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More details for the locals will come..

but the idea / theme of the party has changed.

its not a going away party for me...

its a live funeral for Mr. John Horan. who for the next 9 weeks... might die just a little.....


:D

so john boy, of course you can come. after all the party is for you

Daddy got to go home from the hospital.

everything is returning to Normal.

Going away Party can happen now.


DVB's house.

Oct 1

more details to follow.

so, today was not one of the better days in my life. as Ali said in her blog, death and suffering seems so far out of reach. it seems like you are uneffected, for me, until now

last night when i got home from work, my sister delivered the news. Dad is in the hospital. Mom is there with him but unreachable due to cell phones not being allowed.

I couldn't really sleep. i didnt go down there, i was assured that it was not serious. so i went to bed, but i felt guilty, for not being there too. i tossed all night. 8 am mom calls. says i should come down and visit. so i get up immediatly, the phone was on the bed waiting for the call anyways. and lets face it, i wasn't sleeping.

it was a hard thing to see. my dad who has been such a rock in my life lying there in the hospital bed, in obvious pain, waiting... waiting.. for what?
for someone to decide if it is really his appendix, or maybe its not, they couldn't be sure, so they waitied. he hasn't eaten for two days, and now he can't drink anything since he may have to go to surgery. finally they say that it is his appendix and he is on the waiting list for the OR. [operating room] its 11 am... OR room scheduled for.... 5 pm

now he has the whole day to kill... waiting, no food, no drink. tongue drier then the sahara.
end of story? ya he goes in to surgery, only to find out it has already ruptured. spreading the horrible infecting fluid so that they have to do more damage then the initial surgery [previous night] would have been, causing a recovery time of double or even triple.

we're told he will be fine. and i am sure he will be, he is a strong man, but to see him like this, its hard. Hard to swallow. I called in to work today and told them i wasn't coming. it was before we knew anything. i felt so guilty. I was only sitting in the room waiting, doing nothing, why didn't i just go to work. but as the minutes ticked by, and i saw the relief it brought my mom to have someone else there too, and just to get to spend the time with my Dad. the whole family was there at one point. and though Dad was in and out of it from the pain and morphine, i am sure he was happy to see his whole family.

Now i know that this is not death, and suffering, well for him was a great deal more then I
but it sucks to even be worried about someone. Life is not free..... minutes tick by...

weekend was good, not the best i have ever had, but it was nice to get to the mountains.

4 weeks until i leave. looking forward to it.

turns out i have a bit of tendonitis from running, oh good. gotta lovethe opinions of the medi centre.

just ate one of the best salads of my life. was so good, even made it at home

mmmmmmmm

Other exciting news.

I am going to be an Aunt :D

its weird to be done school, and to be on the final countdown to the triip.

I can;t wait really. the green day song says it all.

wake me up, when september ends.

i have just been working away.... picking up shifts here and there, trying to weasel up enough money so that i can have a REALLY good time.
either way, whether i have money or not iwill have a good time. i dont mind going into debt for travelling. its worth it. more worth it then beingin debt for 25 yrs due to a house. what does that get you? travelling gets you everything. experience in life that can be compared to nothing else. I know so much more now because f my travels.
i wouldnt trade it for anything, even the bad experiences of being broke, robbed and moneyless, and having some good natured lady give me a crisp 100 US$ bill to get my sister and I home safely. without her, i still could be begging on the streets of mexico asking for money.... and not resort mexico, real mexico, were reality is being robbed and being poor.
its a good story, everything you do in another country, ends up being a good story... thast why i go, for the stories, the memories.
so if you feel you are stuck here, need a chage,

buy a plane ticket and leave, its easier then you think

i really like music.

It can mold my mood. if i am in a bad mood i have a few cds that can change that and make me is a good mood, if iam too excited, i can calm down through cd's. if iam not ecxited and need to be, ie before going out, i have a few keys songs that can change that in a flash. i could sit in dark rom, i could even be locked in prsion, as long as i had acess to all the music i needed.

i have started making a CD, it may just be the greatest cd to grace this earth. of course, if you like the same music as I do,

it willnot have any Celine dion, or Josh Groban. so i am sure a few people may be dissapointed

so
i am done school. i finished 2 weeks early. it doesn't feel like i am done yet. maybe next week when i dont have to get up at 6 am to get to school it'll start to feel more real.

i joined a clinic at club fit. we run 3 times a week. m/w/f friday.. we went a whopping 7.5 kms...

by the end of it i am going to be a star. maybe not, but defiantly closer then i was before.

i guess now its just work and work and work. thinking of getting a secoind job.... for the few weeks before i leave so that i will have lots of moola for the trip

any ideas? i would like something thats like 7 - 3pm

are the stars tonight, that dance around

only 4 weeks of school left

and only 8 weeks and a few days before i leave.

its going to be a short trip, but at the same time, so long.

it'll be weird to come back, i already know i will feel differently about things,

but its to be expected i suppose,

"everybody's changing, and i dont feel the same.."

I also feel that TJR is lost

where are you

I know that my blog is not firefox friendly. This is the browser i use at home.

I do not know how to fix it.
If anyone has any ideas....
I thought it was just my P.O.S. Computer.

so in the end, i feel a bit better

This week in school.

Powerpoint.

thats all i do for 5 hours a day. make power point presentations.

I am bored out of my mind.

I like the rain.
I like to see the worms on the sidewalk. I am sure in their little minds, it is the worst death in the world, squirming on a massive cement pad, wondering if they are going to make it back to the saftey and comfort of the dirt. I wonder how many of them make it, and how many of them become easy bait for the mag-pies.

I try to never step on them. Have to give them every chance they get.

It reminds me of when I was younger. Dad would be so excited after a rain. BAIT. He would send us out with an ice cream pail full of dirt and tell us to collect the worms. I even think there was a prize for whoever got the most. None of the worms had any idea what was going on, they just thought.. "Sweet DIRT!!!"
Little did they know that they would soon be impaled on a fish hook with a nasty barb to be drowned slowly, or maybe live long enough to entice some fish to eat it, then becoming fried in fish stomach acid before being crapped out.
If the worm is really lucky, it will live through the fish eating, not be swallowed, get thread back onto the hook to be put through it all again.

Now look at your life..... how lucky are you?

Saturday night
3 am

I was changing out of my dress after my brothers wedding. It was super windy and i kept hearing stuff outside.
I half blamed the wind, but part of me wondered if someone was outside.

My curtains were closed but they are a bit see-through. I had not dropped the blinds down. So i shut the light out to see if i could see anyone.
of course i could not. i even went to the window and checked. No one in sight. I am on the corner of the building however, and one step to the north and i would not be able to see anything.
So i dropped the blinds. but since they are old they do not rotate down and remain as horizontal slits all the time.
i turned the lights back on and went back to what i was doing.... undressing....
I heard rocks move agian. couldn't be the wind moving rocks on the ground. So i crept up to the window. looked out the blinds and see a man. squatting outside my window, face near, trying to see through the blinds. I didn't know what to do. i panicked. I yelled and punched at the window and he took off. In hindsight, i should have pretended i didn't see him, allow him to continue watching while I called someone to kick his ass... but i yelled.

Jamie came out of the bathroom to see what was going on. She missed it all, and was kind of aloof about the whole thing.

I was shaking... and the adreniline was rushing through my body. Not exactly how awake i wanted to feel at 3 am.

we turned out the lights and went to bed. I lay there, wondering, how long has this ass been doing this? Has he always been watching me? I often close my curtains, but rarely my blinds. was it a random passerby that got lucky with the free show? Not 10 minutes after i turned out the lights, I saw the same shadow walk by my window, pause, and then walk to my other window [ i would imagine to see if the blinds were closed there too] and the walk off back around the corner.

I got up, walking in the dark not to turn the lights on again, and got my celll.I flipped through the contacts list, I wondered who I could call. I needed someone. Jamie lay in my bed, sleeping soundly. Undisturbed by the freak outside.

Eventually i returned to bed, wiped the single tear that managed to escape my eye and tried to fall asleep without having nightmares.

I dont remember if I did. Its probably better that way.

I dontalways have to have a clever title.

there is no rule about that

so i know it has been a long time. but I have been busy with stuff.

