Easy Street

Things are falling into place. Easily.

 

I got an awesome roommate.

I rented the garage out for more than its worth until June 2010.
I get to keep one of my downstairs tenants who is hardly ever home

I have an awesome awesome dog

I got my hair dyed, reddish. i dont love it but it is growing on me

I cut some of my own side bangs.

I found jeans that fit awesome for $11.89

 

one thing that would make my life a million times easier...?

 

 Not having major internet blockage at work...

 

Doggie Desire

watching the other dog eat food... wishing she didn't inhale hers so fast..

My new dog!

I got a dog!!!

 

 

 

 isn't she pretty?!?!!

Slivers

so after work, and after beers after work, i went home.  I decided, since it was nice out, I will start on the fence.

 

Chain link fence. building it. alone.

 

so far so good.  I have almost one section done.

 

supplies used? small household hammer, long long nails, pliers for a wrench, and a whole lot of zip ties to attach the fence tothe poles and stuff.

 

 it may not look pretty, but its not going anywhere.

 

 need more supplies.

 

 need someone to extract the 15 - 20 slivers I have onthe back of my left hand... didn't see the thistle plant.

 

 doesn't feel good.

Not for cakes

this blog is not for cakes.

 

 I am in the process of getting my very own shiny cake blog.  Sorry Goggle, moving to wordpress for that!

 

Address revealed soon.

I have a wizard working on it.

 

 This blog is for blogging.

 

about life/ and how awesome it has been since I ditched the dude.  the one who was a total psycho.

 

 no need for details. Bygones be bygones.

 

 one thing I am glad I have done this year.  No TV.  No cable. not channels.   I have a TV, incase aI want to watcha movie,  but i have zero channels.

I have not missed it. my life is fuller now that i dont have a PVR at my disposal. to tape and watch all these shows that do nothing to enrich my life.

 

 i will miss survivor amd may find a way to fit that in though. lets not lie about it.

 

what have I been up to?

Cake!

Dogs!

working! 2 jobs, althoughs ome could say i have many many

Passion parties?

real estate? 

 

 you name it. I have been busy.

 

 current project - building a chain link fence in my back yard. alone.

 

any helpers willing to volunteer?

 

This weekend - getting a foster dog. baking a cake for a party Luau style, visiting a possible adoptive dog. Purdy, having a frined come stay from edmonton, travelling passion party show,

cleaning my house, taking the foster dog for a walk. and trying to get some sleep in before monday rolls around.

 

what are you doing?

 

My first Paid Cake.

I made this cake.

 I got paid for it.

its the third cake I have decorated with Fondant. in my WHOLE LIFE.

i am SOOOOO proud of myself!

Cake!

 

I decided today, that whenever I get married,

 

 I am totally making my own wedding cake.

 

 And everyone will be all like.

 

OMG the cake is SOOO good, and GORGEOUS!!

where did you get it?

 

 And I’ll be like.

 

I MADE IT BITCHES!

 

 I can see it all now…

Your item was not delivred successful...

Your item was not delivred successfully(CANADA T2K) at 2009-08-18 13:40:00

	Timing	Site	Status
	2009-08-12  15:59:00	City of Shanghai	Posting
	2009-08-12  16:05:00	433	Despatch from Sorting Center
	2009-08-12  23:44:12	SHANGHAI	Arrival at Sorting Center
	2009-08-12  23:51:03	SHANGHAI	Despatch from Sorting Center
	2009-08-15  05:16:00	CANADA VANCOUVER	Arrival at Sorting Center
	2009-08-15  05:16:00	CANADA VANCOUVER	Handed over to Customs
	2009-08-17  11:40:00	CANADA VANCOUVER	Released from Customs
	2009-08-18  10:54:00	CANADA T2E	Arrival at Delivery Office
	2009-08-18  13:11:00	CANADA T2E	Attempted delivery
	2009-08-18  13:19:00	CANADA T2K	Attempted delivery
	2009-08-18  13:40:00	CANADA T2K	Attempted delivery

wow... it appears the guy just hung out on my front step and knocked on my door every 20 min to see if i was home yet.

3 attempted deliveries  in 39 min.

and now I have to go to the post office and get it myself.  Crazy people.

 Spelling Fail - Red letters above.

My Painting....

