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Another House Rerun?

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Why is House a rerun this week? All the other shows have either ended or are having their finales this week and House is a rerun? The finale for House is next week?

Darn!

I’m setting up our DVR for taping. Chris isn’t home, so I’ll tape whatever shows we like and we’ll watch them when we have some time. Since House is a rerun it turns out that I’m not taping very much at all tonight.

Oh I don’t know if I ever mentioned this. I’m not writing the Watching House blog anymore.

I wasn’t really getting anything out of it. It was really frustrating to try to write a post that had something to do with the TV show five days a week when it was in reruns for two months through the winter. I just couldn’t see how I’d make it through the summer that way. It was also making me almost hate to watch the show. House went from being one of my favorite shows to something that was truly a “chore” to watch.

Now I’m getting back into it, but I’m still in analyze mode. There are more medical mistakes on that show than any of the other major medical dramas on TV.





Home made breads and pastries

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Do you like the smell and taste of homemade bread? My mom used to make home made bread just about every time we went home to visit. She actually taught me how to make bread, pasty and a number of deserts when I was pretty young. It actually turned out that I made pastry dough better than my mom so I kind of became the family pastry chief for a long while.

When I moved away from home and started living on my own I still made my own bread and occasionally made pastry too. You know, pie shells that I could use whenever I wanted and so on?

Unfortunately, since we moved into the house I haven’t been making many homemade deserts, pastries or even homemade breads. Even though I know that homemade breads are generally healthier and have more fibre in them than store bought breads.

I guess I don’t make bread, deserts or pastry very often because we aren’t big desert eaters around here. In fact, I’ve never even been a big bread eater … well unless it’s homemade and fresh out of the oven!

Still, I think I should start making some breads and more home made things again. We have a freezer, I can always freeze them.

Once reason why I’m thinking about home made breads today is because my sister is always talking about how much she loves her bread making machine. So … I’ve started to think about getting one myself. I don’t find making bread from scratch all that hard, but maybe I’d make it more often if we had a bread machine. Certainly there’s some great bread machine recipes out there.

Do you have a bread machine? If you do, how do you like it?

My one and only trip to Disney Land

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I just realized that it’s my youngest nieces birthday this Friday! Ahhh she lives on the other side of the country! I can’t possibly get a gift to her in time! I hate it when I miss a birthday.

I was reminded of her birthday when I got an email from my brother. They’re going to take a little vacation at the end of the month since their girls will be finished school. They’re going to travel to Florida and stay in an Orlando vacation rental. It’s almost right beside Disney Land and they plan to spend some time at Disney land going on the rides and seeing the sites. They haven’t been there since their kids were pretty young, and now that the girls are getting older this might be their last time to go as a family.

The only time I’ve been to Disney Land was about 10 years ago. I went to Florida to see some friends that I’d met through my work with reptiles. It was truly a reptilian vacation. We hit every zoo that had reptiles in all of Florida! Which means the only place I went to at Disney land was Discovery Island! LOL

When I was in Florida that time, much of the northern part of the state was on fire. I was staying in the Tampa area and the air was just full of smoke. It was June too, so it was pretty darn hot. Not the best time of year to visit Florida.

I wonder how my brother and his family are going to like Florida in June!

Trying to win those concert tickets for Chris

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Chris’ concert ticket quest continues!

Chris had to work today. His work schedule said he had to go in for 10 a.m. but he was talking to a guy from work yesterday who reminded him that another one of the guys, one with major seniority, always works at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays, so he called in and found out he should come in for noon.

Ok that’s fine. He got up this morning and spent time on the radio stations website, filling in quiz’s and things to earn points. Apparently if you have a lot of points at the Q107 website they might just give you tickets for the Thursday evening concert.

Then he got a call from work telling him that someone was sick, and would he come in and work from 3:30 to 11:30 p.m. That’s the first evening shift he’ll have done for his new job in the OR recovery room. Fine … he went back to working on getting points to win tickets.

In the meantime we had the radio on because the only way to get tickets for the concert is to win them. So we were waiting for any “we’ll take the 7th caller to win tickets!” announcements. Before Chris went to work we’d both tried calling in to the station twice on the phone and cell phone but all we got was busy signals.

Since Chris really really wants to go to this concert I’ve had the radio on since he left and I’ve been trying to win tickets every time they say we can try calling in.

I don’t play the radio very often when I’m sitting here by myself working on the computer. I should. I’m enjoying the music. I’m even singing along! It’s fun.

If everything goes well, Chris plans to go back to the radio station tomorrow after work to try to get tickets directly from Kim Mitchell himself. Kim told him that he might have to play his guitar on the air to get the tickets so this might be interesting.

Oh a few of you sounded like you have no idea who Kim Mitchell and or who the band Max Webster is … uhm you must have heard that song “Patio lanterns” before? “Go For a Soda”? “Rock n’ Roll Duty”? How about “High Class in Borrowed Shoes”? A Million Vacations? BattleScar? Blue River Liquor Shine? Chalkers? Check? Diamonds Diamonds? Gravity? Let go the Line? Oh come on! This is classic rock n’ roll!

Some lyrics …

A Million Vacations –

Friday Friday is a good time to shine / night sea journeys journeys to unwind
losing all survival signs / rerun movies taking all your time

or

Let go the line –

i see you there in your satin shirt / unfocused eyes on the ceiling
fluorescent lips on a painted face / i think i know what you’re feeling
this tightrope just begins to feel like home
when the wind comes rising from a desert storm
and all i know is that tonight i might / let go the line, let go the line

anyone?

Silly email from my other websites

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I have to laugh at some of the email questions I get for my websites. You may or may not know that I run two websites related to reptile care. Yes, I’m a lizard freak! Not only do I run two big websites, but I also run four mailing lists related to reptiles and their care that are associated with the websites.

I try to get people to join the mailing lists for several reason. 1. So that they can get other opinions other than my own, and 2. So that I don’t have to answer literally 1000 emails each day! Still, I get several emails each day regarding the care of various reptiles, or people write in from Florida telling me that they have wild iguanas eating their plants, or that they found a frog or small lizard in a plant they bought at a nursery.

One of the dumbest questions I received this week was from someone in Australia who wants to buy an Australian Water Dragon (lizard). They wanted to know where to buy one and if they can legally own one. Well, I know Australia has some pretty tough laws about their natural fauna, and they don’t import many exotic animals to be sold as pets either. However, I do not know all of the laws of a country on the other side of the world! LOL Pick up the phone and call your wild life service or whatever it’s called in Australia. Now, as dumb questions go, that one wasn’t all that dumb, but I make it clear on my site that I live in Canada so how the heck would I know the answer to her question.

In other reptile world news one of my close herp care friends is moving! He’s very well known in the reptile care field and he used to be just a short drive away from me so we could actually get together every now and then, but for some reason he’s moving to the Outer Banks in Carolina. I have no idea how long that drive would be from Ontario but I’m assuming it’s a pretty long drive. Oh well, guess we’ll have a nice place to visit if we go up there to see him sometime.

That’s the great thing about knowing people from all over the world. If you’re lucky you might have a place to stay when you travel, but at the very least you can get together with those people and they can perhaps show you around their city or their part of the world. That’s kind of cool.

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