Current mood:tired on a sugar high
I still have presents to buy and no time to do it. Anyone want to be a personal shopper for me? I will treat you badly and require you to buy the gifts with your own money, after which I will take the gifts and promise to "pay you back later." I reserve the right to come back later and confront you on why you bought a certain thing because I obviously wouldn't buy something so tacky/expensive/nice/etc. for that particular person and you should know that. Additionally, I expect them to be wrapped in paper that I would like, but you have to intrinsically know what I would like because I don't have the time to tell you. They should be wrapped well but not too well because I want the receivers to think I wrapped them and, while I'm an excellent wrapper, I tend to get lazy during the holidays, so you must, on your own, figure out how well I could wrap while being lazy and do that. If you don't you will have to re-wrap until it looks right. For this simple task I would pay you in minty chocolate and brandy beans. Tempting?
Currently reading:
The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
By Peter C. Newman
Release date: 12 September, 2005
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
tipsy
Current mood: how many drinks was that?
Tonight I went out with my best friend from high school. We haven't hung out much since I moved back to Vancouver and it was something I felt bad about, but didn't do too much to remedy. She sent a Christmas card and I called to see if she wanted to meet up for dinner or something to catch up. It was awkward at first, but by the time we went for drinks it had gotten significantly easier and we discovered that we're going through a lot of the same stuff.
It got me wondering if it's the age in general that makes people sort of introspective about stuff or if, because of our similar childhood, we are following a specific path set out based on our shared experiences and circumstances that scarred us.
What I appreciate most about encounters like this is that it isn't that hard to fall into a level of comfort with certain people. Like, I've known her since kindergarten, and we should be completely different and there is no reason why we should get along, but we can fall back into friendship with very little effort. I wish it were so easy with everyone.
Whenever people tell me I shouldn't bother with Christmas cards (since they sorta stress me out generally), I think of these times when I can reconnect with someone with such a small, simple gesture. It puts me into the holiday mood so much more than the decorations or Christmas music. That and generous pints of beer.
Did I mention I slipped on wet tile at the Skytrain, causing blood to flow from my hand? Crap.
Currently listening:
Girls Can Tell
By Spoon
Release date: 20 February, 2001
Tonight I went out with my best friend from high school. We haven't hung out much since I moved back to Vancouver and it was something I felt bad about, but didn't do too much to remedy. She sent a Christmas card and I called to see if she wanted to meet up for dinner or something to catch up. It was awkward at first, but by the time we went for drinks it had gotten significantly easier and we discovered that we're going through a lot of the same stuff.
It got me wondering if it's the age in general that makes people sort of introspective about stuff or if, because of our similar childhood, we are following a specific path set out based on our shared experiences and circumstances that scarred us.
What I appreciate most about encounters like this is that it isn't that hard to fall into a level of comfort with certain people. Like, I've known her since kindergarten, and we should be completely different and there is no reason why we should get along, but we can fall back into friendship with very little effort. I wish it were so easy with everyone.
Whenever people tell me I shouldn't bother with Christmas cards (since they sorta stress me out generally), I think of these times when I can reconnect with someone with such a small, simple gesture. It puts me into the holiday mood so much more than the decorations or Christmas music. That and generous pints of beer.
Did I mention I slipped on wet tile at the Skytrain, causing blood to flow from my hand? Crap.
Currently listening:
Girls Can Tell
By Spoon
Release date: 20 February, 2001
Saturday, December 17, 2005
is it possible to o.d. on bacon?
Current mood: pained
I am so unwell right now. I ate so much bacon and sugar that my belly is angry. Really angry. It's bitch-slapping me from the inside. It was all because of the bacon Christmas party my friends planned, a good cause. I walked away with a Napoleon Dynamite illustration that Nathan drew and coloured (totally cool) and a coloured pyrex bowl.
Can I tell you how much I LOVE coloured pyrex?! I love it. I would marry it if it were emotionally available.
But my belly hurts and I don't have any ginger or anything fizzy, so I suffer in relative silence. Maybe it's time to drink some milk. Or tea. And I still have bacon in the fridge that I couldn't cook fast enough to take with. I'll probably forget in a day or so and have bacon & tomato sandwiches. Mmmm, that sounds good...
Currently watching:
The Sound of Music (40th Anniversary Edition)
Release date: 15 November, 2005
I am so unwell right now. I ate so much bacon and sugar that my belly is angry. Really angry. It's bitch-slapping me from the inside. It was all because of the bacon Christmas party my friends planned, a good cause. I walked away with a Napoleon Dynamite illustration that Nathan drew and coloured (totally cool) and a coloured pyrex bowl.
Can I tell you how much I LOVE coloured pyrex?! I love it. I would marry it if it were emotionally available.
