a tad bit hungover + under the weather = not a good combination!

After my 9 hour shift at American Eagle yesterday, I went out with Claire, my sis and their friends to Dolans. We befriended the neighbours and I met a guy who used to work at AE before I did. Apparently one time when he was working, someone had shit in the fitting room stall and rolled it up into a ball of receipts. He told me to ask Rob about it because it really did happen! That is just utterly disgusting! Anyways, Dolans was a good time -- I've also come to the conclusion that I love to run when I'm intoxicated. Thats right. No one can stop me, I just like to run off! Claire and I did some running with the boys that live/were visiting next door on the way home -- I also run whenever I'm walking home with Trev and Justin from the bars -- I have even been known to run when I'm alone walking home at 3am!

Amanda is finally home from Denmark!! I miss that girl sooo very much! I am heading home tomorrow (canada day) to see her and go to her family BBQ. Then I imagine we will head uptown to see what is on the go, and possibly to the 3mile to see the new renovations they did on it! I'm so excited! I think it will be an awesome weekend! Did I mention yet that this is the first time all summer that I have two days off in a row? I'm pumped! It's like a mini-vacation for moi!

6 days to my big 2-3!

I don't know if work really didn't need me to come in today or if Peter just felt bad because he said I didn't even sound like Gill on the phone and he was really confused at first. That's because I'm dreadfully ill, thats right, you heard it. AGAIN. I don't know what is up with my immune system but this is the fourth time I've been sick since the March break. That's just not right! I'm glad I have today to rest and try to recouperate. It's funny too because whenever I start up a new gym routine and start getting into the habit of going daily and for a substantial length of time I always get sick and I have to give it up! Why does that happen?! It's frustrating!! I so would have gone today if I didn't feel like crap -- if my throat was sore and dry and feel like its closing up -- if I wasn't sore all over and have a fever (or so it feels like it). I think I'm going to buy a thermometer since I get sick so much!

I finally got in to see Kelly today and boy did it suck. First of all I had to wake up really early to go down; I'm sick; all I did was throw on a sweater and jeans and leave my house. Kelly gave me a talking to for a good 10 minutes and tried to tell me she was going to take my $310 cheque and go cash it and keep half for herself. I rebuttled with "but I worked those hours". Apparently she didn't give a shit because she had to "waste" money training me. Whatever, its my money! So she went on about keeping half the money for herself for a good 5 minutes and then gave me the option: "So, what are you going to do? Take the whole cheque or leave half for me?" I didn't respond right away but obviously she is not getting a dime of my hard earned cash! She then threw a fit and said take the damn cheque, and don't step foot in this store ever again! Good riddance!"

At least its over with now. I went directly to the bank and deposited it in the ATM. I hope there is no way she can still cancel the cheque on me or something to fuck me over!

Betrayed?

It's funny how you think you got over something from the past with someone --- become supposed "good friends" with them -- then find out from someone else they had done something wrong that makes you feel hurt and betrayed. I feel like she had no respect for me. In the words of Mulder, how I feel can be summed up as "Trust No One".

On a lighter note, I went to Agni's "dress up party" on friday night. It was fun to see all my university girls again! And Vy, this picture is for you! And check out the shoes Agni was wearing! We thought you would be proud :)

Feeling stressed.

I feel really bizarre and stressed out right now about nothing. I hate these days when I become an insomniac and all my fears of loneliness and rejection come out of hiding. I am stressed out with what I want to do with my life in the fall -- do I want to go back to school full time (8 brutal upper level Bio courses) and get my honours in Biology --- or do I want to go back in the fall part time (2 courses) and just finish my basic Biology Major. Will I get into grad school without doing an honours? I don't think I have the motivation right now to study my ass off for another entire year. This is going to be year 6 for me. I've been doing this so long. I am also stressed out about facing Kelly and picking up my cheque (and being the procrastinator that I am, I keep putting it off, just making me worry about it even more!) I couldn't sleep at all last night, but for no real reason. Even though I was tired because I worked all day and even managed to fit some room cleaning in there, I could not get my mind to turn off and get the real sleep I needed. I probably fell asleep around 3am and awoke every hour -- finally rising from my restless slumber at 8am. Now I sit here, typing in my blog... my eyes hurt from lack of sleep but when I close them I cannot fall asleep. Perhaps what I am feeling right now is due to the onset of PMS (haha) Here are some symptoms of PMS I found on a website:

- fatigue and trouble sleeping
- headache
- appetite changes or food cravings
- joint or muscle pain
- tension, irritability, mood swings or crying spells (hence the reason avoiding Kelly right now may be a good thing... She'll probably yell and make me cry!!)
- anxiety or depression

I think right now I am experiencing all of these symptoms, although some worse than others.. Goddamn sometimes I wish I wasn't a girl!

