Poe

Poe is an Ugly Dragon.
Ugly Dragons come from the Ugly Dragon Mountain.
But Poe has left the safety of his caverns in search of his big dreams.


The other day he had a big dream about a big scoop of ice cream. Chocolate.
While most Ugly Dragons sleep all day and fly all night, Poe is more into cars, trucks, bikes, and anything that lets him sit down while moving.


Flying is hard.
You have to flap your wings around all the time!

Can Poe roll with you?

whats there to eat?

This is one of my first thoughts when we got home from Playland. Once we got in the house I opened up the fridge, and low and behold...Condiments!!! mmmm ketchup, mustard, sweet chilli sauce and half an avacado. Someone really needs to go shopping this weekend.


Now we didn't take the camera today, but we had an amazing time. It was the wooden roller coasters 50th birthday this year. I celebrated this by going on it about 4 times. It wasn't too busy today, it was sunny at first and then overcast. No rain, but the clouds might have scared people away. So on one of my roller coaster rides, I was with Beth. (Beth is my sister in law). We were just going down the second hill, and I noticed the 2 girls in front of us laughing, and then one asked the other "are you ready?" I was thinking they were all ready for the picture, and they were! As we went down, their shirts went over their faces and FLASH! I was a little shocked and was laughing at them screaming afterwards. Right as we got off, they bolted for the picture booth...too late, theirs was replaced with a nice scenic picture of Playland. The guy working the booth told them he would get show them their picture later on.
We also fit 5 of us on the log ride, Tony, Beth, me, Kathryn and her bf Jeff. The first hill soaked Tony, who was in the front. We saw the wave go over the top of the log, but then it went and hit him full on. Second hill was crazier. We had the hugest tidal wave and the front end of the log dipped so low we were all soaked. Tony was the most wet, and then the Jeff was pretty bad off, as Kathryn ducked behind me leaving him totally open for the crazy wave.

My legs are so tired, they walked all day long. Tony isn't feeling well, especially after eating those delicious mini doughnuts.
Time now to finish the iron chef epsiode of potatoes!!

the world outside my back door

I found you the world Aria! Click here for the listing, let me know if you like it, and if its the right size : the world

I am almost finished the movie "Death at a Funeral", its pretty funny and its british humor. Man, I love their weird twisted ways of thinking.

We are also testing out the new old bbq that Tony's dad and step mom gave us. Cant wait to chill out on the little patio and eat a burger and watch the little old people/ homeless people pushing their shopping carts down the alley. We have a great view of our high traffic alley, never a dull moment when you are sitting outside. Saw a skunk, stray cats, the typical crazies. Most of the activity in our alley takes place early morning. Once I heard some woman freaking out, her car was broken into for the third time. I was barely awake listening to her freaking out and talking to some guy (possible boyfriend). I heard her mention that all her cd's were taken from the front dash and a few other things like her change and such. In my half asleep state I realized how stupid this woman was to leave that crap laying all over the inside of her car. Oh well, now she knows better.

Anyways, this is all I have for now, there might be pictures of our adventures tomorrow, maybe.

feel the burn

As you can see, summer has arrived. I can feel it quite literally. I didn't think I was that red until I saw myself in the bathroom mirror. I want the aloe vera gel, it makes me feel better. The beach was fun and the burn was worth it, it was an awesome day!

For Mikaela...

Silly girl, I hope you feel better soon!

Been Tagged!

I've been tagged by Emmy to list 10 weird or random facts or habits about myself... Here we go!

1. I have downloaded most of the seasons of Recess, its got a good mix of adult and kid humor lol.
   
2. When I am nervous I pick at the hangnails on my thumbs, and I sometimes dont notice how bad my thumbs can look, so I bandaid them until they are better.
   
3. I love Hello Kitty, you really cant be more cute than she is.
   
4. I have told people that I perm my hair so that they stop talking about how awesome natural curly hair is.
   
5. When I was 10 I went through what my mother called a "Death" phase. I wasn't goth or anything crazy, just read through a long series of books where kids were terminally ill with a disease or cancer.
   
6. Went through the Disease phase shortly after the death phase. This was also triggered by the biology courses I took in high school and when it came to the body, were fascinating!
   
7. I have more than 15 passwords to always remember.
   
8. I don't drink coffee, I drink tea, and chai is one of my favorites.
   
9. I play with my hair on the bus when I am bored, and then it gets all frizzy.
   
10. I like to wear my very dark sunglasses and watch people while sitting at starbucks...the people watching can be fun, especially with friends.
    

