Remember that time when I was in bed at 8PM, fully prepared to sleep for eight glorious hours before getting up at 4:15AM to go to work?

...yeah. What a delightful dream! This worked out about as well as communism. Great in theory! Not so great in practice.

Why in the world does low-fat sour cream even exist? Like, what is the point of sour cream if you take all the fatty good taste out of it? And, most importantly: why was there only low-fat (or, even worse, FAT FREE) sour cream to be had in the grocery store today? WHYYYYYY. It is like the universe wants to punish me and make me unhappy ( Read more... )

I had this whole defensive rant about Glee that I was about to post, but I went back and rewatched part of last night's episode, and understood better what they were trying to accomplish. But I do have this to say: ( Last night, on Glee... )

Today on Cranky Single Lady Theatre: wedding showers ( Read more... )

Today was the kind of draining that has left me sitting here, chin propped on the edge of my bowl so I won't have to lift my arm an extra 10 inches to cram KD into my mouth. I'm seriously considering just sitting down in the shower and hoping that today is the day I learn to control The Force long enough for it to shampoo my hair for me. Food ( Read more... )

I swear that people get more entitled, rude, and stupid on long weekends. Here is what inevitably happens every single holiday at The Mermaid: The phone rings four hundred billion times with people asking if we're open. Sometimes they're nice about it. Sometimes they hang up right after you've told them, yes, we're open until 10 tonight. Sometimes ( Read more... )

I'm going to look at a new apartment with Lily this afternoon; fingers crossed! I figure, unless it's a dive or prohibitively expensive, we're going to move in. This thought excites me! Because I am super-sick of the place I live right now ( Read more... )

Oh shit, next time I decide to take a job in Toronto, make sure I factor in transportation costs. I am so boned, you guys, it's actually kind of incredible. A quarter of my paycheque has been given, each week, to the lovely people at GO Transit and TTC! I did not consider that when I signed on! The bare-minimum salary I quoted did not include ( Read more... )

Somewhere between turning off my alarm and getting out of bed I lost a pair of glasses. They were sitting on top of my clock, and when I turned it off they slid sideways and down and disappeared. I have searched the entire floor, my CD rack, dumped my garbage and rifled through it (twice!) gone through the stack of books near my nighttable, looked ( Read more... )

Guys, it is clean sheet night, and I broke a three-month stint of Not Shaving my Legs because nothing in this world is better than freshly shaved legs on clean sheet night ( Read more... )