Cooking Curry and the Whole Nine Yards

This evening, I cooked curry with the fixings that I had brought back to Canada with me from England. We as a family had never cooked proper curry before. I mean no offense to my mother's tuna curry (which isn't all that bad), but that itsn't "true" curry by any means! I even went the extra distance and made homemade naan bread, and tarka dhal. And thanks to the ethnic food section in Superstore (our equilivent to sainsbury's, but only massively bigger), I was able to find a great selection of curry stuff for future use, but for the time being I found Pataks Mango Chutney, and I found Pappadams (or however you spell it). Anyways, the tarka dhal was extremely time consuming, but it was worth the effort. Overall, the kitchen was a complete mess, but the meal was great. My family enjoyed it, and the best part was that because I did the cooking, I did not have to do the washing up! I did confuse my mom several times during the afternoon though due to several things that i referred to in british terms. One of them being dinner (commonly called lunch here instead of the evening meal) and i was explaining about what needed to be done with the grill (which is called the broiler over here, but i could only think of the word grill). My dad complimented me on the meal and then looked at me and said "It made you homesick didn't it? or England sick at least." That comment almost made me cry and I could only nod my head in agreement to him. It's been encouraging for me at least that people are recognising the fact that Luton feels like home for me and are begining to understand that as well.
After dinner this evening, we watched the movie Mystic River.....is it ever a screwed up movie, but really not that bad overall.....for a Sean Penn movie that is. Clint Eastwood was the director and he is even credited with doing the music. Who knew that he was so talented? Actually, anyone know that he was in a musical movie? The movie is called Paint Your Wagon and is absolutely hilarious because you don't expect to see Clint Eastwood singing. It's worth seeing just to laugh at it. We rented Love Actually because no one else in my family has seen it, so that is tomorrow night's feature.
Tomorrow, our women's highschool ice hockey team plays in a play off semifinal here in caronport. I was planning on going, but then I found out that a certain ex-boyfriend of mine may very well be officiating the game. However, nothing is final yet. Question: Do I go to the game and take the risk of running into him for the first time in a long time, or do I avoid the ice rink tomorrow completely? I think I may go because he may actually not even be there, it's just the rumor that he may be there. I'll let you know what I end up doing.
Karen, I am really sorry about your back. Believe me, I wish I could come back right now! The sports therapy people though really are not that scary and are trained to help you. Hope it feels better soon mate!
Well, it is almost 11pm my time which is almost 5am England time. My system is still a little on the confused side still, but this is the latest I have been up since I have gotten back to Canada, so I must be starting to adjust to things. However, I am feeling pretty nackered right now, so I think my bed is calling me pretty soon. Hope everyone has a great weekend and for the England people, I hope you have a great Mother's Day. North America's mother's day isn't until May. Lots of love to all!