You know what I really hate?

• It’s not sitting down on the toilet and discovering that we’re fresh out of TP. I’m creative.
• It’s not having to get up every morning to go to work. I’m resilient.
• It’s not folding clothes. I’m married.
• It’s not breaking a shoelace while tying my shoes. I’m prepared.
• It’s not being told that the correct expression is “in the pit of my stomach”. I did that on purpose.

It’s getting on Twitter to see this:

When I see this little graphic, all of a sudden I start sweating, my stomach knots, and I get afraid to click the link.

What if it’s you? 

What if I don’t want you to know what I’m Twittering about? 

I hate conflict.

Stolen from the Bellaventa…

A – Age: 37

B – Bed size: Double

C – Chore You Hate: Folding clothes

D – Dad’s Name: Peupa (Jean-Paul)

E – Essential Start Your Day Item: Underwear

F – Favorite Actor: Kevin Spacey

G – Gold or Silver: Platinum

H – Height: 5’11″.

I – Instrument (s) you play: Guitar.

J – Job Title: Ass. to the manager.

K – Kid(s): Two.

L – Like: Another drink please.

M – Mom’s Name: Meuman (Mona… M-O-N-A Mona…) 

N – Nickname: Michel

O – Overnight Hospital Stay Other Than Birth: Not in a very long time.

P – Pet Peeve: Loud chewers

Q – Quote that you like: “Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”

R – Righty or Lefty: Ambivalent.

S – Siblings: Two younger. A Sister, than a brother.

T – Time You Wake Up: 5:15.

U – Useful tool: Computer / Blackberry.

V – Vegetable that you dislike: Ocras.

W – Ways you run late: I’m never late.

X – X-rays You’ve Had: Teeth, shoulder, back, right knee.

Y – Yummy Foods You Make: Pizza, rice pudding, Mac&Cheese.

Z – Zodiac: I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Oh, and today is the first day of spring. Rejoice.

The world is shocked about the death of Natasha Richardson.

I feel bed that I have no clue who she is.

And I did Google that shit.

Monday morning I got to work early as usual (Hi boss!) and fired up my second PC. I use that second PC mainly to listen to 93.9 Bob FM over the Internet when it’s not in use for the other many many job-related tasks I have to do.

This morning, both audio streams (Windows Media Player and Real Audio) were unavailable. After the proper amount of cursing troubleshooting, I decided to go get an inexpensive AM/FM radio for my office. I mean, 20 years ago I bought an AM/FM/4-track ghetto-Blaster for around 110$, how expensive can a dumb AM/FM radio be?

Well, if you guessed 20$, you’re wrong. If you guessed 30$, you’re still wrong. I sound like a reverse Shamwow advertisement, don’t I?

I made my way to Futureshop. After wandering around for a while, I asked a sales associate to help me.

- I’m looking for an AM/FM radio.
- We have a wide selection of iPod docks over here…
- No, no! I want an AM/FM radio. Really, if you have just an FM redio, that’s fine. I’m not looking for an iPod dock.
- Do you mean like an alarm clock? We have this alarm clock with AM/FM, weather station and atomic clock for 70$.
- Weather station? Do you have something that just plays the radio? No clock, no CD player, no tape deck, no iPod dock? Hopefully that would be less expensive than that atomic thing you just showed me.
- Let me check. Oh, we do have this AM/FM Crank/Solar powered radio with a built-in flashlight.
- Blinks (I actually said “Blinks”). What?
- It’s very useful for your boat or car.
- I’m looking for something that I could plug in my office. And this seems to only have one 2 inches speaker.
- Did you see our Wi-Fi Internet radio?
- I already have a computer, I’m trying to get an appliance that will let me listen to the radio when the Internet is down, for example.
- I don’t think we have that. You should get an iPod. I never listen to the radio.
- ::Sigh:: 

Now to be fair, he did show me this thing. But 100 bucks, really? Wow. I might be a cheap bastard after all. So I made my way to WalMart. 

- I’m looking for an AM/FM radio.
- We have a wide selection of iPod docks over here…

Can you see where this is going?