	Your item was released from Customs(CANADA VANCOUVER) at 2009-08-17 11:40:00

	Timing	Site	Status
	2009-08-12  15:59:00	City of Shanghai	Posting
	2009-08-12  16:05:00	433	Despatch from Sorting Center
	2009-08-12  23:44:12	SHANGHAI	Arrival at Sorting Center
	2009-08-12  23:51:03	SHANGHAI	Despatch from Sorting Center
	2009-08-15  05:16:00	CANADA VANCOUVER	Arrival at Sorting Center
	2009-08-15  05:16:00	CANADA VANCOUVER	Handed over to Customs
	2009-08-17  11:40:00	CANADA VANCOUVER	Released from Customs

Cake!!!

born to be....

a cake extraordinaire?

i have made my first batch of Fondant.

it was SO FUN.

i loved it... i have not used it yet, but it is made.

Cake is cooled, i am just patiently waiting for the butter to assume room temperature so that I can make my first batch of Butter cream icing to ice the cake

is it too soon to quit my job and go back to school to be a baker? and open my own Cake Shoppe?

Note: I need glass mixing bowls.. the plastic ones i have are not going to cut it. Nope. NOT CUTTING IT

The start of something Cake

i have always loved making cakes.

my sister in law and i used to bake and decorate a cake every thursday

every single thursday, ad then we would eat it and watch Survivor.

How much better can it get?

I am back on the cake band wagon. I want to bake cakes again.

I have been to superstore a few times, to buy baking goods,

flour, cake flour, shortening, icing sugar, rolling pin.

I am searching for an hoping for donations of cake tins, and mixing bowls, and plates big enough to hold a cake once decorated.

I want to get so so good at decorating cakes.

I want to be as good as the show - the ace of cakes.

i dont think i knew how much i loved cakes.

but i thinkof baking a cake, and i really do get giddy.

so.. prepare yourself.. for some Cake.

Also,

i will make cakes for people. if you give me some warning. they will be free, but i will accept donations to pay for ingredients.

Cake!!

For the love of all things

Today, at the water cooler at work, I was filling my bottle, and a co - worker noticed I had a large Dragon fly resting on my pant leg.

Hanging out. not moving, but clearly alive.

 He must have landed on me in the parking lot.

we talked about him for a minute as he sat on my leg.

we brainstormed about what to do with him.

11 flr of an office building is no place for a dragon fly.

 We moved him into a paper coffee cup.

 I took him down the elevator. 11 floors as I smiled to myself since the other elevator riders really had no idea they shared their day with a dragon fly.

across the lobby, outside.

I moved him to the bush outside. I wonder if he landed on me to die. he looked very lethargic.

 I'll go see if he is there at lunch

would you have taken him outside? 11 flrs down?

or just killed it?

Curious....

this is very curious indeed.

http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html

Where's my wallet?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6681923.ece

Can I get some baby pictures please??

Love tothe N'th degree

there are no words. to describe how much I love sleeping. It seems lately i would prefer sleeping to doing anything. and not because I am sad or lonely or depressed. [ at least i don't think, as I am pretty happy lately]

I just get great joy out of sleeping, thinking about sleeping, being on the verge of sleeping. being anywhere near my bed.

This morning i woke up on time, unlike yesterday when my alarm was set for PM and therefore I slept in until 8:30 and I should have been at work at 7:30 but i got to work at 9:30. Yay me.

...back to today... I showered, got dressed, played a couple know-it-all challenges on facebook [ cuz if we are being honest, i am addicted a little bit] then i went in the bedroom and saw my bed. and I had a love pang in my heart, and I looked at the clock, and it was only 6:28 am. and I did the quick mental convincing that i do in fact have time to lay down again,  so I did.

I laid down, fully dressed and tossed the still warm covers back over me and i silently rejoiced. how wonderful it felt to have my head on my pillow, which feels like puffy clouds. how awesome it was to crawl into warm sheets, how lovely it felt to have my arm draped over one of the extra pillows,  how happy my feet were to be snuggling into the bottom mess of blankets, and how awesome the sheets felt on my bare feet

I closed my eyes, and just laid there, willing myself not to fall asleep, as I so easily could have, but the alarm was off, and I had to be at work. i smiled to myself repeatedly.  i burrowed deeper into the covers. I rejoiced that i dont have to work my second job tonight and greedily thought that if I wanted, i could come home and at 4:30 pm, be back here, in bed, until tomorrow.

reluctantly, I threw off the covers and sat up. put on some socks, ate breakfast, made lunch, and left for work.

The time I went back to bed, only amounted to 7 minutes. but so far, its been the best 7 minutes of my day.

the same....

