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March, 2006

Okay, maybe not today…

March 30, 2006 by Louise

Let’s try Friday for the new car (certain Circumstances preclude me and the money being at the dealer’s at the same time before Friday afternoon). Still excited! Even though my parents (yes I’m 29, yes I still listen to my parents), after having said it was a good car and I should buy it so I went and put a $500 deposit on it so I can’t change my mind NOW people are now sending me all these cut-and-paste bad reviews from IboughtALemon.com or someplace like that.

But whatever! New car! Well, new 1998 car! From France!

Not from France, not really. I got a little carried away there.

Also? And yeah, this should have come first– Today my mother is going in for surgery. A few years back (Feb. 2001, actually), she fell off the front step at 6 in the morning and broke her leg really badly. They had to operate and they put in some metal screws and a metal rod. Thing is, she’s allergic to metal (yes even surgical steel– I’ve seen her blister up from holding a pair of scissors for too long) and those things have been really bothering her ever since. Her leg’s been in constant pain (she says it ‘itches from the inside’, which must be just a HORRIBLE feeling) since 2001, so today she’s going in to have the metal stuff removed. It’s supposed to be just day surgery; she’ll be home this afternoon and should be her normal crotchety self by tomorrow, but still, everyone send out your good vibes today, huh?

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wee haw!

March 28, 2006 by Louise

New car tomorrow!

Yay!

Goodbye craptacular rustbucket!

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Not really

March 25, 2006 by Louise

You know how people have those lists? Like, “If such and such celebrity showed up, I would be allowed to jump their bones and not get in trouble with my significant other” lists? Like, oh, there was that episode of Friends. Ross’ list was laminated. Okay you know?
I’m not saying I have one of those lists. But HYPOTHETICALLY, if I did have such a list, this guy would be on it:

Think he’d mind?

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the wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round…

by Louise

I’m not feeling 100% better yet — okay scratch that. I’m not really sick, just tired and draggy-feeling. It could be sadness over March Break (!) ending, but then, it could just be that I like to sleep for lots of hours and haven’t been. Speaking of which, we were listening to this man on the CBC (scroll all the way to the bottom and/or look for the name “Dr. Steven Aung”) talking about how he only sleeps 2 to 3 hours a night and he’s a doctor and that’s all the sleep he needs. All I kept thinking was “What? NO! NO NO NO!” so you can guess whether or not I’d ever try and go that route. I don’t care if it does win you the Order of Canada.

Anyway! Today I decided I would take it easy and only do one of the March Break Challenges. Also I’m lazy. So sue me. I picked DJ’s — she wanted some pretty touristy pictures of PEI. As luck would have it, we had to go to the province’s capital city, Charlottetown, today. Charlottetown is also known as “the birthplace of Confederation” because that’s where all the old dudes met up to discuss making Canada into an actual country way back in the 1800s. We weren’t there for anything fun, just buying Judd some food and oh! wait! some fun: buying the paper we’d need for our wedding invitations (yay! now we only need to make sure of where our reception’s gonna be, and then we’ll be all set!), but we managed to snap a few touristy-ish pics. Or, at least, I hope they’re touristy. I asked Rob (he being newer to the Island than I) and he said they qualified.

This is Province House. It’s where all the politics happen here in PEI. It’s old. There’s a statue out front. I think the Confederation guys might’ve actually touched it, but I’m not positive so don’t quote me on that one. I’ve never been in it. Maybe I should move on.

This would be a photo of the Confederation (hmm, notice a theme?) Centre of the Arts. Among other things, it’s where Anne Of Green Gables: The Musical has been running since the 1960s. It’s a pretty good play, if you ever have the chance to see it. Millions of tourists do, every year. I went, in grade 9, on a class trip. My friend Tanya sat next to a man who she thought was dead. He smelled like Formaldehyde and didn’t actually even move during the entire play. I’m going with my class on a field trip on Monday, to see a musical group perform. In french. Oh, and also in grade 9 that’s where the provincial science fair was held (my best friend Cindy and I went ALL THE WAY to Provincials that year! Because we were the only 9th graders in our school to actually do a science project! No wait, the guy I would later go to the prom with did one, too. He came in 2nd place and got to come to the Confed Ctr with us) and umm… I remember there is art in there too. I suck as a tourist.

And those? Are the very first ever Public Transportation in the history of Prince Edward Island. Yeah, you have city buses? We have these things. They’re only in Charlottetown, and they only make (I think) four stops, but whatever. They just started running in December. People are pretty excited about them.

There! That is All!

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Update

March 24, 2006 by Louise

No update to the Challenge today.
I’m Not Well.
The Great March Break Challenge will return on Friday.

