while I'm away from here...

Geez, I set this entry to get posted on Monday while I was away but it didn't post and I'm really not sure why. Here it is anyway, even if parts make less sense:


As you read this, I'm probably sitting in the screened-in back porch at the cottage. I am jealous of myself all the time these days. Life is excellent. Life is always excellent while you're at the cottage!

Oh yeah, this is my vacation hat, you can tell I'm on vacation when I'm wearing it, or at least in a vacation state of mind!



cottage cottage cottage cottage cottage

Yep, so Dollface is being loveley enough to take me back to the cottage with her! So lovely!
We'll be there until Wednesday, just in time to go to the Sweet Thing CD release!
Here are the photos from a few weeks ago, so you can know pretty much exactly what I'm up to. Man I'm so excited about all the things I'm going to enjoy again!




Yeah, I don't know why I was so into taking close-ups of my face. For fun, I guess!


Let's hang up the sheets on the clothesline!


kaya! kaya is my favourite dog!

too many trashy magazines...why are those things so addictive?

dockdockdockdock
ohhh man I am going to cannonball off that thing SO HARD




Whoa, finally through one camera's worth of pictures from this last time. Still have a bunch from the other one, I think? maaaybe.No, actually, maybe this is it...

I'm going to be taking a bunch of photos with my new iPhone 4 (!!!!) I hope. I hope we can make a good video or two, too!


Now I have an odd obsession with finding myself some wonderful flower-print sheets for my own bed. All mix-matched, of course. I'm thinking yellows and oranges and blues and stuff. Maybe pinks? I've never really had any pinks in my house before...



Okay I hope the city is fun! For once I can be checking my email at the cottage.. annoying, I know.. but also AWESOME. so sext me or somethin'!

iphone iphone iphone iphone 44444444

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudes
I did something really embarrassing yesterday -- I waited in line for a full day for some stupid electronics product.

haaaaaaaha! this is not something I would normally do.

Like I think I already said, though, I busted the screen on my cellphone (which I'd had for almost 3 years) and I needed a new one pretty bad. My old old one (antenna and all) wasn't really holding a charge and I wanted to hold out for the iPhone 4.

I found out that the waitlist at the stores is quite possibly just a list to call you if they maybe have a shipment. Not guaranteeing you anything. Plus the dudes at the Bell store near my place (the one on College) are BRUTALLY TERRIBLE AT CUSTOMER SERVICE HOLY HELL.
So when Mrs. and Tanner told me they were going down to the Eaton Centre to get them from the Apple store I went along!

We expected it would take a few hours, but we were getting there at 9:30 (half an hour before the store even opened) so we thought we'd probably be done by noon and be able to go for brunch!

Yeeeeepppppp, nope.

By the time we physically left the mall it was almost 6:30! JEEEEEZZZUSSS

aw, man, it was really pretty fun though. If it wasn't so fun we all would have given up hours and hours earlier, I'm sure. It was a good three to have there and we held places for each other to go get soup and we shared a blizzard and made friends with the line-guarding guy (gate-keeper, as we called him).
We also made I BILLION terrible terrible jokes. And judged everyone else in the mall. And sat around on the floor a lot.

Which size do you want?
PINK

What's an app?

I need some GIGS GIGS GIGS

I'm just going to use the box for the case for the time being.

They did bring us out some Jennifer Aniston water. that was nice. And all the Apple store employees are SO great and helpful it's almost worth it just not having to deal with Bell. Although of course we still had to call Bell while we were setting up the phone and that proved a trial and half.

After the mall Mrs and I booked it over to the theatre to see Theory with pretty much everyone we know.
I just wanted to play with my phone!

From there we went to Lakeview with probably 20 people we knew spread out around the place. And stayed and stayed. Mrs and I were beyond annoying with our stupid new gadgets especially since there was free wifi!
Good thing pretty much everyone else had iphones as well.
Nightmare party-mates.

 From there I went on to see Bee around the corner at Opera Bob's...
I didn't get home until 2 and I didn't really even need to because I could check everything on my phone and do everything in the world!!
These are the very first images from my new phone! I even downloaded the photoshop app already! Preeeeeetty fun.

Okay I have to go to work and then tomorrow I have to go the COTTAGE. but don't worry, you can still get ahold of me forever and ever.

please can't I have some more cake, rich sir?

I just milk one evening of not-even-really-partying into multiple blog posts. Nice!
 
Yep, more photos from when Sass went up to Rosedale awhile ago. I know that it's awhile ago since she is now in Vegas for some reason. 

The more I watch other people on their fancy phones the more that I feel like I desperately need a web phone. COME ON, OCTOBER, that's when my contract is up. Not that I won't just end up falling into another fucking brutal contract, but at least I'll have more bargaining power. Or maybe Wind will have service across Canada or other companies will exists and these shitty powerhog cellphone companies will have to give me a decent rate.
I can dream.

