Once a year, my junior high school decided that going through puberty in a giant cinderblock building surrounded by other people who were also going through puberty in a giant cinderblock building was not making…
Posts Published by Janel Comeau
What Your Favourite Tim Hortons Beverage Says About You
I have a confession to make: I don’t mind Tim Hortons coffee. Does Tim Hortons make excellent coffee? No. Do they make good coffee? Also no. Do they make coffee that tastes a little bit…
Dance of the Dog Poop Lady
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you already know that I’ve worked quite a few odd jobs in my life – it has been my lifelong goal to have the haphazard and…
Three Guinness World Records You Can Beat at Home While You Wait For Everything to Go Back to Normal
What a year this has been. We’re approaching what is approximately the 487th consecutive day of March 2020, and by this point in the pandemic, we’ve proven as a species that we are…
Adventures in Babysitting Terrible Sneaky Monster Children
When I was fourteen years old, I suddenly found myself in need of some extra spending money. I was too young to work at the local Starbucks and too sheltered to build my own international…
A Brief Guide to the Worst Flight I’ve Ever Been On
For most of my adult life, I have lived more than a thousand kilometres away from my parents. This means that if I want to spend any quality time with my family, I need to…
I am the Proud Parent of an Emotionally Compromised Chihuahua
From the moment I moved out of my parents’ house for good at the age of 21, I wanted a dog of my own. I had grown up with an assortment of strange and wonderful…
How to Social Distance Like a Dinosaur
At a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be a paleontologist. My parents were well aware that I was the sort of soft, round Indoor Child who was probably not well-suited to…
A Brief Introduction to my Six-Year Blood Feud With C-3PO
In the spring of 2014, I attended the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in Calgary, Alberta, partially because I am an enormous nerd, and partially because there is no sunscreen known to man or science…
How to Have a Good Time in Quarantine Even Though Everything is Terrible
Like most people on Planet Earth right now, I am currently in quarantine. According to the CDC and the World Health Organization, I have at least eight more days of sitting on the couch in…