Woo hoo. This weekend wasn't such a bust after all. The snowman has moved another glorious 2.5 lbs to the right, and all is well with the world again....apart from my new hatred for GO transit. Today may be the worst service day in history - but I cannot digress now as I have a very critical assignment due by 11:55, and I was not able to complete it from 9-5 :)
Interview on Thursday......
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
I'm in too damn deep....
Woo, what a weekend. Dreading my weigh in tomorrow. I went off plan....but not so badly that I will have gained, but I sure as hell didn't lose. But a major coup - I made hollandaise from scratch. Sweet. I really should cook for a living.
Learned about 4 hours ago that I have an assignment due TOMORROW for a new course that started last Friday. Holy shit - am I supposed to do academics on the weekends? I was only gonna do it during office hours...... :)
Great weekend, topped off with this blog entry. Went to the Tim Burton exhibit at TIFF Lightbox. Pretty neat. Paid homage by watching Beetlejuice and EdWood. Classically Burton. But avoid Sweeny Todd in your Burtonmoviethon.....crazy blood bath
Golden Globes on.....J Lo presenting now....finally not dressed like a skank in public. I'm such an award show junkie. Go Colin F. Public speak your ass off!
So lemmee tell ya - I've seen 2 particularly odd things this week worth sharing. First - this signage from the bowels of the TTC - that in this snowy wonderland this week - was an absolute pig pen...but I digress...
I encourage you to visit this site. I don't understand the Harry Potter Phoenix logo. But what is concerning that if you live in Ajax, its gonna cost you about $200 dollars more for services than if you say live in Oakville.....but generally speaking:
You can get cremated: 1600
You can get buried: 1800
Include a casket: 3200.
Sweet deal. I say we buy today and get in on the deal before the prices go up.......clearly the organization has money and is reputable clearly demonstrated by the elaborate ad campaign being used in the TTC tunnels....I guess when you are crammed in there with the herds of mole people, you do often pray for death, and might turn to these good people.
While at Italian class this week, I found myself waiting out side the rest room:
I just LOATHE it when people hand make signs......note the wet paint and womens googley eye notations. Good grief. In my previous life - this was a major issue in the labs and collection centres. Employees were forever handwriting shit on labels and what not, to communicate some damn concept in either a demotion of service, or to advise their colleagues to please "not do" something. Of course, how could we expect better, when as an organization we refuse to give staff computers and printers in the 21st century? The company will get them one day....when the world has converted to the iPad 100%, those beleaguered staff will finally get the Commodor C64 they've been yearning for, and they can print all of the "closed for lunch" signs they want on don-matrix paper.
So this week is a big one. 3 new job prospects. I might remind you all, I need one. This is my current existence:
Learned about 4 hours ago that I have an assignment due TOMORROW for a new course that started last Friday. Holy shit - am I supposed to do academics on the weekends? I was only gonna do it during office hours...... :)
Great weekend, topped off with this blog entry. Went to the Tim Burton exhibit at TIFF Lightbox. Pretty neat. Paid homage by watching Beetlejuice and EdWood. Classically Burton. But avoid Sweeny Todd in your Burtonmoviethon.....crazy blood bath
Golden Globes on.....J Lo presenting now....finally not dressed like a skank in public. I'm such an award show junkie. Go Colin F. Public speak your ass off!
So lemmee tell ya - I've seen 2 particularly odd things this week worth sharing. First - this signage from the bowels of the TTC - that in this snowy wonderland this week - was an absolute pig pen...but I digress...
| Funerals Are Now Affordable | |
| Complete Basic Cremation | $1,695 |
| Burial & Graveside Service | $1,800 |
| Funeral with casket | $3,200 |
| HST, Fees & Disbursements Included | |
I encourage you to visit this site. I don't understand the Harry Potter Phoenix logo. But what is concerning that if you live in Ajax, its gonna cost you about $200 dollars more for services than if you say live in Oakville.....but generally speaking:
You can get cremated: 1600
You can get buried: 1800
Include a casket: 3200.
Sweet deal. I say we buy today and get in on the deal before the prices go up.......clearly the organization has money and is reputable clearly demonstrated by the elaborate ad campaign being used in the TTC tunnels....I guess when you are crammed in there with the herds of mole people, you do often pray for death, and might turn to these good people.
