Americanuck

On the weekends the Boys are here I like to cook them up some kind of home-made breakfast. Sometimes it’s French toast, sometimes pancakes (from scratch!) but most of the time it involves bacon and eggs. Sean is a bacon fanatic. When he was on his liquid post-surgery diet what was he thinking of..fantasizing about? Chocolate? No.. BACON!

This weekend Chris worked early on Saturday so Sean also got HIS share of the bacon, so in other words he ate the same amount, no MORE than Tom and I did combined, yet the boy is still a scarecrow. Add to that all the snacking he does between meals he should bless his naturally fast metabolism.  I warn him that I was like that too once, I could eat what I wanted and look at me now. Oh yes one day my Boy it will catch up with you.

Anyway, I saw this post on the list of the day and it made me think of our little bacon freak Sean.

I’ve mentioned my new fave show Cold Case before. I’ve been watching it in syndication on one of the local channels, started during the writer’s strike but now I’m hooked. Tonight’s episode had Nick finding a baby outside and then ending up taking care of it reluctantly letting it go when the Mom was found. Awww man I tell ya I love that guy. He acts all tough guy and gruff but under all that is that cute squishy side. I’m tellin ya I gotta update my list. I went and checked out his (or rather the Actor Jeremy Ratchford’s)  home page, I didn’t realize he was from Canada! The picture links are dead on the site (yeah I looked, I’m lame.)
I always end up blubbering at the end of almost every episode, I mean it’s hard not to as the person who you get to know in flashbacks is still, well, dead. I have Sean and Chris hooked now too, Tom’s been watching it with me (when he doesn’t have to get up at the crack of ridiculous for the morning show). There was one episode that ended up with a lynching that Sean and I saw, both of us were snuffly though I didn’t bother trying to hide it.

Seriously, if you don’t watch it yet go do it. Go. Tell me if I’m wrong. I’ll wait.
Speaking of Television all the shows are FINALLY going to be starting up again soon. Like I’ve said before, I get what they were trying to do and I was on their side I just MISSED the shows so much. Just in time cos we’ve gone through most of the DVDs we’ve wanted to watch. I did go out and buy Season one of Dexter on DVD which we’ve yet to watch. I bought it on the strength of the first watered down Network episode which intrigued me. Hoping it lives up to it’s potential.

I took Sean to the Orthodontist today and we got some good news; Sean only has to wear his elastics at night and it’s looking like one more check up appointment and then we can schedule the braces to be removed and the retainer would go on a day later. The doctor said that he would need to wear the retainer full time for a week, then only at night from then on.

I promised Sean that after we get his teeth cleaned at the dentist we would get him some of those Crest white strips and whiten those straight teeth up. He’s really excited about it. I seriously cannot wait to see what he will look like when all is said and done!

After we picked up Chris from work we dropped him and Sean off at their Father’s. Tom had a craving for Wendy’s so he suggested we go there for dinner. Like I’m gonna say no to Wendy’s! On the way I noticed a sign in a new development area that a Carl’s Jr is going up here. It’s no In-N-Out but it’s a start!

It was an evening for arguments there too, a couple gets into a fight after taking FOR.EVER. to order their food (the poor counter guy did a great job restraining the eye-rolls I’m sure he was dying for) They literally asked what Wendy’s served (Umm hello look up! Hey a menu!) and what everything cost. They had who I assume was their daughter with them, a very sweet faced girl who was visually impaired who just silently stood detached there while they fought. The woman especially would not stop bitching, something about him not using a coupon. Seriously my heart went out to that girl because man, to have a harpy like that as your Mom when you’ve already got enough to deal with? She harped at her Husband all the way to the car (and for quite some time in their car in the parking lot as we were sitting by the window they were in plain view).

Then there was the Manager who was REALLY rude to her Staff, in particular to a lady working the grill who filled the order of a guy who did NOT order fries but then insisted he did (the counter lady had gone goodness knows where). The lady didn’t take the order, she was reading what was on the order screen. The manager happens to overhear and says in a very harsh tone “GIVE HIM THE FRIES!!!” then follows the lady over to the fries station to bitch her out some more. I was saying to Tom I can’t STAND managers who yell at their Staff number one, but even more so in public… in FRONT of your Customers? I mean hello, does this woman not realize that these types of jobs are a wee bit hard to fill these days? All I see are help wanted ads. Best not yell at your Staff or maybe you’ll be workin’ the grill yourself there chickiepoo.

Well it turns out that the mystery fluid leak  from Freddy wasn’t such a mystery after all. I went to my local Mazda dealer and turned him over and a few minutes later the mechanic came out and told me that my after market oil filter was the cause of the leak, or rather that and the way it was installed from my last oil change. A pox on Jiffy Lube!! He told me that is the first thing they look at basically when a customer complains of leaks.

Well, lesson learned. No more Jiffy Lube for this girl. I mean the dealer doing the service isn’t any more expensive, just a tad less convenient but screw convenience if I have to worry about the quality of service. See they bought themselves a service customer now.

Another side benefit I guess from my trip to the dealer is there was a couple of recall items to deal with, one something to do with the “Automatic transmission oil pipe” whatever that is and they also did the door lock reinforcement (the M3’s were prone to break ins where someone could basically punch the door in certain place and unlock the car, nice eh?) that I got a notice about from Mazda Canada. They said in the notice that once parts were available they would notify me to book an appointment, so this saves me another trip so yay!

I have to say the service people there were fantastic. They had previously checked out my ABS light and reset the shifting for me so now it shifts like a dream and today they were efficient helpful and friendly. I didn’t even get scolded for using the JL. Oh yeah and they also washed my car (it was filthy!!!!). Score! I spent a while shooting the breeze with a very sweet sales guy. He had seen me checking out the paint sample book (as I LOVED a new colour they’ve just come out with and I was trying to figure out what it was called)  and he asked if I needed any help, when I explained why I was there we started chatting. He asked me about my car told me how great they were and how it should last me for years etc. He didn’t give me the high pressure sales pitches at all. I’ve been to dealers that were all over you whether you were there for service or not so I appreciated that. I wish all sales people would realize that it’s the EXPERIENCE that makes you buy from them along with price. I will and have walked away from sales people by how much the hound me.

I’ve been pretty impressed with Mazda right from the beginning when I started researching my car purchase back in 2004. I only had one bad experience with another dealer where the guy was being a slime trying to take advantage of me when I was doing some price quoting over the phone. The two dealers that were the straightest with me were the one over in Guildford mall called Freeway Mazda (where I got my service) and Wolfe Langley Mazda (where I bought the car). I would totally go back to either of them.

Gah! Since this morning I’ve had to listen to the sound from a carpet cleaning van. So much for a nice peaceful last day of vacation! I suppose I’ve gotten used to it, but seriously who still has carpet in this place? I swear most places have hardwood or laminate these days. The amount of time this van has been out there the entire until must be carpet and they must also be doing their furniture. Sigh I want my silence back!

I called the local Mazda dealer to book an appointment for Freddy McLeaky. I was hoping to get one today (fat chance!) but managed to get in for tomorrow. I booked it late enough that I can get a ride home from Tom (he will get home after that but I won’t have to wait too long) if they need to keep it longer than the one night. XXXXXing fingers it is either under warranty or cheap to fix! We’ve got a vacation to pay for dammit!

For lunch I made myself a tuna sandwich. Of course Nutmeg used his psychic powers and read my mind once again and was waiting for me when I turned around. He had been asleep in the other room and had, I guess, passed on the news to Cinny cos she had come with. They waited rather impatiently for their nosh.

Mamma!!! Give us Tuna!!!!

But ate it with gusto…

Spoiled!