The Mike Haddad Show: This is relevant to my interests.

I may not have been blogging in a while, but I’ve got some serious work accomplished on the site. More than getting work done on the site, I’ve been getting work done off the site. I’ve been talking to my parents about getting the camera, as well as signing up for photography lessons. I’ve been finding and installing plugins to make the site better than it is now. I’ve also been planning the next Mike Haddad Show Events. It’s become apparent that I’m not going to be able to make it to any of Kaitie’s photo shoot events; I’m going to be at work all day. Instead, I’ve been planning what events I’d like to have and take pictures of. No, not all of the events are going to be the mentally straining, long-drawn out, focused on meticulous detail style of photo shoot (only about half of those are). The very big event coming up (which is going to be cross posted on The Mike Haddad Show LJ Community) is the ‘Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Pies: That is how you get very big thighs’ Chocolate Inspired Cooking Contest.

The CCaCP Chocolate Inspired Cooking Contest is planned to work as follows. In pairs, contestants will make any sort of food item that contains chocolate in the recipe. I don’t care if it’s a breakfast food, a dinner food, or a dessert. As long as there’s chocolate in it and at the tasting you have the recipe with you then you won’t hear me. I’m trying to figure out where the cooking will take place, which is why I’m going to ask who plans on competing first. That way I can find out where we can find enough stoves to cook all this. I’m not going to supply any ingredients. I’m sorry, but I’m poor. At normal parties I try my best to supply foodstuffs and beverages even when its becoming less and less common. This has the potential of getting crazy weird to supply for, so I’m telling everyone now that I’m not going to be doing it. You can use anything you can steal from your parents’ kitchens. It’s for this reason that you’re not going to hear me ask you to make your meal nut-free; like I give a flying frigginmasendeshita about it. As long as you tell me before hand so no one with allergies eats it and dies, I won’t need to beat you. On the same side, you’re not going to hear me making it a requirement to be vegetarian or vegan friendly. I’m sorry to all our vegetarian and vegan friends. You’re going to have to deal with it; I’m doing the same about the nuts (granted you have a much more limited choice of food product).

Last night Adam and I want for a walk around Oakville , which was something we hadn’t done since before he had gone off to Europe . For anyone who isn’t from Oakville , it’s hard to explain just how therapeutic walking around some parts of the town can be. As great as it was to have the walk, when we were finished I was still left pondering a large number of things. I can’t figure out if the drama between me and some people is my fault, their faults, all of our faults, or none of our faults. I’m thinking that it’s one of the latter two rather than the former. I’ve never ever had this problem to this extent before, and it worries me. In a previous life I would have just ditched the friends and not spoken to them again (and if you don’t believe it, I can give you a long list of people I used to be really, really close with). Now I think the problem is that I’d like to continue the friendships, but I’m finding it hard to; I find myself frustrated with people and easily aggravated. So I try and think of other things.

I finished my Emergency First Aid course; I got 100%. Next week I do my Bronze Medallion. From there I need to try and find out if the courses are offered in Mississauga or Burlington so I can get it all done and do my NLS before I go back to Waterloo in January. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that will work, unless I can somehow convince my mother to take my busted body down to Toronto for lessons.