*drool*

i'm in love!

my super-fantastic boyfriend (commence barfing anew) may have to wait in line for my attentions because this blogger blog may have him beat!

bakerella.blogspot.com

mini cupcake pops! adorable!

it all started with martha... my mom sent me this link for a segment on the show and i watched the little video and i fell in love! AND THEN i went to the website and got shell-shocked into my little happy place! it's SO cute! so many mouth-watering recipes! i bet this woman's brain is just in cute mode ALL the time!

try not to barf

just a word about my boyfriend...
he's the most wonderful guy in the world because he just recently agreed to marry me!
NO! he just recently agreed to come to london with me! so i won't be lost all by my lonesome in a foreign country! we'll be lost together! ok, NOW you have permission to barf...

london calling

this is about how i feel about making my 'across the pond' travel arrangements...

because knowledge is power!

how did i NOT know this was in the works?!?
a G.I. Joe movie???
that's mother-f'ing awesome!
hopefully it doesn't end up sucking... something i get so hyped up for and then the suck large. fingers crossed!
dennis quaid as general hawk! i love berets - they're off the hook!
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

well i'll be!

"Motorcycles, scooter big polluters"
Tailpipe emissions from scooters, motorcycles are far dirtier and less regulated than cars

Despite their reputation as being more earth-friendly than other motorized forms of transoirt, two-wheelers are actually some of the biggest polluters on the road.

so it'll save you a chunk of change on gas and possibly parking (scooters park for free some places) but that extra cash in your hand is being paid out by the environment.

the day the mini met the monster

A Mini Cooper had been speeding east on Steeles Ave. in Toronto when the driver lost control, the car crossed into the westbound lanes and was struck by a wesbound tanker truck on its passenger side.geezes... can you imagine getting into a wreck in that little toy car? i swear, those things are glorified Power Wheels! they look so silly zipping down the highway... one good gust of wind will just carry that thing away! and why would you pay SO much money for so little car? if you ever see me in one, just run me over.

click HERE to see more wrecks on canadian roads this summer.

word of the day - aug 29 08

asperity
noun
1. roughness of surface; unevenness.
2. roughness or harshness of sound; a quality that grates upon the ear.
3. roughness of manner; severity; harshness.

disturbing...

umm... eww?

"Bikini waxes for kids"
Pressure from their parents and their peer pushes more and more under-12s into hair-removal spas

this is like dynamite and matches in a room full of monkeys... i don't want to be anywhere near it. but i do want to voice my discomfort with the situation.

if makes all the unwaxed hairs on the back of my neck stand up. let's face it, young girls out there aren't all like lourdes leon - they don't have uber-famous moms that might get them excused from some serious teasing about say, a unibrow...

wankers!

i usually like to try and resist the urge to curse uncontrolably... but here, in this instance, i feel it completely justified. so if you're not into the using of the curse words, you might just want to skip over the next line.

drity, rotten, greedy, mother-fucking, cunt assholes!

"Metropass users will lose free parking"
TTC to charge $3 to $6 a day for commuters to leave cars in 16 lots, starting in early 2009

is it the goal of the city of toronto to make mass transportation completely financially impossible? to put it out of reach of the people who tend to use it most - the middle class and lower?
are they going to lower the price of the metro pass accordingly? yeah freaking right!
i understand the TTC is strapped for cash and that keeping a giant city like toronto mobile is a mammoth task but, but... more riders = more money, more fees = fewer riders. it's a delicate balance but i definitely think we're sliding down the wrong side of that slope.
people living in the surrounding GTA area who are currently using the MP and commuter parking lots are going to say "to hell with it!" at $3 a day for say, 250 working days, that's $750! and at $6/day? $1500! retarded.

it's not like toronto is he only city in the world with transportation issues. other citys are coping, coping in the black. toronto's transit system needs a complete overhaul - i know it's cost a bundle of money right now but it'll save mucho moola in the long run.

blarg... i'm frustrated beyond anymore words.

word of the day - aug 28 08

chthonic
adjective
dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld.

come on now! that's totally a made up word. that's 1-2-3-4, FOUR big consonants in a row! isn't that illegal or something? the spell-checker in my blog editor doesn't even like this word!
supposedly it is pronounced THONE-ik but i think it goes more along the line of sgnawnaqnaajj but i'm not pronunciation specialist.

