A Night at Gossip

Well the weekend is almost here.

Dario and I had planned to have dinner together at my place tonight, while my roommate planned on getting drunk tonight and was having people come over to predrink around 8. I told her 9 worked better since knowing Dario that's probably around when he would plan on leaving but it also gave us time to just relax by ourselves.

She asked if I wanted to come out with them. They're headed down to Gossip tonight and since I've never been I thought, sure, why not. I don't want to say no again because I haven't gone out with her yet, and she's really sweet and we get along great so I do actually want to hang out with her and she's asked me a million times already... SO this time I said I would.

I don't really know what to expect. It should be kind of interesting. I'll be getting ready with the girls at my place tonight after Dario leaves and then heading out around 11 sometime. I jokingly asked Ashley "Do I have to dress like a skank?" ... As most people know, my supply of skanky clothing = zero.

She assured me she has plenty of things for me to wear so this should be interesting. I won't lie, I'm quite nervous about the whole ordeal. I know I'm going to have a blast but I told her whatever I wear HAS to be appropriate.

I think it's difficult because they are single and I'm not. Therefor meaning what I wear needs to be more appropriate than what they wear. Yes you want to look good when you go out, but no you don't need to dress like a whore to do so, especially when you are dating someone. I just find it really disrespectful. Not to mention if someone does hit on me I don't have Dario there to protect me incase they keep persisting.

I donno. I never go to clubs so this will be a first since the Mirage last year for Julianna's birthday. Dario also wasn't there for that either, however, I was with Chad and Danielle and we pretty much just kicked back in a booth and made fun of everyone all night.

I'm just worried because while I know how to hold my own in Fort and can tell people to fuck off without a problem... I'm not as comfortable doing that here because you never know who you're messing with.

In Fort it's usually a first name basis, and if for some reason someone is trying to pick me up and I DON'T know them, (very rare case) then I know if I tell them to fuck off and they try anything that the rest of the bar is behind me and ready to kick the shit out of the guy.

Where as here... if you tell someone to fuck off or if you threaten to punch someone in the face, you're probably going to get stabbed or something. SO I can't exactly do shit like that here. I have to "watch my mouth" so to speak.

Sigh. I just hope everything goes okay. This is definitely way out of my comfort zone.

There is not enough botox in the world to uncrease my brow right now

I'm listening to old school Metallica this morning while I air guitar the shit out of it in my office.

Yes that's right, I am air guitaring, in my office... by myself, at 9:20 in the morning.

It might just be an interesting day.

The long weekend is coming up and I have absolutely no plans yet. I proposed the idea of going to Harrison Hot Springs to Dario yesterday and the answer I got was "I don't know, I don't want to make plans, let's just see what happens."

You know, beacuse everyone's here this weekend and no one has plans yet.

Can you sense my sarcasm?

Pretty much everyone I know has plans, and I'm sure the same goes for Dario so that leaves him and I, in a very HOT Vancouver, with nothing happening.

Sounds like a wicked good time!

He could just be doing his usual "I'm going to say this just to piss her off" stunt. It's quite probable but I guess we'll "see what happens."

Last night and the night before I worked on getting my bellybutton rings back in. I took them out before the surgery and they closed up pretty good. Since my bellybutton was tender for quite some time I didn't bother. I attempted once, they didn't go in easy, so I gave up. I was going to just let them grow over but as the month went on I started to miss having metal there. Finally I shoved some 16 guage hoops in there and then last night I lubed up some 14 guage jewellry and pushed it through the freshly stretched holes.

I am practically piercing-less now. I only have 3. I used to have at least 10 at all times. I don't miss all of them, just a few I miss.

Oh well, time to grow up I suppose. You definitely don't get jobs when you've got shit hanging off your lips and what not.

Alright well it's time to quit wasting time and plunk myself in position to stare at filing all day. Can't.Fuckin.Wait.

Slave Labour Income

Well... everyone is complaining about this heat wave we have so I'm going to come out and say it... I would love it if I was near water.

I live in a basement suite which means that NORMALLY it's very cool down there even on hot days. That isn't the case anymore. I finally caved and decided I was going to go buy a fan, but walmart was entirely sold out. Apparently everyone had the same idea I did.

I mostly just want it for when I sleep. I can't stand being too hot when I sleep.

I'm tired today, because I was stupid and didn't go to bed till around 1am. I'm getting into that late night bad habit again. It's all because stupid "House" is on from 11 to midnight and if I start watching it I can't just shut it off mid-episode. No I have to watch the entire episode. Since I just started getting hooked on it too they're always episodes I haven't seen yet. I need to try to get to bed a bit earlier.