So it looks like my options are slim. Futureshop does offer an 80$ SONY boombox with an iPod dock (that was not in-store, but it’s available on-line) and that seems to be my best choice at this point. I checked and I don’t think there’s a way for me to drive my car into my office. I take the bus anyways.

I’m almost tempted to splurge for sattelite radio at this point. 

What do you use to listen to the radio? What do you recommend I do? Assvice: Bring it on!

So, today is a very special day to me.

Today I am Irish, like the rest of the planet. There’s absolutely nothing else of note that is going on in my family today March 17th 2009.

No Siree Bob.

::whistle innocently::

Mum’s the word. Don’t try to make me talk, it will just not work I tell ya. Well. Maybe after the fold?

You know you wanna look now, right?

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People oer 25 are not supposed to hear this. I’m 37 and I hear it. Can you? How old are you?

This post is part of the Year of the Purge : A to Z series. Every other Sunday, I’ll get rid of something starting with the letter A and working my way to the letter Z by the end of December. This week I’m tackling F.

F is for…

Facebook

I was so going to get rid of Facebook, but:

• They came out with a new layout that I don’t hate
• I found an application that links only the Tweets I want to Facebook

So I guess this means I’m not getting rid of Facebook. Darn. That would’ve been easy. Sigh.

Fast-Food

On September 28, 2004 around 21:30, I stopped eating McDonald’s. This is what did it:

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6BSfHlK_w

Disgusting, isn’t it? From time to time, I do crave a Big Mac, but I only have to think about those fries and the craving disappears. It’s been four years and 168 days since I had McDonald’s. I never really liked Burger King, so I don’t go there. No Wendy’s around here, so that’s not an issue. I used to do KFC once a year, but my body simply can’t support it anymore. In fact, just thinking about KFC makes me nauseous. 

I guess the only “Fast-Food” places I go to are Subway’s and New-York Fries.

Over the past six months, my standard Subway’s order went from a foot-long steak and cheese sub on italian bread, to a six inches tuna on wheat to a BLT salad. I’m a little Subyway’d out now. 

I only have New York Fries when I go see a movie, but if I get a burger I’ll most likely get it with fries. I love fries. 

Oh, and there’s this little Fries stand at work where I get the “once a month” poutine. 

Not that bad, really. Right?

So I’m giving up fast food completely. I’m also giving up poutine (starts with P, but it’s mostly fries), and fries. This will be hard, I love fries. Wish me luck!

A word on pizza

I don’t consider pizza in itself as fast-food. I do however consider Pizza Hut, Pizza Pizza, Domino’s and to an extend Mike’s and some other pizza places to be fast-food places. So those pizzas are out. 

However, I would probably die of sadness if I was to give up pizza, and my grand mother DiStéfano would probably come from the grave as a zombie and beat me up senseless before eating my brain, so I won’t. I will give up fast-food type pizza. I will still have home made pizza and fancy thin-crust pizza from Le Saint-Éloi and Les Fougères.

A recap

So there you have it. At this point I got rid of my awesome t-shirt, my old books that I didn’t use anymore, my coffee addiction. I pledged to get rid of my extra pounds. I’m guessing fast food and fries can only help me with the weight loss.

Stay tuned, as I will tackle G on March 29.  I’m open to suggestions.

Hi!

I’m not here today. I’m doing something else.

See you later!

 M.

Wouldn’t that be the worst possible job description? 

On the plus side, it would fit on one page…

About a month ago, Whall jested that he wanted me to write a guest post for him. Being the good Canadian that I am, I immediately started working on a concept and being the procrastinator that I am, I promptly put that aside to watch some boob tube or have another Scotch.

Toujours est-il que, I now have this guest post sitting on my hard drive with nowhere to go. So Whall my friend, I’m guest-posting for you today on my own blog. Brilliant I know.

Writings on the Whall

When Whall asked me to guest post here, I was so happy that I DITL myself for 3 minutes, IYKWIM. I mean his Blog is an institution here in Canada. It’s mentioned at every hockey game right after the national anthem. It’s just known as “His blog”. 

After debating for a little while what I was going to do to pay homage to the great Whall, I decided to go with a classic feature, with a Canadian twist.

The best of LOLPolarBearz

And yes, there’s more after the fold.

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