Things I hate, I

I hate labelling photos. It sucks. The vast quantity of pictures is completely overwhelming (someone should hide my camera!).

And what was I thinking, giving my kid such a long name? Two last names, I was nuts. My next kid, if I have one, is going to be named V. Start to finish, V. That will save me a lot of time.

Comments!

Wow, I just noticed that I have some comments. That means someone out there is reading my blog.

I'm touched.

And surprised. Maybe this will give me some incentive to write something. (One can dream!)

A question

Do you ever wonder how many times you'd have to click on "Next blog" before your own came up?

The geek in me wants to know the algorithm for selecting the "Next" blog. And if you really want to be geeky, ponder what "next" means in the blog world.

Milk flavoured chocolate confection

I don't know why milk chocolate flavoured confection exists. It is total crap, to me it tastes like chocolate flavoured WAX, and shouldn't be sold in stores. I accidentally bought some, in the form of 4 bunnies, before Easter. Now, I'm a total chocolate addict; I usually scarf down chocolate like there's no tomorrow. But ugh, was it ever a struggle to finish one stupid bunny. I told The Husband he could eat the rest of them. That's 66 cents I'll never get back!

(If you're wondering, real milk chocolate has cocoa butter in it and melts in your mouth, because the melting point of chocolate is the same temperature as your mouth is (coincidence? I think not). Milk chocolate flavoured confection, on the other hand, uses cocoa and other crap to simulate chocolate. A poor substitute, in my opinion.)

Chocolate covered prunes

Who knew such a thing existed? What's even weirder is that they taste surprisingly good, and can get quite addictive.

It's getting to be that time of year...

... when I hate winter. Especially the unseasonably cold weather we've been having. You know you have lost perspective (or perhaps, have a major case of cabin fever) when you go outside, it's -19 degrees Celcius (that's -2.2 degrees Fahrenheit), and you think it's "nice." Total craziness.

You also know it's cold when the place you live is colder than Antarctica. That's right, it was colder here last night than it was in Antarctica. Can I say that again? Colder than ANTARCTICA. Insane. Why does anyone live here? Sure, the summers are nice, but you'd think after the first winter the settlers would have all packed up and left. I don't get it.

Slacking already

Hmmm... seems I'm already slacking on the blog entries.

So sue me, I started working (again) on the 5000 piece puzzle I got for Christmas 2 years ago. I'm trying to finish it before my baby becomes mobile, as it is on my living room floor.

Yeah, that'll happen!

Spheres

I used to have it all worked out. I had a work sphere, a school sphere, and a home sphere. But then this little 7 pound, 10.5 ounce creature arrived and it's a heck of a lot harder to separate and juggle my spheres. I enjoyed my work (part-time, at least. Full-time it got a little tedious and my eyes were fried by Friday). However, now I only have X hours of caregiving time a week. If I spend half those hours at work, I only have half the time to spend on my PhD. My PhD was going slowly enough!

Now I suppose, the more disciplined among us could do PhD work during evenings and weekends, but I'm not the Queen of Procrastination for nothing.

I guess I still have to work out a new life sphere division.
Meh. I'll do it later.

First post

I've decided to hop on the bandwagon and start a blog. I should probably post something.

Meh. I'll do it later.