Shippers' hearts go thump-thump...

Oh my!! What a fantastic episode of Prison Break last night! Better than last week's. The best part:


"We'll figure it out...together."

"I like the sound of that."

**Katie faints**

Next week's preview (Michael & Sara snogging) almost made my head explode.

Also, Sucre speaking Spanish the entire episode!! HAWT! Curse you, Monday, for being six days away!

Can I get a whoop whoop!

Hubby's band (which I manage) entered a battle of the bands. The competition was Sunday night. They won!! Won a few hours of recording time and a "trophy", which is an acoustic guitar with an engraveable plaque.

Whoop, whoop!

Hope it'll open some doors. :)

More almost-3-years-old wierdness

I swear, I do not know why the child is so odd. :P

Tonight as we were leaving daycare, she stood in the front yard of her caregiver's house and watched the moon for a few minutes. I gave her a few minutes and then went to the car and waited...waited...waited. Finally told her I'd count to 3, and if she didn't start coming on her own, I'd come get her. She said, "I'm coming". I started counting, and she said, "I'm coming!" Woah. Sorry.

The ensuing conversation was what made left me shaking my head, though:

C: I wanna see the moon. It my friend.

Me: I know the moon is your friend, but let's just get buckled in and you'll see the moon once we start driving.

C: I wanna have it! It my best friend!!!

Seriously. Best friends with the moon.

She's fickle, though. I asked her before I put her to bed, who her best friend is. She said, "My baby" (as in, her doll).

Lucky for me, the title of Mommy isn't transferrable. :)

Conversation with an almost-3-year-old

Me: "C, are you poopy?"

C: "No, I not poopy!"

Me: "I think you are."

C: "No, I not are!"

Me (checking): "Yup. Poopy."

C: "It my baby."

The Vanished

Everywhere I go, anytime I go online, anytime I'm listening to the radio, anytime I pick up a paper, all I see/hear/read is coverage of the trial currently taking place in New Westminster, B.C., regarding the murders of six women who vanished from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the 90s and early part of this decade.

The trial is often referred to by the name of the accused. His picture is everywhere. Every television news report shows the same video clip of him, climbing over a wall in his pig barn.

How many reports show the photographs of the victims in this trial? How many of us know the names of the victims? (Yes, there are 49 suspected victims in all, but only six are concerned with this particular trial) How many times have we heard that the victims were drug-addicted sex trade workers?

I strongly advocate for news organizations referring to this trial as the Vancouver Eastside Murders trial, or something that acknowledges the victims in this. They are, after all, the reason for this case. The accused is presumed innocent until found guilty, so let's not make it about him. Let's not give him the satisfaction of having his name mentioned in polite society.

Instead, let's acknowledge and meet the six women for whom the trial seeks to find justice. Please click the names to learn about these individuals.

Mona Wilson
Sereena Abotsway
Andrea Joesbury
Georgina Papin
Marnie Frey
Brenda Wolfe

I'm losing weight

I'm going back to the diet that was succeeding for me in the fall. It's nothing crazy; just watching calories during the day, and I don't snack after 7 p.m. I actually lost 16 pounds in October - November, but totally fell off the wagon during the holidays, and I gained 14 of it back. Grrr.

So, I'm back down another ten in the last few weeks. A great site for keeping track of your calories is Calorie-Count.com. They have a great little food log program and nothing to download!

Here's my ticker:

The reason for that special glow...

In my previous post, I posted a picture of Sarah Wayne Callies looking absolutely radiant. We now know the reason she looks so fabulous - she's pregnant! :)

From here:


Callies of 'Prison Break' expecting first child: publicist

NEW YORK (AP) - Sarah Wayne Callies, who stars on Fox's "Prison Break," is expecting her first child, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The baby is due in late summer, publicist Jodi Gottlieb said. Gottlieb declined to provide further details, including the occupation of Callie's husband, Josh Winterhalt.
Callies, 29, portrays Dr. Sara Tancredi on "Prison Break." New Corp.'s Fox network drama also stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell.
She has guest-starred on TV's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Numb3rs," and as Jane in the short-lived series "Tarzan."

Congratulations, Sarah and Josh!

It occurs to me...

...whilst gazing at the pics I posted a few moments ago, that my sidebar description of myself, all label-free and all, is wrong. I finished breastfeeding my Sweet C in September; two and a half years, to the day, after she was born. Well, more accurately, she finished. Took me a few days to realized she hadn't nursed in a while (we were down to nursing only at bedtime anyways) and that was it for us. :) Went out with a whimper, more than with a bang.

Well, not even a whimper, really.

Just as it should be.

(Um...I'm also not cloth-diapering any more - well, only when we run out of sposies during a cash drought - but I'm blaming that on her daycare providers who can't wrap their heads around wrapping cloth around a baby's bum.)

The long wait is over...

Prison Break returned tonight. Definitely heart-pounding! If I make it out of this show without needing blood pressure medication, it'll be amazing.

I'll leave the witty recaps to Television Without Pity, but I will provide these pics of my favourite beautiful boy, and his beautiful co-star (who was NOT in tonight's episode! WTF!).

Simply fabulous.







My sister will, as always, inform me there are other men on TV. I think she's mistaken.

(Thanks to JustJared for the sweet pics.)

Oh.

Yeah, okay. Figured it out. :)

I have been trying to figure out...

...how to post this to the sidebar of my blog. I'm damned if I can figure it out. So I'll add it here instead.





January 20, 2009: The end of an error.