weeeeeeeekend

So i had a busy weekend, I had my kiddo over, and it seemed that we weren't going to be up too much. I got him to get his homework done, and we pretty much just chilled for most of friday/saturday..... Saturday night we decided to go see a movie, Madagascar 2. It was pretty good, lots of funny things in it that made it enjoyable. Sometimes these kid movies are strictly kids only and most adults dread sitting threw them. This one was all right :)

So then sunday we had made plans to meet up with Nikki and her niece and nephew and car pool it down to Shakers. I wish I was 10 again, because this would be the place I would want to live.
It was snowing, so we didn't get to do the mini golf or go carts, but the indoor activities were pretty great. There was climbing wall, laser tag (albeit not as good as laser quest, but still fun), and a climbing/play ground area. You basically purchase and all day pass, and can go as many times as you want. They also had a zillion games there including skee ball, air hockey, and basket ball.


So they also had a ton of flashy exciting games of chance, aka gambling games, that kids play with tokens to win tickets. If they earn enough tickets, they can cash them out for cheap toys or candy. Basically it equates that you spend 5-10 bucks to win an item that would cost you maybe a buck or less at a dollar store.....
I also think that the casino industry must have some kind of investment, as they really were teaching the kids how to pump coins into machines. Some kids would win a great deal of tickets right away which probably just fuels the budding addiction further.... I know that's how they get you as an adult....


Anyways, it was fun to see and play some of the games. If your going into it just for a good fun time, and don't think about the money or prizes, it's not that bad. But of course I am cheap and I look at the cost of everything and gripe about it :)

I think Evan (aka the kiddo) did the laser Tag 15 times in total, climbed the rock wall at least 5 times. Needless to say, today his legs were killing him. The other kids we went with also had a blast, so defiantly would think about heading back there someday. Preferably when the mini gold and go karts are open....

So sunday night I caught "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. It was funnier than I thought it would be. It definitely would have been worth renting ;) hehe
It has some pretty funny pranks, and funny dialogue.

I might be signing up for a month pass at the Cardel place, its a fitness/activity center up in Coventry. Hopefully I can get into some fun sports and get into shape before the new year. If I plan on going to Cuba in March, I need to get into Bikini shape.
Oh crap, guess I will need a passport as well :P

meh

So I might be getting sick again, it seems just as I get better, another cold comes along to kick my arse. It is still just in my throat as a sore funny scratching, but usually that's just the precursor to achy kidneys and then a full blown cold.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention, but I managed to watch "The Foot Fist Way" a small film that Will Ferrel and Adam Mackey helped produce about a unbalanced Tae Kwon do instructor who teaches kids and adults.
It was pretty funny at times, and pretty horrible at other times, and I swear that his wife in the movie was an ex porn star, but wikipedia suggests otherwise.....

I had a dream the other night about playing Fallout 3, I dreamt I kept picking up stuff, but couldn't carry it all, so I had to choose from the items I carried, which ones to ditch.
This could be a sign that I am playing it too much, but I think maybe my brain is telling me to just stop picking up everything to try to sell.

saving a fortune

So I ate breakfast at home, and I brought a lunch today. I should do this all the time in order to eat healthy and save money, but I am pretty darned lazy and I so I don't know if I will be able to repeat this process again tomorrow.
The breakfast was leftover Vietnamese soup, or Pho as it is also known, and the lunch was generously donated by a friend and is leftover Butter Chicken.
Maybe I just need to organize all my friends so that they all make me lunches and take turns each day.
I just wont get my vegan or veggie friends to help out, cause I can't stand tofu!

I haven't blogged for awhile, but I am sure there is tons to talk about.
I bought Fallout 3 for the PC, and it is amazing. It is so immersive that I have played 3 hours straight without even realizing it on more than one occasion.
It is a First (or third) person RPG. It takes place in a post apocalyptic world that has survived a nuclear war (barely).
They have old and new weapons that can be used, plus they have mutant people and animals to fight. Their is also an underlining theme that sort of feels like it comes from the 50's, but it provides humor and additional atmosphere to the game. If you have ever played Bioshock it is similar to that.

