about staceywaspe.com

This site started on blogspot as a travel blog called 'pigeonhole' in preparation for my first trip to the UK. (I didn't want to be one of those people who travelled around the world sending emails to 30-odd people.) I got heaps and heaps of praise from everyone during the trip, so I kept the blog in the hopes of garnering even more. Vanity thy name is blog. After registering my domain and moving the site to a new home, I started using Movable Type. While the site still is a pigeonhole by definition, it has undergone many name changes over the past year. Late last year, I changed the name to "confessions of a shopaholic" because I wanted to draw attention to the fact that I covet so much in this world, like books, boots, bags and yoga retreats. I think all of us covet so much more than we truly need, and this was my way of addressing my own problem. It didn't work. The name changed again because I was bored, I guess, and wanted something different. And now we've got something different again, which I think just might become my new thing. The new name might be addressed in the colophon if I've gotten around to it. Please note: I'm still very much a shopaholic, but I don't feel the need to share that with everyone that passes by in 60pt type.

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We are an Aquarian, which only means that everyone is without fail either grumpy and sick of winter for our birthday or just plain ill. We must be pretty young at heart since we still feel like a little kid, not feeling any wiser or more grown-up than we did at 16. After doing some growing up in LaSalle, Ontario, we went to j-school in Toronto to become a writer, although we have been seriously writing since we dictated our first short story to our dad, entitled The Big, Black, Brown Bear, Button, when we were four. Now living full-time in the Big Smoke, we're into writing prose, poetry and marketing copy (somebody has to do it), in addition to blogging, as well as watching movies over and over and over again, and reading everything and anything. We are very fond of run-on sentences. And Mark Morford. (Not to mention parenthetical statements and writing in the first person plural.) By day, we are a marketing communications specialist (say that three times fast) and webmaster, though not averse to the occasional graphic design gig or writing assignment. You can see more of what we've done in our portfolio (which we're sure will be available somewhere that you may have access to in the next century). A kick-ass curly-haired yoga-lovin' veggie-chick, we have a wacked sense of humour and are a proud Canuck to boot. We do not pronounce the word "about" as "abooooot", the opinion of our American cousins notwithstanding.