Category: rampant consumerism
Now, I’m sure I’m not the first person to say this and I won’t be the last, but holy crap DHL Express is the crappiest delivery company ever. You see, Kalev bought me some birthday presents from ThinkGeek and had them shipped to me. Or at least, he tried to have them shipped to me. […]
So this is what Zaphod Beeblebrox the Car looks like under a foot of snow: After crying “SNOWMAGGEDON!” several times this month, the meteorologists were finally right and we got a big dump of snow on the night of my birthday. Thankfully it waited until after I got home from the Indian buffet I went to with […]
Since the shoe buying ban of 2010 is now over, I am free to yet again indulge in my love of new footwear. And since it was today is Bething Day – the Bethmas equivalent to Boxing Day – it was only appropriate for me to take advantage of the awesome Bething Day sales. Thus, […]
So I went in on Wednesday to get my braces adjusted. Specifically, they took out the existing wire and put in a thicker one. As well, this thicker wire was longer so that the brackets on my lower back molars could be including in the tooth moving fun, as they were not attached to the […]
I wrote this on my iPhone on the subway many, many days ago and then haven’t published it because I’ve been having way too much fun for such things as publishing blog postings. But now it’s Boxing Day and we are all so full from three days of non-stop eating that we can’t do anything […]
Remember last year when I complained about how difficult it was to sneak my Secret Santa presents into my Secret Santa recipient’s office at work? It must have taken me a dozen tries to get to her office undetected, get in, drop off her present and get out without being spotted. And since my office’s […]
I came up with a solution to my insufficient-supply-of-Christmas-tree-ornaments problem. And it allows me to cross something off my 101 in 1001 list to boot! That solution: chili peppers. When I was in Mexico for Christmas 2008, there was a Christmas tree that was decorated entirely with chili peppers. I love love loved that tree! […]
So I *finally* got my marking done, which meant I was allowed ((where by “allowed” I mean, I allowed myself to put it up. It was my reward to motivate me to finish my marking.)) to put up my Christmas tree! I actually finished my marking earlier this week, but I was in Vancouver for […]
Back in the day, I used to be able to order my coffee thusly: “Large double-double.” Three simple words – actually, it’s only two simple words, one of which you say twice. Today, this is how I ordered my coffee: “Tall caramel brulee, with soy, half-sweet, extra-extra hot, with whip.” How annoying! But you see, yesterday, today […]
:-{#} In anticipation of today’s installation of my braces, I took a (very rare) photo of my fugly, fugly teeth. I figured I’d want a “before” photo of how awful they are now to remind myself what they looked like when they are all pretty at the end of this. Notice how the canine tooth […]