Who ARE We?!

Waltz with me in the street
avoid the murder car
and look at a mouse.
Friends bloopers until three a.m.
[Ross caaannnnnnn]

Beet red tomato prediction came true!

Happy Easter :)

Pat: Never change.

Day/Night

Remember when you were little? How, in the bright summer days, your parents would line up your toy dinosaurs at the windowsill, giving them a glimpse of what they were missing out there?

When night fell those dinosaurs would radiate the light of the day. They'd sneak into your room, one by one, and your parents would tell you to go find them. Remember searching through your dark room for that rosy glow coming from under your covers, your closet, your drawers?

Remember being terrified of forgetting one in case it came alive and ate you?

Just A Writer... But My Pal.

[The last post I posted was my 365th. Finally, after three years.]


Days like these
with that Spring smell around
remind me of
childhood.

Scrape of chalk on concrete,
bouncing balls above wires and
hool-ing hoops around arms.

The clack of street hockey
as I watched Nicks friends play.

Skinned knees from trying too hard,
blood from a skateboard accident and
my name hollered from
front porches when the sun

goes

down.



Boy: I can't cross my legs.
Me: Really?
Boy: Yeah, my pants are too tight.
Girl: Liar! You can't cross them without pants on either.

And something about a big friendly bear.

Run Away

Sometimes, when I'm sitting on the bus, I wonder what would happen if there was an accident and no one could escape this bus? How would the drama unfold? Would the old lady next to me offer to share her mystery meat sandwich, or would she quickly gobble it down before we noticed? And, of course, the inevitable: who would be eaten first?

But then, of course, we drive out from under the Decary expressway and these thoughts disappear. I go home and forget about this near-death experience until tomorrow.

After Math

I miss doing this, especially now that life is so full and memorable. There are things that I want written down.

Most of it would be pointless boy drivel... but it makes me happy :)

In Memoriam

I Hate To Be a CopyCat

But I am.
This project is over.
Thanks for reading.

I like your style.

Text

No pictures.... yet.

But we'll try and do this anyway.

Tuesday, January 19th

Avery's birthday!!! Woohaa.
Plan sprung into action at 8:00 sharp with my wakeup from a night of no sleeping.

Hopped on the bus [with stereotypically bearded man, haha] and, like, forever later I was there.

Avery: Anna!

Thanks for helping, Jess :)
Went to the Oval and felt like a real Abbotteer.

NoName: You know how I know you're best friends?

Got chatted up by some random guy who submitted Avery to [not that kind] of test. Which she lost. Better luck next time.
Everyone left me... but then Geedi found me!
We talked nonsense and then she left me... and then Avery was back!

Do you always have water bottles like that? /high pitched voice

Met up with Dad and then sat in the basement and fantasized about singing men. Sigh.
Home, nap, dinner. School tomorrow!



Monday, January 18th
Boring day.


Sunday, January 17th
Out with Kim and Daniel in the afternoon, over to Angrignon.

Kim: Am I a bad driver?
NotKim: No, I felt very safe.
Kim: Really? Thanks!
NotKim: ...

NotKim: Don't drop that pill.
...drops.
NotKim: What did I JUST say?!
Kim: I am going to eat it anyway.

She bought her headphones then we headed over to the mall and did some other stuff.
Bus back to Daniel's video store and picked out [rather disturbing] films.

Facetious.

Does your mom touch people?

Back home for dinner, then POWER OUTAGE and scary X-Files music in the night time.



Saturday, January 16th
...not much.
Attempted to repair my laptop and went to bed frustrated and with a giant headache at like 9:30.



Friday, January 15th
Went light shopping in the morning, confusing stores.
Met Dana at Namur in the afternoon after some debating, but ended up great!
Even though it was the wrong movie, but it was a good wrong movie. With a surprisngly un-creepy Phillip Seymour Hoffmann. Woop.
Talked music, then bus home for a dinner of muffin. Good stuff.

Turrrrrrrrtle

Today is coming.



Alone.
Applied for so many jobs *finger crossed* and requests for information.
Here's hoping!
Over to Dorval in the afternoon, picked up some stuff.
Conversations in the night-time... suddenly over.

Only you.

Wednesday, January 13th.
Not much.
Watched tv with Nick in the evening.

Where Are We?
Went to Carrefour Laval with Mom - didn't get lost!

Me: Screw instructions! We're going rogue!

Spent a few hours figuring out that giant mall... rather successfully!
Got new clothes and Mom got tea. Woop.

Until Death Didn't Want Him
Good books!

