Canada Post is the worst. They’re always breaking things, losing them or being horrible slow.
I believe these notebooks are what the kids these days call “aesthetic”.
I stuck a cute kitty sticker on the front of this Leuchtturm notebook.
I have no idea how to pronouce “Leuchtturm”.
This is a Kodak Ektra cellphone. It has Android 6, a small battery and a Sony sensor, but it shoots in RAW and has a dedicated shutter button, so I enjoy it. It was also discounted by $300, so that was nice.
Look at the dedicated shutter button! Be amazed!
This is the leather case for the Kodak Ektra cellphone. I got it for free because why would anybody want this?
We don’t even put liquid in it, because it’s hard to clean, but this blue decanter is pretty to look at.
This decanter is dirty on the inside. I like the pattern etched into it, though.
My family has a large amount of VHS tapes. People tell me that the Disney tapes are worth a lot of money, but I’m not sure about that.
This is a pinecone. There are a lot of pinecones in Canada.
Nature is beautiful. But it will eat you.
Rock candy is mostly a novelty. I don’t think the taste is all that great and the texture is unpleasant.
This ring is WAY too bit for my tiny, weird child hand.
These earrings are heavy. I should get some of those earring support patches that go on the back of your earlobe, so my ear holes don’t get stretched out.
I think that they put out this limited edition Vaseline for the royal wedding. It is very special.
This necklace is very heavy. I probably should wear jewellry that can cause my body horrible damage.
This necklace is for Valentine’s Day.
These are some Gudetama squeeze toy. I like Gudetama, but the character of a clinically depressed egg is a bit messed up for a country that has problems with metal health and suicide. The “I Love DB” hashtag is there because I wanted to win more squishies.
These are some Bernat Pop! yarn cakes in “moonshadow” and “paisley pop”.
I think that yarn cakes are mostly just for Instagram photos. There’s no added utility to the cake shape, it just looks pretty.
And then the yarn cakes don’t even stay cake shaped. After using a yarn cake for a bit, they get stretched out.
I don’t know why I link to my Instagram account. Instagram is owned by Facebook and Facebook is ruining the world.
I don’t remember at all what Radeberger Pilsner tastes like, but I thought it was important enough to take a photo of the cap.
What is the difference between “hydrating” and “moisturizing”? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE!?
This was one order of yarn from Amazon that came in three separate boxes and an envelope. There was also some air bags and paper packing, because we wouldn’t want the yarn to break.
This weird sticker thing was in a purse that I bought. I have no idea what it means or what it was for.
This fidget spinner has a bluetooth speaker in it. I don’t know why. I don’t know why fidget spinners exist in the first place.
The gears in this fidget spinner don’t actually move when it is spinning. I’m very upset about that.
I thought that this fidget spinner was shaped like a regular flower at first, but then I noticed it was, in fact, shaped like the flower from the Hong Kong flag.
This is a glitch that my old cellphone’s camera generated as it was dying. RIP old cellphone.
I think that these talking Halloween decorations are really annoying.
I got this watch off of AliExpress and it doesn’t keep time very well.
Looks neat, though.
The fried chicken places always gives us a lot of hot sauce.
Peanut punch is basically just water and milk added to peanut butter. It’s probably not healthy to drink it very often.
These shadows can pretty much only be applied wet. It’s nice to have a lot of different colours, though.
Yes, that’s right, I snail-mail things. I’m old-school!
“Kek” is how Koreans laugh and it’s also the name of an Egyptian god. You learn something new every day.
I thought that having a planner with something rude written on it was funny at the beginning of the year. It was not funny at the end of the year.
This Tombow brush pen is pretty neat. I need to start practicing my calligraphy again.
That’s all for now. There will be more later. There’s ALWAYS more later.
I think that is didn’t work out so well because Tucson’s water is already half rocks, so the chemical reaction didn’t happen properly.
I will always maintain that Jim Varney was a great actor who was never really given his chance to shine.
You have to be careful gluing glasses back together, because sometimes glue will react strangely to plastic frames. One of the glues I tried basically melted the acrylic in these.
I burnt the pumpkin seeds this year and was very sad.
In some towns, they make you use a light bulb instead of a candle for your jack o’ lantern. Those are the worst towns.
Snow shovel prominently featured, because Canada.
My cellphone’s camera sucks sometimes. And it sucks the rest of the time, too.
It’s a moody photo of some Mini-Wheats. Welcome to Hipstertown.
This is the pink wheel from the spinning fidget thingy I keep on my desk.
I had a store credit for the Dell store and the only thing I even remotely wanted was this Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse.
