This is much too long to twitter, so it's going here.

Heard sirens, so of course I looked out my window. Saw a cop car and a fire truck heading in my direction (East) on the highway. They both take the ramp that I would take to get to my place, but the cop car forks right, and the fire truck keeps going straight. Odd.

A minute later an ambulance is heading down the highway (West). Then a cop car. Then, another cop car. Then a minute later, a fire truck.

So very odd.

Baby, We Were Meant to Burn

As I mentioned last post, it seems more than four people read this blog! My fifth reader, Lady Who Doesn't Lunch, gave me a spiffy award!

In order to accept this lovely award and be able to pull a Halle Berry bawling up on stage, I must complete a meme. I've been trying to avoid doing those "boring stuff about me" meme type things here because I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. Dear lord. But I know you would hate that, because really how many times does one person need to know I prefer Pepsi over Coke and night time over morning?

Please note that I have no clue how to even pronounce that word, I think I pronounce it a lot more french than it actually is, but if I'm wrong I don't want to be right. I looked it up on wiki, but pronunciation helpers never made sense to me. And now I'm going to stop saying the word pronounce.

On with the meme!

5 Obsessions

Weird Obsessions.

1. Putting on deodorant. This obsession is because of two reasons 1) I have this fear that I smell awful, but people are just too nice to tell me. 2) One day, in grade 6 or 7, for some reason I only put deodorant on one side, and it was just a really weird feeling all day. So now I put it on at least twice before I leave the house. If I'm really stressed out it could be three times. And this is just in the morning. Some days I even put it on when I get home. I fear I'll get some kind of armpit cancer when I'm older. Whenever I have money to spend again, I may look into that fancy stuff that isn't as bad for you.
2. Putting on lip chap. (Chapstick, lip balm, whatever) When I was a wee lass, for a timeframe I can't remember, I had this disgusting underlip grossness because I had kept licking my lips and it went all raw. I don't have a scanner here, but it's feature in both my school picture of that year and for my parents wedding. Babysitter would totally attempt to Vaseline up my lip before I went to school but by the time I got into the taxi I had already wiped it all off. So now I obsessively put on lip chap to prevent that from happening again. I'm constantly wiping it off and reapplying it. Right now I have two tubes sitting in front of me on my desk. Again, like the deodorant thing, I fear I'm totally destroying my lips by doing this, but I really don't see me stopping. I read somewhere it can make your lips go all soggy. Gross.

Not So Insane Obsessions.

3. Bif Naked - The Promise. I have no clue what took me so long to listen to this album, but dear lord I love it. Bif is tied with Brody Dalle for being my favourite female musicians. Usually with Bifs album there's the songs I completely love, and then some songs or spoken work poems that just aren't my thing so I delete them, but with this album, I even love the song about being arrested for killing a bee.

4. Subway. I'm not getting it as much now, because I'm totally in broke city at the moment, but man do I love Subway. My sub of choice is a foot long Italian BMT on Monterray Cheddar, with the regular cheese, not toasted, with bacon. Depending on how hungry I am I may get cucumber and pickles, but I always get lettuce, lots of green olives (they never put enough even when I say lots) mayo, and salt and pepper. NOM NOM NOM.

5. This isn't really an obsession I don't think, just a weird habit I have that I wish to share with the world (it should be up in the weird section, but I'm not moving it) I have this thing where if I read a blog, I like to read the WHOLE blog. Right from the start. It just seems weird to start off in the middle of something.

5 Dislikes

Just 5?! Ugh, time to slim down the list.

1. The sound cupboards make when you close them. I'm not sure if it's the slamming, or the sound of it latching. Mom says it's just laziness. Right now I have two cupboard opens, and two drawers. The bottom cupboards over my kitchen are pretty much eye level and a few times already I've been close to losing an eye. (Note: I just remembered my parents having a fight back in the day during Split #1, and I think mom totally slammed the cupboard door. Could this be where this dislike comes from? Who knows.)

2. When people press the button/pull the string on the bus just after the driver announces the next stop is the last one. Do you really think he's not going to stop and let us out? Fools.

3. My shower. I think the world would explode if it was actually a consistent temperature for the whole duration of my shower.

4. Cold ketchup. Putting cold ketchup on hot fries just doesn't make sense.

5. The elevators in my building. SO AWFUL. I've heard of people moving out just because of the awfulness that is our elevators. One time I waited about 10 minutes for an elevator. Another morning I got in, and two numbers were lighting up as it went down. It stopped on floor two before stopping on the ground level. Now the fun thing it's been doing is going up to floor 12, then the light will stop moving but the elevator will keep going, and then we'll end up on the top floor. I hear it also does that on the way down, but I've yet to experience that.

5 Tagged and Awarded
Since the only person I think will actually do this meme is Bec, I'm just going to choose five blogs to pimp out.

