missin those prairie skies

I made this video in the summertime the day of my aunt's wedding my mum and I drove to find some more wildflowers to top up the (ridiculously beautiful) arrangements my mum had made. My aunt's wedding was on a retreat outside of the city a ways and the prairies were fucking gorgeous that day. Can't even explain but this shaky video maybe gives you an idea.
I don't know if you're not from the prairies if I can get across how much I love it there, but, you know.


I fell over onto my face (not quite) walking in Kensington on my way to work yesterday afternoon. I just fell right off a curb. Pretty embarrassing!
I felt fine afterwards but by the time my shift was over my ankle had swollen right up and I wanted to barf because it hurt too much to stand on. I was worried because today was the Buffalo Bills game at the dome and it was super busy. But this morning I woke up and it was miraculously cured!
Or maybe I was just being a baby in the first place. Probssss.


My brain's fried tonight. I cannot believe how fast time is passing I'm wasting my life away. Except also life's been preeetty fun lately so that's okok then.
Mostly.

Oh, in case you're wondering, I've booked my holiday trip home I'm in Saskatoon from 2:30 in the afternoon on Dec. 16th (holy shiiit a bit more than a month away!) until the morning of Dec. 30th.
So lots of time for making crafts pre-Christmas day (cousin I am looking specifically in your direction better get some time set aside for me otherwise you'll get punched) but I'm back in Torontoo for New Years... Let's live it up and cheers to the moon. Yeah?

paaaartied too haaaaard

I am still hung over from last night and now it's bedtime tonight.
That's not good!

Sass got us a booth and a bottle at Circa last night and shit went crazy. And by "shit went crazy" I mean "we both drank way too much because it was there and free and then I don't remember all that happened".

Pictures to come soon (some of which I don't even remember being there for, let alone taking).


We left with the bunches of helium balloons that were tied to the railings of the balcony-type location we were situated at and Sass tied them to my bike's handlebars which I then tried to push along. But the balloons kept going in my face and so I stopped to try and untie them and I ended up falling right over onto my bike on the sidewalk. Boy oh boy do I have bruises to show for it.
And the balloons floated away... Too bad I was totally trying to bring them as a gift for a babe...


If I remember correctly the bouncer was unimpressed with us leaving with the balloons. But, really, they should get circa-logo balloons and let everyone leave with them at the end of the night and then it's like free publicity.
"look how much fun those people at Circa must have had!!! They have balloons!!!!"


I had never ever been to an actual real-time club before. Bars, lounges, dance nights, pubs, etc all the time, but never a clubbing club club.
It was really kind of fun. I just would never want to pay a billion dollars to hang out there.



I just made rice pasta and then put sauteed mushrooms and herbed goats cheese on it. Preeeetty good. I also ate some green beans.
I'm glad that food is somewhat appetizing again. I was very uncertain I was even going to make it to work tonight, but luckily I pulled through. Barely.

Ughhhhhhhhhh still have a messed up head and belly. My bad.


If I could eat that right now, I would.

fell right over but only felt it later

Ronnie's Friday instead of dressing up for Hallowe'en like I'd kind of been dreaming of. Oh Well! It turned out to be real fun. Met up with some friends I don't see nearly enough of, including this friend who can be the life/driving force of the the party if he so chooses. And he tends to pick his moments, instead of spreading himself party-thin like I do. Which is probably why he is an accomplished writer/artist/director/actor/etc and I am not. Don't worry, I'm sure I will be soon!

Annnnywaysssss. We sat on the patio! Probably the last patio-sit of the year? It was really warm out. Sass came by and wasn't even wearing a jacket but it wasn't no big thing. Warmth!

We got grilled cheese from the new grilled cheese store across the road. They deliver their grilled cheeses right to the Ronnie's patio! I know, right?
On our way to order I (drunkenly) caught my cowboy boot in between the bench and the table and fell REAL HARD onto the ground. I hit my ass very hard on the corner of the bench and bruised the hand I fell on. I wish I had a picture of the ass-bruise because it is pretty intense, but there's just no way of getting a photo of it that isn't weird. It's just too close to my lady-bits. Ya know? Rest assured, it is a sweet bruise, very deeply coloured, and such.
It hurts to ride my bike. The roads are very bumpy!

Went to a party at a loft after Ronnie's - I only went for about 10 minutes, just to see what was what and to take a bunch of photos I guess.



It was so, so, so, soooo humid in there! Unreal. It had cleared out a lot but there were still some people dancing and some people by the bar and holy shit was it humid. We had to clean our camera lenses every few seconds!

Gave us a sort of unearthly ethereal kind of a glow, though


Hipster beers for all!!!!

That beer looks magically cold and delicious. I want one again please?



I really like this photo of Sass, jfyi





And then everyone wanted me to go home


And so I did!!!

All stories should have as happy an ending as this one...

wow too long!

Okay I seriously cannot explain to you the backlog of photos of funtimez I have right now. And also I guess of some not-so-funtimez..
presenting the photo-essay of my scratched cornea!

