we're gonna make it out

i'm leaving.

not that i post frequently right now anyways, but i guarantee i won't be posting for at least 10 days. maybe more.

i'm going to enjoy the sun, and have fun in the happiest place on earth. oh yeah, and the other happiest place on earth.

sayonara, suckers

wind it up

i decided that in order to do the dishes, i needed to make myself a new cd. this cd would help to pass the dish-doing time...as well as delay the whole process of actually having to do the dishes. what music goes on a cd to do the dishes by you ask? i'm glad you asked.

tony the beat - the sounds
bling (confession of a king) - the killers
poster of a girl - metric
do what you want - ok go
banquet - bloc party
my coco - stellastarr*
alive in '85 - broken social scene
o valencia! - the decemberists
dear confessor - immaculate machine
oh! - sleater-kinney
come on! feel the illinoise! - sufjan stevens
secret knives - wolf parade
nature of the experiment - tokyo police club
sweet troubled soul - stellastarr* (hey, i don't want to hear no guff for two songs by the same artist)
small parts - the oohlas

now, i'm going to go listen to my masterpiece and wash the dishes. bah, humbug.

skeeeeratch

somebody can feel free to buy this for me for christmas. then, i can quit the real world and be a dj. i'll have parties in my livingroom. i'd invite you, but i only party with cool people.

seven degrees...heck no!

so, my one uber talented cousin just got his dream job building guitars. he's been making his own guitars - which are pretty much amazing - since he was like in grade 9 or something crazy like that. he made this one last year...















and now, he gets paid to make them.

the cool part? his company is making a bass guitar for phil collins' base player.

the coolest part? they're also making guitars for the eagles.

so now, i'm like two degrees away from don henley. wicked.

laws schmaws

oh, the first big snow of winter. always good for leading to the 'no rules driving jamberoo' (which - obviously - is not to be confused with the 'awkward laugh jamberoo').

anyways, it always seems like after the first snowfall, everybody in the world has to remember all over again what it's like to drive in snow. like they haven't been doing it every year, for five months of the year, for the past fifty-million years.

two-lane streets turn into one-and-a-half lane streets. parking lots are a free for all. and red lights? hell - if you're within half a block, they're fair game! why stop when nobody else can start driving for thirty seconds after the green because of all the ice!

my favourite part of the first snow is the winter-tire exchange. the white stuff hits, and gone are the days of nice rims, and out come the factory standard hubcaps and blizzaks*. i love lugging heavy tires around. not. i hate changing seasons, because i hate carrying the stupid bastards around. when i grow up, i'm going to buy a car without wheels**, so i don't have to worry about putting winter tires on.

*please note. i do not actually know if my snow tires are indeed blizzaks. i am by no means affiliated with blizzaks, nor endorse them in any way.
**i have to say that i am impressed by my own ability to cleverly link to that statement. i was going to link to this...but this is much better.

c'mere

last night, i had a dream that i was in a plane crash. not a burning, firey, everybody dies crash though. it was more like we were flying along, then all of a sudden we descended really fast, landed, and had to grab all of our stuff and run out of the plane. turns out one of our engines had caught on fire, and we had to make an emergency landing.

as a whole bunch of us that had been on the plane were being transported by bus after the crash, i was made aware that we had landed in dubai. why did i care so much? dubai has a shopping festival! a freaking entire festival dedicated to shopping. it was like i had crashed and gone to heaven.

i'm pretty sure my alarm went off or something, because that's all i really remember. good story, huh.

i'm from the hood stupid

so, i'm pretty sure that nobody that reads my blog actually listens to rap, but if you have ever even heard jay-z, snoop, dmx or ll cool j, then this will freak you the heck out.

i wish i had a funny, anecdotal story to tell from today. but nothing really exciting happened. i ate a really good chocolate at work, so that was nice. laguna beach is on tonight, and that is also fun. i love rich, bratty teenage drama. i also love that one of my true loves is actually featured on the season finale of laguna beach. awwwww, yeah.

my blog has become very stale and boring of late. i really need to try and do something about that - like get a life, so interesting things happen to me. but it's hard to have a life when you work 8 hour days, then come home and work 5 hours at night. but i'm not complaining - i do love what i'm doing. i just wish i was doing it in the general vicinity of some friends and family.

enough moping for one night. i am now going to create a list of things that lyn loves, but won't admit to:

n*sync
joey from n*sync
cute puppies
and the colour green

**addenum** i just ate a grapefruit, and now my tummy hurts. i don't even like grapefruit. but it's one of those things - like cucumber - that i keep convincing myself to try, so that one day hopefully i'll grow a taste for it. so far, i still don't like grapefruit. i have graduated to enjoying cucumber in my sandwiches however. does anybody else do this or am i the only crazy one?

