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Friday, July 10 [10 Jul 2009|04:30pm] Holy sunshine!!!! wicked nice day. wearing ~ did the work day in black jeans (friday), a black tee and a blue summer shirt. :) ~ but the evening will be in shorts as we (family) come together to help my m&d move into their new digs. :) planning ~ wanted an easy friday... had a total-madness friday. ~ everything that could go wrong with things at work ... did. Fortunately ... all I do is fix things... I don't make these problems. :D ~ gym at lunch... omg... awesome totally rocking the "work myself to the bone" zone in the gym. :D I love the endorphine rush after... ~ help family with my parents move.... wishing ~ that 99catsaway doesn't drop any paperwork on the subway... and turns the office into a copy of the rainforest cafe... just for fun. :) ~ for crayolaphoenix's friend ... to come home from "the show" in good health... with four limbs and good eyes. :) ~ and that kitiara remembers that "selective memory" is a very significant feature of the penis controlling brain. :D Birthday moments... A very happy birthday to my friend, bloojanuary. May work be kind to you... your main squeeze be fresh with you... and sales people... bow down and suck your toes. :) Have a lovely birthday sugar-january. You're a wonderful friend to have found here. :D :D /// Recently overheard: "We walk through the city, through life... surrounded by people who have to pop anxiety, depression, or even aggression-management medications just to survive, not go mental or whatever. And that's ok. I live in the same world, have the same pressures, stresses and family issues... I smoke a joint at night... helps me relax and sleep and la la la... and I'm a criminal? Fuck that." LOL... three cheers man. I practically started clapping... but then my eavstrophishness would have been revealed. :D // To trace to fabric of your beautiful body... Breathing the air that fills me with you, The soft... the hard... the tender... and the scars... I could not possibly love you more. And all I dream about... is that you'll love me back. / Answer: Jumps from the car, pushing the trunk release... Throws the heaviest thing in the open trunk at the drivers-side window as he drives away. Breaking glass, screeching tires. Run towards the stopping car... Full kick slams the opening door against his emerging body Screaming... Wrenching the door open, he moves to jump out and attack. Only to feel a knee cap dead centre in his chest... Collapsing... an elbow to the back of his neck... He sprawls beside his running, damaged car... And as I stand there... I unzip, wiggle it out... and pee all over him. Oh wait... after he punched my lights out through the car window... I didn't jump from the car, pushing the trunk release... I just lay there... bleeding on my moms car seat. So afraid... And no idea I had cut him off at that intersection. Question: ~ why do you have a heavy table leg in the trunk of your car? (a random moment from the Corto-At-Eighteen memory bank) ~ k... time to go help people carry boxes. :D Love... can make almost anything bearable. 3 shots|give

Thursday, July 9 [09 Jul 2009|11:29pm] ~ the day before moving day for my folks. We spent the evening helping move stuff over... clearing out fridges, and stuff. :) And now it's sunny. :) Thursday... I'm NOT off work... but it is a beautiful day. Hot even. :) Look what we unearthed. It's my sis's for sure... But we HAVE GOT to get this stuff on eBay. Total original 1960's Barbie stuff... and lots and lots of it... wearing ~ does a beige day. :) ~ no tie... just trousers, white tee and a surgical green comfy summer top. planning ~ eh... got some new drama at work... and it will take the rest of the summer to sort it out. ~ but who cares... because I got to have lunch with one of my all-time-most-favorite women in the world. :) (High school best-friend, haven't seen for twenty years.) wishing ~ for dawna to find that art, talent and the truth win in the end. :) ~ to truly wish for the best ever vacation to wrap itself around canuckgirl, ~ that caroline75 gets a little sleep... ~ and to thank zaxwrit for sharing. /// A smarty pants dig at a guy, delivered without kindness, that makes a pun out of the old "size-matters" turn-of-a-phrase... Ought not to be delivered by a fat girl, lest she receive the withering stare that pretty much means... "o'reeeeeely". // A boss's birthday ... really really nice cake. [ :: the cake maker's web page :: ] So listen... ~ any chance you'll click that cake link... maybe repost it and say "awesome cake girl starts new business, check her out" or something? I'm thinking any kind of activity like that could get her up a notch on a search engine or two. She's a SIL of a co-worker... and this could be a "use our awesome might for the forces of good" thing... :D www.freewebs.com/sweetdesignscakes / Just sitting and being with someone that your heart, body, mind and soul considers to be a truly precious friend... Is a pleasure beyond measure. K... gotta go. :) 4 shots|give

Wednesday, July 8 [08 Jul 2009|08:09pm] ~ you can't tell in the pic... but a lot of the weeds are back. Little bastards. loads of rain... with patches of beautiful. so, yeah, weird day. ~ but there was some serious kick ass rain in the middle of the afternoon... (out the windows at work, but apparently, not here at home. :D) just awesome pounding rain. I kinda, sorta selfishly, dig getting up in the house full of sleeping monkeys with summer solstice 7:00 sunshine and taking care of getting myself off to work... which includes a great big breakfast with Perry - my fav platypus - on the tube and everybody else (except the cat) sleeping away. :D wearing ~ eased up a bit and dropped the whole tie thing. ~ but... day three with the dark trousers... which appear to be "pilling" on the top of the thigh, and - of course - nowhere else. ~ black tee, blue summer shirt. :) planning ~ eh... it was Wednesday. Today... blink blink gone! ~ made it to the gym at lunch... which does, btw, translate into me becoming a puddle of sweat and clingy fabric ... (and I re-animate in the shower. :D) ~ and steaks for dinner... ~ then off to my folks house to force them to let us help with the packing a little. :) wishing ~ to point out that my day was way better than yours because I got to talk to little-mrs-awesome on the phone... and ~ that odyssey_road feels the respect she deserves for taking on hard choices. Sends you some lj love... Birthday moments... Happy birthday suburbiadaze. :) I hope the year and the job both reward you well. And happy birthday dana7880, if you're out there... :D I hope you're having fun and that you had a grand day today. /// I honestly do NOT understand why there is no big hugh and cry over the abject failure of the Chalk River Nuke Plant (Medical Isotope Land) and the fact that, the government FIRED the former director of that facility when she said the plant was not ready (back in 2007) to work without further repairs and was in danger of having a much more challenging failure if left unchecked. Now... is "more challenging failure" time... She was so right and she was sooooo smacked down by the government for taking the time to be right. ~ time to go... off to units. :D see ya. 4 shots|give

