Sunday, December 23, 2007

Fiddle While Rome Burns

This morning I plummeted from seventeenth to main. Woken up early to a not so familiar alarm. Not the alarm where one can reach over and poke the snooze, instead the alarm that causes mass panic and in some cases causes the sleeper to hurl themselves out the window. Thankfully in this scenario, we decided to take the stairs. The time, 7:51, a tip from my radioactive pal, the microwave, led me to this eventual hypothesis. Matt and I took flight down the fire escape, leaving 2/3 of the stairs untouched (I counted), only to find four of our haggard looking neighbours in the lobby dozing off, but still standing; a scene that must have looked like the early stages of an outbreak of the utterly fatigued undead. The firefighters meandered in late, but I’m sure if we had told them there was a cat in the tree they would have moved the slightest bit faster. I went back to bed.


Two hours went by where I had gathered me some shut eye, and this time I was woken by a sound a little more familiar. Matt is good at simulating my alarm with his guitar. A quick shower that had me missing my soap on a rope, some coffee, some toast, a little peanut butter, and jam and I had joined the breakfast club.

Todays Outlandish Spectacles

Exhibit A: Larger than life Elf
Exhibit B: Clown from the 60's
Exhibit C: Chestnuts that are the Spitting Images of Matt and I

Wam Bam My Apologies Mam, In Consequence of the Fact that My Socks Are Wet

This is actually yesterdays post which I didn't get to post because my computer and dial-up don't get along.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
This morning I woke up to Matt giving me both sides of the story, more specifically the news, even more specifically the weather. As most people know there are always two sides to a story, the good and the bad, two sides to the news, the bad and the worse, and two sides to the weather, sandals or gumboots. The forecast today was moccasins followed by gumboots, then sneakers with the late sub in, only to be followed by the obvious conclusion of wet socks. To make a long story short, it snowed, it rained, it sunned, it slushed.


Checkmate!

Friday, December 21, 2007