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Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos

This article is great. And if you hate reading, just look at the images, they're worth the trip.

Three pounds

Somehow, it's perfectly okay for everyone to complain about how fat they are and how they can't lose weight, but I frequently get knifey stares whenever I mention having the opposite problem. For the last time, it's GENETIC. I know I've blogged about this before, and I don't want to repeat myself, so I'll try not to.

Anyway, I have recently come across a few ideas:

1) Exercising a little bit more lately has made me feel GREAT! I am bursting with energy, even though I stay up a little too late "surfing the internet" (aka reading Twilight fanfiction).

2) Exercise makes me hungrier. WAY hungrier. I notice this in the summer when I commute on bike to work as well. I don't think I eat enough as it is, but I definitely don't eat enough for extra exercise.

Therefore I've developed some loose goals of eating more (mostly healthy foods, though sometimes not) to have enough energy to exercise, and hopefully also gaining a little bit of weight. I'm also curious to see if's possible for me to gain weight, given my high metabolism, so it's a bit of an experiment. It would appear it's working so far, as per my title.

2010

"Quaatchi appears to be vertically challenged but looks very friendly." - Auntie J

Email from H

Email from my friend H, circa July 2006

"he's the boy from one of the harry potter movies. robert pattinson. and i am marrying him. my friend talked me into reading the books based on the fact he is in one of the movies... we were watching the special features disc and i see this cedric fellow.... well. sold."

Hilarious. I thought I hadn't heard of him when I got into Twilight in spring '09, but apparently I had!

Best I Ever Had... in my dreams?

Me: "Had a dream last night that I was dating Drake."
N: "Was he in a wheelchair?"

Fake celebrity sitings - Portage Place edition

Yesterday, 4:15 p.m. - Dr. Dre.

I'm an adult now

Lululemon, the gigantor expensive yoga clothing store, has all these positive messages written on its reusable, recyclable bags that you get when you buy something there. Things like "Dance, sing, floss and travel" - ostensibly they don't mean you have to do all four at the same time - and "Do one thing a day that scares you". I could fulfill this by watching some of the Dark Knight every day. Heath Ledger as the Joker really freaks me out. Some of the messages, however, are terrible advice. For example, "Take various vitamins. You never know what small mineral can eliminate the bottleneck to everlasting health." I don't think your liver would appreciate it if you downed half a bottle of Flintstones on the regular. Some of the messages are just plain incorrect. "Stress is related to 99% of all illness." Yeah, maybe if the reason a lot of people are stressed out is because they also don't have access to clean drinking water and adequate nutrition. "The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness." In fact, Love Junk is one of the greatest Canadian albums of all time, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the source of MUCH happiness.

Armour

"We all wears masks, metaphorically speaking" - The Mask

I think we all wear armour too. Sometimes it's metaphorical even though it physically exists.

Acronyms I have invented and use regularly

LOTE
HFS
PSH

Like times a thousand

This just in: Winnipeg Cat makes me die of happiness.

1
2
Dailyish

get fighted

M: "dance like the photo's not tagged, love like you've never been unfriended, tweet like nobody's following"

True Blue

In case you can't keep up:

Terry is the Steve Buscemi of True Blood.
Sookie is the Ted Mosby of True Blood.

Clear?

HFS

New Moon, oh my god, oh my god, New Moon.

ILUMOA

I want to live at the Mall of America.

Thanks for the Mmrs

Me: "I'm listening to Fall Out Boy."
M: ".... I don't know what that is."

SP

Me: "I don't understand how people can be such huge fans of one sports team, when the members of that team could change at any time, and often do change."

B: "I know. And that's why I stopped listening to the Smashing Pumpkins."

MyTunes

When I sort my iTunes by play count, it's like a who's who of my very favourist songs. I usually listen to all of my songs on shuffle, because I'm too lazy to make playlists, unless I want to hear something specific; sometimes, certain songs play more often than others even though they're not necessarily my absolute favourites. The winner is Misery Business (Paramore) at 129, no doubt from that one week where I was listening to it 14 times a day, a couple of months ago, but here is a sampling of other toppers:

Paramore - Born For This (#2 on the list at 65)
Shiny Toy Guns - Ricochet!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue
Mad Young Darlings - Swarm
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Alexisonfire - Drunks, Lovers, Sinners, Saints
Jet Set Satellite - The Beast
Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care
Black Ghosts - Full Moon
Bush - Little Things
Prince - I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man
Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot (I like playing drumming patterns to this one)

...along with a whole bunch of repeats (e.g. Paramore). I'm surprised that particular AoF song came up, off Crisis, because I am always selecting Accidents off Watch Out! to sing along to, and have been solidly rocking Old Crows/Young Cardinals as of late.

Parts

"I want to get my name randomly tattooed over various parts of my body. That way if I'm ever in a horrible accident and those parts get separated, they can tell which ones belong to me."

Seriously considering getting a twitter just for stuff that B says.

Sad

I was planning to go see Paramore play in St. Paul, MN next week, but the show is postponed due to Hayley being sick. Boo-urns! I was so, so pumped to see them, but I'm glad she's taking the time to get better. I'm just hoping B and I can both get time off work to see the postponed show, rescheduled to November, otherwise we'll have to refund our tickets. We already lost the cost of the hotel room, which we booked through hotwire. At least we got a good price on it ($61 US/night at a Holiday Inn), because you can't cancel hotwire bookings.

Truth

Baba's memory may not be so great anymore... but her observational skills are right on the money.

Lipstick

*Twilight movie, second biology scene*

Me: "Baba, come over here! Come see my second husband!"

*Baba trudges over*

Baba: "Ohhh... he's wearing lipstick!"

*Baba and I giggle, and she agrees that RP is attractive*

Me: "He's a vampire and he wants to drink her blood but he also loves her!"

