'You Should Have Listened To Me'

Cocaine Princess here.

I still have a little bit of the flu but I’m doing a lot better. Thank you all for your well wishes. I'm not quite sure what was worse; the chicken pox, the flu or my lovely day in traffic court? The flu is just as awful as the chicken pox. The mere difference; I’m not itchy.

It's after 12am and I can't sleep. I can't even get 40 winks tonight. We're in the middle of a 2-day storm . Mother Nature why oh why? Valentina insisted I stay until the spring. Maybe I should have. We received a total accumulation of 15cm yesterday and another 20cm is expected later today. Yippee! Yesterday was a snow day as will be today so 'A' is home. Since I came down with the flu she looks at me and then lets out a sigh. That's code for 'you should have listened to me.'

Speaking of 'A' I decided to post this update. On Sunday I asked her to post a very brief entry on my behalf. Had I known she was going to blog an entry and dig deep in the family album by no means would I have given her my password.

Last night was the season premiere of Hell's Kitchen. All 16 chefs had to prepare their signature dishes for the volatile chef. One female contestant owned her culinary school and is a culinary instructor but had no formal training. She charges $300 for a 3-4 hr cooking lessons. Chef tasted her dish (he said it looked like a cooked diaper) and after tasting it he spit it out and asked, 'You charge $300 to teach people to make that crap?' The contestant replied, 'I teach manners too, Chef.'

In the end the blue team lost and Ramsay chose contestant Will to hang up his jacket. 15 are left.

My loyal and dear readers have an incredible Super Bowl Weekend! It's one of the very few and rare days I will allow myself to devour pizza, suicide chicken wings, subs, Doritos with dip and yummy Margaritas without feeling guilty. (At least I try not to. I probably will skip out on the Margaritas. I consumed enough of those and Rum Runners during the holidays) For dessert, a particular cheesecake. Come Sunday I will be glued to the tube watching the game like I do every year....well only the commercials. I don't pay attention to the game.

XOXOXOXO,
Cocaine Princess

It's Warmer In Iqaluit

Cocaine Princes here.

I’m back from my getaway. I returned by the weekend and the drive home from the airport was far from pleasant. It was utterly depressing. The snow started falling and blowing so hard making it next to impossible for the driver to see anything and forcing him to pull over a few times. I had left a Tropical Wonderland and returned to Frosty's Winter Wonderland. The morning I left I called 'A' letting her know what time I would be getting in. She informed me the city was under a severe cold advisory. I thought she was messing with me. Good God she wasn't. So just how cold was it? Let me put it to you this way. More often than not the cold spot on our map is a very far, far away place by the name of Iqaluit. Iqaluit was 15 degrees warmer than where I was. We hit -30C. We actually broke the record that was set in the late 1940's. I hurried from the driveway and went inside the house where 'A' was waiting for me with her arms wide open. Purposely I pressed my cheek against hers. 'You feel like a Popsicle,' she stated. 'Are my ears still attached?' I asked because honestly I couldn't feel them. 'Yes they're right where they should be,' she replied touching them.'Did you have a good time with all your little friends?' she then asked helping me with my coat. 'I had a blast,' I answered. 'Is your cell phone turned off?' 'I don’t think so. Why?' 'Valentina called. She left four messages and is in desperate need to talk to you. You were with her for nearly a month so what possibly could she have left to talk to you about?' 'I guess I'll have to find out,' I replied.

After settling back in and of course making a phone call I plopped down on the sofa in front of the TV when my sister said, you received a delivery yesterday. It’s in the freezer.' 'My cheesecake!' I exclaimed heading into the kitchen. 'Is that THE cheesecake?' she questioned. 'Yes it's THE cheesecake,' I answered inhaling it. I was tempted to take a bite. Maybe in a couple of weeks.

The exhilaration of the festive season is over and now that I'm home I'm finding it a little hard getting back in the routine of things. For one thing I got use to seeing 'A' all the time around the house. She's back in the classroom shaping little minds after being on a medical leave since September.

It's still January which means:

There is still mounds and mounds of snow everywhere
you look and more is expected.

It is still viciously cold.

It still gets pitch black by 4:30pm and...

I still feel tired. Maybe I need another vacation? You
know what they say; you need a vacation from your
vacation.

Have anyone of you joined twitter? On the weekend I received an invite from a fellow blogger. (So far he's my only follower. Thank you!) I didn't have an account so I set one up. In the span of 2 days my account was deleted 2x and restored. I logged in my account only to be told my password was incorrect. After verifying myself I was able to reset my password. This occurred 5x. So far I'm finding twitter is nothing but a damn friggin' nuisance.

A few months ago, well it was more than a few months; it was last summer when I was tagged to list 20 random facts about myself. The person who tagged me sent an email asking why I hadn't posted. I’m not good at these things so I enlisted 'A' to complete the assignment. Apparently she had no trouble coming up with 20 different things. Below are the first 5.

1.
She is stubborn. When her mind is set on something there is no changing it.

2.
She eats cereal with 1% chocolate milk and not plain.

3.
She studied ballet from the age of three and continued until she was sixteen.
(She was a very graceful dancer)

4.
She is addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper. There is a separate shelf in the refrigerator reserved for the bottles.

5.
She refers to the escalators in a building as 'the electric stairs.'

XOXOXOXO,
Cocaine Princess