Two of the gals I work with, Natalie and Marigold, weren’t feeling so great when they came into work today. They both had a sore throat, headache and other cold-like symptoms. Marigold, who hails from Mexico, has a thick accent and often fumbles with English words and phrases. Case in point, earlier today:
Natalie: I’m really not feeling well.
Marigold: Me either. I hope we don’t have the HIV.
{silence}
In between bursts of laughter, Natalie tried explaining that she doesn’t have neither HIV or H1N1.
Canada Day, the day a bunch of old white dudes decided that a few little provinces should get together a form a wee little country called Canada. Today marked the 142 anniversary of that occasion and I think we’re doing pretty good as we near the 150 mark.
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S and I hosted our first poker night last night. It wasn’t a game for serious players though, as we wanted to have a casual, social evening mixed in with some poker fun. We also wanted it to be ladies only. The idea came about the last time Christine and T were over for dinner. We somehow got to talking about poker and I (or S) mentioned that we’d love to host a night and now that we have the space, we think we can do it.
A few weeks ago, T e-mailed asking if we were still interested in hosting a game. We said that we were and that got the ball rolling. After all of the invites had gone out, we found ourselves with 11 players ready to come out for some poker fun. I guessed that our dining room table could seat 10 people around it (snuggly, that is) so making room for one more person wouldn’t be too hard to do.
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I had a few post ideas that I was going to pursue for the this here blog tonight. All of those ideas have become overshadowed with the news of the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.
Charlie’s Angels (the original) was before my time so I was never a big fan of Fawcett’s work. I knew who she was from catching stories about her on Entertainment Tonight or online. I don’t think I ever saw a movie that she was in; at least I don’t remember watching anything she starred in. Not being a big fan didn’t mean I wasn’t saddened by the news of her death this morning. Fighting cancer is horrendous and her three year fight was no doubt filled with immense pain and fear.
I was at my parents’ tonight when my dad told us Michael Jackson had died today. He (my dad) was on the phone with his brother who had heard it on the radio. I immediately turned on the local news and caught the headline in the channel’s scrolling news ticker.
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I had a really strange encounter while walking the gal pal this morning. I’ve lived in the city my entire life; there isn’t much I haven’t seen or heard. It’s not often that I’m left rattled. People who talk to themselves on the streetcar? Easily ignored by turning up the volume on my ipod. People on street corners announcing the second coming of Jesus? A quick walk across the street and they’re forgotten about. This morning’s incident was odd because I felt like I couldn’t shake the woman.
The pup’s and my walk started off well enough; it wasn’t until we were on our way back home that we came across a woman walking her dog too. At first, she was very apprehensive about our two dogs making contact. She said that her dog gets excited easily and asked that I get the gal pal to sit to show her dog that it was okay to approach. Fine, no big deal, I think that sniffing other dogs while out is part of the fun of a walk.
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