But my belly hurts and I don't have any ginger or anything fizzy, so I suffer in relative silence. Maybe it's time to drink some milk. Or tea. And I still have bacon in the fridge that I couldn't cook fast enough to take with. I'll probably forget in a day or so and have bacon & tomato sandwiches. Mmmm, that sounds good...
Currently watching:
The Sound of Music (40th Anniversary Edition)
Release date: 15 November, 2005
Friday, December 16, 2005
like a sponge
Current mood: don't ask
My coworker gave me SpongeBob SquarePants Christmas decorations today and I LOVE them. We had a 15-minute conversation about past episodes we've seen and it was fairly indepth. I realised that I must like SBSP way more than I consciously know because I know more than is normal to know about him. It freaked me out a bit because, like, kids with soft skulls and low IQs like him.
I feel somewhat undead today, assuming the undead feel anything at all except the longing for brains. It seems like my body doesn't mind running on 6 hours sleep, but 5 hours... forget about it. It might have actually been less than 5 hours, but, at this point, it hardly matters. If I needed to operate heavy machinery I'm not sure I could do that with a clear conscience.
Do you know any good bacon recipes? I have to bring bacon to the Second Annual Bacon Christmas Party tomorrow and can't think of any creative ways to prepare bacon dishes. Ways that are tasty, I mean. And I already know about the almond/date/bacon one, so give me something new to work on. Thanks.
Currently reading:
Life's a Bitch: The Bitchy Bitch Chronicles
By Roberta Gregory
Release date: 31 July, 2005
My coworker gave me SpongeBob SquarePants Christmas decorations today and I LOVE them. We had a 15-minute conversation about past episodes we've seen and it was fairly indepth. I realised that I must like SBSP way more than I consciously know because I know more than is normal to know about him. It freaked me out a bit because, like, kids with soft skulls and low IQs like him.
I feel somewhat undead today, assuming the undead feel anything at all except the longing for brains. It seems like my body doesn't mind running on 6 hours sleep, but 5 hours... forget about it. It might have actually been less than 5 hours, but, at this point, it hardly matters. If I needed to operate heavy machinery I'm not sure I could do that with a clear conscience.
Do you know any good bacon recipes? I have to bring bacon to the Second Annual Bacon Christmas Party tomorrow and can't think of any creative ways to prepare bacon dishes. Ways that are tasty, I mean. And I already know about the almond/date/bacon one, so give me something new to work on. Thanks.
Currently reading:
Life's a Bitch: The Bitchy Bitch Chronicles
By Roberta Gregory
Release date: 31 July, 2005
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
how to be inappropriate
Current mood: offensive/offended
At work, all the departments send out Christmas cards, often related to the type of work they do. Most of them are dull black-and-white photocopies of some sort of lame clip art. These "cards" suck ass. My department hadn't put anything together so my co-worker was informally assigned the task of making something.
She was stumped so I gave her something I found on my friend's page. It was Christmasy, but when we put it together she wasn't sure if people would think it tasteless. It had OJ Simpson holding a Christmas ham with a selection of dinner items and a big grin on his face with the caption "Christmas fits me like a glove"... and put a note inside about us being tastefully entertaining. Everyone who saw it laughed like crazy. Some said they weren't sure all recipients would appreciate our humour. It was axed by our department head. I was sorta pissed because I was offended by the shitty cards we got and no one stopped those from being sent out. With no other choice and a slight grudge, I put something else together.
I found a photo of Jackie Chan fake-biting the pudgy cheek of a small child. The caption: "What are you eating this holiday season?" Lame, yes. Some could call it offensive, sure. But when you don't let me send out OJ this is the shit you get. For some reason this was still deemed offensive, but less so than the previous card. I expect someone is going to be offended regardless, but, really, what do they expect? We're degenerates.
Currently listening:
Christmas Album
By Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Release date: 18 October, 2005
At work, all the departments send out Christmas cards, often related to the type of work they do. Most of them are dull black-and-white photocopies of some sort of lame clip art. These "cards" suck ass. My department hadn't put anything together so my co-worker was informally assigned the task of making something.
She was stumped so I gave her something I found on my friend's page. It was Christmasy, but when we put it together she wasn't sure if people would think it tasteless. It had OJ Simpson holding a Christmas ham with a selection of dinner items and a big grin on his face with the caption "Christmas fits me like a glove"... and put a note inside about us being tastefully entertaining. Everyone who saw it laughed like crazy. Some said they weren't sure all recipients would appreciate our humour. It was axed by our department head. I was sorta pissed because I was offended by the shitty cards we got and no one stopped those from being sent out. With no other choice and a slight grudge, I put something else together.