Peaches and Nectarines are the same damn thing.

one is fuzzy, one is bald.

otherwise I can really tell no difference.

so when someone says, i dont like peaches, but i like nectarines...

now you will know why i look at them like they are just a bit more insane than I am.

they are the same thing.

something new

i was reading Advice Smackdown

 and today it was about Milia

which I had to google.

 and turns out i have it to!

 i just didn't know there was an official name for it. but now I can tell people.

or not.

but i have it.

 and i jab at them with pins.

even ones on my eye lids [ that are rare anyways]

 I get them mostly on my cheek bones and under my eyes.

feeling uneasily OK

Its a crazy time. Torn between fear and confidence.

I am fearful that at any given day, my life would be tossed upside down.

But I am taking steps, no matter how small, to ensure that I will come out on top.

Multiple streams of income.

I have a career job. I work at it every day. It pays my bills. Its my life line.

But i have other little lines floating, with bobbers, so i can always find them, they may not keep me afloat, but they will keep me from drowning, I know they will help me find my way

I have a part time job at a golf course. I only started, but it'll add a bit extra / month to the dwindling bank account.

I started a home based Business. I am not putting all my eggs in this basket yet. but I am hoping that with time and effort. it'll pay my bills. so i dont have to rely on the career.

Maybe one day the Real Estate Market will even turn around. and I can profit there too.

 here's to hoping.

bliss

I remember my bed.

I sit at work, trying to focus, and all i can remember is my bed. The sheets felt like a dream this morning.

dreamy enough that I got up when my alarm went off and set it for one whole hour later and crawled back into the dream

little later to work then usual

but in the picture of life, it doesn't matter. and that hour meant more to me then the 15 min i showed up later to work would mean to them

The traffic was slower moving, the radio on.

I called in to win tickets.

caller 10 they wanted

 i was caller 2

and then again

I was caller 8.

not destined to win.

that was the first time i ever even got through.

restless

I can't sleep these days.  Not like I used to. Not like last week, last month.

But life is not the same.

eyes have been opened.

With every new experience, one can never go back to how they were before.

there is no return, to how life was before, each and every experience.

i can't sleep, but i am excited. with every day, i get more excited.

new ring

I went, randomly, to a house party on Saturday night.

Clinton, whom i have not spoke to for at least 14 months, sent me a text.

"are you free? Fun times here, you should come, [insert house address]"

so i went. I was not doing much. I had just left a BBQ at Travis' house.

Clinton and his friend Steve were there, along with 50 - 60 other people. or i should say hippies.

the smell was very hippie-ish. smoking herbs, un-showered bodies, no deodorant.

there was drums. and people playing them. there was a didgeridoo. there was hammocks, and hula hoops and poi.

there was henna and hemp, and dreads on almost every head. there was very few bras, and essentially zero under wire.

it could have been a scene from Thailand, or any tropical third world country, where these people would frequent.

I got a ring, its made of coconut. it fits my thumb perfectly. and I love it.


*the hammock picture is form the internet, not the party, but that is the style of hammock that was all over the back yard, for use and for sale.*

Motivated

I find it a bit funny that i am more motivated by the pain of exercise then the feel good factor after. This weekend i went on a hike to Mt Yamnuska with my friend. We took the hard "climbers" route and not the family hiking route. No, we dont know why, seemed like a good idea at the time.  It was hard. very very hard.

and steep.

and rocky

and rock slide-y

and I have bruises on my butt cheeks as I found out last night. from the times when i was too tired to go on and had to sit on one of the rocks. which were very sharp.

the whole ordeal took 4.5 hours. of intense work. the whole time. because on the way down we encountered thigh deep snow on several occasions and had to slip and slide and toboggan on our butts to get down.

good thing it was +17  *C outside.

We got to the car and enjoyed a deliciously, epic beverage. Lychee sparkling beverage from Superstore. if you have not had it. go buy some. you will not be disappointed.

We hurt. well i hurt. I am sure she did to. But i FOR SURE hurt. and I felt like I would willingly do it all again the next day, even though i doubted being able to walk the next day.

