Monday...BLECH.

This weekend I was in a perpetual state of “why the f*ck did I leave the house.” Most of the time I’d rather be at home, so the fact that I make plans and try to keep them is definitely a stretch for me. It’s not that I’m anti-social, (or am I?) there are just too many things I want to do with the limited spare time I have. When I was unemployed for 6 months, I had no problem keeping myself busy every day. Now I’m grateful for the hours I can spend doing whatever the hell I want to. It’s usually a winter thing too. Come spring, summer and nice weather, I’ll be happy to go out and play! So Friday was an out of the ordinary Friday, in that I did not have plans with Erik. Instead the plan was to join the roomies and Co. for Sin City at Paramount. Chris and I ended up not getting tickets, (by a few minutes I believe) and were sadly (?) excited about missing the movie; Chris was fixated on the pizza he was going to eat, and I planned to spend the evening catching up on my “dull British tv” - Monarch of the Glen, Mine All Mine, and Coronation Street. Ah life would be sweet if I could watch BBC Canada all day. I would trade all the channels I do get, to have only BBC in my room! At least Dr. Who is going to be on CBC. Although it’s an odd coincidence that it will air in the same time slot as Mine All Mine considering they’re both written by Russell T. Davies.

The weather on Saturday was enough to make anyone lock themselves inside, but no, not me! I had committed to an evening out, and as much as I was dying to stay in my pj’s all day I pushed myself into a social mood and forced myself to venture out. Tara had organized her annual karaoke-athon. I wouldn’t sing, so really I was just going to be social and see Tara. Well there was karaoke, there was cheap beer, there were two tables reserved for Tara, there were friends of Tara……what was missing? Oh yeah, a Tara! It also didn’t help that I arrived after the call time, and still ended up standing in the bar alone like an asshole for half an hour. I was about to leave when some recognizable peeps arrived. It was nice to see Jeff and Mer, but overall the night sucked hooey and I left for home cold, annoyed, and not even slightly buzzed from a beer, only to be diverted southward because of a fire on Queen Street. I had a nice chat with Chris when I got home (he told me funny stories I’m not allowed to repeat) and ended the evening wishing I had stayed home!

I can’t really complain about going out on Sunday, because clearly it was assy out, and getting wet isn’t really an excuse for staying inside. Besides, I only went to the grocery store, so technically I was only properly dressed for about ½ hour yesterday, the rest of it being spent in warm, fuzzy fleece. Since I spent a good part of Saturday acquiring music, (I discovered that the Keane album I’ve been listening to for year, is in fact different from the one that was released in North America. I knew the tracklisting was different, but I what I didn’t realise is that they remixed/redid many of the songs. Is this common? I also acquired the Kasabian album, which I keep hearing about. They totally rock the house!) I spent Sunday working on my intersections movie and reading a book. If a book is just all right, then I feel compelled to finish it in one day, sometime more if it’s really long, but if a book is really good, then I tend to stretch it out as long as I can, drawing out the goodness I guess. And if a book is super-duper awesome then I’ll finish it right away and then read it again. After the BBC overdose, I wasn’t really in the mood for tv, so I intended to skip The Simpsons & Arrested Development, but after the Simpsons, Chris coerced me into watching Arrested Development, and then quickly started the Simpsons again. I’m a tv whore. And now I have an hour of Corrie St. to contend with every day this week.

And oh yeah my April fools day joke gone awry... All I did was make a screenshot of a desktop, make that the desktop and hide some stuff. Turns out it was a bad idea, because the user thought he had a virus and was too embarrassed to ask for help and knew he’d get lectured about downloading music so he foolishly deleted all the files on his desktop, which were in fact ALL THE FILES HE HAS. And not only that, he didn’t have any of them backed up, so they’re all gone for good! Lucky for me he has a sense of humour, otherwise I might have been out of a job and on the dole with my roomies!