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I’m missing out

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I’m not feeling well again today. Are you as sick of hearing that as I am?

It’s a real drag. I had plans for the day. Exciting plans.

I wanted to go downtown and perhaps see one of the films being shown at the Toronto Film Festival. If I couldn’t get into one of the films I’d planned to walk around the area where the majority of films and parties were being held to see if I could spot some stars.

Naturally I would have had my camera with me to take photographs of the stars.

The other thing that I had on the agenda was to plant some plants that I purchased last week. I bought some beautiful carnations, some very cool looking daisies, two different colors of Heather, and some kale and ornamental cabbage plants. I love the last two in the fall as they get quite colorful when the weather gets cool and look very attractive in the garden.

Oh and we also wanted to get some fire glass for our gas fireplace. Man is that stuff cool. We’ve got to get some by the time autumn comes around and we start using the fireplace more often.

Well there’s still tomorrow. Actually the film festivals on all week so there’s lots of time for me to get downtown to do some film and star sightings. I suspect some of the best sightings might be this weekend though.





Dancing racing … peppers?

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Usually it’s hot peppers making people dance, or well maybe dash off to the washroom, but in this case it was the peppers that we dashing, dancing and racing!

I think it was the 7th inning of the baseball game when, during a short break, three Ranchero peppers came out to entertain the crowd. I’ve seen them do this before so this must be a regular feature for “Ranchero dip” .

The music that was played during the “big race” was la Cucoracha (I think). It was amusing to say the least. There were three peppers racing in all, but the yellow pepper got tripped early in the race. As you can see in this blurry photo the green pepper was in the lead and he? won the race.

We’ll be having leftovers tonight

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I can’t believe how many times I’ve eaten food from a restaurant in the last seven days! Five times! Five I say. That’s a lot.

Of course that’s unusual for us. The only reason we weren’t having home cooked meals over the last week was due to our family reunion. We kept meeting up in restaurants – what can I say!

Then last night, well … it was my birthday. I didn’t want to cook, and as I said in an earlier post my husband is NOT a cook. As much as I’m sure he would have loved to cook us a nice meal it wouldn’t have been a good one. So we ordered out.

A few months ago my husband discovered a very nice Italian restaurant in the area. I’m not really big on pasta dishes, but I must say the two times we’ve ordered meals from this restaurant I’ve been very happy with my meal. So – guess what I had for dinner last night? Yep, a very nice pasta dinner from our newly discovered restaurant. I had fusilli with Chicken. They include grilled peppers and eggplant in the pasta and it compliments it nicely. Chris had Fettuccine Alfredo, his favorite pasta dish. I swear he could eat that every day. We each ordered a slice of chocolate cake for desert, but we were too full and didn’t end up eating desert. We didn’t even touch the fantastic salad we’d ordered either.

In fact, we didn’t even finish our Pasta dishes. Are serving sizes getting even larger? I think every single restaurant meal I was served over the last week was far too large. I can’t eat a lot of food at one time because of my Crohn’s, but when Chris sets aside food for later or to take home in a doggy bag you know the serving was too large. Oh well, we’ll have some delicious leftovers for dinner tonight.

Have you found that most restaurant servings are far too big? Perhaps that’s how they justify the price they are charging?

How should I celebrate tonight?

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Alright so I mentioned earlier that it’s my birthday today and I’ve been sitting here wondering what I’d like to do to celebrate.

I don’t think that I want to go out to a restaurant for a nice dinner. With all the activity last weekend for the family reunion we ate out Friday through to Tuesday. Other than the BBQ at my brothers on Sunday last night was the first home cooked meal I’ve had in days! So no restaurants, but I’m not opposed to having food delivered.

You see, I’d love to have a nice meal to celebrate today but I don’t really want to slave over the stove for an hour or more either. Also, Chris is no cook so I can’t count on him making a great dinner.

So what should we order? We have some fantastic Greek restaurants in the area so I was thinking of maybe having Greek food. However, I also like chicken, steak and a few pastas …. hmmm I can’t decide.

If you were celebrating your birthday and you were going to order food for delivery what kind of food would you have delivered? Maybe you’ll give me a great idea.

Thinking about video and regular podcasts

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I’ve been watching that new television show I-Caught again. I’ve watched three shows so far, and each time I watch it my head starts to buzz with ideas of things that I or my husband could do on the internet.

My latest idea revolves around my husband. As you might remember we purchased an HD video camera for him about a month and a half ago when I got my new digital SLR camera. The plan for his blog, Guitar Licks, has always been to include video guitar lessons. Now I’m expanding that thought.

I was thinking that maybe we could find a free podcast site to upload his videos to, but instead of just doing guitar lessons he could talk about various types of music and different types of guitars and equipment. Very niche obviously, but I’m pretty sure he’d enjoy doing the videos and he’s a fantastic musician with a lot of knowledge to share so those interested in watching his videos would get something out of it.

Another idea that I had involves podcasts or internet radio type shows. There’s a few bloggers that I know doing these regular weekly shows now and I think Chris would be very good at it. Perhaps I’d join him. Hmmm the Chris and Trish show?

Sure I know for the videos we could just upload to YouTube, but I think if we uploaded the video podcasts to a podcast site with a community built around it the content he’d create would be picked up easier and perhaps build a following.

Do any of you do video or regular podcasts? Which sites do you use? How about internet radio shows or weekly broadcast type sites?

BTW did any of you submit your three words to i-caught? I think that’s a great feature. We didn’t get around to it what with my family reunion keeping us busy but I hope to make a submission in a day or so.

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