Tuesday, July 7 [07 Jul 2009|09:06pm] Yeah... rain. again. eh. Last weekend was way good. Enjoyed the time we had with our nephew hanging out... Got the fire pit, camp fire zone, sorted out... 30' from the house... la la la... (slaps a bug...) And got to a skate park a couple of times since the last time I posted. :) So life is good. wearing ~ dark... gray trousers, blue shirt, tie... all day. ~ although, it's shorts, tee and a little blankee from mexico on my lap, now. :) planning ~ hello Tuesday... what drama can you unleash on my clients today? ~ staying two steps ahead of my clients ... makes for painless days of work. ~ hoping to watch "The International" tonight... (Hello, Mr. Owen?... meet mz watts...) wishing ~ that odyssey_road feels nice and smartypants with her dino-tails... :D ~ for tonya's back to not hurt... too much... tomorrow. ~ to smile at all that is wonderful about kristiseriously... ~ and that cynica manages to find Buble bedsheets... 300 thread count would be fine. :) Birthday moments... From several days ago... (the fourth), but never forgotten, happy birthday iamharmony. She's been a friend in lj for ages... and in the last year she has challenged herself to "go forth" into the world. She's not posting much in Lj lately... because she is [ :: HERE :: ], in Kenya... making a difference in the world. Go click that link and visit her. May the year be made of win. and from yesterday... Happy birthday jeremyb I hope the land of you... is a happy place. :D To greenwavedave, a very happy birthday indeed. I hope the year ahead brings you a few worthy rewards. :) and a quiet little shout out "Happy Birthday" to little long lost sugar... greyenigma. I'm sure you're having a blast... /// Have iPhone and a shuffle. Shuffle for skiing and skateparks. iPhone in gym and walking around. So I go through this goofy process of buying "in ear" ear buds that will be "low enough profile" to wear under my ski helmet. Takes three different sets of buds (bought, tried, returned, new set) to realize that the "on ear" ear buds that came with the shuffle work great under the helmet and all the "in ear" jobs feel like pencils being RAMMED into my ear with the ear-covering-ski-helmet. Gah. So..... I ended up with these "marshmellow" in-ear buds. Very inexpensive... and ultimately???? they suck cock. I started with a pair of JBL boxing day specials that were awesome fab... but not low enough profile so I stupidly returned them. sigh. Now? Now the ear buds that came with the iPhone (that have a microphone and a "multi function" button on the microphone) are literally wearing out. Almost dead. So... the marshmellows, that suck and the earbuds that are dying. I explain all this to Futureshop sales guy. He explains that because the new apple shuffle will have a "voice activated" feature, apple has opened up the show to the market to make compatible ear buds. Therefore, come the fall, there will be bunch of new models with microphones, etc. So instead of buying expensive replacements for your iphone, and a marginal set for your shuffle... "here, lets mark these down and use these until the fall." These JVC "in ear" buds scanned at 60+$ and he sets the price to 18$ and says "come back and get your other ones when the new product comes on-line." This is called... "happy customer making" and dude gets full marks. Score two points for Futureshop. (edit: and if these were overpriced at 60 or going on sale... it hardly matters... 18$! :D) // I, as some random others, can develop a lower back ache of quite some significance as a direct result of being constipated or, basically just really needing to release the hounds. Going to bed soooo tired that you basically fall asleep on the sofa, and relocate to the bed in the tiny hours... is a recipe for missing essential bed time steps... like brushing teeth... taking allergy medication, or dropping the kids off at the pool. So after a massive crash and burn, I wake up on Saturday morning with a killer sore back. Proving, once again, that it's possible to shit out a back ache, and get on with your day. / Hi. :) 6 shots|give

Friday, July 3 [03 Jul 2009|08:01pm] I'm having an off day. I'm a wee bit on edge. :( Ramp Project (Stage Two) was forestalled by the distinct lack of standard 3/8" plywood at the lumber yard. Of course, I only realize this after loading a cart up with two giant 3/4" plywood sheets and two 1/4" sheets of masonite. I have to wait for next week... 'cuz I have to rent their van to bring the wood home and I'm only doing that once. :) Heavy rain today. Lots and heavy. Did a grout-repair job in our shower and ripped out a little hole in the wall to fix a "wet-shower-leaked-through-problem-grout" spot. The repair is ongoing... :) Ribs for dinner. Corto's famous ... and unparalleled best-ribs-in-the-universe for dinner. wearing ~ nice shorts... ~ interpretive dance tee... planning ~ yeah... job jar, and ignoring the rain. ~ wanted to go to the gym... but I put that off till tomorrow morning... and go with zee. ~ more basement cleaning - read: "do you want to keep this toy? No? Good" (Pile One) "and this one? Yes? You sure? Yes?" (Pile Two). ~ going for family game night... going to make everyone play a board game... "Playing a Game, Unplugged". wishing ~ that bardiva makes it to Daniel Boone... ~ to send a little love to darkbay... just 'cuz... ~ and that zaxwrit would take and post before and after pictures... :) /// and suddenly everything I own is too big. weight hasn't changed. I weigh about 156-159... with only a long sigh and short flush between them. But it must be moving to different parts of me because everything is very lose. :( // Having anger management issues on account of EBay. I can't convince their system to mail me my freaking user id... It's the one user-id and password combo that I seem to constantly lose track of. I NEED to figure it out though... because "Naked Cell Phone" (the folks I ebay bought my cell phone case "the speck" from) are offering a replacement... IF I can find my ebay records for the purchase. gah. / I got our "fire permit" today. Brush fires, camp fires, open air fires. Cool. We're going to make a camp-fire pit. :) :) 6 shots|give

Thursday, July 2 [02 Jul 2009|09:12pm] ~ and so it starts... Step one of the "build a quarter pipe" project... Lumber and the coping bar. I cannot get 3/4 inch plywood home in or on my car. So that means I need to borrow a really big car or a truck... Beautiful morning. But that ended completely by 11. Rain ever since. :) In fact... when I was taking the kids to the theater... wicked storm, pounded directly on us. :) We set off our own "bought 'em at Canadian Tire" fireworks last night when we got home from the big show. They were the most awesome'est freaking home-fireworks in the universe. Seriously. (Freak'en loud too... hellooooo neighbors..... LOL. :) wearing ~ shorts... tee... all day. :) planning ~ make waffles, whip cream and strawberries for the boys when I dragged 'em out of bed... ~ eh... gym with Geo around the lunch hour... ~ home depot with Geo a little later... ~ make dinners (z has training over dinner hour, so she and I have dinner late on Thursdays...) ~ drive Geo to two friends houses (picking up) and drop the lot off at the local AMC. ~ and now is now... relaxing on the sofa. wishing ~ for some good news to find it's way to byron... I hope things work out. ~ that my happy friend, canuckgirl, enjoys the long weekend. ~ for ninneviane to get the kitchen cleaned up... ~ and that tomorrow makes today worth while... in the land of kristiseriously /// You know how they say "a rising tide raises all boats" and feed it to you as a business alegory? Let's have a closer look. All the boats rise... to the limit of their anchor lines. The giant ships... no problemo. Give'er. Not enough resources? You little boats... you are swamped. So much for the wonderful rising tide. But wait... all things being equal, the tide goes back out. And the agile little boats, with shallow drafts... rule! Oh... I see. The government doesn't like little boats. So they fill up the harbor, without a thought for those short anchor lines. // I'm reaching the conclusion that the most value I take from Twitter... Is the tweets I get from the companies and quazi famous people. Like... Alan Cross (music guru guy), or "Uncrate", or Futureshop... Semi-strangers flirting with each other in 140-character-efforts... That may be fun for them but ... it makes me feel like a retarded voyeur. The jury is still out. :) / Just say'en... You can go almost anywhere with a snap of kitty yawning after she wakes up. :D ~ see ya. :D 3 shots|give

[01 Jul 2009|11:25pm] Fireworks... IPhone style. :) Posted via LiveJournal.app. 6 shots|give

Wednesday, July 1 [01 Jul 2009|09:08pm] Happy Canada Day. :) Yeah, so the whole messed-up-days-of-the-week thing soldiers on. My brain has today down as a Saturday. The whole world (er... here, in my world) is off work, except the wonderful folks making time and a half at Starbucks. So today is a national "breather day". Of course, a great many Canadians use today as an excuse to cavort... drink... party... They're the smart ones. :D Oh, and the weather-idiots called for cloud, t-storms, and general rain all day. So far... no rain. Lots of sun though. (freaking awesome day!!! - but there are some scary clouds on the horizon. :D) wearing ~ eh... nice shorts, and a white tee... planning ~ a WONDERFUL DAY. ~ up at 9:00... at the skatepark by 10:00... meet a friend there... a junior middle ager... whom I had drag out his three year unattended skateboard... we had fun till noonish... ~ home to go strawberry picking with Suz, the boys and our additional boy... lots of berries. ~ home again... and then pack up after lunch to go to the Celebration (Kanata Recreational Park - KRP... hahaha... - it's a great park - it's where one of the skate parks is at. But today... it's giant air filled bouncy things, paint ball, mid-way rides, dumb-ass-games, and a stage. We came for some rides... and cotton candy. ~ dropped off our charge... he's going to party with his friends till after the fireworks... when we pick him up again (thank the cell phone gods - ttcpg!!) ~ home to have a nice salmon dinner... take Geo out to meet his friends... again, to meet back with us after the fireworks... TTCPG! ~ and now it's now and I'm getting ready to head out with Suz and Ed to see the fireworks. :D wishing ~ I had some time to even load my friends pages ... but that will have to wait till tonight. :D (Very busy day. :D) // Ah yes... the zipper. Oh how my internal organs love thee... NOT. Sigh. / very little compares to a great ass. just say'en. :) 6 shots|give

