congratulations!

belated congratulations to my kindergarten kindred spirit, hayley who gave birth to a baby girl, aven lily morgan, precisely one week ago. i was close to winning the baby pool too!

sorry this post took so long, things have been tooooo busy! hayley, i'm sure you can relate, but in a different kind of way. i will miss seeing your cute outfits, maybe you should keep posting weekly pictures on your blog so i don't go into withdrawal...

note to self...don't be crazy...

i have been keeping busy accompanying students for local music festivals. i am playing for 9 classes in a span of 2 weeks (this week that just finished and next week). this does not include rehearsals; by the end of next week, i will have attended 10 rehearsals. i am also playing in a wedding in a couple weeks. all this on top of working my regular job AND organizing and practicing for a piano teacher concert at my school on april 21. it was a bad idea to schedule the teacher concert in april...duly noted for next year.

puppy love

one of my students in grade 6 at school has a sporadic boyfriend. her mom told me all about the drama, and how she and this boy are friends, and start to date,...then they fight, break up, ignore each other, become friends, start to date again...then have another fight, break up, ignore each other, become friends, and date again. it's a vicious circle, really.

this student, who is quirky and always says what's on her mind, told me that she made up words to one of the songs that she's learning. i didn't want to embarass her by staring at the words, so i can't remember them verbatim, but it went a little like this:

"i wanna c u
c u you everrrry-day
cuz i ♥ u
ALLLLLLRIIIIGHT!"

there was more, but my memory is failing me. it actually goes really well with the melody, so i was impressed. and needless to say, i think things are going well for the happy couple. for now.

on an enstr egg hunt...

one time kris and i were going through some of my old elementary school things, and we came across a story that i wrote in grade 1 about the easter bunny. for some reason though, i thought "easter" was pronounced/spelled "enstr"...i'm not really sure how this came about and why no one corrected me?! maybe i was that girl in grade 1 who couldn't pronounce easter and everyone still laughs about it behind my back today.

anyway, i went searching for cheap enstr chocolate today. it's surprising how fast it sells! i was looking for the mini cadbury cream eggs because i prefer them over the big ones...they're easier to eat and i always feel a little gluttonous eating an entire regular-sized cream egg. i have tried cutting it in half and only eating half, but then the other half just sits and taunts me. and the mini ones are just so cute. at the store, there were no mini cream eggs to be found however...not even big cream eggs, just the ghetto enstr chocolate that no one wants. there was a shopping cart full of it, and being the trooper that i am, i dug to the bottom and ta-da, i found a package of 3 (big) cream eggs for $1! celebration!

i will savour them since they will probably be my last...until next enstr, that is.

include this in your song, alanis!

murphy's law states that when one gets a new car, something will hit it, scratch it, scrape it or dent it.

this happened the first time kris bought the civic - shortly after he got it, someone dinged it with their door. this time, someone misjudged the size of their car and rubbed against our rear fender when our car was parked. we weren't there to witness this deflowering, but the offender left a note for us. that was nice. the foot-long scrape on the side of our brand new car? not so nice.

we're actually surprised that it took 4 days for this to happen...it's amazing that we weren't hit by someone coming out of the dealership parking lot...or while we were still at the dealership...

so the bulk of the day today was spent visiting with the nice people at the collision reporting centre. and repeating our story about 5 times to 5 different people. you'd think they would be able to make their system more efficient so that you can tell one person, they can enter it into the computer, and wham, bam, thank you ma'am, you're done. but no, we told the story 5 times. we were surprised when the last person we talked to said we could go since photos had been taken, when we didn't see anyone take photos. we went to our car, and there was the sticker that they put on dents saying it was reported to the police which means someone was there. so very stealth of them! this leads me to believe that they ask you your story 5 times to see if they can catch you in a lie. that's even more stealth than seth cohen stealth!

i'm considering naming the car midge since she looks all butchy and beat up now, just like scout did around christmas time. we'll see if the name sticks...

oh, and if you're wondering, the remedy for sadness over a scratched up car? new eyeshadow, of course! yay, eyeshadow!

surrounded by idiots, part ii

i think it's very sad that my post about beingsurrounded by idiots has now become a series. i much prefer my "people who look like people" series.

so i try to take out the garbage today. in a condo, "taking out the garbage" consists of walking out about 10 footsteps down the hallway and throwing it down the chute. this is why i like condo living.

however, some idiot tried to put a way-too-big garbage bag down the chute. this chute only works for small- to medium-sized garbage bags. it does not work for ridiculously-obese-containing-three-weeks-of-garbage garbage bags. this person not only tried to stuff said bag into the chute, but upon realizing that it was too big, just pushed it in as far as s/he could, and left it. so now it's stuck. do this person SERIOUSLY think it will go down the chute itself? or perhaps s/he's waiting for the garbage to decompose, thereby shrinking the mass of refuse, so maybe in 25 years, it will go down by itself?

i wonder if it's our smoky neighbours...

bah!

the eighth wonder of the world

we got frostys (frosties?) from wendy's today. we got straws with it so opted to drink it rather than spoon it. this is the first time i've ever done this with a frosty, and it actually affected the taste. it reminded me of pretend whipped cream or the icing on store-bought cakes. some people like these things, but i don't; they waken my gag reflex. blech. how can something that tastes so good taste so bad? it's not like the components of the frosty itself have changed, just the method of ingestion. this phenomenon should be the eighth wonder of the world.

lesson learned. never again will i drink a frosty.

honda family

our accord has been giving us some problems as of late. we were going to trade it in in july, but since we had to replace a bunch of things in it now, we figured we would just get the new car now. it's a good thing too, i just barely qualified for the graduate rebate - had we waited until july, it would have been too late.

after much deliberation, we decided on the acura TSX - this means we are still a honda family. we got a great deal on it, and i somehow got roped into teaching a free lesson to the salesman's son?! but, on a plus side, he left us a bottle of wine in the glove compartment when we picked it up today. oh, and another plus? we have a pretty car that talks to us!

we have to come up with a name for the car. i am tossing around a few ideas but nothing concrete yet.

oh, and i'll post a picture once i take one. kris wouldn't let me take the camera to the dealership...such a wet blanket...

surf'n'turf?

we went out for dinner tonight. our food probably took 45 minutes to arrive at our table, and when it did, it was terribly over-cooked. my food was cold, dry and flavour-less. kris' steak was well-done when it was supposed to be medium. we didn't even have to tell the waitress, who noticed kris' steak was a lump of gray mass on a plate. she was extremely apologetic and replaced his steak. then the manager came over and apologized again, and asked me how my food was...i told her it was cold and dry, but that it's okay since they already replaced the steak. she insisted on getting me a new, piping hot meal. they also didn't charge us for my food and threw in free dessert.

because of their attempts, i almost feel obligated to go back...i guess that's what they were hoping. but that'll teach kris a lesson about ordering steak at a sub-par seafood restaurant...

save one show

every year, tv networks release a list of shows that could possibly be cancelled. every year, eonline has a "save one show" campaign where tv viewers vote on which show should be taken off the the endangered list. the winning show is then usually renewed because the networks decide that it's actually popular enough to continue running.

as usual, veronica mars is on this list. however, in the past, veronica mars has been saved by the network execs because they liked it so much. for some reason this year, this is not the case, and out of all the endangered shows, this is one of the most at risk.

this is where you come in! you need to vote for veronica mars! even if you don't watch it, do it for ME...and do it for dana. most of you don't know dana, but do it for us. here is the full story. click on any of the "save one show" links to vote.

ps. friday night lights is on this list too, but it seems to be on safe. so vote for veronica mars. please?