Monthly Archives: May 2008

consequences

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Things I do not do:

  • Drink
  • Swear
  • Rat my hair
  • Get ill from one cigarette
  • Appreciate your filthy paws on my silky drawers (would you pull that crap with Annette?)
  • Apologize when I’m not wrong
  • Realize how lucky I was for making it 7+ years without a family member discovering my blog

It’s not like I routinely say nasty things about my family (or really, anyone who isn’t a neighbor) or share shocking secrets (real ones, not things that *I* think are shocking) or anything, but I was always very secure in my comfortable bubble of NO CONSEQUENCES – it didn’t really matter what I wrote or when, because there would be NO CONSEQUENCES to anything I said. I didn’t spend my time writing terrible things, but still – if I wanted to complain about my job or wax poetic about my vagina or talk of illicit but non-discrete drug use or say how stabby Ed was making me, I could and it wouldn’t matter.

Until now.

Thanks to Facebook and the increasing prevalence of the internet, I have officially been outed to Ed’s family. After my initial freak out (and believe it, it was an epic freak out of monumental proportions), I am okay. My first thought was to go back and censor 7 years of posts, but that would a) be completely against everything I stand for, b) take a really, really, really long time, c) make me feel horrible inside, d) be completely pointless. I’ve never censored myself (much to Ed’s dismay, I’m sure) – why start now? I haven’t *done* anything! So, no censoring. I am still All Out There. I am Highly Inappropriate at All Times, and not someone you’d want at a classy dinner party. Also, hi mom!

So, how about that local sports team?

21st century digital girl

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I am not so upset that I can’t see the hilarity in the fact that Ed and I are having a fight about blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and the conveyance of emotion through text.

Welcome to the future.

help me decide

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My in-laws gave me a little bit of cash as an early birthday present, and I’m having trouble deciding what to do with it. It’s enough for almost half of the two things I am currently coveting, so I turn to you – the trusted internets – to tell me which of the two I should buy.

Thing One:

A second LCD monitor. I never really bought into the whole dual monitor setup thing, until my PC died and I started using my Macbook + monitor at home. I also have a dual setup at work, because I need to be able to see many things at once while monitoring the effects my nefarious chemicals are having on my Frankenvictims. Now that my PC lives and is excellent again, I really find that I miss having two windows to the world at home. I’d like a second monitor, at least 21”. It would be the main screen, and my 17” LCD would be the secondary.

Pros:

  • two monitors means I can view two porns at the same time!
  • No longer will I be at my keyboard but unreachable because I am too busy playing stupid little shockwave games and can’t be bothered to alt-tab out of it to see what you want
  • A dual monitor setup is totally the future, and I am all about the future

Cons:

  • Have you seen the size of my desk? It is tiny. I will have to work some heavy duty magic to make a dual monitor setup work in the space I have available (pro: I love reorganizing things!)
  • I am not sure that my video card will support dual monitors, as it was made in Mexico sometime around 1969
  • Will I stop at two? What if some day I think a TRIPLE monitor setup is the way to go? What then? Is a second LCD panel just a gateway gadget?

Thing Two:

A pair of Fluevog shoes. I’m thinking these, or perhaps these. They are so sexy I can barely breathe. It would be an utter splurge, but isn’t that what you’re supposed to do with birthday money? Sure, I could do something responsible like buy orphaned bread or double-paned windows, but that is boring. I don’t want boring. I want flashy. I want exciting. I want passionate whirlwind romance atop the Eiffel Tower with tall handsome men or women with thick accents and a bow tie. Those shoes would get me closer to that, I am sure.

Pros:

  • Sexy shoes!
  • Whirlwind romance!

Cons:

  • I don’t know that I can honestly bring myself to spend that much money on a pair of *shoes*
  • Flying to Paris for romance would ruin my whole “no flying in 2008” thing, and I would feel guilty the entire time because I warmed the globe with my emissions
  • No double-paned windows means my heating bill will go up in the winter
  • All my pants are so damned long you would never see my sexy shoes anyway

I’m torn. Help me, internet! Which frivolous purchase reigns supreme?

VS

too busy for paragraphs

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  • Starbucks has the Raspberry Apricot thumbprint scones again – NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM SO GOOD
  • I can’t be the only woman between the ages of 20 and 55 who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the Sex in the City movie, can I? Surely there are more of us out there who just don’t get it?
  • Tonight, there will be meat. A lot of meat. So very, very much meat. And it will be glorious. Yay!
  • My SqueePC is off to the Tiny Laptop Hospital this afternoon. Here’s for a speedy, cost-effective recovery!
  • Is it wrong to have a crush on your husband’s mother’s brother’s second wife’s daughter from her first marriage? Coz I totally do. Yum.
  • Where the hell is my pre-ordered Dresden Dolls CD?

so sad

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While I am normally the most graceful of people, today I tripped on nothing and landed directly on my SqueePC.

