Hope it doesn't rain on Thursday!

I’ve been having problems getting to sleep lately. I go to bed and lie there, sometimes almost falling asleep but then waking up. I've no nagging concerns or worries or stress, and I'm pretty sure it’s not caffeine intake … *shrug* I think it may be due to a decrease in physical activity, as soccer's over, and because I'm working more I haven't been playing as much hockey. I guess we'll see later this week, as today is my last day of working to cover for someone's holidays. Anyway, despite this I've been feeling pretty good, and the past week or so has been less hectic than the couple preceding it, which is nice.

This past Saturday I planned to go to watch the open practice the Canucks were putting on, but actually getting up at 4:30am when I was already tired, and hadn’t gotten to sleep (as noted: different from to bed) until after 1:30am proved too much. I woke up, considered it, then went back to sleep for 6 more hours. I read about it and saw pictures, and enjoyed the fact that I didn’t spend 6 hours of the day on the combination of ferry and bus (referring to time on one plus time on another, not to a machine that travels on land and water whilst carrying large amount of people, because if that were the case I would be lamenting the fact that I didn’t spend six hours on it).

"This will be not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your queen!" Yeah, so I saw 300 a couple nights ago. It was pretty good, and definitely had some spectacular moments (as well as some parts I would fast-forward through) and memorable quotes. Reading about Spartan history, I could see how they had thrown an assortment of popular conceptions (non-fictional or otherwise) into the film, and also where they had included historically accurate aspects of the culture and battle.

Random assertion of today’s blog: The taste of Vanilla Ensure reminds me of the smell of the powder of the calf milk replacer we used to give our calves … I love it!!