For some bizarre reason I dreamed most of the night about a hullabaloo raising in my childhood town because news reports were saying how authorities were planning to arrest Paris Hilton for defrauding the public by having a fake guru.
I don’t remember how it all shook down. It was a very weird dream. And now [...]

Do you realize there’s an entire generation that has grown up without knowing what life before multitasking was like? I think this photo I found says it all.
Looking around my “someone’s been painting around here… and took last weekend off” apartment, I felt a little overwhelmed. “Well,” I thought. “The dishes are a great place [...]

Somehow, magically, my guestimative calorie-counting (while completely ignoring the fat numbers) consumption of a beer-and-pizza diet for the last three weeks resulted in weight loss, and I am a very, very grateful thoroughly Canadian girl who really does love the occasional beer-fueled manual labour sessions. Fuel crisis? Pfft, we’ve got beer!
(Beers I drank this work [...]

A cycling jacket I have owned for eight years that has never, ever been loose, and has mostly been too small to wear, is now, officially, loose… and I have a fleece sweater on under it. The thing is comfortable, roomy. I had no idea I’d come this far so soon, and spring’s just beginning.
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I don’t think my American readers get a long weekend, and I don’t know about other countries, but it’s a four-day weekend for some of us Canucks (three days for others, but that’s complicated to explain!).
…So happy Easter weekend, everyone!
Here in Vancouver, we’ve been getting faked out by Mother Nature. It was warmer three weeks [...]

Aw, minions. Someone call the office and tell ‘em I’m never coming in again.
Okay, that’s just the kneejerk Monday reaction. Why? Because I can’t even begin to believe how much I’ve gotten done this weekend. I’m clearly indestructible. Obviously those Borg implants have made me into a tower of force.
I mean, I even assembled tricky [...]

I had a realization recently. I have never, ever lost weight in the winter. Until this year, of course.
I weighed myself yesterday morning. I’m down 10 pounds since the middle of February, but I’ve gained a lot of muscle too, so I’m now told I look “markedly fitter” since my friend WB last saw me [...]

My living room: Chaos personnified. Everything in my bedroom is being changed, so every drawer has been emptied upon my floor. Laundry is piled in the corner. Painting dropcloths are everywhere. Empty bottles of Anchor Steam beer mark the landscape like roadsigns for a weary worker. Walking across the living room is impossible, but instead [...]

I’m having one of those “Well, maybe I could be a lesbian” moments.
It’s my Idol guilty pleasure night. I usually watch it when I’m cleaning, but tonight I’m chilling. And, wow. I’m all a-twitter. Amanda Overmeyer was just so fucking hot when she knocked the hell out of Joan Jett’s rocker-chick anthem, “I Hate Myself [...]

I originally posted this with a long whining about my possibly getting sick: Insert whine here. Know I have whined well and long. But I’ll keep it to me, and this is for you:
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I was amused this morning to catch a news clip revealing that American Idol’s curmudgeonly judge Simon Cowell (”if it’s not black, [...]

Oh, god, do I hurt. I spent my weekend painting my bathroom, and I’m dreading leaving for work this morning since I’ve been working all weekend.
I made a point of incorporating exaggerated poses in my painting all weekend — squeezing my abs when I reach, controlled squatting instead of sitting on the floor for lower [...]