Monday, September 19, 2005

newt wins!

baby hoefer has been given a name.

Newt! courtesy of kenji, newt brings a bit of apple flavah, and it's nerdy enough for me to like it. whoot!

thanks kenj.

Sunday, September 18, 2005

eddie's in the lead

as far as names go. eddie's in the lead.

pineapple upsidedown cake cures hang over

i was a little worried that i had a hang over this morning.

wait. first of all, thanks to everyone that came over for dance party 2005 last night. :o) i had fun, and i even have pictures to prove it. lap dance anyone?

okay, so i was worried about having a hangover. then i had one of the two pieces of left over pineapple upsidedown cake. and it was what i needed. the second piece made me right. :o) thank goodness there was still a bit here, and thank jeebus, anghold remembered my request. phewsh.

so, apparently you can FIT three people into a queen sized bed, and they can still sleep. even if one is chubby, just make sure she's passed out... sleep/passed out/whatever. i woke up at some point in the night, thinking, jeesh becca, move over! but then i realised she couldn't because rachel was there too. why wasn't rachel in her own bed? because her friends were there. i swear i thought she was kidding when she said we could all sleep in my bed. but she wasn't... and you know that wouldn't fly if i was sober.

oh, and this was a great gift. i woke up, and no one was here... rachel and becca had soccer, and i can't remember what rachel's friends were doing, but the whole fricking house was clean. i just started the dishwasher, and vacuumed. other than the masses of food and booze, you'd never know there was a party here last night. i love my housemate! although last night when we were trying to sleep becca and i did not love her dishes noises. we were wrong.

tomorrow i'm going to try to go to hope (if danielle doesn't work) and we will get the roof rack for the guy that bought my car, and then we will go to sophie's with ian and possibly yvonne.

today i have work to do. after i have a nap.

get ordered

so, my room is pretty much in order. if i come back, i will buy shelves for the boxes of books that are crowding my closet. if i don't come back, i won't have wasted money of shelving that gets sold with the apartment.

sold my car today. whoot.

still no name for the baby. but there will be some people over tonight, and i'm confident we can think of something.

unpacked some boxes.

bought booze and junk food for tonight.

got asked for two pieces of i.d. at the liquor store. and once the guy saw the date on the first piece he told me not to bother with the other.

oh! and i used the granny cart today. twice. i wouldn't have been able to carry everything without it. i admit, it's breaking, and soon i won't be able to use it anymore, and i will miss it. oh grans. and only one person totally stared at me with it... this 40 year old dude in a ford escort. otherwise it was good times.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

stolen

i forgot.

i got a call from the bank asking me if i had used my credit card at a petro can in north york that day. i hadn't.

someone stole my card.

then i had to explain that they couldn't call me back at this number in eight weeks, once the investigation was over, because i wouldn't be here. and that i didn't know when i'd be back, and yeah, it'd be nice to have the visa card with me for my trip. no i don't have a phone number in europe that i can be reached at, and no, i don't have an address. yes, i can call TD collect from wherever i end up.

can you tell i'm procrastinating? more blogs to come, i'm sure.

panic attack over

phewsh.

i couldn't find the 2 catridges for the cd changer in my car, which is being sold today. they were still packed, and not in the box that i thought they were.

bad things:

• not knowing where your shit is, despite having moved 2 months ago
• starting to freak because you might disappoint the person who's getting a sweet deal on your car

good things:

• finding and organising some of that shit (although you should be buying food and booze for the people who are coming over to say goodbye tonight)
• stopping the freak out because you've found the cartridges and the valet key
• putting some of that shit away

the name game

some possibilities for baby hoefer:

edward, then i can call him eddie
bob
titus
platypus
zeus

these are not potential names for say, a human baby... so don't start freaking out that if i were to ever have kids, i would want one called platypus. although it is quite a cute word. :o)

Friday, September 16, 2005

work faster, play harder

i'm already lamenting the lost of a good friday night to work. but as i've said before, when you're semi-retired the actual days don't really matter. the weekend can be a monday if you like.

so, today i have to meet with two clients, get my hair done, and meet with guy about my car. tonight i will work on this one project for a sign and then maybe some web stuff. the dentist and having the counters done kind of threw me off yesterday. boo urns.

bi bim bop

last night was dinner at a korean restaurant with omar, leah, amira (their baby) and ian. it was an adventure. hopefully we'll be meeting up on tuesday for some catan, maybe some thai, and afterwards, some of the apple and peach pie my sister made for me.

ian also fixed something on my car, and i dropped off some stuff to danielle (who is losing it and didn't hear me knock or ring the doorbell). i would have liked to get some catan or some euchre in there, but i was exhausted, and my car getting fixed was more important. since, as of saturday i probably won't have a car anymore. i really need the tire pumped up on my bike.

