So I went to the local Ikea yesterday (and now that I moved it's actually local), but I have to admit, it's just not as fun going by yourself. It's better with family, even if I do end up sitting on the furniture displays towards the end like an patient elderly husband. I just needed a few things, mostly storage containers that aren't beat-up ( Read more... )

During my intensive hunt for a place to live on the North Shore last month, I walked by a building that I've walked by dozens of times before. It's a building I'm kind of in love with:


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Haven't been to a concert in quite a while, but an excellent double bill and a great venue prompted me to get off my duff and buy a ticket. Last Friday I saw The Rural Alberta Advantage and Dan Mangan at the Queen E, and it was great. I've always wanted to see the RAA live, just to see their drummer in action. The guys is a machine . . . he plays ( Read more... )

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Full disclosure: date was edited to reflect the day this actually happened. It is quite far into the future now, so a lot of details have, unfortunately, disappeared into the crevices of my brain.

Finally, after two years of relentless sogginess from September to April, we had a decent fall. September was more like August, which was nice, because ( Read more... )

I suck at doing anything in a timely fashion.

Just wanted to say, to those who haven't heard me excitedly expound already, yes the trip to Europe was super awesome. If you conveniently ignore the @#*(@$%* weather and that night I was held hostage in a sleeper car by a scary German bachelor party, it was pretty much flawless. Meeting my pen pals and ( Read more... )

. . . . 50% off at Blue Line Sports. Like, duh.

Anyway, I thought I'd take this opportunity to break away from talk about food and/or flowers (although there's plenty of both in reserve) to talk about my upcoming international June Jaunt, since I haven't really divulged a lot of details yet. Apologies for that, but I wanted to wait until a) I knew I ( Read more... )

So I worked an early morning shift this morning (4 am - 1 pm), which is something I swore I would never, ever do again (although I was a much more prolific blogger in those days because I needed a life preserver for a boredom-drowning brain), but that's how very short-staffed we are. There was literally no one else to do the shift. So I'm on three ( Read more... )

So last week was a good week at work. Not the work itself - it was actually super busy and I came home nearly comatose every day - but the edible swag. You see, working at a TV station has its perks. Running into random celebrities in the hall, free promotional items, or the occasional free tickets to station-sponsored events, for example. And then ( Read more... )

How could I have forgotten about this for 25 YEARS and then just remember it out of the blue today? I remember every single frame of this opening . . . I knew what was in the next shot before the shot change.

Memory is a funny, funny thing. I wish I could watch this now and see how it holds up. Marie! Franz! Ernst! Where are they now?

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