2009 Girl Friend Survey

1. What time did you get up this morning? 3:05 a.m.

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds - they are a girl's best friend, after all

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Surrogates

4. What is/are your favourite TV Shows ? How much time do you have?

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Bran Flakes or Red River cereal

6. What is your middle name? Not telling

7. What foods do you dislike? Brussel sprouts

8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Dark Horse, Nickelback (yes, still... )

9. What kind of car do you drive? Honda Civic

10. Favourite sandwich? Depends on the day

11. What characteristic do you despise? Stupidity

12. Favourite item of clothing? Sweat pants and a comfy shirt

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you

go? Australia and Hawaii again

14. Favourite brand of clothing? Cotton Ginny

15. Where would you retire to? Hawaii or Australia

16. What was your most memorable birthday? Umm...

17. Favourite sport to watch? The Olympics

18. Furthest place you are sending this? Australia

19. Person you expect to send it back first? Barb, Tracy or Stacey

20. When is your birthday? March 29

21. Are you a morning person or a night person? Morning

22. What is your shoe size? Depends on the shoe - 9-10

23. Pets? 2 boys, 1 girl

24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? Nope, life is pretty stable around here lately, which is nice.

25. What did you want to be when you were little? A doctor

26. How are you today? Very good, thank you, how are you?

27. What is your favourite candy? I have to pick one?

28. What is your favourite flower? Roses, any colour.

29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? December 18, 2009

30. What's your full name? Look at my email

31. What are you listening to now? TV

32. What was the last thing you ate? A big bowl of raspberries with a little bit of sugar

33. Do you wish on stars? Yes

34. If you were a crayon what color would you be? Any shade of blue.

35. How is the weather right now? Dark

36. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? No one, unless you count texting.

37. Favourite soft drink? Coke

38. Favourite restaurant? Mexico Lindo

(39. Where is 39? I think it ran away and hid in the closet)

40. What was your favorite toy as a child? Tina the bear.

41. Summer or winter? Spring or fall.

42. Hugs or kisses? Depends on who they're coming from.

43. Chocolate or vanilla? Again, it depends.

44. Coffee or tea? Oh, coffee, definitely.

45. Do you want your friends to email you back? Of course.

46. When was the last time you cried? I got sniffy watching UP - how sad is that? This is me!

47. What is under your bed? Nothing, I have a waterbed frame.

48. What did you do last night? Watched some tv, read and went to bed by 8:30 p.m.

49. What are you afraid of? Not really sure.

50. Salty or sweet? Depends on what I'm in the mood for.

51. How many keys on your key ring? 6

52. How many years at your current job? 7-1/2

53. Favourite day of the week? Friday, usually.

54. How many towns have you lived in? 9

55. Do you make friends easily? People tend not to get me, and I don't have a lot of patience, so I'm thinking... not really.

56. How many people will you send this to? A bunch.

57. How many will respond? Not sure.

Got this in an email (obviously), and thought I'd pass it along - feel free to swipe it and post your own answers if it entertains you

Once again, it has been a while Sorry about that, but I figure most people really aren't that interested in the minutia of my everyday life. Really, it's pretty boring - get up at o'dark hundred, shower, dress, pack lunch, make coffee, collect the bits for my bag'o'tricks, walk the dog, go to work, come home, walk the dog, have something resembling food (occasionally challenging, considering cooking for one it a bit of a pain), walk the dog at least once more, fall into bed, then wash, rinse and repeat for the rest of the week See? Pretty boring, no?

Having bored you to tears with the monotony of my days, I do have to admit that there have been some new and exciting things going on I got another cat!

His name is Milo, I was told he's about five years old (though my vet said that once a cat reaches maturity age is difficult to tell, but we stick with five years just for the sake of argument) and he's a rescue. He was found either abandoned or as a lost stray and was taken in by a shelter who cleaned him up and put him up for adoption. When I saw him, someone had already paid his fee in the hopes that he would be taken home by the end of the day Enter me He's a sweetie, he really is. He's been neutered and declawed, so someone at some point loved him, and his only issue was that he's seriously underweight. We're working on the weight issue with a combination of kitten food and regular kibble (Jakjak loves it! little pig that he is) and he's been eating regularly for a couple weeks now. There is something going on with him, he's developed an eye infection which is proving annoyingly tenacious, but hopefully we'll get that cured before I wind up owing the vet too much money.

Other than that, I suppose there hasn't been that much new and exciting. There are a few new shows I'm watching, though none have been entertaining enough to write a rant/review of them. I've even managed to get about 6 eps behind on Supernatural, though that was because I had missed the first ep and had to go find it. I have been recording all my shows in HD this season - figured since I'm paying for the HD pvr box I might as well get my money's worth, and boy, some of the shows are just so pretty, CSI:Miami in particular. I haven't noticed a particular colour theme in any of the eps so far, but the colours are all so pretty maybe I'm just missing it.

I got a new breadmaker yesterday.

I like bread, but I don't eat much of it and when I buy it it often ends up going mouldy, even when I keep it in the fridge. So, I hauled out my old breadmaker so I could make my bread on demand and it stuffed up two loaves in a row. Considering it was about 15 years old, I'm not really surprised that it wasn't working so well anymore. So, it just happened that my grocery store was having a clearance sale on a lot of the kitchen toys they stock, so I got this one (basically an updated version of the old one) for 25% off. I'm test driving it now, while I write this, so here's hoping it all works out well.

I've finished a couple of baby blankets for someone at work - one of our dispatchers had a little granddaughter, and the first blanket was made using mint green and white before she knew what flavour the baby was going to be, so she commissioned a second one in pink after Charleigh was born. Since I finished that last week I've pulled out a sweater that I started a few years ago. It was mostly done, I'd finished the knitting a long time ago, and sewn it together as well as weaving in all the ends. All that was left to do was to was the front border, but I'd misplaced first the yarn and then the pattern. It took a whole whopping two days to finish a sweater I'd had put away for about two years... sigh...

Anyway, that's about it for the excitement in my life - I know, it's not a lot, but for my loyal three, I hope that catches you up

For the true purist, it's probably offensive what Paramount has done to spruce up the episodes, but in all honesty I think it's so COOL!!!!!!!! It's very pretty, the sound is amazing, the pictures are nice and crisp and clear again - it's like being a kid again and watching them all for the first time. That's saying something too, because I've been watching this show since I was six and I can't even imagine how many times I've seen each episode.