Saturday, April 14, 2012

Beautiful Saturday

The weather is perfect in our land and mighty dangerous for some other folks. Here is hoping all is safe.

We finally got the opportunity to go see The Hunger Games. As I have read the books I can say without a doubt they did an excellent job (in my opinion). The book is wonderful and has so much going on in it, but the movie actually captures quiet a bit of it.

Hopefully they can do that well with two and three.

Enjoy the updates!

Peace, Health and Happiness.

Elisa

Friday, April 13, 2012

Pooped

I'm ready for Spring Break.

Tamara

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thursday Evening

I am off with the kiddo in the San Juan Islands. It's truly a beautiful place. We head back home tomorrow. One more evening of site seeing.

Enjoy your updates. Sorry to P&P as I missed it Sunday and Monday...enjoy them tonight.

Peace, Health and Happiness.

Elisa

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Allaine's Radio Show

First - let's make sure I remember the greetings this week.

This Friday - apart from being unlucky Friday 13th in our part of the world, is also the very important Baisakhi (Vaishakhi) Day - the Sikh new year, and harvest festival, and anniversary of the founding of the Sikh religion. I wish any Sikh readers a joyful day.

This Sunday is Easter Day/Pascha for Christians of the Eastern Orthodox traditions. Happy Easter to you.

Next - A message from Allaine about tomorrow's show.

"Glee" Three - A Chat with Pezberry Authors

www.blogtalkradio.com/allaine/2012/04/13/glee-three--a-chat-with-pezberry-authors
In what has turned into an annual tradition on F4F Radio, we return to the world of Glee for the third time in three seasons. Two years ago the main topic was "Faberry" – Quinn Fabray/Rachel Berry. Last year we focused on "Brittana" – Brittany S. Pierce/Santana Lopez. This time around, we mix things up with a discussion of "Pezberry" – Rachel/Santana. Oh sure, Brittana is canon, not to mention pretty adorable, while Faberry has been huge from almost Episode One. But sooner or later, everyone likes an alternative, and Rachel and Santana certainly qualify. Unlike Quinn, who for years has yoyo-ed between friendship and antagonism when it comes to Rachel, Santana has never exactly cozied up to Rachel. In fact, Santana was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the "Troubletones" this season because Rachel seemed to get all the solos. But as we’ve seen time and again here, overcoming hostility can be a perfect first step to a great pairing. Tonight we’ll be speaking with two Pezberry authors – TheMemoriesFire, who wrote the 11-part series Eyes Closed to Fingers Crossed, and TheDisassociation, author of angsty epics like Life or Something Like It and I Wish I Could be Strong Without Somebody There. Joining me as cohost once again is writer Grdnofevrythng, who has been on my show to discuss everything from Glee to Popular to The Devil Wears Prada.

Allaine
www.blogtalkradio.com/allaine



See you next week folks. Goodnight and may your God/s go with you.

Ze

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Belated Greetings

Man - I missed a lot of greetings last week, partly because of dropping the stew, partly other concerns, but my mind was obviously not on my job.

I didn't wish our Jewish readers a good Pesach. Nor did I wish any Jain readers a good Mahavir Jayanti. And I completely blanked on wishing (western traditions) Christians a Happy Easter!! I hope all of you had a good festival of your choice.

It's bloody freezing. It's chucking it down. Can I have my sunshine back please??

Ze

Monday, April 09, 2012

Road Trip

E and little e leave for the San Juan Islands tomorrow. While they're gone I'll take the opportunity to make salmon patties for Duncan one night. He loves them but they stink up the house something fierce. Other than that our plans without them include school and work. Fun! Two more weeks until Spring Break....

Tamara

Sunday, April 08, 2012

Easter Sunday

The day was beautiful. Sunny and warm we had the windows and doors open most of the day as we waited for kids to arrive. A solid weekend for Tamara and I and all next week I am on vacation making it even better. Daughter has spring break all week, so nice and easy for us.

Enough of my rambling, onto your updates.

Peace, Health and Happiness.

Elisa

Saturday, April 07, 2012

We didn't forget!

Running late tonight and I don't have a good excuse. Have at it.

