The kind of way I observe things

Are you gonna have cow?

2012-01-16T12:52:00.006-05:00

Ok, time to talk about something I like, something I recommend! I love THIS. Daiya is the best vegan cheese going. I have used it on pizza, tacos, sprinkled on soup and it really is the top. It also doesn't have shit in it like so many other processed foods calling themselves vegan. Vegan shouldn't mean unpronounceable ingredients! It should mean top quality foods with upstanding and tasty ingredients.

Try some today. It's quite widely available, even at two of my local No Frills stores and Loblaws at Dundas and Bloor. I wholeheartedly recommend this product for those of you who don't consume animal products but are looking for an A1 cheese substitute that you don't have to fear will slowly kill you. Yay!

On a day like today

2011-11-16T12:18:00.003-05:00

I like to brew myself an non-caffeinated cuppa joe, brewed in my special way with a few dashes of cinnamon throw into the basket. Mmmm.

The emperor's new time, and coffee!

2011-11-07T13:33:00.006-05:00

This morning I'm awoken by my fiancé telling me it's 7 o'clock. Well then why didn't my alarm go off when it was supposed to at 6:50am?, I ask myself. I check my phone. "It's SIX a.m.!!!" (5:58 to be exact) He hadn't manually changed his phone for daylight savings. Sigh. And I'm sure we weren't the only ones this morning. Better yet we're not the dude I heard about in university who totally slept through an exam once due to the same thing. A university EXAM. Don't envy that guy.

Can't wait to race home tonight to try out my brand new personal pouch of 23 Degrees Roastery coffee supplied to me by the terrific people at Borden. They even hooked me up with decaf brew "Declawed" (only because I begrudgingly don't drink real coffee anymore). I'm loving the experience so far and haven't even ground the beans, or brewed the coffee or DRANK it yet. I'm going to savour - and tell you about! - the whole thing.
To kick things off, their packaging is right on the money. Check it owwwt!

I will consider sharing this brew with my work buds. Heh heh heh.

On the subject of Me

2011-10-28T10:00:00.004-04:00

Two things:

The Gap has the best dress/office pants in right now. I bought ankle length (for the shorties among us; but not as "ankular" as you might think - just right for wearing a nice pair of boots), in a nice charcoal grey, their Curvy fit Perfect trouser pants and I would say they really are quite perfect, especially when I don't have to have them tailored! The fit is wonderful - they are ever so slimming and sleek as all get out. A great pant to have for the workplace that'll take you right into evening. Now don't I just sound like a magazine. Buy some. Price is right (bought them when they had a BOGO; what store doesn't have these kind of sales now?!). They don't always have the best fits (last year was the pits) but this year they're right on the money, honey.

In other news, B's dad and his girlfriend are staying with us for a few nights. This morning started off by him knocking on our bedroom door to inform B that it was past the time that he told him last night he would wake up this morning to get to work on time. Being woken up by your dad - when it's still dark outside - in your own house: priceless(ly infuriating). Of course I'm exaggerating. It was endearing. A throwback if you will to when we went on a trip with him earlier this year in Europe and insisted on acting as our daily alarm clock. We're on vacation!!!

Moving right along, my regular morning breakfast ritual was interrupted this morning by my dear future father-in-law giving me career advice from his perch on the living room futon while I prepared my breakfast just above his head in our conveniently open concept kitchen-living room.

Office thoughts

2011-10-14T15:33:00.004-04:00

You know what really gets my goat? Office people who do not properly wash a mug. They claim to have washed it, it looks washed, and then upon closer inspection, there are LIP marks. When I see this on a mug I just think, what part of the cup DID they wash? HONESTLY.
Also, also, I'm officially over herb and garlic cream cheese from Tim Horton's. I told them to put on half the amount on a sandwich today - which I think they did - but it is just wrong. Doesn't taste the way it used to; plus I'm not even supposed to eat dairy anymore.
Lastly - lastly - Oktoberfest. I'm going tonight. Kim Mitchell was playing. When my cousin booked the tickets she said, "Hope you like her." HER? WHO doesn't know who Kim Mitchell is!???!

Oh PS - wanted to update you on the Behr situation. They came back to me saying I need to present them with the original receipt for the paint, not a duplicate. I said well of course I don't have this after having done the painting a full seven months before I finally contacted them. They CALLED me yesterday to tell me in the weirdest phone message that since I don't have the original receipt the LABEL from the paint can will do. If I haven't kept a receipt for seven months will I really instead have kept an empty paint can!? Come on people, I wrote back the following:

If Behr wants to continue to have me and anyone in my circle of friends and family (not to mention anyone in the social media world) remain consumers of Behr paint then you will accept my duplicate receipt/copy of my credit card transaction. Otherwise I will not purchase Behr again and will instead buy Benjamin Moore for my next project. Please confirm at your earliest convenience. I will be buying new paint within the next couple of days and need to know which brand to buy. Thank you.

Booyah.

Keeping up with the conversations

2011-09-08T10:32:00.002-04:00

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM, LF wrote:

I know, I'm bored as all hell too! Today, I actually remembered that I had to take a salmon "filet" (ew, hate that word) out of the freezer for din (to be honest, can't remember how long it had been in there, a while) and it was black! EW. Guess I'm having tuna for dinner, blargh!!!!

"Omg" my boss just hired a contract person here, at least she is closer to my age, but yesterday she was like, "oh my god, I'm 23, I'm getting so old" I HATE when people do that, I was like ugh, I just want to work with some normal ppl my age!

Then, oh, this is la creme de la creme -- I told her I was going away in october, and that I wanted to go to spain, so she was just telling me about a recent trip she took there, and she was like "the food was awful" are you f****d??!! she was like "we had to eat at mcdonalds" because apparently the food in spain was just too greasy and heavy. Again, are you f****d?!! Omg, some people are seriously just out to lunch!!!!!!!!!! WTF???? She'll fit right in with the people I work with!! Oh man, just heard my coworker "coke lady" pop back her 1st or 2nd one of the day. GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps: Getting my hair cut tonite! Any ideas? I'm thinking bangs, but on the fence...

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM, KM wrote:

we used to have a prof in third yr or something, when i took summer school (yah!) and every a.m. in our 8:30 class he'd have a 1 litre bottle of diet coke - he ALWAYS wore suspenders and had a gut that looked like he was expecting OCTUPLETS!
yikes.
ok, that spain woman!? what the f*** ever. that's like the woman who told my mom to bring CEREAL with her when we went to JAPAN because they don't have any there. WHAT THE HELL!???! we ended up eating fish and tofu for breakfast Ms. North America, thank you very much. people like that don't deserve to travel, and they deserve only the finest STAYCATIONS money can't buy.
i couldnt agree with you MORE about the whole old-at-23 bullshit. complete bullshit.
leftover roti for lunch, from pam's caribbean kitchen.
haircut? i once asked a child how i should get my hair cut and he said, "with eyes and glue." sooo, i wont give you that advice.
i always like bangs :-)

Fridays morgens

2011-08-26T10:27:00.007-04:00

When you're hungry at work at 10:15am because you had to eat a bowl of milkless cereal this morning maybe don't drink half a cup of brown drink (read: Diet Coke) from an open can in the staff fridge.

In other news, I wanted to report on my other "free" thing. Earlier in the summer I had purchased a pair of Mephisto (read: old lady) sandals, of the snake print persuasion. These are the most comfortable things I have had the pleasure of slipping my feet into, ladies and gentlemen. Also, each time I took them off, my feet were silky smooth; and I don't know why! They were that good. But, after wearing them fewer than 10 times, the snake print started to wear off :( I got in touch with my friendly neighbourhood Walking on a Cloud where I purchased them and as of a few days ago, they offered me a credit for the value of the sandals. Yay! So I'm going to pick up some newwies today. These are the best, I'm telling you. Buy some. Not cheap, but your feet will proverbially thank you.

