out of the mouth of babes

so I ride a longboard… not passionately, not with much style or with much of a quest for danger, but I ride it around because it’s way faster than walking.  some people look at me funny, some people seem afraid of me, some people scurry out of my way, assuming i’m on some sort of straight path, without any ability to turn, but the BEST reactions come from little kids.  they range from ‘whooooa!!! cool’ to ‘mom! i want one!’ to ‘that’s a BIG skateboard!’ to ‘what is that?’ to pure silence accompanied by wide, curious eyes.  kids are wonderful. they make me feel WAY more hardcore then i actually am.  but toDAY i heard the BEST reaction:

a little boy in a stroller, he must have been around 2 to 3 years old, looked at me, looked up at his parents, looked at me again, and then said with confident assurance ‘that’s an excavator on wheels.’  !!! that comment made me smile the whole way home.

then i looked up excavator and found this:

so, i guess that’s not really wheels, but the thing CAN roll… but what does this machine have to do with me? i WAS wearing construction boots and dirty, ripped up jeans, so maybe the little boy thought i worked on one of these bad boys, and excavator was my title?  who knows.

it was adorable.

i liked it.

the causative agent is a rhinovirus

in other words. i am sick. i have the common cold.

i sound disgusting. my nose hurts. i can barely breathe. my throat itches on the inside and spreads out to the outside. all i want to do is sleep, but when i lay down, my sinuses fill up and i feel like i’m going to choke to death.

it came over me so quick.  one minute i’m pointing morter, the next minute, i’m like this

 

i want to be writing something better, but i feel like garbage… soaked in septic waste, frozen, and dropped into a pile of burning hot magma. i’m going to try to sleep.

*cough*

big spoon or little spoon?

any spoon.

i kind of have an obsession. especially when they’re heavy. i get jealous and pretty cranky when someone has a better spoon than me when we go out for coffee, or tea, or pudding, or jello, or cheesecake, or anything involving a spoon. but then i usually take it from those people. and then i usually steal them… like i stole this one:

i have a problem.

mary jane? mary JANE? MARY JANE!!!!!! i love you.

not THAT kind of maryjane. we’re actually not friends anymore….

THIS entry is about shoes…. inTENSELY about shoes.

I promised myself that I’d never buy a pair of fake Uggs: i lied.

I also promised myself that I’d never do that whole ‘wearing the bandana around the neck in a triangle’ thing.  i lied.

I promised myself that I would never buy those flat ballerina maryjane-style shoes:   I LIED!!

I even did the white socks!!!!

  

I am not good at keeping promises to myself… in fact, I plan to buy more, because despite hating them in the past, they are just so damn cute, and I hate heels.

Next:

 

*NOTE* This entry has been sitting my drafts for a LONG time, and I couldn’t bring myself to publish a blog about how much I want shoes. But I am writing an essay, and studying for an exam, and my frivolity is being severely stifled by a plan to budget, so I procrastinate on the interweb, and dream about new purchases .  *sigh*

better than icing

why are those cakes you get at big department grocery stores so popular? they are repulsive, and have the grossest texture, and make me feel like my insides are getting painted some unnaturally disgusting colours.

you know the ones i’m talking about. with the gelled on writing that usually has a spelling mistake and is better left blank:

 

This year, for my birthday, I got a DELICIOUS cake! Mommy knows how much I love berries, and THIS is the icing on top of it: !!!!  WAYYYY Better and WAYYYY prettier.

stopped to smell ‘em

  I was walking home in the crisp early evening and stopped to smell these tiny little pink buds on a tree.  A girl was biking by and caught my indulgence and smiled at me. I realized how rarely I do actually stop to smell flowers.  I kept walking and realized that the reason I stopped in the first place was because they were so pretty, so I took some flower pictures on the rest of the way home.

The first two are in front of a restaraunt with the loveliest patio I’ve ever seen.

  

The next two were inside a fence, and I sure did have to hang myself over the fence, bum up in the air, to get these shots.

  

The last three were in the front lawn of a house that always has beautiful landscaping.  Right now they don’t have a lot of flowers, mostly greenery, but this lone daffodil certainly caught my eye.

 

nobody wants a puzzle

why didn’t I get like, a car, or an action figure? 

 

kindereggs. i love them. i really love the chocolate. in fact, ferraro makes a bunch of chocolates that are all delicious. and I crave them so much that when I finish typing this, I’m going to go out and eat one for breakfast.  luckily this person didn’t have to make her own adventure and was delivered my personal FAVOURITE kinder product:

http://stephchua.blogspot.com/2007/07/surprise-surprise.html

 

coccinellidae, eh?

that’s the name for a lady bug. I found out on wikipedia.

I was on the subway recently, on the way to Main station, and I got startled mid trip by a lady bug on the window. Right next to my head! Took out my camera right away, and took many MANY unsuccessful shots. The guy next to me thought I was nuts.

But I think I got a few gems! (ten points for those true torontonians who can tell which stations are featured in the second and third pictures!)

these people took WAY better shots of some coccinellidae:

 

http://calevphoto.com/2008/04/17/the-ladybugs-are-here-hurrah-hurrah/

http://jdphotography.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/first-lady-of-spring/

http://heatherwilliams.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/photo-of-the-day-13/

 

..but come on. Mine’s on the window of the TTC!!!!

a little dose of WTF!?

   

   

 

definitely see these all over the place. definitely don’t know why. definitely think they’re amazing.

amazingly weird.

 

please never let yourself get this bored. ever.

http://fun.from.hell.pl/2003-11-24/bubblewrap.swf

i did 10. then realized what i was doing and decided to post this immediately.

what a ridiculous concept!

 

 

 

 

(is it weird that i feel compelled to go back??)