Showing posts with label Girl Guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Girl Guides. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

So...um....that didn't happen

Apparently, this whole blogging thing just isn't happening anymore. I had the best intentions to catch up on the backlog of posts and actually blog everyday but ....no. I think it would have been more likely to happen if I wasn't working overnights and therefore didn't sleep my days away. This post is going to go over something more interesting things that I have happened in the last couple of months that I was going to write about but never did.

  • I bought a Wii at the end of August which has greatly aided my never getting anything done habit. Colette bought me a second remote and a new game (Wii Play) about a week later. Man, riding cows is amusing.
  • At the beginning of September, Colette and I went to an exhibit at the National Gallery on the Art of Papal Rome. I ended up winning a book on the art that was in the exhibit which was pretty cool.
  • The Guild Season 3 started. Yay!
  • True Blood Season 2 ended. Sadly, it won't be back on for another year.
  • Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Emmys ---which led to Dr Horrible's interruption of the broadcast

  • I went to Best Buy one night to look for some TV DVDs. I ended up buying Season 5 of the Office and Season Two of the Big Bang Theory. I also bought the DVDs for the Young Riders (a show from 20 years ago) because they were only $7.99. I thought that was pretty awesome.
  • I found a book in a new series by one the authors (JR Ward) I like. It's related to the other series that I like by her but only tangentially.
  • I found a new AJ Jacobs book that is quite amusing called the Guinea Pig Experiment. He does a bunch experiments with his life like Outsourcing his life to India (including reading his son a story and arguing with his wife), being completely honest with everyone and catering to his wife's every whim. He wrote two other books that I really enjoyed "The Know it all" (He read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica) and "A Year of Living Biblically" (Taking the Bible as literally as possible).
  • I started watching "Glee". Hilarious! Dark humour abounds. Plus cool musical numbers.
  • I also recently started watching "The Vampire Diaries". I actually started watching at episode six so I had to go back and catch up from the beginning. Yet another reason my sister thinks I am obsessed with vampires. I enjoy the fact that there is an actual evil vampire that kills people and that that vampire mocks "Twilight" in one of the episodes.
  • Jim and Pam got married!
  • I went to a bellydance show on October 9th. It was really good. Rachel Brice and Rosanna McGuire were guest performers. On the 10th, I participated in the workshop by Rachel Brice on finger cymbals (I ended up forgetting mine at home, but I was able to borrow some). On the 11th, I took part in a workshop by Rosanna where I learned some of the flapper stuff she does (like the Charleston). It was a great weekend.
  • On the 10th, Colette and I went on the Haunted Walk of Ottawa. It was okay but I was disappointed that we didn't go in any of the places that were discuss on the walk.
  • Girl Guide Cookies are being sold. To be specific, the minty ones which I love. Colette has a couple cases of the ones she is selling for Sparks in the front hall. I think I have eaten about 4 of the boxes almost completely on my own. It's terrible (but sooo good!).
  • I've started getting allergy shots. I go once a week to get a shot in each arm. Hopefully it will help cure me of the allergies.
  • In other news, I went to the dermatologist and got a cream that is actually helping to get rid of the excema (in the sense the I am scratching less and less and my arms no longer look icky). He also diagnosed me with "Atopic Dermatitis". I don't know if I had ever known the name for it before.

I am sure other stuff happened but at the moment it is not coming to me. Another reason why, I haven't been updating as much as I should have been. It's been so long that I don't know what's happened. I want to say that I'll be better about updating, but we all know how that turned out last time.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

C is for cookie, that's good enough for me.

My sister is a Sparks leader. In the fall, her Spark group sold the Girl Guide Chocolate Mint cookies. She bought a number of boxes. Somehow, we only had one left (Funny thing that......)Today she opened it. It didn't last long. I'm not saying they are gone yet, but it's only a matter of time. That's what breakfast is for, provided she doesn't beat me to them. They changed the recipe a few years ago, but they are still really addictive. I can't just eat one. (I don't often try to only eat one but that's beside the point.) I enjoy the spring Chocolate and Vanilla Sandwich cookies but I still enjoy the Mint ones much more.