Also, I wanted to tell y'all about this. I am in week two of my weekly dose of CSA from Kawartha Ecological Growers. I like everything about this deal. The pick-up is right behind my work, the basket is always plentiful and colourful, the people are great, there is no waste (you bring your own bags 'n such) and it's such a nice way to celebrate the bounty of the summer and fall. Yes, I'll be getting a basket until November. Yessss! An amazing value for $15 a week of veggie and fruit goods. And that's just for the mini basket. There are small and large baskets as well, at $25 and I forget the other amount, respectively. Check them out. It's such a pleasure :)

Have a great weekend! Go check out The Ex! Maybe try a cheeseburger donut! Ok I'll stop there.

On the topic of free things

2011-08-18T12:14:00.009-04:00

Hello,
Here to update y'all once again on more free things I've procured. Well, it's one at the moment, and I still have to put a bit of work into this one, but the other one I may get later this week.

Soooooo, on the Family Day weekend in February of this year my fiancé, mom and myself painted our (my fiancé's and my; not my fiancé's, mom's and my) bedroom. It's a big room. We chose Behr colour Silver Charm, which I agonized over for months until finally deciding on it. Long story short, the edging never, and still hasn't ever matched the walls. I'm not talking about the trim, I'm talking about the upper, lower and all corner edges of the room. It's the most annoying thing! People would come over and check out our new shade and say, "Oh, you need another coat." No, we did not actually, we had done plenty, and still had a terrible result. Fast (more like slow, because it's me we're talking about) forward to earlier this week. I sent Behr a message through their website explaining the sitch. No one had been able to tell me one way or the other WHY this had happened or how to ensure it would NOT happen again, so I went to the source (walked, but didn't run. I had to get a few months of complaining about this situation you see).

No later than two days after I sent them a message I received a great response. It wasn't the response of "We'll come over and repaint the room for you, and while we're at it we'll give your house a total paint, design and furniture makeover!" but it was more one of, "For your trouble, we'll reimburse you the cost of a new can of paint." Small victories.

Thanks Behr, you made a woman's day. Now I just have to track down that pesky receipt from Home Depot to produce to Behr. One tiny caveat. But still, more free (sort of) things!

Casual online conversations at work

2011-08-18T11:41:00.005-04:00

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM, L.F. wrote:
God, I am SO BORED.....................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please email me back and tell me something funny. I'll be eternally grateful.

The most exciting thing I have to eat today is carrots. F***.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM, K.M. wrote:
most food is rather boring. especially brought-to-work half-assed lunches. things always seem better when you pack them up in the morning (half asleep admittedly) and then once you get to work you think why did i even bother? and, i dont care how much money i spend on a lunch today. $100 soup? fine. anything is better than house-brought food. haha, that sounds so gross. speaking of gross, i have all these fruits and veggies in my office today because i've joined a CSA (you get a basket of fruits/vegs every week) and the pick-up is right next to my work but i couldnt bring the stuff home last night 'cause i didnt go home directly after work. sheesh. passers-by are probably going to think i have pigs or chickens living under my desk, or that "someone" needs a shower. "it's not me, i swear!" i had the AC blasting before, but someone already came by and commented on how cold it was in here. "just trying to keep my veggies from wilting," i said! dont quite know what to do with the melons i have sitting here in a plastic bag.

My slapstick morning

2011-08-05T11:23:00.004-04:00

OMG, as I'm getting ready for work this morning, running late, my life turned into a slapstick. While primping in the washroom, my whole makeup bag completely tipped over, dumping everything onto the floor - stuff went behind the toilet, on/in the toilet brush, near a plunger; oh yah, the real deal - and when I came back up from picking up most of these things I unbelievably hit my head on the sharp corner of my medicine cabinet. How? Why? I actually said out loud, "Oh my god, I'm TRYING to get ready!"
Friday it is!

The politics of a dog's voice

2011-08-03T12:34:00.008-04:00

I wouldn't send neighbourhood children into your home early in the morning to jump on your bed and spill hot coffee on your face, so why is it ok for your dogS to bark as loud as __ each and every morning at the butt crack of 6am which wakes up the entire pod of our complete neighbourhood? A very, very dense neighbourhood, with a LOT of people, as a matter of fact.
It's the equivalent of a child jumping on my bed and spilling hot coffee in my face.
Next time, I'm calling the Humane Society. Your backyard looks like a destitute bone yard anyway. So I got that on ya.

Back by popular demand - ME!

2011-07-18T21:53:00.003-04:00

Yes I've been negligent. I'm baaaack ladies!

Last Wednesday during my lunch hour I decided I buy an orange popsicle from the store. Initially I had wanted grape - old fave, what can I say - but they didn't have any. I bet they don't even make them anymore. Too "fruit-like" for the kids of today. So I gawt an awrnge popsicle (how they'd say it in the US). Can I tell you that awrnge popsicle was like the best? It was the best thing in ages! Gawd. It was just a regular old orange popsicle and I was loving the shit out of it. My coworker also gave me a chocolate mint chewy sort of candy and that was the shizz too.

It was a good sort of day.

Happy Snowz

2011-03-23T09:36:00.000-04:00

People and their snow freak outs. You should have even seen this woman on the streetcar this morning – it was so packed and I could barely get off so I said excuse me so people would let me through (obviously) and she said, “There’s like no room.” Ok, so does that mean I should just STAY on the streetcar then and NOT TRY to get off then?! Would it just be pointless for me to try to move because YOU SAY there is NO ROOM!? Is there REALLY NO ROOM!????!
That is all.

The Princess and the Sleep

2011-03-08T10:40:00.005-05:00

Weirdest thing - a few weeks ago when the weather was at its winter worst, I was going to bed probably almost an hour earlier than normal 'cause my bod just couldn't carry out the rest of the day. I found the early bedtime felt nice in the evening hours, but by the morning I was more tired than ever. Do you ever sleep too much and then feel exhausted? So last night, I went to bed around 11:30, got about 7.5 hours of sleep, and felt like a new woman this morning - not wanting to punch anyone in the morning! Not like I ever feel this way...

Me + Animal Collective = lurrrve

2011-02-25T10:36:00.005-05:00

Just listening to it on the i-tns (aka: how we pronounce iTunes round these parts). Man, love. Not man love, but music love... wow.
So tonight going to an audition for ITC encore - loves that place. Gonna get me onto a student team again. That is if I remember correctly how to do improv, since my last taste was in early December 2010. Sheesh. I just might fail ce soir. No, I won't at all. Alllllso, I'd like to take 202 (wouldn't YOU?) but I dunno guy with being on a team, AAAAAND class? That would mean three nights a week of comedy. Who do you think I am? Well yah, I'm funners.
Gawd, there's a lot of talking to myself 'round here today.
I don't have any streetcar stories today. No men exposing their naked butts, no people cramming themselves in through the back doors. But I must say, I love the feeling of having a jam-cram-packed streetcar roll up to the stop, replete with people just barely hanging onto the 'car and spilling out the windows, only to see another, very lonely, empty streetcar directly behind that one, which no one happens to think to get on but myself, leaving me a nice, large, luxurious streetcar to really let loose in, and be able to bask in graffiti such as the below.

Breakfast anyone?

