Today was takeout sushi day. It rained all day so the boy and I stayed in and played our respective video games… him, Resident Evil 4, me Sims 2 (of course /eyeroll).  We decided to check out some new sushi places  and came across Sushi Marche.

I failed to read the part of the review  where it said that “Sushi Marche is almost strictly a take-out operation”, but none the less we ordered, we came back home with our spoils, and we dined.

That’s my vegetarian dinner pictured above. Delicious!

It’s already May and I need to do a lot of things to my external environment as well as internally. I’ve been dealing with winter by eating a lot of comfort food (okay, junk food), and now I’m out biking to work, and enjoying the outdoors. I think it’s time to get the bad stuff out of my system.

I just don’t know how I’m going to survive without coffee.

I figure maybe for most days of the week if not all, I will try as much as possible to eat healthy, raw food as a sort of pseudo fly-by-the-seat-of -my-pants detoxing.  But I’m not good with food preparation, so I bought Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen to inspire and help me along. The last raw food cookbook I bought required you to buy produce like  albino mushrooms harvested from beneath a rare fir tree that grows along the rugged western coast of northern scandinavia under a full moon that only falls on the 16th day of a winter month. That sort of thing.  But the pictures were really nice.

I’m hoping the recipes and techniques in this book will be a little easier and accessible for me. She has Youtubes too,  which could help.  I’m looking forward to trying this stuff. I don’t know if I’m going to last the month on this diet though.

The boyfriend made me roasted potatoes and carrots last weekend. This weekend, I sort of felt like making it again for myself.  I’m about to dig in, but it smells delicious!

Late last night, I couldn’t help notice city workers going down the street with a big truck and flashing lights. They’d stop at intervals then move on. This morning I saw what they were doing.

These bike sharrows were freshly painted down my bike route. I’m sort of pleased about this because it clearly tells motorists to share the road with cyclists. On the other hand, I’m hoping that cyclists would be encouraged to use the road and not the sidewalks.

On a related note, I’ve been wanting to ride my Kona Paddywagon all year, but I’m kind of a suck about it because there’s so much construction on several areas of my regular routes. Riding through cruddy streets and gravel isn’t cool on skinny wheels, which is why I’m using my mountain bike a lot. I know i lose cool points but I’m gonna go with comfort and safety this time around.

LOL, why not show off what I’ve spent the last couple of months playing.

This is it, folks. These are my pixel dolls.  I’m so mature, I know.

Today being Holy Thursday of 2009, and I am once again writing in this blog. In all honesty, things have been pretty inane around here, but hopefully I’m coming out of a funk. Despite a bit of snow earlier this week, the weather is getting nicer. I’m regularly cycling to work on my trusty red faithful, and my crocuses have bloomed and died.  I like spring, but sometimes I hate it, particularly when it rains.

We got the rest of the day off from work because apparently construction around the neighbourhood left us with no running water today. No toilets, no server cooling, no coffee, might as well send the kids home. I finished up whatever work I had to do and then went to the mall and proceeded to buy about $200 worth of clothes, then groceries, and then I came back home. I’m now writing this blog procrastinating because I have a window sill to paint and I’ve held off on that for far too long.

I think that’s another reason why I haven’t updated this blog in a while, except to complain about my site being hacked.  I’ve been blissfully lazy. I’ve also been playing far too much of The Sims 2, even squeezing into the online community.  It’s actually pretty embarassing how much time i’ve spent building virtual houses and dressing up little pixel dollies. But that’s the way I am, easily addicted to the things that I love.

One more Ferroro Rocher candy to go, and I’ll decide if I want to sit here in front of the computer for the rest of the afternoon or do something more productive.  I really hate painting though.

I found out today that my site was “compromised”. That’s right, it’s been fucking hacked. Excuse the swear words.

Well, essentially I ignored my webhost’s warning that I should get off my ass and upgrade Wordpress. Today, I checked my site stats, as I tend to do every other week or so, and found a whole bunch of spam pages coming off of MY domain. So I shut those files down and as soon as I got home, I pretty much took a chainsaw to my entire site. No delicate surgery here. I removed everything that I’ve stored on this domain since 2000, backed up my blog, installed Wordpress, re-imported my posts, comments, etc.

Seriously, that was really lame. I hate spammers and I really didn’t like my site being hacked.

So anyway, I did a small graphical change to my site. I’ll probably make more improvements in the next few days, but right now I’m sleepy and I want to drink tea before I go to bed.

Dreamhost is requiring that I do an upgrade of my Wordpress software. /Sigh.

I’m going to have to do this manually and I HATE using the technical side of my brain.

I also upgraded my desktop with a better graphics card and an extra gb of RAM. I feel all nerdy and proud of myself. So now, just in case i fuck up, I’m spending time backing everything up right now.

So in case this site goes down, or looks like ass, go check my Twitter.

Yeah, they look comfortable.  /sarcasm

President Obama made Canada his first foreign visit as head of state. Harper was a Bush fanboy, but I don’t think he’s adverse to kissing a Democrat’s butt if he was the US President.  And that’s all I have to say about that. :p

Ugh, I’m having bad skin day. In actual fact, I’m having a bad everything day.  I went to bed late because it’s a Friday and we’re allowed to do that, but instead of sleeping in which I so hoped for, the fucking alarm clock woke me up because I forgot to turn it off for the weekend.  I went to bed at 3am and it got me up at 8.  And of course, I have problems sleeping in the daylight so I couldn’t even get back to sleep even if I wanted to. So I’m up, doing some much needed housework, sleepy with dry, uncombed hair and ugly skin.

Have some Fruit, Pamela, at least have a vitamin or some orange juice. Healthy? Ha, I scorn health. I’m drinking coffee with lots of cream and sugar.  That’s my breakfast. I bought bagels last night, but I’m not that hungry.

There are about two dozen birds hanging out on the tree in my neighbour’s backyard. I don’t know what they are, I think they’re doves.  They’re all puffed up and look so cold and helpless that I want to invite them all in to eat my bagels.

Taken at 4X zoom from my kitchen door. I didn’t want to scare them all away, and besides my deck is covered in snow. Open it up for the full sized version.