walk like an egyptian

today was fun. i was up early enough that sean didn't wake me when he called from the airport. we hung out here for a bit, and did some catching up. yay! then we met up with j.r. and boring nicole. we had brunch (sean was desperate for meat, so he had a burger). boring nicole was the same, and j.r. was as intense as ever. sometimes he gives me the heebie jeebies he's so intense.

then we walked around west 4th for a bit, and tried to get sean to buy a shirt that said kitsilano from lululemon. two reasons: one, advertisement. two, to remind him to move here.

after i dropped him off at the airport, i met up with lisa in little india. i bought some bangles. they are super cute. and i'm sure will be very popular at the store. then we talked about what my job will be at the store and stuff like that.

when i got home i talked on the phone for forever. and washed knickers, bras and a shirt (by hand, otherwise it wouldn't be worth commenting on). here's a question: how long is adequate to wash clothes by hand? do you have to soak everthing? how do you make sure knickers are clean? hopefully it's not like plastic bags, or ziplocs... we all know that my oprah info on germs in baggies crushed me. i'm starting to freak about whether my freshly washed items are clean enough! argh! luckily they're new... so it's really the next time i have to worry about. which gives me time to gather info.

hunting season

well, the house hunting as now officially started. yesterday we saw two places after work. neither place was special and the first place had a maintenence fee over $200. the hallways were boiling, so i'm guessing that that's why. anyway, nothing worth talking about from yesterday.

work was busy yesterday. but i got to see a few regulars. which is nice.

today my friend, sean is here (en route to toronto from inda, i think). so i get to visit! yahoo! i'm very very excited. we're going to go for breakkie... maybe at sophie's. then i'll have pancakes.

that means: time to shower!

did i just get back?

i feel like i've been back for forever, for ever ever. yesterday was spent in hope doing estate stuff. i just found out that because i'm the executor of my mom's estate, i'm also the executor of my dad's. this means i have to deal with more of my crazy brother's lawyer's letters. yay. make sure you have a will. even if your current estate is small, you should pick someone to get/distribute it.

anyway, earlier, i had breakkie with yvonne, and since i was full from that, i only had dessert at lunch with danielle and her parents. i also got to see danielle's wedding shoes. very cute shoes danielle. she's decided to start blogging again so i thought i'd include the link as a reminder.

then i came home (traffic was horrible) and had just enough time to chat on the phone for a few mins and watch wheel of fortune before i headed out for jessica's birthday. we went to zin (on robson). it was fun. twizzlers are awesome drinks. some people headed to yuk yuk's afterwards, but i decided home was the place for me.

today i work all day and then have two houses to see right after work. and then i'm going to grab some thai food with d. yay thai!

san fran or bust-2005

the details look like this:

sunday
rachel and ursula leave for san francisco. it's looking like a nice day. we learned two things at the border. 1.don't tell them that one of you does "nothing" for a living. 2.don't have a visa (let alone for both people) from india.

monday
slept in. tried to do some shopping in healdsburg. clearly it's not our kind of shopping. it's pretty "older white lady housewifey". but we did go for lunch at dry creek kitchen. rachel's meal: champagne, mini lobstertail to start. pan seared bass with pinot noir sauce and pinot noir wine. i had champagne, organic greens salad, hand-rolled gnocci with pesto sauce and pinot noir to drink. we shared blackberry-lemon triffle and baked alaska. it was a wicked meal. then we went to santa rosa to shop. we started at the crap mall... but that was good, cause we found wicked hair products for $1 each. then we went to "the big mall" and despite me doing way less shopping than rachel (i could barely move, because i slipped a disc) i bought 9 pairs of underwear, 2 bras, and a scarf. rachel bought 1 pair of underwear. then we went back to healdsburg and had dinner courtesy of aunt pattie. she showed us the receipt for having won $12 000 at the casino. we went back to wade's and crashed.