Muffstuff
Muffin over in the afternoon and Dad and I out for a walk with the dogs.
Watched the airplanes go by and checked out mouse holes in the field.
Nana and Poppa over for [a late] St. Hubert's dinner!
Yum yum.

Nellyphant

See?
Went out in the morning and got calendars! Love them.
Had a chat, then some lunch and finished my book.
Job researching after dinner, hmmm. Interesting.

Anniversary

AH!
Made a sock monkey.
Gave it to mom.

Olive Face
Over to the grocery store [and its smell of marijuana and extremely crowded pepperoni aisle] in the afternoon.
Picked up all the essentials... plus olives.
Back to my place to waste a bunch of time playing games and virtually stalking people and thennn -
Prepare!
Each had our duties, good job everyone!
Waited for it to cook and drank our drinks.
I Love You, Man and fuzzy blankets. Delicious donuts.
Gooooood stuff.

BATTLE
Finger twister + alcohol = today

OutsideIn
A whole lotta mall.

Big Day Out
Timmy's for lunch-ish, murmured conversations and then off to the library!
Well... back to the terminus, actually.
But then off to the library!
Lounged in the gazebo, and then made all sorts of wonderful plans.

Year Spaceship

Inuk.
Out for a photoshoot on the lake, along with watching some skaters try avoid dogs.
Sought respite from the wind so went back up to the cottage while Dad got a few last runs in.
Packed up and said goodbye - thanks, everyone!
Car ride home with annoying cds, then catching up with everything in Montreal.

Because he's our favourite.

Sliding party!

Zoomzoom
Up and had a bit of a snowshoe with Nana through the woods across the street, very pretty trees.
Andrea up around 2, after her extremely long and stressful trip, haha.

Her: I was going to bring my guitar... but we brought Corey instead.

Enjoyed that story, then went out to do some sliding! Got a bunch of runs in, and watched people crash and fall down a lot.

NotMe: I think I have a wrist concussion... I can't remember hurting it.

Pasta for dinner, prepared by Andrea.
3rd degree.

Canada: How many kids do you have?
Mexico: One, actually.
...life story.

Interesting.
Cleaned up and sat around talking.

From the cock to the ass.
...that expression doesn't work so well in English.

Had a giant discussion about dictionaries and the word Google... just let it go.
Bed eventually.

Giant/Shrimp
<3
Love cottage winter.
Up way, wayyyyy too early for New Years Day. Ugh.
Crawled into the car and rocked out on the way to the cottage.
Arrived in the snow and immediately went to sit down on the couch.
Got dragged out for a really nice snowshoe down the lake with Nana, Dad and the noisy dogs. Beautiful day!
Back for a yummy sausage dinner and in bed at 7:30.
[10:00 cottage time, hahah]

Reunition Tradition
New Years Eve!!
Met up with Avery after dinner, after figuring things out all day long.

Boy: I got it.
Girl: You're good at getting things. Like laid.
Boy: True dat.

Walked over to Matt's in the cold, had a beer and chatted with him and Jordan - fun!
No grade six reunion, amputee gym teacher and being drunk in class.
Stayed longer to save him from awkwardness, but finally left when others showed up.
Over to Jess's and found a whole lot of food waiting for us!
Did the usual, sat, talked and drank :)
Re-enacted prom mishaps, hahaha.

DrunkGirl: I don't remember that!

Counted down!
[I'm still upset the last song I heard in 2009 was Justin Beaver...]
And attempted to crack some crackers at the moment of the new year. Fail.
Left not too long after that, Avery's dad picked her up and I walked back to Matt's, wishing people well on the way.

ANNA!

Came and saved him. Helped clean up a bit, then relaxed at the table once the disgustingly drunk Duffy was gone.

Me: What was his name?
Him: Honestly... I don't even know.
Me: I. Love. You.

Didn't think there were many of that sort around there.

Heard the best story ever, then made Avery really happy, then got a lift home from JP.
Bed at 2:22.
Wonderful, wonderful night.

Peter... Petrelli?

Review
Had a lazy morning, then went over to Lachine mall with Mom to pick up some stuff.
Got my notebook!
Home and hardcore gluing - took a couple of hours but it's done now.
With only one page-peeling incident going on.
Sang a little embarrassing song too many times and was angry with redundancy.
Got it figured out in the end.

Cat Butts!
Long day, and then Anne!
Sitting in front of the fire with purple tea, cookies and fruit loaf... yum.
Chatted about... the regular stuff, hehe.