My older brother Jeff got married on July 16. The wedding was fantastic. it went perfectly and everyone appeared to have a wicked time. There was even lots of people left dancing at 2 am when the DJ finally shutter down.

The bride looked gorgeous. She seems like she is not my brothers type, but then you look at them together.... and it just seems like there is no one else that would be better. I am sure they will endure. especially because she has put up with his farting for years already. if you can deal with that, you can deal with anything.

So last week

Travis stayed at my house. The Sunday was normal. But the Monday I woke up to was not at all.

Here are the details.

I went to school after some serious debating on whether or not I was actually going to... so fine. I get up and go. Was a bit late, but figured it was better then not showing up. We had had an Exam on the Thursday previous [before the long weekend] so I had set my mind to relax mode and took the weekend off. Monday rolls around and my mind is under the impression that we are starting a new course. I have not purchased to the books yet. I took out the old books from my bag and put them on the table before I left for school.
At school I get confronted in the hall way with a short.. " You’re late" I shrug it off. Big deal. I am like 12 min late. The world will not end. I walk into class and there on the whiteboard is a message.

YOU WILLHAVE FIVE HOURS TO COMPLETE THE EXAM.
PART A - CLOSED BOOK
PART B, C AND D-- OPEN BOOK
USE A PEN AND YOUR COMPUTER
NO TALKING

What? 5-hour exam? All the little bells that were supposed to remind me to study and review the work now start going off in my head simultaneously. I look around wondering if I am the only one. It appears I am. Every one else seems content and ready. So she asks us to get the CD out of the inside cover of our book and then put our books away until part 2 uhhhhh.. my books are on the table at my house. along with my mind apparently.
so it turns out I can download the required document off of the net instead of the CD. but as for the open book part of the test... I am S.O.L. and have to do mine closed book. Keep in mind when an open book option is available, the test is usually not easy since you will be able to find the answers.....
so whatever... it took me 2 hours. out of the 5 given. I just left in a internal state of rage. how could I forget?

and no it has nothing to do with me sleeping in class. I was fully aware of this test. it just slipped my mind in the biggest of ways.

so I come home to find Travis still cuddled up in my bed. how annoying is that.... you had to get out of your warm cozy bed.. t go outside to the harsh air to write a test you didn’t' know about and when you get home.. you see someone doing what you wanted to be doing the whole time. grrr.
so I made him get up and we went to Ricky's all day grill for lunch. I am not going to even explain what happened to me there. but I left hungry.
We sent an email to the customer service.

I got a reply. Via telephone. and after playing tag for a few days I finally got a hold of her..

" we would like to offer you a formal apology"

pretty much end of story.

OH and I got the mark back from that exam

85%

I do not know what i was on when i wrote that last blog.

ITS WAYYYY to happy happy joy joy

Not saying that i am in a pissed off mood or anything.. but i looked like one of those kids who all they do is preach about God and how lucky they are to be alive and yadda yadda.

I am not a preacher or one of those insanely happy people who make you sick

I am just happy.

Like i am very happy to know that Mr. Robertson.. after MONTHS of nagging, finally got the picture developed. I hope he has a guide because it has been so long I am sure I have forgot some names.

I get free lunch today at the Bird. and tommorrow too.. lucky lucky me.

I am only in it for the food. I am a food whore.

mmmmm goood sweet food.

Oh and on a side note. I got confronted in class today about sleeping through it all the time...

Teacher: " Joanne, do you have narcolepsy?"
Joanne [ trying not to laugh] " ummm no"
teacher : " you can not seem to stay awake in my class "

I explained to her how I try my very hardest but I must have low iron as it is impossible. I can not drink coffee. and pepsi doesn't seem to have an effect on me [ caffiene wise] so... short of electro-shock therapy i dont know what I can do.
Luckily she loves me and I am the golden student... so she laughed and said I hope tommorrow is better.

Narcolepsy... lol... I wonder is she really believes I have it?
ha

everyone seems to be trying to prepare for something.

what?

life?

do you really think that tommorrow is going to bring something you never would have imagined?

for some people yes. but usually they are the ones who least expect it. Who live life knowing that whatever comes.. is going to turn up fine

This is Lifes' motto. well mine at least


things get shitty.... but if things are shitty the it is probably not over.. cuz stuff always works out in the end.
some things take longer then others. but they always work out.

if you dont belive this??! seek help.. you are probably depressed/

I LOVE LIFE. even if it sucks, its just so... fun

So lately my dreams have been slightly wacko.

There was the one about John, which i told him about and i still remember with amazing clarity even though it is days later.

usually i forget, and details fade, but no not now.

I had one about a school friend Ashley, details are not as clear, but i know it was a weird one and she was sick in some sort of way. I have talked to her and i know she is not sick. only broken hearted. maybe this is what my mind was trying to portray.

and then last night. I dreamt about work, it was so... involved... that it woke me up a mere 2 hours after i had went to bed and i had problems trying to get to sleep again.

let me tell you about it

Some lady and her mother ordered pasta. There was also an old man who was there. and a baby in a baby seat. The pasta they ordered was not on the menu, well maybe it was but it was so heavily modified that it no longer appeared to be something we served. and of course, it was't right. it wasn't what they wanted and they said it was gross.
The dishes [ basically a chix parm pasta] but they wanted one with chicken breast and alfredo sauce and other stuff to the likes. The second order was also the same but they wanted lots of seafood in it. Fish, calamari and shrimp.
I delivered it and both looked good and tasty. but they said it was sick, while one lady bitched me out about it, the man and the old woman went to the staff area pass bar and was yelling at Randy through the pass bar and pushed it over the ledge into the kicthen. I saw all this happeneing, but could do nothing to stop it, as i was still stuck listening to crazy woman talk about her calamari and how it wasn't placed / cooked right in the pasta. I started yelling saying that " this is not even on our menu, and our kitchen is full of line cooks not master chefs. how the hell are they supposed to know what you want!" meanwhile I have about 5 or 6 other tables waiting to order. for some reason I can not leave this crazy table. the couple who had verbally assaulted the kitchen had left and I was stuck dealing with momma and baby seat. People were staring at me wondering why i wouldn't come take their order, and i kept trying to explain to Randy what was going on.

it goes on like that. I woke up [ at 2] and felt like i was still living it, even though i was awake and IN my bed and knew that it was a dream, my mind was busy thinking of what i could say to her. It was 2 am. i was wide awake, thinking of the damn pasta's

makes me wonder what the reason for that is.... and if i need to move on to a new job faster. As it is right now.. i am working there until the end of Sept. then going away and then finding a normal accounting job... but is the 3 more months too long for my subconcious to take?

makes me think

Life has just been coasting along.

I listen to other people bitch and vent, and I wonder if i sound like that. i dont feel like i bitch alot. sure i'll bitch after a shitty shift or something, but i feel that my life in general is not hell.

Someone said to me recently that heaven does not exist, only that we are living in hell and so everything is better than this, and thats why people call it heaven.

I disagree.
I love my life. I am enjoying my time here in this so called hell. the only thing i would change is probably being independantly wealthy, not even that, just some how scoring a travel for life on any airline pass.... if i never had to pay for a plane ticket again, i would live in poverty, i would just do it in what ever country i felt like at the time.

i am really looking forward to October. It seems so close, yet so so so incredibly far away.

The wedding is soon. [ my brothers ] that'll be fun, and then i will be that much closer to going away.

I got this from another blog.
But its true.

Travis, Take notes.

Blog Addicts
1 Start reading blogs.
2 You start a blog.
3 You become a stat whore.
4 You become really personal on your site as the online and real-life worlds start confusing you.
5 You faux "retire" from blogging.
6 You cave back into blogging in less than 72 hours.
7 You decide to "get serious" about blogging.
8 You have a pseudo flirty im/blogging/flickr flirting relationship with another blogger you have never met.
9 You deside that you must meet other bloggers.
10 You take a step back and metablog about blogging and what blogging has done about your blogging.
11 See step 5.
12 You decide that as a result of step 10 and having repeated step 5 more than 3 times in the course of your lifecycle as a blogger, that you need to sanitize or reinvent your blog.
13 You either lose your job because of blogging, are afraid of losing your job for blogging, or join a company that builds blogging tools.
14 You decide to start an anonymous livejournal blog

Don't you dare look at your feet when I'm telling you how it is with your blog addiction; your blog disease.