tuesday
did some wine tasting at rochambo and kendall-jackson and some free chocolate tasting too! oh, and i bought 12 bottles. on our way to san fran as we drove across the golden gate, there was traffic stopped in both directions and EMTs and police etc. we asked at the toll why, and she said, very casually that there was probably a jumper. anyway. first stop: skechers store. this was a big thing for me. 1. i love skechers, 2. lately i haven't been loving shoes. word on the street: shoes are back in!!! when we walked in, the guy was like: oh, did you get a coupon? nope! so he gave wade and me one each, and wade scratched 40% off! oh yeah! i'd like to extend a warm welcome to the 5 pairs of shoes that i purchased. i wish i could be welcoming the cute pink kate spade bag!!! dinner was at langley's in windsor. obviously we had a bottle of bubbley to start... i mean come on... it's wade latest thing. wade's meal: butter lettuce salad, and mushroom ravioli. rachel had butter lettuce salad and i had romaine hearts salad and we shared an eggplant dish with cheese etc. gorgeous. too full for dessert. if you can believe it. we did get a free roasted red pepper and mushroom soup and muffins to take with us. it was the chef's first day there. then we went back to wade's after picking up Chef T'ai (the pastry chef at dry creek) and had more wine and and chocolate before dying for the night.

wednesday
drove back. stopped at the hanes outlet store and rachel bought 2 bras.

phrases to remember from this trip with wade:
well, i am jewish you know
low-rent
i don't eat pork
just wait until i break out into yiddish
i got my sister that bag for christmas, i mean hannukah
i'm all like... and then she's all like...

on the way back, we were sure we were going to get stripped searched... and have to pay a tonne of duty, especially on the booze. instead, it turns out the guy is related to a friend of rachel's from naturopathic school. the same friend whose birthday was two days ago. no strip search, no duty. sa-weet.

all-in-all a great trip. with all this wine (did i mention the 50% off grower's discount we got?) i'm going to have to plan a wine and cheese. yahoo!

i'm baaaack

whoo hoo! home safe and sound. details of the trip will follow. but for now i'm soooo tired and have to work tomorrow, so it's off to bed (with dreams of swigging beers at a canucks game). oh trev.

hello healdsburg!

so far, so good. don't worry, details will follow. :o) rachel and i made it here in record time. 13.5 hrs, including stops. we've already stuffed ourselves with wine, champagne and shopping.

i feel like i should check in with someone... so i'm checking in with my readers.

this just in

hockey may be back. can you believe it? this could be an awesome day afterall!

if you're going to san francisco...

oh, that reminds me. i should find those flower clips for my hair... hmmm... maybe a little too summery. i should think about it.

in 24 hrs, or slightly more, depending on when we decide to leave, rachel and i will be on our way to california. it's a bit of a spur of the moment kind of thing. we decided a couple of days ago that we would head down. and now we are.

the trip will hopefully involve lots of wine, food, and good times. maybe even a day at the spa... which i will look into shortly. we're going to stay at wade's, but for sure visit with pattie. maybe even go gambling. we're only there 'til wednesday. AND i'm working on thursday, so we really do need to get back at a decent hour. hopefully i'm only working for three hours that day. the rest can be spent resting. in bed.

danielle came over yesterday. we played crib, and i won a massage. which is a really good thing, cause my back is killing me. we talked about boys and she read my tarot cards. we also watched some CBC comedy. totally wicked, cause that funny sean guy was on both shows. i think we both have crushes on him. but d didn't like the shirt he was wearing last night. i did. she decided to leave early (good thing we only had one glass of wine) because i needed to get up early this morning. which i did.

today is working, getting travel insurance, dropping stuff off at the cancer clinic and packing.

work less

my telephone meeting was cancelled. now i don't have to work today. maybe i can do stuff around the house, to make it more sellable. or i can just hang out! yahoo!

wedding belles

since danielle found the dress we liked for me (at her wedding) cheaper at a store in chilliwack, yesterday was measurements and ordering/down payment. this time i got a swatch or the material (eggplant) and can now being the search for sparkly silver shoes. the ladies at the shop are crazy. and the owner/manager *had* to show me these great shoes that they may or may not still have in size 10. they were hideous. mostly plastic, with some silver sparkly stuff. in any case my response: umm, i think with the plastic, it might get a little hot. since i have sensitive skin, i need to avoid this. i also told her i already have some in mind.

i went out for lunch and dinner yesterday. i got pancakes at sophie's... thanks greg. i wanted them so bad! yahoo! and then we went to drexoll. i had no idea that there were so many little figurine things to get for D&D. but that would be because i know nothing about the devil's game.

today i have work to do. that lady had better call me soon! i want to get her logo done by tomorrow, cause it's just draggin way too long.

on that note... no more blogs. just work. until 10.30 at least!

i love the smell of vinyl in the morning

today i got two bits of mail. one in my mail box, and one under my door!

that's right folks, i got "thin mail". but it was wide enough to not fit in my mail box. what was it? da da da... it was a 45 from pearl jam. now i must open it. oooh, are you excited? me too! it's the annual christmas album, and it's a cover of the jackson 5ive's someday at christmas. wick-ed.

