The 11:00 News:

1. There's too many police cars still driving around our street. Our Vancouver Police Department member neighbour is placing too many calls to 911 himself.
2. The Canadian Tire parking lot is a good place to hand out food to people that are asking for change. It's a good thing that the chicken that I gave to the guy was actually cooked. The buns and bananas were easy to throw together mind you. It is also interesting to note that some people care... like the employee that was working at Canadian Tire while I was adding some pink fluid stuff to my vehicle.... "Hey!!!.... where are you putting all that pink fluid???".... scary things like that....
3. Credit Unions are just not handy if they have to take your number and call you back... just after you have asked the respresentative all kinds of questions.
4. It's sometimes good to listen to your children, when they repeat to you at least twenty times that they shouldn't go to school, and in fact, it is not said to irritate the parent, but rather to serve as a warning... So, Little Pipsters with really big tonsils and gurgly voices should not be placed in situations such as classrooms. Kind of maybe. This becomes even more apparant when the friend that she loves, and comes to our house every morning... which the Pipster always goes screaming down the hallway to say hello...... just lies in our bed, and doesn't bother saying hello.
5. There are days in your life that you can actually find out what type of flooring that your children have. It takes some time and effort, and god willing a vacuum..... but rest assured perservance pays off. Today we found The Pip's floor.... it's hardwood. Interesting.... I thought we had a multi-coloured shag in there. (ok... that's just eeeewwww!)
6. It's generally the first twenty minutes of being left alone that dogs do the most damage.. like getting into backpacks and ripping out all of it's contents.. including a grade 2 planner, and a skipping rope.
7. One thirty in the afternoon is the best time to go to the walk in clinic... and with absolutely nobody in the waiting room, or anybody else in the building, with the actual doctor sitting at the front counter... there is the circumstance that they will still require you to wait... just because.
8. It's best not to panic when you realize that you do not have any page protectors left in your scrapbooking supplies... and it is especially important to hide them from the dog that seems to like that sort of stuff... and turns the pages with her claws.
9. The new old dryer is sounding like it has new old problems, which is not comforting to me since it is new and old.
10. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day for counting how many antibiotic capsules I've taken, rather than today. Todays count may be over.. by 2, and the grand total should only be 3. I believe I have misplaced my calculator.

Aaaaahhhhh... and lastly the weather.

It has proven to be a remarkable day here on the west coast. The clouds couldn't get any more billowy and grey. There is an enormous amount of rain that is showing it's stuff all across the front lawns of everywhere. And what is a day on the west coast without the sun peeking through for only moments at a time..... another thumbs up. Hopefully tomorrow this rain trend will remain.... because another day with rain, is yet another day that I do not have to fight with my hose reel on my front lawn which is similar to a misbehaving badger at my heels.

And that's the kind of day it's been for Thursday May 19th, good night.