Countdown

Less than 5 hours until NaNoWriMo 2007 starts! Yay! I'm excited to try out the idea I was inspired to start on in 2002... an Icelandic saga based on the life of Aud the Deepminded, a woman who settled in Iceland around 900 C.E. I've studied a variety of sources, many of which conflict with each other, and pieced together a timeline for my storyline. This time I will not be starting with the experiences of Aud's great-grandfathers... I'll start at her dad... and quickly get into her life. Good luck to me!

Go! Tickets

Haven't heard anything more from the CBC producer I talked to the other day, but I just checked the Go! website and they have a show location and time:

Refinery Arts and Spirit Centre (I believe this is near 12th St. and Lansdowne)
Thurs. Oct. 11/07 7:00-8:30 pm
Free tickets are available through the show's website ticket order form: http://www.cbc.ca/go/tickets.html

The show airs on CBC1 at 10:00 am Sat. Oct. 13. It's a fun show to listen to and I'm looking forward to being involved in a live show. I'll be teaching a dance class downtown at 9:00 so I won't be able to hang out after. :-( Could be a really fun dance class if I'm still full of adrenaline!

Complete Strangers

Well, this morning I was contacted by 2 complete strangers.

Stranger 1: A female bisexual Saskatonian poked me on Facebook. I felt really odd about that, but just ignored the poke.

Stranger 2: A producer from the CBC Radio show Go! e-mailed me about being part of a geocaching-oriented competition when they record a show here in October!! I'm so excited!!! I'll keep the details posted as I find out more. You can request free tickets at their website. I'm still trying to figure out how they got my e-mail address...

On the Web again!

On the weekend my dance troupe did some advertising at a bridal show. A blogger from the StarPhoenix mentioned us on her blog (nice photo too). You can see it for yourself at: Wedded Diss

New Zealand's 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo

I have to thank Mike for introducing me to Flight of the Conchords, a very funny duo from New Zealand. They write hilarious lyrics and have genius comedic timing. Here are some my favourite clips of them:

Business Time

Albi the Racist Dragon

Jenny

I'm on YouTube!

Here's a video where I'm one of the people dancing in the basement of the Refinery this spring. I think it was posted by a friend of a fellow dancer...

The Clip

If you were a Jane Austen Character, who would you be....

It says I'm Elinor Dashwood, but my score for her tied with that of Elizabeth Bennett.

You scored as Elinor Dashwood, As Marianne's older sister, Elinor lives at the other end of the emotional spectrum. She rarely reveals her intense feelings and is more concerned with being honest and loyal than having what she deserves. Even though her intentions are pure, she sets herself up for loss by constantly placing other people before her own needs. Overall, Elinor is gentle and rational but is just as capable of radical emotions (despite her withholding them) as her sister. Elizabeth Bennet 69% Elinor Dashwood 69% Emma Woodhouse 66% Jane Bennet 59% Charlotte Lucas 59% Marianne Dashwood 47% Lady Catherine 38% Which Jane Austen Character are You? (For Females) Long Quiz!!! created with QuizFarm.com

The New Wheels

In early May Jay and I made a trip out to Star City, a little town between Melfort and Tisdale, to purchase an '86 Honda Civic sedan. A few months previously we had purchased an '84 Civic hatchback to fix up. The two previous owners were all friends of ours, so we knew this car as Agatha. However, there would have been a lot of repairs to the interior required to make Agatha comfortable to drive, and Jay thought it would be cheaper just to buy this other car and put Agatha's engine in instead. So that's what we did. Here is the report on the progress of the new car over the last couple of months:


1. So I mentioned that we went to Star City to get the car, but I didn't mention that none of Jay's trucks are fully assembled or plated. This meant towing it with Jay's Civic as I sat in the new car and steered! It actually went pretty well - the tow rope busted once, but other than that it was quite uneventful. Since there wasn't a battery in the car the radio didn't work, so I had lots of time to think about things. While I was steering I thought of naming the new car Goldie. Only later did Jay point out that it was Goldie Honda!


