Addendum

Oh, yes, in regards to the butter...I made Chicken schnitzel with veggies & toasted pita bread. I put just butter and salt on the veggies & brushed some oil on the pit and a bit of salt. Delicious! It's so nice to have time to cook my dinner again. Though the more I cook the more dishes there are to wash...

Butter

I have a stiff neck, literally not figuratively. All day at work people kept asking if I had a sore neck. "You look stiff...". Yes, thanks, do I normally look like this? Anyways, the Extra Strength Advil liqui caps are the sh%$ so I managed to survive. I actually had a fun weekend so perhaps this is punishment. I did my dishes Friday, which is great. Saturday was the Zoo & face-painting in the afternoon. My Zebras are getting pretty good. Someone asked for a specific species of Cockatoo - so they basically got a white bird. How can I draw what I have never even seen before? Then it was a friend's b-day party in the city. There was sushi, gyoza, and cupcakes so that pretty much made my week. Everyone was very friendly and easy to talk with so other than the occasional awkward pause things went smoothly and I had a nice time. The only downer was the drive home because there was a traffic jam due to a truck overturning on the side of the highway and I was stuck for about a 1/2 hour just before the Portman. 11:00 p.m. on a Saturday. Lame a$$. Needless to say I wish I had taken a cupcake for the road. I slept till after 11:00 on Sunday which is amazing and Clyde didn't even poop on the carpet. Then dinner at Linda's - chicken this time. Afterward I watched a really lame movie on the Women's network. Perhaps that's when the neck pain started. I don't know.
Since the Olympics area over - and I'm very proud of our Canadian athletes by the by! - I am now hoping I can get more done around my house, but will more likely just watch more crap T.V. I am on Disk 3 of Firefly but that won't take my longer. Since my payday is coming up I may try and get Season 1 of X-Files. If I can than I'll get the rest of them, up till Mulder leaves at least because I saw them on sale at Zellers, hopefully they're still there. That will be my next big purchase. I can't wait!

Woo hoo!

Just a little update on the Olympics for you...I just watched Simon Whitfield win Silver in the men's triathlon. He honestly looked like he was falling behnd then sprinted ahead of everyone on the last bit. The German overtook him though the last few metres. Very exciting! I started pacing on the last couple of laps, and I actually got a bit choked up. I wanted him to win! Amazing race. This morning Ian Millar and his team won Silver in the show jumping competition. I also got a little choked up. Canada hasn't won a medal in that event since the 60s apparently. I remember his disappointment in the last Olympics so I was very happy for him. Exciting day.

Tomorrow

Today is my last day before work. Tomorrow morning I have to get up and go. I have been slowing tensing up but it actually gave me a bit of a motivational boost to clean so my kitchen is almost clean. The dishes are actually done. The floors are clean. The counter is partially clean. And, the top layers of crap on my kitchen table have been removed. I dealt with my mail. I did most of the laundry. I cleaned the carpets. It's much less disgusting in here now. If I can keep it together & just maintain things during the next month I should be okay. The biggest problem is the patio right now but that can wait a bit longer. I didn't want to volunteer today, though it ended up being slightly overcast so I probably could have handled the heat. Yesterday I bailed before noon. I felt horrible. It was just too hot and my back was sore...etc., etc.. I'm glad I stayed home though because I got a lot of sh$% done.
By the by, I saw Pineapple Express the other day. Very funny. I recommend it, but with the warning that it's all about pot - not the cooking utensil - and is full of ridiculous violence.

p.s.:

I became officially bored today and none of my plans worked out...I even left my house and tried to catch the 7ish Batman movie - finally - but the 7ish was actually 6:45 and the other theatre was 7:00 even so I didn't make it. How lame ass is that?

Holidays

So, I have been watching an incredible amount of the Olympics mixed in with some Angel Season 4, and now 5. The men's gymnastics was the most exciting event so far. The 2 Canadians in the all-round competition did really well and I look forward to seeing them in the next Olympics. The baseball & softball teams are also doing great. Apparently they're not going to include either sport in the next summer Olympics though - which I don't get. There's handball for Christ's sake - I don't even know what that is - but they won't include two very popular and widespread summer sports? I think that's crazy, but perhaps they have some logical reason or maybe they just suck. I'd have to look into it to assess it accurately. As far as Angel goes it took me a while to get to Season 5 because when I finally got around to buying Season 4 it was the new packaging and I needed some time to commit - I prefer things matchy matchy and I kept thinking I could maybe exchange it for the old packaging somehow. But, my summer goal was to watch it and then finally see Season 5 which I missed while it was on T.V. except for a few episodes. This morning I finally saw the puppet episode which was genius. Speaking of which there's a new season featuring Faith, or technically the actress who was Faith, called Dollhouse. I'm excited. I also got a holidays game, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. It's been a huge time suck which is great. Tomorrow I may actually do stuff, which is about time really. Though I do feel justified being excessively lazy - I deserve a break!

Joshua

Today was the final show for the season of So You Think You Can Dance. Now I know Cousin Mikie doesn't like the excessive T.V. talk but you don't have to read this Michael! For some crazy reason, maybe just the personalities of the dancers or the fact that I watched the whole season this time around, but I really cared about the dancers and even though I wanted Joshua to win I would have been happy for any of the top 4. Yesterday Twitch & Joshua did a Russian dance, very similar to the Ukrainian dance I grew up watching, and ROCKED! Today's episode was great because they danced some of the best routines of the season again and brought on some of the dancers from previous seasons. However, I teared up when Courtney had her speech/montage and just got more emotional as the show progressed. I felt guilty for not wanting Twitch to win, though he seemed quite happy for Joshua as well, very sport-man like of him. I am so sad it's over! My co-worker and I have been talking about driving down to Washington for one of the top 10's shows. I generally end up not going to stuff out of sheer laziness but I think I need to make the effort. Hopefully the Canadian version lives up to this season. I think they should add a Belly Dancing number, and tap, and of course whatever else they can. I need to blow my nose now...

Clyde & Hal