nerves of a 4 year old

as i've mentioned before, the last time i had a kid at my house we had to bring him to the ER for stitches in his forehead. wednesday, i will be babysitting (by myself, until james gets here) for the first time in oh... 10 yearsish. i mean, i've held kids and that kind of stuff. but not like, you know, had to do stuff without parents. i'm a little nervous. i used to be expert babysitter. ideally, it'd be like riding a bike.

many thanks to greg, who, with sheer brilliance, suggested that i make cookies with the kid. what a great idea! he probably doesn't get much along the lines of homemade. this will be great. and i'm going to make him a grilled cheese sandwich and tater tots (thanks to d for leaving them here!). his parents can give him vegetables. i just want him to not freak out.

MY TOTALLY BEST DAYS EVER

there is a scrap book at the store called MY TOTALLY BEST DAYS EVER. sooooo funny. extra funny, because there is a chance that if i was 8 i would TOTALLY love it!

sections include:
Happy Valentine's Day
Who DO YOU like best?
Who LIKES YOU best?

I'll never forget the time my Mom or Dad turned to me and said...

Color Festival!
What colors and shapes make you happy whenever you see them?

Best Day Ever at the Mall

when i saw the valentine's day one, i was thinking i should maybe buy it for yvonne... what with her list she's making for her door. this way she could use one section, and people that know her could use the other. if they wanted to. :o) it was pink... you'd love it.

baking extravaganza

with the cold weather comes baking. at least in my world. so tonight, whether he liked it or not, i made ian participate in the planning of my baking extravaganza. he only benefits, so i'm gonna guess complaints will be minimal.

the list includes:

banana muffins (cause i can TOTALLY bring them to work easily and they defrost nicely)
apple pie-sooooo perfect for fall
gingersnap cookies-yay!

i think this will take place on friday. perhaps in combination with some mario-ing. if you're looking to chillax for a couple of hours to the sweet sounds of nintendo, and the sweeter smells of food, this could be the right place for you. and i like company while i bake. which can be read: someone needs to peel the apples. i don't think i've ever made a pie before. a pie-cake. or cake-pie. whatever. but an all-by-myself pie? nope. maybe i could make a pumpkin pie... well, this could be getting crazy.

i may be getting slightly stirred on, no pun intended, because my house is f'ing freezing. it's so cold that the butter i left out this morning, is still hard. i need (to get ian) to take out the a/c from my window so i can close it completely. i refuse to turn on the heat for the 3 hours i'm home before bed, because it's not going to make a difference before i turn it off for bed anyway. maybe i should get a timer. in fact, that would probably solve the entire problem.

tonight i met up with a friend for greek. greek food, that is. it is soooo nice when you meet up with people you haven't seen in a while. yay! we talked about many many things, including: boys (hrmmm), jobs (alright), and butter on a peanut butter sandwich with homemade raspberry jam (good). all over a couple glasses of nice chardonney.

also, yesterday at the theatre, we saw lots of previews (of course). movies i want to see: bridget jones, edge of reason; ladder 49 (hells yeah!); meet the fockers. oh, and there's a movie called "i heart____" <- i forget what they heart, but i thought it was very funny.

cellular

just got back from watching it. decent. i liked it.

i guess i DID work today

so, i was sitting around this morning, working on a logo for *bling* (which is jewelry) and i decided to call lisa, and tell her the good news...how cute it looks. so i called her at the store, but she wasn't there, and one of the girls asked me if they should open, and i was like, i don't know, i guess. so i called lisa at home, and after a while she said, well, aren't you supposed to be at the store? and i was like, no you gave me sunday off, remember? i'm going to work monday and tuesday and so i had friday off. but when she had told me this, she meant NEXT sunday. oy. so i went to work. this is why i did not answer my phone when you called today. and i know some of you called. i have caller i.d.

i did coaching at the store today. so that people can sell better. sometimes it is so much fun. today was just decent, but it involves so much talking! i'm very happy that tonight is a movie, so i don't have to talk.

candle party devirginisation

i went to my first candle party this evening. have i mentioned my sister is also having a candle party?

today we had poffertjes. which were really pannekoek batter in sorta balls. let me explain: poffertjes and pannekoek taste different. they are both good, but different and they are supposed to be round, not random. i would go back there, it's no india grill. BUT i would have different expectations.

caleb, ian and i played scrabble today. if caleb hadn't challenged me so many times, he might have won. we did eat lots of chips and ian got acupuncture and a massage... for his broken back.

also, as i mentioned in my stinky guy story, i was going to email kits workout today, but they don't have email on their crappy website. i will have to say something next time i go in.

i just ate a banana and peanut butter, blah blah natural is better, whaterever... i love kraft peanut butter. SOMEtimes we were allowed to have it as kids. mostly we had the natural stuff until i got slightly older. i don't know what happened to my mom, but now she totally buys the kraft stuff and she buys lots of other things we weren't normally allowed as kids. for example: twinkies, soda, instant noodle side dishes. it's weird... we weren't allowed to have granny smith apples, but now she'll buy ding dongs. it's always a surprise when i go to her house. i think she's fallen off her rocker.

fall update

so, on thursday, i was at the gym (this is THAT story, so skip ahead, if i've told you) just riding the bike, cause i was going to have tacos for dinner (there were so many shells leftover from my mom's) so i didn't want to go to yoga and be all farty. so, you know, i'm probably at 7 minute mark starting to sweat and really get into it, when i smell something, ugh! really strong cologne. so then i'm like, okay try to focus, but i had to look at who it was, and the guy was in ankle, wrist and chest weights, with tinted perscription sunglasses (it was pouring pouring rain that day) and a pink starbucks water bottle. as he started working out, i was overwhelmed but the extra smell of cologne building up. i tried to cover my mouth, but that's hard when you're trying work out. and then i had to leave. i finished my time on the bike, didn't get to experiment with anything else, almost vomited, and left. i'm going to email them today and ask that a sign be put up regarding cologne. it was sooo brutal.

anyway, we are going for poffertjes today. i am sooooo stoked, it's be forever since i had them...since i was last in holland... no, that's not true... they're mostly a winter treat there... hmmm... i don't know the last time. weird.

last night a few people came over for clean-up. thanks to ned and lola for being there at the begining. yvonne for being stoked about tequila. caleb for loving fall clean-up more than anything. janet and brian for showing up, with whiskey no less! and ian for making it... bad back and all. and james, especially for your high-quality (one might say german-style) pumping skills.

oh yeah, now i don't work tomorrow. so maybe if anyone wants to play some games, we could. i have some left over chipies and pop.

lick-her reminder

don't forget! come around 7-7.30ish and let the games begin!

i'm at work til 6 (at least) so don't come before 7.

:o)

i have food!

whoo hoo! i FINALLY bought groceries. so, i actually have something at my house to eat, including (this is for you ang hold) eggplant. it's very exciting. also exciting, is that i didn't buy bread from cobs. but that could change anytime now.

i don't really have much to do today, so i think i'll just go to the gym and ride a bike for a while. then i guess i should get ready for tomorrow.

worked

thank you lola for relieving what would have otherwise been a boring day of only work. we went to sophie's, watched CSI and i priced jewelry, read some american version of OK! and i worked too.

martha's going to jail. she wants to start serving her sentence as soon as possible, so she'll be home in time to plant her garden. her stock's already going up. believe it. hopefully she makes it out alright.

tomorrow is the start of survivor. i'm gonna watch again, cause really, what other channels do i have? i never do anything on thursday nights anyway.

i heart you clinique

i got some free stuff from clinique today. some of which i immediately passed on to janet, yvonne and toren. some of which i did not. especially the deluxe size scrubber that i like. and the moisturiser, which everyone except me seems to find too oily. i purchased a soap for the shower, and a mask for my teen-style zit problem of late. i've already used the mask. wish me luck.

a stupid, but almost true thing i said today: that's the best thing about europe, the great bags!

i wish i had bought groceries today. i still don't have any food. so i had sushi and tofu agadeshi for dinner. it was pretty decent the sweet potato rolls were WAY too big, so i have some for tomorrow. maybe i can pretend they're a breakfast item.

p.s. i'm still pissed about the crappy indian from last night.

today canada won the world cup. i OF COURSE watched the game. i have no idea if there will even be hockey this year, brian burke thinks that by december we should have hockey again. i really really hope so. i mean come on, what else happens in winter that's cool? back to the game. it was pretty intense and well played. yay canada! also, yay CBC coverage of every game, and yay wayne gretzky. if this isn't the most exciting to happen this autumn, i'm going to be a very happy girl!

i'm the gamemaster, i'm the gamemaster...

say it fast and in a sort-of rock and roll voice.

so, yesterday james taught me how to play carcassonne. yay! it was fun. the first time i won because he was telling me what to do. but the second time, i won and made him cry like a wee baby! actually, i don't know the game well enough to teach someone else. but i think i could fumble along decently.

caleb's getting stoked about fall clean up. in an email he was like: only 3 days to fall clean up! that boy needs to let loose more often. whoo hoo! corrupt caleb even more this friday!!! luckily ally doesn't read this blog, cause i think she would start to panic!

also yesterday ian and i went for indian, after he umm... fixed my headlights. the indian (prepare yourself) sucked. i will never go to india grill again. it was so brutal that i was like, are we taking those leftovers? i didn't have seconds, and i totally collected my free dessert from ian (from when i oh-so-gloriously kicked his ass at scrabble). we should have known the indian would suck as soon as the water came. it tasted gross. but water in the couv isn't all that tasty. oh, and i asked if they could make me a dansak, and the girl didn't know what i was talking about! when did i get more indian than the little indian girl working at the indian restaurant?! if anyone knows of a killer dansak place here PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me. i'm desperate.

