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2006-07-13T00:09:00.000+08:00

Here's a shot of looking over Montreal at night from Mount Royal, the only mountain around the city, which gave us a beautiful view!

Miow, this portion of our trip is already coming to an end. It went so quick, but Dave got to see lots of the country around where I live, and I got to see my friends and family again. All in all, we got to see Toronto, Niagara Falls, Niagara on the lake wine region, Ottawa (and got to see Cherylie-Dean!), Montreal, Quebec City and had a great time everywhere. I hadn't been to many of these places since I was a kid, so it was nice to go back and see them from a different perspective. Montreal and Quebec in general really surprised me. Everyone was friendly, the city was beautiful, the culture vibrant and it even inspired me to pull out my very horrible public school French for the first time ever. (Including when I was in school! :)

Now Dave is busily planning our two weeks we have in BC before we head back to Perth and *yuk* look for jobs. I've had a great time, Dave and my parents really hit it off, and it was great to see everyone got on so well. When we head back it will be time to start getting everything started for my immigration to Australia, and hopefully my parents will come down and visit us there. It will seem weird going 'home' to Perth, but once I get working and make some friends of my own, I'm sure I'll start to settle in nicely. I just hope my parents decide they can't live without me and move! :D
Enough for now, I'll update once I get back to Perth.

2006-06-25T09:08:00.000+08:00

Dave sent that to me ages ago, but it came back up in conversation today. I think every woman should read and really search within them to see if they are doing all that is required to make 'their man' as happy as he can be in todays busy and stressful society.

2006-06-23T06:10:00.000+08:00

Dave and I are back in Kingston now. Woowee! But unfortunatly I have to start packing to go back to Perth, so if anyone wants anything (like anything, I have so much crap I can't take with me.) Let me know. Just name whatever and I'll see if I have it, if I do, you can have it. Donations welcome :)
Thanks, this will save me lots of hassle taking perfectly good stuff to the salvo when I would rather give it to people I like! :D
I promise to make a better posting later. :)

Ok, Daves in the shower, so I will add more...

I went to the doctor today for my checkup and asked her about my finger I hurt playing footy, and she said that I most likey broke it! No wonder I was all owie when I did it, I think the boys thought I was just being wimpie, but nuh uh!
What else, Me, Mum, Dad, and Dave are thinking about going to the Boiler Room indoor rock climbing gym tomorrow. I'll take my camera in hopes of getting some funny not so embarrassing photos of us. Ohh and I got my hair cut today too, it looks nice. I just got all the ratty ends cut off, but it still looks heaps better than before.
Ok, I think Daves done in the shower, and this is the best post I've made in ages. It will do for now.

2006-05-29T16:46:00.000+08:00

My first footy injury ever!! But because I hurt my finger typing is very slow and frustrating so I will make a proper post with pictures later. Miow. :P

2006-05-12T23:45:00.000+08:00

We're coming home!
To be more specific, Dave and I are going for a trip back to Kingston to visit all my family and friends! I'm very excited to see my folks again and my nanna and doggy and all my friends! It should be good fun showing the city off to Dave, and taking him out for some time out on the town! We'll be in town from the fifth of June on, so if you wanna get together, just give me a shout!! But now, bedtime, its late!!! Woo hoo!

2006-05-02T12:58:00.000+08:00

Go Grumples Go!
Thats our sand volleyball team name, and on Monday, we entered an A grade competition with Dave,Marty, Brent and I on our team. We were the big underdogs of the tournament seeing that we usually play B grade (one grade below) and we never play in fours. But we gave it our best shot, and what do you know? We end up in the finals! We beat five other teams to get into the finals which nobody was expecting (especially us!) We gave a valiant struggle, but in the end, the team which we played was just more skilled than us, and we placed a very respectable second place. It was only after the game did we find out that the team we were against had been playing together for 5 or 6 years! So I think we did damn good! But 7 hours of sand volleyball will take its toll, and we came home and crashed in bed after some very long showers to get all the sand off! Now that its starting to turn to winter here, all the outdoor sand volleyball places are closing up, so now we're looking to see if there are any indoor ones to keep us busy. Here are a couple pictures from the days activities. Enjoy and Go Grumples Go!

2006-04-18T11:22:00.000+08:00

Did everyone have a nice Easter? I hope so. Dave and I went down to Augusta for the long weekend to Antz's parents holiday house. It was lots of fun. We went snorkelling, and Antz caught lobsters for two nights in a row! Fresh lobster is much better than the stuff I'e had before, but I still wouldn't go to the ends of the earth for the stuff. It might be one of those things you have to grow up on to love. Then we went crabbing in the estuary later that day. Antz has a small boat, and the estuary is really flat and shallow, and basically you just cruise along slowly until you see one on the bottom, and scoop it up really quickly with a net thingy. We only caught one, but it ended up being too small to keep! Very bummerific. Even some excitement as Antz ran me over with his boat trailer at the boat dock! This was before we went out on the water, and Dave was getting fuel for the boat, and I was in charge of holding onto our boat so it didn't smack into the boat next to us, and neither Ants nor I was looking where the trailer was, and as he drove off to park the car he ran right over my feet! The guy from the other boat heard my squak and yelled at Antz to stop the car, but by then he'd already run over both my feet! Thankfully the boat had already been removed, so it was just the empty trailer which wasn't very heavy. I just got a couple cuts and a bruise on the top of one foot, so I was pretty lucky. The best bit was when Dave showed up after this had all happened, I was sitting on a rock wall near the dock, and Antz walked over to Dave and said "Err...Sorry mate, I ran over your girlfriend." Dave was like "What the hell did you do to her?!" Dave and Antz took good care of me tho, and all my injuries are healing well. Yay for that. That night Andy and Jo showed up, and we all played a very heated game on Monopoly. Four hours + lots of beer + not having the rules = uglyness!! I do not recommend it to the faint hearted. On the drive home me and Dave got some more wine from our favourite winery Willespie which I'm very excited about!
Hope everyone had a great Easter!!!

2006-04-13T20:45:00.000+08:00

Holy crap! I just realized I'm a size 10! Now this might sound weird "How did she not know what size she is?" But that is because I am in Australia still and they use different sizes here. I had been losing quite a bit of weight recently due to healthy eating and lots of excercise, and went to the shops and bought a new outfit or two in Aussie size 14. Which I figured would be about a 14 in Canadian sizes aswell. I used to be an 18-20 a couple of years ago, which I was never happy about. But now, I have lost 10 count all of em, 10 dress sizes!!!!
Heres a photo to prove it. This is me on Rottnest Island on my last Holiday with Dave. Rottnest is an island aout a 30 miniute ferry ride from Perth, and it beautiful with lots of great snorkelling spots. Enjoy!

2006-03-18T20:48:00.000+08:00

And on a very amusing side note of my previous post, Dave took the same test, and came out as Will Riker! Haha, I found that amusing.

2006-03-16T15:26:00.000+08:00

I stole this from Viki. There I even updated my blog! :)

Your results:
You are Chekov

Chekov		65%
Will Riker		60%
Deanna Troi		60%
Uhura		55%
Geordi LaForge		35%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		35%
Mr. Scott		30%
Jean-Luc Picard		30%
Beverly Crusher		25%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		20%
Data		19%
Spock		17%
Worf		15%
Mr. Sulu		10%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		5%

Brash, rash and hasty,
but everyone loves you.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test

2005-12-26T11:13:00.000+08:00

Ah, the rush of Christmas is over! Let me recap the events of yesterday.
Me and Dave arrived at his folks house around 8:30, right on time, and just before all the other rellies. For breakfast all of Daves mums side of the family was there, and they were all very nice and welcoming. We had a three course breakfast, cereal, toast with ham, and waffles with mayple syrup, but thankfully I restrained myself to a little of each, but not too much. Then we packed everything up and got ready to head over to Daves Uncle and Aunts house for lunch. I started feeling pretty shitty, but didn't have much choice, so off we went to Daves other rellies. This time it was all Daves dads side of the family, and again, everyone was very nice and we had a self serve cold lunch that was tasty. Dave and I stayed around for awhile after and chatted with the rellies, and around 4:30, both of us feeling rather shithouse, went home and had a nap. Once we got up we decided to open prezzies from each other while the house was still quiet, so that was nice, Dave got me a fuzzy koala bear, some choccies, a necklace from Melourne, and a book from a local author he thought I might like. Then we watched Amalie, which was nice and mellow. I called my folks and said Merry Christmas quickly, as I had talked to them the night before aswell. Then Mr.Martin came home, and we opened up our prezzie from him, Dave got a cool fold up beach volleyball kit, and I got some candles. The end for Christmas 2005!!!

