Wash your hands!

I got to be in a small, mock press conference today for a writing class at the college that Mike's teaching :)

I played the part of an Infection Control nurse there to field questions from reporters (students) about a patient who was found to have been exposed to anthrax.



It was fun :) Mike gave me a FAQ sheet from the CDC website to go off during the conference and me being me and I suck at bullshitting I studied it for a couple of days so I could sound like a nurse. Silly? Why yes, yes it is, but I don't care. I think I sounded pretty good once I got the hang of it. I've never been to a live press conference before even tho I worked in Marketing at the hospital.

Anyway, it was fun :) Now... it's time... for Johnny Cash.

Slave to the Keyboard

What a wacky day today. Crazy busy. Lots of work to do. Day flew by.

Sliding Doors

I love this movie. Yeah it's a total chick flick I know. I don't care :) I had it on video ages ago and loaned it out to someone and never got it back. So I was chuffed to find it cheap on DVD :) Watched it today. I love love love the haircut Gwyneth gets in this movie.

Off to see the Monkey

King Kong played at the cheap seats today so we decided to go see it. I always meant to go when it was here on its first run but I just didn't get around to it. Wish I had. Leave it to PJ to make me cry for a monkey.

Here's a crappy photo from inside the cinema.



My batteries are dead in the real camera which is why there have been so many phone pix.

Anyway, "Kong" was great and sad and funny and gross. Lots of gross. The natives of Skull Island will be giving me nightmares for awhile *shudder.* But the humanity of Kong was so well done and poignant that I did get a little teary in a couple of scenes. The big lug.

Phwoar

I think I'm going to have to buy the 6th season of Sex and the City. Just for Baryshnikov. The man... does things to me.

:D

Misha. Delicious.

An interesting angle on a boring building. The kid was at the Gs and I didn't feel like cooking so I whipped through Amigo's for dinner.

Spent the day waiting for Tech support to work on a laptop I needed fixed by tonight. Did they ever call back? No. Man it's like waiting for the cable guy to show up and you can't really do anything til he's done. Annoying.

Anyway, time for Sex and the City with Baryshnikov. Yum.

Totally Jack Burger

Dinner at the Coop tonight. I usually get the Totally Jack burger because it amuses my "24" sensibilities. I love to say, "I'll have Jack." when I order.

I don't really because the waitress would look at me funny, the way people do when they don't get the joke.

But all of that is moot because I just had the mushroom burger.



I have also just realized I had the phone set on the smallest resolution. So the pic is teeny. Ah well.

Jury Duty. Again.

And once again I didn't even get picked to be questioned by the lawyers. Two people were even excused for cause and the lottery was played again to pick two more jurors out of the pool and I still didn't get picked.

I dunno whether to be thankful or disappointed. Part of me sort of wants to sit through at least one trial, just to look at the process from the inside so to speak. The other part of me is relieved I'm not stuck in those 70s chairs in the hot courtroom all day.

I took a snap of the judge with the phone and the angle is looking at him from behind the defense table. I think it's sufficiently blurry enough not to be a problem so I'll post it. Otherwise it would be a very bad shot of the dome inside the courthouse.



And I'm safe for another month.

I got nothin'

I had a case of the Mondays today so I have no pic of anything cool. So here's probably the one and only pic of me this blog will see that I took while playing with the new phone.



I look like a hippie. But as I was pondering my hippiness I thought, "Gee this pic reminds me of a sketch my mom did of me when I was 5 or 6." So I put them side by side for the hell of it :) Spiffy :) The weird thing is, when I was little my eyes were bright blue. Like cornflower, sky blue. And now they're green. I don't even know when they went green. They just did. Weird.

Breakfast out

We've gotten in a habit of going out for breakfast at the weekend. Not both days or anything, but it's just kind of nice to sit in a restaurant with the kid and chat etc. Today it was Grandma Max for brekkie.

Yeesh.

Ok so I accidentally dropped my beloved new cellphone in the toilet and ruined it. Let's just get that embarassing story out of the way. It's gone and I'm kicking myself for my stupidity.

So I call Virgin because I know they offer replacement phones for a lesser charge. I guess you get a refurbished one or something. Anyway, my phone was the top model and was the one splurge I allowed myself with my tax refund. When I arrvied at Fedex this morning to get my replacement phone -



I was prepared to give it a good snog because I've missed it. Until I opened the box anyway. They sent me the wrong model :( After an irate call to Virgin I find out I can't get a replacement phone for the model I paid for because they don't have any that are refurbished. I could either send this wrong one back and have my account credited for the cost, then go buy my phone again (essentially paying double what the phone is worth) or I could live with the model they gave me.

I decided to live with the one they gave me but I'm not happy about it :( it has all the bells and whistles I wanted but damnit, it's just not the phone I bought :(

Ah well. I can either grump about it or take it as a lesson in NEVER leaving your cell phone in a loose pocket.