I gave blood last Wednesday. It was fun, but I was really worried I would pass out due to lack of sleep. Unfortunately they are very good at scamming you into signing up for future sessions, so I have a date with the Canadian blood services in January and March :)

I saw the movie "Role Models" with Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, and Christopher Mintz- Plasse (thanks IMDB). It is a movie about two guys who get into trouble with the law and have to spend 150 hours mentoring kids as part of their community service. It was pretty funny all around. I would definately recoomend seeing it. Something about little kids swearing makes me laugh :) plus there is a great deal of humor in the world of live action roleplaying which is fun to watch.
As a RPGer, I do think it's a little too geeky for even me.

I spent an hour at Marlborough mall on Sunday looking at all the different Cell phones. I need one, but I don't know which one to get and whom to get it from. I haven't owned a cell phone in 7+ years, and I don't know exactly what I will really use it for.
I was just blown away at the amount of stores and kiosks that that mall had.
I still need to browse the providers web sites again to compare them and see which one has the best prices for the service I might utilize.
I should just blow a wad of dough on the iPhone and get it over with, but I really don't want too for some reason. Maybe it's the hype around it, I tend to have an aversion to jumping on the bandwagon :)

Funvember

So Halloween came and went. It was a pretty good one. The warmest Halloween I have ever witnessed. Usually it is super cold and there is usually snow on the ground. It was pretty great! Warm weather means the kiddo and his brother were able to go out extra long. I think we went for 2 to 3 hours. We started in Airdrie, then came to Calgary so that the Grand, an great Grand parents could check out the costumes. I think we were the last group of Trick or Treaters on the Street. Some of the houses where letting them grab as much candy as they wanted. By the end of the night, they both had 11lbs of candy each!!
The funny thing is, neither kid has a big sugar tooth. I think one year we ended up throwing the remaining candy out because it was almost a year old.
I am not sure if Candy goes bad.... but why take the risk :P

I didn't catch any of my childhood Halloween cartoon shows, Garfield's Halloween Special, and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Both have a nostalgic place in my heart. Garfield made me feel as a child very alone when they were both stuck on the island with no way off. Plus add the elements of ghost pirates, you got yourself a childhood trauma waiting to happen.
Also, the Great Pumpkin with Charlie Brown was always suereal to watch. The scenes with Snoppy as a downed WWI fighter pilot navigating his way alone in the war torn french country side was very disturbing. Also I would get super enraged with Linus, having wasted his Halloween sitting in a GD pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Athough now I think that if I were waiting alone in the dark in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night, I would probably pee my pants :)
And who the hell gives out Rocks to little kids?! They should be stoned to death with those rocks!
The good news is because of the modern age of the internet and media sharing, I was able to find all the episodes on YouTube.
I will link them here enjoy! I need to ask Agent Double EE how to link with the video embedded in the blog itself.
Garfield Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9jjjbTt_8
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-WggLrCASs
Pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRj1NpEllQk

Charlie Brown Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecN9mLpM2mM
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbIrR3cjMQ
Pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgFdCsFXoWA

happy halloween!!

So it's Halloween! I couldn't think of anything to dress up as at work. There were a lot of people that did. I think the best costume so far was a lady who dressed up as Mimi Bobek from the Drew Carey show. She had the clown makeup, the garish clothing, and the hair that looks like a wig (in this case it was a wig).

I watched Saw V last night, it was ok. It had some twists and turns and gore as per usual, but nothing that shocked or 'wowed' me as much as the first one did. When the first Saw came out, there hadn't been that type of movie out before as far as I know. It was fresh, scary, and had so many twists. The ending blew your mind!!