2005-12-21T12:15:00.000+08:00

Well, look at that, four days til Christmas. This year seemed to go by really slowly actually, but now that I actually have to go buy things for people, annoyingly quickly! Wish me luck, I gotta run. This was just a quick note so people know I'm still alive and kicking. :)

2005-12-12T14:35:00.000+08:00

Thats me at Little Creatures - a bar in Fremantle, about 30 mins south of Perth. Its really neat, it used to be an old warehouse for something, and they turned into a brewery/pub. At our table, you could look right into the brewery and see all the steal vats of beer being made. I should get a shot next time I'm there.
Plus...
I found the best song ever!
Hit me with your rhythm stick! Its a must download for everyone. HIT MEEE!!!
I nearly peed my pants the first time I heard it! I was in Daves car, so I'm sure he's very glad of my good bladder control.

2005-11-24T23:26:00.000+08:00

Ok, I have been a little slack in my postings of late. I figured, a little one about nothing would be better than none. I have actually been a little sick for most of the week which has kinda sucked. Just basically sat around the house and watched bad daytime telly. It seems no matter how far you travel, the tv during the day is always shit!
Dave had his beach vollyball match tonight which I went along to watch. They were doing much better, and only lost by a very small margin, and I think the other team cheats. ;)
Well, apparntly we're off to go watch my first game of cricket tomorrow, should be good fun! Plus I'm going to lunch with Daves parents too. (Just me and the folks, Dave will be at work) just alittle on the scary side. ;)
Anyways. all for now. Nighters!!

2005-11-14T10:54:00.000+08:00

This weekend has been good fun!
Saturday, Dave Marty and me went to Scarb beach in the early afternoon. Some decent waves and I actually played around in them more than I had before. The water was a little chilly, but once you were in it for a minute or two you got used to it.
So, up the next morning around 9:30, showered and started to get things ready for our picnic. I made fruit salad, and the boys got all the other food stuffs together and ready to go. Left about 12:3 or so, picked up Nes, and headed off to the Swan Valley. It's actually surprisingly close to Perth itself, and really pretty. The landscape was more rural Australian, and it was very nice. A little stream, which we hiked around a bit after our picnic lunch, and I got a couple good photos. Wandered back to the picnic area, had dessert, then headed off for our brewery tasting tour around the Swan Valley. Went to a few different places and tried quite a few beers, went to a chocolate facotory, and had a handful or two of free choco smaples which were very yummy. Then more beers. My favourite was the last place we went to, lots of character. After dinner, we headed off and played some pool. Thankfully we were all pretty bad, which made for some interesting games.
Now I'm off to the beach again! What a life huh? ;)

2005-11-08T17:09:00.000+08:00

Look! Me in Australia! Ha hah ha! Enjoy your yuky winter! I shall be on the beach if you need me...

2005-10-31T07:14:00.000+08:00

Oh this has been such a great Halloween so far, and it not even the 31st yet!! Karen had a killer party up in Belleville on Friday night which was lots of fun. Plus I got to see a lot of people who I won't see again before I go. :( :( :( Everyone got really hammered, and the bathrooms were well used that night! We partied it up til about 2:30 or so, then I took off back home and got to Kingston by around 3:30.
Then last night, Pam, Derek, Dave, Simon, his girlfriend and a couple other people I didn't know went out to MyBar for some drinks and pool. I was Marilyn, Pam was little red riding hood, and Dave was the big bad wolf, (with snout made out of cardboard and everything), and Derek was the guy from Clockwork Orange.
For pics from Karens check out my pictures site, they're up on there already. (I have a link to it on the side.) More pics to follow soon. :)

2005-10-28T00:01:00.000+08:00

So I had my last day of work yesterday. Seems very strange knowing that I won't be going back there before I leave for Aus. Nothing really exciting happened on my last day, but me and Miss.Ashley went out for pizza and martini's after work and got our nails done which was fun.
My room is basically all packed up at this point, and everything I'm taking with me is lying on the guestroom bed ready to be loaded in my backpack. I leave in six days! Ahh! Its quite scary, I'm glad I did Europe already, as I think I would pee myself in the airport if I hadn't gotten that experience.
I got all my shots on Tuesday from the health unit, I got Hep A, Typhoid, and the Flu shot. I was feeling pretty icky the last couple days, but after sleeping from 10:30 last night til 11:30 this morning I'm feeling much better.
Me and mum are going out today to go shopping and take care of a few last minute details before I leave. (Photocopy important papers, go the the bank, blah blah blah...you get the picture.)
Gotta run!

2005-10-23T12:20:00.000+08:00

Enough!
Gah! I redid my blog today and its been giving me nothing but grief! I won't go into the boring details of my problems, because I know nobody but me will care, I will just say that it has been frustrating!!
I just want to go to bed now. This is a shitty ass post, but too bad for you. :)

2005-10-19T10:23:00.000+08:00

The weekend for me was actually fairly uneventful. I had Saturday, Sunday, Monday off, and didn't really do a whole heck of a lot the whole time. Monday me and mum did our fitness assessment with our trainer. Apparently, since May I've lost about 15 pounds. Not too shabby I didn't think.
Then we all went off about an hour north of town to look at a lot of property in the country that was for sale. It was really out of the way, so we decided it wasn't for us, but it did have a really nice lake that would basically be our own private lake if we had wanted it.
Kevs birthday was today, Kev, Dave, Derek, me and his folks went out to Gustos italian restaurant for dinner, then back to his place to play some video games. Kev was hungover from last night, and was sleepy, so I headed out back home round 9.
Then there was a travel show on all about Australia, so I'm having fun watching that. Going back to my show now.

2005-10-16T11:38:00.000+08:00

I think I smell bad. . . Now to explain.
I bought some self tanning stuff and tried it out for the first time tonight. I remembered it from when I was a kid and it A: Smelled like rotting turnips, and B: Made me look like I had a liver condition. Since then I have never had much of a burning desire to inflict that upon myself once again, but I figured the technology must have improved since then, so I gave it another shot. I'm always one of those people who reread directions on products like that before applying just in case. I can do it a million times, but still I always do! Same with hair dye, I'm not actually going to admit how many times I've coloured my hair, but I always read the damn directions even though I could probably work in a salon by now!
Plus I made it so that all you non existent people out there can comment on my bloggings. I don't actually believe anyone other than myself and possibly my sister reads this, so it will come as a great shock if I actually get any postings, but I thought "Hey! Live on the edge!"

2005-10-13T11:10:00.000+08:00

Ok, here is my first shot at putting my journal on a word program to be cut, paste and put online at a different time. Mostly because if I were to sit down at an internet cafe and write every journal entry while connected it gets very expensive, and I never ave time to be arsed finding an appropriate net cafe every couple of days to keep up with entries.
Today was shit weather out, but me and mum didn't let that stop us and went shopping all day! I got basically everything else I was needing before heading out, and I figure that whatever I forget here I'll just pick up once I get there and think "Oh crap, it would be really handy to have whatever." Seeing as I'm heading to Australia and not like Laos, they should have whatever I need. Plus hunky checkout clerks. (At least I'm hoping.)
I also got my bathing suit today in the mail. I was very happy to get it before I headed out. I tried finding one around here that fit and looked okay, but it is impossibly to find anything that is small on the bottom and actually has room for like more than an A cup sized boobs! Everything I tried that fit everywhere else was like literally busting apart when it came to the top. Or the other way round, when I got things to fit my boobs the damn thing was hanging off the rest of me like a potato sack! So I turned to very handy online shopping and got myself a very cute one from guess where!? Australia. What a coincidence eh?
Anyways, I work tomorrow so I'm off to bed. Here's hoping this actually works...

2005-10-11T20:42:00.000+08:00

Drunken birthday photos!!

My birthday was last week! I turned a whopping 22. I had a really fun time, both on Wednesday when I hung out with my family and ate lots, and then on Saturday with my friends and drank lots. :)
We headed out to Philty McNasties and all my friends showed up! Lets see... we had Mitch, Kev, Brant, Alex, Derek, Dave, Jason, Laura, Brenna, Erica, Emily, Pam, Holly, Justin, and ME the birthday girl. If I've forgotten anyone, let me know. :)
I put some more pics up on my photo site here: http://photobucket.com/albums/b214/JigglyPiggy/
Well, thats about all for now. I'll try and keep a decent update in here from now on.
Australia in 21 days!