Anne: Is that for colonic irrigation?
NotAnne: I don't know but you're gonna need a couple of splash boards and a U shaped tube.

Me: So when you get together with all your gay minstrel friends you'll have something to talk about!

Bigger dyke and Dirt.

They left around ten, took a fecal mint on the way, and I stayed up to watch Six Feet Under. Woop!
Fun night :)

Rummy 1000
Up in the morning, showered and downtown with Dad!
Loaded up on all sorts of cd's and dvd's... we'll be occupied for a while.
Listened to the beginning of the first Gaslight Anthem on the ride home - sounds pretty good so far.
Played cards with Mom in the afternoon, I started off well... but it was downhill from there. Oh well. That seems to happen a lot.

Coming to the End
The end of Christmas is sad... but it's not quite done yet!
Didn't do much today, I don't think.
Can't really remember, actually.

Freytastic

Thank You
Getting new stuff to replace my old stuff makes me sad.
My possessions have feelings, too.
Slow, lazy day. Got halfway to the bank, but then it started raining so I turned around.
Read some more of my book and... yep. About it.

MErry CHRIStmas!
Wizard Patrick, hahaha.
Slept in a bit, no rush to open presents.
Showered and almost ate breakfast, then thought better of it.
Over to Nana's around 11:00 - yummy brunch!
Mmmmmm, cherry buns. My favorite.
People and dogs left, so Ernie and I turned on the spelling bee.

NotMe: Double R!! Double R!!

It got pretty intense.
Finally family showed up - Brenda, Emily, Katie... but no Duffy this year.
Got the crackers organized, good job guys.
Martha, Yves, Pat, Annik and Melissa were next, then the Burns gang.
Handed out stockings!

Anna, I love your body.

Scratch and sniff toothbrushes!!

NoNut: I won't get one, I'm allergic to nuts.
Nut: Unless...

Cousin gift game went well, with one unfortunate stealing incident.
Jesus showed up in his Snuggie.
Back into the living room for more gifts! Holey moley.
Nice sweater, Emily.
A few glasses of wine later, we were singing in the corner.

Mmm tss ahh tss mmm tss ahh tsss
PUT YOUR HANDS UP

What's goinches?
Get your hand out of my goinch.

We really should take that on tour.
Finally dinner time! Found our sweaters then headed down into the... dark. Every year.
The food was delicious, and after a minor discussion I gave a little speech :)
Shared family memories - I love us.
Ate wayyy too much and had no room left for dessert, aww.
Back upstairs and cleaned and hugged and talked and then left.
[with my favorite present of all :) ]
Lay in bed for a while, smiling.

Merry Christmas, world.

Active!

Eve
Skating!!!
Winter sports rock.
Up in the morning, too early.
Met Avery and caught the bus, found our way to the rink.
Managed to tie skates well enough and hobbled our way up the stairs!
So much fun :)

I feel like a mother duck.

Home, power nap [or not] then got ready to go out.
Mormor's for dinner with the family, good stuff and cute babies.
Home annnnnnnd - presents!!
Everyone is happy, I love Christmas :D

It's Christmastime Again
Finally - success!
I love Zellers. [The Quebec version, with 2 l's.]
Over to Nana's to help set up Christmas with Kelly and Terrianne.
Yummy soup and cheese dreams, then baby pictures!

Your family had a whole bonnet theme, eh.

Red baby!

Dad returned from hockey and picked me up, went home to shower.
Walked Noodle, then took the right bus, but still didn't see the people I was supposed to.

Where are you?
...where are YOU?

It all worked out in the end.
Shenanigans! Nice place, even with crazy dancing drunk "lady".

NotDaniel: I'm sad and alone.
Daniel: You're never alone when we're around! Love line!

HatFinder: I may be homeless, but I have good taste.

Beast Kim [Husband beater]

Successfully managed a smoke on the bus, to the amusement of Nick's fan.

What are you, an astronaut??

Bed at 1:23.

Daring
Out in the morning with my Dad to pick up pre-ordered gifts + bagels. Yum!
Home, made plans with Kim and ate a bagel. Yum!
Met up with her, met Mia on the bus [cliffhanger] then said goodbye to her.
Made our way to Fairview and, after ransacking Le Rouet, got to the food court to see Jess, Avery and Geedi!

Me: You're my favourite thing!
NotMe: My favourite thing is shredded cheese.

Walked around with two of them, learning disappointing things about gifts I wanted to buy :(
Went home.
Dinner, "A Christmas Story", Daniel and driving with Kim!
With only one abrupt stop.
Did something daring but which was ultimately a great idea!
She rocks :)
Walked home in extreme softness.

