party pic...

today was our little end of the season party for the department.

heres some pics....

goodies...


diane's happy about going to the spa...


brin and kelly made these cute little purses...


jen, carole and kelly check out the loot...


it's dianes 50th soon so we made her this a dorky card with all our faces on it...hehehe


:)

film hangover

well it seems i have what i call a film hangover. all i’ve felt like doing since being off work is sleeping, eating, drinking tea and watching movies.

i have plenty to do and catch up on...but just feel like doing it yet. my back and head hurts and i feel like i have a bodyover. i haven’t been drinking...i swear. maybe that’s the problem! hehe

it’s like my body just decided.....that’s enough....you’re done...take a break. massage tomorrow..hopefully that helps. i got stuff to do!

:)

nice way to start the hiatus...

went to see stomp with ani and her son michael last night. i guess one of the cast has a big crush on her (who doesn't? :):) and gave her comp tickets! nice....

it was a really great show and a perfect way for me to celebrate my last day of work.

they really did an amazing job putting the show together. and the sounds...wow...some so familiar...

The beating of 2 simple sticks together....like I heard every night at about 11 o'clock in tokyo. every night a guy would walk around the neighbourhood doing this as a reminder to put your fires out. it was a relaxing and rhythmic sound that i had totally forgotten about. don't think I've heard that since....what a nice memory.

Much of the stomping...I assume...inspired by tap. also reminded me a bit of when chester whitmore came up and nearly killed everyone in his tap workshops. i couldn’t walk for a week! during the dance afterwards chester broke into impromptu tapping and drumming using everything in sight..the floor, walls..whatever he could fine to tap out a rhythm...it was awesome!

afterwards we went by the irish heather and had some food since i hadn’t had time for dinner. it was a nice night all around.

thankx ani...

:)

do a little dance...make a little love...

...get down tonight..dududu....get down tonight...

ok...it's a bad song. but it's in my head. it's in my head b/c tomorrow is my last day on supernatural. (this season) don't know about the next!

yippie! :):):)

it's not over 'till it's over....

this weekend was a big dance weekend. competitions, workshops etc...

i didn't partake in all the activities mostly b/c of tiredness and other obligations ...and stress. this sean thing is really stressing me out. i'm renaming sundays "fight with sean day"...i think it has a certain ring to it.....don't you?

any way...here's a pic of kevin and kritabell from victoria whooping it up at the lindybout competition. i lifted from lindyhopper.ca....a fellow dancer justin took it. nice work justin!

that kristabell is some strong...


:)

clowning around and stuff...

cathy and jen thought it would be a good idea if we worked in clown shoes for the day.... it made working in a shitty warehouse all day more fun...


these were my shoes...


had a busy evening last night starting with a quick art gallery show at hawks gallery..then off to see wade and danielle for their annual birthday get together. alot of new faces this year...some of the old ones too. it was at salt..the new irish heather owned trendy spot in blood alley. i brought ani as my "date"....since no male ones seem to be around these days. we had a good time. even though i waited a very long time for cheese and cold cuts....more than a 1/2hr! seemed crazy. then the waiter didn't seem to want to give us more bread. i wouldn't recommend the place for a meal....but for a bite and some wine..sure. probably a nice place for a date....if i ever have one again.... :(unless you work in film...b/c half the crew from my show was there.

afterwards i headed to an awesome blues party at jim's...couldn't stay long b/c tiredness was over coming me. these guys played some impromptu blues....


:)

holy shit!!

ok...i just realised i've been doing this blog this for more than a year!! it was april 5th of last year i started. i have done 360 posts in that time! almost one a day..a little less.

wow......

never thought i would have a blog...didn't even know what a blog was the year before that!! i got inspired by reading garns blog....and decided to do my own. thanks garn.

here i am...one year later. funny how life is...

it's been really good i think. opened up some new communication and helped me work some stuff out.

:)

busy weekend ahead...

it's friday tomorrow...thank god! i've had it with this work week!

it will be a busy weekend with some dancers coming to stay for a special dance weekend....competions and workshops. i have one coming from ottawa and one from the island.

i'm not doing the whole dance weekend myself. too many other things going on..plus i'm not really into competions...got burnt out from those when i was a kid.

also tomorrow night is wade and danielle's birthday party.

night night...

:)

sleeping powder in my lunch...

i do believe someone has put sleeping powder in my lunch, lead weights in my shoes and glued my ass to this chair....

i'm not kidding!!

i'm soOooOo over working...and now they want me to work a few days next week. crap. even though i only worked a 10hr day today...i feel like i did 15. so rented a movie sat my ass down in my chair and it ain't moving 'till bed. i already watched the movie....'children of men". great movie...but make sure the kleenex is handy.

apparently lcd soundsytem is on letterman...so i might stay up for that.

goodnight

:)

magic...

ok...something happened to this link...hopefully it comes back and you can see the shear magic....

this is why i dance...these guys are unfriggin'believable!



i can aspire to this...and never get there...but can always keep trying.

i have to watch it again...

...man that makes me smile!!

:)

nothing really happened today...

i had today off. i relaxed...watched a movie. i'm uneasy about not doing much....not use to it...bit i think i needed it.

one thing i did do was sign the papers for my new company. btw i didn't get my cool name...so it's jojo productions inc. which is kinda stupid b/c that was one of the names they didn't let me have the last time i incorporated. stupid government....i think they just automatically give you your 3rd choice...don't even consider the others.

anyway...back to work tomorrow...3 days this week..2 next..and i'm done. can't wait!

here's a crazy pic for you....i like it...


:)

easter monday

nice day all around i think...had coffee...got some nice groceries and a visit in at granville island.

later had a little easter monday bbq with the ever lovely ani kyd and her tiny doggie sophie. jazz was not happy about the dog that looks (to her) like an over grown rat and sophie wasn't too sure about the gaint (to her) cat. ani pretty much took over the bbq duties...and i was happy to have the help.

...i should have taken pics...sorry.

