Weekend Snapshot
Posted by kasper on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 23:06 under General
Yesterday we made the trek up to Orillia to visit hubby’s mom for her birthday. Actually her birthday was last weekend, but my dad was curling so we were carless. (I really need to get a car!) The snow this winter’s been a bitch, but nothing compared to what I saw up north! Sort of puts things in perspective for me. I’m usually not to crazy about going up as I find it fairly boring. Unlike my family, there is very little conversation. I’m not a very social person so I certainly don’t help in that respect. So when hubby volunteered to go pick up KFC for dinner and his sister and niece said they wanted to go too, all I could think was that the dreaded silence between his mom and me might swallow me alive. It ended up not being nearly as bad as I thought. It’s definitely easy to talk about the baby, plus she went on about all the concerts she’s seen at Casino Rama, so the time flew by. We all managed to gorge ourselves on chicken only to forget about the 3 cakes that hubby brought from work. It’s handy for get-togethers, but mostly it’s just evil that my husband delivers for a pastry company. It was an extremely long and interrupted day for the baby so I was happy when we finally got home around 21:30. As exhausted as we both were we ended up staying up to watch the Academy Awards, though hubby was snoring on the couch before any of the important awards were presented. I was disappointed to see that Juno didn’t win anything monumental, but figured that it probably wasn’t mainstream enough. Great movie. If you haven’t seen it do. And check out the soundtrack too. It’s very quirky.
You have reached the blog of kasper. I live outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
and have been blogging since 1999. I am newly married, though have been with the same guy for nearly 13 years.
We have a son (baby D) born April 13th, 2007 and have all moved into our first home. Though I don't tend
to stick to one thing, I've been known to enjoy the Sims2, knitting, webdesign, reading, music and movies.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Whoa, look at all that snow! That must have been exhausting to shovel. I wish we’d had snow here this year but the best we really got was a mild smattering that made the paths slippery. That was a bit of an anti-climax, quite honestly.
Juno won nothing? How lame. That really was a very heartfelt and original movie, the concept and everything was just so engageable that I’m surprised it didn’t win anything. I guess you’re right about it not being “mainstream” enough - a movie about a teenage girl getting pregnant probably seemed to most like a cheap, shock-value emulation of “Knocked Up” even though the two are nothing alike.