Is this terrible?

I came across the blog of a girl who I used to be pretty good friends with and for obvious reasons we aren't any more. This girl thought that she was the smartest person...like EVER! And if your dared to have an opinion that different from hers you were not only wrong but an idiot to boot!Well life is turning around quite nicely. We've both recently gone back to school and while she's complaining about getting a C+ on her midterm,...

Masked Ball Anyone??

So the other day i got an email from one of my friends who's __th birthday is coming up (she'd kill me if I actually put her age lol). So for festivities she want to get everyone together to go to the Canadian Cancer Society's 3rd Annual Great Pumpkin Charity Ball.Unfortunately for me I've already got plans for that weekend but in case anyone out there in the blogsphere is in the Ottawa area and wants to support a great cause...

The things I do when I'm bored....

From time to time I find myself with a little more time on my hands than I know what to do with. So while waiting for my class to start last night I took a Personality Test and apparently I'm an ISFP (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling Perceiving) person.If you want to read more about my personality or take your own Personality Test visit: www.MyPersonality.i...

Flash back

So I just heard the Goo Goo Dolls' Iris on the radio and it totally took me back to my grade 10 dan...

A nice romantic dinner...

....with my laptop!I suppose this is what happens when you try to juggle work and school as much as I do. I'm rethinking the 7 courses that I am enrolled in this fall....what on earth was going through my head?? I have a full time job for crying out loud!!Work is super hectic for me at the moment, so much so that I am currently taking a break from the work that I brought home with me. What really sucks the most about this is that...

Fun with Adobe Illustrator

Lookie what I can do!!My teacher says that occasionally we should take an object (anything) and draw it just to keep up with our skills using all the different tools.What do you think??(Actual package)(What I drew)I think I'm getting pretty good at this! ...

Nifty stuff

So I spent this passed weekend at school learning how to (properly) use Adobe Illustrator...and I must say that I didn't care too much that I sacrificed my weekend because I had a lot of fun.Our final assignment on Sunday was to bring in an object that we were going to recreate in Illustrator. Well, absentminded as I am sometimes I forgot...

Skydiving...Good to the last drop

So as I was preparing to book my sky diving adventure for next weekend I came across this article on SNAFU-ed - both people had over 4,000 jumps under their belts.I think that I may reconsider this exercise for the time being and instead tether myself to a giant steel walkway in Wakefield. Bungee will have to be the source for my adrenaline...

Seen this a few times now

So I've seen this a couple times and every time I do it makes me want to get up and dance t...

It's awlays gotta be something...

The stories that I hear about my relatives never cease to amaze me. Whether it's my dad's side of the family or my mom's there is always something.DAD'S SIDEMy cousins (George, Christine and Mark - who are siblings) seem to have some kind of crazy baby race going and they (or their wives) are cranking out kids like they are going out of style!With four boys under the age of 12, Christine is in the lead and might I add extremely...

Trouble is a brewin'

Got an email from my ex boyfriends wife this morning, not cool.Apparently she's tired of trying to work it out and she's done with him and says I can have him, uh what?It would seem that living four hours away and having the occasional conversation suddenly means I want his dumb ass back. As a friend he's fine but he is a terrible boyfriend and it would seem he's also a terrible husband.How do you convince a suspicious woman that...

Back to School

Ok so classes started again and I think this term will be pretty manageable. So much so that I have decided to add a 3rd certificate program into the mix. Oh yes that's right, on top of working Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm, classes already scheduled for Monday and Tuesday nights, hitting the gym and maintaining a social life and going out with my lovely girls...I'm adding three more courses!Because I am glutton for punishment I'm...

This isn't right

Every morning this week when I've woken up it's felt like Friday. This is killing me because it's making the week feel extraordinarily long.In fact it's only 1:13pm right now and I'm about ready to take a nap! My life would be so much easier if I drank coffee.The downside is that it's only going to get worse as the fall wears on. It'll start getting darker even sooner, the sun will come up even later and the temperature will becoming...

Odd news

Well there's a new kind of silly American southern, the kind that tries to shoot a dragonfly with a rifle. Read on...Man misses dragonfly, shoots friendTuesday, August 25, 2009A man who says he was using his rifle to shoot at dragonflies accidently shot his friend in the head. Police said when they arrived the friend was bleeding heavily....

Best Twitter Posts

Ok so this has to be the best Twitterer...Twit...Twitter feed...whatever that I've ever read!Old people say some funny stuff, check it out: shitmydadsays Thanks Herrington for the link...nobody tells it like an ornery 73 year-old m...

The weeks ahead

I can't believe that it is almost that time again....my classes start next Monday. The next three weeks are going to be tiring.This week I have to finish up editing the video podcasts and get them posted to the website. I have to begin/finish writing up the minutes from the Annual General Meeting. Trying to discern decisions from a meeting where all the delegates are yelling over one another for two and a half hours just SCREAMS...

Friday bliss...

It has definitely been "one of those weeks" so when I came across this picture on my computer I decided that I just had to share it.I'm not sure why but I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I see it. The word that comes to mind in fact is "hope" but I can't pin-point why. Something to do with long brilliant summer days, sweet butterflies...

Newest News Find

I've just discovered a new site for news/research that I never knew I wanted to know about. The New Scientist (Online News) is filled to the brim with new research to the questions that I never realized I needed the answer to. Such as:How can my cellphone tell me who my friends are? → AnswerWhat does sex during an MRI look like? → Answer (video)Where does white skin come from? → Answer Why do geeks make for more attractive mates?...

Getting the hang of it

This weekend I tested my hand at cooking and it.... well.... hurt. I literally ended up searing my hand on Friday night, not fun. Needless to say I won't be making stir fry again any time soon.Sunday I made another attempt and I did not let the hyper-sensitivity in my hand dissuade me from my task. (Did you know that when you burn yourself that even your mere proximity to a heat source can commence the agonizing throbbing again?)Soldiering...

