Just your luck

I'm so pleased that the Cerebral Palsy truck came early and took 14 bags of donations. The basement is looking so much better. We bought our new basement tiles yesterday so let's hope the contractor shows up towards the end of the month as expected! The tile place can store them for us for at least a month. We have a kitchen design almost finalized at the Rona Hardware store and they seem to be having an August sale according to the kitchen designer.

I was out this morning for a short walk with a friend.

I learned that one of K's school friend's family is going into personal bankruptcy, having lost their business recently. It's shocking and sad. Life seems to have things in store for us beyond our control and it seems to just boil down to your luck sometimes.

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Ambience

We all had a lovely time in the Wasaga Beach area up north yesterday. M's friend has a lovely cottage directly on the waterfront with a picture window. The Beach faces west so we decided to set tables up by the water's edge and had dinner there as the sun came down. It was spectacular ambience and we felt we were back in the Jamaica on Negril Beach, except with less people. Did I mention the perfect weather? The water was quite warm for swimming and K had fun learning to skim board in the water.
The kids all happened to be teenagers so everyone got along famously.

Went to my step class this morning. Some of the faster numbers made me feel old, lots of jumping involved and I don't really do that anymore. I saw a recent music video with Madonna and Justin Timberlake and thought she seemed a bit old to be doing that. L thought the same thing. But that's just our 'opinionated' opinion.


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Wasaga Beach

We're driving a couple of hours north to Wasaga Beach today. M's old high school friend invited 2 families to his cottage. We'll have a barbecue dinner up there. It's a good day for it.

I made fish fillets in the microwave yesterday with ginger, scallion and oil and loved it. Here's the basic recipe

2 white fish fillets (1.5 lbs)
1-2 tbs dark soy sauce
1 scallion julienned
1.5 inches of ginger root julienned
1 tsp white wine vinegar (I used rice vinegar because I had it)
2 tbs canola oil (or other vegetable oil)
1/4 tsp pepper (I think I forgot to put this in)

Microwave fish in one layer with all ingredients mixed in for about 12 minutes. And you can serve it right in the same dish!


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The Autograph

M, K and I went to see 'The Dark Knight' yesterday while L was at the Roger's Cup tennis final. I wanted to see the movie as the trailers looked so good. A large part of that is that they used Imax cameras to get some of those panoramic shots. M and K liked the movie a lot, all that action. Crash, Bang Pow! 'You're dead' kind of thing (over and over again). Heath Ledger was really good, quite villainous. His evil seemed real as opposed to a caricature. But I really don't need all that scary, tense, startling, evil action going on. There was a hint of romance involving a beautiful lawyer and a good looking District Attorney. Batman also does a good job. (There's no Robin).

Yesterday L finally got Nadal's autograph and touched him. She was also on TV for a few seconds, a TSN camera guy pulled her aside for 10 minutes of filming and asked her to keep smiling. She also got on the big screen at the Rexall centre for a few moments. At the last minute before she left that morning she printed a photo of Nadal and that was what she got him to sign.

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Kiva

There's no sign of rain today, it's bright and sunny. M, K and I want to see the new Batman movie today. L is down at the Roger's Cup to see the men's final. I think I'll watch it on TV myself.

I made breaded pork chops for lunch, they were delicious. This time, they weren't fast fry but still good, they just take about 5 minutes per side instead of 2 or 3 minutes.

There's an interesting article on an organization called Kiva that I found in the paper this morning. You can read about it below. You can choose to lend $25 to an entrepreneur of your choice from the developing world so that you can improve their lives.

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Undeterred

The bridesmaids were in scarlet red today, with ivory white rose bouquets. The bride should have had yesterday's perfect weather, but undeterred, they were taking their romantic pictures on Main Street as I walked by.

K didn't like my microwaved fish fillets, but then he's picky. I have to work on that recipe. Maybe I will try Chinese style with ginger, scallions and oil next time. I made some ham and egg fried rice as a backup dish.

Microwaved fish fillets

I did some groceries with my mom this morning then had breakfast at McDonald's while waiting for one of her prescriptions. She made us a delicious banana bread and some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. It was busy in the restaurant, no one seems to do any home cooking these days!

I saw this recipe for microwaved fish fillets in a magazine, so I'm going to try it momentarily. It says to just microwave the fillets in a cream soup of your choice for 5 to 7 minutes. It would be great if anyone in the household likes it.

L is at the Roger's Cup all day today, she wants to stay and watch the Nadal semi-final tonight until the bitter end. It's sold out, but she doesn't mind standing room.

It's time to get after K to do his limited piano practice.


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