oh, so i went to the dentist today. twice. i had to go back, because the first appointment ended up being fixing the chipped tooth, which you now cannot tell at all was chipped. the dentist even had trouble after, he, was like...oh, which tooth was it. and fixing some other issues. :o) don't not go to the dentist for 3 or 4 years. oh, maybe it's been longer... more like 5 now. eek. anyway, don't not go. my upper tooth wore out the filling on my lower tooth in that time, and so i even had to get that fixed today. anyway... he did say my wisdom teeth looked good. and that i don't need them taken out. and that my teeth are very nice... here's something funny though. as i was getting my teeth cleaned, the hygenist was like: do you use a whitening toothpaste? now, after getting all that stuff done, i was ummm... vulnerable... maybe even sensitive. :o) so i thought she meant that i should be! i was like: no, should i be? are they really bad? but she laughed at me. she thought that because my teeth were so white, and sensitive, that i had been using something. and the crazy dentist overheard this (he is a total nutbar, but very good and explains everything... he will in fact, talk your ear off... and i now know the light in his shed is connected to a switch in his house by an extension cord buried underground, well, you get the idea. pretty funny though.) so he rushed back into the room with a whole display of teeth in various colours... like a nail polish sample chart. anyway, he was like: no no! E1 (or whatever) is the whitest, and you're even whiter than that... here...grabbing a baby tooth sample and once again, making me look into the hand mirror. this is yours. this is your colour. you must have grown up somewhere with well water, or very good water. your teeth are very hard... and then he went on to tell me about flouride.

anyway, we talked about me leaving to go to ireland. and he actually knew that the floss sample he was giving me was made in ireland and imported through oshawa, or somewhere like that. he gave me extra samples to take to with me, because i said i was meeting up with my friend from ireland in niagara during the first portion of my trip. it was seriously funny. he will be my regular dentist if i come back to canada. i didn't get the famous person as a tooth demonstration, but he did pull out some stuff to make sure i knew what was going on.

oh, and i got a digital camera today. good times! danielle and i messed around with it tonight. before i got my ass brutally kicked at crib. well, maybe not brutally, but kicked all the same.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

baby comes home

today ursula welcomed home her new baby. currently baby hoefer, this little gem has his mommy's spunk and style, and of course great looks.

weighing in at 6.9 lbs and 17 inches, baby hoefer comes with all of the bells and whistles a momma could want.

YAHOO!!!

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

grrled out

i have a lot of things that i want to do before i leave. i could be gone for a long time, so it's best to be prepared.

there's been quite a bit of laughing about this with the guy who's buying my car. it seems everything i'm doing is really girly. i didn't tell him about the waxing next week, but i did tell him about shopping and getting my hair done. and because we're going to work around me being in vancouver on friday for my hair, i had to tell him the truth, that it would take at least 3 hours to do it. really, it will take closer to 4. but i was already really embarrassed. and had had to tell him to shut up. his girlfriend is probably some hippy who has dreads or something. and i'm more HM... in a cute way. HA HA HA!!!

today is work. and maybe a game of carca if anyone's online... :o)

just the good news, please

many many exciting things happened today. i will only speak of the good things.

danielle and i went shopping. i bought a cute short cordouroy jacket and two cute camisoles, one in a brown and one in a dark tourquoise. and we went to olive garden. oh, and we made lots of jokes about how to get a discount from the cute waiter.

i beat danielle at a game of crib and skunked her twice.

we got rachel's computer running, but i think the disc drive is broken... oops. that part's not good.

i got some work done.

now i get to go to bed.

Monday, September 12, 2005

you have a nice voice

today was demolition derby day for hope brigade days. i went because it could be my last time, and because danielle's brother was in it. it was fun to have someone to cheer on. at about 10 pm tonight, after a few phone calls and being chatty/cheery today my voice starting cracking.

this morning i sounded pretty rough too... the guy who wants to buy my car (part 2) thought i was still sleeping when he called... then i tried to explain that i lost my voice last week, and in the morning and evening it's a little selma-ish. i am certain he thought i was lying. i forgot to explain about bill and how i'm up by 7 with no choice.

i've always thought that i have a bit of a yuk or boring voice, but today, a girl from hope who i haven't seen in ten years came up to where we were sitting and was like, hi ian! and then she stared at me, and i was like, ursula. you know, to help her out. she said, i know! but i haven't seen you in 10 years! how are you doing... blah blah blah. then she said: you have a really nice voice. i joked that it looked like i was going to score. but then she said that she usually remembers voices, etc. and didn't remember mine being so nice... soft she even said. i think she needs her hearing checked, but whatever. anyway, she wanted to know where i was living and what i was doing, so i told her a bit about what i've been doing... okay, i told her: i moved from kits to white rock (she's friends with sue, who probably mentioned that i lived in vancouver) and then i said i'm going to europe in two weeks. then i explained that it was indefinite. honestly, it was three sentences. since i don't really care what she's up to, i didn't ask. i could have, but i don't think it's that awesome to pretend to be interested in what someone's doing if you're not.

anyway, her unsolicited comment went to my head. i now think i have a nice voice! mwah hah hah! nice enough to never shut up, that is!!! whoot!

