September Already

Heavens, I can hardly believe how quickly time goes by. Especially since not much is happening. Yesterday Shannon, Kaylynn and I went for a picnic lunch in the park. It was very hot yesterday, reaching 90 degrees Fahrenheit. We sat in the shade, and I made sure I put on sunscreen. Shannon says the pregnancy will go fast, to savor the slow moments.

Dylan and Laurel start school next week. I don’t remember anything about kindergarten, but I’ll assume it’s fun. I have this feeling of wanting to buy school supplies. “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address”( Joe Fox). I honestly like going into Office Depot and looking around. I see all the things I could buy to organize my house, or even better Jeff’s office at the museum. It’s scary, if you get the chance to see it.

Scrubs was pretty good on Tuesday. I can’t really form an opinion of Heather Graham’s performance, but I can probably deal with it, knowing she’s only on for another 7 episodes. It’s better than last season having Tara Reid. I had a Scrubs dream the other night, and in my dream, I was ready to kick Tara’s butt, but she backed off. Don’t ask, I just have weird dreams.

I saw a funeral procession on Wednesday. You don’t see those very often, and I myself think I’ve only been in two. When my grandpa died, I think we had one, and the last time was when Rory’s dad died. This one on Wednesday had police escorts, to make sure no one broke it up in the intersections.

Gee, not much else is going on. I have the sweetest fella in the world. Surprised me with roses yesterday. 🙂 A treat usually reserved for our anniversary, so I was very surprised. In return, I made cupcakes last night. Well, we both made them. Only a few more months of alone time, so we’re trying to get in these little dates. Like going out to Johnny Rockets for dinner.

8 days until Heather is here!

I’m going to close with a quote from Girls Just Want To Have Fun.

Nun: Miss Stone, there is a time and a place for calypso music!

My Sharona

Bitty Schram is leaving Monk. I don’t quite know what the show will be without her, it certainly won’t be the same. What’s worse is it seems that she won’t get closure, the article says she just won’t be in the new episodes in January. Naturally I’ll still watch, unless I can’t take the change. Maybe I should write Tony a letter.

A Fun Link

Strindberg & Helium.I recommend In Absinthe & Women. I got this link from Geoff.

Is It November Yet?

I’m so tired of election ads and election talk, and I just want it to be done. I don’t need to tell you who I’m supporting, and should it go the other way, you better believe I’ll be praying for the President to be making good decisions. I don’t have to like him, but I can pray for the decisions he’ll make.

I was very impressed to have Canada excel past the medal goal I set for them. I figured we’d get 10, and we got 12. Not a bad year, and medals in events we’ve never had before.

Not much else is going on. I had a weird dream that T.D. Baker had a anniversary to celebrate how many years it had been opened, and they wanted the first graduating class there. Everyone looked the same, like no time had passed, and I mostly hung out with my friend Candy. I told you it was weird.

Heather booked her trip and she’ll be here in 12 days! Whee! October brings a visit from the Armstrongs, and November brings Rod. And then it’s practically Christmas. I actually listened to a Christmas song last week. 🙂 I was in the mood for it. I’d say I’m out of control, but I have no Christmas shopping done yet, so I’m okay.

Tomorrow is the Scrubs season premiere. Yeah! I’m leery about the 8 episode guest appearance of Heather Graham, but we’ll see how it goes. I don’t know if I’ll adopt any new shows, I usually end up getting my heart broken. I may tune into Joey, it did get some good early buzz, which I was surprised by.

We’re having Brad, Fiona and Robin over for a BBQ on Saturday, but other than that, no plans for Labor Day.

I guess I’ll close with quote from Mallrats.

Shannon Hamilton: I have no respect for people with no shopping agenda.

Harsh Realm Comes To DVD

I guess those letters I sent to Fox made a difference. I’m sure other people sent in letters too. This was a great show by Chris Carter and I’m so glad it’s being released. Now if we could get them to release Titus or The Lone Gunmen…. 🙂

A Golden Day For Canada

We won a gold medal in gymnastics, which we’ve never done before. And the guy is from Calgary! Way to go Canada!

Numfar, Do The Dance Of Joy!

Heather is coming to visit! I’ll have someone to keep me company while Geoff goes to Breakenridge in September. I’m very excited. I just had to post that. 🙂

You Can’t Be Serious

I have to start off by saying how dumb I think the summer olympics are. No offense to those athletes competing, but who the heck decided that trampoline is an event? Seriously people, I thought the olympics were suppose to be about skill and strength. I’m happy that Canada was able to get a silver medal in this event, but at the same time, I’m embarrassed. Since I’m on the topic of events that are dumb, I don’t think ping pong, soccer, baseball, softball or basketball have a place at the olympics. As much as I love bridge, I hope it doesn’t become an event. I just think you can see soccer, baseball, softball and basketball any other time, so what’s the point of having it an event at the olympics. I should point out that at this point Canada has also won a silver medal in rowing (which I approve of), and a bronze medal for syncronized diving (which is at least better than trampoline).

