Archive for March, 2009

March 16, 2009 0

Cool replies

By in a good day, we have fun

A couple things I have written (privately) have generated cool replies lately. First, I wrote to The Names Brand tshirt website to point out that they were missing a Howard Stern shirt. I sent the email on February 26th. They wrote me back on the 5th of March to say that my shirt idea had […]

March 14, 2009 6

POO!

By in making stuff is good

I started a new crochet project without really thinking too hard about the fact that I didn’t own enough of the yarn required. It’s Bernat Satin (or perhaps Satin Sport-I don’t keep the wrappers, that would be too logical) and it’s available at Zeller’s for really cheap. Of course, when I went to Zeller’s today […]

March 11, 2009 6

Super supper time!

By in food

Have you ever made something from scratch (well, more or less) and it came out pretty much perfectly? I experienced that tonight. At work, I made us tomato sauce and it was so good. I could have had a bowl of that with no pasta and I would have been happy. Sauce: 1/2 zucchini, small […]

March 7, 2009 3

The olden days

By in food

I went to see my parents today in St.Catharines.  We all went to see Madama Butterfly at the movie theatre, part of the Live At The Met series. Butterfly is a pretty huge show, popularity wise, but I am not sold on it’s story. Very sappy and kind of embarassing. I know, she’s 15 and […]

March 3, 2009 18

Further updates

By in daily grind, love

1. My ring As anyone could guess, it weighs a ton and took me a while to get used to. Typing was the hardest adjustment-I worried for a while that my s and w keys would be broken, but they’re fine. It’s been well received by everyone-literally everyone-who sees it in real life (and not […]

March 1, 2009 6

Cough. COUGH. Splutter.

By in Griping

For the second time this year, I am officially sick. And I am officially sick of being sick. There’s nothing more boring or miserable in the world. This time ’round I have a terrible throat, sore and full of gunk that needs barking up. And the coughing is awful, it hurts and it seems to […]