yet another new site

yes, i've found yet another place to put my blog. i've moved to http://myspace.com/wonderfulandsad my blog is public but you have to join to see pics and all that extra stuff. later blogger!

run!

oi stole a pepper mill today!

since when?

has anyone ever seen cartons of strawberry milk? neither had i until today. i walked into a small convenience store at yonge and bloor and low and behold, there it was. not exactly wonka's golden ticket but still mesmerizing. it was very sweet and baby pink in colour.

it'll all be over soon

two classes done, one more to go. at least for this semester. next semester stars in mid april and i still haven't decided how many classes i'm going to take. i'm thinking that i'm only going to take two classes. three in a row doesn't leave much time for anything once you add in work. i just come home and crash.

my presentation in host communications went really well today. i did not expect to get 81% and i'm sure my partner didn't either. we lost marks because i spoke too quickly at times and she didn't speak loud enough for most of the presentation. i suppose that goes to show her shy personality and my inability to speak slowly. waitress mentality - the sooner you can get through your script with one table, the sooner you can get to the next.

i'm thinking about taking some classes at the second city. i went and saw janet's show this past saturday and it was really good. i knew i should have taken drama instead of instrumental music in grade 9. i think you should be required to take more art classes in highschool. i'm also looking into getting vocal classes too. maybe join a choir somewhere.

disgruntling in the workplace. i'm not really sure what the management team will look like one week from one. from the way things are unfolding, it appears that a lot of old staff are coming back. managers and floor staff. i think we're all just waiting to see what simon's going to do. everyone in the kitchen hates him and don't respect him and he doesn't really seem to have an important role there. he's going on vacation next week so he's either going to hand in his resignation or they're going to package him out.

anyway, time to take a look at my last and final project this semester. i'm working with a crazy girl that wants everything done right away. a white and younger version of my mother??

tick tock, tick tock

as the clock winds down, my site assignment that is due later today at 6:30pm is no more complete than it was yesterday. i suppose i should hop on it now. wow, school was so much easier when i didn't work full time.

and my stomach is currently playing an intense game of dodge ball with itself. it does not help that my father just light a cigarette in the house as cigarette smoke upsets my stomach regardless of whether or not i already have a stomach ache. fun times...

back to site...

a quiz made for mimi

Cheese Pizza

Traditional and comforting. You focus on living a quality life. You're not easily impressed with novelty. Yet, you easily impress others.

What's Your Pizza Personality?

no more (warm) sunshine & pina colodas

today was my first full day back from the dominican and i was slightly confused today when i woke up on mimi's floor. i spend the last four days waking up early, going to a breakfast buffet and then lying in the sun like the lazy ass i wish i could be year round. it was odd not having to walk to the beach in my pjs to claimed a much desired hut. to all those people who did not get huts: sucks to be your sun burnt ass!

i'm just waiting for peter to finish doing the dishes so i can take a shower. i must deep condition my hair. the salt water feels gross after it dries in your hair. my skin is nicely exfoliated though. i burned a little but nothing too too bad. just my nose is peeling and bright red at the moment. i got a giant bottle of aloe vera gel so i will be smearing that on when i feel inflamed.

peter picked up a digital camera for me in my absence. sometimes he's a good little brother =) i must pay him back tomorrow. the camera's normally $499 but it was on sale for $349. i love deals. i still need to buy a memory card and a case for it. what am i going to do with my old camera? perhaps muckle or my father will want it. i have to get all my punta cana pictures off of it tomorrow.

time to shower and do some reading before bed. more from freezing cold toronto soon...

sunshine & pina coladas

that's what i'm hoping for anyway. the forecast for the first three days i'm in punta cana say bright sunny skies but clouds on the fourth. no biggie as long as i get some prime tanning done early in my visit. i've yet to complete packing. most of the required clothing is packed but i haven't gotten to toiletries yet. i need to make a quick stop at shoppers tomorrow morning. we'll see though. it just snowed and i may decide that i can live without a few things.