Head spinning news

I booked the plane tickets.

I am going to Ireland.

and from there.. who knows.

i'll be gone for about 2 months.

Oct 5 - Dec 10

Now the tickets are booked, I am allowed to be excited about it.

and I am

Oh I am

Nothing crazy exciting has happened lately.. well it has and it hasn't. I have been working alot and going to school like always. I have no crazy stories that pop in to mind.

I am close to something exciting and I will write more when the time is right.


until then....

oh and I saw Mr and Mrs Smith again, still liked it alot.

sooooooo so so hot...

great movie.

i loved it

really really loved it

i am even going to buy it when it comes out.

thats all

I just had some weirdo walk by my window in the back of the building. I have not seen him before, so I know that he is not one of the usual suspects who frequent the parking lot nor is he a building mate. He looks in my window and does a double take. Fine, maybe he hasn't seen a chick before, but then....

He turned around and came back. bends over and is looking in my window... i am 2 feet from my window, and he has his face pressed up against the screen.
Hi. you live here now?

[well assuming since I am INSIDE this place. the answer would be] yes.

Cool, i used to live here. Looks like you got new windows. ohhh and new carpet too.. looks nice. I didn't have my bed there, i put it over there... and i had a book shelf here and my stereo there and [ pointing around] do you get any mail for me? My name is M Sinclair.

No i dont get your mail, but your name is still on my buzzer number.

really? haha cool

hmmmmm mmmm.

so you a student?

uh... ya

Grant MacEwan?

uh... no

cool. how long have you lived here? you know i saw the chick who lived here before you too... she was always smoking a bong.

oh...

Phone rings.
[ thank god. ]

ok well thanks for letting me look around [ like i really had the choice]

Weirdo. does he watch me sleep?

The chaos that has become my life is taking over, and I could not be more pleased...

Being 26 Rules, it has only been days, but the week leading up to it was equally as fun.

fun fun fun

i repeat. fun fun fun

I now know everyone that lives in my section of the building. 101, 102, 103, and 104. Its fun, got like a freind situation goingon, especially now that people have begun to stop by, i have been lent movies, lent out towels, its totally weird.

For those of you who missed the Saturday night show down.... you defiantly missed out.
was a fantastic time, and those who drank, and those who went sober, all had a great time.

So a HOT guy moved into my building down the hall.

We shall call him Personal Trainer. [ PT]

PT and I went out for a few beer's last night. He's pretty fun, and easy to stare at.

we are going to a bbq tommorrow.

Cletis wants to go out tommorow night to. i have agreed. so he will probably come out to the bar with us. or show up later. I hope that PT decides to go out with his friends after the bbq, and not me.

or else, i may have some explaining to do.

Gotta love the feeling.
the head spinning, the infatuation...

I went out with Cletis again. its not his real name. obviously.....
it was weird at the start. i didn't know what to say, but i take that as a 'good, awkward' phase, cuz the rest of the conversation was great. maybe except for when i mentioned i am a closet exhibitionist, not in those words, but the general meaning was clear......
i couldn't seem to get off the topic.

anyways. no action, but man. he's hot. he's hot in real life, and after a few pints, he is superman.

definatly the infatuation....

there is a song with the same name......




Intrigues me with every move
Till I'm breathless, I'm helpless
Can't keep my cool
Steals my heart when he takes my hand
And we dance, to the rhythm of the band
I feel his fingertips, grip my hips
And I slip as we dip into a state of bliss........
I begin to give in with no hesitation
Can't help my infatuation
I can't help, what I'm feeling
Infatuated
Oh ooh
Ohh...
Infatuation
Hey


i am sure you all have been there, but no, a hand shake was all i got, its more of an on goin joke now.... and no i didn't dance with him either, there was no hip touching... i am only trying to portray an emotion/ feeling... but even that is strong words..... never mind,.

i am going to smile to myself.

I AM HAMMERED


















its monday 2 am.. i have been drinking sice 6 pm

Wake up and have a bit of a chat with John, my irish buddy
Then headed over to Jamie's house in the early afternoon for the BBQ she was having in the evening. We spent the afternoon basking in the sun laughing at stories, namely Mark from the night before.
Toni calls me up to invite me to the poker game again, apperantly they wanted their money back.. the stuff i won last time.
and then Jenelle calls.
Apperantly Mark, from the night before is engaged to be married right away. I laughed, the whole situation seemed funnier then, all those invitations and desperation trying to get me to go with him anywhere, and he's engaged? wow, who's the lucky girl?
after the BBQ I went to the poker game. I only bought in once and I lost it all back to them. Some on purpose, some not, Honestly, I was just not getting the cards. There were 9 people playing, the frequency of good cards is way less.
Got home pretty late and went to bed.

SUNDAY
Woke up feeling super well rested. Jamie and I had vague plans of heading to the park, but it was super windy outside. too windy to be comfortable. So we decided to hit a movie instead. 'Sisterhood of the travelling pants'. I looked up the times on the internet and we went down there to find out that it doesn't open until next week. makes me wonder why the times were posted, i am sure it is because they did not want to give up a theatre for this movie when they have like 5 of them full of starwars... i will see starwars in theatre, but not yet. we ended up seeing " The Longest Yard" with Adam Sandler and Burt Reynolds... great movie, good comedy lines and just a good good movie, i really liked it.
after that we went home. Called a few people and decided to go sit on a patio for some drinks. On the way out of the building I was explaining to Jamie how my new neighbour down the hall was super hot. and who walks out with no shirt on? Super hot neighbour. haha whoops. He had a crazy sun burn and laughed saying he was coming over to get me to lube it up. Ya right. He was going to 102. who is his sister [Jamie] and her boyfriend Will. I had not yet 'met' him, I introduced myself and my sister jamie to him, and then we left.
Walking down the street we passed Will who was on his way home. So I told him that his neighbour was waiting for him to rub him down.. he chuckled and said thanks.
walking walking... jamie mentions that we should have invited them. So i turned around and yelled, Will was probably a full block away by now, but i yelled anyways. HEY WILL,we are going to the stone house if you are bored.
we didn't expect them to come, but it was a good laugh. we went to the Stonehouse and were waiting for Jamie's roomie Jen to arrive, she took a long time, and in the meantime, Will and John showed up.
Awesome. how great is that.. yell down the street at people you dont even know and then they showed up... so fun.
we had a few picthers of beer. [3] and had a few good laughs.
They had to go out for dinner with the fam or something so they left after a few hrs. Jamie and I went back to my place and chilled out for the rest of the night...

what a fun weekend

After last weekend being so unbelievably fun, i felt like this weekend was going to bite it big time, how could it compare?!

well let me tell you. It did, and it was a fun time.
FRIDAY
night I worked, but not for long, it was not very busy and I got to go home around 9, but i didn't go home. Instead I went over to ' Overtime' the pub next to work. A girl from work was meeting friends and her brother there. So we went over for some cheap ass corona's. Said friends show up, and with them is some random guy named Mark. Mark stares at Jenelle and I endlessly. I smirked and asked what he was looking at. this apperantly means "come sit by me and talk"... so he did. and within 2 min he had asked me what i was doing on Sat and if i wanted to go for a motorbike ride. I politely declined, saying I was busy. He asks about Sunday and I say that i had to go to my sisters house for a BBQ. [ which in reality was on Sat.] Well, mark says. can i take you out for dinner tommorrow night? Um no, I am busy..... Then he disappears for a bit. Comes back mere minutes later with 2 shots. China white. Here he says. this is for you since its your Birthday on tuesday [ i had mentioned it, he not psychic] fine i do the shot, really who is going to pass up free booze. Then he starts talking again.. what i dreaded most.
Mark: So, are you busy in July?
Joanne: fits of laughter
Mark: I am in a car crushing derby, want to come watch?
Joanne: still laughing. ..... um no.
Mark: Its cool to see
Joanne: I am sure it is. but no thanks. I could think of 10 better things to do right now without hestitation....

a bit of other small talk follows and then mark decides to leave.

I went home shortly after, to bed laughing at the retardedness of his endless requests.

Soooo.. i know i have already posted twice today.. but you know.. when you have something to say... you have something to say.

