Happy New Year to Everyone

I hope 2011 will be a peaceful year for the world.  It probably won't, but I can hope.

Resolutions?

I guess my resolution will be the same as it is every year:  Try my best to keep a Zen mind.

Winter is Here!

We finally got snow!  A tiny, tiny bit, but it's still snow!

Pigeons

The pigeons around Metrotown are so tame.  I can talk to them and they'll cock their heads and listen.  Of course people look at you funny when you do that...

Just a Question

Why do people precede a question with, "Question:"?

Should I yell back at them, "Exclamation!"?

Happy Boxing Day!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

What's Happening?

It's the winter here, and I saw a fly outside!  Jonesy's hanging out in the kitchen; I hope she hasn't picked up fleas again.

On a less worrisome note, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!  I finally got home from work at about 21:00 (we had a lot to do for the Boxing Day ad,) and stayed up until midnight to give the cats their presents.  It's a good feeling that we actually have the store closed for a whole day today.

Walton and Jones loved their presents very much.  Today we're going to visit my mum, and my sister is cooking up a moose that my bil hunted.  My mum said she didn't want presents, so I just made her a handmade card.  It has dolphins on it, but they turned out looking like emaciated sword fish.  I need practice.

We're giving out copies of Guy's game for Christmas, and Tosca, my other sister's dog, is getting an edible Christmas card.  Tosca might be there, or she might be spending her Christmas with her dad, my sister's ex.  We also wrapped up a can of wet food for my bil's (the other one, not the one who got the moose) cat Franky.

I hope everyone likes the banana-thing-that-became-a-pudding too.  I hope everyone has a decent Christmas today.  Peace and love to everybody.

How the Banana Thing Turned Out

I think it's a pudding....

In other news, I read that my favourite MP won't be running again next time.  :(

One of my favourite city councillors might be running provincially though!

Baking

So I've decided to substitute bananas for peanut butter, since my mum doesn't like peanut butter.   We'll see how this works out.  Please cross your fingers.

Miscellaneous Odd Things

Last night was windy!  Not at work, or at home, but only at Production Station where I wait for the bus.  Very odd.  Not only was it windy, but the wind was singing too.  I thought maybe someone was playing their music out loud; I tried to see where the music was coming from.  I finally found out it was the wind; it sounded just like a lady's voice.

Last night I dreamt I was looking in a vanity mirror surrounded by light bulbs.  One of the bulbs blew up in my face and in that instant I woke up!  I'm glad I woke up; I don't want to know how the rest of the dream would have felt.

Happy December 2010 Solstice Everyone!

I hope everyone in the world has a wonderful winter/summer!

Cloudy Eclipse, Headaches at Work

How come whenever there's an eclipse, it's cloudy in Vancouver?  It was clear out last night; couldn't the eclipse have been last night?  The one thing good about the clouds though is we might get snow!

My pay stub at work seems to have magically disappeared all of a sudden.  My supervisor, the sweetie that she is, says she'll take a look and see what happened to it.  We'll try and figure things out from there.  I'm trying to get the HR lady to print it out, but she's so busy.  We need it to claim on Guy's disability pension.

For some reason these things happen just before Christmas.  Last year our hot water tank blew on the 23rd.  It keeps things interesting I guess.

23:30 Shift

I worked until 23:30 last night.  I'm certainly not used to that.  I slept 'til 10:30 this morning!

Yummy!

My bil hunted a moose for us for Christmas dinner; I love moose!  I'll of course say a prayer for the moose before I eat.  I'm better myself at hunting mousse...

Punch the Teacher

I like it in Karate when the teachers let you punch them.  I'm actually improving.  Now if I can do as well with my kicks I'll be laughing...

Christmas Potluck

There's one at Guy's open AA meeting tonight.  Of course I'm really going for the meeting right?  ;)  If I have time maybe I'll pick up some cookies from the store or something; I totally forgot about it!

Stupid Stomach

I like 222s better than Tylenol 1s because the aspirin relaxes the muscles more.  Only thing is, aspirin is hard on the stomach.  I'll maybe try and take them with a little milk next time.

