It should be August 16th:
I can't believe I didn't read the last Yinzer in Europe until today! Ack! Anyway, of course, please read. Jojo told me that she's going to start a new column for InPgh called "On the rag with Kathy Jo," (sort of named after her last one, "On the bus with Kathy Jo") and I wrote to ask her if all her readers would end up cycling with her....Heh.

My excuse for not reading and posting this sooner is, again, the ankle thing. Thanks for your support.

August 26th:
You'd think that to be married to me you'd have to have a great sense of humour, right? I'm happy to report that Brian does. Go read his latest rants on Madonna, Survivor and some Millionaire wanna-be geek.

Lucky me -- I live with it every day!

Note:
I notice a lot of hits to this page of people searching on "Joy-Cam." I wrote a little epinions review on mine that you can read here. Lots of other JoyCam reviews there too...

August 25th
Okay, so it's Y2K -- a big year, right? Year of the Dragon and I am a Dragon. I got married. Got my first paid (other than the school paper) writing gig. Shattered my ankle by breaking bones in six different places. Taught my kid to swim. You get the idea...

I think I need to acknowledge the year with a new tattoo. Of what? Well, Kokopelli:

August 23rd:
Yummy recipe I got from Chatelaine magazine --

Apple Cheddar Pita Pockets:
8oz diced cheddar cheese (Tillamook if you can get it!)
2cups diced apples (Golden Delicious, of course.)
1/4cup plain yogurt
(Note: I would try vanilla or non-fat sour cream)
4tsp brown sugar
8 lettuce leaves
4 pitas breads, halved

Combine cheese, apples, yogurt and sugar in a bowl. Line pita halves with lettuce. Spoon mixture into each pocket and yum.

Free $5 coupon for any Oil of Olay cosmetic product.

So, my friend Jan has these "five word peeves" that just bug the crap out of her. Read her little diatribe -- it's funny. But you know, the last one, the one she thinks is the worst, doesn't bug me at all. Well, not as a noun anyway.

You know, when my daughter Amelia heard this news about the "Harry Potter" movie, she sighed and told me, "Well, they just ruined another good book."

She's a smart one, eh?

August 22nd:
What the hell happened to Hip Hop Housewife? Can I tell you how much I loved and now miss that site? If you have any idea where she is, please let me know! Merci.

I must get some of this tea. It makes the codeine go down so much easier. And the little quotes make me smile.

Photograhs for fun and art. Good stuff.

This apron WILL be mine. I don't care what I have to do. It called out in the night, all night, for me.

I know I said I wouldn't be updating, and I'm not really going around looking for or finding neat-o links to recommend or comment on, I'm just babbling and suggesting places I already know about. I can't stop myself!

August 20th:
So Brian, my brilliant (and I mean that sincerely) husband, used to think a jackalope was a cross-breed of a jack-ass and an antelope. I tried to tell him the truth, but I don't think it was until he read it in The Straight Dope that he actually believed it.

Hey, Amelia and I (with some help from Raj) worked on a new look for her page. Check it out.

Can you believe this search -- http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=I+hate+Ed+Belfour&hc=0&hs=0 -- led someone to my page? I'm beyond thrilled.

August 18th:

August 11th:
Yes, I love those cheezy personality tests. I just took the Four Dimensions of Sexual Styles test and found out that even though I'm 33% "best friends type of love," which carries the warning Even the best of friends have to keep the passion alive, I'm also 33% "sensual type of love." That one has the downside even intense lovers eventually have to talk to each other.. I think it's a perfect balance.

So then I took the Which Goddess Are You Ruled By? quiz... Naturally I thought I'd be 100% Aphrodite, but here's what I got:

25% Artemis: your independent spirit belongs to no one but yourself.
25% Hera: you tend to find fulfillment in relationships and look on marriage as a permanent union.
16% Athena: you are bright-eyed, shrewd, resourceful and inventive.
16% Aphrodite: your femininity and passionate spirit are the controlling forces in your life.

All accurate enough, but I might've mixed up the percentages a bit. More Athena and less Aphrodite, actually.

Fun, fun, fun thing to do with your kid! Kid Resume Maker. It is fun. Now I want to print it and decorate the thing.

I definitely like reading this article while sitting here, in Southern Ontario, scratching at a zillion new mosquito bites.

FREE! Get some free stuff -- an Osmotics Skin Care Sample, some candy, tea samples, Folger's Café Latte and Miracle Balm. Miracle Balm is a pain relieving gel, and I really want to see if it helps my legs. (So far nothing has.) And Adagio Tea looks really good, but you need to pay a whole 85 cents (US!) shipping to get the samples.

Hey, I added some cool new weblogs and things to that list on the top right. Check them out. Especially Mahalie.

Happy Birthday, Abram! Aka Toaster [=]

August 10th:
Want to know where I'll be this weekend? Sure ya do. At The Taste of the Danforth. Mmmm. The Danforth is a big street pretty close to here. It's the one Bare Naked Ladies are talking about in the song, "The Old Apartment." And yeah, that's where El Sol (best Mexican food in Toronto, says me) and Sarah's are, two of my very most favorite places.

But this! This is all about the Greek food. The Danforth is like "Greektown" or "Little Greece" and for the weekend the street will be closed for this huge (like 400,000 expected in attendance) festival. Lots of food, music (including Cowboy Junkies! for free!), a beer garden, kids' game and an ouzo(!!) garden. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Oh, and the new Molson "I am Canadian" commercial is a bit better than the Joe Canada one. Except. Well, the American guy says all that stuff about Canadians -- like the curling thing and the donut thing -- and I'm thinking, "Hey, he knows a lot about Canadians for an American!"

I still think "I am Canadian" should mean something more than "I am not American," but maybe that's just me...

August 8th:
With only two weeks left, of course I can't stop talking about "Survivor." Although I didn't get to chat with Gervase, I did go read the transcript. Can you believe he honestly didn't like Sue, didn't think Rich was so bad and admitted that Sean is not the brightest guy in the world? Nothing he said though, was as confusing as this bit:

christina_jroseluvr5 Asks: What did you think when Richard walked around naked on his Birthday?

Gervase Peterson says: It didn't bother me at all. That was Rich's prerogative. I was amused when I saw him because I was more endowed then he was.

August 7th:
Happy Simcoe Day. After three days at Lake Kashwakamak I am very sunburned and convinced that I need to get one of these here things.

Funny. The Rich Dance is much funnier when set to "Shake your groove thing" and edited a wee bit. Much better than last Wednesday night. I'd really like to see it drawn as a cartoon though.

More funny. Why is the "Your daughter kicked my dog" thing so damn funny? I have listened to it a few several many times and it keeps getting funnier. (Um, warning -- bad language there.)

Funny joke:
(q) Why did the Canadian cross the road?
(a) To get to the middle.

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