2005-07-27T11:22:00.000+08:00

Ahh, the last couple days have been nice. Yesterday was great fun in particular. Pam, Dave, Mitch and myself all went up to the Picton sandbanks for a day at the beach. After we all assembled at Mitchs we then stopped at IGA to get some food supplies and the like, then made the very scenic drive up to Picton. I'd never been there before, or at least not since I can remember, and very much enjoyed it. Perfect time of year, good friends, good times, all added up to a wonderful day. The water there was really really warm, and you could wade out really far and still be only up to your waist or so. We had good fun jumping into the oncoming waves and other wave related activities, none of which I was any good at. Made me question just how decent a swimmer I'll be in Australia, but we'll soon find out now won't we?
We're going to fire my kiln tomorrow, so I shall have fresh pottery in my hot little hands by day after tomorrow! How exciting. I shall take pictures of the final products once their all said and done with.
Bed for me now though.

2005-07-17T23:00:00.000+08:00

Let me see, I've been up to a few things since I posted on here. I bought my plane ticket to Australia last week. Makes the whole thing seem much more real. I have a whole days layover in Hong Kong, so I've looked up a few interesting sounding tours to do instead of just sitting in the airport for 12 or however many hours. Plus that way I'll get a Chinese stamp in my passport, double cool.
A few weeks ago, I had done something bad to my knee, either torn, or pulled a ligament in the back, and was waiting to see what needed to be done to it, and just got a call from my doctors, saying my knee didn't need surgery (yaaay!). Now I've gotten back to doing my tennis and things which I'm happy to get back to. Its been so hot here recently that we've mostly juse been getting in the pool. but its nice to have some hot weather.
Dad and me are experimanting with making cheese. The first attempt didn't go so well. Yuky smelling semi chunky milk wasn't what we were aiming for. But this time it actually worked, so we're impressed with ourselves. Next its on to more difficult cheese!
But, I need to get ready for work, I just wanted to put up a quick post so I didn't get too far
behind.

2005-06-21T12:12:00.000+08:00

Ahhhh .... Jason had his Halloween in June party. Crazy good times! Like usual I drank far too much, but still had an awesome time. My boy Derek even got to come down for an appearance from the army to hang out for the night which was good fun. I've uploaded some pictures from the night onto my new photobucket account. . .
http://photobucket.com/albums/b214/JigglyPiggy/?action=logout
Hopefully as I get photos that other people took, I'll add them on too so you can enjoy the funness that is the crazyness of me and my friends.
Tomorrow I will be firing up my kiln to bisque all my pottery pieces that I've been working on for the last little while. Viki and Dan even got to put a few things in, so that should be fun to see how those all turn out once they get glazed and fired once again.
Anyway, I'm tired. More posts later.

2005-06-16T00:31:00.000+08:00

Hum, it seems to me that when summer arrives, I have much less time to post things on here. I have been helping my mumsy to get our gardens in tip top shape, which seems to be going well. I have even made myself a vegetable garden! I've planted watermelon, cucumber, carrots, onions, peas and tomatoes. Along with a scattering of different herbs and things which I don't count as actual vegtables. I will post pictures of their progress up here soon too.
Viki and Dan are up visiting from Arizona which has been fun and different. I showed them my pottery studio and made a pot for them, then they each got to try and they both did very well. :) Here's a picture of me making a pot, with Viki and Dan overlooking my progress.

2005-05-30T07:41:00.000+08:00

Whoopsie! Goodness me, I haven't added anything on here in forever! Well, lets see, whats happened lately... Jason had his first trailer party of the year. Good good fun. Drunken pics can be found on my pics site (look under links to My Photo Site. They should be under the "Friends and Parties" subjection.) there are some funny shots at least to keep you entertained.
My boy Derek left for the Army today! Silly silly boy, he didn't listen to me and desert even before he showed up for training. Ah well, I guess everyone can't be as smart as me. ;) He won't be back til August 28th or something around there, far too long and we shall all miss him.

2005-05-05T10:38:00.000+08:00

Well, I figured I'd show a picture of what I've been up to lately, seeing as I have been having a hot and steamy affair with my pottery wheel. (For lack of any other kinds steamy hot romances) So, here's some of my things I've made lately. None of the stuff I've already glazed cause it was tucked away in one of my shelves and I was too lazy to move it all around just for a picture. But hope you like what I've done so far. More to come :)

2005-05-04T11:32:00.000+08:00

I've been having much fun with my pottery lately. I've now gotten my own little alcove in the basement for all my things. Just need to put up my shelves and workbench, and I'll be all set. Its been nice to have it available for me to go do instead of just watching TV or something else unstimulating. Plus this way, I can make cool things that I can give to people. Ok, semi-cool things, that are slightly wobbly, but still! Handmade people!! Makes 'em special.

Woah! a guy on TV for some roofing company with the BIGGEST mullett EVER! Plus he had dyed the tips like this really bad dirty blonde colour and left the roots really dark! Grossness! That's just wrong and should NOT be televised! For the love of god, will people never learn!?

Ah, bedtime, but I thought I'd at least make a little posting to make sure it didn't get too behind. Nighty night.

2005-04-24T06:31:00.000+08:00

Here's me at the Green Mango!! My absiloute favourite part of this photo is the "World class nude showgirls!!!" in the background. Who doesn't want to know about THAT when eating!!??!

Anyways, onto the actual blog entry about the day....
So me and Daddy went up to Toronto yesteray. It was good fun! After forgetting to set my alarm, and getting woken up 15 minutes before our scheduled departure time, I hurried about to get everything ready to go. We left about 11, and headed on up to Oakville to go to the wonderful and glorious Pottery Supply House. We got lots of things including: all different kinds of glazes, two different types of clay, some new wheel tools, a book on how to throw properly (which I think I need!), a pyrometer, and tempurature cones for my kiln. So all in all we have a very well stocked little pottery studio happening here. From there we headed to the Yorkdale mall, where we parked the Miata and headed to the subway to get to downtown. Amazing how much subway systems look the exact same no matter where you go in the world! They even had the "Mind the gap" posters in the various stations. I kept reading them in my head with a distinct british accent, which very much amused me.
Had a yummy yummy dinner at the Green Mango, my favourite Thai place in Northa America thus far.
(The place in Berlin was even better... although I don't know if it was better on account of tastier food, or just the great overwhelming sence of joy in ordering a dish that was written completly in German and had no idea what it was, and ending up with something being not only edible, but really really tasty! Plus, being a broke hungry backpacker, anything that didn't end in Wurst while in Germany is always a welcome retreat.)
We headed out to Massey Hall after dinner and managed to get very last minute seats to see the Doug Riley band. (The show started at 8:00 and we got our tickets at 7:20 or so.) We didn't feel like waiting around in the theatre until showtime, so we decided to go for a bit of a quick shopping trip up Bloor St. Seeing as we were in Toronto why not eh? We walkpast a really neat looking store with lots of East Indian decorating accessories. (Throw pillows, bedspreads, lamps, you name it) Dad ended up getting a book and I had fun looking about the place.
Then onwards back to Massey just in time for the show. We're way up in the nosebleed seats, but didn't wait long before moving to some better seats which nobody seemed to have claimed. The show was really good. It was all 60's funk, soul, rock music, but the singers and band players were all very talented which made for an enjoyable evening. I was by far the youngest person in the audience by a good 30+ years. I think I should have gotten a tshirt or a mug for that. ;) The show ended around 10:30, so we hopped back on the subway, back to the car (it was raining really hard by then and I forgot my umbrella!) and headed on back to K-town. I slept most of the ride home, and we got back home about 2:30. I went to bed and had to get up at 8 to work all day from 9:30 to 6. It sucked. hehehe
Anyways, now I'm gonna go eat dinner and play with all my new pottery supplies I got! Excitement now!

2005-04-20T11:42:00.000+08:00

For a long time now I've been struggling with certain thoughts and feelings towards someone. Someone who sadly doesn't feel the same way towards me as I do to them. I've told myself a million times to forget about him and move on with my life, but it just seems to linger there like a big dark rain cloud over my head. I've done my best to put those feelings aside, I've even seen other people here and there, I hang out with my friends a lot, and I've been working steadily. I think most who are around me figure I've just moved on and dealt with it, but I just can't seem to shake this feeling of something. Its hard to say really, I just know that I should feel differently, and no matter how hard I try, or what I do, it just doesn't go away. I know this sounds weird, trust me, it sounds even weirder in my head, but I figured basically only my sister reads this anyways, and I don't mind her knowing what's rolling around in my head, so thought I would write it out to see if it made any more sense actually in wordy form... so far I'm still not sure. I guess we'll just have to wait and see... And here I thought things were supposed to get easier when I got old and grown up! The fairly tales are all lies I tell you!

