I felt gung-ho this afternoon and went to Osborne Village to buy baking & japanese-cooking supplies. I was all set to:

-bake banana bread
-prepare a batch of lumpia for freezing
-create a database for my personal budgeting
-work on the salsa website i’m volunteering to design
-fiddle with a nice blog template for Karl
-cook pasta for dinner
-work on my blog

Well, it’s 9pm and so far I’ve only done the last two. I can’t bake the bread until the butter has “softened” (maybe I can spur it on in the microwave?). Can’t make the lumpia until I finish preparing the vegetables, which I have taken a break from. It took 20 minutes just to julienne the carrots! Don’t know why I bother cooking… Had to stop the cooking projects to have pasta for dinner with Kurt. After, Corner Gas, What Not to Wear and American Idol came on, so I had to channel-jump. The little half-Asian 16yr-old (my pick) is in the top 12, yay!

Anyway, with all the cooking and mindless TV, I haven’t had the time to tackle the other projects. I think I am spreading myself out too thin. Or watching too much TV. Or working on my new blog too much.

What Not to Wear is making me want money. The episode tonight was about a woman that’s my size. She was complaining that she could never find clothes that fit (hear hear). Turns out I will have to go to New York with a $5000 Visa card to find $500 USD outfits before I can look the part of the sexy business professional. Maybe I’ll start a buy-Mama-some-new-clothes fund. I’ll work on your blog/site or make you lumpia, and you send me $5 bucks through Paypal. You can send more if you want. Sound good?

Man, I need to graduate! I am getting antsy about finding a decent paying job in Vancouver. I feel I’m doing lots here in Winnipeg but I only have a $10/hr job. It took getting used to, after getting +$16/hr for a CCRA internship. There just aren’t a lot of high-paying opportunities for someone that is (a) still 4 courses away from a BBA and (b) moving back to Vancouver in August. The plus side of working at Don’s Photo is that I’m given a lot of freedom (and access) around their networks and servers. And the book I’m reading is a loaner from them. There’s no way I can afford an MCSE book. Those things are worth more than my life! Really. No life insurance = not much for Kurt if I go tonight.

Do you think the butter has softened yet? Maybe the onions have chopped themselves. Sometimes I wish I could go to the kitchen and find that some elves/hobbits made dinner for us. I could settle for a dishwasher.

Guess I better try to finish my to-do list…see ya.

Book in my bag: MCSE — Upgrading to Windows 2000, still on page 19
Song in my head: The song that my girl in American Idol sang tonight
Boy in my heart: Kurtis, and Seth from the O.C. He’s so cute!