September 16, 2008
i like to be embarrassing
a survey about my bf.
1. He is watching TV. What is he watching?
he's probably watching something about cars/motorcycles or maybe ufc.
2. You're out to eat. What kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
tough one. he probably ordered fries. or maybe caesar?
3. What's one food this person doesn't like?
seafood, if i only get to list one.
4. You go out to the bar. He orders:
whatever's on tap.
5. Where did he go to high school?
michigan.
6. What size shoe does he wear?
thirteen.
7. If this person were to collect anything, it would be:
motorcycles. we'd have 'em lined up down the street. or, in a dream world, filling up an ironman style car warehouse/workshop.
8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
meat, cheese, margarine on a huge french baguette loaf. only the manliest.
9. This person could eat __________ everyday.
pancakes.
10. Favorite cereal?
today i think it's corn pops. last week, shreddies. just scopin' the deals in the cereal aisle, i think.
11. This person wouldn't be caught dead wearing:
man-styled skinny jeans.
12. Favorite sports team?
the blue jays, by default.
13. Who will he vote for?
i don't think he even really knows who's running. he's a us citizen though, so i would guess obama.
14. What is his sign?
aries. but he's on the cusp, so i sometimes read him the taurus horoscope if i find it more fitting.
15. What is something you do that he wishes you didn't?
oh, please.
(take too many naps, leave my dishes in the sink, forget to use my emergency brake, nag..)
16. How many states has this person lived in?
just michigan, i think. he's an international dude. england, usa, canada.
17. What is his heritage?
british to the core.
18. You bake him a cake for his birthday. What is his favorite flavor?
sugar.
19. Did he play sports in high school?
x-country.
20. This person could spend hours...
reading motorcycle magazines whilst pooping.
1. He is watching TV. What is he watching?
he's probably watching something about cars/motorcycles or maybe ufc.
2. You're out to eat. What kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
tough one. he probably ordered fries. or maybe caesar?
3. What's one food this person doesn't like?
seafood, if i only get to list one.
4. You go out to the bar. He orders:
whatever's on tap.
5. Where did he go to high school?
michigan.
6. What size shoe does he wear?
thirteen.
7. If this person were to collect anything, it would be:
motorcycles. we'd have 'em lined up down the street. or, in a dream world, filling up an ironman style car warehouse/workshop.
8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
meat, cheese, margarine on a huge french baguette loaf. only the manliest.
9. This person could eat __________ everyday.
pancakes.
10. Favorite cereal?
today i think it's corn pops. last week, shreddies. just scopin' the deals in the cereal aisle, i think.
11. This person wouldn't be caught dead wearing:
man-styled skinny jeans.
12. Favorite sports team?
the blue jays, by default.
13. Who will he vote for?
i don't think he even really knows who's running. he's a us citizen though, so i would guess obama.
14. What is his sign?
aries. but he's on the cusp, so i sometimes read him the taurus horoscope if i find it more fitting.
15. What is something you do that he wishes you didn't?
oh, please.
(take too many naps, leave my dishes in the sink, forget to use my emergency brake, nag..)
16. How many states has this person lived in?
just michigan, i think. he's an international dude. england, usa, canada.
17. What is his heritage?
british to the core.
18. You bake him a cake for his birthday. What is his favorite flavor?
sugar.
19. Did he play sports in high school?
x-country.
20. This person could spend hours...
reading motorcycle magazines whilst pooping.
