I got my hair re-straightened on Saturday morning. It took 3 1/2 hours (reading trashy magazines and one issue of Maclean's) and I've had to be super conscious of not tucking it behind my ears or getting it wet or anything until this afternoon when I could wash it and treat it normally again (hooray for the perma-bun). We went out on Saturday night and I felt like such a princess fussing with my hair all night. It was really hot at the bar and I was so worried about sweating too much and ruining the straightening process. It was pretty sad.

The good thing about going out on Saturday night was that we got to see Theovis' friend Jamie Perry play as Bocephus King with his Band of Doom. I'd seen Jamie play at an open mic night years ago, so I knew he was a talented singer but it was really cool to see him performing with a band in a club venue for the release party for his new CD All Children Believe in Heaven. He was on the cover of the Georgia Straight paper this week too. You should all go out and buy his album!

I've been bustling around getting ready to head off with Theo and Jeff to GenCon in Indianapolis. I'm not much of a gamer myself but I thought the trip would be fun and it will be cool to see a city I'd probably never get to otherwise. With my incredibly poor knowledge of US geography, I was convinced Indiana was in the mid west. I looked on a map and boy was I wrong. We've got a long way to go. The cats are unhappy because they can tell something bad is coming when the suitcases show up on the bed. Their Gramma spoils them rotten with tuna juice so I can't imagine they'll be too hard done by, though.

For any of you that were worried, I did eventually find them, without assistance from my contacts. Turns out they'd fallen into one of the storage boxes kept beneath the bed that was sticking out the side somewhat.

Does anyone know why I can't access Blogger in Mozilla anymore? If other people use Blogger for the commenting system on their blogs, I can't read them with Mozilla anymore either. Why has Blogger got it out for us Mozilla users? Did they sign some sort of proprietary contract with Microsoft or something, so we all have to use IE? Kimph!

I can't find my glasses this morning so I've been wandering around in a blurry world since I got up. I've been wearing my contacts more since it has been so warm (sweaty glasses on my nose aren't so nice) but it means I'm not keeping as close tabs on my spectacles as I should - keeping them in a consistent place might also help but that would take organization I don't have. I searched the place several times this morning, despite my lack of visual acuity. Theo helped (he can see) but didn't come up with them either. One of the reasons I buy coloured, plastic frames is that they're easier to see when I don't have them on - I had thin, metal ones that were impossible to track down at one point, never again. I keep hoping I'll just come across them as I go about my day, but I think I'm going to have to resort to putting in my contacts so I can see well enough to find my glasses. It's a pretty sad state of affairs.

I'm Australian! I got official confirmation and a lovely certificate officially giving me Australian citizenship. I think it's a nice combo with my Canadian (No sassy comments about how you always knew I was bi, Jeff). So if I get sick of this beautiful, clean, safe country with nationalized healthcare, I can just move to a different one - one with all that PLUS deadly snakes and spiders. Huzzah!

Theovis and I did rip apart the office last weekend and what a job it was. We're still in process of putting it back together but it looks great. The hardwood isn't in the best shape in this room but the new desk arrangement and bookshelves make it look like a much larger room. A decrease in the stacks of various crap will also help. We got rid of our old bookshelves by putting them out in the lane and they all disappeared. I don't know if other cities do this but it is an awesome way to get rid of stuff in Vancouver.

I'm heading up to Whistler this weekend for the Every Woman in the World conference. It should be a bunch of fun. Anyhoo, I'd better head out so I actually get some work done before the goofing off begins.

Hola, ustedes!  Theovis and I have been taking a Spanish class at Langara.  It's pretty fun, and we've been learning a lot but it is making my brain hurt sometimes.  Last night's class filled my head to overflowing and I found myself staring at her blankly when she asked me a question because although I knew how to answer her, I couldn't make it come out of my mouth.  I think she realized that I was just having an off moment and she stopped asking me too many questions after that.  I find myself translating from English to Spanish and vice versa often with French thrown in the middle.  I think knowing French is helping me overall but when I don't know how to say something in Spanish I catch myself throwing in French words.

I spent last weekend down in Bellingham (well, Deming, which is outside Bellingham), WA visiting my friends Karen and Larry.  It was a great weekend relaxing in the sun down by the river or in the hot tub under the stars.  Karen and I drank too many frozen Cosmo slushies and had a grand time giving tipsy advice to her 14-year old stepson about the kind of gal he should marry.  Larry and Ian made Larry's signature bbq'd salmon, which made me a very happy woman.

I spent much of Monday attempting to organize our home office, which has been the chaos room since we moved in.  It has too much clutter and completely inefficient furniture for what is required.  Unfortunately, every time I got started on one part of the project, I couldn't complete it until another part was taken care of.  But this weekend we are going to take our desk apart and change it around to more efficiently fit the space, plus we're going to get rid of a speaker cabinet that we have been hauling around from apartment to apartment to apartment to apartment to house for 10 years, with it being used exactly zero times.  Huzzah!  Of course, with the way my brain works I start thinking, "since we're ripping the room apart anyway, it's probably a good time to rip up the carpet to expose the hardwood floor."  Theovis went pale when I mentioned it but I might just do it while he's Heroclixing on Sat.