Unwords

Why pay to drive on the cow when you can drive on the milk for free?
-- Jeffy Parsons-Sheldrake (regarding toll highways)
My patient from the last post has died. It's for the best.

My shift in Campbellford on Wednesday night was happily uneventful. I got about five hours' sleep. This was handy, since Cheryl passed driving duty to me when she arrived at the Brighton carpool and we continued to Burlington, where we have spent the last couple days. When we arrived here at 1pm yesterday, I had not yet eaten or showered, so we had a leftover pizza lunch, and I cleaned up. We went out to Ikea to look for ideas for a makeover to Neva's room, as well as a couple of chairs for our main room. A lot of the furniture there falls apart (which I refer to as "KRÄPPI"), but we think we have found a couple of pieces we can use. In our family room, so that no one gets priveleged with the single POÄNG chair which is perfectly aligned for TV viewing, we planned to get two more, which we went on to pick up tonight.

Today, we took the kids to the Toronto Zoo. One of Bri's close friends named Matt works there with the elephants and in addition to getting us our admission, we got to go in the elephant enclosure and watch as they fed "Tara" and washed her feet and stuff. The children were less impressed and more scared than Cheryl or I (as evidenced by Neva squirming and Hugh repeatedly suggesting "Let's get out of here!"), but it was quite amazing, and we felt lucky to see and touch them up close. Thanks again, Matt! We spent about four hours at the zoo, and then came home for dinner. On the drive home, we saw a PT Cruiser convertible which I thought looked ridiculous, so when Cheryl asked what it was, I told her it was an Italian car called a Butugli.

I'm not sure if Marg volunteered or if we volunteered her, but she ended up babysiting after dinner tonight so that Cheryl and I could go and see An Inconvenient Truth. It is the first movie I have seen in a cinema in over a year (I think - the last one being my opening night trip out to see Revenge of the Sith with Jason), and it was very very very impressive. I almost gave it five stars on my little sidebar (implying that, to me that it could not be improved in any way), but ended up bestowing an appropriately Earthly four and a half. I unreservedly suggest that whoever you are, or wherever you live, you see it.

Tomorrow, Cheryl and I foist the children on willing babysitters once more when we go to see "Spamalot", and then join Rachel for dinner at the Salad King. Yum Yum Goong.

The fun never stops.