Yuzu is overrated. I said what I said.

On this Air France flight and they announced that the languages spoken by the crew were Portuguese, Thai, French, and Parisian, and someone snort-laughed and I’ve never felt more happy to be headed back to Europe.

I yelled at my son for using the good hand towels to clean his car. Because now that means I have to file a missing persons report before his mom gets home and finds out and there goes my Sunday plans.

Plot twist - Meeting planning agency arranging flights has me connecting through Newark 💀 Agency: Please confirm if this is acceptable Me:

I don’t post very often, but when I do I make the same types of grammar mistakes here that I used to make in the bad place. Then dealing with the dilemma of delete-and-edit vs fuck-it, just gives me the same warm and fuzzies.

Was invited to conflicting meetings on the same dates: one in Miami and the other in Madrid. My manager suggested I toss a coin to decide and I said no because that might mean I would have to go to the Miami one.

When I pick up the the mail I just leave the credit card bills unopened on the dining table for the Credit Card Fairy to return to sender.

I would like a job where I sit in a Parisian cafe with a book in one hand and an espresso in the other, periodically glancing up to silently judge passers-by until it’s time to go home to my rooftop flat and a chilled Pinot Gris where I absentmindedly pick through charcuterie before falling asleep.

Have to set up a Canada Revenue Agency account for my mom, but they no longer take passports as valid ID. Ontario Photo Cards are accepted. So I look up how to apply for a photo card. You know what’s the only piece of ID you need? A passport.

From a friend …

When my youngest empties the dishwasher it sounds like how I imagine the bowels of a restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen during second seating on a Saturday night would sound.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been on hold so long that when you finally get through you’ve forgotten why you called in the first place 🙋🏻‍♂️

“Just bringing this to the top of your inbox” actually makes me want to push your e-mail farther down my priority list I’m not even joking.

🤞🏼

*stares in EBM*

My head to my heart, after swearing off travel to the US and realizing this also includes Hawaii:

If I read another e-mail from middle management that includes the word “pivot” I swear to god I’m going to circle back and park it in their pain-point so hard.

TFW when you do 2 hrs of research, take 15 min to compose the perfect email with all of your recommendations, and then your attending responds: “kk sounds good thx”:

They were handing out free samples of vodka martinis at the train station. Sign said “proof of age required”. I’m struggling to get my driver’s license out near the front of the line and security says “that’s ok, sir, you’re all good”. 😐

“Medicine” needs to be a language option on this damned phone. I texted a tech that we need more relatlimab and it autocorrected and sent as “relationship”. If anyone needs me I’ll probably be outside HR.

Just got yelled at by someone for taking their parking spot. I apologized, pulled out, and then literally parked IN THE OPEN SPOT RIGHT BESIDE THEM.

For my non-Canadian friends who are curious, this is the type of thing we are seeing in all our grocery flyers now. Every store is flagging items made/produced in Canada, both in their ads and on store shelves.

If you send me an e-mail at 3:16pm on a Tuesday, and then an e-mail at 9:48am on Wednesday to follow-up on that e-mail, please know that I will ignore both e-mails until Thursday of the week after. That’s if I’m in a good mood.

CBC News predicts another Liberal government - majority or minority remains to be seen. Doesn’t matter. Fuck Poilievre. Fuck Trump 🎉

Omg so stressed. Can’t relax until the Greater Toronto Area poll numbers are in.

It’s Election Day, Canada. Go vote Canada Strong.

Polls close in Ontario in less than 1 hr. Here we go 🤞🏼 #elbowsup

My wife and youngest are due for Nexus renewal next year. If she has to appear for an interview at US Customs/Border Patrol there is zero chance in hell we’ll risk crossing the border to do that. Will schedule it at Toronto airport instead.

The silver lining to all this nonsense is that it means more transatlantic vacations for us instead of cross-border day trips.

Never been more excited to vote Liberal in a federal election. Let’s go! #markcarney #elbowsup 🇨🇦

My secret superpower is gathering 14’s belongings he left scattered on the main floor and leaving them at the bottom for the stairs for him to bring up to his room. And then having the pile grow because he adds things to it, but never actually brings any of them upstairs.

Just realized there’ll probably be a plot twist and NATO nation #1 will pull themselves out of NATO (like they are doing with every other international body) and formalize their alliance with Russia. Ooh. I can’t wait the tension is killing me.

Googles “If a NATO nation invades another NATO nation how do the other NATO nations know which side to take?” *side-eyes south of the border*

I’ve decided that we need to move to a bigger house. We need more cupboard space for mismatched plastic containers and lids.

Would be a lot less effort to buy a whole new winter jacket to be honest

Still not watching the news. Nope. Can’t make me.

Remember when Bill Clinton appointed First Lady Hillary to lead a national health care task force and Republicans lost their fucking minds because she wasn’t elected? Where’s the outrage now?

List of American things you can easily replace with buying Canadian 🇨🇦

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

Wishing you all the very best for 2025. We’re going to need all the best wishes.

Look, I’m not saying communism is awesome, but trying a little bit of socialism isn’t bad.

My wife asked me to retrieve the good serving dishes where we store them in the most awkward, inaccessible, hardest-to-reach cupboards and it just reminds me why we don’t entertain more than twice a year. Follow me for more hosting tips for introverts.

No edit button here, either. Et tu, Brute?

As the holiday party season is upon us I want to remind the extroverts to that we, introverts, want to be invited to your get-togethers. We won’t go, God no, we won’t (blech!), but we still want to be invited.

The window was clearly not on a high enough floor.

Will no one rid us of these meddlesome billionaires?

Still not watching the news. Nope. Can’t make me.

My colleagues thought competition for leave to attend mid-year would be too intense. Turns out no one bothered to apply. But 2 ops leads, a manager, and our Exec Dir are all going so that’s cool.

Korea showing the world how it’s done 👏🏼