It’s way too big for my tiny girl hand.
This is a glasses screwdriver, because I am a nerd what wears glasses
Always wear earplugs to rock concerts, kiddies. You can replace your teeth, but you can’t replace your ears.
I made a scarf with this yarn!
This photo is terrible. It’s only here because I can’t throw anything away.
I keep ordering drinks and I keep getting tools, instead.
Wow. You can’t see any of the detail in this macro photo!
I have so many USB adapters and they’re all terrible.
Stella Artois: the Pabst of imported beers.
Well, that was 20 photos and 20 is a number that I like, so, BYE!
I take terrible, terrible photos and post them to Instagram. Aren’t I inane?
I got this cheap L sticker so I could make the limit to get free shipping from Amazon. I have no idea where it is now.
This is one of my sister’s cat toys. Surprisingly, her cats actually prefer some colours of fuzzy tinsel balls over others.
Yes, I did eat all of those. When I have massive organ failure in the future, you’ll know exactly why.
These meats were hanging unrefrigerated in a Dollar General. Aren’t cold cuts supposed to be kept cold?
These keys were in my purse. I had no idea what they were for.
These are some teeny tiny canvasses. They are rectangular. I like rectangles.
My sister took my to a Negitivland concert. They handed out these cards. I think they were trying to make a point about consumerism and disposable media. You know, like the inane junk on this website.
I got these off of some America Day cupcakes.
The buns on these ended up rock-hard. Remind me to stop buying food from Dollar General.
I told the Americans that Maple Water is a traditional Canadian drink. This is not a thing that is actually true.
I got this crystal growing kit for a dollar from Target. You will see later how well the crystals grew.
This snowman placemat was hanging out all alone in the Tucson desert. I think when it actually snows in Tucson, that they call in the national guard.
You gotta dip your grilled cheese in some ketchup. It’s the law!
I’m making some sort of an artistic statement here.
This was such false advertising. This cereal didn’t contain any twigs at all.
One of my favourite flavours is black cherry. I’m so mad at President’s Choice for discontinuing their Black Cherry Soda.
It was monsoon season in Tucson. There were beautiful rainbows hanging over the vast, empty parking lots. Go urban sprawl!
I never actually visited the mountains, when I was in Tucson. For some reason, there isn’t a shuttle or public transit that travels to them.
I wasn’t sure whether this was a hare or a rabbit. I ate it anyhow!
Trader Joe’s Maple Water tastes like maple syrup mixed with sweaty sock water.
Well, that’s all fro today. I hope you enjoyed this mystical photographic journey as much as I did!
I’m in Tucson. And you know what the thing about Tucson is? It really must have been beautiful, before they turned it into a giant parking lot and all the rivers dried up.
Case in point: The Rillito River. Once it flowed it flowed year-round, now it’s mostly just a bone-dry trench filled with garbage, unless there’s really heavy rains, in which case all the garbage gets washed into inconvenient places.
I decided to take a walk alongside the Rillito “River”. It bummed me out. It’s weird squaring with all the destruction and mayhem my species causes.
There was a river here for thousands of years and it only took us about 100 to use it all up.
Yeah, so, all my pictures suck, because I was sad… and also I was testing out the camera on my new cellphone and I didn’t realize it was shooting in 16:9 mode, because the UI was covering part of the view up.
That’s my story and I’m sticking it.
Really, this is a river.
DON’T VANDALIZE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE! IT’S NOT NICE!
This sign was next to some scary-looking bathrooms that had their sinks outside.
There a loads of discarded shopping carts all over Tucson. It’s weird how far away some of them end up from any store. Tuscon has the urban sprawl something awful. Definite food desert situations in many areas. I guess some people without cars just opt to take the cart with them, rather than try to carry their groceries for miles.
Here, fishy fishy fishy…
Hhhhmmm… That’s weird. It looks like someone has cobbled together a small structure from various refuse.
Yes, that’s right, the Rillito River has been dry so long, that a hobo has taken up residence right in the middle of it.
I sort of wanted to go down to the shanty and have myself a little look-see, but I couldn’t see if anybody was home and I didn’t want to get hobo-shanked.
I hope whoever lives there doesn’t drown during the next monsoon season.
On the rare occasions when there is water in the river, it can end up way too high and overflow, because the ground is so dry and hard that the water doesn’t seep into it. They built these ugly concrete trenches to mitigate the overflow.
I can never seem to find any nice cacti. They’re always misshapen and weird.
Birds live in those holes. Also, gnomes.
