Waiting Line

i got this from a blog that i stalk, a girl alison knows from BC. she knows i read it almost every day so i'm not a complete lurker :) she's very funny and i'm addicted to her blog.

i thought a nice quiz would be a nice tuesday afternoon activity. i do hope you all agree.

1. What is your occupation? student.... ohh, darn, i can't use that excuse anymore! let's go with.... rep for health insurance company. for now.

2. What color are your socks right now? turquoise and pink stripes. and some sparkles.

3. What are you listening to right now? the murmur of several people talking on the phone, elevator music, and the photocopier... ugh get me out of here!

4. What was the last thing that you ate? leftovers from moxies! yumm.

5. Can you drive a stick shift? my first 3 (ahhh, i've had 3 cars already?) cars were standards but i think i'm done with that. i like to be able to eat and drive at the same time.

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? a client

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? well i don't officially know her, i just lurk her blog.

8. How old are you today? 24. it's my half-birthday coming up on the 26th, let's party!

9.Favorite drink? i love chocolate milk. it's kind of good for you too. at least that's what i tell myself. and when i go camping i like to drink malibu rum and iced tea, my summer special. angela and i lovingly named it the "dolphin smooth". eek, eek!

10. What is your favorite sport to watch? ummmm, right. let's go with the summer olympics.

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? who, me?

12. Pets? the only pet i ever truly loved lives on in my heart.

13. Favorite food? chinese food. i'm making up for the 21 years that i never ate it at all. thanks to regan who made me try it finally.

14. What was the last movie you watched? reign over me (with adam sandler and don cheadle) - awesome movie. funny. then sad. then funny. then sad. but funny.

15. Favorite day of the year? my birthday for sure. i celebrate for the entire month of september and usually get my hair or nails done or something just for wonderful me. and i buy new fancy underwear every year on my bday!

16. How do you vent anger? cry. be immature. say things i don't mean. act mildly out of control. try to be rudely sarcastic but end up just sounding like jibberish.

17. What was your favorite toy as a child? does the dress up trunk count? it had all my mom's old bridesmaid/fancy dresses. we pretended to be princesses at the ball.

18. What is your favorite season? summer. oh glorious summer. don't forget us in saskatchewan.

19. Cherries or Blueberries? i am the only person i know who grew up in BC and doesn't like cherries. i hate the pit! but i love blueberries

20. Last thing you purchased? tanning minutes at fabutan. no more pasty legs!

21. What are you wearing? i'm at work... grey dress pants, black blazer, white shirt

22. How many glasses of water do you drink in a day? if i'm at work, 3 or 4... at home, maybe 1!

23. What are your plans tonight? hanging out with kristy-anne and whoever else!

24. Living arrangements? unfortunate but practical.

25. When was the last time you cried? ummm saturday morning.

26. What is on the floor of your closet? clothes and they are everywhere. waiting for another flood!

29. Favorite smells? fresh baking

29b. Non favorite smells? wet dogs.

30. What inspires you? stephen lewis inspired me last tuesday - he was the UN main guy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (until jan '07) and he came and did a presentation at university last week. he was awesome.

31. What are you afraid of? spiders in my bed. the dark.

32. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? bring it ON baby, bring it on.

33. Favorite dog breed? i think that i like big dogs, like labs. but i think i also like little cuddly dogs too. so i guess depends on their personality. NOT YAPPY DOGS. ugh. and i hate poodles. sorry if you own one.

34. Number of keys on your key ring? 2

35. How many years at your current job? three

36. Favorite day of the week? Saturday.

37. How many provinces have you lived in? four - Calgary, AB (2 years), Hamilton, Ont (5 years), Kelowna, BC (6 years), Saskatoon, SK (11 years in august)

38. Favorite holiday? oh man. i have too many favorites. i've taken 6 different trips to Disneyland for pete's sake. in fact, my parents and brothers are there next week. so jealous. ALL TIME FAVORITE: NEW YORK NY Dec 2005!!!!!!!!!

