A few things I've learned lately...

I can't really guarantee any depth to this post. Nothing as momentous as meeting your Mother for the first time (definitely a hard post to follow!). But just a few random things that I've learned lately...

First...those pants that you put away because they no longer fit. Yeah, you know the ones, they were too short? Well, no miracle took place and they have not magically conformed to your body and have not grown in length. They are just as hideous as they were 3 months ago when you stuck them in the back of your drawer!

I pulled out these jeans last night because its getting desperately close to laundry day around here and it seems that my pants are in short supply these days. Thankfully, when I reach my next size down (13/14) I'll have loads of delicious pants to choose from. But yes, I put the pants on, they seemed to fit OK in the waist, so I wore them over to a friends house last night. It was only this morning when I was at Value Village trying on some jackets when I looked in the full length mirror (a very handy thing that our house lacks) that I realized that the pants are "oh my word, does she know how ridiculously short her pants are" short. Sigh. I suppose one too many tumbles in the dryer will do that to any pair of pants, but yes, I will wash them and officially retire them. Or maybe I'll just pull them out in 3 months and hope against hope...

Second...I haven't had to sweat in 15 years!

OK, I know that leads some of you to really wonder, but I will admit, I like my antiperspirant. No sweating. No smell. No pit stains. I mean really, other than that whole aluminum, cancer bit, really, how can you go wrong? So at Safeway the other night when I was looking for a new antiperspirant, the hippie like, cancer-hating voice in my head kept saying, "Try deodorant. Do it!" So Safeway in its not hippie-like ways only had Toms to offer. It seems like a perfectly fine deodorant, and Rob says it will take time for my body to adjust, but I mean seriously? I'm applying the stuff like 3 times a day, and I can't stand it. I'm on day two, and just about ready to quit. So my husband, being the lovely man that he is did a smell test this evening (which he will deny if any of you ever ask if he did this!). His face pretty much said it all (and this was after two applications throughout the day), but then he went on to describe it like this, "Pretty much smells like a combination of moth balls and a vagina."* Sigh, ladies isn't that what we all dreamed about as young girls, that a man would describe our aroma just so? So there you have it, after description like that, I might be jumping off the deodorant bandwagon. Call me unnatural, cancer-loving, etc, etc, but geesh, with modern technology does a girl really have to sweat and smell these days?

*I do feel the need to clarify that I don't believe my husband has never smelled such a combo, it was just one of the most hideous things he could come up with.

Third...I'm not cut out for vegetarianism. Seriously!

I like my meat. I'll admit it. But with Rob's new "health kick" he is now forgoing meat. Now you have to understand the humor behind the term "health kick." At a conference in January, Rob was about 3 weeks into his health kick and he was telling these two guys over lunch, both who are meat-loving, fat-eating, definitely you'd have to kill me before you got me to give up meat, kind of guys. So they just said, "Oh wait a month or so, and you'll be off your health kick, back to eating just like us" (At the time, Rob was eating some healthy noodle dish and they were happily chugging their Cokes and eating some deep fried goodness). So here we are, 4.5 months later, the man is down nearly 25 lbs, and well, its probably beyond being called a health kick, as I now believe its a lifestyle, but I still like to tease him and call it a health kick ;)

Anyway, now if I cook with meat, well, he won't eat it, so really there's not a lot of point of me cooking with meat, so I find the entire family is leaning towards the vegetarian side. I feel a bit like an addict or something. When Rob's at work I'll "sneak" the kids into Costco for a hot dog, or the other day we stopped by McDonalds for lunch. Both kids got hamburgers, and I just needed some meat, so for $1.39 I loaded up on a Double Cheeseburger. I completely understand this is not the world's best offering of meat (and some wouldn't even consider it meat), but I figure its better than nothing. So yes, I don't foresee vegetarianism in my future anytime soon.

Fourth...a little brown-nosing does a body good!

I'm nearly done my Criminology class, and well, its gone exceptionally well. I think I may have found my niche in Sociology. I really enjoy it, and it makes sense. Really, what more can you ask for? So I've done quite well on both of my midterms (A's on both). So we had to hand in a research paper two weeks ago. Mine was on restorative justice. A fairly fascinating topic. In the end, I was quite proud of my paper, and I actually think its one of my best papers. But I also conducted an interview with a guy from the Medication and Restorative Justice Centre here in Edmonton. I figure an interview definitely has to earn you an A. And it did! I ended up getting 99%. Rob thinks it was terribly jerky of him not to give me 100%, but I'm not complaining in the slightest! So there you have it folks. Conduct an interview, choose a topic that you know your teacher is passionate about it, and voila...A+!

I can't really think of a fifth brilliant thing to share with you my dear readers. I think my random ranting has probably put you all to sleep. If not, you now have some deep ponderous thoughts to go through your day with!