FlyBy

Finish and Start
Loafed in the morning, then cleaned some stuff up.
Out with Mom in the afternoon, spent more money.
Ughh.
Home and finished a book, finally! Longest ending ever.
Dinner and tv. Uneventful.

RallyAl

mumble mumble
Katie: What's that?
mumble mumble
Katie: AHH! Oh, hi Mom.

I arose early to the sound of Katie's alarm clock... not mine. Told her to stay put and went to register!
Worked out awesome, after some initial Dana stress. But we'll be buff by year's end.
Crawled back into bed and waited until Brenda scared us out.
Prepared a yummy brunch and helped Katie decide about her day.
Finally sang to Martha!
Got dropped off at the bus station... :(
Almost made it to Syracuse... thankfully someone told me.
Said "KIRKLAND" loud and proud, as instructed.
Dozed on the bus, watched a great sunset and made it home in one piece.

I forgot my pie. Of course.

Canada!
I love Ottawa.
Crawled out of bed around 10:30 and stumbled upstairs to find a missing Brenda and an out-of-place notepad.
Watched a whole lot of Friends bloopers!
Brenda finally returned and we got down to our baking plans.
Truffles, cookies, turtle bars and a penis later, we were finally done.

Daughter: I don't know how it looks! You do it!

Headed over to the mall to pick up gifts... didn't work out.

Me: I wasn't expecting them to have an Olympic snuggie...

Froze our faces off but got back in time to watch a few more videos online and say goodbye to busy Brenda.
Ordered pizza and garlic sauce [or not, after all...] online and I whooped Katie's ass in rummy while we waited.
Ate and watched Anne!
Surprisingly better than I expected... even though my mom ruined it for me.
Loafed until Brenda returned to pick us up for the late show ;)
Pretty good! Gotta love a man in a suit.
Home, bed.

Are we sleeping now?



FREYDAY
There is a [cheating] picture coming.
Up in the morning, showered and did my hair all before catching the bus!
Got dropped off the stop and got confused while eavesdropping.

ExPetOwner: I found my dog Boo dead this morning...
or
ExPetOwner: I found my baboon dead this morning...

Who knows.
Got a seat on the bus, phew. Thankfully not next to the mumbling drooling lady.
Met Brenda and Duff at the station! Woop.
Went home with them and had a nice chat while Katie did her exam.
Was left alone for a while to read.
Finally everyone came back to me and we were all happy.
Had yummy mac and cheese!
Over to Ken's and then Matt's afterward, taking the long way... several times.
A bit of a fail night, but still a good time.

NotLlew: And you have a penis on your leg.
Llew: Uh... and this imprint on my face.

Someone: Let's put his hand in warm water!
SomeoneElse: ...he's on your couch.

Spent a lot of time touching anatomy... mostly top-of-mouths and toes.
Drove home with a stop off at McDonalds where guys hit on us.
And s'mores pies!!
Indulged... yum.
Sat on the couch and talked :)

Select

Flatter
Hello, friends.
Bought my bus ticket!
Went out and met Avery in the [blistering] cold.
Good word!
My poor ears.
Bus was early, thankfully. Met up with Jess then wandered at Fairview a while until Geedi showed up.
Ate, wandered more, then waited for bus home.
Scored some free tea, yumm.
Got part of my schedule - woop! So happy.
Sat and read in front of the fire, so lovely.

Wednesday
Non-day.

[I see you tomorrow. Way to melt.]

SantAnna
Headed downtown to hand in my paper - last time I'll be there for a while.
Hit up some stores for gifties and had an amazing run-in with a fellow fan.

Fan: That book exists?!

Fan: I wonder if he's based on a real guy...
Me: If he is I would like to meet him.

Donated some to the firemen. Woop.
Headed home and wrapped!
Stuffed 'em under the tree.
Welcome home, Christmas.

Hanky Panky
Oh man.
Finished last assignment of the semester! Woop.
Stayed up to watch the finale... so worth it.

I'm a woman now.

Peopletastic

Smile!
Caught the bus with Avery at one after making sure the church wasn't on fire [shhh!].
Had some confusion where we got off the bus...
...and got back on. We tend to do that.
A friendly man spoke to us.

NotMe: I don't like friendly people.

Ran into him again at Timmy's... hm.
Sat for a long time and Avery enjoyed her soup and butter very much.

Crack it open and there's pie!
Crack it open and there's butter!

I never pushed you through my vagina.

