Happy anniversary, dear journal

[listersgirl]

Yup, that's right, it's officially been a year since I started writing in this thing. I'm amazed I'm still here - I usually have a very short attention span, plus I originally only signed up so that I could comment in a couple of people's journals. But I'm having so much fun, and you all are so lovely to talk with.

Anyway, in honour of this special day, I present to you a retrospective of me.

I am easy to please

I love Taking it Off. - January 28th

I love getting presents, but I think sometimes I get more enjoyment out of the fact that someone wants to give me something, and the physical unwrapping of the gift than I do from the gift itself. But only sometimes. - January 29th

I think eating out is possibly my favourite thing to do, other than sleep. - January 31th

Stephen Fry is one of my favourite authors. - February 28th

I love (love!) Gaiman's books. - March 4th

One of my favourite things about Toronto is the streetcars. - March 5th

I love Connie Willis. If you haven't read anything by her, you should go out right now and find a book. - March 10th

I love Margaret Cho. - March 17th

I'm very in love with the dress I'm wearing right now. It has pineapples on it, dammit. - April 15th

I'm pretty much madly in love with Amazon.ca right now. - June 11th

The Last 5 Years: this is my favourite cast album of the last year. - June 12th

I'm almost done all the Brookmyre books, and I love them so much. - June 19th

I love makeover shows, even bad ones. - July 18th

I have a confession. I love dresses. If it were up to me, I'd wear dresses every day, in particular nice retro A-line shift dresses. - September 4th

Yes, I love baby name books, why do you ask? - September 12th

I love The O.C. - November 4th

Christopher Moore is one of the funniest writers around. - November 6th

Why did no one tell me about Belle & Sebastian? We got a copy of Dear Catastrophe Waitress in at work, and I'm loving it. - November 14th

I love Terry Pratchett. - December 18th

Man, do I love vacations. - December 19th

I love to walk! - December 31st

...except when I am cranky

The ensuing bout of whining from me dragged at least 5 people into the conversation, all with questions and advice. - January 27th

By the time we left, it was dark and cold, so the walk back involved much less wandering and much more whining. - February 4th

I'm really cranky today, and I'm hoping it's just inherited crankiness from everyone else at work, and that it's not the start of anything else. - February 19th

Because I'm pretty sure that I spent the entire 3 hours from 5 am to 8 am alone in the library whining about the fact that I was there in the first place. - April 25th

But instead I feel the need to whine about the fact that I suddenly have a cold. - August 8th

I was in a cranky cranky mood this morning. - September 11th

I? Am tired and CRANKY. - October 16th

This whine brought to you by the fact that I got all bundled up and braved the cold at lunchtime today to walk to Chapters et al to find a calendar. - December 3rd

But then it's going to be So Very Long until lunch time! *whine* - January 7th

I'm just being whiny. - January 12th

I am cursed by technology

Meanwhile the DVD player sat on the floor in front of the TV, mocking me at every step. Mocking me! - January 27th

And it works, most of the time, unless it's turning itself off and not letting me turn it back on again. Freak computer. - April 15th

Let us all take a moment to ponder the fate of my poor little DVD player, who had to be sent all the way back to the mothership for repairs. - April 24th

I decided to quickly change the lightbulb in my lamp, which should have been a simple three step process. - July 15th

There was not one single day where everything I needed to do actual work was up and running.
- August 27th

The next morning, I get up and turn on the light as I always do, by PULLING THE CHAIN, and of course it was never broken. - September 10th

Finding out that a) my computer really is broken, b) it's not covered by the warranty, and c) it'll cost $1500 to fix, which is as much as I paid for the &%#@$ thing in the first place. - October 6th

[...]which became extremely difficult as of last night, when our remote control was possessed, and wouldn't work, except to at random moments switch back and forth between channels 8 and 88. - November 17th

Our answering machine apparently stopped working sometime this past week. - December 9th

I have a large vocabulary

Dude, by the time I get around to Z, I'm going to have read more books. - March 7th

Oh, dude, I'm all about the email. - March 14th

Dude, it's way too hard - April 11th

Dude. Yoga is haaarrrrd. - July 10th

Dude. - July 17th

The icy swimming I think I would have been okay at, assuming it wasn't too long (it's always hard to tell), but dude. - August 1st

Dude. - September 10th

Dude, Kate Beckinsale is hot. - September 25th

Dude, where was Lane? - October 3rd

Dude, I only read two books in the last two weeks? - October 23rd

Dude, please, chill out. - October 24th

Oh, dude. - October 29th

Dude, I am so jealous of Mo pie, who got to see A Mighty Wind live in concert. - November 12th

Dude, that's soon. - November 21st

Dude. - December 4th

Dude, the last day before vacation is so hard! - December 19th

Dude, I am just so lame. Shoot me now. - January 6th

I have many secret pretend boyfriends

Principal Wood is a hot, hot man. - February 26th

Once upon I time, I loved Spike. - May 21st

And by the way, Jeremy is so very much my fictional Secret Pretend Boyfriend. I want a Jeremy of my very own. - May 27th

In my brain, though, it's not about CDs at all - it's all about my secret pretend boyfriend Adam Brody. - August 13th

[...]other than being very sad that they killed off Doyle, because I loved him and his accent. - September 8th

I love Gunn. And I love Gunn even more with Gilbert & Sullivan running through his head. - October 3rd

Also, I can't get over the fact that David Anders is such a youngun, and I feel slightly skeevy that I find him so hot. - October 27th

Seth Green was fabulous, though. I love him. - November 3rd

The rest of the world agrees with me that Johnny Depp is the sexiest man EVAH. - November 20th

