I'm so outta material right now... so quizzes!

Does Alan Rickman love me?

Does He Really Love You? My Result: He Doesn't Love You Take This Quiz! Take this test to see if he truly has love on his mind.

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It lies.

And I'm a....

The eSPIN Personality Test My Result: Saint Take This Quiz! If you haven't taken the eSPIN personality quiz, you still don't have a personality.

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Excellent.

Way off again with this one (I even clicked the 'parties make me anxious' button- wtf?).

What's Your Addiction? My Result: Party Animal Take This Quiz! You've got a dark, crippling secret. Take this quiz so we can find out what it is!!

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Hard to believe these tests wouldn't be reliable.

And finally...

Purity Test My Result: A Little Dingy Take This Quiz! The quiz that proves you're not as pure as you think you are (or maybe it's the other way around).

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And now I'm going to apologize. Most boring post ever.

Besides not breathing I was fine!

The first part of the bridge (remember?) took my breath away but I crossed anyways. I was pretty teary by the other side and was non-verbal~ poor Jolene had to guide me over. I mean, we had already paid and I had committed myself so I just kept walking despite the insane fear- the heart-pounding-in-my-throat-I'm-going-to-vomit kinda fear. I think I was ill-prepared for just how much I was going to freak out. It's not fun. So not fun. I was much better going back though, still didn't enjoy myself but I talked to Jolene and even took a photo (turned out blurry). But yeah- here's the bridge from the far side. It was a very rainy, foggy day but we had a really nice time. We got there early and avoided all the tours.
Here's the river we crossed over the bridge. The fog was okay when we were there but when we left we noticed it had gotten really foggy- couldn't see the mountains or anything.
On the far side we did the treewalker tour which was something that I think normally would have scared me but after the bridge it was fine. It was fun actually. I liked that the walkways were narrower so that I felt more enclosed and safe while up high.
Between Jolene and I, I think we took a hundred photos (mostly of leaves and trees- imagine that) (oh, and today at Van Dusen Gardens we took about another hundred photos of, well, leaves and trees).

But I'm so so tired. We left at 9am Friday morning and I didn't return till about 2:30 am on Saturday (I was an awful mixture of dirt-ass tired and drunk). I had to work today for four hours and then we went to the Gardens and then on the bus home I almost died. It was all I could do to get in the apartment and crawl into bed. Jolene is one of those awesome house guests- the ones that cook awesome stirfry and then clean the kitchen. I want to marry that one. Then we got bubble tea and rented Kung-Fu Panda~ awesomeness. We were suppose to go out tonight to some clubs but since I'm vacant girl we decided to stay in. So far we have crammed so much into her visit- fun fun house party, Japadog (I didn't know they had a website!), went on the seabus, visited North Van, I taught her to knit in a coffee shop (not starbucks), bubble tea, Kadoya sushi, VAG, downtown...

God I'm tired.

I have a big photo blog I want to do with all the photos I've taken (seriously- trees and leaves) but maybe later. I'm going to go to bed.

Good night!

Wish me luck

Sorry Angela! I don't mean that I don't like the saying- I just think it's really overused. I like the saying. The saying describes the way I dance just by default.

And I'm off on a windy rainy day to play in the woods. Nervous giggle.

And quickly... here is my pretty pretty unfelted bag that I designed myself and knit out of soy silk. Oh so pretty!

And then I felted it (cue the psycho music)-



Ugh. So sad. I have no idea what to do with it now. I had such high hopes. Okay, I'm off to help Jolene make wraps even though I think at this point she'll be nearly done. God I'm a bad friend.

Hugs!

Worth of Time

This is my dear friend Jolene....
yeah, she's a cutie. I've taken two days off of subbing to hang out with her since I haven't seen her since 2004. She lives in Saskatchewan and, well, I live here. We met in Katimavik and it's been true dirty love since. She got here Wednesday night and we talked till 1:30 am, then we got up at 8, had the most awesome scrambled eggs ever (roasted garlic, soy cheese, soy milk, a little vanilla, and corn), went to the VAG to see Wack, went to Kadoya (rocked her socks off with sushi), and had a lovely day. I turned down two job calls today and tonight while at my coffee job I turned down one for tomorrow since we are going to Capilano (so I can die of fright) tomorrow.

As previously noted, I freak out when I turn down work~ but then I kinda got the cheesy sayings at work tonight- all epiphany like. You know those whole 'blah blah live your live blah blah no regrets blah blah' sayings? Not the 'Dance like no one's watching' ones (barf) but the whole carpe diem ones. I got it! I was like... when I look back at this time with Jolene, will I want to say... 'hey- I made x amount of dollars subbing while she was on her own' or do I want to say 'she held my hand and carried me across the bridge when I broke down in tears and couldn't move'? It was just as clear as day.

And I mean- hello! I have three freaking jobs. I can afford to take a day off when elusive and bestest of buds are in town.

In other news I'm going to teach her how to knit.

Grose, Grouse, Goose.... it's all moot when I think I'm going to die

So funny subbing story today.

I'm at a school for the afternoon and it looks like it's going to be pretty sweet. There's an assembly- which brings mixed emotions. If they are a decent class- it all will be good, but one of my most difficult days was taking a very, very, very challenging class to a school assembly and trying to get them back into their classroom (two fights, a principal, and a whole long time later- we did it). Anyhoo, I get to the school and the kids are great so it's all good, I'm not worried at all about the students. The performance was by Brothers From Different Mothers and they were bloody awesome! Very funny and interactive (the mikes sucked so that was a shame but from what I could hear- rather hilarious) and very talented- great assembly. The one thing? None of the teachers wanted to go up- none of them. The performers would call them out- and they would not get up. On top of this- most of the teachers I was next to were wearing black- I was reading red.... yeah I had to go up. It was me and three other teachers and four students and we were given those tennis like balls with the fabric tails to whip at each other. It was fine and all but I'd imagine people were like... 'who the hell is she?' but I was paired with a nice student and frankly, I think we made the most impressive throws up there.

Oh yeah, and then on the way back to class I totally bailed on the hill of mud (I was wearing heels) but the students were very nice about it. The girls were so concerned about my shoes.

And oh yeah- OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT ELECT!!!! NO PALIN!!!!

Powerless

I feel useless. I want Obama to win but I resist a rant because a) I'm not American and b) I can't vote. And the election here sucked (boooooooo harper) so I have residual election-suckiness fear. And anyhoo, my rant about the American vote would be the same as everyone else.... PALIN: OMZG WTF!!!

I taught an awesome 6/7 class this morning. I love watching kids work together. But now I'm home to eat then I need to take off and go see the bra people and then go to French class then I'm off to hang out with some friends I haven't seen for awhile.

I promise (kinda) that tomorrow's blog entry will be more interesting. We can hope that I'll be writing about President Obama.

Speaking of feeling powerless (and kinda like you're going to die)...View from Gorse Mountain~ now that I've gone on the gondola I know I never have to go on it again.

How do you deal with feeling powerless?

Knitting Entry #1

So..... here's some knitting stuff. Let's see how much will change by the 30th. Interesting, no? (well.... humour me)

I finished my toques last night. One is for my neighbour's son (the one who was scratched by Spike) and the other is for Malcolm. Cascade 220- the only non-acrylic Spider-man coloured yarn I could find; I have nothing against acrylic but since it's a winter theme figured we needed some warmness.


And here are some projects, you've probably seen them before but I want to do a recap.

The Never-Ending-Cause-I-Haven't-Worked-On-It-For-Ten-Months-John-Deere-Scarf:
I cast this one on last Xmas for my uncle. Um.... two outta thirty squares done. Xmas 2015 anyone?


Sweet-Pea-Shawl:Going to run out of yarn so I'm going to work in some more colours. I thought five skeins would be enough... no.

My Pretty Pretty Cashmere Scarf:Sooooo pretty and soft. I keep on losing the pattern and have to figure it out myself.


Oh God. We won't even talk about these socks.
Log Cabin Blanket Rainbow Edition:
The Wallis:
The back is done, one sleeve, and the left front- the right front is about two thirds done. Nearly there.

