presently speaking

tomorrow there are a bunch of businesses that are donating 10% of their sales to loving spoonful. so, come to my store and buy something from me. :o)

speaking of presents, today ang and i got dalia's birthday present. yay! and we had mexican. dalia's present rocks. i won't give spoilers... but i will say it's hot!

oh, in the mail i got a coupon for a free satay at glowbal. that's exciting. it was with a thank you card from our server.

i also ended my pedicure from yvonne's birthday. the cute blue paint is gone. i will look for pink next.

yesterday i bought season six, part 2 of sex and the city. this means there's going to have to be a bit of a marathon soon. well. maybe i'll wait until after i sell my place... or it can be a housewarming thing. and that would be good times. oh mr.big, it's been too long.

okay, bed.

home for some work

phew. it's been a long day!

now i'm home i can turn on the tv... oh shit, i forgot my new DVD in the car. grr. anyway, turn on the tv and price jewelry. eeek.

saw two houses today. one was nice, the other wasn't. the one that was good went up $4K. so, probably next week or the week after, i'm going to sell my house, and hopefully find somewhere to live before the completion date.

i will miss kits. probably mostly the shopping. and the trendy fun places to eat and drink. maybe i can just buy a huge tv and have it display video of w4th. ha ha. that would be wicked. besides, i'll probably still work here for a while.

quickie

yay! i just got an email from rachel. she's in korea teaching english.

today is a work and then go to hope day. ugh. i just want to sleep in. i had trouble sleeping last night. but tonight, whatever time i'm tired, after i see some houses, i will go to bed.

i'm sure something more exciting will happen later... if not, i will finally blog about the pizza guy on commercial drive from last week.

zombie jesus day and lavalife

today was making dinner day. it turned out alright. yvonne kept me company and we decided that i should make a lavalife profile. so we did. i don't know that i'm going to keep it up any longer. but i guess we'll see. it was already boring me after 3 minutes.

thanks to jc and kimla who came over and brought flowers and treats. and i.q.2000, of course! thanks to yvonne for her help, both in the kitchen and on the computer.

oh, and p.s. my tummy did get cured!

self-healing

so, i'm convinced i have something going wrong in my tummy/intestines. i hopefully have fixed it by taking metamusil last night. the first time i took it was in university. my prof told me about it because her sister was a rules girl and in that community girls were taking it for clearer skin. which kind of relates to why i took it. we were hoping it would clear up my eczema.

anyway, i like to keep it around, even if it seems like it's for old people. it's cleansing.

p.s. Dr.iJeffy: it's not 'rhoids, i looked.

on that note, i'm going to tidy up and get things rolling for dinner.

threesies

as much as i believe that bad things happen in threes, i also think that so do good things. for example, i am hoping that i can have three amazing dinners in a row.

last night yvonne and i were going to go for something light and vegetable based, oh and cheap... at least that's how i think it started out. then we ended up at glowbal downtown. oh god. so good. we had to have champagne despite my upset stomach for the past four days. i enjoy going to restaurants where you don't have to ask for more water, or as in our case, we didn't have to fill up our own glasses with the bottle of still water. then again, if you're paying for water at a restaurant, you shouldn't have to fill it up yourself, bottle on the table or not. yvonne had ahi tuna, i had risotto. started with salad, finished with triple creme brulee.

tonight, i went to the stewart house for dinner. (rach, you may want to skip this part). as usual, totally delicious. i'm soooo full. it was a slightly smaller crowd than usual, so i got more leftovers to take home! i'm going to copy angela's yams for tomorrow. people should experience them. it'll be great with the tofurkey. stuffing, parsnips, salad, turkey, lamb, taters, i'm sure i'm missing stuff, in any case, there was no shortage of selection. yum.

tomorrow is dinner here. i will make apple pie-cake, mashed taters, amazing yams (i hope), tofurkey, salad, and lots of stuffin'. yahoo. so, here's hoping great dinners can also happen in threes. otherwise i'm scared for tomorrow!

i played mario party with yvonne yesterday. yoshi, the green machine, tied with mario, the latin lover. today princess daisy (controlled by danielle) came out on top. but at least peaches was crushed in both games!!! danielle made a good point today... she said that she thinks peaches is programmed to be a bitch on my game because she's not as bad on her nintendo. perhaps one day i will play mario at danielle's. i will, of course, report back.

i'm da weiner!

last night was janet's cosmic bowling going-away-to-japan party. it was fun. not quite as cosmic as other places. but you could drink at this one. i was driving, so i didn't. but others did, and i can certainly appreciate the appeal of bowling and drinking.

f those balls are heavy. totally brutal. many of us will have sore hands, finger, or/wrists today. this blog will be short.

i got 98. which involved one strike. a very exciting moment.

then yvonne and i went to visit anghold, who is now back in the coq. everyone is sad that she's back. east van was way more fun. but i guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.

off to work.

it's over

d & yvonne... i told you this was coming... like a month ago! now it's over. just as a head's up. don't worry, i'll be fine. i'm sure. it's just another bump. and besides, i've learned loads of lessons. maybe i'll list them sometime. clearly one is go with gut.

to everyone else: i'm going to try to come home early from work today. i don't feel like being there. besides, there are yams to buy and a menu to plan. if you're looking to hang out, drink some wine, play some mario... i just might be your girl.

comments

i check my comments all the time. but i'm just seeing new ones. i went back to read old comments, and found tonnes. sorry, i'm a terrible person. but i promise to get better.

i don't feel so good

emotionally. physically. it's going to be a long day.

taxi driver

so, i ended up having a bit of a free day today. i've been working hard (despite the number of blogs yesterday) to score myself a mostly no work day. i finally got dressed and decided to get the bloodwork and x-rays ordered by the skin specialist. oh and p.s. the x-ray technician kinda gave me a weird look when i told him what it was for. he was like, uh, no injury?

anyway, i also had a couple of prescriptions to fill, so i walked over to LD and got them (and a bunch of exciting cleaning products) and decided to cab it home. i didn't drive there, because sometimes after giving blood i want to pass out, and it was approaching 3, which equals no parking.

there were no cabs coming, so i walked down the street a bit, and shortly my knight in yellow armour came by. not even a block later... in fact, on the other end of the block, he pulled over and asked if i'm in a hurry. well, i guess not (please see above... i had tonnes of time today) so he asks if it's okay if he quickly deposits a cheque. since we were outside a bank of montreal, i knew it wouldn't be quick... but assumed he meant through the bank machine. 7 mins later, i called yvonne... we talked for 4 mins. she said if he's not back in 1/2 hour to call her back. she would save me. i said the car was running and it's an automatic, so she could. :o) finally he came out, and i got home. i was kinda hoping for a discount. instead he almost dropped me off on the wrong street. but he was very nice and in the know about indian singers and actresses. and despite being from bangledesh, he can understand hindi music.

CSI Vancouver

i hope i didn't just waste a good title. i think at this time, i would like to reserve the right to reuse this title in the instance that i am somehow involved in a crime in vancouver.

i got an email from nick stokes today. i guess he *is* real. i haven't read it yet... i'll save that one for a rainy day. i just thought it was so funny. that spam is being sent out with names that rely on people saying, huh, that sounds familiar. it just might work sometime.

*blush*

okay, so clearly i've been doing a tonne of work at my computer today. why else would i be tempted to blog a million times in one day... and about stuff that didn't really happen today. most of it was stuff i had meant to blog about, or should have blogged about before but didn't.

on that note:
yesterday i chilled with jan. *heh heh* we went to a diner that i had never been too. i forgot to order my eggs poached hard (the veggie burger has mushrooms there, so i had to default to delicious breakkie). other than that (they were not 100% runny) things were good. good fries. good company. later, there was dessert. from dairy queen. and mario partying. it was my first time hanging out with just janet. it was a good first.

now that i'm done work for the day, and have found one house to see (it's a townhouse in the burn) i will retire... as in to my bed (once i fold my laundry) and after a shower. i feel gross.

middle-child syndrome

i have admitted it in the past, and i will do so again. cause it came up today... and now that i think about it...the other day at anghold/dalia's.

as a middle child with badly behaved siblings, and the much desired boy being younger than me, and therefore taking away my youngest child standing, i have always wanted more attention than i was able to get from my over-worked mother and absent father. i stood out by being good, getting good grades, and doing what i was told. i remember my mom having to go to see my sisters' teachers because they had to talk about behaviour issues et cetera. i would beg my mom to make appointments with mine too, although it was never requested. at least those days weren't all bad news for her! *laugh* i thought it was about interest. and i didn't want to be forgotten. like the time i scared her when i came out of my bedroom from playing, because she'd forgotten that i was even home.

i still really want attention. i'm greedy for it. and i like that my friends are good about giving it to me. in fact, i rarely have to ask. :o) fee-üsh.

resident parking only

it's been a wonky day. so i've been listening to old U2.

did some work. bought some bread. had a mashed potato. watched oprah. bought a parking pass. when i looked at my watch at 1.15, i was like: damn, it's so early! i just looked at my watch, and was surprised that it's after 6. oops.

i meant to get the ordered x-rays on my hands, and the corresponding bloodwork today. but i never got around to it. and since that doctor messed around with my hands they've been killing me. quack. he's only the most requested specialist in b.c. but that doesn't really matter. he didn't have to make my hands hurt.

speaking of doctors. i had this weird feeling the bank might mention the doctor thing to me the other day at the bank, so i was like: okay, get your story straight. then! the teller was like, what kind of doctor are you... so i said i wasn't an MD that i just had my PhD in communications. *laugh* i totally pulled it off. :oD heh heh.

oh, and at the bank i saw leather man outside, talking to the security guard. i first spotted leather man a few years ago, when i was going to graphic design school downtown. then i saw him the very next day. but hadn't seen him in a while. so i thought he was a tourist (it's hard to get away with a leather hats, full-length jacket, pants and boots in rainy vancouver). actually, i'm certain his shirt was also leather. anyway. there he was! wearing head-to-toe leather. in kits! i was a little surprised, but kind of happy to see him. still wearing leather. i wouldn't be able to recognise him otherwise. also, why isn't he at work (i always see him in the afternoon) and where does he live? is he allergic to cotton? i should ask.

snip snip

seeing yvonne's cute short hair with fun colours makes me long for the days of old when i had cute short hair in fun colours. since this was in k-town and k-town equals curry, these things could be related. maybe i think that i will find wicked dansak if i cut my hair short and bleach it twice to get it truly white-blonde. hmmm... this is tempting. also, i can ponder this now, to my heart's content because danielle is in disneyland right now. i don't think she'd be interested in me having weird hair for her wedding. heh heh heh!!!

yeah, me too

sitting around yvonne's house, eating cookies, gelati and chips, having great girl talk, it was agreed upon that the best three words to hear are, "yeah, me too". the simplicity, and naturalness and confirmation that you're not alone in what you're thinking or feeling, are magic. it truly is the little things.

as many of you know, this has been quite the time of transition for me, emotionally and mentally. i'm getting used to sharing, and trying to open up. so, continue to bear with me, my uncomfortableness with it and the inevitable guilt that comes with that. i've been told it will pay off in the end. i just hope i don't lose my ante in the gamble.

the king indeed

that was an f'ing awesome concert. b.b.king is so amazing.

afterwards, lauren and i went to the royal to see some of her friends perform. they totally brought me back to uni days. i was thinking a more mature matt barber, and better song writer.

i guess yesterday was a day for song.

now that i've dropped jo and d off at the airport (they're on their way to disneyland) i'm going to go back to bed. should i do work today? probably. will i? probably not. i guess we'll see.

off to b.b.

tonight is b.b.king. ian bailed on me. but lauren picked up the slack. yay! it's very exciting. i've been drinking, so i have to take a taxi down to the orpheum. d and jordy are here...i'm driving them to the airport so they can go to disneyland tomorrow. we went to sophie's for dinner.

today was a pretty rough day. i had a staff meeting bright and early, then i was off to hope. i stopped at my mom and my favourite restaurant for breakkie and to write something for patty's memorial. it turned out all right.

i may be getting better at this. at least i spoke at patty's. it was pretty hard though. cause she was such close friends with my mom. and it brought up a lot of memories.

anyway. maybe bono will be at the concert tonight. that would be wicked.

thank you, r. lovejoy

ji ji! i keep missing you online. so, instead, i will write this public note of thanks. thank you for your continued indulgence to me of all things law & order and CSI. this could also be why i keep missing you. stu dropped them off (to my door, of course) and i've had a numb bum since... well, except for when i've been at work. in any case. thank you thank you thank you.

i want to watch an episode before i go to bed, so here's a quick summary of today:

had a sore throat yesterday, so took nyquil before bed. slept in.

did work. went shopping. bought a bag and a wallet. (i could be doing drugs... things could be worse... and i'm not buying anymore furlas until the new colours come out... or until the sale in june). had lunch, couldn't find silver shoes for d's wedding. explored but didn't buy anything at the new kiel's. still couldn't find silver shoes. went home. watched an episode of CSI while doing more work.

sister and her husband came over. went for dinner.

saw a house in the burn. was the nicest one so far. very big. have to think about it.

talked on the phone. blogged. going to watch more crime. afterall, i wouldn't want to go to sleep NOT being freaked out that someone's going to break in and kill me. sometimes, i truly believe that we are the cause of our own problems.

a dream will come true for you soon

that was my dubble bubble fortune.

i may be getting sick. i will try to nip it in the butt. what i need is some hot tea served to me while i'm snuggled in bed. volunteers needed.

i finally saw the rest of the incredibles tonight. oliver and i rented it and blade 2 (the first being for him to watch with me, the second to watch with greg). it was a long day today. and it started off being super cold and rainy, and because my blinds were closed, i didn't know it was raining until i got downstairs. i hate that. because i don't have an umbrella, i need to decide on appropriate clothing before i get downstairs. so, i'm going to start to try to remember to open the blinds before i go to sleep now.

also, i had a totally bitchy customer today that i wanted to be super mean to. instead, i was too nice. it was actually a little bit funny. i gave myself a pep talk and sucked it up. but i know she was on to me. that's the best. they have nothing to complain about, because you're being very pleasant and very helpful. but if they were being bitchy to you, and they know it... then they know you don't mean it. oh the power struggles of retail.

i'm grumpy now. it's been a long day. and i think that makes me sensitive, so if you contact me, please be nice.

darbar = mybar

with all this talk of darbar (see the parsons-sheldrake and kenji blogs) today's craving for wok-in's #1 with tofu has been replaced with a desire for dansak. the very food that is almost impossible to find in vancouver. in any case, to date, nothing has found a place in my heart in the same way as darbar's dansak, made exclusively for me with vegetables instead of chicken, if i wish.

"A hot sweet-and-sour curry cooked with lentils, cream, fenugreek leaves and fresh lemon juice."

oh darbar. how those words become poetry. i should email them to pressure them to open a restaurant in the couv.

join forces.

thanks for the link kenji. do you think they could express post something in a cooler to me? maybe i could get jeffy and cheryl to do that once they get back to k-town.

work hard, play hard

that's what i did today. :o) now it's time for some dinner and law & order. saweet.

oh, and to finish off the circle of self-inflicted pain, i cut my knee shaving in the shower today. i wasn't even shaving my knee... so i cut across it. shortly after i almost fell. but that is unrelated. so, i hurt my elbos, bruised my arm and cut my knee. done and done.

tomorrow is a renovation day at the store. hopefully (for the sake of the store) i'm not painting, cause i suck so huge at it.

soooo sleepy

yesterday kicked my ass all over the lower mainland. it's true.

from 8.30-5.30 i was at the vancouver gift show. i know it sounds weak and pathetic, but my elbows hurt so badly last night, when it was done. because i carried this heavy bag around for the entire day. except for a quick break for lunch. and then, after i dropped lisa off at her house i was at an intersection with a stop sign for cross traffic and a light to control the main traffic (flashing green, so controlled by pedestrians). so i jumped out to press the pedestrian button and it changed right away. so i was running back to my car and i slammed my shoulder into the door. now my bone is bruised... and swollen.

anyway, i got home, and was not feeling up to my sisters, but i was gonna do it, cause it totally had to get done. i could tell they had been arguing the entire way here. this is never a good thing. anyway, the arguing continued. i had to drive my oldest sister to abbotsford so she could get picked up by her husband.

long long day.

the good news is, i do not have to work at the store today, so i'm going to get some other work related things done this morning, and then try to do some fun stuff for the rest of the afternoon. :o) yahoo!

no apartments for you

i had appointments for three viewings today. one had sold, and the realtor didn't think it was necessary to call us and let us know. the second one was awesome, it only had one bathroom, but the layout was great. it was in nice condition and the strata fees were decent. the apartment faced boundary though, and it was just too loud. the third one was a great size, but the strata fees were a bit much and it needed some serious work. also, it had its own water heater, so i was like, for the amount paid in strata fees here, i don't want to pay for that myself!

i bought speakers for my iPod today. the creature II ones (as recommended by iJames). they are in my bedroom, set up already! they sound okay, and have a subwoofer. for the next month, i will be playing music continuously from my bedroom. let the games begin.

last night danielle, jordy, yvonne and jc came over for some mario partying. good times were had. and food was eaten. the boys didn't have any frozen lemon mousse, so now there's a surplus. please come to my house and eat some. frozen lemon mousse that is. actually... let's stick with the first statement. come to my house and eat some. :o) it needs to be gone soon, because the things that go with it don't last long. like the candied lemon zest and the lemon sauce. it's because the curd has eggs in it.

we also watched road trip and played clue. it was old school fun.

thanks for coming over kids.

goodbye patty

today, as i was headed to hope to say goodbye to one of my mom's best friends, i got a call from my sister. i was too late. she had just died. it was with mixed feelings that i got the call. i am afraid to see dead bodies, i know this now... so i was definitely nervous about making it through the visit. but considering that there is not a time that i can remember not knowing her, i was going to suck it up. i would have felt horrible about my selfishness otherwise. in any case, the decision was out of my hands.

so, to patty, i say goodbye now.

i don't know who was the bad influence to the other, my mom or patty, but between them, there was always bingo or cards or some game going on. and when carol (my mom's very best friend) entered the picture, there was plenty more where that came from! the three of them together-oy! i hope that when i'm 60 i have such good friends to keep me in line and share the dirtiest jokes with! my mom and patty would walk into their events (cribbage, bingo, euchre) like rock stars... hello everyone!!! always causing a disruption, and always with smiles for everyone. after my dad died, patty became more like family, she was a fixture at our house for special events, and she always had a present for each of us under the tree. patty was a dear friend to my mom, and for that kindness alone, she will be remembered and have a special spot in our hearts.

since my mom probably already knows where every bingo hall in the afterlife is located, i'm sure patty'll get the deluxe tour. pick some good cards, ladies. peace be with you.

more flowers for zoe

about half an hour ago i got a phone call from a number i didn't recognise. when they didn't call my house phone after i didn't answer, i called the number.

it was the girl whose wallet i found last week. she wanted to know if i could meet her downstairs at 6.15, because she had something for me. i was like, really, you don't have to give me anything. and we played that game, and i agreed to meet her. she brought me a dozen roses. they are a peach colour. and quite pretty. and appreciated. partly because i LOVE flowers and because she really was lucky that i have a huge guilt complex and wouldn't be able to steal the money from her wallet... and she probably realises that. in any case, i now have roses, tulips and some plant that i don't know the name of... but is super cute with its tiny little baby flowers. it's practically a store in here. and i'm happy. except that i didn't do much to clean my house. other than that, things are kinda looking up. and that means, it's a big day.

frozen lemon mousse to replace sex

it's true. all the girls agree. i feel like i'm really doing well with this recipe. the more i make it, the better i get at it.

it's a very long recipe. with three/four separate recipes to make the one. but so far i've only spent 5 hours on it. and i've been working/blogging in between. that's time well spent.

also, i'm rediscovering some wicked REM that i've put onto my iPod. yay!

flowers for zoe

yesterday, after seeing a house that we deemed too small, angela and i stopped at this place that had $2 tulip bundles. totally wicked. we each bought 3. and i bought a new plant for beside my bed. it has adorable little flowers that are pink and fuschia-ish. the woman was from budapest... and angela and i loved her! she was a total riot. she's taking a flower arranging course, and we want to be in her class. :o) actually, we may sign up for a class together. which would be lots of fun. i commented on how it's weird that i have so much in common with a "40" year old mother of four, who happens to be the mother of a good friend. but that's cool. we sew and cook and house hunt together. and hopefully take a flower arranging course.

last night yvonne and i made a quick run to jeff's shelter to drop off shoes and clothes and toiletries. i totally forgot a bag with soap and cutlery in my car. which pisses me off, cause i thought i was finally done with it. anyway... there will have to be another trip bearing gifts.

oh, and i got a new phone yesterday. it took way longer to set up than i had wanted, and i was getting so annoyed i couldn't even work magic to get free stuff. which is really the entire point of getting a new phone. i did get a decent deal, and i changed my plan to weekends and evenings for free. so after 6, i'll be more than happy to take your call on my cell phone. now i should find a women's shelter to donate my old phone to.

today an apartment came up that isn't exactly what i want. it's one bathroom, and no den. so basically it's two bedrooms with a GOURMET kitchen. i can't resist. i need to look. it's also below the 850 sq.ft. that yesterday (after seeing the place) i decided to stick to. but how can i resist a gourmet kitchen? i can't. and it has a fire place and 2 parking spots. i could probably manage with one bathroom. hopefully i can see it tomorrow.

today will be making frozen lemon mousse (martha style) and housecleaning/organising. i hope i only need 11 lemons, because i seem to have lost one. maybe in my car, maybe not. oy.

i forgot!

i also dropped my cell phone under my bed this morning. i have since found it...just in time! it's ringing. but i also got my arm stuck between the boards. the bone part of my arm, not the flexible chubby part. in fact, that bone part could be called the elbow. i had flashes of being stuck there until ian got here at 4. four hours up to my elbow in bed, sounds okay, but think of the logistics.

