merely talk

I know it's been awhile. I'm sorry. I really can offer no excuse but laziness.

Bowling was awesomeness personified. As predicted I did indeed get the lowest score. On both games. But it was cool. I had a total kick ass time anyway. I was doing fine until the pink ball of goodness lost all luck for me. Sigh.

It was so gloomy when it started raining today. It's been so lovely lately in Vancouver, this rain just seems so awful in comparison. That and everyone forgot how to drive when it started, thus adding 20 minutes to my commute. Thank you Vancouver drivers.

Anyway I don't really have much to say. No rants, or witty philosophies on life. I don't even have a new movie trailer to pimp. But I guess I could come up with a list of some sort. It's been awhile since I've done that. Let me think....

Anna and I used to come up with our lists of top fives a la Rob from High Fidelity. This was a favourite thing to do when we were both being shy and anti-social at parties. So I think I'll just come up with a few of those to entertain myself. Feel free to use the comments to post your own version of these. I always find other peoples responses to these fascinating. I even bonded with a sweet person while I was in Scotland. He and I walked down a steep hill in the pouring rain debating top five musicals, countries and books. It was kick ass.

Tessa's Top Five Countries to Visit Before She dies:

1) Ireland (the home land after all)
2) Spain (ever since the Olympics took place in Barcelona, I've wanted to go.)
3) Italy (I want to see Rome, and Pompeii, and Pisa, and Venice...and drink wine and flirt with hot Italian men...is that wrong?)
4) Egypt (Those pyramids are calling me.)
5) New Zealand (it looked so pretty in Lord of the Rings...and they have accents there!)

Tessa's Top Five Favourite Songs to Listen to in the Fall:

1) Autumn's Here, Hawksley Workman (just a beautiful, sad song. It perfectly describes the way autumn feels to me.)
2) The Wind, Cat Stevens ( I don't really know why, I just can't seem to listen to this song in any other season.)
3) Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, David Grey ( a mildly bitter song about an ending relationship. Maybe because I view Autumn as the beginning of the end. As a time when things fall (geddit, fall!) apart. Or maybe it's because I first got this album in the fall and couldn't stop listening to it.)
4)Strange Condition, Pete Yorn (Just another slow song. That fits the fall mindset perfectly.)
5)Possession, Sarah McLachlan (I blame that episode of Due South. You all know the one.)

And finally,

Tessa's Top Five Superpowers she Wished she Had:

1) The Force. (the ultimate, not only can I do everything, I also look super cool and get a glowing sword that makes fun noises...what more could you ever want?)
2)Ability to fly. ( I figure if I could fly, my fear of heights would disappear, cause it's not so much that I'm afraid of being high up, as that I'm afraid of falling from so high up, flying would take the fear out of the equation.)
3) Superhuman strength ( I'm sick of being weak, but have no desire to put the time and energy in to become strong)
4) Ability to heal immediately from any wound (that would be so helpful at my job...some of my kids bite.)
5) Ability to see the near future ( it would be kind of fun to see the consequences of my decisions before I made them. Not that I regret any that I've made, but it would still be kind of cool.)

So that's all for now. If anyone has a suggestion of a top five they'd like to see let me know. I'm sure I'll be able to come up with more later.