Got three button-up shirts (one green, one lavender, one rust-coloured), some Fenchurch jeans, and some dress pants at Value Village on Sunday, for like $45. What can I say, I fuckin' love Value Village ( Read more... )

I've been on another Ursula Le Guin kick. I read Changing Planes, and then Lavinia (not as good), and now it's Unlocking The Air. I also got Always Coming Home from the library ( Read more... )

Zuul is currently using my arm as a pillow. So cute! Must type in non-disruptive fashion ( Read more... )

The diabetic candy aisle is my new vice. I bought and ate some sugar-free reese's peanut butter cups. I like how the concept of perhaps making your candy less sweet is something they'd never even consider. Instead they just load it with four kinds of fake sugar (literally: maltitol, lactitol, polydextrose, sucralose). (Which has a weird aftertaste ( Read more... )

Dinner with the fam was yummy (I had ricotta gnocchi with tomatoes, mushrooms, and greens) and it was good to see everybody. I'm staying at my parents' house tonight. My parents have a huge widescreen monitor, but they've set up the resolution so everything looks really wide and fat. Good job, guys ( Read more... )

This weekend I went to the gym twice (it's so cold outside!). I finished reading Outliers, and I bought mascara and some office-y clothes. I had dinner with Adam and some of his co-workers and we briefly attended the Carded! show. Today I did laundry. I made some more Tom Yum Goong, this time with all the required ingredients like kaffir lime ( Read more... )

I did some good stuff this weekend. Adam and I ate homemade pizza on Friday and then went to a breakcore/dubstep party at the Red Gate (which had some awesome DJs [Colby Sparks and Max Ulis] and some mediocre ones ( Read more... )

Adam and I went to Guu last night. FINALLY. I've been wanting to go there for years, and usually the wait is too long or we don't have enough money. Verdict: OM NOM NOM NOM! My life needs more daikon, horseradish, and bamboo shoots (whole) in it. Japan wins the universe again. Adam ate mackerel sashimi, chicken cartilage (from the knee), and ( Read more... )

It's a time of flux. Winter holidays are officially over -- my roommate's back from Newfoundland tonight, and the snow has melted enough for me to ride my bike to work again. The velodrome is re-opening (after it collapsed due to snow and power outage). My sewing class starts on the 22nd. My friends Jackie and Aiyana just opened their new ( Read more... )