friday

Last night, Leah and I went to the Eaton Centre... for no real reason other than a combination of boredom, and a resolution to finally procure a copy of the 'new' Radiohead album...
We just kinda ambled around the mall sort of aimlessly, and picked up the CD at HMV... They were out of the Once soundtrack (I think maybe the Oscar win caught their stockers by surprise), so that is all we got.
We also went in a couple of shoe stores, since I will need some new dress shoes pretty soon (I still rock the ones I bought for our wedding..!), and realized that the mall is where you go for totally boring shoes.
Also - Leah tried on a couple of bathing suits... The whole time we were in the store, some idiot was sitting outside on one of the benches and periodically whistling at girls walking by. I asked the (visibly annoyed) staff if there was some mall security they could call, which they seemed more than happy to do once I suggested it...
Also, we went in the Apple store. Surprisingly, I have never been in an Apple store before. For someone who is not exactly a gadget-phile, I thought the new skinny metal laptops were pretty sweet... also, the touch iPods are cool too, if only for the stupidly impressive ability to pinch-zoom pictures.

In other news, if it isn't freezing... it's snowing. My mood with regards to winter is currently defiant. Yesterday I went for an hour long (-17ish) walk at lunch... I'm sure this will change to defeat soon enough!

weekend

On Friday, Leah and I met Jeremy for dinner in Koreatown.
On Saturday, we went to an elders' meeting for church - we also had dinner with the Cumbys.
On Sunday, I went grocery shopping, and then went to church early for super-setup.
After church, we had pancakes for dinner.

update

FAITH
HOPE
LOVE

I have been thinking a little recently about how these three things will remain. This implies that nothing else will remain, which is a pretty crazy idea.
That means that all the things that you do each day that are not about faith, hope, or love, are ultimately insignificant - they will pass away.

Last night I went to meet with the pastor at the Salvation Army, and I noticed that these words were hanging on the wall... which is funny, 'cause I had just come up with the idea of hanging them on the wall at home.

In other news, I am losing most of my faith, hope, and definitely love for the TTC. I know that the weather hasn't been helping, but this IS Canada... so snow shouldn't take anybody by surprise.

And speaking of snow... I had just finished showering this morning when I noticed that the guy that parks behind our apartment was totally stuck. Since he was still there by the time I got dressed, I figured I'd go out and help. It took at least 20 minutes to get him going - every time we managed to move his car a few inches, it immediately got stuck again. We took turns at pushing and driving, and eventually got the car going while I was driving. I managed to get all the way down the alley... at which point he promised to buy me beer - and then took of to go to work.

Poor people can be bad for the environment...

Check out this article about the Nano - the poor man's car coming to India...

It's interesting that a pretty ecology efficient vehicle could have a really negative impact, simply be meaning more cars on the road... Meanwhile, if the rich drive expensive gas-hogs, the limits of privilege mean that the overall damage to the earth is not as severe...

Superserious

I know nobody really cares too much about R.E.M. - but just in case, you can hear a new song of their's here.
I haven't listened to it much, but my initial response is kinda whatever... That being said, I kinda feel that way about all music right now. Perhaps I am getting too old..?

In other news, we watched Jesus of Montreal over the weekend. I liked it a good bit.

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