9/9/9

For the last couple of years there have been an abundance of weddings on the dates where all the numbers are identical (e.g. June 6, 2006, July 7, 2007, etc). Today is September 9, 2009 (9/9/9) and it got me thinking - will this trait continue into the winter months? Typically weddings are significantly less frequent in the winter months and I wonder if the appeal of the matching numbers wedding dates will be greater than the standard dislike of getting married in the winter. Any thoughts?

Features

I am trying out the weekly feature thing, you know, where every say Tuesday of the week you write the same type of post. I already have Motivational Mondays going on my Photography Blog (first in this series was Yousuf Karsh) and am now looking to start a really easy one here - Quotable Thursdays. I like quotes and am going to try and find some really good ones. As today is Wednesday, the first in this series will be posted tomorrow. Let me know what you think.

Baby Sloth

Oh my, it's a baby sloth. If sloths weren't irresistible before, they sure are now!! Doesn't it look like he's smiling or something. It also looks like he wants to be picked up, someone should go pick him up.

Groceries

Today Dave and I went grocery shopping for the first time in weeks. To be honest, we had been now and then to pick up this or that, but not a full grocery event and never enough to fill our fridge and/or cupboard. It has been so busy and frantic at work lately, that neither of us wanted to make anything when we got home. We would throw together some basic food and then buy lunch somewhere the next day. Tomorrow I intend on making a few dishes that we could have as lunches throughout the week and hope that I can keep it up.
I don't like spending so much money on food when for at least half the price I could make something myself and probably like it more. I have always tried to think of buying lunch as a portion of my work day. In other words, if my lunch cost 8 bucks and I made 16 an hour, then half an hour of my work day went to purchasing my food. Was the food really worth an additional 8 dollars? This has been my thought since I started working and has resulted in my usually only buying lunches once every week or two, with the exception of the past few months of course.
Hopefully we will be able to stop buying so many lunches and save some of money and put it towards something useful - not sure what that is though.

Lost in Austen

Lost in Austen is a BBC miniseries that has been airing on TVO lately. I watched it for the first time when Dave as in Toronto for work and watched it again when he was in Brockville for work. Well, to be honest, both times I have watched it, I have only actually seen the third installment of the four part series. It is basically Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, with a twist. The main character is a modern woman who absolutely loves the Austen novel. During a somewhat peculiar time in her life, she ends up trading places with the heroin from the novel, Elizabeth Bennett. She then spends the rest of the show trying to fix the plot of the novel, but inevitably and quite predictably, messes it up even more.

I know it sounds slightly cheesy and ridiculous and some even say blasphemous as it is messing with such a popular book, but it is a really charming story with great actors and witty writing. Since I had only ever seen the third part, I decided to buy it from Amazon.ca and am so happy I did. I ended up staying up very late the night it was delivered watching this really great British romance. I strongly recommend it to anyone who loves that period of book or movie.