2005-04-19T11:34:00.000+08:00

JigglyPiggy is off to the big city! Yep, Daddy and me will be heading off to Toronto on Friday for the day. It should be good fun! We're going to go to the Pottery Supply Wearhouse now that my very own pottery studio is up and working. Then to the Green Mango for some kickass Thai food, which I haven't had since, geesh, Vik was at U of T!! Far too long! Then going to go see Danny Fincleman's 45's. Its like a 60's soul/rock concert. And Daddy knowing of my musical likings around that era, he thought it would be fun to do all this! What an awesome daddy I have, lucky lucky me. :)

2005-04-15T09:54:00.000+08:00

Man, I've been working all day every day all week! Seeing as I doubt any of you really want to hear the exciting details of luggage and leather goods, I haven't had a whole lot else to put in here as of late.
I've been having fun playing around with my pottery wheel after work, I now have two bowls made, and now need to be fired. I know, I know, what a sad excuse for a life.
But in semi-good news, I have a date with a real live male human being! Here I thought the other sex saw me as something of a leper, apparently not so much! We went out for a couple of dates right before I left for Europe, then he went out East for University, and just got back now from school. So we shall see how things have been since we last saw each other. (Oh by the way, he looked me up again) hehehehe I get great joy out of that. ;)

2005-04-12T08:33:00.000+08:00

Well, let me just say, today was rather cold, sunny, but chilly, so it was a good day to be working. Yesterday it was nice and warm, so Dad, Mum and me went out and washed the cars, brought the miata down from its winter resting spot, and washed it too for good measure.
Then me and dad finished off my pottery wheel and I actually got to make my first bowl on my own pottery wheel! Very exciting. I tried to make some more tonight, but it wasn't being nice to me, so I gave up. It will be very nice to have my own wheel and kiln, so now I can be potter extraordinare! Ok, maybe not quite, but I'll have fun.
I work everyday except Friday this week, so I will be a busy girl!
Ooh, the Thirsty Traveler is on, all about Irish stout. I should have his job. :(

2005-04-11T21:33:00.000+08:00

Finally, interesting things has been happening in my life! Took long enough. (not that I'm complaining. Nothing happening is better than bad things happening. *knocks on wood*)
But, I'm just on my way out the door for work, so I will post all the details when I get home. I was just killing extra time til I had to leave. :)

2005-04-09T08:00:00.000+08:00

I went to the park today for my lunch break. It was a very nice day out, bright blue sky, big puffy white clouds. Then a whole bunch of Japanese tourists got dropped off from one of those huge double decker tour buses. I wonder, "why come see Kingston now? Its grey and ugly, and there's still all sorts of sand and salt all over the streets from winter. The trees aren't green, there aren't any flowers and it usually rains... what's the point?" But, they seemed to be enjoying themselves just the same, frolicking about with their windbreakers and extra large clunky digital cameras. I guess there is no real point to this story, I just thought it odd people would come all this way, only to come in a really icky season. Maybe they thought 'spring' for us was now and it would be all pretty and green with bunnies hopping about. Sadly that's in about a month, and even then, the bunnies are still in some kind of a hopping union strike, so we'll just have to wait and see.

2005-04-02T09:02:00.000+08:00

Oh well, sorry for the skimpy postings of late, but I have been working my poor little behind off, which doesn't leave a whole lot of extra time for social life! And with no social life, there just isn't a whole lot of interesting things worth writing about. But, tomorrow night RMC (for any out of towners, its the military college) is hosting a big party with all of its officers. I am most excited. My girls and I in a horde of decked out military boys and alcohol to boot? The evening will surely be entertaining to say the least. Thankfully I have the next two days off work, so I can really party it up and still have time to regain my composure before having to head back to the trenches. I will be sure to put up a decent update after then, maybe even some photos if I bother with my camera.
till then!

2005-03-27T06:49:00.000+08:00

Well, I guess I learned my lesson. Never will I complain about how boring it is around here again. I think I'll have to think twice about heading down to AJ's from now on...

Link to story in the Whig
Thankfully I just heard on the news the guy who did the stabbing just turned himself into police. Stupid people these days doing stupid things. Apparently this was the second stabbing at AJ's this month! The other person who got stabbed thankfully lived, but I had no idea that Kingston was such a violent place! I think I'll be happy to get out of here and keep travelling.

2005-03-26T00:42:00.000+08:00

Things around here have been fairly uneventful, thus the slight lack of postings.
I've been working a lot at the leather place, which has been good cause I just got paid. Yay, more money for my trip!
But really people... theres nothing worthy of posting at this point. Just thought I'd do a quick note to let evryone know I was still alive.
Once there has been big events, I will be sure to put a good posting up.

2005-03-19T09:28:00.000+08:00

Oh goodness me. St.Patricks Day drunkenness!! So drunk infact that when I got home I attempted one of my infamous drunken emails, and was too drunk to type!! Now that ladies and gentlemen, is highly impressive. I shall start back at the beginning and recap the evening.
The gang assembled at Brenna's house beforehand, and we all got straight to the drinking and merryment. Met a few new faces, including Brenna's dog who seemed to have issues with me for some reason. Had some much too strong screwdrivers, and around midnight we all pile into some cabs and head downtown to Bens Pub. We cheerfully discover that a beer rep is there and handing out free Keiths!! Things were looking up! So after a few rounds of free beer, we then all stumble down to the Brew Pub for yet more beer and general roudyness. Somewhere around this time its somebody's great idea to do tequila shots, and being the person I am, I can't refuse! (But really, who could? Its tequila afterlife!) Mitch took some very interesting snaps of us doing out shots. (I'll be sure to add them later once I'm less hungover and feeling more energetic.) By that point in the night the bars were all closing down, so I hailed myself a cab and came on home. The room spinny-ness was a little unsettling, but soon passed right out to sleep. ;) The End of fun St.Pattys Day 2005.

2005-03-15T02:02:00.000+08:00

Right now I'm in the process of colouring my hair. The last shade I had done, which I had enjoyed very much, was starting to get a bit tired looking. But alas, when I went to go to the store to but it again, it had been dicontinued!! I found one that looked fairly similar, so we shall see how it turns out. I will put some pics up to show ya'll if and how it turns out. I gotta go wash it out soon, so more blogging later.

2005-03-11T14:30:00.000+08:00

Whoo, what a night last night. Here begins the DRAMA of the evening.
I met up with Pam, Jen, and Dave at Pams house, and we then cabbed it down to a friends house of Jen and Alex (who are a couple by the way). We drink some more there, then head up to AJ's for some more drinking and dancing. At this point, Alex and a few friends of his went to The Grizzly (another bar) next store, and we were to meet up with them at AJ's later on in the night. Well, 2:45 rolls around, and no sign of Alex or Rob. So we all head over to The Grizzly to see if they're still there, so Jen can get her money and go to bed. (She moved to T.O. and Alex was holding onto her money for her earlier in the night) After no signs of either of them at the bar Jen starts to get a tad upset, (which in my opinion is quite understandable), we wander on down to MyBar (yet another bar on the strip). We eventually go to the place she and Alex were going to be sleeping for the night, where all the guys who originally went with him to The Grizzly all were, except for Alex and Rob. So there we are, Pam, Dave, Jen and I sitting in the stairwell of the place she was supposed to be staying at waiting for them to arrive. Alex also had the keys to their car, but Jen being very fed up with Alex's said behavior decides to call CAA and have them open her car for her so she can drive home. Once this is done, I being the most sober one and the only one able to drive a standard, drive Pam and Dave home, then drop myself off, and Jen by that time being sober as well, then drives herself off to destination unknown, as Alex never showed. (She was supposed to stay with him). I didn't get home til after 4 and slept in today til nearly 2:30. Oops. :) I should call Pam and see what eventually happened. This is a long enough post as it is right now, I'll give follow ups next time round. Oh yeah, pics from The Golden Dogs will be up soon. I've been lazy.

2005-03-10T14:23:00.000+08:00

Just got home from a very interesting concert at the Elixir. The band was The Golden Dogs and I don't think that I would do a very good job in describing what they were like, but I shall try. They were mostly punky, with a little... what the French would say... I don't know what. But what made them really fun to see live was the actual people in the band. All of them seemed to love performing and their energy on stage was at 2000%! I have never seen such a great live performancee in my life, and that says a lot. I got a couple shots of them going nuts, so I'll download those tomorrow maybe before work if I'm in the mood. Its too late for me to bother with it now. Hang on for those, they're worth the wait. :)

2005-03-08T08:32:00.000+08:00

Geesh today seemed like a busy day. After getting my ass kicked by Shane (my trainer) in the morning me and Dad headed over to the hospital to pick up Nanna. She had gotten an (excuse the spelling) angiography to make sure all heart valves were working properly (Yay, she is apparently doing well). Then we took her back to her place cause she was still pretty groggy from all the meds she was on. We hung out at her place for awhile, then Uncle Tom and Kit came and took over. Dad and I then went off to do some shopping that had to be done. Went to Rona where we got Dad a new electric drill, as the one we have currently I'm stealing to use as the motor in my pottery wheel.
We met Mum at work and decided to go out to Wooden Heads for pizza (very yummy) and then came home to veg. Doesn't sound like much on here, but kept us busy for most of the day.
I work tomorrow at Bagot Leather from 12 - 5:30, which will hopefully go well. (i.e. the annoying owners won't be hanging around. ) Hopefully before then I'll get a chance to drop off a couple resumes to a few different places as well.