I was going to go to the fireworks tonight with my roommate, but I've cancelled that plan and will now be going for a drink with Sandra to bullshit for awhile. As long as it's not the mountain shadow I'll be perfectly happy, that place has gone down the shitter completely, not to mention it's 10 billion degrees too hot in there on a regular day, let alone days like we've been having.

I have no pictures as of lately. I will have to get out and take some.

My cousin Tabby is due to have her baby any day now. Her actual due date is August 3rd. She doesn't know what she's having (thank God cause I'm getting tired of everyone finding out the sex of their babies, where has the element of surprise gone these days??) so I'm just going to go out on a whim and say girl at 7lbs 9oz.

I'm probably way off, it's probably going to be a boy at 8lbs 2oz but I'm keeping my bets set on it being a girl.

I have no plans for this weekend yet. I suggested a last minute "lets grab a tent and hit up Hope" camping trip to Dario last night. I don't know if we will or not but we'll see. As it stands though, there's definitely not a whole fuck of a lot going on.

September long weekend I will be going over to the Island. I'm going to spend some time visiting with my friend Mason and his family. I haven't seen Mason in about a year and a half at least, and I haven't seen his family since they lived in Mackenzie and I lived in Fort... so about 3 years I think. I don't know what we're going to get up to yet but I don't care either, I'm just looking forward to the company.

I won't be able to get in any hunting this year. I really want to go to fort for the thanksgiving long weekend, but my financials won't have room for that so I won't be doing that I'm sure.

A few weeks after that I'll be starting my hairprogram. I need to go to make an appointment at the bank to discuss student loans and things like that. See if I'm even eligible for them, I might be totally screwed, I don't know yet. I gotta check out all my options. If I pay it all on the first day that's the cheapest, or I do have the option of breaking it into 3 seperate payments (one every 2 months) but that ends up costing more if you do that. So we'll see what I have to do.

I'm going to try to get it all figured out this week or next.

I still have to go back to that salon and talk to the manager. I'm going to try to do that today, and if I can't then I will have to do it tomorrow.

We'll see. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, I need something. If I end up doing "nothing" this weekend I will go on a job applying frenzy. I definitely need to find a way to bring in more income since this job doesn't pay nearly what I wish it did.

I guess I'll get started on todays work stuff. I've got a huge pile of crap to go through so that'll keep me occupied for the rest of the day I'm sure.

Today's Listen-In

City and Color - Confessions

Sometimes I wish...

I just want to get out of here today.

I've been sitting here all morning staring at paper work and listening to live songs by City and Color.

I missed him when he came here in May so I guess next time. Hopefully he'll be back soon because I really want to see Dallas Green live. He is amazing.

I've been to two concerts in the last 2 and a half years. Both were concerts that I knew Dario really wanted to see so I opted to get tickets so that we could go.

As for me, the last band I saw that I wanted to see was All That Remains...

I don't know who I'm going to go see... but I'm going to start keeping an eye on some concerts to see if there's anything coming up that I really want to go see.

I used to go to concerts all the time. Lately not so much because I can't afford to go to them like I used to.

Oh well. I guess that's the sacrifice you have to make as you get older and things like "budgets" come into play... not to mention the fact that I no longer make 26 bucks an hour.

Oh how I miss that.

Hopefully I'll be able to land another job soon. I'm going to be one busy cat once I do but again, such is life.

I was wrong.

The hardest part is remembering the excitement and knowing that you can't be excited like that anymore.

There's a stranger in my kitchen

Tonight has been quite interesting. My roommate was going to go out partying but not one but TWO of the girls she was with ended up getting sick on the way TO the bar. I came out of my room and one girl was laying in the shower and the other on the floor by the toilet. I had to laugh. The one girl puked all over the back seat of her friends car though so I feel bad for him.

Then randomly I walk into the kitchen and someones cat is in our house just wandering around checking stuff out.


She clearly belongs to someone and that someone has definitely been over feeding her!! She is one fat cat. She's also wearing a dark green collar so she definitely has a family.

She's kind of a cool cat though. She's a polydactyl, and this lucky lady cat has 6 toes on all 4 feet. She is now hiding under my bed sleeping, but earlier she was staring at herself in the mirror. She clearly isn't very afraid of anyone.




I am sort of attached to her because she looks like my old cat Smudge. I had my cat for 18 years before we had to put her down. The only difference is that this cat is much friendlier than Smudge was. Smudge was a cranky old bitch that only liked my brother, my dad, and me.

She's gone back outside now, she wanted back out so we let her go. Hopefully she'll go back to her home. She's apparently been lingering around here for a few days so I think I'll try to find out who she belongs to in the morning so that maybe they can try to be more careful. There's a fox that runs around back here and I'd hate to see her get eaten.

Well, the drunk girls are put to bed and I think they're done puking since they're both pretty good and passed out now... that means I can finally go back to bed in peace without worrying that someone is going to puke all over our carpet.

