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Birthday ☆

// June 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog

So, my birthday was on Saturday.

I turned twenty-four. It’s kind of fun, because in the younger classes we do ‘how old are you’, and I always start. So, when I said twenty-four, they were surprised. Also, one of my students has the same birthday as me. She turned three.

After work we all went to the Hard Rock Cafe.

Long story short, I had to wear a cake hat, go up on stage, and dance to the YMCA along with other people who were also celebrating birthdays or anniversaries. I think there is a photo of me in the cake hat somewhere.

But, I also got a nice big brownie sundae.

Everyone signed a card for me that Eri made, that was ridiculously cute. I’ll have to take a photo of it. Hanna made me a gift too; a box decorated with my name and stars, plus a Rabbid (from Rayman’s Raving Rabbids) inside. This makes no sense to most people. Mary got me some cute little cookies – three different types that taste really good, especially with some tea.

Aside from that, my family and a lot of my friends sent me birthday wishes via e-mail or snail mail, which was awesome! So thank you to everyone who did. The Jstone crew (including Yogi) sent some amazing photos. I’m so glad we have more ‘Native American’ themed merchandise.

Because it sells like hotcakes (read: we’ve sold three Indian statues in three years).

So yes. That was my birthday.

Hideko comes on Sunday, so I’m really excittttted. We have a busy week planned, but I think we’ll have a lot of fun. I’m also looking foward to hanging out with Kimkim a bit as well. And eating some gyouza.

And. AND. After much trial and many tribulations, I finally have the internet. That’s right. I am internet equipped. It feels weird being able to access it at all times now, so I’m working on getting back into my routine. Yes. I have an internet routine.

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Cuppycakes

// March 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

So, last weekend (yes, this is delayed) I hung out at Kat’s house on Sunday.
We ended up watching some Kyle XY (which, we watched the last episode today, and um, WHAT THE SHIT? WORST ENDING EVER), some How I Met Your Mother, and we made St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes.

We made a total of twenty-five, 12 white and 13 chocolate. The only reason we had 13 chocolate, was because we had some left over batter and didn’t want it to go to waste. So even though there wasn’t space in the cupcake pan, we decided to try it out. It ended up being very wide, and quite stout. We named it ‘Big Mamma’.

For St. Patty’s day, we decorated them with green icing, which in itself was… interesting to create and left Kat with hands stained blue because the bottle leaked. We had a lighter green for the white ones, and a darker green for the chocolate. We topped them all off with marshmallows from Lucky Charms cereal.

I think they turned out really cute! They tasted good too; Big Mamma was exceptionally satisfying and we garnished that one with one of each type of marshmallow, haha. We especially liked how Kat’s kettle matched the whole theme, haha.

Watson’s exciting day

// March 1st, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Blog

Last night, Kat and Melinda were over hanging out. I went to make tea for everyone, and figured I’d give a piece of rawhide to Watson, because he loves them and he’s supposed to have them every now and then for his teeth. We got them a while ago from the vet, but he doesn’t have them that often. He usually chews them to death, until he’s broken it into tiny pieces and has eaten it, or until it’s more or less dissolved.

Anyways, he’s chewing away on his rawhide.

Kat stayed over, so we went to sleep, and I thought nothing of him having the rawhide, because he likes to carry it around with him. If he has to go to the washroom, he’ll either bring it and leave it at the backdoor, or actually take it out with him. So I didn’t think anything of him not leaving it alone.

This morning he was making some weird smacking sound. Kind of like he had peanut butter stuck on the roof of his mouth that just wouldn’t come down. I tried looking inside his mouth (which made him not too happy) and I saw that he had gummy rawhide, stuck on the roof.  I felt bad, and tried to use the end of a spoon to move it, but nothing happened and he got pretty angry, so there was really nothing I could do. But, he didn’t seem in pain, he could breathe fine and ate his breakfast.

So, I figured it was just a piece that would eventually fall down.

When I came back after school, it was still there. But he seemed to be smacking less, so I figured it was dissolving. I headed off to my Grammy’s house, where she touched up my hair, and I had both lunch and dinner. Kat and I were going to hang out after she was done her workshop, but I was still at Grammy and Grampy’s, so she ended up meeting me there, and we stayed for dinner (mm, Chinese).

