It's been a while again. I used to be better at this. PS to last time, the french toast was AMAZING. I tried it last Sunday by myself at my place and I could not come even close to how good Adam's toast was. I just need to work on my mastery of the culinary arts. Maybe it made a difference that I had to use water in my egg mix instead of milk. And not because I'm stinking poor, but my milk had just expired. And I don't mess with expiry dates.
It's been a pretty stressful two weeks. My attitude at work started to change as the days went on and my contract offer was not arriving. Eventually, early last week, I gave up. I took my defiant and rebellious "Julie's Contract Ends" off the shared wall calendar and I started to clean out my desk. I'm not sure anything that happened or will have happened after that point will make me want to stay. I have 4 days to decide.
I started writing quotes again. The mood struck me to start again so I thought why not. I'm still writing them down to keep a small log of what has gone up.
I had a pretty great weekend this weekend past. Friday night was drinks night with some friends from work. We hit up Sneaky Dees and followed that with Andy Pool Hall and Free Times Cafe! I've added Andy Pool Hall as my first 2011 Toronto Adventure. I really enjoyed being able to look back on my 2010 list to see what new things I had been up to. Then on Saturday a dinner in Oakville turned into an impromptu overnight at a cottage in Midland. Jackie's boyfriend's friend was having a birthday gathering and Jak invited me up with her. Back to back nights of not being D.D. is a pretty special treat for me. We got almost lost in Moonstone in search for a gas station. PS - Moonstone doesn't have a gas station. Sunday night I almost cracked a beer out of habit.
I must exit to complete a quick grocery shopping. I shall try to update more frequently. And for myself, I'm going to try to stop being so depressed and depressing, and then maybe I'll have more to write about.
XO
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Why Hello There
Long time no type. Did you miss me?
It's been a hectic new year. But mostly I've just been lazy and rather lackadaisical about keeping up here. I've done a few things, but also spent a handful of time at home alone. With Adam being away for almost 3 weeks late night trips to the lake were cut down significantly. And by significantly I mean completely.
I've finished my quote-bombing at work. It was really fun for a time, almost two months, but I think it ran its natural course and it's done. I even got some cool replies from people. I could tell who it was so I can only wonder if they knew it was me. I'd like to take this chance to document all of the quotes I chose:
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napolean Bonaparte
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely impossible lacks." - Douglas Adams
"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth." - Paul Krugman
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov
"If one does not understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool." - Carl Jung
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced course of action you should take - choose the bolder." - Ezra Pound (have a drink and think again)
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." - Nietzsche (hundred 42 - DA)
"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." - CS Lewis (But nothing everything ends somewhere.)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
"There is an eloquence in true enthusiam." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Few people can see genius in someone that has offended them." - Robertson Davies
"Being asked what kind of animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you already are one." - Douglas Coupland (but maybe not the animal you'd like to be)
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world." - Leonard Cohen (otherwise known as the lazy people)
And that's that. It was fun while it lasted, but no more stealthy runs across the office in efforts to remain anonymous. I wanted to save up a good one for my contract ending but I just don't have it in me anymore. That's another thing, I might be done with this office come February. I'm pratically begging them to let me know either way. Today the permanent people got a bonus which just set me off. It was 4pm and I just wanted to pack up and leave. Like my efforts are not appreciated as much as the rest of my coworkers. Obviously some of them work on projects that are more advanced than I could handle, but I'm on the ground doing a lot of work with a lot of different custom applications. And when things go wrong I'm right in there troubleshooting with the higher ups, solutioning the seemingly impossible.
My landlord has been in and out of my apartment this week fixing my shower. A few days ago he did some soldering and left two windows open to air it out. My place was FREEZING. With the space heater running it hovered at 14C for about two hours before I finally gave up and turned the oven on and left it open. It's the poor man's furnace, except I'm sure it's not cheap. He did make some nice advances on the shower, except he said it was "fixed" and when I run the water to the showerhead the faucet leaks all the cold water and all I'm left with is scalding hot water. I quickly wet my hair trying to avoid getting burned, but it was too painful so I had to rinse the shampoo out under the faucet. That doesn't work well with long hair. Ugh.
Tomorrow morning Adam's coming over and I'm going to make french toast, with cut up fruit. A nice cheap alternative to Futures all-day-breakfast, except there's no way it could be as tasty, dang.
That's all she wrote.
It's been a hectic new year. But mostly I've just been lazy and rather lackadaisical about keeping up here. I've done a few things, but also spent a handful of time at home alone. With Adam being away for almost 3 weeks late night trips to the lake were cut down significantly. And by significantly I mean completely.
I've finished my quote-bombing at work. It was really fun for a time, almost two months, but I think it ran its natural course and it's done. I even got some cool replies from people. I could tell who it was so I can only wonder if they knew it was me. I'd like to take this chance to document all of the quotes I chose:
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napolean Bonaparte
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely impossible lacks." - Douglas Adams
"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth." - Paul Krugman
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov
"If one does not understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool." - Carl Jung
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced course of action you should take - choose the bolder." - Ezra Pound (have a drink and think again)
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." - Nietzsche (
"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." - CS Lewis (But nothing everything ends somewhere.)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
"There is an eloquence in true enthusiam." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Few people can see genius in someone that has offended them." - Robertson Davies
"Being asked what kind of animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you already are one." - Douglas Coupland (but maybe not the animal you'd like to be)
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world." - Leonard Cohen (otherwise known as the lazy people)
And that's that. It was fun while it lasted, but no more stealthy runs across the office in efforts to remain anonymous. I wanted to save up a good one for my contract ending but I just don't have it in me anymore. That's another thing, I might be done with this office come February. I'm pratically begging them to let me know either way. Today the permanent people got a bonus which just set me off. It was 4pm and I just wanted to pack up and leave. Like my efforts are not appreciated as much as the rest of my coworkers. Obviously some of them work on projects that are more advanced than I could handle, but I'm on the ground doing a lot of work with a lot of different custom applications. And when things go wrong I'm right in there troubleshooting with the higher ups, solutioning the seemingly impossible.
My landlord has been in and out of my apartment this week fixing my shower. A few days ago he did some soldering and left two windows open to air it out. My place was FREEZING. With the space heater running it hovered at 14C for about two hours before I finally gave up and turned the oven on and left it open. It's the poor man's furnace, except I'm sure it's not cheap. He did make some nice advances on the shower, except he said it was "fixed" and when I run the water to the showerhead the faucet leaks all the cold water and all I'm left with is scalding hot water. I quickly wet my hair trying to avoid getting burned, but it was too painful so I had to rinse the shampoo out under the faucet. That doesn't work well with long hair. Ugh.
Tomorrow morning Adam's coming over and I'm going to make french toast, with cut up fruit. A nice cheap alternative to Futures all-day-breakfast, except there's no way it could be as tasty, dang.
That's all she wrote.
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