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- [Recommended Reads](https://commatose.ca/2025/04/recommended-reads.html) - Me again. While I'm here, I wanted to make note of the last few books I've read that I found very helpful. I've linked to each book so you can easily find it on Amazon if you want to read more about each book. If you happen to make a purchase, I may make a
- [What world is this?](https://commatose.ca/2025/04/what-world-is-this.html) - It's 2025, so I figured I'd add a quick blog post a year early. I hope you're doing well. I wanted to let you know that I'm mostly active on other platforms now, but if you have navigated here and enjoyed any of the stuff I've written, thank you! If you feel so inclined, you
- [Been a while..](https://commatose.ca/2023/01/been-a-while.html) - Hey, reader! It's me! I've long neglected this site. I'd have shut it down entirely if it weren't for the chalazion post and the one about dogs and hyperkeratosis as those are the two main ways readers end up here and they seem to still be relevant, which is always nice. We've had some major
- [DIY: Upcycle regular jeans into skinny jeans!](https://commatose.ca/2013/12/diy-turn-your-regular-jeans-into-skinny-jeans-right-now.html) - I like wider jeans, but in the winter it's a pain to make them work with boots. How I made wider leg jeans into boot-ready skinny jeans, and how you can too!
- [Stop your dog's tummy pain with 1 ingredient](https://commatose.ca/2017/07/stop-your-dogs-tummy-pain-with-1-ingredient.html) - When our boxer dog has stomach issues, there is one fail-safe treatment we reach for in our pantry. It's always good to keep it on hand just in case.
- [A tasty home remedy for sore throat, congestion & more](https://commatose.ca/2019/03/turmeric-latte-for-colds.html) - In our little lake-surrounded alcove of Ontario, September through June seems to be perpetual cold, flu and allergy season. At least once a year the young son and I each ice the health cake with some sinus infections. (July and early August are typically fantastic though!) This year I decided after much recommendation to try
- [How we treated our dog's nasodigital hyperkeratosis -- wait, what?](https://commatose.ca/2015/02/how-we-treated-our-dogs-nasodigital-hyperkeratosis-wait-what.html) - Casey began to limp a couple of weeks back. The cause turned out to be a bizarre condition we'd never heard of; luckily, it can be treated.
- [3 (+2) chalazion treatments that really helped](https://commatose.ca/2016/03/the-3-ways-we-treated-our-babys-chalazions.html) - A child is a blessing & many potential learning experiences. When we found out our baby's styes were in fact chalazions, here's what we learned helped most.
- [The Third Eye Initiative](https://commatose.ca/2013/04/the-third-eye-initiative-2-bestseller-in-dark-fantasy-horror.html) - Canadian author J.J. Newman's Third Eye Initiative has been gaining momentum since its launch in mid-April 2013. Do you have your copy yet?
- [39 weeks: The final mugshot? Please?](https://commatose.ca/2014/03/39-weeks-the-final-mugshot-please-and-fitbit-progress.html) - Trying to walk this baby out of the womb... so far an unsuccessful journey, but I'm feeling good from all the exercise! 10,000+ steps a day 4 days in a row!
- [How life has changed!](https://commatose.ca/2014/04/how-life-has-changed.html) - Oh hey, I became a mom. Our son was born weighing 8lbs, 3oz and measuring 21" long. He is the most precious little monkey I have ever seen. We love him more than we ever knew was possible. I'll add a picture of the little guy to this post when I am on the computer
- [One year ago today, my life changed.](https://commatose.ca/2014/08/one-year-ago-today-my-life-changed.html) - August 19th is close to my heart...
- [When to use a knit foot instead of a walking foot](https://commatose.ca/2018/09/why-i-love-my-knit-foot.html) - A knit foot is a must-have in my sewing kit. It blows the much-loved even-feed food out of the water for neater stitching on knits. Here's why I love it.
- [The ONE kit you need if you love to sew](https://commatose.ca/2017/07/the-one-kit-you-need-if-you-love-to-sew.html) - Since I got this set, I've learned so many new things I can do with my sewing machine! A great Christmas gift for someone who sews.
- [Quickly stop pain from bee stings & bug bites](https://commatose.ca/2020/07/quickly-stop-pain-from-bee-stings-bug-bites.html) - Thought I'd share the way we stopped the pain (and even the swelling) that follows being stung by a wasp or bee. You can use it for other bites too!
- [DIY: Upcycle your old t-shirt into a kid's raglan!](https://commatose.ca/2018/08/i-upcycled-a-mans-tee-into-a-kids-raglan-and-so-can-you.html) - Here's a free, fun project for you and your sewing machine/serger! But first: Are you having a great summer? I hope so. I love this time of year for so many reasons -- walking on the beach with your feet in the warm sand, hiking, gardening -- and not needing to bundle up to enjoy
- [DIY: Make a cloth diaper!](https://commatose.ca/2014/03/diy-make-a-cloth-diaper.html) - Want to try your hand at making a cloth diaper? Use this great tutorial I found. My results are shown here, on Tester Monkey!
- [Christmas is OVER!](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/christmas-is-over.html) - I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! The past two days have been wonderfully packed with family, food, Christmas music and my gent, which kind of ruled. And it's nice to enjoy a full day off once a year without a trip to Walmart. Now everything can slow back down and sweet reality can
- [DIY: Easy upcycled knotted baby hats!](https://commatose.ca/2014/03/diy-easy-upcycled-knotted-baby-hats.html) - Here's a quick, easy instructional on how to make one-of-a-kind baby hats in no time at all, with material you already have!
- [Dog Tummy Rumbling](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/dog-tummy-rumbling.html) - Our Boxer puppy's tummy gave us a wake-up call this morning when it began to growl so loudly we could hear it from another room. What happened?
- [DIY: Add some colour with dip-dyed ombré plant hangers!](https://commatose.ca/2017/06/diy-add-some-colour-with-dip-dyed-ombre-plant-hangers.html) - Warning -- this post contains excessive accent-aigus and dip-dyed plant hangers that look wicked fresh.
- [2 easy ways to grow your own spider plants -- no green thumb needed!](https://commatose.ca/2017/06/2-easy-ways-to-grow-your-own-spider-plants-no-green-thumb-needed.html) - These cat-friendly plants are incredible air purifiers and they grow like wildfire! Here's how to cultivate your own spider plants, sans green thumb!
- [DIY: Make a rug into a cute beach tote!](https://commatose.ca/2017/06/diy-make-a-rug-into-a-cute-beach-tote.html) - Make a sturdy beach bag to carry towels, books, sunblock, snacks and refreshments! A quick, easy DIY using a rug & supplies you probably have on hand.
- [Make a sturdy beach bag for cheap!](https://commatose.ca/2017/06/preview-make-a-sturdy-beach-bag-for-cheap.html) - It's time for the beach! Here's a quick preview of the DIY beach tote I made. Tutorial coming up next!
- [Happy Hearts Day!](https://commatose.ca/2017/02/5162.html) - We're not really 'big' on Valentine's Day, but we make sure to draw a heart or two in the snow. How about you?
- [Important tips to learn before you make DIY cloth diapers](https://commatose.ca/2014/03/important-tips-to-learn-before-you-make-diy-cloth-diapers.html) - A summary of things I've learned about sewing your own cloth diapers, and a link to the most comprehensive cloth diaps resource I've found.
- [Turning 2!](https://commatose.ca/2016/03/johnny-turns-2.html) - Happy birthday to our handsome, bright and funny son.
- [DIY: How to Make a Beautiful Pallet Headboard for Under $30](https://commatose.ca/2013/09/diy-how-to-make-a-beautiful-pallet-headboard-for-under-30.html) - Always wanted a pallet headboard... so we made one! For cheap! Tutorial here.
- [Throwback Monday: DIY Pallet Headboard](https://commatose.ca/2016/07/throwback-monday-diy-pallet-headboard.html) - Today we take the time machine a couple years back to the weekend we made a headboard with upcycled pallets & borrowed tools.
- [Cats with Horned Paws -- It's a Thing](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/cats-with-horned-paws-its-a-thing.html) - Our fluffy cat Jane is extra special. She has a bonus nail on each pad of her front paws, except facing backwards. Read more here about horned paws in cats.
- [DIY Inspo: Soft storage bags](https://commatose.ca/2016/03/diy-inspo-soft-storage-bags.html) - Must try: Making these cute little bags with upcycled jeans!
- [How to stop swelling with chayote](https://commatose.ca/2016/03/how-to-stop-swelling-with-chayote.html) - Whether edema arises from complications from birth control pills + flying, pregnancy or high blood pressure in general, here's why to give chayote a try.
- [Follow me on Pinterest!](https://commatose.ca/2016/02/follow-me-on-pinterest.html) - It's where my disarray of dreams is organized neatly into subsections! Let's talk in the comments about future projects inspired by Pinterest!
- [What I'm up to: 1 Hour Fabric Basket](https://commatose.ca/2016/01/what-im-up-to-1-hour-fabric-basket.html) - Good 2016 to you! Thank you for stopping by! Just wanted to make a quick update with what I've been up to lately! Either I ran myself pretty hard through November and December, or being sick has done a number, (probably both) but I've been sleep-deprived since mid-December. Anyway, pairing that with the usual winter
- [Merry Christmas!](https://commatose.ca/2015/12/merry-christmas.html) - Thanks for the love this year! Have a wonderful holiday season!
- [DIY: Extra-sensitive skin baby wipes](https://commatose.ca/2015/10/diy-make-sensitive-skin-baby-wipes.html) - Is your baby prone to diaper rash with store-bought wipes? Ours was too, so we made our own rash-banishing wipes for extra-sensitive skin.
- [DIY Bra band extender -- great for pregnancy!](https://commatose.ca/2014/01/diy-bra-band-extender-great-for-pregnancy.html) - Cups fit but band size seems to vary? Save your lungs during pregnancy or PMS with a homemade bra band extender. Fast, easy & free! Here's how.
- [DIY: Plastic bag holder](https://commatose.ca/2015/08/diy-make-a-fabric-plastic-bag-holder.html) - If you aren't near a dollar store or you're itching to use your sewing machine for a quick project, make your own plastic bag dispenser! Easy instructions.
- [DIY: From Old Dresser to Pretty Vintage Bench](https://commatose.ca/2013/09/diy-from-old-dresser-to-pretty-vintage-bench.html) - How to turn an old dresser into a beautiful new bench spending under $50. Use for your entranceway, or anywhere!
- [John's 1st birthday party!](https://commatose.ca/2015/03/johns-1st-birthday-party.html) - We celebrated John's birthday this past weekend. He had just about the happiest birthday a turning-one-year-old boy could ask for.
- [DIY: Crib Rail Cover](https://commatose.ca/2015/02/diy-crib-rail-cover.html) - Make a crib-rail cover with material you have from old projects. It's actually pretty simple.
- [Stop Thinking](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/stop-thinking.html) - Latest pet peeve: When you ask me for advice, I give you advice, then you tell me why it won't work. So I take the extreme opposite of that advice, which I suppose you have pre-decided on anyhow, and say "Well, do that then," and you still don't agree with that. Then, I try to
- [Rather shoot myself in the foot.](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/rather-shoot-myself-in-the-foot.html) - Dan and I came up with the very feasible idea of writing Joel Plaskett a letter asking him to perform in my backyard (should I ever get one) and sweetening the deal by inserting a "fiver" into the envelope. You're invited, should this idea ever come to pass. I really like this "not being in
- [Wow! Old Dresser to DIY Vintage Bench Pinned 2000 times!](https://commatose.ca/2015/01/wow-old-dresser-to-diy-vintage-bench-pinned-2000-times.html) - An exciting milestone for one of our coolest DIYs. It reached 2000 pins today!
- [Best Soup for Winter: Lasagna Soup](https://commatose.ca/2013/12/recipe-lasagna-soup.html) - This is such a flavourful soup and I'm glad I decided to try it! Brilliant for lunch or dinner in the middle of winter. Recipe here.
- [Been a month! Time to blog.](https://commatose.ca/2014/06/been-a-month-time-to-blog.html) - So, life is busy. For now, the DIYs are cut back because there is rarely a moment where I get time to open my laptop, let alone process pictures or post anything other than a Facebook status. (That stuff is usually done on my phone anyway.) However! When I do get some time, I will
- [Hello, Baby Boy!](https://commatose.ca/2014/04/hello-baby-boy.html) - An introduction to our perfect little guy, John, born almost three weeks ago!
- [39 weeks: Here's the nursery!](https://commatose.ca/2014/03/39-weeks-heres-the-nursery.html) - While we wait for this little pudge to make his first appearance, here are some pics of the baby-boy-to-be's room.
- [Ice shoves no longer -- caves being destroyed some time this week](https://commatose.ca/2014/02/ice-shoves-no-longer-caves-being-destroyed-some-time-this-week.html) - An iconic and beautifully rare scene on the shore of Crystal Beach is about to be destroyed. Maybe it's not such a bad thing.
- [Ice shoves on Lake Erie at Crystal Beach -- just wow.](https://commatose.ca/2014/02/ice-shoves-on-lake-erie-at-crystal-beach-just-wow.html) - If you want to see something you might never see again, plan a Valentine's visit or a Family Day trip to Crystal Beach on Lake Erie to see the rare shove ice!
- [Denim whale's big brother has arrived!](https://commatose.ca/2014/01/denim-whales-big-brother-has-arrived.html) - I made a slightly more 'robust' version of the DIY denim whale toddler gift from last week. Isn't he cute?
- [DIY denim whale -- great baby room or toddler gift project!](https://commatose.ca/2014/01/diy-denim-whale-great-baby-room-or-toddler-gift-project.html) - I found a great tutorial and gave it a whale -- err, a whirl. He'll be a cute, plushy addition to our baby boy's room.
- [The Aubs](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/the-aubs.html) - Me, holdin' the little tyke for the first time. Welcome, little kid. Now grow old and optimistically-cynical and appreciate my blog! But seriously, isn't she adorable? I mean, even if you don't know her personally. You have to admit it. Oh, you won't? Well my knee hurts. I don't know, maybe it's my veins again,
- [Quick tip: How to soften hardened brown sugar](https://commatose.ca/2014/01/quick-tip-how-to-soften-hardened-brown-sugar.html) - Use this quick and easy trick to fix that awful bag of hard brown sugar in your cupboard. It's still good!
- [Recipe: Butterscotch & peanut butter haystacks](https://commatose.ca/2014/01/recipe-butterscotch-peanut-butter-haystacks.html) - Fast, delicious and easy as hell. I could eat a million peanut butter and butterscotch haystacks.
- [Kitty sill bed for window-dwelling felines](https://commatose.ca/2014/01/kitty-sill-bed-for-window-dwelling-felines.html) - Here's something fancy for your cat that I found on Amazon. Your cat would love you... AND continue to love lying in sunlight.
- [DIY rustic end table for less than $10!](https://commatose.ca/2013/12/diy-rustic-end-table-for-less-than-10.html) - Miklos made this end table a couple of weeks ago. I love it! And I also love the price. What do you think?
- [Pretty Night for a Drive](https://commatose.ca/2013/06/pretty-night-for-a-drive.html) - A picture of the Niagara Falls skyline taken with Miklos's Samsung Galaxy S4. You know, since I dropped mine in the toilet tonight.
- [Flashback to March 2013 -- Junior & Casey](https://commatose.ca/2013/11/flashback-to-march-2013-junior-casey.html) - A look back at how adorably small Junior was when we first got him earlier this year. Check out the dog blog.
- [Sew Interesting](https://commatose.ca/2013/10/sew-interesting.html) - Going to get a sewing machine soon so I can broaden my horizons (and give the ol' wallet a rest when it comes to maternity clothes).
- [Coolest Thing Ever](https://commatose.ca/2013/10/coolest-thing-ever.html) - First picture of our little one! This is getting exciting.
- [Best Soup for Fall: Homemade Cream of Broccoli (& Everything Else!)](https://commatose.ca/2013/09/best-soup-for-fall-homemade-cream-of-broccoli-everything-else.html) - A recipe for my favourite hearty soup for fall. Tailor to your liking, but this is how we do it in the 'hood (AKA our kitchen).
- [Dragonfly Cannibalism](https://commatose.ca/2013/08/dragonfly-cannibalism.html) - Have you ever seen a dragonfly eating another dragonfly? Here are a couple of pictures of just what that looks like.
- [July's Done, Nobody's Impressed](https://commatose.ca/2013/07/julys-done-nobodys-impressed.html) - I can't believe how fast this year is flying by. [Side note: There is an undeniable correlation between how old a person is and how often they say that.] Lessons learned so far this summer: Whenever I want to water the lawn, I remember it's supposed to rain that night. It usually does not end
- [Animal Update](https://commatose.ca/2013/07/animal-update.html) - What's new with the five maniacs we call our pets.
- [Bears in a Tree](https://commatose.ca/2013/07/bears-in-a-tree.html) - Saw bears cooling off in a tree for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Never leave your camera at home.
- [Western Catalpa Tree, Thou Art Mine Enemy](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/western-catalpa-tree-thou-art-mine-enemy.html) - Don't ever plant a Western Catalpa tree, and if you have one in your yard, consider removing it. Why? Well...
- [Look Who I Found in the Cat Bed...](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/look-who-i-found-in-the-cat-bed.html) - My wrinkly little friend found his way into the DIY cat bed. This makes 3/4 of our smaller animals I've found in there. (Casey just won't fit, at 85 lbs.)
- [Junior had a play-date...](https://commatose.ca/2013/05/junior-had-a-play-date.html) - Our 17 week old boxer had a play date with a french bulldog/Boston terrier mix today.
- [New Book: The Third Eye Initiative by J.J. Newman](https://commatose.ca/2013/04/book-launch-the-third-eye-initiative-by-j-j-newman.html) - A good friend launched his book this week on Amazon. Find the link here and help support this new dark fantasy novelist.
- [Free & Easy Cat Hammock Bed DIY](https://commatose.ca/2012/12/free-easy-cat-hammock-bed-diy.html) - How to make a simply cat hammock from an old sheet and a chair. Free!
- [Building a Garbage Shed for Less Than $100 Using Scrap Wood](https://commatose.ca/2012/12/building-a-garbage-shed-for-less-than-100-using-scrap-wood.html) - How Miklos built a shed for our garbage cans for $95 using wood leftover from a fence he tore down and a few things from the hardware store.
- [Ellie](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/ellie.html) - Ellie, may you rest in peace. There's not a word in the world that describes you better than "wonderful". I'd write on and on about how unfair this is, because it really is... but I can't write anything else today.
- [It's Time to Start](https://commatose.ca/2013/04/its-time-to-start.html) - Something I'd like everyone to consider: Happiness. Read more.
- [Rico finally found his way into the DIY cat bed... Congrats, buddy!](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/rico-finally-found-his-way-into-the-diy-cat-bed-congrats-buddy.html) - The DIY cat hammock I made for the cats is a real hit. How did I make it?
- [Classical Music and Dogs: A Halfway Surprising Experiment](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/classical-music-and-dogs-a-halfway-surprising-experiment.html) - It turns out classical music does have an effect on our dogs ... Read more.
- [Cat or Magpie? -- Our Mixi, the Cat Burglar](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/cat_burglar.html) - We have a cat who is full of antics. A few of the funny things she's done over the years, and I'm positive I'm missing a lot of them.
- [And then there were 3... cats, I mean.](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/and-then-there-were-3-cats-i-mean.html) - Miklos found a kitten in the woods (or rather, some old men found her but couldn't keep her). After suggesting what seemed like a dictionary of names for a tortoiseshell kitten with an exceptionally friendly and energetic personality for a cat who'd been left in the woods for at least a couple of days, we
- [Pumpkin for Dog Tummy Rumbling](https://commatose.ca/2013/03/pumpkin-tummy-remedy.html) - We tried organic pumpkin in Junior's dinner to see if it would fix his raging stomach growling. Did it work?
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/18.html) - Good morning. I thought I would list my most enjoyed television programs, in no order of relevance. Antiques Roadshow Survivor Flip That House American Idol (auditions only plz) I'm going to see butterflies today. I hope my camera battery doesn't die (as it often does since it made its fall into a bowl of water),
- [New Puppy Pictures!](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/new-puppy-pictures.html) - I promised them, and I almost never break a promise made on my blog. Here they are: Cute pictures of our new puppy, Junior. Junior & Casey Bored of this photoshoot... I'm out! So, a bit about our new German boxer puppy: We got him at 8 weeks old He came from a litter of
- [New Puppy](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/new-puppy.html) - We got a new puppy. A post about what I think of having 3 dogs and 2 cats. (Spoiler: I like it!)
- [Casey Loves this Record Player](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/casey-loves-this-record-player.html) - Our yellow lab heard us playing Zorba Dance on the old record player we found (which works!) and started squeaking along with her duck toy.
- [Vintage Finds, AKA Old Crap](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/vintage-finds-aka-old-crap.html) - Here's the old stuff we found one night by the side of the road! One awesome original oil painting with the name "Eldon" on it. Any info on that?
- [New Art: Foxy Lakey, Northern Ontario Inspired](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/new-art-foxy-lakey-northern-ontario-inspired.html) - New acrylic painting on canvas inspired by a creature we frequently see up north on Dollar Lake in Northern Ontario. For sale on Etsy.
- [Vintage Score](https://commatose.ca/2013/02/vintage-score.html) - Some neat stuff we found on the side of the road proves pot-grower evictions are good for some of us (not usually the evicted).
- [Windows Estimated Wait Times](https://commatose.ca/2013/01/windows-estimated-wait-times.html) - This is among the comics life reminds me of often. Credit: xkcd.com
- [Mayor McCheese](https://commatose.ca/2011/01/mayor-mccheese.html) - Rob Ford bears a striking resemblance to a much better mayor.