We came back to my house, to hang out and watch the new Seeker. And here was Wattie, smacking away again. We managed to peer into his mouth, and the rawhide was still there. It seemed to me that it had moved a little, and he ate dinner just fine.

But the more we sat here with him, we realized that it was actually a huge problem and he was starting to get really upset. However, every time we tried to look in his mouth to see what was going on, he FREAKED OUT. So we grabbed the oven mitts, thinking that at least if he bit, it wouldn’t hurt as much.

Amazingly, it didn’t hurt at all.

I tried to find chopsticks (not wooden ones) because I thought, hey, maybe that would be less scary than a spoon handle, but I didn’t have any that were clean (or in the house… the pair I wanted is in my car, don’t ask). I had a metal skewer (dangerous, I know but I was desperate!) but never ended up using it. Kat tried to lure him with a treat, seeing if that would get him to open up and let us look in his mouth, but that only made him come out from under the table, and as soon as he grabbed the treat and saw the oven mitts, he ran back under the table. He also kept licking his legs, which was weird.

This whole ordeal ended in me trying to hold him down, to see if I could get his mouth open. I wish I had a video of him, because although he was really upset, it was pretty hysterical. The sound he makes alone makes it hard not to laugh, plus he was thrashing like a devil possessed child. At one point I was holding him, and had one hand around his bottom jaw.

I don’t know how she did it, but Kat was able to reach into his mouth and dislodge the rawhide. It was pretty amazing, and I’m so grateful she got it unstuck! I felt so bad for Watson, and he was SO upset… I think it got to the point where he was upset, scared and embarrassed about it. He ended up biting her a bit, but luckily it didn’t draw blood, and wasn’t too bad.

After Kat got it out, it was like he did a complete change of demeanor. He was SO happy, wagging his tail, rolling around… I can’t imagine how relieved he must have felt.

As you can see in the photo, he’s exhausted. And he’s hardly moved from the couch. Can’t blame him, I’d feel the same way. But the poor guy, I’m so glad that Kat got it out. If she hadn’t, I think I would have had to take him to the emergency vet because he was growing more and more distressed.

But yes, Watson is happy and well now. And totally passed out (with his legs in rigor mortis mode).

Toronnnttto

// February 9th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

So, this morning Kat and I headed off to Toronto! We were actually going to go yesterday and stay over night at her Uncle’s place, but it ended up not being a good weekend to do that, so we decided to just go up today, for the day.

We made amazing time getting there (no seriously, it was awesome) and picked up breakfast sandwhiches (and tea) from Timmies on the way. We had decided to go to the ROM, because there’s an exhibit on diamonds that we both wanted to see, and I also wanted to see what the new … crystal… thing… that they built on the side there (it looks really stupid from the outside) looked like.

Last time I went, was when Nels was here, and they didn’t have the dinosaurs up, because of the construction. Luckily, they were there today… they’ve always been my favourite exhibits at any musuem.

You couldn’t take any photos at the diamon exhibit, which was a pity because some of the jewelry they had was amazing. There were a few pieces I wouldn’t mind having… haha.

They also had a rocks and minerals display, which was really awesome. Granted, you got a little tired of looking at them after a while, some of the colours were spectacular. This was my favourite one:

It’s rhodonite (okay, I won’t pretend I actually remembered that, but if you enlarge the photo enough you can read it on the sign, haha).

There was also a huge display of Korean, Chinese and Japanese artifacts (including furniture, tools, toys, clothes, paintings, plates, bowls… all that stuff). Some of it was pretty cool, but the pillows… looked ridiculously uncomfortable, haha. Then there were these statues… I realize now that it looks funnier when you see them all, but the one on the right in the photo, looks like it’s doing the robot:

After the museum, we did a bit of shopping… well, looking. We didn’t buy anything, but we went into a few stores and looked around. Got tickets for a movie, and went to grab something to eat, and went back to the movie theatre. In this one cineplex in Toronto, they have this VIP theatre thing (I don’t know if they have this anywhere else), but it’s like a small theatre (24 seats or so) where once you’re seated, they have ushers who get your food and stuff for you. The seats are really nice, and there’s a little table between the seats.

We wanted to go to that, but we got looking at books in Indigo (after dinner, because we had time to kill) and ended up getting there with no options for two seats together. What was really weird, is usually… the usher will ask people to move a bit so the people can sit together, but they didn’t at all. They said we could sit apart, or get a refund and catch the 6:50 show in the regular theatre. We opted for that, because it’s no fun to watch it by yourself.

We went to see “He’s just not that into you”, which was great. So adorable. Of course it left me over-thinking everything all over agian (which I do to begin with). But it was a really good movie. The poeple beside us were IRRITATING. I hate people who go to the movies and are all loud… and… annoying. If you want to make comments to your friends, that’s cool. But don’t make them so loud so that I can hear you (and I wasn’t sitting right next to them).

So yes. It was a successful day, and the drive home wasn’t too bad. People seriously drive like idiots though. I mean, if you’re in the left lane, don’t go below the speed limit.

I’m tired already, which makes me feel lame because it’s not even midnight yet, haha. But of course tomorrow is Monday, and I said I’d be done the parks I’ve been working on by Friday… yeah… not really. I ended up getting bored and side-tracked, so I think I have ten more still to do. I sent them to myself, so I can finish them. I don’t want to disappoint my boss, or anyone for that matter. So I feel like I should at least try to get a few done.

And there it goes.

// January 26th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog

So the weekend is over, again. I feel like every week, I look forward to the weekend, and then it comes and goes so quickly, like it was never there to begin with.

Having class on Saturday mornings is nice though; I’m almost always home just after noon and I have the rest of the day. This past Saturday, six students came. Thankfully. It was bitterly cold, so I thought that there wouldn’t be such a turn out, but there was.

Granted, it was two groups of three travel-wise.
But it was nice. We started to learn colours.

It’s really annoying how the spell check on this computer (it’s like the automatic kind that underlines the words in red if you misspell them as you type) keeps telling me that ‘colours’ and so forth is wrong.

Oh but that reminds me, I did learn something interesting the other day. That ‘deke’ is a Canadian English word. It underlines that too.
I was actually reading a list of all these words that were used in Canadian English, because I think it’s fascinating. I mean, I think the differences between all the variations of English in general is fascinating.

Sunday, Kat and I hung out. We watched the new episode of Kyle XY (SO GOOD. And this week’s looks awesome and awkward). We also rented two movies. The Duchess and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Both were good, but obviously VERY different, haha. The Duchess left you feeling kind of depressed, well, it left me feeling kind of depressed because I always want to see those wonderful fairy tale endings that aren’t generally present in reality.

I feel like when I started writing this I had a point. Unfortunately, that’s been lost.

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Nostalgia

// October 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Blog

I don’t normally write too much about band related stuff here, but today I was going through the old Pashya blogs, because I needed a cute photo of Reiya to use for Shattered Tranquility’s Suvivor. Oh yes, we’re putting him on a deserted island because he is made of win. And that’s not sarcasm, Reiya is definitely totally awesome and despite the fact I don’t like chariots whatsoever, I’ll always support him (and Akito and Yuuri).

So yes, I was looking through both Hijiri and Tomo’s old blogs. Reiya didn’t have one when he was in Pashya, so I’m honestly kind of surprised that he’s posting in the chariots one. But then I felt all nostalgic — I miss those guys. Well, I miss Ruephy Alive more than Pashya.

I’ve always kept wondering what’s going on now with Hijiri and Tomo. Then of course with Hinata, Akira, Yamaji, Kei, Daichan (even though he was in a band up until a few months ago) and Yuzuki. I’m glad the four Jaguar boys have joined new bands, but I hope that Kou is doing well. I’m also really happy that Sora’s in meth. now, but I wonder about Io and Yuina too. Not so much Ren because I read his blog and I’ve talked to him a few times since the band broke up and I know if I wanted to I could message him again. He’s super nice.

Hinata and Akira I probably think about the most. Out of all the bands I’ve loved, Barby was definitely the first (and hopefully when I get the chance to see R指定 live I’ll feel the same way about them that I did about Barby). Then when I got that comment on my Livedoor from someone who’s ‘friends’ with Barby, thanking me for the continuous support and saying that they still remembered me I nearly died. I kept wondering if it was actually one of them, but who knows.

