michanna

Oh, I forgot to put in my earlier message. My parents are in Europe until Thursday. Dad's on a business trip and mom's going along. Before they left, I told the friends they're going with that they had to make sure my mom got in at least some trouble.

As a result, I keep getting messages from them that I find supremely amusing:
Message 1:
Hi Teri, here's your Mom in Lugano. Little did I realize what a challenge
you gave me. However, I've deputized my wife to help out with this assignment
and, with a weekend in Milan coming up, I'm optimistic that I'll have
something more exciting to report in a few days.

Message 2:
Greetings from Milan. Here is the latest status update. This is a pic of
your mother and my wife working their way through a bottle of Chianti. So far
the things are unfolding as planned. My wife is taking one for the team.
Actually not that much of a sacrifice.
Tomorrow and Sunday are days off so we will focus on the assignment. More
tomorrow.

Message 3 - Just a subject line:
Your mother just chugged a beer in the pub! Progress!!

Combined with:
Well, here we are in London. As you can see, your Mom and Dad are
acclimatizing well. The beer is warm, the food cold! None the less, a great
experience. You can't beat a British pub. Next stop Paris on Tuesday. Will
report then.

Most of these have pictures attached but as I fail at LJ picture posting, you don't get them. They're not overly exciting - just pictures of my mom holding various alcoholic drinks.

I read about this in the paper this morning An Italian truck spilled 2 million Euro. People on the motorway highway (I've been in NZ too long) absconded with at least 10k in coinage. Lol.

Also, there's a curling competition happening in the south island right now. It's one of only 3 times in the past 14 years that the resevoir in question has been frozen enough to complete the bonspiel (the NZ paper didn't know enough to call it that).

Meanwhile, NY is experiencing record-breaking hot weather. Global climate change: Not a myth.

This ad is on NZ television right now and I love it. Cosplayers will appreciate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2-ZzSBl5s&feature=related

sammysam sent me this this morning: This article about an amazing boy in Africa and it pretty much made my day.

And now, ( My tribute to Neil Patrick Harris, in case anyone hasn't seen these )
Be sure to check out the last one.

Sonata Arctica concert tonight!! Yay!

Okay my grandparents and I were just out for dinner (really nice little restaurant in Brockville btw; totally go if you're ever here). The restaurant has a couple of rooms that you can stay in attached to it.
Anyway, some guy walks in with this hot 20-something guy at his side. A woman who is eating in the restaurant recognizes him and calls him over, at which point he introduces hot 20-something as his yoga instructor. At this point, I have to try not to choke on my food.
They then leave the restaurant, which indicates to me that they weren't there to eat.

My grandmother was confused by my reaction and I told her I'd tell her later. In the car ride home I amused my grandparents with my story of how the man brought his yoga instructor in with him, was called over by someone he knew and exited, having become too embarrassed by being recognized to inquire about renting a room. I thought this was the natural conclusion for me to have reached. Back me up here? *grin*

For anyone who has seen Haruhi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHy4n3RWqjk

I have a point in my notes that says "ask if bylaw zoning amendment is required before talking to the met tower" Now, I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to talk to the met tower ... I wonder what I was trying to write ...?

I updated my computer yesterday and now Vista loves me more! Yay! Also, my MSN sounds are working, which gives me hope that my microphone might also be working better so I can actually use it. I haven't tried it out yet though.

narikalen, teddy0bear and I went Halloween costume shopping on the weekend and in Value Village, I found Winter of Fire !!!!! I was looking for The Hatchet for Nari's class! The world works in strange ways. I went all bouncy and scared them.
Also fun was the three of us singing Raffi at the top of our lungs and seriously disturbing the 4 year olds.

The new third season West Wing links on tv-links aren't working for me, which makes me very, very sad. I need to borrow NCIS from Nikki to make me feel better. Or maybe I'll just finally get around to watching Bleach.

Reunion sucked. Doppleganger was good because of the OMG slash, but is it just me or is Amanda Tapping and Jewel Staite's acting worse in SGA then in their other respective shows?

The wind is seeking something today. It's strong enough to knock you off your feet; I literally nearly fell over when I walked outside this morning. But it's not angry ... just ... confused ... or upset ...

In other news, Lori wanted to buy the latest brand of some ski ... I guess the final design for them was released yesterday and her friend sent her the link for them:
http://global.skipass.com/gearguide/ski/2008/rossignol/Scratch-Steeze.html
Absolutely made my day. I could not stop laughing. She was so angry about it. Her direct quote "A care bear puked on them"

I ate a vagina today.
... yes it cost me money ... yes it was made of chocolate ... *glowers*
I went to see the vagina monologues with Tabby and Jon.

I bought my bus tickets to Baltimore and I bought myself candy (some of which was given to May to make her feel better about the onslaught of engineering students at the Campus Printing where she works).

Tabby and I were talking about how my uncle (and the rest of my family) has hemachromatosis, which means he has too much iron in his blood. She was explaining to me that hema is derived from iron and often refers to blood and osis means an excess. I asked her where the chrome part came from and she said she didn't know, so I said that it obviously meant that there was too much chrome in his blood and he's turning into a robot. She said that he'd be affected by the electromagnetic forces of the planet and I decided that he wasn't being affected by them, he was being controlled by them and obviously our abused planet is taking control and turning humans into super leet assassin robots that it can control using planetary EMF fields! ... I'm now scared of my uncle :p
Also, I think I should write this ...

Okay, so I went to go swimming at around 3 today. When I got to the pool, I discovered that they had already closed off public access to the pools for the swim meet that's happening this weekend. So much for that. I whined to someone about wanting exercise and not being able to get it, and she asked me, with some scorn, why I didn't just go for a walk instead. The feel of the water as it glides over you, both resisting your motion and holding you up; the grace of travelling between the air and the water, knowing that your strokes are sure and effective; the coolness of it against flushed skin and the feel of the eddies between your feet as you kick ... Does no one but me understand? ... possibly I'm creeping people out here ....

The classics club is going to try and do an advanced screening of 300. I definately signed up right at the top of the list.

Have now seen 3x04 of Atlantis and 10x03 of SG-1 for anyone who is keeping tabs. I'm trying to catch up so I can once again read my friend's posts :p

Sluggy this morning:
"Lemme grab my violin so I can brain you with it"
I'm so going to use that!
I'm really giddy this morning and there's absolutely no reason for me to be ... I think I'm going to crash by noon ...