I went to the GYM today. Yay Me.

More from Globeandmail.com.

Plastic surgery, once limited mostly to the middle-aged, is now in great demand among people over 65, The Associated Press reports. The number of cosmetic surgeries for U.S. senior citizens jumped from 121,000 in 1997 to 425,000 last year. A Boston plastic surgeon says many of his patients are over 70 -- including an 82-year-old woman who just had her breasts enlarged.

Last week, a woman in Hamburg, Germany, told police she saw a bare-chested man with two big white dots on his forehead staring through her window, Reuters reports. Officers think it was a bird escaped from a zoo, but are taking no chances. "We're looking for a naked man with big eyes or an emu," officials said.

(how can you confuse those two things?)

(and thanks to Erin for introducing me to this wonderful column...)

We got a new oven. The new fridge (though I'm not sure why we're getting a new fridge) is coming Wednesday. Very exciting. No, I don't get out much, thanks for asking.

I've been babysitting all week, which is pretty fun, surprisingly. So today we went to Centennial Beach, but for some reason it was closed. Rip off, it was nice, and it should at least be open until September. Anyway, so we went to see Lilo and Stitch instead, which is really a good movie. I've seen it before, and so had Miranda, but it was still funny. But with about 2 minutes left in the movie, the screen went all white. It took them about 10 minutes to get it fixed, so we all got free movie passes for next time. Pretty cool!

ok, eff the stupid wishlist thing, I'm just putting them up on the page here. Enjoy.

Are you colourblind?

ok, scary...

In 1939, Lina Medina of Peru became a mother at the record age of five years, seven months and 21 days. No one has ever established who was the father of her son, who died in 1979. She married and had a second son in 1972. Ms. Medina lives in a poor, crime-ridden suburb of Lima, called Little Chicago, with her husband. In 1939, Reuters adds, Peru promised Ms. Medina armfuls of aid. So far, she has seen none.

and now just odd...

The northern snakehead fish, a native of China, worries Americans because it has been discovered in a Maryland pond and may spread across the region. The metre-long species, a voracious predator of other fish, can slither across land and breathe air for days at a time. It's also on the menu at the Yin Yankee Cafe in Annapolis, Md., writes Rona Kobell of The Baltimore Sun: "Roasted in banana leaves, slathered in spicy Indonesian curry and garnished with organic St. Mary's tomatoes, the northern snakehead fish is a tasty surprise. It has the texture of halibut and the sweetness of eel. . . . And what wine goes with roasted invasive predator? [Cafe chef Jerry] Trice recommends a lush, tropical pinot blanc."

gotta love Globe and mail.com. Check the "Social Studies" section.

that link doesn't work, Chapters bastards...try this one instead.

I have to take a moment to express my admiration for Bill Bryson. He writes travel novels, which are thus true, yet still amazingly funny. He just has a way of putting things that it's not like he's trying to be funny, and that makes it even better. I just finished reading In a Sunburned Country, which is about Australia. It all started when Erin got A Walk in the Woods for Christmas from my Aunt Beth. It's also really funny. Giving quotes I don't think would do it justice, so you'll just have to read it and be satisfied with that. Now I'm about to start Notes From a Big Country, which is a collection of his newspaper articles. I'm pretty excited.
Also, my birthday is coming up, if anybody was wondering...check out my wishlist!

AND, it was assembled in Chrysler Mexico.

Things I learned about my car today:

it was made in November of 1995
it has the wrong size tires on it, but that's actually a good thing, because I thought I was going to have to buy R14s, but now I can buy R13s, which are cheaper.
the reccommended passenger load is 2 for the front and 3 for the back. My GOD, people are stupid. They have to tell me that?
reccommended tire pressure is 32 psi. I knew that already, but I thought I'd add it anyway.

That's all.

Check this out. At first, it's creepy, then kind of neat, but I think it's back to kind of creepy for me. Better than being stuck underground I think, but I had this horrible thought of "ok, let's add Grandma to the bracelet now kids!", or of celebrity diamonds being stolen and auctioned off on eBay or something horrible that SO WOULD happen. People are weird.

What's everyone doing for the long weekend?

yeah, I just wanted to get a new Word or WordPerfect or something. I'm gettting mom and dad to see if they can find eMachines laptops for cheap too, cause I want one. Here's hoping! I updated the pictures page, if anyone's interested.

More questions....

why do they shrink wrap cds and dvds, and then also have security stickers on all 3 openable sides? overkill, no? I've got parts 2 3 and 4 of the Blue Planet series, which is really cool and I don't care if it makes me a dork. hehe. Maybe I care a little, but not a lot. But I'm trying to watch part 2, and it's just a hassle to open.

WHY, when I wash my car, does it rain?

also, why are Cool Ranch Doritos not as good as I remember them being? there is some serious skimping on seasoning going on at the Doritos factory...

I love having days where I feel like I actually accomplished something. For instance, today I bought kitty litter, got propane for our little porta-b-b-q, washed the car in super fun coloured and yummy smelling soap, ordered cable (ha HA, Grant is still a student and thus gets $10 installation and 1/2 price 2 months....) and gave the government my new address so they can send me my gst cheques. Wonderful wonderful. Oh, and I planted a sunflower plant that mom got me at the Fredericton market, and ordered a picture disk of 3 sets of negatives. Haha, you thought I had a lot of cat pictures before! Now I have more, as well as an abundance of flower pictures. It's only $5 to have them put on a cd for you, which is pretty good, and they can even do it in black and white. My feeling is that I can make them black and white once I get them home, if I want to, so I'll stick with colour. I'm just about to upload the pictures from my little mc3 and see if anything there is worth putting up here.

ah, I'm back. I had a lovely week of doing nothing, culminating in my getting to set up my Grannie's new computer, which was really more exciting for me than it should have been. I was hoping to be able to steal the new Windows cd or something, maybe get a new MSOffice out of the whole thing, but no luck, the eMachines bastards have preinstalled everything on the computer, and only given you a rescue disk. Anyway, off to buy kitty litter and picture disks.

of course, pictures of Erin. She was saddened that I had no pictures of her, so here you go! These are of her with her friend Ja'net.

Ok, so on Erin's reccommendation, I go check out the new Survivor site. There are many intersting things which must be addressed. For one, there is an unhealthy balance of old people to young. Lots of old folks. For two, I'd like to list some of my favourite and seemingly most useful 'luxury items': Erin (ha ha) brought body paint. Yes, many a time have I thought...if only I had my body paint..... other helpful items include a skateboard, fuzzy slippers, a shaving kit (granted, somewhat helpful, but, come on...), a brush (same comment applies), a Chrisitan flag (what the...?), and a "lucky travelling bag".

Erin has already called dibs on Jed, for reasons which will become clear once you click the link. Unfortunately named, but cute nonetheless. I think that's about it for now.