2005-03-07T11:05:00.000+08:00

I was having fun reading old posts of mine on here, and what do you think I find? That today is the one year anniversary of me starting my blog! Well that sounds like an excuse for some sort of celebration. Maybe I'll go make myself a nice big Strawberry smoothie. I make the best ones ever and I've been having a craving for them anyways, so its a good excuse. :)
On the work front I'm finally noticing some more demand for local bartenders which is good. I'll probably drop off one at the General Wolfe. (For any Kingstonians reading this they'll get why this is funny) Bagot Leather has been rather aggravating lately for scheduling. I had two shifts this week, and both got cancelled for one reason or another. Thus why I'm looking for other sources of employment. Plus the owners are these annoying old people who's only joy out of life these days is bossing around the staff and just being generally a pain in the ass.
Viki might be coming up for Easter which should be great fun. I miss my Micket and we will have fun galavanting around the house once again. Then we can convince her to move back home! (Yes I know you'll read this before then, but I still get to try in person! ;)
Ok, those smoothies are calling my name.

2005-03-06T02:31:00.000+08:00

Here's some photo's from when Jess, Byron, Blair and I (and a couple other people who's name I've forgotten) went out and ended up at the Elixir.

Dave's birthday was the next afternoon and I was really hungover. Spent most of the time in a nice big comfy chair attempting to be perky, but I don't think I did very well. Ah well. It was good times. Dave beat the shit out of a pinyata which was fun to watch, and he even nailed Derek in the forehead with a flying tootsie roll.
More pics later once I get the ambition. ....and I'm spent!

2005-03-01T11:41:00.000+08:00

Well, the theme of this month would definitely have go to go friends! Been having a busy month of seeing all my posse which seems to be happening on a nightly basis. Its been great, I missed all my buds when I was gone, so having a good time drinking the pubs around town dry. I do think its possible to add pictures on here, so once I get some sent to me I will be most diligent to put some up.
In other far less eventful news I'm working part-time at Bagot Leather Goods downtown. Which is handy as its a hell of a lot closer then storage used to be and the people I work with all seem to be nice so far. Still looking for a bartending job to make some extra cash, hopefully with Spring on its way things will start to pick up with the tourist crowds.

2005-02-01T11:44:00.000+08:00

Dear merciful god I have been a slackarse on here. This is pretty bad even for my standards.
Well, obviously I have returned safe and sound from my wonderful adventures abroad. Not saying I'm all that pleased about being home, I really was having a great time. But its nice to see friends and family again at least. I'll be heading down to Yuma, Arizona to visit my sister for a couple weeks, then up to Boulder, Colorado to visit my Aunt and Uncle. Should be a nice trip seeing as I have not a whole lot keeping me here at the time being.
Not a whole lot in other news really. I dyed my hair last night. Turned out rather well I think. Its kinda a dark red colour. At first was a little shocking in the mirror when it was still wet for its distinct resemblance to the colour black, which wasn't what I was aiming at. But then I dried it and it turned out very nice indeed. I even got the seal of approval from both my parents and even my Nana, who, for ever of those out there who knows her, is an impressive achievement. I'll try and post a picture in the near future of my new do.

2004-10-10T07:05:00.000+08:00

Right now I am in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Why is she in Croatia you ask? Well my misguided people, because it is absiloutly beautiful, the locals are wonderful and the men are gorgeous. Need I say more? I think not.
And if this is not enough for you, they also have very interesting beaches marked with big red FKK signs, which I visited today. They just happen to be NUDIST BEACHES! You heard right, modest Kim went swimming completly nekkid in the Adriatic and had a fabulous time! Europe is much more ahead of the times if you ask me! More updates about interesting adventures once I've had them. ;)

2004-10-04T01:32:00.000+08:00

Hey hey. Alrighty, even though I'm feeling much too lazy to do any updating, I will do my best to do a quick note to let people know I'm alive. Right now I'm in Napoli, Italy on my way south from Roma. What can I say about Roma, thousands of years worth of history in one place is almost overwhelming. We saw a Roma vs. Milan soccer game which was very cool. Had the shole swat team out to protect the Milan fans from getting beaten up by the Roma fans.
Naples itself I cant say I've fallen in love with. Its fairly dirty, busy and smelly for my tastes, although Dave seems to love the fast paced action of everyday life here. Today being Sunday, we wandered out of our hostel to find absiloutly everything closed. When they say Italy is a Roman-Catholic kinda place they aren't kidding. Supermarkets, clothing stores, tourist shops, street vendours....all gone. It looked like everyone got up and left. Very eerie, but I liked it better than before. At least being dead quiet I didn't have to worry as much about being run over by crazed scooter drivers every minuute of the day. Oh yes, none of the streets have sidewalks, and are about a metre wide. In this metre wide street the have all the following happening all at the same time... People's parked cars on both sides of the street, people walking in both directions, AND two lanes of traffic. Try as you might to imagine how unnerving this is for the pedestrians, you have no idea until you come about 2 centimetres to having someones rearview mirror smack you in the ass as they go whizzing by.
Next stop for us is Croatia. I hadn't originally planned on going here, but everyone we've talked to goes on and on about how absiloutly beautiful it is there, so we decided to give it a go. Plus its cheap, that always helps in our decision making process. Our first stop in a place called Dubrovnik which is supposedly soaked in culture and beutilful streets, along with a breathtakingly stunning beach. We shall see how this all lives up. We shall hope at least the beach part is right, I'm longing for a good swim in the Mediterainian.
But, thats all I have the patience for now, I shall update you on Croatia and hope I come back with all limbs intact. Wish me luck.

2004-09-16T03:20:00.000+08:00

Hey, just a quick note... Go sign this petition, and then go make all your friends too! If you do...I'll buy you a beer!

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/resister/

2004-09-11T21:28:00.000+08:00

Ok, I will try to do my best to make at least semi-punctual postings on here. Right now I'm in Salzburg, Austria (where the Sound of Music was filmed). Its very nice here, we planned on staying for 3 nights, and this is going to be our 5th tonight with plans for a few more still. After here we're planning on heading off to Slovenia which should be exciting, considering I know absiloutly nothing about the place. Today is my official 'laze about day trying to do as little as possible'. I haven't had one in awhile, so its nice to just do things at my speed. Mr.David is off climbing up some mountain to the Eagles Nest, one of Hitlers meeting places or something. He was really keen, but I couldn't be bothered waking up at 6 or whenever he had to this morning to make the bus. I woke up at 11 instead. :D
I did have enough energy to go shopping though, I found a fairly cheap store in the middle of town, and not boring Dave, I could spend as long as I liked. I bought a cream coloured sweater and some more underwear. A girl can never have too many undies you know. This ´stupid computer doesn't have MSN messenger. Well, it does, but its complaining about a wrong file pathway or something, so no chats for me. :(
Well, thats a decent enough post for the time being.
Oh yeah, I stole Vik's CD case, her Tragically Hip CD and her Madonna CD too. But I'm cute and I know I'll get away with it. She's the best sister ever. :)

2004-09-04T04:13:00.000+08:00

Well well well... It seems that as soon as I hit Europe, my blogging skills went clear out the window. I blame internet you have to pay for, lots of things to do during the day, and mostly drunken times at night. In other words, I've just been far too busy!
But, I have a free second now and the place I'm staying has free internet access (woo hoo for them) so I thought I would try and rattle out a quick entry.
Europe so far has been absiloutly awsome! I'm so glad I came, I would have kicked myself in the ass if I put it off any longer.
Right now I'm in Chesky Kromlov in the Checzh Republic. Its great!.. beautiful, historic, smallish, freindly, and CHEAP! Cheap cheap cheap. I canot go on long enough at how easy it is here to act like an actual peron with money as opposed to a dingy broke backpacker! in Western COuntries your lucky to have a stale bun with some old cheese for breakfast and a crappy expensive pizza or something for dinner! Not here! We've gone out to dinner basically (well, not basically, every) night we've been here. I don't want to go back to the west now. ah well, explore new places, I might even find someplace even better, you never know.
Well, I would write more, but its a beautiful day out and I have some serious poastcarding to do.
Until next time

