25 Random Facts About Me

1. I am currently laid off from my job, and I love it.
2. My favourite word is "melatonin"
3. My current celebrity crush is Dev Patel. I first saw him on Skins a couple years ago and he just recently stared in Slumdog Millionare. He was on Leno last night and he's just the cutest guy ever.
4. My favourite chocolate bar is coffee crisp but I hate real coffee.
5. I never want to get married or have kids.
6. I'm a Scorpio, which coincidentally is my favourite star sign [and not just because I am one... I actually find them fascinating]
7. I don't like to leave my house in the winter. It's too dark and cold.
8. My favourite music video at the moment is for Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
9. Clementines (the little oranges) are my favourite thing about Christmas.
10. I love buying bathing suits but I hate wearing them in front of people. I have at least five sitting in my drawer right now that I haven't worn yet.
11. I'm a huge procrastinator.
12. If it was up to me, Canadian citizens would have to take and pass a drug test before being able to apply for welfare.
13. I wish I could play drums.
14. I haven't spoken to my dad in over five years... Since the day he told me he was going to hunt down and kill my mother and boyfriend. I will never speak to him again because of what he said.
15. I don't want to grow up. I wish I could be a kid forever.
16. My favourite thing to drink is water. I also sometimes drink cranberry juice and chocolate soy milk.
17. I hate lipstick and never wear it. However, I can't live without my Blistex.
18. Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire is the most interesting history lesson I have ever sat through.
19. I hate technology.
20. At the CPR Christmas party this year I won a 32" plasma screen TV. Since I don't really watch TV I gave it to Adam, who loves TV.
21. I miss my mom, sister and gramma.
22. I think I'm friends with real-life swingers and it doesn't bother me the least bit.
23. I love having my feet rubbed.
24. I hate having my picture taken.
25. I'm super shy and quiet. I don't think I'll ever outgrow it.

Thank You For Your Interest, Young Man

A few weeks ago I was out on a trip to White River and my engineer was telling me about an all-white moose with two regular coloured moose that he saw on the side of the highway on his way to Timmins. Well on the cover of the Mid-North Monitor this week is a picture of the moose he was talking about! (What is the plural of 'moose' anyway?) In the picture is a beautiful albino mother moose and just one of her two normal-looking babies. :)

The last time Adam and I drove to Timmins a moose crossed the highway right in front of us, and sweet mother are they ever big!! I had never seen a father moose before and it was bigger than I ever thought was possible. There's something strangely fascinating about a moose. They're just these massive, oddly shaped, dark, quiet, accidentally deadly creatures. I love them.

I also really like elephants. I rode on one before. Their ears and trunk are very intriguing. I watched an elephant vasectomy on Daily Planet over the holidays and unlike other mammals, elephants' testes are located inside the body. You might think it sounds weird to sterilize an elephant, but it's a much better option than killing off whole herds of them to prevent overpopulation.

Ruby Tuesday

I'd like to dedicate a song to Ruby, the lovely little lady who cleans the floor for us at the station every night after she finishes up her shift at Home Hardware. She gets so frustrated when we walk on her nice, clean floors with our muddy work boots, so hopefully this cheers her up and shows her how much she means to us. This song's for you, Rube:

Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs

Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby
Do ya do ya do ya do ya
Know what you're doing, doing to me
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby