spoiled chinese girl

Here's what I ate today. Can you not tell I work with an office full of snackers? (Although it was easy to turn down the second/third/fourth cookie, the Tim Hortons snack-run and the McDonalds lunch run when my excuse was “I have to write down what I'm eating to show my friends online!”)

• Single serving of strawberry yogurt
• Tim Hortons white chocolate/macadamias nut cookie
• Bottle of water (08:40am)
• Bottle of water (10:40am)
• Black Forest Ham Sammich using 12grain bread
• Bottle of water (12:50pm)
• Single serving peach yogurt
• One cup of grapes
• Chicken (drumstick + thigh) shake'n'bake style
• Large bowl of fried rice
• Handful of Pitted Dates
• Large glass of milk (1/2 chocolate + 1/2 1% white)

Well now that I’ve blogged enough to cover the vast amount of food that I’ve eaten today, I figured I should post what it is I ate.  I’m doing this because so many of my friends are, I thought I’d jump onto the bandwagon.

• Single serving of strawberry yogurt
• Tim Hortons white chocolate/macimadia nut cookie
• Bottle of water (08:40am)
• Bottle of water (10:40am)
• Black Forest Ham Sammich using 12grain bread
• Bottle of water (12:50pm)
• Single serving peach yogurt
• One cup of grapes
• Chicken (drumstick + thigh) shake’n’bake style
• Large bowl of fried rice
• Handful of Pitted Dates
• Large glass of milk (1/2 chocolate + 1/2 1% white)

And that’s my day!

but only the network is wonky. Meh. It gave me a great excuse to go to yoga. Yoga was bendy. No breakie though, as per Filipe's suggestion. After giving in and accepting that I may never be able to do a proper backbend or camel pose, my very next class I was able to accomplish both. I continue. Now my vice is my runners lunges, to build the strength in myself to keep from dropping out of the pose early.

So my mom’s been in Hong Kong for the past month or so and she’s coming home today.  And a few days ago I just realized… I haven’t really had any full servings of veggies since she left.  What can I say, I live at home.  I eat what my mommy cooks me.  And that’s about it.

Since she’s been gone there’s been a lot of fried rice with hotdogs, a lot of frozen dinners which are generally rice, and some sort of meat (usually chicken) with maybe a few bits of corn and peas or mushrooms.  Lunch is always a sammich of meat, cheese and bread.  Breakfast has been peanut butter and nutella on more bread.

All I’ve really been eating in large quantities is grain products, and meat/protein.  Come to think of it, unless we’re going to start counting my chocolate intake, not a whole lot of dairy either!

Geesh.  To combat this, two nights ago (After yoga actually) I bought a big bottle of V8 type juice.  Since each glass is 2 servings of veggies.  I know it’s not the same, and I should have real veggies for roughage and fibre.  But in a pinch this will work for now.  Until my mom gets back at least.

And no, it’s not really 1/8th gasoline!

Alright the normal trend in gas prices is that at midnight it’s the highest it will be in 24 hours. And throughout the day it starts to drop. And by about 23:59 it’s about the lowest it will be in a 24 hour period. And it’s been like this for many many moons, possibly years.

For some reason the “cooler weather” causes gas prices to drop. But between midnight and 8am it’s the same price, and by around 4pm it’s slightly lower, and by 8pm it’s lower, and by 11pm it’s about as low as it gets, and as soon as the lot clears of cars it’s up again.

And the difference between gas prices is more than a lot of people think. Last I remember, the average difference between the morning and night time gas price is about 10 cents per litre. There’s just under 4 litres in a gallon for those of us using those measurements. So yea. Thats a lot.

But since this past weekend I’ve noticed something different.

The gas price doesn’t go up, or down, at all. At 9am it’s the same price as at 9pm. And the only time I’ve seen it change, is to see the gas price go up.

And considering last week the gas price was bouncing between high 70 and high 80 cents per litre, the fact that it seems to be a fixed low 90 cents per litre starts to bug me.

Is there something I’m missing in the world? Since I don’t watch the news and all. Someone let me know?

Edit: I’ve been informed via commercials in between the TV shows that I tape, that the CN Rail Strike (that I knew about since it’s also delaying shipments for the company I work for) along with a fire that happened at a refinery is causing much of the high gas prices.  They’ve also told the public to not panic.  You all know by the time you read this, there will be a full-blown panic!