P.S. On a note related to the beginning of this post, I also love Supergrass. If they have a concert upcoming in TO, LET ME KNOW

Friday mornings

2011-02-18T10:26:00.002-05:00

Drinking a cup of coffee and chewing Trident Strawberry Twist gum. Never a dull moment 'round these parts. Who told you Friday mornings weren't fun?

Ok I'm back, sorry

2011-02-09T11:44:00.001-05:00

Conversations with Auntie:

Auntie: Anyone interesting on the streetcar today?
Me: No one interesting today. Just stupid people who keep loading themselves in through the back doors. And then they laugh 'cause it's awkward, but it's only awkward because there's no room for them at all and they're probably just embarrassingly laughing at themselves 'cause they look so stupid cramming their bodies into an already JAMMED streetcar. And then the driver yells at everyone on the car because someone's standing on the back steps and "the door won't close if you're standing on the back steps." Heard that about 100 times already today.

Wah Stride

2010-11-08T10:04:00.004-05:00

Nah, you know what I wasn't very impressed with what Stride (Cadbury) offered me for my unfortunate 13-pc gum experience. They sent me two $1.00 off coupons. Pretty stingy if you ask me. I should follow up and ask for more compensation with a small note that just says, "Not enough to get me to buy Stride again. What else ya got."
In other news, I just sent out yet another complaint - this time to Anchor Hocking. I'm not normally in the practice of putting plastic in the microwave but I recently put a glass container with its corresponding plastic lid in the microwave, as merely a splatter guard - not tightly sealed on or nothin - as the container said it was mircrowave safe, but after removing it from the mike after only about 45 seconds on a very normal setting for reheating leftovers, the lid was completely warped and would not even fit on the container anymore. What B.S.
That's like the time I bought a wool sweater from Smart Set that I LOOOOVED and it said it was machine washable. Why did I listen? When I pulled it from the washer it was the size of a Cabbage Patch preemie sweater. Sad.

Honestly Edward's

2010-10-28T09:44:00.004-04:00

I must give my pal KZ credit for the title of this blog posting.
Everyone, Honest Ed's has the best price goin' on Sunflower Kitchen hummus! I could barely believe my eyes on a lunchtime trip there to get some shoelaces for Bron (as an aside: shoelaces are very hard to come by in this city) when I saw the $2.97 price tag! Hello! Honestly Edward's saves the day! Every other retailer has their hummus for at least $3.99. Insanity. Don't stop it!
I also noticed they have Sunflower Kitchen soups as well. Can't wait to try those.

Starboned

2010-10-27T14:36:00.003-04:00

Bron and I always call Starbucks Starbones. Don't steal my thing.
On a related note, I was just in Starbucks picking up an afternoon Americano. Just to the side of the counter I noticed a girl writing something with a Sharpie on a coffee cup sleeve. Seconds later she handed it to the male cashier with a "You can call me anytime." Score! The guy next up at the counter said, "I wish I had your job."
Reminds me of the time I asked out a bouncer at a pub in Waterloo yeeears ago. I gave him my number on a shred of paper and said, "Call me." After I walked away a spell he called out, "I probably won't call you - I have a girlfriend!"
Probably won't? I like those odds.

Christmas

2010-10-25T22:04:00.002-04:00

Everyone, I have really cleaned up this time. Stride is going to be sending me a coupon, as reimbursement for my only-13-out-of-a-possible-14-piece-of-gum package of Stride gum - by FIRST CLASS MAIL. Christmas has come early.

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

2010-10-11T21:46:00.003-04:00

Juuuust submitted my comment to Stride. EYE almost can't believe that they left one whole piece out of my $2.20 package of gum. They got a piece of my mind's gum though. Stay tuned for their response!

Twist and Curr

2010-10-04T15:45:00.003-04:00

Oh my gaa. Sunday night had the pleasure of dining with Bron and Sue at this place. Hello, Curry Twist and Shout! Amaaaazing restaurant. And all we did was google Indian restaurants Toronto. Thank you google. They had this incredible flounder special - my gaa, the SAUCE! I loooove this place. Definitely now in my top restos. They also serve all dishes in those sweet little copper pots. How they make a meal! Their pilaf is pretty darn good too.
Overall, a very cozy, very colourful little corner of the Junction. Check it out today. 3034 Dundas St. W.

In handwriting

2010-09-28T14:46:00.006-04:00

I just experienced the following phone conversation at work:

Me: Good afternoon, CIC.
Him: Where have I called?
Me: The CIC.
Him: Ok, take my name down.
Me: Ok. What for?
Him: J-o-h-n, in handwriting, H-e-n-n-e-s-s-y. (hangs up)

Riiiiight.

Take it in Stride

2010-09-27T21:24:00.004-04:00

The other night, in a hurry to get to a mojito party, I snatched from the corner store (and by snatched I mean purchased; who do you think I am?) a package of Stride gum, of the spearmint persuasion. I no sooner removed the plastic wrap from the envelope of gum, and flipped back the flap to find only 13 of a purported 14 slices of chewy satisfaction within. Shame shame Stride. You'll be hearing from Yours Truly. And soon...!

Fish tacos!

2010-09-13T20:37:00.002-04:00

So Bron and I are in love with this recipe. I mean I think you'd have to be a bloody fool not to love fish tacos. If you like ocean fresh meals from the sea, or Mexican food, this dish is for you! I especially just love Epicurious.com in general. Not much tops this site for me. Except my daily dose of thestar.com (nerd alert)

My new digs!

2010-09-05T23:45:00.001-04:00

Annapolis
And can you believe this lady is our coach!?? I can't!!!!!
Let the games begin! First show, THIS TUESDAY, Sept 7, Comedy Bar - 945 Bloor St. W.

Rocky update

2010-08-24T15:19:00.002-04:00

So this morning, I hit the balcony - every time I think to head out there now, I can't but help think that I'll find him (Rocky) sleeping in the corner. Well, no sign (in every sense of that word) of him this morning , but then I noticed something completely weird and ugly on the railing. God it was gross. Of course, completely slimy - though I didn't dare touch it - little pieces of which were scattered all along the railing, with weird tiny bugs feasting on whatever it was. Upon closer inspection it appeared to be a rotten green pepper. I do not want to know what the orange slime was on it. Come on you raccoons - what's the DEAL. Go be disgusting somewhere else. Preferably at ground level. Preferably underground.
That varmint better not show his face 'round these parts anymore.

Monday afternoon smells

2010-08-16T14:53:00.003-04:00

Was out the back balcony sunbathing and noticed a weird zooey, slash, local park kind of smell. Kind of like hot urine. Then I thought, better check behind that tarp where Brons bike is stored (I seem to have a history of smelling weird things and just knowing what to lift or move in order to locate the offense). Cut to lifting the tarp: theres a raccoon sleeping underneath. I lifted up the tarp a few times subsequent and we made eye contact. Once when I lifted the tarp, I caught him mid-yawn! Oh my god cutest thing of the day. But also stenchiest. And strange and very jarring.

Q and A

2010-08-16T11:42:00.001-04:00

Conversation with me and Auntie

Auntie: I keep thinking about this so I have to ask. In your last e-mail you talked about __ and __ and you said that they smell like old people. How do old people smell?

Me: Hahah you keep thinking about it - either they smell like old weird musky cologne/perfume or they smell like medical supplies and medications and stuff. I think people who are on medication probably start to have it seeping out of their pores or something. Next time you are around someone old, take note. Or sometimes they also smell like bad breath or unwashed clothes. You get the point.

Do you live or work in Toronto?