travely mctravelton

just booked my holiday for my week off vacation next may - nyc baby! i could most likely be the luckiest girl this side of the rockies. i spent some time in new york a couple of years ago, and had the time of my life...this time around it's bound to be even better. i'm hoping there will be some good shows on when i'm there - i've already found out the tribeca film festival is on, so perhaps i'll see some famous people. or, perhaps i'll run into angelina and brad and they'll adopt me. i'm foreign (being from canada and all).

i ran out to the bookstore today and bought the '07 frommers guide to nyc. complete with foldout map! but that is besides the point. the point is there is a SUPER CUTE boy working at the book store. a super cute boy with the super cutest smile. i'm going to pack him in my suitcase. i shall call him squishy, and he shall be mine, and he shall be my squishy!


tonight i'm making a yummy dinner of lazy perogi casserole and sausage...mmm! too bad the recipe makes enough to feed a small army. i'm going to be very sick of lazy perogi casserole and sausage when friday rolls around and i'll have eaten it for three meals a day for five days straight. (kidding! who has casserole and sausage for breakfast!?)

tonight i've got two presentations to prepare. TWO. what did i do for the last three days? clearly it wasn't preparing presentations. i'm such a stupid ass-head. i leave every friggin thing to the last minute, and do i ever learn from it? ninja, please! i'll be schooled when i'm still up at 1 am cursing myself for being a stupid ass-head.

suzie homemaker

my ovaries are making me feel emotions. stupid ovaries. this weekend i'm waxing nostalgic about the most retarded things. like no more tangles. that shit was the best. i think i'm going to go to shoppers and try to find some. i desperately need to have no more tangles. my hair is tres tangley.

in addition to feeling nostalgic, i actually made muffins this morning. from scratch! i'm very impressed. i kinda mucked up the recipe and added too much egg, but they still taste like muffins...not like little egg bricks or something.

i can almost taste my trip down to cali now. it's only three weeks away! i'm going to have to prepare....by putting phantom planet's 'california' on repeat for the next 21 days.

going to go for now...more to come.

the decay of a former stone heart

do you know what i love about winter? when it rains during the day, then freezes at night. driving on sheets of ice is my favourite. okay, maybe i'm lying. i really hate freezing rain, on account of i don't want to fall and break my face. i really like to use my face unbroken.

for once i had a productive weekend. not homework-wise so much, but housework-wise. i did a big cleaning. i sucked up spider remains in the vacuum (can you believe i killed FOUR in 24 hours?), dusted and even *gasp* started to organize the piles of crap on my desk. i am totally my mothers daughter - i make piles everywhere. thanks to my cleaning streak, there are no longer piles on my floor however. i am now 75% pile-free.

i'm sucking on a jones soda co. carbonated candy right now. and you're right, it's not that good. but what can you expect from something flavoured 'fufu berry'? it was an impulse buy. dang london drugs and their carefully placed candies right by the till! but still - no matter where they were placed, i shouldn't have been stupid enough to buy something called 'fufu berry'. serves me right.

so there's a long weekend coming up. i would give my left leg to be going away and doing something fun. too bad to fly anywhere it's like a million dollars. i wish i had a million dollars, cause then i'd use it to fly back home. i can't even drive anywhere on account of anything of importance is 8 hours away. screw northern bc. no wonder everybody in the lower mainland acts like moving outside of the lm equals most certain death. it's like a cultural black hole up here. less than a month now until i head to california...which is the only thing that allows me to get out of bed in the morning. that, and the new matt mays comes out tuesday.

well, back to studying up for tomorrow.

but what i really mean is, plastic bag! plastic bag! plastic bag!

awkward.

*scene*: london drugs. aisle 8, paper products. infront of charmin ultra toilet paper, various sizes. free febreze air effects with purchase.

*jag* (speaking to friend): do you think this size is the one that you can get free febreze with? i don't even like febreze. but it's free! so why not.

*enter stage right*: middle aged gentleman (mag), looks as though he is on a mission. man proceeds to notice charmin ultra, and in-store coupon for free febreeze. man grabs toilet paper. and in store coupon.

*jag*: i think this is one of the ones that i can get free febreze with. what kind should i get? apple spice and delight? or baked goods?

*mag*: shuffles through available febreze scents. grabs one canister. puts first canister down. apple spice it is. baked goods? you don't want the bathroom to smell like the kitchen.

*jag*: true. i suppose you wouldn't want to get lost.

*mag*: walks away.

*end scene*

other than having weird conversations with strangers, today i noticed that i'm not the only one who loves shawarma.

i also discovered that i'll never make out with doogie howser.