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Penultimate day at work!
Well, kind of. I might be coming back to freelance a day or two a week. But it's my penultimate day as a full-time employee, not an independent contractor.
Basically I wanted to take the chance to use "penultimate" correctly.
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I've finally learned to tie my shoes.
Stumbled across this yesterday. Apparently I've been doing it wrong all this time.
Helpful video from Lifehacker.Unfortunately, it's still winter and I won't be able to wear lace-up shoes for some time yet (and my boots are slip-ons) but I tried this technique on my bathrobe belt and it totally works! Better living through interwebs! A while back ( Read more... ) -
Not going to starve!
There are Montreal-style bagels (or a reasonable facsimile) to be found in Tokyo! Hurray!
Poko Bagel Café (Japanese-only site). They were talking about them on the CBC this morning, although they only said it was "in Tokyo". Um, Tokyo is a huge, sprawling metropolis. (Specifically, it is in Minato-ku, near the harbour.) Anyway, apparently the ( Read more... ) -
Winter stuff
Okay, so I don't care that winter "officially" starts Dec. 21st. This morning it was -19 C with a wind chill of -29. That's winter in my book. Also, owing to toque issues, I have started crocheting myself a slouchy winter hat which I hope won't crush my hard-won curls flat against my head in quite the same manner. Naturally, I picked a chunky, ( Read more... ) -
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Last night I dreamt that I was smoking crack with James Spader, and I accidentally set his headboard on fire. Make of that what you will, Freudians ( Read more... ) -
I'm finally a grown-up and can have babies
Okay, weird subject line but I discovered something awesome yesterday that seriously makes me feel like a grown-up for the first time. I'm not exactly full-on domestic goddess (although my love of sewing and crocheting and the like probably puts me ahead of a lot of my friends) but one thing that has always, always frustrated me is how to fold ( Read more... ) -
I've got the sherry monocle in...
Finally starting to feel better after a rather nasty cold. Tonight there's a hangout planned with the gang to celebrate my recovery by watching Wallace and Gromit and eating cookies, which sounds about my speed, really.
Woke up from an extremely weird dream this morning, am now somewhat disgruntled. It was a dream about Benny (remember him? the ( Read more... ) -
Shit, son, it's summer
I should probably not be writing this now as I have a lovely eye-strainy headache of the stabbing pain above my right eye variety, but I'm bored, oh well. And I have twenty more minutes until I can go home and enjoy the lovely weather we are finally having.
Speaking of going home, yesterday I was leaving a few minutes before everyone else and I was ( Read more... ) -
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What's up you guys. I think I am somewhat less tired today, hurray! I found out that I am not anemic but that my "iron stores", whatever that means, are low so I've been trying to bump up my iron consumption by eating more spinach and cruciferous vegetables and similar. I just had the most virtuous lunch I think I've ever packed - brown rice, ( Read more... )
