So, my best friend is moving to Japan. I’m really happy for her, but I’m starting to feel a little nostalgic. It’s really silly, for I’m already far away from her, but at least I knew that when I was going to Colombia I was able to see her. Now we’re going to have a big ocean in between and who knows when we’ll see each other again. I was hoping she was going to be in New York on her way to the land of the rising sun (so I could go and see her), but her layover will be in Miami. She’s feeling a little bit scared because this is a huge change in her life, but she needs new horizons and I’m glad she has this new chance to do something important with her life… I just wish it wasn’t so far away… No, I cannot be selfish, I love her too much and I know her life is going to be great; she deserves it, more than anyone else.

I woke up with a smile on my face after a good night with the one I love. I drank the best cup of coffee in the world, said hello to my good friends online, gave a quick call to my mom in Colombia to listen to the stories about that crazy nephew of mine. Meanwhile, the sun was shining out there, just a few scattered clouds in the blue sky and we planned a little trip out to fuel and wash the car. On our way back we stopped to get really nice flowers from the hubby’s workplace, and a few hot-dogs and buns at the convenience and came home to relax for the rest of the day while doing laundry.

On a day like today, when you drive in your car with the windows open and good music is playing on the radio, you see the people having fun outside and the smiles on children’s faces; then you feel grateful for your life, your freedom, your chances. You feel blessed that you don’t live in a country ravaged by violence, war, famine, oppression, foreign invasions and so on. On a day like today you don’t take your life for granted and you look up to the sky and say a big thank you to the Good God for being alive, for having all your senses working perfectly. On a day like today, like Bryan Adams would say, you never wanna to see the sun go down…

Interesting: “Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will begin selling portable music players for as much as 80 percent less than Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod. The Microsoft-branded devices will “look and feel” as good as the iPod for as little as $50.” [Found in the Denver Post, via Replikka]

Le Cornichon is a weblog maintained by a very talented guy who does the funniest photo-montages about Canada and its political happenings. Every time I visit, I have a reason to laugh out loud, so I’m sharing the link with my visitors. The site is in French (Take that, Mr. Harper! I wish I could vote… BLOC, heh!), but it doesn’t stop you from looking at the images, and if you’re Canadian, you sure will get a kick from it. Absolutely fantastic!

I really need to check my blogroll and see what’s going on in the blogosphere. I’ve been so involved in my own life (playing the housewife, reading and watching the Gilmore Girls Season 1) that I forget there are other people out there posting about theirs as well. The blogworld is going through big upheavals after the changes in Movable Type, everyone seems to be switching CMSs and putting their weblogs in hiatus while they tweak things. I’ve decided to stay with my current version of MT simply because, for me, it works well, it’s set up to my liking, I know how to do stuff with it, I don’t need all the mumbo-jumbo with the new versions and I don’t feel like playing the techie these days (although I have to admit that ExpressionEngine looks like a really neat tool, but I just can’t afford it). I wanted to post an entry with deeper thoughts on this, but that would be a waste of time. 2.661 it is, for now.

A couple of years ago I wouldn’t have even thought about it, but today I decided to be a brat and use some extra cash I got to buy a Logitech webcam. It is connected now and I can see myself in streaming video on Yahoo! Messenger, hah! I guess I’m more self confident now to actually go live on the internet. Oh well, now I can chat with my family in Colombia and my mom will be able to see me, so I guess she will be thrilled. I would like to now how to implement a webcam page for this website… Help?

It’s been a while since I wanted to post about this and I wish I had a bigger family here in Canada, or a bigger group of friends, so I could gather a group of 10 people because I really would like to participate in the Relay for Life organized by the Canadian Cancer Society. I feel the need to do something meaningful, but I guess I don’t have enough faith in the people I know to tell them about it without fearing about being blown up.
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Is it possible to smell like babies when you spend a few hours surrounded by them? I don’t know, but Patrice says I have baby smell, the good one, the sweet one, hah! That’s funny. My downstairs neighbour belongs to an association of SAHMs and they get together every Friday to do activities, while their children stay with a person to watch over them, and she asked me if I wanted to do that today, so I ended up spending a few hours with cute little babies between 6 and 18 months old. I was a little bit nervous at first because I only have experience with children between 3 and 6, but it was really fun… they’re such cute little people, and those smiles!

Funny thing, Elisa also makes part of that association (we found out we had a “lady” in common like a month ago or so) and when the meeting was over I went with her to look at flowers, we grabbed some lunch and headed for her house to enjoy the rest of the day. We talked while Jeremy played (she had an emotional moment and just now I realized I should’ve hugged her right there, so I have to make sure I hug her next time I see her), we had some fun in the sun, went for a walk with Mookie (her dog) and I even got a suntan… Oh wait, sunburn, hah!

Patrice went to pick me up around 5:30 and when we arrived home we proceeded to do the usual hug routine (big huggers here) and then he told me to close my eyes… I knew he had a gift for me… The Gilmore Girls First Season DVDs!! I screamed and then he asked me to look at it better… WOWSA! Under the Gilmore Girls DVDs there was a copy of “Chasing Liberty“, a movie I have been talking about since I rented it last week, so cute! I tell you, my husband spoils me rotten, but I like it and he likes it too. I guess we’ll spend a weekend at the movies, heh! J’aime mon Patrice.