I seem to have survived my thirties. Technically it won't be my birthday until 08.10 Eastern but it's after midnight where I am so I'm counting it. :P I took tomorrow off. I intend to sleep in, to help make up for today having been such a giant clusterfuck. I am more bothered than I expected to be by turning 40. Not because of the particular age so ( Read more... )

Odd little epiphany today, of the relatively useless variety. ( Personal, rather melancholy ramble under here. )

It's berry season here, w00t, and I had strawberries last week and raspberries today. (Out of season berries here are the same as in Canada: product of California, heh.) Both were delicious! What kills me, though, is the packaging - on the label is the type of raspberry (Glen Ample), the area where they were grown (Berkshire) and "Grown by S. ( Read more... )

So I followed a link off an Est entry the other day and forgot to close the tab, as I am wont to do. As one might guess, it was to a site geared towards adults. Today, I discovered that that has apparently red-flagged somebody at T-Mobile, because now I can't open that site, or get on YouTube - I get instead a nice polite error message saying that ( Read more... )

In case you were looking to feel old, two facts.

One: Today is Madonna Louise Ciccone's 50th birthday. Yes.

Two: As of January 1, 2009 - just over four months from now - every person born in the 1980s will be legally fuckableadult ( Read more... )

The Brits are probably in bed by now, safely into the new year, and the rest of the North Americans have one to four hours left before midnight (er, or 5 minutes to 3 hours by the time I posted!), but I just watched the rather spectacular fireworks celebration from downtown because the year has turned here. Crazy freezing people, LOL. And of ( Read more... )

Okay, so we went to said karaoke bar. Or rather, some bar on karaoke night, lol. I've been in that area a bazillion times and never noticed there was a bar in the back corner. Now I know why! I did get up with the big group of us so we could sing Happy Birthday, and that's my first and last time on a K stage. Someone else was also having a ( Read more... )

That would be me, lol. Slept in late; ate breakfast; puttered around a little and went back to sleep for a few more hours. Clearly I'm not making it to the indie-turned-cover-band thing as it starts in 20 minutes and I'm eating dinner in my pyjamas! It's so early b/c it's at the all-ages club. I haven't been able to bring myself to go there yet ( Read more... )

We went out briefly after work for the wing night/karaoke thing; it's a semi-regular Wed. outing, lol. Anyway, someone was belting out whatever and Cass asked me to pass her the little sign holder that had the October special events listing on it. So I did, and she and Mike are looking at it, and she says, "Thirty-something Saturdays? What's ( Read more... )

Yeah, I did forget something, lol. Possibly on purpose? ;-) Nah, I'm not particularly embarrassed to admit that I joined the official online Green Day fan club, aka the Idiot Club, lol. *shrug* It was twenty bucks and there are fun behind-the-scenes videos, which I am a sucker for. LOL one of the funniest things is seeing the freaking store's ( Read more... )