| Received in my Mailbox today: |
[29 May 2007|02:24pm] |
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You are due for your annual heartworm test!
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| Summer Bunnies |
[24 May 2007|02:06pm] |
I'm so glad that I was able to meet up with Erin and Lisa this morning, sit in the sun and enjoy doing absoluetly nothing. Well. Not nothing.
We talked alot.
Boys.
Moving.
Condo prices.
Jobs.
Future.
Clothes.
Impregnation.
Bikinis.
Chick stuff.
  
Later, after croisants and caffeine, we biked en masse to the local hat shop and modeled for each other outlandish styles that were too expensive to afford. The girls wanted me to buy a hat that practically covered my body and would have made a great umbrella in the event of a deluge.
I was headed north, split ways with the ladies and thought i'd go check out Yorkville.
Halfway there, as I was weaving through traffic, I got a flat tire. First one with this bike ever.
So today my pet project has been decided for me.
I feel empowered by the fact that I have all the tools to change a flat...wrench, patch kit, pump.
I just need to make sure i remember HOW to do it too!
All in all, it wasn't a bad experience.
It spared me from spending precious dollars on Yorkville shopping that I should be saving for my
Pan-Asian-Extravaganza trip.
Cheers!
M.
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| Spring Clean into Summer |
[05 May 2007|02:06pm] |
Tania cleaned her room today for the first time since we moved here.
That was last November.
7 months.
Must be some sort of record.
It's great cleaning out the crap in our lives, even more so since humans seem to have some built in mechanism that encourages them to accumulate unecessary items.
Why are we so greedy?
Anyways, the dining table is full of old clothes, shoes, jewelry and random knicknacks that we're purging oursevles of.
It feels good to be clean!
M.
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| Good Things That Have Happened this Week so Far: |
[01 May 2007|11:58pm] |
a. Found out that I don't owe the government the 3000$ dollars in taxes that I thought I did.
b. Found out that they actually owe me money.
c. Found out that I must have the best accountant in the world.
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| Awoken. |
[26 Apr 2007|10:15am] |
So today, Tania encouraged me to get out of bed and we had breakfast together at 7am.
Organic Strawberries, with cottage cheese, eggos and syrop. yum.
Then, after she left I proceeded to climb right back into bed and slept in until 10am.
A vast improvement to waking up at noon, like yesterday.
Although, I have a nasty case of the hiccups that have been going on for about 5 minutes.
m.
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| China wins the Korean War |
[23 Apr 2007|01:06pm] |
So the tickets Matthew and I were hoping to get with Korean Airlines jumped from 611$ to 1000$ in a matter of 24 hours.
We were too slow on that, but quickly booked the next best tix with China Air.
Vancouver to Beijing.
One Way.
700$.
11 hour flight.
No in flight Kimchee, so i'm putting in a special request for Dim Sum.
M.
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| Noodles for Lunch |
[23 Apr 2007|10:41am] |
I was shopping with my mom this weekend at this outlet mall.
A lady was piggy-backing her 4 year old kid not too far away from us in the parking lot when all of a sudden she let out a little shriek.
I looked over and this pink fluid started running down the front of her body.
The I realized that her kid was vomiting all over her.
In her hair.
Down her back.
Everywhere.
And it just kept coming. It was the projectile kind of puke.
Intermingled with noodles and a pink fluid. Strawberry milkshake maybe?
Like a good mother she didn't let him drop to the pavement, but her clothes definately suffered for it.
M.
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| Bike Check |
[23 Apr 2007|10:16am] |
After leaving my bike out all winter on our front stoop I finally unlocked the poor thing and took her downtown for a test run. I discovered that:
-The chain is rusted.
-The gear wires are rusted.
-My spokes are rusted.
-The kickstand is rusted.
-Everything else, including the frame and handlebars also seem to have rusted.
Aside from the rusting (a sure sign of neglect and disdain) someone stole my bell.
That really pissed me off.
The batteries in my rear and front lights still worked after months of Toronto coldness.
Duracel really does kick ass.
All the brakes need tightening.
The front one is ok. The rear one barely works at all.
Not a good thing when your commute includes 1 or 2 km's of Bathurst's devil hills.
I've been seriously debating leaving her unlocked on the corner of Sherbourne and Queen so i'd have a good excuse to buy a new bike this summer. But after my ride downtown, I discovered that the wheels didn't pop off the frame and that i'm still alive after climbing her back home in the dark.
Plus, who can deny the freedom of knowing how undesirable an item she is to local thieves.
Nothing beats peace of mind.
My rusty little vehicle just might have won herself one last summer on the roads of T.O.
m.
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| The Toronto Centipede |
[20 Apr 2007|10:31am] |
Yuck!
I had the most disgusting insect scurry across my bedroom floor yesterday!
It was this nasty long multi-legged thing and it was HUGE. Like the size of my thumb.
Tania says it was the Toronto Centipede. Apparently common in local apartments.
Generally harmless. Mostly ugly.
Matt thinks that now winter is over they will start to infest the house with their many offspring.
Even after I sprayed down my room with bug spray, I just couldn't bring myself to sleep in there.
I crashed out with Tania, my sworn protector!
Tonight should be a better night.
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| My moto for the rest of the afternoon |
[19 Apr 2007|12:53pm] |
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Don't let yourself live in fear.
