Random

Wow, I've got nothin' lately.

This tells me it's time for a random post!

I have a cell phone. It's the first one I ever owned. Yes, the same one.


Brad is on his second cell phone.....yeah - it's older than mine.

We have a corporate plan at work. I can get an iPhone for free!

**If I sign up for three years. **

I'm not sure what to do. It would be nice to have an iPhone - all those times I've been lost and needed a map. Those times I need a phone number....want to check the ferry schedules. You get it.

If the plan was with Telus, it would be a no-brainer - I'd do it. But it's Rogers.

Financially? It's $50/month more than we pay now for cell phones/land lines if we both get one. I'm leaning towards it.

What do you think?


When we were in Italy I saw a bunch of girls wearing black dresses with brown belts. So cute. I bought a brown belt (and a green one) when we were there and bought this dress a few weeks ago. I wish I had bought five more belts!


I've discovered a new favourite blog. Joy the Baker.

So I find myself in a baking mood. I made this last weekend - Blackberry Peach Shortbread Bars.

We went blackerry picking with a friend last weekend. I have lots of frozen blackberries now. Don't you love how they look then they are frozen?

I'm planning to tackle something from the Joy the Baker blog this weekend. Something bread-y. Don't worry, if I screw up it'll be on here right away.

Italy Part 10 - Florence

I should get this post out of the way. This will be my last post about Italy - with a twist.

We had planned a trip into Tuscany three days before we flew home. The night before our trip, Brad picked up the camera and - I'll never forget it - fumbled with it and it ended up smashing on the tile floor.

Man, that camera was busted. Busted. When we turned it on, it made a horrible noise, flashed a weird blue screen-of-death and turned itself off with the shutter halfway open.

So we don't really have many photos of our trip into Tuscany, San Gimignano and Sienna.

The worst (best?) part of this story:

When we got home, I plugged the camera in just to get the photos off the card and...it worked like nothing had ever happened.

Seriously?

Book Review #9

It's been a nightmare week. I'm not going to get into it on this blog....so I was happy to see it's time for another book review!


Oh. My. God. This. Book.....

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It's such a horrific topic, but the way she approaches it is beyond words. There is a part in the middle of the book that kept me up and reading for hours. The best book I've read all year for sure.

After 'Room' I was lucky enough to stumble on this fantastic read. I reserved it at the library months ago and it was finally my turn. It's worth reading this book just for the character Minny, but there are so many more reasons to pick this one up. It had me laughing out loud then really angry in the next paragraph.

Kate Jacobs wrote another book called Friday Night Knitting Club - it was a nice beach read. This one seemed to start out on the same path but fizzled out halfway through. The storyline wasn't believable enough for me, and it was too predictable. Meh.

I've been reading Agony and Ecstasy forever. This is one long haul. Really interesting and engaging at first, but it loses it's momentum about halfway through. Unfortunately you will still have 400 pages to go. I dragged myself through it....and was relieved when it was over.

Another dud - which I didn't bother to finish. I was put on to this book by a blog I like to read, but I just didn't get it. And I'm no slouch when it comes to classic novels either. After I found myself thinking about all the other books I want to read while I was dragging my butt through this one....I put it down. It was free on my Kobo so at least putting it down was a no-brainer.

This is my third David Hewson book. This one was neat because it's based in a snowy Rome! The book was okay....not nearly as good as A Season for the Dead. Still, I would strongly recommend David Hewson to anyone who is looking for a 'Da Vinci Code' type read.

I was tempted to buy this on Kobo when they emailed me about a $1 promotion. It doesn't sound like a lot, but I only ended up paying $8.99 for this and it's on best seller lists.

Anyway a really good beach read, but almost too easy a read. The characters weren't very interesting or deep, but sometimes you want a break from the 'Room' and 'Agony and Ecstasy' type books right?

This has been on my shelf since a stranger at the book sale thrust it in my hands and said I MUST read it. It was actually really good - it dragged a little bit in places and has a slightly anti-climactic ending but overall I would recommend it.

I haven't been reading much in the last week so I'm starting to get jittery. Here's to a better week ahead!

Channel Surfing Online

About three weeks ago alarms went off, we got up in the morning, as usual. Started our morning routines, Brad went to turn on the tv - it's busted.

(woo! hoo!)

I came out of the bathroom wondering why it was so quiet, Brad was standing in the kitchen eating a banana. Uh...huh.

So the first thing that happens:

The next few days were interesting: coming home from work to a quiet house, no tv blaring to greet me when I open the door....just the quiet sounds of the six o'clock news from the laptop. Or better yet - Brad reading a book on the couch.

Over the next few days I worked tons of overtime and wasn't on the computer at all. On Saturday morning I picked up the laptop and was checking email when Brad walked into the living room. Cereal in hand, big goofy grin on his face....

"Oh."

He wanted to "watch something" while he ate breakfast. I reluctantly agreed. "What would you like to watch?" He thought he would check out discovery channel online. So we did, and ended up watching some crappy show about a big construction project.

The entire time he was complaining about how the show wasn't very good because they didn't give enough information. It was then that I realized that we were channel surfing on the internet.

Not good.

Sigh.....so last weekend we went shopping for a new tv.

This is what I've lived with for as long as I've ever known tv - the classic 19". Oooohhh yeah.

While I'm anxious to see the flatscreen, I'm totally reluctant about this new monster we bought. A 42" flatscreen tv?

Really?

To give you an idea of the insanity - it's 1/2" wider than this bookcase and way higher than all the stuff there now.

People are telling me not to worry - that it's not as big as I'm thinking. Uh huh....