I went out for lunch with mom and sister. that was all normal and stuff.. but i got 2 new pairs of flip flops.. for $7.. and no not each... for both!

i also got a dress for my brothers wedding, so thats exciting...

but then i went home and i went out with Cletis. [for lack of a better name.] Super fun time.. few good laughs and a good cap off to the evening chasing a few canadian geese through Rundle Park.... who could ask for more fun than that?!

THATS RIGHT. i chased some geese.

So, i used my boyish good looks

[ there is no female equivalent to that saying! that i like]

I got my windsheild repaired.

for half price.

sucker... he wanted to date me, i know it.

Gotta love being a girl!

Well. i heard some news on the radio this morning. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be in edmonton staying at the hotel Mac for 2 months whilst fliming a movie.

I am not a huge screaming OH MY GOD fan, but you never know... maybe i will have a chance to fulfill some dreams and have a tea party with them.

maybe not a tea party..... maybe we can just cuddle.. me in the middle.... heh heh


thats PG 13

other news. I got an email from, well lets call them the " Forbidden Fruit"
I seem to attract these types of people..

Ever heard that sloan song?

When you're the other man... no one's rooting for you.. when you're the other man....

then there's the Avril Lavigne song.

I dont give a damn, I dont give a damn, what you say about me, .... know that i dont give a damn i don't give damn, what you think about that....

or something along those lines

I wonder if our good friend JBF ended up breaking up the B.C. marraige.

She was on to something when she said that the May Long was a good time to end a marraige.

wow. what an all around great weekend. not even great
fantastic. fan-&%^%$-tastic

I could not have asked for anything more. we had sweet ass weather. warm and sunny almost all weekend [ save monday] a good group of people to party with. Of these people, i doubt i would hang out with any of them on the street, besides maybe Lenora. this chick was suberb. but though i wouldn't hang with them, they were fun people to spend the weekend with. good camping companions.
slept in a tent [ the smallest tent there] with Mr Robertson. and that right there is a good time.. haha laughing and getting the one on one time.
the days were spent lying in the sun, showering in the insanely cold hose and drinking around a campfire.. making up songs about " Camping wth Mike" and did i get the pam for NOTHING?
alot of the funny stuff you had to be there for. which is too bad that they can not be conveyed to you. cuz it was a great time.

B>hello?
A> oh you answered.
B>did you follow the road?!
A>all the way to the fuckin farmers field!
B>Joanne, phone is for you....

not to be self promoting, but we were definatly the funnest people there. we were party makers, and people knew that.

we will never be forgotten, even if we dont go to another one ever. They will always remember that year... of Travis and Joanne
[ and partly David, but not so much]
signing out...
Buffalo Lake Papparazzi.

I know i have not been writing regulrily.
or spelling well.

but i just dont care.

something has changed. i dont know what, but something is different in my life or my thought process or the way i feel. I am of course a female so this is not that crazy of a realization.

I am in one of those moods i love to be in, its been a long time. like you can see everything differently, with clarity. and more understanding.

Example.
My instructor at school has really been burning a hole in my ass lately. she's curt and doesn't answer questions clearly, more in a round about way that is 500 x more confusing then what i knew before i asked. I also think that she is doing it intentionally, to confuse me so that my grades will drop slightly and then maybe, just maybe, she will have a reason [ low grades] to give me shit for sleeping in her class. because i know that me sleeping in her class is really burning a hole in HER ass. but... again.. the mood. i dont care and regardless what she says or the threats she makes about not passing if we dont do our homework..... i understand the material, and will probably still pull off a relatively high mark without so much as cracking the books. I just get it. and man does it piss her off.

there are other things along the same lines that are changing / have changed... dont really know how to explain. nor am i going to attempt it.

i guess you can say i have just become calmer. its happens now and then. and everytime this realization mood happens. i love it even more. sometimes when i am not in this mode, i remember how it feels and i wish i was. I even try to get in to it, but its not something i can force.

Looking forward to camping this weekend. especially if this mood lasts.
I am looking forward to the time i get to spend with Mr Robertson and the laughs that will definatly ensue.

i know, i am horrible and have been neglecting this. its the time of the year. spring. so much other stuff to look at!
anyways, stuff has happened and stuff hasn't happened.

but life has been good.
i re-arranged my apartment a bit, nothing crazy as the space is limited, but i like it. its a good change.

My DVD player broke. boo. but i got a check in the mail from the police. yay. photo radar fine returned due to improper officer training. yessss.. suckas, cuz regardless of whether or not he was trained, i was still speeding.. haha
anyways. its almost my birthday, so anyone who was interestd in buying me something. i am going to compose a list. i hope the right rich people read it..

1. Seinfeld seasons or ' The Office' [British Tv]
[on DVD]
2. DVD player to watch them
[ or my old one fixed, i dont care]
3. new computer.
[ or money to put towards one]
4. blender
[ to blend things like frogs or...smoothies]
[ or frog smoothies]
5. an oil change for my car,
[but its due soon so the end of may might be too long]
6. a World Map
[ but this would not be an easy task as i want it BIG, poster size or bigger and i want it in black and white like a coloring project for kids, with all the states in the USA outlined and provinces in canada etc, not like just country shapes....

and then, usual stuff. clothes, make up, hair appointment, etc. i will always accept cash donations to the joanne fund too.... i am not picky.

so, if you are not going to get anything from this list, tell someone who might.

cheers

This is from another blog. I give the guy credit, this is FUNNY STUFF


Critters

This Sunday night I am walking up the aisle when I hear a commotion near the front tables. A lady is shouting unintelligibly. I soon discover why.

Perching on her table is Sciurus carolinensis - an American grey squirrel. He isn’t happy.

“Holy fucking shit!” seems the most professional response at the time.

The squirrel, frightened by the patron’s shrieks tries to jump through the plate glass window to freedom. Failing that, he bounds off her shoulder onto the floor and scurries under the hostess stand. A female customer, an obvious animal lover, runs over crying “It’s just a baby! Don’t hurt it!” and attempts a rescue.

The squirrel starts hissing malevolently. I am thinking - the lady gets bit, the lady gets rabies, the lady sues our asses off.

“Madam please let us handle this.”

“Oh I’ll get him." she coos.

“MADAM, STEP AWAY FROM THE SQUIRREL!” I yell.

Looking hurt the woman abandons her efforts and reluctantly returns to her seat.

A busboy rushes up with a broom and we try and sweep him out the front door but the rodent dashes down the length of the bistro toward the back, horrifying all of the customers, diving underneath a four top.

I run up to the table and say, “I don’t mean to alarm you, but a squirrel has run under your table. Could you please get up?”

I will never forget the look on their faces.

“What is a squirrel doing in here?” one woman says, performing a rapid egress from the area.

“I assure you he is not on the menu.”

When we get under the table we discover that the glorified rat has crawled through a hole in the back bench and has taken up residence. We can hear him racing back and forth under the customers’ seats. He is not coming out.

With the exception of one very cool couple, the back of the bistro has to be reseated to other tables. The free shit parade is in full swing.

After dispensing drinks and desserts gratis I call the police and ask them to send an animal control officer.

“A squirrel doesn’t seem to fit the ambiance of a Tuscan bistro.” the desk sergeant says. I can hear half the department laughing in the back ground.

“No kidding.”

He gives me the number of “Critters R Us” and I call. The guy is over in twenty minutes with a trap and instructions on how to set it.

Later, when all the customers have left, I am on my hands and knees rigging the filthy device, asking the owner when animal trapping became part of my job description. Unfortunately the varmint does not come out in the dead of night and take the bait. The next morning we still have a rodent living under the back bench. We spend the whole shift waiting for him to make reappearance. I dread hearing the words, “Waiter, there is a squirrel in my soup!

That night we reset the trap and have better luck. The owner calls me at home after midnight. The squirrel set off the motion detector alarm springing the trap. When the owner entered the premises with the police our little buddy was freaking in his cage.

The next morning Critters R Us picked him up and released him in the woods. Problem solved.

Later that morning a curious customer from Sunday night popped his head in the door and asked, “Whatever became of the squirrel?

“We had him for lunch sir.”
// posted by Waiter 

For those of you who believe in prophecies.

http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

found these, thought they were pretty good..

its from another site. I did not write them.

