To the future...and beyond!!!

I got my brand spanking new driver's license today! In addition to implementing a one-piece license this year, Saskatchewan has also built an aeroport AND has recently hooked into something called the "Internet". We're on our way world!

Joking of course, I love my homeland. Saskatchewan is the bomb!

Daily Reflections

Yesterday, as Dawdles and I went for our after-work walk (she needs to stop at every spot of yellow snow, no matter how small) I reflected on my day. Here's what stood out the most:

Each morning I get coffee from the cafe across the street. Generally, the staff at this cafe are 19 year old girls who hate everyone, listen to top 40 and have conversations about who they would or would not bone. Recently, however, a delightful brunette has joined the coffee bar staff. She's really nice so I make a point of asking how her day is and tipping her regularly. Then yesterday she tore my heart out a little. As I stood at the counter waiting for my coffee, we had the following conversation:

Brunette: Question for you.
Me: Sure.
Brunette: Do you know if Outlaws is busy on a Wednesday night?
Me: [Long pause] I really have no idea.
Brunette: Do you know anyone that would know? I have my first shift there tonight.
Me: Ah, nope. Sorry. Good luck though!

So for those of you who don't live in Saskatoon, Outlaws is our fair city's newest Country Rock slut fest bar where at some point patrons are likely to be drugged, step in vomit and/or be stabbed in the parking lot.

For the record, here is a list of places I frequent:
My couch
My parents' dining room table
Superstore
My other couch
My office
The dog park
The homes of the ladies in my book club
A&W drivethru

That's it.

On another note, this video is adorable and disgusting!

Did you know...

the Tasmanian devil is being wiped out by a contagious cancer?!?!? Poor little carnivores :(
CBC News - World - Endangered Tasmanian devils flown to Australia

I can't believe I forgot to tell you...

how surprised I was to learn that the vocals for Beach House are provided by a woman. HA! I'm listening to them right now to soothe myself as I do someone else's job...

How was I to know having never read the liner notes or seen them live or bothered to look at their website? Idk.

OHMYGAAAAAAD!

Target is coming at some point in the next few years!!!

CBC News - Money - Target buys Zellers for $1.8B

30 year post

I've been waiting to be 30 for about a decade. In fact, when I started working at Cineplex at 18, I gained a friend (who is nearly exactly 10 years older than me) that identified 1971 as the proper year of my birth. I've always been a rule follower which, in our society, equates to being old. Or at least I dreaded the possibility of getting caught breaking the rules. For instance, I was always "look out" in high school when we drank in a van down by the river or when we'd play "whose pee will run farthest down the hill" - gross I know, teenagers are seriously disgusting. Anyway, here I am. 30. I have to say, when I woke up this morning and remembered it was my birthday, I let out a little sigh of disappointment. Life keeps happening whether you're looking or not and at some point I won't have anymore birthdays to sigh about. I'm ok with that, but determined to make this decade go more slowly than the last. The last 10 years or so are a blur of good and bad relationships, new and old friendships, school, mortgages, new jobs, new province, old province becoming new again, pets, people being born, people dying, people getting sick, people getting better, hope, loss, really f#%king depressing times and super awesome over the moon times and pretty much everything in between. Geez, I think I need an amaretto and ginger...

I'll close out my 30 year post with this: someone said that being 30 gives you street cred - I can't remember who. I hope that driving 40km per hour in the winter comprises street cred, because that's where I'm at.

Phew!

Congratulations to the Sask court of appeal for recognizing that provincial marriage commissioners are public servants who serve ALL of the public, not just the hetero crowd!
Top court shoots down Saskatchewan government's amendments for same-sex marriages

God Bless Jeopardy.

I forgot to mention a new discovery, thanks to Wednesday's Jeopardy episode. Apparently sugar refining involves something called "mother liquor". I was so disturbed by this (also giggled out of my mind) that I searched for the show's transcripts just to confirm. I confirmed it:

00:14:45	Steve, back to you. uh, sugar for $800, please.
00:14:50	An early process in refining is washing the syrupy mother liquor from the raw sugar in this type of rotating machine.
00:15:01	That's a centrifuge. steve.
00:15:03	, uh, sugar for $2,000, please.
00:15:05	..
00:15:07	In large factory vacuum pans, the sugar seed is mixed into the mother liquor to initiate the formation of these structures.
00:15:16	The surface regularity reflects its internal atomic symmetry.
00:15:20	, obviously, this category is too sweet for the three of you.
00:15:26	We're talking about crystals. sugar crystals.

Currently listening to...

These kids that comprise the XX are weird-looking. I think a couple of them have moderate malocclusions. Also, they look about 10 years old. But, nice voices. And cool beats.