Saturday, February 4, 2006

   "Keep me cautious, keep me safe, just in case there's a chance/
I can leave this Wheel behind me/
Stand in the Middle and you won't get dizzy/
Stand in the Middle and you won't fall down/
If you stand in the Middle you can keep your balance/
Stand in the Middle while the Wheel spins round and round..." -Splashdown (Karma Slave)

Well isn't that just super. I seriously think Karma has come full circle to bite me right in the ass. I'm a bitch and I'm feeling pretty low. I don't want to discuss it here though, since it IS a public journal.. I;ll save it for the LJ.. I know that what happened isn't my fault and I couldn't have prevented it, but I still feel rotten about it anyways.. And this is in addition to the garbage from last night..

Not to mention that my lips are still puffy from playing my sax on Thursday night... which is kinds funny, I admit. But it's also awfully annoying. I really want to get back into the habit of playing regularly, but if I'm going to get the puffy disease every freakin' time, that's going to be hard to accomplish. Heh.. maybe I'll think about posting a secret picture of the puffy disease, for they do exist. Not pretty, so I'll wait for a week where EVERYbody seems particularly pissed, then you can all have a good laugh at my expense. Yeah.

Have a lovely weekend everyone. TTFN.
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Friday, February 3, 2006

   "When the colour of the night/
And all the smoke in one life/
Gives way to shaky movements/
Improvisational skills/
In the forest of whispering speakers/
Lets swear that we will/
Get with the times... -The Tragically Hip (It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken)

First off.. thanks guys, for making me feel slightly better about the art situation. It's still annoying, but I am hopeful that they will consider doing something about the general crappiness of the rating system.

I went down to go to bed last night but I just wasn't tired. So I watched a couple of episodes of Boy Meets World. Still wide awake. So I popped on Dogma. Watched the whole thing. By then it was about 3:30am so I got into bed and finished off the last chapters of my book. After that I just thrashed around for a few hours until my dad left for work at 7:30am. I managed to fall asleep at around 8:30 for a couple of hours. I guess I just couldn't quit thinking about some stuff. And tonight isn't shaping up to be any better. More stuff on my mind, and it isn't good at all...
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Thursday, February 2, 2006

   "Somethin' filled up/
My heart with nothin'/
Someone told me not to cry/
But now that I'm older/
My heart's colder/
And I can see that it's a lie..." -The Arcade Fire (Wake Up)

Alright, that is seriously annoying. The other night miss Ace Gallagher posted her frustrations about people voting 'no' on art without leaving a reason. I am inclined to agree with her. I have had people go through my art and vote it all down, thus destroying my rating as well as my confidence and it took me a while to get over that and start posting stuff again. So seriously, is there something wrong with my newest drawing that I just can't see? I know it's only like one vote, but come on, at least have the guts to say WHY you don't like it. I think that if you just vote 'no' without leaving a reason you've earned yourself the reputation of just being childish and in some cases jealous (as in the cases of Ace, Oreana and ElvesAteMyRamen who are three phenomenal artists who should have a MUCH higher rating) Grrrr.... It's a crappy rating system. It really is.

Anyways.. Happy birthday and a big slice of cake goes out to The lovely and talented Oreana Minamino!! She's 21 today! And also to my best cousin Dani who is over in Scotland!! She's.. oh god.. is it 26 now? Holy Hanna! I always manage to turn over the calendar just in time to have missed it, and I have done so yet again. *facepalm* I suppose that's what belated cards are for... So have a good one you two!

Ooh, and Zappa, I didn't actually mean 'go away'. I probably should have put that in quotes. That's one of Kronk's lines in the movie The Emperor's New Groove when he's talking to the little shoulder angel/devil characters and they are just confusing him. "Uh... begone.. or however I get rid of you guys.." Devil says, "That'll work." It's an older movie now, but if you haven't seen it, do it now! I command you! Almost the weekend again. Night night all!