Alabama: Hell Yes, We Have Electricity.
Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
Arizona: But It's A Dry Heat.
Arkansas: Literacy Ain't Everything.
California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda.
Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother.
Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It Yet.
Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water.
Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandchildren.
Georgia: We Put The Fun In Fundamentalist Extremism.
Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, Leave Your Money)
Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes... Well, Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good
Illinois: Please, Don't Pronounce the "S"
Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn
Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States
Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names
Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign.
Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster
Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It
Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's
Michigan: First Line Of Defense - >From The Canadians
Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes...And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes
Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State
Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work
Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing Crazies, and Very Little Else.
Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest
Nevada: Hookers and Poker!
New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone
New Jersey: You Want A F##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer F##$%##! Motto. Right here!
New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets
New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An Attorney...
*New York: The New Puerto Rico
North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable
North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!
Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan
Oklahoma: Like The Play, But No Singing
Oregon: Spotted Owl...It's What's For Dinner
Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal
Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island
South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? Well, We Didn't Actually Surrender Yet
South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota
Tennessee: The Edyoocashun State
Texas: Se Hablo Ingles
Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus
Vermont: Ay, Yep
Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?
Washington: We have more rain than you do
West Virginia: One Big Happy Family...Really!
Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese!
Wyoming: Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Nervous!

 well hello
 how did my weekend go you ask?
well it went.
friday night i worked and then i got off earlier then expected, my co-worker took the closing shift. excellent. i went home to bed. Saturday i got up and went to work and then got to see David and Travis, who was in town. thats always nice. we went and saw ' The Upside of Anger' good movie, i enjoyed it.
Sunday i worked and then hung out again with Travis, this time on whyte ave. with Ali and David for a short bit, and then Jamie and Jen joined us.  good times over all. went and saw some commercials at the Princess II theatre.

Now its monday and i am back to school.  so really doesn't sound to exciting overall, but it was a good chilled out hang with friends weekend.  i liked it.

so here's to lame weekends that make you feel good.

Note for this blog:  see a little humour in everything


So finally after weeks of visitors from out of town. Peace returns. Mike was in town, and then he left and Julie came into town.

fun times, but exhausting.

now i have some bruises on my ribs to remind me of the fun we had.  little fight with the slides at the waterpark. i have never had a rib injury before. it sucks.

as far as the rest of things
going well
school is the same, work is the same.

small pet peeve......
when people dont return phone calls or emails.

if the answer is no, call or email and say no. If you are to busy  and dont have time. drop the person a line and say.... I do not have time. sorry..... people will not take it as hard as you think, well i wont for sure.  a bit of razzing or bugging may occur, but over all. i would be better off knowing. {definatly appreciate knowing, thats for sure]

Elaborate excuses are not needed. you do not have to explain to someone all the details of your life as to why it is not going to work out.  a simple 'i'm too busy' will explain alot of things.
same shit for dating and all that bullshit.  [ well not bullshit, but anything having to do with ' relationships' no matter how serious or casual]
if its never going to happen. flat out say it.  a lot can be said for honesty in this aspect of life and if everyone started, all the 'games' that people hate wouldn't be so prominant.

so for all the people i didn't call back at some point. I am sorry. even if i think you are a loser and dont want to hang out [ or date] i will make a point of calling, or letting you know. After all, we were not meant to be friends with everyone. even though they teach you that in kindergarden

ok  here's my next big thing.

The school I go to is all about charities this year. Which is always good. so i am participating

On May 29 I will be doing the walk for MS. 5 Kms
Soooo guess that means I will be needing some people to pledge.

I am not asking for like $50 here, although that would be great, but 5 or 10 from everyone would go super far.
for any servers, whats a few tables of tips towards MS?
so please, if you can donate something to the cause.....

any anonymous people, or out of town people, this event is 2 months away, so you can still get yours in, i will even get you a tax receipt to prove i am not pocketing the money. leave a comment to get in touch with me, or email me

so what does perfect attendance except for one late get you?
along with grades near perfect on all assignments?
[96% average over all ]

get you.......


STUDENT OF THE MONTH
MARCH 2005


i would like to thank.....

haha ya right.

i guess i should be proud. i kind of am.
i got a cool leather portfolio thing. a box of smarties and one of those super cheap backpacks. but over all it was a good day.
i got 2 marks back today.
project = 98.25 %
Final exam = 94%

I also signed up today to do the Super Cities walk for MS on May 29. so i will be asking for donations... [pledges] so please.. if you can give me 5 or 10 or something.. that would be awesome.
I am walking for someone close to me. i love her dearly.

Its official

we won trivia night at the Druid.
Marshall had said on Sunday. "this is our week." and turns out it really was.
we won.

work last night was dead. like the end of the world dead. weird.

Harlow is in town. He's a fun guy. we are going to Blue Rodeo on Friday... go ahead laugh at me. i  dont care. i like them. I dont think he likes em so much. but he said it was a "Thanks for putting me up and stuff" gift  cuz when he is town he has stayed with me, as opposed to the dumpster i guess... 

I am excited about the concert, i am going to sing along to all the songs. ALL of them

For those of you who dont know who Harlow is.
He's an old friend i  met when i was in Korea. now he lives in Tuktoyaktuk, and comes to edmonton sometimes.

peace out

well that party was some good times

how it came to be.....

Mike a friend of mine from out of town. [ currently living in Tuktoyaktuk] [ i met him in korea.] is now intown for a course through work.
a few of his friends from Queens were in town too. one of them was going to tis party at the university for some geology grad. word on the street was that it was $15 and that included all you candrink [ keg and shots] and some pizza tool
sounds like a plan to me. so off we went. we got there early and so had a few beers befor ethe crowds got there. this house was condemned. and had couches along every wall. definatly a party house. and from therethings jsut got stupid. the people all came at once, it sounded like there was a herd of something upstairs. sheep maybe. then the shots of Jager came out followed by shots of baja rosa and then shots of sourpuss with a few more shots of jager. wow. it is truely amazing that idid not vomit all over myself. the pizza shouwed up at oabout 1 am. perfcet timing eally. soaked up some of the disaster waiing to happen in my stomach.
i left at about 2/3 depending on what tme you thought it was cuz of the time change.
got home. went to bed.
woke up loaded. had a stiff vodka and went to work. the drunk wore off by like 2 or 230 and the i was feeling like asshole.
had a nap. the watched Saw. that is one screwed up movie thats for sure.
then a fried called and was at the sidetrack. so i went down. had another few beer. nothing cures a hangover like putting it off until that next day.
its true. i have a raging cold today cuz i was too dunk all weekend to notice i was sick. whatever. it was a great weekend.

wow. what a fun fun night

its sunday at like 2 am ok so monday and again i am hammered

what a good weekend. aND NO its not just cuz i am hammered. i had some quality god times.. and i will write about 'em soon. but eight now. the keys are hard to find.

tammarra

pece

with a title like that.... you know there is a good story.
but i am in no state totype a stoiry right now. soo so blissfully tired.

soon....

Sooo, its official, i consider it warm enough to wear sandals everyday

I am more comfortable, my feet stink less and I just feel better about myself ..............i have even stopped falling asleep in class as often. I wonder if there is a connection.


Today i get to be Chauffer.
after school i have to drive out to St Albert, yes this is attempt 3 to get a camera. then, out to stony plain to get my parents and then take them to the airport, and i suupose i have to options from there, take their car and then take it home and drop it off,  or take mine and then come straight back to the city after.
but if i take theirs then i can do some laundry at home before i return to the city, but then i usually get into that state where I stare at the TV, since i dont get ANY channels at home and end up staying a long time out there, which really wouldn't be so bad, i could go in the hot tub and stuff. butttt, i would be avoiding some stuff at home too, ie putting away my laundry from before!

meh, what to do.  all i know, is that today will include approx 3hrs of driving, regardless of what decision i make.

  for the record, i think that Ali wins for writing in her blog most consistantly. and to think that she was the one who was going to retire it.

anyways. yesterday, fun day. i went to bed smiling and that is always a good thing.
i got to go for wings twice.  and before i went for wings i had one of the most solid naps of my life, the phone woke me up and i was completely confused. NO idea what was going on.  jumped in the shower quick to get ready and that turned out to be one of the best showers of my life. i dont know why, and no its not because anything crazy happened, the water just felt super silky and it was the perfect temperature the whole time,  sometimes my building has issues with the water staying hot or cold.

so then we went to the globe, with my two brothers, Shannon, and some of the boys. and then the wings came. a plate of about 40 wings, we started to mow down and then the guy came with another plate. with the wings we ordered on it. the first one was a screw up and wasn't supposed to be ours. the can not of course charge us for the wings we didn't order, and they can't take em back cuz they would be garbage anyways, so we got lots and lots of wings. I ordered a few more for myself because no one had ordered my favorite kind, lemon pepper and hot.
Then Travis and David called for our usual wed wings at Joey's so i went there.  Marshall ended up coming. I had spoken to him earlier and he had said he wasn't , so it was a nice surprise that he did.
this morning i slept in an extra hour, not knowing really, but i did, and since i had a shower last night, i didn't have one and was not late for school
love it when things work out.

