October 20th, 2008
I miss blogging. I don’t miss obnoxious emails from irate readers (but who can blame them, I’m so controversial!). I don’t miss the constant frustration of not being free to write everything I want to out of concern for loved ones and future employers. But… still… I miss this place.
You know?
October 20th, 2008
I’m not into status objects. I don’t own an iPod or a flat screen TV and I don’t shop at label stores. My major spending is on books and Subway sandwiches. But I do own two status items: Coach bags. The first was a gift from Husband and it is the nicest thing I own after my wedding rings. The second I bought for myself because I decided I needed a nice black bag, professional looking but still fun, you know? So I saved up and I bought it last year (which was not without controversy: it is the only thing I’ve bought since going vegan that has leather in it, just a small amount, but big enough to make me a hypocrite). It’s a satiny black with some silver metal bits and it looks very sharp if I do say so myself.
So the other day, I was heading out to meet Husband downtown for dinner. When the elevator stopped at my floor, there were already two people in it: an older couple, very well dressed, looking quite posh in fact. In I step, black Coach bag in hand, and proceed to do that thing you do in elevators: try to look nice but not nice enough to talk to. Fortunately this couple was the reserved sort, and they didn’t say hello to me or anything.
The elevator doors slide shut and the woman says to her husband, in an accent I believe was South African:
“Did you know, I went to Coach on Monday and would you believe it? They have black bags with silver trim!”
And the husband rolls his eyes and says, in the same accent and in a tone intended to convey maximum contempt:
“Oh GOD!”
In other news, I am in the middle of a baking disaster. I made this awesome chocolate pumpkin pie for thanksgiving, and decided this morning to try making it with a can of cherry pie filling in stead of the pumpkin. Because cherry and chocolate is wicked, yes? Anyway, as we speak, it is bubbling over in my oven, forming what is sure to be an impenetrable layer of sugary burned sludge on the bottom. I don’t know any baking science but clearly there is something about pumpkin pie filling that allows it to stay gelled which the cherry lacks. Anyone know why this is?
October 14th, 2008
With a message to fellow Canadians: vote day today! Get out and vote!
October 7th, 2008
I am an inconsistent blogger. I have had three different blogs at different times (I hear my last one is now a porn site, which is a reference to my former last name, and if you don’t know me I’ll just leave you with that mystery, ha ha!). This one has been my longest running and the one I put the most effort into – though rambling on about whatever maybe isn’t such an effortful endeavour after all.
Anyway, I’m having blog angst. So far blog angst has resulted in 100% blog closure so our odds aren’t good. Here are the problems:
1. The personal stuff I want to talk about is too personal to write about publicly.
2. I’m Growing Up and getting an Adult Job (well, not immediately, but at some point in the next less-than-a-year) and since this blog is only really semi-anonymous, it seems sort of fraught with danger to call people assholes and otherwise beak off when it could be quite problematic for my future career aspirations.
3. If I cut out all the dangerous material I’ll basically be left with what I had for breakfast, which doesn’t make for good reading (leftover pasta, in case you’re interested).
4. Does anyone even care? I know this will sound pathetic and like I’m fishing for compliments but truly, I am not – I’m just being objective. I don’t know how many people visit this site (I lost my password for that part of the system) but based on the number of comments I get, only actual friends of mine ever read it. In which case I could just talk to them instead, which similarly serves Problem 2. Why put it in writing if you don’t have to? I’m sort of a slow writer and it takes a lot of time to put up posts. I love you guys but is the time worth it for all four of you?
5. There is no five, but five is my lucky number, so there you go.
Ponder ponder.
October 5th, 2008
I would have so much more to blog about if this thing was totally anonymous.
Just sayin’.
October 3rd, 2008
Tonight I watched a limo driver crawl around inside the trunk of his limo for over an hour. I have no idea what was in there, but it was clearly pretty compelling.