Badcolor 12-day calendar: day 2! Today we have a green box and it is…lipstick! Guess what colour. Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada is just my dad and I, with my mom in an airport making her journey between the 2 of us. We have Zavida’s Peppermint Mocha! We both really like this one. Nice and minty and chocolatey. A+ from both of us.

Puttering around my apartment while guzzling water (hey! Good news about being 2/3rd unemployed: I don’t have to make 7am bloodwork appointments anymore!), and I think I found a home for my birthday present spice chickens.

Tiny Plantvent, day 10! Today’s plant is another wee-est of wee plants, this time with a wood slice!

Ok, Thoop Troop. There’s nothing I want to do less right now than cook, but nutrition is important. Get those ingredients together, we makin’ Thoop. Soppupvent: day 10.

soooooooo. who wants to go to a rage room and break everything in sight? Just me?

OK, Thoop Troop! I forgot to post this on Saturday when I did my grocery shopping, but tonight we have a new Soupvent to make! Here’s what I have to make the soup…if you want to cook along, you’ll need the same stuff! Can you guess what we’re making?! See you tonight!

Badcolor 12 day calendar: day 1! Because the reviews of this calendar are so good, I’m excited to see what we get up to for 12 days. There is also no clang to this entire calendar. Now I know why! Each box has paper shreds stuffed in the end 😂 today we have mascara! Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada is a crowd favourite: Java Factory’s Caramel Apple. It’s a very yummy coffee. My parents and I all agree on our rating: A+.

Tiny Plantvent, day 9! Today we have…a wee purple fleur!

*clears throat* So tomorrow we need to start a new makeup advent calendar, yes? Yes. 😏 I found this calendar of interesting brand name, and it was a whopping $15. (I think it’s now $12?) At the time, it was one of the cheapest makeup advent calendars available, and had EXCELLENT reviews. 🤔

Ok, Colour Nymph Cakevent calendar debrief time! Reminder: I paid $40 for this calendar (w shipping), it’s still available for that price, & regular price is apparently $50-$70 depending on when you look at the product listing (current full-price listing is $50). Was it worth it? Let’s talk.

Making bad decisions.

Taking my new coat for a spin today. I’m going to eat cake for brunch. The cake is going to be quiche that is iced in mashed potato, because I can’t eat cake. Sherri is trying to work magic into a sad existence (mine, not hers. She’s allowed to have cake)

Colour Nymph Cakevent, day 24! Today is the last day! It’s officially cake day! The day I don’t get to eat cake on my birthday, because I’m not allowed! So instead I open a cake advent calendar for 24 days full of makeup! Thrilling! 😂 We have…foundation! Oh boy. Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada theme is “cake”! My parents have Birthday Cake and I have Cheesecake Fantasy. I like it! I give mine an A. My parents say theirs tastes like cake, vanilla, and sprinkles. Both give it an A-.

Tiny Plantvent, day 8! Today we have…another big flower! This time it’s pink. My favourite.

Colour Nymph Cakevent, day 23! Took the pictures this morning, and forgot about them! Today’s box has something pretty light in it… It’s a rubber thing! Let’s investigate!

Took me 4 tries to settle on this party outfit for today. Do I look tired? THAT’S BECAUSE I AM TIRED, JANET. Doing my best.

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada is Infusio’s Crème Brûlée. It smells like “coffee and…”. Can’t place the scent, and same with the flavour. Kinda lacking. Kinda just coffee. I give it a B. My parents agree that the flavour of this one is lacking. Mom gives it a B+, dad a B.

Tiny Plantvent, day 7! Today’s plant is one of the biggest! It’s a big ol’ red flower. So pretty! And comes with a little wood slice.

I think…it’s time.

The old Simpson’s labelscars reveal themselves now that the Hudson’s Bay store plaques have a been taken down at the historic Queen Street flagship.

In Pill Jail for 45 more minutes and my coworker (for now. lolsob) Elizabeth got this Lego flower pot thing-in-a-ball! Let’s put it together.

One last good long look. This is the first place that I have ever had, in any job, that has been MINE. Mine to decorate, mine to exist in, mine to call home for the work day, mine to make my little safe space for me and for everyone who walks through the door. It is unlikely to continue to exist.

One last good long look. This is the first place that I have ever had, in any job, that has been MINE. Mine to decorate, mine to exist in, mine to call home for the work day, mine to make my little safe space for me and for everyone who walks through the door. It is unlikely to continue to exist.

