• I write books.

    I do! It's true. I have written for all sorts of different audiences. My first book was literary adult fiction and I've written many many books that have fallen into the category "juvenile fiction" and "YA fiction". I talk about my books and writing in general on my other site, which is at www.karenrivers.com. (I don't know how to make that a live link, so you may have to copy and paste.) (Sorry.) THIS site is about me, my hair, my kids, my appliances, and that time that I rode my bike down a cliff and then got stung by a bee. It may not all be appropriately awesome (or even slightly interesting) to kids, so if you are young, LOOK AWAY. That said, there is nothing harmful here, except the occasional swear, which I ask you to edit out with your eyes. Blink blink.
  • I take pictures.

    Parksville, Day 3

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

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  • Is it safe to eat raw bacon?

    No. You shouldn't eat any raw pork products. You could get trichinosis and no doubt a number of other food-borne illnesses. With the recent change in food safety standards, I'd frankly cook the crap out of any meat product I purchased before eating it. Even if it's already cooked. Seriously. Keep in mind that I am not a raw bacon expert, I just play one on the web.

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The Bachelorette: Episode 3. I can’t even come up with a witty title for this show and I’ve tried for two days.

I’m late with this recap because I was busy and honestly, writing this all down was suddenly as appealing as a root canal, which I’ve never had but am as terrified of as I am of rattlesnakes and men weilding machetes.  I’d like to add that I watched this episode with my 12 year old [...]

The Bachelorette: Episode 2 – Clash of The Idiots.

I hate blogging The Bachelorette right after blogging a previous episode of The Bachelorette with nothing in between because it makes me feel like I’m a person who blogs The Bachelorette and has nothing else going on and I swear, I DO have other things going on (some of which are still SECRETS) but apparently [...]

The Bachelorette: The Season I Swore I Would Not Watch, BY GOD, I SWORE. But I watched. And so, I blog.

So I watched the first episode of Ali’s Bachelorette season and now I feel like a human failure, a giant sponge of enormous failosity, because I said I wouldn’t watch and I have made myself a liar.  There is something about Ali in general that makes me feel unkind, and it’s not just her inability [...]

The Bachelor: Episode 7. In Which Jake Proceeds To Ruin One of My Favourite Places on Earth.

The funny thing is that watching other people kissing makes me really uncomfortable.   It’s just one of those things that ain’t pretty.   It’s AWKWARD.   It’s embarrassing.   Needless to say, I’ve spent much of this season of The Bachelor contemplating how our fireplace (which is below the TV) really is an eyesore [...]

It’s Not Five Things & It’s Not Friday, But Rather More Bachelorette Nonsense.

OK, I know The Bachelorette is long since over and no one should care anymore about these people, and frankly, I don’t much care about them either and you’d think I would, having spent so much time typing about them.   But I don’t.   And yet, I’m sort of lying.  Because whenever I see an article [...]

In which I sort of recap The Bachelorette: THE FINAL ROSE. OMG, seriously? It’s over? What will I blog about from now on? And how is it possible that I was wrong AGAIN?

OK, pretty peeps, here we are at the fork in the road, or actually the end of the road that is the loooooong (somewhat painful) journey of Jillian Harris on her quest for love, during which (according to her), she had to “slay a lot of dragons”.    Really?   She did?   Hey, didn’t she steal that [...]

OK, I didn’t really watch The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All, but I started to, and that counts, right?

Because I was camping, (See: Today’s Other Post), I missed this episode of The Bachelorette.   I know!   Sacre bleu!   How can I go on living without witnessing this life-changing event?   I don’t know either but as tonight is the gripping finale of what amounts to the Most Appalling Season Ever (See: Wes), you know [...]

In which I sort of recap The Bachelorette, Episode 9. Or, SOMEONE HAS ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION or ED! Hey, wait, ED has ED. Or does he?

Yes, folks, it’s the big episode that we’ve been building to all season, the one with the scene that the producers have been battering us with since Day 1, when we still innocently believed that Jillian Harris was a fun, cute girl and that she might get the happy ending that Jason Mesnick robbed her [...]

In which I sort of Recap The Bachelorette, Episode 8. Or, Wes Proves that Old Chestnut “Any Publicity is Good Publicity” is actually Not Correct.

It’s hard to know where to begin with this week’s exciting episode of “Why Is Wes Still Here?” But let’s start with… a boring montage about the remaining four men: Kiptyn, Reid, Ed, and the douchebag Wes himself. And Spain. Oh, Spain. I must tell you that Spain looks really lovely. I’d like to go [...]

In Which I sort of recap The Bachelorette, Episode 7. Or, Real Men Blink When They Lie, Which Makes It Surprising That Wes Does, Too.

Oh, hometown week.   What joy you bring to my heart, except for the part where I’m so bored and annoyed with this season that what really brought joy to my heart was the Breyer’s Chocolate Cheesecake Ice Cream (which I finally found after going to four separate grocery stores) to eat while suffering through the [...]