For the past… nine hours at least I have been watching the outside disappear as the snow piles against my window, blocking my view. It’s just as well, I suppose, because the harsh reality is that I’m going to have to dig my car out again tomorrow to avoid getting towed. And I’m in denial […]
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I can’t just retire this thing with such a grumpy rant, can I? It’s snowing again. Hopefully not as much as last time. On Monday I had to dig my car out. Not because we got so much snow, but because once the plows went through my car was surrounded by heavy compacted snow. Not […]
It’s currently snowing in the Twin Cities. Minnesota is supposed to get a large snowfall this weekend. In light of that, I went out this morning and bought supplies. Not survivalist or anything. I mean, flare guns and ammunition are pretty standard stuff. Now I’m hunkered down for the weekend. And it certainly has been […]
I woke up this morning and went to pet Ramona. She has a cat bed next to my pillow so she can look out the window. Insert cat lady jokes here and I will hurt you. Anyway I had to do one of those over-exaggerated eye rub dealies because there was a face looking back […]
“I’ve had enough of Rob and Amber. I think America may have also.” John Vito, I missed you. Except you’re already eliminated. Not fair. […]
I got a belated Valentine’s gift today. Quite unexpected. My boss was helping a guy at the counter when she came back and said he had a question for me. I recognized him—an older guy who always has me make his copies because he jokes that he’ll break the copier. And when I got up […]
I had a meeting today about my newest project: a website design for a local restaurant. A place I’ve eaten at for years. And on the way out they gave me free tasty food. Tasty tasty food. But it wasn’t until I got home that I realized that not only had they given me just […]
I finally got a chance to watch “Camp Reality”, thinking it might be worth it. There are a couple people on there that always make me laugh. So I watched the first few episodes. I think I finally have conclusive proof that the editors are the real stars of reality TV. They can make anyone […]
It’s been chaos in the Twin Cities the last few days. This is what happens when it snows and the plows don’t go out. I was a casualty. I got rear-ended today in the middle of downtown Minneapolis. Despite a nasty sounding crunch and a girly shriek from me upon impact, there appears to be […]
Super Bowl Sunday!!!!!!! Rawk on!!!!!!!!! So who’s playing anyway? I kid. I figured that out around 1 PM this afternoon. I did watch the game. Despite appearances (or… write-pearances) I do enjoy watching football. And have a decent grasp of the rules. And by decent I mean I think I know way more than I […]
I started writing something about how great it was that my heat’s been on all the time for the past few days. I was rather thrilled. But right now it’s 1 AM and it’s so hot in here that my laptop’s fan has been kicking on (which only happens on really hot summer days). Plus […]
It’s snowing here in lovely Uptown Minneapolis. It has been for a few hours. But it’s a nice gentle snow. It makes everything look pretty and makes my apartment feel cozier. Which helps, because last night it was so flippin’ cold in here I couldn’t stand it. So now I find myself in this languid […]
I find it kind of… well, pretty cool… that Alison LaPlaca was on The OC tonight. Not just because she’s awesome, but because she was on Duet, which was one of the very first shows to run on the FOX network back in the day. I loved that show. Now they just need Tracey Ullman […]
I should be working (and will be in a minute) but I thought I’d recap some of the highlights of the day: 1. In the year and a half that I’ve been working at my parttime job, today marks the second time that we’ve had cops and a K-9 unit searching the building. Although it […]
Huh. The ads you’ll see at 3 AM. For instance: an ad for this cushy teddy bear that snaps on to your seatbelt to alleviate any tightness on the part of the belt. Which isn’t a horrible idea, mind you. But the majority of the shots in this ad were of the bear in use—and […]
On Cops tonight, they were doing a traffic stop when suddenly you hear squealing brakes and the cameraman turns and just catches some guy on a bike getting hit by the car. Crazy. And scary. I haven’t seen an episode of M*A*S*H in years. But tonight they showed the series finale. And suddenly I was […]
And here we are in the New Year. Welcome to 2007. I spent the day inside working. I went out once to grab some stuff from my car and thought better of it. It’s cold out today. I can imagine that the people complaining about how global warming is ruining our winter will shortly be […]
I’ve come to a conclusion on the cellphone issue: I’m going to buy the most expensive phone I can find, download expensive ringtones and MP3s, blast the music, and randomly make some guy in a bakery listen to the latest Keith Urban song. Because I so desperately want to be cool like in the ads […]
I’ve been thinking I need a new cellphone. Lest you think it’s because I crave the latest gadgets—it’s not. My phone is at least four years old and I’m sick of the battery dying on me constantly. So I went looking. And gosh do these new-fangled cellphones seem all snazzy. Speakerphone. Bluetooth. Texting. Web access. […]