Potentials:

Socks for my Dad (for his birthday... a month ago)

A Malcolm Sweater:
Windowpane socks:
And now I am going to bed. I started this entry before I went to work but ran out of time and now that I'm back I'm really tired. But me sister (the one who had the baby- not the one in PNG) called and it was so nice to hear her voice. Mmmm... family.

Spike

....helping me wind yarn (he sat on my lap ontop of the yarn while I was winding it~ difficult shot to get).




....blocking the way.
...trying to scratch me.
... getting caught in a bag somehow.
... being very sneaky while on the top cupboards (the ones he is not suppose to be on but I have no way of getting him down).
... eating my food when I go to answer the phone (and yes- I did eventually stop him and yes- I threw it out).
... conquering the evil bag (all bags are evil by the way)~ he must sit or sleep on them all!
... helping me unpack my computer (he sat on it for quite a while).
... being a Spawnkitty.

A list while eating chocolate

Taken from Jenn- this one word thing is hard. I've made up words. And some were impossible to answer in one word. I'm a rule breaker. Argh.

1.Your house? awesomessy

2.Your significant other? lost

3. Your hair? post-snake-frizzy (is too one word!)

4. Your family? wicked

5. Favorite place to eat? kadoya

6. Your favorite thing you can see right now? yarn

7. Where is your cell phone? beside me

8. Your favorite drink? soy vanilla lattes (free)

9.Your dream/goal? to have my own classroom

10. What Room you are in? living room

11. Your hobby? knitting

12. Your fear? driving alongside cliffs

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? in my own classroom

14. Where were you last night? coffee shop

15. Something that you aren’t? asian

16. Pie? apple

17. Wish list item? maid

18. TV show? Buffy

19. Last thing you did? grind beans for coffee

20. What are you wearing? pajamas

21. Vacation spot? New Orleans

22. Your pets? Spike the Spawnkitty Andrew

23. A best friend? Hordes of them

24. Your life? Busycool

25. Your mood? a little anxious

26. Missing someone? MY FAMILY!!!!

27. Your car? Imaginary

28. Something you’re not wearing. matching socks

29. Your favorite store? the yarn variety

30.Best memory?growing up

What have I done?

Well, I've only blogged 32 times in the past ten months so let's see how I do blogging 30 days in a row o_O

At least if I fail I can get one of those 'Nablopomo FAIL' badges. Thank goodness failing is cool now.

This also resulted in me finally downloading photos onto my new computer and it works just fine. Still need to do something about how huge my photos are but I'm going to work really hard at keeping them organized and named. I don't want them to get like they were on my old computer. I'm going to try to keep this computer as cluttered free as possible. No un-neccesary downloads, no random folders with stuff I have no idea what to do with, and so on and so forth. I know eventually things will get messy, but for right now I want to at least try.

So finally... here is a photo of my dearly loved old computer

And the new one! (And a new printer too!~ it's very noisy and Spike has already tried to kill it)
There is (to be expected) a photo of Malcolm on my background now. Duh.

Well... I don't want to blog too much tonight/morning. Firstly I'm tired (subbed from Monday to Thursday this week! Go team!) and also I don't want to go too much into stuff as I need to save stuff for November in case all I do is work and have nothing interesting to say. So I'll leave you with some random pics and notes.

I am attempting crochet again! I met a lovely crocheter at a knitting get together a few weeks ago and was inspired~ this is the sweet pea shawl from Happy Hooker by Stroller. It's chunkier yarn than recommended so I chained less (but I lost count so I don't know how much less). It's not without its flaws on the first row but ah well (I had seven remaining chains when I needed ten, so I just skipped three instead of four than four instead of five~ you see I don't think that even made sense to me). It'll be fine. And the colour is lilac- not the camel shade that it's showing up on my monitor.

Oh yes, and here's a photo of Spike with the new computer. If he wants attention he just sits or lays in front of the keyboard and stares.

Well, goodnight. I have a busy weekend planned and need to do something about my hair before I go to bed. I went as Medusa (as usual) and now have very frizzy hair after bobby pinning 14 snakes into my hair (spiders too!). Kinda a lame halloween though~ and I now officially hate fireworks. In a good side I've over 130 dollars in tips to spend on yarn! Woo!