Yearly Archives: 2004

First Weekend In Boulter

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Spent the week­end at Trolley’s house with Wheaties, Aaron, and Nick. The car ride took about three hours, squeezed into the back of his com­pact Jetta. I would have called shot­gun but I doubt any­one would have respect­ed it; Nick and Aaron had pri­or­i­ty as the biggest guys. I made a playlist for the ride there, and it was good for the first half. The prob­lem with such playlists is that they’re usu­al­ly meant for sum­mer in the open air, not night time win­ter rides. A lot of songs end up being inap­pro­pri­ate.

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Trolley’s place is a 350 acre farm, on a long road that’s actu­al­ly named after his fam­i­ly. Definitely a place with per­son­al­i­ty and an amaz­ing view of the open coun­try­side. Heat is turned up by throw­ing more logs in the fur­nace. His cat Femo is more vocal than Dolly and always cries for atten­tion. She’ll quick­ly turn bel­ly up if you scratch her the right way, and does­n’t like to wan­der more than an arms-length away.

The first par­ty was at the cab­in, which is a small hunt­ing lodge a 10 minute walk away, also owned by the Trolley’s. That’s when I remem­bered that I’m real­ly bad at par­ties with lots of drunk peo­ple. Drunk peo­ple who I don’t know scare me. A lot. I nev­er know what the hell they’re going to do. At one point, two peo­ple put on box­ing gloves and start­ed beat­ing the shit out of each oth­er in this tiny cab­in, which must be about 196 square feet. The sec­ond par­ty was at the house, and much low­er key. People start­ed jump­ing into the hot tub and out the win­dow then rolling around in the snow. I did­n’t drink the first day (aside from a swig from a bot­tle of Fireball, which actu­al­ly isn’t bad), but end­ed up buy­ing some alco­hol for the next.

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One of the days was spent on a hill on some pri­vate prop­er­ty. We set up a jump to do some freestyle board rid­ing, and broke out the mod­i­fied GT Snowracers and tobog­gans.

A great time.

Guffaw

Hellooooooooo insom­nia.

I hate my laugh. No, real­ly. It’s a com­bi­na­tion of my moth­ers’ laugh (a sort of gaspy, light, heav­ing) and Mike’s laugh (short bursts of falset­to squeak­ing). Someone once told me that it’s what she liked about me, but I think she just asso­ci­at­ed it with my sense of humour.

Simple Stir-Fry

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I have fig­ured out the eas­i­est stir-fry in the world. One morn­ing I took my stir-fry strips out of the freez­er to defrost by the time my class­es were done. When I got home, I real­ized that I had no veg­eta­bles and I was too tired to make rice (actu­al­ly it was more of being too tired to clean the rice pot because it’s always a bitch). I found a pack of gar­lic pas­ta sal­ad, and threw every­thing togeth­er.

Ingredients:

  1. Approximately 700 grams of beef stir-fry strips
  2. One bag of Green Giant Garden Creations Pasta Salad (Garlic)

Directions:

  1. Pre-heat fry­ing pan to medi­um heat, add oil
  2. Add stir-fry strips and gar­den sal­ad
  3. Cover and stir occa­sion­al­ly until the pas­ta is desired ten­der­ness (should take about 20 min­utes, liq­uid should be a light sauce by then)

Note: To ensure beef is cooked through, add beef in pan a few min­utes before the pas­ta sal­ad.

Cause My Legs Are Like Toothpicks

On a good day I can find two pairs of pants that I want to try on. Today I found five, and none were right. Either they did­n’t fit, or the cut end­ed up dif­fer­ent when I actu­al­ly put them on. Why is it so hard for me to find pants? Nice, durable yet com­fort­able, bag­gy yet fits around my waist, wide-leg, plain-look­ing pants.

Evil Kitty

I’m catch­ing Dolly up on the kitchen coun­ters late­ly. She’s nev­er had the gall to do so before. Nick’s the­o­ry is that she was real­ly bored and knew she was alone dur­ing the Christmas hol­i­days, so she just jumped up one day and learned that it’s pos­si­ble. She knows that she’s not sup­posed to because as soon as she hears one of us walk­ing to the kitchen, she’ll jump down to the floor and give us the hon­est kit­ty look. The one where she stands at atten­tion with the big eyes, head slight­ly tilt­ed to one side. Yeah. She’s an evil kit­ty.