H-to-the-J's

Author: Knitravel

  • Peppy Habberjam, August 1991 – June 27, 2008

    Today I had to lay Peppy down in her final resting place. It had been a rough week for her, and when she wasn’t getting better, I took her to the vet. Both kidneys were riddled with stones, and the worse was inflamed. The poor girl – she was nearly 17, so it was time…

  • PFL!

    I recently joined up with The Pillow Fight League. I had my tryout, and made it to the next level, where I would have to fight as a “Pledge” (I’m in the list at the bottom of this page, under Pledges) to the league. That fight happened tonight, at the Gladstone. I fought against Pledge…

  • My CN Tower Climb

    So, I did it – and boy was it tough! My time was 24 minutes and 24 seconds, which is about average compared to most other climbers. There were 144 flights of stairs in groups of about 12-15 (I’m not certain about the exact number) each. At first, deluded, I thought I could run up…

  • CN Tower Climb Prelim

    I’m gearing up for the CN Tower climb for WWF-Canada tomorrow! I’ve been working out all week (well, at least a few times), and I made sure to wake up early today so I can be at the base at 6:30 am tomorrow (on a SATURDAY). This is because if you begin your climb before…

  • don’t use bleach to whiten your teeth

    I don’t know if this method will work quite as effectively, but I think it’s worth a shot: Whiten your teeth with strawberries. Especially considering that when I attempted to whiten them with bleach (using a specially created tooth rack as well), I ended up taking ibuprofen all day every day, losing my appetite almost…

  • Celebrity-spotting: if only this made me more important

    I’ve been complaining a bit that I’ve been in downtown Toronto for two years, and haven’t seen any celebrities yet. Well, it appears the summer-fall 2007 was meant to change all that. In the past month I’ve seen: Ross Hull You’d know him from Are You Afraid of the Dark and Student Bodies, if anything.…

  • A real spy-gal

    So I just jumped out of a plane… ahhh, yep, that’s right. Pulled meself out onto the plane’s wheel, 3,000 feet in the air, then hung onto its wing for a few seconds and… let go… I’m a convert.

  • the new morality

    “…we have a joint obligation to preserve [the commons]. That’s because future generations will need them to live, and live well, just as we do. And our generation has no right to say, “These gifts end here.” This shared responsibility introduces a moral factor that doesn’t apply to other economic assets: it requires us to…

  • world playground project opens up

    For the past month or so, I’ve been working on a website for World Playground Project. I developed the logo for them and then proceeded with the website. The logo is an expression of the playful side of the charity organisation’s goals: to use drama as a method to act out tough situations the target…

  • canada day geekout

    Happy Canada Day! I had loads of fun making the graphic above (click to view the full-size version). I first did a few Google image searches to find photos of land and landmarks from all across Canada. My search took me from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, and onward to the Prairies, a bit north…