Friday Tuesday, June 30 [30 Jun 2009|09:38pm] ~ can you see the screaming me? I totally think that pic is sooo cool. :D (back from cake - I blog in broken time) So the run-of-bad-weather starts today - well, yesterday sorta, but the forecast is all about t-storms and wet. If I wake up and it's even remotely dry... I'm going to the big ass skate park immediately. :D I'm sitting on the porch... (after typing the chocolate cake segue down below) and neighbors are blasting away with the fireworks. wearing ~ started out in dark trousers and blue stuff... ~ but it's all about khaki crappy shorts and an old cape cod tee... (imagine... my "cape cod" tee is officially old now.) planning ~ yeah, can't shake that "it's friday" thing... ~ but it's Tuesday, and I'm off... till next Monday. :) (weeeeeeeeeeeee). Of course, the weather idiots say "rain" for the next five days... and it's their fault, ... tyvm. ~ work work... ~ and home to bbq for the instantly-bigger family... ~ and now? ping-pong is happening... pin-ball is happening... and, I do believe chocolate cake is also happening. (gotta git... I'll be back) wishing ~ to congratulate my super star mexican hotty friend, innerly... being a published author and all. :D (go you!!!) ~ that pasticcio has fun at the lake.. ~ and for voicesinherhead... to catch a break. Now. k... Birthday moments... Happy birthday to one seriously busy little mommy sugar, kaleidoscopeeye. May your little lovelies be well, and the reasons you smile... countless. :) Have a great year. /// Our Governor General (a Haitian Canadian woman named Michelle Jean ?sp?) is our head of state. She is (pardon the pun) titular, in that we elect the PM and give a crap about the PM, but the GG gets to be the Queens hander-over'er of PM'ship, If any of that makes sense. Regardless... she "speaks for Canada" and today she was "receiving the credentials of the new Afghanie Ambassador. The news made a moment out of it... because, of course, it's Afghanistan. There was a quote from her, something like "Canada is truly connected to the people of Afghanistan and want so very much to help them..." And then I had to swallow a little bit of throw-up. What a total freaking load of crap. A) We have troops in Afghanistan - dying in Afghanistan - because we're waging war, along with the rest of the has-a-pair countries, theoretically, against the purveyors of Terror. The armed forces in the ass-hole-of-the-planet (Afghanistan) are fighting to maintain our Western way of life and peace. Pretending we're there because we give a rats ass about the Afghanistan people... is pathetic. Sure the soldiers on the ground are doing wonderful things for local people and connecting, etc. etc. blah blah blah propaganda blah... but we WENT THERE and we are STILL THERE... because we committed to fighting the terrorists on their home turf. B) If we really gave a crap about the people, we wouldn't spend all our air time arguing about when we get to leave and turn the fighting over to someone else. We'd be "staying" until the people were fine, etc. But seriously... how the hell would that even be possible. No... I'm no big fan of the role of the GG and I'm even less impressed when she puts words in our collective mouths, and feeds bull shit to the media. // I'm mad at my Speck. "My Speck" is my candy shell speck iPhone case. It's got a broken spot and another about-to-break-spot. It's only a couple of months old. grrr... am writing to Speck with the intention of getting another one, or wall papering the interwebs with pictures of where my speck is broken... / Clearly, I'm going to have to go buy fireworks soon... :( (they're still going off... LOL) 8 shots|give

Monday, June 29 [29 Jun 2009|09:18pm] ~ my order from "Bay Area Amusements" arrived. A complete rubber-ring kit for our pin-ball machine. (The rings have never been replaced... since 1974!) ~ score!!! k... beautiful day... until the dinner hour. Then rain. Lots and lots of blessed - I don't have to water the garden - rain. :D And not bad for a monday in general. This Wednesday is Canada Day... so a National holiday. Government work sites are split between three groups... One is taking M & T off, another is taking T & F off, and the third is just... off all week. So it's a bit of a ghost town at work. :) wearing ~ it's a monday... so beige trousers, but NO tie... just a nice shirt. :) planning ~ again, that monday thing... except seeing as it's the summer holidays... I got to wake up alone, and quietly deal with my own shit instead of making everybody else breakfast and associated "get on that bus" stress... :D Kinda love the beginning of summer holidays for this very reason... well, that and the idea that I don't have to make anybody lunch except myself. :D :D :D ~ gym at lunch... went with coworker-john. ~ picking up my nephew after work... he's staying with us while his moms away this week... he's 17 but ... apparently he's being punished for misbehaving, so "we" are his punishment. Seeing as I don't agree with what he's being punished for... and that there's no venue to talk to my SIL about this kind of thing... I'll just make sure a week at club-corto isn't so bad. :) wishing ~ that phenomenull recovers from the lack of recovery options. ~ to send a basket of corto-love to my friend amythyst... no reason... just because... ~ that angela... er.. pasticcio enjoys leaning up against the jeep... and dresses... appropriately. ~ and to remind nerdular... that's she's earned "happy" and now would be a good time to collect. Birthday moments... Happy birthday to my little nancy... er... cybersweetie :D Have a wonderful birthday little sugar and I hope you find this years passing to be like warm silk brushing past you... a sensation to bring a smile to your lovely lips. :) And to my friend caroline75... who (along with Carlos) brought a little baby into the world the other day... :D (isabella). Congrats, btw. We've been friends here since before Carlos!!! I remember those days... the days of finding him and ... of finding yourself. It is a truly inspirational and wonderful thing to see you celebrating your birthday in such a wonderful place. May this year keep you and your little family safe and happy. :D // After the gym... I pull my car into the Starbucks drive-thru lane. The speaker is fine, but I think the girl inside was having a little trouble with her headset. Her voice was very spotty... blotchy... with blank spots and ... basically like a "the other guys" in a cell phone commercial focused on "Can you hear me now." So I responded with ... "Ye_ I'd Li__ a Gra___ P___ with ____ eeeam, ___ease. ___nk y__" ... just to be a dick. :D then I repeated myself properly... :D Apparently they all have headsets on and can replay it... Well when I got to the window they guy was still wiping away tears of laughter. "Here... this is on us for the best laugh of the day...". :) I love free stuff at starbucks... :D :D :D / I'm not complaining... power to them... In fact, maybe I'm just jealous. The company I work for, makes it impossible to emulate these guys... But I see guys walking up and down in the cube farm ... (work) dressed in shitty jeans and a tee with runners. I mean.. wow. When I was in my 20's... government work happened in jeans and a tee if you worked in the mail room. Everybody else dressed - at worst - in business casual. My first gut-reaction is to complain in my head that this is awful, but... I know in my heart that it's actually the opposite. It's wonderful. "Good at your job" is a reflection of skills... not how you dress. Sadly I still work for a company that formally dictates exactly how they want me to dress. Although they confuse the issue by saying I can emulate the "dress code" of my clients... which really means "Unless the client dress code is for crap, in which case, re-read the part that tells you to wear a tie." :) ah well... I get away with what I can I guess. :) 8 shots|give

