So far this morning I’ve offended an entire country of developers by suggesting I needed to “crack some skulls” to get something done and the government managed to track me down to tell me I owe them $750.

Super!

Add in an excruciatingly painful support call with a less than coherent slickster, and you have one steamed Kimli who is counting down the hours until her “vacation”. I’m leaving Thursday to join Ed in Edmonton, and we’ll drive back on Sunday. It’s definitely better than nothing, and I am looking forward to seeing the in-laws and stuff, but I still wish I could have a vacation without quotation marks – you know, something I want to do in a place I want to do it that’ll have me bouncing with anticipation instead of just being mildly eager. It’ll happen someday, I guess.

I am sort of glad iPhones aren’t available in Canada, or I know I would want one even though they are outrageously expensive. I think I would probably have to settle for wishing for enough money to be able to afford an iPhone rather than the gadget itself, coz wooo. I do have a lot of gadgets though, so I can live without a fancy new phone for quite some time. I have a Zune! It is pretty!

I had a very productive long weekend. I took advantage of my momentarily-single status to ride into Richmond to do the things that Ed never wants to do because he really does loathe the area. I went to Toys R Us to hunt down an elusive Optimus Prime figure for my shelves, then visited Aberdeen Mall for some self-torture. There’s something very unsettling about being the fattest person in a shopping mall by a good 150lbs or more – Aberdeen Mall is the most hardcore Asian mall in all of BC, and every shop caters to the extremely tiny and even tinier than that. I wanted to check out VooDoo Palace because I am 12 years old at heart, as well as buy some interesting things at Daiso, the excellent Japanese $2 store. I also had some of my favourite snail pictures printed as 5x7s as to decorate the bathroom with my little bug friends. Missions accomplished, I headed home for a traditional Canada Day dinner of bangers and mash, then went to the waterfront to view the fireworks with Josh and Shan. Good times.

The holiday Monday was a touch lazier. Josh went hiking with Shan’s car, so I taught her how to ride Josh’s Honda Ruckus and we went to Park Royal to run some errands and have lunch among the ethereally gorgeous at the Cactus Club Café. We rode home where I promptly passed out with a brutal migraine that left me incapacitated and vomitous – I had to skip a sojourn at the Black Frog with the rest of the Crew because I couldn’t move. The migraine eventually went away, I had some fresh raspberries with vanilla ice cream, and I settled in for night number two of solo bedtime fun.

The more I think about it, the more I am looking forward to my trip to Edmonton. Road trips are always awesome, and I really do like my in-laws. Plus, I will get to have Queen Donair. That in itself is reason alone to go to Edmonton. Mmm .. Queen Donair.

Must stop thinking about delicious mystery meat. Must work now. Must wipe up embarrassing drool.