- [No Regrets](https://commatose.ca/2012/12/no-regrets.html) - I've wondered where you've been. Understood, my friend.
- [Quick Vegetarian Chickpea Curry for Lunch!](https://commatose.ca/2012/12/quick-vegetarian-chickpea-curry-for-lunch.html) - Delicious, kinda healthy even. Quick and easy recipe for chickpea (garbanzo) curry.
- [Here's where we're at](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/heres-where-were-at.html) - Sometimes I feel like this guy. Anything that angers you, conquers you. - the Internet
- [1408](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/1408.html) - Bloop bloop bloop.
- [Oh Me.](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/oh-me.html) - More and more I realize I need people to chide me for motivational purposes. If only I could get into the habit of taunting myself when I think negatively or when I don't take 30 minutes a day to exercise, or when I don't sit down and write something for that matter. In terms of
- [Morning Laundry](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/morning-laundry.html) - Ungodly - Adverb describing the hour or more before daybreak where you are awake because your house is a raging inferno of heat (or you wore too many layers of clothing to bed - more likely). Oh, North American dilemmas. Dilemmae? Whathaveyou. Aside: Sometimes I feel like this site should be called Bracketose, but then
- [Warm Heart of Winter](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/warm-heart-of-winter.html) - This has to be the greatest January for weather in all my life (and maybe yours - I don't know you). Of seven (7) days, just one (1) has reached -21°C with the windchill, and only days later it's as mild as last May would've been if it didn't rain so much that I never
- [I'm a strong dead man who's only looking out for himself](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/im-a-strong-dead-man-whos-only-looking-out-for-himself.html) - Well, I just heard it on the old cabbagey-smelling bus ride home and decided. The song to start springtime is unofficially: Tuff Ghost by the Unicorns I need a workplace Health & Safety related topic to write a paper on! I've got no idea what to write about, and I need something with kind of
- [Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/tell-me-anything-you-want-any-old-lie-will-do.html) - When I die, which I always assume will be the following week, please play Fleet Foxes as background music at my life celebration.
- [Songs & Stories: This Week](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/songs-stories-this-week.html) - Links to Spoon, Joel Plaskett, Fleet Foxes tunes on Youtube.
- [Oh, DJ Jojo. Where are you when it's not Saturday morning?](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/oh-dj-jojo-where-are-you-when-its-not-saturday-morning.html) - There's this awesome guy in a yellow Corvette who circles the Falls some (all?) nights and, I imagine, pops one giant boner after another as people turn their heads to look at his car. The great thing is, Miklos and Pearl noticed him last year, and the guy still takes the same route around the
- [Midnight Vulture](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/midnight-vulture.html) - Why am I writing at 1:19am? I felt it necessary to publicly declare my love for this t-shirt I bought yesterday. The jeans are really good too. I just revised the second sentence for 'wordiness' purposes. You can tell I've had the grammar-check on while writing this report, as it's becoming inherent that I fix,
- [Bring on the Blue Sky](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/bring-on-the-blue-sky.html) - Very nice music though.
- [To the MG fans, what's left of them...](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/to-the-mg-fans-whats-left-of-them.html) - Unlikely, as the remaining fans are the obsessive type, but in case you missed this somehow, here's Alan Cross talking to Matt Good about Vancouver.
- [The Crazy Cat Lady](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/the-crazy-cat-lady.html) - I'm reading all about introducing cats to each other today. Mixi and Jane pretty much hate each other, and Rico has never been a fan of other cats. So upon this upcoming merge, we may find ourselves in a pretty pickle. Oh, kitties. I need a farm. Going to conduct a social experiment based on
- [Mistaking Satellites for Stars](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/mistaking-satellites-for-stars.html) - I am very, very slowly recovering from the Thrush Hermit show last night at Lee's Palace. The best word to sum that experience up is WOW. They played every song I wanted to hear, and they blew the roof, the walls, the doors, andthe pants right off that place. On our failed attempt to get
- [I've got the time but the time don't pay](https://commatose.ca/2010/04/ive-got-the-time-but-the-time-dont-pay.html) - Song streamed from Youtube.
- [Messages from Friends](https://commatose.ca/2010/11/messages-from-friends.html) - While cleaning up around the place this afternoon, "Generation X-Wing" stuck itself in my head. It was enough for me to actually muster up the courage to scour my (very) dusty CD collection and dig up Matthew Good Band's Raygun. After that, it became a kind of marathon of tunes I hadn't heard for a
- [Jimmie's Still Jimmie & I'm Still Me](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/jimmies-still-jimmie-im-still-me.html) - Heard this song first at work, and being that it was the only good song on the work playlist + it's Plaskett, I promptly fell in love and linked to its Youtube stream.
- [Tunes for the Taking](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/tunes-for-the-taking.html) - Ranting about the Canadian government while listening to Fleet Foxes on Youtube.
- [Twas the Night Before the Night Before Christmas (Today)](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before-christmas-today.html) - This is one of my silliest memories. My cousin and I convinced my fiance to drive us to a pub in St Kitts at 6AM on a work day to see Alan Cross & Three Days Grace guy (who I don't care about).
- [CREAM DELIVERY!](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/cream-delivery.html) - The world was fooled when a song was released that sounded like Radiohead but wasn't them at all. Still neat though.
- [Isn't it CUTE when girls have hobbies?](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/isnt-it-cute-when-girls-have-hobbies.html) - This is one of my favourite childhood pictures. It defines who I have become. A person with wildly thick hair only caring about music.
- [Three (3) Songs from My Youth for 5 (Five) January](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/three-3-songs-from-my-youth-for-5-january.html) - Refreshments - Banditos; Matthew Good - Pledge of Allegiance; Beck - Que Onda Guero; Another blast from the past bunch of streams from Youtube.
- [And one (1) song from recent days, for 5 (five) January](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/and-one-1-song-from-recent-days-for-5-five-january.html) - This is such a great song and the video reminds me of a time when music videos were awesome. Streamed from Youtube.
- [More music while I mull over things instead of whining](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/more-music-while-i-mull-over-things-instead-of-whining.html) - This song reminds me of my smarter days. Anyone still have those? Streaming from Youtube.
- [Through & Through & Through](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/through.html) - Gorgeous song and cute-as-heck video streamed from Youtube.
- [All I See is Ug-layyy](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/all-i-see-is-ugly.html) - Hope into the Comma time machine for this blast from the past song. Makes you want to watch Jonovision. Streamed from Youtube.
- [Fleet Foxes, Listen to Them or Die Bored](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/fleet-foxes-listen-to-them-or-die-bored.html) - I spill out my heart for this wonderful band. Streaming videos for The Shrine / An Argument & Mykonos by Fleet Foxes on Youtube.
- [OK Why Not.](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/ok-why-not.html) - Beautiful song and video streaming from Youtube.
- [The lamest songs are often the most accurate](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/the-lamest-songs-are-often-the-most-accurate.html) - Beck - Chemtrails; Joel Plaskett - Heartless, Heartless, Heartless; Matthew Good Band - Born to Kill. Streaming on Youtube.
- [The Last Canada Goose](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/the-last-canada-goose.html) - Streaming on Youtube.
- [Saturday Night](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/saturday-night.html) - Such a beautiful song. Streamed on Youtube.
- [Morning Ha-Ha](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/morning-ha-ha.html) - What a great TV moment. How can someone not love Dave Grohl? Video from Youtube.
- [Where My Love Began](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/where-my-love-began.html) - This was the first time I ever heard and saw Fleet Foxes perform. Beautiful song. And from here, it was love.
- [Like a Hurricane](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/like-a-hurricane.html) - Streaming from Youtube
- [Good Morning](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/good-morning-2.html) - Streaming from Youtube
- [Why You Cry](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/why-you-cry.html) - Something called 'appoggiatura' is the reason music evokes such emotion, according to experiments performed by Dr John Sloboda.
- [Somewhere Else](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/somewhere-else.html) - Streaming from Youtube.
- [I made a sweater for an octopus, with an extra hole for his hopes and ideas!](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/i-made-a-sweater-for-an-octopus-with-an-extra-hole-for-his-hopes-and-ideas.html) - Streaming from Youtube.
- [Lousy Smarch Weather](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/lousy-smarch-weather.html) - Streaming from Youtube.
- [Elect Phillip Phillips 2012](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/elect-phillip-phillips-2012.html) - Standout performer from American Idol 2012 ends up being the winner.
- [First 20 Songs on Shuffle](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/first-20-songs-on-shuffle.html) - Just as the title describes + my opinions when necessary (always).
- [What a World!](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/what-a-world.html) - Streaming from Youtube.
- [Friday Big 3](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/friday-big-3.html) - Beck - Cellphone's Dead;The Strokes - Reptilia; Joel Plaskett - Heartless, Heartless, Heartless. Streaming on Youtube.
- [Yes, There are Mosquitoes Out in March](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/yes-there-are-mosquitoes-out-in-march.html) - Streaming from Youtube.
- [Oh right, the Dears exist.](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/oh-right-the-dears-exist.html) - Streaming from Youtube.
- [Charlie Brown?  Really??  OR: I don't get you, Coldplay.](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/charlie-brown-really-or-i-dont-get-you-coldplay.html) - My opinion of Coldplay. Sure to hurt feelings.
- [More Indie Shi...ps.](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/more-indie-shi-ps.html) - Great music on Youtube.
- [Garth's Choice](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/garths-choice.html) - Link to stream from CBC Radio.
- [What I'm Reading Today:](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/what-im-reading-today.html) - Alan Cross: What came first, the song or the hit? Easter egg hunt cancelled due to pushy parents LOL guys, it's 1998! Summerland Tour 2012 It's sunny outside, but it's freezing, so I am feeling uninspired.
- [More Music without Videos](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/more-music-without-videos.html) - Matthew Good - Last Parade; Modest Mouse - The World at Large on Youtube. Also, a link to stream Joel Plaskett's album Scrappy Happiness on CBC Radio.
- [Monday-Type Music](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/monday-type-music.html) - This song reminds me of a couple of weeks in my younger life. Streamed from Grooveshark.
- [Tunesday Night](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/tunesday-night.html) - Nice video and song by the Lumineers on Youtube.
- [Robin Pecknold continues to be wonderful in every way.](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/robin-pecknold-continues-to-be-wonderful-in-every-way.html) - Great video of a very talented kid covering a song by Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes.
- [Thursday Tunage](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/thursday-tunage.html) - Very cool Youtube video.
- [I Like It](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/i-like-it.html) - Youtube video. This video is so impressive, one of those "have to see it"s.
- [IT'S SPRINGTIME!](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/its-springtime.html) - This is one of the nicest videos I've seen in so long. Uplifting, sweet and beautiful song.
- [Tuesday Afternoon](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/tuesday-afternoon.html) - Youtube stream.
- [A Day Without a Dog](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/a-day-without-a-dog.html) - Got to clean today. Now streaming: Ex-Pats Of The Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra
- [EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.html) - Miklos got us some pre-sale tickets to the Joel Plaskett show at Hamilton Place Theatre on October 19! I don't get excited for much, but I always look forward to a Plaskett show with my gentleman's accompaniment.
- [Kurt Vonnegut Drawing](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/kv.html) - I made a smart-object drawing of Kurt Vonnegut today!
- [I Like This Dog Because When I Have Her I Am Famous](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/i-like-this-dog-because-when-i-have-her-i-am-famous.html) - Our yellow lab Casey attained fame on a Hungarian candy bar Facebook page today.
- [Seventeen Layers of Doubt](https://commatose.ca/2012/09/seventeen-layers-of-doubt.html) - Some art I finally finished. Not pleased with it. On to the next one.
- [Fresco Jesus Restoration](https://commatose.ca/2012/09/fresco-jesus-restoration.html) - This was my favourite story of the year. Got to love the before & after.
- [Something's Happening](https://commatose.ca/2012/09/somethings-happening.html) - First, the obligatory fall-coloured leaf photo: Second, this could be a big day. A big awful day. Shit-show type of stuff. Or, conversely, it could be the best day of my life. Or it could be an average day. Really, I just wanted to post the picture of my leaf.
- [Time](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/time.html) - I'm in one of those mid-life crisis in your twenties things. Maybe that means I'm dying at 56. We'll see how it goes. There's a point in one's life where self-respect becomes a crucial element and I've hit it. It's so important to me right now that I'm leaping into an abyss and I don't
- [This conversation has a real flow to it!](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/this-conversation-has-a-real-flow-to-it.html) - The best show on television which will be ending this year in all likelihood is 30 Rock. I don't see a need for a full blog post, but should I die, I think there needs to be a record of this opinion somewhere other than Twitter (my tweets are indecipherable and oft times sarcastic, you
- [Sorry I ruined your black panther party](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/sorry-i-ruined-your-black-panther-party.html) - Toronto Zoo has two beautiful jaguars, one of which is the majestic black panther, which I was lucky enough to get a great picture of this time. Love these cats!
- [Busy Bee](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/busy-bee.html) - It's been a week full of business preparatory. I can't help but feel somewhat ready for this now. It will be nice to actually shoot soon and get back to the part of the whole deal that I love. Tonight the Miklos and I venture off into the Hamilton night to see Mr Joel Plaskett.
- [Joel Plaskett Show](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/joel-plaskett-show.html) - Hamilton Place show was awesome. Video of two live songs from the show, "Natural Disaster" & "Down at the Khyber".
- [It's Been Such a Long Time](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/its-been-such-a-long-time.html) - Rico cat's costume from last year.
- [Necessary Halloween Pets Post](https://commatose.ca/2012/10/necessary-halloween-pets.html) - Halloween pictures. Dog was a skeleton, cats wore their tie and jester collars.
- [Interactive Map of Toronto's Fallen Soldiers (Source: Global News)](https://commatose.ca/2012/11/toronto-map-of-fallen-soldiers-source-global-news.html) - An incredible 2870 names of fallen soldiers from the First World War geocoded and analyzed, plotted onto this map of Toronto according to their next of kin's address, along with their age, date of death, occupation and rank.
- [Val Valentino Strikes Again - Masked Magician Fail ](https://commatose.ca/2012/11/val-valentino-strikes-again-masked-magician-fail.html) - Famed Masked Magician Val Valentino makes a big mistake on live television while doing a card trick. Karma?
- [Easy & Delicious Oven Roasted Potatoes Recipe](https://commatose.ca/2012/11/easy-delicious-oven-roasted-potatoes-recipe.html) - Herbed potatoes roasted to delicious perfection. Excellent for side dishes or on their own for lunch or dinner.
- [Weird](https://commatose.ca/2012/09/weird.html) - It turned out of course as many know by now that the body found up north from my last post was that of Shana Carter, missing since December 2010 from her Grimsby residence. Everything about this story is a little too close to home, geographically, for me. It's scary for us smaller-town people to realize
- ["Things People Like"](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/things-people-like.html) - I just found an important notepad file on my computer. It reads, in its entirety, as follows: Things People Like: - Plinko - themselves - music Well, that was worth the KBs, I would like to think.
- [Fireman](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/fireman.html) - Yes. Thanks to my sister and my niece for the props for this shot. And actually my niece for creating the 'fire'. Long exposures are fun. I want to a bunch more now that I've remembered that.
- [Oliver's 7th Life](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/olivers-7th-life.html) - Hoping all day long that our beautiful Oliver is doing well after his first aid yesterday. Poor freaking cat. I've lost track of how many times he's hurt himself over the years. He seems to be eating and acting normally, so despite the nastiness of his latest injury, I have a good amount of hope
- [When what to my wondering eyes should appear... ](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/when-what-to-my-wondering-eyes-should-appear.html) - ... but the ugliest little bug I ever did see(...r). Or so I thought. I spent a good 5-10 minutes trying to get the sharpest shot in the low light just before dusk of this critter I nearly sat on in the back yard. I had my mouth clenched tight in case it tried to
- [Time to Re-Dye, Peeps](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/time-to-re-dye-peeps.html) - Awful brown rainbow hair braided to hippie mess perfection fun. (A Japanese novella title?) "Hello, I am your hair. I can has one colour only please thank youp."
- [Alien Clown Car](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/alien-clown-car.html)
- [Oh right, I have a blog.](https://commatose.ca/2012/08/oh-right-i-have-a-blog.html)
- [Up on the Roof](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/up-on-the-roof.html) - Strange skies lately. Miklos beckoned for me to bring my 'good' camera (he knows I've been too fascinated with Instagram lately) and get this picture through our window. Yes, it has screen texture, but one [I] might say that adds to it [and that there was no other view of this part of the sky
- [HBDR](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/hbdr.html) - It wouldn't be the Comma Blog if I didn't wish my First Cat a very happy estimated birthday. Today (or somewhere around today) he has been around for eight (8) long years. Happy birthday, ya maniac.
- [Leggy](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/leggy.html) - My patio friend showed up while Miklos was grilling the giant zucchini from our garden (although somewhat tasty, we don't understand vegetarians after it). Say hello!
- [RIP Dead Car](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/rip-dead-car.html) - It happened without careening, which came as a surprise. Waiting all day for what was to become my Friday the 13th, I did at one point envision myself in a horrific car crash (I'm not crazy, I just am seriously crazy). Not usually too superstitious, it had been a relatively calm week so I expected
- [Crazy Daisies 2.0](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/crazy-daisies-2-0.html) - It's always nice to keep some fresh flowers around. Rico agrees, at least for a time before he coughs up some of the leaves.
- [My Arms Hurt Now](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/my-arms-hurt-now.html) - Got a little braidy toward the bottom somehow, but this works. Credit: Osenoa
- [Happy Belated, Canada! ](https://commatose.ca/2012/07/happy-belated-canada.html) - I wore red yesterday, so for balance, here's some blue.
- [Home](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/home.html)
- [Wire Walk Announcement:](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/wire-walk-announcement.html) - If anyone's trying to avoid the crowds tonight I will be walking along the narrow garden ties in my back yard. #WireWalk — Nik(@commatose) June 15, 2012 Show up at 9:45pm sharp for best viewing!
- [The Masked Magician Unmasked](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/the-masked-magician-unmasked.html) - Was anyone impressed when this happened? I remember a lot of disappointed kids the next day at school after Valentino revealed he'd been the man behind the mask all along. Leave your thoughts in the comments. Even if you don't, I am kind of interested to see who still scours Google (aside from me) for
- [Foto Memori](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/foto-memori.html) - Puppy learning to use stairs, trial and error: Tumbl'r
- [Butterfly Effect](https://commatose.ca/2012/06/butterfly-effect-2.html)
- [Splotches](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/splotches.html) - If today's painting turns out ok I will post it.
- [Hey North Carolina](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/hey-north-carolina.html) - This made me upset. I'm trying to elaborate but I have no few words. To anyone who has ever had the nerve to think it is OK to control the lives of millions of people they've never even met, you need to let people do what they want. They're not hurting anyone being in love, so
- [Some Weather Coming...](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/some-weather-coming.html) - Just a spot of light rain on the way for tomorrow... Light Rain, 40-50mm
- [Supermoon Tonite](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/supermoon-tonite.html)
- [Yay! Distraction! Supermoon for President!](https://commatose.ca/2012/05/yay-distraction-supermoon-for-president.html) - I am not very talky lately, but here's something to distract us all from our woes til I get my originality back: Supermoon is coming! Will his girlfriend, Lois Lune, make an appearance too? We'll see. This Saturday, May 5, watch out for a big bright moon as it is at its closest point to
- [Moose Painting II](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/moose-painting-ii.html) - Okay, after this I am done with moose for a while. I do not want to be known as the crazy moose lady, although I probably already am. Second moose painting. DONE!
- [Moose Painting I](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/moose-painting-i.html) - Here's my first moose painting. I was originally going for moose silhouette and disjointed jack pine. The jack pine became a bit less disjointed and more like a normal tree, and I decided to shade the moose. Hm. Not sure on it. Northern Ontarian Bull Moose with Jack Pine: The Season's Biggest Trend! Halfway through
- [Freedom for a Day](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/freedom-for-a-day.html) - I woke up today to the sound of Big Fluffy Orange (a giant teddy bear looking cat I just named this minute) and another cat making kittens in a yard nearby. It actually sounded like a person's impersonation of annoying cat meows until I realized it wasn't stopping. Shudder. You ever have one of those
- [Earth Day](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/earth-day.html) - Let's all be nice to Earth today. Let's face it, Earth is hardier than most black tetras; it takes a beating but it really shouldn't. We live here, we should appreciate that it hasn't swallowed us whole yet (those of us still living and breathing anyway, not the people buried underground for whom this argument is
- [Don't Get Your Ducks in a Row](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/dont-get-your-ducks-in-a-row.html) - Weekend duck party. Where were you?
- [Saturday Morning at Home](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/saturday-morning-at-home.html) - There's a big red tent on the lawn and it's not because I'm turning 40 (because there are still a pre-teen's worth of years before I'm that age). We're the talk of the neighbourhood, probably; we're the only big red thing going on at the moment. It's raining and the eaves are being replaced. I
- [After the Storm](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/after-the-storm.html) - A photo from years ago that I found again today, shot out my apartment window in first year of college.
- [Sketchy Moose Part III](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/sketchy-moose-part-iii.html) - Third and final moose for today. Julian the Sweet Moose. "Sweet Julian Moose". Copyright 2012 Nik Commatose. All Rights Reserved.
- [Sketchy Moose Part II](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/sketchy-moose-part-ii.html) - This is John. He is a bulkier moose. My second moose attempt in practice for a painting I want to do. "Bulky John the Moose". Copyright 2012 Nik Commatose. All Rights Reserved.
- [Sketchy Moose](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/sketchy-moose.html) - "Skinny Moose Larry". Copyright 2012 Nik Commatose. All Rights Reserved. This is my first attempt at sketching a moose. He is a skinny moose named Larry.