2004-08-01T21:35:00.000+08:00

I leave for Europe on Tuesday morning. Today is Sunday. Do I need to say more? Although I am very excited for my upcoming trip to far and foreign lands, I still have a few reservations. Missing all my friends while I'm gone is one, a big one in fact. I've been having a really good summer so far, a bit of me sees no reason why I should mess things up. But, it is Europe after all, and I should go seeing that this has been my dream trip since I was about 5. I'm sure I will have a great time once I get there, but also going by myself is a little scary too. Meeting new people and making friends has never been all that difficult, but still, its just the thought of going over and not knowing absolutely anybody that is a little intimidating.
I'll be blogging from Europe while I'm gone, so you'll get to hear all of my traveling news while I'm still over there, which should be fun.
Anyways, that's just my "oh-holy-god,what-am-I-thinking!?" blog before I go over.
I'm sure everything will be great. Famous Last Words,

2004-07-12T04:31:00.000+08:00

My lack of postages on here is alarming. Mostly because I've been lazy and busy, and haven't had much time to strap myself to my chair long enough to write something decent. I shall try at least.
Pam Dave Kev and me all slept out in the RV last night, it was good times. Kinda like camping, but more comfortable, not as dirty, and oh yea...also in the garage. We didn't actually go anywhere you see, we just didn't feel like hanging out in the house, so we went out there. Then this morning we went to Denny's. Kevin wasn't feeling too well the whole time, but he seemed to feel a bit better the next morning.
I just finished watching a really good movie with Ben Stiller of all people. And I'm not saying that Ben Stiller isn't a good actor, but I mostly know him in comedies and the like. This movie was called Permanent Midnight, and its about a cocaine/heroine addict in Los Angeles, and his decline into his addictions. It was really good, somewhat dark, but that was impressed me about Ben Stiller, he managed to pull it off very well, without me thinking of him as zoolander once. Ok, well, maybe once, but just for a spilt second.
Other than that I am going to attempt to clean my room, as it is absolutely beyond any stage of messyness. It is the definition of mess. This is not good.
Hey, this turned out to be a half decent posting.
Still haven't gotten around to figuring out to put pictures on here. Ah well, you know me.

2004-06-26T08:22:00.000+08:00

Last night was the Bedouin Soundclash concert. It was absolutely great!! They played a great set, and then two encores of about 3 - 4 songs each. They were just as good in person as I was hoping they would. I took lots of pictures, and some movie clips on my camera as well which I had never used before. Once I figure out how to upload them onto my computer successfully, I will attempt to put some up on my picssite place. URL for that later. The band was all really nice. They hung around after the show and chatted with the people who stuck around. I got to chat it up with the lead singer for a bit, and he signed my album cover, and I got myself a picture with him. I'll put them up to. Then I bought Root Fire (their first album) off the bass player, who was selling them after the show. He signed my CD and I got my picture with him too. Then it was off to the drummer, who turned out to a Kingstonian as well, so we chatted for awhile, and got about three pictures with him, cause he kept blinking every time we took it. It was rather amusing.
By the time I got home it was around 2. Then I had to get up for work at 8. So I sleepy. I think I shall go to bed early tonight. Pictures to come soon :)

2004-06-23T06:15:00.000+08:00

Yesterday I found out a band I like is playing in Kingston soon. So I decided to go out and get their CD I had heard while living on my own and liked a lot. But in the process of doing this, I realized that nobody, and I mean NOBODY in Kingston seems to have a copy of it! Now mind you, they aren't a huge mainstream artist that everyone's heard of, but its not like their fiddle players from the badlands of Saudi Arabia either! C'mon people! I have money, money that I would be spending in your esteemed establishments if only you would carry the stuff I want! I hate these "We can order it for you if you like, it will only take 4 - 6 weeks" 4 to 6 WEEKS!? What, does the band have to go BACK to the recording studio to re-record the album for every CD that gets 'specialty ordered'??! I think not, its lunacy!
So, to console myself and my despise for most of the CD's stores in Kingston, I went out and bought the LAST REMAINING copy of the Amelie soundtrack. Which is very good, and helped my mood considerably, but I'm still shocked and appalled at the just darn shoddy CD places around here.
Thus ends my rant.

2004-06-18T04:17:00.000+08:00

I am so very bored today. I was looking forward to go out and tan today, but alas, it is couldy and icky outside! So I am unimpressed. I have done nothing today except what telly and wonder about the house aimlessly. The madness must stop. I think I shall go do some photography. Its been so long since I did any seriously. You start to miss it after awhile. Plus I'm a creative person, so if I just sit and do nothing for too long I start to feel like I MUST DO SOMETHING! So I think I shall.
I think I shall load up my camera and head out and take some shots in town perhaps. People watching can be very interesting. I like getting shots of people when they have no clue you're taking pictures of them.
Well...it is 4:30, I should get a move on. I will update on the success later. :)

2004-06-06T23:04:00.000+08:00

I have been out a lot lately, so I figured I might as well whip up a quick post while not much was happening. On Wednesday night I went out with Kevin and some of his friends to AJ's and saw Matt Good, now solo from the Matt Good Band. ALthough he did play a few of the big songs the band did together. All in all it was a decent show, but nothing spectacular. I managed to get one very fuzzy picture taken before my battery DIED! I was unimpressed to say the least. So, once I get to it, I shall put up the one and only picture I took.
Then last night Pam and I went out (again to AJ's) and had a good time there. It was mondo busy, but we had fun, and amazingly enough didn't even see very many people we knew. I even got a pic of us out, looking rather drunk, which I will attempt to put up as well. Wish me luck on that, Vik's still waiting for her SLC piccies. Soon Mick!

2004-06-02T10:21:00.000+08:00

Well, as I write this, my night has improved greatly, but for most of the day, it was really quite shitty! Mostly my work just really pissed me off, which put me in a bad mood for the rest of the afternoon. And because Mickett will want details on what the evil work did to her poor kitty, I shall explain. Basically, Julie (my manager) scheduled me to have tomorrow off (fine) work Thursday, and off Friday. Alrighty, now Friday's are usually busier than Thursdays to begin with, and I wanted to just switch the two days and have Thursday off and work Friday. I looked in our reservation/termination books, and there was more for Friday, so I saw no problem. When I called Julie, she was "Umm...no." and gave no other explanation, so I asked her why not. To that she responded "Let me think about it, I'll call you back." Ok...I await her call. About 10 minutes later she calls back and says "We would really appretiate it if you would work Thursday because that's how the schedule was made up, and we'll be in meetings all day Thursday." Now, as long as I have worked at 1600 (that's just what we call my office) it's never mattered when Julie and Paul were in meetings, we run all by ourselves. This made me very very angry, because Julie is known to pull power trips, and just say no to people just because she can with no actual reason. It seems to me that she has tried to do this to me as well. I think not. I will be talking to Paul (the owner) tomorrow about this, because I think that it is very unfair, and that I was not being horribly unfair or unreasonable. If anyone sees differently on this, please let me know.
But anyways, my night was better, as I got tickets for Matt Good concert tomorrow night, and mum and dad bought food and we made burgers on the barbie. Now I am going to bed. Night night all.

2004-06-01T05:41:00.000+08:00

I have become increasingly lazy about updating posts regularly. I shall try and do better in future. After getting back from my trip not a whole lot has been happening, thus the lack of relevant postings. I shall be putting up pictures from my trip soon, once they are, I will put the url in here somewhere. I have been hanging out with all my friends lots lately which has been fun, I missed them while I was gone. All but Cheryl that is, she's been busy with Jooosh, well, actually, I lie. She just got a new job, which is the reason for most of her absences.
I just finished watching the third and final LOTR. I now have to face to cold hard fact that there are no more to look forward to. Nooo. I am a true addict, I need more, GIVE ME MORE! Especially more with Legolas please.
Ok, enough for one night.
Night night precious!

2004-05-23T08:31:00.000+08:00

I just read Mickets recent blog. You sound so depressed in Yuma! I don't like what that Mexican scrubby deserty place has done to my one and only sister. Where has your burning desire to rid the world of all republicans gone? Your fierce determination to make all those who don't agree with you see they're wrong? I must work on bringing back my one and only sissy-woo. And sharing the bunk was good fun wasn't it? You didn't even fidget too much, and the drill was not required! We must have grown up somewhere along the line huh? ;)
Me and Colen went to the park today to tan and I burnt my poor little leggies to a crisp. Ah well, not too badly, I don't think the skin will peel (EWW) but they are a little red and unhappy feeling atm. I believe we are going to be making sweet and sour chicken tonight. Or more exactly, Colen will be making it, and I will be doing the running commentary of the chicken making process. In the end it should all go well. On the topic of food, the strawberries down here are .99 a package!!! These are nice, red, juicy tasty strawberries! I have never seen anything like it of the kind before! In Canada those puppies would go for a few dollars a quart of however we size them. I'm never the one buying them because they are always far too expensive. So I have been gorging on strawberries since I have been here. YUM!