boredom

so i'm horribly bored and out of work...
but writting isn't coming to me. so anyone reading get the short end of the stick.
i guess i'm just not in the mood!
there are some days i'll sit here and wite post after post... and other days i can barely muster a 'word of the day'! blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
whatever-e-doodle...
hopefully everyone out there on the interwebs is having a good and productive day!

word of the day - aug 27 08

faineant
adjective
1. doing nothing or given to doing nothing; idle; lazy.
2. a do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.

i think i need to start using the word 'sluggard' more often...

thoughts...

does social responsibility outweigh financial feasibility?

pain in my brain

commuting sucks...
with the big office move my commute went from a 5 minute trundle down the road to a 35-45 minute battle with some of the worst drivers in the world... markham drivers... if you know markham, you know what i'm talking about. and i don't say it to be hateful or anything like that, but it's true.
yesterday was one of the bad days... and really, for no reason.
a stalled van in the right lane at warden backed up traffic all the way back past woodbine! stop, go, stop, go, stop, go... all lanes stuffed between each traffic light.
people merging each and every way without thought about, say, the other people on the road??
oh, i need to get out of this lane? well let me just turn my steering whe... HONK!!! what? who could be honking at me? whatever for? was I merging into another car? how inconsiderate of them to be in my way when i needed to get out of my lane!
bah! it makes me frustrated!
invent the teleporter and i'll be the first customer!

word of the day - aug 26 08

flighty
adjective
1. given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
2. slightly delirious; light-headed; mildly crazy.
3. irresponsible: He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.
4. Archaic. swift or fleet.

because i haven't done one in awhile...

people, if you're going to have the audacity to almost drown, do NOT wash ashore on american soil and expect clemency.

further proof americans aren't the brightest bulbs in the box

"Accidental tourists land in hot water at border"
Near-drowning on Niagara River prompts arrests

Jason Haist's arrival in the U.S. was a complete accident. After nearly drowning in rapids on the Niagara River, he washed ashore on American soil, where he was promptly informed he faced charges for entering the country illegally and could be detained for up to three weeks while officials try to determine his intentions.

well there you have it. americans are just as worried about half-drowned illegal immigrants coming from the north as they are about those from the south. wait'll some true patriots start the drive to build a wall at the canadian border to keep us out.

word of the day - aug 25 08

discursive
adjective
1. passing from one topic to another; ranging over a wide field; digressive; rambling.
2. utilizing, marked by, or based on analytical reasoning -- contrasted with intuitive.

quote of the day

"The idea that humankind has gone to extraordinary effort and expense to contruct a black-hole-making machine shouldn't be all that startling. This is the same humankind that went out of its way to invent nuclear warheads, S.U.V.'s and deep-fried Twinkies-on-a-stick. There is nothing we enjoy more than sealing our own doom in the most creative ways possible."

~ New York Time columnist Gail Collins on some skeptics' predictions on the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider on September 10th.

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word of the day - aug 22 08

frantic
adjective
1. desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
2. archaic. insane; mad.

peeps... been all a-flurry with a proposal going out this morning and now i'm off to deliver! see you on monday!
TGIF!

mmm... sushi...

this right here, this is what the world need more of.
food-themed cartoons.

look at their little feet! all in the shape of sushi rolls!

i literally just want to eat them up!

i've never head of this cartoon before today when i got an e-mail from something or other i signed up for informing me that products featuring these guys were on sale.

they are the Sushi Pack! and they, apparently, air on some CBC affiliate.

there's ikura with salmon roe powers, kani with crab powers, maguro maki with tuna powers, wasabi with... wasabi powers and (my personal favourite) tako with octopus powers! i've gotta youtube me some of this!

word of the day - aug 21 08

chichi
adjective
affectedly trendy.

the outfit below - very chichi.

ooo... shiny!

i hear they're all the rage in paris the year... the NEW jeans... i predict everyone will be wearing them to work, at home, to the gym. the smash sensation of the fall.(faces obscured to protect the innocent)

with child...

did that get a cocked eyebrow out of anyone?
sadly, the title of this post is misleading... misleading but not untrue.
here's me about to devour this deliciously cute little baby:

question:

how off the chain is bubble tape?
it's SO the shit.

thoughts...

who ever thought arranging to fly over a vast expanse of water would be so hard?
maybe it's just me... probably just me.

word of the day - aug 20 08

emolument
noun
the wages of perquisites arising from office, employment, or labour; gain; compensation.

i like me some emolument!

