tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78470402024-03-23T10:55:16.933-07:00merely talkrantings and ravings with little cohesion and plenty of pretensionTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-80697336746741737422010-02-19T17:29:00.001-08:002010-02-19T17:29:55.473-08:00 title="Wordle: magda-bean"> src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/1687101/magda-bean" alt="Wordle: magda-bean" style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd">Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-90214035388269337222008-10-26T13:53:00.001-07:002008-10-26T13:53:36.145-07:00testingTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-3295962814706617282008-10-08T17:11:00.021-07:002008-10-08T18:14:28.685-07:00Crafty the secondI am so making this.I think it's absolutely beautiful. But to go with my decor, I might take a more red approach to it. And put it in my room, screw any nursery for my nonexistent child.I am also going to make this.I find it very aesthetically pleasing. And I have all these funky black and white photos of old industrial buildings. Last time I was in Seattle Matthew took me to this park called Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-83880450507028647442008-10-06T21:28:00.003-07:002008-10-06T21:56:47.530-07:00CraftySo I'm finally moving into an apartment in Victoria next week. So stoked. Pender Island is lovely, but I am ready to be in a city again. My apartment is small, but cute and bright. The neighbours seem very cool and friendly, and there are many dogs for the Finnister to hang with. I will however be internetless in the new place. It's too small to fit my huge, dying, desktop in, and too much of a Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-11702909930155798702008-10-04T20:05:00.002-07:002008-10-04T20:10:27.063-07:00Hours of my life...goneA so called friend tipped me on this horrible firefox application, called stumbleupon. Basically you feed this website a list of your interests, and then with a push of a button it takes you to websites you might find interesting. I've now found crafts I want to make, recipes for good food, book recommendations, games, weird videos, cook pictures, cool pictures of books, shopping websites, etc. Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-41453090751543969692008-09-18T21:04:00.003-07:002008-09-18T21:19:06.904-07:00Damn my genes!I hate dieting.I hate it. And I hate that I'm not, nor have I ever been, one of these people who can eat how they want to, when they want to. I started putting on weight when I was 5. At that point I hadn't started to eat more than either my siblings, nor was I inactive (I was a competitive swimmer until I was 12, rode my bike everywhere, and ran around like all other kids). But it didn't matter.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-72514108139235633222008-09-12T18:05:00.001-07:002008-09-12T18:05:41.333-07:00Love songs for the guy I loveTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-8243188172003575292008-09-01T22:12:00.003-07:002008-09-01T22:13:47.066-07:00I went to Seattle to see Three Canadian bandsOverheard at Bumbershoot:"What's GST?"Oh to be an American, and not dealing with pesky things like Sales Tax.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-84410845085728346032008-08-27T11:46:00.005-07:002008-08-27T12:21:41.409-07:00And she's backHello, helloI've decided to return to this lovely lovely blog. But I'm not sure if I'm going to tell anyone about it. Perhaps I will just see what happens. So in the latest news I have moved from E-town to the lovely 'rents home on Pender Island. It's a hard pill to swallow being 25, engaged, and by all accounts somewhat of a functioning adult and then having/needing to move back home. It makes Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-43596422623358271072007-05-22T18:15:00.000-07:002007-05-22T18:17:53.801-07:00I knew I was a fan of Joss Whedon's for a reason.Really interesing article/rant by the man who brought us Captain Mal.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-6225367180359114572007-04-15T09:21:00.000-07:002007-04-15T09:27:51.062-07:00Who knew that 10% thing was created by advertisers?This kinda blew my mind. While at least the first few paragraphs did at least, then I got bored and stopped reading it. It is before noon on a Sunday morning after all...It's been a fun week more or less. On Tuesday I went to the Silversun Pick Ups/Ok Go/Snow Patrol concert, and was immensely happy I did so. Even with all the screaming teenage girls.I also quit the detox after four days. It was Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-24955426830216429222007-04-12T19:50:00.000-07:002007-04-12T19:51:49.986-07:00God Bless you, Mr. Vonnegut.Real update to follow soon. For now I'm just going to be sad.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-70709220899479519162007-04-08T11:07:00.000-07:002007-04-08T12:48:09.233-07:00Et tu, Brutus? So I have a new obsession. Whenever I have a spare hour or three I can be found watching Rome, one of the most addictive television shows I have ever seen.The first few episodes I spent my time trying to figure out how many of the actors I knew from various Jane Austen movie adaptations (Caeser is from Persuasion, old Octavia is from the new Pride and Prejudice, Atia is from Emma, Cicero is the Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-19694922025660809532007-03-26T08:58:00.000-07:002007-03-26T09:00:17.706-07:00Have a spare few hours?Check this out: clarification.com It's pretty funny, and I may be just a little bit in love.