- [Butterfly Effect](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/butterfly-effect.html) - 5000th tweet! In celebration, here's a butterfly I took a picture of today. flic.kr/p/bzgymU — Nik(@commatose) April 17, 2012
- [Whoops](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/whoops-2.html) - Heh. Sometimes we are not good at Garbage Day-ing.
- [Who's Playing Finnick Odair in Catching Fire?](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/whos-playing-finnick-odair-in-catching-fire.html) - If anyone knows, please leave a comment. Until then, let us speculate. IMDb has a list of potentials. These include the glorious Ryan Gosling who once purchased many things from me with his credit card at Bloor Street Kinkos (now FedEx Office or something) until I begged him to stop (or asked him if anyone
- [Happy Birthday to Me](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/happy-birthday-to-me.html) - On a personal note, I'd like to thank my family, Miklos and his family, my good friends and my animals for making this old timer's birthday wonderful. You all make me smile.
- [Easter Weekend II](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/easter-weekend-ii.html) - More from the weekend: Locally, things are a bit less fun.
- [The Bangs Debate](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/the-bangs-debate.html) - Just posting this here to remind myself that I might want bangs again. Don't let me do it, my friends.
- [Easter Weekend](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/easter-weekend.html) - A few shots from the weekend past (more to come).
- [One of the Weirder Tumblrs I've Seen...](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/one-of-the-weirder-tumblrs-ive-seen.html) - Feeling bored? Well, RyanGoslingDisneylandCats might be the place for you! Even if it isn't, what the...? Have a happy Easter, everyone!
- [Tunesday](https://commatose.ca/2012/04/tunesday.html) - Haven't listened to this album in a while. I don't think I'll ever stop loving it. The Red Light by Joel Plaskett Emergency on Grooveshark
- [Never Growing Up = Better Children's Author? Hm. Makey Sensey.](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/never-growing-up-better-childrens-author-hm-makey-sensey.html) - I found an interesting article on author Margaret Wise Brown today, who wrote Goodnight Moon. It spoke of how she wasn't particularly fond of children, but was more like a child herself. From the article: Is it possible that the most inspired children’s book writers never grow up? By that I don’t mean that they
- [Johnny Depp is a King Among Men](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/johnny-depp-is-a-king-among-men.html) - No, Johnny! I do NOT need more reasons to love you! Get outta here! In 1994, Depp was staying at a fancy New York hotel and completely wrecked his room. Like, furniture everywhere, broken glass, the works. Roger Daltrey (lead singer of The Who) was staying in the room next door and complained of the
- [I Miss Obscure & Nonsensical Blog Titles](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/i-miss-obscure-nonsensical-blog-titles.html) - At long last, I found a product I had been searching for. I plan to review it tomorrow. Expect pretty much only praise, because it turns out it is the best. The review requires pictures and pictures require natural light, so for now, a picture I took earlier this week with natural light:
- [Mo' Backyard, Mo' Problems](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/mo-backyard-mo-problems.html) - More outdoor mealtime was had tonight. Grilled corn on the cob spiced with chili powder. Delicious! After dinner the task was to install the new and as yet un-torn top of the gazebo. This challenge was accepted and abandoned with the realization that there is no way the thing goes on without even a bit
- [<s>Lousy Smarch Weather</s> March of the Pigs (There, better?!)](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/lousy-smarch-weather-2.html) - Great photo run yesterday. More talky-talky later. Survivor soon.
- [Movie Review: The Hunger Games](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/movie-review-the-hunger-games.html) - I'm not usually the reviewing type, as I can't get a feel for most movies that come out these days. That said, the books were recommended to me a month ago, I read them all in a matter of a couple weeks (which is good for me in for recent years), and for the first
- [I Think I Lost My Headache](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/i-think-i-lost-my-headache.html) - Hopped along the beach today for a few pictures. Much too late to be posting now, but here's one before bed.
- [The Sun Also Sucks](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/the-sun-also-sucks.html) - If there's one thing that gets me every time, it's having a wet shirt sleeve. Man oh man, do I hate that! I decided a couple weeks ago to try another Hemingway novel to test its "any better"-ness than A Farewell to Arms. Well, 100 pages in, I again felt I was wasting my life,
- [Morning Magic... at Midnight](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/morning-magic-at-midnight.html) - I almost wrote a post about my night full of horrifying and weird dreams yesterday but it got beyond twisted very fast and I just don't know if people want to read about a human jack-o-lantern. Instead, a photo to tide you over:
- [Morning (Absence of) Glory](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/morning-absence-of-glory.html) - Okay so I have not spent the morning picking up sticks and weird long bean strings from the back yard as I had hoped to, and do you know why? I am addicted to sleep. Or maybe just the compensation of sleep that seems to come in the mornings as a result of tossing and
- [I Love It](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/i-love-it.html) - It must be summer in March because I am the whiniest person ever to be stuck indoors at a job this week. Spoiled with two barbecues over the weekend, I now want all my meals cooked over a flame and served outside. Today I had to eat processed crap from the food court (normally not
- [Granted](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/granted.html) - Having always lived here, the fascination with Niagara Falls to tourists has always been a foreign (heh) concept. We live right beside a place everyone in the world can only hear about or see on TV and no one really cares. For many who live here, it's over-hyped for what it is. Miklos, on the
- [No Idea](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/no-idea.html) - I previously had no idea who 'Elvira Quesada' is, but since his name is apparently a keyword that has led people to my site, welcome! Click around! I have no idea how your search brought you here (prior to this entry, I mean), but you've found someone hopefully as unique albeit not as interesting! I
- [Bra Tree ...?](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/bra-tree.html) - Just thought I would share the strange thing we found on a drive earlier tonight. Those (us) nutty Canadians. What is the significance here?
- [Only in Welland](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/only-in-welland.html) - For some reason, today after writing about the country road photo I want to take, I decided to check out the price range of homes on the outskirts of our fair town. Finding an incredible looking place by the river with tonnes of history and lots of updates, we decided to take a drive by
- [Coffee Explosion!](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/coffee-explosion.html) - If you live on the countryside today, I consider you very lucky. One of this year's photo assignments for me is to photograph a wet country road with a super-sunny sky, tree shadows all around. (If you do it first, please post so I can enjoy your picture!) I got the suburban version of that
- [Grey Whales Population Booming](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/grey-whales-population-booming.html) - I was happy to read this today. From the Weather Network: So far this year, Mexican authorities have counted 1,198 whale calves and 523 adults, a steep rise from the 599 counted in 2011 and the 183 counted in 2010. The whale count is the highest it has been since 1996, when a total of
- [One-Year Anniversary of the Japan Tsunami](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/one-year-anniversary-of-the-japan-tsunami.html) - I remember waking up and looking at my Twitter feed the morning it happened. It was a day after my sister's birthday. (Oh by the way, should she read this, happy birthday Meghan!) Japan had been hit by an enormous wave that demolished so many homes and destroyed enormous expanses of farmland, and worst of
- [A Weird Experience You're Not Meant to Care About](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/a-weird-experience-youre-not-meant-to-care-about.html) - I felt I would explain a strange occurrence from earlier this evening on a drive with the betrothed. For once, the sunset was actually decent, so we went on a drive and I took the camera to document. At one point we ended up on a beach (featured here) which, as it is March, was,
- [The Beach in March](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/the-beach-in-march.html) - More on this maybe later, yes?
- [Ikea.  Boo.](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/ikea-boo.html) - I actually hate IKEA. Is it an acronym? Is it a name? The all-caps leaves too much to the imagination. I'm old fashioned. I'll treat it like an acronym. One reason I hate IKEA is because nothing in reality could truly look as good as it looks in IKEA. Okay, I'm going to stop acronymising
- [TED Talks & ADD](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/ted-talks-add.html) - Ah, crap. It happened again. Does anyone else feel like they've been Rick-rolled when someone sends them a link to a TED Talk? I just can't commit 10 minutes at a time to anything these days. They're such good segments, very informative, thought-provoking and usually quite fresh. So why doesn't my body want to sit
- [Car Shopping](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/car-shopping.html) - Hello. I'm looking for a car. Preferably an un-robbable one, but I'm not too picky. I do know that I want a cute hatchback and I do not want it to be silver or grey, and I am even a bit biased against black cars. Sorry, it's just how I was raised. I want something
- [Things That Make Me LOL](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/things-that-make-me-lol.html) - Tonight's Twitter topic is #ThingsThatMakeMeLOL. I know, I know. You are all businessmen and time is most definitely money. I will try to make this short and sweet. When people accidentally speak to me in their first language, and it isn't English. This happened in a McDonalds in Budapest a couple of years ago. Knowing
- [So it Goes.](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/so-it-goes.html) - From the article, 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better than Anyone Else Ever Has or Will: 13. "So it goes." Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn't notable for its unique wording so much as for how much emotion—and dismissal of emotion—it packs into three simple, world-weary words that simultaneously accept and
- [Shipshape](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/shipshape.html) - Bet you don't have one of these fellows in your back yard. And if you do, well you've just impressed me sir or madame.
- [Canada Loves Me!](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/canada-loves-me.html) - I'm mulling over the ol' Google Analytics (which by the way, is inferior in every way to my old methods, namely Sitemeter and Clicky), and I can't help but notice the difference between traffic say, 7 years ago, and now on my blogs. Sure, it's a different URL, I am far less interactive on the
- [Doodle or Die](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/doodle-or-die.html) - Here's the doodle du jour: I also drew a real sketch today but I'm not posting it yet. I think it's good though.
- [What's the opposite of chauvinism again?](https://commatose.ca/2012/03/whats-the-opposite-of-chauvinism-again.html) - A strange look at Hollywood's newest leading men as actual pieces of meat...? Say what you will, meat article writer, but Sam Worthington is no shank.
- ['LEAP' of Faith... You get it.](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/leap-of-faith-you-get-it.html) - I did it! I posted on the Leap Day! Let me take this useless opportunity of a blog post to say, oh great, Woody Harrelson is in the Hunger Games movie? Eh, I guess it makes sense. Also, using intelligence of the many I know who have had their cars broken into lately, I think
- [Rarr](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/rarr.html) - One of my favourite animals, the Amur leopard, is (in captivity, at least) making some headway in population restoration. These cats in the wild have a population of about 30-35 known. I've been lucky enough to see one in captivity at a local zoo; despite people's conflicting thoughts on zoos, I'd be sad if they
- [Weekend](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/weekend.html) - I can see why Saturdays are so popular. So far today we've gone to lunch at a Chinese buffet to listen to toilet stories from the table next to us, spent money on practical and necessary items, vacuumed and, yes sir, I am planning to do some laundry and make a lasagna soon.
- [It's so nice not to know you.](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/its-so-nice-not-to-know-you.html) - Surround yourself with only positive and/or realistic people. It makes an enormous impact. If there are consistently negative and selfish people, hold on to the good memories (if any) and let those people go. It's not worth it to drag along a constant anchor of loathing. Just be around the good folks, help each other
- [Be Inspired](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/be-inspired.html) - Sometimes you need to escape what you believe is your only reality and read a bunch of words someone put on the internet. ...although I'll also be disappointed that the person who made this misspelled 'disappointed'. So. What to do?
- [IMPORTANT NEWS](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/important-news.html)
- [The Hunt is On](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/the-hunt-is-on.html) - Yesterday on our drive around the entire universe, we managed to see a red-tailed hawk in hunting mode. It was the first time either of us had seen this. It didn't manage to catch any of these birds, but we did see one on the other side of the region a few hours later who
- [Get offa my mountain!](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/get-off-my-mountain.html) - I am probably an awful person for finding this story so funny. Mountain man terrifying Utah cabin owners. I guess it's less funny when it's not happening to you, and/or more funny when you currently wake up three times a night to check on your car and see if you need to chase anyone down
- [MY FOREHEAD](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/my-forehead.html) - Every time I look at this terrifying dungeon guy and his 11 pages of pictures of his own forehead, I laugh so hard. I almost fell into the kitty litter tonight when I thought about it. This kind of dedication deserves to go viral. Such a serial killer.
- [Going Pro](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/going-pro.html) - The resolution of this milestone photo is due to a crappy Blackberry camera, not the TV on which the age was displayed. Getting good at getting old. I "for real legit" felt physically weak for ... a week. I was waiting for a toe or two to mend before I got back into my routine
- [And it didn't take me a month!](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/and-it-didnt-take-me-a-month.html) - The Hunger Games is a brilliantly dark and fun read. I don't care how emo that makes me sound. I don't know if this is another of those Harry Potter/Twilight fad books (and since Katniss Everdeen's name keeps coming up on Doodle or Die I'm guessing it is) but it kept my interest the whole
- [New Boots](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/new-boots.html) - Last pair in my size. And they are warm.
- [Mmm, Savings](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/mmm-savings.html) - Coffee from a pot, even a premium blend, is half as cheap as K-Cups (so I'm guessing Tassimo too), is more environmentally sound, and it tastes better. I mean, I could've done the math myself but why bother when someone else is willing? Overall both costs make me happy I don't buy from Tim Hortons much
- [LOVE!](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/love.html) - Valentine's Day is coming up after all. Valentine's Day is Casey's birthday, so the most fun part of it (besides going to work for the evening and making meager wages) is that we make a treat for her. We're thinking wet+dry food with a small "1" cut out of cheese. She loves cheese. She'll be
- [Jack of All Trades, Master of None](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.html) - Today while almost being late for work, I came up with this little doozy. As has always been my opinion, the best part of having long hair is the ability to pull it back as if it's short again. Such a nuisance. As described on my Flickr page, I have never seen anyone else do
- [Veterinarian's Day](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/veterinarians-day.html) - Meow This cat has been with me through my entire adult life so far. He's turning eight years old this year, which isn't very old in cat years but seems to make me feel super old. Tomorrow Rico and I will head to the vet to sort out some of his weird issues. He hasn't
- [Frosty Smiles](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/frosty-smiles.html) - Why don't we all try to smile today?
- [A Farewell to Arms](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/a-farewell-to-arms.html) - I finally finished reading this Hemingway novel. It took a very long time. I've never been one to appreciate the classics, so it's not worth criticizing me that. The end was kind of worth the entire read, I guess. If anything, it did teach me a few lessons in writing: Do not take 180 (eBook)
- [It was an unusually warm February the 14th, so the children walked home without jackets](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/it-was-an-unusually-warm-february-the-14th-so-the-children-walked-home-without-jackets.html)
- [Pink River Dolphin: Not as cute as you'd pink](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/pink-river-dolphin-not-as-cute-as-youd-pink.html) - I was reading up on the river dolphin (because that's what I do when I finally have days off coming and/or when Wii Fit tells me to take a break or else it's possible I will develop chest pains/arm tingling). So anyway, they're a pretty bland species, except that there are PINK ones. Immediately, I
- [A 'Wii' Milestone](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/a-wii-milestone.html) - A happy birthday to my wonderful Auntie Lynn, and a happy birthday to me as today I am 20 years old in Wii Fit Age! Also, happy birthday to all those groundhogs out there. Today, we all win. Oh, me? I'm just here blogging 'cause the Wii Fit told me to take a fitness
- [February](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/february.html) - I love the calendar Nana made me. Here's February. Nana, Papa and I... a few years ago
- [Un Link S'il-Vous-Plaît](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/un-link-sil-vous-plait.html) - What you're getting: The Definitive Collection of Cat GIFs Additional Costs: None A sample:
- [Weather Forecast](https://commatose.ca/2012/02/weather-forecast.html) - It's not raining yet, but it will be in about 45 minutes because that is what happens every time I happen to walk outside to take the bus. Incredible timing, this weather has. Apparently yesterday was beautiful out. I work inside of a cave so I cannot confirm. Happy February! What if this is the
- [Checkin' out!](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/checkin-out.html) - That's right, folks! I'm moving right on off of this here Planet Earth. You might say Mars ain't no better, but it's livable, they tell me, and it's sure not inhabited like this wreck of an abomination of a garbage sphere is. Woman marries a building because she loves it Yep, time for me to
- [Spooky](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/spooky.html) - I want walls filled with art. If anyone would like to donate walls filled with art, or even simply art for me to fill my current walls with, contact me and we will arrange for this. Everything I see on Etsy, I want. And then there's the furniture part - everything I see on the
- ['Wack' Wedding Photographer Prices](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/wack-wedding-photographer-prices.html) - I'm no wedding photographer, but all I can say is "good for this lady" for her detailed response to a very uninformed person's rant on Craigslist. People are so ludicrous. Your wedding will cost money if you don't choose to get married at city hall in a five minute ceremony with no formal reception. And
- ["I Don't GET Twitter!"](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/i-dont-get-twitter.html) - When you first sign up for Twitter, chances are you don't get it. "Isn't it just status updates?" At first glance, and to some users, yes. More importantly though, no. Use it however you will, but Twitter is best summed up with its tagline: "What's happening?" A much better tagline might be "What's happening now?"
- [Sziklos](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/siklos.html) - A man vomiting is the single most awful thing a woman can be subject to hearing, as I learned last night. Miklos is suffering from Man Flu. Based on symptoms given, a woman would diagnose the same ailment in herself as acid reflux. In fact, the same pizza I ate last night had the dramatic
- [TOTES LEGIT AWKWARD!!!](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/totes-legit-awkward.html) - There's something about every word kids use today that makes me feel like an old person who knows words too well to want to listen to them poorly utilized. Here is a list of words I would be happy never to hear again: Awkward Legit Epic [Not a word, but a phrase:] "In all honesty..."
- [Truly Offended](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/truly-offended.html) - Don't worry, Rico. I feel the way you look in this picture about 75% of the time.
- [Going to Extremes](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/going-to-extremes.html) - Highest elevation on Earth: Mount Everest - 8,850 m (29,035 ft) Lowest elevation on Earth: Dead Sea shore - −424 m (−1,391 ft) Hrm, well we're not going to summit Mount Everest for our wedding, and we're certainly not going to the dead world of biblical history. How about North America? Highest elevation in North America: Denali (Mount
- [Good Morning](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/good-morning.html) - Today I'm welcoming my niece Aubrey Isabel into this crazy world. 6lbs and 13oz. I'll post pictures later today.
- [Can I get a birdsong up in here?](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/can-i-get-a-birdsong-up-in-here.html) - Birdsong lowers crime rate; theory. If in fact this theory proves itself true, I want birdsong playing all over the place. Imagine all the birdsong! I know someone else who wouldn't mind...
- [The Comma Lab](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/the-comma-lab.html) - Came home to some devil music playing in the office. I eventually realized it was coming from my new speakers which were sitting atop my new desk, the purchase of both of which I was previously unaware. Not to be confused with the other Comma Lab.
- [Fat Canada, We'll See You Shortly!](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/fat-canada-well-see-you-shortly.html) - Finally, we're catching up to America. If you don't watch the news or listen to the radio but you do read this blog, here is a chart for reference: The Sizes They Are A-Changin' On a similar topic, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford only weighed in at 33o lbs today, cheeseburger NOT in hand. Congrats, Mr.
- [Eat it!](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/eat-it.html) - Wii Fit Age: 23! Suck on that! And then consider that it's only because the heat is so unevenly distributed in our house that I have to work out to keep warm. Seriously though, feeling pretty good about that! (I won't tell you my last 3 or 4 Wii Fit Ages, but someone else
- [101 Things You Never Cared to Learn and Why Didn't I Make This a Numbered List?](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/101-things-you-never-cared-to-learn-and-why-didnt-i-make-this-a-numbered-list.html) - I suppose I should write an entry! How about a list of things about me? I have a horrible sense of smell which is most of the time absent. When I can smell, it is usually dog-related and unpleasant, but I can also smell lavender and sometimes I can smell everything. Right now, my hand
- [It's very cold.](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/its-very-cold.html)
- [Touch of Colour](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/touch-of-colour.html)
- [Winter already?](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/winter-already.html) - By no means is this my favourite picture of winter, but I've had about 0 chances this year aside from this one. Hopefully more practice to come.
- [Death & All His Friends](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/death-all-his-friends.html) - We all do it eventually, but there's something about dying that seems totally unfair to me. Something besides the never seeing anyone you love again or their ever again seeing you. It's that, as a storyteller, I will never be able to sum up my death in a few (or a bunch of) words, or
- [Bizarro Nikki](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/bizarro-nikki.html) - It's a bit of a dark day for the Comma blog. I realize I am using a template design, but it is so darn cool. I'm just sad because while looking up the proper way to swallow (according to dentists, I mean... you're gross) I found this blog. It's actually a really cool blog, but
- [Mantra](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/mantra.html) - I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will start writing more. I will
- [NEXT SATURDAY:](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/next-saturday.html) - Remember to breathe, as it is the 1st Annual International Breathing Day. And make sure to invite all your friends. Even if they say they won't come, they'll be there. EDIT: OK THE REAL LINK'S HERE NOW. We can all sleep easy.
- [NOT Funny.](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/not-funny.html) - Occasionally I get repulsed enough to post news articles. Here is another. US Weapons Cause Birth Defects in Fallujah I urge you to re-post this story on Twitter and Facebook.
- [Niagara Falls Tonight](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/niagara-falls-tonight.html)
- [Today's Ha-Ha](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/todays-ha-ha.html) - Thanks, LOLFeed.
