Shrimp chips and silky pork

Today as we were returning home two birds flew into our garage. After we made one fly out (it was reluctant) we had to find the other one huddled up on the floor. I thought it was dead because I prodded it for 10 minutes with a stick, but after finding signs of life I tried to manually handle it out, but it hid under the car for another few minutes before it ran outside to the neighbor's yard. I can only guess that the first reluctant bird was a parent and the smaller one was a child because it couldn't fly for too long. I guess by getting it outside the parent will come back.

Anyway I'm leaving in the morning, so I'll see you all next week.

Axebanger

I finished that book finally after putting off a lot of reading. I got really impatient and read half the book in a day. Oh the cliffhanger *tear*

I'm leaving Saturday on a bus tour to P.E.I., although I'll really only be in P.E.I. for a day. It's a seven day thing, a nice break from staying home all summer.

You China peeps better not have come in contact with that swine pathogen spreading around Sichuan.

I due.

In the afternoon I went and watched Wedding Crashers.

Consequently, I attended a wedding afterwards.

"Slughorn turned on Dumbledore, his expression shrewd."

I received my copy.

I'm pretty sure this certain sentence fragment contains a typo:
"The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled..." pg.42

The definition of fug, a steamy, humid and murky air environment, doesn't seem to fit in the sentence.

In conclusion, the London bombings were probably caused by Death Eaters.

" oGMZz SNaPR KILZ dDUNBleDORE!!@!"

..is all I've been hearing on Guild Wars by attention-starved tweens. However seeing as I did not run down to my friendly neighborhood Chapters/Indigo that fateful Saturday midnight, nor did I anytime after, I do not currently have possession of Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince. I did however order it online, and in doing so saved about $3-4 than if I bought it at the bookstore. (~!!!) This is OK, because I'm still in the process of finishing another book, so when I receive the book in the next few days its arrival will be greatly welcomed.

The Norse Heaven

In Norse mythology, Einherjar (or Einheriar) referred to the spirits of warriors who had died bravely in battle. The einherjar live on in Valhalla, the Norse Heaven.

Every day they are woken by Gullinkambi, a rooster, and march out to great field of Idavoll in the heart of Asgard to fight against each other in merry (and mortal) combat. At dusk, when they are all cut to pieces, save perchance a few, they are miraculously healed, and marches back into Valhalla, where Andhrimnir, the chef of the gods, has prepared a meal for them from the pork of Sahrimnir, a pig that is reborn every day, and the mead milked from Heiðrún, a goat feeding on the leaves of Yggdrasil. The einherjar then spend the evening and night in feast, served by lovely Valkyries, until they all fall asleep, solidly drunk. And yet, they never experience hangovers or other mishaps from this daily inebriation.

Source

The mystery is revealed! That's pretty cool. 

Best Career Choice

latrinalia - bathroom graffiti

latrinology - the study of bathroom graffiti (latrinalia), coined by a professor at Berkely who made this an academic specialty

That second message goes to everyone going to China. Have fun!  

Swelter

Today's high temperature broke the records! Go humidex! And I got to sit outside in it doing nothing for 3 hours straight!

Therefore, come to Markham Stouville Hospital if you're interested in buying tickets to Wonderland for $36.00 each, weekdays 10am - 4pm. Sold at the front door, beside the ice cream.

Luckily, since Hurricane Dennis got tired out from terrorizing southeast USA, he's gonna be coming up here in a few days and spraying us with a little water.

/violin

I tried to charm a bear too and it didn't let me *tear*




Why did they take the Gwens away for the release? =(

When Smilies Go Wrong

I've never liked this smiley: <3

It does not look like a heart. It looks like a piece of Tolberone with two round tumours on it, or the top view of a horizontal nose. If it were to symbolize a heart, it should then be more of a broken heart, with the big white space in the middle of it and all.

Also when people say: "oMG I luv u <3". When you express your love to someone, you usually don't tell them: I love you lesser than 3. This can imply that, on the grand list of people he/she loves, you're in the fourth position or lower. How gratifying. Or maybe it just implies that he/she has an unhealthy obsession with the number 3 and you have to understand that you'll always be beneath the number 3 in his/her mind in order to have a healthy relationship.

OK I'm done now.

/cheer

Canada is now 138 years young. Go Canada! Go independance! Go Canadian flag which is now slightly inaccurate and it's all Nunavut's fault! (Referring to the 11 points on the maple leaf)