Randomness

In other news:

I am in the process of starting a youth volunteer program. We've started with simply getting kids to help out at the youth centre - signing out games to other kids and selling stuff from the snack shop, which is currently only filled with cans of fizzy (pop), but we have more coming soon.


I am coming home in 17 sleeps for Nicki's wedding! I will be bringing with me up to 40 packages of Tim Tams, as long as I can get a hold of the Border people in Canada to make sure they're allowed through...but they should be since they're pre-packaged! I'm excited for that. I'm just excited to come home, full stop (period)!


I saw Walk the Line the other night in theatres - it just came out in Te Anau, meaning it just came out in New Zealand about a month or two ago. It was a great movie, even though I never have considered myself anything close to a Cash fan. I have a new appreciation for him, though, seeing some of what his life was like. Yikes.


I also bought the DaVinci Code the other day. I can see how people can start taking the book as fact - Brown is very convincing, but people need to realize it's fiction. He never meant to try to write a historical text - it's just some stupid made-up storyline. But seriously at times I read it and find myself going "Hmm. Really...interesting." and then I have to stop and go "WAIT! Umm DUH what are you saying - why in the world did you just think that was a good point?!"

I've read about 450 pages in a mere 3 days...but the bulk of the reading (350 pages) was done in two sittings - a 2 hour and a 5 hour one. I was pretty hardcore on my days off! I bought a couple of other books as well, and I'll letcha know what I think of them when I get around to reading them.


Things are going fine at the new house with the new family. Rae got a bike out of the garage, got it fixed up a little and gave it to me so we can go for bike rides. But last night when I went for the first time, it was REALLY big...like the seat was ALL the way down and i still had to completely fully extend my legs to reach the bottom of the pedals. Sad - because I never used to sit down when I wrote my bike all around town...but now I have to coz I'm already standing on it with a very bony seat digging into the bum bones...ouch. I didn't last very long since I haven't ridden in forever, and I was sad to realize that I couldn't even ride steadily with only one hand, let alone no hands. I used to stand up riding with no hands - and now I'm all wobbly even when I take one hand off. Sad that I've lost it so much. I wonder what else I've lost over these years - could I still easily do a triple pirhouette? I was working on quad pirhouettes when I quit dancing...and I'm sure even a double right now would be hard to stay up on.

Oh well...maybe it means there are some things I should get back into, just for fun.

Well this is enough blogging for today - gotta get some work done.