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Ally

Canadian by Birth, Irish by the Grace of God

About Me

I am Mummy to my beautiful son Cillian (pronounced with a "hard" C. Think Killian, NOT Sillian). He is the light of my life and motherhood is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Fo sho.

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I'd like to meet:

Johnny Depp. Are you out there, Johnny?? ;)

Music:

I have pretty eclectic taste in music. My iPod currently features Great Big Sea, k-os, The Chieftains, The Kaiser Chiefs, James Blunt, Wil Smith, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull,and many, many others, including Raffi. Yes, I said Raffi.

Movies:

Ohhhh so many favourite movies...Scent of a Woman (Hoo-ah!), Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman Begins (I heart Christian Bale), Princess Bride, Neverending Story, etc. etc.

Television:

I love TV. I love good TV, but I also love really, really BAD TV. My shows are Lost, House, Survivor, CSI (the original only, I hate Miami and New York), Grey's Anatomy, My Super Sweet 16, Guiding Light, What Not To Wear, Oprah, Phil...I could go on for days really.

Books:

Absolute Fave has to be A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving). A current fave is A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry). Oh how I miss reading...

My Blog

Scary Things and I'm a Big Party Pooper

The scariest things in the world, according to 6 month old King Cillian, are....drum roll please...KITTENS AND PUPPIES.  For serious.While out shopping yesterday, Mum and I thought it would be fu...
Posted by Ally on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:43:00 PST

Whatever Happened to Hallowe'en?

Does anyone else remember being young and going out trick or treating?  Starting at like 7 or 8 at night and going until 10 or so?  I'm sitting here writing this at 8:10 pm and all the kids ...
Posted by Ally on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:20:00 PST

ARGH! Babies are So Frickin' Weird!

It's a good thing he's so cute!Last week I was so happy.  On his exact 6 month birthday, King Cillian FINALLY started going to sleep on his own (rather than needing me or Daddy to rock him to sle...
Posted by Ally on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:29:00 PST

My Leafs....ohhhh My Leafs

So once again I had the pleasure (hahahahahhahaha) of attending a Sens vs. Leafs game.  Last time I went we won 6-0.  Sadly tonight we lost 7-2.  There are no words to describe the humi...
Posted by Ally on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:15:00 PST

It's Snowing!?

Yup that's right, today is Sunday, October 22 and we are experiencing our first snowfall of the year here in merry ol' Kanata.  Good news for me because that prompted Dear Hubby to turn on the he...
Posted by Ally on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:42:00 PST

Evil eBayers

So waaaaay way back in June, when King Cillian was just two month old, I purchased a cool activity mat for him through eBay.  He had played on this particular mat at a friend's house and loved it...
Posted by Ally on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:24:00 PST

One Thing I Hate About Living in Ottawa

Missing really good Leafs games!!  My brother, who is in Calgary, was texting me the score through the whole game tonight as it happened, and it was a REALLY REALLY good game.  And Mats got ...
Posted by Ally on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:45:00 PST

Tired...so...tired....

Well it's 9:39 on a Friday night and I am ready for bed.  Could I be anymore pathetic? It's been a rough couple of weeks (travel, pain/painkillers/my nasty cold/baby's nasty cold/more travel/lac...
Posted by Ally on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:48:00 PST

We Actually Won!!

OK so the first (and possibly only) time I've ever gone to see the Leafs play the Senators.....and we WON!!  6 - 0!!!  Raycroft is my new favourite Leaf!  And all the Sens fans were pis...
Posted by Ally on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:36:00 PST

We Survived / Why Personal Trainers Suck / GO LEAFS GO

So all the worry over our first big trip with King Cillian was for naught...he was amazing!  Of course we had a few hairy moments, but all in all, our little guy was great.  Here's hoping he...
Posted by Ally on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:52:00 PST