2010-07-29T14:43:00.003-04:00

says a random woman to me on the corner today at lunch. Why yes I do. She then says she's there on that corner today offering me spa services on behalf of a spa on the Danforth (we were at Spadina and Bloor, people) at 90% off. I fell silent. She said, you are the most unenthusiastic person I've talked to so far. I said I'm not a spa person. She then proceeded, however, to explain to me all the services they offer and would I want to give it as a gift - I could get $300 worth of crap for $47 - and the people I was gifting wouldn't know the difference. I just think that's mean. I don't like to trick-gift people. Who did she think I was!? She told me facials are her 'most favourite thing.' Am I just spa-mean?
When she asked me one final time if I had anyone in mind to spa-gift I said no, and walked away.
She was really being obtrusive.

My week

2010-07-14T12:02:00.002-04:00

Monday: Stand-up (killed it, yessss!)
Tuesday: Rowing (got left with the heavy end of the boat, shoulder: ouch!)
Wednesday: Improv show (wicked bud) also my Birthday (shya buddy!)
Thursday: Rowing (can't wait!)
Friday: Business meeting and then chillering
Sat & Sun: Waterloo for birthday madness and lounging poolside

It's been tewwww long!

2010-07-12T11:39:00.005-04:00

But it's been good ladies and gentleman. Yes, there is only one of you.

Improv team has been going great. Loving After Geography and all of our antics (Yes, I'm famous). Impatient Theatre Co. is such a great little place. Check 'em out if you've ever wanted to indulge your improv fantasies! Centrally located too (well, on the west end) at Queen and Roncesvalles!
Performing every week at Comedy Bar is a real rush and a pleasure, and you can drink beer while performing if you really want. Lucky huh? Dream day job ;-)

Otherwise, the house is working out amazingly. We just had a housewarming this weekend and boy was it warm (cheese but reality).

Hope to see you all soon - most of all because we have a ton of food, wine, beer and lots of other party stuff left over from Sat night. Please invite yourself over!!

The state of my life

2010-05-06T21:18:00.005-04:00

Bron was just trying to help me adjust the display in my web browser and he clearly didn't know what he was doing so I said, "If you don't know, then nevermind." Yessss.

Sooo, lots to report! I can't go to Texas anymore when scheduled due to them needing me at work (yea, I know hey?) which instead means that I can try out for MAVERICK idol, after all. Pretty darn stellar if you ask me. Now I just have to remember where I put my magician's cap so that I may pull something equally stellar out of it, and we're - well I'm - in business. It'll be extra cool as I had the opportunity to meet the president, Julie Rusciolelli, at a CPRS student event a couple years ago. She was actually the one who inspired me to start my blog, which I exclaimed in my first post, oh so many years ago now. Well, maybe two. So, thank you for that Julie!

Also, last night I had my ITC Sketch 201 class show at Comedy Bar. Friggin love that place :-) I think I shall also audition for the ITC Student Teams. Hope they pick me :-) This is certainly going to be a month of being pickled by people - I mean picked, picked! AND, to really top it all off, my ITC Sketch Writing 101 class starts on Sunday. How STOKED am I? Sheesh. And even 201 pals Irene and Candace will be in the posse. Psych! I mean, for realsies they will be.

Again!

2010-05-03T21:31:00.003-04:00

So remember how ages ago I wrote about how things were going missing from our 'common room' (yes, my office is located in a dorm, get over it)? Well, since that time we've had locks installed. Hallelujah! But, that really doesn't seem to have stopped the students moving out at end of term. Would you believe that the other day we had like beyond an entire set of dishes, along with a whack of mugs, and a TEAPOT go missing!? What student wants a teapot anyway? I bet they just took the stuff and smashed it all somewhere. Isn't that what students do? I still remember my old roommate Kyle's Smashy-Smashy Room in his Ezra St. house in Waterloo.

Photoshoot!

2010-05-03T21:24:00.005-04:00

So Bron and I went to see this dude a couple weekends ago. Frigging amazing stuff. He owns A Museum Of My Own (AMOMA) on Sorauren, north of Queen. Totally excellent studio. He just had an exhibit open last Friday, which we were unable to attend due to Sir Greg's birthday party at the Drake. Eric certainly does amazing shazz though. Definitely check him out if you're in Roncesvalles - or even if you're not! The photo shoot we had with him was so much fun. Bron brought along his ukulele for propage, and we utilized the leather chairs on site. Eric was impressed by our repertoire of poses. I'm gonna grab a CD of our photos from him tomorrow. He was offering an introductory offer of a free 8"x10" so I can't wait to pick our favourite ones!

lmgtfy

2010-05-03T14:29:00.005-04:00

I think this is so mean: http://lmgtfy.com/

Let me google that for you: For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.

My friend Nick just used it on me. Sad.

Long of breath and short of ear

2010-03-31T11:19:00.006-04:00

This morning, arrived in the office to find a giant cinnamon coffee cake topped (not 'topped' but with on top) with Eggies and reeeeaal milk chocolate eggs with a giant THANK YOU note with a fake flower on it. Who was it from? Our cleaning lady. Thanking us? What, for being low maint? I'll take it either way :-)

Now I'm bingeing as my work for the rest of the day. Heh, heh, heh.

Ten minutes ago picked up a new computer for our new employee from a nearby office building. While I was waiting outside with the Dell boxes, a rather eccentric, quasi-homeless woman walked by and said, "Looks like you're having a Dell of a good time." It doesn't get much better than this folks. Reminds me of the time my Hungarian high school art teacher used the phrase 'whale of a good time' totally out of context when she asked us, "How many whales of a good time are we having now?"

Elle est fameux!

2010-03-29T12:25:00.003-04:00

Go Desia, Go Desia: http://www.shedoesthecity.com/career

In other news, this morning when I was on the King car (am having to get used to a new 'crowd' taking this streetcar to work. I'm still not there yet), there was a dood standing next to me - in the seated position - who was totally chewin away on a piece of gum and smacking it and macking it and all the rest of it. I shot him an evil glance, as did two other girls sitting in front of me. He even did one of those blow a bubble in your mouth and then tongue pop it things. So sick. It's 8:15am buckaroo, do you really have to do this RIGHT NOW, in the confines of this tiny ancient streetcar? Please, just transport yourself to work, while keeping to yourself in an orderly fashion, which does not involve communicating sounds via the mouth hole.

My kind of family

2010-03-23T11:00:00.004-04:00

Yes, Albertan family! My boyfriend's sis and bro-in-law told me early in 2010 they were going to try to go the whole year without using any plastic throwaway containers. Have they been successful? I haven't yet checked in.

Heck, I want to radio interview this family, and I don't even have any radio skillz, OR a show. Now that's inspiration. Those little boys have some cool parents. Environmental kudos to you!

"Fact: According to the United Nations Environment Programme, 90,000 ships worldwide transport 90 per cent of the world’s goods, and shipping emissions will increase by more than 70 per cent by 2020." -"Could your family last one year without anything new?", Toronto Star, 23 Mar 2010.

Not yet jet

2010-03-19T15:00:00.003-04:00

So I haven't yet provided those juicy updates as I said I would. But I still will. They'll just be completely out of date and perhaps not relevant. But, still funny slash juicy.

Something great from this morning: I was walking out the doors at the west Spadina subway entrance and saw a guy try to push open a door that wouldn't budge, when he at once exclaimed, "Seriously?" A-he was talking to the door.

I should have been like, Who are you talking to?

Hilarity ensues

2010-03-12T12:48:00.001-05:00

Oh my god oh my god I have the juiciest of updates for y'all shortly. So many lightning bolts/things have happened this morning alone! Aie!! And, I have a birthday dinner and trip to Waterloo fast approaching ce weekend. Word.

