Coincidences

There are some weird coincidences in my life. They aren't necessarily important or amazing -- just a little weird.

One of Amanda and my favourite graphic novel series in Scott Pilgrim, where the main female character's name is Ramona. It was after Amanda had borrowed the graphic novels from me that we first tried our favourite pizza place in Grande Prairie -- Ramona's Pizza.

The therapy dog that comes into the library for kids to read to has the same name as my family's dog from when I was in my preteen and teen years. Then the dog's handler had a friend bring in her newly trained therapy dog, whose name was the same as a dog my family had when I was a little kid.

There seem to be a lot of little, weird coincidences in my life, but when they all appear like that, it makes me think I'm *right* where I'm supposed to be in my life right now -- beside Amanda! :-D

Pizza and Mad Men

Amanda and I were talking about a week ago, and somehow the topic got onto Mad Men.  We're both fans of the show, and I've been watching it with Amanda when I'm in Grande Prairie with her.  I asked her about an episode she'd watched that I hadn't had a chance to yet, and she said that it was okay.  I modified a classic joke and asked "But Mad Men is like pizza, right?  Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good!"

Amanda agreed, and somehow we got to talking about which pizza toppings fit which Mad Men character.  We came up with the following list, and hopefully you'll find it as funny and revealing as we did!

Don - Pepperoni
    meaty and delicious

Peggy - banana peppers
    works well with pepperoni, but not to everyone's taste

Pete - cardboard box
    necessary, but annoying

Cooper - corn/mayonnaise
    Japanese (stereotypically) like them on pizza, but lots of people would find them odd

Lane - crust, upper crust at that

Joan - tomato sauce
    Red and saucy

Roger - lettuce
    not necessary except for a few special circumstances, and makes a mess of things easily

Caroline - mushrooms
    under-appreciated and quietly gets the job done

Harry - little plastic table that holds box top up
    only good for takeout, no good at home

Betty - pineapple
    blonde, juicy, not good with pepperoni

Megan - bacon
    good with pepperoni but can be a little much
    she's Canadian

Henry - chicken
    better with pineapple than pepperoni, but not by much
    more popular by itself than with pineapple

Sally/Bobby - ham
    stuck with pineapple by tradition, but are better with pepperoni