Channukah

December 17th, 2009

It’s Channukah! The time of year where I can eat fried foods because I’m supposed to, then gift myself with 8 pressies and feel entirely justified (for the pressies – the food just makes me feel ill).

Here’s what I’ve given myself so far:

  1. Eyebrow shaping at Gee Beauty
  2. Silk sleepmask from Gee beauty
  3. Blowdry
  4. New perfume
  5. Another new perfume (I found the other one i liked at WINNERS!)
  6. Pedicure
  7. TBD

Looking for ideas for the last one. Thinking of a flour sifter. Uber exciting.

It’s december

December 8th, 2009

And I have less than three months until my next Half Marathon. Time to get on that training bandwagon I suppose.

Am not feeling overly enthused.

Frankly, I would rather deadlift my bodyweight. (I deadlifted more than that last week! BOOYAH!)

What’s wrong with me? I just need to get out there. Once I start running again it won’t be so scary, right?

Dear Markham Honda:

December 3rd, 2009

I was happy to pay $10 more to come to you instead of my normal dealer to get my snow tires put on because you are so close to my office and will drop me off. Then your service dude quoted me a price $20 more than what I was told on the phone yesterday. I got him to match the quoted price.

Then he told me I needed my tires Aligned at the cost of $100. I asked if I needed to have the alignment done. He said yes (without even checking my car). I told him I’d go elsewhere, at which point he offered to charge me half of the cost for the alignment. No thanks. I’ll take my car to my normal place.

It was only then that he said I didn’t have to get the alignment. Wasn’t that what I had asked in the first place? Sigh.

I might not know much about cars, but I’m not an idiot. And I definitely don’t like being lied to.

Love,

jenn

P.S. It took more than an hour from when I dropped off my car to arriving at my office (a 5min drive away) so next time I’ll think extra hard about whether the time I save is worth the aggravation of being lied to!

Hailey Hacks and helps too!

November 30th, 2009

Hailey Hacks is an innovative project by Jill Golick which is a series of web videos that show 8-13 year olds all kinds of cool things they can do with their computers. Like how to make your own lolcats

Now that my birthday is done and folks have stopped asking what I want, of course I have come up with a bunch of items that i kinda sorta wish I had thought of before. Not to worry – Hailey is to the rescue with her latest video on how to use Wish Lists! So with Hailey’s help I’ll get a head start for next year — or maybe the Channukah fairy will stop by my Menorah!

10 years later

November 29th, 2009

Today was my 10 year high school reunion. The best comment was made by a guy in  my class, Mark, who said (I paraphrase):

All of the girls seemed to have gotten better looking. The guys all got bald and fat.

Love it.

Pick a pee

November 28th, 2009

Did you know that you can get different flavours of animal pee? Thought you’d like to know.

So *that’s* what it’s for!

November 27th, 2009

Yesterday I did my first “Advanced Workout” using the Garmin. I ran for 200m and then took a 2 minute break. 8 time.

On a track that would be simple to figure out using a normal watch. But since I don’t have a track nearby, I used trusty Genki.

He would beep at me after the 200m were done, and then again when it was time to start running. He was so helpful!

It was the first time I didn’t miss my Nike+ while I was running!

I’m going to try another advanced workout tomorrow – we’ll see what the Crossfit Endurance website has in store!

Thankful

November 26th, 2009

Two years ago today I went on a blind date with someone to get a friend off of my case.

I’m thankful for that!

Bruise

November 25th, 2009

I just wanted to share that I have a bruise on my collarbone from lifting weights yesterday. I like to think it makes me look hard core.

TTC and Me

November 24th, 2009

I know there are many reasons to be mad at the TTC. But right now I am particularly frustrated by one – the fact that the token machines won’t take a bill.

I can’t buy tokens from a collector. And unless I have change ($2.75 in quarters, toonies and loonies) I can’t get one from a token machine. Which means that unless I have change I can’t go to my favourite subway entrance as there’s no collector on duty. And I can’t buy a bunch of tokens at once so every time I go to the subway I have to go through the same exercise.

Hrmph.