Now if you want you can do this, but I will tag Aria for sure, cause her blog can be a little on the empty side :)

the WORST morning EVER! (with pictures)

As you can see by my title that today was terrible! It all started out when I was told that I had an earlier shift for this week to do training at work. No big deal, I have done training before. I checked the transit schedule that night to realize that instead of the skytrain, I would have to take the bus. I checked and I had to take a bus down into a really crappy part of town and then wait or another bus to get me the rest of the way to work. I figured, no big deal, maybe the really crappy part of town would get not so crappy where I had to wait for the bus.
So I woke up after not sleeping so well at 5 am. Got ready, it looked kinda nice out, and then when I stepped outside...


DRIP! On my head!
Well, hopefully it will just sprinkle....nope.
So I waited for my first bus...and got on.
The bus took me to the crappier part of town, I noticed a lot of crazies, more and more appeared, and then some got on the bus.


I could hear this guy spitting behind me, thank goodness I was near the front of the bus, but NASTY!
So after a crazy bus ride, I had to get off the bus, and then realized that this part of town was bad, and creepy, and I was all alone.
I whipped out the phone and tried to call Tony, but I knew he wouldn't hear the phone cause he sleeps through it when its early.
I waited, heard some whistling...looked around, yep, 2 creepy guys were hanging over a balcony and yelling at me and whistling at me. But it gets worse... as I am furiously trying to call Coley, I see a beer bottle fly my way and hit a transit supervisor van. Great...


I was in a panic, got the phone out again, ready to call Coley or the Police, but the guy in the van I could hear him call the cops, so I tried calling Coley again, and then Tony. But no, the phone gave me error 100, over and over and over again.



What good is a phone if its dead when I need it most?!?!? I was so close to smashing it on the ground in front of me, I was so mad and upset.
I was ready to cry, couldn't think and then saw the bus I was waiting for go past my stop and down the road.
I was pretty stupid and ran across the street waiving my arms and praying it would stop, and thank God it did!
I was pretty shaky, couldn't for the life of me find my bus pass, but then found it.
Got to work, and then my phone started working again. So angry, I am calling Bell to be angry!

Well, my day got a little better. Calmed down at work after an hour, figured I deserved a treat for what happened, and bought an ugly doll, his name is poe, and this is what he looks like:

He is an ugly dragon that came from an ugly cave. And yes, when I have children, I shall give him to them. My children shall share the same twisted humor I do.
My day got better when I got home, Tony made spaghetti and it was yummy! I made the smoothies and we had creamsicles for desert.

I will never take the bus to work again, and will use the skytrain instead, that was ridiculous and scary! Thank goodness the skytrain runs early tomorrow, it was all because this stupid holiday.

Anyways, the dishes call to me.

the not so typical crazies

I have been living in the big city for a while now. I figured I had seen most everything that could be seen. I have had methheads sit beside me on the bus. Have had aggressive homeless people ask for money and seen people screaming at nothing in the evenings. I hear the people going through the garbage in the alley at night (makes me want to get a shredder), but nothing could really prepare me for what I saw tonight.

I was by myself tonight waiting for the bus in a crappy part of town. Theres lots of people around, but my friend Peter who sits on the bus with me was away today. So as I was walking up the stairs to the bus stop, I see a guy ahead of me. Now, I have seen people wear capes, not common, but have seen it. He looked a little lumpy in his cape. As I got a little closer, I saw the head on the person was lumpier than what most people are. Started looking like this guy had mumps...but no, it then hit me that this person must be wearing a mask. When he stopped at the bus stop, I got another pretty good glimpse of him and yes, he was wearing a mask, a Gas Mask!!! That was one of the creepiest things I have ever seen.

My imagination went crazy. At first I thought, hmmm, does he look like the type to blow up a bus? Nah, maybe not blow up, but poison, he could poison a wack of people. Saw his face again, he had glasses and longish hair. Couldnt see much else after that, cause again, the gas mask was crazy huge. Started thinking, do I really want to take this bus? Well, I kinda want to get home, so I got on with the my Gas Masked friend, but I sat at the back by the doors, I had an escape plan! I pitied the people sitting near this guy, if he went off, I wasn't about to go with him like they would. Some girl, who was kinda stupid, saw this guy and asked him if he was ok. You just don't do that, you leave those crazies the hell alone!

And now to finish my story. The caped gassy man got off the bus a few stops ahead of me, we didn't blow up or get poisoned, but man, I never want to see anyone do that again.

Now that my imagination isn't taking over as completely, I think that this person was a emo kid looking to make a statement or looking for attention. He definatly got it that was for sure. Well done my caped gas man, well done.



Just try and imagine seeing this at night in the creepy part of town on a caped man....spooky!

Cycleathon!!!

