April 2007 Archives

today is my 15th anniversary!

my car and i were united in a symbiotic & fiscal union on this day in 1992. this is the longest relationship of my life. it's one of my oldest and most expensive possessions. it's taken me across bodies of water, mountain ranges, the middle of my country and an international border. it's cute, it's blue and i couldn't imagine not having it in my life.

even when it acts up, even when it stinks, even when it's messy and expensive and i look lustfully at the mazdas driving around so shiny and wafting new-car smell out their sunroofs, it's my baby and i'm glad we've gotten to know each other so well.

happy anniversary, baby! here's to another 235,000 kilometres!

had the car towed to the shop at 7:30am on thursday morning after the engine started trying to bounce itself out from under the hood. luckily for me and my bank account, it was just a spark plug wire which popped off. of course, i was embarrassed i didn't just look under the hood to see -- and fix -- that myself. ohwell. at least my bcaa membership came in useful.

chris & mel came over for butter chicken and hockey friday night. fun was had all the way through to the second overtime. it's hard to believe it took over two years to have them over. now that they know just how yummy that butter chicken is, i think they'll be trying to invite themselve over much more often!

spent most of saturday & sunday outside in the gorgeous sunshine and enjoyed every second of it (even the many, many seconds when the decision to not have coffee saturday morning came back to haunt me saturday evening). took a fair number of photos, most of which didn't even suck. that was a nice surprise.

i even got to meet christopher's parents' new puppy which arrived by air from alberta this very morning. she was still a little shell-shocked, but pretty cute, for a dog.

i dreamt about lots and lots of kittens last night. why don't more people i know have kittens for me to play with?

the real treat for this beautiful spring weekend: i haven't cleaned one damn thing. my apartment is pretty messy, the dishes are piled up and i'm not sure i have any clean pants to wear to work tomorrow, but i'm not giving a damn right now. i'm enjoying the sloth. i think i deserve it. at least a little bit.

inspired by a thread in the mailing list i subscribe to so i have some sort of access with the outside world while at work, i'm going to attempt to recall each and every job & residence i've had since the age of sixteen:

hm... there aren't as many as i thought there would be, actually. i suppose i'm still scarred by all the moving i did between the ages of 6 and 14. if i were to analyze it, that might explain my need for stability and stasis now.

busy week. not much sleep. feeling... rough all 'round.

i got a christmas present today!

it's a chocolate brown microfibre ottoman, just like i put on my wish list. yay! more importantly, along with the cozy ottoman came a visit with my long, lost best friend. double yay! it wasn't very lengthy, but it was nice to actually see her for the first time since december. i officially put it out there that she and her husband should come over to play Wii. i know that'll provide some very tempting incentive to get her taller half over. hopefully, she'll come along, too!

the day was a long one. i felt awful and off for most of it. i definitely would have come home well before lunch if i hadn't had a meeting to attend in the afternoon. just my luck that over half the attendees either forgot, were on vacation or got called away to other, more important, appointments. i stuck it out for no good reason! how awful is that?

people are scary. i wish they weren't so.

the new internet-free workdays are causing a severe change in the way i interact with the 'net. unfortunately, that means that blogging has become something i'm trying to learn how to make time for, instead of it being just a part of my day. i don't like it much, but there's nothing which can be done about it. i'm trying not to ignore this website, but it has been sorely neglected this past month. my apologies.

at least you're not missing much. i work, i spend time with christopher, i try go see other friends at least one day a week. oh, and i clean compulsively. if i had more time, i'd try to write more interesting stories about the cleaning or the working, but meh... it's all be done before and much better than i ever could.

i've discovered i should have become a pharmacist instead of an office drone; either that, or gone into IT in QA or web stuff (not programming). jen had a great birthday party friday night; it was such an occasion i wore a trio of new clothes to honour it. my mom came to visit over my six-day easter break; we shopped and i slept on my new air mattress. my boyfriend bought me long-stemmed red roses just "to see your beautiful smile". this morning, we went to camera show where we managed to buy almost all the film available (i'm not even exaggerating). i've been driving dad's car for the last seven days and i'm loathe to return it to him tonight. hockey fever has me in its grip: go canucks go!

that's about it, really. i'll try to be more post-y. don't forget about me!

i've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about vacations. i have three weeks off work at the end of june and there's a part of me which would really like to take some of that time and go somewhere i've never been. i went to ontario for the family gathering last summer, but other than that, i haven't gone anywhere in what feels like a really long time (my last trip was to minnesota in 2004). i've toyed with the idea of paris, but the costs associated with that are prohibitive at this time. then i thought about vegas, but christopher wouldn't go there with me and i can't really think of anyone i'd rather go with my first time; nor would i want to go alone. all this trip-thinking, and the constant reminding myself that i have to get up at 3am saturday morning to drive my dad to the airport for his carribean cruise, must be what caused my dream last night...

suddenly, i was on an alaskan cruise with my friend karen. we were on the ship, in our room and on our way. then, of course, it got weird. i started to see gross bugs and creatures in our room, but not before i read the note left for me describing where to find the cheapest beer on-board. as i was preparing to disembark at the first port of call, i realized that in my haste to get on this trip i'd forgotten to pack a lot of essentials. mostly toiletries, camera and film. i'd only taken christopher's pearl river and one roll of 120 film. i panicked! i ran all over that little town looking for a shop which could sell me film. finally, i found myself in a curious little shop. run by a little old woman up front selling normal corner store wares and a tall, distinguished older british man in the back, running what looked to be a camera shop. my luck! he had a small supply of strange 120 film (ever hear of kodak asa 310?), which i spent a good deal of time trying to suss out my purchase of.

while i was leaning on the counter, trying to decide how many rolls of which kind i wanted (and could afford), the store suddenly became swarmed with customers up front. the british fellow came up behind me, put his hand on my left hip and pressed his lips to my ear and breathed: "you're not the kind of girl who travels from west to east".

stupid dreams.

yay, april!
yay, sunshine!
yay, one work-day away from six days off!
yay, hot boyfriend!
yay, four new rolls of film to scan!
yay, not having to brave ferries on the long weekend!
yay, driving dad's car for a week while he's on a cruise!
yay, payday!
yay, pea crackers!
yay, audio books on my mp3 player!
yay, money in the bank!
yay, kevin smith!
yay, sushi!
yay, no-longer-squealing alternator belt in the car!
yay, cherry blossoms!
yay!