Today has been rather strange. After a weekend of doing absolutely nothing but laze around and watch anime, I feel like I’ve done a ton today.

Got to work on time. Decided that I didn’t need to go in early to do work because I didn’t have anything due this week. Got to work right away and chatted a bit with co-workers every now and then. I didn’t exactly get lots of stuff done today but I think that what I did do today was good work. There were points during the day where I really wish I could tell people to shut up and not talk while I’m trying to concentrate. Even drowning them through my music doesn’t work 100% because my headphones allow a lot of noise to get through.

After work, I had to go home to change my shoes cause they blistered my foot pretty badly. I didn’t even walk that much and I was wearing socks so those shoes are just not meant for my feet. Got changed and tried to invite my housemate/friend to go grocery shopping with me, she bluntly said no. I was a little offended in the tone that she used but oh wells. Walked to the grocery store. Quickly picked up the items I needed. I’m a little annoyed that zucchini prices went up by $0.50/lb in a week’s time. Grrrr.

Now, this doesn’t make any sense to me. In Canada, we’ve been using the metric system for a while, so why is it that the grocery stores still list prices mainly by the pound? They do have the price per kilogram, but that’s usually in a smaller font. Is it to make something look cheaper? Can we just not get used to the idea of using kg to measure our fruits and vegetables?

I got home and started cooking this Italian Sausage Spaghetti from Simply Recipes website . I traded the can of whole tomatoes for canned pasta sauce because I don’t have a blender to puree tomatoes. It worked just as well for around the same price. However, I find that I have this problem with canned/jar tomato sauce, it’s always too sour for me. So the solution that my mother taught me is to add in a bit of tomato soup. It takes away some of the acidity and sweetens the sauce. It was very very yummy. Even so, being stupid like me, I didn’t realize that I barely had enough spaghetti left for 2 servings. So I’ll have to go grab some tomorrow.

My monitor’s dieing on me so I’m going to get a shiney new lcd one tomorrow (mine is still a crt). Canada Computers recently opened a shop in Hamilton and I’m horribly excited to go and visit it. The monitor suddenly decided that it would tint red or yellow randomly. It’s happened a few times. I’m sure I could continue using this monitor for at least a while longer, but I want a new monitor so too bad. =P

Talked with my friend about going to the EX (CNE, whatever you wanna call it) this weekend. Excited. After 2 weekends of doing nothing, anything sounds interesting. The boy’s birthday is coming up. I looked at plane tickets on expedia.ca yesterday. I think my heart skipped a beat. $700. $700. for a ticket during Christmas. I know it’s peak season and everything, but that’s absurd. Conclusion? Gonna spend that money on eating good foods like sukiyaki instead. XD