And to top it all off - I think my car is going to blow up or something. It's not acting right. When I start the engine it sputters and hardly revs up to normal... I keep thinking its going to stall on me. Ugh! I don't need it breaking down on me but I don't have a mechanic in fredericton nor do I know where to take it since I'm a girl and I don't want someone ripping me off!

FRIIIIIGGGGGG!!!!!!!

I wish a certain someone was here to cheer me up!

I think I need to hit up the gym in a bit -- hopefully that will elevate my mood -- unless my car doesn't start or breaks down ....

I like the way you move

I don't know why I even have a blog becuase lately I haven't had any thoughts to write about. Lets see... Trev left for treeplanting today for "real" this time - - I worked all day today from 2-11 at American Eagle. Oh, and I quit Kellys. I have to go face Kelly and wait until she finishes yelling at me (and probably making me cry) before I can get my cheque from her since she's holding it hostage. Stupid psycho bitch. I hate her! Anyways, she was unfair. When I was first hired I told her she had to work around my AE schedule because I've been there longer and I asked her to give me set hours but she never did either. Basically what ended up happening was all my shifts would overlap and collide and it was too much of a hassle.

No boy before this one has ever done this for me......

a quickie!

It's been a really long time since I've updated and I know Jenn is getting antsy, waiting for a new post! I don't really have much to say, other than I've been a workaholic (yet I still have no $$) and I have been drinking waaaay too much/often (which may explain the no $$). Trev came home early from treeplanting and surprised me - and he leaves again tomorrow. This time he leaves for about 2 weeks (instead of 5 days). I'm going to miss him like crazy!!

Sorry for the short update but I'll update later when I think of something to talk about!

Happy 22nd Birthday Kate!

It's my old roommates birthday today!


I am heading down to the Cap/Phoenix to see her soon and wish her a very special birthday! I miss living with her lots. She was a great roommate and we always had random adventures together.. Some worth noting:

- the time we had to clean our storage/garbage room with scarves tied around our faces
- dressing up as superheros on a friday afternoon
- our TP adventure to Sunset Grocery
- playing with the ratties
- hanging out on the tiny balcony
- eating chips and watching silly girlie movies

I miss our apartment on Montgomery/Regent!

I will follow you into the dark

I was just chattin with Megs on msn, and she sent me these pictures...

The first one is a lovely roommate picture from the school year - From left to right: Me, Megs, Catherine (Sheehan), Jenn and Jess. I love this picture so much!



The second picture is a picture of my car window when it was smashed in by a beer bottle. Can you believe a beer bottle did THIS and didn't even break!?!? I hate drunk idiots! (If you look closely you can see the intact beer bottle on the drivers seat)


Last time I was at the gym (3 days ago) I weighed myself...110.5! That means I've lost 9lbs since April without doing much at all! I can fit into some of my old clothes again (aka my AE jean skirt from last summer) and I can tell by looking at that roommate picture I posted that my face is not as full anymore. Its funny because I hardly go to the gym but I guess I have started eating a little bit healthier..and I imagine that working and being on your feet all day is better than being stuck in the library studying, sitting in class and eating junk food from the vending machines in the science library!!

Anyways - I'm really missing Trevor way way more than I thought I would. I know it has only been 4 days since he left for tree planting but it feels so much longer! My double bed is so empty and lonely at night.

Your beautiful, its true!

I got a new job without hardly lifting a finger at Kellys Cafe/Bouldons on Regent St. They didn't even give me an interview, it was awesome! I've worked two shifts so far. It's ok I guess, but I love AE far more! I imagine it will grow on me as I get the hang of it. Last night I worked at Kellys from 5-11, got to bed by 1:15...woke up this morning at 5:35....worked at Kellys from 7am-2 and now I'm waiting for my shift at AE to start at 5:30-10. Gross. I'm hyped on free kellys fair trade coffeeeeeee! Its the only way I'll make it through today! Trev is gone for a week tree-planting and making tons-0-money. I'm jealous. Oh well, he left his pop here so I'm drinking it, MUAHAHAAA! I'm so desparate for money to pay bills and buy groceries... So desparate that right now I'm eating an "everything" bagel, spread with globs of mashed avocado/tomato/lime juice/salt. Not exactly the tastiest creation I've ever made but filling none the less.... Tomorrow will be grocery day because I get paid from AE tonight.

My walls are built of stone...

.... but are starting to crack. I feel rediculously giddy right now. I haven't felt like this in soo sooo long! The only place I want to be right now is down the street, not here alone in my bed. I guess that's my own fault though. I should have stayed. No wait, I'm blaming it on my wall of stone! I'm so freaked out by how I feel right now but at the same time it's awesome. I'm lovin the cards that I've been dealt. Life is splendid.

