lets be productive today

yay! chadwick got me a new camera for my birthday which i got yesterday!!!
now i just need to get a bigger memory card so i can take more then two pictures at a time...
ONE WEEK TILL MY BIRTHDAY!!!
ugh ok...i have to go get a new drivers license...
brb...hopefully with more pictures...

pearl harbor sucked and i miss you

its sunny today but im pretty sure that will all be gone by tomorrow
yesterday we helped pat move and then we sat on a mountain in the sun and then we ate grilled cheese samiches and then we watched pearl harbor and it sucked and then we fell asleep...
my birthday is next week...but im getting my birthday present this week...before my birthday party on friday...and i think its a camera...and that makes me happy cause i really need a new one...
i just ate a crispy crunch chocolate bar and it was really good...now i have to put my clothes away and get changed and go to white rock...we should go to the beach first since its so nice out...

oh i also wanted to say that i think it would be good to keep raymi and her family in our thoughts right now...

i need to brush my teeth

i have to leave to go to the dentist in 10 minutes
the hygienist has been lovingly named by chad "the butcher of north burnaby"
i dont think it has stopped raining in 5 days...

what if you get really sick at home and have to spend the whole time in the bathroom?

BEAGLE

we did not watch the hockey game on monday...except when i forced matt to put it on for the last two minutes of the game...maybe it was good luck that i didnt watch it....

we had our last test forever on monday...that makes me very very...but then yesterday i got really sick...

i had to go back to school to pick up all the clothes and stuff that were marked...but then there was a huge accident on the bridge and i was stuck in traffic for over an hour and i started getting all panicky for some reason and got a major stress head ache so i said screw it and went home but then everything that i wanted to get done kept screwing up which kept stressing me out and made my head hurt more and more...

then my mom warmed up the left over chinese food and the smell of it made me want to hurl everywhere...it was so gross...then i got that feeling where you stomach hurts cause you have to burp but you cant burp so you sit there in aggravating pain until you some how manage to burp...it was horrible...

i didnt finish my dinner...which almost got me thrown out the window...but then i didnt puke any of it up...which saved me from getting throw out the window...

it was a horrible string of events...but now today i feel all better and chad feels all sick...awww

game 1 tonight...and i dont think i even get to watch it...frustration sets in...

i need to remember to buy a scrap book today

i was cleaning out my desk the other day and found this piece of paper...

last year some time i went to pub for my cousins birthday...one of his older brothers friends were there...he was 37 and a pilot...i was drunk and annoyed at people for ditching me so i sat and talked to him the whole night...i think i made a post about it but im to lazy to find it...

anyways at the end of the night he told me he was flying off to peru or something soon but wanted to see me before he left...so he wrote his number and email on this paper he had in his wallet and gave it to me even tho we had already exchanged numbers in our cell phones...

the next morning i got like a billion txt messages from him wanting to take me to the beach...i declined however...then i found this paper...flipped it around and read 'mans search for meaning' humm really??? is that what you want with a girl 17 years younger then you??? some meaning??? is that what the book told you to do???

interesting really...

every so often i will get an email from him tell me of his latest piloting adventures...or how he sees my number in his phone and doesnt remember who it is...until he does remember who it is...and every so often when i see my cousin he asks me if i've talked to him lately as if him and i have this actual friendship where we talk all the time...just cause we hung out once at a party...

he was a nice guy and made for interesting conversation...but i was really more interested in the fact that he was 37...cause yea know...its 37

i just find it so funny when i discover random pieces of papers with guys numbers on them tucked away in my desk knowing that there was no chance i was ever going to call them...

ha

in other news my first and last exam is this afternoon and i need to go study so that i wont fail and will be able to graduate...

holla

he's crazy. whattya gonna do? he's nuts. i got the nice fagioli in the icebox over here.

with nothing thrilling to do on a friday night...and with our bitches and booze party only including pat...guido decided we needed to get more italian...so after i made him dinner (...) we sat down to some frank & fritzy...old italian mobsters who were wiretapped back in the 80s...

then guido here thought that his hair wasnt quite playing the part of greasy wop...so taking his hand he wiped the grease from his face to his hair and slicked it back...

i laughed hysterically...

then he threatened to push me down a flight of stairs...

the picture does not do it justice...

apparently hanging laundry is an exact science...

i woke up this morning...

my mom was at work...

she left this note...

i didnt know laundry had to be hung in a specific order...

umm are you kidding me???

but just watch me to the same thing when im a mom...

seriously...

sometimes you have to admit when pitt is a genius

genius i tell you...

street fashions for the harvest

my buzznet is going to explode because i have uploaded too many pictures this month and am not allowed to post anymore...so i am very said...and unless it gets fixed i dont know what to do...cause i like posting pictures on their first then putting them on here...cause they are bigger and better and so i dont know what im going to do...i guess i dont have to wait THAT LONG for the month to be over but still...

