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Category: General
Big bike ride tomorrow
I’ve took a long hard look at the summer coming up and realised that I will not get too many opportunities to do any serious biking. A decision was then made to bike to school at least once a week. I’ve biked to downtown and back before so it should not be too bad, but I’ve never done it “on the clock” in both directions.
Tomorrow is the first day, I got my bike ready and I washed my biking clothes. I still need to get the panniers filled with all the stuff and get my lunch and school clothes prepared. I am nervous, wish me luck!
This weekend was nice enough, it was the first instance of summer weather. I got my sandals and skirts out. I actually got a lot done without too much rushing. I went wedding dress shopping with Maria, got my bike ready for the road, went for a nice walk with my boys, tidied up the front yard, got groceries, helped Chris catch his plane on time, visited Alex, played with Trevor etc. What a gorgeous start of a summer!
Film – The Other Boylen Girl
I expect three things from a film:
1. Make me care
2. Make me think
3. Make me laugh
If I was to give a point for achieving each of these, the Other Boylen Girl would get a big fat zero. Now, I love costume dramas and I love historical inaccuracies, but this was truly horrible.
Admittedly, we did laugh at the film, though not with it. Matching sofa pattern dresses were funny and there were plenty of opportunity to exercise one’s wit. For example, when Anne Boylen was walking to the block we pointed out that, in real life she got her head chopped off, but this is based on a novel…
She still got her head chopped off. So much rubbish, so little imagination.
In any case, the weekend in Montreal went well, we checked out this fun little hot chocolate place and went to the Quebec Library and Archives which is really nice. Trev had a great time with his grandma meanwhile.
Snowed in
There is so much snow out there it is a home weekend for us. Chris’ plans are to copy 10 records.
My plan is to tidy and play with the boy. The two are mutually exclusive and at cross purposes. I will be busy the whole weekend and still feel like I got nothing done.
Ever since Trev started daycare and Chris went back to work, life has been crazy. I don’t think I made it to any spinning classes in two months, I go to gym once a week at work if I can compass it. I do make it to school more often than not though my goal of submitting a paper for June would be much assisted by more free time of which I have none. To top it all I am going to Toronto for a week again. The hotel has a sorry excuse for a gym, so I just might get a workout.
In Indian it means it’s boring, but it’s clean
I’m off to Toronto next week. I am a bit sad to be away from the boys for four days, but hopefully I will get a lot of work done to make it worth it.
I’ve been scoping out the public transit and I must admit that I miss living in a big city. My hotel and factory are in the middle of nowhere and there is a bus between them every 3 minutes. Drool. That never happens in Ottawa. On the minus side I don’t think I will get to visit too much while I’m there. I’ll try and work like crazy so I won’t have to go back too often during the next couple of months. Wish me luck.
To make everything more fun, I am currently reading “Brown Girl in the Ring” as a part of the Canada Reads program. It is a futuristic novel in which downtown Toronto core becomes so destitute and violent the rest of Canada builds walls around it and leaves it to be run by a mob boss from the top of the CN tower.
Film – Persepolis
I had a pretty bad cold today so I stayed home. I was just about to get Trev dressed for daycare when I realised that he has a bit of a cough too so I decided to keep him with me. I didn’t get the rest I was hoping for, or the time to tidy up a bit, but we did build a fort.