Let me start off with this gem: Came across a guy's e-mail address at work: thewayner@blank.com

KILLER

I've loaded my gun with blood

2010-03-10T16:03:00.004-05:00

I'm in love with this song just lately. What a tremendous band, especially with which to serenade the ears whiling away the hours at my daytime occupation.

So, the big move is fast approaching. Bron is moving upstairs. I'm moving several blocks and a bit south. We're both kind of feeling like, why pack? But I know I'm going to regret not jamming things into boxes and bags as the day fast approaches. We've been delayed two or three times now. Can we please move in before I'm kicked outta my current place? Kthanksbye. The other day walking up to the house, found a large freshly poisoned (we think) rat on the driveway. I pray to the lord it didn't come from inside the house. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. The mouse that decided to die under the sofa at 666 was bad enough. Thought the neighbours were keeping garbage on their balcony again for the second year in a row, but after seeing not a trace of garbage - not even a loaf of bread or carton of juice atop the mound, MP - Nick's apartment (read: rat's nest; dead rats in the walls, under the sink, making stains on his belongings) flashed back through my mind and I moved the very sofa I had been relaxing on to find the tiniest of mouse, lying dead, the new home of all shapes and sizes of larvae and probably baby roaches, etc.

Here's to turning over a dead mouse, I mean new leaf.

Komm gibt mir deine Hand

2010-03-02T21:32:00.005-05:00

On my way home tonight I walked by this place that sells eyeglasses, can't think of what those places are called right now - not at work, brain is mush - and they had this terrible typewritten though unprofessional sign in the window. Currently along Roncesvalles, there is major construction happening, which has been the case for like a year probably. So, some of the businesses are suffering as a result, but most are still getting walk-in traffic, naturally. So they had this sign up that said something like "Top ten reasons we like the constractions along Roncesvalles." I don't remember exactly what it said, but it DEFINITELY had the (non-)word constractions in it. I will have to take a picture of it or something. And again, can't remember everything the list said, but a few were as follows:

1) "We don't have to dress up to go to work (fitness close [sic] is fine)" This one bothers me on a few levels. Just because there is constractions, why is this a reason to dress down? And fitness clothes? Why fitness? What would possess the staff to choose fitness inspired fashions? And lastly, CLOSE, i.e. CLOTHES??!? Shut right up.

2) Ah shit that's all I can remember. Definitely taking a picture/bringing a notebook for my way by tomorrow.

They're brown so it's ok

2010-03-02T13:49:00.003-05:00

Our kitchen at work is always well stocked with brown paper towels. You know the kind, they're always folded neatly in a rectangular manner and in elementary school they used them to distribute the pizza on Pizza Day and they were what you dried your hands with in the washroom. My colleague informed me the other day that he uses a LOT of these. His rationale: they're brown, so it's ok.

Emotional eating

2010-03-02T11:41:00.004-05:00

Last weekend Bron and I were indulging in some breakfast in the morning hours. Or, it was probably early afternoon. After two heaping bowls of Mini-Wheats and four or maybe even five pieces of cinnamon toast:

Me: Are you emotional eating?
Bron: No. Maybe.

Brutal. Anyway, so yesterday I was engaging in a bit of emotional eating myself. It was an upsettlingly boring day at the office, so on my lunch I went to my local 7-11 and bought 20 of those 5-cent gummie candies and three caramels. I probably should have only bought about 5 of those gummies. After about 15 of them, my stomach just shut down and wouldn't let me eat anymore. Wah wahhh. I was able to plow through all the caramels though. I'm seriously probably going to have about eight cavities after yesterday's escapades. I'm sorry my precious teeth.

Cheesiest thing EVAR

2010-02-26T10:10:00.000-05:00

I was walking with my yoga mat to yoga the other night and an old man walked by me and said, “You on a roll?” Wow, old people love to lay on the cheeeze.

Camp

2010-02-18T16:37:00.010-05:00

Growing up, I used to go to camp in Port Sydney, ON (think Huntsville), throughout the span of about eight years. Friggin loved it. Didn't want to stop going. But also didn't really want to become a counselor.

Every time it was someone's birthday at camp, everyone in the dining hall (imagine 300 or so kids and a bunch of counselors) would sing Happy Birthday and directly afterwards sing the camp birthday song, that went like so,
"Skip around the dining hall,
skip around the dining hall,
skip around the dining hall, skip, skip, skip."
(not at all kidding) Then the poor birthday boy or girl would have to, you guessed it, skip around the dining hall, while everyone was singing this song.

I used to thank the lord it was never my birthday when I went to camp. I was horrified by this simple act of birthday fun.

Praying for your digits

2010-02-04T13:59:00.006-05:00

Today at lunch I saw one of those dumb WWF people or whatever outside some shops on Bloor trying to get me to give them money. Of course they didn’t even dare speak to me what with the Suzie Ontario scowl on my face, etc. but I did happen to see a prescription bag on the ground from Shoppers. When I first saw it I thought maybe it still had something inside – looked “full” – but upon further inspection was just an empty bag. An EMPTY bag, with someone’s full contact and prescription details printed on the front. Man litterbugs are stupid. You know what I shoulda done? Picked that bag right up, called him with the convenient information I was provided and told him, Thanks for littering Johnny Toronto. Didn’t hide it very well with your full RX details lying right in front of my face on BLOOR ST!!!!

Those WWF people should have taken that opportunity to call him up with the same found details and pester him for money.

Two seconds later I walked into Cobs Bread to get a lovely dose of Cape Seed and noted the excellent musical selection of Praying for Time by George Michael blanketing the bakery in a sea of 80s-ness.

This ain't the '60s

2010-02-04T09:06:00.002-05:00

This same thing happened to be personally – driver went in to get coffee, left a whole morning bus full of people waiting. Love what the driver in this article says though.

In other news, remember Duckies? No, not these. My god. My cousins used to have a pair in every colour, I swear. I was so jealous. I especially loved a turquoise pair. Why have these simply vanished? Yes, Sporto is making them, but they're really not the same. And of course Tory Burch, but too much mools.

See what the winter does to me?

2010-01-05T20:24:00.005-05:00

This evening's dinner:
Several squares of low-fat Havarti cheese with wheat crackers
One spoonful of PC brand Nutella substance
One hard-boiled egg

Dessert:
Two Weeks Notice starring Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock

Exactly why you shouldn't eat in bed

2010-01-04T19:15:00.003-05:00

I just brought some carrot sticks with a yogurt mustard dip into my room, which just got on my duvet. What will Bron think.

New Year's whimsy

2010-01-04T11:58:00.001-05:00

This morning I mistakenly configured the numbers on my date stamper to read JAN 40 2010. How whimsical... how "fun," in an officey way.

Rodney!

2009-12-22T10:52:00.002-05:00

Saw something funny that I bought for Bron's sister - it's a puppet called Rodney the Reindeer and he "hums" for the holidays. He has three songs that he hums and you can control the speed at which he hums them by manipulating his mouth faster or slower. It's hilarious!! I bought it at Hallmark. Bron loves it too. Simply for the purpose of stealing it from his own kin to make music.

Blow me a river

2009-12-22T10:45:00.003-05:00

When people blow things out of their mouth or nose now in the age of Purell and germ awareness, I can't help but actually make a dirty face at them when they do so. I'm actually personally offended by it. I saw a woman this morning cough into her hand, NOT on her sleeve. It's just not right. The posters TELL you how to do it. Heed the posters!

In other news, a terribly personal fax about something terribly unmentionable was sent to my place of work yesterday from a doctor's office. When I called them to tell them they sent it to the wrong number, they didn't even seem to care. Wow.

Nova vomit

2009-12-15T22:06:00.003-05:00

How come when you have to sign in to make a comment on someone else's blog there is a tiny handicapped wheelchair next to the box where you type that fucked up text? Whatev.

