Suburbanite!

Finally the entry about the hoose!

So this past January, J, wee J and I were sitting in our lovely downtown condo, remarking about what a great space it was for a double income family, sans famille.

Jack’s toys were strewn over what used to be our living room and his bouncy truck, swing, high chair, mats etc were a part of the scenery and a challenge to getting to the sofa…

We all looked at the space, or lack thereof, back at each other, back at the space and started the discussion about how nice it would be to be somewhere slightly bigger…

As the depths of winter subsided and allowed us all to venture outdoors, we realised that there was no discernable green space for Jack to enjoy around our inner city ghetto, neighbourhood.

So we began to have a look at The Gazette’s “Home Front” on a Saturday, and trawling through the mls.ca website.

We talked about a two year plan to get us there…

Hell – we even went to some open houses in neighbourhoods we thought we’d like.

In hindsight that was the beginning of the end.

Well hello, masses…

Hello Survivor fans!

There’s a good chance that you arrived here because I posted an entry a couple of seasons ago making predictions for the Fiji season.

As a result, I get record breaking hits at every season finale – yesterday peaking at 800+…

In hindsight, on that season, I was right, predicting that Rocky would do badly, and that Yau Man and Earl would the superstars.

So to answer a couple of questions you may have had and to make a few observations:

1. Yes, Parvati did indeed win $1,000,000 for being an outrageous flirt.
2. She probably deserved it.
3. I don’t know if Amanda and Ozzie went all the way on a buggy beach or not.
4. I don’t want to know
5. James won $100,000 for having watchable abs.
6. Yes, Jeff Probst dyed his hair just a little too dark for the reunion show.
7. I don’t know what Natalie had been smoking when asking her questions to the final two.
8. Erik, although trying to mask his naivety with ‘humanity’, will be tough to beat as ‘Dumbest. Survivor. Ever’.
9. If I ever receive a hidden immunity idol or immunity necklace, I will play it at the first opportunity and never give it up. Never.
10. We’re going back to Africa (Gabon) for the next season.
11. I too am hoping that one day the producers will look outside of the USA for contestants. I think a team USA versus the world would make for an intriguing show…
12. Yes. This was the most interesting season in a VERY long time.
13. Not as interesting as it would be given point 11.

Your tribe has spoken.

Into the Wild

so… yes… we bought a house.

More on that in a bit…

I just finished reading “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer – an account and commentary of the short life of Chris McCandless, recently dramatized in a movie of the same name.

To cut a long story short, McCandless was the kid of 22 years old who, after fulfilling the wishes of his parents by seeing out his undergraduate degree in Atlanta took himself on a two year trans-American adventure without money or provisions to prove to himself that he could live a meager and self fulfilling existence without the luxuries… actually – more than that – his odyssey was to live an existence without in order to cleanse himself.

He was found, dead, in Alaska two and half years after he left, apparently starved…