Sunday, June 28 [28 Jun 2009|08:05pm] Well... yesterday was supposed to be mix of sun and rain... and today was supposed to be rain and sun. Up until about two hours ago... no rain. :) Got to the big park at around 11 and came home again at 1. Just a few skaters... like six. Four twenty somethings, a couple of younglings and me... Endless carving trails... stopping only because you're out of breath. :) Was so much fun. :D Cops showed up... all in a tizzy... and this one kid books it into the forest near the skate park, backpack and deck in hand. The edge of the park is kind of up-on-a-hill... great vantage point. The cops were chasing this kid all over the place. We could see him thee blocks away jumping over fences to get into someones back yard, etc... Unfortunately for young mister criminal... cop reappears - to reclaim his abandoned patrol car - with skater kid in cuffs. LOL... it was quite entertaining. wearing ~ plaid boxers and a pair of kind-of-plaid shorts... there's some name for this style or pattern ... but it escapes me. :) planning ~ up early... goof around while the sleeping monkeys grind away until noon... ~ leave before 11 to go skateboarding ~ home... and then off on a shoe buying extravaganza with the whole fam. :D ~ made these chicken quesadia (sp?) type wrap things for dinner... ~ now it's now... and I'm on the back porch ... it's cloudy and breezy and... very peaceful. wishing ~ to congratulate little miss do-it-yourself (ninneviane)... :D ~ for the alphabet cop (sassy_red_head to get her consonant ~ and that westhill_mom has a blast finding... the little boxes, etc... :D (geo-fun!) Birthday moments... Happy birthday little jen (whataboutjen). May this next year give you the patience to enjoy the wonder that will fill your days. :) // Just sharing... Anyone remember CFS? Computer Free Saturdays... I still do it... for the most part. I stay off my laptop or pc and don't actually plan any time dedicated at my desk... no picture or video projects, etc. The goal is to make sure I "do other stuff" on the weekend. Job jar, outside activities, stuff with the kids, ... stuff. :) It's been this way ever since the gluttony of "early LJ" and my on-line blog-o-mania feeding frenzy ... I think back in year two. It's year 8?, so... many years of CFS. (that's why I don't post a saturday "daily post") / These "muskol" bug-spray reps... two young girls in Walmart... have this green screen picture gig going on to promote their product. I expect to get a picture in email of my head on some random lumberjack. :) Meanwhile, I got z to snap a pic with my iphone. Now I am tempted to put my head on many things... ~ gohead... :D ~ see ya later sk8rs. :) 6 shots|give

Friday, June 26 [26 Jun 2009|10:09pm] ~ something wicked this way comes... (side of the road on my way home from work) Weird day weather wise... torrential downpours... searing sunshine... big fluffy clouds... nasty looking thunderheads. So? How was Michael Jackson day at your house? lol wearing ~ blue ftls... that I traded for green ftls, after the gym... :) ~ brushed black jeans... ~ white tee... ~ nice "no tuck" blue casual collar shirt. :) planning ~ Wake up ... tell the alarm clock to go to hell. ~ go back to bed till almost 8:00 am... hahahahaha... ~ get up and note all the sleeping monkeys in my house... (Schools over. :D :D) ~ get out by 8:30 with a big smoothy in one hand, a gym bag, backpack and lunch in the other. ~ stop at 'bucks on the way to work and load up... ~ go to the gym with coworker-john and get the glory. ~ back to finish off a Friday. no complaints... I dig my job, it's going well, and ... it's a friday. :D :D :D :D ~ I think I'll stop at Blockbuster on the way home... I want to see something on our big tv tonight. wishing ~ that pasticcio enjoys her new pass time... (I think the word was ... groupy?) ~ for things at the sale to go swimmingly for krizsa ~ that there's a lift in the land of no ~ smiles at the turn of events in jjnslat's zone... ~ and for caranya to get some relief!!! Birthday moments... Happy birthday jenny_rambles... :D I hope the new year keeps you safe and surrounded by good reasons to smile. :D /// For all intents and purposes, Michael Jackson passed away several years ago. His only contribution to the universe since then has been to publicly discover that the real world is nothing like the bubble he grew up in. The musical legacy has been amazing. The inspiration to the art form... doubly so. But all the rest of it? eh. // No, seriously... The degree to which a coworker's face will light up after getting a compliment... Just tells ya that there are way too few compliments in the world. / Dear Mother Nature Please be sunny tomorrow morning... or, at the very least, not rainy. I really need to cut the lawn. :) I had a long week. :( Lots of work... Lots of reasons to smile. :) It's been a good week. ~ see ya soon. 10 shots|give

[25 Jun 2009|07:17pm] Poor Farah... That has got to be the worst!!! To die on the same day as Michael freaking Jackson? It's like a perfect storm recipe for instant obscurity. But I'll never forget her. She was the one... The woman from whom I learned the most valuable "girl" lesson of my youth. The dazzly girl gets all the attention and becomes jaded. But the adorable bookish girl will totally appreciate you hand on her ass. :) Thank you Farah. Rest In Peace. And don't get jealous Sabrina, I have a special "thank you" just for you... :D 14 shots|give

Thursday, June 25 [25 Jun 2009|09:58am] ~ hmmm... working on my "daily" from the office during a short break... Imagining posting it via the "tether"... but thinking... er... I'll need a picture. So... the question is... what to snap? Clearly I will have resolved this by the time you read these words. However... as I type, it's a ... mystery. :D EDWARD IS FINE... we were both (suz and I) in a state last night when we decided to get all worried about Ed getting Hynie after the news reports some little girl dying in the family car as they drove to the hospital... GAH!!!! He had had a fever for a day and a half and enough other symptoms to make us concerned so we called the Ontario Health Line (24 hour access to a nurse). She walked us through a fairly extensive assessment of Ed and concluded that he does not have H1N1 but was experiencing a flu. She said if his fever goes away... he's not contagious. He was totally fine by morning so I got him up with Geo and sent them both to school (actually... I drove them to school. :D) wearing ~ semi nice day. Beige trousers, gray tee and a dark shirt. ~ very boring. :) planning ~ was planning to stay at home with a sick little boy... ~ except he's not sick... he's at school, prol'y having a blast. ~ so I'm at work... I have enough to do to fill a month... let alone today. :( ~ and I don't get to go to the gym today. :( ... wants to think about upping to four days a week. Maybe just a cardio day? wishing ~ that kansaschica finds herself some ranch dressing... :) ~ to send a smile off to jenlovefl2003... no reason... just 'cuz... ~ to welcome the adorable shoo... er... shoo back from vacay... ~ that joggingguy stays the heck in the shade... ~ for mspish to remember that she will beautiful no matter what dress she picks... ~ and for chiropteraclan to somehow feel the wonderful things she's is doing for those kids... :) /// Thank you Governor Sanford. We wouldn't want anyone to get all caught up thinking folks in Politics that promote their Moral Posture actually have a single moral bone in their bodies. LOL Argentina? LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! // Thirteen year old girls...on "dress up night"... look adorable when they try to look all 15, 16 in their dresses. Not so adorable when they look 20 and can walk well in those shoes. Just say'en... / A public school principal... is a "Business Manager" a "Social Worker" and an "Educator". She or he has no business in that job if they can't public speak for shit. :) K... see ya. OH wait... I need a picture. Sec... 14 shots|give

[24 Jun 2009|09:26pm] Srsly? The last song at a school dance is still Stairway To Heaven????? What the he'll year is it? Posted via LiveJournal.app. 10 shots|give

Wednesday, June 24 [24 Jun 2009|04:38pm] hot hot heat. It's a scorcher today. UV Ratings of about seven six billion. So, pretty much "surface of the sun" time. :D (and to my friends in Road Runny Country... I know it's gets hotter there... but it's a dry heat. :D) Sunshine and an embarrassment of gorgeous. wearing ~ well... I started the day in beige trousers, a white tee under a comfy short sleeve shirt... (the one I'm wearing up there) ~ however... I've been home from work for more than five seconds, so I'm in shorts, shorty sox and the white tee is gone, tyvm. :) planning ~ It's Wednesday... today is my day of magic and wonder. Not only does the work day pass with a science fiction like break in the time-space continuum, simply vanishing in the blink of an eye, the "plot" (everything work related) always advances on Wednesdays, I get to go to the gym and ... baby it's hump day. It's down hill from here out. :D ~ Love the Wednesday. ~ oh, and I'm home a bit early from work because my little big man... er... George, is graduating from grade eight (I know... I know) and we get to go to a rural agricultural center (aka: Ancient Japanese Bath House) to watch a mini ceremony, and then Geo goes to "the dance". :) wishing ~ that sirenity managed to escape from the shark... ~ for pasticcio to adjust... lots of good times are ahead. :D ~ and that chandrielle finds someone to help her get... mad skillz. Birthday moments... Happy birthday to andbeloved... may the year ahead keep you ... safe! :D Thankyouthankyou... have a wonderful birthday. :D And to my little egg girl... Happy birthday xaheras. May there be wonderful surprises and lots of love in the year ahead. /// Did you hear? North Korea is going to "wipe out" America. The thing is... what is NKs contingency plan for ... you know... effectively ending the billions of dollars of food aid we keep giving them? I mean... why is the news not at all interested in explaining how dependent NK is on Foreign aid? For that matter... why is the news around here all about the US "Buy America First" policies threatening the Canadian economy and not a single word about how the US effectively dries up and blows away if we stop giving them fresh water? Hmmm? How come? Or the Nortel exec that gets a half million dollar bonus while employees are being screwed out of their severance pay? wohoo... big news. And does the news harp on the notion that the same exec actually invested four mill of his own money into his division last year to try and keep those people working longer? Dude lost his four mill... so yeah... not so big a problem with the half mill bonus all of a sudden? // OMG Ryan Seacrest married Clay Aiken. Wicked. / ~ what? :) 7 shots|give

