goodbye pierre, hello pandas.

things are back to normal; the apartment is back to double occupancy only; ONE english person and ONE french person; the way it should be (not to mention ONE male and ONE female... a couple, that kind of thing).

i got the most hilarious DVD today from the "New and Notable" section. ULTIMATE PANDAS. "Enjoy 90 minutes of panda watching and cutest panda moments."




anyway...how are you?

"hey i made a new post; check it out!!"

we got our bookshelf put together. it's so sexy.
the apartment is getting cozier and more pleasant by the day.

oh shit. this is a rant.

i hate serving those "i'm hip; look at my monroe/nose piercing!", but i'm also professional; "look at my pencil skirt/silk top" girls, especially when they are in pairs. today one was waiting for her friend to pay and through some kind of scuffle or coincidence, ended up putting one penny into the tip jar while looking directly at me. in my eyes. while dropping a penny in the tip jar. i'm sure she didn't intend for that to happen, she was just being silly with her friend while i happened to glance at her at the same time and she happened to look in my direction. why did i even think twice about this? because i am super conscious of our roles.

i slept in by like two hours this morning, so i showed up to work very late and when i got there is very busy. everything on the "island" was empty including lids (lawsuit waiting to happen) and napkins so i started filling that stuff up when this lady commented on how everything was empty. yea. got it. working on it. so i fill a couple things rushing around. she's like "miss, this is empty too" and passes me the metal cream pitcher. i grab it and take it to fill it and it was over half full. i wanted to hit her in the head with it, i really did. why did she say that though?? to mess with me? well, it worked lady.

i also hate adult women who have braces. sorry but that's fucking lame.

"how was your day working?"

hello blog.

i am home alone and it feels amazing. the drug store closed early today because there is a christmas party, which i am not attending. i went for some delicious sushi with erin and then bussed on home for this amazing alone time.

i have been pretty grumpy lately and it mostly stems from my lack of alone time. there is a dude sleeping in my living room, AND he is SO french that i can barely even communicate with him. every day when i get home he sweetly asks "was it a good journey?" or "was your day beautiful?". sounds kind of adorable, i admit, but it's driving me craaaazzzzzy. crazazy.

ikea is also making me grumpy. jonathan and i splurged and bought a giant bookcase to put our millions of movies and books and video games and cluttery clutter in. when we EAGERLY and EXCITEDLY started putting it together we discovered one of the boxes was defective, so i've been calling them trying to get someone to come bring us the correct pieces... it's been 12 days already! it's half assembled self and random pieces everywhere are mocking me.. and adding grumpy points.

quick plusses: pierre (the above mentioned french dude) cooks us a meal almost every night, and he actually knows what he is doing. when he proposed hot dogs and kraft dinner the other night i was imagining it like my babysitter used to feed us, but his "saucisse & diner kraft" meal was pretty impressive. i mean, especially considering the ingredients.
also, i paid eric so now i only have my credit card to deal with, AND visa covered another portion of our ticket so i owed him a lot less. phew.
i bought a hilariously cute/ugly new tea pot with a built in strainer thing (i love tea but i don't know the lingo, sorry).
i finally read catcher in the rye, from a really awesome copy caylie lent me. it's old and fragile and i was worried the whole book was going to split apart every page i turned, but i'm glad i finally read it. i can't help but want to make out with holden caulfield every time i see the phrase "mad man", which i think it probably normal. i have some awesome books coming in for me at the library, not to mention all the movies. jonathan and i were on a big Murder She Wrote binge for a while, now it's just any movie i can think of. i love that guy.

well i think that's it for now. oh except that on the way home tonight i saw some kind of construction worker sitting on a bus bench and the headlamp on his helmut was turned on.

powa

i suggested to the library that they order in the movie Thelma and Louise, and they did! they put me in the first place position for it when it arrives. i just think that's funny

spice up your life, idiots

i really hope this "style" of "boot" catches on. that will be hilarious.






ps - they cost $6000

clunk-rewind-clunk-play-clunk

today was my first bad day at good earth. i was a scatterbrain fool all day. it's just so busy; between creb, super drug mart and the warehouse my brain is kind of ill-equipped for comprehending 5 things at once. phew, phew. oh well though, another day another dollar.

speaking of which ($$$) i decided not to go to sait in november. there's just no way that me and jonathan can get by on one salary and student loans. plus the idea of racking up more debt right now is really unappealing. (PLUS the Zoom Airline fallout is catching up with me - i need to find $850 to give to eric's parents). so, we are just gonna be a working couple for now. i look forward to:
- paying off my credit card & paying bills
- sending jonathan to the dentist
- buying some furniture and fabric for bedroom curtains
- going to the quebec winter carnival in february!
- living (closer to) stress free for a while


i have to call sait and tell them the good news.