39. Do you like hats? “Hello again,” says the pink poodle. “And now,” she says, pointing to a new, super-crazy hat featuring a candy cane, a mop, a fishing pole and all kinds of other nonsensical items, “do you like my hat?”
“I do,” says the beagle. “What a hat! I like it! I like that party hat!” (Go, Dog. Go!)

40. What do you say most often? "oh really" - it can be used in sooooooo many ways:
excited: Oh Really?
sarcastic: ohhhhhhhhhhhhh really
bored at what you're saying: oh, really...
surprised: oh really!!!!!
see what i mean?

i have just one thing to add. the three cars i have had - the first someone totalled my car (i was parked); the second i sold to some chick; the third, the head gasket blew and wrecked my engine. i had to clarify that I did not wreck any of them!
now i don't know if you have seen my dad's van or not....... nevermind.

6 weird things

Gina has tagged me

"Here are the rules: Each player of this game starts with the 'six weird things about me' blog post. People who get tagged need to write their own six weird things post and state the rules clearly. At the end of the post, tag six more people and don’t forget to leave a comment on their blog to tell them they have been tagged and tell them to read your blog."

1. i rarely finish all the food off my plate. there is ALWAYS a bit left, sometimes just a bite or two. i guess my mother never implemented the "you have to eat everything off your plate" rule. that's impolite weird.

2. i am slightly afraid in movie theatres when all the lights go out. i always think someone is gonna hijack the place and kill us all in the dark. seriously. the thought passes quickly but i almost always think it! that's morbid weird.

3. i constantly buy scrapbooking stuff. i never scrapbook except for ONE page i did in September. i literally have hundreds of dollars worth of paper, stickers, books, a mega piece of freaking LUGGAGE to haul my stuff around, etc., etc. but i can't stop buying the stuff for it. just today i bought 4 packages of "spring" stickers. looooooooser weird.

4. since grade 5, i have washed my face EVERY morning and EVERY night with the exception of maybe 5 times (due to camping and all-nighters). i am compulsively disordor-ly obssessedly weird with washing my face.

5. whenever i am introducing someone i always momentarily blank on the name of who i'm introducting and then i freak that i got the name wrong. i do this all the time, unless i know you really well. i don't think i've ever gotten a name wrong, so i don't really know where this fear comes from.

6. i have one white eyelash. freaky weird.

i tag... YOU (if you haven't already done it. i seem to be the last!)

The Junos....

rocked.











what you saw on television does not compare to what was seen/felt/experienced live. the performances were so so so good. nelly furtado and dallas green - amazzzzzing.

will tell all tomorrow........



in meantime, you can see all my photos from my whole weekend at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1646&l=e3d1b&id=514459720



you don't need a facebook account to see them. i'm tired.

Juno Fever - Friday

i've got juno fever and i don't know how this happened. i never thought i'd be one to be star struck but i AM! it's so fun. i went out with girls from work tonight and we had a blast. we only saw two (recognizable) people - farley flex and sass jordan. i have a hilarious video to upload of when we first saw farley flex. we were acting like high school girls. hilarious. it's so darn dark in the room though, you can't even see it's him. oh well, i'll post the picture too.

we started the night off at the new restaraunt, The Ivy. very lovely place. no famous stars. good martinis.

off to Aroma, in the Radison hotel where nelly is staying. awesome view of every person walking in. tons of stars, had no idea who any of them were. rock bands. we could tell because they were all super hip and uber cool, beyond what saskatoon produces for cool. and kept shaking important people's hands. and they pulled up in limos. that's the defining factor.

then... it was Farley Flex. THEN, it was Sass Jordan. since Nelly Furtado wasn't showing up, they were the next best thing. i finally got the nerve to ask for a group photo (i was patient and kind, and waited until after they ordered their food... they were sitting right next to us). and they were super cool about it and made jokes. much fun. i'll post a couple pix.

then a guy next to our table bought all us girls a round of martinis. yummy.

that's all for now. i'll tune you in for tomorrow's sightings. i'm so proud of saskatoon (except for Earls who is open for VIPs and stars ONLY. snobs).