- [[Addendum to the Outrage of Yesterday]](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/addendum-to-the-outrage-of-yesterday.html) - I should explain why it bothers me so much that people are so insensitive. I've always been strong-willed and for the most part self-assured (albeit a little off-the-wall), but I know and care about a number of people who are not. There are a lot of girls working with the public who are affected by
- [This is Insane Comma Talking...](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/this-is-insane-comma-talking.html) - I am so happy that today a lady asked me what size jeans I wear and then frowned and said "Yeahh... that's probably the size I am now, I've gained so much weight in menopause." SO happy. People ask me why I hate the universe. Well, no one really asks me anything aside from my
- [Vanity Days](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/vanity-days.html) - I kind of miss taking pictures like this. Maybe I should crack out the ol' Canon again (speaking of things I never thought I'd do anymore). Also, this is bad news, but I went through a bunch of my old pictures and realized the funkiness of shorter hair suits me so much better than my
- [Happy Birthday Miklos!](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/happy-birthday-miklos.html) - You're not as old in spirit and body as you are in terrible, terrible age. :)
- [Self-Management](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/self-management.html) - What's to come in 2012: I find a career at last and then the world ends. I'm ready.
- [Happy 2012, Hopefully Without Doomsday and All](https://commatose.ca/2012/01/happy-2012-hopefully-without-doomsday-and-all.html) - It's the first day of the year and I'm trying to stay positive. We had a nice and very low-key New Year's Eve celebration at home. I'm always glad when an old year is over. I've been really lucky. Nothing terribly bad has ever come along and destroyed an entire 12 months for me. Well,
- [Dancing Chihuahua](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/dancing-chihuahua.html) - Is this seriously from this world?
- [Those Crazy Samoans, Always a Step Ahead!](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/those-crazy-samoans-always-a-step-ahead.html) - The people of Samoa skipped Friday this week AND got paid for it. I don't mean that they skipped work, I mean that they actually fell asleep Thursday and woke up Saturday, and not due to influenza. There was no Friday! Because they do more business with Australia and New Zealand than the US,
- [Two Things](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/two-things.html) - Before I fell asleep, I remembered two things that gave me ha-has and I felt the need to share them with you. One's old, one's newer. Rob Delaney's letter to Katy Perry Crazy kicking dance girl meme Both are worth your clicks. I remember us impersonating the kicking girl at our college cafeteria the one
- [The Exercism](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/the-exercism.html) - It is strangely motivating to have a computerized voice tell you you're doing a great job, or that your back is tilting too much toward the floor. Wii Fit Plus, you are a great gift. I am going to have posture one day, for at least a week. I have the body of a 39
- [Gangster](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/gangster.html) - I am the kind of person who calls her work and then hangs up just to find out who's there. Well, today. Our schedules this December have been, to put it mildly, straight-up trippin' y'all! And to put it normally, "a little all over the place", so I called this morning in fear that I
- [Photo Update](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/photo-update.html) - There is a Photography section now. Thank you Miklos, you worked so hard to get just the right layout for me. Now I would like another smoothie please.
- [Query](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/query.html) - I love Facebook, don't get me wrong, (well, I don't love about as much as I actually love about it) but why do people feel the need to post every personal dilemma that happens there? It is not 200-1000 people's business what happens to you. Some of us need lessons in self respect. A great
- [With reference to badgering](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/with-reference-to-badgering.html) - As a writing exercise, I am trying to summarize in one sentence the plot of my best seller novel to come. I will give you a sneak preview: "A " If you can envision a cursor blinking in the area immediately following the space and directly before the quotation mark, this is what I have
- [Jesus, not a New Years Resolution Blog Already](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/jesus-not-a-new-years-resolution-blog-already.html) - The word of the day is: DEMONSTRATIVE. Actually, just 'demonstrative'. People should never use all-caps for emphasis unless they are really angry and writing hard onto an actual piece of paper and then doing what I do which is to scribble in angry circles all over the all-cap after I've written it real big, then
- [Music Heals Your Soul, the Universe and a Waterfall with a Rainbow](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/music-heals-your-soul-the-universe-and-a-waterfall-with-a-rainbow.html) - With regards to my post the other day, I got my friggin' wedding dress. Unsure of why exactly, but I've been feeling like a rotten old bag of throw-up ever since. Maybe because this signifies that we are in PLAN IT ALL NOW OR SUICIDE YOURSELF mode. I am the worst planner of all things.
- [Comma Chameleon](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/comma-chameleon.html) - A girl I know suggested The Brides' Project, a "no bullshit" place for shopping for wedding dresses. I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of this. The gowns are donated about 2/3 of them brand new by their partners and about a third by brides, therefor able to be price-capped, and then the money the bride
- [](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/595.html) - I start to feel old when the hydro company sends me an information packet complete with off-peak times graphed onto stickers and I wish they instead sent me magnets. The dog has a habit of scrambling up in a clamour when I move my foot or even when we look a different way than we have
- [Chiminey Cricket and the No Thank You Blues](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/chiminey-cricket-and-the-no-thank-you-blues.html) - I saw an episode of Holmes Inspection (actually, it was a two-parter) about a couple who had a seemingly gorgeous house, but it was terribly inefficient and also their bedroom was not reinforced so it was bound to one day collapse into their kitchen. There were heat and water leaks everywhere, as well as squirrel
- [Reading Rainbow](https://commatose.ca/2011/12/reading-rainbow.html) - Good idea, to whichever spammer suggested I put a Facebook 'Like' button on the posts. (There are a LOT of spammers. I'm sorry if as a commenter I one day confuse you for one. Just hiss at and scold me and I will learn the real deal.) We'll get around to adding the Like button
- [Hey, Ya Turkey Bastards!](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/hey-ya-turkey-bastards.html) - Whoever took the original picture rules and I will buy you at last two packs for using it to Photoshop all over [or I will promptly take it down upon threat]. I THANK YOU and hope you enjoy your dinner!
- [Still Plenty of Time](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/still-plenty-of-time.html) - I'm tired of ugly cheesy Christmas store-bought decorations, so I've decided to try my hand at making my own ugly cheesy ones at home. Searching the WWW for inspiration, I have found two incredibly neat sites with posts full of great ideas: 20 in 20 - 20 DIY decorations in 20 days. Hmm. Do-able. Holiday Decoration -
- [Early Morning Bluez](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/early-morning-bluez.html) - This is easily the earliest I have been up in a very long time. My nightmare job actually gives me bad dreams now. That's always welcome! So I woke up and put some Advantage on the dog, some of which I hope got on her actual skin, seeing as she has like 8 layers of
- [American vs British Humour](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/american-vs-british-humour.html) - An excerpt from an article written by Ricky Gervais: There’s a received wisdom in the U.K. that Americans don’t get irony. This is of course not true. But what is true is that they don’t use it all the time. It shows up in the smarter comedies but Americans don’t use it as much socially
- [The Dog & I](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/the-dog-i.html) - The dog is an itch-bag and so today I'm feeding her a tiny bit of garlic in her food to eliminate any chance of fleas. It's no problem for me, as I can only smell anything half of the time, but apparently she smells. Brewer's yeast is effective as well, and won't kill Mixi if
- [Ball Rolling](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/ball-rolling.html) - I've decided on wedding colours. This sets the tone of the wedding overall (I think), and so now I have the kind of dress I want in mind. No one seems to have it though, not on the internet, so I shudder to look at dresses in a shop. Is it terribly unlikely that in
- [Christmas Woof](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/christmas-woof.html) - I guess it has to do with my esteemed way of making a living, but I seem to be a bit Christmas-focused far too early this year. It's not just me. So does this thing: By the way, this dog is a maniac.
- [Here Comes the Debt](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/here-comes-the-debt.html) - I've never been a fan of wedding videos, but I saw one in HD today that was brilliantly put together and now I want one. Save me, Santa Claus!
- [El Politico](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/547.html) - It seems recently that the Liberal Press Secretary's Twitter account and I have been at odds every couple of weeks. First was my annoyance that gastric bypass surgery is OHIP covered (which, I agree, is a very necessary procedure) yet basic dental is not, for most people. I mentioned Dalton McGuinty in my tweet, so
- [Quickly!  Asteroid in half an hour!](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/quickly-asteroid-in-half-an-hour.html) - Grab your 6-8 inch or larger telescopes and perch them outside if you're in the Northern Hemisphere tonight because this 400 metre asteroid will be even closer to Earth than the moon; 3/4 of the distance to the moon to be exact. I'm excited! Oh, except that I don't have a telescope, so if someone
- [I'm a Dink](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/542.html) - I made a smart Alec remark tonight (who, me?) about how by the time we got home from our grocery shop, there'd be at least two (2) comments on each of our Facebook news feeds about how dark it got so early tonight. Turns out I was living in a fool's paradise, because as I
- [Vitamin D](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/vitamin-d.html) - First week of November has been milder than most weeks in October. Go figure. I saw a girl wearing flip-flops yesterday and I'll admit I was jealous. I have a condition which causes my legs to fall apart in any shoes except for spongy flip-flops. 'Spongy' is spelled without an E? Really? 2010/2011's winter was
- [Rest in Peace, Brodie](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/rest-in-peace-brodie.html) - Nearly 13 years ago, my Nana got this adorable little Golden Retriever puppy named Brodie. She grew up to be big, beautiful and fluffy, and like many dogs, she had her character quirks. She was always a sweet and wonderful dog. My aunts and I were talking just a week ago about what a smart
- [This Christmas, BE NICE.](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/this-christmas-be-nice.html) - I shouldn't have to hate Christmas. Not one day after writing about how I would take the Christmas season in stride, I was reminded that my place of work gives us absolutely no hours to fairly balance workload and accommodate the making of sales that are so important to their world. (We've only made $3000
- [Bring on Novembrrr... 3 Rs.](https://commatose.ca/2011/11/bring-on-novembrrr-3-rs.html) - It's almost the end of another year. The next two months will be sheer hell by the usual standards, but I'm willing to try and make the best of it. (PLZLETMEGETABETTERJOBBYNEXTCHRISTMASSEASON.) Two months seems like a long time, but it's not. I remember the end of August like it was yesterday. Casey got spayed and
- [Halloween!](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/halloween.html) - Ranting aside, it's a nice day for Halloween. Not raining, not snowing, just a slight chill to the air, and I'm wearing some orange and a pair of Halloween socks. I think the orange and black spirit would love me today. Wish us luck with Casey and Rico not flying out the door tonight
- [Happy Orange & Black Spirit Day!](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/happy-orange-black-spirit-day.html) - There's a part of me that believes that by attempting to include everyone in our Halloween celebrations by calling it something else, we are also sort of segregating them. We've all heard about Holiday Trees by now, and surely we've heard or even some of us given a rant or two about them. I am
- [Before I Forget](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/before-i-forget.html) - I had a weird dream last night. Miklos, his brother and I were in a fishing town and we stopped for something to eat. When we were coming out of the place, which was old and small-town 'fish n chips'-like, some guy followed us out and I think it was Rob Delaney. He said we
- [Easy Chrome Fix](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/easy-chrome-fix.html) - For a while I've had an issue with Chrome saving my bookmarks, but only until I close the browser and open it the next time to find them gone. After uninstalling and reinstalling several times, and then months of simply giving up on bookmarking with Chrome, I found a suggestion in their Support site that
- [Frost Warning](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/frost-warning.html) - The world looked pretty neat this morning. I guess there are a couple of benefits to waking up before 10am. A few, but not many.
- [C'est L'Halloween](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/cest-lhalloween.html) - Ah, the struggle of being someone who used to read. I have a great costume idea (mainly because I love the character and because I look exactly as she is described, but probably less voluptuous... although they never describe that part, so I'd be safe there). The only thing is, no one freaking reads anymore,
- [I'd marry each and every one of you!](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/id-marry-each-and-every-one-of-you.html) - This past weekend, we were discussing work and school and life in general, and my dad said, "Aren't you used to it?" I said, "I guess." [Which is my reply to just about anything lately.] But you know, you never really get used to people shitting on you when you've done nothing to deserve it.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/65.html) - H&M will be the death of me. I bought two pretty outfits today.
- [Poor people with poorer vocabulary, bitching about the government at 10:30, shoveling snow](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/poor-people-with-poorer-vocabulary-bitching-about-the-government-at-1030-shoveling-snow.html) - The deposit on the new place goes down tomorrow. I have a small feeling this is a giant mistake, but perhaps that's just because someone told me how unhappy my landlord seemed this morning about us moving out, and now I feel bad. And it's not just because he's losing money this way, that he
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/56.html) - My cute little niece came along with my parents to visit me today. They all got me out of my "can't do my assignment" blues. Macy's facial expressions as she watches the fish dart around in the aquarium in my living room is priceless. How are my days being spent lately? Looking for furniture and
- [Something's Peculiar Here](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/somethings-peculiar-here.html) - Wait just a minute. This doesn't look the same at all! I must have been a terribly indecent person in a past life because 1) I work with the public and 2) my fiance is listening to Coldplay at a volume louder than a whisper. It seems to me there is something I should be
- [Rinse/Repeat](https://commatose.ca/2007/08/rinserepeat.html) - My friend's dad had a band once called Take Two, because there were two people in the band. That's the worst thing I've ever heard. The hits have fluttered back up to halfway normal since I started posting on the P-log. Why am I doing that again? Boredom? Ah, right. Holy smokes. We are in
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/19.html) - I've been bitten by the eBay bug! (Not to be confused with the butterfly pictured above.) A 1¢ Lithium-Ion battery to replace the $80 one that my hapless Meow sent for a swim last month? Yes please! Oh, my cooking sucked this weekend. Right on sucked. There was no denying that. We might have gotten
- [Factoids](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/factoids.html) - Too bad for Mixi. Came across kind of a neat pick-me-up in the morning if you enjoy punctuation marks that are rarely used: 14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed It's morning, and we're about to sample some Melitta coffee that we only got charged 13 cents for at the store thanks to a
- [I Roasted Squash and I Liked It](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/i-roasted-squash-and-i-liked-it.html) - Inspired by a coworker, I decided to buy a butternut squash and take it for a spin in the oven this weekend. It's Hallowe'en soon, and I'm feeling rather festive, so why the heck not? I found an incredible amount of butternut squash soup recipes, but I kind of wanted to try my hand at
- [Warning: Do Not Ignore Hundreds of Dead Birds](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/warning-do-not-ignore-hundreds-of-dead-birds.html) - Fish die by botulism, birds eat infected fish; a likely story. The timing is a little off-putting, though. Why can't we just admit that the grief-stricken, poor economy-shaken birds committed mass suicide? By the way, if you live on Georgian Bay and awaken to hundreds of dead birds in your yard, don't just start cleaning
- [Squash: It's not just for decoration anymore](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/squash-its-not-just-for-decoration-anymore.html) - Apparently people eat squash, so this fall (maybe tonight) I am going to try an oven-baked butternut squash recipe. If no review on this meal in the coming days, assume I have accidentally poisoned and killed myself and Miklos. In case that happens, here is a picture of me as two ghosts in the park
- [It's ok to use your cell phones again, ppl](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/its-ok-to-use-your-cell-phones-again-ppl.html) - Because you felt so threatened by the possibility that cellular technology would be the death of us all that you actually put your phone into a safe deposit box and locked it away to prevent any electromagnetic fields from escaping and endangering your health any further, I am pleased to assure you that a new
- [Sad Panda](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/sad-panda.html) - I'm really not okay with this. Endangered Bengal tigers among those killed after escaping from Ohio zoo I understand, yes, the police were not trained to deal with the tigers any other way. Surely though, there were people who were. Animal control, or, failing that, someone with more wild life expertise that the animal control
- [](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/431.html) - I strongly advise you listen to Modern Guilt by Beck if you haven't lately. Especially while driving and not texting. Ambition and motivation. As someone living on this particular place in the world, I have the privilege of having just about everything I need and still being too lazy to go out and claim it.
- [Well played, credit card company](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/well-played-credit-card-company.html) - I'm the kind of person who for a long time paid her bills the second she got them. Then I sort of slumped into becoming the kind of person who pays them on time. According to the $8 interest charge on my credit card this month, I am now a deadbeat in my eyes, but
- [Before anyone asks:](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/before-anyone-asks.html) - English Wikipedia has an article on: Tongue-in-cheek [edit]Adjective tongue-in-cheek (comparative more tongue-in-cheek, superlative most tongue-in-cheek) (idiomatic) not intended seriously; jocular or humorous He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint. From Wiktionary.
- [I TYPE THIS WAY FOR A REASON](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/i-type-this-way-for-a-reason.html) - BECAUSE I ALWAYS YELL AT PEOPLE. That is today's post. Mull it over, would you?
- [Good Day](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/good-day.html) - I have to say, this is the first time in weeks I have been able to say "There is nothing on TV." Even when we spent a week up north in the middle of nowhere with the rattly satellite that would lose signal every 7 minutes, I was happier about the programming. I imagine this
- [Dear Trainwreck](https://commatose.ca/2011/10/dear-trainwreck.html) - I realize some girls were not lucky enough to grow up with the most supportive of families. I am aware of how insecure this makes them. I know it's why they walk around with skirts hiked up to their buttholes, and why they drink and drug themselves stupid in vain attempts to attract attention, so
- [Is that real ketchup? Yep!](https://commatose.ca/2011/09/is-that-real-ketchup-yep.html) - I'm normally a summer person, but it's going to be mid-temp today and I actually don't mind it. Yesterday I remembered how much I loved a hot coffee instead of just liked it as a morning routine, and today it actually motivated me to wake up before 8am on my first day of vacation. Shit!
- [When I was your age, blah blah blah!](https://commatose.ca/2011/09/when-i-was-your-age-blah-blah-blah.html) - Because Dan is a tingus, I have to blog again. So what's new in the world? Well, I just don't know. Today I will outwardly consider how sad it is that money is such a motivator for some people. Not in the way that they'll work, however. No, no. I am referring to the money
- [Grrrr...](https://commatose.ca/2011/09/grrrr.html) - "Pay money for me. I am so innocent and would never destroy your home." A while back, we got a dog. My family had several dogs when I was growing up, and I guess I must have been spoiled because they were the best dogs in the universe. Our dog now is adorable, funny, sweet
- [Mommy? Why do you have 20 blogs?](https://commatose.ca/2011/08/mommy-why-do-you-have-20-blogs.html) - The answer to the above lies in my many personalities, my dear Dan. (I assume you were the one asking the question.) I wanted to create a blog for practical purposes -- little things I have learned and liked to know, or ideas, and the altogether simpler things. After all, Rico has a blog, so
- [Noma Noma Noma](https://commatose.ca/2011/08/noma-noma-noma.html) - Carpal tunnel's setting in, so I will be blunt. The lasagna we ate tonight was very good, even though it was hospital lasagna. And I didn't even have to be hospitalized to have it. So there it is. Miracles do happen.
- [My New Goal](https://commatose.ca/2011/08/my-new-goal.html) - It's weird thinking that when I wrote that last blog, it was May. An entire summer has shot by us, and Jack Layton, who led the NDP to win more seats than ever before in Canadian federal elections has passed away. Boy, was I angry (about Harper, I mean). Truly, nothing ever changes in Canadian
- [Ridic, yall. Mother f'n ridic.](https://commatose.ca/2011/05/ridic-yall-mother-fn-ridic.html) - Hey Canada. It's time to eat shit. Everybody: We couldn't take a half hour out of the two months advance notice we had before election day to summarize our beliefs in accordance with a party to prepare ourselves to vote? Or maybe Say Yes to the Dress ran another marathon today. Had I known, that would've kept
- [Sometimes I am nice.](https://commatose.ca/2011/04/sometimes-i-am-nice.html) - Help Animals and Pet Shelters with a free click! Even though I'm an a-hole, I always make sure to help our loyal friends-without-speech. Other good sites are FreeKibble / FreeKibbleKat to feed shelter pets through daily trivia.
- [Less Than Incredible Tales from Next-door](https://commatose.ca/2011/04/less-than-incredible-tales-from-next-door.html) - We've moved in to our new house and become observers of unusual phenomena. From the strange pipe sticking out of the one neighbour's house that at irregular intervals splashes out a tonne of water into their front yard from who-knows-where, to the older gal who orders a cab at least once a day only to
- [All about Dynamic Views for Readers - Blogger Help](https://commatose.ca/2011/04/all-about-dynamic-views-for-readers-blogger-help.html) - All about Dynamic Views for Readers - Blogger Help Apparently I still have readers, so here's a little reader help for your mom. Or ya, Mom.
- [Are you there, Dan? It's me, Nikki.](https://commatose.ca/2011/03/are-you-there-dan-its-me-nikki.html) - More and more I realize, I am a professional thief-babysitter. My job is to watch people try and steal and to stare them down and not directly state that they are stealing because that would be accusing them of what they are doing and for some reason that's a faux-pas in the retail biz. [GETMETHEHELLOUT]
- [Debating.](https://commatose.ca/2011/03/debating.html) - Facebook and Twitter have nullified any valid argument for having a blog unless you're terribly long-winded. (Which at one point, I cared to be.) Well this certainly is a personal conundrum!
- [](https://commatose.ca/2011/01/410.html) - Happy birthday, Miklos. You rule.
- [Film](https://commatose.ca/2010/12/film.html) - Do you live in a house full of unfinished business? Find an old roll of film around your house. It doesn't matter who took it (if it's someone else's, it might be all the more interesting). Get it developed. Be awed for a few minutes as you look over what's before you. Ellie only shot
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/12/407.html) - Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this!
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/12/406.html) - Christmas shopping causes a feeling of overwhelming exhaustion and discomfort. I suggest avoiding it.
- [Excerpts](https://commatose.ca/2010/11/excerpts.html) - We don’t talk to Scoobi about Santa Claus. Not since the heart attack. Something about having sat on Santa’s lap moments before his vital organs began to expand and contract in violent spasms causing him to collapse in a sweaty heap on the cottony fake snow surrounding his chair that makes the whole Christmas season
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/11/404.html) - It's not even winter yet and I already hate winter.
