Popsicle Week

Today has been a most beneficial day so far.  I woke up at about ten thirty, sat and read for a little while, then cooked myself some nice stir-fry for lunch.  I am becoming the queen of economical cooking, you guys.  I bought a package of two chicken breasts (organic, no antibiotics, thank you) last week at the store and stretched it out to make like, six meals.  That’s five servings of chicken salad and a stir-fry.  Those two chicken breasts lasted me a whole week!  I was understandably proud of myself.

This has been somewhat of a crazy week because last Friday night, we got our first snow of the season.  The weather this winter has been scary nice, so when it snowed everyone was like, “yay!  Winter has arrived!”  I was not so pleased, because my car got stuck in the snow on the way out of the old Lost Tree and was stuck in a parking lot for three days, a complete popsicle.  Then, when I finally got it out (with a combination of Shadow’s kitty litter and my own superior driving skills) there was a giant crack across the windshield, courtesy of a tiny little nick that I got last year.  Danielle and I stayed at her resort on Sunday night because the weather was simply too scary to drive in, and Jenn from work called to tell me that they closed the mall at three o’clock and sent everyone home.  By Monday everything was starting to thaw out, but the roads on Sunday were pretty scary.  I was happy that we didn’t have to go anywhere on Sunday afternoon- I sat at the condo and watched, you guessed it, the Olympics. Curling and cross-country skiing, I think.

Has anyone but me been keeping track of this whole speed-skating melodrama?  I swear, this is like a soap opera for sports fans.  Let’s see if I can make sense of it.  Apparently, this guy Shani said that he was going to help out the team in some sort of relay race, but then he pulled out to focus on his other events.  This made this other guy, Chad, really really mad, and they’ve basically been shooting each other dirty looks across the ice for the entire Olympics. They both won gold medals in their respective events, and then the other night they competed against each other.  One of them won silver and the other one won bronze, I can’t remember which was which.  The pathetic thing was that they had a press conference later on and everything was going well until Shani said something to the effect that Chad could have come up to him and congratulated him when he won the gold medal.  Now, how wrong was that for him to throw that down in front of the whole world?  I don’t have a problem with the fact that these guys don’t like each other, I don’t like plenty of people.  I guess my problem is that they’ve dragged it out into the limelight and the media is on it like stink on a dog’s butt, and they’re making it into this big thing.  I was cheering for that Joey Cheek guy.  He seemed nice, and he reminded me of one of the kids from the high school youth group who graduated a couple of years ago.

Anyway, drama, drama, drama.  I’m going to go watch the figure skating.  USA! USA!  USA!

Brianne <><