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

   "Monster hospital, can you please release me?/
You hold my hands down, I've been bad/
You hold my arms down, I've been bad/
I've been bad, I've been bad/
I fought the war but the war won..." -Metric (Monster Hospital)

I was up until about 3am on Monday night. I did get around to working on that drawing and I got carried away and just finished it. It turned out pretty well.. Considering the process it went through. I started one, and then scrapped it and started a second. The second one was going well until I started the second eyeball and then it all went to crap, so I started a third which just started badly, Scrapped THAT one and went back to the first one. I must say, I am happy with the end result. So, if you feel like swinging by to see it, that'd be mighty nice of ya. *thumbs up*

My store is getting all new freezers today. It's about damn time. I guess they got sick of having to call the repair guy every other week. Heh.. On the downside I get stoopid people constantly asking me "don't you have any (blah)?" I'm like, "No we had to take it all out to put the new freeers in." I can't even count how many times I said that today...

I have figured out that 'new boss' has 12 days to fire the annoying girl. (formerly known as the hangover chick, the original annoying girl quit) I've been told that HE dosen't even like her much so I have to wonder why he dosen't just tell her to get out. I wouldn't even have to fight with him about it from a Union standpoint. Blah. I'll be asking him about that tomorrow. Mwahahaha.

So that's about it from my end of the Universe. Since I have no other meaningful things to day, I shall release you from your torment. So... begone.. or however I get rid of you guys..
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

   "I can only fool myself for so long/
Let's go while the stove is on/
Let's go while there's work to do/
Let's go just because we want to..." -Strippers Union Local 518 (Give Up And Go Away)

I'll personally send five bucks to anyone who can actually find the lyrics to that song online. I had to listen to it to get 'em...

I got into bed last night and just couldn't fall asleep. Sucked. Because I had to be up at 8am to get ready for work. Heh.. you guys are probably like "awww, muffin..." but hey, I'm kind of a ten hour sleeper. On the bright side of things, I was on time and feeling much better than I was when I went to bed.

So anyways, since I don't have to be up super early in the morning, I think I'll work on my newest drawing for a while. I really want it to have color but I don't want to ruin the line art if it dosen't work out. I suppose I could scan it and then color that... Sure, why not. I haven't felt inspired enough to draw in quite some time as my last submitted work was in what, August? September? Bleh.. We'll see in a couple of days how it turns out, eh? Well.. have a happy Tuesday and remember... if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

   "What goes up/
Must come down/
Spinning wheel/
Got to go 'round/
Talkin' 'bout your troubles/
It's a cryin' sin/
Ride a painted pony/
Let the spinning wheel spin..." -Blood, Sweat and Tears (Spinning Wheel)

Alright, note to self: doing shots right before going to sleep is not a good idea. Someone brought this guava flavoured liquor to the party last night and my friend Jordo and I wanted to find out how it tasted and if it did, in fact taste bad like everyone said it did, how it could be improved upon by mixing it with other liquors. So. Lesson is, guava alone = not so good. Guava + Malibu = not terrible. Guava + Banana = not so great. Guava + Sambuca = better than with banana, but not as good as with Malibu, which wasn't terrible. The verdict: Straight Sambuca all the way.

So, as result of that little adventure in bartending I wasn't feeling so great today. Well, it was that and a particularly nasty game of Sociables. They think it's fun to connect me to the new guy so that whenever I have to drink, so does he, and vice-versa. I am very bad at Sociables. Short attention span don't-cha-know. So anyways.. I'll be headed to bed early tonight.. And hopefully my stomach settles before work in the morning. *fingers crossed* Night night, and happy Monday..
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Sunday, January 29, 2006

   "Come on Eileen, well I swear (what he means)/
At this moment, you mean everything/
With you in that dress my thoughts I confess/
Verge on dirty/
Ah come on Eileen..." -Dexy's Midnight Runners (Come On Eileen)

Happy Chinese New Years kids! Every year my family gets together with my friend Paige's family and my friend Megan's family and we order Chinese and watch a Chinese type movie. One year it was Mu-Lan, last year it was this weird one called Raise the Red Lantern, and this year we watched Big Trouble in Little China. Yeeeeaahhhh... Bigger waste of time than work on Thursday night. Ya pretty much have to know that it's gonna be bad just because it's a Kurt Russell movie. I can't imagine that it was supposed to be a serious movie, by any means. It was like one big, long 2 hour fight scene. Well, until the aliens showed up and then we were just like "what the hell?!" Mostly just full of cheese. The only redeeming quality was that it was easy to make fun of. Although I'm probably dumber for having watched it...