Tuesday, June 23 [23 Jun 2009|03:51pm] Hot. Ok so it's a beautiful beautiful day... if you had to find a problem with it, it would be the amount of heat. But screw that. :) It's gorgeous outside. The kids finish school for the year on Thursday. Just in time... Edward appears to be coming down with a cold (not a flu!!!) Today has not been good... despite the beautiful weather and the twenty million things I should be thankful for. I've been stressed and frustrated all day... and none of it for any good reason. I hate when I get like this. I have to actually STOP myself from overreacting in the car to slow pokes. btw: DEATH TO IDIOT DRIVERS. I think must have lost my patience somewhere and I really need to find it. wearing ~ again with the no-tie semi business cas... planning ~ planned on lunch at quiznos... but forgot all about a team lunch to say "see ya" to a Team Lead at East Side Marios... so I had a giant salad for lunch - just a big ol'green salad and a coke. :D ~ home to do some weeding, making a nice dinner (chicken kiev again... got some really nice garlic, and thawed chicken breasts... ~ hmmm... otherwise... no plans. wishing ~ to send some lj love to the lovely darkbay... just because... ~ that bondas ... gets to feeling a whole lot better... ~ for nutmeg ... to enjoy the sarcasm ... ~ and that the will-always-be-treasured nerdular ... is on a wonderful path and that she gets to enjoy it. You deserve this sugar-v... Birthday moments... Happy birthday Lori... (thisismostlyme) I hope the year ahead keeps you healthy and happy... and never too far from the folks that love you. :D Happy birthday barefoot_dyke ... may there be conclusions on the side of folks being rational and reasonable... in the world around you. /// I am unable to conceive of WHY the Canadian Border Service Agency, that just recently decided to allow their border guards to carry guns (despite the protests of the what-makes-you-think-we-care native groups) need to BUILD A FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR shooting range... literally just up the road from a similar setup for the RCMP. Can you people not share? WTF? Recession... helloooooooo? // And black people out there? Why don't black people blog like whitey? Oh sure... I got's me a couple on my FL... but wholly disproportionate dude... Or ... is it that I just can't tell? How to tell ... how to tell... Wait? Don't white folk explode when they say the N word? What about typing it? Let me try... Ni#@%@#& wicked... my computer started to buzz and the letters all changed ... by themselves. But... black folks can say it... and type it. So.... If you're blacky and you know it, and you really want to show it... type the n-word. / ~ dig it... This post is coming to you FROM THE OFFICE... because I'm using the cool-as-shit-new-iPhone-feature... "Tethering" which is giving my lap top and ip address through my cell phone. Weeeeeeeee.... :) see ya. 8 shots|give

Monday, June 22 [22 Jun 2009|09:20pm] ~ holy smack... I was sooooo tired today. Like, the last four days... wicked fun. Now I need a mini vacay to recover. :) ~ ps. it's the door handle on the cupboard... not a horn... or hair tuft. :) Well, now that summer has "begun"... the weather idiots are calling for nothing but sunshine and glory. A far cry from the endless threats of rain, coldness and general crumminess that filled their talking heads for the whole of spring-time. wearing ~ no tie... beige trousers, but ... no tie. :) ~ and not a single "show" planned for this week... although, the week has only just begun, so you never know. planning ~ I have a long week ahead of me. :( ah well... long or short, they all start with a Monday morning. ~ I get to go to the gym today. I went at lunch and it was grand. My new shoes (nike cross trainers) are great... very light, etc... but my toes go to sleep on the elliptical, so I've got to stay off my toes. :) ~ no plans for tonight. :) I like nights with no plans... wishing ~ that little miss smarty-boycuthipster is smiling... ~ for pasticcio to get an Obama Fly Killa visit... ~ and to send dotcombabe a great big smile... /// It is rare indeed that the kids I'm skating around with at the parks will be wearing a helmet. The other day... I arrived and slipped on my helmet, and this kid got up and ran to his car, grabbed his helmet and explained when he returned that "It is bad luck to not wear a helmet you have, when someone else puts there's on." ahh... ok, well I've not heard that one before, but ... cool. If wearing my helmet in these concrete death traps makes inspires just one other person to wear a helmet... I feel a measure of success. :) // NORTEL DE-LISTED. Funny how much tax payers money went into making sure the folks who build cars still have jobs, While all the people who may actually buy cars... are shit out of luck. / Watched 300 the other day. Googled "when was 300 set" and ended up reading the wiki pages on the "Battle of Thermopylae" wicked cool story... the larger story... I am quite certain that the ideal way to watch 300, would be to read the wiki pages on the history of that time (~ 400 - 500 BC) AND THEN see the movie. that would be cool. 6 shots|give

[21 Jun 2009|04:42pm] :) goskate! 1 shot|give

Sunday, June 21 [21 Jun 2009|12:14pm] Happy Fathers Day to my dad'ish friends... :) And a big happy daddy's day to my dad. His spirit, determination, creativity, strength and wisdom has been the backdrop to all the paths of my life. He's a good dad. :) ps. The weather idiots... dude, first up against the wall ... well second, after the lawyers, when the revolution comes!!! They haven't really had anything right all week... or weekend. How on earth can they live with themselves? :) wearing ~ my sunday best... shorts and a tee planning ~ yard work... cleaning... ~ having my whole family over for a Dad's Day dinner. :) wishing ~ I get to keep living the dream ... of being a dad and being alive while I do it. :) Birthday Bonanza moments... From yesterday, a very happy birthday (I hope) to a good man and long time friend, inspectorjury. May there be time enough for all you can dream, and dreams enough to fill your sleep. And to Lisa, (ladyfire), yet another in a long history of happy birthday moments - my how your world has changed!!!!!! - May this next year keep you safe on your two wheeler... and surrounded by the love you have worked so hard to enjoy. And today... Happy birthday jobunches ... may your tweets reveal all kinds of happy. :) Happy birthday to my very hard working and ... basically "marvelous" friend hisbeauty. Oh that I could sit at your kitchen counter when the mood strikes you to get a'cooken. :D Have a wonderful year sugar, and I look forward to your short posts that make me want to cheer. :D Happy birthday to one of my very first'est Lj friends, bair. I hope all is well, that Tom is fine and that the litte furry balls are keeping you in smiles. And happy birthday to Yaba-Dabba-Girl (er... baybabayba)... who randomly shows up with wisdom and a smile, may there be baskets full of good reasons to laugh till you cry and friends enough to make you laugh when you cry. / [ :: TODAY IS GO-SKATEBOARDING DAY :: ] 5 shots|give

Friday, June 19 [19 Jun 2009|04:58pm] Absolutely beautiful... wonderful, day. Sweating... skating... in the sun, all set to music. :) (love the "set to music" part). Happiness. wearing ~ a few different sets of clothes... pretty much varying directly with quanties of sweat. planning ~ omg, I'm a total bum. :) ~ today? ~ Wake up, wave to kids and suz as they head out to school and work... ~ watch the first half of 300, ~ have a shower, ~ go to gym, (have a blast), ~ go to folks house and help brother move a sofa ~ go to starbucks... ~ spend rest of the afternoon at a great big mostly empty skate park. :) wishing ~ for bramey to enjoy the proud mommy vibes... ~ that nextproblem gets to feel that way (blessed!!) for a long long time. :) ~ that my sweet teasdale... er, sugar-tea... keeps on rolling with it. ~ and that the complications following suburbiadaze... ease up a bit... /// Somebody linked a scary "reveal" of a US employment form for a city that asks you to provide all your social networking PASSWORDS to them - so they can check you out. Pretty much what a smart phone is for. You can give them all your passwords, date and sign it as pure truth. ... then change all the passwords fifteen seconds later. ~ all the while muttering "eat me ass wipe..." over and over... // Doooode... Contrary to the pictures... there were kids there... / It is a special kind of grace... a moment of clarity in a universe of chaos... to have a day as outstanding as today... and have it be followed by a weekend!!!!!!!!! :) 2 shots|give

