Lissssen
Hahahahaha, so I have a playlist of songs that I like to listen to when I’m trying to concentrate. They’re all lyric free, pretty chill, and usually do a good job helping me focus.
But I guess I must have accidentally added this song at some point, ‘cause it came up in the playlist shuffle and I lost my shit.
I’ve posted about this before, but it was so freaking unexpected that I couldn’t stop laughing.
Party all the time.
“Can a Business Man Walk Five Thousand Miles a Year?”
Holy crap, I love this little article. Turns out I’m not the only one who’s insane about walking.
Really?
Hey, so I’m in like the busiest part of the semester and what happens? My freaking laptop craps out on me.
Awesome.
Luckily, my wonderful husband was able to help bail me out today by going to Best Buy (while I panicked in my office and tried to use my office mate’s computer to get some work done) to pick up a new laptop for me. He then stayed and set it up while I tried to finish my work.
I love him so much.
2018 is trying to end me, I swear.
Jazz Machine being Jazz Machine
Haha, I was looking through old pictures on the iPad and I found this one of Jazzy where she’s lounging not on one couch but both couches.
Cat level: Expert
Home
Calgary is a very pretty city.
Steamed Hams
I love the internet. I love when the internet takes a thing and makes a meme out of it.
Example: the “steamed hams” scene from an old episode of The Simpsons (“22 Short Films about Springfield,” 1996). Observe the original clip:
And memed…
“Steamed Hams but There’s a Different Animator Every 13 Seconds”
“Steamed Hams but Chalmers is Obsessively Investigative”
And this freaking masterpiece of the internet, “Steamed Hams Inc.” Seriously, it’s so good. Watch it. It will change your life. I love the creativity of humans.
Skydive Arizona
Hey, so remember when I went skydiving like seven years ago? I finally found the DVD of the jump and decided to upload it to YouTube. Here ya go.
(Note: the video was originally some weird-ass file format, so I had to screen record it, haha).
Hole
This is…ominous.
Is this how we die?
Oh, dreams…
We all know about Frisbees, right? Well, I had this dream last night that I invented Friscees, the “next generation X-treme Frisbee.” I’m assuming the name was just my brain using the next logical iteration of Frisbee: Fris-B to Fris-C.
Turns out that all a Friscee was was just a regular Frisbee with a GoPro attached to it. This of course made them like impossible to throw with any degree of distance or accuracy, but everyone loved them because they were so X-treme.
Gotta love dreams, man.
Backstreet’s Back, Alright?!
The 90s vibes are real.
That dancing, though. Seriously bringing me back to 4th/5th grade when boy bands like this were super in. I still remember my friends and I arguing over whether NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys were better.
(NSYNC is totally better.)
This song is legit, though.
Flavors Gonna Flave
One of my favorite things I’ve “discovered” on my walks is the giant Stoney Trail bridge that shoots over Bowness Park.
The first time I walked into Bowness Park I had no idea where I was going (as per usual), so I just kept walking west. The further in you go, the less “park” it becomes and instead becomes much more “wood.” Then, when you’re in the thickest part of it, bam!
This giant concrete structure just comes out of nowhere and swoops over the park. It’s so surreal-looking against the woods that it’s almost startling.
But in a good way. I really like the contrast.
Anyway. I discovered this last summer but only just took my first picture of it, so you get to hear about it now.
Happy birthday.
I got a perm(anent resident card)
I am now an official permanent resident of Canada!
WOO!
It sounds like this means I can do everything that Canadians can do except 1) vote and 2) hold high-level security clearance jobs.
It also means that the next step is applying for citizenship.
ONWARD!
Predatory
Haha, this is what Jazzy does to her toy mice after a little while. She loves to gnaw on them and pull on their tails. For as beat up as this one is, I’m surprised it does still have its tail.
She is a top predator.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they’re like, “do you have a food handling permit? This seems unsanitary.”
I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. Super 80s.
Bonus fuckery:
You know what I haven’t done in a while? Annoyed you all with old irrelevant snippets from my 2006-2009 MSN conversations.
So let’s do that, ‘cause I’m bored. These are all with Nick, who appears to have just vanished off the face of the earth.
Cobraphilia: my PENIS BROKEN
Cobraphilia: *pen is
Cobraphilia: *PEN IS
Cobraphilia: GOD DAMMIT
Dr. Bomb: i just burned the hell out of my fingertips on a hot cup of coffee
Action Leibniz!: …you don’t drink coffee?
