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OH YEAH GUYS 2 MONTHS TIL MY BIRTHDAY SO BUCKLE UP

brunch two days in a row!

Aunties and Uncles is smarter than me. Why? Because they thought of apple crisp pancakes and I did not.
You know what else would be good? Pear crisp pancakes.

Oh Wheat!

Wheat has been creeping back into my life, mostly in beer format, but also in fake meats and in that bag of perogies I bought..
I think that's why I'm feeling out of it again.

Hmmmmm.

I'm packed.. mostly. And tired. And the house is still dirty but not terribly messy. I did the dishes at least leave me alone.

I always choose flights that are stupidly early. I don't know why. Because I'm stupid, I bet.
But that means I'll have all day to party in Saskatoon tomorrow!
Even if I'm exhausted while doing it...



I'm going to continue creeping people's facebook profiles to make lolcats. Because I'm that kind of a girl.

beat that

You know what?
They sell pregnancy tests at Dollarama!
At that price I can afford to take one every month.

One night at the motel during shooting we stayed up way too late watching funny cat and dog videos and scrolling through page after page of icanhascheezburger.com. It was pretty silly.
but I've been laughing about this video for the past few days:


I've uploaded most of the pictures from set. I'll be getting to a blog about that soon. Just like I'll be getting to blogging about the past two cottage trips. Goddammit. Too much to do.

And I totally wasted yesterday in the best way. I didn't leave my house I just watched TV and movies all day.
I watched:
Penelope -
Everything I expected and more. Very nice, very enjoyable. All of the actors were pretty fantastic. James McAvoy is a babe. Catherine O'Hara is perfect. And Reese Witherspoon is unexpectedly enjoyable. I still love Christina Ricci's voice. It reminds me of grade 8. Anyone remember Gold Diggers: Secret of Bear Mountain? That was a gooder.
August Rush -
Fine. I bawled all the way through it. Whatever. It's great. Jonathan Rhys Myers is dreamy. That kid is great. The extreme musical parts were hard to buy, but I did my best. I love a good happy ending more than most things in life.
Baby Mama -
This is much better, more human and warm than the poster would suggest. It's really quite nice and has a oddly great cast. And a perfect ending. Tina Fey is great. I want to be Amy Pohler someday. She has my dream life right now.

Except I also have my dream life right now.



Watching web videos can take up all of your time if you're not careful.
But this one is pretty good.

Worth watching until the end.

Hey guys, I'm going home on Friday! And I just had a look at the line-up for the We Are Many Festival and it looks really really fun. Pretty much every one of my favourite Saskatooners are playing as well as one of my Toronto BFFs as well as the Weakerthans, Fred Penner, and Joel Plaskett!
I'm very excited for just hanging out in the park all weekend and seeing my buds!

And I have little to do before then. Work a couple of shifts, clean the house, buy some gifts.. and party. I suppose. If I have to.

I can make your hand disappear!

Dreamt of going home and falling back in love with my mentally ill ex-boyfriend. In a hyper-realistic way. Dealing with people's stigma about it, their complete awfulness about it, dealing with him and his family, and with his not making any sense but with still loving him. Woke up feeling thankful that wasn't the case. But still.
Thanks again, Barbara Gowdy.


I'm not actually very good at talking about other people's problems. I tell people what to do too often and I don't have enough of a filter. Between what I think and what actually needs to be said.
I also always think I'm right.
Oh, who doesn't


Booked my trip home to Saskatoon. Luckily, since it's less than two weeks away. Craaaazy. I'm not even home sick yet. This is awesome.
August 22nd to Sept. 2nd party time.
Just enough to to We-Are-Many-fest, lake, party, party, bond, party, drink tea, then leave.
Back here in time to figure out what the hell I'm going to wear to go hang out at film fest.
I want to make some dresses. We'll see if that actually happens (nope).



OMG got my mum the best birthday present today. I wish that she didn't read this so that I could post it for you. It's ever-so-pretty and yet completely useful. Which is exactly what my mother is about.
Maybe I'll just keep it. I wish I could justify buying one for myself.
Actually... maybe I can. After I get real paid at least.
I really don't know why I like it so much, but I do. And I'm trying to think who else I know could use one. Pretty much every fancy lady. Haha that gave you a wrong idea of what it is.
I've also built it up now! Now no matter what it is it won't measure up to mother's expectations! perfect!
Shit, I went to upload pictures of it to post to my other journal that no one reads but then I realized that even if I set it to private on my flickr my mother would still see it because I think she's still logged into my flickr as me. Hell. Good thing I remembered that.
Got the internet is a complicated landscape.