:)

let the games begin...

i saw sean today... finally. after many phone messages and phone calls...some that were very strange. he was suppose to meet me yesterday ..but cancelled..then when we were suppose to meet today at 3pm. at noon he called me said he was there....what?? ok...you're 3hrs early...

as soon as i saw him...i new it wasn’t going to be good. he had sunglasses on...it wasn’t sunny. he was talking to me...but looking ahead...at nothing. i don’t know what’s wrong with him...but i don’t like it...not one bit. we started fighting almost right away....

i had enough.....i walked away. as i looked back as we yelled across the park. i looked at kimba and daisy and thought...i wonder if this is the last time i see them? fuck...i hope not.

i will all be in a lawyer hands soon. sean will most likely loose his truck....but it’s his own fault. he wouldn’t soft play ball...so we’re gonna play hard.

afterwards i was sooo mad i went home and cleaned my apartment...anger cleaning. i’ve heard of it... seen it in movies. not sure if i’ve done it before...once or twice maybe. anyway my apartments clean...and so is my fridge!

thanks sean...thanks for all you have made me realise today...and the clean apartment!

:)

ps... thanks to all the great friends that have been listening to me bitch and offered words of wisdom on this....(i think you probably know who you are;)...thank you thank you thank you!

more helpful tips...

when i got my allergy tests done the other day the guy told me i should clean my fridge every week..b/c of my mould allergy. yeah right...i laughed...he looked at me. i think he was wondering why i laughed so hard....but he didn’t comment. i'll get right on that...put it on the list with every other household chore i should do.

i do have weee tip for my fellow ‘disables. if your fridge gets dirty...take the light out....it’s way less noticeable. don’t make the mistake i made though...don’t wonder why there is no light and put it back in. eeekkkk...what's that at the back of my fridge??!
scary...

:)

chocolate jesus and bunnies...

had a pretty good day of visiting and errands today. went by to see mishi and garbs at the pickle.

garbs is making these pretty cool plushies...

i'm gonna have to get myself one i think!

in a bit i'm going to see dyan and paulus for a drink at stella's...haven't seen them in awhile. tomorrow more visiting chocolate bunnies is on the menu.

for those of you who haven't heard about the chocolate jesus thing going on in the states i've put a link below...

i really don't understand what the problem they have with it. i don't think the artist is making fun of jesus. i would say it may be making a statement about commercialism in religion. i guess it the nakedness they don't like. whats with the americans and nakedness anyway? naked is good! :) i had to copy a story from NZ because all the others i found didn't show the whole pic...or they showed the back it only! that's retarded.....no wonder north americans have body issues.

i personally think the guy should cash in on it and make mini ones...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/4012155a12.html

:)

happy easter weekend!

easter is early this year...but not a moment too soon. i'm very happy to be off work and on the home stretch...and what a good start to the weekend!

it beautiful day....nice night. first of all the set dec guys washed my car!! awesome guys! i thought they were joking...then i walk outside and it's all shinny!

here's a car dealer near my work..they dress that guy up for the holidays..i love the bunny tail!

got off work early then met anne of a few before dancing...had the most amazing balboa dance with larry...actually every dance was amazing. some nights are like magic...when you just dance every dance to your fullest! :) :)

anne at the legion...


:)

5 days of freedom...

i just found out that i have a 5 day weekend coming up! wow....that's pretty exciting!!

have no idea what i will do. ok....i have a few ideas...

i know it will involve chocolate...seeing as many friends as i can...new and old (that one might be a challange...but i will try my best :) dancing, eatting (hopefully w/ others)....and a little wine..i think. have to tend to some business as well...but hopefully not too much.

;)

odd feeling...

i'm in an odd mood tonight...not sure what it is.

like i'm waiting for something...i know is coming. i just don't know when to except it. it 's a strange feeling. like if i concentrate hard enough...i would know what it is.

all would be clear.

:)

tribulations of a blogger

dad sent me this..and since nothing really happened to me today....that i feel like sharing...

This was pubished in the Calgary Herald on Monday and copied in the national press on April 02, 2007....

Paris secretary and blogger Catherine Sanderson has won her wrongful dismissal case, but other bloggers should not take the ruling to mean it's carte blanche in cyberspace.

Sanderson, who blogged under the pseudonym "petite anglaise," was careful to keep her employer's name and her own under wraps, even as thousands of people logged on to her blog daily to read about the latest in her love life and at her office. She was fired after posting photos of herself on the site, leading her employer, an accounting firm, to feel the company had been maligned. They accused her of blogging from the office, damaging the firm's reputation and sneaking out for a tryst on company time.

Now that an industrial tribunal has ordered the company to pay Sanderson more than $100,000, it would seem that anything goes in the blogosphere. Wrong. Discretion is still the better part of valour. An older generation might lament the passing of an age of modesty and privacy, in which people didn't feel the need to tell all to thousands of strangers.

However, that attitude is passe in a cyberspace world where the number of personal blogs ranges in the hundreds of millions. People are inevitably going to post their thoughts and the storiesof their daily lives on lime, but they need to be cognizant of the fact that some rules still apply.

Any time one is making a personal story public, there is always a danger that someone else will get hurt, and that the hurt will end up in a courtroom.

The ruling went in Sanderson's favour this time; the next no-holds barred blogger may not be so lucky.


...thanks dad.

:)

i bought most of this shit!!

wrap continues on supernatural....looks like we're gonna be there most of the month! eekkk....inventorying two years of crap we bought....great. it's alot of shit let me tell you...and i bought most of it! fudge...

i can't wait 'till it's over....and i have a tummy ache.

night night

:)

paying the price today...

lots of action last night with our wrap party and then rockin with the cadaver dogs at the railway.

i’m too hung over to write too much....so here are some pics...

ani and me at the wrap party


midnight admiring ani's assets at the railway


blog buddie hez and i finally meet...she writes a mean blog. funny gal!


ani kyd and taylor little...from bug house 5...ham it up for the camera


:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!

yesterday was mum's 77th (that's a pretty good number!)...she's in england right now visiting her 99year old dad (another good number)....so she probably won't see this. maybe dad can pass it on.

mum's always the first on the dance floor...even in her 70's. guess i inherited some of that!

mum...where's your shoes?!

mum sitting down...very uncharacteristic!


anyway...hope you had a good one! love jojoxx

:)

blessing or a curse?

today i read an article about a study done on mind wondering. they did a study at UBC...they gave a bunch of students war and peace to read...ok...maybe that was their first mistake! they should have given them a more interesting book...not so heavy!

anyway.... apparently the test subjects were not thinking about what they’re doing about 30% of the time. 30%...that’s it? for me i think that percentage is just a little higher...;) ok, alot higher..... especially when i’m working. i would say about 60% of the time i’m thinking about something or many other things. yes....it gets me into trouble from time to time. garn couldn’t stand it i know that. i got into a little fender bender with a dump truck b/c of it once...that wasn’t so good. most of the time i just miss exits...things like that.

i try to be more zen and concentrate on one thing and one thing alone. i read a book about that once. it just doesn't work for me. japanese people are good at that...they are trained from a young age. but then they have a hard time multi tasking and creative thought...thinking out side of the box and problem solving. i personally think it’s a talent i have developed over time to get me through life's boring or tough times. things like driving in traffic, standing in lines, mindless jobs or people who talk excessively about boring subjects. it get me through them without out too much effort.

if you care to read more on the subject;
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/303629,5_WA20_wandering.article

:)

yes i am!

i saw a friend at dancing last night i hadn't seen in awhile. his name is dave and he lives in victoria.

dave: ”are you having fun?”

me: “i just got here”

dave: “i meant...yeah know...in your life”

i was a little surprised....had to think about it of a second....
i smile...

me "yeah...know what...yes i am!!"