Anniversary = Aneurysm?

Today is my three-year anniversary at my current job and sometimes I really wonder about how I ended up doing the work that I do.Today I have spent almost the entire day editing video podcasts ... and using QuickTime of all things! Editing the videos from the conference would not take so long if:I didn't have to use QuickTime....there's got to be a better program.I didn't have to manually enter all the chapter timestamps one...

A comeback for Pee-Wee Herman?!

Paul Reubens will be taking his show to the stage in Los Angeles! Apparently iconic '80s kid show character Pee-Wee Herman thinks that it's time he ventured into the world of entertainment once again (read as: has-been actor/social deviant running out of money and career options).This is definitely something that I would be interested in seeing firsthand, having grown up watching Pee-Wee Herman as part of my Saturday morning but...

Wanna play?

Ever wondered if you had enough grey matter to tell the difference between an adult film star and a tasty spud, well now you can test yourself with the game Pornstar or Potato?www.pornstarorpotato.comSometimes I wonder about how my friends find these things and moreover why they send them to me.Have f...

Colour Quiz Personality Profile....?

Not exactly scientific but interesting nonetheless.Miss JL took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!""Looking to make a good impression and be recogniz..."Click here to read the rest of the results.Thinking of colours, time to change template. I wish that there were more to choose from....I wonder how I do about using one I find elsewhere...

When I fail to blog...

It's nice to know that in the days/months/years that I have failed to keep up with my blogging it's nice to know that I flip to friends' blogs and find those missing days.Reminiscing about days gone by is a nice distraction.And reading a friend's blog is helpful when filling in the missing memory. There was one or two from 2006/2007 that I didn't remember seeing as I. and myself may have gotten a little carried away at the Irish...

I'm not ready for it to be over...

So after two glorious weeks off it's back to work. And upon my return to the office yesterday it took me a little over 2.5 hours to get through the July emails and onto August. (I'd feel pretty popular if they hadn't been work related requests/questions.)I had a fairly low-key vacation but that's just how I like it. No set plans, trying to...

Feuding femmes

I love reading some of the nonsense that come out of the mouths of Hollywood Celebrities.This news of a feud between Seth Rogen and the guys from Entourage for example. Honestly, does it really matter what one overpaid actor thinks of another actor? How about instead of complaining and mocking one another they simply continue making their millions and let the public make fun of them instead?Don't get me wrong I like Seth Rogen...

Tell me a secret

Do you have something that you want to get off your chest? C'mon tell me a secret, I won't share it with the world I will simply file it away for the days when I need a good laugh. Or when I feel I need someone to help me scatter evidence and/or bury the bodies (yep that was intentionally plural).So don't delay! Email me today to share your deepest and darkest, please note the secrets shared become the sole property of Life of...

Not again...

Mystery bruises are going to be the death of me, well maybe not the death of me but they are annoying.Getting out the the shower this morning I found 8 bruises that I have no idea where they came from. In fact there's one on my thigh that is the size of a cellphone and it's purple!! You'd think I'd remember when something like that happened.This is ridiculo...

To ink or not to ink

I'm considering a fourth tattoo but the question becomes where do I put it?As with my other three tattoos, I told my mom that I wouldn't get anymore but now I'm getting antsy. There's a certain adrenaline kick that only comes from getting a tattoo and when people say that tattoos are addictive they aren't kidding.With each new tat I gave myself at least a year in between so that I really thought it through and didn't end up with...

Trying to survive the week

So in an attempt to kill some time I decided to hit "Next blog" link at the top of the page. While I clicked through numerous blogs I was amazed at the number of blogs coming up that weren't in English. We're talking Spanish, German, Arabic, Polish and what I'm going to assume was Chinese(?).Why is it when I want to kill time I can't find anything to read? Oh well, I moved on to TheOnion.comI have a feeling that this week is going...

IDOIT = YOURS TRULY

I've come to the conclusion that it would be nice if there was at least one person in my life that I could confide absolutely everything to and that they would be so kind as to tell me I'm an idiot.There are people in my life who believe that they know everything about me and while they may know a great deal of information (some incriminating stuff as well, which is probably why I keep them around) they don't know me wholly. Not...

Visits from friends back home

Hello world.With a friend visiting from back home I thought that it might be nice to do something interesting and semi-new. So we headed out to La Fleche Aerial and Adventure Park and went zip lining. Nothing quite like strapping yourself into a harness and flying through the trees of Gatineau, Quebec, ahhh good times!That was then preceded by dinner and beers...a few more beers and blogging at 4 something am, fun. I am a little...

Lie detector?

This is without contest as good a reason as any to get a man drunk. . . . the truth (& champagne) will set you free. (^_^) I crack me up."Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."- Graham Greene, English Wri...

I admit it: I'm a terrible blogger!

AacK!Another 7 months have flown by...seriously where have they gone?? Living in Ottawa it doesn't feel like January was seven months ago maybe two, three at most. But that probably has more to do with the fact that winter accounts for about 7 or 8 months out of the year. Haha I jest I jest, it's only about 6.5 months!♪ ♫ I am slowly going crazy ♪ ♫ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, SWITCH ♪♫ slowly going, am I crazy? 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, SWITCH.....♪...

A lot happens when you stop watching the calendar

So a lot has happened this past year.Had another birthday (been around for 26 years now), visited the dentist...the usual. And then there's the new and exciting stuff.In May my best friend had her second little boy and he's absolutely adorable! Someone else for me to spoil. (^_^)♥Over the Canada day long weekend I was in Montreal for a work conference that turned out to be more interesting than expected. In August, I took my...