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'!

it's the (second) most wonderful time of the year!

ready ready ready ready to go to the cottage!

Ohhh man, am I ever ready!


I cannot believe that I have still not posted photos from last summer or even the summer before. I am amazingly bad at getting around to things!




haha wolfy was marking the bottle as to which round we were on.


ha, I hope we see more cars with dolphin decals on them!


I'm going to drink out of this fucking giant mug again.


I hope this is my bedroom again. I love this bedroom. WAIT. I love all the bedrooms!








Aw, man, Dollface has such a nice smile. I'm planning on doing a lot of smiling this weekend, just try to stop me.


And I will cheers to the sky a lot.



Hey, we're also taking Day, who I invited on a whim thinking that she might need a vacation. Everyone else we know has jobs and obligations and things to do.



I feel bad because Niki leaves forever (or at least awhile) on Monday and now I won't get to spend more time with her before she goes..









SIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

yayayayayayayyyyyyyyyy

I hope to:

get slushies for the road
read a book
talk about babes
swim every day
drink bloody marys
go kayaking
play boardgames
have a bath in that clawfoot tub
eat delicious foods


then it's back to the grind next week with working and meetings and other things that aren't as fun as they should be.

sepia beach, where all the old-fashioned looking people go

island lifestyle forever and ever and ever and ever



wow, even though the last time I went to the island (a month or so ago) I reminded myself that it's really not that hard to get out there and I should do it more often, I still didn't remember how easy it is to get there!
so easy!



quick bike-ride down to the base of Bay (for some reason I rode down Bay and it's SUCH a trip to bike through the stupidest part of Toronto before getting on a boat and being carried away), then you're at the ferries, the ferries come frequently, get on with your bike, enjoy the ferry (boat!boat!boat!), get off the ferry, bike for two seconds, and BAM you're on the beach!
The beach facing away from the city and you can look out and feel like you're at a cottage someplace, not a care in the world.



Violet and I got going later than expected (my fault because I was making potato salad and stuff), but we still had hours and hours to lie around and chill the eff out.

Pretty soon Violet starts article-ing (apparently articling is not a word? maybe in legalese?) in a week or so, so I feel like it is her JOB right now to relaxasaurus around.
Also, Violet's been in BC for the past month so I hadn't seen her in forever.



We stopped for coffees at that little Ward's island coffee shop place and got iced amicanos, so good. We packed potato salad and cheese and crackers and veggies and Budzzz. Thanks, Budweiser, for making a beer I can drink and constantly get made fun of for!
Kind of love Bud.

I swam but Violet didn't swim.

The name Violet reminds me of when I was little and I had two dolls one named Pollyanna and one named Polly. Polly looked just like Pollyanna expect was smaller. Then I got another doll who looked just like them but had dark hair and she just was never part of their gang. I called her Violet.



Prune came out later on with some Sapporos. Thanks, Sopporo, for making a beer I can drink and is expensive and people respect me more.


Fucking, sepia. Kind of funny? I'm kind of into it.

I feel like Prune and I look like we're of our mothers' generation in these. Man, we would totally have hung out with our mothers back in the day.




Pruuuuune is very easy to photograph because she doesn't mind. Violet minds but that doesn't stop me.



Prune and I stayed until almost nine and I was going to stay longer to read but she pointed out that it was going to get dark anyway because she is a spoilsport like that.

More island photos later. I'm beat!

Man, a whole day of doing nothing can really tire you out, huh?




I spent this evening watching TV and writing. Now I'm going to read and then go to bed.

So how's being back in Toronto? Preeeeeetty fun. And also I miss Saskatoon, but it's only like a month until I go back so I might as well live it up live it up here while I can, ya know?

I want to go to the island again on Thursday, who's in?



Ohhhhh also, I am getting my hair professionally done tomorrow for the first time in ages so get ready for how exciting that's going to be.
hmmmmmmmmm