Yes kiddies, it's the NHL Playoffs.  After two really crappy games against the LA Kings, the Vancouver Canucks were actually playing real hockey tonight, although it wasn't enough to save them.  According to a blurb on TSN no President's Trophy winner has ever been eliminated in the first four games of the first round.  It's not exactly a piece of ( Read more... )

The threat of frost has finally passed, so now I'm putting into action my plan to create a mini vegetable garden that I came up with over the winter.  Of course the area of ground I want to use has never had anything but weeds in it for the 3+ years I've been living here, so to ensure good soil quality I have to dig down at least a foot or two to ( Read more... )

With the 2nd season of the Game of Thrones mini-series being released at the start of the week we've got a BUTTLOAD of ASoIaF merchandise in at Chapters (in addition to all our Hunger Games swag).  Mugs, keychains, a letter opener shaped like Ned Stark's sword Ice, journals, t-shirts - I especially liked the t-shirts and I'm debating getting either ( Read more... )

According to Gmail, yesterday my email account was access from somewhere in Poland.  Since I've never even been to Poland you can see the problem.  I've changed my password but if you received or have received any odd-looking emails from me in the past day or so - DON'T OPEN THEM!

Cornbread doesn't seem to be as popular here in Canada as it is in the States; the first time I had cornbread was at a restaurant on a trip to Seattle with Colin.  But I'm always eager to try new foods, so when I came across this recipe a year ago on allrecipes.com I decided to have it along the chili I had planned for supper.  It turned out to be ( Read more... )

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

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Why has my LJ suddenly become a target for Russian spambots?!

...If one of you gets sick, the other will inevitably get it a few days later no matter what precautions you try and take to prevent it. :C

Pardon me, I'm just squeeing with joy over the trailer for the upcoming film of The Hobbit (part 1). Unfortunately I'll have to wait until next December to see the finished product.

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Also, I think I might have a crush on Thorin (Richard Armitage). ;)