The weird thing is, they were saying it to me and Nels, but they used ネルスケ, which I had NEVER EVER used in my blog or anywhere online. The only time that appeared was in our letters to them (we wrote them two, one when we gave them the chocolate and the second when we were leaving to say thanks for everything). So… it has to be someone who’s either really close to them, or one of them.

OMG UNLESS IT WAS SAMI-SAN WHO I ADORE. Only because he makes me laugh.

But Hinata… I always wonder what if I had said something more or something different. Well, nothing I’m sure, haha. But I regret not saying anything more than I did. Especially after he went to all the work to draw me that bunny with the house and the sun (even though the bunny looks a bit high in the photo). That boy had the cutest smile I’ve ever seen and I was totally in love with his voice. Speaking voice, too. He was easy to listen to.

Anyways, enough about that. It would be funny if I ran into him one day again. I think I’d recognize him still.

Even if he shaved one side of his head again for no apparent reason. (And that’s enough of that, because as you know that’s the look we don’t talk about, right Nels? Haha). A look we can talk about is him in his suit (jacket, no shirt under). Yes… that was a good night.

In my searching for photos of Reiya, I came across this photo that I love of Tomo and Reiya. Plus a few totally adorable photos of Tomo… the one I’m putting below is with him and Kairi (from Siva).

I love how he called himself “Magical Prince”. According to vkdb, he’s changed his name back to Sai now and is doing session work and what not. I haven’t seen any session bands with him in them, but I also hope to see him again someday wearing those tight, white, leather pants. He was always really fun and always made Nels and I feel like we were noticed and included.

But in all fairness, our four bands always did. I miss those times. Going with Nels to lives and seeing our favourite bands play. I have a lot of really awesome memories from them, which I was going to write about, but I can’t really bring myself to because I feel they’re too special. I hope when I go back I’ll be able to have some more great band related memories with Mamo. And I hope some of my favourite boys return to the scene. Even if I could only see a few of them once more, it would make me elated.

Especially Hinata.

Yay sidebar and yay shopping

// September 30th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Blog

I downloaded a new plugin (because plugins are sexy, not as sexy as FANTASTICO, but still pretty hot) so that  could have Twitter right there on my sidebar.

So yesterday Kat and I went to Toronto to do some shopping. We met up with Melinda for breakfast first and then because we had time to kill headed over to Toys’R'Us. We were there READY AND WAITING as they opened the doors.

Originally we had planned to take the GO train from Burlington, but when we got there the trains were all held up because of ‘police investigations’. The lady at the ticket booth suggested we try taking it from Oakville, but she really didn’t know about the delays or when the trains would be back up.

We figured we might as well just drive to Toronto then, because Oakville isn’t that far off so what’s the point of stopping again just to find out they’re not going or having it be super busy, you know?

So we made it to the city, parked and started our shopping adventure. When Kat and I go shopping we never seem to buy loads of stuff but I think this was our most accomplished shopping experience! Haha.

I got a dress that’s purple (purple makes it sound like WOW PURPLE but it’s not), a black one (that’s actually really tight… I almost didn’t get it because it’s that tight, but Kat said it was good and that I should get it and the girl at the store said that it was great, so I figured why not. It’s not that I don’t like it, because I do… I just don’t want to look fat in it, hahaha… but on the plus side I can always wear it as a long shirt with jeans), a t-shirt from Jacob that’s cute… it has a crown on it, a brown sweater, earrings, perfume (Anna Sui’s Flight of Fancy), tights, vanilla body wash… and I think that’s it.

The purple dress, Kat got the same one but in a different colour. Because we’re just that cool. What will make us even more cool is when we wear it together at our high school reunion on Saturday, hahaha. We also got tank tops that were the same, but in different colours… it was two for $25 or $18 each so why not both get one and split the cost, eh?

After shopping (and my feet feeling like they wanted to die… totally wore the wrong shoes, but they matched my outfit) we went to the Pickle Barrel for dinner. We’re kind of sick when it comes to BBQ stuff… so we had BBQ ribs and chicken wings. Plus mozzarella sticks which were made of win and some really nice onion rings.

So that was our good day. It started off a bit rough for various reasons, but ended up being a nice day of shopping.