- [FYI HR](https://commatose.ca/2010/11/fyi-hr.html) - Fact: If you are traveling to a place you normally wouldn't for work purposes (e.g., a conference two hours away, traveling to a different location for purposes of training, etc.), your company is not required to pay your mileage but they are required to pay you wages for time spent traveling. Seems especially unfair when
- [Hallowe'en. It's not just for stupid babies anymore.](https://commatose.ca/2010/10/halloween-its-not-just-for-stupid-babies-anymore.html) - Miklos and I are hitting up the town as depression-era newsies. I can't wait to get pictures. Since my gums are far too sensitive for (too much) candy these days, pictures are the sweetest part of Hallowe'en for me. I'm having a cat dilemma. That dilemma is that Rico's craving attention at 1-, 3-, and
- [Modern Poetry](https://commatose.ca/2010/10/modern-poetry.html) - I bought some bras today Refreshing supportWires poked out of my three month-old ones The promise of longevity brokenHST cheque Revive me, spiritI am eternally happy bliss.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/09/399.html) - Designing your house to look totally freaky is cool I guess. Norm MacDonald was great live. I'd see him a hundred times.
- [Bloody Hell.](https://commatose.ca/2010/09/bloody-hell.html) - I hate getting blood drawn. I was told after doing so today that "it's okay to breathe, keeps the oxygen levels up." Who knew? She asked me very seriously if I was okay, which says to me that I might have cringed or looked a wee bit upset or both during the leeching. So it
- [Wah wah wah](https://commatose.ca/2010/09/wah-wah-wah.html) - If you don't like Everybody's Fine, you are either a monster or Roger Ebert. I won't make the offensive "or both" remark, but only because Ebert is so highly respected... for I don't know, eating popcorn and critiquing movies he's too bitter to understand. As for me, I'll be bawling my eyes out in the
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/08/395.html) - Just when you thought feet were done washing ashore in BC... Another foot found
- [Things I Miss Currently:](https://commatose.ca/2010/08/things-i-miss-currently.html) - Our little blue car. RIP sweetie. You were loved. The tartar under my gums before my dental appointment today. It had become a part of me. The ability to react sharply and quickly, both physically and mentally. Painkillers and muscle relaxants are a wonderful demotivator and defense-mechanism-killer, but I like being slightly wound-up. Now I
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/08/391.html) - I also hate: Dalton McGuinty My own lack of direction Infuriating people
- [A List of Hates](https://commatose.ca/2010/08/a-list-of-hates.html) - I try (in more recent years) not to be entirely negative. A lot of you who are closer to me will admit that I am usually a happy person but I do have a cynical outlook on much of life, probably caused by being an overachiever but never really achieving anything tangible or impressive. I
- [Dragonfly Cannibalism on the Dock](https://commatose.ca/2010/08/dragonfly-cannibalism-on-the-dock.html) - I'm just saying whoa dog.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/07/388.html) - Thank to Dan, for showing me this.
- [Whoomp there it is.](https://commatose.ca/2010/07/whoomp-there-it-is.html) - For all you crazy kids who made the joke that they didn't know my Paypal address when they read my famous $5 tweet earlier this week, here you go!
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/07/386.html) - I am covered in bites and one sting. I am slower than a zombie today. Withdrawals from both Vitamin D and homemade coffee are the culprit. Being on the island was fun fun fun!, then we remembered we live and work in Welland. C'est la shitty vie, that's what Quebec taught me. I still like
- [Canadian Shame](https://commatose.ca/2010/06/canadian-shame.html) - Here's the thing. Capitalism is everywhere. You knew it when you got old enough to think for yourself. You knew it when you became an adult turned 19. You know it now that you (maybe) pay your own rent/mortgage. So if you're so big on protesting, where have you been the rest of this year
- [Welland, you are a cruel and sexy mistress.](https://commatose.ca/2010/06/welland-you-are-a-cruel-and-sexy-mistress.html) - "Excuse me, what ethnicity are you?""...Pardon?""What ethnicity are you?" "Uh, I have Greek grandparents..." etc. and so forth. This is what I heard in the aisle over from mine before I decided to scope out the weirdo. I strolled casually -- if strolling can be done in such a way -- to the other end
- [Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again.](https://commatose.ca/2010/06/looks-like-those-clowns-in-congress-did-it-again.html) - Here is a good example of when Microsoft should have just said "We were trying to complicate things further." What a bunch of clowns.
- [Weasel Poll](https://commatose.ca/2010/06/weasel-poll.html) - Dalton McGuinty (AKA a giant wiener who is premier of one of the poorest parts of Canada) did us all a real big favour and sent each taxpayer in Ontario the first installment of three bribe cheques this week so that we don't hate him as much when we have to start paying the new
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/06/380.html) - Hairballs are ever prevalent at the Niklos Residence these days. That said: Sand cat. Let's get one! I have to go bat Rico with a fur brush because he's licking himself again. This could get messy.
- [Floods in Hungary](https://commatose.ca/2010/06/floods-in-hungary.html) - Maybe less impressive if you have never been there, but since we got to explore Hungary just under two months ago in near perfect weather, I am really sad to see the amount of flooding that's happened: Szentendre, where we saw this adorable dog; the water along the river was a lot lower when we
- [Because you like animals better than people...](https://commatose.ca/2010/05/because-you-like-animals-better-than-people.html) - Freekibble.com Freekibblekat.com Every day, go to each of the above sites and answer a trivia question. Whether you're right or wrong, the site will donate 10 pieces of kibble to hungry animals, and you get to feel really good (or really horrible) about how much you (might not) know. They feed millions of dogs and
- [I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm!](https://commatose.ca/2010/05/i-cant-believe-its-a-law-firm-2.html) - It's not often I get to say these words, but I am so glad someone blogged this! After mucking about in Lightroom, I somehow exported the lowest quality ever version of two really neat shots from Hungary that I found tonight, and they overrode the goddam originals! Thankfully, with that tip, I was able to
- [Pipe Dreams of Coming Clean](https://commatose.ca/2010/05/pipe-dreams-of-coming-clean.html) - There is an overwhelming sense of weird in the air lately. Trying to pinpoint its origins leaves the observer of weird at a loss. It's just one of those weird seasons, and for once, it's during springtime. This is new. It's not helping that I have a Slash song in my head. That guy really
- [How to Have a Nice Day](https://commatose.ca/2010/05/how-to-have-a-nice-day.html) - Wake up the day after a shitty yesterday which was, at its end, erased by your boy, cool friends, and just two drinks of Moosehead. Have money in your pocket for a coffee for your drive to work for a very short shift.
- [How to Have a Shitty Day](https://commatose.ca/2010/05/how-to-have-a-shitty-day.html) - Get up at 7:44am on a Saturday morning. Go to the market and have a shitty coffee that tastes so bad you can't even finish it. Get pressured by some Luigi-looking guy with purposely-curled moustache to eat sausage when you already had a danish and cereal, and you really don't like eating disgusting meat early
- ["Is there such a thing as CANADA?!"](https://commatose.ca/2010/04/is-there-such-a-thing-as-canada.html) - What an amazing trip we had. There are so many great things about our trip to Hungary that I will in all likelihood go into at some point, but naturally, there's something I need to get off my chest. This experience comes to you from our connecting flight in Rome. Italy, as it happens, was
- [Won't you be my neighbour?](https://commatose.ca/2010/04/wont-you-be-my-neighbour.html) - Of course, we have the blandest network in range.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/04/368.html) - News You Can't Use - April 12, 2010: Foxes exist in Welland It's a really boring season for news in Welland, even when some poor guy's body washed up in the river last week. This headline makes up for it though.
- [John Tesh would marry my ass.](https://commatose.ca/2010/04/john-tesh-would-marry-my-ass.html) - Tax return came this week, and since I don't really get to enjoy it (thank you, school that got me so many places), I'm trying to curb my spending. This is when my blog gets useful! These links are British, so the tools might not work as well as you'd hope, but the general ideas
- [Fish n Chips n Vinegar... Pepper Pepper Pepper, Salt.](https://commatose.ca/2010/04/fish-n-chips-n-vinegar-pepper-pepper-pepper-salt.html) - I got this book for about $10 the other day at Coles. I realize I'm becoming the two-jobbed housewife, but what a great resource! There are like a bazillion tips on ways to use salt, vinegar, lemons, and baking soda for just about everything around the house; things you'd expect, and also neat tricks like
- [Lessons in Morality](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/lessons-in-morality.html) - On our daily post-lunch trip to the Tim Hortons drive thru today, I was telling Miki about the time *Alan found $50 on the ground opposite my cash register. It was a relatively slow night, so I knew who had dropped it, in fact I remembered the guy choosing a $20 instead of that $50
- [Cat Tails & Pussy Willow](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/cat-tails-pussy-willow.html) - This morning I awoke to claims by somebody that Starbucks filters its coffee through cats, because the package smells like cat pee. (Preposterous! I cried. It would have to smell like cat poo.) Shortly after this, a cat war broke out in the very bedroom where I was still snoozing. Last night, while cutting his
- [That Tears It.](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/that-tears-it.html) - I'm buying all my toiletries from Walmart from now on. Now, don't get me wrong. I hate Walmart just as much as the next person, but I sure don't hate how they're $4 less for a large jug of shampoo than it costs to buy a much smaller bottle at the store I work for.
- [Garlic > You](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/garlic-you.html) - For those who might not know, lately I've been cooking a lot. Since adulthood, I've been a fan of crushing garlic into just about everything I make in some form. I think you should do it too. Good, quick read about it here: The Health and Medicinal Benefits of Garlic Warning: Do not eat if
- [It's a blog-eat-blog world out there](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/its-a-blog-eat-blog-world-out-there.html) - There's an old wives' tale that if you have a lot of heartburn during pregnancy, your kid will come out with a full mop of hair. Well, turns out it's true. Need backup? It's true here too. With the amount of heartburn I get on a regular, un-pregnant basis, I will probably end up with
- [The 1000th 'Tweet' Cometh](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/the-1000th-tweet-cometh.html) - It puzzles me to find that I am approaching 1000 'tweets' on Twitter. Why? Because I have 'tweeted' nearly 1000 things, only the last two 'tweets' of which I can remember. Of course many of those were probably 'retweets' of interesting news and comical things people also 'tweeted', so it wasn't all for naught. I
- [They All Must Scoop](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/they-all-must-scoop.html) - For a long, long time as past housemates will agree, Rico has had a problem with barfing daily all over the place. The vet suggested he simply has a weak stomach, or he's eating too fast. Well, one day after a good petting session, Rico stood up and started to cough up a hairball. It
- [How to get out of your phone contract](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/how-to-get-out-of-your-phone-contract.html) - I'm having a lot of problems with my phone lately, and to be honest, I don't like paying a system access fee for no reason (of course, there are SAF-free plans now with Telus, but they cost about the same as/more than it would to stay on my plan with the SAF). So, here, along
- [Having an Alan Cross/Lasik moment](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/having-an-alan-crosslasik-moment.html) - Here's the inside scoop. I'm someone who likes to spend money, and still have more for later. Flyerscoupons.ca makes me feel like a mom should. As the bass booms from the housing next-door, I am cutting coupons sent to me by Save.ca and pro-planning my shopping trips using FC's tidy, organized website for people who
- [Grass is always greener and the sky is bluer too](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/grass-is-always-greener-and-the-sky-is-bluer-too.html) - Well, Jim Beam, it's a sunny, sunny day out and you're stuck inside doing the laundry. You think of all the silly things you could be going outside and getting into, and every one of them seems even more thrilling than the last. You're a real jack-in-the-box, Jimmy. So your mind is racing with the
- [Apples : Oranges](https://commatose.ca/2010/03/apples-oranges.html) - When this whole Vancouver 2010 thing started, it was greeted by polar opposites: Olympic hysteria, and the Olympic hate-on. I'll be honest. I didn't care at first. I didn't understand why some people would buy three (3) toques with the Vancouver 2010 logo on them for $24.99 apiece. (Okay, I still don't.) I had no
- [The Times They Are A-Changin'](https://commatose.ca/2010/02/the-times-they-are-a-changin.html) - I think I've been getting bitten by a spider in my sleep for a week or so. Waking up with small swollen bumps in places too widely dispersed for it to be a rash or fleas (thank god), I had wondered what was plaguing me. For some reason, a spider never came to mind. We
- [](https://commatose.ca/2010/02/348.html) - As it happens, I am a fan of dusk.
- [You'll have to forgive me; I've never been anywhere.](https://commatose.ca/2010/02/youll-have-to-forgive-me-ive-never-been-anywhere.html) - Big news! Miklos and I are going to Hungary in April! This still really hasn't sunk in for me. Except that tomorrow when I wake up, I'm positive I'll realize the reality of it. I've never been on a big plane; I've never seen the ocean, let alone crossed it; I've never been in a
- [Representin'.](https://commatose.ca/2010/01/representin.html) - I gave up on the 365, rather quickly it would seem. It was no good, and I felt like it was holding me back. Or obligating me. I'd rather just picturize when the mood strikes me, or when something cool presents itself. Tomorrow, our little Mixi (who has recently taken to becoming a woman) goes
- [Scissor-Gripped](https://commatose.ca/2010/01/scissor-gripped.html) - These days, I feel like Johnny Depp is only doing Tim Burton movies out of politeness. Speaking of movies, I'm off to see the crazily-hyped Avatar tonight with Miklos. My boss's treat. That's the best kind. I hear Avatar is the best movie I've never seen and that it will blow me away, especially in
- [Happy 2010](https://commatose.ca/2010/01/happy-2010.html) - New Years resolution: Post one (1) photo per day, each day, for the next 365 days. This is already incredibly annoying, but maybe some good will come of it! Where you can see them: Every Light in the House (thank you, Miki!) Flickr
- [Puppies, dressed as cats.](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/puppies-dressed-as-cats.html) - Blaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's Christmas in March. Or September or something. The weather is seriously weird this year. No summer, no winter. Just boring. The nice thing is I got a pretty ring from the boy I care about. What a nutcase. He rules.
- [Star of Wonder](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/star-of-wonder.html) - Only half our latest string of lights is working. This is the way I'm trending lately. I buy a string of Christmas lights, half of them explode. It's happened now for half the lights on our tree at my apartment, and now that I strung some lights around the window at Miklos's, half seem to
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/339.html) - Having read my earlier post over again, I totally agree with myself.
- [Oh hello.](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/oh-hello.html) - Chrome keeps freezing. Are you cold, little one? I love you... you're normally so quick and clean and refreshing. *Wraps a blanket around you.* Is that better? Will you start scrolling again soon? Is it that I haven't updated you in a while? Do you feel out of style? Are you angry at me because
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/337.html) - The list has been updated: Bank Shopping Laundry Yelling obscenities rather loudly
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/12/336.html) - I need to quit all my jobs. Only one by choice and hatred; the one I have out of obligation to living and breathing. Actually I like one of the remaining two I will have come January. It's not so bad. Except that I get about four (4) hours a week there. So really, I
- [Apocolypse Eventually!](https://commatose.ca/2009/11/apocolypse-eventually.html) - Well! Let me tell you. It's my sister's 23rd birthday today. Hope she's both having a blast and over the flu today. Setting the clocks back has ruined us all. I think I've heard every single person I've talked to this week complain that they are tired, and right now I'd have to agree with
- [Testing](https://commatose.ca/2009/11/testing.html) - Gonna do something new here to try and keep the blog rolling. Most interesting text I sent today: Smells like cabbage and cigars in the hallway. Ooh, this is getting good.
- [November!](https://commatose.ca/2009/11/november.html) - All the leaves are almost gone. What the hell! Oh right, it's almost winter. Thinking of scrapping the blog. Turns out there's not much to say bloggy-style when you're the furthest from miserable that you've ever been. Imagine! Here are some things I find funny today: Extended MSN names that explain how the person is
- [Realizations in Life:](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/realizations-in-life.html) - Old people have money because they are done paying their debts and thus can actually keep their money earned/received. In that, I am nowhere near old yet. We got business cards and I like them so much that it kills me inside to hand them out because they're really great quality. I told my dad
- [Hi.](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/hi.html) - It's 1am. It's ladybug season. It's also the season where your superintendent decides it's O.K. to go into your apartment without prior vocal or written consent. I'm getting really, really stressed out. I can honestly say, aside from job hunting, I've not felt this stretched thin mentally in a while. We've never missed a rent
- [Gabbo. GABBO.](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/gabbo-gabbo.html) - GABBO!
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/326.html) - There's this weird feeling in my stomach today. 22 years ago this day, my good friend Ellie was born. She became one of the most sensible yet most adorably fun people I have ever been lucky enough to meet. I was always in awe of her positive outlook on everything. Even when we didn't agree,
- [Things That Are Stupid #12983](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/things-that-are-stupid-12983.html) - My nana forwarded this email on to me today: If I happened to show up on your door step crying, Would you Care? If I called you and asked you to pick me up because something Happened, Would you come? If I needed a shoulder to cry on, Would you give me Yours? Do you
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/323.html) - Just now as I was about to gather my clothes from the laundry room, I stepped out of my apartment and gasped. "RICO!" I scolded, as the cat bounded back down the hall to greet me. How the hell did he get out of my place? A girl appeared in the hall walking toward me
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/322.html) - We went to the monkey/lion/three-legged jaguar place (no one cares about the parrots) yesterday. We saw no animals, but we did see a big forest with thin wire fencing around it and a bunch of signs basically telling us to go away. Amazing! Finally, this place is picking up a little. Mixi woke me up
- [O Colour, Where Art Thou?](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/o-colour-where-art-thou.html) - Hey, colours. We're looking to be right around here by now: Are you at least considering making this leap in the near future?
- [Busy busy bee](https://commatose.ca/2009/10/busy-busy-bee.html) - Things are hectic. Between working two jobs and setting up a business plan, I've failed a good friend: Danner. I barely update lately! So in apology, I give him this blog entry. The Price is Right has the unrelenting power to make a person who works two jobs still feel horribly under-employed. Time to pick
- [It's so different out here](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/its-so-different-out-here.html) - So we're back from up north. What a great place, where the only thing you're blowing a tonne of money on is gasoline. It's nice not to be surrounded by products and crazy people, but rather by trees and crazy people you enjoy spending time with. Adding pictures to Flickr periodically for the next day
- [Bob Barker looks like hell](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/bob-barker-looks-like-hell.html) - And he belongs to PETA, so there's that too. [Article and muppetty photo here] Almost as creepy: The amount of spiders around lately.
- [ZENN illegal to sell in Canada](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/zenn-illegal-to-sell-in-canada.html) - The only information I've gotten so far on this is in the video below. So, as long as this idea doesn't secretly suck somehow, I think maybe the provinces should start regulating them so we can drive them.
- [Turning a blind eye to science. (See what I did there?)](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/turning-a-blind-eye-to-science-see-what-i-did-there.html) - A blind woman is able to see again after having a tooth and part of her cheek lining implanted in her eye. Of course, the operation has been referred to as 'disfiguring' (I guess there's no real happy medium), but given the choice, I think I'd take sight again over my own vanity. Chances are
- [Baby's 1st Phobia](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/babys-1st-phobia.html) - So here it is, my one unexplainable and recently-revealed fear: Going to the gym. No idea where this stems from. Possibly because the last year of gym class I ever had in school was spent with a healing broken nose; possibly because my knees are shot at the tender age of 25 (they have been
- [My car is a birdshit magnet.](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/my-car-is-a-birdshit-magnet.html) - I can smell my feet. This will need to be remedied before (second) work (of the day). I really want to go up north in the next few weeks. Up north in the fall is the best. Colours, colours! And sweaters, sweaters! My feet really smell, wow. I should try showering one day. And coffee
- [Sans-Labour Day](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/sans-labour-day.html) - We went to the Marshville Festival for our day off. It was fun. All the useless crap people sell there makes me want to open a booth at a trade show. A booth comprised of anything! One place made really good wood carvings, and wasn't even selling any of them. Amazing. Creating things simply for
- [This is getting old.](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/this-is-getting-old.html) - At times, people have a strange sickness about them when they enter a store in need of a product. All their insecurities seem to fade, and all 'normal' behaviour is kicked temporarily to the curb before they must again face the world outside the shop that houses the product they require. Today's incident involved an
- [The Elevator Times](https://commatose.ca/2009/09/the-elevator-times.html) - Just now on the way up from the laundry room, I held the elevator for a couple of weirdos. "Laundry day, eh?" said the girl, looking at the basket I held in my hands."Yep... best day of the week," I mused."Yeaaaah!" said the girl. "Get ya clean clothes, go out 'n party??""...you got it." My
- [Not a creature was stirring, not even a ...](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/not-a-creature-was-stirring-not-even-a.html) - I dedicate this poem to the lowly critter we caught trying to steal hubcaps from a vehicle in the driveway last night. He left at the scene (1) a screwdriver, (2) the hubcap he meant to take with him, (3) a freshly picked tomato from the garden, and (4) a sullied reputation. And Miklos in
- [Thanks for the fab painting of Yours Truly. I hung it on me wall.](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/thanks-for-the-fab-painting-of-yours-truly-i-hung-it-on-me-wall.html) - Miklos is now selling prints. He's really good, so I think you should check them out and show them to anyone you know who has a bare wall they'd like to spruce up with a couple photos. He's also good for naturally-lit portraits, baby photos, and monumental events like 80th birthdays and bar mitzvahs. Even
- [District 9](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/district-9.html) - Not to knock District 9, but both before and after District 9 were better than District 9. But District 9 was okay for a silly alien flick. I guess. Although I think I slept through most of District 9. It's 4 months til Christmas, god help us.
- [You're the devil in me](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/youre-the-devil-in-me.html) - We're going to see District 9 tonight, which I know nothing about, except that there's something about aliens (or Mary) involved in it. I'll do it because Miklos's sister is a peach and we have movie passes because of her. Went for sushi with Heather today for the first time in a while. It was
- [(You had to be there) AKA (For my own memory's sake)](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/you-had-to-be-there-aka-for-my-own-memorys-sake.html) - Hidden and periodically updated notes; I did a similar "Note to Self" type memo when I was 8; I found it when I was around 15 and laughed at how ghey I was. "It smells like a pencil..." "What kind of tree is that?" "A weed maple." "Hey, Larry David! Can you sign my arm?"