On another note, I look like a lobster. Just call me Lobster Gilly. My whole back is bright red. I layed out at the beach sans sunscreen all afternoon. I know, smart one eh? I'm paying for it now! I'm sitting here with a sticky back covered with aloe vera gel. Yummilicious!

Scared to go downstairs in your own house...

So mario really is a character. It can mildly entertaining yet frightening at the same time. I think he's tried to hit on every one of us here at 672 Graham - in particular Claire and Becca. Becca was his newest victim with a presentation of pretty flowers for her birthday and left the above letter on our board downstairs.....

Can you say "creepola?!"

Last night I made Bec a big eggless chocolate cake (It was truly delish!) and we had some people here for predrinks before ending up downtown at Dolans. I apparently told some guy off because he made her cry. I didn't even know him! I'm a good older sister;)

I hope tongue rings are meant to be eaten...

I made a huge bowl of guacamole for supper tonight. As I was eating, I realised the red bead on my tongue ring was gone! The only thing I could think of was that I had swallowed it with my guac! EEEK!! I kinda freaked out but Jenn reassured me I would be fine and just pass it out. I put another bead on my barbell and continued to mosh on the guacamole. This time it feels like there was some sort of food wrapped around the top bead on my tongue so I started fiddling with it, trying to free the food. No food, just a half EATEN bead! It was cracked and half was missing! I think I must have munched on it and ate it with the nacho chip! So now I'm really freaked out because somewhere inside my body is a red bead and a sharp half eaten blue bead.

If I die, you'll know why!

It's about time for another update!

I'm slacking on updates!

So what has happened that is worth mentioning... Oh, the Eggers came back to Claire's work AGAIN!! This time there was only two of them, and one of the kids grabbed a handful of candy, and ate it right in front of Claire!

Claire: "Are you going to pay for that?"
Stupid Egging Kid: "I don't have any MONEY!"

Ahhhh!! I told her she should have reported them about a kazillion times. I at least wish their parents knew what they were up to. Operation drive-by egging must be underway soon...as long as my car doesn't stall/break while we are egging them...

Friday night was Jimmy Swift at Jesters Court which was a fun time indeed.
Saturday night was a night in and Sunday night I went with Trev to his buddy's place to have birthday drinks. We ended up trashed and at the 20/20 club. It was such a random time that it was fun!

I have to get to work soon, but I will write more about my new roommate Mario later. I think he's a secret agent....or a pimp.... He keeps condoms in the fridge and disappears late at night...

"How long does minute rice take to cook?"

My set of keys is officially cursed as of today.

I forgot them when I went down the street last night and the door ended up locked when I came home at 2:30am. I pretended to struggle with the locked door, assuming my keys were hanging out in my purse where they ALWAYS are... Unfortunately for me, my keys were by my computer, inside my locked house. I really was locked out (Who locks their door in the Graham Ghetto anyways?!?).

I am catching a nasty cold again (what is with me getting sick ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME lately). I almost called in sick to work today but I decided to suck it up for a rare 7 hour shift at AE. I think the cold and sleepiness affected my brain. At the end of my shift I realised I had locked my keys in my car!! I'm lucky Nicole was nice enough to give me a drive home... Too bad my car is stuck at the mall tonight.

I think that I should get some sort of contraption so that my keys are always attached to my body... kinda like those mittons on strings...

The Eggers Return

Claire was telling me this story today about this incident that happened when she was at work at Kellys. This weasley little group of teenage pranksters came into the store and started verbally harassing her...with gangbang talk and mooning talk... They tried to steal things and then reached over the counter and repeatedly pounded on the cash register and tried to scan things over and over. Claire asked what they wanted and they go "We need eggs!!! We just got egged really bad!!!" They didn't have any egg residue on them so Claire accused them of being the eggers...

"Yeah, we've been egging people all week" - weasley prankster gang
"Did you egg someone on the walking trail the other night??" - Claire
"Yeah!!" - weasley prankster gang
"That was my roommate!!!!" - Claire
"She threatened us with rocks!! We are going to get revenge on her" - weasley prankster gang
"I'm not selling you anything, get out of the store!!" - Claire

I think that Claire and I should get into my car and drive around downtown with waterguns and eggs...hunt them down and then throw eggs at them and shoot them with water out the window of my car and speed away! That would be sweet.

I guess egg-shell white really ISN'T my colour...

I cannot believe how immature the Fredericton population is. Around 8pm last night, Danielle, Agni and I were on the walking trail, heading to my house. This group of young teens (I'm guessing about 15-16 years old) were on the trail and started yelling vulgar obscenities at us, such as "HEY! WANNA GANGBANG?!" One of them also mooned me. Obviously we ignored their comments and kept walking. Well, when our backs were turned and we were quickly walking away from these immature teens, I felt something pelt me in the middle of my back! At first thought I thought they had thrown a water balloon at me or something so I turned around angrily - on second glance I had been EGGED!



