Sunday, November 29, 2009

This post is about nothing other than my 12 minute journey to Shoppers to buy $4.49 worth of light bulbs. So terribly onerous, I know. One might understand why I spent 3 months in the dark. Next mission? Fill my fishy bank with future light bulb funds.

Incandescence: $4.49
Pashmina: $0, gift brought from Afghanistan
Fish: $1 at Dollarama

Friday, November 27, 2009

My skin lacks what the dictionary would call 'an intensity of colour'. (Read: I'm most pale, if not translucent). If I have a passing thought about sunshine I spawn freckles the way Octomom yields children. So fast and furious one can hardly keep track.

And yet, despite Scandinavian blood and Canadian East Coast rearing, I live and die for the tropical aesthetic.

Mug: $2.99 USD, ABC Stores in Honolulu.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Lately I've been enjoying the wit of others far more than my own. My friends and the Internet have been slaying me. Though I did spit on my computer when the image of me in a drop-in hip hop class crossed my mind, for the love of pleather chairs humans are a strange and curious kind.

Here goes:

So a virus walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve viruses here." The virus replaces the bartender and says, "Well, now we do."

So an infectious disease walks into a bar. And the bartender says, "We don't serve infectious diseases here." The infectious disease scoffs, "Well you're not a very good host."

Two bacteria walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve bacteria here." The bacteria say, "But we work here, we're staph."

Schroedinger's Cat walks into a bar . . . and doesn't.

Okay, so I will never, ever be able to read this post again without having fits and convulsions.

Area rug: $0, not at all related to anything

Monday, November 23, 2009

The saddest part about stayin' still is that your friends are always leaving.

Japan, Hawaii, India, East Coast, West Coast, Estonia, West Virgina, Australia, Edmonton - take care of the people I love and I'll take care of their junk.

Tin can & two rubber bands: $0, parting gift from Rohan

Saturday, November 21, 2009

At what age are you just too darned old to sleep with stuffed animals?

Regardless, I wish this girl would hurry up and finish my paper so I can get back to blogging and other such amusing things.

Giraffe: 23rd birthday gift
Intellectual torture: Too expensive to mention on a blog with this name

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

These are my prison walls.

View from my desk: $4 worth of curtains from an auction.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

I think this snapshot says much about my interest in developing time management skills.

Clock face: $0, roadside find

Saturday, November 7, 2009

I really haven't been acting much like myself lately. It's pretty upsetting, really. I touched some business suits at the department store without shuddering, paid someone else to cut my hair, and forked out full retail price for this picture frame.

If I wasn't too old for it, I'd swear I had early onset maturity.

Postcards: $3/each at Mori Art Gallery, Tokyo
Frame: $24.99 at Black's
Wall space: None left