Friday night photos - Junos

Me (slightly afraid to get too close to Sass), Amy, Michelle, Terri, Angela
and of course our stars, Sass Jordan and Flex Farley. Sass and I are practically sisters. hahaha

Amy and I, practicing our red carpet walk. we wear our sunglasses at night... HOT!!!




A most beautiful Juno Ice Sculpture!
Note the limo. Not a huge sight for Saskatoon.



Us ladies and a random guy, in front of the most beautiful sculpture!




As close as we ever got to the promiscuos girl herself, Nelly Furrrrrrrtado.

Amy and I again, being foolish schoolgirls.



My beauty friend Angela, and I! At The Ivy.

Lovely ladies, Kristin and Michelle. Delightful!

"i'll be back"

yes i know, i haven't blogged in a week! how unlike me.

i've been really busy with school and it's been intense. but guess what friends, i only have 2 more weeks (and 3 papers and 3 exams) to go!

speaking of "i'll be back" did you know that arnold schwarzenegger is the only governor that opts out of a salary? i guess he thinks he made enough with the Terminator movies. its something like $250,000 a year. to my friend arnie, that's just petty cash.

i'd be glad to take it off his hands, but i guess The Governator doesn't know about little me, over here in saaaask-atch-a-wann.

i get to go to the Junos on Sunday night! i have some feelings of excitement about this. i don't know what to wear. oh nelly (furtado)! i am not going to that fanfare thing i won. i'm not interested in meeting absolutely NOBODY cool. and stand in line for their autographs? i'm not really that kind of girl. artists like Alexisonfire, Billy Talent, Eva Avila, Melissa O'Neil, Hedley (hello, Canadian Idol overload?), Stabilo, Three Days Grace, Tomi Swick, George (who the mother is george?)...look it up, here. No big artist will be at fanfare. just the actual show. The Junos are a huge event for this city. i think the city will be hip-hopping this weekend. hopefully i'll go to a few venues to see some live performances. maybe i'll see someone cool around our promiscuous town.

please note i've added a very cool feature, my facebook "badge." you can flip through some pictures by pressing "next". you don't need a facebook account to do this.

the other badge, "GlobalVoices" has awesome blogs from around the world, mostly the south (aka the developing world) and its super interesting with a ton of topics, many written by regular people. it's cool because good development really stresses giving a voice of the poor, rather than us western big wigs coming in and trying to fix things our way. it doesn't work.

another blog of note (link is under Amuse Me): the world bank has a blog called "Poverty and Growth" that i enjoy. poverty and development is my major at uni, and though i don't talk about it too much, i do love this subject. please note i do not agree with MANY of the actions the world bank & imf -they are the big wigs i was just talking about - have taken, yet this site has some great info and it is quite interesting.

i must go now. i have a 12 page paper that was due LAST tuesday that i must hand in tomorrow, and i am currently on page 19 with no intro and no conclusion. though this may sound like a good thing, it's deceivingly bad. very bad and very stressful.

love from, tired, frustrated, but can see the end of a long four years,
me.

p.s. please, in your comments, don't ask me what i'm going to do after i graduate. the thought stresses me out beyond belief. thanks. i'll blog about it when i know :)

Mac or Dell?

i'm buying myself a laptop as a grad gift to myself. i have only needed one for 4 years. i've got my lovely IBM but i find PCs to be rather anti-mobile. i just can't picture myself lugging my computer to night class each week. not that i will have night class anymore starting in THREE WEEKS! woot woot! anyway, still want a laptop and looking for some advice/opinions:

mac or dell? dell or mac?


hi kristin, i am cute little Apple iBook! look how sweet i would look at your desk. i'm so pretty and girly and have many creative options. i love to do fun things with your photos, videos, and webpages. i am a perfect companion to a young hot chick like yourself on the go as you enter a new career. i'm as clean as they come - never a virus for me! buy me because you and i are meant to be together! never mind that i cost so much! its okay. i'm cute. cute cute cute.