feed the animals

girl talk, so awesome.

i keep my eyes wide open all the time

when i got back from europe the warehouse i was working at didn't need me back. on my way home from that rejection i stopped at a good earth downtown to drown my job sorrow with a earl grey latte and ended up getting hired there. secretly i always thought i was too good or something to work at a starbucks equivalent but i have concreted the fact that i do not aspire to keep moving up any type of career latter anymore. i really think i could go from random job to random job and be ok with it. my job doesn't make me. i'm awesome.

belgium jah

currently in bruge. only a few days until i return and i can not wait to get back. its been awesome but i´m sick of eric´s snoring and i´m really hyped on a lot of things, including:
- seeing my boyfriend. ooh i miss him too much
- seeing my new apartment
- going caving
- learning french
- finding a new job
- maybe woofing, maybe just moving somewhere cool

anyway, gotta go. bye internet. see you soon.

can't help it.

i'm still busy, still broke and i STILL love conor oberst.

i woke up thirsty on an island in the sea

i feel like i've been a bad friend, and even a bad human lately. so sorry world. i don't think it's over yet though, i'm in kind of a situation that will take a bit more time to work through.

turns out i've been involved in some bad decisions (or more accurately badly timed decisions) lately so now i have to crawl out. i have to work my balls into the ground until europe because a) i quit my office job for lesser paying uncertainty (i have found a slice of certainty in a warehouse position diversified got me so at least i have steady work now) and b) i gave my notice to move in september, despite the fact that i am gone from aug 20 - sept 3. why did i do this to myself? argggg.

plus here's some quick body talk of my own (shoutout angie) - i think i got a stress STY... in my eye. i wasn't familiar with this term before but my eye went all wonky and it seemed to fit the description of sty. also, this is fucked, but for the past like month, my nose has been SOOo dry and painful and boogery. all i've wanted to do was pick my nose constantly. i think jonathan probably has some photo evidence of the nose picking from our vermilion trip. oh except that BOTH the cameras we used stopped working upon return. what. the. fuck. we are cursed... well i really think he is cursed, but i love him so i will accept the curse as my own.

the vermilion trip - yes. it was pretty good. my french joe and vermilion get along great. we got some RAD books for so cheap, some fantastic deals at the closing out SAAN, and i fell on a motorcycle. great times.

but don't worry everyone, i'll be ok. i've joined a strong team (kelsathon.. or jonasey) so it's do or dye. yea dye, i'll go blonde and become an earl's girl. no i won't. what am i talking about.

the owls go

so my first day of General Labour-ing was pretty Purple Collar.
i ended up at veer (an uber hip design company) in kensington (hip neighbourhood).
it reminded me of helping set up for the fair when i worked at the ag society in the summer. doing lots of different random jobs in a day.

today i am not working. we are going to the zoo.

goodbye office job.

the end of an era (tomorrow).

who ya gonna call????

ahh. i think i found a human ear in my back room's closet.

i unwrapped this little piece of old paper and inside.. what. the. fuck was that thing?!
i caught a peek and wrapped it back up and shoved it back where i got it. ughhghghg.

holy love!

holy i love longboarding on warm summer nights. and making new friends. and fireworks. and being a cheap drunk.

beats that repeat

jonathan waits for me.


bod and mitch wait for trevor.


i wait for bus and make friends.

Kelsey Snekels is thank goodness it's Friday!

you can take the girl out of the office, but you can't.... make the girl on time for work, ever...

put it all together. like a puzzle.

i quit my job - i have a month before stepping off into a new world!
&
i have a boyfriend - he is french and adorable and LOVES me!

clock, cock o' clock

so, you may have noticed that i created a banner to go along with some posts about the multitude of pof dates i've been going on. but i'm not feelin' it right now.

i am thinking more about other things. i had planned to go into work today, talk to beek and let him know that i'm looking for a different career, and then i would print off my resume and head down to the staffing place where i have an appointment.

BUT i slept in somehow. i did this yesterday also - my alarm is set for 6:30, but i keep waking up at 8 o'clock sharp. (the word "o'clock" has such great aesthetics. never noticed before). anyway, i'm not going to work i guess... maybe i'll go in around noon print off my resume, bolt, and have the talk on monday. sigh sigh sigh.



well... now that that's outta the way, i guess i could talk a BIT about the dating "scene". i was going to be specific and creepy, but that's probably not a good idea, because this IS the internet, so i'll keep it generic.