So last week I had the most monumentally shitty lunch (and it wasn't me who made it.) I was too mad, I couldn't have written about it that day. I went to Nova Era bakery. I was in the area, at my favourite of all favourites, Strictly Bulk, getting the staples: pumpkin seeds, almond milk, chocolate covered jujubes (shut up they're good.) Then I go, oh Nick once said Nova Era had good sandwiches. I will go there now and get one. MISS TAKE.

I sidle up to the lunch counter. I see they have soups. I see they have sandwiches. I ask the lunchman, a husky version of Martin Starr, if they have a soup and sandwich special. He says no. I ask him how much a soup and sandwich will cost. He goes away for a while, then tells me. Around $7 something. I say ok, I want the tuna and the soup of the day--something I had never heard of, but was willing to try: kidney bean and collards. (Last time I checked, they were called collard GREENS, but again, whatev.)

So I said I wanted the tuna, right? He asks me if I want mayonnaise. I, of COURSE, thought he meant in addition to the mayo already mixed with the tuna. I mean, is there any other way? So, no, I didn't want any mayo because in addition to the mayo already comprising the tuna for the filling of the tuna sandwich, this would simply be too much mayo.

But no sooner had I said NO to the maYO, I noticed he was busy at work can openering a can of NO NAME tuna in order to make my "sandwich." It was from this moment forward I knew I was doomed. Not only did he honest to god think I wanted a mayo-less tuna sandwich, but he also thought this concept actually existed. I'm sorry everyone out there, but IT DOESN'T. No where does a tuna sandwich exist that has no mayo on it. Try as you may to find out. There ain't one.

So he empties the can of DRY FISH into a bowl. He then grabs some shitty tiny bun from the back of the place. I have no idea where this bun came from or why it wasn't out front, nicely displayed, telling me, "look, this is what your sandwich will be made on." But not only this: again, last time I checked, most sandwich places give you an option of the bread or bun you get, or else they generally have white or whole wheat bread. I just think this dude had no idea what the fuck he was doing.

He squishes the still dry fish into the shitty tiny bun. He then puts the top on the sandwich. Follow me people: he has just used a small crappy bun, placed some crumbles of dry tuna fish on it, and has replaced the top portion of my sandwich. I then look up at the sandwich board. Oh, stupid RETARDED me, lettuce OR tomatoes OR cucumbers is an extra 25 cents PER item. By now I'm fuming. "Can I get some lettuce on that, please?!"

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I'm not even going to touch on the soup. Let's just say the kidney bean and collard soup was POTATO based, had about 11 strands of collards in it and was lukewarm.

As I sat in this confusing shithole bakery (that shouldn't even HAVE a lunch counter), seething, and eating my frigging "lunch," I remembered that I had to pay almost $8 for this disappointment.

I am NEVER GOING THERE AGAIN. I KNOW it was only $8, but the experience overall shaved years off my life. And faith in food in general.

Nova Era, you're dead to me.

Happy Roseanne to all!

2009-12-09T20:27:00.003-05:00

Happy Versa-annary to KZ and her chum (French word for boyfrien) - tree year! A hearty congrats. Can't wait to finally watch some Ralphy with them next week and indulge in some homemade pizza. Christmas coloured and all!

So tonight I'm indulging myself in glass of white wine--organic, I might add, compliments of Bron's mom--and a little Roseanne. Friggin love this show. I now have seasons 3, 4 and 5. On sale for a stupendous price right now at HMV I might add.

Two of my top fave Roseanne quotations of all time:

"I've never been to an outdoor wedding where everyone was wearing clothes." -Nancy

"People will eat cotton in a supermarket as long as there's a toothpick in it." -Roseanne

Thank you, winter

2009-12-09T09:13:00.004-05:00

My morning commute consisted of a steamy hot bus full of sopping wet people that smelled like Doritos.

Word to the wise: Do not freely handle/grope/flip your hair when riding transit. No, I don't want your hair touching my skin or any part of my person. I especially don't want it to graze my hand when I'm holding on for dear life to the stupid already germ-infested transit poles. Put the hair away when riding transit.

Grrr is the word

2009-12-03T21:35:00.005-05:00

Today at work was the day from heeeeellllll. Brutal out-of-town board meeting my colleague and I had to be on-call for, teleconference line that was wrongly DELETED by Bell (thanks a LOT, Bell, you just lost our biznass), dadaladalada - you do the math. By day's end, so many of our hairs had turned grey and fallen out all over the floor... needless to say, things were 'hairy' (ha, good one, if I do say so myself).

Then, I just happened to place a call to someone who needed an important e-mail address, and got her answering machine. So, the office whip I am, I left her a message. When I was spelling out the e-mail address (we all know much c's sound like b's or e's or d's or g's on the phone)(you get the picture) I had to append some words to some of the letters. My monologue went a little something like this (e-mail address has been changed for privacy):

"The e-mail address is motherlandd@agr.com. So that's motherland, with a D at the end, D as in dog, at A, G as in (insert hesitational moment of "Do I say GOD?" but NO I instead say) Grrr."

G as in GRRRR? Where the FUCK did I come up with that? Two seconds after getting off the phone my colleague is turning red and crylaughing. Then I hear another colleague down the hall call out "Grrrrr!" in a rather gruff voice. Can all my coworkers hear my (embarrassing)(although hilarious) phone calls all the time? Then my colleague exclaims, "I really needed that. That was great!"

So, after all was said and done, I guess I made someone's day. All it takes is me making up nonsensical sounds at work in order to clearly articulate an e-mail address containing every 'eee' sounding consonant in order to bring a smile to the faces of those around me. To that I say, S as in Ssssss (like the noise of a snake), "Sweet."

McBride's 2009 Gift Guide

2009-12-01T08:02:00.002-05:00

You know you waaaaaaant it.

Goodbye Tara

2009-11-30T20:00:00.001-05:00

I love the zoo so much, and all who live there. Goodbye Tara.

Ce weekend

2009-11-23T20:26:00.005-05:00

Heading down to Wats this weekend. I love how I'm planning my weekend on a Monday night. Don't get much better than this. We'll be in town for a high school friend's wedding reception at the legion of all places. A great time will most certainly be had by all I'm sure. This dude and his wife got married at his parents cottage in May, and it was a small wedding with mostly family, so now they're going to pull out all the stops and have a more 'twentysomething' oriented partay. When I asked his mom what to get him and his wife for a gift, she replied, towels. How lame, I mean absorbent. I am not bringing towels to the legion. They're getting a gift card for The Bay and that's final.

We will also be in town to celebrate my grandmother's 149th birthday. I mean 186th or something. Happy Birthday GG!

Movieholes

2009-11-22T22:01:00.006-05:00

This weekend I finally saw doc King Corn, which I was corning (read: jonesing) to see for a while. I did indeed enjoy it. Rotten Tomatoes seems to be right on in its rating of this flick, so we're in accordance on all corns, I meant fronts. I'm really getting corned away here. I mean carried.

In other movie news, Bron and I rented Dead Snow. What a terrific flick. My zombie intestines were all aflutter with this one. I love how we had the option of watching it in English, instead of its native Norwegian. And yes, I'm completely technically backward because I never knew this feature existed in DVD world, although Bron is the one who has issues with subtitles, pas moi. I recommend this one for suresies.