also today, i worked at the store. i saw lots of regulars, and charmed my way into the hearts of a few. :o) all in all, a decent day. oh, except for hockey being officially cancelled. that part totally sucked.

huge/iJames

oh! and i found out today that iJames (aka Huge) has a blog. it's got some pics of his wicked pottery. i've added him to my superjob section.

v-day

valentine's day has always been a bit of a weird day for me. i guess so has christmas. not hallowe'en though... i TOTALLY get that one. yesterday was spent with friends, doing friend stuff, and having friend fun. that means, despite not seeing the vagina monologues, which i like to do on v-day, i had a great day.

this v-day, i got flowers from a boy, which was extra nice, cause my mom used to send me flowers so i would have really missed them. oh, and i got a valentine's day card from ireland... created just for me. i'm convinced, with love. i also got to witness james ask yvonne to be his valentine. this was a really special and moving moment, until anghold called him on it, and said that he had already asked her. i believe there was a big scrap about it, until greg jumped in and yelled (yes, greg was yelling all over the place) at them to forget james, and love each other. then yvonne, anghold and i went for pedicures and sent the boys away to do boy things.

pedicures were fun. a very new thing for anghold and yvonne. we all got "nail art". and talked about boys, trips to vegas, and other girly girl stuff. yay! we liked one lady more than the other. she had this wicked tattoo of a lady with an umbrella of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades. and she was laughing with us. maybe we should have asked to get her number. she could be our new friend.

i dropped yvonne and anghold off after that and then was going to get some sherbert. turns out i was too tired. i went home, was going to have perogies for dinner, but only had three left in the freezer. watched the news, and a special on how chocolate beans are collected by child-slave labour, and went to bed. without watching wheel of fortune OR jeopardy. crazy? yes. tired? yes-er.

settle ment

tonight i had wicked indian at rachel's and (obviously) wicked desserts as well. thanks rachel and angela! whoo hoo!

also this evening, was settlers of catan. there were some new people to the game, so we played as teams. cutting to the chase, the german team (mark and me) won. it may be true that we had an edge... but caleb said his dad spent three or four years in germany, doing his degree. so, despite being chinese, he does have a german connection. in any case, there were no prisoners, only casualties (which brings us to my american side).

i did some work today too.

hurting hands

i just got the bracelet off. now my hand hurts. lucky i drank first. ouch. that's gonna smart.

also exciting, today i won a massage and dinner... best of 3 at crib. saweet. heh heh! maybe the joke's on me. i'm extra full now... first sophie's then janet and yvonne's birthdays. eek.

sooo sleepy

last night i was up late. and today i was up early. so now, i'm sleepy.

i saw hitch last night. it was cute. funny. sweet. it wouldn't be in my top 10 movies, but it was nice. and so is will smith. but boy meets then loses then gets girl is hard to do very well... at least this had funny bits.

this morning was yvonne's birthday brunch. so tasty. some of us ended up playing some trivial pursuit. but weren't really very good at it. it was the genus edition. the old one. eek. we didn't actually finish it, but i had to jet to work on the cake. and it's gonna be saweet. heh heh.

time for sleep.

make-over make-over!

today i worked at the store for a bit. then it was time for make-over make-over! with yvonne. we went to holt's (we got her an appointment with the ever fabulous Tina) and had fun! yvonne looked so hot! *happy birthday yvonne* and she picked up a few items. then Tina was like, are you getting a make-over too? heck ya!!! i got some stuff too. :oD like this really nice "peach glow" blush. so cute on yvonne and me! i adore the little mini bottles of toner and moisturiser. i even got a baby bar of soap (the one i use... otherwise it would be useless). so fun!

we also stopped at old navy, and i bought the cutest pink and green shirt that will match my latest zippy top perfectly. yahoo. i also saw some socks that someone i know will like, so i may pick them up. and a similar pair for me too!

then i baked a cake. the icing has to come tomorrow because i have no more vanilla. ooops. it's better to ice cold anyway. i haven't decided if i'm going to cut it in half and ice in the middle. it might be too intense.

i've found a cute house. well, condo. it's at tugboat landing. i'll go and see it next week probably. i've got to sell my place first. otherwise i can't afford it. :o( it has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and two parking spots. yahoo! although, i totally doubt that parking down there is very hard.

i'm not in a mad rush to move. i hate it. i'm considering movers. but i guess that depends on what i sell my place for.