DATE LOG BLOG:

i've gone on 6 BLIND dates from pof, plus the dawson thing. i have 2 more planned (1 tomorrow, one next week), plus robert.
on these dates i have gone snowboarding, drank beer, longboarded, longboarded more, played pool, made out, ate ethiopian, said "retarded", drank tea.

i'm so NOT weirded out by meeting random people, it's crazy. i'm not really even nervous about it anymore. the only not great experience so far has been the "retarded" one, where he warned me he didn't like the word, i said it anyway on our (2nd) date and it became sorta, no... REALLY awkward.

coming soon.

carfree and carefree

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i finally got rid of the car!
applied for a pre-employment trades program.
got some things out in the open with my ma.
i raised over $400 for the ms walk (without putting any effort in really).
sunday crafternoon at broken city!
kriyayoga
stretching my ears, fuck ya'll.
bike riding
reading a lot (see below)

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my place is the most gigantic mess
the program doesn't start until november
sometimes i talk too much
rookie moves that cause me great stress
working too much


books i finished:
the bell jar - sylvia plath
the stranger - albert camus
siddhartha - herman hesse

books i'm on:
the cost of living - arundhati roy

there's more, but i'm off to work #2.

"where created chemistry works wonders for you"

i feel like we should all be a bit more worried about our food, and making sure we don't give the whole food chain away to one corporation.

this might help the worry - a new french documentary called The World According to Monsanto

here's another one:



thoughts?

"such a 'how'd-he-do-that'"

i really should be packing/cleaning getting ready for sasquatch, but i needed to get this out real quick.

a few days ago when i was walking to the train i saw a shoe on the ground at the end of my street that is like shoes i have. black slip on etnies with horseshoes all over them. i ran back to my house and threw it in my backyard.

i finally just investigated.. and it IS my shoe! i'm missing one.... my brain cannot comprehend how it would get there. at all. it freaks me out slightly.

broken promises. ouch!

let the (blog) record show that dawson jones is a flake.

ugh. does anybody else want to come to sasquatch festival this weekend?

does anybody else want to be my boyfriend?

yesssss....it finally came in at the library!

only punches below the neck, not the pretty face

mega quick blog.

been longboarding a lot. with dan. and by myself. not so much with dawson anymore, and not because he made me crash last time. we just haven't been able to even get each other on the phone - neither of us have voicemail or cell phones. it's kind of awesome actually.

went to nofx. so good. so funny.

ow my ears.

i won! i won the trophy... that i made myself. that's lame i think.

and i'm still sick.



gotta go.. to work.

one more time without emotion

after work yesterday i came home to clean up for the tournament and while i was cleaning up the dusty entryway and my throat started to hurt a bit. over the evening it rapidly progressed into full blown sick and led into the worst night ever. i don't know what's going on with the furnace in this place but i slept in the fetal position shivering under 5 blankets, with crazy fever dreams running through my head.
ugh, yuck yucky. i felt like a junkie sweating out. and i felt lonely i guess.



BUT i was relieved this morning to feel a bit more like a functioning human. last night i was sure i'd have to cancel the tile rummy championships today, but i think i'll be ok.

check out the trophy! who WOULDN'T want to win that?... uh.. i wish i could say it just looks bad in the photo.. but no.

it's not a secret, why do you keep it?

zooey deschanel!

did i already mention that i love her?
in addition to my general crush on her, i totally dig the She & Him album.


ho hum...
i'm pretty much just waiting for mitch's phone to not be busy... then i'm going for a run.

but..... i'm considering packing some fruit in case i run into josh & ken (i feel sick thinking of them eating mcdonalds for every meal).

i hit the soft spot on the soft spot on my head

this weekend i intended to do the following things:
• clean out my car like mad
• have an awkward but conclusive talk with dawson about what we're doing
• practice math for next week
• go longboarding with arif (pof guy)


instead i:
• cleaned my kitchen like mad
• hung out with dan
• bought underwear
• went to a movie/dinner with josh (a homeless guy i met a few weeks ago - pictured on right...but not really, that's keanu reeves). we ate at mcdonalds & watched forgetting sarah marshall.



happy 420

there's something wrong with me.

I'm a cuckoo


hmmm..

things are odd right now. ALL things - relationship things, work things... other things.

what.the.fuck.

worst post ever, sorry. maybe the photo will help.





edit - orginal photo link lost, replaced on june 30, 08.

summer time!

i'm in a great neighbourhood but i wish it was flatter. hah. i live on top of a big hill. WAY too steep to board down and kinda steep for my bike to get up.

unrelatedly, my life is weird right now. my work life, my lust/love/crush/ life both feel kinda... wrong? but, only a week until the WBF assessment... and only... 4 years until the end of the world..

good things:
- i'm getting rid of my car at the end of the month. good riddance dead weight.
- i made a budget
- i signed up for spud organic grocery delivery service
- assess assess assessment

why would anyone need a map or a compass? it's so beautiful, to be guided by you

every episode of captain planet is online! how can you NOT love the internet?


