help yourself

tonight, while driving home on cambie, i saw a sign that said "help yourself". it's under a sushi sign, on the east side. at first i thought it meant, please, help yourself to... cottage cheese or some such thing. i quickly realised they probably meant help yourself, no one else can/will etc.

it was good and bad at work. we were crazy busy: good. but someone wanted to buy a locket, and we have this really cute one from früg so i showed her it. it is übercute, and while showing it to her, i thought, huh, i could put a picture of my mom and me in here, that would be so cute. and then i was like, is this for your mom? and she said it was. i swear to you, i started to cry! anyway. i somewhat got over it. after crying three more times. it's not like i hadn't started to tear up thinking about mother's day earlier, but it totally got me today. also it's day one of my period, so i'm super sensitive...and apparently desperate to be crying. and i've been feeling displaced lately because i've been camping at ang's (which has been fun, and super kind of her and her mom, but hard for me, who loves to be at home). anyway. i'm a bit out of sorts.

also today, i ate dinner at yvonne's... risotto to boot! wick-ed! oh, and ian bought his girl something at the store, which was fun. and a bunch of ang's friends met up to go to hitchhiker's guide. okay, apparently (much like the mice and men phenomenon) i didn't start to read the book. it must have been a different one that i now associate with that title. who knows. anyway, it was super funny, and a great watch. i would totally see it again (even in a theatre) and i was impressed. i liked it, and was happy i had totally different expectations about it. two thumbs up.

after the movie, yvonne and i stopped off at lauren's because i promised to stop at her party. lauren also gave me a cute bracelt at work today. she made it for me! yay! as we were leaving, because we couldn't find her, a guy stopped us and totally tried to chat us up. we humoured them for a while and then went back up. okay, by humoured, i mean i teased a bit and possibly destroyed his self-esteem. who knows. boys shouldn't be that delicate, and if you can't handle the teasing/joking around on the first go, it's a good sign things wouldn't work out. i mean, it's not going to get any easier. and he was german. he did follow us upstairs though.

overall, today was a 7. it had a great finish, like the roshambo wine i brought over to yvonne's. :o) and i got to see wheel of fortune and jeopardy for the first time in a week. AND talk to danielle, and see yvonne and ian and ang. AND two customers said i looked hot today. i don't *think* they meant sweaty. :o)