Saturday Mar 29 |
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| wild estimate - walked around...Hurth Hill just after the ferry ride to the Island, pretty & springlike but cold! Then a super-freezing walk w BA to teach her how to dog-walk w G-dog - "stay", "hike", leave it"....
had tea w parents then out for greek food & a belly dancer (oooh!!! fun!), very pretty but too young & too thin, give her a few years.
Earth Day Hour did not go well, we consumed power during the hour, I really wanted a shower to warm up my joints after exhausting day & I kept the lights on in the hotel bathroom while I did it, & I didnt tell D to turn off fascinatingly exotic delight of the television either. So, as substitute, have decided to research & find a third bean recipe "suite" that we Really Like, other than bean dip suite & the chili suite. And, I am gonna cook up kidney, black, navy, & garbanzos in big power-saving crock-pot batches, freeze them on cookie-sheets, dump them into big freezer bags, & decant them as needed. More accessible, then I'll use them more, even just to sneak them into dishes more often. There. Happy Earth Day! (play to your strengths, yes?) |
Friday Mar 28 |
| walking 20:00 [1] 1 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| train downtown for banking, snowing hard !!!? sticking on the grass & trees, looks like a Xmas card! what a surprise...
finished (well, I didnt, I can't face the last 40 pp) War & Peace & it sucked. Plot development lacking ("then what? what!!!?" - ya never find out) as well as character motivation ("What?! why did she do that!!? why?!" - ya never find out) - cant figure out if this is due to translation, not getting 19th century/russion sensibilities, or just sheer crappy writing. Also annoyed by literally hundreds of pp on how all those historians are stupid history/battles/revolutions etc don't happen for those stupid reasons, but he never seems to get around to submitting a lucid explan of his own which is cheating (MAYBE its in those last 40 pp, but I'm betting not.) I think he may be yearning for social psychology or some such which hadnt been invented yet. Wombat.
so... hastily, arabian nights lamb for dinner to use the dregs of the golden raisins before I eat them all. Bought some couscous too, to dress up all fancy & pretty. Cucumber, zucchini, grapes... |
| walking 32:00 [1] 1.6 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| nice brisk walk after the snow melted - across the top of Taylor Park, back to the corner grocery, & down the creek. Met Bao. |
| core/upper - horsing about 12:00 [1] | |
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| tired the dog out late afternoon. |
| Yellow Dog Yoga 15:00 [1] | |
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| since i was on the floor anyhow, did some of the most rudimentary RoM's & breathing, really tired, kinda hard week. But, it's over, & we are going to Victoria tomorrow! |
Thursday Mar 27 |
| walking 28:00 [1] 1.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| sunny, bright, cold. met jake, duchess, sabre (the fattest little matching tubs-on-legs mini-pinschers I ever saw in my life)...
spent a fair amount of time annoying each other trying to decide on appropriate Precious Princess Poo Places. How did D & I create this monster? Oddly, she poops just fine in flat, arid, featureless semi-deserts etc where there is NO bracken, no ivy, & no slopes to painstakingly evaluate for a sufficiently high Poo-Perfection quotient.
twitching over (novel to me) underbelly of home-ownership involving dryers, dishwashers, & misbehaving kitchen tiles, but I am strong, I can do this!! Thai thing for dinner, basil & chili paste, pork, tofu, veggies. |
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| OK, apparently when dealing w tiles one does NOT call a "tile" company. They only SELL tiles. "Luckily", one of the receptionists at one of these companies took pity on me & gave me "Tony"s number. Apparently you call "Tony", or "Jack", or "Paul"..... gah. Gonna have to work on this a bit more, I'm thinkin'... (I have NOT called "Tony") |
Wednesday Mar 26 |
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| huh...looked at last weekend's achey loss of energy & the one thing that stands out is both events were preceded by... dimsum?! I am going to have to repeat that expt....grrr, I am NOT cutting out dimsum!
Off for AM walk, pale green & pink sky, then rest of morning is a bit tiresome, getting prescriptions refilled & referral, nnngghh... |
| walking 1:08:00 [1] 3.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| oof... nice walk this AM to "the other park" across the ravine, then just-too-much walking to DR, & around & about at Metrotown to P/U scrips & all the rest of it, but did get to T&T to buy two bottles of toban jian which did need to get done - will spend rest of afternoon basically on ice, I think. Did get a Canadian Maple Donut while waiting for pharmacy, made it all worthwhile... |
| walking 8:00 [1] 0.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| evening walk as well while D studied; met Nina & Rocket the ducktollers, G pee'd her pants, met G's mom, then met Tessa, then Tessa's mom started cussing us out so we skedaddled off, then did a (fake) poo-scamper, then met Ariana & Chevy the pitbulls towing their mom around. Fabulous. |
Tuesday Mar 25 |
| walking 30:00 [1] 1.5 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| AM walk, really cold, needed my two coats & hat that I cunningly donned, but shoulda brought gloves as well! met Pongo & Yolick, played in the dog-park a bit. Rather tired, we went to bed late last night. Gotta get x-ray today. Salmon tonight, miso-something marinade, I think. Green beans. |
| walking 28:00 [1] 1.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| train stn, xray, & back; evening walk, G freaked herself out watching an old dog take a poop, she decided for some reason he was a Bad Dog (he wasnt), & acted terrified of him. I never saw anything like it, she loves all dogs... |
Monday Mar 24 |
| walking 28:00 [1] 1.4 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| afternoon dog-walk down the creek in the woods & back up still as much in the woods as possible - tons of pretty bright yellow skunk cabbage way down there in the mucky bottoms. Family dinner at Alfie's. G avoided potato overdose this time so I didn't have run out w her next am at 6am. yay! |
Sunday Mar 23 |
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| Dang ! we got married on an O-map too!! right in the middle of it on the wee bridge... this is getting weird.
http://www.orienteeringbc.ca/gvoc/maps/files/Campb...
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| C • did you put a control there... 2 |
| walking 34:00 [1] 1.7 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| walked around Granville Island w G while the False Creek sprint was happening - saw six or seven controls, met two pathetically deformed basset hounds...g was very, Very stimulated by the environment, lotsa boardwalks, new smells, lotsa people, I think it was good for her since we typically spend more time in less urban places... then she had a quiet hour in the back of the jeep while we ate dimsum, looked at topo maps, Piaggio Mp3's for D's commute (?!)...did another funky collapse when we got home, extremely achey & exhausted, gotta look up last weekend...met Salal's mom & opened biking info exchange re possible Kettle Valley excursion for D. |