My expensive cardigan was covered in egg.. my new purse which I can't put in the washer was covered in egg and my pants were covered in egg. I was raging mad! I can't believe that kids have so little time on their hands they feel they have to harrass and egg other people! Can you only imagine it had of been my roommate, who is DEATHLY allergic to eggs who had been there and gotten hit?! When I managed to drag my egg-soaked body into my house, after walking through town covered in egg, I had to be so careful not to drip egg anywhere...

"Sheeeeeehan??? Don't come near me but I have to tell you something......" - me
"Yeah?" - Sheehan
"I've been egged." - me
"YOU WHAT?!" - Sheehan

CATBUS!!

My neighbour Totoro is the happiest movie ever. If I’m ever in a slump of depression, I can just pop that movie into my dvd player and even just the opening theme song makes a huge smile grow on my face! I don’t however recommend watching any of the dubbed remakes by Disney or Fox (although I haven’t seen them). There is just no way any North American actor can portray the enthusiasm and sheer joy that the characters on screen have. The original Japanese voices are done so well that it doesn’t even bother me to have to read the English subtitles at the bottom of the screen. After 5 minutes you don’t even realize you are doing it.

Sheehan, Claire and I ended up intoxicated and downtown last night. It was rather fun (surprisingly) and random.

Jealous?

I just made egg-less chocolate chocolate chip cookies (so Sheehan can eat some too and not die!). They are delish! (Stop drooling Mark, haha!)

Lately I've been feeling rather lonely. I never used to be such an independent person, the independent person I am now. I miss having someone around to share my feelings with and to lay in my bed with...among other things;) I've been single for almost 2 entire years! That is definitely beating my record of 7 months of singledom since .... grade 9! I've always had a boyfriend, or at least dated lots! I'm in such a dry spell it's almost getting pathetic. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time finding someone I really like... Oh well, at least these chocolate cookies will cheer me up!

Pooor Pooor Bessie...

Bessie, my car, died on me again a few days ago. Claire and I were on our way to the liquor store where Bessie decided to stall on her own at a red light in one of the busiest intersections in town during rush hour. What I mean by stall on her own is I am in first gear and my foot is down on the clutch yet she dies. And when I try to start her back up she doesn't turn over! It was embarrassing and after repeatedly trying to turn her on she eventually goes (but barely!). This happened 3 more times in 3 busy intersections on the way home. I thought I was doomed. I can't believe I actually managed to get her home. Now I'm scared to drive her because I don't want to break down somewhere alone for good this time. She is definitely not fit for driving anywhere! What does everyone think of getting those stickers that look like bullet holes so that I can stick them on my ghetto-mobile?? (jj)

Needless to say I've been on my feet and walking around a heckuva lot more lately! I've been walking my lazy butt up the hill to work and back (30 min walk there and 30 min walk back!). I also managed to get off my butt and walk to the gym today which is in the superstore (20 min walk there, workout for an hour, 20 min walk home). Claire and I also took a walking excursion downtown this evening. I had the smart idea of taking the walking trail back home because it would be much nicer than walking up Regent... Anyways, we came to this "cool" looking sidewalk tunnel and we were going to go through it... At first we were like "Ooooooh!!!" (because the tunnel was neato!) Quickly the Oooohs turned to "AHHHH!!!!" and we turned around and ran out as fast as we ccould!! I almost had a heartattack! There was like a wall of big spiders and their webs inside, blocking the path through the tunnel! SOOOO CREEEPY! The people in the cars at the light must have thought we were silly because they definitely saw us enter and then turn around and run out screaming!

Just call me el dorko.

I started reading the DaVinci Code last night before bed. Mind you this was at 3am after drinking a beer at the Phoenix. I got 3 chapters in and basically my hands had to fight with my eyes to put the book down and go to bed (since I had to get up at 9am for work today). I'm looking forward to reading it later tonight before bed! This is very odd for me that I've found a book that I enjoy after reading only one page. I never EVER read! Books usually don't grab my attention right away and then I just get bored and put them down (I think its my mild case of A.D.D. that I think I have but in reality probably don't!) I'm very excited that I've found an attention-catching book because I really should read more often.

My sister and I walked down to Kellys Cafe today to visit Claire and get some free-trade coffee. On the way back we made a pit-stop to the Goodie Shop and (insert surprised emoticon face here) bought some cookies! In 5 minutes I'm going to watch a Natural Disaster show on the Discovery Channel. I've been looking forward to this program since last night when I realised it was going to be on. Yesterday before work I watched a program about a British flight plane disaster in which the window was improperly fitted and blew off in the middle of the flight and the pilot got sucked out the window. It was a really freaky program and I had to watch it from underneath my covers!!

Ok, this post officially makes me the biggest dork ever.