FYI

in case you were wondering, i will be having sex with these shoes tonight.

and DAMN YOU endless.com and your endless number of shoes! and your no shipping outside of the US! HOW am i supposed to get endless shoes if you can't ship them to me! HOW i ask you!

but thank you endless.com for introducing my to a shoe brand my boyfriend will soon have to be jealous of... punkrose! the official website (punkrose.com) isn't very good but click here to see the selection they have at endless.com

how did they know???

oh shit, man! they're INSIDE my head!
how? HOW could they know that?? did YOU tell them? did you?!?

word of the day - aug 19 08

aestival
adjective
of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.

diseases? diseases?!
why would that be the example you used? have about 'lazy aestival days'? aestival diseases? yeechy!

i'm fired...

no, no, no... i am still technically employed.
i'm firing myself. gross negligence. can you believe i forgot to post a 'word of the day' yesterday? and i was doing so good at remembering! i'm so disappointed in me. i'll do better, i promise! ok me, you're un-fired. just don't let it happen again!

mama's new baby...

interestingly enough, the following picture was taken with my soon to be jilted old camera...
sadly, i couldn't afford the camera that could take a picture of itself... it was too awesome and hence expensive for words... not to mention fictional.

fragment

i am so not a fan of mornings...
it takes me a little while to get my head on straight and be thinking clearly.
sometimes, i get out the door in the morning and don't remember how i got there... clearly, some sort of miracle not orchestrated by me.
this morning i was pulling out of my driveway trying to remember if i did my makeup right. trying to think that maybe i'd get to work and have people start asking me if there was a female character in A Clockwork Orange and me being all like "wha...??" and having no idea what's going on because i had only lined one of my eyes all the while falsely thinking that i had done both... it's like when you (or maybe it's just me) go through an intersection and then have to think to yourself, "was that light actually green?"
i guess it's like your body running on autopilot... except i think mine has a few glitches.
by the by, i checked and my makeup's fine.

i LOVE canadian athletes!

so my prediction from the other day didn't come true... canadian athletes raked in 7 medals over the weekend! still less than michael phelps' gold medal count but still impressive i guess... and that poor girl in the triathlon who broke her arm! she should get a medal just for that!

anyhoo... i did get some flack for not appearing not to support our canadian athletes so i thought i'd take the time to address that.

comment from anonymous:
Realistically, to be placed 10th in the world is still quite the accomplishment. You must give credit to the athletes. So they aren't placing in the top 3, but to hear all the gloom and doom from everyone back home when they are setting multiple Canadian records must be disheartening. I think our country needs to stand more behind their athletes, despite of how they place.
Its hard to believe that the USA/Chinese athletes can still compete in the Olympics. The Olympics are supposed to be about amateur athletes and, especially the Chinese, there is nothing amateur about them. They train full time their entire lives for this event.

first off - there's nothing amateur about any of these athletes... no normal people can do what these athletes do. it's like saying golfing is only a hobby for tiger woods. but in events like tennis, basketball, hockey, even ice skating - they all get paid to do what they do (the definition of being a 'professional' in my mind) and then suddenly when olympic time comes around they can all magically suspend their pro status. i don't get the rules on the amateur status deal... seems very fishy to me.

overall, i'm not saying we shouldn't support our athletes or that the support they're getting this year isn't... uninspiring. i'm trying to point out what little support they do get. when american athletes come home, they're treated like celebrities and celebrated in the media and can pretty much live off endorsements if they've medaled. when canadian athletes come home, they get a tip of the hat and then it's back to whatever they were doing before.
if we came back with no medals this year, there would have to be some serious thought put into how we train and support our athletes... now that we have some under our belts, the excuses can flow freely - poor air quality this, injuries that... next time we'll be more prepared!
having a low medal count can be excused away much easier than a zero medal tally.

tangent! don't you just love the canadian reporters? "you've just finished 4th, mere thousandths of a second away from medalling... how disappointing is this crushing blow? what do you want to say to the folks at home?" yeah, rub it in a little more... right when they probably don't want to talk to anyone, make them talk to the whole country! kudos to the athletes for being so congenial.

bah! work has made me lose my train of thought... i won't make you suffer through any more incoherent rambling. hopefully i got my point across.

*yawn*

i'm feeling sleepy just reading this article!

