nausea subsides.

it snowed last night. made a mess of the highway and it looked lovely but by morning the trees were dripping and the ground was covered in slush. snow is magical but once it isn't detailing tree branches and shrouding ugly stuff it is basically useless.

last night i took some snow photos because i didn't know how long it would stick around for and this is the only one that made the cut:
i am visiting my mom today and i took the bus up. which is always a pleasurable experience. this time i sat next to a box. some guy didn't have room for it and was like do you mind me putting this box on the seat beside you. and in my head i was like "as long as it doesn't have a bomb in it or a raccoon" but instead I said "sure, it will keep me company". he didn't even remotely find that funny. come on man, i am guarding your box that may or may not contain a bomb...laugh at my joke!

the floor is shaking in this disco heaven...

so friday was the disco christmas party. there isn't really much to say about it, what can you say about a party really? people drank too much and acted ridiculous? i made cheese fondue and that was pretty scary since the fondue lighter fluid stuff got all in the sink and the whole sink lit up with blue flames and then the fondue was very unstable because we had just set it up for the first time and we thought it was going to fall over. but we got our shit together and it was good until it got too hot and burned. and then the cheese was disgusting but the boys still liked it.

it was very gross to scrape out the next day.

people kept ruining my disco ball pictures with their grubby hands.

there was lots of people there and lots of drinking and man on man groping. i bought a five dollar bottle of champagne and a can of orange juice which was my drink of the night for about the first two hours and then i ran out and had to steal other people's drinks. the champagne was the best 5 dollar bottle of champagne i have ever had and i have never had a 5 dollar bottle of champagne in my life so that means absolutely nothing.

twas good though. like fermented sprite or something.


claire had a disco ball on the ceiling and a christmas tree and other flashing lights and dan's fog machine so the food tasted like chalk after awhile. it was in her grandparents basement which is straight out of that 70's show. its very creepy and there is lots of wood paneling and mold smell down there and cool wallpaper with sailboats and maps and flowers. and also some dust that is probably from the 70's.

i always wake up the next day after a party and think god, i made such a fool out of myself. but thankfully so did pretty much everyone else. so that was nice.

alley finds

other than a howling cat and a lost chicken i saw two actual snowflakes in the alley today. yes! two snowflakes!!!!

are we going to get a white christmas this year? probably not. but some sledding weather would be nice at least...

kate and i went for a walk today, it was very chilly. the sky was grey. not good picture taking weather. very disappointing! now i am going to try to convince her to walk to the storage unit to get my fondue pot for the x-mas disco party tomorrow.

here's to hoping i can actually close the giant door on my storage properly.

oh, i watched Bruno last night it was mostly horrible and very awkward to watch. there were funny moments though but just wasn't as good as Borat. I like the black baby with the shirt that says 'gayby' on it. probably my favourite part.

things in boxes

this whole move has got me going through boxes i haven't gone through in a long time. this one rubbermaid container contained this guy, ahem girl:

i have had her forever. i am guessing i got her at a craft fair or something. she always freaked me out. her spindly legs, dis proportioned body. she's pretty cute in a freakish way. no she's adorable. her outfit reminds me of a christening gown. you know how they just go on forever and you think man is that baby long but really its just a really long gown? well this baby must be wearing really long pants.

then i found this christmas ornament i got for dan two christmases ago. i love this ornament, kind of one of those presents you get for your boyfriend but really its more for you. his legs move separately and every year i hate putting him away. i think i am going to not put him away this year.

let him get a taste of spring.

iced coffee on ice.

i have never been that into hot drinks. i like them but only once in awhile. so i have started drinking iced coffee. it is nice because i like ice a lot and i also like drinking things out of jars. not that you have to drink iced coffee out of a jar, but the chance of spilling heavily decreases and you also feel like you are living in the country. or that your drink is kind of a big deal because it is in a giant jar.

once i drank tea out of a giant beaker and it made me feel really important.


no one needs to know the steps to making iced coffee but here they are anyways.

this stuff is pretty amazing. it's white chocolate. i think its a christmas thing? only 2 bucks. that is the only reason why we bought it.

you don't need too much of it. or else you will feel horrible and disgusting for the rest of the day.



now how boring would this have been if it wasn't in a jar?

