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Monthly Archives: May 2006

go me

I’m super proud of myself for pulling off the 1 1/2 front somersaults on the one metre springboard today. It’s been so long since I practiced seriously.

weekend fun

I went to Value Village on saturday and got brown cords, a belt, a sweet little skirt, and two green tank tops. One’s way too small and has purple butterflies on it. I think it was made for a child but what the hell, it was only a dollar. I went to the Bible store [...]

Good news

Remember when I got defrauded out of $300? Well, the bank has finished its investigation and concluded that it was in fact fraud and is going to refund it to me. After they send me some affadavits to get notarized. Six weeks! I bet THAT was a lot of hard work…..

a quick one since it's almost lunchtime

The other day when I was trying to ride my bike and almost getting blown over, I saw a guy outside an apartment building blowing leaves around with a leaf blower. In like gale force winds. Why???

drip drip!

This chili I’m having for lunch right now isn’t the hottest thing I’ve ever made (those damn enchiladas are still in first place… they were painful) but it’s gettin’ up there. You know how when you feel kinda hot all over, not just in your mouth? It’s making my nose run too. Take that, sinus [...]

whoosh!

It was crazy windy today. I’ve seen dust devils before (in fact I saw a two-storey one while I was in Mongolia, it lasted half a second and destroyed two market stalls) but until today I had never seen a cherry blossom devil. Those suckers were getting blown off the trees with such vigour it [...]

wah!

I have a sore throat and a fever and my sinuses are buggered up. So I’m staying home to prevent spreading contagion around the office. I might go shopping. James and I watched some sweet sweet penguin love last night, as told by Morgan Freeman. It was the only documentary I could get him to [...]