The next day...

Is it just me or has Toronto been a trainwreck in the last few days? I'm glad I haven't been there for either of them. As a side note, I had a dream I lived in an apartment that was attached to the Eaton Center the other night.

As I type, some homemade ginger muffins are in the oven. They smell divine and I can't wait to eat one.

Anyway, I picked up my free box of John Frieda Precision Foam Hair Colour in medium golden blonde at Shoppers. It that was the lightest blonde they had. It turned out to be a coppery colour in the end, but I actually like it. My hair is really thick and strong and always takes longer to colour than it says on the box, which may be the reason it turned out darker than I expected. The box said 20 minutes, but I had it in for almost an hour. I probably could have kept it in longer, but I was worried about overprocessing it.

No exciting updates today on the garden front, but if I feel like it and have time before work, I might just post some pictures of it. I'm pretty proud of it so far.

There is a walking path near my apartment that I like to take whenever I can, and I did on the way home from picking up the box. It is covered by trees and has a lot of wild rhubarb. When it matures I'll pick some and make a pie. There are lots of trilliums, but the flowers were already wilted when I discovered them - kind of abates the barely existing temptation of being all badass and picking one.

Anyone curious about how I came across my free samples that I mentioned yesterday, I found them with the help of a site called Munchkin Sandwich. Click on your country in the sidebar and knock yourself out. I expect this to be a means of cutting down on my living expenses, which is important when you're a dirt poor university student like myself.

My muffin was delicious, by the way. Who needs coherency when you have a good muffin?

Anyway, it is quite late and I really need to try to go to bed earlier than, say, an hour and a half from now - not so easy to do when you sometimes work this late. But since that will be delayed by the fact that I now have a cat on my lap, I might as well write a bit more before heading off. My apologies if it is dreadfully boring, but nothing exciting has really happened in my life recently.

I'm in the midst of finding a second/replacement job. My only complaints about my current job are that I don't get enough hours and the late nights are really doing me in. There will be a new Walmart going in at a nearby plaza in the next few weeks, and I'm hopeful that I will get in there.

And now that the cat is finished with laying down on my lap, I can get to bed. Goodnight, world! Catch you later.

Here, have an introduction.

Today, I jumped on the blog bandwagon. I put no thought whatsoever into what the blog would be about, what it should be called or what I hope to achieve with it - for now, it's just a little plaything. It's kind of like that chemistry set you had as a kid - never mind the instructions, just mix things together and see what you get. You might get the cure for cancer and not realize it. You might get a highly potent fart bomb. Maybe you'll just make a bunch of pretty colours - after all, those sets are child proof.

So here's the inevitable "about me." I have played the flute for the last ten years and I like it enough that I'm going to make a career of it, so I'm about to enter my last year of university for music. As soon as I can afford to take the course, I'm going to start a flute repair business. I originally wanted to perform, but over the years I have come to realize that I tend to do well with mechanical stuff and there will always be more flute players breaking their expensive instruments than there will be opportunities to perform. That, and the expensive dental work that I've been putting off to get my degree would cause a miserable interruption to a performance career.

Enough of that boring crap. My life story can come later.

Lately, I've started to become interested in gardening, particularly when the end result is edible. I'm growing lettuce, carrots, strawberries, peppermint, chamomile, basil, Thai basil and rosemary on my balcony. Once I have a backyard of my own, I'll turn it into a self-sufficient, small-scale farm. I'll barely have a grocery bill - meat, milk and tropical fruit only. Suck on that, agribusiness.

As an amusing side note, I had a dream once that some scientist invented a pill that would make it so that mankind would never have to eat again. (Those "fruitarian" types who only eat what falls off the tree would be thrilled.) As soon as it came out on the market, food production was banned worldwide, but I grew an illegal vegetable garden anyway. I was approached by a government agent who was about to arrest me just before I woke up.

My most recent addition to the balcony garden has been the two strawberry plants. The great thing about that is I only bought one, but it had a well-established runner on it. Both are doing well. The harvest won't be any time soon because I'm trying to keep the runner attached for as long as possible, but it's worth it to have a second plant. I'm not stopping there, though - I ordered tea plant seeds online last night. I'm excited not to have to buy tea ever again... in two to three years. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

As for my boring rainy day today, I spent the entire day looking up free samples. I ordered a USB fan, laundry detergent, Breathe Right strips, acrylic paint, nail polish, shampoo and calcium supplements. I only paid $5 shipping for the USB fan. A few weeks ago I ordered a voucher for a free hair colour kit, a razor and some skin cream. So far, just the hair colour has come in, and I'll be heading out tomorrow to pick it up. I'm thinking blonde.

So that's it. More when I feel like it. Maybe never! Maybe tomorrow. But not today, that's certain.