voyageur va cherchez tes baggages

Had a late lunch with Flash Gordon at Fresh after the dome today. She announced that she wanted to tell me something she liked best about me and so I decided I'd better film it. You can see what she says, above.


Also, our food was SO GOOD.
FGordon did a quick job of her bowl (she's a supereater) whereas I took half of mine home with me (I'd also eaten fries earlier).

it was SO GOOD.
My bowl was on half price too so it was only like $6.50.
BAM.
I just ate the rest right now even though I was still overly full from the first helping.
Classic.
I couldn't stop thinking about it, though. Good thing it's gone now. 




I'm trying to think what my favourite thing about Flash Gordon is now.
she's pretty good at listening/advising and gets worked up on my behalf. I really really like it when that happens. Actually, I like it when she gets worked up in general.
Also, she's hysterical. obviously.
That's how I choose my friends, whoever is the best at laughing with me.


Not to point out the obvious, but maaaan I love Fresh. all vegetarian with an eye on gluten-free?! come on now.
Plus we had cashew cookies for desert. yessssssss.



Thank god I made some money at work today because last night was a complete bust. Ups and downs, man. Working for tips is pretty stressful sometimes.
And sometimes fun.

I nailed down my dates for my sweeeet vacation in Montreal next week.
SO EXCITED.
And I may even have a couple of dollars to spend on partytown.

You know how many beardy-longhairs there are in Montreal? A BILLION.



Meeting up with a couple of my favourite ladybabes from Saskatoon there. Actually, Lettie (I just randomly chose that nickname for her!!) lives there now and has a spare bedroom and she's letting Carlos and I crash with her. ughhh this is going to be a shitshow (I hope)!
haaaaaa



Carlos and Lettie can both drink more than I can and are both as interested in babes as I am. Although Lettie might be off the market lately so maybe she'll just round up babes for Carlos and I? That'd be right on.

Lettie is possibly responsible for the whole calling babes "babes" business. She definitely came up with "babe of life" and "touch 'em, they're real" and several other of my favourite jokes.
I'm looking forward to getting in on her Montreal life! And having a few cocktails. UH HUH.

Carlos is going to Montreal to look at schools? or something? I think it'll be cool if Carlos moves out to Montreal all too and then I can go visit both of them all the time. Yeeeah huh.

We all have red hair right now, too. Amazing.
(although Lettie is maybe the only "natural" whatever that means.)



please advise me posthaste of anything you think I should see/do, anyone you think I should meet (that'd be weird), anything free to experience, any walk I should take, etc.
THANKS GUYS.

uh oh I don't really know how to speak french anymore. 

I feel really certain it is either Saturday or Sunday right now.
I'm alright with it being Thursday though if it needs to be. I mean, I have tomorrow off and tonight the plan is Hoops then Dot. So.... my life is perfect.

okbluejaysletsplayball

I'm trying to be more on-the-ball in this blog for you guys. YOU'RE WELCOME.
shit, the amount of shit that I do for you.
Too bad it can't all be interesting but win some lose some. 



Tonight is the Jays home opener and I'm working it (obviously) and tonnes of babes are going but they'll all be up on 500 and I'll be wanting to die with how annoying it's going to be on 100 level because it's just too busy to handle.
Whatever. I'm going to have a giant coffee and hope that a good mood ensues that I can ride until I can get the eff out of there.
Except I probably won't be done until midnight or 1 a.m... another fun thing about when the dome is exceptionally busy.
A Saskatoon band is playing with an awesome toronto band and I'd like to go to that. Hmmmmm. Hopefully!
Hopefully I make $300.
Come buy beer from me and give me a giant tip! Or at least a kiss on the lips. (just kidding, sick.)


Hey at least I like my hair today!


Boots!


I don't want to move far away from this neighbourhood, I kind of love it forever.

Happy 7th anniversary to you, attic apartment. To celebrate I'm going to cruise craigslist for new apartments!



I'm getting pretty excited at the idea of my new apartment.
I'm hoping and fingers crossing everything works out like I'm dreaming.
I made a detailed list of what we're looking for, in order to clarify and submit to the universe my desires. Gooooooo universe.


I would like to get a job some day where I didn't have to wear a uniform.
I'd like to get a job where I got to wear costumes. yeaaahh costumes.

if I leave now I can get coffeeeee

today I drank tea and I listened to Clipse and I laughed at my own jokes. Oh, right, that's most days.

I wish I had a rap/dance band again.



Work last night was the longest EVER. I mean, did you even see that game (you probably didn't)? Super lot of runs for both sides and it was just like the battle of bad pitching from what I could tell. Heyyy this is a baseball blog now!
But I worked with my friend who just got a job as a flight attendant so she's been trying to improve her french so we were attempting to speak only french to each other. Terrible failure, but truly good times. Holy lord we were killing ourselves falling over laughing at our ridiculous lack of french knowledge.
Also I kept singing french voyageur songs and doing the actions. Obviously.



