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Last night my mom told me that I needed to buy diet pills. "The perfect way to lose weight without dieting or excercise." I told her it sounded a bit sketchy so she changed her tactics and tried to tell me what "a great deal the Bowflex home fitness system is." For only 5 easy payments of $200, toned legs and abs could be mine. "Plus shipping and handling of course," she threw in as an afterthought.

Thankfully, I then woke up and realised I'd fallen asleep in front of the TV and those late night infomercials were running. My mom is in the city for the weekend for an annual garden show that she goes to with her friends. I was hanging out with them last night - which must be why I inserted her into the dream. Either that, or I subconciously feel like my mother thinks I need to lose weight.

So just to be on the safe side, I think I'll go to the gym today.

Like the 6th best hot tub ever

I figure between work and play that I've probably slept in at least a couple hundred hotels. Some have fantastic hot tubs. Some have hot tubs that I won't go near. Many, of course, have no hot tubs. In fact, I've stayed at places where I did not even have a bath tub - I had to walk down the hall to the washrooms. Scary.

Anyway, the hotel I am in now has two hot tubs. And the one in the spa area is the 6th nicest hotel hot tub I've been in that I can remember. Here they are in order of niceness (and unfortunately this list is probably biased by how much fun was had in said hot tubs). The following list includes tub experiences ranging from grade 11 to tonight:

1. Best hot tub ever was an outdoor tub a bit of a walk away from our cottage/cabin thing at Emerald Lake. Snow all around. Fantastic.

2. The outdoor tub at the on-mountain resort at Sunshine Ski Village.

3. The outdoor/indoor hot tub at the lodge at the Fortress ski resort. There is a little swim-thru door to go from one to the other.

4. The outdoor/indoor mineral pool at Moose Jaw's Temple Garden Mineral spa. Not exactly a hot tub, but meh. It's my list.

5. The semi outdoor hot tub at the Goldenwood Lodge near Golden B.C.

6. The one here at a hotel in Swift Current. For an indoor hot tub, I'd have to say I'm impressed.

Have you ever noticed that hot tubs are always better at night?

investment

well, it sounds like buying a house was a good idea with this real estate boom in saskatchewan. i was so close to staying put and leaving it for a year - glad i didn't. of course next week i will be writing about how annoyed i am that so many new things are breaking. but not this week. this week i'm thinking about how i could sell my house and my car and live in a hut on the beach in thailand for a couple years off the proceeds.

conversation after a road trip during a saskatchewan snow melt

me: the first thing i'm going to do when i get home is wash my car.
her: you do realize it will just get dirty again tomorrow.
me: that's true. but i myself will get dirty again tomorrow and i am still going to have a shower.
her: good point.

oh i've had the time of my life ... and i swear it's the truth ... and i owe it all to you...

My dad got me a DVD player as one of my Christmas presents. It didn't work and had to be returned and so when he gave me the second one he said, "It can also work as a karaoke machine." I laughed and thought, "How silly of him. When will I ever use a karaoke machine?" Well tonight, that's when. A friend was in town from New York this week and a bunch of us decided that since I had one, why not have a karaoke party. So we rented some songs and invited some folks. I feel bad because the actual scheduling was quite impromptu and I feel like we possibly missed important people who should have been invited. But anyway. It was tres fun.

Awhile back my old roomate made sure my neighbours were scared of me by yelling out the open windows and doors, "GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" at the crows that constantly caw near my house. But I don't think they realised that she was yelling at the crows. If they would have still considered associating with me, they will no longer harbour any such thoughts. Because tonight, anyone walking past my house tonight would have heard twelve voices raised in unision wrapping Gangsta's Paradise and I'm Just a Gigalo. My poor neighbourhood.

Thanks for the Christmas present though Dad. A night of fun had by all was made possible by you.

Land of the living skies

I was listening to a speaker from another province this weekend at the quiz meet. He was talking about how Saskatchewan does not change time for daylight savings which of course led to some jokes about Saskatchewan. We seem to be an easy target for people. Anyway, he said our slogan "Land of the Living Skies" was one of his favourites and most especially true. "Your skies are living," he said. "So many bugs all throughout the sky."

Hah, hah.

But I had never actually heard that joke before so he gets points for originality. I do not think originality is, however, a word. Meh.

today is the 2nd of march. that is 2 and 3 meaning 23

they FORCED me to switch to the beta blog thing and start a google account. i've been resisting even though it's a way big hassle to bypass all the "please switch" and "you should really switch" messages. did i mention i hate being forced to do things? well, i guess i don't actually hate being forced to do some things. because sometimes you know how you just aren't in the mood to go to the gym or to go to a movie or out to play some hockey but if someone forces you then you really like it and have the best time ever? but i sure hate being forced to do something like switch to a new blogger by some stupid blogger powers that be. and i am very annoyed at the moment.

on a completely unrelated note, i have decided that i really like jim carey in any role other than a comedy. i saw The Number 23 this week and i was a fairly big fan of it. you must understand that i hated ace ventura and liar liar and all those types of movies. but truman show caught my attention, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind intrigued me, and now the number 23 has won me over. jim carey is a good actor.