Since July, Simon has regularly been catching mice, about one a month (and I'm pretty sure that the first one he caught was actually a rat). This morning I found yet another mouse, which brings the total to four, I believe. But this time, Simon left it in the entryway near my front door instead of my bedroom floor, among my scattered shoes, so it ( Read more... )

Last night (which was my birthday!), I saw We Were Children at the Vancouver International Film Festival. I can not find the words to describe just how amazing the movie was. Wow. Given the subject matter (First Nations children being taken from their homes and families and undergoing horrific abuse at the residential schools), it was a ( Read more... )

The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is from September 27 to October 12. I love seeing films at the festival, but rarely go due to disorganization/timing/not having anyone to go with. Well, my new motto is: fuck excuses, and just do it! So regardless if I have anyone to go with, I'm going! I'm currently only scheduled to work until ( Read more... )

I miss Swedish so much. The last time I studied any Swedish was spring of 2011, my last semester at school. While I was taking first year Swedish at school from September 2010 to April 2011, I was also taking two hour Swedish classes once a week at the Scandinavian Community Center. I was learning the same things in both classes, but it was nice ( Read more... )

Ten years and two days ago (holy crap!) I made the biggest mistake of my life. But five years ago today, I got my freedom back ( Read more... )

Around 5 am this morning, I woke to Simon making a bit of a ruckus--he was knocking around the springy door stop attached to the wall, which is unusual behaviour for him. I got up to investigate, and noticed that he had caught another mouse, which is probably why he was making so much noise. This mouse was very different from the other mouse; it ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I bought some meatballs from the Safeway deli for part of my lunch. I've had these meatballs several times before, and they are so good. According to the label, they are honey garlic flavoured. Well, when I put one in my mouth and bit down, I gagged and had to spit it out into the garbage as it tasted so disgusting (but not as ( Read more... )

Saturday morning, galactic emailed Urban Fare about the horrible cheese we ate on Friday night, saying that we were concerned that the cheese was either mislabeled, or had gone bad. Saturday afternoon, she received a response from one of the managers saying that he would look into the matter.

Yesterday, she recieved another email from the manager:

Hi galactic ( Read more... )

Last night, galactic and sam_n_ella came over. The plan was to play board games, drink some wine, and have fun. We certainly had fun, and there was a lot of wine drinking, although the board games part didn't happen, as we were having too much fun chatting and drinking wine. We also had a few snacks, and galactic brought a couple of her favourite cheeses, Applewood ( Read more... )

Going to Victoria this weekend to visit my sister. This is the closest to a vacation I'll have in a long time, and I desperately need it, especially after this week--it was one fucking awful week.