While at Italian class this week, I found myself waiting out side the rest room:
I just LOATHE it when people hand make signs......note the wet paint and womens googley eye notations. Good grief. In my previous life - this was a major issue in the labs and collection centres. Employees were forever handwriting shit on labels and what not, to communicate some damn concept in either a demotion of service, or to advise their colleagues to please "not do" something. Of course, how could we expect better, when as an organization we refuse to give staff computers and printers in the 21st century? The company will get them one day....when the world has converted to the iPad 100%, those beleaguered staff will finally get the Commodor C64 they've been yearning for, and they can print all of the "closed for lunch" signs they want on don-matrix paper.
So this week is a big one. 3 new job prospects. I might remind you all, I need one. This is my current existence:
I can't live like this much longer......I've had such a fall from grace. I miss my door and lid so much.....I want it back dammit!
Wish me luck this week kids....
Now back to the globes and all the drunk stars.......dreading tomorrows weigh in :(
Monday, January 10, 2011
Monday and the Snowman has moved!
Hip hip hooray. My snowman flabometer has trudged to the right. Applause!
Big news this weekend. I may have made Scrabble history amongst my circle of peeps. 89 points for SQUISHY. Shared this with roomie who could not have been less interested. Its all about using all of your letters people. Needless to say, I was pretty jazzed. If only B had been playing so she could also have felt the sting of a sealed loss......(insert evil cackle here!)
I saw a most odd live performance this weekend: Fairy Tale Ending - the big bad family musical. Needless to say it was everything I expected for the low low price of 12$. I think I knew where we were heading when i got my photocopied program and lined up at the box office (a tent on the corner of Adelaide and Bathurst). It was just an odd telling of how several fairy tales were ending tragically and villains had gone wrong and were in a criminal line up, and the crazed detective had to figure out why the endings were changing for the worse in the stories....ay yi yi. Spoiler alert!!! It was the narrator who committed the crime!
Apparently: "Fairy Tale Ending is a topsy-turvy yet touching tale of a young girl coming to grips with loss and the reality of growing up". I gotta tell you.....I didn't totally get this. Of course, once I realized one of the actors had a prosthetic hand (with french tips), I was pretty distracted and fascinated by it for the rest of the show, so may have missed the critical moment where we all got our moral of the day. Morbidly - I want to know what happened to her hand.
Shout out to the wolf......amidst all of the overacting by Goldilocks, the chronic whingeing of Jill, and the overbutchified detective.....you managed to shine through anyway.
Check it out....you have 6 days left to rush for tickets..... http://www.fairytaleending.ca/index.html
Guiltily, I had nachos at the Banknote afterward.....but I had the ones with the least cheese!
NO CREAM IN MY TEA TODAY......I did it!
Lentil soup tonight.....don't know the recipe unless I'm actually making it so will document as I go and share tomorrow!
Big news this weekend. I may have made Scrabble history amongst my circle of peeps. 89 points for SQUISHY. Shared this with roomie who could not have been less interested. Its all about using all of your letters people. Needless to say, I was pretty jazzed. If only B had been playing so she could also have felt the sting of a sealed loss......(insert evil cackle here!)
I saw a most odd live performance this weekend: Fairy Tale Ending - the big bad family musical. Needless to say it was everything I expected for the low low price of 12$. I think I knew where we were heading when i got my photocopied program and lined up at the box office (a tent on the corner of Adelaide and Bathurst). It was just an odd telling of how several fairy tales were ending tragically and villains had gone wrong and were in a criminal line up, and the crazed detective had to figure out why the endings were changing for the worse in the stories....ay yi yi. Spoiler alert!!! It was the narrator who committed the crime!
Apparently: "Fairy Tale Ending is a topsy-turvy yet touching tale of a young girl coming to grips with loss and the reality of growing up". I gotta tell you.....I didn't totally get this. Of course, once I realized one of the actors had a prosthetic hand (with french tips), I was pretty distracted and fascinated by it for the rest of the show, so may have missed the critical moment where we all got our moral of the day. Morbidly - I want to know what happened to her hand.
Shout out to the wolf......amidst all of the overacting by Goldilocks, the chronic whingeing of Jill, and the overbutchified detective.....you managed to shine through anyway.
Check it out....you have 6 days left to rush for tickets..... http://www.fairytaleending.ca/index.html
Guiltily, I had nachos at the Banknote afterward.....but I had the ones with the least cheese!
NO CREAM IN MY TEA TODAY......I did it!
