Author Archives: Heather

these are undeniably the ugliest socks in the whole world. my best friend gave them to me and i i love every little bit of them, especially the little blue pom-pom tassels!
i’m making a cd of christmas music to take to my mom’s (and possibly another copy to give to the almost-polders). after that, i have to make marie a linkin park cd. whee. i’m in production mode today, it seems. what else am i supposed to do while i wait for word from dad on whether or not we’re going out to ladner for dinner?
i had such a wonderful day yesterday it’s spilling over into today! i should probably go out at some point and see about getting the aunt & uncle something for xmas, but i can’t be bothered. they don’t love me for my presents. they love me because i’m undeniably loveable! *grin*

he signed my guestbook! look! *swoon*

if a boy tells you how completely inept he is at reading signals from a girl, is he trying, in a round-about way, to tell you to be upfront if you’re interested? or is it an out for him to ignore the signals you’re putting out?

i don’t know.

i haven’t posted my referrals in a long time…
giraffe fucking
burgandy duvet
ornament template to use for christmas card photo insert
albino giraffe
If “ifs and buts” were “pots and pants”
“run around sue” +download +mp3
“mud volcano” naked
blue bus timesheet in vancouver
bill cosby chicken heart wav
ladybug wall border and comforters
Geo Metro “rear turn signal”
Randy Crawford lryics
philisophical information about hallucinations
survivor outlast theme wav
“Back off get your own sandwich” + “Commercial”
Lethem Plagiarist
“paint shop pro” registry hack expired
Vancouver lunch noon anthem play
old cigarette tv commericals videos
shannen doherty ocean eleven premiere

*waves at the other vancouverites visiting*

it feels like friday. too bad it’s not. we get pizza ordered into the office on friday. friday also means that i have five work-less days to look forward to. ahh, friday… how do i love thee? let me count the ways.

this is an example of why i shouldn’t watch much music. pop-up videos featured this song and i was reminded of all the times i sat in my room and sang this song to that “special” someone who wouldn’t see how much i felt for them.
“Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams
i was going to get a xmas song since this is the last thursday morning mpeg before it, but i just couldn’t decide on one. instead, you get this sappy love song. sorry.

i’d never thought of putting egg nog in my coffee before… i wish i had. it’s damn tasty!

i spent most of the afternoon in conversation with anthony yesterday. we totally blew work off to discuss our favourite films & actors and other sundries. i haven’t had a really good, in-depth conversation like that which didn’t revolve around computers or someone’s problems for a very long time. it was one of those times when you’re completely unaware of anyone else around you. as i was getting my stuff together to go home, i noticed mark and lee-ann were at the other end of the room and i was shocked. i had had no idea they were there.
i’m trying to find a way to make it look really casual when i give him my card on friday and tell him to give me a call if he wants to hang out as friends after he’s finished his practicum. he’s really good people and we have a lot of similar tastes. i think he’d be a really good friend to have.

i’m sorely tempted to go home tonight, have a nap, and then go to the ten o’clock showing of lord of the rings tonight. i would definitely do it if i could talk anthony into accompanying me. i know i wouldn’t be able to find anyone else to go with. dammit, i have boring friends.

i don’t know what happened. i had so much to say last night i forced myself away from the computer and into bed. but today… i’m giving out the chocolates i made. everyone seems so pleased with them, too! sandy told me she was “very proud” of me. gee, and i thought i was just making sweets. either way, i love giving people stuff and it’s nice that they like them. i made the right choice. phew.
i’m running out of time. i have to go get dad’s xmas present and his birthday card tonight and hopefully find something for my mom’s cousin who’s living with her and something for the aunt, uncle & cousins whom i’ll be visiting regardless of what my mother thinks. ack, and i should get something for pat & bob and maybe tim & edna, although i doubt i’ll have a chance to see them. i’ll only be on the island for two-and-a-bit days.
tomorrow, i’m taking dad out for his birthday dinner even though his birthday is really thursday. thursday, i should be able to go find something to take to my step-cousin’s dinner thingie saturday. friday, is cards, as usual. saturday is the dinner thingie. sunday, dean & i are going to go see lord of the rings. monday morning, i’m catching a ferry to the island. i really should phone her and let her know my schedule. my mom, that is.
now, i’m going to enter more applicant info and produce another two-hundred “sucks to be you” letters. then i’m going to go eat thai food for lunch. when i return, i’ll enter more resumes and disappoint employment petitioners. it always makes me feel so smug. “nyah-nyah. i work here and you don’t!” have i mentioned lately that i’m evil?
a couple of quotes which made me think. i sent heather’s daughter, rowan, a big plushie clifford doll for her fourth birthday last month. it seems she actually likes it:
“Oh, and hopefully I’ll get a picture of this before she stops – Rowan has taken to riding the Clifford you sent her around the house, like a horse. It’s quite funny to watch. She sleeps with him (there’s hardly room in the bed for her with all her stuffed things in there now!), and says each night ‘Clifford keeps me safe when it’s dark.'”
doesn’t that just make you want to cry? okay, maybe not; but, i teared up reading it, dammit.
my second quote is an odd little conversation i had with iain earlier this morning:
me:  you don’t know how dark and dreary my life has been without ennui.
iain:  that sounds wrong, out of context… almost profound

