Not To Be Trusted With Knives

This is my 2,011th blog posting. And I’m posting it in the year 2011!

That is all.

Image Credit: Posted by Jackson Carson on Flickr.

Tags: 2011, NaBloPoMo, NaBloPoMo2011

This was the Do Not Disturb door hanger at the hotel we stayed in for Linda & Casey’s wedding on the weekend:

Please do not disturb. This woman and her apple are having a special moment.

Strangely, the “please service this room” side of the door hanger had the exact same picture.

Please service this room. Much like this woman is about to service this apple.

Tags: do disturb, do not disturb, hotels, this is disturbing

I’m too tired to blog anything of substance today (and I have Bootcamp tonight, so I don’t anticipate getting any less tired!), so here’s a picture of the adorable sticker that I put on my iPhone case:

I know this is the kind of hard hitting news that you’ve come to expect here. You’re welcome.

Tags: iPhone case, rampant consumerism, random, sticker

So I’m watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother (a show that I freaking love, by the way) and I notice an extra in the background in an office scene, wearing a black and white skirt:

In a following shot, we see a close up of that skirt:

That’s MY freaking skirt¹!!

That is all.

1. A skirt that I bought from Dr. Jen when she was paring down her wardrobe. I miss you, Dr. Jen!! [↩]

Tags: skirt, TV

Whenever I have time, I draw a complete blank on what to blog about. When I’m swamped with one billion things to do (like I was while away on my so-called “vacation” and like I am this week), I have eleventy thousand ideas for blog posts. I could stay up to write a proper posting, but I’m so tired that I could cry, so in lieu of a real blog posting, I present you this list of all the stuff I’ve been meaning to blog about/I’ve started a draft blog posting about¹:

• Visit to the Mint in Ottawa
• Visit to the National Art Gallery in Ottawa
• My Family Reunion
• Family Jewels
• Completion of my 365 Photo Challenge
• Upcoming Bootcamp for my 10-day Long Hockey Game
• Upcoming Awesome, Um, Electronic Device Buying Fundraiser Party for my 10-day Long Hockey Game
• Upcoming Pub Night Fundraiser for my 10-Day Long Hockey Game
• Comparison of Sharkies, PowerGel, Energy Blocks & Gatorade as means of glucose/electrolyte replacement
• Top Secret Thing I Can’t Blog About Yet But Which is Super Awesometastic
• Something Else About the Super Awesometastic Thing I Can’t Yet Blog About
• The NHL Draft
• My Skirt on a TV Show

That last one is actually a full written draft, which I’d forgotten I’d written and not yet posted and only just re-discovered while I was checking out my drafts in order to write that list. I’m totally posting that as tomorrow’s posting.

I think I need about 27 more hours in my day.

1. Where by “draft blog posting,” I mean, in most cases, I’ve written down the title to remind myself to blog about it [↩]

Tags: Beth tired, I do too many things

So, after being a complete delinquent with respect to things normal day-to-day living (things like packing my lunch/making dinner at home/going to bed at a reasonable hour) over the past couple of months, which – did I mention? – I completely blame on the Vancouver Canucks for being so awesome as to make it to the Stanley Cup and making me spend all my time watching them, followed by a whirlwind trip to visit the fam & friends in Ontario, I’ve decided it’s high time that I get back to my routine.

To that end, my lunch is packed and waiting for me in the fridge, as is my breakfast; my coffee maker is set up to make me coffee upon my waking; my dishwasher is loaded and ready to turn on in the middle of the night¹; and I’m going to bed at 10:30 p.m., meaning I will actually get a full EIGHT HOURS OF SLEEP and still have plenty of time to get to the office bright and early.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go floss!

1. I use the “delay” feature so that I comes on after I’m asleep. Otherwise the noise drives me crazy when I’m trying to sleep! [↩]

Tags: random, routine

Oh, but one more thing before I go to bed¹. During the coverage of the post-game 7 Vancouver riot, the reporters mentioned that the police had read the Riot Act and, up until that moment, it had never occurred to me that the “Riot Act” was an actual thing. I mean, I’ve heard the expression “being read the riot act,” but I’d never thought much about it. Of course, this got me thinking, “What, exactly, does the Riot Act say?”

Naturally, I did a quick Wikipedia search and found out that it’s actually quite hilarious:

Her Majesty the Queen charges and commands all persons being assembled immediately to disperse and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business on the pain of being guilty of an offence for which, on conviction, they may be sentenced to imprisonment for life. God Save the Queen.

Ok, you may all now disperse to your habitations. Nothing to see here.

1. I was reminded that I wanted to blog about this because I noticed that I still had the Wikipedia article open in a tab in Chrome. And yes, I realize that I’m waaay late, as usual, talking about such things. Thank the FSM no one pays me to write this blog, because I’d totally be fired for always being the last person to report on everything! [↩]

I took this picture one day when I was at UBC:

When I first saw it, I could have sworn it said “Fornication Friday.” And even still when I look at it, that’s what I think it says. This is 100% funnier when you realize that Regent College, where this cafe is located, is a religious grad school at UBC.

Tags: Fornication Fridays

• hockey
• beer

• Folding laundry
• Emptying the dishwasher
• Sleep