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I started writing this journal entry a week ago but unfortunately soon after I started my computer conked out and I was without a computer for the entire work week. Having no computer for that time was tough. I'm not so connected to my computer that I can't live without it, but I did have a lot of work to do, and working on computers is my job, so I'm not being dramatic here. I was worried all week that my files were lost to the unknown, the computer version of the laundry sock place. Thankfully everything had been backed up only a week before so it wouldn't have been as devastating as it could have been. Yet, there was no way I could stand the idea of redoing what I'd recently done. Fortunately everything was fine and I'm back in action minus a few small problems such as the mail server screwing up. I've had more technical problems in the last month then I've had all year. There have been so many problems I literally can't remember all of them. I'm not going to list the ones I can remember. Let's just say, I hope this curse has been lifted and I can move on. The strange thing is I'm not the only person I know with problems recently. Several people have mentioned their computers conking out, or their server acting up, or any number of troubles computers can have and I care very little about until it happens to me.
So I was going to tell you how last week we went out for dinner with a group of Mighty Big Tv writers. I'm not a writer but I'm friends with a few of them so I was invited for that reason. After an excellent dinner at one of my favourite restaurants, True Grits, we went down the street for karaoke. I've never done karaoke before and I was really nervous. My mother was a professional singer, yet for some reason I did not inherit the singing genes. My singing voice is absolutely horrible. I have no idea why they allowed me to be in the choir during elementary school. To make matters worse, I'm an alto which makes it impossible to do most of the karaoke selections. Anyways, for the first while I sat there watching others and laughing my ass off at some amazing renditions of classics such as "I've Been to Paradise" as sung by Wing Chun and "Killing Me Softly" as performed by Gwen. All the while I was flipping through the books, taking notes on which songs I might be brave enough to approach. Finally I convinced Davin to get up and do a duet of Captain and Tennile's, "Love Will Keep Us Together".  It was the saddest, flattest version of the song ever. God it was horrifying. Yet for some reason, once I felt the glory of the lights (the disco ball and black light) and the polite applause I was hooked. I became a karaoke whore, trying to slip in a song at any opportunity. My next song was "Leader of the Pack". Then I did "Footloose" which proved to be my personal peak of the night. After that it was all downhill for me. I didn't want that to be my best song of the night so I kept doing more songs despite my dry, cracking voice and poor choice of songs. I'm not going to list every other song I did since they are too numerous to mention. Let's just say, I'm never going to be a karaoke star and leave it at that. But I do love it and will subject many more sensitive ears to my voice in the future.
The next day I went to a party at Wing Chun's house and met Saskatchewan, a regular poster in our forums. So you see all this rambling did have something to do with this site and plants after all.  Actually it turned out that I had met her at a previous party so it wasn't actually a first meeting. She gave me some chesnuts (which I now have sitting on a shelf next to my desk) and I gave her a pack of snapdragon seeds packaged in our very own You Grow Girl seed packets which you can download and print out here. I regret that we didn't get to talk much that night, since I got caught up in losing at Cranium and then smoking too many cigarettes on the patio to null the pain of defeat. I'm sure we'll cross paths again.
In case you had any doubt as to whether or not we're helping to make memories here, Gwen wrote a journal entry about making the waxed paper pressed leaves as seen in the forums (and elementary school art projects here in Ontario). Since she had such a good time, I've been collecting leaves and I'm going to do some leaf ironing too. I hate to use an iron, but I'll make an exception in this case.
Lastly I want to apologize for that small floating ad at the top of the page. It's just sitting there looking like hell. I'm not going to go into the details of why they're there, I'm just going to let you know in advance that they're probably going to be appearing on any new pages added to the site. Blah.
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