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/302.html) - I just saw an accident on the 406. Well, I saw the aftermath, and it gave me a giant headache because of my road paranoia and the fact that this happened about a minute ahead of where I was. I've never seen that highway come to a screeching halt; it took me completely by surprise
- [Better hurry...](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/better-hurry.html) - What a bargain! When I was 17, my friends and I used to 'ghost-hunt'. It was a fun way to stay up late, scare the (figurative, in my case) crap out of ourselves, and the stories we ended up with would last each of us a lifetime. And those ghosthunts were all for FREE! So
- [Summertime, and the livin' is easy](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/summertime-and-the-livin-is-easy.html) - John Smith and his dad are working on building a [hopefully safe] pit in the garage so that his dad can fix cars with greater ease. I'm hoping in the process of chipping away concrete and digging today they manage to find an antique grand piano or maybe a nugget of gold so that we
- [Example: Why I'm doing nothing with my major...](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/example-why-im-doing-nothing-with-my-major.html) - Will you be paying by cheque or mortgage today?
- [Hopefully I live. But who knows!](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/hopefully-i-live-but-who-knows.html) - I didn't get a tetanus shot and I still feel like my leg (the part that doesn't have the cut on it) has a giant bruise, and my arm too, and for the past hour all I can smell is copper. So if I hemorrhage and die in the next couple of hours, it's because
- [I Can't Believe it's Not Tetanus!](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/i-cant-believe-its-not-tetanus.html)
- [Adventures](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/adventures.html) - Last night we (forgot our cameras, ugh!) and drove head-on into the enormous storm that hit Niagara. The humidex during the day had been around 41 as predicted, and whatever collided with that muggy air did not impress it. At first, it was a brilliant light show over Lake Ontario. Next thing we knew, that
- [Children of the I Has a Corm](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/children-of-the-i-has-a-corm.html) - I've been killing time reading Blind Gossip items. Debating whether or not to dye my hair and cut the bangs. I think that'll all wait til autumn. August sucks, except that it seems to actually be June. It's muggier than my kitchen cupboards out there. Where the hell can I buy pumpkin spice?! I need
- [Back from Vacations](https://commatose.ca/2009/08/back-from-vacations.html) - Photos: The Island Cottage 2009 It's friggin' late. I'll add some commentary later.
- [A Cigarette in Bed; or a Cookie, for Non-Smokers](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/a-cigarette-in-bed-or-a-cookie-for-non-smokers.html) - It was a very gloom-and-doom weekend at the island, at least as much as an island on the border of Ontario and Quebec can be gloom-doomy. Allow me for a moment to be more specific: The sky spent a lot of time pissing down rain. One bad omen was a horrible accident that had happened
- [Catalysts or Cattle-ists?](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/catalysts-or-cattle-ists.html) - I've spoken of laundry partners before (I just can't remember the date, otherwise I'd link to it). When you live in an apartment building, and it's time to wash your clothes, there's often one other person (or more, but that's much rarer) starting the wash cycle in the laundry facility at just the moment you
- [Funkalicious!](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/funkalicious.html) - I have this tendency to laugh like hell when I'm in high-drama situations. And not a nervous giggly laugh. More like a haughty and amused laugh of adrenaline, accompanied by a large and overbearing smile which is probably scary and/or confusing to those around me. Honestly, I'm sure I prefer it to the other options
- [Cripes.](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/cripes.html) - Death Taxes If I apply for and get a job, the training will almost certainly always fall on the ONE scheduled week of vacation I will have planned all year.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/285.html) - If I could speak in a cat language that Rico would understand, I would say meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow, which would translate, loosely, to "Slow down when you eat! That's why you're throwing up every day." He gets so riled up before he eats, and I made matters worse tonight by
- [Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/never-interrupt-your-enemy-while-he-is-making-a-mistake.html) - Oh my god the funny. Hopefully the funny stays, because I need some motivation to get the ball rolling. July has been my favourite month since I can remember. August is nice but kind of depressing, and this September won't even have the freshness of a new school year to it. Anyway, July is good.
- [Git in, ya dumb bastids!](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/git-in-ya-dumb-bastids.html) - I've just seen a Johnny Depp movie that I didn't particularly like. It's a sad day in the world of me; except for all the other happy things that have happened, I mean. Which is pretty much everything else. Earlier today, I was about to text a girl I know when the phone started ringing.
- [Stop, stop! He's already dead...](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/stop-stop-hes-already-dead.html) - It is time! Do you feel it is time? It's time to be vague, regardless of your opinion! Tonight's date-night. Yay!
- [Summer Boredom](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/summer-boredom.html) - After tossing and turning the night away, I spent a very lowly day at home. It began with a long 'nap' to make up for the night, then proceeded into an afternoon full of not feeling quite right and a Vanity Fair article about Johnny Depp. And that brought me to realize: It's been a
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/280.html) - Here's my dad.
- [Holiday, celebrate...](https://commatose.ca/2009/07/holiday-celebrate.html) - Canada Day was a big hit! Must bike more often. Much more fun and much less expensive than driving aimlessly. And my legs feel a bit toned. Heavens! So, I keep learning terrible words in Hungarian. The only wholesome ones I think I know are the ones for cat, dog, dad and mom. But even
- [Cat Lady Rambles #184](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/cat-lady-rambles-184.html) - I've never really thought of Rico as 'big'. Once, Francis came over to try and sell me life insurance (or something scammy) and the only part of that visit I remember was him saying "WHOA, that is a big cat." I've seen bigger. But Jane is a featherweight, and Mix is miniature. She'll probably grow
- [China's not the same as Chinatown](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/chinas-not-the-same-as-chinatown.html) - It's COLD. What is happening here! /mild freak-out A fat, dirty, slimebucketly man stole a Toblerone chocolate bar tonight at my store when he thought no one was looking. But I was looking. I was looking as he lifted the back of his unwashed windbreaker jacket and shoved the prism-shaped carton into the ass-crack of
- [Whaat? Noo.](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/whaat-noo.html) - What's that? It's a beautiful day?? No need to look at the schedule then, I must be working! Apparently it's going to be thundershowers tonight. Yesterday's storm was frightening in its brevity. I don't like when people overuse serious terms like 'torrential downpour', but it really was Niagara's version of such a thing. For example,
- [I've been workin' on the railroad, all the livelong day...](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/ive-been-workin-on-the-railroad-all-the-livelong-day.html) - Make no mistake about it, I have not been working on any railroads. Actually, I've been paying $117 for a tire that decided to implode this morning. Better im- than ex-, I always say. It was that which had me decide to spend even more money on a load of shit that I don't really
- [Hat Magic](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/hat-magic.html) - I have this awesome hat. Originally I called it my 'immigrant cabby' hat. Originally, also, it fit my head. I think my hair was really flat that day. I wish someone cool with a slightly smaller head than mine (or with the same sized head but less hair) could use this hat. It's going to
- [I don't play baby games.](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/i-dont-play-baby-games.html) - An empty Tim Hortons cup sits on my desk, to the left of my computer and to the Southeast of my phone. This is a cue for me to make a tea. I enjoy a good Earl Grey tea these days. I also enjoy 'paying back' my sleep debt. One day Miklos is going to
- [Nothing to see here.](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/nothing-to-see-here.html) - The good stuff isn't here. It's in a book that I still haven't finished which I started writing in, say, 6 years ago. It has all sorts of tidbits. But I think I should start a fresh one because I feel like I'm bound to go somewhere really good with my life now. Yes, this
- [Chives on top of me?](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/chives-on-top-of-me.html) - I could do with some more granola in my stomach right now. Mmmm. Granola.
- [Burning bridges and it feels so good...](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/burning-bridges-and-it-feels-so-good.html) - Miklos agrees with me that there's something definitely askew with that part of the highway in the rain where I almost went out of control today. Which is good because it means that I can still know him. Also good: Cranberry juice. And those square wafer cookies that are covered in a layer of chocolate.
- [Played.](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/played.html) - Quebec, at least the part of it I've been to as of this weekend, is beautifully scenic. Not horribly scenic by any means. I officially have a 'Hang in There' kitty on my wall in calendar form this month. This can only mean good things. Or at least that I'll try to maintain some sanity.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/265.html) - Project: Pay Off Student Loan is in effect. I need some ideas that don't involve work. I've decided on: gambling selling my least useful body parts to science (good-bye, baby toes!) manufacturing and selling cat merchandise entering any and every contest with a cash prize more gambling The bank ripped me off 20 cents in
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/06/264.html) - I need a get-rich-quick scheme. This whole working full time thing probably won't work out, if I ever get that far.
- [Five days after I hit the ground...](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/five-days-after-i-hit-the-ground.html) - I've never been happier for one day off to come. I don't have a full weekend, but I do have tomorrow off before 40-ish hours of work (and bonecrushing agony, probably, what with my new foot and leg pains), 32 of which will be spent sans-customers at a new store setting up. Should be less
- [Rip Taylor](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/rip-taylor.html) - I just had a terrifying experience. I was putting my pants back on after taking a midday shower, when I began to notice they were really, really tight. Suddenly, and to my horror, from the pants I was struggling to pull on, there rang out a loud ripping noise causing me to gasp in fear.
- [Summertime...](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/summertime.html) - It's Gasoline Price Hike Season again, and I will never, ever understand why there are regulations on the sale of just about everything, except for gas, which gets to be whatever price the oil giants want it to be, even though it should really be about 20-25 cents less per litre than we're paying. I
- [Economic Peril](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/economic-peril.html) - "Can I get $20 cashback?""Yep. Oh... sorry, we don't do cash advances" [as customer hands cashier her Visa]"Oh.... well my daughter wants to go to Starbucks." [looks frustrated] [debit declines her extra $20] Maybe it's time a few of us made some lifestyle changes. I mean, this recession thing's not exactly new anymore.
- [Real Estate... Agent Maaaan](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/real-estate-agent-maaaan.html) - Tonight: Investigated area of fire I noticed happening last night between Towpath Rd. and Highway 406 While investigating, observing the hollow area that seemed to lie beyond the otherwise apparent forest and noting the overpowering smell of something burned, we almost took a nosedive off the side of the road and into a creek lying
- [Blinky: The Silent Cleaner](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/blinky-the-silent-cleaner.html) - I got Blinky yesterday after resigning myself to the fact that my angelfish probably isn't going to die any time soon, and as such, he probably isn't going to start licking the algae he and his surroundings produce off the side of the aquarium. According to the place I bought him, Blinky is a 'rubber
- [Worst.](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/worst.html) - Giving you more reason not to watch the 24 hour news channel.
- [Graduate of...](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/graduate-of.html) - Grades are up, and that means it's official. I can start remembering what life was like before I had some kind of credentials, except for the massive amount of student debt I'll be paying back in the coming years. I'll update more later. Just felt guilty for leaving the blog sitting here all by its
- [Heartfelt Moment #214](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/heartfelt-moment-214.html) - After a long and serious discussion: Miklos: "Well, this has been a very inspiring conversation... thank you."Nikki: "It wasn't inspiring; shut the fuck up."
- [The fans were none too pleased with Canada today...](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/the-fans-were-none-too-pleased-with-canada-today.html) - Fuck Canada! No wait, I meant GM. GM, yes. I agree with Canada on this one. But yeah let's not get political or anything.
- [Up/Down](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/updown.html) - Just clicking through my bookmarks at random, you know, since I have time to do that now, and I found this: Mark Twain's Top 9 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life. Pretty uplifting! And, you know, I hate to kick you down when you're up by getting all serious, but there are some powerful photos
- [Party Time](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/party-time.html) - Life is getting expensive. I'm considering bringing grocery shopping back in style again instead of eating at restaurants and having chocolate for breakfast every day. (Not every day...) School's out and we're doing all sorts of crazy things! Like going out again... for dinner.
- [Cue joyful profanity!](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/cue-joyful-profanity.html) - I'm done, done, done! I finished the last bit of academic hell I had to today, and I am really friggin' done, I think! Unless the woman I emailed it to emails me back and tells me I f'd everything up. In which case I will switch from dancing around my room like a monkey
- [The Smell & the Wolverine](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/the-smell-the-wolverine.html) - Nik says: SPEAKING of smell sweet jesus that guy at X-Men Wolverine tonight? fuck my life! this guy looked like he was straight out of a Dungeons and Dragons matchdan says: Who would think a comic book guy would have B.O.?!Nik says: HAD A GIRLFRIEND, so there's officially now hope for EVERYBODY and every time
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/246.html) - Up at 5:30am, drive home from Welland, drive back to Welland upon mother's request, stress out a while over lack of laundry done, lunch, wedding, Ellie tribute, sleep, market, nap, drive, movie night at my second home, sleep, lunch, work, photo run to Hamilton with Miklos, hometime. I'm forgetting a lot. It's been a busy
- [All this carp talk has given me CARP-al tunnel.](https://commatose.ca/2009/05/all-this-carp-talk-has-given-me-carp-al-tunnel.html) - Okay that's the last carp title for the day, for a little while. Or until tomorrow. Speaking of: Tomorrow is a busy day. If you're in the Niagara area, stop by Isaac's pub at Brock University after 7pm to support the Ellie Burbidge Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser Tribute. (That's a lot of words. Ellie would've enjoyed
- [Carpus Maximus](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/carpus-maximus.html) - I was standing at the gas pump at 7-Eleven just now, noticing my transaction was only up to about $3 when I'd been standing there for about as many minutes. An old man staggered out of the store and walked toward his car, looking at me rather suspiciously, as if to want to ask something.
- [Carp(e) Diem](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/carpe-diem.html) - The other night I dreamed that I stored Rico in a bag full of water with my fish to transport him to another house. When I arrived at that place, Rico was a black cat and he was... not so much alive anymore. Why is logic always so flawed in dreams? Last night I think
- [Naked, and carping along](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/naked-and-carping-along.html) - Q: Nikki, wherever did you come up with the brilliant domain name NakedCarp.com?A: Well, the dot-com boom began just over a decade ago when... oh, you mean the actual name bit. I was thinking about this the other night, and I can't quite remember. All I know is we were driving along on Moyer and
- [School only feels like it's out when you're 8 and it's summertime.](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/school-only-feels-like-its-out-when-youre-8-and-its-summertime.html) - It feels good to be back to the 'writer' roots. When your proposed backup plan (in my case, Business Admin) kind of takes over your life for three years, it's easy to lose sight of what you really wanted. I love you, writing. I always have. Come back to me. Writers need readers. Readers need
- [They call me Flipper...](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/they-call-me-flipper.html) - I also love the t-shirt I have put on today. I like to call it "Woodland Creatures". It's like a 'modern' version of all those Northern Getaway shirts people used to wear. It's the third t-shirt I've bought from H&M's Organic Cotton line. I don't know how 'organic' it all actually is, but here's a
- [It's all presentation.](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/its-all-presentation.html) - I'd like to write a story about my life, but then I think to myself: what's the point, if I'd never get to write the epilogue? I think the book, if I did decide to write it without the proper conclusion, would have to be a collection of short stories. My life is never continually
- [Rebel L](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/rebel-l.html) - Hey, I'm supposed to get up at like... oh, I dunno, 9am and shower and proceed working on my macadamia academic assignment thing, but man. It's just not feeling like bedtime yet. Sure, my eyelids are like 10 pound weights (and in eyelid weight, that's like benching a small elephant), but I feel like there's
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/235.html) - Special thanks to Miklos for fixing up the jive-turkey code on this site.
- [Spilling Mistake](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/spilling-mistake.html) - The Local Rabbits will always be a good springtime band for me. Spring of 2006 in Toronto, Spring of 2009 in St. Catharines. There were some college years in between but we'll just repress all those memories, excluding of course the influential people I met during that time. A few surprisingly great teachers, a few
- [Fame went to the painting elephant's head](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/fame-went-to-the-painting-elephants-head.html) - When I was a wee little dame of about 16, one of my night-dweller friends (sometimes two) and I would spend summer nights on the back porch, usually at my house, and look up at the navy blue above our heads and watching for lights that twinkled just a little too quickly. We saw some
- [Plz sir, may I trespass after __ PM tonight?](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/plz-sir-may-i-trespass-after-__-pm-tonight.html) - It occurred to me today that something I really can't stand in a person is the inability to process tongue-in-cheek remarks and chuckle at them instead of tsk-tsking in my direction.
- [One more week of clown college.](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/one-more-week-of-clown-college.html) - Apparently, it takes a lot of work to fire someone with a horrible mental illness. The school I attend (at least for another week or so) is a prime example. This week a teacher went ballistic and did a song-and-dance routine while teaching her class about how much she hates the faculty she works with
- [Today the music is just background...](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/today-the-music-is-just-background.html) - Pretend I'm pounding on the keys in frustration and school-related stress right now. I'd do it for real, but laptop keyboards are kind of a one-shot deal...
- ["Feelin' Fine"](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/feelin-fine.html) - I'm doing good today. One more assignment to write (well, 3 more to hand in, but one and a half which I've completed, and one new one that will hopefully be good enough since I only learned about it today), and I will be fucking graduating!!!!!!!!!!! from this dreadful course. It's the out I've been
- [Naked. And carply. The two sweetest plums, together at last.](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/naked-and-carply-the-two-sweetest-plums-together-at-last.html) - Because I only come up with cool domain names, here is the new one; I hope you are already enjoying it. (Thanks Miki, for helping me out of remedying my site of my Blogger-induced laziness.)
- [Here comes "2"...!](https://commatose.ca/2009/04/here-comes-2.html) - Something special is about to happen. Tune in, tune in.And if it's already happened by the time you read this, hello! Welcome to the future! Cool jumping pic from tonight @Miklos.ca. I'm almost tempted to post the retarded looking outtakes, but I'll spare myself the embarrassment. One retarded picture should suffice.
- [Fly Trapped in a Jar](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/fly-trapped-in-a-jar.html) - It's gorgeous outside but my toes are freezing indoors with the window open. It's spring jacket weather. These are special times. I'm beginning to think that I just wasn't meant to understand Chapters 5 and 6 of Legal Fundamentals for Canadian Business. I've tried all week to pay some kind of mind to either the
- [Blow Me Away: Life Advice from a Crazy Person](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/blow-me-away-life-advice-from-a-crazy-person.html) - We're all crazy in one way or more, no matter how well we hide it (unless we're boring, but I have half a mind to think even boring people have at least an ounce of nutjob in them here and there). Sure. I get all that. But you know what that kind of introduction means:
- [I don't know, Ron. That sounds a little crazy.](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/i-dont-know-ron-that-sounds-a-little-crazy.html) - Yeah so I should really take a couple days out of having fun per week to do assignments and homework. Life is not supposed to be this good, apparently, at least not while you're in school for less than one more month. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I've been at it for two days straight and I am still
- [But yeah so no.](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/but-yeah-so-no.html) - Boston Pizza tonight with Miklos. A crazy old bag lady with a shopping cart from Zellers came in the door at the same time we did, and dazedly wheeled herself into the washroom for the exact duration of time we spent there. The waitresses joked that we could take her home now, since she clearly
- [Thumbs up thumbs down](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/thumbs-up-thumbs-down.html) - I had a dream I was wearing paper towel pajama pants. It wasn't too bad. Super absorbent. These sunny days are a nice change of pace. Thirty-two days and I'm done with this shitty school situation forever! YAY! Cheers to this site, which transforms my Flickr photos into a sleek looking layout. It makes everything
- [You want I should care?](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/you-want-i-should-care.html) - Ah, the good old you want I should debate. Who knows where it really stems from? I just know I like it.
- [A funny thing happened on the way to the crazy house...](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-crazy-house.html) - Dan has returned. I like when he blogs and you should too, because he is a real laugh riot. No, I mean that. Go read it or I stab you. Man, I've got nothing to say to this blog lately. Except that things are falling into place and school's almost done. Can't wait. I'm reading
- [Can't wait.](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/cant-wait.html) - You know what's coming soon? Some nice sleeping with the rain pouring and my window open so I can hear it all. Ooooh baby. Yeah. It's been a while. What a perfect sound for morning time in bed.
- [Tunez](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/tunez.html) - So far, the Arkells are up there for Nikki's Official Tunes of End-of-Winter/Beginning-0f-Spring 2009. They kind of have an element of bland to them though, so I'm looking for alternatives. Past bands of springtimes past include: Local Rabbits, Peter Elkas, (both remind me of walking down Bathurst and Bloor to go to work) Sloan, (driving
- [With a little help from my friends...](https://commatose.ca/2009/03/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends.html) - The "After Nikki's Non-Existent But Seemingly Apparent Car Alarm Honked 85 Times and Woke the Neighbourhood Up" Drive-Home Playlist: Guess Who - Sour Suite Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends Nirvana - Dumb This is after my
- [You betcha.](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/you-betcha.html) - Here's to a big week of very little school (stupid one night class!) and more work than usual. Here's to the last 'break' I have til I graduate. Can't wait.
- [Some guys have all the luck](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/some-guys-have-all-the-luck.html) - Third picture from the left is mine. Yay. Gotta help the gambling community out wherever I can, you know. Check out the first picture too, although it's not to my credit. I love when they move the falls behind the casino in the summertime...
- [Dear Jerk:](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/dear-jerk.html) - If you are going to be snotty, you must at least also be: Smart; or Good looking. Since you fall into neither category, please refrain from using the non-word "irregardless" in my presence ever again.