today i've been doing lots of work. webstuff and ads for the clinic. the game's on at 4, so i have to decide what i'm eating for dinner soon. oh, i do have some potatoes. and tonight's the Holt's special event thing, starting at 6.30. i desperately need a facial cleansing mask. i don't know what's going on, but a week ago i got a compliment on my skin. today, i'm back in highschool. i am looking for someone to come with. it's not 100% necessary, i guess. but it'd be more fun.

my mom may be coming to visit me soon. if she comes today, i don't know how we're going to go to k.i.t.b. but we might still be able to make it. i think people will like my mom. she'll probably just fall asleep. it's one of her favourite things. if she does come, i'll make a treat to bring.

back to work.

thai thai away

yummy dinner! good suggestion why-vonne. and good company to both j and y. yahoo!

so, today was a weird one at work, but nothing bad happened. pheush. 4 people that i know came into the store! right after i told a girl off (well, that's a total exaggeration, cause i was just giving her selling tips, you know, like the 33% rule... don't concetrate on one person kinda thing) anyway 4 people i know, and one (given last week's k.i.t.b) came in. they were a woman that was trying to get me a job where she works, that's another story, jessie, a girl named jen from queen's (that i haven't seen in at least 4 years...we were trying to figure out how we know each other) and janet. i did recognise brian this time... so maybe it can be 5 people. it was WEIRD-O. but fun. and i like who i worked with today, and my boss gave me a dirty girl foot kit. how fun! i was totally eyeing it, because the pink mail polish looked so cute!

and a girl broke my car key at work. i will try to fix it. i'm only annoyed because really, those keys cost too much.

i currently have no headlights on my car. they are both burnt out. incredible? true. brutal. but they are getting fixed tomorrow.

something else that's broken is my brita. the lid broke. now, i could take this as an opportunity to buy a new brita, the kind with the digital thingy. or i could wait untl it gets complained about by people who come over. i think i'll wait. besides, it's almost my birthday. :o)

i know soooo much more about planes and cars now that this engineering website is almost done. i now know what all these different parts like main langing gears and lycoming engines look like. it's a bit exciting. more exciting is almost being done this site. whoo hoo.

brigade days and school reunions

okay, i now officially did NOT go to one of my two 10 year highschool reunions. and, despite pressure from ian, i feel fine with that. i went to visit my mom, who lies to me about her health and then when i ask if she's lying, admits the truth. and i dragged danielle with me. it's brigade days weekend in hope, and the demolition derby is on tomorrow. i've only been a couple of times, but most people in hope go every year. like, they've never missed a year. ever.

we had tacos and black bean soup for dinner, and watched the wicked wicked wicked-assed game that was team canada vs. czech republic. whoo hoooo. in case you didn't know: canada won in sudden death OT. and it was tense! i learned something that i did not know about danielle, when she first met my brother-in-law's brother, she thought he was cute! how funny is that?

also, on the way home we discussed games we could play on friday: truth or dare (i always pick dare), spin the bottle, and 5 mins. in the closet. i said no to 5 mins. because caleb's married, and i don't think that would get the stamp of approval from ally. i KNOW this will appeal to lola who is desperate to make out with me. also, to prepare people, if caleb has his way, strippers will also be involved.

i also volunteered to babysite my boss's kid for free one evening, and take him to some lame kid's movie so his parents could go out for dinner or whatever. i feel really bad about the rings being stolen. it's the least i can do. and the least she can do is accept it! so they're going to decide what night. james is going to teach me carcassonne this week. i'm extremely excited about this. i got that and the alexander the great settlers expansion. whoo hoo!

instead of cutting my nails, which i said i would, after i had to use a pencil to work the calculator at work, i just put a clear coat of nailpolish on... so it looks like a french manicure, without the cost! whoo hoo! besides, doing a french manicure yourself is soooo hard, cause the lines are always crooked, and it's hard to do your opposite hand well.

okay, bed for me. i work tomorrow and don't want to be tired and careless.

i had a very weird day today

no, i'm not making out with anyone right now... but i am taking applications.

it was a very extreme day today.

1. the store was an f'ing mess today when i got there. so in the 4 hours that i was there, i had soooo much to do.

2. someone stole like $600-1000 of rings from the store, probably while i was on. i feel HORRIBLE and plan to cry about it after i've taken off my mascara so my eyes don't burn

3. i was supposed to get off at 2, but do to confusion, left at 3.45 and then slipped on my way back into the store because i forgot my keys and phone. and i hurt my already hurt, and f'd up toe.

4. i met up with turi and had fun with her. saw some of her new jewelry, saw her new place (okay, here's the thing with this, because i know some of you will ask. i KNOW that me not going to other peoples' houses is weird. i KNOW i KNOW i KNOW. because of this, sometimes if i really really like someone, i kinda psych myself up to it and just do it. had i been at home and she asked me over, i would have automatically said no. but we were at a pub near her house, i dropped her off and she asked me in. what could i do? say no, i've got issues. i DO still want to be her friend afterall!) also, we talked about siblings with schizophrenia. and it was nice to talk to someone else that has had similar experiences as me. and turi is so super nice. it was good to see her, cause we're both lamely busy.

5. i met up with kirsten and talked all about her stupid boyfriend and her very very very exciting trip (i'm not typing this for her benefit, she doesn't even know that i have a blog). it gets me so excited about traveling. why am i even in vancouver? i should just be living out of a bag in some warm place.

speaking of traveling, i've started to listen to the learn spanish tapes that i found at my mom's house. i'm getting ready for south america. it's coming!

in other news. last night i ate toast after yoga. i think it gave me heartburn. this could be a sign. it was the lekkerbrot, not the white. and i discovered while working my little heart out last night that i clench my teeth, which is why i had a sore jaw a couple of weeks ago. contrary to popular belief, it wasn't from sucking too much c.

at grounds for coffee, where KG and i met up, i bought some cinny buns for ian and for my mom, if i see her tomorrow. maybe i will go to hope. anyone want to go for a drive? it is brigade days weekend. yahoo.

friendly people

why are people so friendly at the gym? seriously. you know all those studies that are like :exercise makes you happy! well, they might be true.

i haven't been to yoga in forever. if you get off the bus at the wrong stop, it's suddenly a long run to try and get it at the next stop. i can tell you right now... i could have told you during downward dog... my shoulders are going to kill tomorrow. that'll learn me.

here's something that's sooooo kits. in my yoga class there were about twice as many boys as girls. boyz boyz all types a boyz.

dearest yoga, i've missed you. don't let me stray again. i heart you. ursula

also, a bit of a party has been planned for next week friday at my house. it's the annual lick-her cleanup party. where ian and caleb puke, and i don't because i know enough to not drink orange juice and eat mouthfulls of canned whipped cream. yahoo!!! maybe this time we'll actually be able to leave the house! :o) you know who you are, and i adore you. i bug you because i love you.

hip to be square

yay! i'm going to see the hip next month. i'm very excited. i missed them in vancity, cause i didn't think it was important to be part of their fanclub. now i know. if there is a band you'd like to see and they have a fanclub, join it. i've learned my lesson. tickets for the hip in vancouver were only available to their fanclub. brutal.

anyway... i've scored tickets for seattle, so it'll be a fun little trip south. whoo hoo!

new mailman

i've got a new mailman. he is also cute. not nearly as hot as postman pete (aka stu). also, he cannot read. i know this because he put junkmail in my mailbox. ihave a little note that requests no junkmail. hrrmm. great face, shame about the brain.

technical difficulties

sorry the blogs have been wonky. blogger's been wonky. bear with me during this wonky period!

summertime blues

so, i'm having a hard time dealing with are somewhat decent, but nothing to really brag about, weather of recent. boo-urns.

i should be asleep, but i just realised i haven't blogged since monday. so, not at all today. toren gave me the hockey tapes at knitting in the buff tonight. there was no knitting to be had. some hugging, and a slight amount of snogging, and the ever important: case of mistaken identity! (this involved me, who has no concept of what people look like, if you'll take but a moment to remember this, and me thinking that someone -that i've actually met before- was janet's boyfriend. that was pretty f'ing funny. at least i can laugh at myself. the best part is that i even made an especially sassy joke. oh the times we had!). we watched this nerd video about trekkies, which was great. and then we watched some japanese zombie movie, and then superman cartoons. why so much? well, i brought jewelry to price, and it took for f'ing ever! at least i get paid for it! then i left.

today eon the peon and i had dinner at moderne burger. i was pretty much jonesin' for a veggie burger and their oh-so-delish fries. yay! it was good, and the company was good. i only felt it necessary to be buggy a little bit. we also went to the homo depot, and didn't get what we were looking for. either of us. uh oh... i hope that isn't a hidden metaphor for something.

TWO important messages:

* wednesday 4pm, canada vs.slovakia (i'm not home ti 6.30, so i'll have to go and pick up the tape from toren's very soon afterwards...i hope that's okay, toren) interested in watching it replayed at my house? probably not, if you read this blog, but i will be watching it, if you have interest.

