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

Rentals

I rented Under the Same Moon, The Darjeeling Limited, & Sweeney Todd this weekend. Under the Same Moon is a Mexican film, subtitles of course, and is about a young boy who sneaks over the border to find his mother in L.A. - great movie, a bit of a tear jerker, and the young actor, Adrian Alonso, was amazing. The Darjeeling Limited is a Wes Anderson movie starring Adrien Brody, Jason Shwartzman and Owen Wilson. Admittedly I didn't get the hotel short before the film at all - but the movie itself was a very slow building comic genius that had me laughing like a mad woman by the end. Bill Murray makes a brief appearance, too. Loved it! Sweeney Todd is great - I could NOT watch any of the gory scenes, I had to keep closing my eyes, but enjoyed the effort. Upbeat musical meets death and tragedy, wrapped up nicely by Tim Burton. Can't really go wrong - just don't eat before you watch it.

A much anticipated update, I'm sure

So, I am almost through the worst of our busy season. I even spent Saturday not working, and went to the Folk Festival in Van. It was a beautiful day and I had a wonderful time. I have a bit of a crush on the singer from Lau, a celtic band from Scotland. I also really enjoyed Jenn Grant, unusual singing style but very melodic. Bela Fleck was there with Abigail Washburn and I discovered I have been pronouncing his name wrong for the past 10 years...It is "BAYla" not "Bella". Oops! Trying to watch him play from VERY far away from the stage was a bit annoying. There was this ridiculous family that kept getting up & standing & talking about 20 feet in front of me. They finally packed up and left half way through his solo. If I wasn't a pacifist and dreaded imprisonment I would have killed them. Spirit of the West was also there & we danced. I am so old and decrepid though - I got winded, twice, through their famous drinking song (which by the by should be the Canadian national anthem officially). Then there was the fun of people watching. And, for anyone who enjoys people watching a Folk Festival is a treasure trove. Regular people behave differently and occaisionally insanely at them. And, it attracts all the nut balls too. The funniest are the hoola hoopers. There were people with their hoola hoops all day but the big stage had the cream of the crop. There was one younger h-h-er who made h-h-ing sexy - which is HILARIOUS! "Ooh, I'm so sexy - watch me!" (Or so I envision her thoughts). There were a few men in various types of skirts, the occaisional top hat, the bra-less, ZZ top beards, and I'm pretty sure I saw one of the actresses from Dances with Wolves (but in normal clothes, not any of the previously mentioned items). Overall, a great day. I spent Sunday immobile and napping.
Other than that, I am just waiting till the work business is over!

Victory

I beat the Devil on Medium! Yeah! I DO ROCK!!!

Not much

It's been a while, so I figured I should make an effort. I don't really have much time or effort to spare but I do want to keep my readers happy, or at the very least mildly pleased. As for what's been going on in my life, well, I am on the last disk of Angel Season 1. I beat Guitar Hero on Easy & after much practicing finally beat Slash on Medium. Yay for me. Last week I worked 17 3/4 hours of overtime, which is insane. I did finally buy some vegetation on Sunday evening so have eaten Salad, fruit, etc. this week. The week before it was all about the carbs. It makes me think I will get Scurvy, though in all practicality that is very unlikely. I am feeling quite stressed out but am coping for the most part. I had 1 major freak out at work but was compensated but much chocolate so that was nice. Belly Dancing and Ball are now over, though I played only 3 games this season. My next task is to get the Zoo's summer newsletter done. That's going to be difficult but once I get that off my plate I think I'll feel better. Clyde is ok - though experiencing diarrhea this week. We also got in trouble with the neighbour for some nighttime barking so I have been keeping him in all night which may not be helping. If only he was quieter when he barked...That's pretty much it. I need a break, but that won't happen till August so I have to keep it together a few more weeks. Wish me luck.