:)

this post is almost the same as last nights!

i just realised that...sorry. guess life can't be interesting everyday!

working hard today down at the salt mines but at least i had a great stress reliever dancing afterwards. didn't go for long but it was all i needed.

aaron's band... blue morris played and they had a tv crew there filming. i avoided the cameras...

i was suppose to meet a friend for a beer at granview (bowling) lanes...which is literally right next door to were i dance. just to say hi and have a quick drink....but i guess not enough of her group showed up so the bowling night was a bust...oh well. we will get together another time.

oh yeah...i didn't get my first choice of company name....so it's.."network productions inc". it's good...not quite as good...but i think it's ok.

:)

wrapping it up...

we started our last episode yesterday and are already feverishly wrapping it up. i really hate wrap...more than anything!

i've been in a dust pit organising clothing for a few days...with many more it go...weeks more! man it's alot of work....way more than my usual job. other departments always seem to have such an easy wrap...i can never understand it. we slog away. we must be doing something wrong. i have find out what...so i don't make the same mistakes when i'm a designer!

tomorrow night is dancing again...thank the lord..i need it! meeting a new friend for a beer first...another new friend! i told you...i'm on a roll!!

:)

fate...

i have meet many new friends lately....it’s strange b/c i often find it hard to meet people in vancouver....then all of a sudden....bang! i’m meeting people left right and centre! good people...great people....people i like and connect with! amazing....

for some reason i feel it all started that night i went to that art retrospective at the jem**. everyone cancelled on me...but i decided to go alone and i’m sooo glad i did! i meet two awesome people that night...then later others that were kinda offshoots from those....like a snow ball rolling down a hill!

when i think about how and why i met the important people in my life, often there seems to be a twist of fate involved...which is awesome...i love fate! i like thinking about all the events and decisions that had to come into play for all those little stones to fall just the right way...so you end up bumping into each other!

here's to fate!!

:)

edit** actually now that i think of it...it started long before that...but it seemed to speed up since the jem.

new name...

i have to dissolve my company and start and new one...for tax/divorce reasons.

my last company was named after tessah. i was going to name it almost the same name. then i thought...why not have a brand new name? for a brand new chapter in my life.....

so here it is...if i get it. garnet is partly responsible b/c of the nick name he gave me....

network design inc.

i think it's good...

:)

has spring sprung?

daisy is pretty happy with all the mud today at trout lake...


it was a beautiful day today...it looked like spring has sprung. i woke up pretty energetic considering i went to bed at 2:30am. i think it's all the vitamins this new doctor has me on. anyhow i met brent and his friends for breaky at the kings head in kits then made a quick stop to drop off and pick something at the pickle. wow...granville island was crazy! i had to park illegally then just run in.

after that i took the doggies for a little walk at trout lake...it was great..muddy...but great. daisy loves the mud so she was happy and kimba was just trying to hump every dog he could...guess he has spring fever. some dog owners don't take to kindly to that kind of behaviour. they get all mad at you. they're dogs...who cares. he's fixed...wants the big deal.?! it's kinda funny really...

:)

my new friend is crazy....

...and that’s cool with me. in fact it’s more than cool..it's absolutely fantastic! ;-)


yesterday ani and i went out and interviewed people on the worse corner in north america...main and hastings....ani’s neighbourhood. she wanted to do it for a contest...i think it’s for a possible job opportunely actually ...ya know the guy that goes around and does silly interviews with people on the street.

anyway, she needed someone to hold the camera....i gladly volunteered. it was pouring rain..but i thought what the heck...i have wellies!

she interviewed on drunk guy who wanted smokes, a homeless women, a guy who just got out of jail and a well spoken native guy all from the ‘hood.

it was fun....i think we might do it again. perhaps next time in a better neighbourhood.

it’s stuff like that, that inspires me to do some of the stuff i wanna do. today i went to meet with the producer and director of the short film i’ll be designing. i figure...i just have to start doing it...and i am

i will post the videos here. ani's just having a few technical difficulties sending them...

oh...i almost forgot rent "the man who sued god" w/ billy connolley inspiring and funny!

:)

rain outside....sunshine inside.

a lot of people are having an hard time with this rain....i’m trying to stay postive...but yeah it’s hard.

mishi gave me these flowers..they had lots down at granville isl...brightens things up! thanks mish



mishi brightens up the pickle with some flowers in aluminum vases garn made for her years ago..i think they look great...


garbs tries to brighten his mood with a flower...it wasn't really working...oh well.


:)

hmmm....

i have airmile points.... ;)

st louis blues

the st louis blues thing is coming up soon and they just put some videos up on you tube...

people are asking me what blues is...well here's a taste...


the video's a poor quaity...but it give you the idea. this one is in an outside bar..under the lights of busch stadium


makes me want to go again...


i just rememebered..i dreamt i was blues dancing last night....

:)

one more episode to go!

show’s almost over. i’m glad of that...i’m tired and i have stuff i want to do! always at this point...i just want it to be over...that’s all. none of this endless wrap....ekkk

i’m inspired right now...inspired to do other things...

i will design a few idie things..that will be good. i have an inspiration to write something maybe...we shall see. would like to take some small trips...maybe a road trip with a friend to portland or san fran..that would be good. maybe a visit to TO. i’m forgoing the bigger trips b/c of other things i have to deal with in my life...but i’m getting there. it all has to be done by the time i go back to work. oh..and i want to take motorcycle lessons and go skydiving again!

:)

it's spring in ireland already...

so mum filled me in all the mis info i had in yesterday blog. that's ok....i got enough of it right that i'm not going to edit...let's just say it's a very irish tale...

happy spring....it starts in about 1.5 hrs or so...