Baba: "He looks younger than her."

Reasons people hate Twilight - update

This post is for everyone out there that gets to my blog by Googling "reasons people hate Twilight" and reaching my previous post. There are a lot of you, according to my site stats. Hopefully all of you out there will reach this post (and it'll reach you).

I'll try to make this short, because you and I both have the attention span of a fruit fly these days.

I posted that graph after finding it in my online travels, because I thought it was funny. I like the Twilight Saga. I know the books aren't classic literature, and I know the first movie was working with a lot of... errr... budget constraints. Regardless, I enjoy them, probably about as much as I enjoy poking fun of them. My giant folder of macros, vast love for the Twilight-related writings on cracked.com, and consistent seeking of less chaste Twilight-based writings are proof of that.

That being said - I think that you should come up with your own reasons to dislike Twilight, rather than being lazy and Googling them off the internet. There are a lot of valid reasons, and I probably agree with most of them. They would, however, be most valid if you actually read the books.

I had a lot of preconceived notions about Twilight before I read them, about the "type" of people indulged. I've done it with other things before - bands, movies, tv shows. Now, I'm ashamed of passing that kind of judgement, as I never would have discovered a lot of stuff out there that I really like.

Tweet

The only thing stopping me from joining the Twitter is the sad realization that I can't decide on a user name. I want part of my one or more of my real names in it so that I'm recognizable, but also want a lot of anonymity so I can be absolutely ludicrous with it. But I know I can't have both...

Law & Order: Special Vampires Unit

So I'm watching an old episode of Law & Order, Season 2, Episode 24 "The Wages of Love" to be exact, and the murdered character's name is... Edward Cullen.

Degrassi Goes Hollywood

... was AWESOME. Seriously, how cute are Jay and Manny together? Very.

Made for tv movie event of the summer. Would watch again.

Truth

FanFiction ate my summer, but I don't regret a single moment.

Control

How can I accuse others of not taking control of their destiny, when I can't always take control of mine?

Don't answer that.

Working holiday

Awesome abandoned building in Broomhill, MB. I even have the JJ Abrams lens flare.



Your jealous that I was in Melita.



Oats (no, not that kind)



Mmm, blue-green algae at Killarney Lake



Those crazy kids in Killarney...



An old friend (St. Leon, MB)

Kurt rolled

Give it a chance, it's hauntingly beautiful.

Morrison Hotel

I didn't think it possible, but it appears that "Into the Doors" has just edged out "Screw the Bank" as my all-time favourite Kids in the Hall sketch.

Comics that are about me for 500

toothpastefordinner.com

The King

Chicken salad is the king of sandwiches, and don't even try to argue with me.

Excellent news, or, Father's Day part 2

Today my aunt told my sister that when my dad was 10, he drew the Batman logo onto a round piece of glass and stuck it on a flashlight so that it flashed the Batsignal.

About an hour ago, my sister and I called my dad and this story is now CONFIRMED.

Annie are you okay?

So MJ's dead, and my immediate reaction was.... what? A blankness. I'm not sure how I feel, or what I think. I feel a general sadness at death, but nothing deep. It's been a strange day.

Happy Father's Day

I must have been... 8 or 9. I admitted out loud to my dad that I kind of wanted the new Kriss Kross album. My dad stopped what what he was doing, looked me straight in the eye, and said "That's garbage."

Thanks, dad.

Keeping fit, having fun

On a lighter note, I met Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod today. I told them they are a Canadian treasure.

M.B.

I can't think of anything else to record on my album past the first song... ideas? (Serious ideas only, as much as I would love to put a cover of Prince's Batdance.)

the best of us can find happiness in misery.

Well, I've fallen hard for Fall Out Boy. At this rate, no one should be concerned about my complete ignorance of Radiohead, who I'm scheduled to start liking in my mid-40s.

As if you could outrun it.

Recipe for a successful RPattztival:

• How to Be
• Harry Potter and the Gobbo of Fire
• Twilight
• lots of snacks
• amazing friends with dirty, dirty mouths

I love you guys.

Work emails

*explanation of work problem*

L: "What would James T. Kirk do?"

H: "Kirk would have sex with everyone, and then pilot the Enterprise to safety at the last second. Spock would assist."

L: "I need Kirk to help me with this. He would definitely have sex with the answer. Especially if it was green."

don't judge me

*phone click*

HMVKP: "HMV Kildonan Place"
H: "Hi, do you have the Twilight DVD in stock?"
HMVKP: "Yes we do, we have lots of copies!"
H: "How much is it?"
HMVKP: "$19.99"
H: "...Okay, I'm coming to buy it right now... DON'T JUDGE ME"
HMVKP: *giggles*

fakeout

It seems like just yesterday I found out Buscemi was a fake... probably because it was yesterday. Aww.

To boldly go...

It's a fact

It's a fact: if you have too many hobbies, you will neglect most of them.

Glory Pants

There is a hole in my heart.

Why did Steve Buscemi delete his Twitter? I didn't even have the chance to get someone with a Twitter to tweet him a photo of the jeans that I screen-printed his face onto.

I am... doll parts

Taken at another waste disposal ground:

Fortunate

Had a fortune cookie on Monday with not one, but 3 fortunes:

Someone is watching you from afar.

Edward?

You will soon gain something you have always desired.

EDWARD?

Your lucky number for this week is nine.

What?! What a rip-off. They already give you lucky numbers on the back...

Home sweet home / Christmas fun

Taken at a waste disposal ground (aka "the dump") in rural MB a few days ago.

Reasons people hate Twilight

NPG

No, not New Power Generation - this is a note to J that they extended the Northeast Pioneers Greenway all the way to McIvor! (This is in lieu of me not responding to your letter yet.)