Episode 105 - Momma Burgers and Movie Theatre Popcorn

What will today bring?  Join us on our weekly shopping trip and find out!  Man, I'm still using so many exclamation points....

Maddie had a very brief visit with us as she was up for the psychology honours thesis conference.  The conference went well, but Maddie's plane was delayed quite a bit on the way here.  Everything worked out.  We had quite the discussion in this one about work life balance.

I've decided to make movie theatre popcorn.  This involves coconut oil and something called Flavacol, which you can see pictured in this post.  I am way more excited about this than I should be.

Episode 104 - Uppity Exclamation Points

Today we started out with a recording from our voice mail of a telemarketing scam about taxes.  I didn't answer the phone as I did not recognize the number but I googled it.  They try to get you to think they are the IRS, or in Canada, the CRA.  The best part is how poorly done the recording is.

Wait, Isabelle forgot her wallet!  Oh, yeah, I'm sitting on it....

Isabelle has been doing all kinds of stuff this week, like running an open mic, having a few of her pieces on display in different places in town, and, getting a parking ticket.

Isabelle is still watching Highway Thru Hell.

We talked a bit about language, especially written language, and how you English is pretty prescriptive when it comes to conventions about punctuation and such.  We both agree, however, that we use too many exclamation points.

We finished up by talking about codes of conduct and how everyone is offended by everything.

Episode 103 - Ce N'est Pas Fair

We're off on another Saturday adventure!  Look, I write part of these posts before we even go shopping, I don't know what we're going to talk about.  This is why each post starts out with this generic bit.  OK, fourth wall back up....

So off we went, a bit of a detour this week as we had empties to return.  I broke a bottle in the beer store.

Isabelle's art needs a home, and her program's current home is sort of in flux.  I have mastered the art of saying things that would get others in trouble, but people just say 'oh, that's Dave'.

On the way home we spoke mostly in French.  This was prompted by what was on the radio.  We talked a bit about the importance of learning another language and how it makes you just a better person in general.  People seem reluctant to take the opportunity though.