Isn't It a Shame?

Really, who needs a bathroom or a kitchen? Wimps?

I came home from work today to discover that the bathroom and kitchen have been completely torn out. Like...gone. Just empty(with the exception of rubble, dust, etc) rooms.

They've been talking about renovating the unit for months now...first it was going to be a month ago, then two weeks ago...then...well..I guess now.

This leaves me with no bathroom/toilet, or running water. Yeehaw.

Fortunately they've apparently given us a key for a unit on a different floor that is currently vacant, so that we can use that washroom. I'm about to go exploring!

This kid has apparently been meditating for 6 months without eating or drinking.

It sounds a little dicey to me...but apparently people think he's the reincarnation of Buddha.

Laura has shellfish allergies...we doesn't really know HOW allergic she is, and I don't really want to find out...

But, let's just say I'm not always as careful about *ME* eating shellfish as maybe I should be....

Talk abouta rough way to go. Could you imagine that? "Kiss may have been fatal for teen with nut allergy "

For anyone that's wondered "How the heck do they make terriyaki sauce so incredibly yummy" THIS is the answer.

Toronto has softened me up I think. It was like -12 last night, and I had to walk roughly 10 minutes from my place up to Laura's. Honest to god I was so cold I could have cried. My brain felt like it had frozen. My face was completely numb.

I'm thinking "this is SUMMER TIME weather in Ottawa!!" How the heck did I used to be able to spend HOURS at a time outside in -25 weather shovelling snow!?

I have been turned soft. Soon, I'll think 3 centimeters of snow is a "really big storm...a blizzard!".

I'll test my mettle in ottawa this weekend...

I'm going to be heading back to ottawa this weekend!! Let the good times rock and roll! Is anyone else going to be around?

Also, I've grown to hate very few things more in life than waking up, really needing to go to the bathroom, and having my new roommate have JUST gotten into the shower....and proceed to shower for 25 minutes. It KILLLLLLLLLS me!

THat will be all.

I've been out of my apartment for about a month now, since I've been working down in New York and Boston. As some of you know, I share a 2 bedroom with 2 other people...a girl lives in the Solarium/Living Room. Well, the old girl moved out at the end of October and a new girl has since moved in...This weekend was the first chance I've had to survey the damage. A full report follows:

- Our kitchen is fairly small, with very limited cupboard and counter space. We may have a equivalent shelf-space of roughly 12 "shelf units". I've previously been using one and a half shelf unit for my own stuff...a shelf for my plates, bowls and mugs and a half a shelf for my cups. Our new friend is now occupying FOUR ENTIRE SHELVES with cups. Yup, there must be 30 cups in there if there's 5. All different shapes, sizes and varieties.

- Oh, and there's also what I'd say is a shelf and a half's worth of George Foreman grill. Like...You're probably thinking "those are small shelf units you've got Greg..", but you'd be wrong. This thing is the size of a barbeque. You could fit a MINIMUM of 8 hamburgers on this thing. You could feed 14 hungry kids using this grill. Good thing there are only 3 of us here.

- She loves the maple leafs. The kitchen has a new Maple Leafs theme with assorted blue and white Leaf's hand towels places strategically throughout. And the living room has a full sized team jersey on display. I think I'll be watching the Ottawa-Toronto games from Laura's place.

- She has enough furniture to equip a 4 bedroom house. And it's all in our living room.

- Last, but not least ladies and gentlemen is the bathroom. Definitely not for the faint of heart. This is one of those times I wish I had a digital camera, because I would LOVE to be able to show you the damage. This thing is bright pink from top to bottom. Shower curtains, floor mats, soap holder, cup, toothbrush holder, garbage can, tall CANDLE, 2 towels, 2 fru-fru hand towels with white lace. It actually radiates light even when the light in the bathroom is turned off. The whole room has this radiant pink glow when the light's are on. It actually hurts my eyes. PINK. and nothing but pink.

I've seen similar stuff before, but never with this many people and never anything this complex. You've got to check it out.

How do they make it look like there's only one person? I suppose you'd either need to have everyone have basically the same body type/size, or you put the biggest person in front...but..yah.

Long story short, I'm really impressed!

I just saw an ad for the Toyota Avalon, the fancy new sedan. The ad's punchline was "Serious Technology" and was all about the fact that the car decides FOR you when the windshield wipers need to be on. In other words, it's smart enough to turn them on when it starts to rain.

Of course, there's some guy driving an avalon, lookin very happy...driving down an empty, but gorgeous country road...windshield wipers going full tilt. Everything is so happy...wouldn't your life be better if your car was smart enough to turn its windshield wipers on for you?

That's when it hit me. Dude driving the car down the road with the smart windshield wipers that are going full tilt? It's not raining out.

American's Like Ochra
Ochra is one of those things that everyone KNOWS about, but nobody eats. Really, think about it...when was the last time you ate ochra?

News Flash: American's love ochra. Atleast it seems that way...I've eaten more ochra on this trip than I have in my entire life to date. In soups, curries, stews, gumbos, the list goes on!

Ochra, ever so delicious. The only question is...is it a vegetable? Or something entirely different?

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American's love ochra. But that's not all that they love. They also apparently love liquid nitrogen.

Yah. This is the SINGLE weirdest thing about new york. No matter where you go, you're bound to come across liquid nitrogen, I kid you not.

There are these huge metal cannisters, about 5 feet tall, just randomly sitting next to the road all over the place...like I must walk about atleast 10 cannisters of the stuff on my way to work...just...there...next to the road.

Seems really unsafe to me...but what do I know?

Man alive. There's this ad on TV right now for Victoria's Secret's new "pushup bra without padding". Hot moses, those women are hot. Like...my draw literally dropped.

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I had a chat with Simon the other day that reminded me of the good ol' days. The days of sitting in the car in Simon's driveway until the wee hours of the morning. Them's were the good times....trying to figure out The Clique's latest drama. : )

A shout out to our main man Simon on this glorious birthday of his. Thank goodness it's so easy to remember...that reverse of mine!

I remember one particular birthday when simon got his first razor for that one hair of his...I believe that was the same day that we lost Murms. Ah, the good ol' days!

Went for a haircut last night at a barber shop right next to wall street/new york stock exchange(NYSE). Presumably the people tht get their hair cut at this place are fairly well educated/fairly well off...

So needless to say I was a little surprised when I sat down to wait for a barber and reached for a magazine from their magazine rack...and noticed that about half the magazines were PLAYBOY!

My lordy, the Ottawa Senators have been on a RAMPAGE this season. While they're not even #1 in the NHL(Detroit has been doing remarkably well), the Sens have been looking impressively strong, particularly in terms of scoring. Ottawa is DOMINATING the goals/points statistics race in the NHL, with three out of the top 4 in each category going to ottawa. IN the plus/minus category ottawa has all four top positions locked down...

On the weekend ottawa WHOOMPED toronto 8-0. Danny Heatley scored a remarkable 4 goals. Last night the sens took it to Buffalo *TEN* to 4. Marty Havlat and Daniel Alfredsson BOTH scored 4 goals each. That's three seperate sens getting 4 goals each in a span of 4 days! Ooomph, that's GOTTA hurt!

Yes, yes it's true...I'm stoked.