Hate/Love List - February 2012

One of my biggest character flaws (or so people tell me) is that I am a big time hater.  I love to hate.  It's so easy and love doing it.

But since my husband (and my mom) hates that I hate, I thought that I would work on it.  I was originally going to post things I hate each month, but I thought to make it even and to silence my critics, I would include things I am loving (because I do love things as well).

I'm hating:

• inconsiderate neighbours.  The lady upstairs that is stupid loud with her singing, and her fat cats running around at 2 am, and throwing food out of her window that ends up on our window sill and starts to mold or on the grass and then Cooper goes nuts trying to eat it.  Or the one who blasts terrible rap from six years ago out of his windows for three hours straight.  Or the one who's guests park in our spot, that we pay for. JERKS!  Apartment living sucks sometimes. 

• not having money.  Kurtis and I are trying to save for a house (see above) and we are on a TIGHT budget.  We kinda blew it over Christmas and then neutering Cooper and then on an AQ course I am taking and then again on Valentine's Day, so I'm feeling very guilty AND poor.

• the weather.  It's February.  Enough said.

• online courses.  I'm taking an ESL course so I can get bumped up on the pay scale.  The course itself isn't terrible, but we have to do three tasks a session and each session lasts about three days so it's a crap load of busy work.  And some of the responses from my classmates make me want to vomit on my keyboard because they are so convoluted. And the assignments are such a waste of time.  One assignment was to reflect on my posts so far and give myself a level 1, 2, 3, or 4.  Gag me.  I'll write a post on hating rubrics and levels 1-4 next time.

I'm loving:

• that my favourite TV show, The Block, is back on! It is a renovation show from Australia and it makes us feel like we are back living in Australia.  My little dose of summer and warmth in February!  I stream the episodes here. 

• chocolate chip cookies.  It's my number one comfort food.  I eat one a day, at least, unless we run out.  And cookie-less days are terrible days. My mom makes the best, but I usually buy mine from the Loblaws' bakery. 

• Pinterest.  I used to hate Pinterest.  That was before I gave in and actually tried it. I heard about Pinterest after my wedding and I was over wedding planning and I thought Pinterest sounded like something dumb girls did when they wanted to overexpose their dreams and blah blah blah.  I tried it over the summer and I am an addict.  This was one thing I hated for no reason.  You can check my Pinterest here. 

• sheets.  I used to only sleep with my comforter and my husband is a sheet + comforter person.  We have these amazingly comfortable jersey sheets that I enjoy through the drop sheet and pillow cases, but I never bought into the sheet + comforter thing, that is until a few nights ago.  It was really cold and I was really tired and I added a sheet into the mix and man it was awesome! But I have to be in the mood.