i had forgotten what it was like to be kept up late by a boy many nights in a row. i had almost forgotten what it was like to be so glad the weekend was here just so i could avoid another 6 am alarm dragging me awake.
it’s been a generally busy week with lots of late nights and extra-curricular activities keeping me from home and rest. all i’ve been doing there is sleeping and showering, it seems. that’s all right. saturday is officially “sloth day”. me, three video tapes of recorded television, and the comfy pants are going to spend some quality time together… until i go out again. *yawn*
i spent more time on the phone yesterday than i have in the last month. that’s what it seemed like, at least. my work phone was ringing off the hook. my cell phone was ringing. i came home to multiple messages on my voicemail. everyone wanted a nice big piece of me. then again, who can blame them, right?
busy at work. blah. class was good. blah blah blah. lots of cute boys. blah. bad hair day. blah blah! poor shane. blah. thali for lunch. blah blah. chinese for dinner. blah. union meeting tonight. blah blah blah. sleepy. blah.
wasn’t i just talking about this? i still say that basic photoshop manipulation of digital images is no different than what is done in photomats and dark rooms by film photographers already. *plink*
i broke it. i’ll fix it later. this is turning into a gross, yucky, badbad day.
somehow, i managed to burn my tongue and bite the inside of my cheek, both fairly badly, at lunch. also, i’ve had a headache all day and its only getting worse. to top all of that off, i ate way too much yummy prawn & veggie rice bowl at the pub and i’m still suffering from a too-full lunch-tummy.
i really can’t wait to go home and have a nap.
i don’t think i’ve mentioned just how cute i am today. i think i should remedy that.
you know, i’m looking quite cute today. that is all!
reason #43 why it sucks to have your kitchen carpeted:
do you have any idea how hard it is to get half a bottle of woolite out of low-pile carpet? adding water just makes more bubbles. i could have soaked and scrubbed it half the night and i’d still have a patch of foamy carpet. grr.
hopefully, it will be all dried up by the time i get back on monday.
all right, i’ve found my new favourite restaurant.
as alan mentioned, this restaurant is on the same grounds as the hare krishna temple. we went for a peek in the temple to see the deities before they were closed (for some reason we forgot to ask about, they draw curtains around them from noon until four pm, but they hadn’t yet done that, lucky for us). the grounds were lovely and the patio for the restaurant had a trickling fountain and was overgrown with kiwi vines!
the food was amazing. i chickened out and just got a safe garden wrap (which itself was very delicious), but both my co-workers got this amazing dish called thali which consisted of samosas, whole-wheat chapattis, tamarind chutney, basmati rice, dhal, subji and a sweet dessert called burfi. i, of course, had to taste all of their food and i will definitely get that next time i go. which will be soon.
just think, six years ago, i’d never had thai, vietnamese, japanese, african or indian food. i’m turning into a veritable gastronomic globetrotter!
there’s nothing better than starting the day out with pancakes. i truly believe that pancakes can make anything better. you can eat them with syrup or jam, use them as chair cushions, wear them as a funky french-inspired hat or strap them to your feet and walk on snow. yay pancakes!
two weeks tonight and i’ll be back in school. i’m very excited. of course, you may all remind me of this when, in about five weeks time, i’m all stressed out about homework and deadlines. i may complain while in the throws of educational stress, but i really do love it. this summer has been oddly lacking without class.
speaking of school, i finally got around to submitting my application to the program i’ve said i’m taking. now it’s only 6-8 weeks before i hear if i’ve gotten accepted. it’ll be kind of cool to officially be part of a program. it may just be a baby associate certificate, but it’s a start. i need to win the lottery so i can go into the full-time cst diploma program. now that would be cool.
it never ceases to amaze me that my hair knows when it’s about to get hacked off and behaves very well just at the moment i’ve decided to get rid of it. stupid hair, i guess you’re staying long for the time being. just don’t get uppity or i’ll take the clippers to you.
while watching something stupid on tv the other day, a commercial for an album by some band came on. the ad itself wasn’t all that exciting, but the music really caught my attention, as did the name of the band. of course, being the web-enabled geek i wish i was, i went in search of a website for them. there i found some samples of their songs and tried to figure out how to convert the real audio files to mp3 so that i could have them for free.
that’s about the time i decided to read their bio page and i discovered that i used to know one of the members of this band back in highschool. sam parton, and her twin sister erin, used to work at the same mcdonald’s i did. i even had a brief crush on their brother, rob.
what a tiny little world!
at that moment i realized i couldn’t steal their music, as i was planning to. i went to the nettwerk records site (to avoid receiving the nasty emi copy protected version) and immediately ordered myself their latest cd. it should arrive sometime this week, if all goes well. i can’t wait. neither should you.
