It’s supposed to snow tonight.
What?
Yeah, snow. Snow and freezing rain and ice pellets. 10 cm.
We are not amused.
May, 2007
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No, seriously.
May 16, 2007 by Louise
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Hey Artists!
May 13, 2007 by Louise
How are you?
I can’t draw, can you? You can? Great. Fantastic! Now listen up.
How would you feel about helping a brother out (only I’m a girl, so that would be a sister, I guess)? See, because I’d like to have a few (two or three) pencil sketches done. Nothing fancy, no oil paintings or anything like that. I’ve got a few photos which I’d like to make into gifts for some people who would really, really appreciate them, and what with me being completely unable to make what I’m drawing look like anything resembling what it should, well, that’s a bit of a problem.
I’ll pay you, whatever the going rate for this kind of thing is (I mean, you’d have to let me know first of course, because if it’s a million dollars I more than likely won’t wanna do it anymore, as you have probably guessed if you have seen this post but I’m not going to try and nickel and dime you either), and you’ll also have my deepest gratitude and maybe a little gift of something that I actually can do/make… because there are some things I don’t suck at.Or, if you don’t wanna and you know someone who does, well, send them here.
Comment, or email me — louise.m at gmail dot com
K thanks! Bye.
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It’s YouTube Sunday!
by Louise
ROCK!
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Well surprise, surprise, surprise.
by Louise
What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net
North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.
Canada. You probably get irritated when British people and Europeans think you’re from the States, but over here we wouldn’t make a mistake like that.
Take this quiz now – it’s easy!via Adelle
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Louise + Dollarama = BFF
May 12, 2007 by Louise
I just used “BFF” totally non-ironically.
You know that I am cheap.
You know that I am cheap, don’t like spending money, can’t stand spending lots for something that I could get for less, etc etc (thus 3/4 of my wardrobe including my wedding dress although that’s not something I wear around town or anything is from eBay). Therefore it must be no surprise that I just bought twenty things! For twenty dollars! At Dollarama!
It’s in my veins, you see. My father was raised in a home where he had six siblings. Three bedrooms (including my grandparents’) in the house. They ate in shifts. My grandmother and grandfather had all these kids to raise on a coal miner’s pay, and they could stretch things a very, very long way. Plus, the whole Irish/Scottish thing, so you KNOW there’s some… uh… thriftiness in there. Even up until her last weeks of life, my grandma was scouring the sales bins. She had a whole room in the house dedicated to future gifts. Like, she’d find things that were normally $50 on sale for $10. She knew that such-and-such’s birthday was only 11 months away. She’d buy the item, and put it in the room. She had a gift for any occasion in there, and I doubt she paid over $20 for anything.
Then there’s my mother’s side– she, also, had six brothers and sisters. My grandfather was a farmer/lumberjack/builder. They raised their own food, made their own clothes, built their own house (and I don’t mean “hired a contractor to build the house”. I mean “cut down the trees, dug the foundation, sewed the curtains, made the furniture” built their own house). At any given time they had up to 20 people living with them because my grandparents would take in anyone who needed to be taken in, even though they weren’t exactly rich themselves. They got by, though, because they knew how.
I’m in no way comparing myself to them — no way, because I haven’t in any way had to go through the hard times that they have. But I can see it a little bit in myself, sometimes, when I go for the no-name brand spaghetti sauce instead of Prego or something.So, back to today. Went to the Dollarama. Bought all the hardware needed for my garden. For $20 (actually I also bought a makeup bag and some sidewalk chalk for my nephews). Then spent another $30 on seeds for my garden, at the garden centre. Because the dollarama only had flower seeds. But that’s okay.
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I love worms. I really do.
May 11, 2007 by Louise
For now, I’m going to give up my dreams of home furniture. Because it’s time to plant my garden! At least, I do believe the warm weather has set in to stay, and we’re not going to have any more frosts (you never know, it has snowed here as late as July, in the far-off distant past… more recently it was snowing here a mere 14 days ago). Last weekend I prodded Rob into coming out to the backyard and helping me with some yardwork; we filled in one vegetable garden that I’d ridiculously dug last year underneath a bunch of trees (what can I say, I’ve never made my own garden before and I was going for symmetry!) so that it was in the shade at all times and absolutely nothing grew there, not even shade-loving plants. We also enlarged the other vegetable garden to make up for the loss of the first one. That was the most entertaining part… digging up sod and bringing it over to cover the sucky garden. We’d find worms, and throw them at each other, because we were pretending we were five. I dared Rob to lick a worm and he ALMOST DID before I stopped him. “Baby,” he said, “I’m the kid who would eat stuff for money in school”. Remind me to never dare him to do anything again. We also cleared out the flower beds and got them ready for planting.
So, le petit jardin is all ready to go. Tomorrow I am heading to the garden centre to pick up what I need (this year, for example, my tomato plants will have actual tomato cages, so that they’re not flopping around everywhere). I can’t believe how excited I am about this. Like, you know when you were a kid, and got super excited because your parents were taking you to the circus? Well that’s how excited I am. The worm and dirt circus! With bugs! And more dirt~! And manure, don’t forget the manure!I promise photos, once things are more than just a couple of piles of dirt.
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Did you ever know
May 10, 2007 by Louise
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Also!
May 9, 2007 by Louise
I am kind of lame, because of my baldness.
Alright, here’s me explaining.
At school, the kids are selling raffle tickets. They’ve raised about $5000 so far (which is HUGE for our school — first of all there just doesn’t seem to be much school spirit, secondly it’s a small community so it’s hard to sell $5000 worth of ANYTHING, I’d imagine) and they are hell-bent on selling another $5000 worth. Why? Because if they do, our principal (a very stately lady in her late 40s) promises she will dye her hair (with permanent dye) blue and red. Our vice-principal says he will shave his head. Several other teachers have pledged to do silly things like shave off/dye their hair– I’ve said I’d take a pie in the face because, well, I have nothing to dye or shave off (I told the kids I’d take off my wig and let them draw on my head with magic markers but they weren’t all that excited about that). I really think we can make it. I mean, seeing their teachers make fools of themselves– it’s as though we’re offering them Red Sox tickets or something. They go insane for that kind of thing.
Also? We’re cool. When I was in junior high, none of my teachers would’ve even done a little tap-dance to entertain us. But then that was back before tapdancing was invented.
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Consumerism
by Louise
We’re still trying to figure out what to do with our bedroom. I realize that a new mattress is first priority, what with the one we have practically giving us puncture wounds every night, but oh, how I’d love to redecorate the whole dang house. I love the idea that we have an entire house here that we can decorate. I’ve been checking out various websites for ideas. I really like some of the Studio RTA furniture, especially a couple of their end tables. My problem is that I like so many pieces individually but they’d probably never look right all together (Remember me? I’m the girl who just buys whatever the mannequin’s wearing, so that I don’t have to try and put together an outfit or anything).
But, I’m starting small. Maybe some new curtains for the kitchen, and I’d love to paint the bathroom this summer. That sounds good.Category General | Tags: | Comments Off
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I’m still on that whole “I wanna take a vacation” thing.
by Louise
I know, after today’s news about the new contract coming up and such, that I shouldn’t even be thinking of leaving the house (yes, the new contract must now force me to become a bitter hermit, living behind the hot-water heater and getting my nutrients by licking old chip bags) but I can still dream, can’t I? I can dream of a trip to Gay Paree, or of a Pigeon Forge cabin rental, or an all-inclusive trip on a cruiseship (preferably the kind that doesn’t sink).
Or, I could stay here, licking chip bags and living under trailers, eating old rope and stuff to stay alive.
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