not much has happened since i last posted. just going through the motions of my day to day life. i bought tragically hip tickets during my manager meeting at work on friday. the gm can't get mad at me if two of the tickets are for him (not free of charge - that would be unethical). jen nearly had a heart attack when i told i got eight tickets. i'm hoping to ebay a set to some crazy hip fans. i'm sure there are some die hard fans out there that didn't get tickets.

anyway, back to packing and i must also complete my homework assignment on brainstorming and themes.

a period of adjusting

yes, that what this is. a period of adjusting. moving home, adjusting to a new boss, school - oh the many things i must deal with. alright, time to stop being mellow dramatic. c'mon, i'm going to punta cana in 25 days. i can deal with everything until then. and i may be going to montreal for a management retreat on the monday right after i return. nothing wrong with that.

i had oysters, new england clam chowder, and two bottles of keith's for dinner tonight. i love oysters. too bad they're so bloody expensive. i just need to win the lotto and live a life of gluttony. hmm...on second thought, maybe no. being a fatso is not something that i'm interested in.

since moving home, i've started to gain weight. i used to walk home four nights out of the week when i lived in the annex but the walk home to my parents' house is not the safest. if only parliament wasn't such a dodgy street once the sun sets. it won't be so bad in the summer but right now it's down right scary. i walked home the other day along king/queen and there were times when i wish i wasn't walking. not kosher what so ever.

i would continue to blog but i had a late night yesterday and the day before. how i do love dining out and bar hopping though. alas...

roast beast

so it seems that there will be some roast beast. deadstar's kitchen smells like ham because he daddy is baking one. we're going to oi's for dinner. i wonder if it will be just our family or if relatives of other blood lines will also be in attendance.

i have to be at work for 9 tomorrow becuase lauren's in california. i am not looking forward to checking the festive desk messages. i'm sure crazy people have left many rude/angry/panicked messages because they didn't plan for new year's eve until this past weekend. sorry, sometimes the hospitality world gets time off to. well, not sometimes, only during christmas. the rest of the year we slave away. i feel bad for movie theatres - they never close. but then again, i'm sure most of the people working over the holidays volunteered to be scheduled.

i have to get boxes from work tomorrow so i can start packing - i already feel the tension headache...alas. at least my parents don't live in mississauga. that would suck ass.

sleepies *yawn*yawn*

early boxing day shopping excursion
no good finds
opened broswer window and proceeded type as if i were logging on to the distillery events site
je suis fatigué

how the grinch stole bonnie's voice

first off, happy holidays to all!! i think it's kinda neat that christmas and hanukkah is being celebrated on the same day this year.

second, when the hell is my little bro's girlfriend going to learn to speak? we went out for "christmas" dinner (more chinese food) and she didn't say a word the whole time. nothing new really, but it's starting to get very old. they've been dating for at least two years now so she can't say she doesn't know our family. she's a lanky mute. other than the mute factor, she's nice. although if they do end up getting married and having kids, their kids will probably learn to speak later than average because their mother won't be vocally communicating with them. perhaps they will become very adept at secret sign language that only they will know. not very helpful in the big world outside of their house though.

hmmm....what have i done since the 11th?

i saw bryan adams on the 16th at the air canada centre. i was surprised by the number of young girls in attendance. his guitarist is insane - very energetic - so much that i mistook him for bryan adams when they first came out. i met jen at the george for food and bevies before the show and ian had a great time teasing me before going to the show. i like bryan adams but not publicly and i most certainly do not like bryan adams in the form of spoken word performed by the man that slings me beers after work. side note: i'm fairly certain that ian is still with his girlfriend so alas, hands off.

i saw stars at lee's palace on the 18th. good show but too bad lee's wasn't serving any booze because it was an all ages gig and the band was an hour late!! well, they were really two hours late because they didn't play until 4pm and doors opened at 2pm but because deadstar and i are seasoned concert goers, we did not arrive until 3pm. a lot of the people in the audience were really pissed. torq is a very small man and amy is a spaz on stage. i really liked that they were an eight piece band. apparently they just recently found a full time touring violinist (lucky for me) because they would not have sounded as great without one.

