Typical
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Stephen Says
Typical Sunday:
I went to work (Took the bike!), did the accounts (Nearly balanced them!), bought my manager wedding presents from the staff, held a BBQ at work, came home, opened a bottle of red wine and spilled my 1st glass all over our curtains.
Our white curtains.

Much stress ensues as we soak the bloody thing in salt water, spray them with stain removed, bung them in the washing machine with so much laundry detergent, soap suds are leaking from its cracks and... hopefully that will do the trick.
Otherwise it's Bleach City for them tomorrow.

Why does wine taste so good but stain so bad?

And, of course, we're totally broke what with this trip to the States coming up (Interesting factiod: We've spent (thus far) 1/2 of the total cost of our own wedding to make this trip.) and, what with another wedding to attend next Friday, the ballet to attend tomorrow, my Nain to visit on Tuesday, it's like eek! Is this Woking or Englefield Green? So yeah, stress levels are a little high.

Elisabeth's inheritannce couldn't come at a better time. She's in the process of sorting out how much will go to paying off debts, long-term-high-interesting the rest of it, sorting out a standing order and figuring out how much of our salaries we can set aside to save-up, etc. All so that when we go back to Canada, we don't have to deal with the same shit that we had to deal with here.
Anyone know any mental health charities in the Toronto area that are hiring?

Speaking of which, I may not be a deputy manager for much longer. You see, I need to take a test to qualify. And the old DPM who is now the PM needs to take a test to qualify as a project manager. And if he doesn't pass, he get's sent back to my position which means that I get sent back to my old position. Likewise if I fail my test. I thought I was through with tests but whatever, we've decided to put all this off until after he's back from his honeymoon and I'm back from my whatever and we're both (in theory) rested.
With luck ah, getting busy...phone ringing... need to stop blogging.

CONGRATULATIONS!!
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
CONGRATULATIONS to the fabulous Mrs. Christine McNaughton (nee Lee) who is embarking upon the wonderful journey of marriage today!

We wish we could be in Manitoulin to share in the celebrations.

Hip hip Horay!

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And in other news, Stephen's working the weekend shift and is in bed early tonight. We watched the movie "Broken Flowers" which we both enjoyed. Bill Murry is always a treat.

I got carded yesterday for buying a bottle of white wine. Other than that, life goes on as normal.

I can't beleive it's not Richard
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues
Topic: Stephen Says
Ing-ger-land Ing-ger-land Ing-ger-laaand...
Ing-ger-land Ing-ger-land Ing-ger-lAAAaaand...
Ing-ger-land Ing-ger-land Ing-ger-laaand...
Ing-ger-land...
ING-GER-LAND!

video and/or transcript
Stephen Colbert

You Did Beautfiully!
Mood:  happy
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

What a wonderful surprise not to find Stephen drunk and angry in a flour-strewn kitchen.

This fellow pulled it all off beautifully, and had even done all the dishes before dinner. Here's the results:

However, it was all so good, it turned from a "light meal" into a gorge-fest.

I was quite overwhemled.

We then watched the film: 2046, which is beautiful and strange.

It's the next day, and how happy am I to be one day closer to going to vacation?

The Natural History Museum
Topic: Stephen Says
Elisabeth in front of a big fetus followed by 3 attempts of mine to ape Robert Mapplethorpe's style:

It's our anniversary today and I've gotten into the whole idea of, when it's hot, not cooking too much and making light, cold meals for supper. So in that vein, we're having nachos with home-made extra-hot guacamole & home-made salsa, some cheese & chutney toasties and, pushing my cooking abilities to their limit, a banana & pineapple cake with mango icing.

The desert is stressing me out a bit. It's a surprise but I've already warned her that there's a chance that, when she gets home this evening, she'll find me drunk & angry in the kitchen.

poot
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: fittingly, the news
Topic: Stephen Says
So on Sunday, to accompany my paper in the pub I also splurged out a ridiculous 2 pounds 60 on Time magazine becase it had a big report on the Haditha massacre. When Elisabeth finally got to the pub, she chastized me for such a stupid purchase.

And stupid purchase it was. I won't go into the details on the horrible pro-U.S.A. rah! rah! rah! that permiated the article but the real piss in my cornflakes came when I got to the last page and came across what is possibly the stupidest article I've read all year.

And in other news, Robert Fisk has torn Canada a new one. It's kind of sad to see Canada raked across the coals over in England.

Well, about something that isn't the seal hunt.
Or about being a'sexual terrorist.'

1 day on, 1 day off
Mood:  energetic
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
What a weekend! Two newspapers in two days!

It's still quite hot, and a bit muggy here, but I'm not complaining. Although, ahem, some people just can't stop sweating and pouring water on their heads...

A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JENN TODAY! EVERY YEAR IT'S JUST A WONDER HOW SHE MANAGES TO LOOK SO YOUNG!

Tonight we watched another Amaldovar film: All About My Mother. This was Stephen's 1st time, my 3rd time. Set in Madrid & Barcelona, it encorporates love, life, death, transvestites, mothers, theatre, trains, taxis, apartments, and most of all: women (ok, so some have spent a lot of money to get that way, but nevertheless). An inspiring film.

Work is as to be expected this time of year: short staffed. Lots on holiday, and somehow we must keep up the work level. But it's good.

Tomorrow we've both got the day off to meet Stephen's father who's in London for a short time. The natural history museum might be on the menu?

A bientot!

Hassley
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
We were just waking up after a relaxing sleep-in when the phone rang. Someone called in sick and Stephen had to go to work since no one else was available.

Needless to say, Stephen was not amused.

So I puttered around and we met up at the apartment this afternoon where I plied him with guacamole & beer.

We decided to enjoy the beautiful weather and went to rent videos. But we stopped off at the pub for a pint, and then had dinner at L'Aroma (free sangria starters to all customers-yay!) before heading home to relax.

Tomorrow, who knows what will happen?

The outlook for the week is that we are both taking Tues. off of work to meet Stephen's father in London for lunch, and then perhaps stay in town for the evening. The 14th is our 3rd anniversary, but haven't decided how to celebrate it just yet. With the trip to the US looming, a weekend away is not possible.

I've been reading some Noam Chomsky, and am learning some revolting and enlightening facts about US foreign policy. For starters, the US government is a serial killer, an ethnic cleansing machine. Only, we don't hear about it. Maybe because we don't want to? But if the information is out there, and these atrocities are happening, what are we going to do about it? And its not just the US. Its allies, like Canada, the UK, and others, are all bedfellows. Maybe central governments have proven they can't handle the amount of power that they have been given. And that's the key: the people give governments power. Therefore, the people should be able to take it away. However, I feel very impotent.

And I feel tired.

G'night.

Fagged & Shagged & Fashed & Bashed
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: Tropicalia
Topic: Stephen Says
It's like all the residents conspired to save everything up for MO & I to come back to work and all kick off at the same time being angry/ violent/ depressed/ suicidal/ need furniture to be built. So instead of a Fun Friday, it turned into a Fighting Friday where I was inside all day building things, sorting things, cleaning things up and filling out incident reports instead of playing badminton in the back garden and taking in some of this frankly fantastic weather.

All the same, after two days of being talked to like a child, it's nice to realize that you're not crap.

World Cup starts tonight. It's also evictions over in the Big Brother house. I hope Nikki isn't sent home.

XXX
Oh for crying out loud, this it ridiculous, this entry still hasn't appeared on the blog and I posted it hours ago...