never trust a minty brained man

Some time this week I will be debt free. Well monetarily speaking anyhow.

I am going to pay off the remainder of my student loan which now sits in the form of a line of credit.

There are three very over sugared children running around the house right now. This tends to happen on birthdays. Today we had a little cake type party for my sisters boyfriend. They've been together for about four years now I think. The kids ate the candies used to decorate the cake as it was being made, got ahold of some of the icing as it was being put on and then finally got a bunch more at cake time.

The plan was to take them out to the new swing set thing outside after so they could tire themselves out. The blackflys had other ideas. So now the kids are all bouncing around the living room while their parents try to get them to watch a Winnie the Pooh movie.

I got a Ninja Turtles birthday card and a box of pocky plus some cash for him. Yep.... little kids ninja turtle card. Picked it up at Zehrs while I was riding my cart around killing time.

It's kind of funny. To me anyhow. He's a bit of a cartoon nerd/hippy so it works out. Even if everyone else just thinks I'm nuts. I wrote Cowabunga Dude! on the inside. lol

the dashboard melted but we still have the radio

Now here we go! ==========> Modest Mouse - Dashboard

Oh, it should've been, could've been worse than you would ever know.
Well, you told me about nowhere, well it sounds like someplace I'd like to go.

Oh, it could've been, should've been worse than you would ever know.
Well, the windshield was broken but I love the fresh air you know.
(The dashboard melted but we still have the radio)


I love this song and the video is awesome. :) It's pretty late right now but I'm awake for some reason. Song is kinda about thinking positive now matter how messed up things get. The video doesn't really go along with that though.

wolverine!

I want to go see this movie. I don't like going to movies alone though. Never have, it's just a thing.

Couldn't find anyone to go today. Maybe tomorrow. :/

what nerds do!

I am a science nerd at heart. I particularly like chemistry. I've always had great luck with it.

"Added after: Cut to the end if you want the point of this"

During high school there was a year period where my whole family up and moved to Manitoba. I didn't do well there. I just did not fit in.

I can use the square peg in a round hole analogy here. In Ontario if you had a round peg you would put it in the round hole, square peg square hole. In Manitoba they had no concept of this. If the peg didn't fit they would just mash it up and poor the remains of the ill fitting peg into whatever hole they wanted.

I did well enough in physics/chemistry/biology before we left the province. Once we got to Manitoba I found out that I was literally almost a grade ahead in all three subjects. The courses were so easy, for me anyhow. I would get really bored and fall asleep most classes. Wake up for tests and ace them. This didn't make me a lot of friends. lol :)

There was new stuff learned near the end of the year in each class and it was interesting but most of the rest of the people in the class were a bit slow on the uptake.

There were a few very smart people at the school as well so it wasn't all bad.

Once we got back to Ontario it was another story. Almost every class I signed up for here was ahead of where I would have been in Manitoba by a text book or two. Essentially I lacked an entire year of learning for most of the classes. OAC classes were mostly out of the question :/ I tried physics, chemistry and biology.

It was just not doable. Every assignment required me to read chapter upon chapter of information from the previous grade text book in order to understand it. This was on top of the new things I needed to learn from that grades text. I had similar problems with math and english as well. English though is a whole other story.

The only excpetion was chemistry. We came back about a week late. This caused me to miss the review from the previous year. This covered how to setup and conduct experiments in a way I was unfamiliar with. I fudged my way through it. Then it came time for final exams. Two weeks before the final exam I was sick with something. I managed to miss the review of how to properly setup/conduct the experiments once again along with new information on it.

So I get back, it's time for the exam..... the vast majority of the exam(3/4 or so) is setting up a rough layout for an experiment on paper. It said to use a matrix, lay out measurements, calculations, control experiments. I'm thinking, I'm totally screwed. I have no clue what it means by matrix. But it all just clicks, its common sense, it just flows out of my brain. Somehow I do amazing on the exam. yay me!

As for physics, the teacher tried to help me catch up. In the end we both agreed that it was pretty much a lost cause being so far behind. Biology was a similar situation. It didn't matter how much effort I put into the assignments and tests the best I could managed was 7oish percent. This was unnacceptable to me and the cause of much stress.

So from a straight A student in Ontario to an A+ in Manitoba to screwed-over back in Ontario. I dropped physics/biology. Took up yearbook/comm tech. (both classes had same teacher and it was about 3 weeks into the year, another interesting story). I stuck it out through english but ended up failing. I learned a lot about the Canterbury Tales though. I just could not write the tests or assignments to the teachers liking. To this day I have no clue what she wanted. She was a terrible terrible teacher.

Took general English, aced it. Comm tech, I won an award and aced it. Totally rocked year book class. It was kind of refreshing to not take stressful classes but it really didn't help me with my education goals.

Anyways, do I ever get of topic eh?

THE POINT!!!!!!

I like chemistry, found some chemistry videos with this neat puffy haired chemistry professor. This led me to the following site, which I find fascinating and hilarious. :) I have been watching them for the last few days when I get bored.

www.periodicvideos.com

nice out? ya... nice like a fox!

