Steve Jobs Has Unforsaken Me. Wait, is that a word? Maybe, Steve Jobs Has Saken Me.

Remember how back in January I was bitching that I Steve Jobs had forsaken me as evidenced by the fact that I couldn’t use my iTunes gift card to buy iPhone apps because I’m in Canada?   Well, guess what, boys and girls??  That little issue has now be rectified ((props to Kalev for bringing this […] →Read more

Happy Workivesary To Me!

Today was my one year workiversary! One year ago today I stepped into the role of “evaluation specialist,” excited to meet my new colleagues, learn some new things and take on some new challenges. And I have to say that it’s been a pretty fun year!  The people I work with are very nice ((and […] →Read more

Pet Taxi?

I hate to break it to you lady, but you have just paid an exorbitant price to put your cat in a duffel bag. →Read more

The Blog Spammers Made Me Do it

For a while there, a lot of blog comment spam was getting through my spam filters.  Some were getting through the filters completely and showing up on my blog and more were showing up in the “hmm, we aren’t sure if this is spam or not, so please moderate” folder.  I’m talking 5, sometimes 10 […] →Read more

Public Health Achievement #5: Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard

The public health achievement being highlighted by the Canadian Public Health Association’s 100 year anniversary project for the month of May is: the recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard. When I was a teenager, I worked in a donut shop ((zomg, I can’t believe there’s a Wikipedia page on that donut shop chain!  […] →Read more

Over 8 Coupons! Or, You Know, 9.

Over 8 coupons! Or, you know, 9. →Read more

The Tale of the TV

The other day I tweeted this: For, you see, it has been a long, long time since I’ve had cable TV. In fact, it’s been almost a decade.  For the year and a bit that I lived with Danielle, we had her TV, but no cable, and even with the bunny ears we were only […] →Read more

Really, Chocolate Bar Company?

“Women’s Monthly Madness”?  Really? →Read more

All This Could Be Yours, If Only You’d Come To Visit Me!!

My friend Patrice came over for dinner today, and I made us some lovely pizza. I did cheat a bit – I bought frozen dough rather than making my own. Because dough has to rise and I didn’t have time to make my own dough, but I did have time to take frozen dough out […] →Read more

It’s My Car-iversary!

One year ago today, I picked up my beautiful baby Smart car from the dealership! In that time I have: driven 22,000+ km spent $1699.77 on gas This is pretty close to what I estimated for the one year mark when I hit the 10,000 km mark back in October. It works out to about […] →Read more