SO todays post will have to be postponed...instead im going to tell you a story...

when i was in grade 11 i started looking at what to do with the rest of my life...i had always always always wanted to be a teacher...i had been dead set on that since i was 5...but now i wanted to explore my options more and find a career that would be fun and creative...

so i looked into broadcasting but realized they make no money...and that just wasn't going to cut it for me...cause i wanted to buy burberry and how was i suppose to do that with no money...

and then a thought came into my head...a rather odd one i guess...

my dad had grown up on a dairy farm and as a child growing up every sunday we would drive out to the farm and visit my grandparents and see the animals and it was the best time of the week...i was in love with the farm...it was my world, my life, my happiness...i could have spent every waking moment there...helping out...playing in the fields...hanging with the animals...i cant even express how much i loved it and how much it meant to me...

so...when it came time to career choices i SERIOUSLY considered going into farming and agriculture...i had this image in my head of wearing plaid shirts and overalls, big boots and my hair in pigtails - could i have been more stereotypical - and waking up every morning and doing all the farm chores...but to me they weren't chores because they were going to be fun!

so i did some research and look at the different schools and realized that if i actually wanted to do this right i would probably have to move to alberta...cause it was basically farming central...and the thought of moving to alberta was basically the point where my dream of being a farmer died...cause honestly...moving from BC to Alberta...was not going to happen...

so instead i put that dream aside and figured that since i was good at sewing i would try and do something with that...then i found the fashion program at kwantlen and applied and figured that since it was so hard to get into...if i made it, that it was where i was meant to be...

and 4 years later here i am...could have been graduating from farming school but instead i am graduating from fashion school!

i told patz this story for the first time the other day and he just about died laughing...cause honestly...unless your parents were farmers and you grew up with it and plan to carry it on...no city chick in their right mind would leave it all behind to become a farmer...but then again i am always the exception to the rule...

pat suggested that i blend my two passions together - which i somewhat did for t.h.i.r.t.y.s.e.v.e.n - and design street fashions for the harvest...then go to alberta and sell them and become a millionaire...which, if i dont get a job here soon, i might as well friggin do cause it would be cool...with all the plaid...and all the farmers...ha

so if there had been a good school here...and moving to alberta didnt have to happen...i could very well be living on a 20 acre lot feeding cows and planting trees or something...

but who knows if i would have actually followed through with the plans...but i still wanna own a farm on day...even if its a hobby farm and im 80...

sigh... fine, tomatoes

yesterday was my last day of classes...forever...it was a happy day...

i bought my italian sewing teacher a bottle of martini and rossi...cause he always asked me if i made the vermouth myself...he was sweet and said that i didnt need to get him a gift because having me as a student was gift enough...he also said he doesnt know who hes going to speak italian to next year which made him sad...

now i just have to study for one exam and then its time to be lazy!!!

i have no job yet...and i have no idea when thats going to happen...

my mother...who hasnt worked in 20 years decided to apply for a job...and got it...so now she'll be out every day being the social butterfly office worker that she is...and i will be the one at home with nothing to go and soap operas to watch...

now i get to spend the next few weeks/months being harassed by my mother every day on whether or not i have found a job...bring on the joy! she already did it today and she wasnt doing it as a joke...

if it wasnt hailing outside i might actually feel productive and go sew myself a coat...alas that is not to happen...

the weather is gross...my hair is gross...and young and the restless is on in an hour...

dear god what has my life turned into...

and yes...there will be tomatoes in the food tonight...

if you love her buy her a gun

they play old episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 at 4pm on sundays and im ridiculously excited for it cause i never watched it when it was popular because i was probably too young to know or care what the hell was going on in prime time tv drama...so now its my turn to catch up...

in other news the canucks play in 4 ish hours...

in other other news tomorrow is my last day of classes...FOREVER...

in other other other news the asshat arrives home in 9 hours...

today looks like an exciting day...aside from all the homework i have to get done before tonight...

ugh

oh wait...dallas IS in texas!

yesterday was a disaster...the amount of things that went wrong was astounding...everything that could did...and more...

