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Monday, August 22, 2011

Thank you Chapters

Who doesn't love a good trip to Chapters?  I'm getting wary though...all of this "Plum Rewards" business is making me nervous that I may actually lose my precious iRewards, and start collecting yet another stupid series of points that will be so cosmically complicated to redeem.  I hate collecting points, cuz (1) I don't ever remember the card when I go in the store, and (b) I feel like such a tool redeeming them, inwardly overjoyed that hey - I just saved 2.50 off of my $25.00 bill.  This must be what the extreme couponers feel like.  Immediate discounts - thats what I love......but you can't ue iRewards on the junk....so I missed out on a series of back to school items that leave me wanting more......heres what you missed.

For the low low price of 9.95, you can have a tidy desk top, through this new innovation below.  A plastic cup.  Its genius right? Plus you can get another shorter cup for paperclips.  Why has no one figured this out yet.  The time being spent today in creating cups for desk crap is shocking.  Rush out and buy this innovation....you can see they have lots.....better yet, giv eme your 10$ and I will give you my toothbrush cup that looks quite similar.....


Clearly I'm cheap, so can routinely be found by the sale shelf......looking or a cheaper pen cup.  I happened on this little beauty.... Its shaped like a pencil sharpener....how droll.  For perspective, this pencill sharpener pen cup is about the size of a small loaf of bread.  But you say WAIT - its 30% off...... what you don't know is that this baby retails at $29.95.  Run in and buy one...you can see they still have lots.


Thank you Chapters...for all that you do, furthering society so that they may keep their pens upright.

What you also missed last week was an almost apocalypse in my yard.  Hail the size of mutant peas has essentially destroyed most of the foliage I so painstakingly cultivated all summer.  You can water them, you can love them, and you can even talk to them.....but ya can't spare them the wrath of the Almighty if it should be so.  However, I still maintain that my plants suffered owing to the religious revivial that was taking place in my living room at the time.  I think if people pray too close to my stuff, that it stirs something in the cosmos in a way that brings about suffering, blight and pestilence. Hail-peas below:



I was flying pretty solo this weekend - so wanted to do something exciting...something refreshing, and something noteworthy.  So I cleaned my spice cupboard.  Who doesn't right?  I have the world on a string.  Entirely too many spices, but all necessary to have constructed at least 1 dish in my past.  Needless to say, I need to have an Indian/Mexican fiesta-wali to burn through some of this curry!



Before the spice craze came upon me, I painted this.  It was nice to putter around with paint.  Truth be known, it was painted mostly by fingers.  Not gallery-great, but suitable for student-house glamour.  When I die it will be worth big bucks - provided it isn't compromised in an out of control frosh house party.


I helped glamourize a Griphon Ghetto this weekend in Guelph.  Its always fun to move in to your first non-dorm place isn't it?  The great scrimmage for "stuff". Nothing needs to match.  Everything is always well worked in and previously enjoyed.......or straight off of the Dollarama shelves.  Soon to be littered with granola bars, beer cans, and stupid frosh momentos.......  Student houses are the best, and also an indication that most students are colourbind.


This was my dining room table the week of August 8.  Strewn with multiple handouts, textbook open to "statement of cash flows"......highball glass with remnants of a non-descript beverage from the day before.....usually me holding a purple pen wondering why I thought I could learn a semester of content for 2 courses over 5 weeknights and expect to do okay in a final exam.....

Oh I know why....because I can.  I got a B in both courses.  Hooray for me!  Either I'm lucky, or I'm a freakin genius!!  I'm going with genius for today....

Here is your moment of Cake Zen

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Big news

Remember the day that I met the love of my life....on April 13, 2011..Well okay I didn't actually meet him, but I saw him..........He accepted me on LinkedIn!!  Its like we're practically married!  I'm very excited.  We'll make a nice couple.  He will work all of the time saving lives, and I will be kept in a lifestyle to which I will easily become accustomed in a nice loft downtown - and clearly we will only have to communicate at a frequency of every 4 months as currently established.  I'm gonna start watching Say Yes to the Dress right now!!!  He doesn't even need to be there in person. Webinar will be just fine.  He can do it from his iPhone.  I hope Say Yes has this one in stock less the purse:


So here is what has been happening.  I have learned I will never be an accountant....ay yi yi.  The summer exams are FINALLY over.  I'm just letting the fate chips fall where they may.  If I made it - great.  New class kicks off in September.  If I gotta repeat I will do in the winter when I have no other options but to hole up and study.  God turning 36 has turned me into a complete moron.

I went to the Shaw this weekend and saw My Fair Lady.  A good performance, thus furthering my theatric edification.  I had not seen it, but am always a sucker for a good love story. Glad I went!  I did not love Shaw's Eliza - but what can ya do?  She was already dress to perform.

Also - have undertaken a nasal cleansing regime that I am not yet fully in love with - but am getting better at doing.......

So now for our WTF moment:



What the????? Really?  We need these?  I encourage one and all to visit myshreddies.com......click on "healthcare" when you do.  What is with the contortionist in the add from the 30's?

So just a quick touch base today.  Didn't want to let the world think I had fallen off of it.  I will be actively sourcing blog fodder for next week. It is still sandal season after all....

Here is your moment of Cake-Zen: