EXCITEMENT

I feel like I have to post it everywhere

A few things running through my head today:

-Got the keys for our new (temporary) place of residence!
-Tanale says I should open a bakery my banana bread is so good
-Will it ever rain?
-5th huge spider killed this morning this week. Now I see them in the corner of my eye EVERYWHERE and I can't sit down, or wear bare feet in the apartment. blechblechblech

the old black rum has a hold on me..

Hilarious texts arrived 10clock Friday night from Aric:

01/02:Dear morgan. I know how much you love drunken emails but im in bed so its a drunken text! I like a you.I was into the cuban rum tonight, you would be so proud. Come home please and thanks because I miss you and want you to come home and bake me
02/02: things. You still owe me a apple crisp from christmas. Want to redeem right now. Please come home. Love, your intoxicated brother. I hope this finds you well and cruncked!

4 texts long. I was having a nap at the time, huge headache from work. Made my night

banananabread

In response to the outstanding amount of comments from my loyal readers to my last entry:

There's only 2 people I work with. My boss, Tanale, and Ajah, a server. She is everything that is wrong with the youth of today. The basic problem is she comes late to work every day. At least 10 minutes late. Our restaurant doesn't open until 11:30, and we don't have to be there until then. Not extremely early, and our shifts are only 3 hours long. Anyway, she is late everyday by at least 10 minutes but sometimes as late as 45 minutes. On Thursday she was super late, it was very busy, and I had to serve and cook at the same time. I'm sick of trying to do both jobs at once and only get paid for one, and I told her this. I also said I would convince Tanale to fire her if she was ever late again. She later approached Tanale and I in the kitchen and said she didn't have to deal with threats and basically told Tanale what I said to her, thinking she would get me in trouble. The thing was, I've been telling Tanale that he can find a better server for a long time and telling her that made me feel honest about how I feel towards her so ... Yeah, it felt pretty good.

Anyway. Cory's flight is fucked because of that stupid hurricane that turned out to be nothing. I don't know when he's coming out. Phooey.

Today I did however make delicious banana bread and BBQ skewers for supper. I also got woken up by a phone call from Cory, and later talked to Aric, Mom and Dad for an hour and then talked to Nanny and Grampy for an hour. Sundays are sweet :)

life inside a music box ain't easy

Today I...

-had words with the bitch server I work with, finally! She is late everyday so I have to do her work. It felt good.
-made it to one of Jordan's Hand Drum Workshops, basically a drum circle for beginners. Awesome!
-explored a new part of Victoria to find said workshop, (Fairfield .. hippie town)
-practiced my new harmonica, not especially good at it yet,
-did the dishes. There was a lot of them.

sometimes I think the only things I love are hard liquor and playing pool

8 dollar wine + 1 dollar pool + karaoke bar = sweet weekend! and lots to look forward to when all of this will be in walking distance from my new "home"

Oh, Regina.

You know me too well.

Summer in the city means cleavage, cleavage, cleavage
And I start to miss you, baby, sometimes
I've been staying up and drinking, in a late night establishments
Telling strangers personal things

Summer in the city I'm so lonely, lonely, lonely
So I went to a protest just to rub up against strangers
And I did feel like coming, but I also felt like crying
It doesn't seem so worth it right now

Oh summer in the city means cleavage, cleavage, cleavage
And don't get me wrong, dear, in general I'm doing quite fine
It's just when it's summer in the city, and you're so long gone from the city
I start to miss you, baby, sometimes

pick me up, love, pick me up love, everyday

Today I sneezed and Tanale replied, "Someone is missing you"
I guess that's what they say in Thailand instead of "bless you" haha

It's raining like mad today, I biked home from work and got soaked in the process. Bus tomorrow for me :(

when there's nothing left to burn

There are perks with living with Tyler. One of these perks is always knowing when something interesting is happening in space. Tonight we made chai tea and went for a walk to look at the meteor shower. The best (lack of) light we found was in a field near our place, where we saw 20 meteors and 9 satellites in the span of 45 minutes.

Space is so cool, it makes me feel so insignificant and wonderful.

homesick

Tyler and I went on a mini adventure bike ride downtown yesterday. We ended up having lunch at John's Place and got a window seat to watch our bikes. We were waiting for our food when this chick tries to parallel park basically right in front of us. She does it all wrong, goes in nose first and everything, and at one point, actually looks at us laughing at her and mouths "Great, and of course there's people laughing at how I can't parallel park" to the people in the car with her. She got in, eventually. The best part was that we saw her looking at us looking at her and neither of us looked away. We just kept laughing, basically in her face. I hope she wasn't too offended because she really made my day.

I called my parents house last night. They had everyone over for dinner for Kim's birthday. It was great to talk to everybody, and at the same time extremely disheartening. I miss home, I miss having family around, and I miss having friends to hang out with and to talk to. After I hung up the phone I stood outside for a while, and our neighbour Tony called me over. He's from Europe, and is very entertaining. I can hardly understand what he's talking about, but I know for a fact that he raises bunnies to eat them and has a fantastic garden. We talked for a while, and he gave me some potatoes he had grown. We had them for dinner along with barbecued pork and carrots. They were delicious.

Great Success!!

Tanale likes Feist!!
No more shitty smooth jazz at work for me!

Got my bike fixed this morning too, for a whooping 12 bucks. My back tire's inner tube was punctured so they put in a new one. It took about 5 minutes. I shouldve snuck out back to watch how they did it but I'll figure it out at some point.


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Is that right, Rambo?

Today is B.C. day .. or maybe yesterday was. Anyway, today is my third day off in a row (!!) and Andy and Roberta left this morning. What to do for an entire day? There's only one real response : Rambo marathon.

We were in Hope last month, where First Blood was shot, and I downloaded the collector's set. We've gone through First Blood and Part II already today.. we'll see if we get to the rest later. So far, it has proved to be an excellent series.

We weren't complete fatties and went for a run too, and I discovered my bike has a ruined back tire. RIP. I will try to get it fixed this week.

2 dozen days until Cory comes!

Sunday!

This morning when Andy and Roberta got back from birding we made a humongous and awesome brunch. Scrambled eggs, apple pancakes, hash browns .. the works. After stuffing our faces we headed to Whitty's Lagoon, or more specifically the beach near it. So we swam in the Pacific on both east and west sides of the island this weekend! It was really nice, and actually had sand, which was wonderful. It was a hot hot day, and the path to the beach is a good hike, about a kilometer and a half. Cory called to tell me that he is still alive and had a great time camping on Boughton Island, and I picked up 2 tarps at Superstore and the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer for cheapies. We're BBQing again tonight too! What a fantastic weekend.

I bet you never thought you'd see your aunt with a joint with a flame on the end

Saturday!

We started off by driving to Duncan to check out a big farmers market with the best cinnamon buns I have ever eaten. And a berry pie that we ate with spoons on the way to Little Qualicum Falls, where we had lunch and did some swimming.

Next on the list was Cathedral Groves, a national park with some of the largest and oldest trees in B.C. It was incredible, like walking around when the dinosaurs were around. The whole place looked like a set on a movie, it was so cool.

Port Alberni was disappointing to say the least. The best thing about it was getting slushies at the gas station, where there were the only locals we saw in our drive (six people.) We took our slushies to the beach at Qualicum - right on the edge of downtown. Swimming in a lake AND the Pacific in one day = productive.

Hit up the liquor and grocery store on the way home, and we just finished eating BBQ lamb burgers and greek salad. Smoked a joint and had a few beer. Best. Day. Ever. I am pumped for tomorrow!