“Why yes, I think I’d like to have my soft drink dumped across my lap, making it really sticky. Oh, and make sure it looks like I’ve wet myself,” She says sarcastically.

My my, what a day I’m having. And it’s only 1330. I think it’s apt to say its quickly becoming one of those days. And it only took an hour to become like that.

In celebration of the new Star Trek movie, Burger King has released some Trek glasses and Trek kids meal’s toys. Having this brought to my attention by my friend Mike, I decided I would seek out a Burger King. The easiest one turned out to be my route school. So for lunch today I figured I would stop and get a kids meal to go, and if they had the Kirk glass then I would get that as well.

I suppose no advertising for the toys or glasses should have been my first indication.

So I wait a while in the very short line, buy the kids meal, and after 10 minutes of waiting it finally arrives. There didn’t seem to be any glasses on display, so I figured I wouldn’t worry about it. I return to my car, dive into the meal and… turns out to be some idog thing. No Star Trek, no miniature Captain Kirk. Heartbroken I dive into the fries, and find out they taste suspiciously like feet (not that I’ve tasted feet, but … yeah). Grabbing my drink, the lid wasn’t secured properly, and what do you know? I get to have a cocacola bath.

Well, my lap got the bath. So now my legs are sticky and wet, my car seat is sticky and wet, my cupholder is sticky and wet. It’s very nasty.

And did I mention I have no Captain Kirk toy?

… at least the chicken tasted good.

I realise for the amount I gripe about the rain and the gloom of Vancouver this post is going to sound somewhat hypocritical.

But I love the rain.

After being spoiled with beautiful sunshine for… two weeks (I think), leaving work on Saturday I could smell the rain coming. The air takes on this delightful humid smell reminiscent of Florida’s humidity. And then on Sunday morning the rain started. The thing about having rain after weeks of none, is that it does an amazing job cleaning the air. Everything smells crisp and sharp - it’s just a great sensation.

Then there’s the entire hearing the rain thing. The sound of the rain is one of my favourite sounds. However that’s only true when it’s coming down in heavy droplets, so you get the nice echoing effect. I think the best time I heard the rain is when my family had a camping trailer and it downpoured outside. Hearing those droplets hit the aluminum was just the best thing ever. And of course, the typically usually light rains of the West Coast don’t fit into this category: they’re usually to soft to hear.

But now this morning the sunlight is pouring through the window. Not only will we have the benefit of the freshly cleaned air for the day, but also the beauty of the sun.

I love mother nature sometimes.

Snowbanks that are higher than I am tall. I haven’t seen that in… 5 years? And that wasn’t even here, that was when I went back east to visit family! Goodness gracious, I cannot believe it. It was a very nice blast from the past though, I do I have to say. So two weeks of crazy snow, and then what does it do this weekend? Rain.

Oh well.

At least the rain will help wash away the snowbanks, and make it easier to get around in the car. Not that it’s difficult, but I’ve found Lower Mainlanders in general do not know how to drive in this stuff. I’m not great at it, I admit, but being from back east I know the dangers out there (what to be afraid of and what not to), and my parents have taught me how to drive in the snow and on the ice. The only troubles I have are when my car bottoms out due to deep snow. On Boxing Day I was late to work because my car got stuck in our cul-de-sac, I had to have myself, my neighbour, and some random guy who was nice enough to help out push my car out to the main road while my Mom gave the car gas. The cul-de-sac ended up chipping in together to get a guy in a bobcat come and plow a path so we could all get out with no troubles. Now our small road looks like a maze, it’s funny. I can hardly back my car out of the driveway without running into one of the snow walls in the maze.

In other news I got to go shopping today! It was very fun, as I haven’t gotten to go shopping like that since August. Even though Carol and I went to Metrotown, and neither of us had anyone to buy for for Christmas, it felt all rushed because there were all the Christmas shoppers around.

So yes, I got to hit up the Boxing ‘week’ sales. HMV had some crazy bargains on movies! *purrrrs* Neeewwww moooovvviiies. I’m quite excited about that. I ended up getting the new Pride & Prejudice (no more watching it online and having to wait for it to buffer, hurray!), Elektra (yes I’ve heard it sucks. Haven’t seen it, but Jen Garner is my favourite actress), Bon Cop - Bad Cop (a Canadian film with Colm Feore in it. I wanted to see it when it was in theatres, but missed it!), Raise Your Voice (Yeah… a sucker for chick flicks, what can I say… eep), and the first two seasons of Arrested Development. I will be set for a while. Muahahaha.

The prices were all very good, because I got all that for the price that one TV-DVD season typically costs.

And then my Mom and I went to Future Shop, and I got the newest Miley Cyrus CD… What can I say, Kelsey is a bad influence on me :D

There’s something infintely fun about watching Turner Classic Movies. All those old movies, where it was the actors and their performance that had to be relied on rather than special effects to make the movie great. Granted, sometimes the films that TCM shows are bad, but a lot of the time you’re lucky and get a goodie.

Tonight I got to see ‘How to Succeed at Business without really Trying’. It’s a musical, but really funny, about a window washer who manages to make his way up the ladder of business in only a week or two: from window washer to Chairman of the board. When I saw the main actor this time around (I’ve seen this before) I was like, I recognize him from somewhere! For anyone who is a fan of Mad Men, the main actor in the film Robert Morse currently plays the role of Bertram Cooper! It was interesting, because there are some quirks from the film that I wonder if they adopted for Mad Men.

Then there’s the really weird Christmas movie my Dad is watching… No comment :P

Tonight my friend Carol and I went and saw High School Musical on Ice. Geek much? Totally. And proud of it :D

I was really never that into HSM. The movies are kinda blah; most definitely aimed at the teenybopper and younger bunch. But the music is always upbeat and fun to hear. I mean, how can a person not get up and dance when they hear “We’re all in this together Once we know That we are We’re all stars And we see that…” Granted, if cheery music isn’t your cup of tea then you might not… but erm, Disney music is my thing. And when Disney does music, they do it well.

So yes, major geek right here who will be wearing her new HSM shirt to class on Monday. I wonder if anyone will notice?