hurry up and go get yourself some of the be good tanyas!
p.s. sam’s hair in the photo of her on the bio page is pretty much how i’m hoping to get mine cut in the near future.
things are still amiss with my data and account, but i really dislike not posting so i’m braving the host which doesn’t give a shit about their customers.
i haven’t mentioned anything regarding my trip, have i? well, north-west ontario is hot. damn hot! real hot! so hot in my shorts, i could cook things in them, do a little crotch-pot cooking! (bonus points if you know where that comes from) thankfully both the car i rented (2003 chevy malibu, baby) and two out of three places i slept had a/c or it was highly probable i might have died from the heat. the bugs weren’t too bad, except for that one night we were outside as the sun went down. the bastard mosquitos even got me through my socks.
the wedding was lovely. i kind of got dubbed the backup photographer because i was running around taking all sorts of candids while the guy they paid took all the portrait-like shots. i’m sending out a cd with all the photos i took so the happy couple can get them developed if they so desire. that reminds me, i have to get that in the mail today. i took almost 300 pictures while i was gone. i’m a crazy person!
i came home with a head cold, just like every time i fly, so i’ve been a sniffly, sleepy girl this week. i also lost five pounds somewhere along the way. luckily, i also seem to have misplaced my appetite. i have very little interest in food, which may help me keep that five pounds lost. cross your fingers.
there are more vacation stories, but i should try and get some work done since i’m here again.
my host has fucked things up and i’m missing over two months of posts, photos and comments. i don’t know if i’ll get them back, but i’m not going to post anything new until i hear from them regarding the situation. cross your fingers it gets fixed soon.
is this thing back on? *tap*
i’ve decided that today is going to be “hang around the apartment naked” day. i’ve got three videos, a fridge full of nummy food and a cool breeze coming in the windows. this is the perfect day to shed the clothes and just let it all hang out.
i’m a moron who closed the browser in the middle of trying to write this post. so, in lieu of well-formed prose you now get point form:
– i got 8 hours of cool sleep last night. in a row. i’m human again!
– i tried to burn down my apartment last night.
– why do paper cuts hurt more than other kinds of cuts?
– i’ve eaten a lot of steak this summer. i might be in need of supplements.
– i keep dreaming of new cars and lots of money. i hope the plan comes together.
– i totally blew off 26 things. i’m so ashamed.
– i think i might get my hair chopped off this weekend.
– i found a copy of javascript unleashed for $15 last night. that’s $60 off the cover price. score!
You: complicated, difficult brunette. Five and a half storeys tall or better. Irredeemably cosmo. Must enjoy long (tortuous) strolls through extended metaphor. Longstanding New Yorker subscription a definite asset. Apply now.
so close, and yet so very far. good luck, jeff.
it is 11:56pm and the current temperature in my apartment, with all the doors & windows open and the fan going full bore is: 28c (82f).
i’ve tried not to whine about the heat and how much i hate it, but really, i’m not sleeping and i feel like crap when it’s like this. i’m a complete and utter wreck at work because i’m up all night in my hellacious apartment. it wouldn’t be so awful if i could turn nocturnal for the duration of this torture, but i think my boss would have issues if i started working 7pm-4am.
i guess we’ll see how long i can go without sleep before i turn into mrs. hyde and kill everyone who dares breathe in my presence.
please, sir, may i have some more sleep?
had a great time last night with the step-family. it’s funny, i’ve never really liked my step-mother, but i’ve always gotten along really well with the rest of her family (excepting her kids, they’re just as uncomfortable to me as she was). my cousin works for a large brewery, so our beer with dinner was paid for by her work and she even sent me home with a case of my favourite honey brown. now that’s the woman you want to invite to all your parties!
of course, i stayed out too late and, between the after dinner coffee and my thirty degree (eighty-six for you yankees) apartment, i didn’t get to sleep until sometime after midnight. guess who feels like a the walking dead today? i really hope i get some sleep tonight. maybe i’ll try for a nap when i get home.
dad takes off for ontario tomorrow, which means i’m the drop-in cat-sitter for just over a week until i follow him eastward. i think, if this heat doesn’t let up, i might move into dad’s place while he’s gone. his apartment is much, much, much cooler than mine. plus, there’s free laundry and he has a bathtub i can soak in if it gets too unbearable. now that he’s got a computer (albeit a slow and painful one), it might not be too much of a sacrifice. at least i’ll be taking my laundry there. gotta save my loonies for the trip!
dammit, no pancakes for dinner. i was getting all excited about them, too.
instead, we’re going out with the step-family (my dad’s wife’s brothers et al) for the step-uncle’s birthday. mm, maybe i’ll have a nice piece of cow. yum.