new tradition I drink tequila coolers when out with improv buds

Somehow I managed to get up at reasonable time today! 9:30! that's a totally acceptable time, right? for me, at least.


This looks like a realistic photo of me, I think. I still have such a hard time imagining myself as a real-life human who exists in the world. self-perception is so bizarre.


Dollface and I had pho for dinner last night and she gave me a gift and the gift was all of these flower-print sheets. So beautiful!
except the reason why I got them is because they are selling the cottage in the springtime. How heartbreaking!
dislike.


I'm so happy for my flower-bed though. And it will go so well with my flower-wall. If any of you want to paint me flower pictures or find me flower pictures for my wall, I'd be so into that!


Oh yeah, our show went really well yesterday! Our group is good!




awwwww a couple of my favourite buds from improv! ha, actually I'm a pretty big fan of all my improv group these days!


hahaa classic. We definitely drank in the park afterward for an extended period of time. Why not!

the class that went after us yesterday was the conservatory 6 group, which is the last level of con, and they were so fun! I cannot wait for us to get to write our own sketches and perform them! Getting to do our best characters and best ideas!
There were these two girls from the other class who did a couple of sweet scenes that depended on them being such a great duo and I'm trying to convince my favourite improv bud (this girl here) that we need to be like them. She's the funniest so I'm just going to jump on that bandwagon like whoa.


Apparently my old friend ee gets into town today. I'm hoping that we can arrange some very fun hangs this week. She's pretty much the boss of fun, so it shouldn't be tooo hard.

Also I'm working the hockey pre-season game tonight which is exciting because it means that soon hockey season starts again in earnest and then I get to go back to going to Hoops all the time with Norman! what a funtime!

condominium life

Stayed at Dollface's this weekend with Kaya. Dollface has the best bed. It's like my cloud-bed only way better.
For Christmas I would like a pillow-top mattress cover type thing. Whatever those things are called, that's what I want.








I was supposed to go to the cottage this weekend with Yulie and Onesie but I ended up backing out. Weird, hey? All I like are cottages.
I'm just over-socialized to the degree where I can't properly deal with humans and I can't properly spend any time alone. It's a rough spot, mentally, for me right now.
I'm having trouble spending any actual time actually by myself. I'm so easily swayed into conversations and passive hang-outs with my roommates. And there's all my other friends, plus work, plus improv (classes, shows, and clinics) and all my new improv buds.

I don't remember how to read a novel or sew a dress. I don't know how to blog or stay in by myself to just chill the eff out.







I stayed in on Friday night but only because I couldn't decide on what I wanted to do and I still was texting everyone trying to find the perfect thing to do and then I got sucked into watching a billion bridal shows... It wasn't productive alone time. Still good, though.




I just cut my hair I cut maybe 2.5 inches off, I don't know. No one will notice except me. it feels very short now. It was a bit ratty. Now it is very soft and looks slightly thicker (my hair is never even close to thick).



Violet is back in town, she was in Europe for most of the summer as she deserves a break before going back fulltime for now on and forever at her law firm.
I love Violet like whoa.
I'm going to try to hog all of her attention until she goes back to work. Because I deserve it. Also, she's so low-stress and interesting to hang out with.

I made these cupcakes for her dinner party last night. I posted the recipe here, they are almost one half cheesecake these days and I like that A LOT.
Honestly these are so good and so easy. Got a gluten-free bud? They'll love you forever if you make these for them.


Planning on going to The Ex today with Dollface... I've never been to the Ex in Toronto. I wonder if Dollface will go on any rides with me. I wonder if there'll be anything I can/want to eat....

party of 4

Left to right, Firehorse, Onesie, Yulie, Mare.
Yes, yes we do belong in a 90s sitcom FORSURE.