Live, Love and Peanut Butter - Bec was trying to keep this blog secret from us (us being me and mykl) because she though we'd think it was lame, but I totally love it. I can't believe how active she is and how healthy she eats. I'm totally jealous. I need to go back through it and start stealing some of her (dads) awesome recipes and start to teach myself how to cook!

Whiskeymarie - The place where memes go to die I believe she wrote once. Sorry, it was "This is where memes go to die a tortured, semi-sexual, gory death." If you're not reading Whiskey, you're a fool.

Things I Bought That I Love - Blog by Mindy Kaling from The Office. It's completely hilarious, even if it is just about stuff she's bought. She doesn't update that often, but it's totally awesome when she does.

I Am Playing Outside - Aside from my complete laziness, it's totally mykls fault that I don't blog that often. The only time I actually do anything blog worthy, it's with him, so I don't bother writing about it because I know his will be better and have fancy photos. Damn you!

Ugh, I'm not choosing five. You can't make me! If you don't read Lady yet, do so! She'll be my fifth choice.

That's all you get from me tonight folks, it's way passed my bedtime!

G'day G'day

Oh! Also if you're reading this, and you're not Whiskey, mykl, Bec, Ellie or Lady, shit son, say hi or something. No need to be a lurker!

I Have The Crappiest Songs In My Head Right Now

Tonight I was laying in bed, gnawing off my finger nails, sleep no where in sight. Which is odd. Well, not really. This used to be common practice (well not the finger nails thing every night, but the laying in bed, not sleeping). Lately I've been good with falling asleep, and even if I don't fall asleep right away, I know it will happen soon enough, so I'm not laying there feeling like I'm wasting my time. I've also been pretty good on the nail biting front.

I have no clue what I'm stressing about tonight, but I decided to get up for a bit until I get more tired. So here I was, sitting at my lovely computer, when my cell makes its magical noise. At first I thought it was a txt, but it turns out I got an email.

It seems Lady is wondering where the hell I went, because she has given me an award! Hoorah!

I was totally excited and started working on the post when I realized, dear lord, it's 12:25 am and I need to get up at 630! GAH.

To tide you over until I have time to work on that post, here is one of my favourite Exploding Dog pictures. Whenever I have money I can spend on actual things again, I plan on buying a print of this for my living room.

they will never know it's me

If you're totally bored and for some reason depend on my blog as your only source of amusement, go check out the other awesome pictures on Exploding Dog. I don't have time to find the links right now, but there are some pictures of fat stick men that totally make my day. I heard about this site back in my days of watching Much Music. They mentioned it on Go With The Flow, which was an awesome show with the web people on Much, but I rarely got a chance to watch it because it was on Thursdays, and that was back during Must See TV.

Now I'm off to bed. Again.

At Least I Finally Finished The Book I Was Reading

Friday night I headed home to do nothing all weekend.

Mom had told me she would be down to Ottawa early to do some shopping (after work I lose all my energy, so taking me shopping is not a fun thing). As I left my building, I glanced around just to make sure mom wasn't there to pick me up. My hours are 8 - 4, but if you get to work five minutes early, it's cool if you leave five minutes early, which is what I usually do.

When I got to my building, about 10-15 minutes later, I thought to myself that it would be funny if mom had arrived early and was waiting for me, since I go in the side door. When I get upstairs, I look down on the parking lot, but I don't see my moms car. I put my cell phone in a reachable spot, and continue to get ready. I think I check for moms car once or twice more.

5:10, about an hour after I've been home, my cell rings. They hang up before I can talk to them, but I assume it's mother, and I stare out the peep hole. I see mom getting off the elevator, and I open the door.

Mom: "How long have you been up here?!"
Me: "I don't know, like an hour."
Mom: "Why didn't you answer your phone?"
Me: "I did, I just let you up."
Mom: "No I called you like two three times."

I check my phone, no missed calls. I ask the crazy lady what shes talking about.

She was done shopping early and got to my place around four. She kept thinking my bus was late, and even walked over to the bus stop once (though of course it's not the stop I use). The number she was calling? My work number. When I looked for my moms car, I guess I did see it, but who knows what their car looks like from 15 floors up!

On the way home, mom was starving, so we got Subway. I tend to be a bit of a nervous passenger, so of course our drive home was hilarious. There's this one spot where mom always sees deer, and she thinks it's fenced in there, so she wanted me to look, but when I would look out her window, of course her head would be turned that way too, so I would then watch the road. She would get upset that I wasn't looking for deer, but I was like Dude! One of us needs to watch the road.