tonight i'm supposed to go and see hitch with rachel. danielle bailed (to go house hunting). i hope she finds something. she needs out. eek. i'm f'ing tired. i could probably go to bed right now.

i'm still wearing the bracelet.

this may require an emergency trip to rona

yesterday i met up with my sister in the coq. i had to sign some papers for her, and give her some info. we met up at ikea, and instead of waiting in the car for her (she's always late. later than me) i went inside to check on my sheets, and buy some legs for my chair. please recall a few weeks ago, the horrible trip yvonne and i had there. anyway. still no adorable duvet cover, so i got a white one, and a new fitted sheets and pillow cases. anyway. we decided to go for lunch, and my sister told me she's having a jewelry party. i couldn't even pretend excitement. so she said she got me a bracelet just like the one she was wearing. i couldn't get it on my left hand. but i was successful with the right. and it's just the hand part that's tight, and caused bruising, it fits over my writst fine. oh wait, it's also getting it off that's a problem. as in, i can't. so, once it starts to bug me, and make me feel caged, i will have to go to the home depot or rona and get it cut off.

my wash machine is broken. luckily i bought the extended warranty, i called about 15 mins. ago, and the guy will be here within 1/2 hr. that's fast! so i guess if i'm gonna move stuff off the wash machine, now would be the time. at least i'm dressed. unshowered, but dressed.

by the power of greyskull!

whoo hoo! back in bizness.

power's on. and so are plans to make a cake for the joint birthday! just as i went into my room to try to move the fuzzy green chair in there, i automatically turned my light on, and then heard the big click of the building's power coming back. very exciting. i wonder if i can finally put away all of the candles i have in weird places like the bathroom? maybe the power thing has finally been really really fixed. that would be wick-ed.

janet dropped off yarn from rosemary, and got to tour the halls of my building by flashlight. and watch me start to build my new and fabulous green chair (whose legs i just picked up from ikea). i looked for those wicked sheets at the coquitlam ikea and they don't have them either. now i will check the website... without expectation.

anyway, i *do* have actual work to do. so i think i'll get to it.

no power for you!

starting in about 15 mins (i'd better get my car out of the garage) it will be an internet free and powerless day. the power is being shut off in my building until about 5.

maybe i'll sneak internet at the store.

:o)

you need help

today i went to hope. i realised driving there, that i have a lot of anxiety associated with that place. anyway, i went to my doctor, and i had no intention of telling her anything except that i'm having trouble sleeping. but she's so nice, and i'm vulnerable. so i told her the truth. and now i have to see a counsellor. (i think i hear certain people cheering in the background).

anyway. i really missed my mom today. so it was a crappy feeling day. all i can think about is having 5 more minutes, just to make sure she knows how much i love her. because i'm a little bit worried about that. so, as the only advice i can give, i would suggest that you call your parents and tell them that you love them, and make sure they say that they know. just in case. because i told my mom i love her, but she never said that she knew that.

mail obsessed

sometimes i am such a dork!

i have not left the house today, except to do recycling (x 1) and check mail (x 3). stu isn't delivering the mail here right now... i imagine one of two scenerios:

1. he's on vacation
2. they switch things around once in a while so that the carriers don't get bored

so the stupid mail doesn't come at the expected time of 11am. i can't figure out when it gets here yet...but it's late. like in the afternoon or something.

there's a woman that delivers mail that lives in my building. i think i should quiz her about what's going on.

i'ma da besta

yesterday i watched a bit of the football game (which i didn't think was all that exciting) and decided to sleep during the half time show, so that i would be awake for mario party.

i hate peach. she is way to smug. so, for the record, we're going to say that mario won. the computer can't *really* win! yoshi was just adorable. and warluigi, or sour grapes, whatever his strawberry shortcake name is, was just bitter (i've decided it's because he's too skinny... have some cake, sour grapes and relax).

i also got to talk to sarah yesterday. that was fun. i do wish she'd move here. she's trying to convince yvonne and me to go to toronto for a visit, and we're trying to get her to visit us here. it's a battle. but maybe this year i'll visit ontario. it's been a while, afterall.

ugh, i'm still bloated and grumpy, so i think i'm just going to stay home, and keep working today. especially because the power's out at my house on wednesday, so i won't be able to get any work done.

wedding start

today i saw danielle in her wedding dress. it is very simple and pretty. she looked so grown up. i also tried on a dress today. of the bridesmaid variety. it was also very nice. a great colour and very cute with a bow. we will look at some other places, but we have to decide quickly because the dress takes like 3 months to get in. wtf, i know.