Yulie has 12,000 nicknames. I don't even know how one person can amass so many nicknames. I'm going to work on getting more for myself. Or maybe just appropriating some of hers. My roommates call me "Mare". they spell it "Mer". I would spell it like the french for mother I guess.
I'm not into people I don't know calling me that but roommates are kind of allowed to whatever. They're like family kind of but very different.

I keep forgetting to mention how I totally made it through my first month living with several other people without any type of complete meltdown. Pretty cool, right?
I'm almost at a month and half now, even.

Roommates are different than I thought they'd be. Roommates are different than having company and very different than having guests come to stay with you.
You can walk out of rooms they are in and not even have a good reason. You don't have to babysit them and they are fun to do things with and to just have around while you watch Top Chef: Just Desserts at 1 a.m.

roommates are what I hoped they'd be!



Turns out that even if you decide for years that you're a certain way or a certain kind of person, it doesn't necessarily have to be true.
I know that I had several friends worried for me because this is a big change plus I always yell about how much alone time I need and how much I dislike other humans. But you know what? I'm a decent human. I'm pretty rational, even. And so far, people like living with me.



And I with them!

Yulie and I totally bonded at her family's cottage this past weekend and I'm super excited that we actually get to keep living together and continue on being buds. Moving in with strangers is a not-bad plan because you have so much to talk about and so much to learn.

SIGH.


We went to Dakota last Tuesday for Dwayne Gretzky (members of lots of bands mostly this week, Sweet Thing and Arkells)'s residency and I had a pretty brilliant time. A lot a lot of dancing. I'm such a happy dancer. I didn't really take any photos of the band because whoooo caressss? But I did take pictures of myself and my buds in the washroom. Because I'm deep.

"I'm not sure if I have a crush on Onesie or if I just love her hair" -everyone in their minds (also, we all do)


Onesie has basically no online presence. which is opposite of me. She doesn't even write on fb walls. I have to quote her on my own wall because she won't comment.



Awww I like all my friends so much these days.






Mornings are the best around here. Well, along with every other part of the day. If you're around in the morning you usually get a smoothie. And hopefully a bed-in. And are guaranteed several good jokes.

 I'm the happiest guy! Why don't I just chortle to myself some more all over the place!

I was away at Yulie's family cottage this weekend (that's what roommates are for), so I haven't been around the internet at all lately. I have to figure out how to keep up with blog, though. I kind of miss it.

Okay since when is it 3:45? End of the line around here!


in this video  Mrs and I are in the car together. Prrrrretty exciting.

lounging

Everything still feels really new but also old and familiar already. I'm ignoring my old life. That's how I get on with things, right?
I still feel very much like I'm off at sleep-away camp and that this is going to end in the near future. I'm feeling really good about things, I mean.
I hope this continues until I'm just comfortable here and not sad about how things were.
Remember how a few months ago I was like "maybe I want roommates" and everyone was like "yeah, right"?
and now I have roommates. that's weird.
I'm famous (to me) for getting prematurely nostalgic about everything and even regular nostalgic. I really only like things that are familiar and cozy. So hopefully this just becomes that before the happy glow of newness fades away.









I still have lines from the pillows on my face.

Oh, what a lovely room I have.
I haven't really been home much this weekend. Not at all. Working working partying working. I'm looking forward to spending tomorrow in the park with the dog and then lying around a bit in my room and hopefully doing some more organizing and putting things together.
We're officially having a party on Saturday night we decided, so I'd like for it to look half-decent for all my guests! Yeeeah, motivation!





I'm actually over-tired right now and I should be asleep (I worked two jobs today like a real adult) but it's too lovely to be hanging out in my bed in my room working on the internets.



Onesie fully agreed with me on how I look better in photos than real life. No, what I mean is that I photograph well.
And I do think it's true that my personality and loud-mouth sometimes can really distract from my medium-beautiful features.
Probably true of most of us. But extra me.
Also, everyone really really likes my cackle-laugh and doesn't find it awful at all. So that's good.



Remind me that in the morning I'm going to make a smoothie!