so... i sorta have a special fella right now, and it's really great. too great; we're nervous. last night was full of the same round & round we go conversation - can we honour an expiry date of 5 months without having our feelings and friendship smashed to pieces? the answer is, we don't know. probably expect some good heartbreak blogging in august though, i know you guys love that shit.

can i get get get

dear friends,

is this new layout too zany?
please comment.

thanks,
kelsey

i messed up, i missed it

i'm an a-hole!

i accidently sold cigarettes to an underage narc kid at the drug store and got busted. guh.... embarrassing, but i could have got a life-ruining $3000 fine. i am now IDing every human being.



ps - that picture is a real package of cigarettes; "Lucky Strike commissioned one pack of smokes to be produced that proudly boasts 18ct white gold package that displays one large diamond and one large ruby". ughhhh.

yes, a heart will always go one step too far

for my own memory - here's my last week:

saturday: worked job #2, then went to a show with dan at the hi-fi instead of playing tile rummy. we regretted it.
sunday: internetted all day then i met a guy for tea and a hot dog.
monday: i worked job #2.
tuesday: sasquatch team meeting. we have tickets, we have premiere camping, we are good to go.
wednesday: screen printing class, meh. left early to hang out with dawson & watched fantasia.
thursday: made matcha cookies with sara and watched crazy cable TV.
friday: went snowboarding for FREE with guy from sunday, then had sushi/scrabble with bodman.



i spent quite a bit of time this week thinking/talking/reading about john titor, the time traveller. i just love everything about this website. it's so ridiculous and awesome.


from the john titor times:

A world war in 2015 killed nearly three billion people. The people that survived grew closer together. Life is centered on the family and then the community. I cannot imagine living even a few hundred miles away from my parents.

There is no large industrial complex creating masses of useless food and recreational items. Food and livestock is grown and sold locally. People spend much more time reading and talking together face to face. Religion is taken seriously and everyone can multiply and divide in their heads.

john titor q & a:

What happens to Bill Clinton?
I don't really know.

What happens to Bill Gates?
This I do know but I won't discuss.

"i can't relate to 99% of humanity"

me: hey, what are you up to?

seemingly alright guy on dating site: lol hey not much watching 2 and a half men hahah.

me: change the channel!!! that's the worrrst show! hah. why would you do that?

guy: ahahah!! WHAT! it's great! haha Charlie Sheen is soo funny! same with the kid. LOL! plus it`s not on tv i own the 2nd season lol.

me: oh.....


what.the.fuck. seriously? "lol"s and THE shittiest sitcom i've ever seen? no way.




oh guess what chumps? i AM going to sasquatch festival! with kind of a random group of people, but i'm pumped, i think it's gonna be great times.

work is killing me slowly each day though. not a good feeling.

ban marriage by the hidden cameras

yes! i have finally been reunited with this song. it's been too long. you've done it again, library!


i'm cleaning my place. it's excruciating. i wish i had a filing cabinet for all my papers. and also a filing cabinet for my clothes..oh i mean, a dresser.

it makes you look like a lumberjack, but are you man enough to wear it?

this week so far has been pretty grande.



monday - i went over to chris' place and he did my taxes and i drank beer and internetted it up. then i went to work at the drug store for an hour because some people are punks who don't show up for their shifts. it was a good night though.

tuesday - i invited some people to go for wings. and they showed up! and we had fun! hobbs showed up, and i ate some hot wings! crazy!

wednesday - i went to screen printing class, but left early. there is dissension in the ranks, everyone is complaining about the class and douglas didn't show up. there's only 4 weeks left though.

something strange/awesome happened tonight too. i'm not sure how to explain it, i think the best way is to say that i re-connected with a friend that i'd lost touch with. we're hanging out friday night and i'm pretty pumped!



i really need to clean my house. again. i have a problem.

live on location blog!

sigh x 40

just got back from the info session at "women building futures" and...i'm doing it!
i'm going to work towards apprenticeship/journeyman certification. i'm relieved - this program SEEMS really good and comprehensive. i still have to be assessed, but i'm pretty confident they would accept me. then there is the grant application, and logistics and living arrangements to work out. i'll probably aim to start in september/november, after i get back from europe.

sigh sigh sigh.




ok, i have orders to hit up the farmer's market, so i'm cutting this one short. but calgary friends, just be aware i MAY be moving to the capital city* sometime in the next year or half year, so start soaking it* up now!