hi apple ibook, you look like so much fun i could eat you right up. HOT. HOT. HOT. (also nevermind that i don't exactly have a new career. yet.) i must decide if i only like you for your looks. are you as beautiful on the inside as you are on the outside? are you truly worth the extra effort i must put into paying for you? ibook. i think you are to me like izzie is to george. beautiful on the outside. stacked. a supermodel. my best friend. but probably not right for me???



hi kristin i am Inspiration 6400 dual core from Dell. you will love how much hardrive and memory i have for half the price of snobby ibook up there. i am fast, efficient and come with many free features. i am definitely the one for you. just think how professional you will look toting hot little silver me around. and guess what, i am just as skinny as snobbook above - i only weigh 6 lbs. furthermore, "inspiration" is even a better name than "ibook" - it speaks of your future, bright and successful, with me by your side.

hi inspiration 6400, i like you too. you're cheaper and somewhat cute. you have more memory and hardrive and its not that you're ugly. you simply don't have the same "presence" that ibook gives off. i am probably going to buy you, just don't be too jealous of my love affair with apple ibook. i love you for your beautiful inside, as the princess loved the frog. perhaps we just need a chance to get to know each other better.


any opinions (and not about me going to the crazy people place)???

this is the kind of thing i do when i have 2 essays due tomorrow and thus far i have 4 pages. but i always pull through! and with honors at that!

BU-BYE FRIENDS!

p.s. get this, i just booked my wisdom teeth pulling day for May 15, 2008! what is THAT? i think i should set an alarm on my cell phone in case i forget!

p.p.s. IBM COMPUTER FOR SALE..... i'll maybe post an "ad" later on sometime.

reservations under "hotties"

so i was trying to make this look fun, you know, some pics to the left, some center, some to the right.... it totally didn't work. the funness shines through anyway.
girls night = total success.
there was myself, Lynnel, Jenna + baby Haylie, Kerri, Sarah, Kerilyn + baby Akele, Lilian, Cory + baby Tayah, Laura, Michelle, Danielle, Adrienne, Katie, Coralie, Colette, and Sarah Jane. We went to Alexanders, a perfect place for the start of girls night.
jeff and i actually went there for supper at 6 and i had the most delicious food EVER (my new fav restaraunt, how did i not know how good the food was there???). we were joined by a very creepy man who wouldn't leave us alone but we had a good laugh over it anyway. jeff was outta there as soon as the first girl arrived :)
the kitchen guys called us "the hot table". that was pretty obvious. just check out our hottness:

(Lynnel did so good. she only texted her new boyfriend ONCE! i was so proud.)

musings of a girl without a car

ah, yes so about 15 minutes ago it happened. i have been waiting all winter long for this event. i simply knew it would come at any moment and the suspense was killing me as i waited patiently for the time to come. my friends.

i fell on the ice. flat on my ass.

this event happens once per winter and this year it waited until the middle of MARCH! ohhhhh the irony. a week before the official first day of spring. and what a tease as the last few days have been almost spring-like, until the most brutal day of yesterday where all the lovely mushy, muddy, slushy streets and sidewalks turned into the ice that nearly killed me.

anyway i'm fine. except i kind hurt all over, especially on the right side where i kinda landed funny on my arm and almost froze my hand off in the snow.

i'm just glad it finally happened so i don't have to keep wondering when it would.

this event may have bypassed me if i hadn't been taking the 3 minute walk from the bus stop to my house. yes, i'm still taking the bus. i have many musings about my bus ride today. my mind was working overload as i took #50 today, i feel i could almost write a book, just my little sister, Jenna did. in fact she sent her manuscript off to the a publisher today! i am so proud. everyone buy her book when it gets published!!! i thought i'd throw that in there. anyways, so i have a few thoughts for bus riders.

