Obligatory Purgatory

Things I have loved for a long time... Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime album....specifically the Suite Sister Mary song, 10 mins of bliss. Love that song to this day. Soap that Maureen sends me with scratchy as fuck PEI sand in it....divine. [this is me being positive in case you missed it] Ultra Fine Sharpie Felt Pens for doodling. Brushing my teeth in the shower. Baby things...baby cats...baby humans....baby rodents...baby dogs. Fans & A/C. Man arms. [Keeping it clean here...] My sprog when she belly laughs. Rocks. Beach glass. Good hair days. [A rare occurrence these days] Writing letters. Christmas lights and weird tree ornaments. Laughing at people in all black who wear white runners. Sleeping. Tea with a buncha milk & sugar. A bra that fits. Being organized, which I am currently not. Sea onions.

These 2 day weekends suck. I dragged the xmas bin out...and that is all. Maybe this week I will try and find the damn tree and go to town! At Alisa's for a haircut and came across a few of her recent pieces...holy mother...so good! The Man Lamp - Alisa Shebib Amazing detail on Audrey....drool dripping out of her mouth...etc...and the mirror in the mouth makes for a great effect. Love that gal. AND most importantly, she is a non-mullet hairdresser...she has never given me an accidental mullet! The pool is still so cold it freezes your tits off instantly...making swimming much easier. Ok not really but I enjoy the fact no one swims really...one man and his 2 kids came down and once they felt it turned around and went home. haha That is why I am not complaining to management about the cold water....I prefer being cold to sharing the pool. I am a greedy a-hole.

1) The new Damien Rice record is pretty nice... 2) I will never understand any BC First Nation band that sells out signs up for fracking and LNG faery tales the provincial gov't is peddling... ::shakes head:: 3) I watched a bunch of stuff on the death of Eric Clapton's 4 year old son last night...good gawd. What a total freak accident of nightmare quality....that moment you realize your wee one has just accidentally ran out of 53 story window that the cleaner just opened. Fuck. 4) I can smell the dead kale in my kitchen garbage can. 5) I need to  go see a few movies coming. 6) I also need to get a Thor xmas tree ornament. 7) It is haircut day...I wonder if it offends a hairdresser when you do your own hair after a haircut? I am not going straight home so it is necessary that I do not have girl hair when I am out and about....by girl hair I mean a hair-doo that I would never have ever...except if someone else did it. That probably makes no sense. 8)  I just embar...

Hell yeah....sign me up.

Pretty sure the water where the Titanic sank was warmer than the pool water this week. Why on earth can't it be this brisk in the summer when you are dying from the heat and warm like a bath in the winter...? Another fine example of why the world would be a better place if I got to make a few decisions. During the 8 mile hike to my apartment from the elevator I was thinking about my life and how I got here...and why this many years in, being a reasonably bright person, I cannot find my chi...why am I still a lost mess of sorts...? And then like the simplest thing on earth I thought..."because you have not known anything else"...when you grow up feeling MEH....it is easy to chart that as normal....so MEH is normal...sometimes the MEH is darker....sometimes lighter...but MEH is the status quo....fast forward to the present and when you begin to think about mortality and health issues and other things that make you weird, you suddenly start to question how you let yourself...

At a Life Lab clinic for blood tests...a cop just had to do the walk of shame carrying his own pee in a cup through the waiting room. I detest parading my pee through public spaces...but I enjoyed watching a cop do it.

Well...so much for my attempts at relaxing and chilling out...weed is not my friend. The headaches are just terrible and it defeats the purpose quite honestly so...that short-lived gangsta life is over (haha I smoked it 4x)...Can't drink....can't be a pothead...pitiful. Instead I am making slow cooker mashed potatoes. Let's get real...I think it is rather apparent my crack is carbs. Who needs beer or weed when you have slow cooker mashed potatoes? FML. My brain is so mushed today I will stick to scrubbing cat barf out of the carpet (yes the cat still uses vomiting as a tool to get her food bowl filled up if I am not paying attention to her - such a dick) and trying to clean my gawd damn bedroom. I have A's xmas box almost done...just have to write her a xmas letter and try to make her promise she will not open it early. I so desperately want her to save it for xmas day it pisses me off she says she likely wont....the thought of her not having mom pressies xmas m...

I just watched 2 seasons of Ex-Wives of Rock in 24 hrs. Holy Loser.

There is already a blog titled I DO WHAT I WANT....a few actually...rude....so ConkyTown it is. http://www.idowhatiwantblog.com/ http://blondboy99.blogspot.ca/ Not gunna lie...I am jealous of the FOOT blog header....genius.