Lentil soup tonight.....don't know the recipe unless I'm actually making it so will document as I go and share tomorrow!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Slippin into the groove
Happy Friday everyone.
Tough start to the month on the ugly shoe quest. Everyones in boots...and all fairly pedestrian at that! C'mon people. I was going to start and ugly toque campaign, but feared the need to get waivers signed for posting head shots on the internet......
How about a new perspective. BEST shoe of 2011 (so far)....
Behold minion!!! My winter BOGS. I wore them in public today wearing turquoise plaid pants.... A pal once told me - your outfit doesn't have to match, it just has to "go". Oh it go baby!
BOGS have 2 key features....a Wellington-like galosh bottom and a Gortex top. Uber warm. And note the pull on hand loops up top. Sweet for the wearer with a more portly calf meant to be standing waiting for the ever late GO train! But also, if you need a quick shopping bag, they are sturdy enough to fill with canned goods and you can carry easily with the reinforced hand holes. They are a bitch to pull off tho.....Guarantee these will not wear out in my lifetime. Thanks Santa for keeping me fashion forward.
2 more days to make weight loss magic on my first weigh in. A bit of a muddled week. Followed the rules sometimes, reinvented rules other times.
TRIUMPHS? Got my tea down 2 sizes. I need to be switched to milk or peppermint tea by the time Italian class starts. Totally off all sugar (yay) and totally off snack foods. Went to the movies.....only had a tea!
FAILURES? Still have cream in my tea. Haven't ramped up my water intake. Haven't balance my dairy consumption.
All baby steps grasshopper.....
Saw the gym 2 times in 4 days. Did a trip on the below contraption the other 2 days:
Say hello to the "Ab-Doer Twist". We just happen to have one in the cupboard, purchased as seen on TV, marketed beside the "Snuggie" blanket with arms, and the Magic Bullet.
Tough start to the month on the ugly shoe quest. Everyones in boots...and all fairly pedestrian at that! C'mon people. I was going to start and ugly toque campaign, but feared the need to get waivers signed for posting head shots on the internet......
How about a new perspective. BEST shoe of 2011 (so far)....
Behold minion!!! My winter BOGS. I wore them in public today wearing turquoise plaid pants.... A pal once told me - your outfit doesn't have to match, it just has to "go". Oh it go baby!
BOGS have 2 key features....a Wellington-like galosh bottom and a Gortex top. Uber warm. And note the pull on hand loops up top. Sweet for the wearer with a more portly calf meant to be standing waiting for the ever late GO train! But also, if you need a quick shopping bag, they are sturdy enough to fill with canned goods and you can carry easily with the reinforced hand holes. They are a bitch to pull off tho.....Guarantee these will not wear out in my lifetime. Thanks Santa for keeping me fashion forward.
2 more days to make weight loss magic on my first weigh in. A bit of a muddled week. Followed the rules sometimes, reinvented rules other times.
TRIUMPHS? Got my tea down 2 sizes. I need to be switched to milk or peppermint tea by the time Italian class starts. Totally off all sugar (yay) and totally off snack foods. Went to the movies.....only had a tea!
FAILURES? Still have cream in my tea. Haven't ramped up my water intake. Haven't balance my dairy consumption.
All baby steps grasshopper.....
Saw the gym 2 times in 4 days. Did a trip on the below contraption the other 2 days:
Say hello to the "Ab-Doer Twist". We just happen to have one in the cupboard, purchased as seen on TV, marketed beside the "Snuggie" blanket with arms, and the Magic Bullet.
I won't lie...I'm hurting in my more than generous flanks to be sures. The gist is that you sit on it (in front of Oprah of course), pull the Wildebeast Horn handle bars up to chest height, and start rocking back and forth side to side, add a twist.etc...... There is pretty decent resistance in the back bar so all the right muscles get engaged to flex it. The orange foam rolly thingy? That is some kind of spinal safety feature....but is ultimately a fab massager......I should be seized up into a ball by bed time.
So the movie I viewed was "The Kings Speech". Now as much as I adore Colin Firth, I really gotta say, come Oscar time, Geoffry Rush should have been deemed the star of this movie and be vying for the best Actor nod - performance was so so good. I will own the DVD, but propelled not by my need to have a complete Colin Firth collection (because he's awesome**), but more to start a Geoffry Rush collection. Its a great flick, with a really solid perspective of what it must have been like to have been a Royal pre-war time. What a complicated lineage in that family. Buckle in Ms Middleton. I think I'll start to research it......we are after all standing at the threshold of my burgeoning University career. Might as well ramp up........
