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 I have been reminded what FIG is meant to stand for, which is Finding Joy in Gratitude. I have come to like and admire Elisabeth enormously, so I am going to overlook her rather egregious erasure of a major word like JOY in the service of a more appealing acronym. I mean, I get it: Fresh Figs has more of a ring than, say, Let's All Fdance a Fjig, or A Cruise of the Norwegian Fjigs. So I will fall in line. February 8 - A nice sunny walk with Lucy, and a picture that captures a blep in the wild - Our annual Valentine's Day Dinner: Guys Cook. Matt's green soup, wedge salad on a skewer and steak frites bites, Dave's shrimp linguine, Mark's cod cake, crab cake and scallop cake with sauces, Tony's quarter duck festive special (that's a Swiss Chalet reference, for the Americans among you), and Michael's I forgot to ask which kind of cake but it was amazing. One of the highlights of the night was Michael insisting on consuming every bit of the monstrous wedge o...

I usually try to have these reviews done by the end of January, which I realize is already late. But in the spirit of my radical self-acceptance endeavour for this winter, I am telling myself it is FINE. Husband is off on his Rome-to-Bali trip - eleven flights over the next 17 days. We're supposed to get 30-40 cm of snow Wednesday night and Thursday. Last time he went away we had snow coming also. When we get blizzarded when he's away I usually use the Touchplow app if I'm not able to stay ahead of the shoveling - I don't mind shoveling, but with the state of my back and my hands I'm not able to stay ahead of the big snow dumps right now. I couldn't sign into the app and I was a bit concerned, and then I gave my head a shake and googled "Ottawa one-time snow removal" - and lo, a veritable plethora of services appeared. Somewhat surprisingly, the very first one I came across didn't appear on the list of 8 best - go figure that something called Plow ...

 I am going to see if I remember what FIG stands for (Flying Iguana Garage? Federal Imaginary Gorilla? February Images of Glue?) while I write this post, and if I don't I will consult Elisabeth 's blog. February 1st is my sister's birthday. This sneaks up on me even worse than Eve's birthday (today), so I often am scrambling to text on the right day and I never get the gift there on time. Until this year. I got her a book and some Nerds gummy clusters. February 2 - After a few quite bad pain days, woke up with much less pain. Husband got home from California in the morning and we had a really nice conversation while I was still in bed and he was standing in the doorway, and then he had a shower and came and napped while I read and it was lovely. February 3 - Not gonna lie, it was a rough day. I got almost no sleep overnight, felt like absolute shite getting up for work, and all day if I reached for something I knocked something over, if I took a cap off something it end...