 The next day we went swim suit shopping. funny, trying on swim suits when it is hard to even bend over.  i was in continuous search for a one peice.  and low and behold, I found one.

it was the one I brought in that was the most unlikely in my mind.

looks like an old lady cougar suit. because it is a halter top neck, that has a split all the way to my belly button i the front. thats right.. allllll the way down.

and it has a sash around the hips. and big square shiny things on it. and its Black and white polka dots.

sounds delightful. I know. in a trashy sort of way.

 but then I put it on, and wow. it gives me a figure which is not quite there when I look in the mirror. and it makes me look tall and sleek and fit. and I am kind of not these days.

and i could wear this swimsuit and feel 10 lbs lighter. which makes me think that most people would then do nothing because it gives them the look they want.

 but i feel oppositely... if I look good in this ta my current weight... how good can i look 10 - 15 lbs lighter.

 and so the motivation comes from the pain of hiking, and finding a glorious swim suit that makes me look where I actually want to be.

is that weird?

um

as it turns out the guys downstairs did not order pizza and they got woken up too because i sent the pizza guy to the side door


lucky my note wasn't actually that nasty..

heh heh

Rude Awakenings

I curl up into bed with a good book, read until my eyes start to droop and its time to go to sleep.

The clock reads 10:27 pm. Respectable time for bed. some days its still been light out.

I turn out the light and drift into sleep un aided by any cold medications, just blissfully tired.

the sheets are in perfect position, you know, when you are perfectly content in your little cocoon..

dream land. come to me.

DING DONG

DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG

I fly out of my slumber, confused, annoyed, wondering if it was real.

DING DONG

i get dressed into more appropriate attire and go to the door.

" Pizza?"

um no. I did not order pizza.

you live at ...... you order pizza.

No, i am sure I didn't. try the side door.

I slam the door and crawl back into bed. its 2 am. i lay there, awake, startled, annoyed, trying to fall back asleep. to no avail, I peek out from under the blankets.

2:40 am.

UGH!

i finally drift off to sleep. only to wake up a short while later

3:40 am.

I see the humour in the time being exactly one hour later. I still curse again and roll over.

4:40 am.

I see the clock again... sick joke.

5:40 am.

beep beep beep beep.

I think I may be tired today....
I hope the note I left at the back door was direct, but not as harsh as my tired body would have liked it to read

Endings

last night I met up with the Ex to exchange final stuff and have that conversation...

should we get back together? can it work?

The outcome was no, it won't work

"but maybe I'll get to the point where that would be OK, I would be OK with..." he says

I told him. with sadness and touch of venom in my voice.

" I need to live my life now, not when YOU'LL be OK with certain things, my life is NOW"

he looked a bit shocked. but i think that the clarity I wanted him to have came with it.

I think he may have understood what i meant. As I meant it.

new car for a day

so I dropped my car off this morning to get an oil change. and a light fixture and hopefully a bill of good health

and i got a car to drive in the meantime because I work out in the middle of nowhere now that we are not downtown.

in fact we are so far out in suburbia, that my boss refers to downtown as "the city"

" i am going to the city office today" He'd say.

anyways, the car.

Early 90's I would guess. Subaru Forester. Oddly enough, its forest green.

and the windshield appears to be taped on with masking Tape.

awesome.

they do have a point.....

out of the habit

and been pretty busy

having to move offices, and move houses, and feel like my life has moved all together.

next step is to file taxes. Maybe I'll get back a chunk of money and take off to Vegas for a weekend.

who's in?

...

after 14 months, its over.

starting over again.

On TV

Sometimes I feel like my life could be a sitcom on TV. Like when the whole family gets together.

9 adults.

and all but one of them has read some or all of the Twilight series.

and the Easter bunny happened to bring a Twilight board game.

and my sister in law gets our her Twilight t-shirt that she happened to have 'randomly' in her bag.

and we all sit at the table and play the Twilight board game. and we all know entirely too much about the plot.

It actually kind of makes me want to read the books again. or at least watch the movie again.

unexpected gifts

So I came to work this morning with no breakfast. Starving. Wondering if I am not too lazy to go down to mac's and buy a muffin or something.

and this lady comes into my office. This lady that until today, I didnt really like.
all because of a few comments last year.

Are you expecting?
no
OH, I thought I saw you waddling down the hall last week.
[stunned silence]

so since then, she has been on my "not favorite person list"

until today.

she came to work with breakfast, Tim Horton Breakfast sandwiches, muffins and donuts for everyone.

I had one of each. I wasn't hungry anymore.

She's made it on to my " ok, you have a second chance" list

safe places

i think that i should just accept that regardless of how hard I try, I will never BE organized.

Its April. Tax season. I am so not ready. i don't have all my papers together. I don't really know where they all are. Last year i filed past the deadline of April 28.

I filed my taxes in AUGUST. that means TAX bill. because I owed money. and so I had to pay interest.

You are welcome. tax dollars hard at work. My dollars.

This year i was all gung ho- got my T4 early even.

and put it in a safe place......

anyone know where that is?

I'd love to know.

welcome!

I am pretty sure I have pink eye.

awesome.