hairy week

heh heh. :o)

i'm so excited to get waxed. it's actually kind of weird/sick. i need to moisturise. getting waxed and having skin come off sucks.

i have done no work today. no cleaning. nothing. except email, blog, and buy some stuff for the frozen lemon mousse. i need to find a bag of lemons, because i don't want to pay 7.90 for 10 lemons at safeway. i did decide which school i'm going to apply to and have to get my butt in gear, because deadlines to universities have passed, and college/universitiy ones are coming up. quickly. eek.

spring fling

yvonne is right. today was beautiful. i like this kind of weather. everyone is soooo nice and happy and out of their shells. it was a busy day at work, with lots to do, but it was nice. and towards the end, busy, so i didn't get everything done, and actually worked extra. oy.

i went for indian tonight with a couple of ladies that i know from work. one still works there, one does not. it was nice to see them both. and the food was great. yummy. yummy.

tomorrow i see two houses. one on the drive, one on victoria near 49th. i really need to find something, and i need to fix up a couple things at my house and sell it. my immediate goals include: selling my place, buying a place, getting into a school, and working hard. i may have skipped a few things, but today's blog is kid-friendly. also exciting, and happening tomorrow, greg is coming back from ottawa. otherwise, it's just boring work.

do dark brunettes have more fun?

well, i'll keep you posted. to date, i've only left the house once with my new hair. and that was just to sophie's, so that's no kind of test.

yesterday was busy. i'm learning how to do some of the bookwork at the store. and i did an ad for the vancouver sun's special spring fashion edition. yahoo! it looks pretty good, if i do say so myself... :o) and i do.

danielle very kindly came over after her work and coloured my hair. it took like 45mins to get the dye in, and i will admit, i was getting panicky about it. :o) i just didn't want it to be darker on one side than the other. it looks hot. we'll see if i get hit on in the next week. if i do, it's a success. it's totally darker than my normal hair. so it's surprising everytime i catch a glimpse in the mirror. like this morning, i was like, whoa! that's dark. thank you danielle. you did a great job.

i think part of the appeal of going darker was that i didn't have to spend 4 hours of my day at the salon. but if i went lighter or got highlights again, you can believe i'll be there. lindsay does a way better job that i could ever at home.

after that, we went to sophie's for dinner. and then finished up the last of her invitations, back here.

today, i work. but it's kinda my friday, except for admin stuff i can do at home. and that's wicked-cool.

brown sugar #69

just kidding.

but when yvonne and i were at LD picking up hair dye, she reminded me of that commercial with sarah jessica parker. she said that it boosted sales of that particular colour like mad. today's colouring day. i cancelled my appointment for friday, so now i've got to go darker brown. i wouldn't trust myself, or any of my friends to help me with my highlights, but one all-over colour? beyonce, i think we can handle that. danielle is coming over to help me in my time of need, because ian said it's too stinky for him to help on wednesday, and yvonne has done her duty in helping me pick a colour.

i would post a pic, but 1. my sister didn't bring her usb cord for the digital camera i borrowed from her. 2. i'm having trouble working out posting pics online from my mac. but iJames has done it, so it must be possible... unless he's been tramping around with karen's pc.

ridin' with king

whoo hoo! i'm going to see b.b.king in 13 days! thanks to d who told me about him even being in town. the funny thing is, a few weeks ago, i said to ian that i should look into him coming to vancouver, or to seattle cause it would be such a wicked show. and now... saweetness... i'll be ridin' with the king.

things of note for today: after a week of cultivating my armpit hair, i'm ready to get it waxed. i am a little concerned that it's not quite long enough yet. i may wait until thursday. just so i don't get turned away. there are few things worse than getting turned away from being waxed. cause you're so excited about getting rid of hair that you've been patiently growing and then you're told to go away... that you haven't been patient enough. in fact, thinking about it, i'll just get tonnes of waxing done on thursday... i may not be able to sit down that day, but at least i won't be at work with my jeans sticking to my skin. that totally sucks when they use wax, not sugar. cause, no matter how good your girl is at waxing, there's always a tiny bit left somewhere around your crotch that pulls at your skin as soon as you leave the salon. this could be too much information, but why change the format of this blog now?

also of note, i'm going to buy a new toilet seat, and finally fix mine. after i sign papers for my mortgage. the message today from TD: this is a message for Dr. Ursula Hoeger. blah blah blah. on the phone he asked me how to pronounce my last name. he was confused by hoefer, because there's no F in hoeger. f as in frank. f as in frank. f as in frank. oh wait, that was the ticketmaster guy last night... i had to repeat that like 5 times, and he was still confused. oh kids.

