elementary my dear Watson

Went to see Sherlock Holmes tonight (cheap Tuesday). At least there was Robert Downey and Jude Law to look at during the boring fight scenes. It was pretty good altogether, the plot was a bit hokey. I do love English accents.

Biff's Question Song

This is by the guy who played Biff on "Back to the Future". It's hilarious.

I've always been fascinated by these guys...

Watch this. You won't recognize them until they open their months. This is one the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

Cheap Tuesday

Movie choices last night: Fired Up (2 jocks go to cheerleading camp) or Knowing (Nicholas Cage and mysterious numbers). So we went to Knowing. It seemed pretty good while we were watching it, but about five steps out of the theatre we thought of about 10 things that didn't make sense. Oh well. Sam was working so we didn't have to pay for popcorn. She said she had a reputation to uphold.
Took the afternoon off today and went with my friend Jean from work to have lunch with our friend and former co-worker Carla in Red Deer. It was a good visit and since I was able to get everything done that I needed to do at work in the morning, I am wondering if I have to work full-time. A half-day off a week would come in handy.
Got the furnace and window quotes back. Geoff is now trying to talk me out some of my reno plans.
Off to give blood.

Reading week is over; it seemed short. I guess Grace and I didn't get home till Monday and we took the kids back on Saturday so it really wasn't very long. We brought Grace's friend Sam too so they could go see the Oilers on Sunday.
After we dropped the kids off we went to see a show home - the one that was on the front of the Homes section of the Journal on Saturday. The house is in Highlands and has all kinds of innovations in it. It was a nice place. Not very far from Baba's. Then we just went home.
Hardly saw the kids while they were home. We would have supper together but they went out most nights and of course were not up when I went to work every day.
Mardi Gras today so we are going to the pancake supper at the church, then to a movie. We are thinking that we will go movies on cheap Tuesdays, no matter what is playing.
Did anyone watch the Oscars? I thought they were good, I liked the low budget opening number. And I'm glad Slumdog Millionaire won so many awards, even though movie snobs don't like it because it is a feel-good movie and could never happen. Right, like people could go into John Malkovich's head. Or be saved by a man wearing a bat suit. Etc.

Leaving. This House.

Rest up so you can go back to work and retire Geoff.
Then you can come here and help us with a few electrical projects we have. Nothing major, just some reversed plugs and a ceiling fan whose lights flicker off.
2 days until we move!! Really nothing much left to pack-a couple plates and coffee maker, that kind of thing. Now, I am no longer anxious and irritable-just excited. Talk to me on moving day and am pretty sure that I will be irritable though.
No renters for this place yet. I blame all the condos that are for rent right now. It is kind of annoying me I would like to get it over with and rented, but this is not a major stressor.
I have a cold and so have called in sick the last 2 days. I am considering calling in for tomorrow as I sound terrible and am still coughing which does not sound good when you are a nurse trying to promote health. Though I hardly ever call in sick and thus do not feel really guilty, there is always a small part of me saying, 'you are costing our healthcare system money that should be going to patient care'. PLus the attitude of entitlement some nurses have disturbs me and I don't want to be like that.
Here is the link to the book I made for Mom, if you should like to see it. There are a couple typos, which I plan to fix for the next edition.
I would really like to do some stuff here today, like clean a couple windows and go to the dump. This is probably not advisable when sick, but being home sick for 2 days is boring.
We went to see Defiance-alright, Curious Case of Benjamin Button-pretty good, and watched The Visitor on DVD-which was good.
I have not seen the sun since Mexico, Okanagan winters can be difficult.

Pecked to Death by Ducks

That phrase is from that biography of Ann Landers Mom had that I read about 50 times.

I'm feeling a lot of work frustration due to peers being anal retentive and crabby; I'm not your dang secretary, librarians. The non-crabby peers agree that working with librarians is like being pecked to death by ducks.

In other news, I am going to start a yoga drop-in class this week. I am hoping it encourages me to pursue other forms of exercise, in the cardiovascular and strength-building genres.

I just watched a good Australian movie called 10 Canoes, in which a white Australian director worked with a little Aboriginal community to make the movie. Almost more interesting was the documentary on DVD about the making of the film, and how difficult it was for the 2 cultures to communicate with each other. I am sometimes baffled by how hard communication can be -- but I guess it's a lot of work to do it really really well and not assume other person is making your same assumptions.

Lots of snow today so Grace's game in Lacombe got cancelled. Yay, a free afternoon. And Grace can watch the All Star Game, although she should be studying for her Social diploma exam tomorrow. Geoff is going over to Tim's to help him pour cement in the new bathroom.Tim has been really busy down there so maybe it won't be too long till it is finished.
Talked to Anne yesterday and she is excited about all the visitors. She has the whole three weeks that we will be there off, so may be travelling with us at least some of the time. She just sounded really happy with how things are working out for her there, looks like she made the right move.
Grace and I went to see The Bucket List last night. I have to say I did not have high hopes for that movie, but it was pretty good. Not too sappy, just a bit. Jack Nicholson totally reminds me of Dad.
Lisa tell us about your new TV. We got one too and put the big wall unit downstairs so the living room looks much bigger.
Off for a walk in the snow after lunch. I hope it snows enough that the cross-country ski trail at the golf course can get groomed. We didn't go once last year, there was only enough snow for a couple of weeks of skiing and we were probably at hockey most of the time.
Babble, babble, babble.