It was super slow and so luckily we were entertaining each other and luckily it was a pretty smooth night, not terrible issues at the end or anything. And made a bit of change, so, yeah, I can take you out on the town now if you wanna go.



Magpie after work where two groups of my friends were there sort of separately. Stayed later than I intended and then bought taquitos. FUCK YOU, TAQUITO.



HAHA
my agent just called and was like "Recall tomorrow at 11" and I was like "nooooo then I have to blow off aquafit"
we laughed. and laughed.
and then in my head I was like "YESSSSSSS FIFTY BUCKS" just like that in my mind.

I'm ready to book GIGS and then I'm ready to book more gigs!

I think I'm going to have a clothing swap next week. Do you want to come? It may also be the official unveiling of my new apartment (ahah this gets dumber because I didn't even change anything, really. I mean, how much can you do with 100 square feet??)!

it's easy when the subject is easy

 Hey, I did my friend's headshots on Sunday! Despite some technical stupidity on my behalf (ughghghghhh) I'm pretty pleased with how they've turned out. And She seems pleased as well!


(this outfit that she's wearing is actually a jumper thing with pants! Amazing.)


This friend is also the proprietor of Sub Rosa Vintagein Kensington market. I wish I had a vintage store. I'm jealous of everyone in the world most of the time.


This shoot was really fun and pretty easy because this friend is super good at posing so I didn't have to do too much, she knew what she wanted I think and what faces to make. Probably photographing actors is always easier than non-performers who feel awkward with attention/posing. 



You can feel free to compliment her in my comments if you want to. Also you can tell me which one is your favourite. For fun! It'll be just like a drinking game only instead of a drinking game you'll just pick one. 



I'm not sure this red or the background is the ideal choice for a headshot, but there's something really lovely and warm about this photo, I think, like she looks like a really loving little mum.. anyone with me on this one?

I wish I had money for a new fancy lens! Does anyone want to buy it for me?
Also, a HUGE thank-you to Dollface for letting us use her condo for this shoot-- it's pretty much ideal and my apartment is completely not ideal at all. Does anyone want to buy me a studio? I'll let you!

Huge pile of clean laundry on my bed right now and when I got back from brunch with the BFF I could tell Ruth Buzzi had been sleeping on it because she smelled lovely and fresh. I love Ruth Buzzi. Just saying. I also love brunch, clean clothes, the BFF, and coffee (for putting me in this great mood right now).

This blog looks really good right now like I am a fantastic partytimer. imho.

jingle jingle no keys in the pockets

I'm all tuckered out now, I managed to lose my keys at Tattoo last night and not realize until I got home at 4 a.m. Classic. It's all sorted now but it was annoying last night, that's for sure.
I try not to get too mad about stuff like that. Actually I try not to get too worked up about anything, really. I wonder how much of that is proper coping and how much is suppressing...

There's really loud construction work going on below me (they seem to be ripping so much of the main floor out that I wonder how it will still support me up here...) and so I can't nap. I might still try, though.



Ha, Ruth Buzzi is pretty funny. She wore that around the house for an embarrassingly long time. Way to go, Ruth! I'm getting Ruth's profile ready to go up on the TCR website soon... Then you can adopt her!
Ruth Buzzi doesn't have infinite patience for me. I like that about her, she's not a pushover.




I took this picture while walking from my cousin's house to my friend's house in Saskatoon. Serious sigh dream cottage little tiny house with a wreath and lights and everything. Good location, too. Want.





I took these pictures of myself at my mum's house. Yeah I'm slowly working my way back through the photos hopefully the ones from actual Christmas will come soon. Whatever, I'm only a month behind.



Holy christchild I just realized how broke I am. Ughhhh so classic. Every January. This is getting old like ooooolllllllldddddddddd. Ya know?



I wonder if I could get a job taking pictures of myself. Should I become a  camgirl? Is this 2005?
Is there a market for really really awkward solo porn tapes? Probably. Hmmm.

seriously though, IF YOU HAVE A JOB FOR ME, PLEASE GIVE IT TO ME. Thanks!

still am not good at visiting

Here are some photos I bit from my cousin's flickr. Pictures of me, you're welcome!



Sometimes I sit sort of paralyzed at the thought of writing (not blog-writing, writing-writing) and cycle through social media/google reader windows until I've used up all the time that I felt I could possibly get involved in actually writing something.

I will use any excuse to avoid actually writing. My favourite one is how I don't know what the characters' names will be so I can't go about writing them until I know what they'd be called and so I look at baby name sites on the internet for about an hour.



I feel like this year will be really great. A lot of things have felt really shitty lately and I've felt stagnant and safe and resistant to actually trying things.
I'm planning on getting things moving.

