what a summer! i shouldn’t have signed up for school this summer because it really isn’t working out. i am just not making the time for it. i am probably about to be kicked out. i need to make an effort. there is just always something better to do.

i finally got my mom tattoo. i love it. my mom hasn’t seen it yet… she doesn’t even know i got one. hopefully will see her soon. it’s not quite healed yet anyway so i’m kind of glad she hasn’t seen it. i am addicted as well. hopefully will be getting another one soon. just need to figure out which one to go for next.

things with the boy are amazing. we were both terribly sick this past week but feeling good now. i made it to the No Doubt concert even though i was dying. glad i went though. gwen is the most amazing girl on earth.

yesterday we spent the day downtown. got some of those old fashioned photos done which was hilarious. will post as soon as i scan them. we went to the imax and saw whales, had breakfast/lunch at the blue fox, shopped around a bit. then we came back to my place and my cousins came home from europe! they got me a super cute pink bag and a little eiffel tower keychain and a glass daisy ring. my cousin also got engaged on the eiffel tower! so happy for them and definately a little jealous that they are both engaged now. hopefully my time will come someday soon before i am an old lady.

time to take the recycling and garbage to the place before it overtakes my patio…

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if you are following me on twitter you already know that i had a very pleasant surprise last night. while sorting thru boxes of stuff i’ve accumulated over the years, i found a $500 paycheque from SEPTEMBER that i hadn’t cashed yet. i had to rub my eyes a few times and go thru my bank statements to make sure somehow i wasn’t issued a double cheque. i had just hung up after talking to C for an hour and our conversation definately covered the fact that i was worried about money with my upcoming move, etc. i am so happy that i was hoarding money at the time and didn’t realize i forgot to deposit the cheque.

of course i am itching to spend it now but i think the only thing i will treat myself to is a pair of lulu’s since i only have shorts which aren’t exactly jazzercise friendly. speaking of jazzer… i keep getting headaches afterwards. is this normal? i hope it stops soon. i was out of commission basically all day on tuesday with an almost migraine. i am getting better at the coordination which is nice. it feels good to have regular exercise in my life again and i am already seeing results! =)

i am terrible at blogging so here is a little update.

i am moving at the end of the month. i am happy because i am moving into my cousin Shayne’s house where i can have my cat and i can get a dog if i want as well. also, i will not have the black lung anymore from the mold that i am inhaling at my current place. i barely even have a voice anymore. it is getting worse and worse every day. i am overwhelmed with packing. i don’t think i’ve ever had such a busy life before. it is very strange.

i’ve been going to jazzercise with my cousins a lot. i love it so much. i need to find someone to go with me for a 5 weeks in june/july when they are off to europe. i don’t know if i would go alone. my little sister is coming home from Ontario very soon so i think she is the candidate. my other little sister is moving to Gibsons. don’t ask me why. i hope she is happy there.

i have bangs now. they are crooked. it is very hard to cut your own bangs, especially when you have a giant cowlick. must get them fixed soon as the attempts i’ve made have not worked. i like them but i feel like i look either 12 years old or like a mom. neither are bad things however.

i am going to Castlegar to visit my love in ONE WEEK. i am beyond excited. it’s been too long. really only 64 days but it feels much longer, especially after we had just spent 3.5 months together every day. i only get to see him for two days but it’s better than nothing.

i am overwhelmed also with people who want me to do their hair. i can’t buy product anymore at the end of the month so at least i will have that as an excuse. it’s not that i don’t want to do it… i just don’t have a proper set up and i have too much other stuff going on.

i am contemplating a real career which is just in the thinking about stage but hopefully will find out more info soon. it will be very hard but i think i am almost ready.

i got a vintage 50’s table and chairs (they are PINK) the other day as well as a pink trunk to store things in. i am excited to move into my very own first place.

i didn’t get to see my mom on mothers day. i had to work all day from 8 till 5:30 and my family went to walking with dinosaurs which i didn’t get to see because i had to stay late for someone. then my mom was visiting her mom and going home because she had to work early so i never got to see her. hopefully i will see her tomorrow.

going to my cousins house tonight to look at my trip pictures and have a feast for Ryan’s (my cousins fiancee) birthday. should be fun and on that note i better get out of here!

i had a dream last night that my grandma took all of the wrappers off my bag full of salt water taffy that i bought in Leavenworth and she threw them all over the front lawn of my brothers old house. i was so sad. i don’t even like this taffy very much (this is why i still have said bag full of taffy).