Tamara

Friday, April 06, 2012

Vacation Arrives

I am pleased that for one week I do not have to put on any khakis. I look forward to spending a few days with my daughter in the San Juan Islands and then home to veg for a couple more days before returning to the routine.

Enjoy your updates!

Peace, Health and Happiness.

Elisa

Thursday, April 05, 2012

How many weeks until Spring Break?

I've recovered from my Emerald City Comicon weekend. This weekend we're kid free and I have housecleaning and reconciling my bank account on the agenda. You have a lot to read so I'll let you get to it.

Tamara

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Stew.

My cousin went out this evening to a meeting. She left a note for me to say that there was a bowl of lentil and root vegetable stew in the fridge for me. Excellent. It's my favourite type. All I needed to do was microwave it. (She knows better than to leave me to cook for myself!!)

I looked in the fridge and yes, there was a huge bowlful of stew. It had been a bit chilly today, and I'd been caught in a hail shower on my way home, so a nice, warming bowl of stew was welcome.

I duly microwaved it. And I got a tray to put it on. I opened the microwave and got the bowl out (using a cloth so I didn't burn myself - I was proud of myself for thinking of that) and put it on the tray.

Then I picked the tray up off the floor. And wrapped the pieces of the bowl in newspaper before putting them in the bin. Then I mopped up the half-bowl of stew that was on the floor and put that in the bin. I took my jeans off and put them in the washing machine, to wash off the other half of the stew, and went up to my room to get some clean ones.

No, I have absolutely no idea how it happened. I'm sure the tray was safely resting on the worktop. The bowl was dead-centre of the tray and couldn't slip off or cause the tray to overbalance. I swear I didn't drop it, knock it, or push it.

It must have jumped. Honest.

I spent a good five minutes staring into the fridge to see if there was something, anything, that I could have for my tea, that didn't require cooking, and that wasn't a peanut-butter sandwich (I had that for lunch).

Baked potato (microwaved), baked beans (ditto) and Redwood's (vegan) rosemary & basil sausages (also microwaved - you don't honestly think I was even going to consider attempting to fry them, do you??)

The spud was fine, the beans were fine, the sausages... well they were edible but I don't think they microwave very well really. But plenty of HP sauce makes everything ok. *g*

I was really looking forward to that stew, too. My cousin makes a fantastic stew.

See you next week, goodnight and may your God/s go with you.

Ze

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Birthday Thanks.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes folks. Much appreciated. Though it's getting to the stage where I'd kind of like to forget about birthdays. In fact on my calendar all I wrote was "Too Damned Old!!".

We had a good evening, we went to dinner (Thai) with friends & family, and then to the pictures. Went to see Pirates. It wasn't bad. Not up to Wallace & Grommet standards though. Lot of in-jokes for Brits (and Anglophiles), from the Blue Peter Badge to the newspaper advert for "Slocombe's Kitten". Watch out for them.

Hey, you remember last week that I wished any Zoroastrians a good Khordad Sal. Well we do have a Zoroastrian follower. Wicked!! Until now the only Zoroastrians I knew or knew of were my mate Ash, and Freddie Mercury!! Anyway, our reader informed me that I had the date completely wrong - although Ash told me it was correct - but then (and only then) he informed me that that the date of celebration of Khordad Sal depends upon the sect of Zoroastrianism that you're a member of - the Fasli sect celebrate on the date he gave me, the Kadmi sect celebrate in July, and the Shahenshai in August. She's from the Shahenshai sect. So I promised to mention it this week - and to wish her a good festival on the appropriate day.

Ze

Monday, April 02, 2012

Long Week Ahead

And sadly I am already tired. Vacation for me starts on Saturday making this week full. Extra even. Hopefully to bed early tonight.

Enjoy the updates and I will ramble later in the week.

Peace, Health and Happiness.

Elisa

Sunday, April 01, 2012

We Survived

The Emerald City Comicon is offically over and I'm pooped. Cal was a trooper all weekend and only complained about sore feet once. Duncan ended up going both days with us. The lure of getting Streetpass people on his 3DS was too much to resist. We're all three very tired and not ready for school next week.

I'll let you get to reading.

Tamara