Finally, a Dorkism

Last weekend, we said goodbye to our Scarborough house of 24 years and hello to our temporary town house in Markham (boo hoo!) Moving to Markham gave me a reason to start to change some of my habits! Mainly, my daily dependency to drive! Instead, now I will be a Go Train person. I will live my life by a schedule, the train schedule, and I will drop all things and at exactly 5:18 so I can leave and catch my 5:30 train. Yes, even if we are in the middle of a meeting because being a "Go Train person" gives me a bonafide reason to up and go. It's acceptable at the workplace. :D A recalculation of sloth costs will come shortly once I get regular on the Go Train. This should benefit you, Bullpen Larry since our costs will now be more similar (though you take your Go Train from Langstaff - you'll have to discount that...)

Yesterday was my first day on the Go Train. I had to go with Cassandra, so that I wouldn't take the train up to Uxbridge by accident. We caught the 7:06am train at Unionville. Pretty good huh? I was so proud.

So today, I thought I'd check out the Richmond Hill station on my own. At first I thought I'd catch the 7:30 train to get in for 8:18. But on 2nd thought, that would mean I'd have to get up at 6:30. Nah, not today. So I aimed to catch the 8:00 train to arrive at 8:38.

I thought 15 mins driving time would be cool - I mean it's only a 5 minute drive from my house (more like 10mins now I know). Who would have thought there would be traffic on Major Mac? I get there 5 mins before 8 and I turn into the main parking lot. Wow, what a zoo! People running everywhere, the train is parked, cars coming in and out of the lot ... So as I turn in, I wonder - why are cars are turning out of the lot? They can't be going home ..unless they're coming off night shift? Then after turning in I realized that the lot was full. These cars were turning out to go to the FAR lot. So I turn back around, now rushing because I have less then 3 mins to find parking and get on the train. I contemplating on honking at the lady in front who was blocking the exit and wasn't moving even though the school bus was CLEARLY letting her turn left. But I didn't... she could beat me up for sure. Finally I get to turn left, I find a spot in the far lot across the street. I hurry out of my car, and start running across the lot. The Go Train bell is now ringing - uh oh! Run run run (in 3 inch heels mind you)...and before I could even leave the 2nd lot, the Train goes.......noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

So I keep walking towards the empty tracks. Since I realized that I still needed a ticket, I'll go and buy a 10 ride ticket. The ticket booth man asked me if I wanted a schedule for the Go Bus. Then I realized that 8:00 was the last train.

So now I walk back to my car. The parking lot is now peaceful, silent, as if that craziness of a rush never happened. That sight, which normally calms me, was just salt rub to the wounds, shouting "SUCKA" The next Go Bus would arrive at Union at 9:20. No way! I'd be so late! I can drive down faster than that - and in the comforts of my own car! So I get back into my car and start the drive down.

Well I know the 404 Southbound is nuts. So I was being *smart* and decided to take Bayview. Then I can shoot down when I get on the Bayview extension. The trek down Bayview was brutal. There was a 1 lane closure north of the 407. We were in gridlock. 1.5 hours later, I made it all the way to.....heppard.

By now, it's after 9am, so when I got to Eglinton, cars were allowed to park on the street, reducing Bayvew to 1 lane. Excellent. All I could think of was - don't worry I can burn down the Extension..over 90km! Until I get there and we crawled down it because of traffic. Finally I got into the office.

I waltzed into the office at 10am.

Excellent!

Holiday Baking

Funny that I still have my picture up from last year of my weird mah jong tile choco-cakes. It's that time again, and the baking sign up list AND the potluck Christmas luncheon list has come out.

I'm open to suggestions right now.

However, note the following:

Baking to me is an unkown science. Alchemy really. It's all trial and error.
I have no time for trial.
Likely all that comes out will be error.
I have my foot in my mouth because I laughed at my friend who gave herself food poisoning cooking chicken for own dinner.
Soley for pride reasons, I can not give anyone else at work food poisoning.

yummy. I'm so looking forward to test tasting my own food.

Anger Management

Wish I watched the movie - probably could use it right now. I have a feeling, though not yet proved, that my brother deleted all my digital pics of HK, China, including all the photos of the students, team mates, etc., family in HK, scenery pics in Sichuan and prior pictures of Sunny's wedding off the camera memory card. I spent the last 3 hours looking for the pictures in my lap top drive, my desk top drive, the camera memory card, the net drive etc. The more instances that I couldn't find the pictures, the more angry I got.

And I'm really trying not to 'jump to conclusions' (i have to put that in quotes every time I say/write that because it is now an official quote from Office Space). But at this point, I admit that I'm already really ticked.

Trying to not sin in my anger a la Psalm 4:4 is pretty difficult. I feel a natural tendancy to..get physically agitated from frustration, get violent - I feel like kicking something, raise my voice and yell, clench my teeth and grind them..etc. In fact, I've already envisioned what I would say when I will call up my brother and yell at him for being so inconsiderate and selfish. From past experience & normal stereotypes, this isn't too unusual of a reaction to anger.

In the midst of getting angry tonight, my thoughts of anger & violence geekily veered off into something theoretical, which promted this blog (though I've meant to write something much earlier). Can people be angry and naturally feel something other than violent & physically agitated? Wouldn't it be great if people's natural reaction in anger is to be sleepy? Or to make funny jokes? I'm sure there are physiological reasons why a typical reaction is physical agitation - likely faster pumping heart & blood pressure, more energy etc.

Then on the spiritual side - at what point and how did sin in being angry entre into mankind? I suppose it all came with the original fall of mankind, but I wonder how Adam or Eve would have physiologically and physically responded to godly anger that they would have felt if they continued to be in Eden and never fell. Then I think of Jesus, in His godly and righteous anger against the shady merchants trading in the synagogue, He seemed pretty agitated too - physically. So is physical agitation not a direct sin of anger?

Anyway, I've both bored myself and confused myself out of anger now and I can go to bed and sleep.

Goodnight blogspace!

The benefit of this blog is that in looking up Psalm 4 as a reference, I learned the rest of the verse, which I never knew:

"In your anger do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Selah" Psalm 4:4

Selah