what else? i saw "king kong" with alex (not as good as the critics said - this is my personal opinion, please don't attack me, i'm entitled to it). then "memoirs of a geisha" with my lovely cousins and claudia - this was a bad movie. i would be really pissed if i was authur golden. the book was much better. then today i saw "the producers" with deadstar. ferris bueller played a funny spaz. will farrel plays a good neo nazi. lots of gay queens and one mega lesbo too. too bad there were asshole sitting behind us that kept kicking the back of our seats.

so i gotsta move out sometime this week. the guys that's moving in wants to move in on the 27th but sorry, not doable for me. first off, he wants to move in during the afternoon (hi, i'm at work until 6) and i probably don't have a chauffeur until the 29th or 30th. jen was dumb too. i told her to leave me her keys before going home for christmas so i could give this guy a set so we could move in/out without having to coordinate schedules but she didn't. he's going to have to move in after he comes back from montreal. i've paid rent until the 31st and it's not my fault he's not scheduled to come back from montreal until after the 1st. shit out of luck buddy. i wonder if jen's going to cancel her internet since there won't be a computer in the apartment once i move out.

my dad still has to move an oven and fridge out of the third bedroom to accommodate this mystery mat that's supposedly moving in for school in january. peter told me that he doesn't have his student visa yet so we're not sure if he's evening going to be allowed into the country to attend seneca. oh well. not my problem. i'm glad i will be in new york when this man moves in because i can foresee peter and my father getting into a yelling match about moving furniture/appliances. they're very much the same yet they don't see eye to eye.

i wonder if we're going to have a realy holiday meal tomorrow. these past two days has just been chinese food but maybe my uncle dave will make a roast beast! maybe not...it'll be the first christmas without a western meal in years if he doesn't.

that's enough blogging for me. i hate this keyboard i'm using right now. its keys are very raised and they make a lot of noise. it's odd adjusting when you work on a laptop all day and then use a laptop at home as well. oh, i'm at deadstars'.

a girl can always dream

You Are a Glam Rocker!

You put the "show" in rock show with your larger than life self. No doubt, you are all about making good music... But what really gets you going is having an over the top show. Glitter, costumes, and wild hair are your thing - with some rock thrown in!

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

are you alright?

that is the question that was posed to me multiple times throughout the day today by various levels of staff. um, no, i'm not alright. i'm actually rather stressed out and no, i do not care to speak about it - that would only take up precious minutes that i could spend catching up on work. the holiday season is starting to kick my ass and i haven't even begun my holiday shopping. it looks like i may be taking some bar shifts soon so hopefully i'll just be too exhausted to be stressed. is it wrong to feel that everyone around you is incompetent?

i'm very disappointed with the james blunt album. i'm hoping that it's one of those cds that takes a few listens before you really get into it. was i wrong to assume that the album would be good because it kicked coldplay off the uk charts after months of being numero uno? i am now listening to old john mayer albums.

it's snowing out which means that people are going to start driving like morons. why is it that precipitation makes people break suddenly? and then there are those who prefer to drive with excess speed but have difficulties controlling their vehicles. *shrug* i am going to stick with the ttc until the spring. i should really go get my g2.

so the talk with peter turned out to be nothing. apparently stacey and i are being perceived as "bossy" by some of the staff. well no shit - i was bossy as a server, did you expect me not to be bossy as an event manager? we weren't given any specific names of who these complaints were coming from but i don't really care.

so jen still hasn't found a roommate for sure yet. a friend of a friend came on tuesday to check the place out and said that she needed to talk to her landlord since she isn't giving him 60 days. i don't know what the hell jen is doing but i would be a little more concerned about finding someone to fill my room. if she doesn't find a roommate for january, she's either going to really piss our landlord off or she's going to have to pony up double her rent. i told her over a month ago that i was moving home.

wow, this whole entry was just a bunch of rants. i really hope i'm not angry tomorrow. nobody better irritate me tomorrow. i'm not sure i could refrain from kicking them in the head if they do. oh, if the kitchen runs late on my event tomorrow, i will spit venom.

concerts & movies, these are a few of my favourite things!