It’s actually a felony to vandalize a saguaro cactus. They take a really long time to grow. It can be a 100 years before they even get their first arm. So they get a mite bit miffed when you mess with one.
The fruit of a barrel cactus are edible. You need tongs and oven mitts to harvest them, though.
This a palo verde tree. The little yellow flowers get collect in little piles on the ground and it is very cute.
This is all blurry because it was very windy. I wonder if my cellphone camera has a burst function?
This one is a little bit hard to see, but what looks like a clump of twigs on this tree is actually desert mistletoe. It wasn’t very Christmasy, though, because there wasn’t any little poisonous berries on it.
This sure is a boring photo.
Ocotillos look like they belong on an alien planet. A lot of people have them it their gardens. I could never do that, because I would inevitably stumbled into it and grievously harm myself on the spinedies.
Cute little orange flowers. Apparently, hummingbirds like them.
Here’s one without flowers, just evil spinedies waiting to murder unsuspecting Laurels.
I like taking photos of flowers. Someone buy me a $4000 macro lense, so I can do it more betterer.
I need to learn how to stop bright yellow from blowing everything out.
We have asters in Ontario, but they tend to bloom in the Fall there, instead of the Spring like here.
This should stop being an agave and start being a tequila.
Ice? Ha! You don’t know from ice, you crazy southerners.
If this bridge wasn’t here, I might have drowned trying to cross the river.
Some of the bridges are decorated with painted tiles.
Are those hands gigantic or is that corn really small?
Someone vandalized the pork.
Intact pork.
If you see a wild pig in Tucson, run. They’re very dangerous… and delicious.
Look it’s the mountains! Clouds look weird when you’re at a high elevation.
Alright, what the Hell is this thing? It looks like a bus stop, but it’s not anywhere near a road. It’s also the only one along the path to my knowledge.
And then there’s this weird cylinder in front of it. The purpose of which was the cause of much perplexitude.
It opens, but why?
Pretty much all the art along the path has been vandalized.
Hey, it’s the Tucson Sun Circle, which is completely useless on an overcast day, as you can plainly see here.
Here are the instructions for the Sun Circle. Apparently, it does something interesting on the Equinox, BUT I COULDN’T SIT AROUND AND WAIT THAT LONG.
I stopped at the Children’s Memorial Park. That wall back there is filled with the names of dead children. There are too many names.
I’m not sure whether those flowers blew there or someone placed them on the girl.
Not sure whether I like the idea of dead children flying around on magic carpets. Ghosts are scary enough without whimsical woven goods.
Why do they bother with trash cans? Everyone just throws their junk onto the riverbed.
I always wanted an ant farm as a kid.
It is a dead dove. It’s a metaphor for my life.
Google Photos created this stupid hipster video of my trip.
If I misidentified anything in these photos, feel free to drop me a line.
And, yes, I realize that it’s still technically a river because there is water flowing underground. (Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was…)
My Instagram is overflowing with photos again, so I’m going to make you look at them.
It’s some chipped paint. This is interesting.
I got tired of my underpants riding up my ass, so I bought some boxer shorts.
I made this frozen banana and blueberry goop with my Yonanas. It was very tasty.
I made some spicy ribs and then played with the bare bones afterwards.
There’s something wrong with me.
I just looked in up and these are the berries of the rowan tree. I didn’t taste them because I thought they were poisonous, but they’re edible. My policy is to leave wild berries for the birds, instead of eating them myself, though.
This phone was really bad with blurry things constantly.
Hey look! It’s my autism!
This is supposed to represent the circle of life… or something.
This poutine was pretty tasty, but you can get fresh poutine from a restaurant for the same price.
I drink too much diet pop.
Arranging this and taking this photo was a really good use of my time.
It’s speculoos cookies ground up and made spreadable. I ate the whole jar with a spoon.
I can never find a good Indian restaurant near where I live.
These cheeseburger spring rolls were really bizarre and greasy. They also had pickles and mustard inside.
I mixed Hutchison’s Ginger Wine and Diet Dr. Pepper together. I saw through time.
Yep. Gingerbread-flavoured Peeps. Peeps always make me feel sick to my stomach. These were no exception.
Does anybody ever save part of a chocolate bar for later? Why in the world would a chocolate bar wrapper have to be resealable ever?
Jimmy Dean Blueberry Pancakes & Sausage On A Stick doesn’t actually have any blueberries in it. It’s just corn syrup dyed purple. They’re pretty damn gross. Americans are weird.
Larry the Cable Guy branded food, eh? Are the biscuits 75% forearm hair, then?
That is all for today! Go eat something gross! That’s what I’m going to do!