* don't forget my offer to do jobs/work for you to donate money to james in the run for life campaign. if you don't want me to bake you a cake, or do anything else for you, but you still want to donate, you can do that too! contact me within the next two weeks to set something up! (i'm also willing to allow you to give ME a massage. my back is sore. i know it's a hot hot hot offer, so order now... supplies are limited.)

all about the rest of calgary

oh india! your people make great food.

at puspah in calgary... somewhere totally out of the way. we had:

3 naan
2 rice
dansak (sooooo f'ing good, but next time i will ask for white meat only. but really, the sauce was sooo close to darbar's i have no reason to complain.
butter chicken
veggie curry
3 lassi (not the sassie kind)

my new goal is to make a wicked dansak based upon the recipe i got from darbar when i had lessons there.

after dinner we tried to call dan's 24 hour advice line (it was busy). we really wanted to know if bud got laid (from the improv soap, the night before). so we surfed the net and then, oh yes... and then we played settlers. my losing streak is over. first, i slaughtered ian at scrabble a few weeks ago, and then i won two times (jobs). bring it on, is what i'm sayin'. and we had icecream with catan, which made it even more magical. there is a reason haagen daaz icecream is so expensive. it's worth it. and i'd almost forgotten that.

also, canada beat russia 3-1 that day. i will watch the tape on wednesday. toren taped it for me.

the next day (sunday) i left for home. early. i was out the door at 8am. i wanted to avoid driving in the dark, getting tired, the masses of traffic, and i wanted to get home early enough to go to the PNE.
ian was already done the PNE by the time we talked, i didn't get tooooooo tired, but my back was/is sore, and there wasn't much traffic til surrey. decent.
i'm home now, and i have this week off, if you want to call me party i can do that, as long as you're a boy named crash.

crisis in ursulaland

so, more about my trip in the next blog. for now... i forgot to mention that on the friday, while rachel was at the wedding, and james and karen were at work, i watched oprah. it was an episode about hidden germs and stuff like that. it's recommended to dry stuffed animals that your children play with, on high heat, every week. also, and here comes the crisis... you know how i wash and reuse all of my plastic bags? and ziplocs, specially? (so does oprah) BUT the germ specialist was like: don't. WHAT?! he said that there are germs and bacteria (which are germs, i guess) that you're spreading to good food. okay, i NEVER reuse bags or plastic that have had something go bad in it. BUT i do reuse the cheese bag. apparently cheese and meat bags are the worst. which i GET. but i don't like. what should i do?

loosemoose

yay! i'm having fun in calgary!

yesterday rachel and i had lunch at the arden diner (i had serious garlic breath) and then i dropped her off for the wedding. i walked around 17th ave a bit and when i was ready for home, i EASILY found my way back. i must be getting used to calgary or something.

turns out we had pizza for dinner last night and then went to part of an improv group's 56 hour marathon. they're called the loosemoose. it was great. really funny. so, we didn't get to play settler's but that's a little more on the list for tonight. we're looking for people to play.

after the improv we decided to try to find rachel and concrete some plans for today, what with her clothes being here, and her having to go to airpot. the guy at the hotel told me the reception was at the drinkwater, so we went there and i recognised the names on the sign "andrea and tully private wedding reception". so i went in and saw someone that looked like the bride, and said, oh congratulations, have you seen rachel? and she looked so confused, rachel who? and i started to panic, ummmm...maybe i'm at the wrong place. then she said that she's NOT the bride, so i looked around quickly and saw flea. yay! he told me where rachel was and everything got sorted.

as i was leaving i passed the parents table and one woman in particular was looking at me like she was about to ask what the h i was doing there. so i waved at her, said hi, and took off.

today we had bacon. or to quote karen,"bacon, bacon, bacon." and by bacon i mean veggie bacon, and by having it, i mean with our breakkie.

we went to a wool store, and MEC, then we dropped rachel's stuff off to her and then dropped rachel off at the airport. we did some shopping around. i was about to buy a new phone (which started off as a great thing. then the guy told me there would be a $35 charge for hardware upgrade. so i was like, oh...well my phone works fine now. i don't really need a new one. and he was like, it's only 35 bucks. whatev. i'll get one for free at the bell store in vancity. as IF i'd pay for a company to keep me as a customer, so that i can pay them each month to use a phone.

karen found some shorts. i didn't find shoes. james found shorts. karen got shirts. i didn't get a phone. james got soap.

in preparation for tonight's dinner, james is now scanning the famous indian note. so we can ask around what it says, post dinner, in case the guy, puspah, takes it. i'm going on record as saying i think it says, "these are my friends. treat them well." or something like that. maybe we'll ask tonight and then if we ask others, we'll know if the guy at the restaurant is a liar. :o) and if ashok is a jerk that made FOOOOOOLS out of us! i'm also planning to take a pic outside the restaurant. if anyone has a photo of themselves, and would like it to look like they also ate at the restaurant, email is to my gmail account, and i'll see what i can do!

have fun at scrabble party everyone!

happy birthday lola!

see you even got a title shoutout!

so, after lots of driving, we arrived at james and karen's place. it was super rainy almost the whole trip, and i was very very tired at the end of it. so was rach.

highlights include: "you'd better pull the fuck over, buddy." rachel. followed by giving the old hippy lady the finger and, "sianara suckah!"
and a guy in kamloops wearing a shirt that read, "i may not be perfect, but i'm canadian and that's close."

today i dropped rachel off at the wedding after having lunch at the arden diner. then i walked around downtown a bit. now james and karen are both at work and i'm watching the people's court.

tonight is indian (i think) and settlers. apparently a friend of james has a queen version... i think this is perfect for me. :o) actually, i just reread the email, and james said he had the queen here, not a queen version. in any case, i AM here, and i'm ready to roll.

calgareeeeeeee! yeeee haw!

so, i'm off to calgary in 7.5 hrs. whooo hoooo! i'm excited. i'm excited to see james and karen. i'm excited to be on a road trip with rachel. i'm excited for ginger snap cookies and other treats made by rachel's mom. i'm excited for breakkie with my mom tomorrow morning. and i'm excited that i get to eat at that indian restaurant in calgary that's owned by ashok's (of curry village and darbar fame) brother-in-law.

the woman i work for wants to start a jewelry line with me. it would be fun sparkly stuff that is really well priced. i think it might be a good idea. she's talking about going to l.a. and rhode island before christmas on her airmiles with me and stuff. i told her i'll have an answer when i get back.

speaking of getting back, i was going to go to fort nelson on sunday, but those plans have been adjusted, so i'll be going to knitting in the buff on tuesday, and bringing april with me! yay! and i'll have time when i get back to focus on some graphics stuff. which i've had to put on hold a bit because of working at the store. world cup of hockey will be watched and websites will be made. it'll be a beautiful thing. especially cause jeopardy guy is back on, starting tuesday.

in other tv news:
canada won again tonight.
law & order svu is now on channel m

and i just got a phone call for woody. no, no woody here.

tonight toren got his ass KICKED HUGE!!! by everyone at mario party party. yoshi was first, princess and mario (hurting from the rejection of his one true love, janet) tied for second. it was like toren didn't even come out to play. BRUTAL! (the previous statement could be complete lies).

also tonight we had pizza. toren took away my old food that i thought might go bad while i'm away, with the promise of eating it. anghold took away my chair with the promise that she would shower me in golden coins and yvonne took tynan away with the promise of not bringing him back until he's got a nickname. :oD and i made more cupcakes cause i had shitloads of icing left over. from TWO eggs. believe it.

the people's guide

instead of sleeping, i decided to check out rabble.ca (a great lefty site) and then i got linked to The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention a cool guide to surviving the republican convention.

beautiful things

okay, whatever to you people who prefer pc's. check this out! the newest iMac, the G5 is out and it's beautiful. oh how sweet and beautiful.

speaking of beautiful, when i was coming out of the produce store with ian on monday, i saw the hottest guy. seriously. ian says he's never heard me talk about a guy like that before. but WOW. he wasn't like dreamboat... i can't even explain it... i think i may always love him. i did speak a bit excessively about him... all the way home, and then some maybe. well, maybe not the entire time, but a good portion of the time. yvonne says phermones. i say, hot diggity veggie dog!

also important/beautiful to no one else but me:

Team Canada, decked out in their 1920 Winnipeg Falcons jerseys (first Canadian Olympic Gold Medal team), came out of the gate strong in their 2-1 win over Team USA and that strong start was the difference. Canada scored twice on the power play jumping out to a 2-0 lead and dominating the first half of the game.

april treated me to cheap pasta night at chianti's. which was a long wait, but yummy pasta. i'm gonna say that it was the best dish i've had there.

i priced jewelry for the store during tuesdays at toren's tonight. toren, you should have seen that stuff! it was sooooo cute! i DO have cross-stitching, but the jewelry thing pays. it was a fairly easy choice. we did not watch buffy. we watched some star trek, which i talked through, cause i can't focus when i'm tired, and a bit of the 5th element. which i think is a fun movie... and talked all the way through. i hate it when people talk through stuff. but it was stuff we'd all seen before. and chris and toren were talking too. also, thanks to friends of chris for your treats! yay hay stacks!

there's a moth on the wall near the door in the hallway of my apartment building. it's been in the same spot for HOURS. it IS alive, cause i saw its head moving. i don't want it dead. just gone, cause it's really spooky looking. and exactly at eye level, so i feel like one time i walk by, it's just gonna go for broke, and try to take out my eye. i think it will go for my left eye. just puttin' it out there.

two more sleeps til calgary. i've got to find the note to the indian restaurant... i wish the restaurant was called curry city or something. that would be wicked to say: i'm going to curry city!

good readin'

hopefully this will encourage dr. iJeffy to update the parsons-sheldrake site more often! this site may even be funny if you don't know the good doctor, or his family. and now you can make comments...like me.

and these other numbers:

7007 (you know the area code!)

so, i'm talking to "e" about these lights that need fixing in the building (cause ian's doing it) and suddenly the topic changes to some people have complained about the flower lights that i have on my balcony. (most of you have seen them, i would genuinely like your opinion on this). because they are pink and fake flowers they feel they are tacky. so i'm like: is council sending me a letter? she's like, well we have to maintain the look of the building, blah blah blah, bylaws, whatever (is it obvious how i feel?) so i said: well, until council sends me a letter i'm not going to take them down because i don't think they're obtrusive or obnoxious. in fact, someone from the building just complimented me on them. are they obnoxious and tacky and i just can't see it? i mean, i barely have anything on my balcony... i could arrange for some real dead flowers; with my record, it'll only take a couple weeks.

on a nicer note, today ian came over for birthday dinner and cupcakes (so he can take them to work, unlike whole cakes which are harder to transport). we started playing his birthday NES and making the bruchetta... the pasta didn't get made because ian cut the whole 1/2 loaf so we ate bruchetta. which turned out yummy.

less yummy would have been the angel food cake i made for knitting in the buff. i think it got over whipped while i got stuck on the phone with "e" so i didn't cook right. i pulled it out because the top was totally brown... i decided to risk it. i shouldn't have. when i was flipping the pan over to cool it, the whole thing came tumbling out. like warm foam. it was hilarious. except that i still have a tonne of icing that is looking for some cake action. seriously. i made a batch of icing that said for 10-12 people i had at least 18 cupcake...probably 21. and like 3/4 of the icing left over.

then we watched the last episode of law & order SVU (season 1) and when i say we, i mean me. ian's like, let's watch a scary one. and then falls asleep. superjob!

now i'm trying to eat the grapes i bought today, but i noticed (while making my lunch for work tomorrow) that there was a cob web/ spider eggs on one section of the sprig, or whatever it's called. i'm trying to force myself to eat some of the loose ones (i threw the spidery section away (and then some) locked inside a plastic bag just in case the eggs hatch tonight). but i keep thinking of biology 11 and eggs hatching inside a person. sure, they were worms, but couldn't that happen with spiders? and it can't really be that great of a feeling. as you can maybe see, i'm having trouble eating those grapes.

i'm working at the store tomorrow, which is good. i have a computer to buy... and i already have two visitors lined up. thanks rach and yvonne! i like visitors!

today's blog is brought to you by the numbers:

7,3,2

and the words: candle party

not only is danielle having a candle party, but so i my sister. until this point in my life i have avoided going to any. now i have to go to two. i still don't need any more candles.

i am feeling MUCH better today. i had a pretty good sleep... didn't wake up a million times, and didn't get a phone call til 10ish. NOT from erna, thank jeebus. i have this weird feeling she'll be calling me this evening. i don't know why...maybe because ian's coming over, and we refer to her as his girlfriend. i hope she never finds this blog site. imagine? oh, the phone calls!

my friend jeffy got an iPod. we're starting a club. we now have new cult/club names: iJeffy, iUrsy, etc. it's fun! what would have been more fun is if iJeffy got the iPod before hugh was born, and then he could have named him iHugh... you know, legally and stuff. *lmao* cause i'm sure cheryl wouldn't mind.

speaking of doctors, yesterday i doctored up the photos from my utah trip. they turned out pretty well, so i'm going to send them london drugs to get printed. i had to edit out all of the dates and times... so there was a bit of photoshop work. but i think it's hard to tell that they've been edited. it was sooooo easy to use my sister's camera with my computer! i didn't even have to download a driver. i still prefer the look of 35mm but the changes and editing that you can do with digital are fun too.

didn't go

i didn't go to the special dinner. because i feel so crappy. instead (because i didn't have any real foods at home) i went food shopping. i MUST be on crack. i just unpacked my groceries and i bought 3 bags of chips. seriously. i don't even remember grabbing them, and i KNOW i can't eat them right now. i'd probably barf. i also bought potatoes, and potato salad. did i mention that one of the bags of chips is potato? i did buy some normal stuff, apples, bananas, lettuce. but mostly i bought chips and potatoes. and 2 happy planet raspberry smoothies...which are WAY cheaper (like 50%) at capers than at safeway. weird? yes. very.

oh boy.

thankfully i brought a list, so ian's cupcakes will get made. i literally had scrape the bottom of the barrel for the flour. i was at capers, on the ground, leaning the container on its side, trying to get enough flour for his cake. luckily i only spilled a bit. like 1 tbsp. maybe two. i hope that combined with what i already had, it's enough.

okay, it's cupcake baking time.

i don't feel so well

i think i've got the flu.

now i have to decide if i'm going to my special work dinner tonight. ugh. i need to lay down.

mudd

i forgot! my mudd jeans were a hit. they look cute, and they provide entertainment. my jeans have a glitter mudd written on the pocket, so danielle said: you have mudd on your bum. ha ha! and then i was checking out how they look, and in the mirror it looks like bbum. CUTE!!!

got you where i want you

oh my god. i TOTALLY forgot about this song. but i heard it on the radio and was like: oh YAY! so, i downloaded it and of course some soundgarden, cause who can listen to that song without thinking about chris cornell? try it. i dare you.

hope was decent today. played some crib with d and my mom, and lost HUGE. had over-priced sushi. did laundry. put this special stuff on my windshield that ian gave me, because i was complaining that my windshield was messed up. and it worked. which was good.

what was especially funny? well... as danielle was giving me her glamour magazine, she read it while doing her garage sale, she said (paraphrased) i don't understand it: cosmo said purple and pink eyeshadows are out, and glamour says they're in. i'm so confused.

it was awesome.

i picked up my sister's digital camera while i was in hope. i'm going to try to upload some pics that i took in utah on our vacation (she doesn't know how to send pics). i don't know if her camera is mac friendly. wish me luck! AND i got a hot glue gun so i can make adorable flowers for hair! oooh, i can't wait to get started...too bad this week is too busy to get started. and i got a cartridge for my fax machine, so that it's not just collecting dust... fax away people!

only 5 sleeps til calgary!

bur, straw, red

it's cold today! but i have complete faith that it will warm up next week. and if not, then when the kiddies are back at school. that would make me very happy.

so, the other day i bought special K with red berries. i would never have tried it, except it was the cereal of choice at mudge. it was on sale for 2.50/box at safeway, so i jumped on that berry wagon. since the cereal was first introduced i have been puzzled over the name. why red berries? it sounds so artificial... so artificial that i didn't think they were real strawberries. but they are. they're dried strawberries. red berries sounds like we made them look like strawberries but they aren't, so legally we can't say that they are...hmmm... let's just call them red. kinda like blue.

anyway. i hate the name and almost couldn't buy them because they are so ridiculously named.

she bangs

today i got bangs. i didn't get a full haircut. i got highlights, a parking ticket, and bangs. and my hair flat ironed of course.

i SHOULD have got jeffy to fundraise to get me a flat iron, not a computer. i wonder (because i hate pc's) if i could (for the same price) get a person to programme catan for mac. cause THAT would be ideal.

anyway, i look totally extra hot now, and i'm stoked for janet's party.

i'm going to hope tomorrow. should be aight. oh wait. except that my family's totally BONKERS CRAZY. so, if nothing else: it will be an event.

and, FYI: i still have about a loaf and a half of bread from tuesday... and i only bought 2 loaves. i'm doing well.

get the bitch!

played mario party tonight with anghold and james. it was fun. but i f'ing hate that princess daisy. i think... maybe i'm wrong... maybe it's just too fresh, and i don't have perspective... but i think more than peach. GRRR! daisy rocked us hard. and not in the good way.

anghold/peach beat everyone (out of the living players). you got mad skills lady.

also today, this woman in my building called. i recognised the number, and since she's on strata and talks for a really long time, i decided to not answer. she calld again. and again. 6 times in 20 mins. (max) and then she called my cell phone. it was nuts. after the third time i was like: i'm 100% NOT answering the phone. and she didn't even leave a message. the worst part is that she listened to my whole message all of those times, because twice it recorded her breathing and hanging up. FREAKY.

if you go to the PNE, please buy me cotton candy. lola and i need more, so we can concentrate. thank you. i will love you.

superdogs

until tuesday, when toren told me about seeing the superdogs show with the girl he's been dating (who happens to be the president of the fan club of the guy who does the dog show) i had NO idea there was a dog show, let alone a superdog show at the PNE. it has been a very long time since i've been to the PNE. in fact, i KNOW that i've been to playland, i DON'T know that i've been to the PNE. maybe with heather's family. but i DO know all about it. cause everyone talks about it. and i've been to fairs before. wow. back to the point. yesterday, people were like: i love the superdog show. i can't wait to see the superdogs. who knew? is this a more recent addition to the PNE? why have i not heard about this before? toren got free dog food that he feeds to his cat. in calgary they had a mountain bike show. that was cool. maybe there is a supercat show...cats are HARD to train; that would impress me. i'm sorry. i can't get excited about the dog...i mean superdog show. maybe if i go to the PNE, my mind will change. this could be the year.

on the phone yesterday with yvonne, we were both taking work breaks, i was looking through lola's people magazine. i was commenting on how trashy it was. yvonne suggested that it's less trashy than cosmo. i think that cosmo IS trashy, 100%. but in a different, less sleazy way. there's way less celeb crap. which i mostly care nothing about, because when i do read celeb crap, i tend to remember it, and then feel it necessary to bring up in normal conversation. which makes me feel like a celeb junky, and i hate it... cause i don't think that i am. it's just that i remember the crap stuff. and with my deluxe 4 station programming going on, sometimes i have to watch entertainment tonight. i hate myself while i'm doing it, and i feel cheap afterward. guilty too. but sometimes i do it.

please works!

i forgot to say:

when i went to my car to go to rachel's today, my sign was gone, and the blueberries swept up! how very exciting.

AND i get to miss the strata meeting next week... this is probably the MOST exciting!

the station agent

whew! i TOTALLY couldn't remember the name of this movie. despite my drawing blank on its title, this is a great film! rachel and i watched it with her mom tonight. it was soooo great. so funny. seriously, this is a must-see. it's an indie film about this guy that inherits some land with an old train station from his friend. which is not really saying enough, but i think it's good to go in not knowing much. so : the station agent, go see it.

dinner at rachel's was good. i think i should move back there. we had three desserts... they were left overs-it's rachel's birthday week, and she's leaving for india/nepal straight from ontario, so it's welcome home and bon voyage week too.

lola DID bring over some refried black beans... and some regular refried beans. so we had black bean soup and chips with refried beans. i passed on the chick pea salad at dinner. i'm convinced it was for the best.

also, we finished the cotton candy/candy floss today. yummy! thanks toren!

