life, the universe, and donna

My wonderful maid of honor and I went to my wedding venue last week to work out a few last minute details. Everything is coming together nicely, and I think it’s actually going to happen! Possibly even somewhat similar to how I envision it! I have rings, I have a dress, I have a very [...]

Disclaimer with this post: Please don’t offer health advice. Even if you suffer from the same thing. Even if your sisters neighbour tried something and it cured everything. I’ve done a shit ton of research, and I’m still in the very, very early stages of figuring shit out, and I need to talk to my [...]

So last night, I was dicking around online and saw a request for a model by a VFS Makeup Design student who wanted to do a bald cap on someone. Well, heck, I work just down the street from VFS, so I volunteered. After hashing out the details, we agreed to meet after work and [...]

Today, Dan & I climbed the Grouse Grind. Length: 2.9 kilometres (1.8 miles) Elevation Gain: 853 metres (2,800 feet) Total Stairs: 2,830 Evidently an average time is an hour and a half, novice hikers should plan for 2 hours. Well, my time was 2h27m. What’s important is that I didn’t throw up anywhere along the [...]

So, here’s a thing about me: I don’t like the taste of mint very much. I’ve tried mojitos a few times in Vancouver, with some trepidation, and without fail they were all terrible. I went to Cuba. To an all-inclusive, no less. It seems weird to go to Cuba and not have a mojito, so [...]

So I’ve been experimenting a lot more with this whole “being a girl” thing, but the inherent laziness and enjoying sleep means that I look for shortcuts. My entire morning routine (which, when I work nights, is a “mid-afternoon routine”, but who’s counting?) takes an hour. I refuse to let it take longer than that, [...]

So someone asked on Reddit about any good stories about getting “the talk” from their parents. I don’t actually recall any of the actual “ha ha, babies come from the vagina” discussions — although I do remember asking what a period was after reading Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret. Ooh, and what it [...]

So, Christmas? Yeah, that happened. It’s been a supremely awesome month. I sold a metric shit ton of soap at Blim on the 18th, which was a great re-introduction to the fun of making All The Soap Ever. I also sold a ton of soap to friends & family, who have given me wonderful feedback. [...]

Back in the day, I worked for Telus. I started in April 2001, and was caught in the mass layoffs of September 2002 with 6500 other happy little Telus employees. They paid me a great deal of severance to go away, especially considering that I had only worked there for a year and a half… [...]

So that whole iPhone 4S thing was announced a while ago, and I looked at it and thought “Well, that looks nice, but my phone is only a little over a year old.” But through the magic of financial trickery and economics and selling our old phones, Dan figured out a way that he could [...]