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| Speaking of Korea |
[19 Apr 2007|12:47pm] |
This will be the only comment I'm going to make about the Virginia Tech Incident.
Why do they keep playing up the fact that he was from Korea? They make it sound like he got here yesterday.
I'm really wondering what the media is trying to say here.
He lived in the USA for almost 15 years since he was 8 years old.
I think that's about enough time for him to forget his roots and learn to murder people North American style.
m.
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| Layover in Seoul |
[19 Apr 2007|12:42pm] |
Matthew and I are inches away from buying our tickets to Beijing.
Korean Air is looking like it has the best prices and the right timing.
This is the part of the pre-trip that is the most crucial.
The purchasing of the airline ticket.
It means commitment. It means you are locked in.
It mean you had better think about getting a Chinese visa to go along with that flight.
Other than that, I'm excited to eat Kimchee at 30, 000 feet above sea level.
Also that I haven't been talking out of my ass for the last 6 months, saying i'm going away and never doing it.
At least some of the time I follow through.
M.
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| Today: |
[19 Apr 2007|12:25pm] |
Awake.
Take basal temperature to see if my progesterone has kicked in. 35.14degrees.
Lick fertility slide to see where I am in my cycle. Apparently ovulating.
Wonder if all the effort i'm putting in to natural birth control will pay off.
Don't shower.
Eat breakfast of Nutela and Toast and sweet tea.
Brushed teeth.
Put on same clothes as yesterday.
Speed check my email.
Get ride to Jane bus by mom. Feel like i'm 19 again heading to Ryerson for an 8am class.
Take Jane bus to Jane Station while reading '1919' a history of the Paris Peace Confrence.
Feel exceptionally smart for reading a non-fiction novel.
Ride to Ossington Station while feeling overly paranoid about terrorist bombers and students with hand guns in their back-packs.
Survive the ride and realize I live in a culture of fear.
Take the Ossington Bus to College.
Walk to the YMCA.
Change into clean gym clothes.
Listen to a half naked chinese woman berate her teenage child for something i'm not sure of.
Watch as they both weigh themselves.
Do my cardio/weights routine which is starting to get boring but when completed feels good.
Sit in the steam bath until my face feels scorched.
Switch to the sauna to dry off.
Wonder what the chances are of catching a foot fungus in the locker room from not wearing flip flops.
Change into clean underwear and same clothes as yesterday.
College Street car to Bathurst.
Bathurst Street car to Bloor.
Bathurst bus home.
Intense emails and phone calls, some work related some not.
Ready for a nap.
All before noon.
M.
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| I'm a bad blogger... |
[19 Apr 2007|12:24pm] |
Yes.
I've utterly failed the test of time.
Blogging comes and goes.
Give me another chance.
I swear I can do better.
M.
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| Every body needs to watch this!!! |
[22 Mar 2007|02:33am] |
The most hilarious thing i've seen in a long time:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KWYYIY4jQ
M.
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| Why I like the Y |
[06 Mar 2007|11:05pm] |
I go to the gym and burn 300 calories so that I can come home and eat chocolate covered potato chips.
M.
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| Post Card Project |
[19 Feb 2007|02:08pm] |
Looking for anyone who might have random blank post cards lying around the house that they don't want.
Matt and I want to create some unique invites for our wedding ceremony (part 2) that we are doing for his side of the fam. Even if you don't have blank post cards, but know where we can buy some, that would be great.
Vintage would be great, but right now we're taking anything!
M.
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| Lost & Found |
[19 Feb 2007|01:25am] |
So i'm starting a little art project that could use some extra help.
I need people to keep their eyes out for those poor unfortunate winter items that transiters lose every day going to and fro.
Mitts, Gloves, toques and scarves...and anything else that you think might work.
I had this idea last winter, but chickened out and never went through with it...
I want to create a space where all these things can be collected together, displayed and possibly reclaimed.
I plan on catelogueing everything, so if you do find items, take note of where you picked them up.
Let me know when you find something and i'll figure out a way to get it from you.
Here's my first item:
m.
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| Transit |
[17 Feb 2007|11:55pm] |
I've been taking the bus a whole lot lately.
My bike is sitting out on the front stoop, rusting away under the winter weather...
Part of me cares and the othe part of me curses how heavy that bike is and how I can't wait to buy a new lighter vehicle.
I did a bit of grocery shopping today and lugged my 5 bags of nutrition on the Bathurst line and sat in between two dog owners.
The first was a woman holding a small pomeranian dressed in a knit green sweater.
By this I mean that the Pomeranian was wearing the sweater, not the woman.
The other was a young lady with a Whippet on a leash. Whippets look like greyhounds.
This one was wearing a sleek red pullover...almost like the kind runners wear out on their daily jogs.
The Pomeranian got all excited by the Whippet and barked the whole way home.
I didn't mind the barking so much,
but it did seem sort of ridiculous that both these animals were wearing clothes.
Whatever.
I realize I have not been the best blogger lately.
I'm thinking of changing my blog look...to make me feel fresh and new...to encourage me to write more.
Same goes for my flickr page. I really need to keep posting photos.
Winter is making me lazy.
So far, this entry is an improvement. I haven't written anything this long in months.
I hope I can keep it up.
M>
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| I love my people! |
[09 Feb 2007|05:06pm] |
Thank you to EVERYONE that came out to the party to celebrate with Matthew and I.
We had a great time and hope to have more post-marital parties, just for kicks.
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