Todays reflections

Colin and I went grocery shopping last night. I always finish every shopping trip with a walk down the frozen foods aisle to see if my favorite ice cream is on sale. To my surprise, it WAS last night. I asked Colin which one we should buy: Vanilla, Chocolate, Raspberry white chocolate, Cookie dough, or Macadamia Supreme. We decided to choose macadamia because it sounded really adult. I'm eating it right now and it's very tasty, but in a grown up way.

Every once in a while I notice that packaging here is only in English and I feel like I'm a traitor to my bilingual mother land.

Our microwave has a button that says "microwave" and you have to press that button before any other button to get it to work. You would think that the mere act of pressing any button would be sufficient evidence of my desire to use the appliance, but maybe Australia just doesn't have that kind of technology yet.

I killed an insect at work today. I have no idea what it was, but it looked like a cross between an ant/ear wig/scorpion. While I was exterminating it the smell of chocolate infiltrated my nostrils. I assumed this was the bug's defense mechanism and it was trying to poison me with some weird chocolate gas that came out of it's body. Much like the Octopus. After killing it, I asked my boss what kind of unusual Australian insect farts poison chocolate. He did not know, so instead made fun of me! I also couldn't find it online when I got home, so I can now conclude, without a doubt, that I'm an idiot.

2 hours ago, Colin and I went to back to our local camping store to exchange the grill we bought. They had a fancier one come on sale, so we decided to make an upgrade. (I didn't tell them that we took it on a camping trip, but only as decoration). So we walked into the store holding the grill and a receipt. The girl at the desk said that we had to leave the grill at the counter but I didn't understand why I couldn't hold it. I would never buy a jacket at a store and then leave it at the front counter every time I went back there to shop. That's silly. So I looked at the girl with a confused expression and she said, "You can't walk around the store with merchandise." But this WASN'T merchandise, I OWNED it. I was in an arguing mood but Colin looked at me like I was crazy, so I submitted. Fortunately, when we were exchanging the grills, I managed to unintentionally and briefly make her life difficult because I had bought the first grill on my Canadian mastercard that expired the next day. I think that's probably why I bought it, one last hurrah on the old plastic. She had to call her manager over and he had to explain to her that she didn't actually have to put money back on to the credit card because we were purchasing a more expensive model. SUCKA!

We're thinking of attempting 'Camping- the sequel' this weekend. I couldn't decide if I wanted to write that or not.

Decided!

E.