Up Against

So things are settling down a little for me. I very much welcome the silence. I'm starting to have a routine again, I like routines. It doesn't stress me out as much. I'm making lots of new friends at work and have found a group of people with the same quirks and apparently love of tomatoes and hotsauce as I do. Oh man, the cafeteria here is amazing. Yesterday's special was Taco salad. I can't pass up anything mexican. All it was was a base of nacho chips, that processed nacho cheese sauce, a pile of salsa and sourcream and some seasnoned ground beef. I was like "I can't belive this counts as a lunch!" It was awesome. They also sell nachos and cheese as a snack there too. I'm in for some trouble. I should just buy nacho cheese at home. Then it wouldn't be such a commodity to me and I wouldn't pig out everytime I see it. I think that's a plan.

I bought myself some cookbooks. I really do like cooking. I just don't like the cleaning dishes part. Every recipe I make, I rework it so I use the least amount of dishes possible. It's challenging sometimes and sometimes takes more time than washing the extra dirty dish, but in my mind it's worth it. But anyhoo, I bought the Best of Bridge cookbooks, and they are amazing. I've made so many yummy things out of there, including a Mexican Lasagna. Next week's menu includes, Chili Lime Chicken, tropical orange salad and skor cookies. I like this cooking thing, much better than the KD I've been living off of for the last 6 years. Although it still makes its way in weekly. I think they put cocane in that stuff.

I still need to find a good place to rollerblade. I miss Regina and being able to rollerblade anywhere from my house. Saskatoon doesn't quite have that elaborate cross city paved park path system. The river paths are too short, and they are hilly and rocky, not the most ideal for rollerblading. If anyone has a good path, let me know.

I'm going out to the lake this weekend to spend Father's day with my Dad. I talked to him for an hour on the phone the other night. Neither of us are phone people so I think he misses me. I also plan to work on my tan and maybe brave the water. I'd like to set up splash island too, our water trampoline. Hopefully it will be nice enough to do that. Maybe do some tubing too, I've had the urge to go this year for some reason. Usually I just like to watch my Dad try to kill my friends while they are hanging off the back of the boat, but I feel the urge to be the one doing the hanging off the back of the boat. I really enjoyed the 3 person tube my cousin had. I think I might invest in one of those. They've solved that nasty head banging problem in the new tubes, the seats are close together so if you're thrown up in the air and land, you might bonk heads with the person next to you. Let me tell you, that is painful.

Too end I will leave you with a funny story. I ordered some O'reilly computer books online from amazon. One of them was titled "C in a Nutshell". The O'reilly books always have a different animal on the front of all their books and on the spine, so you're collection looks pretty neat if you have them lined up on the shelf. Dan asked why there was a picture of a Yak on my C in a Nutshell book, so I gave him the above explanation of how it looks nice. Then he says "ooooh, I see, and they all have a different letter too?" I said no, "C" is just the name of the programming language. I had to explain there were no "A" or "B" in a nutshell books.