bits and vids

too many things to count on all my hands, I'll tell you that for free.
so many things going on.

whenever I sit down to write a blog it's forsure because I'm trying to avoid working on a bigger project. So, in a way blog updates are bad news. But I do apologize because I miss having a regular blog and keeping updated.


I'm always late posting pictures. But Dollface's family Thanksgiving this year was really excellent. I feel lucky that her family still lets me come! Her grandmother is my role-model, she buys giant easy-grip bottles of rye. Is that reason enough? Probably!



pants-free Thanksgiving. Super, super cute.
As much as I want a baby less than I have since being maybe 17, I am still super affected by little guys sometimes. Especially working the kids' shows at the theatre. The extreme amounts of cute are almost hard to take. I feel stressed out by kids' vulnerability.


Here's the tattoo that Dollface's bro drew for me to get. Perfection.


I think these are from the same weekend? Maybe. Got free tickets to a basketball game that I didn't have to work. Nice to be the one drinking the Smirnoff Ice instead of serving it foreverandever!



I fucking miss hockey. Don't get me started.


I'm still pretty much a relationship expert.

BYEEEEEEEE NOW.

(p.s. less than 2 months til christmas if you want to know what to get me, look here: pinterest.com/ohmistletoe/things-to-buy-for-me-as-gifts/ !!!!!)

dating advice #4

hey guys! look how romantic I am. aaaaand I'm giving you some sweet advice.

we're big cats you date

wow. well. apparently I can completely forget I have a blog. guyssss, I don't eve know. these days I'm just the busiest.
I go back and forth on whether I'd like to be a busy dude. I miss my afternoons in my sunlit room just scrolling through the internet. know what I'm sayin'?



here's a video I made a couple of weeks ago. In it I will give you super good suggestions of what to do if you have a boyfriend who has a birthday and expects a gift. You're so welcome.

here's a video that WHITE PANTHER GIRLFRIEND made:

in it we release our nightmares and will now be free of them forever. easy peesy.

Speaking of White Panther Girlfriend, we are enamoured with each other and that's a very nice thing. We've had a couple of real disagreements but even those have been prrrretty funny (especially in retrospect).

okay guys I gotta split and hit the road as I'm off for a one-night-only special romantic vacation getaway to the falls so hold on to your hats or something and bye for now.

still waiting on my witch powers

Remember how yesterday it was so warm and fresh and spring all over?
And today is steadily getting colder and is damp and wintery? Gross.

Remember how talking about the weather is a super interesting topic and it's a really good thing I have a blog?

It should be illegal how much my mood is effected by the weather.
Luckily in a minute here my laundry will be done and I'm going to go hang out with the dog down at the lake and then pick up some groceries and then later Nic is coming over to talk about our lives and plans and stuff, and then after that I am hopefully going HOT-TUBBING (if this falls through I will be murderously upset, jfyi guys good now we're clear).


#bedside (sort of)

I thought I'd be real good at the march photo a day challenge but it turns out I'm just not good at getting around to things! So I'll be a part-time photo-a-day-er.


#myneighbourhood

this is obviously something I think is good. It's also obviously so good.


aaaaaaand this:





#somethingIwore
Out on my little balcony yesterday afternoon. I'm also drinking a really delicious smoothie here (just frozen peaches and strawberries with soy milk. thick like ice cream almost). Nice life, guy!

Yulie's back in town! She's not living with us anymore, she's moved in with her BF a few streets over. But I'm still very glad. I just love her. Probably best she's not living with me so I can't be mean to her. She's so earnest and warm. Good, good news.



I got called out by Nic the other day for being a bad worker. This is my main classic move. Not being good at working. I don't like to try for fear of failing. Guess where that's gotten me!
But also, I'm having troubles, comedy-wise, because I'm not sure I understand it all yet. Ha, obviously! What I mean, though, is that I don't know why I appreciate the things I do. I don't know how to turn a funny moment I enjoyed into a polished joke/bit/scene/etc.
I need a lot more work, but also probably a lot more guidance and I'm going to have to learn what I need and how to ask for it. Hmmmmmmm.

Just thinking about things, just thinking about it.

sickish

Been feeling kind of sickish this weekend and took the opportunity to huddle-down with Netflix and cats.

Yep, both of them slept beside my legs. I wasn't allowed to touch Béa of course or she'd nip at me. But still!

It's nice to have a bit to sit around and feel sorry for myself and wallow in melancholy and all that. Sometimes even when I know things are for the best, it's still sad for a minute. That's okay, that's okay.

So, I just watch TV forever.
Movies movies movies.
I watched The Other Woman and Fish Tank on Saturday while feeling whiny. Cool moves. Both are good! Cried all evening. So cool!

The Other Woman

Don't watch this trailer unless you like knowing everything about movies. I don't like knowing anything about movies before I watch them.
I feel like the name of this one is misleading. This is more than about being the other woman, it's a study of greif and family and desires versus realities and how hard love in all forms can be.
I cried through all of it, basically, obviously.

