Category: rampant consumerism
After patiently waiting for my lousy Telus contract to end, today I jumped ship to Fido. I was originally attracted their by their ad for a $57/month smartphone plan that includes all sorts of everything, only to be told by the manager in the Fido store that “oh no, that’s for smartphones.” “Uh, yeah, the […]
I seem to have developed a thing for obscure soda pops. It all started a few months ago when Devon and I happened upon a hole-in-the-wall convenience store with a sign that says, “We sell American pop” ((Or something to that effect.)). And when we went in, they had all sorts of pop that you […]
As you read this, I’m somewhere between New Westminster and a field full of zombies. You see, I’m writing today’s blog posting yesterday – er, well, what will be yesterday by the time you read this – and it will be – er, has been – automagically posted by the magic of the Internets while […]
Despite my coffee snobbery, I’ve started drinking Tim Horton’s coffees of late. It started when I was in the hospital for my Dad’s surgery. The coffee shop in the hospital ((As an aside: the hospital also had a Colonel Sanders Wing. Like as in the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy. Apparently he lived in Mississauga at […]
So it feels weird to be writing a regular old blog posting after the last few weeks, but I feel like I need to get back on the blogging horse and sooner is better than later, because I feel like the longer I wait, the weirder it is going to feel. My dad loved reading […]
In addition to buying that steak, I bought a whole bunch of other stuff yesterday. It was spend-your-Optimum-points-and-get-extra-free-money day at Shoppers Drug Mart and I had enough points to get $125 of free stuff ((Ordinarily, the points I had would have only gotten me $85 worth of free stuff, but because it was the special […]
I had my annual eye exam yesterday and, happily, everything is exactly the same as it was a year ago. In fact, I just read over my blog posting from last year’s eye exam and I could pretty much copy and paste it and it would be accurate for this year’s exam – my optometrist did […]
Warning: this blog post contains excessive amounts of materialism and first world problems (FWP). When we went to Portland, I was very excited about the shopping potential. Oregon has no sales tax, which is pretty sweet because when something costs $19.99, you actually pay $19.99 – although this does result in an inordinate amount of pennies […]
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.
Also, I recently detailed my car. OK, someone taught me how to detail my car. OK, actually, someone who loves cars detailed my car for me and I sort of watched. And here’s the thing about car “detailing” – it’s just another word for cleaning. I’m assuming that they had to invent a different word […]