i went to nin last thursday and jann arden last saturday, "jarhead" on thursdays and "pride & prejudice" today. which were all very good. trent reznor had giant pumped up arms, jann arden was quite witty with her banter, "jarhead" starred an incredibly hot jake gyllenhaal, and "pride & prejudice" was a nice break from all of the hollywood blockbusters i've seen lately. i'm going to see "harry potter & the goblet of fire" in imax tomorrow. yay!! lots of stuff. and i just bought a whack of cds so i'm very content at the moment. now if only i could type properly on this laptop. i'm so used to typing on my work laptop that i'm rather slow on this one.

i was supposed to go see jeff's band and then ian's band yesterday but jen was sick and jeff's couldn't get us on the guests list for his show. sorry man, i would have loved to show my support by going to your gig, but i am not paying $35 when you're opening for fozzy. they have a show lined up at the horseshoe on the 2nd so i'll go to that instead. five dollar cover is much easier to cough up than $35. i would have liked to go to ian's show but by then i was already home and settled. i will have to apologize the next time he slings me a beer. i've already missed two of his shows so i feel bad. oh well, maybe you should have made a move instead of sitting on the fence when you were single. but then again, i don't know if he's still with his girlfriend.

i have to go to work tomorrow for 11am. i really wish i hadn't scheduled a site inspection that early. and what's with all the weddings? that seems to be the only things on my to-do lists now. i have ten couples waiting for quotes. i'm going to put expiry dates on the quotes to get them to sign contracts and make deposits faster. i'm not wasting my time with people who are "still deciding on a venue". if only i could avoid weekend site inspections.

so stacey and i are getting a talking to from peter on monday. apparently some people have expressed their concerns/views about the events team. i personally don't care because i don't feel that anything is wrong but stacey is upset. she needs to stop internalizing things. luckily i'm naturally emotionally detached from many things as it is so i'm fine. i do wonder what's been said and by who. i suppose i could prod will's brain for the inside scoop but that's just too much effort since peter will tell me everything on monday. i really hope it doesn't put a dark cloud over the entire day.

i must now import my new cds into itunes. i may blog more later. i may not.

i always knew i was a little off...

You Are 31 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

so according to this test, i behave ten years older than i am. i'm not all that surprised.

you look familiar...

that was the opening line in my last client meeting today. turns out i may be booking a wedding for a girl that was in my grade 10 BOA class with. her name's tara but i thought she was another tara that i had come across in another walk of life. thank god she wasn't the dumb ass tara that i had in mind. although i really hope she's not marrying who she was dating in highschool. he's a thug. i find it odd that she's already engaged. i don't remember her being in my class but she couldn't have been that much older. 23 max. too young for me to be getting married but hey, different strokes.

i'm at my parents' house again. i hopped on the 172 bus forgetting that it doesn't go to pape station on weekends and ended up making a round trip from the distillery front gates to cherry beach before i made it to union station. i wonder why the bus driver didn't ask me where i was going when we reached the last stop on the loop. jackass.

union station was crusty. there was a leafs home game tonight so it was full of people heading to the acc. why is it that people refuse to eat a proper dinner at home before heading down instead of grabbing mickey d's on the way? it just doesn't make any sense to me because the mcdonald's in union station doesn't have any seating.

the leafs were wearing their white jerseys today. i'm slightly confused over the league's usage of all the jerseys. they were wearing their dark colours at home for the past season and today the leafs had their "home" jerseys" on. hmm...that's a jen questions. i'll ask her when i get home.

mel's really going away to mexico on monday. i told her that i would get "planet of the apes" mask and wear it to her party tomorrow. one thing i have to hunt for tomorrow. i hope malabar has restocked all of their stuff. halloween raped them clean of everything. i don't know if i really want to put that mask on because i don't think i'll want it on my face all night. although it's really funny. mel's going to have her video camera out all night so it may be worth it just to see people's reactions on film at a later date. i still have to get my halloween pictures developed to. so much stuff to do tomorrow. and quotes...i hate working from home.

anyway, time to hop back on to the marvelous ttc and head back to 590.