:)

13 sisters. for all the stong women i know...

i wanted to write this on the weekend but it just got too crazy and i needed a quiet moment to collect my thoughts...

i don’t know the whole story...just bits and pieces that have been told to me here and there....so if i get any wrong...oh well....it’s a irish story...so it doesn’t matter! hehe

there were 13 lynch sisters ...my grandmother winifred being one of them. one of the younger ones and one boy...thomas...who was killed at the age of 16 by an ira attack (of which he was a supporter) i believe the ambulance he was in was inadvertently bombed on the way to the hospital .... something like that.

anyway that left the 13 sisters ...all crazy lynchs and two parents in somewhere in county cork.

many of them took jobs as beauticians to make ends meet as well help out with the war effort as well (WW1)...my grandmother decided she wanted to help out...lied about her age and said she could drive...when she couldn’t. drove some poor frightened general around backwards. grandma also had a thing about lying about her age. she was ten years or more older (noone knows) than my grandpa. she said her birth certificate got destroyed in he war. i think grandpa found out her age when she died but true to her wishes and not put it on her grave stone...i thought that was kinda romantic...

when the younger lynch women got older...many of them decided to find fame and fortune in london where they wanted to star on the big screen....i guess that must have been the 30’s when motion pictures were just becoming the thing...

mum and grandma were extras in cleopatra in 1934...mum would have been 4..that was the beginning and end of her film carreer...oh well...

i wish i could have known and meet more of the sisters....i only remember grandma, babs, theresa and jerry.

if i remember correctly jerry was the kind of woman that even though older was incredibly beautiful...the kind of women when you meet her you think...wow...if she looks like that now...she must have been unbelievably stunning when young.

theresa. theresa...i have to say...was my personal favourite. sorry grandma....but what a woman. super bubbly and upbeat and funny even in her 90’s after raising two children as a single mother (in those days it wasn’t done)... and out living them both...which was sad. she was a bit of a nutter as well. apparently she use to leave aptments with out paying her rent....not when she was young...but in her 70’s. and joined religious groups mainly for the parties! i remember the last time i saw her...she was in her late 90’s...she was so funny....she said “ i don’t have any tea...but i have gin! “ as she pulls a bottle from under the bed....too funny.

the odd thing was theresa died on my birthday...and tessah was due on my birthday. i named tessah after her...it just seemed right.

babs i didn’t really see eye to eye the few times i met her. she was a little hard to get along with....tough lady. the youngest of 14....couldn’t have been easy i guess. i think we would have gotten on later if had the chance. she died at the age of 99...the last of the lynch women...sad really. we had reunion a party for her on her 100th birthday...it was fun met many cousins i had never or rarely met...and played irish tunes...and end of era...but hopefully there is still a little in us...mum and me...katharina...jooles and eli...

and all the strong women in my life....

:)

st pat’s day weekend

i was actually had an idea for special st pat's day blog...but could seem to get into it today..maybe i'll do it later in the week...we will see...


it was a busy weekend for sure being st pat’s day weekend.

saturday night i headed to the media club with ani to see the dreadnaughts and the furious....both awesome bands. i now know why i usually see bands at the railway....b/c i don’t feel like such an old lady there! the crowd was young and drunk. ani saw some friends she hadn’t seen in 6 years so that as cool...and her cousin. oliver and terin met us there later...they’re buddies with one of the bands. it was a fun night...regarless of the fact i felt like i was chaperoning some high school event!

before the band ani and i went for a tea and bumped into some kilted firemen with bag pipes...drums and horns...we had to stop drool for a bit!


Sunday was pretty low key...went to visit mishi and garbs at the pickle...then hung out with garbs for awhile. we went to zulu and then checked out the celtic day celebrations on granville st.

celtic day...how retarded is that. they didn't want to call it st patty’s day for fear of offending the other celtic communities!!! that’s sooo friggin’ vancouver....

anyway...all in all i have to say it was a very nice weekend and looks like spring might finally be here...

now the real news..i’m cooking steak! see how that goes..the cooking and the eating!

:)

allergy update...

mum and dad noticed this right away...not sure if others did or not....re; my allergy test

it seems my dairy and beef allergies are gone! do a little dance...make a little love...buy some cheese!!!

yes..that’s pretty exciting i have to say. i did a little grocery shop and bought some yogert...REAL cheese...and a steak!!! ok..the steak might have been over doing it...but i was excited! turns out i am mildly allergic to the preservative they put in meat to make it look red. so i should stick to organic...but it’s still pretty cool!


it's my lucky day tomorrow....hope it's yours...happy st patty's day everyone!

:)

a joke for the domestically disabled...

rollergirl joke...i found this on myspace and had to pass it on...

Sorry secretaries and school teachers

Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties.

The first man had married a secretary and had told her that she was going to do dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple days, but on the third day he came home to a clean house and dishes washed and dinner cooked.

The second man had married a school teacher . He had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking. The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done, and there was a huge dinner on the table.

The third man had married a rollergirl. He told her that her duties were to keep the house clean, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, enough to fix himself a bite to eat and load the dishwasher."

...that made me laugh!

:)

doggie walk etc..

had a nice doggie walk today...i was feeling tired though...still am


after that had my allgery tests done..

these are the things i'm most allergic too;

crab, lobster, scallops..i love scallops! peppers...no hot food apparently...shitty, almonds, cashews, peanuts, msg, house dust and dust mites...i have a lot of those in my apartment! mixed molds, feathers, sheeps wool...better not get a farm. alder, cottonwood, mixed grass and bakers yeast! no more coissants..or bread except crap at the heath food store that weighs a ton!!

ok...i a few weeks i'll be getting toxin test and see my vitamin level. fun times!

:)

thursday off...

i have tomorrow off! yippie. i hope it's as nice outside as it was today! i'm going to walk doggies then get allergy tests..b/c i've had a rash for 4 months!

i'll let you know if i pass...

:)

ps..pics aren't downloading right now..sorry...i need to add colour to my blog but it will have to wait!

another tip...

ok...i have another tip for those of you that are like me..i know your out there...;)

if you haven't done your dishes and need a side plate for your toast...a shallow bowl works just as good! failing that i guess just any bowl...or a piece of paper towel...

:)

staying up late....

for some reason no matter how tired i am at 9:30 or 10...somehow at 11:30pm...i wake right up! now with the time change..i wake up at 12 or 12:30am! so i'm super hyper for about an hour or so. not sure how long i've been doing that for..but most of my adult years for sure. i really should have a night job i guess....it's painful when that alarm rings at 6:30am!

i might have thursday off...maybe even friday too! if so this cat gonna be sleeping in!

