Sunday, September 30, 2007

you want me to just blurt out something interesting? thats a lot of pressure

SO...

Alicia and I have been at work since 10am...
WHY you may ask...
Oh just a managers meeting...
which we are NOT involved in...
but were asked to help out at...
and the time in which we are suppose to be helping out/attending keeps getting post poned...
so now it is 3pm and we have done nothing but print some pages and dress some maniquins...
did i also mention how the heating is not working in our office building...
and how its freezing cold and raining out side...
my entire body is slowly becoming numb...

when i get home there better be pillows and blankets and hot tea and fuzzy things because i dont think i can move any more...
hint hint...CHAD...

i dont know how much longer we will have to sit here...

organs.shutting.down.
call.for.help.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Story Time with Charis


its days like today when i realize how much i love my job...

i poured myself some coffee to wake me up and warm me up only to notice there fabric fibers floating around in it...oh fashion...you are in everything i do!

last night was our dinner date at antons and it was very yumtastic...we only had to wait about 10 minutes in line which was good...while we were standing there huddling to keep warm this car pulled up and this guy got out of it...looked in my direction and give me this huge smile in the way that guys smile at you when they are hitting on you...then he opens the back door to get something...both chad and i look at each other and say 'WTF!?' why is this dude smiling at me like that when i am clearly with someone...then he pulls out a baby from the car and smiles again...and again we are like 'WTF!?'...he starts walking towards us and our confused faces only for his wife...who just happens to be behind us...to run up and great them...OH...ok...makes sense now...he wasnt smiling at ME but his WIFE...got us a little worried there for a second...


when we finally got in we sat at this table next to this olderish couple...the chick was done her meal and had her take home package in front of her while the guy continues to wolf down his food...the entire time they were there they didnt say two words to eat other...the chick just stared at him leaning her chin on her fist and the guy looked around everywhere but where she was...it was totally weird...when they got up and left chad looked and me and was like...'did they say anything to each other the whole time we were here???' and i was like 'nope not a word!'...meanwhile there we are not shutting up for two hours...

it was interesting to see how far we've come...the first time we went to antons a year or so ago we knew nothing...chad would point to what he wanted in the menu cause he was to scared/didnt know how to say it in italian...we would get a single glass of house wine because we had no clue as to what the difference between anything was but we knew we had to drink red wine with the pasta...

now items like 'pene alla calabrese' and 'pene alla greca' are said effortlessly...and $40 bottles of Wolf Blass are ordered without even flinching...we've tried them all and now we know what we like...we've become snobs...in the best sense...its fun...

we got home at about 9 last night and though we would just sit down for a sec cause we were so tired...but after a gigantic pasta dinner and an entire bottle of wine that was not a good idea...30 seconds later we totally passed out...9:00!!! asleep...dead to the world and not wanting to move...

i ended up having the most retarded dreams...the first one i ended up going to India with my dad...god knows why...and i didnt want to be there and i didnt pack properly so i didnt have the right things with me and i was suppose to be gone for a month and because we left in such a rush i forgot to tell chad that i was going and i freaked out...so i found a computer and went online and someone had totally messed up my blog and changed everything...and i had no messages waiting for me on facebook and i was so pissed...no one even noticed i was gone...so weird...

then chad and i were driving down this road waiting to cross over on this bridge but there are people walking on it and not driving...which i found odd...then i come to a screeching halt cause the bridge abruptly ends and i couldnt drive anymore...and there were nets everywhere for people to climb and walk around on to get across the river cause the rest of the bridge had fallen down...but there were no signs about this so i had to leave my car there cause i couldnt back up to get off the bridge...and so i of course panicked cause i need my car for everything...and the nets we had to climb down on were horribly unsafe and everyone was taking pictures of everything like it was a tourist attraction...

these two dreams combined led to my horrible sleep which then led to my intense need for coffee this morning...see it comes full circle...hopefully i will be able to get through the rest of the day with out having my head crash into my keyboard...

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

BACONATOR

matt and i went to lombardos for dinner the other night...

the website is classier then the resturant...it was in a mall and the atmosphere was bad...we went to the one on commercial drive since its a block away from work...

the food made up for it tho!!!



amore

hes got a high profile job...am i allowed to say that???



hes going to sue me over my pea coat...but if he does he wont be getting his 4 birthday chutney spoons...

omg these balls of ice cream are the grestest things ever...Tartufo = HEAVEN...

yea so dinner was good and the left over pizza was even better...matts planning to move out next years so while he waits to do that is going to be collecting and purchasing highly expensive 'necessities' for the place...apparently craigs list isnt good enough for him...