a flash of light, a crash of drums

that's what my head felt (and is still feeling) like all day. i have these random sharp stabbing pains on the right side of my skull. piercing headaches. i wish i knew what they were. they happen randomly all the time but when i'm sick, they come more often. especially if i turn my head too fast or get up to quickly. everyone in the office keeps asking me if i'm okay (i haven't been my perky self these past few days) and they get very concerned looks on their faces when i grab the side of my head in pain. yay, they care about me, they really do!

my body is really sore too. my whole body is aching. i have to bartend tomorrow so hopefully i'll feel better. stacey offered me some of her perks but she said i wouldn't be able to bartend on them. dammit! i was really hoping to make working tomorrow a tranquil haze. do i have valium left anywhere?

anyway, i gotta go home now (i'm at my parents'). i'll probably blog more later when my headache is keeping me awake.

i think i'm dying...

this past week has not been the slightest bit fun. well, i can't say that. i did a fair bit of partying but now all the fun's over. i've had a killer headache for the past two days (i ended up napping in the vip room for an hour today while waiting for a site inspection - too bad she cancelled 15 minutes prior to our appointment) and i may have to get a biopsy. actually, i probably have to get one. there has been no change to the infamous lump since labour day weekend.

what did you guys do for hallowe'en? i worked at 1 up and it sucked ass! the manager was such a sleaze bag. brent, you owe me BIG TIME!! oh, how i do miss working with brent though. i would put up with sleaze bag to work a few nights with brent. fun times.

nathan had a hallowe'en party at his place on monday. i borrowed an inflatable bull rider costume from jen. i had by far the best get up...except for maybe will, he was dressed up as uma thurman from kill bill (yellow track suit) with boobies and all. mel went all 80's out circa "flash dance". fun times!! peter was dressed as a ballerina bunny and the boys kept lighting his tail on fire. kelly and mark had the greatest "couples" costume i've seen in a long time. they were the "spy vs. spy" characters and they looked awesome.

i ended up making out with this guy phil, a friend of some friends. i feel really dirty about it now. oh well, what's done is done. he works on site in the coffee shop so it looks like i'll be boycotting cappuccinos for a while. actually, there's a lot of stuff that i'm going to have to boycott because of that - lots of mutual friends.

i'm moving home!! i don't want to but i do at the same time. i won't have to pay rent (though i'll be paying some of the bills) but no where near $700 a month. and i'll have my mama's home cooking too. i haven't told my parents yet. i need to figure out a way to get them to let me paint my room. there is only really two full walls so it shouldn't take long. maybe my daddy will do it for me =)

anyway, i gotta go pay rent and make some soup. maybe it'll make my headache go away. until next time...

small window...

ian and leah had in fact broken up. however, that was a really small window of opportunity that i missed because he is now dating his ex from before leah. what's with me and guys who are involved with their exes? maybe he'll break up with her too. who knows. really, he's a very trivial part of my thoughts. easily replaceable but there's just no one to replace him with. i wonder when nathan will start appealing to me again. it's been about three weeks so i'm guessing that will cycle around again in a week of two.

hmm, sidney's wedding is on saturday. i still don't know what i'm wearing. all i know if that i'm doing green or blue eyes and i've got earrings already. no dress. i think i have a bag already. i wonder if jennifer is going to bring her boyfriend. i'm not looking forward to piling into the family car for the ride all the way to niagara. i'm going to find out if there's room in one of the cars going out of mississauga. i would much rather sit in a minivan than our little corolla.

i need to dye my hair again. the dye jobs from the salons always fade so fast. it doesn't have quite the same time to set as it does when i dye my hair at home. of course, there's not much coupe bizzarre can do in comparison to my eight hours of sleep with dye in my hair. i did get it trimmed again too. it was starting to get messy and shapeless. i'm getting my brows done tomorrow (finally).

i went for a run today. i've realized that i can't run anywhere but on the track. i didn't pace myself very well and ended up running way to fast from the get go and had to stop a little while later. i did five laps last week which surprised me because i thought i would only get three done. if i run three times a week, i will hopefully be fit enough to run the 5km in october.

well, bed time (i think...i've been staring at my guitar for the past little while so i might fiddle with that for a while).