Fish Tank

this trailer is good, doesn't give it all away.
This one is at times slightly hard to watch, kind of disturbing. But beautiful and honest in a way that I really like. Strong performances and quite heartbreaking.

Saturday night after watching those I concluded that comedy is pointless and all I'd ever want to create is beautiful, difficult, art. I only want to play sad characters and make heartbreaking movies for you to cry over.
Ha!
No, I do feel like that sometimes and I have an irrationally strong fear (irrational because this would require even mild success on my behalf) of being pigeonholed in comedy and not taken seriously as a dramatic actor.
hahahahaahahaaaaaaaaa
HAAHAHAHA
HAHAAH
ohhhh lordy, Meredith. What cool moves you have, being worried about things that will never happen because you never do any work.

Have I said anything about Tiny Furniture?

I've been wanting to see this for awhile (ever since I hear about this woman born in 1986 getting her own new drama for HBO based on this one feature, basically) and now it's on Netflix!
This film is so good. so good.
I mean, I knew that this film was basically designed for me exactly, but still. So much about it. Particularly the body image/appearance stuff and the young creative class stuff and the stuff about dating these days, etc, etc, etc.



I've heard some funny resolutions this year and one of my favourites has been Violet's resolution to become a good gift-giver. As long as I've known her, Violet has not been interested in the sport of gift-giving, in any capacity. But she's starting to get good!
Anyhow, I sort of forced her into buying me some awesome metal snowflakes, and she also got me this pearl necklace.

Pretty!
Extra useful since I've been looking to become a more classy of lady and I've pretty much exclusively been wearing pearl studs.

(as an aside, Nic didn't know what a pearl necklace meant, in sex-terms, until yesterday. she thought it meant "oral sex, in general". I love her.)


(also Killary got me this Merry Mistletoe lip gloss for Christmas and it is more than fitting and makes me smile to look at it.)

It turns out, for me, 28 is the year that I start being mildly nervous of aging. It all starts to go so quick!
They say your perception of time speeds up the older you get and so each year seems quicker than the last and I would say that that is true, true, true!

What did I yell at a bar the other day? "IT'S GETTING TOO LATE FOR ME TO PRETEND TO ANYONE I DON'T WANT A MILLION BABIES"
classsssssssssssic, beyond classic.



Soooo. I think I'm in love with Odette.
Look how stoic and patient she is with me! What a sweet, soft darling. Like a baby seal pup.
She is just so, so lovely. What did I do with my time before I had cats to chase around all day?
My roommate is out of town so the cats are forced to be friends with me. I went to sleep with both (!) of them sleeping on my bed and I woke up with both (!) of them still there. Miracles of miracles. I bet they had a billion adventures galloping around in the night, though.
I wonder how many hours and hours of my life I've wasted away spending time trying to make cats pay attention to me...

We had our first meeting with our new improv team and coach last night but beforehand we may or may not have passed a bottle of $6.95 wine and talked about our feelings. I loved it. We loved it.
Then the meeting/work went really well. I've missed improv! (we've been doing premise work and writing more with my con class these days, getting away from regular improv and long-form)
So I reversed my position on doing only sad, sad, big, important art and went back to thinking that in order for me to have the best, most funtime ever that improv and comedy as a whole are going to continue being 100 billion times important to me.
Obviously, obviously.
Aaand I love my team. Serious, fierce love right now for them. So excited for getting to work and play with them.


(this cranberry jalapeno jelly from my friend is so, so, so good! jfyi.)

dating advice #2

awww someone already disliked my video. I'm way too frail of heart for being on the internet.

I don't know why someone wouldn't like my dating advice. It's so wise!

dating advice #1 - how to show you're interested

here is my first video in a new series I'm making wherein I give you some dating advice. I think my take on dating is universal and will give you all you need to know about how to date and keep dating.
Whether you're in a relationship or not, this advice is worth hearing.

Please send your relationship related questions to me and I will answer them in video format! You can email me, or leave your questions in the comments below. It can be for advice for you, your friend, or your "friend", I'm easy.
And that's why I'm the expert.


Also, a BIG shout-out HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of my favourite people, Dollface turns 12 today!! Congrats baby! She can now babysit your kids!



here we are last hallowe'en with Flash Gordon!
and then I tried to woo her.

and then we laughed

go team!

here is a movie about sports and hockey and my team the vancouver canucks!

(first time using iphone editing software cut me a break guy ya know. still okay I think who knows.)

come here first for all your hockey news!

here ya go mum ya big nag

"Time to fuckin' update" - my (always classy) mother.




I don't have any shifts at work this week, really. All the more time to sit around in my room, my dear!




I'm pretty into my room today. I spend a great deal of time rearranging and decorating all yesterday. I think it's looking fucking lovely. Can you imagine what great things I could do if I had money? Any money at all? I mean, honestly, pretty much everything you see is thrifted, from garage sales, or found in the street.