*"it", being my company. oh and "capital city" = edmonton



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Edit:
i'm posting more, because i'm tired of walking around in the slush and i'm just sitting around caylie's apartment waiting for her to get off work and even though she has tons of interesting projects and art lying EVERYWHERE she apparently DOESN'T want me to snoop through any of it. :(


hmm... um...my shoes are almost worn out... yea... ok, end transmission...

o ma ma ma ma ma

i've downloaded/borrowed/libraried a buttload of music lately, and now i have 3 hours of driving to soak it in uninterrupted. here's a small portion of what i'll be checking out today:

god damn right, it's a beautiful day

5 things:


poor palace is moving to new levels.. of existiness! we got a keyboard (a psr 600, pictured), and also a drum machine (not as exciting looking, so not pictured). so far it's been pretty hilarious. mitch decided his stage name is "captain rap"! and he wants me to called "kelsey keyboard". haha!

oh man, i just burned my mouth SO bad on chicken noodle soup. i am BEYOND annoyed with myself over it.

screen printing class hasn't been as magical as i'd hoped, i pretty much had another wasted class tonight. but i haven't given up yet. i'm going to get something (besides grimey, painty fingers) out of that class yet. i have a pretty good idea for my next project that i think i will actually be able to pull off.

it really sucks to have a co-worker say, pretty much out of the blue, "you seemed really unmotivated last week". guh. it's 100% true, i am lacking motivation, it's kind of a yucky feeling to have somebody else notice and point it out. it's getting closer and closer to moseying time there...

hey guys, if you're ever feeling kind of bummed out, MAYBE because you tried hitting on some gay guy the night before and your crushes never pan out and you don't like your job and don't know what you're doing with your life, do yourself a favour and listen to "mr. e's beautiful blues" by the eels.

no need to ask my name to figure out how cool i am

clever girls like clever boys much more than clever boys like clever girls (pelle carlberg)


nooooo - i knew it! :(



DVNO (Justice)


yesssss - i just came here to bounce :)

some some some o' dem i murder, some a some i let go

is anyone going to sasquatch festival this year? anyone want to go?
view the sweet ass lineup here and then let's go!


i haven't really been doing much besides coming to terms with my messy house. and waiting for summer.

time for job #2, later suckas.

going, going....gone.

i have a problem.
i think i have officially gone boy-crazy.
i need to chill.out.

we had a good run, milk.

chris goertz ruined milk for me! we had a discussion last week about milk that scared me straight to soy.

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2 reasons why i have no money saved:


my boots & my BRAND new board!

ugh, NOW i'm gonna really start saving.

the beats, they were coming out the speakers and rewinding up, straight in your sneakers

i AM a library lover

just when i think i've tapped out all the good stuff at the library, they blow my mind! i got a great haul from the library today, all stuff i JUST put on hold yesterday! check it:

the rapture - pieces of people we love
out hud - let us never speak of it again
p:ano - brigadoon
fiery furnaces - rehearsing my choir
fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
the klaxons - myths of the near future
final fantasy - he poos clouds
the shout out louds - our ill wills

plus stuff coming by the go team, the eels, times new viking, !!!, vampire weekend, the great lake swimmers, m. ward, les savy fav, black mountain, kate nash, st. vincent, hot chip... i could go on! seriously, when did the library get SO hip? i'll just keep dropping more names of great stuff i've gotten: devendra banhart, the yeah yeah yeahs, the jackson 5, corb lund, lcd soundsystem, caribou....

no, the library doesn't pay me to talk about them constantly... convincing people to get library cards is its own reward... i wish somebody would get one already.

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i had the day off from job #1 today so i spent it walking around 17th, trying not to spend money. but i did buy jane vain & the dark matter's cd (i don't JUST steal music).

"what are you guys talking about?" "nothing"

attention everyone,
i am going to be doing 10 km in the Walk for MS this summer and i need some pledges!
$$ click here $$ apparently it's really easy to make pledges online, but if you would rather gimme some cash in person that's cool.
i don't usually get into stuff like this, but i don't know, the brochure was speaking to me.... for example, canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world.
oh, and if you wanna sign up and do the walk too that would be rad.

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i'm feeling a bit off lately. earlier in the week, i discovered this program in edmonton provides trades training and employment support for women and was feeling such relief, like THIS is what i've been waiting for. work has been increasingly impossible. my brain won't focus, i can't get through any work and i feel like a fraud.
so in my excitement i started telling people about the program and how i've been considering trades for quite a while now. ugh, can you say social stigma! its 2008 people, i'm not automatically a lesbo for wanting to try welding or work with my hands for a living. guh, so anyways, i'm still going to a "information session" for the program in a few weeks, and we'll see what happens.

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attention everyone (again): video podcasts ARE the shit! i can watch the nightly news on the train! i'm getting pretty into these national geographic podcasts, as well as stand-up comedy ones.