twice tonight i’ve been completely overwhelmed by people i know. dear god, i’m surrounded by brilliant, insightful, talented people.
i don’t know how i got into this social circle, but i’ll be damned if i’m leaving any time soon.

today in the mail i received four xmas cards. four. in one delivery. four! one from the lovely andrea, another from my smoochalicious buttercup and two others from co-workers i don’t see on a daily basis.
four! i don’t think i got four xmas cards in total last year.
i’ve also been the online gift-buying queen the last couple of days. i’ve ordered gifts for four friends in the last two days via net.purchases (no, i’m not saying for which friends… i know at least two of them read this, the sneaky buggers). it’s so *easy* and i don’t have to brave the malls! oh, shit. i forgot to go get dad’s present. fuck. someone remind me to swing buy oasis on my way home tomorrow, please.
oh, and thanks to restless paint shop pro energy, a burst of creative itch and a suggestion from the aforementioned lovely andrea, i added a couple items to the store you may not like to spend your hard-earned shekels on. the link, like the rest of them, is over there on the right. click away, my children. you shall buy… you shall consume… you shall brand yourself!
i’m going to go finish the bloody book i’m reading and then go to bed. g’nite.

i was feeling a little…

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it’s a good thing anthony’s last day is this friday. it will save us both from a painful and destructive crush.

i just realized that i haven’t yet gotten the bill from the dentist for the work he did on november first. hm. maybe they were free!

that’s exactly what vanilla sky was. if you liked memento or fight club you will definitely like this film. wow. it’s… wow.
shoot anyone who ruins the plot for you.

i’ve spent all day in the kitchen making chocolates and wrapping them up in pretty pink saran wrap and red & green ribbons for distrbution amongst my co-workers this week. then i cleaned and cut up veggies for snacks and now i’m making some fried rice for lunches. phew. i hope i don’t have to cook at all this week. i’m kitchened out.
in other news, it’s been a weekend for presents! i finally got my mystery package from the post office and it was the most glorious xmas stocking from the über-lovely jenabeans. but, the kicker was it was completely stuffed with a million dum-dums! i’m completely wired on sugar now!
my door buzzer buzzed today and when i picked up the intercom i was greeted with “courier!” i let him in and accepted the unexpected package. when i opened it up i found a sidewinder joystick and nothing else. the return address was my cable company. seems i won a prize! not that i need a joystick, though. oh well. maybe now i’ll have to start gaming just so i can use it.
then, i opened my door to go put a load of laundry in and my annual gift from my landlords was hanging on my doorknob. two big, beautiful xmas coffee mugs!
i’m totally overwhelmed.
now, i’m waiting for six-thirty when dean’ll be coming by to fetch me to go see vanilla sky. geez, this has been such a good weekend i don’t want it to end!

i’ve finally figured out what to get for everyone whom i want to give a token gift. i’m going to make chocolates! my mom and i made some lots and lots of years ago and it was great fun. i think that’s what i’ll do tomorrow. that means i have to get dressed now and go buy supplies. it’s miserable out and i’m still in my comfy pants… dammit, the things i won’t do to make people happy! *snort*
at least i can swing by blockbuster and pick up a couple videos while i’m out. maybe the postal outlet will let me get my package tonight, too.