My big laptop has been driving me crazy for 2-3 years because

1. Right-clicking anywhere on the desktop or Explorer would always have Acrobat (9.0, if you're curious -- no it's not a cracked version) try to install, and that would take forever and end up not fixing anything, and
2. Adobe Illustrator had a small glitch whereby it'd tell me it had a ( Read more... )

That woman who was supposed to come dog/house-sit for me yesterday had the nerve to call me last night and say "I would actually prefer if you could call me the night before if you're going to cancel on me".

Oh, like I had any clue the freaking snowstorm would attack like it did. And it's not my effing problem if you don't keep your cellphone open ( Read more... )

One of my sister's dogs, Whisky, was put down today because of behavioural issues. It's not that he was that aggressive per se (in fact he's mostly always been sweet with me but he had his aggressive moments), but he was unpredictable and thus dangerous... This Friday was apparently the last straw as he growled like a mofo at my brother-in-law who ( Read more... )

I've been a shit updater on lj, I know, but whaddayaknow, school is my life right now. Well, that and watching some tv I can't watch on my telly (basically I watch tv online nowadays) just to stay sane ( Read more... )

I had a great, intelligent  conversation with a childhood friend (whom I hadn't seen in yonks but who incidentally lives like three minutes away from me) about the Twilight series on the bus/metro drive over to school. See, I usually avoid conversations like that because it almost always ends with an argument about how great a piece of fiction the ( Read more... )

(this part was written in the early afternoon ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember my mentioning that I was going to be away this weekend. Specifically, to a little dinky town called Petawawa ( halloween and pup-to-be content herein )

Had another argument with my mother about something pretty damn innocuous I said to her as we were leaving town to get to the dentist's this morning. It lasted all ride long - one hour. Woo. I'm sure she'll talk about it at dinner with dad tonight but I officially don't care. I'm sorry she was raised to think arguing with someone was paying ( Read more... )

Okay um what. CTV didn't upload the latest Gossip Girl episode and neither did my usual video source so no insane yappin' from me :( I am an honourary American this time boo *whacks ctv* If you want to own A Channel and pretend like it's the logical extension of your regular channel to offer more primetime and stuff to English Canada then you'd ( Read more... )