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Monthly Archives: February 2006

breakfast

James has no toaster so we made ghetto toast. I came up with the idea while boiling water in a pot for tea (he has no kettle either). I remembered a little wire frame thing my mom had for camping that goes over one of the burners on a gas stove, and figured [...]

a bit of embarrassment

What’s the proper protocol for leaving a restaurant without ordering anything?
James and I went out with his cousin to a restaurant near his house last night. We’d been there for breakfast a few times and found it quite good and not unreasonably priced, so on the way in last night we didn’t bother to [...]

need some rest

Busy weekend! Moving stuff, setting stuff up, going to Ikea, back & forth between here & Langley… I am tired now.
I lost the bead to one of my CBRs. I tried for like 10 minutes to get it off before it went flying across the room to who knows where. My fingers [...]

What an odd day

I schlepped around all morning trying to find a round unsliced loaf of pumpernickel bread. No luck.
An old guy in a motorized wheelchair, was walking the same way as me and kept telling dirty jokes most of the way home.
“Why do you think I want to get in your pants so bad?”
- Elaine is [...]

baby pictures

I guess I never posted pictures of my niece, did I? Here she is - fresh out of the womb with my sister and her husband in #1, and about 3 weeks old with my mom in #2. She’s the first grandchild, not counting her stepsister.