where's the beef? heck i'd settle for peanuts.

i was on a flight yesterday and got to thinking about the food you get on a plane. i remember as a kid getting peanuts on a flight, or on longer flights a meal. then at somepoint in my teens/early 20s it degenerated to a box of 2 chiclets at take off and just before landing. now what do you get? food and beverage for purchase, and not even at decent prices, especially if you end up on a US flight and you only have Canadian dollars "that will be $5 US or $7 Canadian" (have they even looked at the exchange rate lately?).

so there i was, hungry with my ears popping with nothing to do but curse the man that discovered he could save American Airlines $40,000 a year by eliminating one olive from each salad.

the meaning of my birthday

You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy. And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you. Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights. You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice! Your strength: Your self sufficiency Your weakness: You despise authority Your power color: Maroon Your power symbol: Hammer Your power month: July

http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/

highlights from last night's debate

1) they bleeped the prime minister (for those that missed it, it was near the beginning and he said "i'm f*cking excited about canada").

2) in addition to learning how to smile while speaking (albeit a half smile) stephen harper also learned to move his eyebrows about half way through the debate. either that or the botox is wearing off.

but in all seriousness...

with one of the major party leaders wanting to abuse the notwithstanding clause to trump the charter of rights and freedoms, and the other wanting to abolish said clause thus dismantling an integral part of our constitution i am seriously afraid for this country.

you'll never guess my secret identity

so i heard about this site called www.myheritage.com on the hour last night. you upload your photo and using facial recognition software it tells you which celebrity you most closely resemble based on facial structure. so i ran a pic of b and i on the beach and we came out as tiger woods and whitney houston, apparently we're secretly black and one of us has a drug problem....

random ASSult and other bad behaviour

two things transpired on saturday that made me really glad i'm not a single gal in Toronto:

1) while at an undisclosed club i was returning to my friends from the bar when out of nowhere some guy that decided i looked like i needed to be rubbed by his butt. do guys think this is a good way to pick up girls? cause IT'S NOT. seriously i can forgive being bumped into but trapping me in a crowd and grinding your ass up against me while i'm obviously trying to get away from you is just annoying.

2) while waiting for the elevator at roy thompson hall b stopped to tie his shoe. apparently the neanderthal failed to notice him and said to me 'after party, my place' so i said 'no thanks.' and instead of taking no for an answer the guy continues to pester me until i lean over and touch b's back, at which point the guy was all 'oh sorry man.' why he was apologizing to b and not me i'm still trying to figure out... are guys in toronto still stuck in the 70s or something?

plays well with others... or not

so yesterday the dragonlady was in her usual fine form and chastised me for not saving a document in a format she could view. i wouldn't have minded converting the file for her if a) she hadn't been so condescending b) i actually had the program required to save the document in the correct format. anyhow i ended up enlisting the help of a member of our web team who had both programs and eventually got it saved for her. now admittedly i was pretty pissed off, if there's one thing i can't tolerate it's people condescending to me, it's a flaw i know and i really try to not let her bother me, but on occasion she gets through my defenses and i crack.

later on i got an email from her with the latest program revisions that needed to be coded. upon opening the document i had a very strong sense of deja vu, and sure enough i checked the date and they were the revisions from the last cycle i couldn't help but feel a bit vindicated, so i went and checked the program and sure enough she had re-done modifications that were already done. I fixed the modifications and put the new ones in place, then sent her an email stating that those were the prior cycles revisions that she had sent out and that i had corrected the program.

i know i *shouldn't* be so giddy about it, and i realize that my delight in her error makes me a bad person, but i just can't help it... karmic retribution is mine!

now off for some self flagellation.

art or porn?

so i was visiting my friend patron of the arts and i noticed that he had a statue that was a rather graphic depiction of a sexual act between two females. i mentioned the statue, and he accused me of being a prude. now i have no problem with nudity in art, but that statue is simply not something i'd put in my house because i don't see the 'art' of it, to me it was just crass. i told him the picture of the nude female with sticks in the bathroom didn't bother me. so we then got into a discussion of when is nudity art and when is it porn? mostly we talked about the girlie mags, b said that playboy was more art than porn, and i asked why he felt that way to which patron of the arts stated "it's only porn if there's a close up"

there we have it folks the difference between art and pornography lies in the zoom lens.

a christmas wish

i know we're only going to end up with another liberal minority in january but you know what i'd love to see? a bloc minority with an ndp balance of power, now THAT would be good governance!