My baby

This bad boy has been my baby this week. These are the new photo galleries for the paper. I didn't build them or code much on them - that headache (heehee) belonged to a former coworker. But it was time to launch it and it needed some final things done to it so that was how I spent the majority of the past week.

They're really freaking spiffy though.

Snowfall #2

So today it snowed for the second time this winter. Hope it doesn't last but at least it feels like winter for the moment :)



Otherwise it's been a typical day.

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Man even I'm bored by this post.

Farewell

To a wonderful boss.



It won't be the same around here without you.

*sniffle*

Happy VD

Yes, congratulations on your STD :) Hehe. Nope it's Valentine's Day. Wooo.

I did get this spiffy e-card from Tonga:

Valentine Eve

It's like a little Christmas :) My family's always done little Valentine pressies for each other - nothing fancy mind you, just fun stuff. Shan's been wanting this green belt thing for weeks now so what better time to give it to her than Valentine's Day tomorrow?



Made for some interesting clothes shopping on Saturday though. She kept pestering me for the belt :)

Not Donna!

So I'm watching the 5th season of West Wing yesterday (someday I'll be caught up with the rest of the free world) and I get to the episode called "Gaza" where Donna is sent to the Gaza Strip on a fact-finding mission for Josh.

And then her SUV explodes.



And then I involuntarily started crying. It took me by surprise. It didn't really last but when I think about it, Donna's my favourite character on the show but more than that she really reminds me of my sister and maybe I was projecting that during the scene.

I dunno. It was weird. The only other thing on West Wing that's made me cry was when John Spencer had a scene where he breaks down crying. It tugged at the old heart strings.

Anyway I hope Donna will be okay (don't spoil it for me, I have to wait for Season 6 to come out on DVD)

Girlie day

We spent the day looking for some new clothes for the kid. Today's pic is some of the crap above our table at Applebee's. It was bloody cold out so we wanted to stop in for their yummy french onion soup.

Locutus of Borg

Yay my favourite TNG episodes are on G4!!



I love the Borg.

Lunchtime

I'm so disappointed in Big Apple Bagel. They used to make DIVINE vegetarian bagel sandwiches. The bagel was soft and chewy with avo spread, red onions, cukes, lettuce, tomatoes, and provolone cheese. It was a treat to have one. I was craving it so I went at lunch to get one.



What a freakin' disappointment. The bagel was tiny and hard, they put green peppers in it (I like these things, but not raw and on my sandwich. I prefer them cooked) and I had to ask for the avo spread and even though I asked for the cheese they left it off. Oh and they used sun-dried tomatoes which I hate.

Now, this is the second time they fubared my favourite sandwich but I was hoping the last time was just a fluke. Not so. Seems they've changed the recipe or something. I won't be going back.

A break in the day

We were called to a last minute meeting out of the building today. Was weird to sit at a round table in the basement of a bank with: My boss, my boss's boss, his boss, and his boss's boss. Lotsa bosses. And various other upper management who seemed like pretty cool suits considering they were the suits :) I liked them. But I felt very peon-like at first listening to them discuss the future strategies of my department for the coming year. It's going to be pretty exciting though, I hope everything we're going to be doing goes over well.

Anyway here's a shot of me driving away from the meeting and about to be stuck at a train, followed by RR crossing bars that wouldn't lift for ages after the train had passed.

You talkin' to me?

Tomorrow I get this movie from Netflix:



I can't wait :) I've never seen it because yet again it falls into the "I've been meaning to see it but well, I just haven't" category.

To Wong Foo

I found this in ye olde DVD bargain bin at Wally World. I can't believe I didn't have it already but well, I didn't :)

Haircut 100

Remember that band?

Me neither. But I got my hair chopped today. A little. Not much. About an inch and a half. It's not really noticeable unless you study my hair on a daily basis and frankly, if you do that, then you're weird.



I really just needed to suss out my ends. They were icky. Now my hair's shiny and soft and I can't stop petting my head :)

The Winter Ball

*sniffle*

I took her to the salon so she could have a decent updo for her dress. It turned out lovely and curly :)



And I'll throw in the back of her cute 'do just because it turned out so adorable :)

The Snapper

I bought a new mobile today. It's spiffy :) I took this pic while driving to pick up Shannon from school (Yes yes I know I could have killed someone but I was watching the road the whole time I promise. I didn't fiddle with the pic until I was stopped.)

The tribe has spoken

Hurray Survivor's back tonight :) I don't care what anyone says, I love this show. Mostly because I think Probst is hawt. And a bit of a bastard at calling out tribe members :)

Georgie-boy

It's sad to say that this is probably the most interesting thing that will happen today so I figured I might as well get a shot of it.

It's one of those 'Where's George?' dollar bills where you can track the progress of your dollar and see where it's been and if you're a statistical geel like me you'll find it interesting. If you're not well then feel free to call me a geek to your heart's content.