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-87370828618993635872007-03-21T06:44:00.000-07:002007-03-21T06:58:53.620-07:00Why can't we support each other y'all?This is not something I enjoyed reading first thing this morning (link courtesy of 50books.blogspot.com).I hate generalizations, especially negative ones, and what I hate most is this is an assertion by a woman who should know better. You just can't say that about all (or most) women writers. 1. Because it's not true, and 2. Because the same thing can be said about men writers. Off the top of myTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-50585882144498490352007-03-20T17:05:00.000-07:002007-03-20T17:37:43.885-07:00AnnoyedSo with my new fancy "real" job, I've been commuting a lot more lately. I even broke down and bought a bus pass, which has made me the laziest person ever. When a month ago I used to walk to the grocery store or to Whyte or to the Library, I now bus. Mostly because if I'm paying $73 a month for the special Sherwood Park buspass I'm going to make it worth it!Anyway since I'm on the bus more, I've Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-28252786635606187422007-03-08T18:34:00.000-08:002007-03-08T18:35:44.898-08:00A little late...Happy International Women's Day!Let's keep up the good fight!Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-89032354719046693372007-03-01T19:54:00.000-08:002007-03-01T20:14:37.160-08:00Well I'm never shopping there again...Bluenotes was selling a t-shirt that said "NO means have aNOther drink".Cause rape is funny, right? And obviously men just want to have sex, they don't care how incapacitated their partner is, right? And it's much better to get a girl drunk until she can't say no, because she doesn't actually have to say yes, right?Oh those marketing geniuses, where will the hilarity stop?Oh wait...I'm a feministTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-43956159738117808852007-02-20T18:29:00.000-08:002007-02-20T18:46:01.238-08:00Birthday Woo!So I turned another year older a few short days ago. I have to say the entire birthday endeavor was a success. On Saturday Anick and I headed out to Blue Plate Diner for dinner, and then went to go see Music and Lyrics. And the movie was pretty good. The romantic comedies of late have been anything but inspiring, so it was nice to see a happy feel good movie with singing. However the best part ofTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-91753499167573961802007-02-07T23:13:00.000-08:002007-02-07T23:17:02.457-08:00Wow...I'm not even sure what to say about this.I think my favourite quote was about Betty Friedan:“Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America’s Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley’s radiation lab with J. Robert Oppenheimer.”Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-43020033407590185162007-01-25T14:45:00.000-08:002007-01-25T14:55:25.540-08:00Tessa's Recipe for depression:Step 1: Read Blindness for two hours at a downtown coffee shop attached to the library. When book gets to be too much stare out window at the homeless people. (Helps to be reading the chapters where the criminals take over the asylum and demand payment for food...)Step 2: Go see Children of Men.Step 3: On way home from movie listen to Leonard Cohen and watch couple in front of you berate the Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-6834092831384933952007-01-16T21:05:00.000-08:002007-01-16T21:44:08.024-08:00MagiclandToday the CA and I went on a little adventure. We boarded a bus (or three) and made our way to that magical, mystical, monstrous blue and yellow building way in the south of Edmonton. Yes my dear readers, we travelled to the place where all your household dreams can come true for a fair and reasonable price. Gosh darn those Swedes are resourceful.I love Ikea. Well, I love all shopping. I love Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-49293321786728717572007-01-15T08:43:00.000-08:002007-01-15T09:15:59.210-08:00An unstructured life makes me crazyLife has been very uneventful of late. My days are a mix of TV watching, errand running and Nintendo DS playing...oh and job applying. I'm finding umemployment and no longer being a student tedious and annoying. I'm the type of person who needs to have a purpose when I get up in the morning, a task or something. And I'm so used to pushing myself everyday that I don't think I'm very good at this Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-67115758233194156492007-01-10T21:23:00.000-08:002007-01-10T21:25:31.550-08:00Another Silly QuizYour 80s Heartthrob IsJohn StamosWho's Your 80's Heartthrob?I promise a real post will follow soon.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847040.post-14005623352896639532006-12-22T07:55:00.000-08:002006-12-22T07:57:42.605-08:00My Sleeping Pose...Find your own pose!Fireman's Carry is the pose of two people who are fully committed. They may feel reluctant to commit to anything else in their lives (Fireman's Carry couples tend to rent versus own, and respond to every invitation with a "maybe"), but their dedication to each other is unshakeable. Fireman's Carriers often arrive at this level of committment rather suddenly; after a lifetime ofTessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17254860088782547705noreply@blogger.com3