast cereal, bundles of colourful kids’ socks and cheap diapers.

So I trek out the burbs every so often to stock up on staples and see what they have on sale. Then I bring it all home and try to figure out where to put it. Clearly I need some of these to save even more money.

A fridge-sized freezer. Nothing will ever go bad again. Not that you would actually eat anything you find at the back of this beast. But the electricity bill alone will cut your Costco visits in half. Think of the savings.

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Top 10 Places I Hide From My Children

10. In bed.

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Yeah right. They suss me out every morning no matter how hard I pretend to still be asleep.

9. The bathroom.

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This is a classic. Bring your phone, a book, a magazine and a selection of forbidden treats. Of course, I never get more than three minutes tops before a toddler is climbing onto my lap and another kid is dragging a collection of scarves in for me to untangle.