I spray-painted some magazine holders that Firehorse was going put in the trash and then nailed them to the wall. The stack of hard-shelled suitcases are from small town Saskatchewan thrift-stores, the vintage sheets are from Dollface's cottage of course.
The desk and both chairs I found in the road. Good old road finds!



it's still kind of disaster, I need to actually finish cleaning it up. Unfortunately, now that it's so nice all I want to do is sit and enjoy my new work area and make crafts. Classic classic classic!



I've been hanging out with Norman a lot lately. Luckily. He's very smart and a good friend to have and he pointed out that I've maybe been martyring myself a bit lately and putting up with too much shit, especially in terms of friends and babes.
So I'm trying not to do that.
I think there's such a thing as trying to be too good of a friend or too understanding. I'm going to stop.

Here's a video about nicknames and also a new dating pact I made!!:

Is this all TMI? maybe. Who cares!




Guys, I'm glad that fall is here. I mean, I'm sad that summer somehow slipped out from under us, but it was a pretty great one and now I'm ready for a slower pace and more tea-sipping and tv-watching.
And writing. Right, writing, that elusive bitch.

Also, I hope that all babes grow beards and take me out on the town.

Here is the Bender Gang in entirety. Me, Carla Ghee, Norman, Firehorse.
I love Bender Gang. Bender Gang hasn't been together as much this summer as we were all winter and spring, I think we're coming back together now (because everyone else will party less...).


In this one we are ghosts!

We make a pretty good team, tell ya that for free.

also we are racially diverse except for me but I basically am because people think I'm a natural redhead and redheads are going extinct. So basically a minority.

Okay! I successfully avoided writing for another while there! Congratulations to me! Maybe now I'll get to it. Or, more likely, I'll make some more Christmas crafts (less than 3 months to go! I'm so behind already!) and watch tv... whichevers!

dance like no cameras are watching

For some reason Vevo won't let me embed a video here, but I can on Facebook? That's dumb. Anyhow, this:
is the new Arkells music video for Kiss Cam
which features me and Onesie dancing rather sweetly (compared to our normal obnoxious moves!) near the end. We look darling, actually.
You're welcome Arkell buds for the use of our image. Had no idea it was being filmed (may or may not have been right wrecked)!
Luckily I actually really like Arkells, though (spoiler!) I'm 99% certain it wasn't actually that song I was dancing to.



I went to Boston Pizza with Killary tonight for one of our typical Valentines dates. Did you know they have gluten-free crusts there?! And it looked to be the same prize as reg. Nice nice!
I had one and it was not-bad. It wasn't the best pizza crust I've ever eaten but it was totally fine. 

Also they told us that "Paralyzer" cocktails were on special. I have never, ever heard anyone in Ontario ever mention a paralyzer. Is it just a Sask thing? They are popular here for sure, I remember hearing about them when I lived here. I don't think I had ever tried one before so I had to order one.
Here is what happened:



Actually, it wasn't as bad as my face makes it out to be. Only mostly terrible!
Totally worth it for the cultural experience. Obviously.

I feel like I got nothing done today! Maybe because I didn't drive out of town?
I went to a scrapbooking store, I visited Killary's baby, had coffee with a lovely friend, ran into a couple of people I know, had dinner with Killary and even read a bit of my book. Aaaand I'm supposed to go out with Consti later........

I had a bad stress headache this afternoon, so much to see and do in this town and it's making me so sad to think about leaving so soon!



ughgughhhh does anyone want to pay for me to live in both places at once?

sloth-balls, party-attack

hahaaaa we thought the liquor stores were all closed Monday because of the holiday, this video is what happened when we found out they were open!



Yulie asked me to make her a video, so this one was for her. In it I talk about going clubbing!!!!!!!

the weird thing is then we actually went clubbing a day or so later. I never go clubbing.





One of my favourite Saskatonians, Constantine, is in town and staying with us and I'm trying to do a good job of entertaining him but mostly all I ever want to do is lie around my house. Luckily my house is still generally pretty rad and right on.

These were our clubbing outfits. Pretty ridic. We went to the guvernment to hear Skratch Bastid.... Clubbing is so weird!! We had a pretty good time, though. I drank too many smirnoff ices... and we all danced pretty hard.
Kind of silly in our summer dresses. We all wore Yulie's dresses. Except Const.



the only picture I took of the club.

Yep, we spend a lot of time at home.
sometimes I ignore everyone and go on my phone/computer. 
Not a bad life. We're talking more about making it more of a home and calming down around here. It's been super over party in an okay way but there's really only so much of that sort of thing we can take.

there's a lot of dancing going on around here. If that's what you want to call it....

partypartypartyparty

our lives revolve around food. forsure. No denying.

And sitting on the deck. Deck all the time.

we only sleep sometimes....

awwwwwwwww

okay I'm watching muchmusic and it's making me want to punch errrrryone. can't stop, though.

also, I watched Unsolved Mysteries last night and it was so engrossing!