I bought a cardigan.

Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa is awesome. It literally means "In memory of my mother loquat syrup," but it's like swallowing a tablespoon of thick, liquefied Extra Strength Halls. It's a Chinese herbal cough syrup and it is the best cough syrup ever and I'm so glad the health food store in the mall carries it. I usually just take it by the tablespoon, but apparently you can mix it with hot water and drink it, which I think I will do before bed tonight. Hopefully I'll stop coughing soon.

So yeah, I bought a cardigan. It's yellow. Once every year or so I decide on an article of clothing that I have to buy and this year it was a yellow cardigan. In previous years it has been a white summer dress, an argyle sweater and a brown corduroy blazer. I've never given any thought as to why I do that, but I don't really care, either, as long as I don't decide on a beer shirt next year. Next paycheque, I'm going to go to the Suzy Shier outlet in Cambridge and get some pants for $10 a pair. That is going to be a good day.

I recently received a rather handsome OSAP estimate last Tuesday and gave my two-weeks' notice at Williams on Friday. I'm going to keep working at the gay bar for a bit of extra spending money. I am so glad to have a break from all this financial stress. Just imagine being able to afford to buy bread instead of sucking at making it! I'll still make yoghourt since it doesn't take much time to make and I'm picky about my yoghourt. If I can pull up the funds for a KitchenAid stand mixer, I might get back to bread making, since I can never seem to knead it fast enough by hand.

Wow. Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa is even better when dissolved in hot water. I can't believe I never thought to do that before. Thank you, Wikipedia! Holy shit. This is awesome. This is the best way to take the stuff. I kind of sound like Michael Wood when he drank the soma in The Story of India. Not that too many of you know what I mean by that. By that, I mean it's time for me to go to bed, and hopefully I won't be up all night coughing. Goodnight, world.

No Marigolds, Gromit!

Yes, the title means the marigolds still haven't germinated. I'd like them to bloom before the summer is over... Everything else is flourishing, though, and I've started drying the chamomile in a pasta strainer.

I'd be at work right now if I felt any better. I'm not quite sure what happened myself because I felt fine until the first hour at work. I started to feel weak and thought it was just because I was hungry, but when I went for my break, my stomach hurt and I couldn't keep my dinner down. I do feel a bit better now - not 100%, but since I prepare meals at work it's probably for the best that I went home in case it is contagious.

I'm starting to use Opera (the browser) and I think I'll keep it. It runs pretty fast compared to the other ones I've used, which would include MSIE, Firefox, Chrome and Netscape.

Wow, when did I last use Netscape? Almost a decade ago, if not a bit more than that. Do people still use Netscape? Wikipedia says it was discontinued in 2008. I wonder if the latest version still plays the meteor animation while the page is loading.


I still find myself going to Firefox every so often, mainly because it is still technically my main browser and when other applications use the internet, they open Firefox. Not a huge deal. I still need it because a handful of sites don't work so well in Opera, but not enough to bother me. Not that anyone is really interested in which browser I use.

I went to check my referring sites on the Blogger dashboard just for shits. Turns out this blog made its way to Stumbleupon somehow. I signed up a few minutes ago to try to find it, but I couldn't. Weird.

Another thing I've started using is Wish. Basically, you make a wish list and earn rewards based on your activity. I've already been rewarded with this. The funny thing is even though I like it, I didn't really want it badly, I just wished for it as a favour to the person who added it. Out of the three people who wished for it, she was the only one who didn't get it, which I found weird because one of the ways in which you can get rewards is by having someone who follows you wish for something you added. Stupid Paypal wouldn't let me transfer the rebate to my bank account because it was too low, but I was able to put it towards one of my boyfriend's birthday presents.

I'm not saying what it is because I know he reads this and it will ruin the surprise.

I should probably be in bed, but I am so used to being up later than this that I wouldn't be able to sleep anyway. Hopefully I'll get enough OSAP this year that I'll be able to sort-of quit/only work a few 4-hour shifts when I'm needed and not until close. That would be great.