To cap off my Sunday night, I decided to finally order some towels from L.L. Bean. I'm quite a fan of most of their goods, but after experiencing the loveliness of their Premium Cotton handtowels and bathmats (have two of each)(yes, I'm a mid-western US housewife), I was def going back for more, esp since I still have some fundage existing on my last-year's L.L. Christmas gift card. But, upon selecting my new natural coloured towels (I know, I'm so 'out there'), and deciding to get these pooches MONOGRAMMED, uh I realized that they only provide navy thread for light coloured towels and white for dark coloured towels. Ewww, navy? Nein thanks. I would never want to see a navy and natural towel in or around my home. A shame, really. I was prepared to drop the $12 to have both towels monogrammed. I just wanted to be whimsical and get "Bron" and "Kathryn" towels. But that won't be happening any time soon with navy at the thread helm. I guess I'll still order the towels, but I'm really not feeling the juice as much anymore. I'll give it a few days and see how I'm feeling. I'll update.

Into the Wildesque

2009-10-07T09:56:00.002-04:00

This is insane! And he was rescued, no less, on the anniversary of the McCandless dude.

Duuuude.

Shut your mouth when you're talking to me

2009-10-06T09:26:00.002-04:00

I have to agree with yesterday's blog entry by Jim Kenzie.

Haircut 100

2009-10-01T09:17:00.004-04:00

Today I'm finally getting a haircut. Yesss. I just may emerge with bangs. But, as Bron said last night, "I don't want to hate your hair." So, does that mean no bangs? At least I won't look like this dude.

Then tonight I'm going to check out my friend Danz perform at Second City. Word! Come on out if you're interested. It's the funniest awesomest improv, way better even than supposed legit, "professional" improvists. Way to go Danzhole.

Rice and cookies

2009-09-25T15:30:00.006-04:00

Rice: Just got done mangeing (aka eating to the English speaker) an amazing sandwich from Rice Bar that cost me $6.90. It's called the Kensington (the sandwich, not the market). Definitely try it. Two of the highlights? Tofu and kimchi. Oh, and spinach. Can't remember the other stuff, but comes out to be a pretty great samwidge.

Now for the cookies: I was asked to order a traveller of coffee and some cookies today from Starbucks - enough for 5 people for a meeting. When I placed the order over the phone I ordered 10 cookies - figured, people probably won't have two each, but let's be generous. But then at the last minute, I thought, let's make it an even 12. Well my god, I had NO idea how big their cookies are. These things were like wagon wheels. The real kind of wagon wheels too, not like those snacky things you eat when you're 8. GAWD. I just went into someone's office right now, only to see a half eaten cookie thrown into the garbage. Those cookies cost $23.73!!!! At least it ain't my money...

Up to my neck in it

2009-09-25T10:57:00.005-04:00

I'm just inundated and in love and whelmed (not over nor under) with this shazz right now:

Unncessary quotes

BAAAAAAAAAAA! I LOVE this. Shrimply the best!? I can't handle it. I really can't. This kind of stuff is my life. Not only is it improperly quotationized, but it's also a play on words!!

Please share with me your favourites!

Wal People

2009-09-23T11:11:00.003-04:00

My genius colleague turned me onto maybe the best blog I've ever seen

People of Walmart

Unnnnbelievable. Tell me if you visit it and don't appreciate it. Then I won't appreciate you. Hahah. Says my old roommate of peopleofwalmart.com, "wow. I think it's scientifically proven that this website is the most accurate representation of American life on the internet(s)."

Bravo.

Cakey poo

2009-09-22T10:06:00.003-04:00

Just read thestar.com and found an article on this great blog. Check out this amazing cake as a little taster:

Hey, hey? Any takers?

Solid soul

2009-09-18T10:46:00.009-04:00

I bought some white like 350 thread count bedsheets last year at Winners. No, not these

and finally just slapped them on the bed two nights ago. They are amaaaaaazing. The first night I felt like I was sleeping between two slick slices of white tuna. They're that good. What could be better - combining two of my loves: sushi and sleeping.

Oh god, now I just want sushi. Maybe I will visit Simon Sushi on my lunch today - in the words of Wayne Campbell, "Excellent." Bron and I are headed to newly reopened Nazareth tonight, and then to Comedy Bar for some Catch 23 with VEE BARRRZ!!

"Talk to me" -Uncle Jesse

2009-09-11T15:40:00.002-04:00

You know what I hate, when old people, unfamiliar with such unbelievably advanced technology as the answering machine leave a message on my voicemail at work stating they'd like me to call them back and please "leave a message if I'm not here." Oh really, is that what I'm supposed to do when the recording of the person on the other end says "Please leave a message and I'll call you back."!? You should really follow those instructions??

I could use somebody

2009-09-10T10:49:00.003-04:00

This morning I brought in my own special mug to work, as some __ stole my perfect mug given to me by my former temp agency. It is huge, has multi-sized purple and pink polka dots and says Diva on the side.

Works Great

2009-08-24T09:40:00.004-04:00

Last night, after returning from a rendez-vous at Victory with KZ, her main squeeze and Niki, Bron and I came upon a LARGE TV (with the sticky note "Works Great" on it) just steps from my home. Bron wasn't very optimistic about this proclamation, but I was able to sufficiently twist his arm, so we lugged the 27 incher down the street and into my apartment. SWEET.

We won't be leaving the basement for a loooong time. Movie donations are greatly appreciated. I might even get cable. Well, probably not.

Old fashioned superstition

2009-08-21T10:43:00.007-04:00

Thanks to KZ's morning inspiration, I will sound off (although I hate that expression) about Cyndi Lauper. I have loved her shit since about age three. The other day I dug out my copy of The Goonies and am now obsessing over this song:

I also love Time After Time, and All Through the Night, to name only a couple.

P.S. I couldn't love her hair any more in this video. Honest to god.

U of Sick

2009-08-18T14:57:00.001-04:00

Today at lunch I saw a baby blue (ugly blue… sweet blue) minivan that said “Lucky Miguel” on the side, in tiny little cursive letters, with a license plate saying, “Wuzzzzup”

Rearview taco

2009-08-12T12:40:00.005-04:00

This morning I saw an elderly man walking down my street at 6:45am wearing yellow oversize sunglasses, with a tiny rearview mirror hooked on the side of them. Where did he get that? The Senior Citizens Store? (I just made that place up - it's not real).

I discovered a wonderful Mexican place on Dufferin near Bloor. It's called La Tortilleria - heaven!!!!!!!!! for me. They make their own nachos and salsa on site and carry a bunch of Mexican products and also serve fresh tacos. Hello - fresh tacos.

"Are you talking about MY taco?"
"Maybe."

Shya right

2009-07-20T10:02:00.001-04:00

Are people serious when they wear these shirts? Today I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said "Nice legs. When do they open?"

!??

Japanese faerie

2009-07-15T16:56:00.005-04:00

Look what's now in Japan! I have insiders there finding these things out for me. If you don't know anything about this series, you have missed, MISSED. This show was the cornerstone of my childhood.

Very important list of every episode.

Mascara magic

2009-07-15T16:40:00.011-04:00

So I've been sharing the not-yet-on-the-market masc samples with some friends (KZ, RM, JC, FC, you get the picture) and I've had a bit of feedback. Personally, I loved using it! Though I felt like my lashes received a bit of a lashing (ha) in terms of mascara distribution (i.e. a bit too much), the vibrating feature was well received and kinda fun too. My mascara wand felt a little more like a gadget than normal, and applying was fun :-)

Here's what my girlfriend RM had to say:
I think the mascara goes on too much for my taste and it leaves my lashes pointing up instead of the ideal “curl” and if you are not careful, you can truly make a mess of it. The vibrations made me a bit ticklish so it made it a bit difficult for me hold tight. The good things is that it does make my eyes quite big and dark.