Saturday, September 10, 2005

in two weeks

i will be on a plane to ottawa. i just realised that as i was emailing yvonne, trying to work out a time to hang out before i leave.

to quote myself: ohmygosh. don't stress.

*gosh*

i am ready to go to the gym. all i need is to put my gym shoes on. oh, they're in my car, i'll just go down to the garage. oh, no. ian has my car.

*gosh*

drinking put on hold

last night we didn't drink. too tired. but i did make a reservation for a train from kingston to toronto with kenji and plans to continue practising. you know, so i don't get drank under the table by every ontarian out there.

so i want to get waxed today, but i can't justify doing it when i'm leaving in two weeks and will just need to get waxed again then. is that lazy, or smart?

also on the menu today: pancakes when ian gets here, gym, making a dentist appointment, getting travel insurance, work on my room, and maybe go shopping. and having a super long hot shower... maybe with a deep conditioning treatment.

tomorrow is the demolition derby in hope. danielle, annemarie and i bought our buttons at the bank yesterday. you save $2 if you buy in advance. danielle's brother's in the derby so her whole family is going out for it. seriously, this is totally hick fun. and i'm embracing it.

right now... there's no tomorrow

driving home from the scurve i heard right here, right now. i really like that song. i know it's cliche, but fuck it, i'm in.

last night was night #2 for drinking at martin st.. good times were had. we recorded a new message on our voicemail and made people call to hear it. thank you for humouring me. it started out as one glass and ended up being three bottles. eek. at least there were three of us drinking. one bottle per person bsaically. rachel, as per usual, puked.

ohgosh. today was soooo crazy in hope. the guy that bought my mom's jeep was a total nutbar. unfortunately, the story does not relay via text very well.

a story that will? i got my windsheild fixed today. and they give you a rental from enterprise. d used to work there, and she was like, oh! if you get this one guy (she gave me a name, let's say Doug for the sake of the story) be mean to him because he used to say stuff like: oh, i just raped that customer. and i'm gonna rape her. i just bent that chick over. anyway, you get the idea. clearly not acceptable language. so, i was not mean, but i was cold. :o) it's a gift. turns out, after i returned the car and everything, she got two guys mixed up. turns out the guy that helped me was a super nice guy that she liked.

tomorrow i will not go to hope. i will go to the gym, work on my room, and basically chillax at home. good times kittens. good times.

Friday, September 09, 2005

impromtu

party at my house with ratch-hell and becks and ian. well, ian left early.

listen to our new phone message and love it. do it. lvooe it.

gosh. idiots. pow pow.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

move bitch

i'm off to hope. i can't believe i've got to do this, but i'm evicting people from one of our houses. they haven't paid rent on time since my mom died, and they haven't paid rent for september. i've basically had enough of this guy... he's totally tried to scam me the entire time i've had to deal with him. so now he must go.

update on my newest baby...
there weren't any in stock, so it's had to be made. it's going to be new-new. which is kind of exciting, but i did tell them i'm leaving in just over a week, because i don't want any more delays. i don't want my computer to have to catch up to me.

and, i thought i was losing my voice again this morning. hot shower and tea were prescribed by dr. beef stew. :o)

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

ease into it

it seems that with the school year returning, and fall looming, people are readjusting their school/work schedules, starting new jobs, and finishing up projects.

i leave for ontario (if i can clean up some loose ends) in two weeks and three days. i've decided that leaving on a saturday might be better for getting a ride to the airport and saying bye to my M-F working friends, which mostly they are.

there have certainly been a couple of bumps in my trip planning, and this last week a bunch more have popped up. some i will be able to ignore. others... no so much. in any case, i have three days to buy my ticket. once that's done, there's no going back. it means i get to do some shopping, get my hair did, do lots of packing and work on some forward looking...including the european leg of my trip... which will be longer than the time i spend in ontario...possibly permanent.

today i pick up my german passport, i'm gonna go to BCAA to get an international driver's license, and look into some travel insurance. i guess this is it.

it's weird, and i'm assuming it's like this for lots of people when they leave... but everytime i've left before, i've been really really excited about going. this time i'm more nervous than usual... when/if i come back, i'm sure things will be different. obviously i'm worried about my brother, and if i'm honest, my sisters, but that responsibility is kinda what i'm wanting to leave. maybe it's not as easy as i want it to be.

but maybe what i need to do is suck it up, and enjoy the ride. besides, i can always come back... unless rachel rents out my room while i'm gone... hmmm...maybe i should talk to her about that! ;o)

i hope my computer comes today. i'm not very patient with ordered stuff.