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sighhhhh, i just gotta make it to amsterdam.

what does this city have to offer me? i just can't see.

i have a good post coming up, but i'm at work and the internet is just tooo slow, so i might just post this manatee family for now:






also, here is my transiting playlist for today:

Black Cab - Jens Lekman
Down At The Sea - Beat Happening
Postcards from Italy - Beirut
Cats On the F.M. - Boat
The L Train Is A Swell Train And I Don't Want To Hear You Indies Complain - out hud
The Bike, Sir - Oh No Oh My
You're Crazy For Taking The Bus - Jonathan Richman
Rent a Wreck - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
my, my metrocard - Le Tigre
jogging gorgeous summer - Islands
Chickadee - doug hoyer (hah, i know...)
3 Speed - Eels
Straight Street - The Fiery Furnaces
streets of fire - The New Pornographers
Dirty Town - Mother Mother
Walk A Mile (In My Shoes) - Holly Golightly
I'm On Standby - Grandaddy
Let's get out of this country - Camera Obscura
How Will I Ever Find My Way Home? - British Sea Power
Do The Whirlwind - Architecture in Helsinki
Hop A Plane - Tegan & Sara

something grand about being nothing, something lame about being grand

bought a ticket for nofx! awesssssome.

you just stay at home and play synthesizers

dan and i were recounting our crazy tile rummy game and i said "yea, that was a crazy game, i even blogged about it". i didn't want to actually tell him the address or name of my blog, and he joked he would google me or search my history to find it. so just in case he DID go to those lengths to track down my bloggy blog, i thought i'd send him a little shout out, so here goes:

FUCK YOU, CREEPY!

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i thought about my "career" a lot today. i realized i am ok not having a career. i just want a job. and i want a job where i can make something. with my hands even! this was kind of a breakthrough, but i still feel stuck. i need a plan. apparently the city of calgary categorizes me as a youth still, so i am going to see what career counseling is all about sometime next week. stay tuned!

simple minds do simple things

today was nice.

after work i picked up my car, and parked it. hopefully it'll be parked for a while.
i talked to bod on the phone a bit, and then rode my bike to chris' house. on the way i got my tires filled with air, and then went to burger inn with chris, ryan, and mat [what a crew of ordinary-named guys]. i got the harvest gold burger & a root beer. rode my bike home.
then dan came over and we played the most epic game of tile rummy ever.

good day.

time for bed.

i like you

i like you - amy sedaris

you can view some sample pages here

it's a really good book. and i am now in love with her.

three thoughts - cars.internet.money

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yesterday when i was leaving work [on my way to 2nd work] somebody (MAT!!) wanted to make a pointless, UNfunny, UNuseful comment to me as i was about to pull out of the parking lot, so i rolled down my window. he made his comment, i rolled my eyes and then went to put the window back up... of COURSE my window wouldn't go back up. gahhh. i'm so MONSTERFUCKING sick of this!

i made a deal with myself - if i can get around without driving it in the next 32 days, i'm getting rid of it. i'm done with putting all this upkeep into this pollution machine because some people (ma&pa) can't comprehend life without a car. i'm an grown-up, and i'll own a car if i feel like it... and i don't... so eff you.

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sometimes the internet is simply the best. today dan decided to try and track down somewhere that sells walkmen (walkmans?.. um.. portable cassette tape players). i posted "wanted: tape playin' walkman" on kijiji and within an hour - a reply!

does anyone remember "baby jessica" who got rescued from the pipe? i was only 2 when that happened, so it's weird that i remember but i decided to look her up today. that chick is cursed i think!

quotes from wikipedia & msnbc article:

McClure's rescue was mostly credited to Robert O'Donnell and William Andrew Glasscock Jr.. In 1995, O'Donnell shot himself after suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Former officer Glasscock is currently serving a 35-year sentence on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, sexual assault, and improper storage of explosives

whoa. curse!

She married Daniel Morales, 13 years her senior, in January 2006. Morales was convicted in 2002 of impersonating a federal marshal to steal money and drugs from drug dealers.

yup, curse.

But she’s still called “Baby Jessica.” That doesn’t bother her, she told Lauer, and referred to a character in a children’s book to explain why.

“Like they told Lil’ Bow Wow, you’ll never get rid of the ‘little’ part,” she said. “Cause you’ll always be what you are remembered as.”

what?? children's book?! who wrote this article? curs-ed.

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i "commissioned" a pair of boots from this guy at the farmer's market. they are going to be totally custom - having the guy TRACE and measure my feet was such a good feeling! i am so excited to have shoes made for me, not off an assembly line in taiwan. it's really exciting. but i'm kind of broke now, so i reaaaaally hope they turn out.

the go in the go-for-it

phewf, what a week.

• started my job at the drug store - apparently doodling is NOT allowed

• had my first class of screen printing, which was so fun i said "this is FUN!" during the first project. a guy in my group, james agreed, and at the end he and our other group member, doug, high fived. but, there are no crush prospects in the class.

• made lunch every day for work (except for my trade day - mat made pizza subs mmm)

• i haven't been running - no time, too cold.

• finally went to broken city

• i bought a bus pass for february, but i can't find it now. guh-reat.


plus, the weekend.