Holy, some people are getting venomous. and for the record, its MONDAY TRIVIA. and mine was 2 whole days newer then his.

anyways. i suppose i have been slacking. i will work on it.
maybe i will create a new one and write things about people. sometimes good things, sometimes not so good. that would be kind of fun i thnk.

in fact, i may just do that tonight

i went to dinner for a freinds birthday. the bill was 488 and some change. the waitress said she could not speerate it, we even asked at the beginning of the night. i colnd't figure out why until the bill came. she would not have been able to tack on her 15% Grat to the individual bills. but in the end, someone always gets screwed, i ut in about 20 too much to cover for other people. in a way i dont care, as long as Marshall didn't have to put in extra [ it was his birthday] but at the same time. UGH how annoying. seriously people.. own up to what is yours and don't cheap out. in the long run, that 20 i put in tonight is not going to make or break me.

so everyone should learn something from this. PUT IN WHAT YOU OWE, and then a bit more for tip and taxes, becasue no one ever accounts or that. if you shared something, or weven had a bit, you should be obligated to pay for some of it. you did after all have some.
grrr... pet peeve.
i am done my rant.

lighter note, i got 95% on my midterm.
and had a pretty fun weekend. someone i met tonight has floor tickets for sale for the velvet revolver / three days grace concert tommorrow.
but apperantly i have to work, and not even try to get it covered since it would be my last shift with the big mover and shaker.
so i suppose i will work. would probably be an awesome show. and i wouldn't even mind spending the cash for the tickets, but life will go on if i dont see it.
'll consider it tommorrow in more depth.
either way, i am sure i would be forgiven.

Wow,  everything just made a slight bit more sense.
lately when i have been blogging, there has been no rich text editor. super annoying. i wondered if ebloggy was turning to shit. but now i am at school and it is here and running.... I got a new browser at home, and it is probably not configured for java and all that jazz, which woud explain a few things. Its always nice when you have these realizations.

anyways.
Trivia,
was fun this week. awesome catergories.
Entertainment / Geography / Science and Animals / Seinfeld.

I will have to thank my mother for giving me the answer to one of the questions by one of her hilarious responses to a question [ this is in the past, but it was recalled at the perfect time]
the question was
what is the name of a female peacock.

ie geese  =   goose + gander

well this question was posed to my mother some time ago..  it was in one of those calendars or something.. anyways.. after a few seconds of pondering, she says PEA PUSSY  in only a way that my mother can make the dumbest shit funny. we laughed for days. i still laugh and am laughing now when i think of it.
anyways. that how i recalled that they are actually called a pea-HEN, not a pea pussy.
For anyone who doesn't know, or has not had the pleasure of meeting her. My mother is one of the funniest people i have EVER met.  and i am not just saying that because she is my mom. she is literally hilarious. ALL THE TIME....
dont' get me wrong, the rest of my family is pretty funny too, but my mother by far exceeds the rest of us in getting everyone to be buckled over in tears.

Back to trivia.
it was fun. i do not think i will be there next week as it is easter monday and I may be attending a birthday dinner. but the week after.. resumes to normal. if you are considering coming out for it. COME  its a good time. and there is cheap wings. :D

I am doing both right now.

It seems weird that I am drinking alone. but really i am not. I am pre-drinking alone. and i think there is a big difference. I am going to new city suburbs tonight. I have not been there before, but i was told i could find myself a redheaded girl who will treat me like a step sister.sounds fun i can't wait. I also really like mini-eggs, although i feel they are overpriced.
i spent 2 hrs in superstore today. that place is insane. i always end up buying a crazy amount of groceries. I live alone. I eat alone. but some how my shopping cart seem to look like it did when i went grocery shoping with my mother [ for a family of 6 ] and seems to get close to the same price too. but i guess i just don't go as often.

Life has been good lately, for anyone who reads this. but i do have a few things on my mind that i wonder about. not many people know what they are. I guess i am just to chicken shit to say anything. Mostly I wonder why I get nervous over the smallest things, not nervous, but something. hesitant? why is everyone so afraid of rejecton.

its almost monday. Trivia. somehow the routine-ness i am creating over it brings me joy. Maybe its cuz i get chicken wings for cheeap one more day a week.

my drink is empty. gotta make another.

OH MY

My sister drove past this Korean restaurant by the university a while ago and we have been meaning to try it.

well people. we did.

it is soo good. The place reminds me of korea itself. Small small places, about 5 tables inside, korean people run it actually speak korean and answer the phone calls with a korean hello first. not the usual 'hello' we get from north americans.
"yo-bo-say-yo" its was awesome. the food was amazing and I will definatly be going again.

It wasn't even over priced either like the place i went to on the south side. They served with the respectful korean mannerisms that you would have had to be in korea to pick up on...

I am hooked. My sister even said a quick thank you in korean to her as we left and she gave us a shy smirk.

Anyone who wants to know what its like. I am more then willing to go again, anytime, and introduce you to the rekindled love i have for their cuisine. I miss it terribly

Other life things.... good times..

work on saturday night .....only .1 table...... over a $50 tip. I won't say just how much i made.... its a secret

Congrats to the new teacher. you will rule the school

so most of you know I am in school again, taking an accounting course. I would just like to say that I have received my highest mark to date. [ in accounting] I got 99.25% on my 2 day project we had to do.
I have bragging rights. Thats good and I am proud of myself

moving on,
I love the sun. I am so happy that the days are so nice, and getting noticably longer. Its is no longer like midnight when i leave for school at 7 am. Its great

I went to the Druid DT on monday for some trivia, thats fun too. I think i am going to try and make it a regular thing. sooooo anyone wanna come.. we could always use some brains power, they have 3.99 wings too. what a night!

DID YOU KNOW??
Bamboo can grow up to 1 metre in 24 hrs!!!
and you will spend up to 2 years of your life waiting at traffic lights!!

Soooooo I know its been a few days. like 4 but I have not heard of any one dying yet


Wednesday night. Well afternoon really. I started hanging out with Travis, and he mentioned," I think we are going to see alot of people we know today" and in fact we did. We saw Brenden, from the bird, dunno if he still works there or not. we saw Rebecca, my brothers fiancee and then we saw Jamie on the street. I saw Matthew Gualt, a guy I knew from childhood and I also ran in to a few associate friends[ ie my brothers friends] Dave and Sean. It was crazy.
The Druid was a good time even though I did not get to sing since the Machine broke and then I just had to go home so I wasn't late for school the next day but it was a good time.
Thursday I worked at LongStreet. It was alright. they do things differently and I like some of their ways better. But over all i prefer Whitemud. My shift ended up being from like 5 - 8 with a small crappy section and I rang 200 $ High rollin
My hairs are all now a different color. for those who haven't seen me. then new color for jojoj is "Expresso" its dark and I like it. everyone so far has said it s good and I think my eyes look alot greener now. [ I have some grey hair, this is why I dye it ]
Friday after work I went to the Druid downtown to see my sister in law since it was her birthday.
I ran in to an old friend. Marshall. OH MY GOD. it was insane. I think he was one of those -people that i wished I could be good friends with, or that I wanted to talk to more but chance and circumstance never gave in. Its kind of weird, but i was really exited to see him. The group that I knew him in, has totally dissapaited except for Mike[calgary] and myself, Marshall was amazed that I still talked to Mike. the other party, still unknown about where she is or whats she's up to. Married I think.
Anyways. Its cool to run in to old friends and hear their stories. I enjoy it emensly and I will probably write about the outcome of the 'catchup'

I dont feel like reading for spelling mistakes. So you'll have to deal.