This cloudy weekend we went to the cycle a thon. There must have been a lot of people praying for it not to rain because it was so cloudy but there was no rain.

Camp was raising money to send kids who couldnt afford it to go for the summer.

We wandered around, had lots of good food, bbq!!


There was a petting zoo which had Mik's bunny Davie in it, along with mini horses, sheep, goats and ponies.


There were games for the kids, face painting, cotton candy (one of my favourites) and live music and a concert. It was good fun. The best part by far was the zip line. They opened the 30 ft one, but the 60 ft one was closed as there werent enough staff to run that one.

All us kids went, it was a blast.

Sitting up on a tiny platform way up in a tree with only a rope and harness on was so creepy. Once the girl on the platform beside you hooked you up, the rope pulled you a little towards the drop, but it was up to you to launch yourself off and free fall across the field and towards the trees.

2 thoughts went through my head, one was this: Must try to keep my eyes open. Second thought: if I chicken out I will look like an idiot, so I do have to do this sometime.

I did it, it was so much fun! Aria and Tony werent able to video it, but I shrieked as I dropped down. We hiked all the way down from top 40 and grabbed Mik and her friends. Mik had the hardest time finding a helmet that would fit her super small head.

I would have posted video of the zip line but they didn't upload fast enough, and hopefully Aria will send them to me or post them on her blog :)

And now I am back at home, the bird is so happy now that we are back. She grew in a lot more little stubby feathers on her head, looks like she has small horns.

a cup of the queens tea

While I was making Stirfry for breakfast, I got to thinking about the little package of specialty tea in the cupboard. It came with my little red teapot from my momma. Also the tea is tea the queen uses at her Tea Parties. Its pretty interesting tea, I like it.

Oh, and while I was cutting up my red pepper, I noticed it was spawnning or was a MUTANT PEPPER!!!!


Tony is doing a habitat for humanity thing where builds a house. Hes going with a group of people from his work tomorrow. Its really cool sounding. I kinda wish my workplace would do that.

Its gross outside again, I expected weather like this though.
Mothers day cometh and I need to still find something nice for my mothers. :)
Beth and I will go shopping for our mothers soon, this shall be fun, as shopping with Beth is crazy fun.

I need to go do my hair, it looks horrendous!

its ALIVE!!

Well, kinda dead, but it keeps growing and growing and growing! I am feeling a little rapunzelish at the moment. So, my question to you all is, shall it stay this length (with a trim) or be cut shorter?

I wish I had older pics with me in my shorter hair, but alas, they are at the parents house and some aren't pretty...well, I was in those awkward years , ew!

On the way home from work, we had a skytrain photoshoot, I am gonna make Rob and Doug STARS!!!




I love Dougs expression... in this last one.

its good to work for eBay apparently...

Its good in a sense that I can check out the cool stuff on the site while at work, just got my new hoodie today, 12$ including shipping, pretty good deal for a roxy hoodie new with its tags :D
Apparently its also good to work for eBay because they are one of the top 50 best employers in Canada. Pretty cool stuff. Found that out yesterday and got a present from the company to celebrate. My nifty notebook is at work with doodles already inside and I ate the cool chocolate already.

So here is my cool new deal:

As you can see, I tried to swat him out, but he wanted to be in this one, so it is published now :)



I didn't want to show my tired face...its 11:30 and time for bed.

one of my more creative breakfasts...

Pesto, red peppers, sun dried tomatoes and chicken in spaghetti. I wish I had other noodles but these worked. It kinda doesn't look as good as it tastes but it was a good experiment.

Now for those of you who dont know, I dont eat breakfast food. I am not really a eggs and toast or cold cereal kinda girl. My favourite thing to eat was leftovers from the night before. Cold pizza is the best, and I dont reheat it, it stays all good and cold. In highschool I even went as far as eating icecream for breakfast. That was really good. I dont think Mom knew about that one...but it was only one time. We also kinda did the breakfast food for dinner though last night. Bacon and eggs, those were good.

Time to go, the Office just loaded.

the family FREAKSHOW!

The fam dropped me off today after a fun weekend over in the wack.
They all played with the bird and enjoyed her.
Then they all checked out the mac and were somewhat amazed that there wasnt a tower that came with it but also found a green light and when they all stared at it, amazing things happened...


I left moms out cause she didnt want it on the internets where all can see. :)
The last 2 I call the Big Eye and the Brain...Hehehehe

Some interesting events that occurred...

And then this is what happened....




