Can You Hear Me Now?

I purposely wanted the beginning of this week to be a quiet one, because I figured I’d be suffering from major sugar withdrawals and not want to get out of bed. I’m not sure if I’m suffering sugar withdrawals, but I have been spending a lot of time in bed! Because outside is SNOW and COLD and bed is the best place on earth.

On Tuesday my brother came over and we took our weekly trek over to the mall for my bottled water and we also went to air up my scooter tires. I believe there was also vacuuming involved and garbage taking-outing. His weekly help is of huge benefit to me, I don’t know what I’ll do when he starts working full-time again! This time dinner in the food court was my old staple, Edo Japan, Hawaiian Chicken, no rice, extra veggies, no extra sauce. There are only about 3 places I can get food from in the food court now, and that is one of them. No more A&W onion rings waaaah!!!

Yesterday I worked at the Pub. When I arrived, I went in the front door instead of my usual back door, because of all the snow. I’m glad I did, because my old buddy Pete spotted me as he was driving by, and decided to stop in. What a surprise that was!! I’ve mentioned Pete before…

Yes, that Pete. My old room mate I’ve known about 14 years, who is also a musician and plays in a couple local bands. Anyway, when he walked in, I immediately dropped all plans of going upstairs to work right away and settled in with a coffee. Pete got a pot of tea and we sat there and yakked and caught up on life for over an hour. I told Kevin I would take work home with me, because this opportunity to see Pete took precedence over doing the work there.

Anyway, I did eventually get upstairs and worked for awhile, but they need a new computer mouse badly so out of frustration I shut down and bagged up work to take home. There is nothing more aggravating than trying to get the curser to go where you want it to and it won’t listen. After swearing and “AGGGHHHH!!!!!”-ing for an hour I decided it’s best I go down for lunch and save myself the stress.

There is only one thing I can eat on their menu now (besides garden salad… blah) and that is the pork stir fry on rice. I ordered it, but will ask for chicken from now on instead. I’ve totally lost my taste for pork. I still love crispy bacon, but every other variety of pork I’ve tried to eat in the past year has kind of grossed me out. Maybe it’s because AH told me why Muslims don’t eat pork and that’s always in the back of my mind? I dunno. But it won’t keep me from bacon. Extra crisp.

Tonight, I get to go see the other Peter in my life, Peter Katz, at a private house concert. That’s going to be so great… I love house concerts and the fact Peter made sure I could come to this one means so much to me. Oh, by the way, Peter updated his tour blog for this Western tour and there is a picture of us with Rob in there. (There are LOTS of great pictures of him and Rob in there). I actually put the pictures in the entry I wrote the weekend they were here, (cropped to my liking hehe) but for those regular readers who don’t scroll to previous entries again, here is my favourite picture:

Me and Peter Katz

I haven’t looked that good in a picture for awhile, so I’m milking it everywhere.

So yeah, this is a busy couple days. My folks are taking us all to the Chiropractor soon, then they’ll drop me off at the house concert. Then tomorrow night I have a company Christmas dinner with one of my clients and all the staff/spouses. I think the new girl is single too… so this year I may not be the only one wihout a date!

I better go make myself some steel cut oats to tide me over because we won’t have time to eat before dropping me at Peter’s show. And for the record? Steel cut oats (well, maybe any oats except instant, but “steel cut” sounds special) are FILLING.

No matter how big they get, they still insist they fit in this thing together.

Hee! Don’t you wish you could be that content.