**with the obvious exception of "The Importance of Being Ernest......gawd
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Silver is not the end of the world Canada
My gawd - its only Hockey.....and junior hockey at that. Ugh.
So have we all heard about this insanity? :
The world would like to rid the text of the racial offenses and update to be more culturally apropos. Really? Wouldn't this be a nice time for the education and child rearing systems (sometimes one in the same) to use this as an example to mold young minds about the need for social and cultural equality and to further reinforce why the racial references within Huck Fin are taboo? Mark Twain is rolling in his grave to be sure...... There are so many other critical things to be worked on in the planet...how did rewriting Huckleberry Finn get to the top of the list. Idiots.
But on the redeeming side of things...have we heard of this guy (you have to be right on the blog to view him)?
So have we all heard about this insanity? :
The world would like to rid the text of the racial offenses and update to be more culturally apropos. Really? Wouldn't this be a nice time for the education and child rearing systems (sometimes one in the same) to use this as an example to mold young minds about the need for social and cultural equality and to further reinforce why the racial references within Huck Fin are taboo? Mark Twain is rolling in his grave to be sure...... There are so many other critical things to be worked on in the planet...how did rewriting Huckleberry Finn get to the top of the list. Idiots.
But on the redeeming side of things...have we heard of this guy (you have to be right on the blog to view him)?
Ted Williams looks like your typical homeless person. However, due to this video that has gone viral, the scruffy Columbus, Ohio-native won't be a jobless person for much longer. He has received 1000 job offers - and I can't even get 1. Maybe the cardboard sign is the answer to success....Skippy, are you with me? Wanna go down to Lakeshore and Jarvis and panhandle for a job??
Good for him. He's been off drugs for 2 and living in a house for 2 years. He should have a lid in a few days. Hope it doesn't come with a carton of meth! Rock on Ted.
PS.... I'm down to a medium tea with cream......should be weaned off by the end of the week!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Day 2 - a tougher climb then anticipated
Heres what I am missing. Cream. I love tea with cream. Today dear readers I cut myself off of Hortons XL Steeped Tea w 3 cream. I know its only 3 points - but they are wasted to be sure! i tried it with milk.....and it just ain't gonna do, so I need a whole new beverage. Mint tea likely.
I'm not totally WW organized yet. I skipped breakfast. I just couldn't coordinate a coffee cup, water bottle, gym bag, commute bag, scarf, mitts, badge, ipod, and a chapstick all in one flourish before take off. Clearly this will take effort the night before. Noted.
So far I've gobbled 10 points out of my allotted 30. I'm behind on water, dairy and veg. Shit.
Ah well - I'll score a skinny latte for the way ride home - and tack on 3 points, and knock off the dairy, and have a big ass salad for dinner. I'll drink on the tread mill tonight.
I need to decipher the recipe for this:
The # 2D at Thai Express. Soup w Chicken, about 4 cups of it. Looks good, tastes good, except it will sting you 8$ a day to eat your watery bowl of chicken chum for the sake of the ultimate shed. I can do this cheaper at home. I really think its just a matter of chicken stock with a few threads 'o chicken dipped in it, and some cellophane noodles & sprouts.
So while I did not get any nasty shoes for Christmas (for once) - I did get some nifty socks. Check these babies out!
These are "shark socks"..and you insert your foot into the shark mouth. They make a pretty freaky puppet too :).
I've also happened upon a fairly neat website this holiday.....
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
I'm not totally WW organized yet. I skipped breakfast. I just couldn't coordinate a coffee cup, water bottle, gym bag, commute bag, scarf, mitts, badge, ipod, and a chapstick all in one flourish before take off. Clearly this will take effort the night before. Noted.
So far I've gobbled 10 points out of my allotted 30. I'm behind on water, dairy and veg. Shit.
Ah well - I'll score a skinny latte for the way ride home - and tack on 3 points, and knock off the dairy, and have a big ass salad for dinner. I'll drink on the tread mill tonight.
I need to decipher the recipe for this:
The # 2D at Thai Express. Soup w Chicken, about 4 cups of it. Looks good, tastes good, except it will sting you 8$ a day to eat your watery bowl of chicken chum for the sake of the ultimate shed. I can do this cheaper at home. I really think its just a matter of chicken stock with a few threads 'o chicken dipped in it, and some cellophane noodles & sprouts.