we had all planned to go to the pub to watch the game but everything prior to meeting for the game went screwy so by the time we got there it was full...and so was every pub other then the legion...but we arent 80 men so we didnt want to go there...so the next best thing was to trash chads place since hes not here and couldnt really stop us...

we ordered pizza...drank beer...and cried at the sight of the game...it was so bad...we just could not score...SO DEPRESSING...so instead we planned a rather exciting trip to the cambie for next weekend...because when you are in vancouver there is no place you'd rather be but the cambie...

after the game sonia showed up and we lounged around and watched random episodes of what not to wear, wife swap, and take home chef...we actually watched the same wife swap episode raymi watched and we made fun of everyone in it constantly...then in take home chef the wives/girlfriends he was teaching to cook were SOOO flirting with him it was retarded...he picked up this one chick who was in sweats at the store and then when they got home she went to 'freshen up' and came back with this boob explosion shirt on and her hair all fancy and make up and we laughed our asses off...it was so obvious that she wanted him...her boyfriend wasnt that impressed...

anyways here are some pictures...

this is the "tv" we had in the car while driving and not being able to watch the game...hello 1995 VW tape deck!

this is my 'i hope chad doesnt go italian husband on my ass cause im allowing people to invade his place' face...

umm...i wouldnt drink out of that scuba suit if i were you...alpha males are very protective of their territory...but if theres anyone willing to test that theory its pat...

since chad wasnt there i took role of 'man of the house' and pat wanted a picture of me fulfilling that role to its fullest extent...

ugh...the game sucked a lot...

at least we were supportive...

FUZZY ROBYN!!!

lets hope that tomorrows game is 100 times better cause really...we rule and dallas DOES NOT...

every guy in vancouver has a man crush on bobby lou

holy crap the game was long last night...i was stressing out during the whole thing and i dont know why...for one i am not as emotionally involved in hockey games as some people and it was just their first play off game not even the stanley cup...it brought back memories of world cup where i watched the whole soccer game in agony until they finally won...

i was feeding robyn updates as they happened during the game cause she was at work but i only made it to the second overtime before i fell asleep...i figured that if they won my brother would make enough noise to wake me up and inform me...apparently he did and obviously i slept through it...i woke up at around 3 realizing i didnt know the score of the game but didnt bother to get up...it wasnt until i got up for school at 6 30 and got an email from chad telling me they won in over time...the FOURTH overtime...sweet mother of mercy...

its been the topic of conversation with everyone today...school, home, the radio...its hockey insanity in vancouver

on friday im pretty sure that robyn, pat and i are going down to the rivers reach to watch them...hopefully it wont last until after 12...but if you are in the area and wanna join us feel free to do so...

now i just have to go dig and find my white towel from '94...SWEETNESS i just found it...

can you hear the drums fernando? no, not fernando pisani...

i feel like a zombie...walking around not thinking...doing random things just to pass the time...so the day will go to sleep and the next one will wake up...ive been getting up earlier and earlier every day...its my time to sleep in but my body wont let me...then 10pm rolls around and im out like a light...i have become so lame!!!

theres only a couple more days of school left and i would really love to just skip it all and have it over with...but i cant do that...once thats over there in begins the process of trying to find a job and trying not to panic when none of the options pan out...

its wednesday which means there are only2 more days in the week before the weekend so i guess thats good...its just over half way thank god...today feels sad...its kinda weird when you're in constant communication with someone and then all of a sudden theres none...yea this week is just weird...but i guess a little weirdness in life makes it interesting...

i have to go to school in 2 hours and schmooze people...i think im going to organize my cds since i have 2 hours to spare...weird

in other news, i think chad is bringing me back one of the members of ABBA from sweden...im not sure which one tho...i hope to someday collect all four...i'll get them to sing me 'Fernando'...

today you must learn two words in hebrew

i got nothing but massive adventure posts these days so thats all you get...

yesterday was jewish adventure day where i took pat and robyn to this jewish deli where we eat pickles and lots of meat...then we tried to follow some jews into the community center but they wouldn't let up in so we went to the park to jump off things...

then we went to queen elizabeth park where we too pictures in the biosphere thing with all the birds and all the plants...then when we left it started to rain so we went home...

but we did stop by the jewish cemetery so pat could visit some friends by they wouldnt let us in either...the jews were being all protective yesterday...

i think pat was impressed with it day of heritage...now we just need to find him a nice little jewish girl...does anybody know one???