Confusion

My supervisor mentioned she would like me to work next Friday and after Boxing Day, so I left her a note to ask her when exactly she wanted me to work.  (We've been working different shifts so I often don't see her.)  I haven't got any word back stating weather or not I'm working those days at all or if I am, what days, so I'm not sure what's going on.  I'll have to check on the schedule when she's working, and hopefully on Friday I'll be able to talk with her in person to see what's going on.

Something to Think About

Yesterday Guillaume (Guy) said that when he wants to know how people dealt with life before modern technology, he looks it up on the internet.

Celebrating Birthday Today

My mum will be taking Guy, her neighbour Carol and me out for dinner today.  (Dinner as in the main meal being in the middle of the day that is, some might refer to it as a "large lunch.")   I'll be extremely happy to see my mum again!

You Know You've Been Commuting Too Much When...

...the first thought in your head when you sit down in the warm train is, "It's good to be home..."

Really, I am Teachable

I got sent a free MP3 song for filling out a survey.  I played it, but I must have forgot to save it.  Doh!

Karate Thursday, 9/12/10

I learned to punch and kick harder last night.  I wish I had something to practice with at home.  Someone stole our punching bag.

New Kitty

When my sister and her partner bought their house, they found that it came with its own pet!  (Those are the best kinds of houses.)  Now they are the proud parents of a kitty named Franky.

Rowdy Birds!

They took the seed bell and knocked it off the table and pulled the stick out of the middle.  I tried my best to reconstruct what's left of it.  The things they do when I'm not looking...

Birthday

Tomorrow I'm going to be older than Methuselah 43!

New Shoes

I won a $50 gift card at work the night before yesterday.  I bought a much needed pair of shoes with half of it.  I unfortunately have a very bad habit of waiting until something completely falls apart on me before I replace it; I'm not sure why.

Happy St Nikolaus Day

I'll have to buy my cats muttluks one of these days so I can put treats in their shoes on St Nikolaus Day.  My bosses at work gave us each a chocolate letter; they said they couldn't find a K for Kirsten or an O for Okun, so they gave me an M for Merry Christmas...I think that's just lovely, but should I have told them my middle name is Anja?

Recipe

I found a Christmas recipe that's supposed to be cost efficient and easy to make; I'm going to have to tweak it though due my family's health concerns/ lifestyles/ personal tastes.  These are the original recipe ingredients:

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg                                               

Now it will be:

1 cup some other kind of nut butter (My mum hates peanut butter.)

1 cup Splenda (A couple of family members have diabetes.)

1 free range carefully researched egg  (One of my sisters and brothers-in-law are vegan and have informed me that just because an egg is labeled as free range, doesn't mean the hen still necessarily gets a lot of space to move around in.)

There it is in a nutshell (no pun intended.)

Sleeping Like a Cat

I've been needing 11 hours sleep at night, and if there's time, I've been napping in the afternoon too.  Everyone needs different amounts of sleep; it's just rather odd.

Speaking of odd, the little white parrot at the refuge in Coombs can chew on my purse all he wants now.  The first time I found him in the petting room, I didn't have the heart to make him stop eating my purse, because he seemed to be having too much fun.  I finally bought a new purse, but I'll keep the other one to use when I go to the Parrot refuge so he can chew to his heart's content.

What I'm Learning in Karate

This is what I'm trying to accomplish:  Heian Yodan

Christmas Cards Done

They took a while to write because I only learned to speak German when I was little; living in English Speaking Canada I had ended up sticking with English mostly.  I do understand German though, and I can read at a grade six level.  I can read a book for adults, but it takes me a really long time and I need to use the dictionary a lot.

I had to trim my Tante Gerda's card a bit because it was a little too large to fit into an envelope.  It's a little handmade thing I did with GIMP.  I love GIMP.

I am Not Krispin

Apparently I've been told that at work I get confused with Krispin, our charity teddybear for this Christmas.  I'm Kirsten; he's Krispin.  (Spell check doesn't like either name.)  I can see where the confusion lies though, I do resemble a small black bear at times, especially personality-wise.

When Someone Understands What's Going on in this World...

...please let me know...Thank you.  Chuck Lorre's vanity cards aside, the world is a pretty confusing place.

Woke up Late Again!

I took my meds late by mistake last night.  My husband would let me sleep all day if I ended up doing that; thankfully my kitties wake me up.