With it being wednesday I must mention that I love chicken wings. Last wednesday I went to the Globe with...ummmm...maybe I will not write names of those whom I am not sure if they want their name on the web...anyways I had 'Lemon pepper and hot' [of course] and also tried the curry. I had them before but it was on one of the nights when the globe bit the big one, and they were not good, but this time, I was impressed. They were gooooood. So today as I sit here in class, writing in my blog instead of doing accounting assignments. [kidding I am done already, she is still explaining what I have finished]..I am starving, and I can not stop thinking about wings. It may be an addiction, I realize this, but I am not going to seek help for it yet. Maybe if I start to gain weight uncontrollably as a result of wings, then I will stop.
Lots of peoples birthdays are right now, this week, this general season. apperantly May is a good romping month, however it results in alot of babies come Feb. Makes you wonder what occasion in May makes people [ assuming married couples RARELY do the deed] want to strip down and dance. Of course my birthday is in May and that should be reason enough, but prior to 1979, what reason is there?
Mothers Day? ....." Happy Mothers Day honey..... Lets Make you become a mother"... a rouse I doubt I will fall for.
And in general, how am I?
well besides being ridiculously tired in school,[ I think I am not being challenged enough, she is going at a pace for turtles] I am doing well.. I like how life has been lately. Not that anything as been out of the ordinary, but its just been good. I suppose its because I had this mental picture of living in Edmonton, not travelling, and saw myself being very bored. In a way I miss it, I always will, but this rountine life is not as boring as I feared. Even work at the 'Bird', when I quit last October, I hated it.... I thought I was done being a server and was going to get a job doing something random for an hourly wage, no tips involved. So I didn't work at all for a while, Oct 6 - Mid Jan. And now I am back at the bird, I like it now. even all the bullshit that comes with it hardly seems as bad as it was before. [ie short staffed, dirty glasses, no busser]  Maybe its the new light that has been shed on the whole situation. Or the arrival of 'Aloha'. Something is different though.
Anyway, my posts always seem to be like novels. So I will wrap it for the time being.

Yesterday was Great. Friday night was spent sitting in my apartment, having a few bevy's with my sister, Then my brother came and Jamie's room mates also joined us. Just sat around... no grandeur plans to go to the bar, everyone seemed to be content with just chillin. it was fun. Went to bed and had the most solid sleep ever. And that is how yesterday started out great. SOLID SLEEP.  it was soo good. even though I forgot at one point that i was sharing my bed with my sister. I am surprised I didn't kick her.
So  I woke up feeling great, no reminants of booze from the night before and no sick stomach. I had to work, but even that didn't seem like such a chore. Work went smoothly, although a little slow. and then i went to my good friend michelle's. Known her forever. we went to a movie. Hitch. Its always fun to spend a day with just chicks. you can eat chocolate and giggle about random things. Afterwards we had to go looking around some stores as tommorrow is my sister's Birthday and I had not got her anything yet. This is where the day becomes amazing. we went to Old Navy.
I found a fleece sweater, zip up varity, my sister had got one for christmas... and secretly I had wanted one too [ She got red, i wanted white ] So in the middle of the chaos known as the clearance rack. i found a white one. It was the only one there, and it was a medium. perfect. Ths price tag was ripped off so only the UPC code remained. meh.....

[ internal battle as follows.]

self.... you are shopping for jamie, not for yourself. Put that down and quit being a retard. ALSO you just got a photo radar and if you remove yourself from DENIAL, you will know that another one is indeed coming and  you can not pass it off as someone else, since no one else drives your car...  put the jacket down retard.... down down .....your money must go to the police.. down down...

I carried it to the front of the store. Didn't find anything for my sister, but figured, this jacket was $50 at christmas time when my mom bought one.. its gotta be like $20 by now.... i can afford 20... the photo radar isn't due for weeks... so i found a girl wearing one of those funky head sets. and asked her.  How much is this sweater.  [ anticipation builds]

" IF LIFE WERE LIKE THAT, YOU WOULDN'T NEED A VISA CARD......."

it was $  1 . 9 7     NO JOKE.  i just scored a fleece jacket / sweater for $2.11 including GST. I didn't need a visa card. i pulled out a pocket full of change. what a good day. I am going to carry the reciept around in my pocket. cuz i have a feeling no one will believe me.
I also found something for my sister, and got a stellar deal there too.  but since it is the day before. she may read this.. you never know, and i can't let the secret out.....

HEAVY ENTRY WARNING  Alot of information and seemingly unspoken emotion to follow......   about a very cool guy called......
 
John Horan

what can I say about this piece of work.
I'll tell you all I know.
He was sitting at a picnic table at the dive shop in Honduras. Jamie and I were in the middle of our trip down into the coolness of central america, and we came across Horan. First impression? well they are always hard to remember exactly, but I definately gave him a second look. He looked like a riot to be with, some people you can just tell. So we talked for a brief minute, the usual travel talk. where you from, what are you doing here, for how long, do you like diving? etc. He was from Ireland. On a years vacation around the world, and currently travelling with Martin, some guy from Dutchland, who Jamie and I found to be a little dry at times.  But we decided that lunch would be a super idea. So agreed to meet a bit later, we all had to go change and shower and stuff as we all had just got back from diving and were salty and wet. from there... it was nothing but hilarity and laughs. We spent endless nights together at the local bar Coco Loco,[this site talks about a dive master named TEX we met him personally also] and ended  up on alot of the same dives, [ well boat anyways as jamie and i were in a private advanced class.] He was on the night dive when we were warned of Barracuda's attacking and saw the FIRST Spanish Dancer ever spotted on the island. He travelled with us to Copan Ruinas and we spent more fun filled days at the Blue Iguana. He is undoubtedly a treasure to have met. I am glad we did meet. We talk almost on a daily basis, sometimes I feel lost when I get up at 6 am for school and he is not there to say "morning missus" or some other term reeking of irish accent.  I talk to him about everything, everyone and we laugh alot. He can make me laugh anytime. Even when I am having a shit day, half the time he never knows b/c mood is hard to transmit over msn, our main form of communication. He has a big heart and I only wish we could live in the same country and hang out for drinks or wings or just a laugh. He's one of those people I doubt i could have a real fight with, and if we did, it wouldn't last long and be about something ridiculous.
I hope, truly deeply hope, that we can meet again one day, although deep down I know we will. I couldn't go on knowing I would never get the chance to see him again. I would make it happen before forever passed.
Johnny, I love ya, i really do. We met for one brief minute of eternity, but I'll never forget you.

I went to the cheesecake cafe with my sister today. I really really love cheesecake. its so good. And I had a salad that I will definatly go back for. It was amazing. Honey lime dressing. I could have drank the dressing. And then i went to Payless and found a cool ass pair of shoes.. ..  what a good night

so Its friday, My sister is on her way over. and we are going to get 'buckled' and go to the sidetrack cafe for some live tunes. Its should be fun. I always enjoy live music and it makes me feel like I am an artsy-fartsy pants when i go. And now i can wear my new shoes.
any one wanna come.. swing by. its super cheap to get in and i am sure i will be around somewhere. :D

peace out

Two turtles go camping and pack a cooler with sandwiches and beer. After three days of walking, they arrive at a great spot but realize they've forgotten a bottle opener.
The first turtle turns to the second and says,  "You've gotta go back and get the opener or else we will have no
beer."   "No way" says the second. "By the time I get back, you will have eaten all the food." "I promise I won't" says the turtle. "Just hurry!" Nine full days pass and there's still no sign of the second turtle. Exasperated and starving, the first turtle digs into the sandwiches.  Suddenly, the second turtle pops out from behind a rock and yells "I knew it! I'm not f**** going!"

this is a shout out to

Travis John Robertson.