- [Meh, gotta nuke something.](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/meh-gotta-nuke-something.html) - I smell food and now I'm hungry. I have so much reviewing to do tonight, as well as a presentation to memorize, which just isn't going to happen, really. Worked and reviewed all weekend. Oh well! I never wanted a life anyway. Oh, and I think my dad finally believes me that the car needs
- [Why Working Out at Midnight Just Feels Like Summer](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/why-working-out-at-midnight-just-feels-like-summer.html) - I just had a really good workout. The first workout since my first workout after the New Years resolution that I would continue to workout more, which didn't work out. [The cymbals would crash here, if the drummer hadn't already left in his boredom.] And I feel REALLY good. You should do it too. And
- [Worst. Education. Ever.](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/worst-education-ever.html) - Not that anyone who reads this will ever want to go into HR (especially now), but word to the wise, I really should've taken this program instead of the one I took at Niagara College which was comprised of NO electives and forced me and my schooltime chums into wasting a lot of our lives
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/204.html) - Today was a nice taste of springtime in February. Temporary, yet so very right. I got to remember what it was like to wear a jacket instead of a coat. Amazing. I got to walk around on the snowless sidewalks wearing flats and no socks. The best! I can't wait for this to be all
- [You know maps are antiquated when...](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/you-know-maps-are-antiquated-when.html) - I had a pretty good day. It started off with missing class and ended off with a silly prank and a skinny Avondale kid awkwardly reading off a map and making the lot of us laugh at his nerdiness. [Ah, so much you would've enjoyed. Why does everything strike me that way now?] The test
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/201.html) - So. I'm doing a review for a test I have tomorrow and I've hit a roadblock. Oh, ok, I found it now. This might as well have been Twittered, for all anyone will care. Hey, I took a bunch of pictures this weekend, many of which I haven't uploaded yet... but also, many of which
- [In the span of 25 minutes...](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/in-the-span-of-25-minutes.html) - Walked in on a girl in the bathroom who was screaming hysterically at the toilet. She then told me I could use it, whereby I asked, "Um, is it working all right?" She then began to cry because she had just flushed her Motorolla RAZR down the toilet. Overheard a conversation about Dunnville while on
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/199.html) - I was pretty sure I couldn't do it, but it only took me from 2pm until now to read the three disgustingly long chapters I needed to, with just one break to eat a [horrible] packet of Thai noodles [that cook up like Mr Noodles which has sent my stomach into an effervescent spiral of
- [85 lyrics rushing through my head that are begging to be put in my extended MSN name:](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/85-lyrics-rushing-through-my-head-that-are-begging-to-be-put-in-my-extended-msn-name.html) - Where has my head gone You can tell them I'm coming and Hell's coming with me There's no room for error I love you, I love you, oh brother of mine Shock me like an electric eel Please please please God don't be a bastard, Christ knows she deserves something nice for a change No
- [Minutiae](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/minutiae.html) - A long time ago, when I was much angrier or at least cared more, some idiot commented on my blog in all his pretentiousness and [in all likelihood only] criticized me for writing about the 'minutiae of my life' [because it made him feel all warm and special inside to say a word containing more
- [Secrets](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/secrets.html) - I've always been a diary kind of person. There's a whole box of them somewhere, dating back to when I was eight and I had crushes on dirty little boys who killed frogs and ate boogers. Here's a tip that I'm about to follow:Burn your diaries after they're finished. No one needs to read that
- [Electric Feel](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/electric-feel.html) - Why do I not like sleep at night, but I love it so come morning? I'm tired as all shit, but I just won't go down. Why don't I think this much during the daytime? It certainly would help a lot of things. This is a good'un (I didn't pay attention to the video, I'll
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/02/194.html) - I have to stop torturing myself. I realize that. The more I read this, the more it seems like foreshadowing. I miss her so much. She'll be with all of us, always, but if there's ever such a thing as time travel, I'm going back to last week to call her up so that none
- [](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/193.html) - Thank you everyone for your incredible support through phone calls, MSN messages, and Facebook. Whether I've had the strength to reply directly or not, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it. Without you guys, I don't think I could have made it through the day. It's not very often I have to be
- [Foxy Brown](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/foxy-brown.html) - I keep seeing my fox, running around in that field on that same road. I love that little guy (or girl). By "keep" I mean that I've now seen him (/her) twice on drives with Miki. I want to hug that fox. This time I noticed his (/her) eyes glowing in the pitch black from
- [Sexual Healing](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/sexual-healing.html) - Today: Car battery died today before I left for school, so I took the bus instead, despite the fact that it would mean disrupting the class when I walked in 15 minutes after it started. Better late than never, I thought to myself. (See also, in Nikki's strikeout mantras: You have to spend money to
- [Fuckdamn!](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/fuckdamn.html) - What a monumental day in the history of the world. And I mean that. I really hope this administration does a lot of good for America and the rest of us. My teeth remind me of white, oversized corn niblets. Sushi is good, but it is very filling. Happy birthday, Papa. As always, we miss
- [Embracing the Midweek Weekend](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/embracing-the-midweek-weekend.html) - Shockingly, school's going great. I got a nice, swift rejection from a company for an interview that I went to a week or so ago, but not because I wasn't great. (They said I was great!) Actually, they've had to re-evaluate their department headcount (which means hiring freeze in real people terms), so for now,
- [American Idol auditions are back, yesssss!](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/american-idol-auditions-are-back-yesssss.html) - Listen, I don't want to bore you with stories like this... but this is one for the memories. Ignore it if you are anyone other than me reading. Situation: I'm lying in bed, doing math in my head for some reason. I'm on the threshold of sleep when I hear a sudden frantic scrambling; a
- [There's no day like a snow day](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/theres-no-day-like-a-snow-day.html) - Due to "treacherous" driving conditions today, I decided to stay home. One of two of my classes was cancelled because the prof didn't want us to die on our way in, so I figured that was enough. I mean, added to the fact that I didn't really feel like going in the first place. Ah,
- [Happy how?](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/happy-how.html) - I am actually looking very ... backward at starting school. (Just four more months, just four more months.) I already miss my recently-found freedom. I don't think I'll be going back to school after this year. How incredibly disappointing it has been. At least there are still a few nice things in life to keep
- [Six Simple Words: I'm Not Gay, But I'll Learn](https://commatose.ca/2009/01/six-simple-words-im-not-gay-but-ill-learn.html) - I've won $25 (the most I've ever won on a Crossword scratch ticket) already in 2009. Gonna be a big year, boys 'n girls!
- [Code Red](https://commatose.ca/2008/12/code-red.html) - I couldn't have picked a more beautiful bunch of winter days to have off work. The sky is blue (as far as I can tell with my curtains over the windows), and yesterday was a good day for pictures. Had a blueberry and a strawberry beer, which were all right, but kind of lackluster since
- [Love You Neil](https://commatose.ca/2008/12/love-you-neil.html) - I mean, I'm a little late on this, but it's great music for when you're jacked on caffeine at 3am and having half-assed political conversations via any given instant messenger.
- [Something has to give.](https://commatose.ca/2008/12/something-has-to-give.html) - Between the middle-aged probable molesters, and the crotchety old jackoffs wearing hats with green bows expecting me to remove the GST/PST for them because they want to buy 'confectionaries', I need a new job. Love my coworkers, hate the type of people I'm dealing with. The quality is just not there. Who'd have thought. I
- [Things just keep getting weirder and weirder and now Christmas is for shopping and the Shopping God is everything.](https://commatose.ca/2008/12/things-just-keep-getting-weirder-and-weirder-and-now-christmas-is-for-shopping-and-the-shopping-god-is-everything.html) - I was never a Pearl Jam fan. I'm not anti-Pearl Jam, they're just not that great as far as I'm concerned. Regardless, having heard a band cover them at a bar, the outro to 'Black' has been in my head for days. Maybe it's just winter setting in, but this has been a very ass-backwards
- [Hi, Life.](https://commatose.ca/2008/12/hi-life.html) - There's a dull scent of smoke on a sweater I don't wear very often. I'm not sure, but this and/or the weather could be why I feel a touch miserable today. I sure could go for an evening of sleeping in the fetal position. Instead, work!! :D Now. I like rain, in the summer. Does
- [Where I'm At:](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/where-im-at.html) - Working Taking pictures Going broke and broker Enjoying (relatively) low gas prices Not looking forward to school, that's for sure How are we all liking winter so far? Eh? Winter? Isn't it great?
- [Once I start...](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/once-i-start.html) - We have this tray of Christmas-themed chocolates that, as they are depleted, we keep replenishing with more and more chocolates. As a result, my skin has taken a hit! But whatever. It's winter, it's time for hot chocolate and (even more) Tim Hortons and being poor and baking cookies and EATING ALL THE CHOCOLATE.
- [Fit In/Stand Out](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/fit-instand-out.html) - Driving around last week, I think it was Miklos and I who saw these inspiring words, in an unlikely spot, on the back of a dump truck: "Why try so hard to fit in, when you are born to stand out?"
- [A Reason for the Season](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/a-reason-for-the-season.html) - One: If you don't believe things happen for a reason, you are a jerk.Two: My stomach feels like I didn't eat. Well, there's no eating at this unholy hour, that's for sure.Three: Speaking of eating, I don't love to eat sausage as much as I used to.Four: Is my favourite number, for whatever reasons humans
- [Dramatization! May not have happened!](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/dramatization-may-not-have-happened.html) - Really, his life must be so boring. So I don't envy him much. Except for the fact that he doesn't have to pay for anything he does/gets/eats/likes/wants.
- [X -Marks the Spot-mas](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/x-marks-the-spot-mas.html) - In the spirit of "I have to stop buying everything that I see" and "Oh, thank god there's a gifting holiday coming up to save me", I have begun a Christmas List. Matthew Good: Live at Massey Hall winter coat Giftcards for Bluenotes, Chapters, Tim Hortons, Esso (or generally cheaper gas station) CAA printer that
- [There's a man waiting to take me to something that I'm 'for'](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/theres-a-man-waiting-to-take-me-to-something-that-im-for.html) - Karl has convinced me that Live At Massey Hall is worth picking up. How? "Champions of Nothing" live, on loop, for 30 minutes. (That's only the song's elapsed play three times over, by the way, so it's not that much.) Sure why not. Actually, it's going on the Christmas List. I've spent enough money in
- [Man's best friend indeed...](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/mans-best-friend-indeed.html) - 2x concentrated laundry detergent is ruining my life.Damn you Kelly Ripa!
- [Legendary](https://commatose.ca/2008/11/legendary.html) - I'm truly, to my core, touched. I've never seen such a massive amount of people so incredibly happy in one place before. It finally feels like there's hope for change in America. Good for them. Derek says:how come our politics cant be that excitingNik says:i know!Nik says:lowest voter turnout in history, for usNik says:friggin legendary
- [Panic](https://commatose.ca/2008/10/panic.html) - Whenever people meet me, and subsequently meet my blog, they try blogging. It's this thing they do. And no one ever has the staying power. And lately, I, too, am losing my lustre. When life gets happy, the stories, they get boring. But worry not, kids. I'll be back in school in just two short
- [11 Ways You and I Might Be Different](https://commatose.ca/2008/10/11-ways-you-and-i-might-be-different.html) - Me: Quick to anger when confronted by rudeness for no apparent reason. You: Maybe not so much. My favourite bands/musicians include Joel Plaskett, Beck, Ben Folds, Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young, and the long-defunct Local Rabbits. I have a Rico Cat. I am extremely good at math, but I want to be a
- [This is it, here we go](https://commatose.ca/2008/10/this-is-it-here-we-go.html) - Listen, Jim. This is a beautiful life. The life of a student on vacation just working and quickly getting poorer by the second. (You do not need to buy this you do not need to buy that STOP BUYING THINGS!) Reading, writing, recycling because no one else goes to the parking garage as often as
- [Happy Autumn!](https://commatose.ca/2008/10/happy-autumn.html) - Hello waste of time and taxpayers' money minority-government from yesterday back again today, hello! Today I was wondering where this jerk, who always bought a lot of lottery and was always a dick to everyone he talked to at my store, had been lately. Well, it turns out, sometimes bad people die. Disorienting though, since
- [I'm not good enough at lying, so this is serious](https://commatose.ca/2008/10/im-not-good-enough-at-lying-so-this-is-serious.html) - Around 2004, while I was living in Welland, a group of us were racing down a side street (running). I wasn't fond of the idea, but everyone was trying to get into shape and I was just sort of there. Anyhow, I fell behind and decided to just walk to the end of the road,
- [I Can't Get Behind That](https://commatose.ca/2008/09/i-cant-get-behind-that.html) - I can't get behind: 13 cent jump overnight at the pumps for no reason Cogeco Cable (both television AND internet) Kim Mitchell Sarah Palin getting a cold summer ending I can get behind: Corner Gas tea selling textbooks for MONEY rainy days having my student debt reduced; hey hey hey! FudgeeOs wearing jackets again being
- [UR DOIN IT RONG](https://commatose.ca/2008/09/ur-doin-it-rong.html) - Spent an unusually relaxing day in the sun at the family's yesterday and got some colour (hopefully preventing that shaky old Jewish man who comes in to buy paper towels from heckling me about how 'white' I am). In lieu of this, today I got a bunch of errands and chores done and thought about
- [Squirrelly bastards!](https://commatose.ca/2008/09/squirrelly-bastards.html) - I caught a scammer the other day at work. After having read some tips that had been passed around by email to all the local stores, I was on-the-ball enough to call a supervisor when a younger guy, about 20, came in trying to buy $1000 worth of our store's gift cards on a Visa
- [You can be an asshole too!](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/you-can-be-an-asshole-too.html) - Do not: Tell me the whole grain bread you have is on sale when I know it's not, and then ask me in an old Italian man accent "Why your computers not updated for the sale?" and then look caught in a lie when my coworker comes back and says "It was another kind of
- [Headphones on, listening to nothing.](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/headphones-on-listening-to-nothing.html) - deathstar rocketboot. says:your voice is so sexy hahahadeathstar rocketboot. says:god damnitNik says:lol whatdeathstar rocketboot. says:you should be one mof those girls who talks on the phone late at nightNik says:hahahahhadeathstar rocketboot. says:your voice! its super sexy hahaNik says:well if HR doesn't work outNik says:i've got a lucrative career at Quest ahead of me
- [Here's what I'm at:](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/heres-what-im-at.html) - Reading John Tesh's Intelligence For Your Life website at 2am. Returning a crab today because the pet store lied to me about what living conditions it needs... cool! Hope all the other people who bought them also do their own research before their pets die. Waiting for my essay to be graded (we're not expecting
- [Walls](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/walls.html) - I was just lurking someone's Facebook shit and I gave myself a start when I found a photo of her with a girl I know. I did not know they knew each other. I need to stop this lurking stuff before I give myself a heart attack.
- [Should've been in marketing instead...](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/shouldve-been-in-marketing-instead.html) - Formula for a Rogers commercial: One of the four characters, usually a guy, is intrigued by a new device or service that another of the four rich kids has picked up this month. The guy or girl who owns the new Rogers device/service summarizes its innovative new features. Guy/girl listening sounds impressed. One of the
- [That's a shame.](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/thats-a-shame.html) - The college has gotten my goat again, if there was any goat left to be gotten. This time, the library didn't have even one (1) out of three (3) books recommended for research for an essay worth 15% of my final grade, due this Friday. Fantastic! All I do is laugh. I dreamed this morning
- [And another thing.](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/and-another-thing.html) - Pretentiousness level: High Tonight at work, a woman with two young children approached the cash desk. Her son held a pack of gum in his hand. She noticed it, jerked it out of his hands, looked at the package, and loudly proclaimed, "Oh, NO! No no. It has sorbitol in it. You're not getting that."
- [Bring it all back.](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/bring-it-all-back.html) - So. I think I've got this figured out. Everything happens for a reason. Usually that reason is to bleed me dry of any money I thought I still might be entitled to spending on things I actually enjoyed, but anyway. So I'll finish up this piece of shit program, then I'm moving onward to some
- [H-ape-piness](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/h-ape-piness.html) - I'm only posting because I love this photo. That's awesome. I hope there are actually a billion gorillas hidden somewhere. I'd like to hug them, provided they didn't kill me.
- [Mysteries!](https://commatose.ca/2008/08/mysteries.html) - Each week, something new happens so that the woman I work with who speaks only of tragedies will have something new to tell me they should reinstate the death penalty for. Similarly, but less likely to be a contributor to the argument for the death penalty by my coworker, there might have been another foot
- [This Things I Believe](https://commatose.ca/2008/07/this-things-i-believe.html) - Got a flat tire the other day. Got it fixed for free today, because the person who owned the car before my parents bought it got their tires from the place I went to. Ho ho! Free flat repairs for (the) life (of the tires)! I'm gonna drive me over a bed of nails!
- [Plans and Sleep](https://commatose.ca/2008/07/plans-and-sleep.html) - You ever look at a play-on-words so many times that the real word looks downright out of place the next time you see it? (Probably not.) Tonight, reading Vonnegut's introduction to Bagombo Snuff Box, I came across the word "comatose". Just looks weird to me now. The drive-in is fun. It is one of few
- [Happy Birthday, George](https://commatose.ca/2008/07/happy-birthday-george.html) - Ah, the stories we have from growing up. A lanky, flat-chested, pimple-faced girl of 12, I would sit on my front porch (the back patio at that point was yet to be built) reading magazines, books, whathaveyou. Always reading. And George, an older boy who I'd known seemingly forever in this neighbourhood, would happen by
- [We hardly knew thee](https://commatose.ca/2008/07/we-hardly-knew-thee.html) - I am so tired. Bunny bums are funny. Dan, you have to agree with that. Sleepy-nights.
- [Operation Dumbo Drop](https://commatose.ca/2008/07/operation-dumbo-drop.html) - I'm getting up at 9 in the morning, no matter what. This late-night cycle has to end. Although it is the only time I'm sure I'll ever do my course reading for Labour Relations, because let's be honest: Who needs that shit during the daytime?? There is so much to be done. And I'm doing
- [Ew.](https://commatose.ca/2008/07/ew.html) - Labour Relations is among the most boring things I've ever studied, and I haven't even opened the textbook yet. It's going to be a long summer. One week and two days til I'm heading North.
- [Canada Day Weekend, Sorta](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/canada-day-weekend-sorta.html) - When it's supposed to rain, it never pours. Good thing, at that. A sunny Friday off is a nice switch.
- [Willy-Nilly](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/willy-nilly.html) - I've been stupid for a long time. There's no denying that. For a long time I thought it was due to secondhand (and once, firsthand) inhalation of pot smoke. I thought it might have instilled in me whatever the young person's version of Alzheimers is, because my attention span became next to nil. And because
- [Confession:](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/confession.html) - Sometimes I read the blogs of people I don't know who my friends know. I think this makes me a giant pervert. Or maybe just a retaliator because they did it first. Whatever the case, I am nearly always hilarious. On a similar note, I must always be kept busy. If I am already busy,
- [Alternate Blog Name: Letters to Dan](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/alternate-blog-name-letters-to-dan.html) - Oh wow, yeah. I didn't update in 4 days. Surprised no one held a memorial service.Between writing my own HR assistant job description for Goran's company in a somewhat pathetic attempt at graduating college and all this rainy weather (which, aside from being bad for taking pictures, I actually love), I plum forgot about you,
- [Case and point: I am almost always hilarious.](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/case-and-point-i-am-almost-always-hilarious.html) - As I open my email to see if Monster JobSearch Agent has found me any new Restaurant Manager "jobs matching my criteria", (ultimately matching none of the criteria I've listed at all,) I come to a realization. I'm at my wit's end, my breaking point, the point where it occurs to me that "Hm, yes,
- [Let's impeach the President...](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/lets-impeach-the-president.html) - I want to see this. And I could spend all day commentating on these classic moments in live music history. Just so you know, my favourite reactions out of this bunch are: Maynard Josh Homme (not so much for the swearing but for being sick and still playing a show while some idiot chucks stuff
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/114.html)
- [Prevention is key.](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/prevention-is-key.html) - Best review I've read in a while.
- [Ooo, now e's breakin' 'n ent'rin' as well!! Fascist!](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/ooo-now-es-breakin-n-entrin-as-well-fascist.html) - Returned all the clothes I bought last week, save for the two I was unsure of at first, which ended up being my favourites. Bought little black dress to replace them, as well as pashmina and necklace. Did laundry. Got rained on in St. Catharines, as per the daily agenda. I'm not doing my hair
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/110.html) - Oh hey, so it's really fucking humid out. And we found G.I. Joe's truck in the woods.
- [For Dan:](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/for-dan.html) - I was ranting all night long at my TV; what a shitty, disappointing thing it is that Fleury has such a fat, bumbling ass, and that the game as a whole was so weak. But to cheer you up, just a little: That's my favourite thing that's happened in a while.
- [It doesn't matter what people are sayin', as long as they're talking about ya](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/it-doesnt-matter-what-people-are-sayin-as-long-as-theyre-talking-about-ya.html) - I'm getting a bit of a Homolka vibe from someone. It's very creepy, and I don't understand the whole situation, but ya. Asking for my cell number after you talk to me for 5 seconds or so on MSN is strange. Asking me to webcam with you is weird. More so if you're a girl
- [Been there, done that, got the puck to the face.](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/been-there-done-that-got-the-puck-to-the-face.html) - I do not see any logical reason for a person to wake up until noon if they don't work until the evening. I woke up (accidentally) at around 5:30 this morning, decided to stay up until I would fall asleep again (which never happened), and the only useful thing I've done is washed some sheets.
