Bringing home the bacon?

I was pissed off to discover Safeway had overcharged me by $3 when buying bacon today, and this is the only time I have actually bought the stuff since I've been here because it's so expensive! The one time it's on offer, I get screwed..... of course I only discovered this when I went home, and by then I couldn't be bothered to turn round and go back....especially as earlier I nearly got totalled by some fuckwit turning left at the intersection without waiting for the light to turn red in my through lane, and deciding that yellow meant the same thing.

I started my marathon training today. And I'm sure I will pay for it later. I ran around Stanley Park, as displayed below. It was meant to be a 10k run, but looking at the map I reckon it was more like 8. Not bad for a first go back at training though. The last time I ran 10k was a year and a half ago in the Manchester Run, and then I nearly died from being unfit. My shoulders hurt (don't ask) but the rest of me is ok. I doubt I'll be able to get out of bed tomorrow though! At the moment my marathon prediction is that I might finish. Might. Hopefully this will be revised as I keep training, especially as I have incentives to get a good time.

When I went to get in the car today to drive to the park, the car doors were frozen shut. And it took a few minutes, under the suspicious eye of a dad on the other side of the road, to get them open. This worries me, as it was -4 last night, and the prediction for next Sunday has been revised (down? up?) from -9 to -13, so it might not only be the car that has trouble functioning soon.

A cheering thing on tv today (ok, also rather strange); people turning up at a cathedral somewhere or other to get their pets blessed for the New Year. It was called "Bless all creatures great and small" and the deacon/guy whose name I don't know because I am sadly ill-informed about religion would put his hand on the head of the animal and say a little prayer for their safety and good health throughout the next year. People brought their cats, dogs, birds.... I'm not sure how he did it with fish, but there was probably a way. As my cousin discovered a few nights ago, whilst we were waiting for a bus downtown at 2am, this country is mad. In a fab way. I blend right in :o)

Well, it has been a generally good day today, for no particular reason. I'm just having an optimistic episode (not to be confused with a psychotic episode). My friends in Indonesia and Malaysia are both safe, thank goodness. To end, my apologies to Penelope, whose page I commented on a few days ago - I can't get back to it because your comment link won't take me to your profile! So I haven't given up posting, I just can't find you any more.