Answering Rhetorical Questions since 1979

Does a bear sh-t in the woods? Well, I can't answer that, but I can say with great authority that a bear will sh-t on my driveway. Lovely.

Tonight is the User Friendly meet at TGI-Friday's in Metrotown around 630. I will be attending with my out of town friends who organized it. Stop on by.

We went to the fireworks on Wednesday as well. Bar none: the best fireworks display I've ever seen. Plus, I've learned...Cotton candy: it's like crack, but BLUE!

Ulti last night was good. We won our first game towards the playoffs. :) Go us! Um...what else? Oh, my last paper is handed in (thank you Dave for editing and handing it in) which means I have one final on Thursday (boo...have to miss Ulti.)

I get to see the Drew and NNY tomorrow! Yayayayay!!

My student is finished his worksheet, so I must dash. Ciao...See you all at Pride!

Time Limit

Yikes! I promised myself that the end of July was going to be my deadline for getting my police application in...I'd better have it in on Monday... :/ Where the hell has the month gone?!

Proof... 

Be nice to me... 

Haaa...haaaaa....hot....

Ok, fine. I'll actually talk about the bloody heat. After a really nice cooling off day, it's back up to...21?! It feels soooo much hotter. Yeesh. Maybe because I had a nap? I tend to be warmer when I've just woken up. Maybe it has something to do with blood flow.

Speaking of blood (segue much?) I'm donating blood today. It's been a while. I had my navel pierced two years ago which made me ineligible for a year, then I was either sick, working or maybe being called in to work every time for the next year. So, here I go to the vampires...my appointment's at 2:50...let's see if I can drag anyone else along. :D

Exercise today: blah.

Naughtiest thing posted yet.

Not worksafe. May equate as "too much information". Um...yeah.

Click if you're not worried.

Quizzes

This site is really annoying to navigate, but there are some good quizzes on there. There's a semi-not worksafe one at the bottom. Is it severely obvious that I'm avoiding my paper? I think it is!


Awww...I only got 52/100 right

I am feeling so much better.

A couple good nights of good sleep will do that. I'm still sore in various odd places...my right ankle is bothering me currently. I think it got stiff after the drive to Bellevue. It's the one I sprained a year and a bit ago, so it's not that surprising, I suppose. Oh, incidentally, a/c doesn't work very well when you're sitting in a border lineup for over an hour and a half. Yeesh!

I'm gonna go have a mini nap now. Just finished tutoring and I'm at the craft store this afternoon, so I ought to chill for a bit.

Ow! My everything!

Quick update from the weekend of scary sleep deprivation...please to be forgiving of random stream of consciousness. Did Kata on the Beach with karate this morning. Beautiful...wonderful...we need to do it more often. Loved it. :D Very happy about fun. Stuff. :)

Bellevue today as well for Kit's wedding dress. Much driving ensued. I am so glad that I have air conditioning in my car, since we were stuck at the border for over an hour and a half. It was fun though. Got to hang out with Kit and her friend Lisa...nice person. Yay for Outback Steakhouse! Thanks Kit!!

Then there was more driving. I hate driving in the States. It's scary evil.

I am NOT going to the Ultimate Frisbee team barbeque right now. I will sleep and make myself not sick by sleeping in tomorrow...although since I've been getting up around six for the last four days in a row (NOT because I wanted to!) I don't know if I'll be able to. I will hopefully have a nice relaxing day tomorrow rereading my novels for my paper which is due on Friday.

FRIDAY?! EEK!! At least it's only 1000 words.

*glances at the size of the post* Wow, for what was supposed to be a really short post, this is quite a few words. Sleep happens....now. zzzzzz.

Exercise today: 1.5 hours karate (kata on the beach)

Just a list

What I did today:
0725-student #1
0815-student #2
0900-driving cars from Coquitlam dealership to Langley buyer and Richmond auction to Coquitlam dealership (total time=7 hours. Total pay=$99 :D )
1630-Kit and I cleaned out my car
1900-Bourne Supremacy

I still have to iron my gi because I am getting up tomorrow morning to do a beach workout for karate (at 0600), then drive to Bellevue to pick up Kit's wedding dress. Yeegah. I think I must sleep.

Exercise today: ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!

Emotions

I'm really not in a good place right now. I'm too emotional over stupid little things and it's moving me around from anger to sadness to "I want to hurt myself" to "I want to hurt something or someone else" and all over the map. I feel helpless and upset and I DON'T LIKE CRYING IN FRONT OF PEOPLE! Or alone for that matter.

Yeah, it's been kind of a sucky day, with occasional good bits thrown in. Good bits include: being told I was loved over and over, prawns/scallops and garlic, playing with the webcam and reconnecting with a friend.

Crappy bits: children at Ultimate, playing really badly and getting frustrated, being misunderstood, getting overly emotional about it all.

I'm feeling very psychically battered today...not like "I can read minds" battered like Deanna Troi, but just "I can't go on being in this place" smashed around. I'm feeling...resigned...and since this is not a happy thing...resigned is not a good thing. My chest hurts and I'm sniffling/semi-crying, my throat hurts and I feel as if I'm going to throw up.

Plus I get to wake up in six hours and deal with people. All. Day. Long.

*cries*

Exercise today: 1 hour Ultimate

My cam-girl pose. 

Mm...cookie... 

Gobbling up bandwidth. It's a bunny!! 

Flu or food?