August 31, 2008
2008 summer reading list
(please note that this is postdated, new entries will be below it)
april
1. late nights on air - elizabeth hay
2. the edible woman - margaret atwood
3. the kite runner - khaled hosseine
may
4. the satanic verses - salman rushdie
5. guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies - jared diamond
june
6. the house of god - samuel shem
7. brick lane - monica ali
8. tuesdays with morrie - mitch albom
9. the gathering - anne enright
10. anil's ghost - michael ondaatje
11. kafka on the shore - haruki murakami
july
12. the golden spruce: a true story of myth, madness, and greed - john vaillant
13. reading lolita in tehran: a memoir in books - azar nafisi
14. the inheritance of loss - kiran desai
15. the birth house - ami mckay
16. under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith - jon krakauer
august
17. interpreter of maladies - jhumpa lahiri
18. twilight - stephenie meyer
19. new moon - stephenie meyer
20. eclipse - stephenie meyer
21. breaking dawn - stephenie meyer
22. the executioner's song - norman mailer
in progress:
three cups of tea - greg mortenson and david oliver relin
and some short story collections i'm picking at:
paul theroux
fresh air fiend: travel writings
constance rooke (ed.)
writing life: celebrated canadian and international authors on writing and life
jeffrey eugenides (ed.)
my mistress's sparrow is dead: great love stories from chekhov to munro
zadie smith (ed.)
the book of other people
as always, recommendations are appreciated. especially non-fiction.
april
1. late nights on air - elizabeth hay
2. the edible woman - margaret atwood
3. the kite runner - khaled hosseine
may
4. the satanic verses - salman rushdie
5. guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies - jared diamond
june
6. the house of god - samuel shem
7. brick lane - monica ali
8. tuesdays with morrie - mitch albom
9. the gathering - anne enright
10. anil's ghost - michael ondaatje
11. kafka on the shore - haruki murakami
july
12. the golden spruce: a true story of myth, madness, and greed - john vaillant
13. reading lolita in tehran: a memoir in books - azar nafisi
14. the inheritance of loss - kiran desai
15. the birth house - ami mckay
16. under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith - jon krakauer
august
17. interpreter of maladies - jhumpa lahiri
18. twilight - stephenie meyer
19. new moon - stephenie meyer
20. eclipse - stephenie meyer
21. breaking dawn - stephenie meyer
22. the executioner's song - norman mailer
in progress:
three cups of tea - greg mortenson and david oliver relin
and some short story collections i'm picking at:
paul theroux
fresh air fiend: travel writings
constance rooke (ed.)
writing life: celebrated canadian and international authors on writing and life
jeffrey eugenides (ed.)
my mistress's sparrow is dead: great love stories from chekhov to munro
zadie smith (ed.)
the book of other people
as always, recommendations are appreciated. especially non-fiction.
August 15, 2008
peru, aqui yo vengo!
i leave on october 3rd. i'm going to to hunt down this view. it's stunning. to be honest, i know less than nothing about this place. two months of my life will be spent there and i saw this picture was like "huh, so that's what it looks like.. not bad at all." i'll let you know how accurate that really is. i set up my "days left" counter and it's at 49. i remember when it was 49 days until we left for mexico and that trip has come and gone.
i'm a lot more nervous than i'm letting on, but really, and i'm almost embarrassed to admit it, one of the main sources of my hesitation is the fact that i will be without pete for that long. it seems unbearable. you know that old saying absence makes the heart grow fonder? man, that shit is true.
(ps. does that title make any sense? combing through spanish phrase books is a tough way to learn the language.)
June 25, 2008
to do
I've got to learn how to blog again. Every time I come over here and try to write something down it ends up getting saved as a draft, never to see the light of day. Bummer for you, hey? The thing is that I just haven't had any good life changes that are that worth writing about. I spend my money on practical things like rent and contact lenses (430 bucks!). Pete and I argue about who swept the floor last and whose clothes make up the majority of the laundry pile (mine). Looks who's a grown up. But I'm gonna start practicing. We'll see how it goes.
There are actually a lot of things to write about. I've been here and there this summer doing this and that. I went to Edmonton for my cousin's wedding and Baba's 90th birthday. I went again for the MS Bike Tour. I started rebuilding my relationship with Meston. I got registered for bootcamp against my will and dropped out halfway through, but lied to everyone about it. That was a bad one. I started this daily budgeting log so that I can stop being absolutely ridiculous in my spending habits. I discovered lamb curry, which is my dream come true. And I got a new camera!!