Mmmm, Sark. Dude, my boyfriend Sark is so evil...and so hot. - December 7th

Maggie Gyllenhaal is totally my Secret Pretend Girlfriend, though. - December 29th

I do really love Rick Mercer. He's my snarky pretend comedian boyfriend (with a lovely accent, which is always a bonus). - January 16th

Mmm, food

Nothing like sitting on your ass and eating cookies while watching a show about people trying to lose weight. - January 28th

I'm a bit of a freak for hot and sour, and am currently on a quest to find the best veg hot and sour in the city. - January 31th

Yes, it's true, I am made of soybean oil. That, and olives. - February 6th

At the reception the first night, the only thing that kept me from crumpling into a ball of fast asleepness was the vast assortment of cheeses that were provided. - February 17th

But I did get cookies. - February 19th

Oh sure, I flirt with other desserts, occasionally succumbing to a craving for cheesecake or things covered in caramel, and good ice cream will always make me happy, but pie, simple unaffected pie, that's the pinnacle of good things. - February 25th

We had cake at work yesterday. There is no day which cannot be made more bearable with cake.
- April 1st

White chocolate cheesecake with strawberries on top! So yummy. - April 23

On the other hand, I did finally make it to the little falafel place that I kept meaning to try, and damn, is that good falafel. - May 5th

Portobello Mushrooms: my new favourite food. - June 12th

Brunch is by far my favourite meal. - August 1st

And, of course, the 50 cent Tofutti cuties, which are so very addictive and always the highlight of the day. - September 15th

I was so in love with the capers that I didn't notice. - September 30th

I exchanged many dollars for much wine and other tasty things, including at least three different chocolate flavoured liquors, two truffles and a piece of caramel fudge. Mmm, chocolate. - November 24th

They're wonderful things, pomegranate seeds, but really not worth the effort of extracting them from the pomegranate, so I was pretty excited to see them there, requiring no more effort than a grape. - December 4th

Hmm, I wonder how many chocolate covered cashews I can consume without puking? - December 19th

I ended up eating a lot of olives (not that there's anything wrong with that!). - December 21st

And Thai food first, which, yum. - December 24th

I have a strange new obsession with weather

I can't quite understand why I'm living in a place where the phrase "minus 30" actually gets used to describe the weather. - January 28th

You'll be happy to know that there is a chance of weekend temperatures that do not involve the word "minus". - January 31th

And if it hadn't been so windy that gravity no longer existed, I would have bought groceries as well. - February 4th

Plus there's the fact that I'm going from -18 to a possible high of 21 degrees. I'm sure my body will go into shock. - February 11th

I'm sorry, but it's March, and there should at least be *thoughts* of spring, if not actual spring. - March 3rd

I'm thinking the time has come to retire the hats and gloves, and possibly buy a coat that makes me look a little less like a snowman. - March 26th

This morning I woke up to massive amounts of flaky white stuff, which was still falling when I got in to work. - April 1st

I figure I've got at least 2 weeks of lunchtime walks before we hit that lovely temperature known as too fucking hot. - June 2nd

But mostly, I'm looking forward to going somewhere where, unless the world has gone completely mad, it isn't 34 degrees, otherwise known as "feels like 42". - June 25th

Because, of course, we're having the hottest weather of the summer. - August 15th

My building is a pocket of the Arctic Circle in downtown Toronto. We're the Arctic Circle Embassy, the Arctic Circle's home away from home. - September 5th

Yours in the blessed cool of autumn. - September 27th

How crazy is it that the last day of October was 20 degrees (Celsius)? - November 1st

The outside world is very frightening today - windy and grey. - November 4th

It has warmed up again slightly, which means that I can continue ignoring the winter coat in my closet for just a little longer. Winter? Bah. - November 20th

People, it is beautiful outside! Balmy and warm, with just the slightest hint of a breeze, and a bright blue sky. - November 21st

What was that yesterday? So much snow! And blowing in every direction, too. - December 15th

But we found a Par 3 that was open, and we got ready, and stepped outside...and it was very, very cold. Coldest day of the year, in fact. Colder than Toronto is right now, which is just wrong.
- December 29th

There's snow in Victoria. Snow! People don't know what to do with snow here. And not only that, it's gotten very cold, so all the snow is turning into ice - January 3rd

Winter is really kicking my ass this year. I cannot get warm! - January 7th

Pants!

There's nothing like pants that don't fit to make me remember humiliations from grade 4. - February 19th

Last month's resolution was to dress "better", meaning with an actual style, and perhaps not wearing the same pair of pants 3 days in a row. - March 3rd

If I'm wearing pants that give me camel toe, please, for the love of Pete, TELL ME. - June 13th

Pants are evil, the Devil's minions here on Earth. - September 4th

Considering I probably only own 7 pairs of pants all together. - September 25th

I am in love with my pants. I want to marry these pants and keep them with me always. - September 29th

Of course, the best part is that now at least I have one pair of pants that don't make me look like a teenage boy, with my ass around my knees and my underwear showing out the top. - November 10th

All about me

I'm the least funky person on the planet. - February 10th

I think I'm just not a graphic novel kind of person. - February 26th

I'm probably the only person ever who actually *got rid* of her private line as a teenager. - March 14th

Yes, that's right, once again the answer is that I'm just lazy. - April 1st

I'm both a lamb of god and a famous spear. - April 4th

I am an old old lady. - May 14th

I was in the art club in junior high, and I still can't believe that I wasn't kicked out for lack of talent. - June 13th

I am such a follower. - July 21st

I am the training grounds for new puppeteers. - August 20th

Correction: I'm pretty pathetic. - October 22nd

I am a dork. - January 13th