Randomly, on a Wednesday

In an effort to post more, I will write today.  But let's take it easy on me, eh?  Time for a list...

• I would rather not be at work today.  Nor yesterday really.  
• Not quite sure if that's more about me or my client at the moment.
• I used 8 cm of snow (a little over 3") and traffic reports of accidents on a highway that is slow moving in the best of days as a reason to work from home.
• As much as this winter seems to go on forever, I like the work from home snow days.
• I did get laughed at (by email) from my Quebec team mates.  
• Rightfully so.
• Shovelling snow is good exercise so long as you pace yourself and stretch a bit.  Given that I don't like exercising much, I'm not sure why I like shovelling snow but I suppose there is some accomplishment that goes with it.
• Something is going on with my hormones. 
• My breasts are confused enough to make me take a pregnancy test and while I was quite sure of the results, it was better than letting my head go to crazy places and second guessing if I should have that caffeinated beverage or glass of wine or shovel snow.
• Side question - How can spell checker have decaffeinated but not caffeinated?  
• My period better show up soon.
• Oh right, Valentine's Day.  Mr. Lina took pictures of our food but I think they are still on the camera.  It was all very tasty.
• We made so much food between our Venezuelan meal and Chili Night, I didn't have to cook anything more exotic than eggs and toast the whole Family Day weekend.
• I put the registration form for PRIDE training in the mail yesterday.  This is the 27 hours of parenting lessons we have to take to adopt.
• We went snow shoeing on Monday.
• I forgot how hot I get.
• I bundled up for the cold weather (although at -9C, it wasn't all that cold I suppose) and end up pulling my hood down, taking my mitts off, and unzipping half my coat (leaving it snapped at the neck and zipped at the bottom).  
• And to think I put warmer mitts in the backpack in case my hand knit ones weren't warm enough.
• It wasn't as bad as the year we decided to try a trail that was longer than we thought (Beaver Dam at Hilton Falls for local readers) and our snow shoes were pretty new.  3 hours of snow shoeing later, there was steam coming off our heads.
• I took our little camera but forgot to take pictures.
• I don't think like a photographer, it never occurs to me to take pictures.
• Mr. Lina dyed his hair black on the weekend.  
• Some dripped on the carpet (fortunately this is the semi-permanent kind of dye), which made us clear crap out of the hallways upstairs and use the carpet cleaner we borrowed from my parents in August.
• August.  
• We are never leaving our house, are we?
• I know we hosted oh 25 or so people and 10 entries to the Chili Cook Off, but outside of that we spent the weekend together.
• It was lovely.  
• One of my friends came with her 3 month old baby.  I couldn't see her when she was pregnant, but babies are cute. 
• She does think like a photographer so I can share a picture of that, although I've blocked his face for privacy.  There was a smile under there.

• Mr. Lina continued his streak of being the baby whisperer.  Feedback the next day is that whatever Mr. Lina did (blowing in his face I think?) became is "favourite" thing.
• Someone walked around the office offering pieces of cake, I asked what the occasion was and there wasn't one.  
• Random cake to go with a random post.
• It has led to quite the sugar rush, I believe it was red velvet with cream cheese icing.
• No sewing lately, I have picked away at cleaning/packing my sewing room.  
• I did darn my slippers.  I purchased hand knit slippers oh.. 4 years ago maybe and wore holes in both slippers.  Sunday I finally got around to darning the bottom so they are wearable again.

Okay, that's long enough.  I hope it is vaguely amusing.  I have to get back into the swing of things and publish more of what I write.