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Another random Monday musing....

I love watching "Inside the Actor's Studio" as James Lipton tends to ask very riveting questions. Yesterday's episode, (a rerun) featured Robin Williams who I swear, is one of the funniest human beings alive and a very underated dramatic actor.

At the end of the show, James always asks the same ten questions and one of them was "What is your favourite sound?"

Robin had answered with a sound that sounded like a repressed fart, saying how it was the common denominator among men. How the pope could be giving a prayer and still have a "poot!" come out from his ass. I found that very funny.

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Posted in Glued To The Tube, Me-ness

The Winter Olympics Games are nearly over. I have to say that there are a lot of sports in the Winter Olmpics that don't really make a lot of sense to me. Take the luge and skeleton for instance. Why anyone would throw themselves onto some sled and go down some windy ice slide at a tremendous speed, with head face down (skeleton) or on your back (luge) is beyond my comprehension.

The sport that really gets to me though is curling. I mean, really, it's the weirdest sport! You throw some big stone with a handle down the ice and tell two people who have brooms to sweep "faster"? I just don't get it. Do you?

And somehow, we Canadians are quite good at it since we always seem to medal in this event. I haven't quite decided whether this is something to be proud of.

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Posted in Weirdness

I hate you, Mr. Multi-Function Fax/Scanner/Copier.

These are the reasons why -

You are only a couple of months old. You should not already be broken. I don't care that you're still under warranty and can be fixed. I don't care that I bloody bought you on sale. I resent that I have to drag your sorry ass to the people who are designated to help you. You are a machine, destined to make my life easier, not worse. I bought you and now I rely on you to work. I am seriously contemplating throwing you out the window.

There really isn't anything worse than technology rage.....

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Posted in What's Buggin' Me

I haven't had a chance to blog about this because of all the wedding hoopla but I really must write about it. Amid all this joy is also a sense of sadness. The beginning of this year has been tremendous but like all things, life tends to intervene and gives us reasons all the more to appreciate those around us. I have had to bid adieu to two good friends this year.

While I was away getting married, my dear friend Charise left our fair city to pursue her dream of fashion heaven in London. Charise was the assistant fashion editor to Fashion Magazine in Toronto. When she told me, I was so excited for her because I've always had dreams of living in London also. We had secretly talked about to going away together, over a year ago but then life happens, Stefan proposed and I realized that my life, was with him. He unfortunately lives here but NEVER SAY NEVER, as I plan to make full use of his UK citizenship sometime in the future.

I am so proud of her for getting up and following her heart despite of all her interests and loves she left behind. It was such a big step. I can't wait to hear all her amazing adventures living with our other fabulous girlfriend D'Arcy at their Notting Hill flat. And I know that she'll succeed because she's just so cool. And really how could the other fashion editors of the world not see that?

Then Boutsy aka Bootylicious, my rapscallion, rebel friend of my youth has also gone away. She has fallen in love and is also following her heart to Vancouver. Boutsy, regardless of the ten ought years we have known one another is the one person who has always remained the same. She's irreverant, funny, heart droppingly gorgeous but so unaffected by it that you cannot hate her for her beauty. Even though our busy lives don't permit us to see each other that much, I think my heart will know and be a little emptier for not having her near.

I know that this is what happens when we grow up and move on with our lives. My head tells me that I am really happy that they've taken this step but my heart is being a sucky baby and telling me that this part of growing up sucks, big time. I've already started planning vacations.

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Posted in Joy-Friends

Valentine's Day (yes, I know I am a day late but who really cares?) is such a weird concept. We never really celebrate it. At first, I was a little offended because I had always been throughly spoilt by all previous boys on this day. The first Valentine Day we spent was when we'd been together for all of six months. Stefan just refused to celebrate it because he called it "superficial" and "social bullshit."

Even though I agreed with him, I still wanted to have a little something for him to acknowledge that I would eventually be the love of his life. He surprised me on the day by giving me a tiny chocolate bear holding a heart. Cheesy, but I still loved it. We've kind of celebrated it every year by not celebrating it.

