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Quick Update: Real Life

Have you ever been on a romantic date with a cookie? They’ve been super attractive to me lately. Homemade, of course. Store-bought just don’t taste the same.

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Gilligan’s Island was about as original as sitcoms get – they were stranded on an island, rather than the same old family or husband-and-wife in their living room for years of the same old domestic conflict. It’s sometimes hokey, tackily bad – but always funny. I think if more American sitcoms today modeled themselves on Gilligan’s Island, they’d be more successful. But, I’m not really a sitcom kinda girl.

On this note, Mary-Ann was always my favourite. She was a no-nonsense, independent, and practical kind of girl. Though I always had the feeling she should end up with the Professor.

 

I never got as far as watching the final ‘rescue’ of Gilligan’s Island, and I’m not sure if I want to. It just might spoil those memories of the group failing time and time again to escape an island that really probably changed their lives.

Is This Real Life? A Murder Suspect Cut my hair

So, this is the kind of thing that only happens on television, in movies,  or in quirky-chick-lit-type novels.

I went to get my hair cut today, at one of those cheapo places that come in chains, because it’s been driving me up the wall lately. No big deal. Brought in some pictures of asymmetricals and plunked down in the chair to wait.
Anyhow, the hairdresser I get is named Jurgen *(changed just for good measure), he looks 50+, but apparently he’s been working there forever. Weird guy, but cuts my hair.
Midway through another customer is leaving, stops to grab his coat, and the following conversation ensues:

Customer: “Jurgen, you’re out of jail then?”

Jurgen: “hmm?”

Customer: “The murder case thing, right?”

Jurgen: “Oh yeah, they dropped the charges because they never found the body.”

Customer: “Well, I guess they can’t do much without a body. See you around.”

WHILE JURGEN HAD A PAIR OF SCISSORS INCHES AWAY FROM MY HEAD. UHHHH. I kept silent for the rest of the cut. Paid, and left.

So he was definitely a murder suspect at least.
To top it all off: I got home and realized he didn’t cut my hair AT ALL like I wanted it, so I had to go to another hair salon and get it fixed. Or risk being mushroom-headed forever.

But anyhow, the moral of the story is:
1. Listen to your intuitions. The guy was a potential murderer AND screwed up my hair!
2. I am now, fortunately, rocking an asymmetrical cut for the first time. Thanks to Katelyn at Great Clips!

The Best Tea of 2009

Another stolen blog prompt: What was the best tea you had in 2009?

For me, it's definitely the Chai Tea Syrup recipe by Lucy Knisley.

I've drank a lot of this already this winter. It's super easy to make and absolutely DELICIOUS.

Birthdays and BeHeadings

Happy Birthday: You will be torn between having fun and being productive, so don't let your fun-loving, free-spirited side lead you in the wrong direction. Discipline will be the key to your success and advancement. Staying fit and maintaining a healthy diet and attitude can be accomplished if you make the right choices. Your numbers are 2, 12, 15, 21, 28, 39, 46

Today I turn(ed) another year older. I usually have to force myself to enjoy birthdays because otherwise I get caught up in the speed of time and worry too much.

Here are some famous beheadings for your time:

Lady Jane Grey

Only queen for 9 days, she was executed for treason during the oppression of Protestantism.

Marie Antoinette

Famous monarch of France before the revolution, she and all of her family (excepting their daughter) met the fate of the guillotine.

Mary, Queen of Scots

a Catholic figurehead, not given protection by even her cousin, Queen Elizabeth.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Explorer, discoverer of potatoes (see: Blackadder), he fell out of fashion with Queen Elizabeth I. 

Maximilien Robespierre

One of the most influential figures of the French Revolution, he went a bit crazy with executions, and fell victim to one himself.

Just to be clear: I have no wish to go by guillotine, or beheading with an axe, or anything similar. I want to enjoy the crazy miracle that is life, something from nothing, for as long as possible.

The Best Places (of 2009)

The Motoraunt, Edmonton, AB.

My boyfriend's tiny apartment building.

Okanagan lake in the middle of the summer.

Any place the snow is falling down on my nose.

See: http://www.gwenbell.com/blog/2009/11/30/the-best-of-2009-blog-challenge.html