the first thing you must decide after boarding the bus is where to sit. i recommend you move to the back to the bus (remember that awesome old outkast song?). why the back? no not because that is where people play truth or dare. although that reminds me of my first kiss.... its true. but no, go to the back because then when the old people board, you don't have to give up your seat to them. brilliant! i commend the lovely young people who so willingly offer their seat to the weak and feeble, i just don't want it to be me giving up my comfy seat.

even after taking the bus a total of 12 times since January (approx one trip per week) i worry that the driver will suddenly change the route and i will have to walk from one side of the city to the next. yet, this does not seem to happen. i need to settle my little brain down.

do not settle the brain too much down however. you see, i tried to have a little nap on the bus but my head kept brushing past the little wire you pull to get the next stop. once i actually did pull it with my head brushing against the window, and i was like oh my, how embarrassing, he is going to stop and nobody is going to get out. it turned out fine as someone else luckily had the same stop as "i" did. phew, everyone is fine.

it can be very difficult being a bus rider. for instance, i witnessed a young man running to catch the bus and the driver did not see him and mindlessly drove along. i didn't want to be the one to stop the driver for that would entail being quite disruptive, a big social no-no. i always try to be socially conscious. other distresses include sitting with someone. how is one to know when the person on the inside wants out? oh the terrible things a bus rider must face! or the distress of the young lady when the driver did not see she was standing at the door to get out and almost drove away without letting her off! oh, how happy i was not to be in her most difficult situation!

finally, my last dilemma. most of the bus stops are rather far and few between. but for some reason on my street there are two stops right after each other, about a block between them. i always feel rather ridiculous when someone gets off at the first stop and then as soon as the bus starts up again, i press the wire to be dropped off 10 seconds later. however i do it anyway. you know why? because its not MY fault someone put two stops so close to each other! it saves me at least 3 minutes in my walk. ha. so there. i always feel rather defiant when i do this (evil laugh, muwahahaahaha).

oh there are so many things i could say of the bus. there were three specific stereotypes that i had about people who rode the bus. but i no longer believe that:

1. only old people ride the bus. there are people of all ages there. such community. and i like how ALL the old people wear funny hats. see, you can get fashion advice from riding the bus!

2. only poor people ride the bus as i found by the numerous amounts of lululemon, ipods (they are everywhere! how do i not have one?), fancy sunglasses and expensive shoes. i was rather jealous. but i was wearing my cool H&M jacket which more than made up for my lack of ipod. too bad H&M isn't plastered all over my coat.... what am i, in high school here??? please excuse me.

3. people on the bus have guns and other various weapons. yet so far no one on the bus has pulled out their gun. i think have this impression from watching Speed one too many times in grade 8 (i'm slighly wary of elevators too).

it has been three long months since the engine in my car went, and i have to say it has not been the worst situation that i have ever found myself in. i've saved hundreds on gas, parking tickets and plates. i love getting a ride to school and to work. i get to chit chat with my dad or jeff or the lady from work and i don't even think about traffic, something that used to get my shorts in a knot.

AND i get to share exciting things with someone! today dad drove me to school, and there was a contest on C95, and i called in and WE WON! yes, we won "fanfair" tickets to the Junos...not actual tickets to the concert but where we get to meet all the artists or something. apparently you can't buy them, they have to be won. they are EXCLUSIVE. i loovvvve being exclusive. it's so posh. this is the third time in a year that i have won stuff on the radio. but never have i shared the experience with anyone! HA! what luck. and what a team we were! i love radio contests. the question in case you were wondering, was "which canadian artist made her way up through the 90s busking and playing in bars?" well i immediately thought alanis morisette & i called in and it kept ringing and ringing, and i waited and waited...but then when nobody was getting the answer, they added another clue - this artist was voted one of the most likely people to have their own talk show - and then dad said jann arden and i exclaimed OF COURSE. then suddenly i am ON THE RADIO with my absolutely, 100% correct answer and we were all very excited, me, dad, shauna foster and rambling dave, all so excited together. all this excitement. moral of the story: HAD I NOT had a ride today, i would've said alanis morrisette and can you imagine the disappointment?

so dad and i are going to meet all the artists. he is most excited to meet nelly furtado, isn't that funny? he talks about her all the time, i think because he can't remember them all so he picked her to be his favorite! the funniest thing is before i called in, he was saying (as he has said many times) he wants nelly furtado to come sing at elim, and now he can ask her personally! hahahaha. that is so funny, i just called him to tell him that and we had a big laugh.