The screen is cracked and broken, and everything is just very sad all over. I have an open RMA ticket and will be sending it off tomorrow for fixing – they told me on the phone I’d only be paying for shipping due to the warranty, but I really doubt “tripping and falling and breaking the screen into a zillion pieces” is really covered under warranty so I’ll probably be paying out of pocket for the repair. That’s okay – it’s my own damn fault – but I am VERY VERY SAD. My poor SqueePC!

so happy

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HR just said the nicest thing to me:

Aren’t you supposed to be on vacation today?

Apparently, I TOOK TODAY OFF. I am SO out of here!

Sure, it’s so I can go home and die, but WHO CARES! I’ll be naked and in bed within half an hour!

germ warfare

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Home is an excellent place to be, especially when there are many packages waiting for you.

A million years ago, I ordered a CD from the internets and was really looking forward to its arrival. I especially hoped it would come before we left for Edmonton, since it would be excellent traveling music. Alas, nothing showed up and it’s not available for purchase on iTunes Canada, so we left for our trip making due with the other 40 or so GB of music we travel with.

When we got home last night, there was a package notice tacked up to the common bulletin board. It was for me, and it was dated 5/12/08 – two days before we left. The fuck? As near as I can figure, the post man screwed up and put the notice in #11’s slot. For normal people, this wouldn’t be a problem – check your mail, see something that doesn’t belong to you, tack it up on the board (or hand deliver it, if you’re me).

Unfortunately, #11 is the penthouse, home to the idiots upstairs. They check their mail once every two weeks or so, meaning my delivery notice was not found until after I needed it. There’s no real harm done – I picked up my package today, it is delightful, and I certainly wasn’t lacking for video game soundtrack J-Pop on the trip – but grrrrrrr anyways. I hate waiting, and finding out I waited because someone else is dumb is just .. poopy.

Now that I’m home, my flu is completely kicking my ass. I was able to keep it mostly in check on the road by keeping myself utterly wacked out on Tylenol Sinus and moving on to more hardcore drugs – Tylenol Flu – but now that I can completely relax, the germs are taking over. I think a day or two not spent in a car or with small children will help, but in the meantime .. *whine*. Sick.

Oh, and I uploaded some pictures to my Flickrs. I haven’t completed the captions yet, but .. y’know. Pictures.

stuck!

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So, mudslides have closed the TransCanada highway just outside of Golden, BC – we’re stuck. There’s a “low confidence” that the highway will open back up tomorrow at 8am. If it does, we’re laughin’. If not, we’re looking at another 15 hours on the road before we get home – via the #1 to Kamloops, we’re 8 hours away. If the highway remains closed, our trip almost doubles. Boo!

I should probably be more concerned about this than I am, but shit happens and there’s no use getting upset about the situation. I’m not equipped to drive or eat my way through 8 feet of mud, so I may as well just enjoy the Ponderosa Inn while I can. Free internet – a Coke machine downstairs – two big beds and a TV – hell, this is almost better than being at home!

Adventures!

identity crisis

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Just ONCE,  I’d like someone to realize that:

  • my name is Kimli – not Kim, not Kimberly, not Karen, not Sima – KIMLI. Too hard? Let’s revert, then: KIM LEE. Easier? No? Try anyway.
  • not every woman takes her husband’s last name – I kept mine for a reason, and while I love Ed’s family, I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge that my last name is WANGZILLA, not Pinocchio.

Fucking up my name in three separate ways in one evening is insulting and infuriating.

putting the ho in hotel

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Ed’s parents were sweet enough to book us a hotel room for the night of his cousin’s wedding, so I am currently chilling out in our suite before the reception starts. We leave Edmonton tomorrow, but tonight is for partying – the ceremony was at noon and was short but sweet (and surprisingly heavy on the jebus – I keep forgetting that the majority of the norms really buy into the whole “give yourself unto god” thing).

I’m slowly but surely kicking the ass of my sinus cold. Tonight should do wonders for my breathing tubes – we’re in a non-smoking room, as opposed to the pro-smoking house. It’s comfy there, but I can’t breathe and my cold is not helping matters. At this rate, I’ll be better just in time to go back to work on Tuesday. Yay?

Okay, I have a king-sized bed to hog for the next couple hours.