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For the past few months people have been getting me and my supervisor mixed up at work. Why this happens has been completely beyond both of us - we really don't look alike, she's got blond hair and blue eyes, I have mousy blond-turning-brown hair and hazel eyes. She's a bodybuilder, I play video games. She's from Texas, I'm from Ontario. On top of all this, we don't ACT that much alike...

Today however, she came out of our boss' office holding the picture we'd taken for him a few hours earlier with chicken sandwiches in the lou (inside work joke) and looking slightly perturbed. "I think," she said, "I see why people get us mixed up."

I looked at the picture and kinda did a double take.

Yeah, because in this one shot, we pretty much look like siblings. It was kind of a freakish and strange revelation, particularly because neither one of us had seen this before about 4 p.m. today.

I think the next thing that I said was "Yes! I look like a model!"

Anyways, to all the people that asked if we were related, I officially apologize for the "what are YOU smoking" look I gave you before I answered and said we weren't.

Sorry about that.

Some people have comfort food for when the the weather turns cold. I realized, on my way home the other night, I have comfort music. Maybe that's weird but here's a list of my favourite cold weather songs, they all seem to have a bit of a chill to them,

Giant - Father Stan - The quintessential winter song... if you haven't heard it, you need to.

French Perfume - Great Big Sea - Despite the driving beat, something about this song just sounds like a frigid ghostly night on the sea...this was actually the song that got me thinking about all this as I had it stuck on repeat as I drove home last night.

Song for a Winter's Night - Sarah Maclaughlin/Gordon Lightfoot - Yeah, the title pretty much says it all....but I remember sitting in the dorm in undergrad listening to this on repeat while watching it snow outside....it's a good a end of the day, wistful, wanting something more sort of song

The Wreck of the Edmund Fritzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot - something about the weather turning dark and dangerous comes through in this music too and despite the fact that it's REALLY long, I've always kinda loved it. Even years after I first heard it, it still retains a sort of haunting mystery.

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones - I think this is a winter song because one christmas I got this cd and listened to it over the entire winter break. Again, with the quiet, wistful hauntingish stuff...

Baby Step Back - Gordon Lightfoot - No idea why this reminds me of winter...but it does. (It also reminds me of hanging in the basement with my dad, singing while he played guitar. Good times....)

That's all the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Any to add?

Sometimes the world just has it in for ya. This was one of those days in my world. There was the problem with the leaky shower, which morphed into the problem with the shower spewing water all over everything WAAAAAAY too early this morning. Which morphed into the problem of having no water cause we turned it off outside. And then there was finding a plumber who could fix everything today.

I went to work in the middle of this, leaving Josh to sort that out but work kinda had it in for me today as well. We'll just leave today at "not every day goes smoothly." I know, you're probably shocked right? Anyways, after a bumpy day at work I was driving home talking to Josh. At which point Josh informed me that there was a giant hole in our drywall, and at one point during the plumbing repair the wall had actually caught on fire. This story is much funnier when Josh tells it, so ask him to sometime...but maybe not this week.

Anyway, I got home. I looked at the wall. I looked at the hole. I looked at the scorch marks. I sat on the couch while Josh talked to his mom. I might have teared up. When they hung up I suggested that after this huge long day of Fail we should just go to Cracker Barrel and have dinner. Comfort food. Josh agreed.

So we went. Josh ordered chicken and dumplings and I got peach pancakes. When my pancakes came out, they looked like this because someone in that kitchen is either bored, or an angel, or a little bit of both. Regardless, I laughed until I cried and then I just cried.

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Sometimes you just need a couple karma pancakes to make it all better.

Dear anonymous Cracker Barrel Cookguy, maybe you were just goofing around, or maybe you were just bored, or maybe you are crazy. I don't care. Thank you for my pancakes...they were awesome. Also, you are awesome. That is all.

While watching a commercial for Tosh.0 on comedy central

Josh: I can't believe this guy got his own show. I thought you had to have some unique talent to get your own show.
Allie: I guess not.
Josh: The Kardashians have their own show.
Allie: Legitimately tho, Kim has an ass. This guy, he doesn't even have an ass.
Josh: Twitter that...because, I don't know how.