i'm going to start carrying my camera around with me everywhere again. i remember when i first got my camera and was so excited, and now the novelty has totally worn off and i've hardly taken any pictures lately. that sucks ( Read more... )

best reading week vacation ever. well, it wasn't reading week for me, but since i'm a student at heart i took a few days off work. my whole family, and a few friends, reconvened in kimberley for fun and frivolity. the weather was warm; the snow was amazing (the snow was piled up so high it was almost obscuring the stop signs) and i had the best few ( Read more... )

ugh. look at these so-called eating out dieting tips for eating out at restaurants: (from the msn sympatico website ( Read more... )

i'm glad i never listened to my high school guidance counselor, because doing something you love for a living is bull. i have come to the realization that as soon as i start getting paid to do something, no matter how much i enjoyed it before, i will grow to dislike it. i enjoy writing; i enjoy horses. you would think that working for horses all ( Read more... )

i got this email today regarding my lj userinfo.

"tut tut...

lol... i was looking on www.IMDB.com for the short you won
your academy award for....and I did not find it. Then I
finished [reading] your bio and me thinks you do exaggerate a bit."

oh alberta. the conservatives won every single seat here. what a strange province though: it's the most right-wing place in canada, and yet the green party received a higher proportion of votes here than in any other province ( Read more... )

last year was full of crazy new experiences, most good, some bad.
all in all, 2005 was good to me though. hopefully 2006 is even better. wouldn't it be nice if every single year was a little bit better than the last?

-became an auntie
-had a news article appear on the front page
-published a piece of writing - read it here-graduated from ( Read more... )

i bought myself a bag of pot for the holidays. i've never actually smoked up alone, having viewed getting stoned more of a social sort of thing, but i'm looking forward to sitting alone in my room in my pyjamas, watching the first season of australia's next top model that i downloaded, eating christmas chocolate, and smoking up ( Read more... )

i went on a little shopping trip down whyte avenue this afternoon. i found the perfect gift for my nephew - this super-soft, super-stylish little tee shirt made of organic cotton that says "monkey" and has the cutest graphic of a monkey (if i had a neice, i would have bought the "cupcake" shirt that had a picture of a cupcake). i tried on $45 seven ( Read more... )

weirdest day EVER ( Read more... )