Bedtime for me.

Hairy Man

When you see a man without a shirt on, even if he is hairy where are the places he will be sprouting the most hair?

His forearms, his chest/stomach/treasure trail region, and possibly a bit on his shoulders and back.

Correct?

Even the hairiest of men don't have a lot of hair on their upper arms. I've never paid much attention to this before because why would you unless you saw something that made you realize "wow that's not normal..."

However yesterday while I was at a station I noticed a guy get off the skytrain. I watched as he stood there so his girlfriend could take a picture of him, and that's when I saw it.

This guy not only had hairy forearms, but he had the SAME amount of hair that was on his forearms, ON HIS UPPER ARMS!!

I have NEVER seen this before. He had insane amounts of hair ABOVE his elbow. How is that even possible? I mean Dario is hairy but he doesn't have any hair on his upper arms. Nor does any other guy I ever know, hairy or not!

So how does this even happen?

Why, someone please tell my WHY, on days like this do I NEVER have my effing camera.

I wish I had a picture to show you because I think you would all be as astonished as I was.

A Girl Can Dream

Very blond. I haven't been fully blond like this since I was realllllllllly young. Like 5 years old young. Although, I am extremely happy with it. Finally the colours are starting to get evened up and the cut turned out great, it was exactly what I wanted!


I didn't get much cut off. She cut about an inch off the front to match it up a bit more with the back then threw in some layers around my face and a few elsewhere and TADA!

Damn graduated bobs are hard to grow out, especially since I had a pretty serious angle put in my hair. BUT, now the front pieces are only about 1/2 an inch to 3/4's of an inch longer than the back. Not bad. Next haircut that'll be gone!

The girl that cut my hair and the receptionist both told me to apply for a receptionist position there because apparently they're looking for one. Not sure for what hours but I told her I was only available after 5 Monday to Friday and on weekends. I was told to bring in a resume anyway. They also want to introduce me to the boss to let her know that I'll be going to JCI in November so that it betters my chances of getting the receptionist position, but also gets my foot in the door for when I'm done my program so that I can cut hair there.

It would be pretty cool since I want to work there when I first get out of school (if not sooner.) It's a beautiful salon, higher end. You start off hourly until you build up some clientele then you're on commission which is great when you've got some solid clients.

It would be extremely exciting if it happened and it would be an INCREDIBLE place to start. Not only would it be awesome on any resume but they also give you the chance to TEACH at JCI which is also awesome to have on a resume.

Who knows, maybe I'll luck out with this place and the timing will all be right.

I never talk about where I really want to take hairdressing. I've never said anything like "oh I want to open my own business blah blah blah."

Truth be told, I don't think I would open my own business. The main reason is because in a place like this the competition is extremely high and it would be very difficult to be successful. So I haven't thought about doing that at all.

I would love to work at Toni&Guy because their program is awesome, not to mention in my opinion it is the best salon in the city.

Their salons are world renoun and it's an awesome place for you to build a career. You are recognized for your efforts, you get to do a ton of hair shows and fashion shows etc. Your work goes on websites and in magazines. It would just be a BLAST to do something like that.

Ultimately though, if I could do anything with this hair program... I would love to do Jennifer Aniston's or Charlize Theron's hair. That would be my ultimate friggen dream.

Why you ask? Because those two women (again in my opinion) have the most noted hair in Hollywood. If you were to remove their face from every picture and survey people "who's hair is this?" I would bet a minimum of 90% of people would know exactly who's hair it was.

Their hair is iconic.

However I'd settle for anyone famous. :)

Am I crazy? Yep. Would it be awesome if it ever happened? Friggen rights.

Alice In Chains - Nutshell (Unplugged)

Has been, and always will be one of the worlds most powerful songs to ever have been written.

Layne Staley. August 22nd, 1967 - April 5, 2002

"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

Out In The Open

There have been a few major changes in the last month that Dario and I have decided to make and questions have started to arise.

Rumours are already starting to spread and I've already had quite a few people e-mail me and ask what's been going on so I thought I would just clear things up so people can stop asking already.

Also if I post something here then I save myself the hassle of having to answer a few less questions individually. There's nothing worse than having to explain the same thing over and over to a hundred different people.

Dario and I have decided we will be post-poning our wedding.

To answer one of the immediate questions, no we are NOT breaking up, we are simply holding off on the wedding until further notice. There are so many things coming up that are going to cost us a lot of money and we've decided that those particular things are what is most important right now and that the wedding will have to wait.

Mainly the point of this post is to save the awkward conversation of when someone says "Ooooh are you getting excited for your wedding?!" and I have to inform them "actually we've decided to post-pone it" and then they get all weird and are like "oh.. uhm, I'm sorry, how come?"