Because I am too wrecked to sit at my pc...it's couch day. Even I am shocked at the state of bodily affairs going on here after almost 5 hours of standing at a concert (Sam Roberts...so good!)...wrecked...just ruined. So thank gawd I had the foresight to take today off before hand. Anyway...wah wah wah...I am just watching People's Court. It's what I do. I pvr that shit for days such as this. Last night - despite the standing part - was fun. Mindil Beach was great live...and Sam Roberts is always good...the crowd was typical...lots of young ppl having fun (that's code for annoying to ppl like me lol)...one guy was determined to get me to jump with him. No idea why I got singled out for that. He clearly had no idea I was already dying and desperately trying to prevent my gibbled hamstring from going full blown spasm... I told some stupid girl to f-off...Kim said I jabbed her in the armpit really good but I have no memory of that. Apparently it was her b'day.......

Kim and I (meaning Kim b/c I have no driving skills) had my aunt and uncles truck over the long weekend while they were on vacation...we utilized it fairly well being that neither of us often have access to wheels. Friday I went to the BLUE DOT/David Suzuki show up at UVic with Tracey and Adrienne...that was very interesting and compelling...the premise being that if we intend to make change regarding the environment we must have the Canadian Constitution amended to say all Canadians have a right to clean air, water, land and sea....without the law changed that the corporations and greed will always win. Some great music and speakers and of course David Suzuki talked for about 20 mins at the end and that was certainly the highlight. Saturday we went to the Shaw Ocean Aquarium in Sidney...loved that...great displays of jellyfish and other Salish Sea creatures. We then went to the RumRunner Pub for lunch and dined on steak sandwiches that were amazing...amazing enough that neith...

This travesty called WORK. Forced to be there 4-5 days a week....all damn day long. You have to talk to people...be around people...take the damn bus to get there. Ugh. So looking forward to having days off...Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues...work Wed, off Thurs and then work Friday then 3 more days off. My kind of week. Pam and Jim just left for Phoenix, AZ today for a little Nascar/Casino holiday. The land of cactus and sun...I am in love with cactus at the moment...not the sun though. While they are gone Kim has their truck so we have made some plans for the weekend...going to see some jellyfish in Sidney...lunch in Sidney...drop in on a few friends (Keith and Kate)...Costco trip...movie at the Westshore theatre that has recliner type seats...drive up to the top of Mount Tolmie and Mount Doug for pictures and a sunset...oh the freedom!

I am waiting for Catherine to get here for dinner/Walking Dead night...what could be better than chicken, roasted veggies and zombies? Quite a news week here in Canada. Religious nut bars running all over and shooting soldiers, Stephen Harper furthering his shitty agenda, school shooting in Washington and Jian Ghomeshi fired from the CBC b/c he is freaky deaky in the bedroom. No surprise at all on the nut bar front...that happened like clockwork the moment Canada became an active war monger with the US. Such a messy situation. So ugly. I have never been in love with Jian Ghomeshi but he is an amazing interviewer...and man oh man...what an embarrassing situation for him...fired from the CBC, an ex disclosing his bedroom preferences (insert a whip crack sound here), his father just died and he blurted it all out on Facebook - in what I can only imagine was his attempt to regain some power against the blabbermouths. I wish I didn't know this about him...it distracts me. I wish I...

My Powell River Peeps all had a big dinner together....even Miss A. had a thanksgiving dinner with her pals....I ate pretzels for dinner tonight. Isn't that the saddest shit ever....? Tomorrow I will eat a box of stuffing.

OK, so remember when I told you a few days ago about the weirdo lady at work making the TP wreath in the stall I just came out of? PART 2: A few days later I was in that same bathroom and E. was in the other stall and I was telling her about it and she chimed in that the wreath maker gal is actually really germaphobic and odd in many ways....and I said it made me feel dirty...chuckled away... NEITHER OF US HEARD THE DOOR OPEN ...in fact I have no idea when the door opened and for how long the wreath maker stood waiting for a stall....but when I came out of the stall and she was standing RIGHT THERE I might have had a mild heart attack. She did not appear to know what we were talking about so I am going to assume she came in as the flushing happened (which is why we couldn't hear the door) - but I have decided to avoid using that bathroom from now on.