Bussed home and attempted to do some work but never did.
Other stuff.

EXCITEMENT
Out to the Grahams to spread some Christmas cheer but...

StuartOrAndrew: Sorry, they're sleeping.

Decided not to wake them up and headed over to Nana's instead.
Brenda!
Got a novel and a very sweet note <3
More people arrived.

Me: I'm sorry. This is a 'moist'-free zone.

Watched some dogfights and then dinner!
Yummy pasta and funky bread.
Tulio folding his napkin into a box, hahaa.

Nick: I'm the only qualified napkin-holder here.

Waited a very long time for dessert, which was totally worth it except for that lemony part.
Had a fulfilling chat with someone on the phone. I needed that.
Watched handicapped curlers and talked about pubic hair.
Checked out Christmas lights on the drive home, stopped for a second and grabbed alcohol then headed out again!

Sociables!

Chimmy Chonga

Air hump

Sarah: Hold on! Angle yourselves into the light, yeah, that's it. Perfect.

Discussed all sorts of smutty things and watched the usual stuff.

Hold on - where's my bra?

Were sneaky with Mia, hehe. We are good people.
Lift home, yay!
FUN night :)

Good Thai-ms
Got a surprise lift to Dawson from Dad, woop!
Gave Mom a mini-tour, picked up some papers and got some marks. Yay!
I love compliments.
Took the metro to Angrignon -

Mom: I've never been this way! This is so exciting!

And then caught the 195 right as it was leaving. Good timing!
Did some Christmas shopping, was pretty successful. Bought some food and then left.
Waited a bit for the bus... brrrr.
Eventually got to sit together.
Frigid walk home.

I'm sad...

Sat at the table for a while... listened to depressing things.
Went to bed for a while then emerged for dinner.
Into bed, exhausted.

Talking Without Talking

Burn Baby Burn
Woo!
Up and had breakfast in bed... love winter break!
Met up with Jess on the bus and arrived at the mall. Did a walk-through with a brief stop at Coles.
Waited outside in the wind and the cold for the torch... for a long time. Watched 35 police cars roll by.

The rest of the city must be rioting.

Saw the torch! Yelled and shook our tambourines, hahaha.
Waited for the bus for an hour... finally were frozen enough to call in help from my mom, who gladly rescued us.
Jess bought bread then we went home.
Had some hot chocolate, then off to Lakeside!

Annnnnnnnnnaaa!

Saw my people... awwww.
Talked with Patrick and Courtneybrown through most of it, love her.
Made plans with her and Schwartz.

NotCB: I don't know what you like to do, but I'm sure we can find a common interest somewhere!
CB: I'm sure we'll end up canoeing or something...

Home for soup, yum yum.
Out after dinner to the rink with Poppa and Dad, skated a bit then watched the game and split a drink :)
awwwwwwww.
Had a really good time there, then came home to talk with friends.
Good day!

Santa's jizz. Also the origin of the term 'white Christmas'

Ride It Out

+1
Late start to the day, love it.
Finished my project ^^^ and hauled it off to school swaddled in plastic bags because...
BLIZZARD!!!
Bus was pretty prompt, thankfully.
Made it in on time and talked with [confused] Dana's friends:

NotMe: So, where are you from?
Me: Lachine, on the West Island.
NotMe: So like... Ontario?

Went to class and impressed everyone with my skillz.
"Enjoyed" everyone's presentations...
Got to leave early!
Went to IGA and bought wax paper and a Kinder Surprise, which was less fun without Matt.
...the Kinder Surprise, not the wax paper.
Bus home, speedy.
Fire!! Almost burnt down the house... thankfully Mom came to the rescue.
Breakfast for dinner! My favorite.

[mind = blown]

X-Files and Glee finale! Ahh!

NotKatie: You're easy. Loose.
Katie: Uhhh...
NotKatie: Ah! Not easy! Not loose!

Sprinkles
TUESDAYYYYYYY
Survived Evil Santa in the morning and got off to class.
Killed my hand through my English exam and Humanities essay.... but now they're done!
woooooooo!

Teacher: This sounds like an orchestra of snot.

Home earlier than usual and had a yummy sandwich for lunch.
Bummed around for a while and then remembered I had to photocopy stuff... almost didn't get it done but then did. Woop.
Philo presentation - 100%!

NotMe: But... when am I going to see you again?
Me: ...never?

Home, dinner, stuff.

Shove your tits down its throat!



Monday
Non-day.

Oh, it was cold yesterday, that proves global warming doesn't exist.
No, that proves you're an idiot.