The “I miss my iPod” lament

Ok people, I sold my iPod. I sold it because I’m getting an iPhone, however, the iPhone is not scheduled to make an appearance until the end of the month, and I didn’t really expect that my iPod would be sold quite so quickly. I am very sure you can see where I am going with this…

I was driving to work last Friday, in an awesome amount of traffic (which is the reason I usually take a train!) and I had no iPod. Gasp! I was bewildered for a moment while I pondered what I did before I had one, then I went looking for a CD. I had 2 in the van, neither was good, choices were so limited, I was forlorn.

Then I got to work, and I realized that I had to listen to the youtube playlist I had created waaay back. I was slightly irritated that I had to have youtube running on my already slow computer, and yes, I know there are newfangled ways to create playlists, but I really don’t have that kind of patience.

There is no bright side to this story my friends, I am persevering through this adversity.

Thanks to Aaminah though, I discovered blip.fm and although I have no inclination to be a DJ, I did find myself quite hooked on this song.

Anyway, as you were…

On not-so-much-of-an-accomplishment

Since I always share my accomplishments with you, I thought it was only fair to share my failures too.

So, remember the great funk of 2008? Well, it wasn’t so much that I was in funk, but rather like I was broken into a million tiny little pieces and thrown all over the earth, then had to somehow find each piece, bring them all together and glue them back into place, or, you know, something like that.

Anyway, when I said that I was taking a break from web development, I really meant that I literally could not work anymore because of the aforementioned being broken into a million pieces and all that. The last website I worked on was Becoming Sarah, and in her design info page, she praises complains about my work, but she’s such a great writer that I even enjoy reading something bad about my work! Ya…

Ok, that’s it. As you were…

Umbrella phobia

Is there a name for that? What do you think it should be called? Umbraphobia?

So, it’s been raining a fair bit here in Toronto, and naturally, there have been a lot of umbrellas around the place, apparently as people tend to carry them when it rains, which made me realize, now that I work outside of my house again, that I have an irrational fear of umbrellas! Well, it’s not so much a “fear”, as it is a “dislike”.

I was going to lunch one rainy day with a couple co-workers, one of whom had an umbrella, and being the lovely person that she is, she offered to share it with me and moved it a little over me, but being the weirdo that I am, I freaked out and immediately rushed out from under the “great big thing that blocks out the sky and makes you feel like you’re in a tiny little world without any air”, or the umbrella – whatever you want to call it, and it was at that moment I realized that perhaps there was something slightly wrong with me.

Anyway, my point is that I am not an umbrella person, and umm, clearly I have may some issues!

Do you have umbraphobia too? By any chance? So I can seem somewhat normal?

Intervention anyone?

The gym that I go to does these monthly measurements, so, you know, people like me who do not own a bathroom scale, can tell if we’re actually losing weight. Yesterday I had myself measured… yeah, I am still fat but that’s not my point… my measurements are the same as it was the last time I got measured, which was way back in January (you know, the funk and all)… So, I wondered for a while how it’s possible that I do kickboxing 3 days a week, still go to the gym, and have not lost any weight.

Then, I happened to take a look into our “snack area”…

I think that I may be slightly addicted to chips… slightly!

Oh.The.Love!

5 year old: mommy, you know, it’s ok if you walk like that

Me: Awww, thanks babe

5 year old: Well, a lot of girls walk like that you know, like old girls… but mostly old men… old men with canes, so I think it’s ok…

(Thanks to a conversation a while ago with iMuslim, I was led to believe that kickboxing was a good idea… Amm, I’ll let you know if I still think so next week!)