54 posts tagged “geek”

this past saturday, we had our annual 'deep fried turkey and kid's secret santa exchange' party at steve and cor's house.

what a good party - i just felt like a huge release being there with good friends. laughing and talking and best of all - the kids are so good at playing on their own now. they spent most of the time in the basement with each other. ah bliss!

an important lesson learned within five minutes of arriving - even though i think people never read my facebook status updates, they SO read them.

within the first hour, the following facebook statuses by yours truely was discussed:

- that i admitted to staring at zac efron's 6-pack in '17 again'
- that i love red, orange and yellow peppers, but am not fond of green peppers
- that i almost went to see 'new moon' on my own

i think the highlight of the night was the guys chin-up contest. boys will be boys, after all.

afterwards, steve l. said, "i'm very disppointed with myself. hoa! i should hire you to train me back into shape."

to which hoa's reply was, "okay. but you HAVE to listen to me. if i tell you to do a push-up, you can't just say, 'bah! why bother?'"

hoa totally had steve l. pinned on that one because that's EXACTLY the type of thing steve l. would say.

and i think it's these little conversations of parties that seems to stick with me the most. the kind where a smaller group is off to the side, chatting and having a good laugh or two.

we were sitting in the living room, doug and i, while chaeli was playing pinball on the wii with my aunt.

out of nowhere, we hear chaeli yell out, "ALRIGHT! ROCK 'N ROLL!"

rock. and. roll.

i have no idea where she got that from

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at the zoo, chaeli went up to the educational table, which are always manned by volunteers.

she stood there for a few seconds and then asked the lady, very loudly i might add, "DID YOU KILL ALL THESE BUTTERFLIES AND BUGS? JUST TO SHOW IT ON THIS TABLE???"

ack!

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for such little person, she clogs up the toilet the MOST in our household.

our plans changed for the weekend and ended up being a very quiet one at home. which was just as well - we have so many busy weekends up ahead so a little break won't hurt.

i ended up being the first to be awake on a saturday morning. i quickly packed my gym bag and away i went to my bodypump class. and because the women's gym was on top of the 2nd floor of the superstore, i decided to do some grocery shopping afterwards. convenience at it's finest!

the rest of the afternoon was lazy. after lunch, we were all in the living room... chaeli playing her leapster games, doug reading the paper and me... well, i was reading something. but my eyes were so heavy that after awhile, i just leaned into doug and closed them for a bit.

i think that was my favourite part of the day. sitting on that couch with the two people that i love, just taking in the quietness and peace. but... i couldn't take it much longer. i was just that tired. i ended up going up stairs and napping for almost an hour an a half!

being completely lazy, we ordered in swiss chalet and then watched Up.

sunday wasn't as lazy, though. we got up and went to the zoo for a stroll, and then went shopping. i ended up treating myself to DDR3 for the wii and man... i suck! hopefully, with practice, i'll be a dancing queen but until then, lets just say i'm glad that i'm doing this in the privacy of my basement, away from the public eye.

anyway, it was one of those interesting weekends where nothing significant happened. instead, it was filled with a lot of little things. but for whatever reason, it's those little things that sometimes gives me that exhilerated feeling.

sometimes i wish i had that magical, twitchy nose like that samantha from bewitched. ah - when t.v. shows were a league of their own. in a good way.

and as much as i wished i had powers to make my closet, or any space in my house, either big or small, become instantly organized and clean in matter of a milli-second, the reality is, of course, that i can't do that. and even if i could, would i really be using my powers just to clean closets?

anyway, this is something i have been wanting to do since september but something always came up. and as we had no plans today, i decided to go for it.

two hours later, i am left with just my cd case and one half of a shelf piled of magazines to go through. and i just can't do anymore. two hours in a closet is enough! i will do that half a shelf and cds another day.

most importantly, i organized all the christmas presents that i bought. yes, that's right. you heard me.

not only do i organize my christmas shopping lists into spreadsheets where there is one spreadsheet for each - my familly, doug's family, doug and chaeli and misc. gift... not only do i create another spreadsheet to correlate with the other four, but this one being by store, either online or off, so i don't end up running all over town, hitting stores more then once... but at some point, i organize my gifts so that all the gifts going to thunderbay are in one or two large shopping bags, and i do the same for presents for chaeli, doug and my own side of the familly.

there is a chaotic period where i shop and just pile everything in the corner of my walk-in closet, still in their bags/boxes.

it was driving me crazy. now, they are all organized. all i need to do is pull them out in the order that they need to be wrapped - doug's family being the front in line.

yup.

