trying to get back on the blogging wagon

I visited my blog this morning to check up on it, and my banner was gone! It looks like I had the image hosted on Geocities (bye bye!), so now I have to wait to get back home from work to fix it. Hmm, I wonder what else I had uploaded onto there?

Speaking of things gone bye-bye, my old blog at blog.com is now nonexistent. The posts are still there when I log on, but the blog is unpublished. No idea why. So now I really have to get cracking at moving my posts over (without the comments). I gotta be honest with you, looking back at my older posts...what was I thinking?! I almost don't want to move them over, but I feel like I'd be losing a huge chunk of me if I didn't. Who knows? Maybe someday I will delete them, but for now, you can go check them out and laugh your heads off.

kashi bars are on sale now at my local supermarket.

Dear Next-Door-Cubicle Coworker,

You’re a nice guy, and we get along just fine, but I know you judge me.

Listen, I’m not too happy with my job. You probably don’t like yours either. We’re both looking for new work. It’s stressful. And I get easily bored. And hungry.

And that’s why I snack a lot. And that’s why you hear me opening up lots of wrappers throughout the day. They're mostly healthy snacks, but you probably can't tell the difference. I used to have a box of Choco Pies in my desk. When I finished it, I moved onto crackers and now I'm into granola bars. Kashi granola bars, they have like -10 grams of sugar!

And still, whenever I rip open a wrapper, you get eerily quiet in your cubicle, and that’s judgemental! So stop it. They're healthy, and healthy snacking is encouraged! And should I ever return to my Choco Pie days, you should still pretend that you're listening to me open up a granola bar.

Much appreciated,
Q

an "off" day...

With the exception of work, everything else was kinda "off" yesterday

Work
SigFig forgot my birthdate*
Warmed up unappetizing leftovers
Went to the thrift store
Went to the gym
Ate ice cream before going to the gym
Had cake at the gym (seriously, that should be illegal)
SigFig forgot the date of our forthcoming anniversary*
Apparently, tried to wake up SigFig at 3 am because it was time to get up (no recollection)


* Honestly, this was pretty "off" for SigFig since he has to continuously remind me of our monthly anniversary, and he's pretty good about remembering special dates.

no face paint

Today, I'm wearing jeans, a black and white stripped shirt, with a long black cardigan and a red scarf around my neck.

I feel like a mime.

Should've gone for a yellow one.

Also, I'm wearing like a kabillion layers. I hate, hate that I now have to bring out my winter clothes and coats from storage after I just took them there in May, five months ago! And it's not like I had completely packed away everything either. I left out a couple of sweaters just in case, and I used them all the time. Summer FAIL.

It's a busy time now for me:
- Job contract ending, looking for a new job
- In-laws moving to a new house (Okay, this is a crazy story that must be told another day. Basically, they've been in the "moving" phase since the beginning of Ramadan.)
- I started up my own Etsy vintage store. It's been doing better than I expected to be honest with you!

*Bloop* stuck-in-a-glass-box *bloop* fake-smelling-flowers *bloop* eager-waving *bloop*

you should rethink your strategy. really.

I was at Eid prayer with my Mom and some family friends, when two of the pregnant friends started comparing notes.

"I don't know why, but I wasn't this swollen in the beginning. It started in the sixth month."

"Really? I guess I'm almost there. I'm okay these days, but I just have a lot of back pain."

"Yeah, back pain is normal."

"And stretch marks? What about stretch marks? I've noticed I've been getting some spider veins lately."

"Oh yeah, spider veins and stretch marks everywhere. In places you didn't even know you could get them!"

Then Mom and friends turn to me eagerly: "Sooooo, any plans to have kids soon?"

Umm, no.

getting over it

I'm not sure what's been keeping me from blogging. Life? Maybe. Nothing much to say? Could be. But after starting and abandoning several posts over the past month, I am finally committing to a post. I will blog and it will be awesome. I got married, so you'd think I would've gotten over my commitment issues a very long time ago. But as it turns out, Mr. Right might not wait around for you to make up your mind, but your blog will.

So here I am, at 12 am, and this is my blog post.

it's like the human version of those classroom order forms...

My dream last night:

There is a book salesman named Sedrid who keeps pestering my family to buy books. Whenever we escort him out one door, he manages to sneak into the house through another. And we're all like "Sedrid! Come on, get out already. We told you we don't wanna buy any books!".

And he's like "Trust me, these books are really great. They're Scholastic."

review: William's Coffee Pub

People, there need to be more coffeeshops out there with free Wi-Fi in suburbia, that don't close at 9 pm (I'm looking at you Panera Bread). There's probably tons in Toronto, but come on, where do people actually live? Suburbia!

For the last week, SigFig and I have been 'working', him on a project, me on some job applications (because I'm currently on a contract), and we need to go somewhere more motivating and work-friendly than home. So last week, we ended up going to three William's in three different cities/locations. And whatdaya know, three bad experiences:

1) Place was busy, fine. But apple pie arrived freezing cold, when asked to warm up, arrived piping hot. Is there no happy medium? I'm sure there's a handy microwave setting for pie.

2) SigFig's drink arrived 30 minutes late. Well, it didn't arrive, he had to go to the counter to get it made.

3) We ordered a Roasted Veg and Goat Cheese Panini and got a Veg and Cheddar sandwich on Multigrain, not a problem, except when we alerted our server, he tried to convince us that it was the panini we ordered. We gave up and about ten minutes later, halfway through the sandwich, the manager approaches us and informs us that it was not infact the panini we ordered.

That last one really got to me. It was great that the manager somehow found out about the sandwich and approached us, but what kinda idiotic server confuses a grilled sandwich for a plain one?

So I'm boycotting William's and I need an alternative place to go to in the GTA that was free Wi-Fi.

awesome

I think this video is relatable to a lot of us!



P.S. I'm never asking you guys for help again!

your input is much appreciated

I'm working on a project and need some inspiration.

What are some cool/quirky/interesting words out there? What word have you heard lately that's caught your attention?