Wow...I always wondered how that fire alarm would sound. I have never lived in a bldg where the bedrooms are wired with alarms in case there is a fire anywhere in the bldg. They are LOUD. Shrill and loud. Very effective. I immediately went and got dressed b/c there was no way I was getting stranded outdoors in a bathrobe for any length of time. Got dressed, grabbed my bag and then emptied my other bag to jam the cat into...I knew she wouldn't mind b/c she has always liked being carried around in bags...and her only other trip outdoors (to the vet after her suicide jump off the balcony in the old apartment) she was in a backpack and loved it...she was so friggin cute in that bag last night...popping her head out to look around. I sat with the ppl in 323 that had 2 cats in a cat carrier...we are automatic BFFs now. 20 mins later we were waved back inside by the fire dept...some jackass pulled it I guess...asshole. The only ppl outside were ppl with cats, dogs and children...even ...

I am on a different computer...I am fixing a computer and am so bored waiting for the virus scan to complete I thought I would blog away the time. Just had a great hour long swim with minimal interruption or irritation...this underwater MP3 player is truly awesome...the thing is its cheap n basic so there is nothing so fancy as "SHUFFLE" on it - meaning it plays the songs alphabetically which is lame b/c then you have a month of all one damn band b/c they are all in a row....so I tried to cheat it by rearranging them by song length and then I highlighted them all and renamed them to permanently change the order...sort of worked. I think I must have been having a seizure when I was loading it though b/c I am not sure why I thought I needed so much 80s music to swim to...tonight half my swim was Streetheart... I think it is a couch/movie night. Last night I spent ALL NIGHT on youtube (which is becoming something I am a bit too attached to) watching Robert Plant interviews. ...

Holy shit this us gunna be funny because I'm not gunna correct anything ads just let autocorrect do it all for me which should fuck shot up pretty good. Kim mags pancakes do now I'm obv a coma....can't kitty had...totally dead. She's Sherri on the couch...carb nightmare but so good.hello diabetes. Fml. Write that makes noi sense. noisy effing neighbors....how cab submarine back with this racket....assholes. (This is why I do not post from my phone...)

There is this hypochondriac dippy doodoo at work...we will call her D. D. came into the wash-room as I was exiting a stall....she went into the stall I just got out of and proceeded to make a toilet paper wreath to sit on while I was still in the bathroom....Unmistakable sound. LOL Wow.

There is something weird and awkward about being in a hot tub alone and then someone comes in....the Jet Humper as he is referred to around here...he grinds on the jets like he is making hot love to them and it is quite the sight....anyhow...he got in and wrecked my chi...made it awkward...and I think I know why he humps those jets so hardcore...he smelled of some serious weed so he was high as a kite and maybe just needed to bust a nut....? Ew. I did score a whole hour in the pool without any intruders - VICTORY!!! I am telling you, that underwater MP3 player is the kitties titties... I am currently messing with 2 computers from a local community center and I have to say I have lost that loving feeling for fixing computers. It is gone...nothing but frustration and agony. I recently read the book I AM HUTTERITE and was quite into it...I have always had a curious interest in Hutterites having grown up on the prairies so this book satisfied all those old niggling questions I had....

Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.

Was out with some ladies for a movie and dinner tonight and they were asking me if I would recommend online dating. Umm, no. Jen's 3 Notable Online Dating Disasters: 1) Single dad, 14 kids...ok wait not that many - 5 ...5 that made the noise and chaos of 14. Stupid relationship...short lived...he dumped me b/c I was so angry. (This still amuses me 15+ yrs later) 2) Alcoholic psycho that was not as smart as he thought he was...I ended up dumping him...then had to change my number and involve the police. Awesome. 3) Closet alcoholic, his kind nature was erased by his inability to communicate or be honest. #3 was 3.5 yrs ago and I have felt ZERO inclination to speak to a man since, let alone anything else. No lie. It was like I hot my bullshit limit for my lifetime. I am certain all the of them would have equally bad opinions of me...but I don't really care. Saw GONE GIRL....great flick. I haven't read the book but the movie sure seemed good...I wonder if book rea...

  A. asked if I get a senior's discount yet....haha smart ass kid.

1. Baby Sloth - not a grown one I don't think b/c they are all rapey and weird....and I feel like they will smell quite bad. 2. A Car/Drivers Licence - the reality is this would be awesome and terrible all at once. I could not afford the upkeep without wandering down to Rock Bay Ave a few times a week to turn tricks for gas and oil change money. 3. A Grand Baby - I want this but not yet....A. is not done adventuring or doing stuff yet b/c we all know once you have kids you may as well be in a wheelchair in a lot of ways. 4. My Family to All Live In My Town - that's right I want all the aunties and the cousins and the siblings and the everyone to live in the same town as me....for real. And Connie & family....all in one place....and Adele & family... 5. A Live In Chef - if Oprah can have one why can't I? Can you imagine breakfast ready for you in the AM? Dinner ready when you get home...? and not friggin tomato soup, real healthy, delicious meals...fml. ...