7 letter word, triple word score

clearly, i kicked ass tonight. ian, if you happen to read this, i hope it's a couple of days later at least... so the pain is less severe. do you count the 50 points for using all of your letters before you do the x 3 business? or is it after? :o) guess i'm still a little buggy!

ian came over this afternoon... we went to get bread (lekker and white) and embroidary thread in the rain. and MAN was it raining. i was soooo wet when we got home (and not the good kind, either) then we played scrabble, watched some CSI and waited for indian. and waited some more for indian. it was nuts. but the food was good. when i called the second time to see where the order was (1.5 hrs later) i asked if they could send a coupon or something. i mean really... i waited for 10 mins on the phone to place the order! good thing i bought a new battery for that phone... i wouldn't have been able to stay on it for that long otherwise!

toren got me cotton candy at the PNE today. i forsee flossing for the next few days. at cross-stitching without the buff, we watched extreme ghostbusters and charlie's angels 2 (which toren wanted to be called, plan b). it was my first time watching to cartoon, and my second time watching the movie. the movie was still funny. i laughed a lot.

tomorrow lola comes over. i hope she brings a can of refried beans so that i can make black bean soup.

happy birthday ratch-hell!

ewan

oh my god! i don't know how to interpet this. i was checking the comments for the post that talks about how i'm in love with ewan, and the ad for it was "ewan mcgregor: the unauthorised biography". do they put specific ads based upon content? or is it just random? what could this mean? one thing's for sure: rachel had better be careful who she "ews" at!

blueberries haunt my dreams

and they are still all over my parking space. grr.

i have smooth pits, and clean dishes. and i've been working on websites today. things are looking up. i just need to get some thread for knitting in the buff.

breathe

yay! i've got a few minutes to chillax, put on some ella & louis and chat, have a glass of wine and write my blog!

GETTING OLD

it's weird that i've worked like 15 days in a row before, and now, i'm like whoa! three days?! but i guess it's because it spanned over the weekend this time. and i had to sort of multi-book. like saturday i worked, and then i met up with rach and mahli, and then sunday i worked and went to rachel's then to the videogame movie night, and then today was work and then satomi's birthday and then super mario party ... i wish i didn't have to say this, but toren kicked my ass. we played the difficult level, and MAN, i sucked. HUGE!

the point is, i think i'm too old for this lifestyle. i'm really tired. and to be honest, staying up late to watch the olympics (they suck you in) has probably been my downfall... but i guess i'm addicted... to that and the order of the phoenix on my iPod... well, and a million other things.

BLUEBERRY UPDATE

today, before i went to work, i printed a sign that reads:

PLEASE
clean up your blueberries!
they are all over my parking spot
& they are annoying.

i didn't want to leave the tape in my car or anything, so i pre-taped it, but then it got all stuck together, so i didn't really save tme by doing that. if they're not cleaned up by tomorrow, i will go down with my broom, and a bad attitude about the whole mess.

PEE/STOP

i guess i got used to holding my pee at rachel's cabin. cause this morning i had to pee sooooooo bad, but i really didn't want to get out of bed. and i know it's really bad for you. but i was TIRED! FINALLY i really really had to go, so i went to the bathroom and i barely even peed. but then i knew more would come. this happened at least six times. it was crazy. just the peeing and stopping part: i didn't get out of bed six times. then tonight i had to pee so bad when toren was in the washroom, but it was only a little pee after DYING to go. maybe i messed up my urinary tract. hopefully things will get more disciplined down there.

WAX ON/WAX OFF

yay! tomorrow i get my pits waxed. i love it. i don't care if other people have hairy pits, and between waxes, things can get a little hairy for me, but it's not a big deal. i just love getting it waxed. i only shave if it's a BIG emergency. it feels good. like getting a piercing or something. and lola told me about the cheap place in yaletown. so i'm going to check it out; they have some awesome combos, like a facial, pedicure, manicure and paraffin treatment for like 110 or something. i will review them tomorrow.

boo urns

i have heard this phrase three times today. can you believe it?

everyone speaks the same phrases.

i went to ratchel's b-day barbeque today. mahli and i were the only non-naturopaths. we bonded in our difference. it was fun, i haven't seen rachel's mom in a while, so it was good to get some home cooking! (that wasn't cooked by me). it was also nice to see the NC (naturopathic crowd). and i met the new dog.

after dropping flea off, i went to ang's place in the coq. as there was no WIZARD we were going to watch teenage mutant ninja turtles. which was sooooooo wicked-awesome of her to have rented. cause i was pushing for it, but then there was uproar from the nerdy community as to its authenticity as a video game movie (because it was a comic book first). of course, i was like, YEAH, WHATEVAH! I LOVE BEING A TURTLE! anyway. we couldn't watch it, cause it was getting eaten by the vcr.

oh well. i haven't seen ang or yvonne in a couple weeks... yummy cupcakes.

work today: blew. well, that's mostly a lie. it was fine. but i had to train someone to close, and we did coaching all day, and the girl at the other store had a hang over so one girl from our store had to go there. and then when we were clsing there was a customer who wanted to look at everything, but didn't buy anything. so let me tell all of you "the store is closing but i'm still looky-looing" people: buy something. because one day, the person helping you will snap. and it won't be pretty.

blueberry conspiracy

someone has spilled blueberries all over the underround parking garage. and by all over, i mean, they seem to have settled into my parking spot. they're in front of my car, and behind.

i think it's a set-up. think about it. it's like they were poured on top of my car and fell front and back. oh, and there's a little trail that leads up to about the car door.

i'm surprised i haven't received ANY calls from strata council regarding this. if they're still there tuesday, i'll clean them up. for now. it's off to work.

and p.s. i don't like blueberries, and never buy them.

work it, let me work it. put my thing down, flip and reverse it

so, in my efforts to be a productive person, i went to work today. the work outside the home stuff. oh, and to pay my mortgage. :oD

there's a lot of new stuff at the store... which means i bought some stuff. i still have a credit. so it's totally not like i spent money. AND the purse i picked out was favoured by rachel, so i'm going to give it to her for her birthday. i really don't need another bag. and there's this cute hula girl one anyway. anyway, rach picked out some stuff she liked and mahli did too. it was fun. and a nice break from weird-o customers.

rach, mahli and i went for indian tonight. we decided to go to kohinoor. which has tastey food, but the service is pretty weak. we talked about movies. rachel can only remember the names of two famous people: kate blanchett (sp?) and mel gibson. it was great. and we made fun of my taste in guys... which is completely opposite to rachel's. example: rachel thinks robert redford is hot for an old guy... i say: leather face! i think ewan is waaaay hot...she doesn't really know who he is. which is almost a sin. :oD and then when i explained, she was like, ew!!!

hot guys to me, that rachel thinks are gross:
ewan mcgregor
viggo mortenson
aidan (from sex & the city)
joaquin phoenix
chris noth

hot guys for rachel, gross to me:
robert redford
barishnakov (sp?)

people we agreed we'd date:
jack black, cause he's soooooo funny
hugh grant, who won a place in my heart with love, actually

we also talked about friends that are gay but don't know it. friends that were gay, but aren't now. and percentages of gay/straight: like how straight are you in relation to how gay you are. and we talked about friends getting wives. literally.

all in all, a fun day. we also tried to get mahli to move here. i think it's working. i gave her the low-down on prices of condos here vs. D.C. i think she's interested. now we just need to get her a job.

i want all of my friends to move to b.c. i would like that.

horrorscope

how's this for a horoscope?

BIRTH MONTH IMPACTS YOUR CANCER RISK

"Those born in January or February have the highest risk for [brain cancer], while those born in July or August have the lowest. There's another interesting twist that the researchers can't explain: The association between birth season and cancer risk is most pronounced among people who are left-handed or ambidextrous with those born in the late fall through early spring being most at risk for developing brain cancer." read entire story

free stuff

today this message came from my friend:

I have a sofa and love seat from my cousin that needs a home! It is creamy beige colour with soft pink and brown flowers.  It is a nice set, I am not sure how old it is but I have steam cleaned it and it's yours if you want it! Unfortunately it doesn't fit well in Tyler's place!

So give me a call if you or someone you know needs a couch and love seat or if you want to see it I will take a picture and email it to you!

•••

i believe it's a first-come kinda thing. if you need either of these items, let me know.

wild urs

yahoo! like i said, i had a great trip. let me tell you what happened...

DAY 1
i woke up late to catch the fast ferry (the one that i really didn't where to catch) but got there in good time, and enjoyed the ride to nanaimo. then i had to book it to the gabriola ferry (my flip-flop started to fall apart on the fast ferry... and i had decided while packing that i really didn't need to weigh my bag down with an extra pair of shoes, when it was supposed to be sunny all week, and i already had the non-travel sized rummykub with me). anyway, i made the ferry with a couple mins to spare, and was greeted on the other side by rachel and bruce. we got some food for the next three days and then drove to their boat to mudge island.

we made dinner, and then went on bruce's special "sunset cruise" which was a great orientation. there are smaller islands all around, and you can see the mountains on the horizon when you're out on the water... it was so gorgeous...cinematic baby!

rach and i played some rummykub, read/listened to books and hit the hay.

DAY 2
had a walking tour/rock climb of the island. tanned. swam. p.s. i am such a baby. yes. barnacles etc. are reasons to NOT get pedicures. i couldn't even stand on a rock without almost crying! oh, and i cut my leg on a rock or something. we went home prepared dinner, and played some yahtzee. and ate dinner. and then tried to go canoeing. (ohmygod, i can't even type this without laughing). i have totally been canoeing before. successfully. more than once! we dragged the canoe down to the water, and i got in. rachel got in, and i TOTALLY lost my balance and tipped the canoe. i don't know how rachel stayed dry... she only got the bottom of one pant leg wet. anyway. we were laughing out asses off, and decided to try again. we decided i'd go in the front, and at first it felt more stable. i believe my words were: oh yeah! this is much better! oh no! *flips the canoe again*. i was literally laying in the water, laughing. rachel couldn't even stand up she was laughing so hard. if i hadn't peed before we left, i probably would have pees my pants off. oh god. it was hilarious. so, instead, i changed and we went to visit the deer. this was cool. there were probably 10 deer, mostly bucks. there were a couple does with babies too. we grabbed some apples from the trees and slowly lured the deer closer. one deer, that we named patty ate most of the apples, and was the least shy. they came within a few metres and kinda started to scare us a bit, once we'd run out of apples.

then we played rummikub and went to bed.

