merely talk

So useful, so funny, it's the Pre-date Confidence Builder! Don't we all need a little encouragement before a big date, and sometimes your friends/roomies aren't around to tell you if your hair is okay or not. So the internet has found away to fill that need. How exciting!

In other news, the glory that is reading week has arrived in full force! I'm very excited about this. I've really needed the break. So far I've eaten out for dinner a lot, seen a movie or two, and went to Yoga. Today there is shopping and a movie night. Tomorrow lazing in front of the TV watching the Olympics and another dinner out. Then I need to go back to work.

There's also a whole bunch of other crap I have to get done this week, but I really doubt it'll happen. I'm finding it hard to become motivated to do everything I need to do, when there is so much more that I want to do.

Interesting, no?

I've had the most amazing birthday ever. I've now stopped dreading the day and aging, because I've managed to surround myself with some of the most amazing people on the planet.

Last night I had a potluck to celebrate the occasion and the food, my GOD the food, was amazing. Anick in her infinate wisdom broght us 24 cookies from Cookies by George, Andrea and Kirsten both impressed with their hummus making skills, and Amy and Jenn made a cherry CHEESECAKE. So good.

There was also alot of alcohol. Which I think was appropriate. All I have to say is the German wine is where it is AT!

Today, I woke up to a huge bouquet my parents had delivered. It's filled with tulips and irises and daisies and it is GIGANTIC. Then I headed off for Ethiopian food with Anick, followed by Fiddler on the Roof.

The production was pretty good. The lead guy, who played the Father, was absolutely amazing, and so was the women who played the Mother. Sadly the rest of the cast couldn't live up to their potential.
But despite that it was still an AWESOME time.

All in all I'm liking being 23.

Okay so I'm probably the last person on the planet to discover pandora...but just in case I thought I'd pass it along to all my fellow music lovers out there.

Okay, so all you have to do is type in one of your favourite songs or artists, and then this site will create a 100+ song playlist (in the form of a 'radio' station) with songs that have a similar sound to what you typed in. Sounds like a pretty great way to find new favourite bands to me. So I'm totally in love.

In other news: life is just puttering along. School and work are combining to limit my free time, but I've just decided to jusst give up on sleep, so I can keep up my rigid reading and movie watching regiment. 'Cause really, I think a little bit of exhaustion is worth reading "The Time Travellers Wife".

Okay.

According to this list, I could be considered a alien. I think I fit into numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8. That's a lot. I don't think I'm an alien, but I guess you can never totally be sure about these things.

Also I 'heart' Stars!

Ah yes, the blog. I have been neglecting you haven't I my darling? I would offer up excuses but I know you've heard them all before. Isn't it good enough that I'm here now?


It is?

Oh you are too good to me.

In the last little while I've been reading too much, working too much, and attending classes too much. My sanity and patience disappeared at some point on Tuesday when I was almost late for work. I had to put in my pay check in the bank because I needed to pay rent, and everyone ahead of me in line was depositing their $400 Ralph Klein bribe money. I don't get the bribe money. I've spent most of my life here in lovely Alberta. But no bribe money for me. Which is a shame, cause I'm down to one pair of pants that fit and don't have holes in them, and my bank could use a boost.

So that's put me in a bad mood. So have all the nutter customers I've had to deal with. Lets just say that a day filled with crack smokers in back stairwells, door humping drunk boys, sticky porn DVD's and angry British men, is not a day I feel the need to live again. In fact I could have lived without living it the first time. But that, I suppose, is life.

What else?

I read A Million Little Pieces, and now with all the kerfuffle on Oprah, I feel even worse for the guy. I've also read Running with Scissors and Smashed. Both good. I'm reading Augusten Burroughs' Dry now, and I have William Burroughs' Junky on hold at the library. Thus feeding my addiction to books about addiction.

However, as crappy and stressful the last few days have been, I do have a good weekend to look forward to. Jenn is going to have the best birthday party EVAH! and then STARS!! So what if I'm working both day shifts on the weekend? Who needs to sleep or even be sober at work? NOT ME! And not most of my co-workers either.

And on that note, I'd like to wish the lovely and talented Jenn a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Twenty two isn't nearly as bad as they say!