I am not a great cook. I can do okay meals, they’re edible, sometimes nutritious. But I’m not about to start making up my own recipes at any point in the near future – or probably ever. So the best I can do for you guys is share a recipe I’ve made from the READ MORE
Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A BOOK I WANT ADAPTED
Finally, an easy one! I wouldn’t have found this one as easy even a couple of weeks ago. I probably would have found a few, and done my typical thing of giving you guys a list for a one-item question. But not this week! I actually have an answer! Yep, I have one book READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A TASK I NEVER WANT TO DO AGAIN
This prompt brings up some very obvious answers. Cleaning the toilet. Cleaning the tub. Dusting. Cleaning the kitchen (which I seem to do 5,000 times per day). Emptying the dishwasher. Loading the dishwasher. But because this is a blogging prompt, I’m going to focus on a blogging one. I would love it if I READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY BAD HABITS
Oh geez. Getting into the tough ones, huh? I think everyone has a bunch of these. It’s hard to narrow it down, so I’ll include a few. Not getting up early. My kid sleeps late, and we haven’t had a reason to change that since there hasn’t even been to pre-school this past year. READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MEET MY CAT
I’ve had several pets in my lifetime. I’m not going to pick a favourite, because that wouldn’t be possible or a fair thing to ask for. But I will introduce you to one of my current cats. His name is Opie, and he’s a tiny ball of fur who is super friendly and really READ MORE
WEDNESDAY WEEKLY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | CHARACTERS I’D LIKE TO BE
The actual prompt for this week was a TV shows/books/movie that could be about me, but I couldn’t really think of any. So instead, I’m choosing a few characters I’d like to be, either long-term or for a day. People who either have some character trait that I admire or who get to do READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FIVE THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT
I’m not going to take this prompt literally, because if I did the entire list would be medicines that I literally can’t live without, my kid, and maybe food and water, and man that would be a boring list (other than my kid, of course, who is the best). So let’s try to find READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE HOLIDAY & RECIPE
So I’m not that big on holidays as a rule, but all the indifference I load onto Easter, Thanksgiving, Canada Day and Victoria Day is balanced out by my complete enthusiasm when it comes to Christmas. There are some great Christmas recipes that we make in my family, but I also use it as READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BEST MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
This is a great but difficult prompt. I can tell you right now, I will not be picking only one book this week! I enjoy memoirs if they’re well written and about an interesting person’s life and experiences. Even if it’s a person I don’t care about that much, if the book is good, READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | SADDEST BOOKS I’VE EVER READ
I love a novel that can make me care so deeply for the characters that when something bad happens, it feels like it’s happening to me or someone I love. Likewise if I find a memoir or non-fiction that makes me feel deeply invested and involved, it will stay with me forever. I couldn’t READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE BOOK AND MOVIE ADAPTATIONS
This is a great prompt, but not so much for me. I don’t watch many movies these days, and I can never remember actors or their names. The best I could come up with was this: I love The Uncommon Reader. But the only really important casting choice in it is who plays READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FANTASY VACATION
I’m guessing this prompt was thought up either before we entered the pandemic, or in a wild fit of optimism. For me, quite frankly, the answer to this is: any vacation. ANYTHING. Anything that would mean time off from worrying, the ability to sleep for days, eat what I want and not have to READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT I’VE GOOGLED RECENTLY
I’m writing this in April because I know I won’t have time later, so I’m cheating a bit. But here are some things I recently Googled, though none of them are that interesting: How much protection from Covid-19 do you have one week after getting the Pfizer vaccine? I and a few people in READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FAVOURITE INDULGENCE
I’m not sure about this one, because at what point does a thing become a treat? At what point an indulgence? And in times like this, isn’t anything that makes the day feel bearable a necessity? But here are some of the things that bring me the most physical enjoyment, and I guess none READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | CHARACTERS I WANT TO MEET
It took me a while to find people I connected with when I was a kid. Because I spent so much time alone and so much time reading, I have a very strong sense that some of the characters I read about in books were my friends. Some of the top characters I connected READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE NATURE/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Me and the outdoors… it’s complicated. I love getting outside in Spring and early Summer. I love digging in the dirt, I love feeling the breeze on my face, smelling the plants, feeling sun on my face. But nature, it does not like me. I’ve developed increasingly bad allergies, and now those tie into READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | IF I WON THE LOTTERY…
Oh, man. This is such an open-ended prompt, because who couldn’t sit here all day spinning fantasies of the things they would do if they won the lottery? My fantasies have shifted since my medical issues have worsened – at the moment my #1 thing would be to move to a house with no READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER
I absolutely choose books based on all sorts of things that aren’t the reviews or the description. Covers, titles, aesthetic, topic, the interest of someone whose opinions I trust, an association with someone I care about… all kinds of things influence my decision to pick up a book. Here are some I add based READ MORE