I find myself perplexed as to what to do these days, as quite the heat wave has swept across southern Ontario.  It's been pretty nuts for the past few days.  Yesterday the temperature hit 30, and when you factored in the humidity, 39.   I was just listening to the radio and at the moment it's 29, with a humidex in "the upper 30s"... mercifully, I ( Read more... )

I feel I've neglected dear LJ in the wake of my Facebook addiction.

I'm living in Peterborough with Kris and working at this group home of adults who have intellectual disabilities and are also deaf/hard of hearing/non-verbal.  My sign language is coming along.  At this point I'm not really able to converse with fully-functioning deaf people but ( Read more... )

Should I move to Peterborough this fall?

Details to those interested in giving advice. 

Since I moved in (October), my roommate and I have gotten along quite well.  Sure, there's been the odd "oops, I forgot to give you that message" or my randomly waking up during the night to too much noise to resume sleeping, but he's generally a considerate guy.

This past week, however, has been a totally different story.  Last Saturday night he ( Read more... )

OK guys.  I had all of today off and nothing in particular that I needed to do and no one in particular to hang out with.  My roommate and his video game-addicted buddies have quasi-taken over our apartment until their godforsaken game has to be returned and I have been going a little nuts.  Therefore I proclaimed today Secondhand Shopping/ ( Read more... )

Can anyone demystify for me why Kris has e-mailed me twice, on two different days, and neither e-mail has ended up in my account?  These notes were sent from the same address he always e-mails me from and to the same one I always get his e-mails in.  WTF?!

ALSO:  I got new boots today.  I haven't gotten new boots since about grade 8.  These are ( Read more... )

So I finally broke down and signed up for Facebook.  And I feel like a loser for only having 7 friends.  You do the math.

INSTRUCTIONS: To answer, copy and paste into a COMMENT box for this entry. Answer all questions that you can, and I will respond to your comment with your score once I grade you. Enjoy ( Read more... )

1. HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY?
            All She Wrote, Default

~I thought I was doing alright today actually, but now I’m considering going back to bed.

2. WILL YOU GET FAR IN LIFE?

Carol of the Bells, from “Home Alone”

~Beats me, but “merry merry merry merry Christmas” to all!  It does mention “songs of good cheer”…

3. HOW DO YOUR FRIENDS ( Read more... )

I totally stole this quiz from Andrea:

You paid attention during 74% of high school!

68-84%  Pretty good, you know that there are libraries and newspapers, and you remember what you've read. You were a child that wasn't left behind!

http://www.gotoquiz.com/do_you_deserve_your_high_school_diploma" style="color: blue;">Do you deserve your high school ( Read more... )