selenay | Random Monday stuff (Reply)

- My radio alarm clock refuses to hold its tuning. This morning I was awakened by a very quiet fuzzy noise. Again.

- Yes, I also have a beepy alarm that I can put onto snooze in my sleep. I tend to wake up better if there's something that I want to pay attention to, like the news and weather. Hence the radio.

- One or the other on their own doesn't work. I need beepy plus radio to have half a hope in the morning.

- Tonight, I am giving in and replacing the damn thing. I want something with a digital tuner. If it can also dock my iPod, that would make me super happy.

- My colleague who is getting rather militant about my needing to have some children suggested that children being a good alarm clock is a point in their favour. WTF?

- Apparently the weather forecasters forgot to mention "chance of thunderstorms" in their forecasts this morning, although Environment Canada has it. Argh.

- I had a nice, quiet weekend. Why am I still exhausted?

- I totally did not spend a lot of the weekend reading Glee Santana fic.

- Well, maybe I did.

- Doctor Who was insane. More on that in its own post.

- Mum and I may have some issues with menus while she's here. Chicken is insanely expensive here (and also contains very little iron). Most of my meat intake is beef or pork, which is cheaper and also better for my anemia. Plus I like it better :-)

- Don't worry, I eat fish a couple of times a week and try to have a veggie day or two each week as well so my meat nights are maybe three or four times a week. Well under the maximum recommended.

- Mum doesn't like beef or pork much, she far prefers chicken or turkey.

- We may be purchasing our meat separately a lot of the time. Which could mean separate cooking. Waah. We're going to need to set some ground-rules, methinks.

- My vegan father and vegetarian sister actually backed me up on the whole "red meat is a good plan for me" thing rather than trying to convince me that I could get all the iron I need from plants. I'm both impressed and slightly bemused, because they normally try to point out the many benefits of an entirely plant-based diet.

- Mum may not have a leg to stand on anymore, now that Dad and Sis are on my side, dietarily.

- My boutique/import grocery store had a delivery from England this week. I saw the meaty multi-pack of Walkers crisps and for some insane reason, did not buy it. What the heck? My three favourite Walkers crisps flavours (roast chicken, smoky bacon, steak and onion) in a multipack for a decent price and I didn't buy it? So totally going on the list for next week.

- For some reason, I thought buying a couple of small bags of Worcester Sauce French Fries and a couple of small bags of roast chicken crisps was a better plan. On reflection, at two thirds the cost of the multi-pack, it was not.

- Definitely buying the multipack next shopping trip. You never know how long it will be there! Some things sell out so fast and they only get an England delivery every couple of months.

- I've been such a klutz this weekend. There is not a single thing in the house that I have not at some stage walked into, tripped on, dropped or knocked over. A few things have been walked into multiple times. Argh.