Word of the Day and Other News

Are you ready for it? It's... Frugalista. It means “a person who lives a frugal lifestyle but stays fashionable and healthy by swapping clothes, buying secondhand, growing own produce etc.". So I'm adopting it. I'd much rather call myself that than be described as cheap, frugal, or even economical. (Though while we are still on the topic of confessions, I must admit that I there are some areas of frugality with which is still struggle, namely my hair, but that's another story).


And in other news...

(That's me these days)

Our local transit union went on strike on at 12:01 Wednesday morning, which means that a great deal of our time has been spent in the Big White Beast (my pet name for our "car"), ferrying Ecopapa to and from work, picking up and driving home the eco-tots' caregiver, all in very dense, smog producing traffic and with three eco-tots each voicing their toddler opinion on the matter in the back seats. Needless to say, it's left me feeling slightly grinchy and with little time to dream up blog posts (and quite frankly dreaming of the days when we owned a second car - I know, me very bad. But at least in my dreams it's a hybrid). Unlike Toronto and Montreal we have no subway system, which in cases like this would make many an Ottawan's life much easier. Sad indeed.