Also even though the wedding was still 10 months away there's apparently been a few people scoping out gifts for us already so hopefully this helps any weird situations like that as well.

So yes, that is the situation as it stands. No it's not a big deal at all, it's actually the best thing we can possibly do at this point. It's quite self explanitory so there's nothing more to say about it.

There. Now I've spared us all the awkward part. Moving on!

BFF's Reunite in Paper Form <3

All of the evenings photos are posted here.

Chad and Danielle had a party. Pat has obviously moved to Red Deer, and Dario decided to take a last minute trip up to Horsefly with his Uncle. Thus leaving the rest of us Dario-less, Pat-less, and Robin William-less.

We improvised.

Hi Guys! Look who showed up!!!
Dario was sad that he could only be there in paper form.

You WOULD go straight for the smokey bacon chips.

Om Nom Nom.

Would you like to wash those down with a sea breeze perhaps?

Chips for PatZ!

More Booze Sir? Dario does not like coolers.

PatZ is offended he wasn't offered booze first.

Let's play hide and go seek!

PEEK A BOO!!

Shaz doesn't like sad Dario.

Paper form D+P are much quieter. Cristina is very happy because of this.

Pat S'in some D 3 hours in.

They told Mikey secrets, he giggled.

Dario is sad because Tania thinks PatZ is a d-bag.

JEW BABIES, WHAT?!

Awe it's 8pm. Dario is sleepy so he laid down for a nap. <3

Dario woke up and gave PatZ taco flavoured keeses.

It didn't take long before they started to quote movies and comedians.

Dario and PatZ don't like it when Neil touches them on their private places.

Ryan was excited to touch them in their private places.

A little TOO excited...

Elise makes it better and gives them hugs. <3<3<3 Awwee.

Are you getting hungry Dario? Chad barbecued some wings, try some!

You sure are messy. If you were to stop quoting Robin Williams for 2 seconds perhaps you wouldn't get sauce up your nostrils!

Uh oh. Did somebody spot the kebabs? Dario loves salted meat.

PatZ first this time! Nom Nom Nom!

Still no smiles? Not even for salty meats?

AHHHH. Don't squish PatZ head with the kebabs!

Pat ate the spicy kebabs, he needed creamy sauce to tone down the flavour!

Quit trying to steal Chad's remotes!

Oh come on, aren't you the least bit excited to be here yet??

Here, I will lick your face clean for you.

Dario likes red popsicles... but he likes orange ones more.

Would you two pot heads lay off the cheesecake already?!

Still no smiles? Not even for girls?

What about if I give you kisses? Does that make you smile? Still no?

Boobies? No?

How about scotch? Still no? What the hell is wrong with you!!?!

Messy Pat is going to drown your sorrows for you in Chad's beer. Goodnight! <3

The Rae Wedding

I haven't had a chance to blog about it yet but on July 9th I went up to Fort St. James to be in my friend Megan's Wedding.

I met Megan when I was about 9 or 10 years old during our band concerts. Her and I both played flute HAH. Lame. We went to different schools so we would only see eachother during school functions. I remember in grade 7 being excited that we would all finally be joining eachother in highschool the next year.

Sure enough Megan and I became quite good friends. On Halloween I introduced her to Zach, who oddly enough I had a major crush on since about grade 5. I was over it when I introduced them and told her she should meet him cause he was "cute" and that maybe they could date.

Sure enough we went out for Halloween and Zach asked Megan out. He was 15 at the time, she was 13. A few weeks went by and Megan figured she was going to break up with him. She informed me of what she was thinking and said "He's just so shy!" and I told her to stick it out for a little bit longer and to give him a chance.

Funny thing was she did, and nearly 9 years later they are FINALLY married. It is so crazy to look back and see how much of my life involves Megan and Zach. I spent a great deal of time with Meg and she is one of the only people I've known for this long that has stayed my friend throughout all of these years. Even after moving away we somehow managed to keep in touch, calling eachother every once in awhile.

When she asked me to be a part of her wedding I was elated. She is the sweetest thing in the world and I couldn't imagine being anywhere else on that day.

This post is long overdue and I apologize for the wait, I had to save and organize pictures so that I would be able to post them and until last night I just haven't had a chance to do so.

Congratulations Megan and Zach. I love you both so much and am so excited for the both of you to finally move into the next phase of your lives together. Next stop -- babies!

Oh and just so I don't forget... photo credit goes to Dario. :)

Meg the day before the wedding after getting her hair dyed.

THE CEREMONY:

Presenting Mr and Mrs Zachary Rae!

WEDDING PARTY/BRIDE AND GROOM PICTURES:

(Little Miss Ella-Mae -- Zach and Megans niece)

THE RECEPTION AND EVENING SHOTS:

Such a beautiful and simple wedding!