"Why snoozing is good for you"
New research and tired people prove benefits of midday shut-eye
The domain of cats and the idle rich has been breached: Naps have new street cred.
There are indications a midday snooze might solve poor performance caused by long, stressful hours at work and non-stop multi-tasking.

i was just asking the other day, "who the hell came up with this working all day nonsense?!?" it just seems like there should be more to life, right? or that work should be less of our lives... work, work, work! faster, faster, faster! more, more, more! i've found the problem: "... our society is driven by economy and not biology." sheesh... it's just money! cool your jets there, fast eddie!

i'd definitely object less to having to spend the best hours of the day trapped at work if i got to have a nice nap after lunch.

classy, classy, classy, and more classy

invitees beware - this is SO going to be my wedding dress.

i hear this shit was hot in paris this year...

this picture was featured in a 'caption this' contest for one of the e-rags i read... click here to read some entries - they're freaking hilarious!

word of the day - aug 15 08

tittle-tattle
noun
1. idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.
2. an idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
3. to talk idly; to prate.

let's not hold our breath

did not qualify
did not advance
finished 64th
finished last
dropped from 3rd to 10th
medal hopes dissolved
broke a canadian record

these phrases sounding familiar?
they seem to perfectly sum up canada's efforts at this summer's olympic games in beijing. and now they want us to believe that hope is on the horizon...

"Canada poised for weekend Olympic medals"

i'm not getting my hopes up... even if we DO somehow manage to get a medal, it'll probably be bronze. whoop-dee-doo!

let's look at the medal standings shall we?
who has more medals than us?
cuba - 8 medals (1,3,4)
kazakhstan - 5 medals (0,3,2)
azerbaijan - 4 medals (1,2,1)
mongolia - 2 medals (1,1,0)
kyrgyzstan - 2 medals (0,1,1)

michael phelps - 6 GOLD medals
that's right a SINGLE person has more medals than canada! that's actually more gold medals than canada has collected for the past 2 and a half olympics!

barf... i almost wish we wouldn't win any medals at all... then we'd be forcedt o seriously evaluate the training and funding we give to our athletes.

wiley little buggers

why this is reportable news is beyond me... i mean, aren't there wars raging across the world? olympians recieving medals? illness being cured? bigfoot being discovered? why oh why did poor catherine farley get stuck with such a lame 'human interest' story? i grieve for her career even though i know nothing about her...

"Raccoons and green bins: Can the critters be foiled?"

and and AND there's a whole vidoe report about it too! they spent money on this! money that could be used to feed starving orphans or comething!
and i'm a sap... i watched it... i was bored.

word of the day - aug 14 08

lackadaisical
adjective
lacking spirit or liveliness; showing lack of interest; languid; listless.

i'd be so sure this word was entirely made up if not for the above definition sitting there staring me in the face... unless of course the dictionary is just trying to mess with our heads... vocabulary mind-f*ck!

rich people hate the environment

"Route change request sparks bus war"
It's riders versus drivers as homeowner wants noisy public transit away from her lake-view home

forget "riders versus drivers" it's middle class versus rich bitches...
this is just one big sob story about someone looking down her nose at people who have to ride the... ugh... bus! heaven forbid! the filthy public bus!
it's mostly funny because it's a ill-like family acquaintance.

thoughts...

do all earphones come with some sort of build self-tangling directive?
i swear, you just so much as set them down and when you pick them up like 2 seconds later, they're tangled! how does that happen??

rub-a-dub-dub, douche in a tub

"Video shows Burger King employee bathing in sink"

Some workers at a Greene County (Ohio) restaurant are in hot water with the health department, after an employee took a bubble bath in a store sink.

seriously?

but i guess there are worse things i could imagine going on at fast food places... at least he was washing his hands!

word of the day - aug 13 08

contradiction
noun
1. the act of contradicting; gainsaying or opposition.
2. assertion of the contrary or opposite; denial.
3. a statement or proposition that contradicts or denies another or itself and is logically incongruous.
4. direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency.
5. a contradictory act, fact, etc.

drought

can you believe it actually didn't rain yesterday? well, at least it didn't rain in p-ville...
i was SO sure the skies were going to bust open last night and two of every animal would be sailing off on a ship without me... but it didn't happen! it didn't even get overcast! craziness!

but farmers, fear not! your crops shant go thirsty! i think today might try it's darned-est to make up for yesterday's lack of precipitation...

mixed feeling of the day

is the statement "i want to grow my fuel rather than dig for it" socially responsible?

interest and research on crop-based fuel generation is driving the cost of basic food staples (corn, rice) higher and higher pushing the necessities of life out of the reach of 3rd world countries and ever "at risk" people in 1st world countries.

sure, oil-based fuels are a leading cause of pollution... and oil is not a sustainable resource but are crop fuels actually sustainable? we barely have enough farmable land to feed the currnet population and everyday acres of forest are demolished to make room for more... forests that could be helping (albeit probably marginally) to abate the pollution produced by oil-based fuels.

simply stated, we don't have enough space to grow gas and food at the same time.

comments?