Fishing wet bird out of a cup kinda sucked, but she enjoyed her water. I was kinda more worried she would tip the cup over and spill water all over the desk.
Tony thinks he has the cutest bird ever. :)

the marshmallows

I figured I needed to make something fun for my blog, and it took a while and here it is.
I loved that the burnt marshmallows were all out to eat the white ones! They were so cute.
The bird is sitting here sleeping on my desk.

What else is new....made crepes tonight, with berry sauce, they were good!
Wondering when Jen will have her baby, as her due date was today. Come on baby!
Man, everyone is having babies it seems. *sigh* oh well, maybe in a year or 2. :P
I shall go, its getting late and I work tomorrow.

The Nibbler!

I put on her favorite song and everything and all I got was one chirp and bites!
I think she was more interested in herself or her reflection in the monitor when I was trying to video her. She has been quite the talker recently. She might have also liked or disliked the hand cream I put on...satsuma mmmm!

whats that I smell?

deep fried PORK! Yep, my apartment building smells particularly porky today. I'd say about 4 days a week it smells bad. I am so turned off of pork, it now grosses me out.
Tony got his hair cut now, which makes the bird work extra hard when she wants to nibble it.

Watching Star Wars, the last old movie. Its the end fight scene and its pretty good, I haven't seen these ones in a while.

Oh and I saw the Smart People movie, it was cute, and I liked the ending, and I love Ellen Page, shes awesome! I am waiting for Juno to come out, I cant wait to watch it again!

Nothing else is really new, been playing around with photoshop and am planning a new layout for this blog. Its kinda ugly right now, but it will get better :)

That is all for tonight, I shall post something more substantial later.

IT CAME!

Hello mac!

Tony and I both decided my computer was done and I am looking to get rid of my desktop and the huge monster of a monitor thats in Aria's room. Tony was even alright with getting a mac which suprised me. A year ago I talked about macs and he looked like he could have disowned me. Now hes all excited too like me! This sucker is super awesome so far. I am happy to leave behind a world of viruses and the blue screen of death. I am having a good time remembering all my awesome mac skillz! I haven't used one of these since highschool, but its exciting! School always had macs, they had the huge big white G4's I think and the colourful ones that were cute as well.

Pushin the limits

Today I did a stupid thing, well...my friend Rob and I did a stupid thing. He told me once how his friend said double fillet of fishes were an abomination. Well, I figured that because I wasn't working out with him after work I would make it up by going to Macdonald's--it doesn't really make sense, but he loves the place. Once I said that he said we should both eat a double fillet of fish each. We ate the Double Big Mac one time and it was gross, but I felt I should, so off we went to Mac Donalds. We ordered 2 fillets of fish each and slapped them together kinda like a Big Mac (with a bun in the middle). Well, we did eat them, or most of them. It was so gooey and gross. I feel really ill now. I know better than to double up any sandwich of theirs and will have to work out quite a bit to work it all off.
blech......so gross feeling, all that fish is swirling around in my belly and it better not come up!

snow???

It was snowing outside this morning. It snowed until 12 this afternoon. It wasnt small flakes either, they were big. I thought it was spring :( I even put my winter stuff away. Had to break out the boots so I could get groceries. (look at that leg, almost as white as the rug, it cries for spring!)


Today I am making chicken stew, yum. It will make me feel better with it being so cold outside.
Bird seems to be fine now, shes all happy and loves to be with Tony. She was creeping all over him and got up on his glasses again so she could nibble his hair. We have a bell for her and she attacks it and squawks at it.

food

I read this on Arwen's blog about food hangups, and I have only a few.

The foods I dislike unless some are chopped up super fine are:

Onions -- if they are cooked and not cut small enough I wont eat them, they remind me of slithery snakes and they feel like they slither in my mouth.
Green Peppers-- Just gross
Radishes--dont eat them often enough to like them, but I just don't really like them anyways.
Stewed tomatoes-- I like to use them in spaghetti, but I wont eat them and will purposely avoid them when spooning myself some sauce.
Zucchini-- It tastes like NOTHING!! Therefore its useless as a vegetable and I don't like them.
Egg plant--Had it only once in a casserole and it wasn't nice, its pretty though.
Cottage Cheese-- :P I dont like that people mix this stuff with fruit let alone eat it with other stuff...its squishy and clumpy.

So now onto other things not about food. Larissa has a blog which is super cool, she is moving out here in a week or so, she just quit stream! YAY! I want to bring a food to her housewarming but I am not sure what to make. Shes making my favorite thing, spinach dip!

Nibbling

Well, its kinda blurry but it works. The bird isnt feeling so well now, she threw up today a few times when I was at work. Tony worries about her as its not good when budgies do that. I hope she doesnt die. I am thinking it was because she flew up on the desk and landed in a bowl of icecream. Once we cleaned her off in the sink she was sitting by an open window and I think the cold made her ill -- they dont like the cold, they are tropical birds. Poor thing.

the flock

Something Tony told me last night: "We should make the bird feel better, we need to make her feel like part of our flock."