:)

help...i need more music!

i drive in my car every day almost all day...listening to the same friggin’ cd’s everyday!

so tonight i’m burning a bunch from my itunes...i need more though. so if anyone has heard or bought a good cd lately...let me know about it.

can i borrow it?! ...or just tell me about it and i’ll spring for it!

goodnight

: )

rain and warm feet

last night i meet anne before dancing as we often do..had dinner at the clove then neither of us felt like going dancing...which has never happened! that was weird.

i’ve been a little tired trying to get over this cold...so i probably needed the rest....

today was a pretty good sunday. despite the ridiculous amount of rain..and there was a lot of it for sure.

i got up too late to have breakfast with brent...i didn’t forget about the time change. i just could drag my ass out of bed....hopefully i make it next week.

went for a little visit at the pickle had a nice coffee and chat with mishi. my feet got pretty wet with this rain. mish she said heard that one for the main causes of colds cold wet feet....which i have had alot lately. so afterwards i went home and changed my boots to rubber ones and wooly socks....it felt sooo good!

the rest of the day was errands....cleaned a little....

thought a little movie and relax tonight would be good...have to be up super friggin’ early tomorrow b/c of the time difference.

i hate daylight savings....it sucks. it doesn’t work here anyway...b/c we don’t have sun...the lights have to be on all the time regardless....

:)

quotes to make you smile...

mum and dad forwarded me these...thought they were pretty good.


"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston
Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" -
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading
it." - Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." -
Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of
it." - Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is
one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -
Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -
Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." -
Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." - Jack E.
Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -
Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar
Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather
than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

:)

art, house and metal...

ani and her hot friend mark

another hot friend of ani's...dash the door man and me at the columbia

ok well..i’ve been getting over a cold and thought a low key art show night at the jem gallery would be just the ticket.

i met ani there..looked at art chatted with people...then at band started playing music and putting on a fashion show....which i think was a really bad idea b/c no one was looking or chatting after that...so we left. i wanted to go to monsoon for a snack and a drink...that was cool. it’s closing down at the end of may...it will be missed.

after that we cruised around town seeing what’s what. ani seems to know people everywhere. didn't end up low key...but that's definately ok...it was fun!

here are some highlights...

heavy metal at the belmoral...didn't stay there long...


some art at the jem...i'm thinking of buying the piece in the corner...by miss rheanna fancypants..


this piece was pretty cool...


so were these....


rockin' to house at the columbia..


:)

today i went to work with my shirt on inside out...

i dress people for a living! this is my life right now and not what the rest of this blog is about....


why is it that somethings never change? for some reason i have this naive idea that things will....and i’m surprised and hurt when they don’t. what’s that about? doe’s everyone do that...or is it just me? i know i get hurt easily by peoples action..or non action.
...i try not to...but i do.

i sometimes think i ask too much of people..but then i think...i only ask what i myself are willing to give. that it seems that is too much for some people. so am i destined to be hurt by them? continuously? maybe i just have to stay away from those people who hurt me.....but that hurts too.

fuck.

:)

dogs and poo...

i figure i might as well not change the subject yet...

this was one of the top stories in the paper today! slow news day i guess...
apparently there is a dog poo problem in vancouver...a 4.3 million kilos a year problem. that can't be right...that's a lot of shit!!

the city is talking about using it for compost or even an energy source. sometimes i think kimba's poo would be a good source of energy...at least it smells like it would be anyway.

speaking of poo....have to change the kitty litter...now there's an energy source!

ok...it was a slow news day for me as well...

:)

daisy update...

daisy's gonna be ok. her tumour was benign. she's getting back to her little daisy self nicely!

that's a relief...

:)

toilet answers...

my friend nick from portland...who is also dance club guy...is doing this on utube now.

it's called toilet answers...and i think it could be funny. if he has some good questions. so send him some...



opsss..i forgot to give you the link...here it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf-IIDmIgk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpr

...and this is the myspace link..
http://www.myspace.com/toiletanswers

:)

good thoughts for daisy girl...

i was suppose to see the doggies yesterday....but couldn’t get in touch with sean..not unusual. it’s pretty normal for him not to call me back for days...a week..whatever. i figured he lost his phone or charger or turned it off...his usual excuses. i’m use to it.

today he called me to tell me daisy girl went in for surgery to remove a tumour. not sure why he didn’t tell me before hand. i was quite upset at him. what if something had gone wrong and i never saw her again?

she seems fine apparently ...but they still have to do the biopsy to make sure it’s not cancer.

so please sent good thoughts for daisy girl. she really is a super sweet girl....and i'd be sad if anything happened to her.

one for daisy's favorite things is to lay in the water. she likes mud puddles the best..but the ocean will do nicely...


:)

tea time with ani

i’m getting into a bad habit lately of staying up super late on the weekends. last night i did it again. i came home from dancing at about 1am...stayed up 'til 3am. so i awoke quite late this morning and had a slow start to the day.

after i got myself together. i went over to ani’s place for a little tea time. it was nice. we chatted for hours about various things...loves lost...life...doggies. i often find it hard to connect with other women...men are easy..but women i never seem to have much in common with. ani is different. we seem to connect. we aren’t the same..but we relate. something about the strong scottish women...something in the blood...way back. i can relate ...b/c i am one as well. we recognise it in each other.

it’s nice...it’s nice to meet and get to know a new friend.

:)

updates...

descided to make my myspace page a little more interesting. i think it's looking pretty good...i'm going to do more.

check it out if you want...

http://www.myspace.com/thephychicnetwork

:)

if there's a part 1..there has to be a part 2

i went to grab my script today for the next episode. i look down at the title and it reads; "all hell breaks loose, part 1"

well. i thought all hell had already broken loose...i guess not. eekkkk

:)

2:18am....friday night.

sorry my blog haven’t been very inspired the last few days. it was a rough week.

it’s 2:18 am friday night. i just watched “babel”. what a good movie. a real tear jerker for me. wow...i can’t believe that didn’t win an oscar for best picture. watch it sometime....but be ready to cry.

it brought me back to some moments in my life....life and death moments. hard to think about.... but in truth...they maybe the most beautiful moments....maybe the best in my life. i realise that sounds odd....but i truly believe that. some of you may understand and some may just think i have lost it. the ones that understand....know what i say is true.

:)

one month to go...

one month left on my show. it's gonna be a long long month....

still need a hug...

