Woke up feeling depressed. But a few texts and phone calls to help people out of binds, plus homemade cherry mochi, and I'm feeling a big better.

If I really wanted to, I could order someone to go to my current favourite bubble tea place and bring my order to me.

Normally, when I need to photocopy something, I drive out to Staples, a chain office supply store. However, it has the pesky habit of not being open all the time, so when I drove out there on a Saturday night, I was left in a loop ( Read more... )

I dislike the phrase, "I wish ( Read more... )

Life without a credit card really controls my impulse shopping. But it also puts a real damper on maintaining my business, since I have licence renewals and examinations coming up.

So classmates keep asking to borrow two of my students' pencils (ones I'd given them for Christmas), but never get them back. I know there are other issues, like being too nice and not having a backbone, but I saw a moment here ( Read more... )

We aren't big on romance here. It's more of the little actions, like finding something cleaned up, or laundry done.

Still, it was nice to have a quiet dinner together - meaty pasta and soup with wine. Our schedules rarely allow us to eat meals together, and it's a big deal to me.

I have a tendency to eat whatever looks and tastes good. This includes anything that might be expired.

Peter pulled some ham out of the fridge. He's all stuffed up, so he can't tell if the ham is still good.

All bets are off if we live past tomorrow!

I do not like camping ( Read more... )

So after months of fruitless searching, I walk into my new favourite bookstore (used books, very cheap) and found a Chinese dictionary that had radical look up! I lost my original dictionary (from Taiwan) a long time ago, and it's suspected that my dad has it. Most dictionaries pinyin - you have to know the pronunciation of the character first, and ( Read more... )