The end

Sick?

Poor bird, shes feeling sick.
Tony called me all worried about his bird. She was throwing up yesterday.
I hope she feels better today.
She kinda wanted to get on the desk and landed in Tony's bowl of ice cream, so we cleaned her up, but we both forgot that it was kinda cold in the house and that wasn't good for her as she is a tropical bird.

Coley and I researched budgie health yesterday at work, and apparently the budiges hide their illnesses well or they can become easy prey. So because she was sick, that isnt good at all. Bird is quiet at the moment. Shes sitting in the sun.

I stuffed brocoli in her cage, but shes not liking it :(
Apparently they need to eat that kind of stuff, so its frustrating because shes scared of the veggies, kinda reminds me of a sibling I have.

Shy

She was chirping just a few seconds before I tried to video her. I cant get her to sing on camera, she knows what I am doing and is camera shy I suppose. I need to get a better camera to zoom in on her so I dont have to be so close. Shes chirping now, little cute chirps.

so much for that

Rain Rain Go Away!!!

My curly hair cant take it!!!

He's dead Jim...

That's right, he's dead. My computer's harddrive died a few days ago. Stupid computers!
Now I have to actually think of whether or not I want a new one, I might just see if I can get the Harddrive backed up and get a new harddrive. I have been hating my computer however, it annoys me, its loud and clunky. Laptops seem so much funner and better. I had so much music on that stupid thing and it was only a couple months ago that I had to do a recovery. I think this desktop computer is done for me.
Now to persuade Tony to spend money on a new laptop...possibly a mac laptop or dell and we shall see how this goes.

And now for all you star trek lovers out there, some entertainment!!!

It came!!!

Its so cute, and its better than I expected when I opened the package. The seller said that it was dusty because its been sitting in a box since the 80's ish. LOL its amazing!!!

All the pieces are there, they are clean and fit awesome!! He he he he! Maybe I will play with it in the tub.... nah.

ahh the smell of paint!

I have been missing art and after being at the Vancouver Art Gallery, I decided I should get back to it and paint. I loved painting in high school, I love all the pretty colours of the paint, I love mixing my own colours, and I was very excited when I went into the Dollar Store near Tony's work the other night. They had stretched canvas, paints, canvas boards and all kinds of craft stuff.

I grabbed a few canvas's and some paints and home we went.
I started looking at the colours I had, just picked out red, purple, white, yellow and orange. The store didn't have all the colours of my rainbow but enough to play around. After playing around and not getting anywhere I got a little discouraged.

*IDEA HIT*

I have paints in my craft drawers in my room! PERFECT! Found a huge bag of them!!! YAY!
More than just reds and oranges, I had most of the rainbow!

Now my friend Coley loves unique art and she wanted something black, red and white, like the scheme of her new living room, she also likes unicorns.

I made it all tonight. My sense of humor is warped, but there is another piece in this set coming, its bigger and more graphic, I might even give a warning for it, nah....it should be fine.

There is a little red glitter for a cool effect, I wish the camera on my phone is better so it could capture it. :) Anyways, more art latter.

Presenting : Banana Bread!

I was bored today, my bananas were looking pretty brown and sad. Very sad actually.
I bought them to try and eat but I dont really like them plain anymore.
I knew I shouldnt waste them or stick them in the freezer or they would be cold and would never return from there so I made banana bread.

I wish I could try it now, I haven't made it by myself before so I am a little nervous. It looks alright, but still, we shall see...

New link!

Aria found me a really cool blog, all about making cheap food, and it looks good. I have yet to try making some of it, but I do plan on it. This new link is :

http://www.bloglander.com/cheapeats/category/recipes/

Other sad news, my computer is dying. Its telling me that I need to configure it or choose something to boot from. It sounds like its hard drive is dying. It works for a little while but then it dies after an hour. At least I can back up my stuff before it truly goes.

So I have been checking out the various different computers out there, not going to buy one yet, but just browsing.

I like this one, its pretty and I love dell computers. The downside, it comes with Windows Vista, and I am just not liking that operating system, they made it feel like a mac os but with all the crap windows has and thats just asking for trouble.


Now this is a sexy computer, yes you can call them sexy in this case. Its downside is that its a desktop and its a mac. Most macs have the power to run windows as well, as long as you buy that version of windows, so this does intrigue me. Tony is even interested in a mac, but from more of an engineers point of view. I like them because they are better for the things I want to do like the arts and entertainment stuff.