:) jox

today....

today the ipod...didn't help. my day was past that. the show only has 3 episodes left and all hell is breaking loose. they...in thier infinite wisdom...thought it would be good to shoot 2 episodes simultaneously. fun.

i need hug.

:)

where would we be...without?

back to the grind today. my cold is still clinging on for dear life...but i felt pretty good all and all.

for some stupid reason i haven’t been using my ipod while in the mall lately. i don’t know why. it makes my day so So SO much better!! so...anyway..i used it today. the best part of it...other than the music of course.... is i can pretend not it hear the store keepers....they see the ipod and nod....:) :)...works really well!

i personally think that the ipod and itunes are two of the best inventions of the last decade. i guess i would be fine with out them...but it just make music so much more accessible.

it’s amazing to me sometimes when i think about how much music effects my life....my mood...how i feel about my day...my life. the first thing i do..before anything when i get home...turn on my itunes....

:)

getting the job done...still...

sometimes i think going to work is easier than dealing with real life. with certain things at least...like my paper work mess. going to work is so mindless in so many ways. i’ve done it all a million times and i can practically do it in my sleep. that’s one of the reasons i like my job and also one of the reasons i believe it’s time to move on. sometimes i think that’s how i have been dealing with my life for the last 8years....by not. by being too busy to deal. well...i’m trying not to do that anymore...and that’s good.

i was off today..which was good b/c i had more of that paperwork stuff to do and this cold is still hanging on. funny how when you start doing something you find more and more and more stuff that needs attention. it’s like a never ending jumble of stuff. you finish one...then another thing rears it’s ugly little head. eekkk....no wonder i’ve been avoiding it!

i allowed myself a little r&r today though. watched another movie. i’m on a virtual movie binge...three movies in three nights. this time it was the departed..which won the oscar last night. it shouldn’t have....no way. little miss sunshine was a far better movie. oh well....that’s the movie bizz for you. who needs a plot anyway...when you have a name, some guns, some bad accents and a hollywood formula?!

:)

sunday yummy sunday...

this morning i awoke and seemed to have a bit of that cold hanging on. so i went back to sleep for awhile...i needed i think.

once i finally draged my ass out of bed i headed for a coffee...did a couple of errands....then went back home to watch another movie. this time it was “little miss sunshine” which is great by the way...rent it.

this evening i had dinner with garbs and mishi...we went to gyoza king. it was pretty yummy....then we had ice cream at mondo..where i eat REAL ice cream! there may be pain tomorrow...hopefully not. it was a nice time..i like that place and it's always great hanging out with those two.

mishi thought this pic was pretty funny...so i put it on even though it's a bit dark


my fantastic new network sized bag and change purse that garbs made...


:)

getting the job done...

well...i finished one year of my taxes today! i don’t owe a crap load of money...which is surprising. it was the year i got in a car accident and didn't work for 6 months. so i’m off the hook. just owe a bit in gst! still have two more years to catch up on, but oh well..it‘s a start. the other ones are at the bookkeepers.

i treated myself afterwards by having a nice relaxing coffee at prado....read the paper. it turns out i had another odd myspace encounter at prado the other day. i might write about that another day though.

after that i rented a movie....hollywood land. not bad. i had a hard time staying awake though...so, maybe it wasn't that good! then later it was off to dancing.

i’m tired...still getting over this cold so i think an early night is in order.

:)

the network fills her day...

i had a great day off today. it was a gorgeous gorgeous outside...clear and cold. i woke up late and slowly...which is always awesome!! i love it!

got dressed then called ani to see if she had time to meet for tea. she did and we decided to meet at the union market. somewhere i hadn't been in years. i use to go there with sean when we had the garden in strathconna gardens. they have great coffee and snacks and good corn bread. it was the perfect day to sit out side and chat....

sophie stays warm in ani's coat....

after that i went to go see garbs and mishi at the pickle. garbs is making me a jojo sized glitter vinyl bag in red and a chain purse in blue. they gonna look great! can’t wait. so i hung out there for a bit...had more coffee. i bought myself some yummy lamb....which i’m cooking right now. also got some nice wine to have with it ...and a movie that ani recommended ..a scanner darkly. i’ll let you know how it is.

ok...now ’m ready for my date with jojo. oh oh....do i have chocolate? yep...got chocolate! got worried there for a minute!

i took this pics at granville island...it shows you how concrete is made....i thought it was cool


:)

yesterday's ze...

yesterday's zefrank was a good one..it was about fear...

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/02/022207.html

:)

your lack planning doesn’t constitute it an emergency for me...

....not sure if that’s how the saying goes. but i should have had that taped to my forehead today at work!! that’s film for sure...
today pretty much sucked.

..the first 3/4 anyway.
as soon as i got off work it got peachy. i met anne for a bite and a quick drink. she went dancing and i came home. i didn’t want to dance tonight b/c i’m getting over a cold. so now i’m doing some relaxing at home and i’m off tomorrow and monday!! i need it...

tomorrow...i'm going to go see a man about a bag!

:)

a different form of connection....

i have a bunch of blog, msn and myspace buddies and it seems to be growing all the time...

i have one friend i’ve been talking to almost daily on msn for a about 1 1/2 years....we have only meet in person about 4 or 5 times...he calls himself a hermit...it’s a different form of friendship ..but i do consider him a friend never the less.

some of my internet buddies i have never meet.....we just send messages on each others blogs and myspace every now and again...mostly friends of friends. one that i don’t even know her real name or what city she lives in.... odd. i guess.

i have two new friends...i met in real life first... because i recognised from someone else's blog at an art opening...and just started talking to them...

i first went on myspace b/c alot of dancers are on it and it was a way to keep in touch with ones you meet at exchanges out of town....as well as keep informed about upcoming events. it’s works really well for that...but the way i use it has expanded for sure.

i almost feel like it’s become my tv. when i want to relax at home and do nothing...i turn my computer on....catch up with people...

it may be an odd way of connecting with people...but is a way....

* my apologises for the poor writing skills tonight...i'm pretty tired. might have to edit later....

:)

nothing happened to day...

i have nothing to say today....it was kinda uneventful....which i think i need for a bit.

so since in have nothing to say..thought i'd pass on cool blog to check out...

http://www.adampwsmith.com/photoblog/

:)

monday's and dates....

not unlike any other vancouver monday i suppose. rainy. i was tired. work was pretty busy. tomorrow will be busier...

so how did this one difffer from all the rest? i don’t know? i think i felt a glimmer of hope... hope for the future. light at the end of all this crap. perhaps.....

i thought i might be sad today b/c it was a date i had in my mind that seemed important. it is important to me....and i wouldn’t take it back for the world.

hope everyone had a good monday...