I'm trying to clear out the junk from my home. I'm trying to not buy useless shit anymore. And especially trying to get rid of anything junky/plastic. I threw out my crappy dish rack because it was ugly. Now I don't have one and that's for the best. Just my favourite red tray and a pretty tea towel. And I threw out the plastic juice jug and bought a glass one. Need more glass containers. Red glass especially I want.
I also need a pretty kettle (red or maybe green) and some cast-iron frying pans (I'm tired of eating teflon!) and I need a pretty pot to keep my wooden spoons and things in.
Housewares are pretty much the grown-up equivalent of school supplies.

Did some laundry today! Now if only I would get around to putting it away and cleaning things up around here...

I went to the cheese store that's less than two blocks from my house for the first time today. I'm pretty sure the brie I got sold is not good. Like verging on mouldy. Gross. I haven't tried it yet. But I did eat close to a log of goat's cheese. And it was good.

Downloading a shit-load of Patsy Cline. That sounds good to clean to. We'll see.

Damn I wish Jonathan-Cat hadn't left. There's nothing lonely than apartment freshly empty of kitten.


this is my neighbour's cat. to make me feel a bit better. click on the photos to see all of it. yes.

it's either nap time or gym time very shortly here

I had an audition early this morning. I could've been back in bed by 11 but I didn't feel tired. Now I surely do. But now it seems too late...

Stupid flippin teen fiction let me down. Thirsty by M.T. Anderson is a pretty great read. But no flippin happy ending, in case you were wondering. Also, I love vampire books and am secretly pretty excited for the Twilight movie that's coming out this winter...
I've only read the first book in that series but having been jonesing for the rest since then.
Jonesing for BLOOOOOOOD

Went to Nick's show on Friday at Cameron House.



Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows that when I say I'm going to see "friends of mine" play music that it's the best music ever. It's not shows I feel required to attend, I fully feel lucky to know such clever people sometimes.


Oh lordy I just read icanhascheezburger until I was seriously crying. Maybe 4 hours of sleep was not enough. Hmmm.
Time to make some soup!!!

I forgot this picture in my ode to dollface the other day. Sorry dudes, I know you wanted to see her in my glasses looking like freakin Holly Golightly or some other hot nonsense and imagine going at her from behind (by which I mean, sneaking up on her, like for fun, like as a joke, you would go at her and surprise her! and she would laugh! and you would hold hands and frolic and things! through the park!)

(reflections = awesome)

I just ate most of a can of corn (why do I have canned corn? a) it doesn't go bad, b)I don't have a proper freezer) and I was all like "why is this corn so sweet and tastily delicious?" and then I saw that sugar was on the list on ingredients in my corn.
Maybe I could have it for desert.

Meredith's Tuesday Soup

1/4 big bottle of Mott's Garden Cocktail (left over from the cottage)
1 onion
4 cloves of garlic (unless you are a vampire, in which case, do not use)
1 can of black beans
1/4 can of corn (then eat the rest of its sugary goodness)

put it all in a pot and cook it for awhile. It will be delicious!!!

Waited out the rain on Saturday night to go party more, it was only 2 a.m., after all.


The rain didn't let up.

You know when you start drinking vodka mixed with Gatorade (from a tin, no less) that you are up to no good.

On my way home that night, crossing my street, I stepped in a puddle up to my ankle, completely submerged my red flat. Needless to say, I continued stepping fully into every puddle that came my way after that.
Bliss.

temp-cat lol-cat

I probably should've clarified that that review posted below is for the short film that I did, A Small Thing, not my fringe play, which I am currently engrossed in.
Also, thanks Robert Bell of Exclaim magazine, that's one of the heartiest compliments I've received.

The fringe review was fine.
Three stars, said the acting is strong but the plot meanders. I'll take that.



My cat's name is now Temp-Cat


AWWWWWWWWWW the baby.
(more nice photos of her on my flickr site.)

The best part about today was how I spent like 6 hours on a stupid sundress (for my friend, but still) and then ruined it at the last minute (salvageable, but still) so I had nothing to wear tonight (yeah it was for my friend, but still).
But then I just cut some holes in a green (colour of hospital scrubs, hot) pillow-case and wore it as a shift dress. Because I am a dork like that.
A huge, huge dork.
Evidenced below.








OMG, dudes, so ready to a successful actor.
At least I got an unexpected (small) cheque today. Thank-you again, gum people.

meredith, in parts

You know what is nice?
When boys love each other. I mean that in all ways, but today I'm meaning platonically.
Check these two, they're so nice:



One of those two is one of my very favourite people of all time, even though sometimes it doesn't seem like it. But I do just love him so, so much.

Fuck I wish I hadn't caught my thumb so hard in that mouse-trap! Damn you tiny beasts of burden!

You might not know this, but I love my camera. Fuck bromance, electromance is the new hot.

I am severely missin my kittens. Oh sigh sigh.





I'm looking into getting a cat. Such issues, though! But if not then I will for surely pet-sit some? Or something. I love them. And wish for them to kill my mice.
Stupid, stupid mice.. I wish I knew how you are so invincible.