2004-05-21T03:16:00.000+08:00

Today I am in Oakhurst California! After some travelling and some interesting adventures (more on those later) we have finally succeeded in getting down here without being killed/lost/anything else too horrible happening. Hurrah! Seeing as I am borrowing Colens computer, this will no doubt be a fairly short post, but I figured better than nothing. I will do my best to put up pictures in my picssite account, I will put the URL up once I have returned home and gotten around to actually doing it.
Alright, enough of this, off to go tan in the wonderful California sun! :)

2004-05-12T09:44:00.000+08:00

I leave for my trip tonight!!! Unfortunatly, for most of the day, I have felt like my stomach was on a rollercoaster, so I was not very happy. I got sick about an hour ago, and now feeling much better. Mum says that it sounded like mild food poisoning from last nights dinner. Never again will I go to the Toucan!!! Bastards. I'm starting to get sleepy, and its not even 10pm yet. My bus leaves at 2am, so I have awhile to go. Geh.
Its also very warm in my room tonight.
oh, many hours have past since I started this post, it is now time to go! I will update more later.
BAR BAR!!

2004-05-10T05:48:00.000+08:00

Yay! I'm very happy to hear my Micket will be moving home at some point. :) Please don't let me and only me effect your decision, but I'm not going to say no either. But I know how much you love Gracie, and you are actually making friends down there. Not like you don't make friends easily, you know what I mean. Moving on....
I leave on Tuesady! Today is Sunday, so, very very soon! I have so far started packing, gotten everything I think I will need organized, cleaned the house, mowed the lawns, and dropped Mango off at Nans. So we are doing well. Tomorrow I work, Tuesday I have off, thankfully, and then I leave that night. My bus leaves at 2am, so no sleep for me that night. Maybe I'll sleep on the way up to Toronto, although I'll be stressing I'll sleep through getting to the airport and miss my flight or something. Ah well.

2004-05-08T06:57:00.000+08:00

I have started getting things organized for my trip. I made a packing list today at work of things I really shouldn't forget, and went shopping at Old Navy. I got a couple pairs of pants and a couple shirts, so now all I need to find are some nice shoes to go with the dress for Heathers wedding. I mowed the lawn yesterday, or at least the front section, I lost all energy after that. But I figured I will do the rest maybe tomorrow.
It was actually nice here today, about 18c, with nice blue skies and big white puffy clouds drifting along. I was enjoying it. No rain at least. I was so sick of rain! Ok, enough of local weather conditions....
Me and Cheryl just made burgers for dinner :) Hurrah! I managed to work the BBQ all by myself without even needing to phone dad. I'm very impressed with us. We shall clean up tomorrow, we are tired, and its about 10:30 now. We just finished watching Romeo and Juliet. Possibly the most depressing movie ever! And back in the day when Leonardo Dicaprio was actually somewhat attractive and not chubby.
Hehe, we just had an exciting adventure with a spider that was in Cheryls room. It took us about a solid 20 minutes of laughing/screaming/trying to get the other to finally kill it. It ended up that I took an old Tropicana box and squished it. Even though it was in Cheryls room, she refused to kill it herself. And I thought I didn't like spiders. hehehehe
Its late, night night!

2004-05-02T22:37:00.000+08:00

Moving? Moving to some American crappy ranch? Mostly its crappy because, its still in the states!!! Do we see the problem here? Me.... Canada, You....U.S! This is total BS!!! And I hear that mom and dad have now become traitors and agree with Craigory about staying down there? Well fine, I'll just fight all by myself. I want my sissy back!
In other news I will be going and getting my hair done today. I will take before and after pictures so people can decide which they like better. Nanny has made it quite clear that my current hairstyle is not up to par in her opinion. Its rather amusing really. Whenever I go to see her she's like "no, I just don't like your hair, its absolutely horrible." In nanny's upfront, no nonsense way. But that's why we love her. So we shall see if she likes my new do better. :) That's all for now.

2004-04-28T06:44:00.000+08:00

Hmmm...I was noticing my blog falling a tad behind, but that's only because nothing terribly interesting has been happening recently. I know that I should be having wild parties every night seeing as mum and dad are gone, but I guess I'm just too darn sensible, and know that I would be crucified if anything got broken, so I think not. I will do all my partying in Europe where I will not have to worry about things being crushed by drunken party go'ers.
Just talked to Dad on the phone from down in Yuma. Apparently, because my cousin is Mormon, and we are not, we and almost everyone else in the whole entire family isn't invited to the actual ceremony! How messed up is that? Imagine sending out wedding invitations, but, umm...without the wedding part! Its like saying "Hey, I'm having this great party, and you're invited to the cleanup afterwards!" Like, hey, that sounds like fun eh!? I must just not understand the thinking behind it. Why go to all the trouble of having your one and (hopefully) only wedding, and not get to invite your friends and family to it? No matter what religion! Its supposed to be your freakin day after all. I'm sure Viki will agree with me on this.
Anyways, enough rants for one day. I'm sure there will be more later.

2004-04-24T06:00:00.000+08:00

One of my new favorite shows is This Hour Has 22 Minutes. I especially likes the segments where they make fun of current news stories. I didn't used to, but now that I've been following current events more, and know just how incompetent most politicians are, I find it very amusing. To any of you who don't know what I'm talking about, then you must not be Canadian! SHAME! My favourite on the show was Rick Mercer, but he left to do other things, all of which were very good. :)
I got Crest white strips from Walmart yesterday, they taste really icky, and make it so you can't talk properly. I put them on, and immediately thought of the commercial with the highly attractive women driving to work, on a date, whatever they were doing at the time. They're all saving "I'm doing it now" with nice big bright smiles. I THINK NOT! I was muffling around with these gummy things on my teeth thinking "I better look as good as the women in the commercials after this is done." I will update on the results as time goes on.

2004-04-22T07:00:00.000+08:00

Ok, so after thinking I fixed the car by putting in more of the Power Steering Fluid stuff, I then noticed large puddles of it under the car. NOT GOOD! So I decided to phone up Phil, my local mechanic, and took it around today after work. Unfortunately he then came back and told me that it wasn't the line but the actual pump, and that it would be $600 - $1000 to fix! When I came to I said thanks but no thanks, I'll just drive it around without the fancy new expensive pump and try not to kill myself with the diminished steering capacity.
Being on my own is going very well so far. I seem to have surprised myself in being able to live on my own and not freak out at nights. :) I'm not quite sure why I used to, but I seem to be much more capable at it now. Yay! :)
More updates on car and other annoyances when they become available.

2004-04-19T02:36:00.000+08:00

Ok! Apparently I did something very bad in a past life! Two days (yes count them TWO!) after my parents leave, my car starts making horrific noises!! This couldn't have happened before they left or right before I leave for my trip, ooh no, it has to happen RIGHT NOW!! So, I have been little Ms.FixIt today with the help of Craigory and Mickster over the phone. We are currently hoping its the power steering fluid that has gotten low, and not anything majorly broken. Because then I would have to pay for it, and that it total BS!!!! Now my hands are all greasy and oily, and I still have not found any steering fluid, so I am grumpy grumpersons! I will write an update on the Car Horror Movie Vol II when I have more information.

2004-04-17T06:35:00.000+08:00

Mum and Dad left on their trip today, and hopefully they will be finding the appropriate tow bar thingy for the Echo that they are currently lacking. They are supposed to be meeting some guy in Watertown or wherever to get it installed. On a side note aswell, Cheryly-Dean moved in with me today. :D We shall have a fun time living together, as we always do.
It was a really nice day here today! Warm and sunny, and things are slowly starting to green up around here!!
Also, Bob Barker is in the lead for jesus replacement!

2004-04-12T07:31:00.000+08:00

Today is Easter. Apparently this is the one holiday to celebrate if you are the least bit religious. So not surprisingly, we enjoy the day off, eat disgusting amounts of trans and mono saturated fats it would make most people of any 3rd world country die on the spot, but thankfully we don't even set foot near a church. This is the way all religious holidays should be spent. More people would probably call themselves people of faith if they were that much fun. Not having to listen to some bloated old fart talk about some guy who died two thousand years ago! In two thousand years, have we not found another person who's at least as cool as Jesus was, maybe even a tad bit cooler? I now think that we should be nominating a new leader of the Catholic and Christian religions. True, there would be many paintings that we would have to paste a new head on to, but who wouldn't rather see someone a little different in these changing times to worship? I will field all nominations on this topic, and we'll see who is the most popular person to take over the job. Let the voting begin!