2. Here is where the transplantation happened - putting the heart of Agatha (i.e. the engine) into the body of Goldie. Those are my feet you can see below Goldie's driver's door. There was so much dust in the car from all the gravel roads it had driven on! It has been vacuumed several times and still smells of it. I must get the interior shampooed soon!




3. Here's Goldie with her new guts, but missing a windshield. The old one was super cracked up, and Jay got a great deal on a new one. Then we installed it ourselves!






4. This is the driver's side back door well. Both rear door wells had large rusted out holes in them, so Jay had to weld in new metal then cover it over in fibreglass and bondo. He did a great job.






5. Here she is, body work finished, ready for painting.








6. Driver's side all painted!












7. My hero, hard at work. (I taped on all that paper...)











8. Ta daa! All done and ready to roll! We've done a little tinkering since then. We had to put in a new ignition switch - which was good because now the car doesn't backfire anymore. And Jay installed a double 12-volt power outlet, because the car didn't have one and I need it for my GPS receiver!

New Endings, New Beginnings

It's pretty much all over now. It's been about nine years since I decided I wanted to become a physical therapist. Now I'm pretty much there! On June 5th I received my degree. We celebrated our grad on the 9th, and today we completed the clinical component of the Physiotherapy Competency Exam. This exam is the culmination of all my learning and clinical experience. And it cost $1100 just to have the priviledge of doing it. I did awful at a few stations, I'm sure, but I was so happy to have a station that I did really well at to finish off the whole 5 hour exam. Yes, 5 hours of quickly reading questions, then rushing into examination rooms to complete the assigned tasks in 5 or 10 minutes.... My brain still feels petrified from the experience, but at least it's over. Now I just have to wait for the results! It could be up to 12 weeks before I find out... which totally sucks.

I just have a few more things to do before it's officially official that I'm a physical therapist: get my license or temporary license (paperwork, application fees, malpractice insurance, blah blah blah), find out that I passed my exam, and get a job! Whew!

My caches

So I don't know if anyone bothers looking at the little profile button I have on the right hand side of the screen here, but if you do then you will have noticed that I have been on a caching frenzy over the last few weeks. I now have 115 finds!

Last night I hid my first caches in Saskatoon. Both were containers that I won for finding other caches. They were published this morning and have already been found! I'm pretty excited. I have plans for two other caches, both which will be placed outside of Saskatoon. One of them is ready to go and just needs to be planted. The other I need to retry getting my items together - had a bit of a glitch when I was trying it out before. I also have one or two more containers that I'm currently accumulating trade items for, but no plans yet on where to hide them. We'll see how long it takes me to get these ones going.

Movie trivia help please

I haven't seen either of these movies and couldn't find the answers online. Please give me a hand with these last two questions:

1. In 'Men With Brooms', what animals did they have to clear off of the road?
   *Cows
   *Deer
   *Beavers
   *Bears

2. L. In 'Napoleon Dynomite', what does Napoleon toss out of the school bus window?
   *toy wrestler
   *his glasses
   *Pedro's lunch
   *a cake

For the last question I suspect the answer is a toy wrestler.

How white and nerdy I am...

I'm surprised I'm not more nerdy... take that Cory!!! ;-)


How White and Nerdy Are You?

Lebanese Belly Dancer

I found some cool belly dancing videos on youtube tonight, and since Debbie wants to be able to find them again I'll put them here!

The first ones are of Rindala doing a really amazing routine. It takes 3 videos to see the whole thing (for some amazing back bend moves see the 3rd one) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SFcIfdz7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ubj_hjLdVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqbv_gFkDTQ

Lebanese belly dance has a bit of a reputation for being experimentative... and a little out there at times.

Here's another lovely Lebanese dancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBncb92rz70

Facebook

I can now be found on Facebook.


That is all.

International Travel

1. Go to google.com
2. Click on Maps
3. Click on "Get directions"
4. From New York
5. To Paris
6. Read line # 23.