When one of my children says, “I was tripping ballz the other day,” – I am sorry, I CANNOT keep a straight face. I crack up. The internet meme “tripping ballz” is not that old, but I have to say it’s one of my current faves. (dates to about 2003 but came to favour recently).
Speaking of the mildly hallucinatory, Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron are going to make At the Mountains of Madness in Three Effing Dee. So there.
Why is it that people who start a conversation “I’ll spare you the lecture….” never do?
My phone is now sitting at the customer service desk in the Kerrisdale London Thugs. Sigh. My stoopid was overactive so far this week.
Battery loved his “Battery’s Man Cave” sign whot I got him for a housewarming prezzie.
Kevin and Rebecca are coming for Jeff’s b-day! This is why it’s good that mOm and pOp aren’t coming, because we’d have no place to put them.
SO STOKED for party.
I am feeling very much refreshed and relaxed, and have returned to my normal state of being very happy to be employed. Yesterday was a laundry kind of day.
Still loving the awning. What we should really be doing is taking it down, but we’re liking having it up so much we’re just leaving it there.
Yesterday I cleaned up under the deck – mostly pulling weeds and garbage removal – with Margot carefully supervising. She madly loves to supervise humans working, I think, besides chasing flies, it’s her fave thing to do.
Pulled the first pea pod out of the garden for Jeff.
My mint got so sunburned it almost died; I have to find a better place for it out of the direct sun. I watered the cedar hedge at the back of the yard as I promised the landpeer I’d do. She laboured mightily to put them in and the first year she planted them she was coming by every week to water them during the dry of the summer.
Margot has taken to sitting under my car before I fire it up in the morning. I could wish she wouldn’t do that.
Had a lovely time at Mike’s birthday party last night. It was good to see Heather and Margaret and Rozo and Tom U., and Jerome briefly dropped by as well. Paul and Keith and Jeff rounded out the gathering.
The quinoa is getting big. I don’t imagine the corn will actually get tall enough to set ears and ripen, but they are fine looking plants. The rest of the yard is looking very brown, but we don’t water the lawn, and the roots on this lawn are very very deep, so it always greens up nicely after a rain. The pine trees I got from work are still doing fine, but I’m going to have to consider where to plant them. I’m almost inclined to transplant them into a park – but in the meantime all I have to do is keep them alive.
I went to strip my bed and when I got interrupted I was not surprised to find Margot kipped out on it. Never fails.
Yesterday I practiced guitar and mandolin for a couple of hours with Paul, and Jeff and I got an awning, and IT ROCKS!!!! BEST 140 bucks I’ve spent in a while. It makes the deck useable in bad weather, which is even more awesome.
Then I made pork chomps for the boys.
I made minced prime rib chile today. I know, isn’t that an evil notion? Jeff’s comment. “Yum.”
Chipper sent in this hilarious article about a bearly legal driver.
Jeff and I are both off today, which is useful, as we have a long list of stuff we have to do before the party on the 31st. I am SOOO looking forward to it….. Enough of the fun people have rsvp’d that I am quite sure it will be awesome.
Yesterday was the Town Hall. The brass fired stress balls into the audience while peppering us with questions about the corporate structure. Yes, I wish I was making this up. I heckled them non stop – they were not fazed at all. Two fucking amazing announcements happened. One, they communicated that we are moving, when, why, you know like EXPLAINING stuff to us and the second was that now and forever they are going to stop charging for parking. I screamed, “BEST…. TOWN HALL…. EVAR!!!!!!!” while everybody else applauded in joy at the news. Yeah, I guess these guys figured out that the single biggest irritant for all the workers was the having to pay for parking and they decided to s-can it. They were very coy about the location of the new building so I batted my eyes at the IT guys and got to see pictures and layouts of the new place. Obviously I’m not going to post where on my blog, I’m a dumbass, but only in so far as keeping my room clean and men are concerned, not spilling corporate beanage. I got off two very good heckles, one of which had people inadvertently smiling at me for the rest of the day, and bounced back to my desk in a super cheery frame of mind. I got all my work done and went to a massage, and now my glutes feel like I’ve been repeatedly hit with a rubber mallet, but ah, it was nice. Then I made butter chicken and Jeff and I watched New In Town, another cute little Canadian movie, and I much enjoyed it.
Now I’m thinking of taking Jeff out for brekky and we can plot out our day…
