a new post?

you know there are those rainy days that smell like flowers and leaves and then there are those that smell like worms? well it's definitely one of those wormy-rainy days.

my life has been hijacked by queen's pasta and every time i go to post i realize that i could just copy and paste the last month of postings and that would suffice. housesitting. chiropractor. restaurant.

i think it was right after i started reading harry potter that i stopped posting and i never seemed to come back (as you have probably noticed because there was that same picture up for three weeks). all i wanted to do was to talk about the book but i also didn't want to spoil anything for you. that definitely got me out of the swing of things. not that my blogging record has been very good lately, but i could still manage to go a couple times a week.

but it was harry potter, and without spoiling anything for you late-readers (i think i have waited long enough) i'm still not over it and i fear i have been a little shaken up. this was the first time i got harry potter nightmares.

i just want to say to jody, that when i was reading the last five chapters, i was thinking of you. and it made me really sad that we didn't get to see each other this summer.

so i am going to stop promising that i will be back every day because i just feel like i am insulting you now. i forgive you if you don't come back until september, but i will do my best not to leave it until school starts again to bring my blog up to snuff. (is it up to snuff? is that how you say it?)

but before i go, i wanted to share some baby animal stories with you because you can never have too many baby animals in your life.

a few nights ago, ryan and i were on the front porch and we saw a group of skunks walking across the street. they seemed to disappear until we saw two baby skunks chasing each other across the neighbours lawn. ryan made a couple noises to scare them in the other direction, but they seemed really excited by it and both ran right towards us. they were so adorable. ryan goes out every night to see if they are still running around, but we haven't seen them yet.

then two nights ago, we went over to mike's after work and again, we were sitting on the porch. ryan noticed that there was a little face peeking out from under the bbq cover and mike was just like "oh, yeah...that's one of the baby racoons". so it just kind of walked out past us and over my foot out into the yard. very casual-like. apparently they just hang out there all the time because he puts out leftovers for the little guys. nice life.

other than james asking me if i wanted to stay on at the restaurant through the winter, i have no news (until i can find my camera cord so i can show you the pictures of my first driving lesson). oh and later, i can tell you about what happened to ryan and i up at the cottage...scary!