Thursday, June 18 [18 Jun 2009|08:59pm] ~ this is me as I conclude that the rain that STARTED AS I PULLED UP TO THE PARK was going to be bad 'nuf to turn the whole park into a greased monkey that wants to kill me. So... a non-raining-gray morning teased me into thinking I'd get to the park. Ha. It's been a day of rain ever since I got to the park... grrr. :D But I did get new shoes for the gym (I've been using an older pair of very cheap skate shoes that - in contrast to the nikes I got today - weigh about six hundred pounds.) ~ and I get to go to the gym tomorrow. :) wearing ~ plaid shorts... many different shirts... ;) planning ~ sleepy dazed corto wakes up kids in awesome time... calm non-freak-show-rush morning... wave as the bus pulls away. ~ smooch suzy as she heads out... ~ attack all the kitchen and main floor clean up ... befor I even realize I'm awake. ~ then start all kinds of "getting stuff done off my lists of little things that need doing". ~ this included a hair cut, Home Depot, Cost-co, SportCheck, and Farm Boy :) ~ everything went great except for the frigg'en rain thing. wishing ~ that modernarchetype enjoys all the food... ~ for ayoub to find a way to make tomorrow ... shorter ~ and to nod vigorously, in agreement with spankynotes on the mullet thing... why-oh-why! Birthday moments... A very happy birthday to the always lovely and pretty seriously awesome innerly aka, sugar-ly. May this year find your family safe, your spirits high and your angels keeping your heart in their hands. // Dude... I zoomed into McD's today to use the can and it came equipped with this baby... This is the mack-daddy of germ blowers. / Selling a Wii Sport and Wii Fit on Kajiji (Ottawa) (the ones I won as an office door prize) ~ get replies within minutes of posting. groooooovy. :) ~ I have way wicked short hair right now (got hair cut after that pic... :D) 7 shots|give

Wednesday, June 17 [18 Jun 2009|12:17am] ~ my iPhone is busy churning away at the download and install of the new "version 3.0" operating system. ~ I'm excited. :D ~ and you know, no matter what smart phone you get... it's still not as cool as this one... unless it's this one. :) (I freaking love this phone man... I use it all day long... in the gym? On the elliptical? I watch ripped tv shows. Headphones all day at my desk, playing radio stations from around the world, or diving into my playlist... pictures... constantly taking pictures (reminds me... I really need to delete some of them... the gps / map stuff? Saves my bacon from time to time... gah... and the apps... the apps... sigh. Loves shazam... Ok... I'll stop. :) Today was beautiful... of course. The weather idiots are calling for five solid days of rain, beginning sometime tonight. :( If it hasn't started to rain by morning, I'm going to the skatepark wicked early. (taking a "me" day) Otherwise... loads of job jar things to get into. :D wearing ~ beige day... well, trousers ~ black tee and a pale green summer button up thing (from the fav shirt pile, tyvm) planning ~ it's wednesday. The day that has wings. ~ had work drama today... cool stuff, finding a big scary problem and then finding the solution. Was fun. :) ~ went to the gym. In the car, on the way to work, I marvelled at myself as I had the thought "Yeah, I 'get' to go to the gym today...". I'm following suz's trainers advice about "the biggest mistake people make with a gym... is too-much, too-fast, too-hard... and then they get an injury", so I'm sticking to M, W, F (3) significant work outs per week for a few months. I itch to go... because of how it breaks up the work day, and... truth be told, because of how it makes me feel - which is to say, ggggggreat!. ~ BBQ'd a big old stake that was on sale last weekend... awesome. wishing ~ to send a few positive vibes out to macdatty... :) ~ to give a big virtual high five (vh5!) to wbahner... on todays twists in fortune... Birthday moments... happy birthday little mouse... /// Here's an idea. It's about grocery shopping, with an eye towards reducing the waste associated with your choices. Look for good examples of what choices you can make that are worth adding to the "environmentally friendly grocery list". Here's an example: You know when you get meat? You can pick it off the shelf, wrapped in plastic, on a foam plate. Or you could step to the butchers counter and get the same meat, but the butcher hands it to you wrapped in butchers paper. // A radio show was filling some space in the morning drive-time with a bit about some guy and a book on bad habits. So... people email in or call in with examples of their own bad habits. And one that had some traction was that he "paced the room while talking on the phone." What exactly is the frigg'en problem with pacing while on the phone? I don't actually think my brain knows how to operate at peak efficiency, on the phone, unless I'm pacing. / I met a woman at the gym today... Slight of build. She was working the stair-master, With a back-pack. I had a good chat with her. She gave herself a fifttyth birthday present, She's going with a small team to hike up mount Kilimanjaro, in two weeks. I was much impressed. I am much impressed. Good luck C... I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. :) K... see ya, and yeah, I know I missed midnight. :) 7 shots|give

Tuesday, June 16 [16 Jun 2009|08:44pm] ~ ok, so some random "hand through hair" moment or something but check the receding zone, ~ and you can see the well-head in the background... oddly enough it didn't come with a little hut thing or a bucket. Was very disappointed. An amazatron day... sunshine, actually got a little hot towards the late afternoon... but all-around gorgeous day. wearing ~ blue ftls ~ dark trousers ~ the blue-gray shirt and a nice two tone blue tie. ~ I even brushed my hair at a non "immediately after a shower" moment planning ~ a busy morning sorting out a bunch of work for tomorrows weekly team-triptastic meeting (means nothing, I just need a name for it) ~ zoom away after lunch hour to get downtown, park and make my way to some "conference room" in a hotel... ~ give an hour and a half long show and tell, answer some questions... and zoooooom away. ~ pull over, get out of car, and do a few side-of-the-road prayers, facing Seattle... praise be starbucks... ~ make bbq salmon for dinner. :) wishing ~ that murphy59 can squeeze the docs out... ~ for notcharming... my little Charmer... to get a few smiles from the gods of good fortune! ~ that jjnslat gets a recurring role on The Big Bang Theory. ~ a random wish that sweet friend with a recently operated on foot... is feeling better... ~ and that justholly enjoys the good times while they roll. :D // ~ The job jar is bursting. :( Gotta replace two screens in the porch and patch a hole in the ceiling this week on my "Thursday Friday" nugget. (Yup yup... short week. Tomorrow is like Friday baby. :D :D :D) shhhh... don't tell anyone. Not... repeat NOT pleased with weather report about rain thursday and friday. ! grrr. :) / I'm pretty sure I've never heard any one sneeze as loud as I do. It can be quite disconcerting. lol... ah well. It's a sneeze. It's not like I have this big choice in the matter. :D ~ k, I gotta git and water some plants. :D See ya. 9 shots|give