I found a photo of Jackie Chan fake-biting the pudgy cheek of a small child. The caption: "What are you eating this holiday season?" Lame, yes. Some could call it offensive, sure. But when you don't let me send out OJ this is the shit you get. For some reason this was still deemed offensive, but less so than the previous card. I expect someone is going to be offended regardless, but, really, what do they expect? We're degenerates.
Currently listening:
Christmas Album
By Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Release date: 18 October, 2005
Sunday, December 11, 2005
weak willed
Current mood: pain in the necky
I gave in to my urges and bought eggnog. And I only feel slighty guilty about this. I discovered the best way to drink it: fill the glass between a third and a half of the way up and then add some milk to thin it out, but leave a little space for butter ripple schnapps. I know, I know, schnapps is what high school kids and severe alchoholics drink, but in this instance.... so yummy!
Last night I went to a couple of parties. The first was OK, but people weren't very mingley and I'm far too shy to just go up to people and start chatting, so I held my friends' baby a lot. Had a rum and eggnog and wished for the above recipe instead. The second party was much better and I fraternized tolerably. It was meant to be practice to socialize with more ease. Not sure if that was accomplished, but at least I managed to talk to people I don't really know. It was a co-worker's party, so I sorta knew who people were, but had never talked to. But I did make plans to go for high tea with a couple of girls, so it was a good night.
Currently listening:
Rocket to Russia
By The Ramones
Release date: 19 June, 2001
I gave in to my urges and bought eggnog. And I only feel slighty guilty about this. I discovered the best way to drink it: fill the glass between a third and a half of the way up and then add some milk to thin it out, but leave a little space for butter ripple schnapps. I know, I know, schnapps is what high school kids and severe alchoholics drink, but in this instance.... so yummy!
Last night I went to a couple of parties. The first was OK, but people weren't very mingley and I'm far too shy to just go up to people and start chatting, so I held my friends' baby a lot. Had a rum and eggnog and wished for the above recipe instead. The second party was much better and I fraternized tolerably. It was meant to be practice to socialize with more ease. Not sure if that was accomplished, but at least I managed to talk to people I don't really know. It was a co-worker's party, so I sorta knew who people were, but had never talked to. But I did make plans to go for high tea with a couple of girls, so it was a good night.
Currently listening:
Rocket to Russia
By The Ramones
Release date: 19 June, 2001
Saturday, December 10, 2005
natsukashii
Current mood: dumbheadish
Ima "The New Music" o mite iru. Sugoku omoshiroi. Minna san wa "Nippon wa subarashii desu yo" o hanashimasu. Demo minna san wa chotto baka desu. Death From Above wa kakkoii demo Broken Social Scene to Metric to Stars wa kankoukyaku o rashiku mieru. "Nihonjin wa kibishii desu. Karuchaa-shokku ga arunai yo." Bakajin. Demo watashi wa sugoku natsukashii. Shittobukai desu.
Nihongo o wasuremashita. Gomen.
I was supposed to go on a tour of the Pantages Theatre this afternoon and accidentally wrote down 150 W. Hastings instead of 150 E. Hastings. Crap. It's not like they have tours everyday, or ever. I'm concerned that now I'll never see it because they're going to tear the shit out of it and the original features will be gone. It's the last original Pantages Theatre in North America. Dumb eyes, looking at stuff wrong.
On a cheerier note, my new Polaroid JobPro 2 arrived today. It's a sweet yellow. Lomo will be the death of me, one way or another. They've practically stolen all my extra money with their toy cameras over the last few years. And the new ReadyMade came, too!
Currently listening:
Tone Soul Evolution
By The Apples In Stereo
Release date: 10 February, 1998
Ima "The New Music" o mite iru. Sugoku omoshiroi. Minna san wa "Nippon wa subarashii desu yo" o hanashimasu. Demo minna san wa chotto baka desu. Death From Above wa kakkoii demo Broken Social Scene to Metric to Stars wa kankoukyaku o rashiku mieru. "Nihonjin wa kibishii desu. Karuchaa-shokku ga arunai yo." Bakajin. Demo watashi wa sugoku natsukashii. Shittobukai desu.
Nihongo o wasuremashita. Gomen.
I was supposed to go on a tour of the Pantages Theatre this afternoon and accidentally wrote down 150 W. Hastings instead of 150 E. Hastings. Crap. It's not like they have tours everyday, or ever. I'm concerned that now I'll never see it because they're going to tear the shit out of it and the original features will be gone. It's the last original Pantages Theatre in North America. Dumb eyes, looking at stuff wrong.
On a cheerier note, my new Polaroid JobPro 2 arrived today. It's a sweet yellow. Lomo will be the death of me, one way or another. They've practically stolen all my extra money with their toy cameras over the last few years. And the new ReadyMade came, too!
Currently listening:
Tone Soul Evolution
By The Apples In Stereo
Release date: 10 February, 1998
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