- [Change your calendars, it's June now.](https://commatose.ca/2008/06/change-your-calendars-its-june-now.html) - I was in the shittiest mood this weekend, because Google owns the internet, and I reset my password, since I don't actually remember what it was (meanwhile, my browser, does). This set off a chain of unfortunate events to follow, thus rendering me unable to access my email and Blogger. Somehow, miraculously, maybe because of
- [Congratulations!](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/congratulations.html) - A photo of mine has been featured in a slideshow in an article, along with some many others. I am very proud of myself for this tiny, almost unnoticeable triumph.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/104.html) - Angry, angry, angry. Hot chocolate isn't helping. Nothing truly bad even happened. This is all a product of the last week of the month. Oh, and that must mean tomorrow is Seniors Day. Why not! Come one, come all. Jesse taught me how to do HDR shots yesterday. Then I taught my Nana. It's not
- [Summer.](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/summer.html) - Staying up late every night for no good reason.Watching gory movies alone and thinking the clothes hanging on the door are people in a foggy wake-up haze.Wanting a bonfire with nowhere to have it.Needing a car and not being able to afford the gas.Learning new tricks and taking pictures all over the place. (Go look
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/102.html) - Fun Fact: I could write cover letters in my sleep by now. Last night, instead of pornography, Showcase had the movie SAW on. You know the one I'm talking about? Well, my sister who smokes pot liked it, so I didn't think I would. But then my other sister who doesn't smoke pot told me
- [Whoops.](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/whoops.html) - You ever hit Send and then think "Oh shit. I really hit Send, didn't I"? Yeah, I did that tonight. God, I hate that. Moreover, my program coordinator is about to hate me. Good morning, Program Coordinator! You've got mail (if anyone still used AOL)! Nikki is a giant douche, you say! ... And so
- [Killers Can Be Anyone](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/killers-can-be-anyone.html) - This guy came into my store yesterday. A little unsettling, yes. Tomorrow marks the would-be Saturday of my 'weekend', which will be mostly filled with catching up on sleep. Ah, the life of a shift-working part-timer. How depressing. You know, to those types who still have emotions. I saw an article (in the Toronto Sun;
- [Compare People Matters](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/compare-people-matters.html) - My rankings on Facebook's Compare People are as follows. (Why do you care, you ask? Why does anyone read anyone else's blog in the first place? I retort.) you category votes wins win% 1st would i rather take shopping 24 19 79% 2nd more likely to win in a fight 3 3 100% 2nd prettier
- [I'm gonna dance hall dance hall every day](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/im-gonna-dance-hall-dance-hall-every-day.html) - Do these things: Buy strawberries and Cool Whip, because everything tastes better with a bit of water, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated coconut and palm kernel oil (CPKO), sodium caseinate, vanilla extract, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 60 (glycosperse), and beta carotene. Then, eat the strawberries and Cool Whip. Make a hot
- [Hey thanks, see ya never.](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/hey-thanks-see-ya-never.html) - Hi Nikki, Thanks so much for having attended the interview, earlier this weekfor the _______ position available within ______. Myapologies for the delay in getting back to you...we were waiting on someforms to be completed and approved. You were not the successfulcandidate for this position and I'm happy to give you specific interviewfeedback, if you
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/94.html) - Robert Downey, Jr. is rather charming as Tony Stark.
- [Why:](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/why-2.html) - I love Crest Whitestrips because they make my skin look tan. I love the Colbert is God graffiti on a shitty building on Westchester more and more every time I see it. I don't love it because it's awesome, but rather because it seems so... wrong. Get Loose was arrested in Toronto. I wonder if
- ["Finding happiness in failure": The opposite of "talking shit about a pretty sunset."](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/finding-happiness-in-failure-the-opposite-of-talking-shit-about-a-pretty-sunset.html) - Oh hi. If you've just found me now, well I sure am good at keeping secrets. Or, as it were, at eventually disclosing them. Yet another thing I'm good at is failing miserably at interviewing for jobs. I also succeed at accepting the rejection calls the HR directors (or their lackeys) make to me shortly
- [What's wrong with the way it used to be! Get to the bank, it was closed!](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/whats-wrong-with-the-way-it-used-to-be-get-to-the-bank-it-was-closed.html) - I like to stay out of socio-political discussions because most often I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but the people who govern Myanmar are absolutely fucking sick. I'll be glad to be away from the news for a couple days, but sad because I know it's still going on. I can't believe
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/90.html) - Tonight's Topic: Shit How much shit can one exhausted, constantly fucked-around person take? Discuss!
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/89.html) - BJ Novak for the win. Anybody with the name BJ, for that matter, deserves a lot of props. I can only imagine the childhood taunting. Unless for his handle he was hailed as a hero. In which case, you know what, you kids really disgust me. Shit. I'm sorry to hear he was on Punk'd.
- [What's Changed:](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/whats-changed.html) - First apartment up high My own curtains (was it worth the money and stress of finding them? I think so.) Two roommates instead of one Not near enough to a Tim Hortons to walk there every day, so I make all my own tea instead of buying it Have to pay for laundry (ew) No
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/86.html) - You know, when you really think about it, you might say I'm leading the life I dreamed of as a child: Staying up late, doing whatever I want, spending my own money, having my own room, not going to school (because it's summer for 8 months), I have my own kitty, I'm eating chocolate cookies
- [MIRACLES!](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/miracles.html) - Okay, my room is fucking haunted. While moving some things on my bed (I had been unpacking) just now, I found the missing arm piece of the sunglasses; the very piece which I lost on the bus the other day. Why this doesn't make sense in terms of reality: When the sunglasses originally fell off,
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/05/84.html) - Every day is another trip to the mall for me. Closet organizing things, mostly, to make the most of my vertical space. And hooks. Plenty of hooks. I'm pretty sure either my bulletin board or full-length mirror (both??) will fall down in the middle of the night. Oop. Let's hope those hooks are structurally sound.
- [All is again well in the jungle.](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/all-is-again-well-in-the-jungle.html) - Mee-lo came back today! (!!!!!!!) He was apparently full of dirt (probably from napping in a rusty old tire for a few days) but I haven't heard anything else, so he's probably doing just fine.
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/82.html) - Ah, Bathfitter. I forgot my shower puff at the other place. I'll have to get that tomorrow. These sunglasses were never meant to be. The first time I lost the arm to them, it was for two or three months, maybe more, and I found it in a purse the other day. Wore them today,
- [MISSING](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/missing.html) - Throwing my goals in the garbage is the most liberating thing I've done all day.Well, first crumpling the list of them up and then ranting on about how they will now reside in a landfill never to bother me again, that was most liberating. In it, I found reason. Milo-Kitty ran away. :( I'm scared
- [Isn't she a beaut!](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/isnt-she-a-beaut.html) - Not having pressure to the maximum is a many wonderful thing. I don't care if I ever finish my program at all! Except for that whole "then it would be a giant waste of money" thing. But isn't it already? Isn't it? No. While the mental pressure has subsided, the pressure on my left kneecap
- ["Ah, bitch!"](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/ah-bitch.html) - Google is a nice taste of ass. Flickr is also on my shit-list at the moment. But if there's anyone to blame, it's myself. Bah. So I'll say it. HI AGAIN! Have you missed me?? Obviously, since you're here. I'm just that interesting. Getting a life should be obligatory for all, and I can say
- [3 Down, 3 to Go; That Equals Half-Done](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/3-down-3-to-go-that-equals-half-done.html) - Made an ass of myself at an interview today (you know, just being me). Probably never getting a co-op, but at least if all else fails I can work for a friend for less than pennies an hour. That's right, kids (assuming I have readers, plural). Free. The only thing I'll be banking is a
- [This just in:](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/this-just-in.html) - One of my fish who I noticed was missing all day has turned up dead. Well, half of him has, but I haven't got much hope for the rest of him. So far, a string of a fish body has surfaced from beneath one of the plastic aquarium plants. The rest of his body and
- [Your genitalia gets rave reviews.](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/your-genitalia-gets-rave-reviews.html) - I just "made up" with a girl who's been annoying the fucking shit out of me for a month now.It was just too much to handle, being so consistently angry. So much negativity in an already stressful time. I can't keep that kind of thing on my head, so I had to talk to her.
- [The Past, Never Was](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/the-past-never-was.html) - It will be so nice. In fact, it is so nice. I have a smart boyfriend, a couple of really good friends (another of whom is moving away), a barrage of people to socialize with and never really commit to, coffee can be mixed with hot chocolate and milk, and money isn't so tight. All
- [Over it.](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/over-it.html) - So let's face it. It's eight months off from this nightmare life, and it starts in two weeks. Except for, you know, the retail component of it all. But even that can be remedied. Come end of exams, it's more hard work. Moving house and then finding a full time job whether it's a co-op
- [Low-Key Birthday](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/low-key-birthday.html) - Turns out I suck at bowling again. Still pretty good at having a sore stomach when it's time to have fun, however. Ellie and I drink strawberry beer and talk about economics and Human Resources. We carry on intelligent conversation without simply being negative and nonsensical, as is the case with any other combination of
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/68.html) - Tonight I premiere the one-ended MSN conversation. [All responses have been removed from the conversation, even the great ones that I felt pained to have to let go of forever. Okay, except for one.] kris says:jumanji in africakris says:u like jumanjikris says:u like joe boxer?chief runingwater?kris says:jeep grand cherokeekris says:hahakris says:u like checkerskris says:i got
- [The Sun Will Not Hug You, in Toronto](https://commatose.ca/2008/04/the-sun-will-not-hug-you-in-toronto.html) - When will you stop acting like high school? What happened? Did you get really bored of not being a catty douche? And expecting me to get up early so that you can roll your eyes at me in the comfort of your own home while you pretend you're contributing to a project that's been nearly
- ["Maybe they see you as 'too perfect'."](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/maybe-they-see-you-as-too-perfect.html) - Well, everything I've set out to achieve has basically backfired. Apparently taking on a full course load plus a part time job plus achieving tremendous grades all while heading a student organization is a little too much for some HR people. "You did great! You did really great! And I'm sure you'll succeed in whatever
- [...and I did it all through sheer avoidance!](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/and-i-did-it-all-through-sheer-avoidance.html) - I never want to be a leader. Especially not after (almost finishing) writing the most redundant paper I've written in a long while. End my life! Cell phone-MSN sucks. My alter ego is Turkey Sub. Kristin's is Chunky Soup. We get along all right. We need someone to be 2% Milk. I'm sick of having
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/61.html) - Sometimes, things are funny. And sometimes, they are not. Maybe I'm just getting really old, but when what you're mocking happens to be a giant part of someone's life (with the exception of Scientology or Mormonism, because I have to lend myself to hypocrisy in one way or another), it's time to fuck off. I
- [Taking a break from the 3 projects I have on the go to say...](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/taking-a-break-from-the-3-projects-i-have-on-the-go-to-say.html) - Hey, look! I'm famous on a website that no one knows of yet! A month ago, I received an email telling me I'd been shortlisted, and today my photo (which I never submitted, but which was found on my Flickr) was picked to represent Niagara Falls. Weird! I got some amazing photos this weekend, including
- [Dan:](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/dan.html) - That's how.
- [New Camera, Same Fotos](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/new-camera-same-fotos.html) - Just prior to work and far prior to rum, I purchased the Canon S5 IS camera that I had wanted for so long. For a while, I was set on instead getting a DSLR, but I figure by the time I'm any good at one of those, there will be better quality ones out there.
- [Et tu, Bruteh!](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/et-tu-bruteh.html) - Let's pretend this was posted yesterday.Let's pretend I can't do HTML when I've been drinking all night, even though the above link clearly worked as it should have.Let's pretend I wasn't told I'd be sued by a guy who wanted to buy 12 cases of pop today when the limit at my store is 4
- [The Ghoul's Ghouls Only Come Out at Night](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/the-ghouls-ghouls-only-come-out-at-night.html) - Come on, Deb. Why do you do this to me? To yourself?? You don't know me. Is it absolutely necessary that you ask me if I'm okay lately? Lately?? What are you comparing it to? The me you don't know any other time of the year? The reason I sound abrupt and short with you
- [Can I have your couch?](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/can-i-have-your-couch.html) - 3:30 is decidedly the worst time to be on the bus. Between the fat children intentionally barking like dogs, spouting swearwords in order to irritate the driver, and the sardine can-esque personal space factor, I rarely enjoy a 3:30 trip home. I would even go as far as to say that when I start paying
- [They cried "The Union forever!"](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/they-cried-the-union-forever.html) - We did mock collective bargaining today in Comp Admin, and my stars, did my face ever get red! And I would go as far as to say that I took it the least seriously of anyone. By the end of class, everyone was angry and exhausted and hating life. Ladies and gents, this is the
- [Sometimes, I am serious.](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/sometimes-i-am-serious.html) - I know it's hard to believe. But I am not always incredibly pleasant. There are several things you cannot suggest to me tell me to do and expect me to roll with. 1) Declawing my cat.2) ... Well, that's all that comes to mind. I have no sense of humour about that and, yes, despite
- [](https://commatose.ca/2008/03/48.html) - You know? School (and pardon my saying so) 'don't mean shit' to me right now. Reading Week did wonders. It allowed me time to sleep, time to do a lot of nothing, and time to finally go to the doctor's office, twice! Now I'm on a mild steroid and the world is my oyster. Lauren
- [Left to get a baked potato, came back for the drama.](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/left-to-get-a-baked-potato-came-back-for-the-drama.html) - Baked potatoes can be microwaved. I feel like a sap for never really thinking about this until tonight. Got sent home from work with whatever viral infection I have. I figure it was their kind way of saying "You look like shit, go home and get some sleep." I love my work. Remind me to
- [Reading Week](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/reading-week.html) - You have to try a sinus rinse. Shit, do my nasal passages feel clean tonight! I could get used to this. Also good: Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil. Wow! I don't look like an oil rag! I win.
- [Never do anything, ever.](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/never-do-anything-ever.html) - Just don't.Because in most cases, it's not worth it. Two semesters of dedication, and no thanks to show for it at an event I helped organize. That is pret-ty cool. Oh hey, I'm back at square one with my cold, coughing up green goo and blood. Neat!
- [Post 69. You know what that means. One more and I'll have made 70 posts!](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/post-69-you-know-what-that-means-one-more-and-ill-have-made-70-posts.html) - Family Day went off without a hitch. That is to say, as predicted, I did not see my family at all, although I did call them to make sure my sister was still alive after a scary trip to the hospital last night. [She's ok. Viral flu.] I managed to clean the entire house and
- [If you look up when they flip the switches, you can see the smoke from all of my burning bridges](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/if-you-look-up-when-they-flip-the-switches-you-can-see-the-smoke-from-all-of-my-burning-bridges.html) - Something my friends and I often say in our disdain is "F my life."Here, Rico Cat captures that sentiment, and to make it all the more realistic, he is surrounded by the very notes and day-planner that cause this such stress. Two midterms tomorrow, work tomorrow night, two midterms Friday, a prospectus due next week,
- [Drifters](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/drifters.html) - When will I stop feeling as if the people around me are the blandest folks I've ever met? I care too little about people to be in Human Resources Management, but I smoke pot too rarely to be in Horticulture. Where do I belong? /pointless
- [SOLD!](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/sold.html) - I haggled the shit out of (thesaurus says "hammered out a deal with") a guy today, and my steadfastness went the distance. My bass amplifier with its limited memories and 70 pounds of weight are now gone from my life; replacing it, a small pile of twenty dollar bills which I plan to sleep on
- [BOO-YA! That's how you say it, right?](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/boo-ya-thats-how-you-say-it-right.html) - I'm PUMPED for Survivor. YESSSSSSSSS Survivor!I'm also JAZZED about what happened on the first episode tonight.PSYCHED. Great things are on the way.
- [Strangers in the Night](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/strangers-in-the-night.html) - Also, Criss Angel hanging from a helicopter by fishhooks in his back is really, really gross.
- [Really?](https://commatose.ca/2008/02/really.html) - There is about this much snow out there right now: (Minus the ice on the trees. There is no ice.) And classes are cancelled.I'm not complaining, but I'm just saying. Really, Niagara College? Same with Brock. Really?? That's okay. This'll make 3 weeks in a row that I haven't had my Organizational Behaviour class, at
- [Reasons for Living](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/reasons-for-living.html) - Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey: More monkey:
- [Innovations](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/innovations.html) - That's it. I'm going to get laser hair removal. It's actually really, really inexpensive, and it's done by the same guy who rid me of pimples (for the most part) for the rest of my life. I consider him a wizard. While I don't agree with the amount of Botox injections he performs per year,
- [You've come a long way, baby.](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/youve-come-a-long-way-baby.html) - I haven't typed in some of my passwords in so long that once my cache decides to kill itself, I'll never be able to log in again. Did my speech, blew the professor away. I have "the presence of a stand-up comic" and my sense of humour is "great". Both, true stories. I hate to
- ["TRAB PU KCIP! TRAB PU KCIP!" "'Pick a bar'?? What the hell does that mean?"](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/trab-pu-kcip-trab-pu-kcip-pick-a-bar-what-the-hell-does-that-mean.html) - I'm On My Way! In terms of eating somewhat healthily, that is! And if eating more than one meal a day (that isn't from McDonalds) is any indication of that, then yes sirs and madams, I am there. Let's face it. I'll never ease off the caffeine addiction, but I don't have it much on
- [I made the right choice.](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/i-made-the-right-choice.html) - I got my hair did. Finally. I will never have a straight woman do it again because the guy who did my hair was a genius and all the women I've had do my hair nearly always screwed it up. Paying twice the amount that you normally pay for a haircut sometimes works out exceptionally
- [Substance? On this blog? Surely there's been a grievous error on my part.](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/substance-on-this-blog-surely-theres-been-a-grievous-error-on-my-part.html) - When I heard the Juno soundtrack described as "really... weird music" by not one, not two, but probably around five people, I had it in my head that some of these "weird" bands were probably ones I like or have liked in the past. When the Moldy Peaches were mentioned, that thought was confirmed. Being
- [Decisions, decisions.](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/decisions-decisions.html) - I want to cut my hair. At the moment, though, it looks really, really, really, really good. So maybe if I nap on my hair before I go outside from now on, I will not want to cut it anymore. I miss it being short and ruly manageable. Also, when it's short and wavy (meaning,
- [High school is such a serious thing; these problems matter.](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/high-school-is-such-a-serious-thing-these-problems-matter.html) - Conflict: Do I buy the new camera I want? Or do I wait until years from now when I can afford a super-fantastic-happy-hour-amazing one?
- [THE IRS PRESENTS: HERSCHEL KRUSTOFSKI'S CLOWN-RELATED ENTERTAINMENT SHOW](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/the-irs-presents-herschel-krustofskis-clown-related-entertainment-show.html) - There is nothing I enjoy more than a steaming hot shower. So, as you can imagine, there is a lot I enjoy less about a devastatingly icy-cold shower, in mid-January yet! Fuck! Fuck you! That was fucking cold! It's not like I'm dying of some unknown disease or anything. Fuck!
- [I'm addicted to bargains!!!1](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/im-addicted-to-bargains1.html) - I can't stop looking around eBay. But I've bought a Lithium-Ion battery for my camera for a penny (actual retail price at Staples: $80!), so can you really blame me? Really?? You've always doubted me. You don't know me! Ill.I purchased an expectorant, but expectorating hasn't really happened yet. I think I have mononucleosis. Maybe
- [Happy New Year](https://commatose.ca/2008/01/happy-new-year.html) - I'll seriously write something soon. I'm sick again so I don't feel up to it. Love!
- [Fresh Start](https://commatose.ca/2007/12/fresh-start.html) - Deleted the P-Log and all that came with it. Ages have passed since I had an audience not comprised of exes and my exes' exes. It makes me nervous to think there are people reading about me, grinding their teeth and chortling all the while to themselves in some inane delusion that by reading me,
- [Which is the real blog? Is it this blog? Or that blog?! You'll never know!](https://commatose.ca/2007/08/which-is-the-real-blog-is-it-this-blog-or-that-blog-youll-never-know.html) - If you don't like this photo, then you're an idiot, because I love it. Ahem. Because I took it. I think I swallowed some foil from my baked potato. Oop.
- [Out gettin' wasted on a Saturday night](https://commatose.ca/2007/07/out-gettin-wasted-on-a-saturday-night.html) - Coffee. I need a lot of it. I'm obsessed with parts of Ashtray Rock. Cannot get enough, if you hadn't noticed. Monday night leaves very little to the imagination. I may bike. I may run. If I'm feeling extra lazy, I shall walk, or just sleep. Those cost the least. For now, it's Antiques Roadshow.
- [Cruisin' for a Bruisin'](https://commatose.ca/2007/07/cruisin-for-a-bruisin.html) - Ever have your car graffiti'd? 'Cause it turned out that I had the other night. Actually, so was everyone who parked on the street treated to a delightfully scribbled tag that probably signifies absolutely nothing aside from sheer sans-dickery on the side or back of their auto. Among the conclusions I've come to in the
- [People I Don't Know Who I Say I Would Marry:](https://commatose.ca/2007/07/people-i-dont-know-who-i-say-i-would-marry.html) - Joel Plaskett Bo Burnham Conan O'Brien (goes without saying, after Bo Burnham is listed) Peter Elkas (on occasion) I'm considering Stephen Malkmus formerly of Pavement tonight, too, but let's face it, that would probably end up in a messy divorce.
- [Drunk Teenagers](https://commatose.ca/2007/07/drunk-teenagers.html) - Oh, Plaskett. This reminds me of the drive to Grundy Lake, if only for the vandalism on the Canadian Shield along the highway: halfway ashtray rockspray painted on a cliffi hate clayton parkI want a giant splif i want to leave my markout in the wildernessi need to take a piss drunk teenagers, lets start
- [Ring the Alarm](https://commatose.ca/2007/07/ring-the-alarm.html) - This [scroll down to the second video, bad embed video tag I don't care to figure out] is among the funniest shit I've seen since, you know, the original thing happened.
- [you ain't workin' anymore](https://commatose.ca/2007/07/you-aint-workin-anymore.html)

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