Monday, June 15 [16 Jun 2009|12:08am] ~ I was wearing this shirt last monday... weird. Today was a little schitzy with rain, clouds and sun. Not bad for a monday. :) We have a big day at work tomorrow so today was kind of a quiet calm. wearing ~ kinda took it easy... no tie. :) planning ~ get a drive to work from zee... my car was dropped off last night for a brake job. ~ a day at my desk getting things done in paper-work land. ~ smile at my client co-worker base as they file out into buses to go on their annual staff bbq for most of the day. ~ you get a lot done in a ghost town. :D ~ the gym at lunch with zee ~ go get car from the mech with zee after work. wishing ~ to share laperleprofonde's grief at losing those inches... :( ~ that sirenity see's that special girl... ~ to snicker at whine_country's dilemna :D ~ and that kendokamel doesn't get vanished... /// I dunno if my friends from outside of Canada are exposed to the news arc over medical isotopes that were being produced at the Chalk River Nuke Plant. Apparently... the entire freaking planet depends on the isotopes coming out of this old decrepit run down way past it's prime Nuclear Plant. AND it's been like this... since the 70's. No redundancy, no renewal, systemic decrepitude and no back-up-plant-being-built-anywhere. SINCE THE NINETEEN SEVENTIES!!!! How can something as important as this... be run like the worst company in the world? seriously? // a peek at the pin-ball machine. My dad and I went and bought it when I was like... thirteen? We bought it off a vending machine company. I recall splitting the price at the time, but I suspect that there's more to that part of the story than I ever knew. :) My folks are moving and downsizing a little... so I finally get to get "my" pin-ball machine. Inside... From above... And ... well, with Ed. :) / So this guy is sitting there, looking at porn, and killing the snake when his girlfriend walks in! "What? Shut that off... you don't look at porn. I should be enough for you!" "Ok sweety... you got it." Later that day... He walks over to his girl and tosses her a squeezer of veggi oil, a blue spandex dress and a butt plug with a tail attached. "Hey honey. The guys are coming to watch the game, and I'm gonna get drunk. I'm thinking I'll wanna see some squeaky anal when I crack it later. Can you be ready by around 12:30?" :) ~ later skaters... er... sk8rs... 9 shots|give

Sunday, June 14 [14 Jun 2009|04:31pm] ~ b'in busy!! :) Yesterday was glorious. Just outstanding. It was all about yard work and grocery shopping (with the boys this time. :D :D), drinking great coffee and bbq'ing rainbow trout for dinner. Sunshine and happiness just dripping all over the place. We had an easy evening of tv and games... oh, and Ed and I totally enjoyed "Ghost Rider"... stupid movie... but very easy to enjoy. MacAffee told me my Friends Page posed a Mallware Risk to my computer. wtf is that about? wearing ~ khaki shorts and the third shirt of the day... planning ~ up to cut the back lawn before I've even finished waking up. ~ yard work... because I'm loving it. ~ big move work at my folks house... collecting a pin-ball machine (circa 1973 fully "mechanical" versus electronic - and at least 300 lbs) and a ping pong table... ~ going to chinese dinner with family and my parents. :) wishing ~ for the action of the class in the world of 1ginacolada... pays well. ~ that "breathing easy" is a phrase used at nutmeg's house... ~ and that pageeater see's the tweets as "gateway geek". They are... a flash of function in a sea of ideas. It's not twitter... it's what will come of it in time that really matters. Birthday moments... Happy birthday - a day late but still ... :D - for little Ms. ldy. I hope all is well and that the year ahead holds a great promise of happiness. :) /// // Watched Pan's Laberynth with Ed last night. Subtitles. I am in awe. / Note To Self Do not... I repeat... DO NOT hang the lover-ly bird feeder Outside the screen behind which the cat perches on our porch. ~ as I take measurements to replace two screens. fraaaak! 6 shots|give

Friday, June 12 [12 Jun 2009|10:48pm] [ music | Paul Young - Love Of The Common People ] Gotta love fridays. :) Today was a great big zoom thing ... Some gym, another presentation... gah!!! And finally getting zee's car back from the folks who put new doors on it. :) Tonight is all about relaxing and I think I'm going to watch ... er, I think it's called "Ghost Rider" (nicki cage) :) wearing ~ didn't get my "friday jeans" fix... ~ nice trousers, no tie. :) planning ~ from the minute I get to work, it's all about one "hurry up" moment after the next... ~ I broke for the gym a little early and ended the day with another show-and-tell moment. ~ every day this week! (and two more huge ones next week...sigh) ~ ... burgers on the bbq. :) wishing ~ that lisabella has loads of alloe. ~ to send some smiles down mexico way to innerly ~ and that nine days of joy fits well with billie0's schedule. :) // From time to time the security guards at the building's front desk will greet a friday morning with a big old box of TimBits (donut "holes") on the counter. It's a nice gesture and I always grab one. :) So on Tuesday... co-worker-dude and I are heading down, through the lobby, to go to the next building over on the campus. Dreams come true moment... the security desk has a big ol'box of proper donuts and a pile of napkins. SCORE! We pop it open and each grab one (maple dip, thankyouverymuch)... half way through this pleasure, and about to turn on our heels and hit the doors... We look up. And there, at the sign-in register is this east indian dude in a suit getting his visitor badge... Making his Oh face. ~ omg... I lost it. We were all hug'en before it was over... :) ~ never a dull moment. / song... this song came into my head a week ago. I could only half remember it... I hadn't heard it... I just sorta up and remembered some moment that I had been listening to it, blah blah blah... And last night... it just scrolls randomly past on my FPs. Clearly the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster favours me. Fuck'en eh! :) ~ have a great weekend muchachos... y muchachas... :D 6 shots|give

Thursday, June 11 [11 Jun 2009|09:28pm] Plan was to present to the grandest of the clients "grand formage's" and his management team in two weeks. Ring ring... "Hi, can you do the show for dude today at 3:15?" ahhh... and me in my fancy clothes... ~ then at 1:00... "can you be here in five minutes to do it?" gahhhh. :) So I tucked in my untuck and did the big show... :) Won't know how that went till tomorrow. Oh, and it was kinda beautiful outside today. :) wearing ~ yeah, so no planned "show and tell" today, so nice trousers, black tee with a blue short sleeve "don't tuck me in" shirt... planning ~ a full day of paperwork and getting caught up... ~ which only partially happened... (see above) ~ still waiting for suz's car to come back... :( but not till tomorrow wishing ~ for my treasured friend, teaser ... to find blessings behind all the scary doors... :) ~ to send giant virtual high fives (VH5) to hisbeauty... ~ that ayoub gets some sleep... ~ and to tell odyssey_road that her edible-yard sounds amazing!!! Birthday moments... K... two long lost LJ'ers... justatwig and distortedgirl have birthdays today... "Happy birthday girls..." and both vanished as their lives turned upside down and aweful. :( So I'm quietly sending a vibe into the universe... May there be new beginnings and opportunities for you both. /// The show "WipeOut"... bwahahaha... hate the gorons narrating... but the rest... lol. // Why don't we name the side of your chest... not your pit... below that... but before you pass the rib cage and get to your waist. It's the part with no name. So... Geezus h puddle sticks... It's like I'm growing a third nipple!!! aka a giant frick'ing zit on my ... what? on the No Name part... ug. I just become more beautiful every time you read... :) / Dude!!!!! TOMORROW IS FRIDAY!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D 5 shots|give

Wednesday, June 10 [11 Jun 2009|12:25am] ~ in reality... I am not being attacked by a scary flying creature or a tremendously tall assailant. I'm just making a dorky face... I don't really remember what kind of a day it was... I'm pretty sure it rained at some point but ... I never noticed. Another presentation today... big giant room, full of people. It's the same subject... over and over... but to vastly different groups of people, So each occasion has to be customized to hit each specific groups hot buttons. I'm pretty sure I'm making it look easy (my boss is digging it) But it's exhausting. :) wearing ~ dress-up clothes... (see above) planning ~ Wednesdays go by so freaking fast it's like they don't even exist anymore. ~ and it included a gym trip at lunch. :D wishing ~ for some very peaceful vibes to catch up with teasdale and take gentle care of her... ~ that 1ginacolada relaxes and remembers that her friends know how busy she is... :D ~ for jloopy to magically get better over night... ~ and that kaleidoscopeeye ... finds the right vibe. :) // slick slow slide slap spank scream scratch satisfy / I'm sooooooo exhausted. :) I have to get to bed... If I start now... I'll prol'y get there by 1. ~ :) 3 shots|give

