Here is a quote from a Get Fuzzy comic which, hopefully, you will all enjoy. Unless of course you don't like cats seeing as the quote is said by a cat (the comic has both talking cats and dogs and also a ferret I believe, although he doesn't feature much..). Anyway, here it is.

A cat shall lead the dumb, and the dumb shall rejoice. But of course, they shall mispell their banners.

After writing the above I realize that either I need to sleep more, or possibly drink less caffeine, or.. um... just not be weird... The first two I think I could manage, but the third.. could be tricky.

Bring on the Stampede..

So you know the poem that I put up here and I said I wasn't sure if I'd written it or if someone else had? Turns out someone else did. It's from a For Better Or For Worse comic and I, being silly, didn't write down where it came from, hence the confusion. So yes.. I'm not quite the poetic genious I thought..

My tumbly has not been happy at all today. I'm really not sure what I ate or what I didn't eat or what I did in general to make it so cranky but man was it painful for a while. Thank goodness for tylenol!

In other news, I had to go make mango pudding for dessert tonight because we had three mangos which were FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR riper than should be allowed and as such had to be used very quickly. Now for those of you who don't know... I don't like mangos. Well, I don't like real mangos. I quite enjoy mango flavoured things, but not actual mangos. So to cut up these horrifically squashy mangos (ok.. so they weren't THAAAAAAAAAT squishy, but definitely more squishy than should be allowed) was very sloppy and very gross. Despite being made mostly of mangos the dessert was enjoyed by all who ate it (i.e. not me.. I had a chocolate cheesecake cupcake dealy instead). At least now we don't have the mangos sitting on the counter where the over-ripe smell of them can attack your nose if you get within about 5 feet of them.. Very potent and very unpleasant.

In other other news my mum is definitely somewhat of a twit with a sense of humour to match.. She told two jokes tonight at the dinner table which went like this...

What do you call someone else's cheese? Not-cho cheese!! (No idea how to spell that, but you get the idea..)

The other joke was.... What path through the forest do crazy people take? (My answer was the same one I take.. but that wasn't the right answer..) The actual answer was the psychopath!.... Oh mum...

Ugh. Why am I so tired? Personally I think it's all Chris' fault.. (Muahahaha....) Keeping me up till the wee hours of the morning and using up alllll of the stored up sleep that I have ever managed to get in my whole life.... :> The place where I'm working had their monthly meeting this morning and even though I'm only a summer student I was allowed to sit in on it and it was interesting enough, but I just could not stop yawning! Luckily they were little yawns, but still! I had to yawn about once every 2 minutes.. Not so good. Ahh well.

Siiiiiiiiiigh. I miss Chris. A lot. A lot a lot. :< (And boo to my rant which just deleted a bunch of stuff that I wrote...) Let's see.. I believe it went something like obviously I have been missing Chris ever since I got back, but yesterday and today it was much worse. Then there may have been something else here, but the gist of this part was that I really really wish Scotland was closer or that I knew someone who both owned a plane and owed me a LOT of favours, or that airlines took more kindly to stowaways.

Anyone want to sponsor a trip to Scotland?...

And I think I miiiight have figured out why it deleted the stuff that I wrote. I noticed that it took a bit out of the first paragraph as well and I think it has something to do with having a sad smiley and then a happy smiley sometime after but within the same paragraph.. Yup. My test sentence dissapeared. Hurrah I've figured it out. Ohh yes.

I've been doing data entry for alllll of today so far, which means that I have been mostly sitting for the past 6 1/2 hours. It's been so long since I moved around properly that I think my legs might just atrophy...

Now, I know that there is an inordinately large number of spiders around my house (both inside and out...) but this morning when I was driving into work, I noticed one in my car, only he wasn't just crawling around somewhere.... no he had already built himself a home and was just about entirely settled in. You see.. he had a full blown web set up in the sort of corner where the driver side door attaches to the rest of the car at the dash, right up where the window is.

Not really wanting either a spider or his home in my car, especially close enough to me that he might decide to investigate who this "neighbour" was, I opened the window and him and his house were sucked out. Hopefully he will be just as happy at whatever new location he ends up.

This morning at breakfast I thought that the dishes in the dishwasher were clean because the night before when I had been about to put my dishes in everything looked really clean, so I didn't think twice about grabbing a bowl out of there for my cereal. I grabbed a bowl and thought it felt a wee bit less than clean on the inside, but it looked fine and since our dishwasher is probably as old as I am (or nearly at least) I didn't really think anything of it. So I poured my cereal and added the milk and then went back into the dishwasher for a spoon. The spoon I grabbed out was definitely not clean. So then I actually pulled the racks out to see if the dishes really were clean or if it was just that one spoon. The dishes definitely were NOT clean which got me wondering about why my bowl, apart from feeling a bit scratchy on the inside, looked really clean. Then I remembered that after I'm done eating my cereal I let whichever cat is closest lick out the wee bit of milk left in the bottom. So the scratchy feeling was not from the ridiculously hard water we have at our house... no.. it was dried cat spit.... And since I'd already poured the milk into the bowl, there was absolutely no point in changing bowls because all of the dried cat spit would have been dissolved into the milk already. Mmmmm.... yummy......

Another thing I found whilst cleaning my room was a description of Calgary weather...

The weather in Calgary: you slip on the ice, fall in a puddle then get up and brush yourself off.

Oh it's sooo true. :>

I was cleaning my room a wee bit (I haven't really truly unpacked even yet and it was getting a bit unlivable...) and I was going through my desk drawers (why on EARTH did I decide that 90% of the stuff was worth keeping?....) and I found a wee poem that apparently I wrote although it was so long ago I don't remember writing it at all. Anyway, it goes as follows...

That so few words
Could cut so deeply.
That words alone
Could so offend.
Cast not aside my love
So cheaply.
For wounds of passion seldom mend.

If I did write it then it's quite good and if I only copied it from somewhere else.. well done whoever you are.

I miss my wee Scotsman

Well I'm back home again. It's nice to be back I suppose although I'm definitely missing Chris a lot. I've only been back since Saturday but it feels like I've been here forever and ever. I got to talk to him for a wee bit on the phone tonight, but it was definitely not long enough and as such I have plans to at least partially monopolize his time on Saturday. :>

Hmm.. I was going to write something else I'm sure, but I seem to have forgotten just what it was...