Yeeeahh, there's the bad guy with the death vapours coming out of his eyes..

I think I'll be off to go have some drinks now.. since it's Saturday and all. Enjoy the rest of the weekend, don't forget to smile. (Sita, that means you, alright?)
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Friday, January 27, 2006

"Well, maybe I'm just too sure/
Maybe I'm just too frightened/
By the sound of it/
Pieces of note fall down, but the letter said/
Aha, it was good living with you/
Aha, it was good..." -Better Than Ezra (Good)

Well... That was four hours out of my life that I'll never get back. Bakery Manager called at about 5:30pm and said "There's nobody to close tonight. Would you come in?" I agreed since I know full well that there's nobody. So I got there at about 6pm. Thus having only four hours to complete what is normally a 6 hour job. Good thing it wasn't too busy... It was all fine and good right up until nearly the end of the night. Dun dun dunnnn....

This guy asks me for butterhorns (pastry with walnuts on top). I point out a package on the table which happens to have a random danish thrown in. He says, "No I want 4 the same". So I find a different one. He goes off and in the meantime, this lady picks up the other pack with the random danish. Fine. Five minutes later the guy comes back, and practically throws the package back at me and says, "these have coconut on them. I want walnuts." I go searching for yet another pack, but there are none. I explained that to him and said "I'm sorry about that sir." and he goes (dead serious), "well you should be." *double take* WTF!? Anyways, that lady saw him giving me hell and she handed him back the first pack and said "Here. Just take them." and he did. After, of course I had removed the offending danish and put a 'no charge' sticker on it. So he was an ass to me, an ass to that lady, and an ass to my co-worker up front. *clenches fists* ABOUT FUCKING PASTRY! What a joke.. Not a 'please' or 'thank you' at all. Couldn't believe it.

So. That was MY waste of a day.. Hope you guys did a little better than that. It's almost the weekend.. Thank god for that.. Night..
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

"Just save your scissors/
For someone else's skin/
My surface is so tough/
I don't think the blade will dig in/
Save your strength/
Save your wasted time/
There's no way that I want you to be left behind/
Go on save your scissors..." -City and Colour (Save Your Scissors)

Well.. I've been sitting here with the page open for about an hour trying to come up with something worth saying. But I just can't think that anything happened today that is worth saying something about. I mean, yeah, stuff happened.. but I think I just went through the motions. My heart just wasn't in it today. Well, except this morning when there was a spider in the corner... Ehhhh.... *headdesk* and it got away...

I'm just gonna go to bed, and hope for... something... tomorrow.. No work, so maybe I can find the drive to do some other stuff that needs doing.. Night, kids..
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

   "I missed you so much that I begged you to fly here to see me/
You must have broke down because you finally said that you would/
But now that you're here I just feel like I'm constantly dreaming/
Cause something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good..." -Nickelback (Feelin' Way Too Damn Good)

***In honor of Nickelback plaing tonight.. And I couldn't get tickets!! Wah!!***

I was in a musical mood this evening. Impressive. Picked up the sax (aka Midvalley) and let loose for a while. It was in tune (mostly), I lasted a lot longer than last time, and managed a few improv solos without too much difficulty. More impressive. The inside of my lip hurts from being pressed against my bottom teeth though. Not so impressive...

After 1 1/2 training shifts, both new chicks are already working with customers (while supervised). I am pleased. Store is getting new freezers. Won't have to call repair guy every other day. I am more pleased. Boss is out of town all week. I am EXTRA pleased.

Going-away party planning is progressing. People actually want to attend. This is good. The people planning the party are not going to have to work the day of the party. This is very good. I have booked holiday time in mid February. This would be really fricken' good, except I no longer have a place to go. The plan fell through. It's still good, but wherever I decide to go instead will probably be an impromptu decision..

Things are alright. I am alright. The Bluedemonboy was mentioning that a lot of people seem to be upset lately. He's right. But on the upside if things are that shitty, there's nowhere to go but up. Well... I hope anyways. I still can't remember what I was going to say the other day, so it can't have been that important. Have a good one, guys and girls..
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