DAY 3

had breakkie. played yahtzee. had lunch. went swimming. got slightly burned on my back (after only like 10 mins). but my front was tanning nicely. had my first shower of the trip. after dinner, we went on another sunset cruise. this one went around other islands, and we saw this super-cool rocks; they had huge holes beaten in them from wind and water. some looked like huge honeycombs, others like caves, all bleached white. then rachel and i went to see the deer again. patty was waiting for us! he followed us to the apples, where we picked a bunch, and by then there were lots more deer. it was crazy. patty came as close as 3 feet away! at one point we were practically surrounded by deer. when i got up to get more apples, they didn't even get scared, they just chillaxed waiting for more apples. as we were leaving, patty started to follow us. we're convinced we could ahve had him eating out of our hands in another couple days.

after another game of yahtzee, we went down to the beach. we saw some shooting stars (the stars were so bright). and we played in the water to get the plankton (or whatever they are) to twinkle. if you run your hand through the water, it looks like fireflies sparkling behind. i had never seen this before. it was like pixie dust.

we played some rummikub. read/listened and went to bed. we heard this tapping noise, which we had to inspect. i think it was just a moth. which i killed. then there was a noise, that i swear was something coming up on the stairs. finally, i think we were both about to sleep or sleeping when the smoke alarm went off! and still later... we were awoken with the sound of my dying cell phone that we were using as an alarm clock. it was a crazy night!

DAY 4
made it to both ferries on time, there was an obnoxious group of guys for a stag on the fast ferry. they were totally loud and drunk. rachel and i played some rummikub to end the trip properly, and to make me carrying the damn thing all around worth while. then i took the sky train and a bus and made it home in my flip flops!

whoo hoo!

i had soooo much fun! thanks to mary, bruce and rach!

back-from outer space

yo yo! party people in da house! i'm back.

and i have lots to write! i know you're all excited out of your minds. anyway... rest assured, i had a wicked time. and by tonight i will have written all about my trip.

:o)

Hip Hop

The queen is still in her cabin somewhere, but here's the thought for today.


You look out the window and you see kids equipped in retro NBA jerseys, Air Force Ones, and the "bling bling" around their necks, in their ears, and around their wrists. You turn on the radio and there is Ludacris, Lil Jon, or Eminem with their publicly acclaimed misogynistic beats. You turn on the television and there they are again. You see the resemblance between the kids outside your window and Ying Yang twins' clothing. The whole time you were thinking. Two words.

Hip hop.

Sure, everyone has a say in what hip hop really is.50 and the G-Unit thinks it's all chains and bullets, Mos Def says it's all in the people and the love of God, and all Nelly cares about are his goddamn shoes. You see the reflection between the kids' idea of hip hop outside your window when the big ass chromes roll down the street of Brooklyn on MTV.

Then the image of the kids' parents come to mind. Them working their 8 hour days, 6 days a week, 51.5 weeks a year, 45 years in all. They saved every penny so the house is filled with heat, the plates are filled with food, and the welfare check remains unnecessary. They squeeze out their last bit of energy every night to smile for their children and hand them their allowances. Then the sound kicks in.

Bling, bling, bling bling bling bling.

What all these messages tend to forget is, hip hop isn't chains. It isn't people, it isn't clothes, it isn't the way you carry yourself, and it sure isn't the way you live. There's another word for that, and it's called life. Hip hop is a genre of music, simple as that.

But is it really?

Without hip hop would life be of any meaning for some people? Would 50's chain mean prosperity? Would Em's hate rhymes mean freedom of expression? Would Nelly's shoes mean fashion?

Heeeeeell no.

So hip hop isn't life. But what it does is it takes all that meaningless voids out of all our daily routines. It takes the pointlessness out of our 45 year working marathon. The kids outside your window isn't hip hop. But hip hop makes the parents' blood, sweat and tears. It gives us reason. It gives life meaning.

Hip hop defines the meaning of life.

For some, and for all.

-DJ Hillman-

DJ Hillman is Now Your New Subsitute.

The queen is on vacation. The Hillman takes over for just a few sessions...

Working with kids is a rewarding experience, there are no doubts about that. But working with kids' thoughts is another story all on its own. In the midst of searching for answers in these developing minds, more questions often rebounds off the backboard as you try for that final under-the-leg dunk. Before you know it, you're back on the bench.

If you can't decipher what I just said, it's all good.

Let me tell you a story. It'll come clear that way.

As a park leader at a local wading pool and playground, I see all type of kids. White, black, asian, yellow, blue, fat, short, tall, skinny, you name it, I've met them. However, the questions are often the same: "Can I have a water balloon?" "Can you turn the sprinklers on?" "Where are the bubbles?".

Then there is Jessica.

She prances up to me in her pink swimsuit, and tugs my shirt with her 6 year old hand. As I shift my attention to her side, she quickly points at the two negro-asian children in the pool.

"What's wrong, Jessica?" I asked.
"Those kids wants to play with me." she replied. "But do I have to?"
"Sure, go on, it's a good thing. Isn't it?" I smiled.
"But my grandma said I can't play with black people. It's not good" she whined.

"Oh."

Oh. Exactly. Oh is right. In that lil 6 year old mind there is a seed that will root to something that may guarantee doom. The same thought that guaranteed individuals, cities, and nations to utter destruction. Hate.

But I can't blame the grandma. There is no proof her teachings are for the worse of her daughter. She takes Jessica to the park, she makes her lunch, she buys her toys when her parents are too busy. It must've been love that made Jessica's grandma's to teach her something that she believes is better for her grand-daughter to know. Everyone's asking where the love is. The love is there. In fact, the love is everywhere. It is just shadowed by a thin film of personal hate that we each believe that is for the better of our offspring.

I urged Jessica to play with the kids. I pick up a beachball off the deck of the pool, and sat back onto the bench. Damn.

-DJ Hillman-

super mario party party

monday, august 23rd. be here or be somewhere else. let's say: be here at 6.45-7pm (so if i decide to go to pilates i will not stink by the time you get here). the game will start promptly.

i'm going away labour day weekend (this would be to your place, james!) so, it's your chance to get some party action in. i will provide... hmmm... i haven't decided. but probably something from martha.

if you need to crash here, i will allow it... for easier access to work the next day. but sleeping over doesn't mean you're gettin lucky. it ain't kentucky. also, the goal is for it to NOT be a late night, so m-f workers can go home.

whoo hoo! shotgun on yoshi!

i've had a lot of corn in the past 24 hrs

corn
popcorn
corn chips

i've also eaten a lot of other things. today was d's engagement party. the food was yummy. and MAN was it HOT. i drank 3 7ups. and i was soooo burpy and bloated. how i resisted letting a huge one rip is beyond me - cause as soon as i got to my car, i burped big time.

on d's icecream cake for the party, it said something like happy engagement. which we all know is almost sad! had I been in control of the cake, it would have said the magic-welcome-to-the-club-password of "superjob danielle and jordy". and that my friends, would have rocked. cause everyone wants a superjob cake. and HOW!

last night i brought my mom dinner. we had corn ($3 of corn saved me $$$ in a speeding ticket. as i was getting back on the highway after picking up corn, there was a guy pulled over that i had sped past before i got off the highway. thanks again corn. you rock! ) from chilliwack, turkey frankfurters from granville island, and i'm gonna say salad. cause i can't actually remember what the green veggie was. although the frankfurters were tastey, i would not recommend trying to eat two. unless you are going to give 4/5 of the second one to your dog. especially if you want to DQ something different for dessert.

extra-sadly, there was nothing exciting on the highway today... i miss the crazy tin-man.

people are strange

as i was driving to hope today i passed this car (twice, cause i had to stop in chilliwack for some corn) that had a strange amount of aluminium wrapped products in the back of their car. there were big boxes, small boxes and even ones in between. and it looked like there were non-box items covered as well.

oh, and i just realised what yvonne was talking about, when she said that there are shortcuts to make links and such in this programme. either it does not support macs, or my browser. when i get home i will try to use explorer and see if there are any of these fun shortcuts. until then, it's all about oldschool HTML.

saw the new bourne movie. ummm... wasn't exactly thrilled. hopefully whatever movie i go to tomorrow is better. or my butt will be pissed.

ouch. that hurt my heart.

heart-hand. whatev.

i took skin off my hand in the washroom at the olive garden. ouch. that hurt. good news is: food was good. jordy was so nice as to buy me dinner, and danielle was so nice as to provide the boyfriend that would do that. :oD thanks!

we also looked at la vie en rose (in our 45mins wait for a table). there were cute things there. and the knickers are cheaper than la senza. and la vie en rose, DOESN'T have a "training your pre-teen girls to dress like whores" side store. all of which makes me happy. so, next time i need undies, i'm making a trip to la vie en rose. surprisingly, i only caught jordy groping danielle once in the store, and to give him credit: we'd been in there for a while at this point... and it was only after danielle told him to stop flicking the mannequin's nipple.

on my way home, i saw this guy running across the street in this total preppy 80's outfit. he had a red lacoste shirt on, and a white sweater draped on his shoulders, with the arms tied in the front... totally carlton from fresh prince. and he was wearing black socks with white runners. in any case. fashion faux pas. i looked great tonight, so i was allowed to be the fashion police.

happy friday the 13th

eek. perfect time to watch scary movies.

i don't actually believe in the badness of this day. i do believe in the badness of this series of movies. because i grew up by a lake, and there were summer homes there, it especially creeped me out. i know it's totally fake, and it's laughable how bad it is, but once it gets dark, and you start looking into the deep lake, it gets a little more possible. people HAVE drowned in kawkawa lake. which is one of the reasons i can't swim alone. and if i go swimming there, someone has to go in before me.

