today is my friend’s birthday. i haven’t seen nor heard from this friend in almost ten years. i still consider him a friend, though. when i moved back to the city, i sent him a holiday card to the last address i had for him. in the card, i asked him to please contact me. he didn’t. i still wonder where he is or what he’s doing. is he living in hawaii like he always dreamed or does he still work at general paint?
the chances are slim, but if you know christopher malcolm rogers of vancouver, bc… let him know that hess wants to take him to white spot for a chicken pot pie. thanks.
i just re-read last december’s entries. i was much more interesting in 2000.
oddly, i’m not really scroogey (that is if you’re even allowed to be scroogey *after* xmas); but i just don’t feel like writing. not in any sort of detail, at least.
i’m home from mom’s and grateful for it. the longer i live away from home, the more i miss my own space when i’m away. i got good gifts and the gifts i gave went over very well. i had two turkey dinners and a turkey leftovers yesterday. if i start to gobble, please don’t shoot me.
i’m going to spend the weekend installing my new 40 gigabyte hard drive and all the programs which will go on it. oh, i’m also going to read. i have three books on my “must read” list right now. either that or i’m going to be spending far too much time up at meghan’s playing with their new ps2.
oh right.. it’s thursday, isn’t it? here you go:
“Rocky Racoon” by The Beatles
i wonder if heather knows the words to this yet…
okay… i’m going to my mom’s tonight. in case i don’t get a chance to get online before tuesday, i want to wish every one of you the best of the season (regardless of your seasony affiliations) and happy holidays.
it’s been a pleasure to get to know some of you and flattering to know that the rest of you come back day after day to share parts of my life. i wish i could give each of you a giddy, holiday hug. unfortunately, you’ll just have to make do with this…
you know i’m serious about making a good impression if i wear a skirt and/or jewelry. tonight i wore both. good thing i did, elaine is still as coiffed and beautiful as ever. i would have felt horrible showing up in jeans.
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.