i'm psychotic.

last night, we went to hamilton, which is just over an hour away from toronto, for a very fun potluck dinner party.

doug made pulled pork in a slow cooker. there was little time to cook so we figured something we could slow cook overnight would be our best option. we brought some fresh dinner rolls so people could make their own sandwiches. it turned out to be a hit! thankfully, we made so much that we have leftovers for tonight.

the hosts were anthony and kay, plus their two boys and their very anxious and shy chihaha, coco. poor thing was out of sorts with so many people on her territory that she spent a good majority of the beginning and end of the night, yapping away. i tried to get her to warm up to me but everytime i offered my hand to sniff, she would run away.

we spent some time playing rock band - i got a chance to try out the beatles for the first time. excellent - very well made! i was especially impressed with the animated intro to the game.

the only problem i have with rock band is that everyone has to sing at least once. and to be honest, none of us from the posse can sing, really. some of us are not too bad but i definitely can speak for myself and say that i'm a tad tone-deaf. and my range in octives is pretty limiting. so unless it's right in my range, it actually hurts to sing. i think it was hoa that turned to me and said, "cool - you guys can sing in harmony for the beatles" to which i said, "yeah... okay, hoa... because i just got better in the past 30 minutes!" :p

one thing about going to hamilton is cross over the burlington bridge. granted, it's not an incredible bridge when compared to the golden gate in the bay area, but there's something i still love about it.

it was a fantastic night. we had a great time catching up with a few people we don't get to see very often.

it's weird to be happy about something like this. except that it's been well over a year (maybe two?) where i wanted to replace our really ugly napkin holder. it was this tacky, silver holder in a shame of a napkin, folded over with a bow on one side. it didn't even hold the napkins very well because the height was just half the size it was suppose to me. all the napkins, then, would flop over. and then when we would take one out, the whole pile would come out at the same time, for whatever reason. probably because they were all bent over.

it was so ugly that i can't even bother to take a photo of it.

anyway, i finally got around to replacing it yesterday with one that takes up little room, works and is, if i do say so mysefl, very pretty. :)

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in the quest for raising a geek-child, i decided to introduce chaeli to x-men through the animated t.v. series.

i recently did buy the trilogy on dvd (only $14.99 for all three!) chaeli happened to find it sitting on our tv stand.

she asked, "is batman in it?"

i answered, "no... this one doesn't involve batman."

"how about spiderman?"

"nope. no spiderman."

"then who are they?"

"they're superheros like batman and spiderman but they are called, the x-men."

"cool."

"cool indeed."

"can i watch it?"

"mmm... i don't know. it might be a bit scary."

of course, i have no idea if it would scare her or not. after all, my child can sit through the 2008 and 2009 transformers without batting an eye. maybe x-men wouldn't be that scary. i don't know. my only reasoning is that she doesn't seem to be afraid of robots. humans that transforms into super-beings can seem to be more like monsters to little ones.

however, she is showing interest in the comic-world genre and i'm excited about this!

sooo... i'm hoping we'll have time to watch an episode of the animated x-men series tonight.

more and more people are coming up to me at the gym, trying to strike up a conversation. why? why me? i mean, seriously - what the hell is up with the universe?

SYTYCD (US version) - not as impressed this season. not to say there haven't been a couple of very memorable routines. i just hope the canadian version will kick ass. as they did last year.

the 'children of the corn' are back full force this summer. they now come with friends. every day after work, we have to monitor about five of them (sometimes more). balls fly into our potted garden, noise level involves high-pitch screams and they also tend to wander over to our glass door, knocking on it as they try to get chaeli's attention. both doug and i are constantly telling them to stop it. stop ALL OF IT. they listen. but come next day, it starts all over again. their parents don't seem to care. and some of them are as young as four - the oldest one only being around 7 or 8. it's not like they should be left alone. anyway - we'll be speaking to management about this soon. there is a rule that they are not suppose to run around in the common area.

am i that out of it? is jeff goldblum really part of law & order - criminal intent? what happened, jeff? what happened?

why can't i just be a super hero for just one day?

i really do love my new shoes and as this is the first day i am wearing them, i've recieved a lot of compliments.

the problem is the height. i haven't worn heels this high since my early to mid 20's. i can still do 3 inch heels but these are 4 inches and man does that 1 inch make a difference!

example - i just came back from the loo. i guess i didn't realize how much taller i am because when i sat down on the toilet, i almost fell as the toilet was much lower then expected.

when my rear landed on the seat, i sort of made an *omph!* sound.

and i wasn't alone in the ladies room.