welcome to my traumatised world. it's a scary place.

also, a few summers ago, erin and i would go swimming almost every day. the one day we didn't go swimming (we'd swim across lake of the woods, to this log) there was a group of ESL students or something that had stopped there to go swimming. one guy went out far, and i guess he wasn't a very good swimmer, because he drowned that day. it totally freaked me out. i had dreams that i was there that day, with my scuba fins and mask, and snorkel, and that i saved him. no one understood that he was calling for help. they thought he was playing.

heebie jeebies.

today i will talk to people and leave the house

it's true! and i'm off to a good start. i've already spent an hour on the phone with danielle. and talked to lola on msn. and sent her a pic of me to trace for her illustrator class. i've also talked to caleb and allie and helen (my neighbour) and now i've even talked to toren to confirm plans.

later, i will go to granville island (with toren) and buy fruit and hopefully a cake for danielle's engagement party. toren suggested cheese cake, and i think that would be nice.

i think i'm going to the olive garden, in langley for dinner. danielle wants to cheer me up. i've been ditched a million times this week. and i'm not feeling well to start. so, i will load up on carbs (garlic bread). and vegetables (salad). yay! speaking of danielle, i need to pick up her engagement present. eek.

since finishing mario bros. on wednesday, i've decided to try it again. this time, without any warps. you know, each level at a time. i got to 3-3 today. and it really didn't take that long. duck hunk still kicks my ass. and i have no real desire to get better at it. oh and p.s., it kicks lola's ass too.

when i get back from granville island. i will do work. and lots of it. i promise.

i'm not sleeping, no. oh no. not me. (as sung by bono)

so, i TOTALLY can't get to sleep at a normal time these days. it's been 5.30 ish for almost a week now. i need to turn myself around. but only because i feel crappier with these sleeping times than any other. i think my body REALLY likes to be sleeping from 4-5 am.

i got anghold's drinking horoscope email, and i was thinking, i haven't read my horoscope in FORever. i had to go to like 10 (seriously, i even tried an indian paper, and 2 chinese horoscopes). everything was CRAP. luckily, i found a really good one:

You will impress people today with your larger-than-life personality and your total self-confidence. A wonderful aspect from the sun in Leo to Pluto, planet of power, in your birth sign means you are capable of achievements that look impossible to those who do not share your can-do attitude to life. This is one of the very best days of the year.

how can you argue with that? it was worth the effort.

banana what?

i just finished putting some banana muffins in the oven. same as banana bread, just easier to eat/freeze/eat. they smell so f'ing good. totally worth staying up late to bake, and the hot hot house.

there's a meteor shower on (in case you don't read toren or yvonne's blog). maybe tomorrow night i will head to the beach to watch. speaking of things on the beach... i'm going to make an effort to see bard on the beach before the end of august. i love shakespeare. yay will!

also, i played mario bros. today. and finished the game. it was like old times. i totally struggled on 8-2 and 8-3. but it really was fun. and i sucked rocks at mario 3. huge. i can't even remember secrets in that one. oh, except that you can go behind a bush and find a warping whistle.

i didn't get my nintendo from ebay. there was a mistake. so, i'm back to searching. if anyone sees yoshi's cookie, please buy it. i will pay you back.

everybody was eBay fighting

i didn't think i would be up for blogging today. i'm in a shit mood. BUT toren has turned things around (at least for the moment). we are bidding on an NES for my mom. it has yoshi's cookie. it's her most favourite game in the world. i know she'll be over the moon, as they say. i'm soooo stoked about this. i hope we get it.

not only does toren help people move and eat mass quantities of mustard, he helps you (very patiently) buy things form ebay. you RULE toren!

blizzard day is THURSDAY

don't forget, thursday is blizzard day at DQ. proceeds go to a children's hospital in your community. eat a blizzard. i believe i will be available for blizzard eating, in the evening. and only once. otherwise my tummy will get angry.

yay! the day is officially over!

so, today i went to hope. i got to go swimming with heath, and promise and mason (and even got to teach mason some swimming stuff). we blew bubbles underwater, and talked about flutter kicking, and i even held him up so he could feel like he was swimming. that's probably the coolest thing about kids: you get to teach them some good stuff. i told him that in a couple more years, we'll be able to swim all over the lake. for today, i gave him a piggy-back swim and took him out further than he could swim.

heath, i hope the side-view mirror will be okay. mary's right, at least it's only a thing... no people or children were harmed in the events. i feel like i should apologise, despite not even being in the car!

i FINALLY got to pick up my books (and new HIP cd) from the post office. i will write a letter or something tomorrow. i can't believe how long it took to get here... at least i won't be getting mad at stu.

i saw the notebook tonight. and cried like a little school girl with scraped knees. it was totally standard boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl can't be together... but it was told beautifully and EVERYONE was crying. i even wanted to cry AFTER the movie was done. i think i still want to cry.

i missed stitching in the buff tonight. because of family craziness in hope. BAH! and my skin looks horrible. must drink MORE water!

there's a fly on the wall

last night, before i went to bed, there was a fly in my bathroom. so i tried to kill it. i thought that i did, but i only KO'd it. so, after a couple mins, it flew around. i thought to escape it in my room, but it followed. and buzzed, while i tried to sleep. then i decided to try to kill it again. but, if this is even possible, it pretended to die AGAIN. what a TRICKSTER. finally i did kill it. and then i slept. the sleep of the dead.

i wanted to go to a class today. before i left for hope. but i kinda slept in. cause i stayed up late to do some work. cause ian came over to install my airconditioner. i'm gonna say it's a vicious cycle. the good news is that everything went well, except i didn't go to the gym.

since i'm off to hope, i will have other fun material to write about when i get back. stay tuned.

i'm kewl

whoo hoo! thanks ian! my airconditioner has been installed, and i'm livin' the cool life. want to enjoy this? feel free to come over, but we'll have to hang out in my bedroom.

also, i'm going to hope tomorrow... swimming and a movie. if you're interested in joining me, call me before 11, but not til after 9.

:o)
u

a special message from jeffy & me!

Hello everyone - I hope you'll all forgive me for the mass email - I am trying to use the power of the internet to make some magic happen. I know a kind girl named Ursula who some of you know and many do not. Ursula lives in Vancouver BC and is a fan of the worlds greatest game, the Settlers of Catan. A few of you have had the good fortune to play a Catan game against Ursula online before the PC that was donated to her died. I am hoping that with many people making a small effort, we may be able to do what Ursula cannot do for herself - get her a new PC to connect and play. The most basic PC from www.dell.ca is $394, and we will get every dollar donated matched, so we only need to raise $197. That would be less than $10 each, and I am going to start with a donation of $20.00, but I do not want people to donate that much. My hope is that as many people as are willing will consider a donation of $1 or $2, and that people who know Ursula or who are willing to help will also forward the message onward. If you're willing to make a donation, please connect to www.parsons-sheldrake.com/kindgirl.html and follow the link to make a PayPal donation. You can pay with a credit card and a $1 or $2 charge (or whatever you choose) will appear on your credit card bill.
A dollar or two would make very little difference to many of us, but together, we can make a big difference in the life of a kind girl! I will collect the donations and update the page to indicate the amount of donations.

Thanks for helping. If you are unable or uninterested in making a donation, please consider forwarding this email. If everybody had 10 people on their list and this got forwarded 3 times, that would be 1000 people, and Ursula could have a shiny new Dell for only ten cents each!

Jeffy Parsons-Sheldrake, MD CFPC

key mystery solved.

dearest ian,

thank you for finding my key in your shorts. thanks for giving it back to me, instead of sticking to your story of me not giving it to you (and therefore being able to admit that you were wrong).

thanks ian, thian.

also eventful today:

ian figured out how we will install the airconditioner tomorrow (and by "we" i mean, he... j/k, i'll help. i can cut the wood, and hold stuff. i DO have a skilsaw, you know. and i can even help create awesome ideas for how it should be installed).

• we went to DQ (where all the vee dubs go, and now my tummy doesn't feel so good from too much icecream).

• we rented the last samurai, which i hope is the last tom cruise film i see. ever. except for maybe that new one with jamie foxx. seriously kids, the last samurai did no justice to the japanese, and was generally poor... ian and i decided to play scrabble shortly into the movie.

• ian kicked my ass at that scrabble game. why am i sucking at games lately? i clearly need to step up my commitment to these games and practice when others aren't around. at this point, however, i think i'd rather sleep.

oh, and p.s.'s

dear sophie's,

what happened yesterday? you're my favourite diner place, and probably lola's too, but when we took heather there, you had no diet pop left, we got the bad waiter and there were no BLT's, and no grilled cheese. apparently they have a limited weekend menu - how could i not know this? i've been there a LOT (yes, as many times as could fit into a real estate lot).

the good news is, the toast was beautiful... and the shake - gorgeous.

i still love you sophie's, so you're gonna get another chance.

xo
ursula

i almost forgot:

to the chick that was freaking out after the fireworks last night, when arbutus was jam packed with people so that cars couldn't move,

ummm, honking your horn and swearing at the car in front of you won't help move the people out of the way. for next year, might i suggest making friends with someone that lives near the beach, or just chillaxing on the beach until the traffic dies down a bit. in any case, simmer.

ursula

thanks everyone, thone.

thanks for coming to my barbie Q. oooh, that would have been fun, to roast barbies, but then we would have had to buy them, and it would probably do damage to my barbeque, and stink. so i guess it would have been less fun than first thought.

anyway, thanks for coming. the hightlights being toren eating that mustard, the success of martha's recipes, and everyone's yummy yummy food. and of course the fun fireworks, that did not involve keysearching. (this would be a different keysearching than the one that took place last week). three people got their hair did. so it almost became a hair party, but it's always a hair party with lola and me.

oh, we also played sumpermario party last night. without janet and brian, because they took too long. in any case, a 60% truth is that it was a very close game.