RE: bathrooms

oh yeah, i forgot to mention...
the floor drain gurgles menacingly after you flush the toilet.

score one for the fat kids

"Half of overweight adults may be healthy: Study"
You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy.

well how about that??
happy & healthy and not sickly thin.
but don't think that just because you read this you can quit your diet and exercise routine! keep at it boys and girls!

word of the day - aug 12 08

success
noun
1. the favourable or prosperous termination of attempts or endaevours.
2. the attainment of wealth, position, honours, or the like.
3. a successful performance or achievement: The play was an instant success.
4. a person or thing that is successful: She was a great success on the talk show.

complaint of the day

bathrooms

let's start out with a compliment... newly redone, clean, deodourized.
now enough with that, on to the hating.

a) super flush
you know, the flush so violent that it splashes up ON YOU before you can exit the stall? a good vigorous flush is needed time and again to whisk away certain... unpleasantness but... toilet water is toilet water and it's ON ME!
and you'd think a flush like that would take everything away with it! alas, that is not the case... i'm going to call it a blender flush. it tears toilet paper to shreds and leaves the tailings to drift back up into the bowl... the imagery - it is amazing, is it not?

b) toilet paper
in lieu of the half ply toilet paper on rolls, this facility has opted for half ply toilet paper in sheet form. where you have to pull it out one sheet at a time over and over and over and over and OVER again until you have a decent amount. and it's not cohesive! unless you mash the sheets all together into a little wad not at all viable for the intended purpose, you're apt to drop a few sheets.

c) splashworks
A+ for installing motion activated soap dispensers and faucets... but D- on the details. to get the faucet to come on, your hands have to be in line with the sensor. the sensor is above the edge of the sink. when the faucet springs to life, the water splashes up off your hands onto the counter. i mean hey, not my problem but still... maintenance should have a word with these artsy bathroom designer people.

word of the day - aug 11 08

objurgate
transitive verb
to express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely.

happy monday

it's official.
i work here.

thoughts...

how much do i not want to go back to work tomorrow?

word of the day - aug 10 08

malaise
noun
1. a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
2. a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort.

a matter of opinion

while visiting my sister in thunder bay this week, i had the pleasure of touring one of the cities finest dives - C2... bitches played AQUA! you know you'd rock out to doctor jones if it came on.

anyway... whilst begging my legs and creaky knees not to drop me onto the less than prestine toilet seat the following was overheard in the neighbouring stall from two of t.bay's classiest ladies:

"we're awesome!"
"we're so f*cking drunk!"

word of the day - aug 6 08

spoony
adjective
1. foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. foolishly or sentimentally in love.

greetings from thunder bay!

howdy hoo!
we made it! 17 hours of my life down the drain in the car but i suppose it was worth it... i get to see my darling sister! and she's not too smelly... and she had beers for us! and we're making brownies! and nachos! mmm.. nachos...
anyhoodle... tis all for now! updates maybe later...

word of the day - aug 5 08

callow
adjective
immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgement.

le grand sigh

aaahhh... at last!
we are moved. i am settled.
i've unpacked all my box (that's right - singular box) and i have all my stuff put away.
the move that i never thought would ever actually happen is done!
see? home sweet home!

as with all moves, chaos is reigning supreme around here. there is not nearly enough space for all the crap that people lugged with them... people's "workspaces" are too small, some phones don't work, printers aren't hooked up, etc., etc. the list goes on.

luckily i don't have to deal with any of this nonesense for the rest of the week! i'm off to the ever exotic thunder bay! my sister is getting ready to relocate AGAIN and i'm helping! sure, sure... you say i relocated every 4 months when i was in school? yeah well it was never more than 2 hours away! not like 16 and 14 hour drives! why so far??

well anyway, i'm hitting the open road for the rest of the week so i may or may not be posting. we shall see how preoccupied i become. there was promise of drinking until we forget out names...

happenings...

NEW OFFICE!
FINALLY!!!

more later...