So the kitten scratched my cornea at about 4 in the morning and I didn't feel like dealing with it and it hurt a lot but I flushed it out with contact solution because I felt like that couldn't hurt (well, it physically hurt) because it was antibacterial. And then I went to sleep, assuming it would be better in the morning.
But it was not better and so the Cpt. and Nasty had to come and walk me to the hospital because I was crying and couldn't walk my damn self because my vision was severely limited. The bad part was that Nasty is ridiculously uncomfortable with eye injuries. Kind of ridiculous.


But yeah, so luckily the Bathurst hospital has an eye-specialist and stuff. And they didn't even make me feel shitty for coming in (I hate when doctors/hospitals do that - I'm seriously not trying to waste your time. ugh.)

But yeah, so they gave me a tetanus shot (which hurt my arm for a week afterwards, no exaggeration, way after my eye was fine) and then I had to wait for the doctor and let me tell you: there is very little to do when you're blinded and used to having sight.
Reading? People-watching? Knitting? Solitaire on the ipod?

Haha, oh yeah Cpt. asked if I needed anything and I said "juice. Any kind of juice. please."
And guess what he brought back? NOT JUICE.

Which I found hilarious for some reason. Especially given that then they had this whole jug of delicious real juice.

Just kidding, thanks Cpt. that punch was pretty delicious.
I felt badly for interrupting their picnic-bike-ride-date so I let them leave once I got taken in to wait for the doctor.
So nice of them to come with though...



The hospital bracelet matched my outfit which was good because otherwise I would've had to have refused to wear it.



The doctor finally came like 45 minutes later and he gave me numbing drops and went again again for awhile. Those numbing drops were like LITTLE MIRACLES on my swollen shut eyeball.
Then he came back and had many looks at it and then announced that I would be fine. And also that I was not allowed to have more numbing drops and that I'd just have to be in pain.
That's so mean!
I guess I needed to know if it hurt to know if it was getting better. Or some other garbage.



It hurt so much all afternoon, I just slept mostly.

The best part:

Obviously.

And now I'm fine! Eyes heal themselves very well. yay eyes!



Here are some photos from brunch with Dollface over a week ago!



Yes, I always wear the same shirt. Leave me alone.
I was practicing pretending to be a dance for some commercial audition I had that afternoon. It turned out to be belly-dancing. I had no idea.


Okay I know I always say this, but, man does Aunties have good soups. This mushroom business was particularly nice. Not too creamy just mushroom-meaty mmhmm yeah get into me.

DF and I had both had our hairs done recently. Our lives are EXCITING.



Now here are some pictures from when DF and I went and got shittered in a very short time at Baby Huey's. I am always obliterated at Baby Huey's. And the bathrooms always smell so, so badly.

I did 3 fake shots because I am not allowed to do shots because I'm a lightweight with proper limits.

But then I finally convinced myself/everyone that I should be allowed a real shot and then guess what? I immediately wanted to barf. Genius!

I didn't though.

I did wear Dollface's glasses for an obnoxiously long time and refuse to give them back. So that was fun.

I need to remember to drink less. For serious.


Yeah, so, Scamp, Twerp, and Dingbat are definitely kittens. And kittens are totally into doing awesome things like getting locked out of the apartment, knocking things over, leaving turds on the floor, running away from the litter box at top speed, chewing on my nose while I'm trying to sleep.
PRETTY FUN.

No, they are cute.
Sometimes they try to make out with me though.


Pretty gross!






They climb onto everything and wreck everything and knock everything down. It is very, very cute.
Luckily.



Jays home opener tonight!
I betting it'll be a shit-show. And I'm hoping to make all the dollar bills!

here are some pictures of some kittens for you

Apparently there has been a lack of kitten pictures on here.
This entry will fix that problem.



In case you were wondering (thanks for your outpouring of concern, btw) my eye is feeling a whole lot better. Almost healed, I'd say (and hope).
It's still not the prettiest and kind of swollen and red, but compared to yesterday it's like a miracle.
Walking home from DF's last night I took all the sidestreets so that I could stop and close my eyes for awhile. Man, it was hurting. I don't want that to happen again.




I did get myself a treat and that treat was orange juice (the grovestand kind with way too much pulp just how I like it) and a pineapple frozen fruit popsicle thing.
And it was delicious.




Kitten purrs are the cutest thing. In case of if you were wondering. Also, Bear is sleeping in the sunshine for the first time right now and she is too cute. Too bad Preddi keeps jumping on her head and trying to eat her face.
Oh, good, he's coming over to bother me now.





I can't hang my bare legs off the couch because they definitely get used for claw-holds.



I mean, I guess their eyes are on straight... but they just still look a bit dumb...




Here is where I tried to line them up for a family portrait...

It ended well.

Then I put them in my pockets. For fun.



And then they were cute.



Okay. I'm going to go try and make my face look more normal so that I can chat up babes and stuff without scaring them away.
Yeah good luck on that one.