Wii elbow

Just when I thought that I had heard it all, today I had a friend exclaim "I am sooo tired today...I was playing Wii for like, 2 hours yesterday...exhausting stuff". Dear...lord... You know that society is in some serious trouble when people cannot handle any physical exercise and they suffer from Wii fatigue. Pathetic.

Road work vigilante

I love our condo an absolute ton but ever since the city did some road work on Kingsway right outside of our building, I have been having homicidal thoughts due to the crater that they have created in the street. Most of the time cars avoid the lane with said crater but big trucks, no make that, HUGE trucks seem to prefer that outer lane for some reason. When they hit that crater, it sounds as if the truck is about to break apart and it leaves me feeling all rattled and angry. Lately I have been putting some serious thought into my plight. I know damn well that the city won't doing anything about the crater seeing as the Olympics/VANOC have spent all of our tax dollars; so my plan is to steal some traffic cones, run out into traffic late at night and set them up and pour some dirt or something into the crater and pack it in nice and hard. I may have to do this quite often but hey, I don't think that I can get arrested for it, it won't wreck the road and it may mean that I get some decent sleep past 5am when the Kingsway 500 starts up every weekday morning.

Office psycho

Read a very interesting piece about office psychopaths today so I thought that I’d share it seeing as I know so many of us work in an office setting. I literally got chills reading this article, it’s as if the author wrote it with someone I know in mind, freaky stuff. It's amazing how just one psycho in the office setting can really affect the entire place, powerful stuff and I have rarely seen the issue tackled properly. Then again, psychopaths apparently make up about 10% of the entire population.

I hate monkeys

I love the lunchtime conversations that I have with my work crew. Today I blurted out “I really hate moneys. Like, reeeeally hate them." Peter quickly piped up that he too hates monkeys because ‘they can rip off your balls and throw shit at you’. Totally. Perhaps it is because they are very human-like that they give me the creeps or perhaps it is because so many people think that they are cute when in fact, they can be quite vicious, I dunno, but I don’t like them one bit.

Hail to the Chimp

I have been waiting 8 long years for this day: Bush's last day in office, *hooray* (I have also been waiting quite some time to use this beauty of a pic!) It is truly the end of an era. An era of stupidity, scariness, fake weapons of mass destruction, a trigger happy Vice President, an entire generation of children being taught to pronounce 'nuclear' incorrectly... Hopefully the door hits you nice and hard in the ass on your way out. Oh, and can you please take Sarah Palin with you under whatever rock you scurry back under? Ta much Shrub, it's been a slice.

West End Tinder

As I was wandering through the West End today I had to ask myself: what were those people thinking back when they made all of the fire escapes on those older houses? Seriously, they are all made out of wood. Seems pretty dang stupid, doesn't it? Is there something that I'm missing here?

YAY!

Sometimes it's the little things in life that can bring us happiness. Take for instance when the Broadway B-line driver pulls up to the intersection at Granville and Broadway during a long red light and lets us off on the east side of Broadway so that we can all make our connection onto the Granville St. B-line much easier; you truly rock Mr. bus driver!

The Power of Suggestion

Grrrreat, thanks to reading my pal SiSi's blog, I now have the song "Funky Cold Medina" in my head. Can't....get....it.....out! Thanks buddy.

The Owl Scale

For those who know me at all, you know that when I’m hungry I get reeeeally owly in a hurry. There have been some memorable times/showdowns at Ikea and elsewhere all brought on by low blood sugar and the need for some food, quick! The man and I were discussing the owl scale the other night, basically if I am a bit hungry, I am a little owly/cranky but if I am starving then I am a raging bitch/full fledged owl and get snippity and sarcastic (yes, more so than normal!) I take comfort in knowing that there are others out there like me; Rena, my work colleague is similar when it comes to hunger and there have been a few times when we have had to snap at our lunch crew in order to get moving towards the food. Good times.

Slippity Slip

I know that it’s been snowing like a mofo for a while now but come on people, shovel your damn sidewalks already, I am tired of almost falling down and breaking something because you are a lazy mofo and can’t clear a 2’ by 10’ piece of your sidewalk. If you don’t do it while it’s still snow, then it’ll turn into ice and then the real fun begins for all of the innocent pedestrians. And for the record; people on the east side of 11th appear to be more diligent than the west side of 11th Avenue…one would think what with all of your fancy houses and cars over there on the west side that you could afford a friggin’ snow shovel from Crappy Tire.