2004-04-08T06:07:00.000+08:00

I agree with you totally Vik, nobody should put that on a baby shower invitation, ever! (If anyone is confused, please read Viki's blog entry for today) And on a side note, what kind of parks do you go to that random strangers offer your drugs while you're walking your dog??? You need to move back home, and fast. I miss my quoting partner!
Speaking of movie quoting, I saw an ad for Pop culture trivia DVD something or other. It looked like great fun, and I now want it, Although I don't even want to know how much it will be. Those types of games are usually horrible expensive and usually cost three goats and a virgin, or something.
I have been doing lots of henna recently. I find it very entertaining. Body artish without the pain or finality of tattoos. :) I will take pictures of some of them and put them up on my pics page at some point. But, seeing as my one hand is henna'd and I can only type with one had, I shall end this here. It takes too long to type one handedly.

2004-04-06T00:20:00.000+08:00

Today was the first sunny day in what feels like weeks. For the entire month of April it has been either raining snowing or the combination of the two. Its sunny, a robin eggs blue colour, with nice puffy white clouds and I am enjoying the extra brightness for a change. I even opened my blinds today! This is a rare occasion as Viki I'm sure will know. But unfortunatly, in opening them, allll the crap that has been laying around my room has now suddendly jumped out screaming "CLEAN ME! CLEAN ME!" So I think today will be a day of much cleaning and mumbling profanities at my rat packing habits. I will report on how it is going later. If I pass the 20 minute mark we shall be doing quite well indeed.

2004-04-03T09:20:00.000+08:00

Its so easy to fall behind on my blogging. Mostly because my life is horribly horribly dull! make that Dull with a capitol D! Mum and Dad are starting to get the RV ready for their trip soon. They are sadly thinking about taking the mazda along with them, so I won't be able to bomb around town in it. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't trust me with it!!! ;)
Right, its bed time now, I'm too tired to write any more. I shall put more on tomorrow.

2004-03-30T12:46:00.000+08:00

Geesh! I didn't know this blogging would be so highly demanding from people! Ah well, I shall do my best to not slack off. Although this weekend I've had an excuse from being so horribly hungover that I am now (2 days after the fact) starting to feel like my old self again. Blah! Never mix apple vodka and gin in the same evening, right after the other, in LARGE quantities! *shivers* Thankfully Colen put up with my whining and moaning about my various aches and pains the day after and made me feel much better. :)
Mum dad and me went out test driving new cars which was fun, we tried out the Toyota Celica and the new 2004 Echo hatchback. I liked the sportyness of the celica, although it didn't have the extra kick like the Eagle has. Although me and dad are so fond of the Eagle I doubt we'll be hard pressed to find one that compares. I saw a rav4 at the same car lot, in a deep blue colour that was really cute. And for the low low cost of 29,000 it could be mine!!! I think not, I will just continue to bum of mum and dad til I can afford a nice cheap piece of used crap that will do just fine.
Other than that not a whole lot is happening. I think I will go to bed.

2004-03-24T10:34:00.000+08:00

Today was daddy's birthday! :) We had mucho fun. It all started when I sleepily wandered out from my room about 11:45am to find mom having breakfast and dad not surprisingly on the computer.
*Now for the purpose of this story, please keep in mind that mum works at 1pm. Thus having to leave the house no later than 12:35 to get there on time*
Ok, I shall continue. I sat down and started to have my breakfast, when I notice mum start to amble about the kitchen doing a few things. I think nothing of this until she brings out this huge piece of beef and sit it right in front of me. Looking at the clock and seeing its just after 12, I ask her what she's up to. "Making dads beef stew for dinner" she replies cheerfully. Horrified by the complete lack of timing, I decide its in the interest of all to stop my breakfast and help out. So I put myself in charge of veggies and everything else while mum cuts and cooks the beef. Now all this chopping, peeling, cutting, cooking and stuffing it in the slow cooker all happens in the space of about 20 mins! This to any of you who don't cook very much, is a very impressive time to beat!
So then mum heads off to work at 12:35 or so, and I turn around to face a WALL of dirty dishes, frying pans, veggie peelings and anything else you can imagine. Now for length purposes all I will add about the washing was that thankfully dad stayed and talked to me while I cleaned up to make time pass by faster. Thank you daddy! :)
Then the rest of the afternoon passed by fairly uneventfully til Mum got home from work about 5:30 or so. She brought along Nanny and at the sight of her, Mango went completely insane. Crying, whimpering and making the most pitiful of noises. So we get dinner all together and sit down to eat and thankfully everything turn out very tasty indeed. Dad opens up his presents, Nanny got him a book on the White House and a card, I got him a book on George W. Bush called "Bushwhacked" and a card, and mum got him a card as well. Then around 8:30 I took Nanny home that was basically the extent of the day. I took pictures of the said dinner/present openings, once I get them online I'll put up the url to them.
There, that was a decent blog entry yes?

2004-03-21T06:40:00.000+08:00

I am annoyed. Annoyed because there was a anti-occupation of Iraq protest today that I did not get to attend! Stupid stupid work! So dad got to tell me all about it. Apparently there was a good turn out of about 400 people to this one, which I was very impressed with! Go Kingstonians go! Well, I must make up for it by trying my best to get bush OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE by all means available to me. And maybe find a few that aren't.
The weather today was shittyX2 First it rained, then it hailed, then it snowed, then after that it decided to rain some more. Then it was just ominous and gloomy for the rest of the day. All in all, not the best start off to official spring weather. Today is the start to three (count em!) three days off for me! Wooo hoooo! Party time has now commenced!
That is all

2004-03-17T23:53:00.000+08:00

Last night went out on my date with Kevin, good times, good times. Went to Grizzly and tried to play pool, and after realizing that I couldn't actually play to save my life decided to go do something else. Both of us had had really big lunches, so there went the go have dinner idea. So we ended up going to dairy queen and got ice cream instead. Then hung out for awhile just catching up on what the other person had been up to for the last, oh, four years since we havd last seen each other. Took some pictures, can you put pictures up on this thing? Ah well, I'll look into it, if so, I will.
Today's my day off, so once again, plan on doing not a whole lot. Maybe continue working on my various projects I have half finished. Thats all folks!

2004-03-14T09:13:00.000+08:00

Saturday at long last! Although I did work, I do have tomorrow off which will be very nice. I plan on mostly hanging around the house. Maybe working a bit on my sewing, and run a few errrands if I feel inspired. After work today I went around to Fabricland (a local sewing place in town) and got some nice deals of some silky pink fabric and lacey stuff to make a pair of jammy shorts and a tee. That shall be my project once I'm done my nighty I'm currently working on now. After reading Viki's anti-Bush blog I felt in need of doing something to get rid of G.W.B II, so Micket, if you have any good ideas, let me know!

2004-03-12T08:31:00.000+08:00

Alrighty! After a complaint or two from someone who will remain nameless, I will now update my blogster. I took the day off work cause I was feeling tired and slightly icky in the morning, which promptly went away once I got comfy and in my PJ's. Dad and me have continued work on my webcam to try and get it to be friendly with linux with mixed results. Dad says things are going well, and considering I have no clue how to do it myself, I'll take his word for it.
Cheryl slept over last night, and we rented movies and ate Thai food and had fun vegging out. We got School of Rock and Under the Tuscan Sun, which although continued to make me want to move to Italy, was a tad more depressing than had originally thought it would be. Ah well, the scenery (and some of the locals) made up for it.

2004-03-09T07:50:00.000+08:00

Snow! Snow snow and yet more snow! Having just washed my car yesterday, it then proceeded to snow the entire night and all today! So that shot my nice new shiny car all to hell. I think some great evil devil god gets great pleasure out of seeing me yell at all the slush puddles while driving to work. Thats my rant for today, on to other less exciting things.
Work was horribly boring as usual, and thankfully the day went by rather quickly. Talked to Colen on the phone again last night for something like 3 hours, which is crazy, I don't know how we end up talking for that long everytime we call each other, but somehow manage to time and time again. That was about the only interesting thing.

2004-03-08T05:50:00.000+08:00

Well, on Viki's advice I set up my new blog! :) Hopefully I will have somewhat interesting things to put up on here. So far today I washed my car and chatted online for a bit. Me and Viki decided to get sisterly tattoos while we're in Salt Lake City for our cousins wedding. That should be mucho fun!
Anyways thats about it, hopefully tomorrow will have more exciting things to put up on here. Bar bar for now!