Category: random
All the dishes are clean. The laundry is done¹. All pressing emails have been answered. Tomorrow’s lunch is made and the coffee pot alarm is set to start making my coffee in the morning. I’m going to bed before midnight and so I’ll actually get more than 6 hours sleep tonight. Success! ¹Laundry being “done” […]
Yesterday, I got this notification, telling me that my delicious, delicious vegetarian marshmallows that you can only get by buying them on the internets and having them shipped from the States at an exorbitant rate are waiting for me at the post office. Usually, you get these little notification cards to tell you that they […]
So yesterday was tax day. Hope all y’all did your taxes. I did mine a few weeks ago when I was procrastinating on doing the things that I should have been doing. This is the first year that I had to pay any serious coin to the CRA¹, what with having been a student up […]
… as described via Tweets on a night that the Calgary Flames play the San Jose Sharks in a winner-take-all Game 7: 8:01 p.m.: The world’s largest flying insect is in my kitchen and it’s freaking me out!!!! HELP!!! 8:03 p.m.: Seriously, I can’t get to my tea ‘cuz the bug is over there 8:23 […]
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I’m a bit of a Diet Pepsi fanatic¹. So when I saw this product in London Drugs and I just HAD to have it: Let’s take a closer look at that, shall we? That’s right. Diet Pepsi with ginseng. So, it’s like a super healthy drink. And I felt completely invigorated after consuming this product. […]
Last spring, my roommate left our little apartment to move on to bigger and better things (i.e., a dietetics internship in Victoria). Here are 24 things¹ that I miss about her: Her wicked sense of humour Walks to the produce stores on West Broadway Our 8 p.m. cookie bakes Impromptu parties where we invite random […]
So, I’ve been listening to a hellava lot of Grammar Girl podcasts lately. I just can’t get enough of her quick & dirty tips for how to annoy one’s friends by correcting their grammar1. I’ve learned when to use “sit” versus “set”, when to use “lay” versus “lie,” and even that it’s OK to end […]
I went to an AA meeting with a friend this weekend and I was really struck by one thing: everyone there was a whole lot more happy than people are at AA meetings on TV and in the movies. Jack at confronts his dad at an AA meeting in an episode of Lost. Niki speaks […]
Well, it could be worse. I could have pneumonia; I hear that’s going around. Although my doctor assures me that pneumonia is not the kind of thing that “goes around” and that what people call “walking pneumonia” isn’t really pneumonia. Instead, I have bronchitis. I’ve been sick since New Year’s. It started like a flu […]