Things like that.
Stay tuned.
There are actually a lot of things to write about. I've been here and there this summer doing this and that. I went to Edmonton for my cousin's wedding and Baba's 90th birthday. I went again for the MS Bike Tour. I started rebuilding my relationship with Meston. I got registered for bootcamp against my will and dropped out halfway through, but lied to everyone about it. That was a bad one. I started this daily budgeting log so that I can stop being absolutely ridiculous in my spending habits. I discovered lamb curry, which is my dream come true. And I got a new camera!!
Things like that.
Stay tuned.
June 04, 2008
peruuu
peru is a go! i still have to pay some fees (read: earn the money required to pay the fees) but the uvic course list came up and all my courses are in the spring, so my fall is free for machu picchu adventures! i am more excited and scared than i am willing to let on. pete bought me a really nice bag for my birthday (once of those gigantic hardcore trekking backpacks) and everything is becoming real and holy shit i am going to be in peru for two months by myself and the girl who sold us the backpack said that cusco is totally sketchy and all her friends got robbed there! oh gosh. but i am tough and streetwise. aha! i'm from sherwood park, what do i know about streetsmarts? but i'm excited. very very very.
April 05, 2008
moving up
okay. so it is my first night alone in our new apartment and i am getting a little bit nutty. every light in the whole place is on, except for the bedroom light because i've been too scared to go in there in case someone is lurking. i am absolutely head over heels in love with our place, in the day time. at night, it is a bit spooky. the fire place is on a crazy program and just turns itself on whenever it wants, my cat roams around meowing and jumping at imaginary things, you can hear the neighbors like they are standing beside you.
let me tell you about this place though because it feels like exactly what my life has been missing. it is gorgeous. it's a 1950s building, so all the apartments have a pretty big layout and there are lots of little character traits like a funny ironing board that comes out of the kitchen wall and one of those locks that is on a chain so the door only opens 3 inches or so. it's all hardwood floors, which, despite their general creakiness, looks goooooood. i live in constant fear that something will skid or drop and make a gash in the floor. basically the landlord's number one rule is DON'T FUCK WITH THE HARDWOOD. there is a fireplace! i haven't quite figured out how to work it but it is quite cozy and crackily. there is also a dishwasher which means there will be 95% less fights between pete and i. but best of all
THERE ARE WINDOWS!!
okay, our last place had windows, but only facing the wrong direction and only in one part of the whole place. now we have a window in our living room that overlooks the road and windows in the kitchen and bedroom that face out the back of the building. and it is getting to be summer. really, could my life be any better? it's four blocks to the ocean. four blocks to beacon hill park. and there are shops right down the road.
oh yes. oh yes.
living the dream.
i'm still trying to get pete to warm up to it. he liked the coziness of our last place, but i think this will outshine that place in every aspect once we get a bit more settled in and somehow center our room around the fireplace, which was basically his one true wish for our new apartment.
so. that's the news.
school is going okay.
lots of things on the go, i'm feeling a little bit pressed but i'm working on it.
also.
have you ever seen the commercial that says something like.
"i know. let's blamestorm about it! i blame eileen."
ahahaha.
cross your fingers that i make it outta this night. then the apartment will be tried and true, ready for all kinds of shenanigans.
let me tell you about this place though because it feels like exactly what my life has been missing. it is gorgeous. it's a 1950s building, so all the apartments have a pretty big layout and there are lots of little character traits like a funny ironing board that comes out of the kitchen wall and one of those locks that is on a chain so the door only opens 3 inches or so. it's all hardwood floors, which, despite their general creakiness, looks goooooood. i live in constant fear that something will skid or drop and make a gash in the floor. basically the landlord's number one rule is DON'T FUCK WITH THE HARDWOOD. there is a fireplace! i haven't quite figured out how to work it but it is quite cozy and crackily. there is also a dishwasher which means there will be 95% less fights between pete and i. but best of all
THERE ARE WINDOWS!!