living vicariously through myself

this day has had a very, slow start. i rolled out of bed around 11. something to do with the cold weather and difficulty falling asleep because Dan ate a sandwich in bed last night and it was full of crumbs. i don't know...i was exhausted, comfortable, filled with dreams. whatever. the day is half done and i have not accomplished much at all. but it is sunday. sundays are for church, sleep, big dinners and lazing. ok. scratch church from that list and keep the rest.

a couple summers back dan and i stayed in a tent for the summer in his mom's backyard and she lives right behind the church and every sunday the bells would toll and we would lay in the tent listening to the hymns. for someone who used to attend church every sunday in my teens that is the closest i have come in about 6 years.

don't know where that story came from. just kind of felt it.

last night i walked up the alley to dan's parents to watch some weeds with kate and mook. the alley was pitch black and there are potholes everywhere and my flashlight didn't work at all and i got stuck in a blackberry bush and i was trying to shake my leg out of it but i didn't know where it was so i got wrapped up in it even more. i had one of those frozen mugs with iced coffee and it was sloshing all over the place. how trailer park does last night sound?

i was avoiding chickens that live in the alley also. the trailer park points just doubled.

so here are my tips for safe small town back alley night walking:
1. wear boots, jeans, shin guards, anything that will protect your legs from the wrath of prickle bushes, blackberry bushes, angry chickens, junk yard dogs.
2. bring a flashlight. i usually pack a pen up my sleeve also, just in case one of the local crazies also has the bright idea of alley walking and wants to be friends with me. (the pen is not for getting his number, it's for stabbing him in the eye.)
3. let loved ones know you are walking the back alley, so if you don't reappear they can call the cops.
4. get to know the alley in daylight. so you know where the muddy parts and pot holes are.
5. be smart and take the well lit street instead.


today we went for a (not so) brisk walk. the sun was shining, the birds were singing, not a cloud in the sky. you'd almost think it was summer except that it was absolutely freezing. i was smart to wear layers, dan was not so smart to wear pajama pants. the walk didn't last long but it was enough time for me to get five thousand pictures of the tops of trees.

why?

why not!




there is a local parade tonight that i had no idea about until yesterday when my friend told me about it. i am guessing it probably is headed straight up my street so i guess i will grab a lawnchair and a coffee and a million jackets and go watch this thing go down. i am sure it will be happy and festive.

this time of year is so nice for generosity of spirit and free candy canes.

cheap to build, drafty to live in.

i drove dan to work today so that i can come pick his drunk self up at 1AM after his christmas staff party. a little sad i can't go because tickets sold out too fast but it is in a bar and bars just really aren't my thing anyways.

i sound like such a snob 'bars just really aren't my thing'. i assure you i am not a snob. just a sensitive soul who finds bars way too noisy and drunk middle aged men are kind of horrifying.

anyways, on the drive up we stopped at the salvation army to take a look. it was pretty busy in there. lots of people do their christmas shopping there, i guess?? i suppose its a good place to find old school christmas decorations and tins for your christmas baking. i found two necklaces and they charged me 25 cents each for them. that's the thing i love about salvation army, everything is always cheaper than you expect it to be.

Dan got two more cassette tapes for the car. our cassette tape collection is growing and growing. i think we have more cassettes now then i did when they were actually 'in'.

i don't care, i'm bringin' them back!

the air is really crisp. there is frost on the ground now when i wake up and it's almost to the point where i have to scrape off my windshield. almost...but not quite. i have lots of things i would like to get done today but the question is how much will get done and how much will get thrown on the back burner? my attention span is not very good these days. I jump from one thing to the next like a 5 year old with ADD.

this is officially my christmas necklace. i saw it today and had one of those got to havesies moments. good thing the gotta have was only 25 cents. i like to think i have some class, but expensive taste does not fall under my umbrella of class. not even a little bit.

I showed Benny the necklace.

Did he like it?

his feelings towards it were pretty indifferent, just like his feelings towards everything in life.

we bought speed last night because it is a classic. the whole idea of a bus with a bomb strapped on it is pretty ridiculous. a bus? like...that's just so badass strapping a bomb to a bus. the next one should have had a bomb on an icecream truck.

anyways, the movie is pretty great. if you haven't seen it please do. but really, who hasn't seen this movie?

the day is young and there are many many things to do. like organize my entire life, apply to jobs, go to my brother's storage locker to look for a lava lamp for claire's christmas disco party, possibly buy wool for christmas scarfing and somewhere in between find time to actually eat something.

sometimes i wish i had a twin who had nothing better to do than run errands for me.

with a rubber duck, ones never alone

so Krista and I met up a second time. This time round we decided to meet up downtown victoria. Which is a good place for walking/photo taking/letting your hair blow in the wind. It was a really crisp, sunny day. It was also freezing. Good thing we had lots of walking and exploring and talking to do to keep us from turning into icicles. by the end of the day my voice was hoarse and my feet were exhausted but I was the happiest girl in the world.

lots of exercise and hanging out with Krista tends to do that to a person.

we went into fantan alley to take some pretentious photos and while Krista was setting up her self timer on her camera and waiting for the alley to clear so we could take some shots she was like "this is our life...waiting around to take photos". so so true.


i think a couple people caught us posing anyways...


we also went to this novelty store that was filled to the brim with hello kitty, objects with bacon on them, ridiculous bags with bedazzled cats and about 200 different types of ducks.

everytime we turned around there was a more ridiculous duck then the one we had just been looking at.

i don't think the lady working in the store appreciated us making fun of her ducks.

i think i may go back and get a couple ducks. they were pretty cheap and there was pretty much a duck in there for every person in my life.

so all in all the day was a total success. i always say that i think the idea of fate is pretty ridiculous. but it does kind of feel like fate that Krista has moved to this island and we live an hour away and can hang out and take photos and do Kristaish things whenever we want.

Pretty much too good to be true.

I'm looking through the window, I'm looking at you.

Hello Blog world. My life is a little bit...no wait...a lot crazy right now. but good crazy. my new apartment is so much better, lots more space and more homelike and open. my old one is almost ready to get rid of for good. i will be sad to say goodbye to it but not really that sad because it's not like i am going anywhere.


but really..isn't an apartment just a structure to store all our things in and fill with dust particles and love and occasionally yelling? the structure itself doesn't mean much. once i move my cats it's like...ok, this is no longer home for me. that is when i get my closure. packing up the cats.


katie and i decided to get out for a walk today since the rain has stopped so that the roads can deflood and people can stop putting sandbags at the ends of their driveways. we went down to the beach. it was cool but i was hot from all the cleaning and shoving around of boxes so it was nice.

whenever katie and i go for a walk its like we are school girls who haven't seen each other for a week. we have drama to discuss and it is all very secretive. Katie is really, truly the sister i never had. I am so glad Dan has a sister and that she is not just some boring girl and that she lets me take pictures of her and tolerates my annoying, repetitive questions and stories.



there are some strange clouds in the sky, wish i was back in grade 5 and i could ask mr. eliott what they mean. the man was useless as a teacher, a terrible grader, couldn't remember anyone's names but he knew his cloud formations. oh the man knew everything about clouds...and mail order brides. but that is a whole other ball of wax, my friends.


this guy is pretty neat. he just kind of appeared one day. not the rock which was always there...but the face. and at night when the tide comes in it is almost sad to watch him. like he is gulping for air right before the wave hits him.

like i said before. the cloud were pretty damn cool today. they were photographing well also which is a rare thing. usually you see a beautiful cloud and it never shows up in the photo..but i am definitely feeling these cloud photos.


we went to Dan's parents after to drink hot chocolate but the boys took most of the whipped cream which was disappointing for me but not for my hips.

i guess it is almost time to get back over to the old place to scrub some more walls. menial labour helps to build character i think. the more and more time i spend on my hands and knees scrubbing stains out of the carpet the more i become an endearing and likeable person. because cleaning makes me happy..and accomplished.

and the cleaning the carpets for two whole days and losing five pounds because of it is a small benefit also. ;)

Krista & Krista...

the first time i read Krista's blog I thought that she was inspiring, talented, intelligent and funny. I remember thinking that she was a 'high quality' blogger. The photography, the posts, the integrity she has. You never ever will find a sub par post with Krista. It's always WHAM beautiful photos, adorable cats, funny stories, never a dull moment. reading her blog is like getting a taste of the finer things, and not champagne or diamonds but finer things as in real, true, honest writing through the eyes of someone who sees beauty in the most creative places. She is never vain, vapid or narcissistic like so many other bloggers. This girl is my blogging hero and I am so happy i got to meet her.

She feels like an old friend, and in a way she is. Just one that i hadn't met until a couple days ago.