So while I did not get any nasty shoes for Christmas (for once) - I did get some nifty socks. Check these babies out!
These are "shark socks"..and you insert your foot into the shark mouth. They make a pretty freaky puppet too :).
I've also happened upon a fairly neat website this holiday.....
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
Monday, January 3, 2011
to resolve or not to resolve
So on January 3, with all of the Christmas chaos finally wound down, I have been able to find my room again, and can happily nestle in to scribble down my first blog of the year. I have a half blog in my pending files that I started on Dec 23, but just couldn't get my act together on quality. Although...I could do a quick photo montage of some of my gifts, that came with a claim of "you'd look so good in that"...and big laughs would be comin for sure!!......good grief.
Tonight, Top Chef All-Stars has hit the Food Network. Awesome - nothing nicer than having a competition of all past contestants that placed second and third (suckers) .....you just know they all have an axe to grind. Awesome. Nothing turns my crank more than strife. I'm rooting for an Angelo vs Marcel finale. Challenge tonight is cooking a frozen scallop. Gawd I wish I knew how to cook a scallop. I could totally do this show if it didn't include seafood. This is why I'll never be a great chef I'm afraid.
Tomorrow, back to 'work' via la Go Train in search of the first ugliest shoe of the year, and then back to whatever it is I do.
So - do I make New Years resolutions or not?? I routinely do not, but in a year currently laid out with very few "for sures", I might as well ice out a few.
1. Keep up the Blog, and aim for 20 avid followers. (Brittany - you need to get better at recruiting)
2. Get a freakin job! Although I would love, and I mean love, to just open a day spa....so I'm noodling that around too. Need a few backers.
3. Lose 100 lbs. This is big - and will take much commitment on my part, but I think I can do this. I've done 80 - but have gained it back plus a few - so I have got to smarten up. I have added my progress tracker to the blog main page so you can follow along (chrispective.blogspot.com) and keep me honest
The reality is that I can no longer blame the job for my weight gain, that has just snuck up over the past 4.5 months. Its a matter of balancing some activity with a few less double doubles. Ay yi yi. I think I'll stick with the weight watcher plan.....I know how it works. Just a matter of doing it...besides all of the content is Google-able now, so I won't have to go to the sad sack meetings. And its better than ordering those damn online meals Kirstie Alley, so stuff it. I still need the ability to drink. Its my reality. WW will support my habit!
So there we have it. Its game on. First weigh in will be Monday morning. I need to have unloaded 2 lbs.
If you see me head first in a box of turtles....please pull me out dammit, and set up an intervention. STAT
Tonight, Top Chef All-Stars has hit the Food Network. Awesome - nothing nicer than having a competition of all past contestants that placed second and third (suckers) .....you just know they all have an axe to grind. Awesome. Nothing turns my crank more than strife. I'm rooting for an Angelo vs Marcel finale. Challenge tonight is cooking a frozen scallop. Gawd I wish I knew how to cook a scallop. I could totally do this show if it didn't include seafood. This is why I'll never be a great chef I'm afraid.
Tomorrow, back to 'work' via la Go Train in search of the first ugliest shoe of the year, and then back to whatever it is I do.
So - do I make New Years resolutions or not?? I routinely do not, but in a year currently laid out with very few "for sures", I might as well ice out a few.
1. Keep up the Blog, and aim for 20 avid followers. (Brittany - you need to get better at recruiting)
2. Get a freakin job! Although I would love, and I mean love, to just open a day spa....so I'm noodling that around too. Need a few backers.
3. Lose 100 lbs. This is big - and will take much commitment on my part, but I think I can do this. I've done 80 - but have gained it back plus a few - so I have got to smarten up. I have added my progress tracker to the blog main page so you can follow along (chrispective.blogspot.com) and keep me honest
The reality is that I can no longer blame the job for my weight gain, that has just snuck up over the past 4.5 months. Its a matter of balancing some activity with a few less double doubles. Ay yi yi. I think I'll stick with the weight watcher plan.....I know how it works. Just a matter of doing it...besides all of the content is Google-able now, so I won't have to go to the sad sack meetings. And its better than ordering those damn online meals Kirstie Alley, so stuff it. I still need the ability to drink. Its my reality. WW will support my habit!
So there we have it. Its game on. First weigh in will be Monday morning. I need to have unloaded 2 lbs.
If you see me head first in a box of turtles....please pull me out dammit, and set up an intervention. STAT
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