okay, our last place had windows, but only facing the wrong direction and only in one part of the whole place. now we have a window in our living room that overlooks the road and windows in the kitchen and bedroom that face out the back of the building. and it is getting to be summer. really, could my life be any better? it's four blocks to the ocean. four blocks to beacon hill park. and there are shops right down the road.
oh yes. oh yes.
living the dream.
i'm still trying to get pete to warm up to it. he liked the coziness of our last place, but i think this will outshine that place in every aspect once we get a bit more settled in and somehow center our room around the fireplace, which was basically his one true wish for our new apartment.
so. that's the news.
school is going okay.
lots of things on the go, i'm feeling a little bit pressed but i'm working on it.
also.
have you ever seen the commercial that says something like.
"i know. let's blamestorm about it! i blame eileen."
ahahaha.
cross your fingers that i make it outta this night. then the apartment will be tried and true, ready for all kinds of shenanigans.
March 11, 2008
peru baby
it's settled. as long as the course schedule doesn't change, i'll be spending around 8 weeks in south america next fall. peru, specifically. october and november, specifically. it becomes more realistic every day, as applications for volunteer positions get accepted and payments are made. now it's a matter of flights and leisure time. my mom will come too, for two weeks or so, and we'll live in luxury because she is not necessarily a roughin'it kinda gal. but we will spend two weeks there and it will be the best time ever. i'm sure of it.
i want to see ecuador too, but 8 weeks is not long enough to know even a city, let alone two countries. but i would like to see ecuador. i really have had an obsession with ecuador for my whole life. i love that it is named for the equator, that the equator runs through it and that if i go there i can stand right on it. i can't really explain to you how long it took me to get over my excitement at the fact that the equator runs through ecuador! i'm still not fully over it. so i should probably go, since i'll be so close.
people say "what if they only offer a course in the fall?" and i say "well, then i can't go" like it's the most casual and natural thing. actually i am terrified. i'm the summer schedule away from embarking on the biggest adventure of my life and it could all go south based on an admin decision. but it will be okay. the courses will stay the same, they never change anyway. and i will be all alone in peru, with the leanmeanfightingmachine body that pete says i have to get if i want to go. aha. what a guy.
so that's where things stand. that's my main project right now. i have others, volunteer work and school and amassing fortunes, but this is the one i'm most excited about. if you want to buy me presents i'm interested in spanish lessons, guidebooks, and tevas.
i want to see ecuador too, but 8 weeks is not long enough to know even a city, let alone two countries. but i would like to see ecuador. i really have had an obsession with ecuador for my whole life. i love that it is named for the equator, that the equator runs through it and that if i go there i can stand right on it. i can't really explain to you how long it took me to get over my excitement at the fact that the equator runs through ecuador! i'm still not fully over it. so i should probably go, since i'll be so close.
people say "what if they only offer a course in the fall?" and i say "well, then i can't go" like it's the most casual and natural thing. actually i am terrified. i'm the summer schedule away from embarking on the biggest adventure of my life and it could all go south based on an admin decision. but it will be okay. the courses will stay the same, they never change anyway. and i will be all alone in peru, with the leanmeanfightingmachine body that pete says i have to get if i want to go. aha. what a guy.
so that's where things stand. that's my main project right now. i have others, volunteer work and school and amassing fortunes, but this is the one i'm most excited about. if you want to buy me presents i'm interested in spanish lessons, guidebooks, and tevas.
January 12, 2008
influenza?
man, the stomach flu is an unrelenting bitch. it started creeping up on me during my seminar wednesday night. then it spent all day thursday blossoming, until i was folded over the toilet at pete's aunt & uncle's house at around 8:30 puking my guts out. but it couldn't be satisfied, no. it had to linger through friday and saturday, just enough to make my stomach churn in the face of food and to make me all lightheaded during the critical moment of my attack on bowser.
i got a nintendo wii for christmas. there goes my gpa.
my parents should know better.
i got a nintendo wii for christmas. there goes my gpa.
my parents should know better.
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