Travis is a very fun person. I tend to not hang out with people who are not fun.  and so this must mean he is very fun. He has touched the hearts of many people. My mom even loves him. I always have an awesome laugh when he is around. I miss the days of watching Ellen alone cuz travis was too lazy to get out of bed. and then his complaining that apples and chicken do NOT go together. Secretly though, i know he loves it. Marble slab and borrowing my sweater and NEVER giving it back. Its ok though cuz i would rather he have it then anyone else in the whole world. I know that it will get alot of use from him. His smile brings a smile to others, its very contagious and I know that when he smiles, he has made someone's day.
I love how he is too chicken to dance on tables, but he will sing "joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat" songs with you at the top of his lungs on calgary trail, as long as he is not the only one doing it. His innocence [if only appearing innocent, not actually innocent] is endearing and i truely enjoy all the time we spend together. One of the best guy friends a girl can have.

This is the part where you get a shout out if you leave a comment in my blog. Here are a few recent ones.

Matthew Kenley
Met him in korea. He taught at the school down the street. From Montreal, alot of energy and personality. Could always seem to talk about anything with him and be very comfortable. I enjoyed spending time with him and hearing about his adventures with his korean girlfriends and the language barrier. "Everyone speaks the language of love" Direct quote over beer one night at the Blue Skies Pub in Hwa-Jeong, South Korea. He told awesome stories of every part of his life. I missed him alot when he went back home to canada. Haven't been able to catch up with him. But one day I hope I can. Cheers Matty, you are still one of the funnest people I have met.

Olivier Lefauconnier
"Of course, my horse."  Famous words by the French man living in Madrid, Spain. We met in Guatemala, on the bus on the way to the market called Chichicastenago. I was having the worst day ever. I woke up in a fowl mood, spent a retarded amount of money on some pastry for breakfast for my sister and I, and then dropped one in the dirt. I was pissed off about that and on the way to the van while fuming mad, I dropped the second one. Olivier was in the van, maybe he sensed my bad mood, who knows. But he made me laugh and brightened my day with his banter. I enjoyed my day at the market with the new friends, all 5 of the frenchies, and had a blast when they moved into a hotel room down the road.  The swimming and the Isreali restaurant with space cookies. The horse back riding that was more like riding an anorexic pony. Canoeing in El Ramate while the sun went down, and sitting at the end of the pier in the morning watching the sun rise. The looks he gave me and the smiles that never ended. I had a great time. Maybe we will meet again.

So its half way through family day. I had no idea what i was going to do, but left it open as things usually present themselves. So let me tell you about my day so far.
I woke up. super early, had to pee. and went back to bed. Those times you get to go back to bed are the best. I always seem to have the best sleep of my life. I got up finally around 10 or so and showered and dressed. Looked in the fridge to decide there was nothing i wanted to eat and was going to put it off until after a movie. Grind. Franz lent it to me the other day. So in it goes and I am not even through the credits when there's a knock at the door. It is of course. Franz. He has his jacket on, says he is hungry and offers to pick something up from Subway for me.  I laughed and just told him i ouwld go with him since I hadn't eaten either. So we walked to subway. got a sub and walked home. Franz then changed his laundry, showered and came over. We watched a movie, but not Grind. He had rented a few others so we watched S.W.A.T.  It was alright.
Now its 230 in the afternoon and I have just spent most of my family day with my neighbor. Maybe they should change the name of the day to "QualityTime Day"  and I am sure it doesn't matter who you spend it with... as long as you are spending it. Now I am wondering how I am going to spend the rest of my afternoon. I wonder if my sister wants to hang out, can never have enough sister time. Or if my mom is going to call me, she usually does and has something funny to say. Or Who keeps calling me and hanging up. Or just maybe I will get a phone call from someone wanting to hang out......

So drving home from work today, I saw an awesome sign. Its at 105 at the top of the hill.. just before most people hang a right to go to 109 th
it said Condos for Sale.
But someone had made a small flag to hang over top of the s... so then it read. Condom For Sale.  So funny. I love pranks. The fact that no one has taken it down it funny in itself. After having a less than stellar day at work. it made me laugh out loud and its what i needed.
Another cool thing that happened today was when i met Shalyn at work. She's nice and i had never seen her before.... and after she saw my name tag she said
 " oh you're Joanne....I have heard so much about you"
Its always nice to know that people talk about you and that you are not a faceless person wearing a black uniform.

Girls night tonight. should be fun. And maybe Franz will hear the racket and come over for a bevy.

Franz, the neighbor that everyone has heard so much about paid me a visit yesterday.
I think it was a little forced by me, but either way, he came over and we talked. I was trying to assemble a table my brother made for me. It required a hammer. I was hammering. Franz started to hammer on the wall. He was sleeping, regardless of it being 6 pm in the evening.So finally, he came over to see what was going on. He laughed and wondered ~~why assembling things didn't only require a screw driver. not a *** hammer. ~~I showed him. then he laughed at me for my hammer. said it was cute. Didn't know there was really ' cute' hammers, but i have one.
He went back to his apartment to get me his bigger, more manly hammer. I will admit the bigger head did wonders for the sound factor, but really. who cares. Then i got out my screw driver and unscrewed the bottom to find the appropriate attachment. Franz looked at the head i picked and said let me see the screws.  In the tone that tells you he thinks you are dumb girl and have no idea whats going on. well i had picked the right head out, but he also had to one up me on the screw driver and went to retrieve his.
So there we were, sitting on the floor of my apartment putting together the table that my brother made for me.
We talked about travelling and his work, his Ex-GF and people that lived in my apartment before. It was a fun conversation. He has alot of energy and it shows. He even went home to get his favorite gift. It was a super old style camera that doesn't even work anymore. like a movie camera from the 70's. I think I may have not been excited about it as i should have. It was really cool, but my questions of "What? it doesn't even work?" may have sounded like i didn't care. I think i will mention to him that i think his camera is super cool. It really was. He left to go to a friends, and i left to go for coffee. we got back at the same time. So he brought over a stack of DVD's for me to borrow. randomness is so entertaining. But he said his DVD player broke and so he has no use for them right now. I gave him a story I wrote to read. He laughed and said he has never got a homework assignment from a neighbor. I told him it would be a good read and that then we could laugh about it. He took it. I hope he likes it.
I won't lie. At first when he started banging on my door and stuff.. I thought he was weird. and maybe a bit creepy.  But I think now thats he's awesome funny. will be a super friend and a very cool neighbor. I have never had a cool neighbor that i actually talked to before. most people are so unneighborly. Maybe i will bake him a pie.

I like wednesdays.  And I like Travis, David, Kevin and Grady. I even see the humor in Darcy, though i dont know him that well.
I miss the days of 'Cam the Couch' and going for Marble Slab with Travis. Living alone is great and i love it. but its the moments you can't forget. walking in to the 10 day old crap. or the new technicolor carpet,which is the new craze.
 the good old days
I like random Rogers trips where nothing gets accomplished. Time spent. Its always about time spent. doesn't matter what you do, just the time you spent together. even bitching about artsy movies. [we could have watched 2 of them]
so boys.... even though we didn't do much, I enjoy the time we spend together. You are so fun to be around. Maybe next time you can tell me what 'first base' really is.... so i can just get there.

Here is a website that I got directed to by someone, who I feel, shares a similar sense of humour. It is about a man, who writes down personal stories and happenings. You'll just have to read it.

http://www.tuckermax.com/stories.html

So funny.

Other news. My brother is in germany for a conference. Got sent through work. Lucky guy. I went to a movie with me ma yesterday. The Wedding Date. The movie was good and I enjoyed it, but I think I enjoyed it 500 times more because Dylan McDermot is in it and he is HOT.  hottie hot hot.
I sucked the big one with my last table at work yesterday. Forgot to ring in their order, and then  put it in wrong.  haha. I admitted to my mistake, and did not blame it on the kicthen or anyone else. They left happy and tipped me $10. apperantly this means truth is always good. I remain to be convinced that it is always good. mostly maybe.. but always?

Well, even though i am not an avid blogger as some. I have decided  to make a move to ebloggy. Msn Spaces is alright, however, complaints came in about having to sign in to read it sometimes, or post comments and stuff like that. Frankly, It just wasn't doing it for me. So that is going to be where pics go up and stuff like that. Cool sites and etc. i will link you there when you need to check something out.
and now that i have an ebloggy account.  you can post your damn comments alot easier.

So welcome.