• had caylie over and told her about zodiac signs and the science of sweating.

• bought the best socks ever




EDIT: here are some photos, weekend aftermath. my camera blows and i didn't get a good picture of all the embroidery hoop crafts we made, so take my word for it, they look super cute as a set. there's also some buttons i spilled after caylie left, our piles of sculpey crap, wonderful tea, and my amazing socks (me and the socks had a total photo shoot, i love them so much!).

deux poteaux en un jour - comment boiteux!

follow-up to my earlier post:

i got a job at the super drug mart. it was the first place i went into and she didn't even look at my resume, sweet! i think my handshake impressed her. i start on monday. it's a perfect walk from my place and the hours are perfect.

to celebrate, i had myself a matcha smoothie - good decision, it was the best ever. i don't know if it's because i haven't had one for a long time (i used to be a bit addicted - "mighty matcha" at jj, "matcha monsoon" at bj), or my ipod just makes EVERYTHING better.

the celebration continued as i bought two jens lekman cds, and got a kwazy hair cut. it's pretty effing hip. i have the best hairdresser now, i'm finally settling down into a steady hairdressing relationship. [the corner salon, shout out]


i made a pretty life changing discovery today. headphones are better than toques - for the following reasons:
1. my hair doesn't get all staticy
2. people don't try to talk to you on the street
3. MUSIC comes out of them!
4. they are all-season
i'll never have an ear ache again! every time you see me henceforth, i will be wearing headphones. that's just the way it is.


ps. i just took a picture of myself showcasing my new hair cut and my new favorite headphones/ear ache protecters, but the camera died. hah... um...

a kiss is not a contract (but it's very nice)

so a CERTAIN situation has gone from cute/nervous/awkward to awkward/nervous/awkward. i'm over it, but it's hard to be at ease with all that weird energy about.

man, i have been spending too much time on the internet! but that'll be over soon. i'm handing out resumes for a second job today, and my wednesday class starts next week. PLUS the bod's moving to calgary in february. so excited to have another girl friend here.

i found a new favorite show -the flight of the conchords. i love the internet.

the bar is too low to fail

dear ...uhm.. girls.. who are on my facebook,

please stop with the following poses:
• you and your friend with your tongues touching/almost touching
• you grabbing or fake grabbing your friend's boobs
• you touching/almost touching your friends boobs with your tongue
•......just stop it.

or at LEAST don't put these pictures up on facebook... you're making me crazy. AND its a bad idea - nothing good can come from it.

just looking out for you,
ks

you could surely try to be more alive

tough day today at work - where is my attention span?
i wasted the day on the following things:
• eating
• talking about other people's crushes
• pictures of sting rays
• arranging drug deals
• facebook scrabble
• making & drinking tea
• lovin' on my ipod
• indecline (its like 2003 again!)
• talking about heath ledger

tomorrow i will do loads of work, fer reaaaaaaal.... ugh.

had a pretty good night tonight - but i really need a new, more fulfilling crush. i'm really hoping for my class at ACAD starting soon.


ps - i totally jinxed us with that post about calgary's great winters. its been snowing since i hit SUBMIT on that one.

oh cripes!

ok everyone - i really hate admitting this, but you were right. it IS expensive to have a turtle, and the tank DOES smell, and i'm ALREADY sick of it.
OK!? mom, dad! you were right. not that you read this, but i said it, so lets just please move on.

i just called my brother and he is going to take her back in april when he is done working out on the rigs.

it's just been really really frustrating. i planned on putting any extra money toward my amsterdam trip (my theme for the next 8 months = "make do"), but i've already sunk almost 400 bucks into turtle supplies, and her tank STILL looks like a mud puddle. she doesn't seem happy either - it's kind of painful to watch her swim around in this little tank constantly. i can't get her to go on the basking thing, and its bumming me out. my place is a mess also, every time i start cleaning up i notice how gross the tank looks, or how sad she looks, so i get side tracked. ALSO, i'm sick of washing my hands every minute.

so there you have it - i'm the 8 year old who whined "i'll take him for walks every day, please please please buy me a puppy!"

i feel pretty shitty about this. and i'm DREADING really telling my parents, can't wait to get the big TYS (told you so).

chinook me, all night long

just went for a longboard - yes, in january!

ok, 1 point for calgary. the winters can be pretty gentle.

PLUS i took my ipod along, ended up in sunnyside and was treated to supper. what a night!

time for my eye drops, even though my eyes feel totally cured, after only 2 applications, of 2 drops each, in all 2 of my eyes - that's 8!

break in case of anything

when i say everything, i really mean everything


• this morning i woke up to my eyes sealed shut with sleep goo. my eyes have been itchy and watery for a week, but that really creeped me out first thing in the morning. so i went and got a prescription for some drops. all day though, my eyes betrayed me with fake tears (only cry when i say to cry, eyes!) and i felt yucky.