time for toast.

survey says...

i'm thinking of going back to a darker brown hair colour. currently, my hair is medium brown with blonde highlights. i'm taking suggestions. the decision will be made with in the next 24 hours...if i go darker, i'm doing it myself. if i'mm just touch-up the highlights, it's getting done friday. i know that everyone cares immensely about my hair so i thought i should put it to public vote.

hot pink shirt

i have this hot shirt that i bought at mantique. i wear it to special events. and sometimes to work now that we're allowed to wear pink. it's a totally booby-liscious shirt. the first time i wore it, ian was totally staring at my boobs all night, in fact, so were other people. danielle's friend, sarah, said that i have nice boobs, so i was okay with her staring. :o) i wore it tonight to chris hold's birthday party. luckily, rachel's mom repaired it for me before we went to california. the side ribbons were falling off and now the ends won't fray or anything. yahoo! but i think i should limit the wearing, it's a hand-wash only kind of shirt.

i woke up feeling crappy today. so after being awake for an hour i went back to bed. then i got up late (i had wasted 1/2 my day) and went for lunch with yvonne. then we picked up sushi grass, a drying rack for my dishes, and more tampons.

then we went back to my place. did some work. talked about stereotypes. did some work. talked to ang on the phone. did some laundry. and headed to chrishold's for cake.

protein...yummy

yesterday was kinda gross. in 12 hours, i ate the more protein than ever before. i had eggs for breakkie, two potein bars and a soy burger. i think i may have a hang over from it.

yesterday i worked, and did some cleaning. then danielle came over and we picked up vera's cards, and then went to the mall. got some makeup done bought some fun lipstick, eye shadow and my brush cleaner. bought a belt at aldo. and headed home.

then danielle was the human winner at mario party and we started on her wedding invitations. and talked about boys.

don't have mexican twice in one day if you have pms

ugh. last night i was soooo bloated and gross.

my sisters came to do some exchanging of stuff. they didn't take any shoes though. but my one sister loves mexican food, so we went out. the waiter was pretty nice, and we joked around a bit with him. like when my sister said, "i have little hunger" and when he kept dropping stuff off during weird parts of our conversation. when she was getting the bill, said, "the bill and your cell phone number please". i just have this weird feeling that he thought she was asking for me. cause he looked at me. i hope my look was more like, oh god, i don't know what she's thinking. but who knows.

oh, and i found a wallet yesterday. on the street. there was over $100 in it. i managed to track down the owner and she picked it up. she didn't even know she'd lost it. but she was grateful.

anyway, for dinner, i went to port moody (possibly for the first time in my life...but i may have had swim meets there when i was in swim club. hard to say). met up with chris, ang, sara(h), and yvonne. good times were had, despite me barely being able to stay awake, and therefore feeling drunk at dinner.

i came home, did some work, did some bugging on msn, and hit the hay. word.

today is brunch with rachel and rachel and chris (i think). and tomorrow rachel leaves for korea. today is also use ian's vacuum day, so he can pick it up. and meet with danielle to do her wedding invitations. and i have to design a business card today too. eek. i should do some work and stop blogging!

yesterday's blog

a version of the blog i wrote yesterday:

today on my friend’s blog he commented about tricking some friends into thinking he got married to a boy in vegas that he met in san francisco. which of course reminded me of telling my sister that i got married to wade when my mom, rachel and i went to vegas. we told her that we did an elvis drive-thru wedding, and then a drive-thru divorce. just because i wanted to be a divorcée. and then when i was last in vegas, we said i didn’t have time for the divorce this trip, so i’m still married. whenever i go to san francisco she asks how my husband is doing. it is also somewhat confusing to her when i talk about actions that are not conducive to a happy marriage.

all this to get back to a story that i forgot to tell when i first wrote about my last trip. the following story will be two paragraphs, and involve words like pooh, movement, and buffet. feel free to skip ahead (yes, chris, yvonne, ang and sarah this will be last night’s story) it will be business as usual after.

a couple of summers ago, i went with ian to vegas. we stopped in healdsburg on the way down and convinced wade to meet up with us (neither of these things are unusual). wade flew in a day after we got there. ian and wade love buffets. so, despite my thinking that they are the grossest thing, i did attend two of them with them. normal first rounds with them would involve a plate of meat. they constantly “having movements” and “not feeling well”. my normal reaction was “why did you eat so much? maybe you should eat more vegetables than meat”. basically, i was ignored. this is when i found out that wade needs to shower after he has a pooh. every time. now, i can accept this. everyone has their idiosyncrasies. i’m a fan of poohing in the morning and then having a shower. it seems like a clean start, and a good order to things.