:)

rockin out and skunky beer...

i’ve been rocking out a bit lately....since thursday night actually. i have seen about 7 bands! holy crap! no wonder i’m tired.

thursday was sparklehorse which i already told you about. friday night i went to the anza club to see a friend’s band the cadaver dogs. they were playing with the furios and some other bands. omg i haven't been to the anza in years. now i know why. that place is a dive and the beer is some skunky. i had a bad headache the next day after just a few beers. the bands rocked though...the last time i saw the fuios they were called los furios. i also realised as i watched them that saw them alone last time as well. not sure why it’s so hard to fine people to go see bands. i think i need a band buddy.

the cadaver dogs rockin it hard....


last night i went with oliver and terin to see some bands at the railway club. they are friends with the guys in dreadnoughts...a celtic punk band and headwater played as well...sorta bluegrass rock. both bands were awesome....even if the guys in the band look 12! oh man that makes me feel old! there were two other bands as well...but they weren’t so good...so hung in the back for most of them.

it was a fun night but i drank a little too much cidar....two day in a row hangover...eekkk. tonight it’s staying in and take out food....for sure.

rockin the railway...

happy chinese new year! year o the pig...onk onk!

:)

something to think about...

do you think it’s possible to be so afraid of something...that you actually will it to happen? the very thing you are afraid of...

sometimes i think i might do that....

:)

noone said this was going to be easy...

i tried to write this last night...but fucked it up. so now i’m trying again....

when sean and i split up i lost almost all my friends. it stared slowly but ultimately that’s want happened. i stopped getting invited to things dinners...parties etc. it hurt and it still hurts when i think of it.

i really don’t want the same thing to happen again....so i just want to say....

just b/c garn and i have split up... doesn't mean i don’t want to be invited to stuff.
i’m starting to feel a little excluded from things right now. i don’t know if that true or not...but that’s how it feels. i haven’t been invited to diner with anyone for what seems like ages....although it probably isn’t. and yes..i might what to go to the odd party or two...maybe i might meet someone new there...who knows.

i want people to know that i didn’t write this to make anyone feel bad and if it does then i’m sorry. i just want to nip something in the bud before ot gets so far that there is no turning back.

:)

garn smiles....!

thank you k-win!





hehehehe

:)

sparklehorse pics

i might not say much tonight. i'm very tired...think i spent all my energy last night holding myself together. but i did manage it.

here are some awesome pics that garnet took....

sparklehorse was awesome...they sounded even better live!

this one is unbelievable and somehow quite fitting...


:)

something hard...

so it looks like i might have to do something hard tonight. something i really don't want to do. i guess i don't HAVE to....but it has to happen sometime i suppose. it's bad timing for sure...there is no doubt of that. i haven't been that strong lately....but here i go. i may not have to do it alone...hopefully i don't.

wish me luck. i need it.

:)

what now? just add it to the list..

so today i go to the doctor's to get a referral for the weird rash that i have had for many months. i thought..well...since i'm here i'll ask him about this mole that has grown seemingly overnight on my chin. he looks at it and say's "that's one angry mole!" we better take it off!

so he burnt it off and now i'm gonna have a nice little blister on my face for the next few weeks! great. just great.

what next....bring it on!! i'm friggin ready!

:)

happy valentine's day everyone!

ok so...i made up this valentine's day challenge right? so i guess that means i have to write something to somebody. i mean it would be kinda stupid if inspire others...but not do it myself.

so i though who the hell can i write?? i thought about it for awhile...then i it came to me. i decided to write someone who unintentionally changed my life three years ago. darren.

darren owns jungle swing. he offers swing dancing classes and workshops. he also runs our thursday and saturday night dance.

this the story...for those of you who haven’t heard it....

three years ago i had just moved out on my own and was also over coming a back injury. my doctor wanted me to take yoga or palates for my back. so i looked in the georgia straight for a yoga class. as most of you know i hate yoga. i have tried it many times...and it just never sticks....it’s just WAY too boring. but i thought....what the hell...it will be good for me. so i find an add for 7th avenue studios...and i email the guy for schedules etc...

he emails me back with the schedules for yoga and palates...then way at the bottom as a side note...it say’s.....

“we will also be starting our swing dancing classes again.....”

SWING DANCING!....that sounds WAY better than yoga!!

so i messaged him back and said. hey....fuck the yoga (ok i didn’t say that...but i thought it!)...swing dancing sounds way more fun!

that was it. went to my first class and i was hooked!!!!...and it has changed my life! i remember before i started dancing..i almost never smiled. then when i started...i could not stop smiling...i smiled so much my checks would hurt!

thanks darren.....just wanted you to know how you changed my life....and made it better!

happy valentine's day everyone! j.oooxxx

:)

i have to say....

....the last few weeks have been really rough for me.

it seems there has been just too much thrown at me all at once...and it’s taking it’s toll. i get home and i just can’t do anything. tired from the stress of it all...plus my back has been killing me. i have three big things that i’m dealing with all at once...then a few little things as well added to the mix for good measure. i can deal with a lot....i have in the past for sure....but this really doe’s seem like too much right now. i just don’t even know where to start to deal with it all. i know it will probably all work out in time.....i just want it all to be done now....or at least one thing done. that would be good.

:)

this song is how if feel today....

i don't know if any of you are familiar with the song "staralfur" by sigur ros. i like playing that song super loud. it's almost like if i play it loud enough i can get it under my skin and into my body somehow...it's hard to explain. today i played it a few times in a row...it's like i just couldn't get enough of it. the song just seems to put into music exactly how i feel. the funny thing is....i don't even know what the lyrics mean. i don't think i want to..that might change it for me.

that's a band i would love to see live...

:)

valentine's day challenge!

ok...i’m trying to go out dancing..i am. i just can’t seem to get off my ass....

anyway i wanted to do a valentines post. i know it’s not ‘till wednesday ...but it’s been on my mind i guess. third dry valentines in a row for me.

ok...so this is for all you guys (and gals too i guess) that think valentines is bullshit hallmark holiday.

