My Mind it Kind of Goes Fast

OUCH! Talk about painful. Those bruises are from curling, of all things. Curler's on tv make it look so easy, effortless. But that polished rock weighs about 40lbs down a sheet of ice. Try to get your rock in the "house", closer to the "button" the better.

This past Saturday was the Curl for Cancer and the third year I've done it with work. It's a blast each time. We played our local Newspaper the first match, the second we played the organizer's team. It was fun fun. Had a beer afterwards with the team.

I managed to raise about $40, not bad. I don't know many folks here, so normally I raise much less than that. Too bad this year they upped the goal to $200/team. I should have raised $50 but, not bad. Morris raised something like $110, so I don't feel too too bad.


On the 15th, I started Curves. I've done 3 workouts so far, with another one on the way tonight. I'm doing well with it. I don't have to follow any eating restrictions this month, but I have been making an effort to eat BETTER. So I figure by the end of the first month I should see a few results. Tara (Curves owner) says I should shed my half inches. Excellent. Pretty jazzed about that.

Finally heard from my folks. They left for Alberta around this time last month. I got a text message to say they arrived safely but beyond that, haven't heard much. Got to talk to Dad for about 15 minutes. He called from a pay phone with a credit card. Chris was working so I didn't get to talk to her.

Got the cats a fun little play house. It cost a small fortune, but well worth it if they stop wreaking havok on my furniture.


On the dating scene not much going on. Had some interested parties, but wasn't feeling it on my end. New development with Tim...he was just looking for a quick roll in the sack. Nothing more. Sheesh. Don't tell me you're looking for something serious if all you want is a roll. Cause you know, I don't roll like that.

Harlequin Girl

Abby use to say that my cat Pickles looks like Adolph Hitler. So one day, after having too much coffee and finding myself awake when I should have been asleep I decided to photoshop my little kitty into a portrait of ol' Adolph. Not that I apprive of him, or anything he did in any way, shape or form. But, people got a kick out of it. I decided to post it today, since I deleted the little blog I had intended to do for it, but just never got around to.

I can't believe I've been so negligent with my blog. It's been over a month since my last post. Been busy with the holiday rush. Lots has happened, too much to really go into great detail but...

I spent the holiday with my parents and Unlce Jim. Jim took Ashes (parents cat) back to Ontario with him. They've left to work in Alberta for the next 4 months. It was hard to say goodbye to them since I got use to seeing them once a week.

Got into a bit of a car accident. Fenderbender really. An expensive bender. Next week is the appointment for the guy to get his car fixed then I can just put it behind me. Had to cash in a damn RRSP just to pay for it. Still irks me.

Had a date for New Years Eve and loved every second of it. He came over on the 1st (since I didn't work on the 2nd) and watched a few movies. Something happened though. Not sure what. I think sex had something to do with it. That wasn't his explanation, but after a week gone by with not even a hint of him online...I doubt his reasons.

I've been having fun playing WoW. I got invited to Terri's guild and the people there are so very nice. I'm half way to lvl 26. The guild is stressing over the server being split in two. We're on Whisperwind and it's one of the biggest servers out there. I'm not sure if we're going to move or not, but I wish we would talk about it more because no one wants to lose a guildie because no one knew what server to choose on their first logon. The expansion is out next Tuesday and I'm going to buy it, I think.

Workwise...I can't even get into exactly what happened but Steve is gone. Some changes are coming up on Monday that will make my life much much easier. Might be doing Curves as part of a work promotion.

Also, I've resolved to put some work into my book. I did a bit of research yesterday, because I let Marc read what I had so far. He claimed that I needed something big to happen right at the start for it to be any good. And claimed that my world sounded like that out of a Robert Jordan novel. I've never read Robert Jordan. Infact, I have limited knowledge of fantasy writers. I like Tolkien, Mercedes Lackey and Terry Pratchett. My problem with fantasy is the names. I get that they need cool names, but for instance...I picked up a book in my parents store one day where the warrior's surname was "Brightblade". Ugh.

I've picked up a drawing pad, some art pencils and am going to start to flesh out a map, the world...just get it all out in this giant pad and hopefully that will give me some inspiration to sit and write some more. I can't force it out of me, and it might take years to finish. But I have to ensure that I only put out what's decent.