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…slipping through the trees, strangling the breeze…

March 22, 2006 by Louise

So can we just call this The Challenge That Wasn’t Meant To be? Or at least Meant To Be Done Correctly? I truly, truly suck today! Oh well though, here’s what you get today:

A certain fellow Canuck asked me to lick a lobster. She’s so kind
Un(?)fortunately, it’s not lobster season here– that doesn’t start til the summer. So there aren’t really any lobsters around. Plus I’m allergic to shellfish and I know it’s not the same but I was a bit scared that anaphylactic shock might appear. Still, though, I searched high and low for a lobster to lick (okay I didn’t– we haven’t left the house today and I’m fine with that) and this was the best I could do:

Squint a little, turn your head to the left, and eat an LSD cake, and it might actually look like I’m doing what was asked of me.

Sheri, the dear woman, wanted me to drink a Killian’s Red in her honour. And believe me, I’d love to. I have just dealt with my mother for an hour and a half and a beer? Would be quite welcome, even though I did decide for Lent that I wouldn’t drink anything other than healthy drinks like water and milk. But beer is healthy because it’s made from grains so it’s okay.
As luck (and the PEI Liquor Commission) would have it, Killian’s Red isn’t sold in our local LC. Sucks. We have some $4 wine here in the house, but it just wouldn’t be the same. So here’s a photo of me drinking… water (one of the ingredients in beer! That counts, right?) and wishing I was the Messiah, able to turn water into– oh, and the wig? Well I decided to change things up today. It’s still curly though so I look a bit like a cracked-out Bozo The Clown. And of course I was totally thinking of Sheri the entire time I was drinking the water, in case you were wondering.

(isn’t that a HUGE picture of my head? Wait’ll you see the next one).

And finally, for FB– Headbanging to Rob Zombie. There were several photos taken of this Event, but the best one is this. Please take no notice of my ‘stache (heh. No hair on the head, but hey, a mustache would be great! Thanks, follicles!) and of the fact that I’m shiny as all get-out. I don’t wear makeup, and headbanging is hard work.

Goodnight Nurse!

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“You can call me Flower if you want to”

March 21, 2006 by Louise

Another day, another… sort of botched attempt at The Challenge.

I SWEAR I AM GOING TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT ONE OF THESE DAYS!

I really am, I mean it.

Amber wrote:

Plant some flowers in your yard!

I really want to do this. I totally PLAN on doing this. But… well…

It’s still kind of winter here. I know, I KNOW! It’s the First Full Day Of Spring today, but I live in Canada! And it’s cold! Not as cold as most winters, sure, but still cold enough for there still to be snow in the yard.

So basically, planting any kind of flowers in that would just basically mean condemning them to an icy death. I can just imagine them crying out from their little uh… seeds… about how horrible I am. So I can’t do it, I just can’t.

However. I *can* call Property Management and have them bring us over the topsoil and mulch that we need to get the yard ready for planting Mid-May. So there’s that:

Things I am going to (try to )do tomorrow:

Lick a lobster (thanks ever so much, Terry!)
Drink a Killian’s Red (I’m not sure if that is around here in Canada but if not I’ll try for something similar)
Headbang to Rob Zombie (I know he exists in Canada… yay!)
… and maybe more

(didn’t that last part give you frissons?)

Other news:

I THINK A SKUNK IS LIVING UNDER OUR BACK STEP.

Why do I think this? Because when I stand on the back step, I smell a skunky smell. Skunky smells? Are really, really unpleasant. Especially if they’re emanating from under your back step. Also something seems to have been digging around there. I tried taking a picture under the step but it doesn’t seem to have picked anything up (skunks are tricky little buggers): I’ve tried to get the Internet to tell me what to do and the solutions run the gamut from putting mothballs around the yard to peeing on my step. I think probably what I’ll do is call Property Management and have them come out with one of their traps and trap our friend Pepe, who will then be taken to the woods where he can … uhm… I don’t know. Do whatever it is skunks do. They eat grubs and hide from coyotes, I know that.

Anyway. This is funny. Give it a listen.

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MARCH BREAK MADNESS!!!! Challenge– Day 1

March 20, 2006 by Louise

Oh, my Loyal Readers! You have certainly been Living Up to the Challenge! Here it is, first “official” day of March Break and I was Stumped By The Request!

Alianora, from SilverSpiral.net, challenged me to perform ” A headstand in your front yard. Handstands or somersaults can also be substituted. “

Well, guess what? It’s all snowy in the front yard! And cold! And I didn’t wanna be outside! But aside from all that, I have never, ever in my life, ever been able to perform a handstand, cartwheel, somersault, headstand, or anything else that required me being upside down for long periods of time. I have really bad balance (along with semi-deafness from all these stupid childhood illnesses) and basically almost fall over all the time just walking through the house (how I managed to figure skate for years is beyond me). But oh people I tried. I tried and tried. Basically I ended up doing a weird sort of half-handstand in the kitchen with my feet braced against the wall. But you can’t see the whole picture, because my shirt was doing things and, well, nakedness started to happen. AND THIS ISN’T THAT KIND OF BLOG.

Here you go, though:

So Day One’s Challenge is only semi-completed, in the messy kitchen. Ah well.

