Strap yourselves in folks!

Jeffrey is going to have a magical update for you guys very soon!

TIME FOR A POLL FOLKS out of the 2 followers we have jeff and darren, whos better Megan Fox or Liv Tyler?

Ken seems to think its the overrated Megan Fox, while I find the sophisticated Liv Tyler to be awesomer. Anyways think about it and comment!

Food problems:

Too lazy to make long ostentatious posts so I'm doing this in point form.

Problem 1:

1) Parents went on vacation but left 4 green peppers in the fridge
2) I let them sit in the bottom shelf and believe I can deal with them
3) I dice all of them and realize there's too much, with no chance of turning back I stir fry them
4) Plain stir fried green peppers taste awful, I now have a large bowl of it
5) WTF do I do now?



Problem 2:

1) There's meat in the freezer left over from my parents (they just leave food everywhere don't they?)
2) I defrost and prep a piece of pork
3) I cook dinner and realize I'm going to be eating pork for the rest of the week
4) I am daunted
5) Does anyone want to come for dinner?

So it begins

Just sent my parents off to the airport today so I'll be living on my own for the next few weeks. Although it's not the first time and I usually stay in my room, I've forgotten how comforting it is to know that someone else is in the house (there's still the tenants I guess). My parents also gave my aunt a pair of keys last time so she could check up on me every now and then, but not this time. Coming back from the airport, I immediately take a look around the house and realize all the little things I have to look after. Not that I didn't do the stuff before, but mom's just not around to give the seal of approval. >.> I hope there's no pipe burst/roof leak/boiler breakdown in the next little while. Good thing is that someone will notice if I die since I'm taking 440 (swimming pool owners, talk to me, I have a few questions for you).

Whatever

Merry Christmas

From the entire crew at Surrounded by Rain, we'd like to wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got less than 12 hours to learn how to roast a turkey properly!

The Holidays

It's been almost a week since I finished my co-op job but I've managed to keep myself busy because of the holiday season.

Here are some pictures of Icron's QA lab the day I left:

Some shelves we put up when

I do sort of miss the place even after only 4 months, there has to be some sentimental value to your first co-op placement.

Long overdue partaking of a Christmas tradition

It took 21 years, but this year I got my first Christmas tree. When I saw a 7 feet Christmas tree on sale at Canadian Tire, my mind was set on buying the damn thing. I realize this is one thing bad about co-op because I'm finding that I'm a lot more trigger happy on purchases now that Ihave a little bit of money :@. I thought I would have to lower the back seats to fit the package in my car but I didn't. Anyways, here is the largely unimpressive packaging of my first Christmas tree.


The first look inside the box was equally unimpressive.

It was rather depressing to look at once out of the box, too. I was excited, but not exactly enthralled.

So, three segments, a base, and an instruction manual. This shouldn't be too hard, I threw the instruction manual to the side and started construction on the base. The entire unpackaging and construction process took less than two minutes but once I had a look at the skinny skeleton of a tree I realized the cumbersome task ahead of isolating every tip.

Before

After

Who would've guessed?!

I must say though, it does look a lot more impressive but I realized the much more cumbersome task ahead of decorating the damn thing. I bought some frosted pine cones, some bells, and a an ornament bundle because its a lot less thinking than picking out your own ornaments. I do prefer an angel though, its got more majesty to it than a star. That, and most of the stars are literally flat so you can't see it from the side.

So by the time I put up all the ornaments I realized that the white wasn't exactly great against my white walls so I took down everything and exchanged it for a red and green package. One and a half hours wasted. :(

So I started at 2:30 and I finally had the tree up and lit by 7:00 because of the entire ordeal with the white ornaments. I also bought some yellow ornaments while I was there so I guess it wasn't a complete waste of time. Anyway, here it is.

Much more impressive

I pushed it into the corner beside my TV where it'll stay until Boxing Day. I can't wait to have to go through the painstaking process of undecorating and putting away the damn thing. Oh, goodie! Hopefully it'll be quicker, since I'll just toss all the ornaments into some rubbermaid containers. Oooh, it's shaping up to be an annual chore!