Author Archives: Heather

i spent last night doing something i didn’t think i’d ever do again: with the invaluable help of my very favourite jeremy, i am now linuxy again! four years away and holy crap has linux gotten much prettier and easier! wow. this ain’t your daddy’s slackware install anymore, boys and girls. and, really, other than some bootloader issues because i was installing it in an awkward place, it was pretty simple. it auto-detected pretty much everything. even if jer hadn’t been there to help me out, i could have ran the auto-updater on my own to get things all current. i think. ;)
otherly, i’m completely in love with the garden state soundtrack and have had it on constant repeat since i got home sunday afternoon. if i wasn’t worried about my officemate killing me for playing it again i’d have brought it back to work with me to play all day long. love it. absolutely LOVE it (even the zero 7 song, but don’t tell sean that). i think it’s the best $15 i’ve spent in a very long time.

home now. it’s beautiful out there. go outside.

yay! random victoria visit commences tonight. rawk! this is way better than staying home and dusting.

i’m on day three of this headache and i don’t quite know what i’ve done to deserve it. i could blame the oreos, but they didn’t come along until last night. i’m starting to get annoyed.
ack. my coffee cup is empty. CALL OUT THE TROOPS! this is not good.
i’ve decided that i’m buying myself an ibook for my birthday (72 days! mark your calendars. i really want flowers this year!). hopefully, by then i’ll have fedora core installed on discombobulate and, in search of my long-lost geek cred, i’ll be running three operating systems at the same time! see what fun you can have when you’re not taking crappy courses you don’t care anything about?
speaking of stuff, i guess i really need to get off my duff and get my photocard site up and running. the plan is to put up a gallery of images and then let people pick the cardstock they want the photo they’ve chosen to be mounted on (white, natural or brown). how much would you pay for a photocard? $3.50? $5.50? what about shipping costs? should i eat those as a startup expense? big thoughts. gotta get planning.

don’t really feel like typing much. not minding being around people. went shopping in the sunshine, bought a new toy. shook up my investment portfolio (yes, virginia, i have investments). daydreamed something fierce. this is day two of my headache. i’m craving broccoli.
i think i might go to the meetup/beercast combo tonight. are you going?

it will take someone extraordinary to love me as i am today.
the ones i’ve craved have not been extraordinary. they have been intelligent, interesting, funny, freaky, caring, curious, sensual, shy; they have not been extraordinary.
i’m so done.

yoga makes me feel bendy. until the next morning when Every Muscle In My Body is screaming at me. who the hell knew there were so many angry muscles in my back? who? and why didn’t they warn me before i got down on that mat? ugh.

while i feel a lot less attacked so far this morning, i’m suffering all the same. i could use a hothot bath, a huge mug of mint tea and a day in the über-bed reading trashy brit-lit to make it all better.
in other news, i’ve decided to officially put my ibook obsession to rest (unless an offer i can’t refuse comes my way) and focus on getting a new monitor instead. my daytek is soon to permanently fade to black and i’d like to set myself up with a 19″ lcd in its place. i have a hard time believing that i can get such a thing for the same price i paid for my 17″ crt. then again, that was seven years ago. yay progress!
tonight i’m going out for sushi. except for vague plans involving kung pao chicken, photo-work and blackberry merlot, my weekend should be quite the shut-in extravaganza as long as my dvds show up this afternoon (ocean’s twelve, closer & i heart huckabees). yeah, i’m a party animal.

today hates me. i just want to go home and cry.
wow, even my horrorscope knew i’d have it rough today:

damn, i peeked at tomorrow’s and it looks like it won’t be any better. bummer.

i’ve discovered the perfect way to be able to go out on a work night and yet not be all super-exhausted and grumpy by nine-fifteen: come home, eat dinner, have a shower and then go out. this has a couple benefits: you’re full of good food energy, freshly showered and coiffed, and, if you’re normally a morning-shower person, the evening-shower will psych you out and make you think it’s a lot earlier than the eleven o’clock it is when you get home. rawk!
thankfully i was all cute and awake for music bingo last night, where i won both first and second place in one game. go me! that’s $25 in gift certificates to the pub. actually, if i do the math, it cost the pub $13.83 to have me come play music bingo last night ($25 free stuff – $12.17 tab). of course, my beer-drinking friends more than made up for my cheap night.
speaking of pubs, beer and friends, i can’t even start to think about how upset it makes me that m&m are smoking again. with mark, i kind of expected it, but meg? i actually started to cry when i found out. right there in the middle of the pub. of course, i was already half-drunk, but i still get really tangled up inside when i think about it. they did so well, for a whole year! ugh. it breaks my heart. meg’s smoking a lot more than she did even a month ago, too.
part of the reason it upsets me so is that one of her excuses is that if mark smokes, she can’t not smoke. what a fucking load of horse crap. my mom quit while i was still smoking like a fucking chimmney inside the house. my uncle quit while my aunt was still puffing like a madwoman inside their house. anyway, i just have to keep telling myself that it’s not my life, not my relationship, not my lungs… but it still makes me want to cry.

how wrong is it that i was actually excited to manage to fill up my gas tank at 99.5¢/litre instead of the 105.9¢/litre it was when i left for work this morning?
although, i have good gas-related news! with the fixed car, suddenly all those missing mileage kilometres are back! i can now drive further on a tank of gas. that takes a little bit of the sting away when i fill up.

my random coffee excursion with davin last night was pretty fun. now i’m sleepy, which will only be exacerbated by going out to music bingo tonight. ugh. oh, and i need a haircut in the worst way.
i just want you all to know that if i visit your site and it has advertising which will benefit you monetarily, i will click on it. i consider it my way of paying you back for sharing yourself with me. so, if you wonder where the clickies come from, it’s probably me. ;)

first, and before i forget entirely, many thanks to my guest bloggers col and bruce (and bruce and bruce) for keeping the place active while i was away. of course, they did a better job than i usually do, so now i’m thinking i might not be wanted back.
so, yeah, i’m returned from victoria. it was a wholly successful vacation as long as you define vacation as eating way too much and barely getting off your ass for a week. there really was very little going on except getting to hang out with a bunch of j-named people and watching a lot of curling on tv.
i got to meet jason’s obscenely large television on saturday night, then we proceeded to drink all the alcohol in his house and play need for speed: underground until two in the morning. monday, julie treated me to an amazing lunch and then we fetched a raggedy jim and went to make some photos. can i just say that it’s some kind of freaky how many little things julie and i have in common? we were even wearing similar outfits. i had an inkling, but now i’m positive she’s just the kind of people i need more of in my life.
now that i’m home, i’m procrastinating taking the smoking car to the garage, doing vacation laundry and restocking my fridge with some semblance of food. i was so, so, so grateful to sleep in my own bed last night it’s almost pornographic. travelling is fine, but it’s nowhere near as good as coming home.