Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
How cool would it be to own this vehicle?
>I think it’s a multi-animal van. You could put ears up top to complete the picture – kind of like a Mr. Potato head. Mouse ears, cat ears or even dog ears would work equally fine, I think. I suppose you could even go so far as to put the corresponding tail on the back too.
Hey look close – even the drivers and passengers seat covers have faces!
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I’m on a writing streak today in case you can’t tell! I don’t know where it’s all coming from! Watch, there’ll be no new posts the rest of the week because I write myself dry today. LOL
Tomorrow the weather is supposed to warm up nicely here, and I’ve got a ton of garden work to do. So maybe it’s a good thing that I’m writing so much today.
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll bring the laptop outside and see what sitting in the garden inspires me to write about? Oh oh, look out … my gardening blog maybe end up with an onslaught of new posts if I do that! I guess that’d be ok if I actually saved some posts as drafts for a rainy day. Or in the case of a blog writer – a writing block day.
Do you ever sit in front of your computer and get in a real writing mood and find that before you know it you’ve written 10 posts?
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?
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!
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?