The Perennial Sam

It’s Hungry Hungry Hippos Sammo!

I’m waiting for my fiance to get home so we can go get something to eat.  We have a hard time keeping groceries in the apartment with his roommate around.  One thing I am looking forward to when we move is having more food around and being able to eat regular (and healthier) meals. 

I haven’t posted in a few days - this past weekend was a long one in Canada.  In Britain too I suppose.  Queen Victoria’s birthday was the 24th of May and Victoria Day weekend is a benchmark for many people - time to open the cottage, plant your garden, or party, depending on who you are.  We didn’t do anything in particular this weekend.  He was glad to have an entire weekend off without being on-call or backup to the on-call person; he fixes elevators.  Saturday we went to visit his parents, who were painting a few rooms in their house.  The rabbits came with us and had a good time playing with their cat, who is full grown but almost as small as the larger rabbit (about 4 lbs).  We had a pretty good visit with them.  It is surprising to me how relaxed some families are when they spend time together.  Our house growing up was always filled with tension and silence…it still is much of the time. 

I went to visit my parents on Monday.  They haven’t been getting along lately, more so than usual.  So I was pretty agitated on the way home, besides being tense because it was only my second time taking a standard/manual transmission car out on my own, and it’s an hour and twenty minute trip between where we live.  The drive actually went pretty well.  I stopped to get gas on the way back to the apartment and stalled the car pulling back out onto the road.  I had put the car in third gear, instead of first.  The car was sitting across two lanes of oncoming traffic and I knew what I had done, so I only had to start the car again and shift gears.  Apparently the 5 seconds that took was too long for a big Chevy Blazer behind me, who laid on their horn, so I gave them the finger.  Normally I don’t do this but I was pretty irritated already.  And I made a fist with the same hand and shook it while giving them the finger.  Kind of like when Mario jumps up to bang his head against something to get more points in old school Nintendo.  I don’t know if I got more points, but I felt somewhat better anyhow.  Later I felt kind of embarassed but oh well.

I have a few more constructive posts in mind for later this week, I just wanted to get back in the habit of posting after not having done so for a while.  By the way, I am very appreciative to all those who have been reading my blog and leaving comments these past few days.  That was mostly my motivation for making sure I blogged today. 

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