Dr. Bomb: nope i hate it
Dr. Bomb: but this hotel room has a coffee maker
Dr. Bomb: and if a hotel room has a coffee maker, you are obligated by the law to make coffee
Action Leibniz!: Hahaha, are we the same person? I do that too
Dr. Bomb: *milhouse voice* so this is what it feels like…when doves cry
Dr. Bomb: I have disco fever!
Dr. Bomb: or, you know, the flu
welshy: L is for ludicrous neighbors partying on Wednesday evenings
welshy: O is for “oh my holy god it’s 3 am please stop partying”
welshy: U is for “u gonna get shanked if you don’t stop partying”
welshy: D is for “dis tired next door neighbor is gonna call the cops”
Dr. Bomb: ik09
Action Leibniz: ik09?
Dr. Bomb: there was a bug on my keyboard
Dr. Bomb: i’m assuming his secret code name is ik09, since that’s what keys i hit when i murdered him
Action Leibniz: I’m sure knowing his code name will be a comfort to his wife at his funeral
Dr. Bomb: OH COME ON, NOW I FEEL GUILTY
welshy: what instrument do you play again?
Eine kleine Nachtfieber: I play more than one
welshy: whoa
welshy: at the same time??? [he was so drunk, haha]
Soooooooooongs
Okay, so I know I’ve still got like a whole year and a half to go in my Decade of Music project, but I’m starting to get real excited about giving y’all the big final summary of the ten year project. THIS SHALL INCLUDE:
- Favorite songs (freaking obviously)
- Favorite songs per year
- Favorite music videos
- Weirdest songs
- Weirdest music videos
- Stats on star ratings, genres, song length, artists, and pretty much everything else you could think of.
Sorry, I’m just really excited for it.
END BLOG!
Camp Four Echoes: The Saga
Little known (?) fact about me: I was a Girl Scout. Granted, I was only a Girl Scout for approximately a year and a half so it wasn’t like a huge part of my life, but I was a Girl Scout.
I was a Girl Scout long enough to go to Camp Four Echoes, the little Girl Scout retreat/camp thingy that we had.
I’m bringing this up because I was looking through one of my “here’s a whole bunch of papers and nonsense from my past” drawers and found the little scrapbook I’d made from my week at Camp Four Echoes. And then I thought “fuck it, I put almost every other aspect of my life on this damn blog, why not the Girl Scouts part?”
So here we are (in pdf form). Enjoy: Camp Four Echoes
That Lauren scandal thing was Prime Drama™.
iPhone!!!!1!1!1!!!!1
GUYS GUYS GUYS
I GOT AN iPHONE! I finally got one after all these years!
Super stoked. Especially since good ol’ Galaxy can’t hold a charge at all anymore.
WOOT!
(I seriously don’t know what my obsession is with iPhones; I’ve just always wanted one.)
Kanye, u ok?
This is legit part of a song. Wiki has the best description: West appears in the second half, rapping idiosyncratic, nonsensical phrases based around the words “poop”, “scoop”, and “whoop”, after which the song abruptly ends.
YouTube comments also provide a great deal of insight and analysis.
- I have A S C E N D E D
- This low key scares the shit out of me
- P O O P P O O P
- I hate the scary FAR RIGHT message of these new tracks
- Tupac who?
- I came
- Test: what is Pythagoras Theorem
Me: - is this a real song??
The best.
Edit: Hahahahaha
I AM A HYPER
THIS IS A BLOG
“Up Close on Baseball’s Borders”
Okay, so I know this is a fairly old article now and things have (maybe?) changed, but I’m cleaning up my bookmarks and found this again, so here it is for y’all’s viewing pleasure.
Poor Mets, man. The fact that the Yankees had to be completely removed from the options to make that “New York Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies” map possible is pretty bad.
Here’s the full interactive map.
It would be interesting to see Canada, too. I suspect Blue Jays everywhere, even in places like Vancouver, despite its proximity to the Mariners.
(I apologize if I’ve blogged about this before. I don’t think I have…)
Squidward is a Millennial
Change my mind.
The best part about that idea is that Squidward existed prior to the generally agreed-upon “lower limit” of the Millennial (SpongeBob started in 1999; most of the definitions of “Millennial” I’ve seen use the birth year range of early 1980s to early 2000s). This means that many Millennials grew up on a healthy dose of SpongeBob.
Perhaps we imprinted on Squidward! There’s your scapegoat, angry and critical Boomers. ‘Twas SpongeBob Squarepants all along.
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