For the past while when people would ask about my career I would tell them "it's in the shitter".
I feel like my attitude has followed this statement a bit and then even possibly my work habits/audition habits/planning habits/dreaming habits have all been affected by negativity.




Not to get all woo-woo on you here, but I think that having a positive attitude can go a long way. Expecting great things and going out looking for them can be really worthwhile.
Expecting shittiness kind of brings it in some ways, it seems.



Anyhow -- I'm looking forward a bit to the home-body-ness of wintertime. I'm going to work to avoid the depression that generally comes my way in the feb/mar/apr and instead spend hours reading and reading and writing and writing and walking far places and learning new crafts and skills and booking big gigs.



My mum and I watched An Education tonight. We debated watching Precious, but determined that would be too much for an evening following an afternoon of funeral and wake-drinking.

It was quite a lovely movie. I generally love Peter Sarsgaard (ever since Freak City) and now I very much want Carey Mulligan to be my best friend.


(not from my cousin's flickr set)

Could someone please get her to come to Toronto and hang out with me?
So delightful to watch and appealing. She reminds me a bit of Audrey Tatou in her appeal, but I think I might like her even more (?!).
I think it goes without saying that I am dreadfully jealous of her and want to be just like her.

Or be an equally great me.
Yes, that's it.

Whoa daylight savings time just happened!

Just now! I saw it!
Well, rather, I looked at the clock and it said 3 a.m. and I was like "what the hell? when did it get to be three a.m. have I really just wasted a whole hour and not noticed?"
But nope, just DST kicking in.

My legs are so so sore right now. I can't even explain to you how sore they are. Except also the tendons in the lower part of left leg seem sort of messed up a bit, like extra tender.

Worked at the dome today and there were two baseball games one at 2 and one at 8. Whoever booked these events should be punched. I was there from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. !!!
So many hours!

I was supposed to go to my friend's birthday but it was over on Roncesvalles anyway and it is raining out and my legs hurt too bad, oh yeah and I went to walk Kaya too.. sooo.. yeah, birthday party: bailed on.
That sucks. I do like parties.

In better news: I made a billion dollars today.
Well maybe not a billion but it was definitely crazy busy in the afternoon, plus it was like working two shifts in one day.

Ow my legs!

Oh yeah our whole unit was effed up also we were soaked in beer pretty much the whole shift, I hate when things aren't maintained and it makes my job about a billion times more annoying. Classic.

The second game was way quieter, and I was a pretty good mood which was weird, all things considered. I flirted a lot I guess, but also that's sort of like just being friendly. Anyway I saw a whole bunch of babes that I wanted to chat up including two guys sporting fake moustaches. And then it turned out that most of them were all friends with each other. Babes do travel in packs, just saying.
Anyway, I gave my number to the two with the fake moustaches (maybe they were in disguise?) - to both of them, I thought that was pretty funny. But I feel like we should all go out and party together. I don't even know them, how would I know which one I'd like better right off the bat like that?
So I said let's party and they said okay and I said "I know some babes, I could probably round-up some babes. Do you know babes?" and they were confused momentarily because people are close-minded and do not realize that babes can be of either gender. Geez.
So if they do call I hope we all round-up all of our babefriends and have a bit of a mixer....
I love new people! And I love strangers! And I love parties!

Except tonight. Tonight I am not all party.. I more into snuggling up with this laptop and some samosas... Yesyesyes

party-some-of-the-time

Tilda and I have been chilling out. All she seems interested in is sleeping and sleeping. Oh, and cuddling. And waking me up in the night so that I will pet her. And then sleeping some more.



She is such a kitten. And so dear and beyond affectionate. She spends all her time with me. But at the same time, she never seems upset to be left alone for awhile. Always sleeping when I get back.
Probably stocking up on sleep because soon there's going to be tiny beasts who will never leave her alone...





And now, for a myspace-angle...


I was my own valentine... I totally got dressed to go out last night, I took this picture to prove it. But then I realized that I did not feel like dancing or drinking and certainly should not be scoping babes (I'm trying to take this babe-break seriously) so what would be the point of going and spending money... So I just cuddled with Tilda Swinton instead.

Haven't been going out much at all. Spending less money and less time thinking about babes.
Probably going out tonight though especially since it's Dollface's night off...
I haven't decided when babe-break will end.
Ugh, just the thought of drama makes me want to barf. But man when babes are good...


I worked the leaf game last night and I brought some chocolate hearts which made it much better. And I also dressed in various shades of pink. And other coworkers gave out candies too... I love holidays that involve sugar (aka every holiday).
Oh yeah, and I ate pizza with one of my co-workers on my break. Then when we were done I told him "thanks for sharing this Valentines Day dinner with me..."
V romantic.

Can't wait to have kids to make Valentines with and bake heart-shaped cookies for!!!