I rooted around in my bag to find my wallet, and instead came up with a handful of dinosaurs:

baby, you so mesozoic

I can’t help but feel this would be more socially acceptable if I was a parent. As it stands .. no, I just have dinosaurs in my bag. Don’t you? Freak.

I am too cold to type. As much as I love the quiet times that come with working a stat holiday, I may have to rethink my strategy because it’s SO DAMN COLD IN HERE! The building saves money by killing heat on weekends and holidays which is fine and good and environmentally friendly but holy shit I am freezing my girl balls off. I even dressed warmer than usual on purpose because I knew the heat wouldn’t be on today, but it did me no good whatsoever. I can’t think because I am too cold – how am I supposed to master Sharepoint 2010 when I can’t even think? Poor Kimli. So cold.

Ed is at home, along with most of the city today. Unfortunately, he can’t really do anything fun – he has to wait for the building people to arrive. While gathering up all the empty bottles from our drunken day-to-day activity, he noticed a great deal of water pouring from our balcony ceiling. It was a little concerning as it hasn’t rained in a week or so, but the alarm intensified as soon as he took a closer look at the ceiling inside our unit, by the balcony door: water damage! Hooray! Water is leaking from somewhere and is being diverted to the northwest corner of our suite. Nothing is coming through the ceiling inside yet, but there’s a definite water stain that’s spreading and starting to sag a little. This is not good. We have no idea where the water is coming from; Ed left a note for Stompy Clomps and talked to her when we could hear that she was home – no water in her place. So what the fuck?

This is all our fault, really. We were just so pleased with ourselves for having gone a WHOLE YEAR without water leaking into our home regardless of where we live that the universe just couldn’t resist sticking it to us nice and hard. If we had been just a little less smug, none of this would have happened. As it is, I’m just glad the universe was in a relatively good mood and didn’t go for a full repeat of last year’s (err, I guess it’s two years ago now technically but really just November ’09) fun and instead delivered just a little reminder that we shouldn’t get ahead of our ceiling or count our chickens before they hatch or look spilled milk in the mouth; that sort of thing. I do know that water damage can be catastrophic though, and this is the first time we’ve ever had to deal with it as home owners (which is WHY WE BOUGHT NEW – so we wouldn’t HAVE to deal with this shit!). The building itself is still under warranty I think, and we do have insurance, and it’s likely not our unit that’s the problem as we do not pour water on our ceiling from above. Still, I could totally do without this added headache. And I really, really hate ceilings.

I am going to go buy a space heater and hump it madly.

SO COLD!

I am haunted by this iPod shuffle.

I won a green 4GB shuffle (3rd gen) at our work Christmas party. It is very small and cute, but I don’t need it – I got my coveted orange 16GB nano for Christmas, which holds all my music and then some (not to mention the 12+GB free I now have on my iPhone). I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it as Ed doesn’t want it and it seems silly to keep it for no reason. I tried to exchange it at half a dozen stores, but you can’t actually return iDevices without a receipt or proof that you didn’t steal it from somewhere. Since I can’t prove I’m not a criminal mastermind, I’m stuck with this cute little thing I have absolutely no use for.

So that’s where the internet comes in.

If you or someone you know desperately needs a new MP3 player, leave a comment below. Saddest sob story wins. Are you still using a 1st gen device? A Zune? A portable CD player? You poor, poor soul. Tell me all about it, and I’ll give the iPod shuffle to the neediest commenter. You’ve got until January 7th to make me feel sorry for you – go!

domos not included

Happy New Year!

Each year I have a “wish list” of things that I’d like to accomplish in the new year. They’re never resolutions, which are preordained fail – but it’s nice to start a new year off with a fresh slate; an entire year ahead of you to get some stuff done and make some positive changes.

What did I want to accomplish in 2010?

• Use the fancy new gym downstairs
• Graduate kollege
• Scoot to Seattle
• Spend more time in Portland
• More scandals!
• Go swimming
• Survive the Olympics
• Do more crafty things
• Have all the fun ever

Hmm. Can’t say I knocked a lot of those out of the park, and the ones I DID do I’d have to put a disclaimer on: the scandals were just lame drama; I did SOME crafty things but could have done more; there was a great deal of fun that I didn’t have so clearly I didn’t have all of the fun available to me to have. I’ll work on that for the upcoming year, along with these things:

• Finally scoot to Seattle (dependent on Ed getting a motorcycle)
• Fly somewhere exotic
• Hang out with more people doing awesome things
• Plan fewer things. I originally had a huge tirade written for this topic but was urged not to post it – I will simply say that I will spend less time planning fun group things, as I am apparently the only one who found them any fun at all. Instead, I will DO fun things, and if anyone wants to come along, awesome. I don’t know how successful I’ll be at this; since this morning I’ve already planned three different activities with various people. This may have been the least amount of time to have broken a goal ever!
• Cook more! I like cooking.
• Buy fewer apps >:E
• Volunteer somewhere and do some good
• Be happy
• Make my own adventures
• Continue to be my own party wherever I go
• Attempt to do some “official” blogging – there has to be SOMEONE out there who wants juicy, flavourful event coverage .. right?

Those will do, I think. What are your goals for 2011? What do you hope to see in the year ahead? All the best to everyone ever – now let’s go out and have some fun!