• i normally can get along with most people, or i just avoid them. once upon a time, there was a guy who i could NOT get along with and i could NOT avoid. it was pretty rough, i wanted to kick him in the face every second. since getting out of that situation i've declared him "the guy i hated the most ever". it's been a few years and i actually was starting to realize i had been overly hostile and pretty unprofessional at that time, but still, what a dick. thank god i never have to see him again.

THEN. THEN!!
today. i see him. at my work.
in the store. outside smoking. holding the door open for me!

no interaction occurred; i became invisible.

i know it sounds like i'm making too big a deal of this, but he can't be hanging around at my work. it's too bizarre. and what if he wants to advertise and i have to be fake nice to him? fucked.
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ok, facebook really makes it too easy:

his profile is public and his status: "is taking CREB orientation"

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i'm going to watch my comfort show and have a comfort snack (arrested development & cornbread).

don't call me white

downloading + the library + my ipod = me having a ton of music (always on hand) that i'm digging! i indulged myself and downloaded every nofx album. oh me.

i bought a bit of fabric from value village (and applied for a job while i was there) and returned home eager to make something. BUT now i can't get my sewing machine to work. the bobbin just gets tangled every second. booo.

for work tomorrow - i made a casserole for lunch AND i get to wear jeans AND i'm going to get down with some travel trouble around the break table. woo.

some songs from today:

the black lips - bad kids

cut copy - drop the bomb

jens lekman - people who hate people

m. ward - i'll be yr bird

the fiery furnaces - single again

the pipettes - your kisses are wasted on me

beirut - nantes

the clash - magnificent seven

bishop allen - ghosts are good company

eels - i like birds

okkervil river (with dan johnston?!) - happy hearts

slick rick - memories

saturday looks good to me - meet me by the water

the pixies - hey

cowabung....eh

fun fact about turtles:
they can take over your whole life AND make you crazy in a matter of weeks.

don't! don't drink poison!

i never officially posted them, and resolutions are predictable, but i did make a few resolvations for oh eight - here's how they have been going so far:

1. pack a lunch for work every day possible

- this week i brought a lunch EVERY day! memorable meal items have included a tofurkey hot dog, a rice/tomato soup combo, and a buttload of salad.

2.....actually... i think the lunch thing was it.

i guess i also want to craft more & spend less time on facebook. um... and quit smoking?...and live every day like its my last?... and dance like no one is watching?

in other news, my plant is dying.

before & after:

please say a prayer.

welcome to SWITStown... switsville... switserland

just got back from a good run - a sore-in-the-morning run.

look how sweaty somebody got! i dig it!

it was run 2 minutes, walk 2 minutes, 11 times. i can't believe i'm actually running, and not hating it. it's so unlike me.

"don't say i didn't warn you"

i got some great advice from a library book today:

TURTLE KEEPING IN GENERAL

If you plan to keep turtles as pets, there are a few hazards you must be aware of. The first is tied to the diet of some terrestrial species. If a turtle that is accustomed to eating mushrooms consumes a poisonous mushroom and you eat the turtle, you could end up with mushroom poisoning. I know of only one recorded instance in the history of mankind, so your risk is somewhat remote, but don't say I didn't warn you.

- from the introduction to Turtles by Mervin F. Roberts (1988)

um...

don't tell me to do the math(s)

lots has changed over the past few months. i am now a turtle keeper, a knitter, AND a runner. also, library lover, illegal music downloader, ex-pottery barn employee, and a SINGLE lady.

i'm also a blogger.. er.. a writer of a blog. can you believe that the username "blogging-sohotrightnow" was taken?

i've actually been a blogger before. back in oh.. oh three. i had a top secret livejournal.
actually that could be fun to log into - TIME CAPSULE time!




ok this is was part of the first entry from my first week at college [Sept. 03]
"i miss edmonton and sam, and my summer-time friends, and trent, and the caylie of my dreams." also, apparently i had a roommate named "kitty". i must have blocked her out of my memories.

i am having fun, and i'm gonna keep going.

BAH - now THIS is some good shit!
"last night at the barn there was some chemistry between me and this guy eric. it was wierd and felt so good. he is really really sweet. i told him he might be my best friend."

oh and also this:
"after we were drunk me and eric had another good talk and then i fell asleep at the same time as him. it was great."

SO random. and i forgot how in love i was with eric. wow, that was really funny to go back and read that shit, all the more reason to start blogging now; for future laughs.

thanks for always listening, internet.



parting shot, from the old blog - "i tried to go down the waterslide with some speed but instead i lost my footing totally and wiped out hardcore. i could hear the echos of the kids laughing at me all the way down. for real."