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i’m playing with the idea of switching blogs.  my original is a blogger and it’s been so long abandoned that i’m sure there’s dust bunnies if you’d care to look for them.   i’m not sold on the idea of moving yet. i am a creature of habit and there are some things i’m not [...]

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it takes confidence

while outside eating my lunch this afternoon, i happened to look up from my book and noticed a very obnoxious hot pink delivery truck. that’s right – there’s no two ways about it. it was a pink cube van. hot pink. and it was a holt renfrew truck! all i could think (besides, damn, where’s [...]

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education

a few things i learned today :
my trainer is moving gyms in about 6 weeks. so sad about that. i’ve loved working out with him. he’s given me so much confidence in the gym. i’ll make the most of my 17 remaining sessions!
i hate humidity. actually, i [...]

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shudder, how embarassing

to think, when i last wrote here i was watching a gawdawful music reality show. not just watching, gleefully and faithfully blogging on it.
well. what’s happened over the past year?
work has gotten busy and then no so busy and is now crazed again.
it’s my own fault – i have [...]

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pages of a not-so-open book

don’t ask me why, but i was inspired by an email i recieved – feel free to post the same on your own blog…
2 moments in your life you’d like to erase
1 – the time i was too afraid to go to a concert by myself. after a phone interview tori amos asked me [...]

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toronto zoo and tattoos

the things we do to entertain ourselves. my past weekend involved the zoo and a tattoo. a virtual study in extremes.
first, i had a tattoo re-done on saturday. the poor thing (a bat on my upper arm) was done in august of 1993 and the artist that did it has died of a [...]

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blistering heat and feet

we’ve had several days of hideous hot and humid weather here in toronto. if the sun isn’t beating down on you, you feel as though you are wading through hot butter. urgh. oh, did you want to sleep comfortably at night? not so fast, you great un-air conditioned masses.
and most alarming of all – last [...]

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he doesn’t look a thing like jesus

my kitten artemis is spending her second night at the vet’s. i miss her. she was spayed this morning and my fabu vet sent me a picture of her in “recovery” immediately post-surgery. now that’s a good vet! it’s almost like she wanted to prove that they still had the kitten. then again, considering the [...]

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swollen head

after fleeing work late in the afternoon yesterday, actually, it wasn’t fleeing so much as lurching, i ended up staying at home today. i can’t afford to take all these days off – but really, am i going to drag myself to work with a bad flu/cold/whatever in the pouring rain?
then i find that chum [...]

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tempt not yon hell-cat

i woke up on the weekend only to discover that i have a somehow caught the dreaded summer cold. it began with with razor blade swallowing, moved on to congestion and aching kidneys/gums and is now settling nicely into the ‘plugged ears’ portion of our game.
needless to say, work seems to be taking an eternity [...]

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