this trip to healdsburg, part of our introduction to wade’s house was, in the shower there’s a green shower puff. don’t use it. (i knew right away where this was going). he mentioned that it had been yellow at one time, but he switched to a dark green. it’s his bum cleaner. fair enough, thanks for the warning (in my head, i’m grossed out). this is when it comes out that he doesn’t wipe first. he just goes into the shower. AND he mentioned that sometimes he poohs, brushes his teeth and then showers (now i have a mental image and that is totally making me sick). the next day, i go to have a shower. well, there’s the green shower puff. i obviously made great effort to not touch it, but had flash images of my slipping (especially since i have no balance) in the shower and grabbing on to it. instead of facing the shower head, i had to look away. i couldn’t even face it. anyway. that’s an example of wade. whom i love dearly, but cannot save.

yesterday, after work, rachel and i went to annapurna, the indian vegetarian restaurant. it was decent. the service was good. ian was supposed to come with, but he got stuck at a staff meeting. he was punished later by having to come with me to look for speakers for my iPod, and tampons. the best part was that he didn’t hear the first two times i said that i need to get tampons (we were in the computer department) so i had to keep getting louder. it was at a normal volume the first time. by the third time i was almost shouting. later i kicked his ass at crib. unfortunately he wouldn’t go for a bet. i think i may have crushed his spirit. muwahhhhh ha ha!

have fun in ottawa greg!

grr

i just spent 1/2 hr blogging, and now it's gone. i'm pissed.

breakin' the law

last night/this morning i dreamt that my mom came back to life. the doctors had made a mistake and she was just in a coma. mind you, in my dream, it was only a couple of days after she died, and she certainly hadn't been cremated yet. we decided to hop in my car and go somewhere where no one would recognise her (she had no need for her wheelchair at this point...she could totally walk, and in this case, hop). we wanted to keep the life insurance money. it was hilarious, there were obsticles for us to get out of town, but we managed to pick up my sisters and get on to the highway, which is when i woke up.

dear muffins

dearest freshly made banana muffins,

i'm sorry i don't have any ziplocs to put you in, and that i had to use doubled up safeway and london drugs bags instead. you can blame television. otherwise i would have been able to reuse those ziplocs that i threw away.

i'm sorry. i love you muffins, please don't hate me.

xo
ursula

p.s. i also apologise to my green camisole top that has lace and ribbon on it. i'm sorry about the hole, i don't know how it got there. i'll look into repairs. i love you green top, please don't hate me. xo ursula

the shoes are coming... the shoes are coming!

so, i kinda feel like shoes are taking over my apartment. this could be because they are.

i have a pile that needs to be taken away. a friend of ang and greg's is supposed to come by to check them out, but come monday, these shoes are out of here. and then i have my new shoes that need to be polaroided and put back in their boxes, so i can keep them dust-free. but i keep forgetting to buy film for my camera.

right now i'm making muffins. i had a tonne of bananas that needed using... like a week ago. but it just means the muffins will be extra sweet.

today i worked, and i still have work to do. i'm exhausted, despite getting lots of bed time. i find that having pms not only affects my rationality in relation to my emotions (i cry all of the time, and take everything personal and have no concept of intention) it also affects my quality of sleep. and makes me BLOATED and in pain. ugh. anyway, sleep, i need more of it, but have lots of work left to do tonight, so i'm blogging.

yesterday, i also worked. and watched a haircut happen. later i babysat. oliver was told he was going to mcdonald's and that he had coupons for it. so he was pretty excited to see me. which was actually pretty cool, because i'd had visions of him seeing me and screaming. we went through drive-thru and he was like: i've been to this mcdonald's before. i replied that i was sure he had been. anyway, then we picked up treats (he's not *my* kid) from 7 eleven and thai food and took the loot to my friend's hotel room. erin and tanya were staying at the century plaza for a spa convention and they had movies on demand, or whatever it's called. so we watched half of the incredibles before it stopped. then we watched some wheel of fortune, and i took oliver home. apparently i was all he could talk about this morning as he was getting ready for school. i RULE!

tomorrow i'm going to work, and then go for indian. maybe i can win another dinner from ian. rachel may be able to come out and play too. it could be the last time i see her before she goes to korea. hopefully she makes tonnes of cash so she can pay off her student loans and then go to south america for a few months.