...............................................................
Saint Valentine of Rome - I
According to one very popular legend, Valentine was a priest in Rome who lived during the reign of Emperor Clouds II. Under his regime, Clouds is said to have engaged Rome into several bloody battles. To strengthen his army, the Emperor continuously needed to recruit soldiers. However, Clouds found that not many soldiers were keen to join the army because of attachment with their wives and families. In order to sever the bond of attachment, Clouds cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. Valentine - a romantic at heart priest, defied this callous decree of Claudius by secretly arranging marriages of young men and women. When Valentine's defiance was discovered by the Emperor, he was brutally beaten up and put to death on February 14, about 270 AD.

For his martyrdom and dedication for the cause Valentine was name a Saint after his death. By Middle Ages, Saint Valentine became popular as the patron saint of love and lovers in England and France to the extent that Pope Gelasius declared February 14 as Valentine's Day on 498 AD and put an end to pagan celebrations. Thus, Saint Valentine's martyrdom day became an occasion to celebrate love.
................................................................


i don’t know if the legend is true..there are a few of them on the net...but this one i have heard before....and it’s WAY before hallmark. besides if that’s your excuse...then make a card or just write a simple note to show you care.

this is my challenge ....write a card, letter, note, email or text to someone you care about on valentines day...saying so. if you don’t have a gf/bf...send one to a friend you care about....

this is my contribution to romance.....just cause i ain’t getting any..doesn’t mean i don’t want others to. who knows maybe it will make someone happy!

:)

frontline...

i wouldn't want this job...but i guess someone has to do it.


here is a link of simon being interviewed on frontline...

it's interesting..it's a hour long..so only watch it if you have time. it was hard to hear...i had to use headphones...

www.frontlineclub.com/video/embedded.html#c6628


:)

shit week..

man it was a shit week! super busy at work. i have a feeling it's going to be like this from now 'till the end of the show. christ.

well...it's the weekend now. i'm meeting lucky later for drinks. it's his last night. i was suppose to go dancing...but i bailed b/c i'm so damn tired!

big thank you to garn for helping me with my tax stuff last night...man that guy can sort out receipts like nobodies business!

i owe you...i owe you big time!

:)

perfecting procrastination...

i think i’m quite accomplished when it come to procrastination....

take a look at what zefrank has to say on the subject..i think we can all relate...
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/02/020707.html

here's what i did when i was procrastinating about doing taxe stuff the other day....
i had to reload all my itunes library b/c it was giving me trouble. now i have all this music playing that i haven’t heard in ages!

*it’s like my shuffle was always playing the same songs over and over again! wow...i have some great music on here!

*hey that could just be an analogy for something. hmmm...another blog i suppose...

:)

biscut tin banjo...

here's a pic of oliver and terin from last nights sing-a-long


this is oliver's biscut tin bonjo..i thought it was pretty cool. he made it along with other homemade instruments for his newly formed skiffle band.


you can check it out at;
http://www.myspace.com/edgeoliver

:)

right place at the right time...

i bumped into a friend of mine...patrick stark...at jj’s beans getting a coffee, yesterday afternoon.

it was a busy day at work and i wasn’t going to stop. then i thought..what the heck..i have the time. so i stopped. i saw patrick.

he was so happy to see me he kissed me!

patrick “what ya doing these days”

jojo “same old thing... buying for supernatural

patrick “want to design a feature?”

jojo “yes”

patrick “good..i need someone”

jojo “great..i’ll do it”

so that’s how it happened. look like i have another design offer in the works! this one is a period 50’s about errol flyn...and a feature!! i’m pretty excited! it feels right and i’m ready.

it’s weird how the world works..when you let it...

:)

strength of character...

a saying you just don’t hear...



i was going to write about something else...but changed my mind.

someone i know...not very well...but getting to know better i hope. displayed extreme strength of character tonight. a rare thing these days for sure....but it does exist and i had proof of that tonight. it made me feel good to see it.

thanks. jox

:)

positive and negative forces

the first few full moons of the year have been crazy ones...the kinda moons where only really good or really bad things happen...nothing inbetween. anyway the full moon was tuesday (i think)..but i still feel the effects.

other than me having many a panic attack regarding paper work...what else happened??

this weekend at dancing some guy wigged out and darren wasn’t there...his dog is sick and he’s the only one strong enough to physically kick anyone out! it all turned out fine though the guy left on his own...but it seemed dicey at first.

then sean texts me saying he is in the hospital with pneumonia! sean NEVER gets sick..that was weird. hope he’s ok.

well...i think that’s it. had some positives as well....meet a new friend for a bit..hopefully that can tun into a friendship. i’ve met lots of great new people lately and that’s amazing. i hope that continues.

oh and simon was off to afghanistan today...one day early..to report for the mighty british empire. he forgot to tell us how long he's gone for. hope he is safe

tomorrow i get some well deserved stress relief at the sing a long...that will be fun. can’t wait.

:)

eeekkkkk....

i’m still in paperwork hell! i had a little meltdown today when the bookkeeper i was hoping would help me called and said she couldn’t do it! crap.

i almost started crying right there on the phone.

ok...so...if any one knows a bookkeeper...or even just someone who’s good at paperwork....i need them!! pleeeesseee......help!

:)

different perspectives...

there is a girl at dancing that is pregnant...she is due june 10th. the same day tessah was due. she talks to me about it. she knows nothing of tessah...i won’t tell her. i don’t want to scare the poor girl. not good to scare pregnant women.

she talks to me like woman talk...it’s normal. tonight she wanted to show me the ultra sound. she was very excited. i looked at it politely... it was hard. i pretended it didn’t bother me....but it did....how could it not. i think of tessah’s ultra sound...i remember seeing her...moving her tiny heart beating. it made me happy.

it’s funny how you never really know what’s going threw people’s minds when you speak with them. how a simple conversation for one can be a painful experience for another....

:)

who's rights are more important??

this is a local news story that has been on my mind a lot lately...

i don't know what makes me more angry...the fucked up religious right. the fact that the parents are stupid, selfish and hypocritical enough to have sextuplets at all. i'm sorry but it had to have been medically induced fertilisation and they were apparently offered the chance to "edit" the pregnancy to a healthier number.

what about the right for a child to live a healthy "normal" life...which none of those kids have a chance of. i think the only smart ones here are the two little souls who decided this is the shit..let's go back to heaven...it's way cooler there!

i could go on....but i won't..it makes me too angry and upset to comment any more!!
read these articles and decide for yourself. i know what i think.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/02/01/sextuplet-transfusion-070201.html

http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=11646&news_channel_id=1020&channel_id=1020&rot=11

:)

about art..

i liked what zefrank had to say today about art.

check it out...

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/01/013107.html

:)