Apologies to the six-seven people who're probably wondering if I've dropped off the face of the earth. Short answer: No. Longer answer: I've been working on the snark project described below, and as often happens, it touched off so many unforeseen wellsprings of aggravation that editing the rant is taking more time than actually writing it ( Read more... )

I am SO MAD ( Read more... )

Seriously. I mean, the only rational response to that is "OK then! Apparently the rest of the world was even more traumatised by the Bush administration than we realised!". And many, many more articulate people have already raced to their computers to make that point and related ones today.

I figure a quick repost of an interesting discussion I'm ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting week for rampant consumerism, here @ Shoe Central:

--I got a new cell phone! *cuddles phone*. It's a Blackberry Pearl flip (I have this thing about exposed keyboards; given the chaos that is my purse, there's a real chance of accidentally dialling Uzbekistan in there). The back part is pink, since that was the only colour ( Read more... )

Today the diligent social scientists here @ Shoe Central present Helpful True-Life Survival Tips for the Absent-Minded, first in a (now that I think about it) hopefully occasional series: 

1. When using the washroom for the main purpose, do not - repeat, NOT - stick your iPod in your lowered jeans pocket and hope for the best. Trust us. We will skip ( Read more... )

OK, I'm officially on an upswing this week. Found a pair of slinky jeans that fit perfectly and everything. Down two sizes from last year's purchase, too. Turning thirty-eight? Hah! I laugh at turning thirty-eight!

Well, alright, I don't really. But the jeans definitely helped. So did the cute sneakers - do they still call them sneakers? I just ( Read more... )

But I'm afraid I'm becoming something of a shopaholic in the process. Which worries me not least because it forces me to self-identify with cutesy chick flicks.

At any rate, I decided to head over to the iTunes Store the other night for some serious musical medication. For good reasons; Bruce Springsteen's latest had reminded me that my library was ( Read more... )

Because...um, well, basically because I'm an evil bitch who doesn't care about all the sweat and blood Shoemom expends to keep us in the financial black. But I'm sure she'll get over it eventually.

I did have a really good sob story this time, if I do say so myself. Just completed five years of service to the Hudson's Bay Company, and have the ( Read more... )

....Specifically, I am the proud recipient of a 'You Made a Difference' plaque for having completed the most 'tasks' - inventory records created/edited, basically - in the month of October. (Never mind that I pretty much only got it because the actual fastest guy was off for the last two weeks on paternity leave. I was running him really close ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here wearing my cashmere sweater.

It's kind of like a Bucket List thing, this sweater purchase. While I have no interest whatsoever in actually seeing the movie - as Roger Ebert put it, wouldn't it be nice if just for once, a movie opened with a white character extolling the virtues of Morgan Freeman? - I have always been kind of ( Read more... )