...

saturday night robyn and i went out for dinner on granville island...just a girls night out...we went to Sandbar where we dinned in big leather chairs in one of the most beautiful dinner settings ive ever seen...we shared a caeser salad and dumplings and omg they were amazing...

for the main course robyn had mussles in a cocanut dressing that was delish. and i had linguini (surprise surprise) with clams in a cream sauce...i had never been so impressed with a restaurant in my entire life...the food was to die for!

we would have stayed for dessert but we had to go to sonias fashion show and we didnt want to be late...

....

tomorrow night we are going to antons...again...because chad has a hard on for it...but yes i will admit they have alot of pasta choices and more then half of them i want to eat at once...

i bet you any money that mr. ciavarro with get the same old same old pasta and sausages...

he is OBSESSED...

Friday, September 21, 2007

tooth brush STABBER!!!



this week blows...

it was just full of disappointments and that makes me mad...

oh yea thats alicia and i in our hot new coats we are buying from work...we are being models...i printed out the picture and hung it in our office so people could see how cool we are...

anyways back to me hating life right now...so plans tonight got cancelled due to sicknesses but that still wont stop me from sucking back a bottle of red wine...maybe we will have a mini gathering or do something fun instead...

also, did i mention how i absolutly hate grouting and the mess that it creates??? ive almost had 10 seperate frustration enduced explosions due to my hatered of it...but its ok because i just soothed my pains with some warehouse shopping with alicia...

things i am buying...

Black turtle neck
Black double breasted pea coat (in picture!)

Black leggings with buttons at the hem
Leopard print purse
Green and brown leather purse

i really wish this day would end...

OH and as a part of my partial frustration enduced explosions i stabbed chad repeatedly with a tooth bursh...it was pretty much the funniest thing ever...except when it actually started to hurt...aww...im cute

we are voilent...

ly...

in love...

you really shouldn't try and piss me off...

awww LOVE...

ok im going to go make some SPANAKOPITAS!!!

alicia and i are about to stuff face...

yum

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

we are not sweat top people







i have crack whore eyes






chad likes sammiches...

more then the average person...

oh

did he tell you he broke the toilet???

did he also tell you how he looked 10 years younger after shaving off 5 days of face hair growth???

well its true...

he doesnt have a useable shower, bath, or toilet...

need i say more...

greasy/sweaty man - cleaning facility = smells not normally smelt

who would have guessed that in this relationship he really should have been the one nicknamed 'smelly'

not i...

that hoodie is a beauty tho isnt it...

Saturday, September 15, 2007

i will not rest until all of mankind is nipple-less

this is me live blogging...

ciavarro and my father are behind me tiling the back splash...

im listening to johnny cash...with a side of raspberry beret...

i think this tiling is going to cause a lot of frustration today...

not good...

there is no shower...which means chad wont be clean for 3 days...

also not good...

my dad is wearing a "department of corrections" t-shirt he bought from the movie Double Jeopardy when they were selling off all the stuff from the set...

ummm i just got a caffe mocha from starbucks and i am now in heaven...

my nails are long and glossy...

i like living the high life...

im looking up axl rose lyrics...

lalallallalaa...

everything is dirty and dusty and sandy and it needs to be clean...

it dont make dollaz it dont make sense...

i use to play quake 3 back in the day when i hung out with real nerds...

now im making pizza in the misplaced oven...

TILE SAW...

im sleepy...

i could go on but i think thats it for now...

maybe i will add more later...

Monday, September 10, 2007

cabin fever
















yes cabin fever...

again another day where yours truly is stuck in the office all alone and its driving me CRAZY...

since no one is here i am not motivated to do anything...and even tho i do get everything done it takes me twice as long cause i just don't want to do it...

the warehouse staff has left for the day which means its all locked up and i don't have access to it...which also means i have nothing to do because all my projects are done in the warehouse...

i also have to stay an extra hour tonight because im the only one here with a key and the pattern drafters need to stay until 6...

i seem to be complaining a lot about work these days...i still love what i do it just feels like ive been in this 'alone' situation for far too long...Alicia has been away for weeks helping out all the stores who are missing staff...which leaves me with no one to eat lunch with and no one to have fun with...

i decided to put up a bulletin board in our office space so that it doesn't look so hospital like around here...everything is really dirty and covered in fabric scraps...

im at a loss today...i don't know what to do anymore...

im going to fall asleep and i need to stop complaining...

but apparently people love me and think i am amazing...

Friday, September 07, 2007

its that time of the season again

Part 1












Switching barrels
The Men
Crushing the grapes







22 boxes of grapes will produce about 150L of Merlot



Removing the stems



Checking the sugar content

My Nonno wanted to pay my 100 bucks to roll up my pants and squish the grapes with my bare feet...
i declined...
even for 100 bucks...