Something that I've been unable to figure out is the difference between a flu and food poisoning. I know that food poisoning is supposed to last only one day, while flus (flues? flews? :p ) last longer. I'm thinking I have a flu of some description, since I've been feeling crappy for the last couple days, then everything kind of came to a head early (EARLY!) this morning...and I've felt like utter crap all day. My throat is sore, my stomach muscles feel like someone's stapling them to my stomach wall and I've got a piercing headache that comes and goes.

Could someone please send me a body transplant? Thanks. We can start with the gut.

It's weird though...I've always had stomach problems...nausea whenever I get overtired, cramps with my period, stitches when I run, nausea for various random reasons I haven't quite figured out yet. If the world is fair, if/when I have kids, my labour had better be amazingly easy...or else I'll be somewhat put out.

(this possible illness means I might not be going to visit NNY and Drew tomorrow...I'll call and let you know what's going on.)

My first photo!! Yeah!! 

I didn't know I scratched my nose so often...

Or that my posture was so bad. I've got a web cam now!! It's um... to video conference... uh... with...people...

Aw, who'm I kidding? We all know what it's gonna be used for. Anyway, I would like to set up the webcam on my blog...but until then, my MSN is on the sidebar...that's where I've learned to use it so far. :) Come visit me!

Rumour mongering

Or: the post that's probably going to get me in major trouble. :)

DISCLAIMER: I'm just being a goof...don't mind me.

Today I took a nap, then handed in my paper. Before going to the university, I called ahead to Dave's to see if I should stop by. Turns out he's not home, busy taking a friend (female) to the doctor's office at about noon, but I can stop by when I'm finished. This is about 2:00. Ok, fair enough. I dawdle a bit and head over after turning in the paper and arrive around 3:00. It's now 4:00...no sign of Dave or female friend and I'm bored of knitting for the time being. Hmmm... So now, it's time to postulate...soap opera style! *thumbs up*

Is she pregnant? Ooh! Cool!! Another baby in the circle of friends! But wait! Why isn't her husband going with her instead? Why...because it's not his child! So Dave's going because...ooh. I don't like the way this one's going. NEXT!

Hmmm...how about...they're actually an elite crime fighting team from CSIS and the whole doctor's thing is just a front...unless it's code for "We're going to go fight the evil Doctor of Ultimate DOOOOOM". That's not fair! I like costumes and beating people up! I wanna be an elite crime fighting team member.

Ok...what else? Maybe someone needs to be deprogrammed from a cult posing as a group of life insurance salesmen. Or one of them is possessed by demons...posing as a cult...posing as a group of insurance salesmen!

Or perhaps they are out buying me a stupendous present, one which requires both of them to move. OOH!! A PONY!!! YAY!!!

Perhaps the great Canadian novel is being written. Or the great Canadian symphony. Or the great Canadian beer recipe and hockey playbook. Not saying that they're the ones doing it, but perhaps they are witness to the great genius unfolding.

What if they got mugged by overzealous circus clowns. Or worse...MIMES! Because you know, a mime is a terrible thing to waste. (Don't kill me, it was from Robin Hood: Men in Tights)

It's possible that while driving, they ran into a protest over cruelty to banana slugs and joined in the march to Whistler. That could take a while...I think there's an accident on the Sea to Sky highway.

Anyway, there's my list of interesting excuses and suggestions.

Happy Birthday Random Synapses

Yes, we at Random Synapses have bringing people bloggity goodness for one year now. Something I didn't realize is that I started karate the same day I started doing the blog...interesting...

This blog was originally for me to try and do goal-type stuff...let's see how I've been doing:

This was the first series of goals I set for myself.

Online: blog three times a week
Financial:: Pay Candyman, get rid of my credit card bill
Physical I:: Weight down from 167 or so to 150 lbs
Physical II:: Exercise two or three times/week
Personal Space:: Clean my room.
Education:: Do some sort of readings on my own

Here are the first results

Online: blogged many times so far.
Financial:: Um, I haven't opened my credit card bill yet. I'm kind of scared, and I need to buy a gi for karate...
Physical I:: 165 lbs, baybeee! No junk food today either.
Physical II:: Went to karate tonight. Loving it.
Personal Space:: Roughly 350 square feet out of 400 are totally unlivable. The 50 feet equals my bed, some space beside it, my bathroom and a path to each place.
Education:: Currently reading "Power Herbs", and referencing other herbal and aromatherapy books. Tonight I will be researching blisters and how to cure them before my Monday night Ultimate Frisbee game.

Here are my current results

Online: blogged many times so far. :) I've done over 460 posts in 366 days.
Financial:: Still owe C/M some money, but not nearly as much. Credit card is paid off (over $600) and I have a small savings.
Physical I:: about 162 lbs. However, I've gone down two sizes in jeans.
Physical II:: I've been running, doing karate, doing Ultimate...I'm awesome.
Personal Space:: Hm...I think it's at about 150 square feet clean. I started crafting again this year, so that's a lot of stuff taking up a lot of space! (Damn you, clearance yarn! I will defeat you!!)
Education:: I've taken seven classes in the last year, plus done a bunch of research into starting my own business, herbal remedies, aromatherapy, Wicca and fitness.

Overall, I'm pretty happy about how things have gone. It's been just over two years with Candyman now.

Y'know, I think it's time I started calling him Dave. Y'know. Since that's his name and all. :)

(Post actually written at 9:23 PM July 17)

o/~It's Monday Morning...o/~

Just tightening up my paper, which is due today. Thank you to my lovely guy who came over to edit it, encourage me, and then distract me when I was finished so that I didn't beat my brains out over it. I'll be taking it up to the university in a half hour or so. :)