ANYWAYS, despite the many "goodnesses" of carpooling, becoming more environmental and also more cultural by taking the bus, and saving mega bucks, i do hope to buy a car in May. like my very own, real cool car with air conditioning and a CD player! i have never had a cd player in my car ever before so i tell you, this is exciting to me. it's about time, as i am turning 25 this year. i am getting too old to have never had a cd player in my car. i'm so old fashioned!

i must leave you all. this really was too long of a post but i must say i had a lovely time writing it. i smiled and laughed at myself the entire way through this and after all, isn't that what blogging is all about?

Rant.

i know its g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s (btw, i LOVE Fergie and her "Glamorous" song, it gets me grooving and i pretend i'm a star when i sing along) outside today but i am ANGRY! the receptionist at H&R Block was so rude to me! i must vent.

so my dad brought all my income tax stuff into H&R Block last week and I had to go in today to sign the papers or whatever. please note, i do not understand income taxes very well. i am a little slow in this department. my dad and i have the same discussion every year as to why i don't get more money back and he tells me the same thing, you can't get back more than what you paid. well okay but what about this textbook thing that the Conservies put into place, i thought i was supposed to be getting back $80 for my textbooks? well mr. mikey (the guy my dad did our taxes with at H&R) tries to explain it all to me, but all i hear is lkjadf adfalkdj adlkjfadf alkj k adkjrieewao welkrja awoei awklu, owwwaahyay. understand? yah me neither. whatev.

so i go in this afternoon to sign the papers. first of all the receptionist is rude to the lady in front of me. like totally unjustifiably so (the customer was a walk in and the receptionist let the second walk in go in first, and when the customer called her on it, she throws up her hands in the air and says "i said i'm sorry what else am i supposed to do about it, okay?"). yah, reeeeeeealllllll friendly. lovely customer service.

then i go up and tell her my dad has paid the fees already (which he told me he had, but he realized AFTERWARDS that he hadn't and forgot to tell me). so i'm asking her what my dad paid for then and she gets all rude at ME and says well lets just call mike why don't we. so she calls mike (the guy my dad sat with) and find out daddy didn't pay for me, she says "what did i tell you", and she has the nerve to say, "you have to pay for our services you know". hello i am income tax "slow", not completely business retarded.

then she told me i had to sign everywhere it was highlighted and i wanted so badly to ask her to point out each place for me. that would've been awesome of me. so anyway, at one point i say, "listen, i'm not trying to make you angry here, i'm just having a hard time understanding why my dad insisted that he had paid and you're telling me he didn't, so what did he pay for?" i purposely said that in front of about 3 of her coworkers and several customers hoping to humiliate her. it just made her more mad and increased the mad silence. ha!

anyway it was just a big kerfufle and she had me fuming by her sharp, sarcastic answers and her madly demeaning manner!!! at one point when i said i didn't understand something she says "oh and i would just lovvvvve to explain it to you" and oh if only i had a tape recorder for her tone of voice. agugugughghhghghghghghghghhggh.

i was fuming by the time i left. she made me feel completely stupid. you know when you can totally tell when someone is really angry at you and they're trying to be all nice to cover it up? yah. there was major mother tension in the air.

so like, i work in customer service and i have bad days sometimes but seriously i would never be as rude as she was to anyone. i never make people feel stupid no matter how stupid they may be. and a lot of people are very very stupid.

anyway i got my money back.

and my grad photos. i think my hair looks crappy in it. but at least i'm graduating.

i have night class tonight. I HATE THIS NIGHT CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay rant, done. i'll cheer up for tomorrow.


p.s. mike at H&R was great. i don't hate H&R Block. its just the receptionist.