Enough of the olympics, new topic. I’m nearly done with my week of living single. I hate this. I’d like to say I accomplished a lot on my own, but I didn’t. I watched way too much tv, had long naps with my cat, but at least I did make myself get dressed every day. I made sure to get out and interact with other people. I spent a lot of time online looking at flights for places I want to go. For all the complaining I did this year about traveling too much, I have a lot of traveling planned for next year. We want to take the baby up to Edmonton to meet my grandparents and our friends. And of course we want to take the baby to California to see our friends out there. I think a trip to Ontario to meet Grandma Joyce may have to wait until either later in 2005, or perhaps spring 2006. Sigh. Crazy! But such is life when you live nowhere near your family. 🙂

I’m annoyed at the fact that we haven’t gotten any mail for like the last 3 days in a row. But I guess that means no bills. I am in a Christmas craft kind of mood. I went to Hobby Lobby this week to see what kinds of crafts they have available. I decided to make my own Christmas crackers, so I’m gonna start collecting what I need to make those. I’m keeping my eyes open for fun toys to put in, I already found some corny jokes, and I can get some tissue paper to make the crowns. I just have to check the store to see if they sell the poppers for the crackers. It’s not the same if they don’t make the noise. 🙂

Sci Fi Channel is putting out an Earthsea movie, based on the Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin. I read it as a child, and Diane is buying me the series, so it’s neat to think that I can see some director’s idea of it in December. I am keeping my expectations low, because in general books aren’t always adapted well into movies. Particularly fantasy books. It will apparently only cover the first two books, but if it’s successful they will consider doing the last book. One of the comments I read online was someone’s disappointment that Ged was going to be played by a blond headed actor (from Canada btw, as is the female lead). In the books, the people of Gont are dark skinned. Really, getting the actors to look just as they are written isn’t as important to me as getting the essence of the story captured right. Anyways, go out and read the books. I’ll be sure to let you know how the movie is when it comes out in December.

I guess I’ll sign off now. I’m closing with a quote from Toy Story.

Woody : Look, we’re all very impressed with Andy’s new toy.

Buzz : Toy?

Woody : T-O-Y, toy.

Buzz : Excuse me, I think the word you’re searching for is “space ranger”.

Woody : The word I’m searching for, I can’t say, because there’s preschool toys present.

To Make You Smile

This ‘N That

Touching Evil has been cancelled. I’m totally bummed, and mad that I never taped the show, so I can’t even have my reruns. I don’t really know what USA was thinking, but apparently it feels that airing constant repeats of Law & Order and Walker Texas Ranger are good programming. If they didn’t have Monk, I’d toss them like I did the WB. Bruce Willis is allegedly talking to FX about picking up the show, but I’ll count on that like me winning the lottery without a ticket. I won’t even bother getting excited about a possible DVD, that won’t happen. I’m gonna sulk for a few days, then I’ll try to move on. It was just getting better with each episode.

I’ve tried to tune into the olympics, but they don’t really show the events of interest to me. I mean I could watch volleyball, or basketball anytime. I really only like the track, the swimming, and the men’s gymnastics. Give me sports that require real strength. I mean come on, can you do a routine on the pommel horse?

Geoff is in Irvine, and I’m very bored. I just don’t feel much like watching movies, weird I know. I did order some 5×7 photos from our Scotland trip, so I may take a trip up to the scrapbook store tomorrow to get some supplies.

I know there has been some concern for my health while Geoff is away, but I assure you all I am eating 3 meals a day. I am drinking my milk, eating my greens, and taking my vitamins. So please stop worrying about me. 🙂

So… Denver has bats. Yup, we saw some last week when we went out for ice cream. Now I don’t want to walk along the creek after dusk. I get that they are God’s creatures, and that they probably don’t want to do me harm. But I’d really rather that they stayed up in the air and not swoop. I just don’t want to have them come within a set distance of me. Irrational? Maybe, but I don’t like bats.

I don’t remember if I mentioned it, but I got an email about our 10 year high school reunion. Geoff says he’d rather have shards of glass shoved under his fingernails than go. I am keen on going, pending that people I like will be there. It won’t happen unless it happens to coincide with our visit to Edmonton next spring/summer. But there are people I’d like to see. Who? Um, I dunno. Maybe Melinda. Haven’t spoken to her since we got engaged. But Jason & James for sure. actually if they combined the 1994 class with the 1995 class that would be awesome. I had such fun catching up with everyone at Doug’s wedding.

I guess I’ll sign off. I’ll close with a quote from Touching Evil in remembrance.

David Creegan: I was clinically insane for a while there, but I’m alright now, near enough. Hey, can I have your goldfish?

Susan Branca: What do you mean “near enough”?

David Creegan: I lost a big chunk of my brain, the doctors say, “Hey, weird.” These aren’t goldfish, they’re whales.