Goodbye Tara

I love the zoo so much, and all who live there. Goodbye Tara.

Ce weekend

Heading down to Wats this weekend. I love how I'm planning my weekend on a Monday night. Don't get much better than this. We'll be in town for a high school friend's wedding reception at the legion of all places. A great time will most certainly be had by all I'm sure. This dude and his wife got married at his parents cottage in May, and it was a small wedding with mostly family, so now they're going to pull out all the stops and have a more 'twentysomething' oriented partay. When I asked his mom what to get him and his wife for a gift, she replied, towels. How lame, I mean absorbent. I am not bringing towels to the legion. They're getting a gift card for The Bay and that's final.

We will also be in town to celebrate my grandmother's 149th birthday. I mean 186th or something. Happy Birthday GG!

Movieholes

This weekend I finally saw doc King Corn, which I was corning (read: jonesing) to see for a while. I did indeed enjoy it. Rotten Tomatoes seems to be right on in its rating of this flick, so we're in accordance on all corns, I meant fronts. I'm really getting corned away here. I mean carried.

In other movie news, Bron and I rented Dead Snow. What a terrific flick. My zombie intestines were all aflutter with this one. I love how we had the option of watching it in English, instead of its native Norwegian. And yes, I'm completely technically backward because I never knew this feature existed in DVD world, although Bron is the one who has issues with subtitles, pas moi. I recommend this one for suresies.

To cap off my Sunday night, I decided to finally order some towels from L.L. Bean. I'm quite a fan of most of their goods, but after experiencing the loveliness of their Premium Cotton handtowels and bathmats (have two of each)(yes, I'm a mid-western US housewife), I was def going back for more, esp since I still have some fundage existing on my last-year's L.L. Christmas gift card. But, upon selecting my new natural coloured towels (I know, I'm so 'out there'), and deciding to get these pooches MONOGRAMMED, uh I realized that they only provide navy thread for light coloured towels and white for dark coloured towels. Ewww, navy? Nein thanks. I would never want to see a navy and natural towel in or around my home. A shame, really. I was prepared to drop the $12 to have both towels monogrammed. I just wanted to be whimsical and get "Bron" and "Kathryn" towels. But that won't be happening any time soon with navy at the thread helm. I guess I'll still order the towels, but I'm really not feeling the juice as much anymore. I'll give it a few days and see how I'm feeling. I'll update.

Into the Wildesque

This is insane! And he was rescued, no less, on the anniversary of the McCandless dude.

Duuuude.

Shut your mouth when you're talking to me

I have to agree with yesterday's blog entry by Jim Kenzie.

Haircut 100

Today I'm finally getting a haircut. Yesss. I just may emerge with bangs. But, as Bron said last night, "I don't want to hate your hair." So, does that mean no bangs? At least I won't look like this dude.



Then tonight I'm going to check out my friend Danz perform at Second City. Word! Come on out if you're interested. It's the funniest awesomest improv, way better even than supposed legit, "professional" improvists. Way to go Danzhole.

Rice and cookies

Rice: Just got done mangeing (aka eating to the English speaker) an amazing sandwich from Rice Bar that cost me $6.90. It's called the Kensington (the sandwich, not the market). Definitely try it. Two of the highlights? Tofu and kimchi. Oh, and spinach. Can't remember the other stuff, but comes out to be a pretty great samwidge.

Now for the cookies: I was asked to order a traveller of coffee and some cookies today from Starbucks - enough for 5 people for a meeting. When I placed the order over the phone I ordered 10 cookies - figured, people probably won't have two each, but let's be generous. But then at the last minute, I thought, let's make it an even 12. Well my god, I had NO idea how big their cookies are. These things were like wagon wheels. The real kind of wagon wheels too, not like those snacky things you eat when you're 8. GAWD. I just went into someone's office right now, only to see a half eaten cookie thrown into the garbage. Those cookies cost $23.73!!!! At least it ain't my money...