Neat-o
This is one of the greatest videos I’ve seen online in quite some time. I highly recommend that you watch it at your earliest convenience. (Skip to 00:18 if you can’t stand the suspense.) This reminds me that I always … Continue reading
Category Archives: woe is me
Growl.
So the universe threw me a bone. And as I was sitting there hunched over, gnawing on it with slobbery jowls and menacing growls (nobody wants to bother me while I’m gnawing on bones), the universe sauntered right up to … Continue reading
Posted in fiascos, Married Life, mondays suck, oh brother what next, woe is me
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Foresight, Hindsight
I got hard contact lenses yesterday. Image from here. Let me take a moment here to explain to you that I have chosen to try out hard contact lenses (or gas permeable lenses, as they are commonly known to those … Continue reading
Posted in change, failures, I hate change, woe is me
Tagged gas permeable contact lenses, irritable eyes
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Daylight Savings Trauma
Daylight Savings Time is for the birds. Image from here. In Arizona (a state that does not subscribe to Daylight Savings Time), where I lived for 21 glorious years, the concept of Daylight Savings Time was sort of like the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, change, fiascos, I hate change, mediocrity, oh brother what next, woe is me
Tagged daylight savings time
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Running isn’t my strong suit.
Time to answer another reader question. This week’s question comes from Jami, who writes: O.K. I want to ask a question. What quality do you wish you had? Seriously, I have such a hard time wishing for qualities that I … Continue reading
Posted in ask me anything, health and vitality, in all seriousness, introspection, self-actualisation, woe is me
Tagged discouragement
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Good things come to those who wait to clip their toenails until after noon.
This morning I clipped my toenails, and as I was sitting there clip clip clipping, I had the strangest feeling that something was wrong. I couldn’t pinpoint it, not at first, but finally I figured it out: Who in this … Continue reading
Posted in change, health and vitality, I hate change, mediocrity, oh brother what next, woe is me
Tagged toenail clipping
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That would be a cool trick.
Imagine if you worked really hard to make good things happen in your life. Imagine if you set goals, and trudged away, day after day, through the tedium of hard, boring work, to finally accomplish those goals, and when all … Continue reading