I couldn't have agreed with her more on the last bit. But, overall I would say I would mirror her sentiments.

At this stage, I fully recommend this product. It's fun, works well, applies a generous portion of makeup and has nice sleek packaging and is smooth to hold.

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Mascara, encore

2009-07-10T12:10:00.003-04:00

Oh, and I'm going to be writing about a new mascara that recently crossed my path! As a teaser, it's Maybelline's Pulse Perfection mascara. Check it out y'all. I'll also be having a release party in my backyard to celebrate this new masc. If you read this, you can come.

On the subject of toupees

2009-07-10T12:09:00.004-04:00

Does anyone wear toupees anymore? I asked my officemate this. She said that someone her boyfriend works with wears one, as well as news reporters and weird politicians.

Amen.

Num nums

2009-06-19T14:00:00.001-04:00

I love radishes, and I'm making no apologies about it.

Showers schmlawers

2009-06-19T10:39:00.003-04:00

My friend V-Barrz and I have been firing a couple e-mails back and forth on the topic of bridal showers as I have one coming up I must attend (who in our age group doesn't have about 12-15 coming up this summer?)

V-B: Although that really does suck about the shower – I don’t know why us girls have to do those stupid shitty things. They are the most boring things in the world. Sorry, I guess that’s not making you feel much better about the whole thing :S I just figure people will (hopefully) have to do it for me one day and I won’t care how bored everyone is b/c I’ll be opening gifts and getting free shit!

Me: God, SO effing true re the stupid showers. Think of something NEW by now, people who plan shit and etiquette gurus in gen. I would like some Betty Etiquette type lady to start riffing on the fact that showers are outdated and we need a new way to squeeze coin and loot outta people. But I certainly am waiting for *my day*

Casual Friday

2009-06-19T09:58:00.006-04:00

Couple doozies from this morning:

Spotted a short, stout homeless woman carrying a used water bottle filled with milk wearing a shirt that said "no problem." ...right.

An older man wearing a nylon track suit got on the streetcar. I noticed his pants were sitting a little low in the frontal region. When he turned around to take a seat, he was clearly not wearing underpants and his entire ass was exposed. He then sat down.

Note to self: never sit down on the streetcar again. Rather, never take the streetcar in summer. period.

Checklist for cab drivers

2009-06-18T11:48:00.002-04:00

Last nite I took a cab home after falling asleep standing up at a show at the Gladstone (Slim Twig and Black Dice, the latter of which I wasn't even conscious long enough to enjoy.) My cab ride home was so ridic. I asked the guy for $2 change. He then scrounged around his cab for money explaining he had just given all his change to the last guy (then get more!!!!$#%^) and then ended up giving me a handful of bullshit and said, "Oh, I think I'm 20 cents short." Thanks a lot dicklick. The whole time he was searching for change he was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh, there's a car behind me." Please! You drive a CAB. You NEED CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!

Being not containerist

2009-06-17T13:01:00.007-04:00

On a walk just now I saw a man try to mail a letter in one of these Toronto garbage containers

He was trying to shove it in the red part, labeled LITTER, that had garbage spewing out of it. Yes spewing. I then saw him make a face after his attempt to wedge the letter into not only the LITTER slot but then the blue CANS AND BOTTLES slot.

At the end of the day, if he wanted to mail his letter in the garbage can, I say let him. Live and learn, hey.

Tessa

2009-06-15T10:48:00.001-04:00

I love visiting the zoo, as MP can attest. How sad this is.

T-shirts: passion

2009-06-03T14:15:00.002-04:00

I'm going to have to transform this expressly into a blog all about T-shirts I see when out and about.

Some excerpt tees from recent travels around TO:
-"Plastic makes perfect"
-"I'm with illogical" (with an arrow pointing to the right)
-"I'm going to Helsinki" (with an image of a viking)
-"Is it drunk in here or is it just me?"

Pretty good one from today - Giant, teetering woman walking down the street with her child, wearing the following tee:

"To Do List: Be Rich, Be Famous, Be Hot, Be a Diva" each with a check mark beside it.

MAKE MY DAYYYYY

First visit: $50

2009-06-02T16:25:00.003-04:00

I went to Whole Foods for the first time ever in life with Bron and his mom on the weekend. When it was my turn to jump outta the car to pay for parking, not only would the machine not accept my money ("this ticket has already been paid") but I found 50 smackers on the GROUND.

I really like Whole Foods.

Humanart

2009-05-29T10:05:00.000-04:00

Yesterday Bron and I were on the bus and there was a guy sitting across from us with a big canvas that was so large it was covering up his entire body and all you could see were his hands grasping either side of the canvas. I said to Bron, "Imagine that [canvas] was a human?" and then he laughed quietly so as not to draw attention to himself and said, "That doesn't make any sense, but it's still really funny." Shucks.

Warm things

2009-05-28T12:03:00.000-04:00

It smells like warm Italian meat in the kitchen at my work. There are no people around nor any meat.

Gross.

Stealing, nothing more than stealing...

2009-05-28T09:27:00.002-04:00

Good morning,
Today I drop into our common kitchen (my office is in a university residence building (!?)) and notice that my favourite mug is missing. When I come back into my office to inform my colleague of this, she informs me that all our office bowls and dinner plates are missing too. This reminds me of the time our office coffee pot went missing. Colleagues were in flames! Then someone discovered it in the freezer, with an inch of frozen coffee in the bottom.
Tsk tsk you uni students.

I like this headline

2009-04-17T13:53:00.001-04:00

Dog poisonings caused by teen's pot cupcakes

Baconator: Meatatarians hate lettuce

2009-04-16T11:29:00.006-04:00

"You won't have to pick off any annoying lettuce." Wendy's is officially trying to kill everyone.

Baconator:
> 6 strips of bacon
> 2 hamburger patties
> no annoying lettuce to pick off.

From qstmagazine.com: "Wendy's introduced its popular Baconator in June 2007, and has sold more than 68 million since then."

Me: EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

Giraffe, meet Leopard

2009-04-09T16:16:00.005-04:00

Last week I was sitting outside of a health food store on Bloor, wearing my new giraffe print flats. A rather eccentric new age hippie woman, wearing a massive leopard print trench waltzed out of the store and sat beside me on the bench. Her: "Nice shoes."

Am-african.

Online dating

2009-04-09T16:10:00.002-04:00

Around the corner from my house, here last weekend, Bron and I shared the most wonderful, moistest, sinful date square of maybe all time (sorry mom.) Me: "I want to date this date square."

I didn't even try!

Neat huh?

2009-04-03T16:24:00.006-04:00

Bron e-mailed me this link with the subject line: neat creatures.

Neat creatures? More like my greatest fear TO DATE. Hello: TERRORIZING other aquatic life!? This reminds of the time I had a dream about "water chickens" (which are like frogs with completely transparent skin), that I couldn't distinguish as fact or fiction upon waking. Also reminds me of the time that a like 250kg squid AS LONG AS A SCHOOL BUS washed up on a faraway shore. Not far enough if you ask me.

Heritage Ohhhhhhhs

2009-03-26T12:44:00.005-04:00

Bron and I swear by theseThroughout this fair city you will find this amazing cereal (crunch like y'all wouldn't believe) at variable price points: Strictly Bulk has them for $8.25 and I got them at JR's Natural in my 'hood for $7.99 once. But then my god, just up the street at Good Catch, I LOVE THIS STORE, but they have them for a sad $11.00. You read that right.

Anyway, they're worth all the pennies, I just don't know why some of these places are squeezing me so much for them? I know how to bargain shop.

Haunted, freezing

2009-03-26T12:42:00.001-04:00

What is better than Frozen Ghost?