Hey,

Just read David Vidal's last blog post – I love that guy. Seriously. He writes stuff that's important (like the one about the lead-painted toys), and also stuff that we all think and most of us don't really say because other people might think we're psychopaths. For instance, those neighbours everyone has that are pretty much jerks who can't mind their own business and busy their days making problems for everyone else on the block. Take, for another instance, the woman who, after my parents had left for Hawaii for a couple weeks last summer, complained about our two cats yowling. My parents had recently moved to a townhouse in a strata-controlled complex, and turns out this woman sits on the strata board, and even though there was never any problem after that, and the neighbours to either side of my parents' place have no complaints, and nowhere in the bylaws does it state that you're not allowed keeping pets outside... they received a letter informing them that the "issue" had been discussed in the board meeting (which took them by surprise as is, since they didn't attend and the purpose of the meeting was supposed to be "to approve the budget"), and that the cats would have to be kept indoors. We had previously lived in a much more rural area, and the cats were wild when we found them, so that's no go. You'll have to trust me, they're very docile kitties... ANYWAY It's stupid, and this woman is causing my mum some grief which no one needs ever, and she's just being a bitchy control-freak about it. Causing me some grief, too.

Just finished watching Volver. Interesting, and I LOVE Almodovar – look him up if you don't know who he is, then watch all his movies. Although the movie, as I told James, does meander a bit... It's difficult to know what the whole point was. But Penelope Cruz was brilliant, in any case.

Anyway, as the title of this post suggests, I'm doing the thing where you project all the things you wanted to get done onto some later date: July, in this case. (Eating pizza, so I'll make this brief.) I'm not exactly fat, but I could stand to lose about 10 lbs, and a couple sizes off my waist and thighs and butt. I need to get a bike and some clothes... I need to join the ISC gym... I need to clean up around here... I need to figure out who to contact in order to volunteer... I need to start reading more than watching TV. And of course, if I start to do all these things in July, there's still lots of time in the summer to get them accomplished... well, we'll see how that goes... but I've made promises to myself like that before, too. *sigh* That's the way it is with everyone, I suspect, though.

Right, so eating pizza and typing with greasy fingers is bad for the keyboard, so I'm off. Hopefully I'll find something exciting to write about soon – maybe when I join the gym.

K