Saturday morning I got up and went out to Liquidation World because it's closing. There wasn't much good there, I got my soap there for about four bucks cheaper than I usually buy it, which rules. I had to use BAR SOAP that morning, which my oh so dry legs did not like. Hopefully they don't use all my soap. Anyways, I also got this sweet poster for 20 bucks.I was too lazy to turn on the light when I took the picture. Sorry.

The awesomest thing I did this weekend was finally bring out cat Gollum outside. We don't let out cats outside, because having them get hit by a car would really suck. Gollum is always crying at the door wanting out, so I decided I would finally look for our old bunny harness and hook him up to it.


In other news, for a while now there's been a mama bird chilling out in the eavesdrop outside my bedroom window. I've been thinking that it's dead, or that it was stuck, but Sunday before I left it had finally moved and I got to see the baby bird.

Please just ignore those Christmas lights.

It's 10:34 pm and well past my bedtime. Tomorrow I will blog about heading home for the weekend, and the things that occurred, but to tide you over until then, you get this.

Stolen from OMG That Rocks

Don't ask me why, I just really like that picture. I hope I still have my Godzilla movies on my pc.

While going through the Dollar Store to get supplies for my place since I was br-oke, one of the things I picked up was a plastic T-Rex to put in with my cacti. If I remember I'll take a picture of him for tomorrow.

Packing was at a stand still last week. I couldn't unpack my movies or books (which is the majority of my boxes) because my shelves were in the living room and not in the bedroom like I wanted them. I couldn't move the shelves into the bedroom because my floor was covered with my clothes and my boxes that go under my bed. I couldn't hang up my clothes because we had forgot my closet pole at home (the hanging area in this apartment is lame, and my hangers don't fit) and I couldn't put my boxes under the bed because we had forgot the bed frame at home.

Thankfully, Mom brought the frame and the pole with her on Friday, so today I'm finally setting the place up.

I got up at 8 today, and did a load of laundry. I have a bunch of stuff to wash, but I'm going home next weekend, so I just did enough to get me through this week.

My aunt and uncle brought down two chairs for me that I'm keeping out in the sunroom. I plan to read out there (in the chair facing AWAY from the Slums of course). Or at least sit out there holding a book, watching for hot air balloons.

I've finally cleaned up and arranged my room, and now I'm taking a small break before I tackle unload my books/movies.

Tonight, to celebrate a job well done, I am having lasagna and garlic bread for supper and watching Pretty in Pink. And maybe Clueless. So far this year I've only watched 26 of my goal of 100 (only three are repeats from last years list). Having my place set up will definitely help me work on that.

The Coolest Thing About My Apartment

I've always really wanted a balcony. Ok, not ALWAYS. But when I was looking to rent my second apartment, I was upset that while I was in a balcony building, I was stuck on the ground level.

When I went and looked at the first building this time around, even though it was super nice and had an insane amount of storage, the non balconyness of it made me feel sort of claustrophobic (though that also could have been because I realized I was in the wrong building.)

My sunroom is insanely amazing. This could be the shittiest apartment in the world, and I probably wouldn't mind due to the awesomeness of my balcony. (enclosed sunroom/balcony, potato/potato)

Right now there is no screens on the two windows, and I had been somewhat considering just leaving them off (I can take much nicer pictures that way). But then Mykl and Darryl were all "birds, birds, birds" last night. When I was a kid, a humming bird or something flew into my grannies house and she had to shoo it out with a seat cushion. Today I was taking a picture, and I noticed some rain spots, so I closed the window. A bit later I look out, and there were two birds sitting outside my windows, one bird right at one of the windows that opens! I guess the screen have to go on afterall.

First, here is what it looks like right now. I'm not good at sizing stuff up, but it's longer than my kitchen, and probably wider. I plan on putting some chairs out here that I'm getting from my aunt.


Here are the numerous awesome views from my awesome sunroom.

This is out of the left window. The water there is the Ottawa River, then what I shall call Heron Hurdman Park, and then in the background you can see the soon to be apartment building of my new awesome friend Darryl, and quite possibly the apartment building of my Aunt Trudi who I haven't seen in years. Hi Aunt Trudi!

The front part is four windows wide. The two windows on the left look out on what I call the slums. If I knew how that song from the end of Slumdog Millionaire went, I would probably get it in my head every time I looked out at that building. Today there were two little girls yelling off the balcony at people below, and then spiting at them. Classy. The slums also has one balcony that has this pile of crap on it, including a mattress and a fan. The two windows on the right look out to the sky and highway. I'm really excited for all the hot air balloons I will be seeing in that space this summer. I LOVE hot air balloons.
Out the right window you see this building. They seem to have a rooftop area that I want to go on someday. I didn't realize it at first, but my aunt pointed out that you can see the Parliament Buildings from my balcony! Holy awesomeness Batman! I've wanted to spend Canada Day in Ottawa for a few years now, and now I have awesome seats to the fireworks. Huzzah!