Quitting smoking

Day One... I'm not feeling too bad - only had about 3 or 4 real crisis points today when I nearly broke down and bought a pack, but I didn't give in. Wish I had done the Zyban thing after all though - I'm just missing it more and more - at least its time to get to bed soon enough so hopefully I'll wake up in a decent mood. Good luck to everyone at work that has to deal with me...

Anime...

So - Anime... I've become quite the fan - or rather, I've rediscovered my love of anime. I've pretty much rented out everything at the local Rogers Video (although they seem to have lost the one video that I've been wanting to watch for some time now, Tokyo Godfathers); and have moved on to Million Comix on Yonge St. Lately I've watched the following: Witch Hunter Robin (DVD 1 through 5 - 6 is out on the weekend) Neon Genesis: Evangelion (one of the best series I've ever seen) Battle of the Planets (the first series that ever got me into anime) Wolf's Rain (this one sucked, didn't even watch the whole first DVD) RahXephon (just as good if not better than Evangelion) Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (loved the movie and the series is just as good) Millennium Actress (so very strange) Descendants of Darkness (kinda gay, but not bad overall) Now I'm just waiting for Gundam Seed to come out on DVD and I'll get into that one. Back to my regularly scheduled boredom...

...because I've been told to...

So, I've been suitably chastened by my friend Pat this evening for not updating my blog in ages... Egg on my face, really. I've been swamped at work with all those many many collection calls I must make - not to mention all those people who need my opinion on every single gosh darn element that comprises their so-called lives... Seriously, I've been in a bit of the what we like to call the dumps these days... I just don't have any motivation to write lately. I sit down at the iBook, launch XJournal and just sit there looking at the screen. Well, I'll change that today. I went out to dinner with Karen and friends (Peter, the Mark/co's, Pat and Ash, Karen's Steve - and a few of Karen's friends and family that I'd not met before) at the Granite Brewery on Mount Pleasant in Toronto - just around the corner from where I used to live. Was SO nice to see them all again - and did me a world of good to see people again. This self-imposed hermitage I've squished myself into for no particular reason is really going to have to stop I think - mainly as a result of now wanting to see people again. The only drawback to this evening is this strange sense of heat I have growing up my esophagus (most likely from the 4 pints and the jalapeno peppers that the Mark/co's didn't want to eat on their nachos. So what have I been up to lately.... I've been doing a lot of reading, a lot of movie watching, a lot of anime watching - and heaps of working; trying to keep my head above water and food in my belly. As a result, I've ended up putting on about 10 pounds somehow in the last month - that SO have to come off before Andrea comes in September. Did I mention that part yet? YAY!! I am SO glad that she's coming - I really need a piece of Australia to come see me since I can't quite afford (yet) to just pop back off to Oz. My mate Mark and his partner Jeff have moved to High Park here in Toronto - went to see them just a few days ago - before Mark had to leave to Tokyo for 6 or 7 months (starring in a Tokyo Disneyworld Broadway review no less). I miss the guy already... Rang Jeff the other day and have been playing phone tag since... I'm going to list a few things that I've been doing lately on another post - mainly cause I've had a few pints, and now a bit of scotch and coke (sorry about the mix, but its what I drank in Melbourne). Goodnight to all - most of all me! :-)