yup.  wisdom tooth out today.  or, as it would sound if i spoke it "yuu, wisso(m) toofff ow toway"  you should have heard me trying to talk to the cashier and pharmacist at zellers.  if i weren't drugged up and in pain i'd be laughing my ass off at myself still.  speaking of drugged up, i don't think that the pharmacist gave me the drugs that my ( Read more... )

YAY!!
my day was immediately brightened (not that it was unbright, it just got brighter) when i received an unexpected parcel from the states.  who could it be from?

NOLA!!

those cookie cutters are awesome!

everyone:

cael and i have combined our efforts to create a lj account to document our trip to morioka (inspired by the ever lovely kitties in london lj)

the new username is 
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yesterday was the most un-birthday like day ever.  it sort of felt like the simpsons episode where lisa has her birthday and everyone else is out (possibly the episode with michael jackson and the mental institution).  the one where she sings to herself in a heartbroken voice "happy birthday oh unloved middle child...."  ok, it wasn't as bad as ( Read more... )

i kept forgetting/putting off posting and now i mostly forget, but here goes.

there was this girl from germany, isabel, doing a wwoof (willing workers on organic farms) thing at our farm.  she's on a working holiday to western canada.  she stayed for about  week and a half, then left.  i drove her to the bus stop so she could go to victoria.  while ( Read more... )

i was wrong, it wasn't food poisoning, it was stomach flu.  i got it too.  worst day at work EVER.  (sucks when you can't phone in sick)  but i made it through the whole day without vomitting.  something i can't say about cael.

we stopped for freezies after work; we kicked back and ate them on the porch of the deep cove store.  it was magnificent ( Read more... )

ah, work...did i tell anyone that on my first day i had to fire 3 people?  it was hard, but totally ended up being the right thing to do.  we've been trying to deal with not being able to fill orders due to ( Read more... )

work is crazy, but i love it ( Read more... )

fostering kittens from the spca.  i got a call yesterday asking if i could take care of a litter for about 2 weeks.  they're 4 weeks old and teeny so they have to have lots of loving and food.  oh, and they're a little (read: a lot) messy.

we got them home yesterday evening, and decided that they only way to tell them apart is to give them "collars ( Read more... )