There is something wrong with my eye. Well not my eye exactly, the side of the nose that is right beside my eye has either been bitten by a bug, or decided to become a Stye. Either way it is achy, and it is causing my eye to swell up and look funny a bit.
Hopefully it doesn't get any worse. I am going to try a hot tea bag tonight, see if that works. My coworker told me to keep an eye on it. She isn't a professional comedian surprise surprise :P

Anyways, I've been told we can head out early for Halloween. I am going to go home and set up my fog machine and strobe light. I am taking the kiddo out tonight, so I will have to instruct my sister on how to use it.

candy mountain Charlie, candy mountain!

I am supposed to make up a song for a friend, but it's hard. The songs I have made up in the past were just randomly thrown together, and now that I have to make one up...... it's not as easy as I thought it would be.

I made a road trip out to Red Deer last night to cheer up my friend whom I made that top ten list for. We went to her weekly name that tune with her coworkers, and low and behold, we actually won!! Usually the people I am with don't like to do any of the bonus stuff, but our table got up and did every single thing asked for bonus points.
It was pretty fun :)

So today I am bagged, I even slept in a bit, but that didn't help at all. Tonight I am going to see "Saw V", hopefully it's better than #2 and #3. I thought #4 was ok, but the other two were lacking.
I really really really want to quarantine, but I promised my Vancouver buddy vegan.vwvixen (aka Laura) that we would rent it when she comes down for Christmas. She was my running and scary movie buddy. I miss her lots, she made me get my ass in shape :P
I got up to 10km, and one time she dragged me out to glenmore reservoir for a 12km run, turns out the glenmore loop is more like 21km. I couldn't walk really well afterwards, but I was proud of that accomplishment. Now I am back to square one.
*sigh*

zombies and friendship

So I am going to talk about zombies in WoW, but first I have to write about my friend Agent EE.
She has had an extremely rough couple of days, but things will always get better :)

I came up with the top ten reason Agent EE is super awesome!
Not that any proof is required, but I just needed to get it off my chest.

#1 Super cute!
#2 Super sense of funky fashion!
#3 Her Love of Cephalopods!
#4 Her passion about everything!!
#5 Best ideas of fun things to do!
#6 Creative in so many ways!
#7 Has experienced life in ways that a lot of people would never even think to try!
#8 Inspires others to seek out passion and fun in life!
#9 Gives hope to those who had very little!
#10 She is the most giving, honest, life filled person that I have ever met! No matter what happens in my life, she will have always profoundly affected me!

Ok, now that that mush is over..... I swear I am turning into a girl :P

So, I have 3+ friends who play the evil and addicting World of Warcraft. I guess for an upcoming expansion that they are releasing, and probably also because Halloween is almost here, they had started introducing Zombies to the game.
I guess there are tainted boxes and cockroaches in the game, if you click on them you get infected. At first the infection would take 10 mins to kill you, and then you become a zombie.
After that, you gain Zombie powers and lose health over time. To gain health you must.... take a guess, attack other players and computer controlled characters in the game. Doing so causes them to become infected, and eventually turns them into zombies. Eventually you can create a small army of zombies who then can roam the land spreading their unique style of culture :)
My friends who first encountered it said it was just like being in a zombie movie. Before they were killed and turned, they said that there were so many zombies coming from all over, that they were frantic and scared.
Now, days later, it only takes 2 mins or less to become infected. So it makes playing the actual game really hard as there are so many zombies running around raiding the towns and quest areas.
I wish I was still playing the game, and could have experienced the initial invasion, it would have been awesome!

Just in case the infection spreads to the real world, some required reading would be "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide" both full of stories and tips to help you survive in a zombie filled world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_Survival_Guide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z
Oh, and he does have one about robots, but robots aren't that scary are they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Survive_a_Robot_Uprising

And yes, I google, or Wikipedia everything! It's like a joke I heard, there is no more wondering about stuff anymore like when you were a kid, just google it!

Oh, and I have to give props to my buddy to told me that all she blogs about are top ten lists. Thanks, jodiisallaboutjodi