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Today, I had my first pole dancing lesson. First of all, props to Alicia for giving me such a freaking cool birthday present! Second, a shout out goes to Tantra Fitness, where you can take lapdancing or cardio striptease classes, in addition to learning how to work the pole. There were a lot of people […] →Read more
As a nutritional scientist, I consider it my duty to assess the contents of other shoppers’s purchases when waiting in line at the grocery store checkout. The vast majority of the time, what people are buying is appallingly bad for you and I get to feel all smug and superior in a “what is this […] →Read more
I finally got my new laptop!! Despite Future Shop’s best efforts to keep me from getting it (first by insisting that the holder of the credit card (who is in Toronto) that paid for laptop show up at the pick up location (which is in Vancouver), then (after agreeing she could pay there and I […] →Read more
Justify buying toaster waffles in order to use up the last of the syrup you have in your fridge. Use up the last of the syrup. Justify buying syrup on the grounds that you need it to eat up the last of those toaster waffles you bought. Repeat. →Read more
So, The Queen is up for the Best Picture Oscar. I so don’t get this. That was probably the most boring movie I saw all year. And I only went to see it because I won free tickets. It was a “character study,” they tell you. “You learned so much about the queen’s perspective,” they […] →Read more
Darren of darrenbarefoot.com fame has a survey going on about “Why Do You Blog.” If you fill it out, you can win stuff. Go here to check it out. And while we are on the topic, those of you who blog, why do you blog? →Read more
If only that were true. Now that Vancouver is settling nicely into its normal winter weather (7 degrees and raining), it would be prudent to know where one’s umbrella is. I, of course, lost my umbrella. I guess if I want to get really technical about it, it’s not exactly “lost,” since I know exactly […] →Read more
A bunch of us were over at a friend’s place for dinner last night and one of the girl’s there invited us all to a launch party for a new website: lendlist.org. The idea behind the website, according to their “About” page is: LendList.org is a rebellion against materialism and consumerism Basically, it’s a place […] →Read more
Having recently read two fellow Vancouver bloggers postings about things “overheard in Vancouver” (Barefoot, 2007; Doppelganger, 2007)*, I was inspired to record this comment that I overhead on a bus in Vancouver today**: “A gun license is good for 5 years, but my medicinal marijuana license is only good for one. You do the math.” […] →Read more
So, I finally got off my butt and scanned the grad photos that I finally got. I had originally hoped to send my grad photos out with my Christmas cards, thus saving a bunch of $$ on mailing, but when I got the proofs in mid-December, the photographer informed me that it would take 5 […] →Read more