OTHER NEWS!

I went over to Mom’s to talk about the Wedding (From Hell!). Basically, she wants for us to spend $3.00 on the entire thing, and have change coming back. One of her suggestions was to only invite the wedding party to the reception, and have it here at our house, in our basement.

Yeah, uh… no.

I understand that she’s concerned about finances, and Lord knows so are we– we’re not planning on anything extravagant here, which is why we’re basically doing everything ourselves. But yeah, I don’t think having guests over and making them eat in the basement with the laundry sink would be quite the romantic evening we’d envisioned. We’d be glad to accept any financial contribution that either of our families wants to make, but we don’t expect it AT ALL. I mean, we’re almost 30 years old. I can understand expecting your family to pay if you’re 20 (my parents paid for my sister’s wedding when she was 20 and I think they think we’re expecting that too– which we are NOT) and have never been out of the house but yeah. No. After I explained this to her things got a lot less weird.

And! Excitement! Next weekend? Rob and I are going to go pick up the stuff to make all our invitations with! (the prototype I showed you was just one that I’d made to see if it would look nice before we actually paid for other things).

So there, a picture of me upside down with half my butt showing, and wedding blahblah. DO YOU LOVE IT?!

I promise I’ll try to do better tomorrow. No, it’s true!

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March Break Madness~!!!

March 18, 2006 by Louise

It’s MARCH BREAK! So far I have gotten really wild and crazy– I managed to sleep in until 7:30 this morning, and now I am sitting around in my underpants and tanktop, getting ready to watch all the TiVo’d Golden Girls I can handle (Sophia!) Are you jealous? Yeah? Well you should be.

Anyway. It’s going to be a pretty low-key break here at Casa del Jeez (wow, that sounds just wrong); we’ll basically just be staying home, vegging out, visiting my folks, and doing wedding stuff (it’s about time). That, of course, isn’t very exciting and I worry that I’ll go back to school on the 27th thinking “Bah, I wasted my break by Doing Nothing!” This made me think and the results of all the thinking: I shall issue a Challenge to my three loyal readers…

Please leave me a comment telling me what wild and crazy fun March Break activity I should get up to each day of the week. I will endeavor to complete the task and post a photo proving the completion of said task. Of course anything involving, say, going to France? It ain’t gonna happen. And seriously, you don’t wanna see no nakedity up on here so none of that, either. So make your suggestions budget-friendly. First person to post gets Monday’s activity, second person is Tuesday, etc. etc. I may even do more than one thing per day! So don’t give up if you’re like, #9 or something!

Okay that’s all.

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The sun’ll come out…

March 14, 2006 by Louise

Well, today was kind of… hm. Schools were all cancelled, across the Island, because of impending freezing rain/snow/horrible roads. And I don’t blame them for doing it, because when we get a storm here? Boy, do we ever get a storm. It’s not like those places where you get half an inch of snow and people start running around as though the Apocalypse is nigh. But it turned out that the freezing rain kind of just became normal rain (this winter’s been bizarre– the fourth warmest winter in Island history) and so people will no doubt be annoyed that school was cancelled. I stayed home and did work, and was all productive (plus, had a nap! but that was on what would normally be my lunch break! And I can nap during my lunch break if I want to, people!).

THIS IS THE ANTI-SEGUE!

On Sunday evening, I washed both my wigs. The fake-hair one got hung up to dry. The real-hair one… well, see, when I actually had my own hair, it was naturally curly. I thought I’d try out curling my wig, just to see how it would look. Of course not being the proprietor of hair growing out of my scalp (wait! I do have eyebrows and eyelashes again, PLUS!!! Rob gets to count the seven little hairs that are sprouting on my head and track their growth! So far they’re about half an inch long!) I don’t own any curling appliances. I remembered how, when I was little, in order to save me from total ‘fro-head, Mom used to do the whole rag-curler thing, to calm down my tight little curls and make them more ringlet-y. Then I remembered reading in Cosmo once (yes, I used to read Cosmo. I think all 18-year-olds read Cosmo. That’s just my theory though) that a good way to get “body” in your hair is to use kleenexes as curlers. I remember thinking “Hey! Cosmo is ripping off the rag-curler industry! It’s exactly the same thing, only with tissues!”.

So that’s what I did (don’t you hate it when the papparazzi’s all up in your grill when you’re not at your best?). And then promptly forgot about it.

Until today. Uh, yeah, my nice long wig? Past my shoulders? Now looks like this. I can’t stop laughing. It’s exactly (well almost exactly) how my hair was when I was a kid. It also looks alot like the perms my sister used to get all through the 80s, which led my brother and I to calling her “Willis” from about 1982-89 (don’t ask). Luckily tomorrow is Retro Day at school (oh lord– I can’t get past the fact that my students were born in the late 80s and early 90s… 1987 is RETRO for them) so if I can find me some acid-wash I’m all set.

Fear not. Once I wash the wig again, those curls will be gone, so all is not lost.

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