visiting in vancouver right meow. my friend Meg and her baby girl Naomi from Thailand are coming to BC today! i will be seeing them with Nicole on friday night i think. i am so excited. didn’t think i would see them for a long time. yesterday i went to granville island with james and his little sis. we tried to fly a kite but it broke instantly. then we went to see the movie EARTH which was so cute. i am so sad for the polar bears.

going to try to visit Craig for his bday on May 7th. hopefully can save enough money by then. i can’t catch up after our trip. i’m not used to being this broke. i keep thinking it’s pointless to visit when he will most likely be working and i won’t get to see him anyway but he says he can try to book his days off for when i am there. here’s hoping! i just need to see him.

i wish i knew where the twilight kids are hanging out. i want to get a picture with edward for my cousin! she would die. she is infatuated with him! lol. maybe i will go vampire hunting tonight if the chris cornell concert doesn’t work out.

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yesterday didn’t exactly happen as planned but it was a good night nonetheless. my cousin ended up not getting home until late so i didn’t do her hair. mine turned out pretty good however. i was afraid at first because i did some very ‘artistic’ hi-lighting in my hair first which was very scary looking but after i put the red on top it looks pretty good. i am the little mermaid once again! my cousin krystal and her family picked me up and we headed to dinner downtown. somehow i dropped a fork full of pasta on my lap which burned my leg incredibly for such a small bit of food. it also got all over my jacket front, sleeves and collar. not sure how i managed that. luckily it mostly washed off and my jeans dried nicely. we rendezvoused at my cousins van where the drinking of some alcohol went on as well as some photo posing where a poor tree was injured. then we went to the wicket where we waited in line forever as the group in front of us multiplied every five minutes until we finally put our foots down but then we were all let in anyway. the place was mostly empty! what jerks. keeping us outside that long while there is nothing happening inside. lame. my lovely magician friend James was coming to meet me but somehow that didn’t work out. hopefully next time as i miss him a lot. after waiting half an hour in line for a drink, we sat at a table and took photos and laughed a lot at the people outside the window. one guy was doing big muscle poses and alison stuck her butt on the window and he smacked it. i stuck my face on the window and blew my cheeks out. real attractive. that one surprised him! lol. at 1am my cousin decided she wanted to go downstairs to element which i protested but it was her birthday so down we went. had a laugh at the british door man who clearly hated his life. i’m sure 19 year olds in green everything had been driving him nuts all day. the bar was awful as always other than when krystal snapped the suspenders of one of the bussers and he practically cried ‘ooooouch!’ i took a bunch of photos and then we rustled up a couple of rides home although i could have drove if we had a car as i had only two drinks all night. so much for putting my drinking shoes on. i still had a headache in the morning. i was clearly not meant to drink which is fine with me.

the girls

some of the strange things I found in my long lost jewelery box recently

mint kitkat my brother brought me from his grade 12 england trip. expiry date oct 1997. i never ate it because i didn’t like mint back then. pink kitkat i ordered from japan on ebay! lol

my wisdom teeth. no wonder they were hurting so much. twisted roots.

postcard from my dear when he was away working on the cruise ships for 5 months

the last drop of the old body shop vanilla oil before they discontinued it. i was so sad i saved this but it’s long since gone bad. i am still upset and write an email about once a year telling them so.

my buddha that John from whitebird gave me.

a few $1 and a $2

this little guy was the object of obsession for me as a child. my brother had many of these guys, not sure what they were called. the rest were big crazy mean looking things but this little guy was so cute that i had to have him. i would often steal him and my brother would always take him back but i guess i won in the end. his shirt says NIKU.

a poem that one of the boys at work stole from another and gave to me. wow.

a cute postcard from a series i purchased online.

a beautiful rock/crystal given to me by an old boyfriend. i have a collection and this is one of the finest.

my initial pinkie ring given to me at my aunts wedding when i was little. i lost it for many years but found it in the deep pocket of my snowboarding pants one day.

a handful of strange currency. most of it pilfered from the butchart gardens ponds with my friend Marian when we were 11.

my first drivers license that i kept by telling them it was ‘stolen.’ my second one was taken away unfortunately when i mistakenly took both the new one and that one out of my wallet at the same time during a roadblock. dummy!! the picture was bad anyway.