*miserychick is actually happy

Here’s the great part about being self-employed: you can slack off whenever you want and make up for it later. Today around lunch time, Mark came up with an idea of going to catch WALL-E before the school kids get out and crowd the theatre. I was a little hesitant at first, [...]

I know people are always posting video of their kids or the kids they know because it’s like the funniest thing ever… at times it gets a little tiring.. yes I know.
But, still, kids are funny. And when it’s the kid you know, it’s awesome. The interesting thing is that when she grows [...]

Image from how to do headstand
The instruction goes something like this: measure off the arms, interlace your fingers, make sure you roll onto your arm bone, place your head between your hands but don’t put a lot of weight on it, walk the feet closer to your body… and lift up.
Lift up. Such [...]

totally stole this image from Gizmodo, which is from NYT
I got my U.S. passport renewed by mail, it arrived this morning. The process was so quick (just 2 weeks), you’d almost think Canada is part of the U.S. So now the most important piece of identity document I own has a chip in [...]

Starting today, besides blogging over here, I am also a contributing blogger for Pop!Tech, an organization dedicated to ideas and projects that are changing the world. If you know me, you’d know that it fits my idealistic-technogeekery-self rather snugly.
Since I’m all into planting my own little garden this summer, I started off by posting [...]

This schizo weather of sunny-and-hot one day then rain the next is a bit annoying at times, but it’s great for my little herb garden I have growing on my little back deck. Thanks to the storms, I don’t even have to water them that much!

(This photo was taken two weeks ago, and the [...]

This is just so priceless, from the BBC news:
A drugs trial has been abandoned in Australia after several jurors admitted they had spent much of their time playing Sudoku in the courtroom.
Judge Peter Zahra aborted proceedings after the jury forewoman admitted she and four others had been playing the popular puzzles to fight off boredom.
The [...]

It took a heck of a lot of work turning our current apartment into a space we now feel comfortable with. And finally, here’s the proof:
  
That dark blue wall had to be painted over. Where the light green is now on the ceiling used to be dark grey (seriously, not sure what the [...]