It's not that I didn't want my photo taken, it's that I was annoyed with the flash. man flash is annoying.

 so is not-flash.

 







Yep, we invited ourselves to sit with this table of dudes. The place was so dead. When the BFF and I went up there before there were way more people. Including one guy who we discovered the next day donated 1 MILLION dollars to a university last year. you know who needs a million dollars?? ME.



Whatever, I'm going to go back there sometime to look for more future-husbands.

I think possibly the best part of the evening (besides the photoshoots, the company, etc.) was this:

A chocolate mouse truffle torte thing that one of the rich clients had brought for the girls who work there as an early v-day present. yeah, me and sass ate that up.
And it was good.

too much too do too bad I got up at noon

Good morning!

Oh, I see it is 2 p.m.
hmmm.

Is Bell getting better at customer service and products?
I went by a Bell store to talk to the dude about maybe getting an iphone and when I left I didn't feel like crying?
Weird, hey?

I haven't decided for sure yet but maaaaaybe. The guy was pretty nice and seemed to be offering me some okay deals. Except that I'm sure there's always better to be had. Hard to get them without being a bitch though. I'm bad at demanding things.

If I get an iphone I'm going to cover it in diamonds. Obviously.


Also, I keep forgetting to post this because I am a bad blogger but remember when we went to the Macallan tastings? And I blogged about it here

and here, well please dudes can you fill out a survey about it for me? And if not for me then for The Redwood? The Redwood is a haven for women and children in Toronto needing housing/support/counselling/etc. And if you fill out this survey $2 will be donated to them! Easiest donation you'll make today!
Here is the Survey! It's right here so please click the link and then fill it out okay thanks!


Okay BRUNCH TIME

once I thought I'd like to be a blossom growing on a tree

yep. nope. no excuse for not blogging.
well I've been busy doing a whole lot of nothing and being sort of whiny about it, so maybe you won by me not writing?

Tonight as I was coming home, I was filled with great ideas of things I wanted to write about, about plays I wanted to start and characters I'd like to flesh out. I also was planning on looking into the Saskatoon and Edmonton Fringe festivals, and maybe seeing about going to Montreal for a mini-vaycay next week.
Guess what I did instead?
NOTHING.

Well, I ate some ketchup flavoured crispy minis, pet Theresa, read my google reader, and watched TV-on-the-internet.

FUCK I'M SO LAZY IT'S EMBARRASSING.

Of course, no one else is allowed to say that to me, only me. Only I get to say such things about myself. And maybe my mother. But nope, my mother is an enabler, always congratulating me for the stupid little things I do.


(look how happy she is there, congratulating my fancy waving skills.)

I feel a bit stagnated lately. I feel a bit bored and frustrated. My career is fully in the shitter (in case you haven't noticed me not booking anything lately) and I feel impotent and helpless in terms of that. I can't make work come to Toronto. I can't make casting directors call me in. And I most certainly can't convince them to cast me.

It's annoying that MTV and possibly even the diversity campaign people are still running commercials with me in them because:
a) I'm not getting any money from them (non-union work is the king of taking advantage)
b) It makes people feel as if I'm successful when I am really not (this is not the positive it seems like it might be, it makes people continuously ask about my dammit career and then get excited for having seen me on TV.)
c) It's possible to be over-exposed on TV and since they're still running old ads maybe it's effecting my chances of getting other stuff?

WHO KNOWS.

powerless powerless powerless


Hmmm. I sounded like I was in a way worse mood there than I actually am.

I've been having a run of bad luck lately which is a bit frustrating and I keep wondering if the universe is trying to tell me something. I wonder if the universe is trying to get me to be the kind of person who worries about possessions and money.

I don't really worry about either right now. I hate not having any money and I hate working but I don't really worry about things like debt and surprise costs (this attitude is not actually serving me well in the real-time world, but it is definitely keeping me young).
I just do not like being stressed or in a panic. I try very hard to avoid those feelings.


What I really think, though, is that I'm getting all this bad luck and expenses out of the way in order for some REALLY GREAT things to start coming my way.
I am not kidding at all.

I am going to start getting ready for all of these great things! (after I watch Glee on the internet.)


You know what would be great? If someone wanted to lend me $600 to do the Fringe with. I need more benefactors. They could be my producer...
I'm fully considering living in Saskatoon for two months next summer. Doing the fringe and partying down and getting some work done hopefully (not plastic surgery well maybe we'll see).


Also, I want to buy an iPhone. If you have a good reason why I shouldn't, tell me. Also, if you have a good reason why I should, same deal!