i'm so tired, cause heath kept me up til after 5, girltalking. :o) (i am but an innocent). and then (what with being a mom and all) she had to go to the skytrain to get to scurvey in the AM. word on the street is she got on the wrong train and did a loop. i guess i should have warned her. *blush* in my defense, for a hick, she did seem like she knew what she was doing!

before we left, i felt it necessary to give ian a wake up call. part of the reason is that when i wake up (especially if i'm super tired, but have to get up, or if there's a sleep over involved) i feel that it's important to be buggy. as heather was already getting ready and was awake, etc. ian was the obvious choice. i think he likes me to wake him up with a giggling phone call. secretly, i'm sure he wishes i would call him every morning and wake him up with such comments as: whatcha doin? and i'm BUGGY! *giggle giggle*. although, he did say he would call me back and that was a few hours ago.

and then danielle called me, when i was going to call her. weird. wuuurd.

i bought cobs bread this morning. and i've eaten 3 pieces. 3 glorious, delicious, toasted pieces. it's a good thing. lola, there's plenty of bum to go around now.

just a quicky

and then back to work.

not last night, but the night before (24 robbers came knocking at my door) on jeopardy! there was a music answer, and the question was "What is Emo?". i thought the emo crazies might like that. why am i not into emo? well, except like remy zero and sunny day. beats me.

rain makes people grumpy

despite everyone sorta knowing that the rain is desperately needed, it makes people grumpy because they've been spoiled all summer.

today was a really weird day at work. there were weird, and often grumpy customers. but caley and i had fun... well, we made the most of it, and got really excited when a boy-boy couple came in to buy a present for a boy-boy couple from the states who have come to canada to get married.

caley's anxiety of the day was that wrapzone was changing their menu today. and then she was happy because it still has our favourites, and some fun new items. but i swear, the first thing she said was: i have to tell you something, wrap zone is changing their menu today.

after work i went to capers to pick up some more stuff for the barbeque, and the clerk asked me if i was listening to an iPod. and then we had exciting conversation about how much we love macs and how much i love my iPod, etc.

then i bought expensive (or more expensive) sparkling wine, for the bellinis. and because i didn't really care, and wanted to get home. so, good for the wine guy to sell me the more expensive stuff by giving me product knowledge. he deserves the sale, for getting me to tell him what i'm making and for knowing which ones were originally used in bellinis.

see lots of you tomorrow!

hi ho! hi ho! it's off to work i go!

so, i'm working a crazy shift today. and some things have changed at the store so i won't be able to close properly. you know what i say to that? then don't put me on a closing shift.

i have so much stuff to do for tomorrow's barbeque, but i just spent 20-30 mins doing my hair for work. the good news is: it'll look adorable. the bad news is: i'm a procrastinator. also good news, at superstore you can buy bags of lemons. a total deal compared to the 2 for 98¢ that the bulk ones are.

anyway. i have to finish getting ready for work. if you're bored, come visit me!

:o)

superstore me!

also this evening, lola , yvonne and i combined a social and functional gathering at the superstore in north van. we're disappointed with the selection and organisation of the store, but overall the visit was a success. there was much talk of boys, including, but not exclusive of: ned flanders and tynan (who currently does not have an ursula-given nickname). based upon a conversation i had with toren, yvonne and i only talked in the car, and listened, i guess. there was no music played.

i will give you $1 to eat that

so, a while ago, p.b. (pre-blog) i believe, toren and ang and i were at moderne burger (the BEST veggie burger & fries) and toren got extra mustard (so it came on the side). upon its arrival, it came up, in some betting way, that i didn't think toren could eat the whole thing; despite anghold and i being superkeen to see this, and toren saying that he could do it, he took a raincheck. we tried to cheer him on, but he was concerned about not having mustard for his burger.

this was not a random jab. it was based on personal experience. in first year, some of us were drinking (surprise, surprise) in the common room. mahlette loves loves loves mustard. so we dared her (or offered to pay her) to eat like three packettes of mustard. she totally couldn't. then i tried and it was HORRIBLE! i probably spat it out all over the place. i have a problem with that.

i think the bet is still on because ang and i were willing to pay good money (like a couple bucks) to see this phenom. i KNOW that jeffy's like, i could have done that easily, and still drank a glass of chocolate milk and orange juice with chickpeas and feta cheese. but this is about toren. so to YOU toren, i say, saturday night is GO TIME! yeah, believe it! i've got a couple bucks left from the garage sale and i don't have any entertainment planned for post fireworks.

if anyone else wants to chip in a couple bucks for this event, or if you have ideas along the same vein, please post!

swollen members

i knew that my feet were swollen...even my doctor noticed, and she only sees me when i think something's going on.

i didn't like it, and thought they'd gone down significantly. however, i just put on my favourite platform sandals (i couldn't reach to put up the hooks to hang these candle holders on my patio). my feet are so swollen that i had to squish them into my sandals. this is ridiculous.

it's official

stu, or postman pete as he is also affectionately know as, is no longer my postal carrier... at least not for the summer. i will leave that crush behind and concentrate on something equaly fun. like cross-stitch. and baking cookies without sugar for toren. and getting the medical services plan people to charge me the right amount for health care.

until we meet again stu.

I AM A FOOL!

it has been well over a week (including today 9 days) without toast. where has the time gone. if only cobs were open so late! tomorrow i go to cobs. after i see stu.

seriously, i can't believe this. what is wrong with me? or maybe not wrong with me. maybe i'm not addicted afterall. huh. i showed YOU bread! (she says while plotting the earliest time possible to buy bread without seeming crazy...)

i will admiti have had a couple of bread products this past week, but never cobs bread, and sooooo much less than normal, that by comparison it equals 0.

next up: welcome home cobs bread.

pea-NUT, peanut butter, and oatmeal.

whoo hoo cookie success. martha would be proud. as enticement... in case any one wanted to know, i think that for saturday's barbeque, i will make this rocky road ganache pie thingy. it's in this month's martha that ian made me buy at london drugs because he was embarassed for me to charge 98¢ to my mastercard. i thought i was going to buy an airconditioner there, but they were out of little ones, and so i only brought my mastercard with me. (so i can get airmiles). so then i also picked up a british magazine (whose name i will not say) and a chocolate bar for d and me. and i think something else. this 98¢ purchase became $15. jeez louise!

thanks for the cookie compliment, there are more where that came from. i really do have to go... i should sweep or something too.

wanting, waiting for stu to justify my love

oh my god. imagine if stu DID do a search, or that he knows someone who knows someone that i know that reads my blog? well, FREAKAZOID is what he'd be thinking. since i think this is highly unlikely (ignorance is bliss) i will continue to write about him as if he were a luddite. he does deliver the mail by foot afterall. and he'll be looking for a doctor, so i think i'm safe...well, mostly.

so, i don't know that i'm actually in love with stu. i really hadn't thought about him for a while... i guess until i ordered some books from amazon.ca. you can get airmiles if you go through your store thingy so that's what i've been doing. i'm addicted to airmiles. my mom bought me a kitchenaid mixer, and i've bought a kitchenaid food processor. it's been an exciting addition to both my life and my friends'. wow. tangent much? anyway. i'm expecting my books... please don't ask what they are. there's not a thinker among them... they should come tomorrow. so i'm getting excited that stu (if he's still around, i seriously haven't seen him in forever) will bring the package to my door! whoo hoo! maybe i should shave my legs. LMAO.

anyway... i think that i don't have a crush on him anymore. except that he is so f'ing hot.

today i had to be at the store for 8am. brutal. i am helping with inventory. it was supposed to be a 4 hr shift but got turned into a 9 hour marathon. lots of typing in codes, etc. and by the end of it people were getting testy. the good news is that a girl that works there made me a cute flower to go in my hair. i love it. i'm extra cute now! whoo hooo!

oh, and i did get lunch for free. lisa and i went out for sushi. the yam and veggie (no mushrooms) kind. and i had agadeshi tofu... mmmm... tofu.

yay! the fireworks are tonight. i've got to get some coal, or whatever it is for my barbeque, so that i can have a veggie burger. (i bought some the other day, but it was the wrong kind... the kind i bought already had lighter fluid on it (that was all the had at safeway) ian laughingly informed me that that would probably blow up in my face. i took it back. i should book it. and shower. yukky! it was hot on the bus back! (to my house, not on the back of the bus...i DID have $2 for fare).

oh, and p.s. i'm NOT going to look at the hair section on toren's blog anymore. i think it's best if i just leave the situation alone...in case anyone's waiting for more snarky comments from me to puck and that other guy.

your 2¢

so, as you may have noticed, i've decide under the direction of yvonne, to stick with one messaging system. this means all previous messages have been hidden. know that i love them. and that they haven't been deleted.

today i looked at shoes. not just dozens, hundreds. i love shoes. today, is the day that i never thought could happen. i don't want to shoe shop...for a long while. i saw too many. danielle's looking for wedding shoes. hopefully by spring there will be more cute, sparkley, open-toe white shoes.

i also fed what could be my latest of addictions. sophie's cosmic cafe has the best shakes. they're orange shakes, made with fresh orange juice. soooo yummy. i'm not a huge fan of orange creamsicles. these f'ing rock. everyone should try them. they are beautiful.

also, something is wrong with my jaw... or maybe my tooth. it could be from sleeping on my face. it hurts. as i test it out now, i'm pretty sure it's my jaw. it's a mystery. but since i asked the doctor about so many things last time i went, i don't think i can go back anytime soon.

east meets west. fight to the death

i'd like to welcome any readers pointed here from parsons-sheldrake.com yay! if you know me, this may be an even weirder glimpse into the madness that is my world. if you don't know me, brace yourself.

kisses all!

graydar

last night danielle told me that my ex boyfriend, ray, has come out. clearly there's a limited amount of people to choose from when you live in hope. also, don't date me. you may become gay.