Colour Nymph Cakevent, day 22! Today’s box is suspiciously light again, what do we have…? A plastic tray of spiders! (I kid) 😅 Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada is Infusio’s Vanilla Crème. The scent is not nearly as vanilla-y as other brands. Flavour is the same. It’s there, but very subtle. I give it a B. My parents agree, and both also give it a B.

Tiny Plantvent, day 6! Today’s wee plant is another little shrub in an urn, but sliiiiightly bigger than the last one.

There playing in the snow at Sobeys and oh boy is it loud. (Snow-blowing snow into a tractor pulling a giant bucket trailer, that is then going down to the harbour somewhere and dumping the snow) Enjoy my excellent cinematography.

Lego Capy 6 is done, and the half-family is now complete. The other half of the family is on a very slow boat, assuming the listing actually exists as a real-life product. That would be just my luck, wouldn’t it?! 😂 Capy Stacky! Very cute.

Well, Thoop Troop: we stressy-depressy cooking tonight. We need to start early cuz this takes forever. Gather those ingredients, and let’s get cooking!

So. I have a random theoretical question that has no actual bearing on my life whatsoever 🧐 How does one become a travel companion for seniors/the elderly? Here's what I'm imagining: older lady, single (maybe after the death of her partner), wants to travel, doesn't want to travel alone. Enter: me.

Colour Nymph Cakevent, day 21! Today’s box is suspiciously light again. What do we have…? More stickers. Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada is Infusio’s Butter Toffee! It’s yummy! Kinda buttery, kinda toffee-y, still lots of coffee flavour. B+. My parents both like it and give it an A.

Tiny Plantvent, day 5! Today we have…a plant! A purple plant. Same vibe as the yellow friend from a few days ago!

I have a new 45-min pill jail when I get home from work, and today I spent it making a new friend. Is he…smoking?! 😅 Anyway, off he goes to join his friends! One left to build. Tomorrow! Or maybe Friday!

OK, Thoop Troop! Tomorrow we makin’ thoop! We’re up to Soupvent, day 9! I went grocery shopping (while I can still afford food for who knows how long…lolsob) and this is what I pulled together. Do you know what we’re making without looking at the ingredients list?!

Can someone remind me how much money bridge tolls generated for the province? I'm curious at how much mathin' that math does.

So...I should probably now stop joking with "what are they going to do, fire me?" because while the answer is still no, with an $11mil budget cut, I will almost certainly be laid off as an "unnecessary" budget line item here. Anyone hiring? 🧐😑 my job skills are simultaneously random and diverse.

Colour Nymph Cakevent, day 20! Today’s box is hefty! I think we’re back to makeup! We are! It’s an eyeshadow palette. Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada is Infusio’s Horchata! (My parents have Rum Horchata, but same vibe) It’s peanutty! And creamy! I get the “aire of horchata” in it. I give it a B+. My parents like theirs and both give it an A.

Tiny Plantvent, day 4! Today we have a…plant! 😅 this one comes with an accessory. The set that I bought had 4 random slices of wood with it, so I added those in to plants I thought they could work with like a plant coaster or riser.

New class blog post is up! Lara submitted her second assignment of the semester about faint bioluminescence (kinda...) in humans: how we release photons of light when we make ATP in our cells, and this can be used to monitor disease?! So cool! Read about it at the link below!

Toosdee thrifty bits: thrifted pants, sweater from a vintage show, earrings super-subtle. Just a hint of sparkle. Monday thrifty bits: thrifted shirt and sweater, vintage necklace, earrings from…Amazon, maybe? I forget. Different kind of subtle sparkle.

Colour Nymph Cakevent, day 19! Today’s box is suspiciously light, please don’t be plastic trash… It’s a makeup brush! A bit of a sad one. 😅 Let’s investigate!

This morning’s Coffee Across Canada flavour is Infusio’s Bananas Foster! I taste banana! It’s not as good as other brands (Maud’s or Guy Fieri), but it’s good. I give it an A- My parents agree it’s banana-y and both of them like it and give it an A.

Tiny Plantvent, day 3! Today is a big spiky plant! Well, comparatively big.

Beatz by Capy *bobs head*

I'm watching an older anti-MLM video on Hannah Alonzo's youtube channel about LimeLife and I looked them up and...they're owned by L'Occitane?! Also learned that L'Occitane owns Sol de Janiero and Elemis (and Melvita and Erborian), which I think explains a lot. That's, um, interesting.