Thoughts of the day

TV JUNKIE
I don't know if any of you are keeping up with The Amazing Race this season but I gotta say, it is one of my most anticipated show to watch each Tuesday! (The O.C. and Survivor are close behind.) Rob and Amber (the winners of one Survivor) are KICKING BUTT in the Amazing Race and it is so funny because the other teams just LOATHE them. I love it. I especially love seeing all the cities and countries that they go to, they are all so different and exciting and beautiful. I think Lynnel and I should team up and be on that show and amaze all of you with our blonde smartness. We'd be quite the team. She would eat all the yucky stuff and do all the super scary things, and I would do all the navigating (Chad I don't want to hear about Calgary) and all the other challenges that don't involve eating intestines and risking my life, and then we would win a million bucks! Too bad we're Canadian and don't qualify for it. Another show that has been at the top of my list this year has been ER. Where have I been all these years and not watched this show? It is so good. I can't believe all the years I have missed out on that show. SPEAKING OF EXCITING SHOWS.... I heard the most wonderful news yesterday (once again thanks to John Gormley)... Beverly Hills 90210 is coming out on DVD! If there is any one show that I would actually buy on dvd, it would be 90210. It's only season one though which sucks, but hey if they start with season one, logic has it that they will do season two, three and onward. Keep your fingers crossed!

DINNER AT POVERINOS
Well last night Jeff and I went to Poverinos for supper. I had the blackened chicken and it was divine. Jeff also had the blackened chicken (ahem, MY blackened chicken) because he didn't like his canneloni. It was unfortunate but I did what any good girlfriend would do and shared it with him instead of packing the rest up for my lunch. Well we sat at this table on the second floor, right on the corner of the balcony where we could overlook the entire restaraunt, and we "people watched." People watching is very interesting because they have no idea you are staring at them and making up great big extravagent stories about their lives. Anyway the point of this story is that one lady below us had also ordered canneloni and she only ate half of it before she sent it away, giving Jeff the impression that his canneloni was going to be horrible, and hence, it was tasteless, just as he had hypothetized. Next time we will sit there and Jeff will wait to order until he has seen at least one completely satisfied customer, and he will order what they had. Or he could do what I always do, and just go with what's safe. I'd prefer that so that next time I can take home the other half of my blackened chicken :)

Thank goodness.
I found out on Wednesday night that I don't have to do a presentation for my night class, International Studies. This is an all-year long class and about once a month, we have presentations. At the beginning of the year we all had to sign up, and I chose to do World Health, only because it was the very last one on the list. Somehow I get lucky with getting my presentations cancelled, as it happened in first semester in my Economic Development class, because the prof miscalculated his time. Anyway I am thrilled because presentations scare the crap out of me. My prof is 9 months pregnant and she was planning to teach one more class, but decided instead to waive the last set of presentations and give us an extra assignment. Well PTL. My goal is to make it all the way through university without any presentations. I am halfway there! So this next coming week, my assignments are a six page commentary (for IS), and another 12 page paper for my other geography class, and I'm quite excited about it actually. I am doing it on African Traditional Spirituality and Religion. I think it will be one of the more interesting papers I have done this year.

Plans for today -
Start my IS assignment.
Go to Walmart
Buy a snowmobile toy for a 2 year old.
Eat supper.
Go to Martinsville with Jeff.
Give Alexander his birthday present.
Hang out with Jeff's cousin and her husband.
Home and sleep.

I am more excited for tomorrow night when we are having our big Easter dinner, Turkey and all the works!!!
YAY FOR MY MOM!
And yay for me, because I will help her. You know, do a salad or something. I think that I will just always count on my mom for big dinners because, she is the expert and why try to take that away from her? She may as well remain the expert so that I don't have to hurt her feelings with my turkey dinners :) Just kidding, she will always be the best turkey dinner cook in the world.

Happy Easter everyone!