Saturday, October 27, 2007

Updatey Goodness

Update One: We still haven't heard anything back from Telus Mobility, even though they said that they'd have everything about the identity theft figured out within 48 hours. It's been more than that now, and so on Monday Chris is going to start calling them and pushing them to resolve this situation, so that there is no longer a collections agency thinking that we owe them money.

Update Two: But, on the up side, we have done a bunch of glorious shopping at Salvation Army and XS Cargo (liquidation sort of stuff). Today we picked up a third fondue pot, a 750-piece puzzle, a puzzle mat where you can roll up your puzzle pieces and store them away (!), Starfarers of Catan (for $9 at SV!), Chris's third telescope, and (the most exciting of all, for me) a 6.5QT oval-shaped programmable crock pot. Seriously, this is a big thing for me, because our current slow cooker is small and doesn't fit a roast in it. This one would fit a large chicken. And came with an insulated travel bag, which I suspect will end up being used to transport other kinds of dishes to potlucks. This is clearly the best day ever, unresolved identity theft notwithstanding.

Update Three: I've started wearing headbands. This is officially the first time I've done something different with my hair (other than "cutting it shorter" or "dyeing it red") since high school. I'll keep you updated on whether I become a new person, as a result of wearing a hairband. (It's kind of freaking my out that people can see my entire forehead. I have a large forehead.)

Update Four: Tangerine-flavoured Nestea sold in little skinny packets like they sell Crystal Lite, but sweetened with Splenda instead of aspertame? Best idea anyone's had in a while. I've been converted. (Next step: Field Berry flavour.)

Update Five: Also, Chris got a 3 million candlewatt flashlight at XS Cargo. Everyone should beware, considering the havoc that he wreaked with his old 1 million candlewatt flashlight. Because if anyone can wreak havoc with a flashlight, that would be Chris.

Update Six: Also, he managed to figure out where to buy hydrochloric acid without finding a way to have to get the school to purchase it for him. (He needs it by Monday, so that the grade 10 science class can blow up Pringles cans.) He got it from a pool supply store, where they sell it as muriatic acid (the historical name for HCl). The guy in the pool supply store didn't even know that it was actually hydrochloric acid, until Chris pointed it out on the label. Good thing that Chris learned that at a pool-care certification course, since that was probably way cheaper than going out and buying HCl from a chemical supplier. It frightened our friend Andrea that it's so cheap and easy to buy acids like that.

Update Seven: In other Chris news, he's really giddy because he realised that he's going to be able to go to the CFL's Western Final (provided that it's really Saskatchewan playing BC, which it almost definitely will be), since it'll be played in Vancouver! Meg and Karl will get to witness Chris paint himself green and refer to himself as both "the 13th man" and "the heart of a nation."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let us know how the hair band changes your life. A hair band (that wasn't actually a hair band) nearly changed the course of my life. When J and I met, he wasn't sure if he liked me because I was wearing a head band (that was actually a scarf tied as a hair band) and he thought that was Weird. Fortunately, the next time we went out I DIDN'T wear the head band and now we're married. :-D

Anonymous said...

Nobody told me anything about Chris painting himself...I'm not sure I signed on for that.

Teacher Lady said...

"We built this city on Rock and Roll"

Anonymous said...

Hair Band Theory by Mi.

Hair band can change your life, but in different ways depending (usually in a positive/negative continuum) of the combined ratio of the following three variables:

1)Color: hot undertones can work only if you have flawless complexion. If not, go for the magical dark, a-bit-brown-yet-cold green. Black is only ok if you have a really pale skin (and are ok with the somewhat gothic vibe it may gives you). Blues must be colds and pinks are a must, but may only be used when dressed mostly in black. Yellow is... no no. White can work, but has a huge potential of giving anybody a Bree-in-Desesperate-Housewives look and brown can be boring. Polka dots are a must and stripes forbidden.

2)Ratio forehead/size of the hair band: the width of the hair band should be 3/4 of the width of the forehead to create a nice and even impression of balance. Exception: a) if you have a lot of hair and want to pile them all on top of your head (a funny and extreme illustration of this is madame Whinehouse). In that case, the hair band can be bigger and b) if the hair band is really small (like a small elastic), all of the above doesn't apply.

3)Confort and hapiness: hair band can create serious headaches, especially for people who use their brain. Avoid any elastics and prefer the hair band you can tie or the hard plastic ones. If you want to use lycra ones, wash them once before you wear them for the first time, let them dry naturally and stretch them with your hands while they are still wet. Also, hair bands can create major dependancy. Be aware that you may never want to spend more than two minutes pretending to do hair for the rest of you life.

We want some pictures, indeed.