Okay, so the title makes little sense I'll give you that.

It's a somewhat beautiful out. If it wasn't for the wind and clouds it would be a picture perfect day. There is, however, just enough of a chill in the breeze, now and then, to require a sweater or coat of some sort.

Plus if you set anything down it blows away really fast.

I was planning on BBQ'n something today but we lack a sheltered spot to fire up the grill. I'm not sure what to have instead. Once you got BBQ planned in your head everything else seems like kraft dinner.

I don't eat kraft dinner... only once did I ever even eat macaroni and cheese and that was on a flight from toronto to LAX. I somehow missed the part where you say you don't want cheese in your meal thingy. The two options were mac&cheese + some kind of meat or some weird seafood dish. Now I'll eat seafood now and then but I didn't want to tempt fate by eating airline seafood on a 3hr flight(I think thats how long it was). So mac & cheese it was.

Now I use the term mac & cheese losely. The dish looked like someone had taken a childs macaroni art picture, let it dry up really well and stuck it to a paper plate. There really was no decernable taste to the "noodles" or the "cheese-like" coating. Not so much a coating as a hard/dry coloring. I was unsure of what the "meat" was and I can't remember the taste. I think it may be my brains way of protecting me from the horrible memory of it.

I wouldn't have eaten it except I was starving by the time they served it. It was my first time flying and as such I was incredibly nervous. So nervous in fact I hadn't eaten anything in about a day and a half.

I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, well more like an old man with a funny smell and big glasses and a lady who went to sleep at the start of the flight and only woke up once to eat.

The worst part was this horrible food, which I was counting on to help calm my stomach, was served in a portion more suitable for something the size of a chihuahua... I'm not sure a chihuahua would have eaten it though.

It should be stated that my substitute for a meal when the rest of the family was having mac & cheese growing up.... was, wait for it...... plain macaroni + tuna on a plate and some ketchup all mixed together.

Hey, I never claimed to be refined. Beacuse of the dairy thing I never developed a taste for cheese + pasta by itself. Now that I'm older I find I'll sometimes put "extra old" cheddar on spaghetti + meat sauce. There are very few things I like cheese on, pizza, spaghetti and chicken parm/stuffed shell type dishes. I have a way higher tolerance for mozzerella than cheddar it seems as well.

Anyhoo, maybe I'll suggest my sister make her vegetarian chilli. I myself don't like it or the smell of it cooking. The smell of cooking peppers gives me indigestion for some reason. However, everyone else in the house loves the stuff.

pizza & wings

As usually happens on Friday someone in the house decided they wanted to get some take out for supper.

Tonight it was Pizza & Wings from the place in Flesherton that used to be Neils diner.
It was a nice place to eat, named for the NHL hockey player Chris Neil who plays for the Ottawa Senators. His mom ran the place. It had been a few other not so good restaurants up to the time she took over. Then it became a really nice place to go. She died in a car accident just up the road from berkeley though :/ Now it is a pizza place, godfathers pizza I think.

Anyhoo.... So I ate a few wings and one piece of pizza. I have a problem with dairy and always have. Makes my insides really hot and such and it hurts really bad. Lactose intolerance type thing I guess only the lacteeze type pills and lactose free milk don't help. The only thing that does is eating small amounts of dairy over time to build up a bit of a tolerance.

I really like pizza so sometimes I just eat it anyway and just deal with it. If you ever have a child who's suffering from the lactose intolerance thing, all rolling around in agony. They will have diarrhea from this and be sitting on the toilet just feeling like 10 kinds of crappy. Get two wash clothes or so and run cold water on them and roll them up in a tube and put one of them along their waste line. Once it warms up, replace it with the other one. Cool off the first one and repeat. It doesn't make the pain go away but it helps a lot.

My mom used to make pizza for special occasions and I would eat a buttload of it. I discovered the wash cloth thing out of necessity.

I used to have an Ice Capp from Tim Hortons now and then to help build up a resistance. But they make me get fat way too fast.

Anyhoo i'm off! /o.o/ <-- see thats a little guy wooshing away like superman

waiting to see

What's with the weather huh?

It's Friday! I think I'm starting to feel better, it's hard to tell this early in the morning. I'm waiting to see how I feel once I've been up for awhile. Hopefully I can get some work done today.

Also, it's May now! May is clearly the best month of the year ever!

I fell asleep on the couch yesterday while I was feeling crummy and when I woke up there were all kinds of animal toys around my head.... when you have little nephews this is not a huge surprise.

What made it even funnier was Damien(brothers son), was laying beside me drinking a bottle. I'm not sure how I slept through him sneaking up on me, he's not as small as he used to be and far from stealthy. When he saw I woke up he said something along the lines of "I got you some toys." It's a bit hard to tell because he's only just getting good at talking.

This I think makes up for the fact that I got this stomach thing from him. :) He's too cute sometimes.