Tuesday, June 9 (and yes, I know, I know) [10 Jun 2009|12:21am] A day full of rain. Started all nasty too. enjoyed lunch with recently-vanished-co-worker-dude... and got good news from my clients about contract renewals. A good day. Despite the weather and actually working, as opposed to playing. :) wearing ~ semi casual in dark trousers and short sleeves... ~ but I still needed my blanket at my desk... I HAVE GOT TO BUY AN OFFICE SWEATER... some big cardigan or something. planning ~ get a drive to work from suzy-q as her car will remain locked away with infinity until thursday. (z doesn't work on tuesdays, so she wins the car. :D) ~ another stop on the road-show in the morning... conference room and "callers-in" from across the country. ~ getting sorted for tomorrows very significant road-show moment. big show in the afternoon. wishing ~ to cross my fingers for pixiecup ~ to send a smile to a spaz... er... uawildcatgrl ~ and for safe travels in the life and unfolding times of laurel714 Birthday moments... Happy birthday sugar-roooo (mommameow), my little tweet'ing friend. :) May the year keep you safe, respect your privacy and make you smile. :) /// Women tend to avoid social congress with other women who have managed to remain girls long after growning up. How you interpret that, varies directly with how you define, or assume I have defined the word girls. c'est la vie. // I don't actually remember becoming addicted to crack. However, I must have some secret addiction... So horrible... so complete... that I don't actually even remember being a ragged crack head. Because, clearly I was on all manner of crack when I tried to change the filters in our reverse osmosis water thing ... what? two weeks ago? I concluded they had sent me the wrong filters with my salt order (water softener). I called... got a bit of a run around because they were listening to my messages, checking the file, deciding I was cracked and ... not actually calling me back. So I get through and I have a proper go-round with some tech about the filters, what I ordered, what I got, blah blah blah ... rightious indignation abounds. I agree, in the end, to try again. That was at the end of last week. Procrastination clearly also abounds. So I get the kids to bed, make lunches, and ... Try again. Ten minutes later, all done, click clack mooo. No problemo... wtf!!!! Crack, I tell you... I must have been on crack. / I totally love it when one of those "take a picture of yourself and post it right now" memes goes around. :) ~ k, see ya. :) 9 shots|give

multi-explained? [08 Jun 2009|11:51pm] So, after several questions... Here's a short talk about how to make the "multiples". ( no big shockers... just an explanation. :D ) 9 shots|give

Monday, June 8 [08 Jun 2009|11:35pm] ~ that's it... the thing I'll give the artist as an idea and then see where we go from there. :) It was beautiful out today!! (the weather idiots called for increasing cloud and rain... it got cloudy... when the sun went down. :) Dropped off z's car at the dealership to get the new-doors thing sorted. Oddly enough, they have to have it till thursday. I'm hoping that means there'll be a paint job in it. :D bwahahaha... ~ and a good day was had in the house of corto. Geo was back at school after his trip. I have to post a pic of him. He's ... so tall, big.... full size. It's just amazing to me.... :D Ed had a field trip today that suz went on... a nature-trail thing. There were water guns and lots of fun. Suz ... well, see "Ed" above... :D And I have been enjoying my days at work lately, so ... no surprise there. :D wearing ~ monday's best, with the tie and the beige vibe. :) ~ although, it's all about shorts and a tee now. planning ~ find a co-worker that was going to the gym and hitch a ride... who shall remain nameless... ~ this turned out to be a 10:30 am till 11:30 quickie thing. (please use both hands to remove head from gutter) ~ very seriously digging the working-out thing. I know I'll never be all muscley... (not the goal) but I can totally grok the good vibe I'm feeling from it. :D) wishing ~ that jenlovefl2003 feels a little better tomorrow... ~ for pixiecup to enjoy a little turn of fortunes... ~ and to send buckets of hope out to barefoot_dyke... Birthday moments... Happy Birthday redfenix... who is, btw, my "a top secret journaler". (when I look, all the text is white on white... so I "select all" to read. :D (and yes, it looks normal on my Fps. :D) Happy birthday sugar... May the year ahead bring good times and parents that learn to "get it". And a very happy birthday to blonnie... a remarkable young woman. I hope this next year keeps your darling little girl safe, your husband happy and your smile burning up the SD cards in your camera!!! // The el'cheepo light fixture... the dusted-white-glass-bulb-cover thing that clamps over the fixture on the ceiling??? that thing.... The one in the pantry. (The PANTRY... with all the food). Yeah... if fell off the ceiling. Porcelain tiles. Pantry door was closed. It still covered the whole kitchen floor (little slit at bottom of door). What a pain that was to clean up. gah!! / Triple Shot ("grande" cup) Breve Latte. What I used my latest "have a coffee on us" coupon from 'bucks. I love all the free stuff they lay on you when they muck something up. :) Actually I just really dig starbucks. (as I sit here sipping my breve latte that I just made in the cafe roma... - thank you Jay... oh my captain) :) 6 shots|give

old multi stuff... [07 Jun 2009|09:54pm] Making some "old things" new again... Starting with Geo's... and the others... ( follow me... ) 28 shots|give

Sunday, June 7 [07 Jun 2009|12:24pm] It's all cloudy and stuff today... may even rain. ... and I don't care. :) I've had three glorious days of sunshine and happiness. :) Yesterday was a trip to the gym in the late morning for an "assessment" with Suz's trainer dude. We went for more test drives and to work more car numbers... Stupid cars... stupid. Then it was all about making a good dinner... (We're near the end of an "eat the freezer" zone... finishing off all the crap in the freezer.) and when the kids were sorted and suz relaxing with a coffee... I left for the big-ass skate park. Total blast... spent two hours trying to remember how to do whata I could manage last year. Gonna have to try to learn something new. :) wearing ~ right now? the stuff I woke up in ... with khaki shorts pulled on too. planning ~ shower... ~ shave... ~ get the kids fed... ~ leave to go grocery shopping ~ see a man about a horse... ~ home and over to parents house for dinner. ~ and tonight? I got nuth'en. :D Maybe watch a movie... wishing ~ to smile at smooshiefaceinc... because she's flippen gorgeous... er... yeah. ~ that little miss pish... er... mspish manages to get right and comfortable on the same page. ~ that celtic_bairn had fun in Ottawa... wishing I had realized!!!! ~ and to send some love out to teasdale... may there be comfort. :) / oyi... busy day... and I gotta git. :) 4 shots|give

Friday, June 5 [05 Jun 2009|05:27pm] ~ just came out of the gym... "Goodlife Fitness" Another outstanding day. :) Actually... it even got a bit on the hot side. Sunshine. Enough to share. Although I was quite alone today. oh yeah... and my little Geo comes home tonight. I go pick him up at the school at 7:30. :D wearing ~ crappy jeans first half... ~ strategic no-shirt moments... ~ shorts for the rest. :) planning ~ up nice and early.... like, 6:15. ~ get Ed up, dressed, fed, and out the door ~ same for suz... ~ and then watch Phinias and Ferb... because I can. ~ begin project "Massive Lawn Maintenance" at 8:30. ~ cut front, side and back lawns... including the street gullies and the weird "I'm trying to reclaim some of this forest as lawn" sections... :D ~ this took till ...like, 1:30. I know... right. So, ok... I stopped for a few short conversations with the admiral but we're talking "ride'em lawn tractor" here... !! ~ get to the gym by 2:00... home by 3:15 ... and had a great work out btw... ~ great Edward and then fart around with sprinklers for a while. ~ now it's now.... Suz is going to a dinner hour thing with friends... I'm taking Ed for Chip Wagon Chips and then getting Geo. ~ Oh, and Edward would like to rent "Sleepy Hollow". wishing ~ that all is well with my Geo ~ to point out that... gosh... sodiumbisulfite's journal is sooo boring and lame!! (:D) ~ that minarets doesn't get in trouble at work... LOL ~ for innerly to have a blast with her new iPod... ~ and for sirenity to live in peace ... with the spot and all his friends. /// ~ This morning... after cutting the front yard. :) Am loving the "use my cell phone to snap pics and upload them. :D) // Flash: Panic in the skies over Ottawa today as pilot after pilot called in maydays, blinded by an as yet unexplained brilliance flooding up from somewhere in the regions west end. Satellite telemetry is being used to identify the source. I cut the side and back lawns with my shirt off. go me. The airlines can eat it. / I would like a starbucks please. Thank you. k... :) ~ leaving to get fries... and starbucks. 8 shots|give

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