Big Brother

September 7, 2009 – Day 250

I spend my free time on the computer so I generally don’t watch any TV; however, I took an interest in Big Brother this summer. Ken and I have been watching it together and when we went to watch it last night, we were disappointed to discover that it wasn’t on! I don’t know if it was on earlier than we expected or if it was bumped for another show – do they do that sometimes?

Ken was on his computer this afternoon and found the episode we missed last night on YouTube so we were able to watch it! Ken and I were both hoping Jeff would win the game but he went home last week. Of the four remaining contestants, we are both hoping that Jordan (pictured here) will win.

Hair!

September 6, 2009 – Day 249

Ken went to Value Village to look for some work clothes today and he came back with – HAIR! lol! (He did manage to find 2 bags of clothes for work as well.) :-)

I Love to Cook

September 5, 2009 – Day 248

2 cups grated Monterey Jack cheese

Pasta...mmmy favourite!

September 4, 2009 – Day 247

For supper tonight I made tortellini with meat sauce topped with Swiss, Cheddar and Parmesan cheese (broiled for a few minutes at the end to brown the cheese). Pasta is one of my absolute favourite foods.

Busted

September 3, 2009 – Day 246

It got up to 32 degrees today but thankfully I didn’t have to endure the stifling hot bus ride home at the end of my work day. Jen drove today - and offered me a ride, which I gladly accepted! Riding home in her air conditioned car was awesome!

We were about 10 minutes out of the downtown core when, right in front of us, the police stopped a truck and immediately handcuffed the two men and one woman that were in the vehicle. The arrest took place in a traffic circle during bumper-to bumper rush hour traffic.

Late

September 2, 2009 – Day 245

The bus ride home after work today was almost unbearable. Even though every window of the bus was open, they’re so small and so high above the seats that not much of a breeze flows into the bus. On top of the 29 degree outdoor temperature, the body heat of approximately 50 people packed together like sardines in a tin can pushed the temperature even higher. It felt like it was 40 degrees on the bus. In addition to the extreme heat, we were caught behind an unusually heavy flow of traffic out of the downtown core; heavy traffic that continued for about half the ride home. Thankfully, my friend Jen was on the bus and chatting helped to pass the time but when she made a comment about just how hot it was and just how slow we were crawling along, I almost wanted to panic! :-) It seemed to take forever to get home and my regular 45 minute bus ride home was an hour long. It felt wonderful to finally walk through the front door - even if it was 15 minutes later than usual.

And tomorrow is going to be another hot one!

Back to School

September 1, 2009 – Day 244

Signs of fall, and back to school, are everywhere. Leaves are beginning to change color; it’s dark at 9:00 p.m., nights are cooler, and today I noticed that city buses are busier and yellow school buses are on the roads again.

Three of my grandchildren started a new school year yesterday: Ashley started High School, grade 10; Faith goes to grade 4 and Hannah, grade 1. Hope started grade 9 today and Owen and Austin will both begin preschool in the days ahead. If preschool kids count as “school aged” then that means all my grandchildren are of school age; something that didn’t dawn on me until doing this journalling! I will likely have more grandchildren one day because both Adam and Michael wish to have families in the future, but I can’t believe how fast the grandchildren I have now are all growing up! I pray that each of them will have a wonderfully happy and successful school year!