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We had our wedding celebration party last night at The Century Room with some family and all of our friends. It's a jolly good thing we didn't have a wedding because I barely had a chance to talk to anyone. We had a good time though but now am suffering from it.

Stefan and I are idiots.

We came home last night, drunk as skunks and gleefully tore through all the cards and gifts. We weren't expecting anything since we eloped, so it was a very nice surprise.

However, now we can't figure out who gave us what. We've managed to find out most of them after painfully tracing our stupored steps but there are still three unknown presents. I think we need to figure it out after some needed rest (and advil) as I am definitely not in the right frame of mind right now.

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Posted in Stefan

Here I am on a lovely sunny (!) winter afternoon, working. Don't you all wish that we had jobs where we could say,"Nice day!! Well, see you all later!!"

Since, this is not possible, here are the things that I am thinking about -

Mindy really might be the most beautiful girl in the world.

Remember the colour Vamp by Chanel? I completely forgot how much I love this colour. I know the current trend is to wear black nail polish but I just can't wear black without feeling like it's Halloween. I'm just not chic enough. This will have to do. Chanel renamed this rouge noir. Sounds so much more sophisticated than Vamp.

I love my husband of almost a month. We're almost always laughing....at nothing in particular.

I love Paul and Jen's annual bowling birthday bash -- even though I may possibly be the worst bowler in the world. It's weird because I am a really competitive person but, because I am so bad at bowling, I can't possibly compete. For some reason, I really like just doing something without any pressure...

I really, really want to be the billion-song uploader for iTunes. Only so that I can have all that new technology (Asian yearnings and all...) plus that gift certificate for MUSIC!!!

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Posted in Much To Do About Nothing

I must admit that I have never read any of Louis de Berniere's works. I can already hear the audible gasp going around the internet. But what about Captain Corelli's Mandolin, you ask? My answer would be, there are just so many books out there and so little time!

This was a gift from a friend and I really love books as presents because it forces you to read something that you might not have picked yourself.

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being a workaholic.

I thought that once I started working for myself that I would be much better at this "not being married" to work thing but in fact, it's even worse. I know that the first year of going solo is always a struggle and a constant reshuffling of how things used to be. At the same time, I really need to learn how to chill out.

Yesterday, I received a phone call from a fellow business owner and he told me that I need to re-think my battle plan. I have a tendency to want to go above and beyond my call of duty. He pointed out that I could not be all things to all people and I needed to start picking and choosing what I wanted to do.

Very frank words but I believe he's right. I guess I will have to just keep on figuring this thing as the year pans out.

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Posted in Me-ness

Hangry - meaning hungry and angry at the same time

Marie introduced me to this word, although she got it via some fashion magazine. It's the perfect word to describe a state that I am almost always in. I can not be in a hungry state because that quickly leads to the angry state.

Someone mentioned something today that super-annoyed me to the point of where I was envisioning myself turning red and smoke coming out of my ears. Some left over veggies and a couple (or ten) Hershey's Hugs later and I am back to my jolly self.

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Posted in Little Bitty Girl Lexicon

Relationships are awkward at the best of times. Relationships when one is a teenager, pimply, gangly and unsure is something that one often likes to forget. Mine was not one of them.

Alex was my first love and high school sweetheart. He was one of my first few friends I made, when I first moved to this country. I remember actually hating him when I first met him. I have a habit of doing that with the people I fall in love with. For your information, I have only ever been in love with two people in my life, Alex and Stefan.

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Posted in Joy-Friends

I hate the tupperware cabinet. We can never seem to keep it in order. Every time I have to put the tupperware away, I always just open the cabinet door, toss the item in and slam it shut really quickly.

Friends have suggested buying me this popular-infomercial tupperware holders but the only problem with that is that it's only made for one type of tupperware and we have a variety of them - big ones, little ones, square ones, rectangular ones...all kinds.

What I really need is for my friend Marie to come back and reorganize it for me.

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Posted in Much To Do About Nothing