we also went to the mall, and i found nothing to buy, so it was a bit of a big day. and we went out for lunch at red robin, without cheesey sticks, so i'm gonna have to say it was an extra big day. i did have an orange shake, cause i was imagining the ones at sophie's. but the one at rr's was gross. so i really don't feel like i had a shake, which is probably a good thing, cause they make me feel kinda sick.

now, we play cards. i hope to win. this is a great opportunity to kill my losing streak.

ooooh chanel

busy day today. did some work, took out the garbage, went shopping with turi, bought chanel body lotion.... oh baby! met up with my sisters, had dinner with lisa, and am going to hang out with rachel after she gets in from hell's kitchen (i opted out). please do not confuse this with the convent that kenji is at, they are totally different places.

turi also gave me a lead on wicked mascara, and a tip about using the body lotions... which in the past i have felt were too concentrated. if you mix it with cheaper moisturiser (don't tell the ladies at chanel this) then it's more subtle and goes further. yahoo!

tomorrow is wedding dress fitting with danielle, and maybe more shopping. i think i've been shopping a lot this past month. more so than ever before even. maybe i'm just testing the truthfulness of shopping therapy. huh. whatever.

lesbian porn, please

yesterday was interesting. i worked with lola, who was trying to make-out with me all day by whispering sweet nothings like, "i want to check out your hard drive". pervy lola.

also interesting was going to little sisters and then to a sex shop on granville with my sister. oh, and her husband. looking for some girl-on-girl dvd action. i've been to a million sex shops. and i've been with friends. but it was weird to go with my sister.

lunch was at sophie's with lola. where we got to make fun of the new drawing by a small child. which is one of our favourite things. dinner was at las margaritas. both delicious.

and then rice krispie square making and crib playing at anghold's.

today was work. and lots of cribbage losses.

it was a bit of a weird day actually. when i woke up, all i could think of was going back to bed. it was gross and dark out. the perfect kind of day to do nothing.

my appointment

*the following contains words such as pap and sex*

yesterday after doing some work, with lola, and lots of emailing, i went to my doctor's appointment at the women's clinic at VGH. vera told me a while ago about getting cheap birth control through planned parenthood. and she's right! $36 for 3 months instead of $80+. but you have to have this initial appointment and talk to a volunteer and then the doctor. luckily i've had a pap within the last year so i didn't have to have one last night and because the video room was already being used, i got to skip that!

anyway. this is what happens when you start a new clinic: you have to lie on your form so you don't seem quite so slutty, and you have to discuss your family history. the family history part was horrible. i cried, because there's a section about breast cancer, and then the volunteer asked me if my dad was still around. i'm never changing doctors again.

now for the lie: the best part is that it wasn't even very good, because i didn't want to lie. i mean, if you're going to lie about something, at least make it good, right? did i lie about my number of previous partners? no. did i lie about birth control methods? no. what did i do? instead of saying that i'd been with my "current partner" for a year, or something equally non-slutty, i decide to stretch the truth to say a month! *lmao* seriously, this is where my dorkiness comes in. of all the places to lie, a women's clinic. i'm gonna guess all of the doctors and volunteers are feminists and wouldn't care between a couple of weeks and a month. i blame the media. bastards.

so immediately afterwards, i went to yvonne's, and confessed. sometimes i feel really catholic. she consoled me and we went to denny's. decaf for her, pancakes for me.

good times

yesterday was fun. yay!

i went shopping with greg. he got the cutest brown sweater from old navy, and a green shirt from lululemon. less exciting, i got some hand and face towels from sears, and soap from clinique. but i did get an orange julius smoothie fix. yahoo!

then i went out for dinner to aqua riva with ian, yvonne, and jan(et). yes, yvonne said no more eating out for her for the week, but it became her birthday dinner from me, so it wasn't *really* eating out. we're starting to celebrate early, just in case there aren't many birthdays in between hers and anghold's. anyway: so fun. ate way too much bread, so i couldn't finish my meal. and felt gauche doing take-away but not enough to not do it, clearly. they have awesome sunburst martinis there, that are nothing like the ones at woodenheads in k-town, which is what provoked me to get one. but that's totally fine, cause these are soooo tasty. whoo hoo.

then came home after we dropped everyone off, and i basically passed out. which could be why my back hurts. i don't think i slept properly.

today's menu involves a lot of work, and hair-straightening. i'm getting quite long hair now. not as long as girl at sophie's. but it's getting there.