Amy,

I can't even laugh at that. I'm about there myself.

Similarly, the other day I put on a jacket to go outside where it was 65F, and was so hot! But if it's 65 inside, I need two sweaters. What's up with that?

I'm more likely to be sitting still when I'm inside.

Why are there ants in my apartment and who can I blame for that? They've been annoying me in the bathroom for a couple of weeks but today they discovered the kitchen. Argh! I don't even live on the ground floor! WTH?!

Aurelia, I have ants on the second floor, too. Charlie is a messy eater, and every time I go in to sweep up his bits of kibble, even if it's only been half an hour, there are ants. And others just wandering around, even when there's no kibble.

Dealing with banking issues is the worst. They have so much power!

aurelia, you can blame Twitter for that, too.

I just came up with a proactive work thing to do! God, I'm the worst at that part of my job. Maybe I can find one more today?

Banks suck. I'm getting closer and closer to keeping it in the mattress, for real.

Seriously, check your area to see if there's a credit union you can join. At a CU, you're a stockholder, and they pay you dividends. Unlike a bank, where you're basically a mark.

In other news, have a heartwarming dog story and try not to tear up, I dare you. (Spoiler alert: happy ending.)

Oh god, that is the most amazing thing ever.

I've been in this apartment for several years with no ants. Why now? Damn twitter.

I am happy to give lesson on speaking Canadian and the offside rule. (It's the only hockey rule I know!)

Much as I like my CU, I've been holding on to my old checking account at PNC, partly because I have a credit card attached to it, and partly because PayPal draws from it and I was reluctant to hook the PayPal vampire to the main repository of my money. But I forgot to move one of my accounts away from that bank, and they drew their monthly charge and PNC paid it, as they're supposed to do, but the account went into the red and I didn't realize it. Then I discovered that PNC was charging me $7 a day every day I didn't have money in the account. Not overdraft fees - nothing else was coming in - it's a NO MONEY fee. They were charging me $$ because I didn't have any $$. How does that make any sense? I can see charging a fee for an overdraft, or pulling money from a backup source if the account is in the red (as they did) and charging for that service. But charging a fee for an account to sit at ZERO? Thus pushing it into the red every day? How does that make human sense? So I was so pissed off about that, it pushed me to finally close the checking account, and the credit account associated with it. See there, PNC? If you hadn't acted like a dick, you would have probably kept my business.

Tell the possible Canadian border guards that you crave poutine.

For "niche" we say "neesh" not "nitch." And foyer is "foi-yay" not "foi-yer."