just like me, they want to be close to you

I forgot how shitty it is to sit in a class you know you have to pass but think it's absolutely pointless. Anyway, 94% later I passed my FoodSafe course, whoo, I can continue to work in the food industry doing exactly the same thing I was doing before.

Yesterday was gorgeous! After hitting up a "Jazzercise" class with Annie in the morning (! I know) which was tres, tres amusing, we played some basketball with the boys and later went for a walk on the Goose. We went to a little dock across the harbour, and Annie brought her hookah and we packed a picnic.

love is what you make it

I have another phone interview next Monday!! Emily says they are very short staffed at the bistro, which is where I am interviewing for, and I don't expect them to wait for me to get there but .. still sweet!

Got a great email from Nanny today too. I told her I'm seriously considering going down to visit them while they are in Florida this year and she replied:

"YES MORGAN WE WOULD LOVE TO STAY WITH US ,maybe you and i could do some surfing ...oh boy ! dark rum is really really cheap too"

She gets a little heavy on the caps sometimes but her emails are the best haha

my hand slipped into your hand, and it was awesome

I am on a huge food spree. Last night I made pork chops with greek pasta salad and then made apple crisp! I've been using the casserole dish Kim sent me for my birthday at least once a day haha. Times like these make me think why would I be doing anything else for a living besides cooking and baking? Tonight: sushi? Or lentil soup?

Zac sent me a mixed CD of sweet techno beats and it has been my musical soundtrack for the last few days.

The weather has been remarkably good considering we're entering rainy season. I want to bike to the lake or something this weekend, but on Sunday I have a FoodSafe course lined up. Considering I have been working in the food industry this whole time without it, I figured it's about time to actually get my credentials in order.

And speaking of credentials, I had a phone interview for a job in Calgary yesterday, but I have yet to hear back from them. My hopes aren't too high but it does sound like a cool position, and I think the interview went well.

And the highlight of this week so far: on Tuesday night Annie finally broke out the hookah. I actually learned how to blow smoke rings! Not super well but I did a few of them, very proud. It was a super chill evening, the only thing it was missing was henna.

bakebakebake

2 dozen blueberry muffins + 2 pans chocolate chip oatmeal squares + Greek Chicken...
it's been a good day

you are young, and life is long, and there is time to kill today

Mom came to visit this weekend! She had a meeting in Van on Monday and decided to come early and spend some time in Victoria. Awesome awesome.

Friday night after she arrived we went to a super cool place for sushi downtown. Delicious! And on Saturday we rented bikes and biked on the Goose all the way to Sooke - including highway biking we did about 50km. We really took our time and did some exploring as well as there are a few lakes along the trail. And the trail itself is gorgeous, once you're out of the city it is so peaceful. Anyway this is us afterwords, having a drink before catching the bus back to Victoria.

We picked up some groceries on the way back and Mom made us beandip (!!) and we had some beer, some wine, and obviously fell asleep pretty early. The next morning Mom and I returned the bikes and got a tea downtown. A very short but productive visit.

Cory and I went to 2 new pubs this weekend too. On Friday night we met up with Annie and Oleh and a few of their friends at the Sticky Wicket games room. We ended up staying til after close playing darts and fooseball haha, it was a great time. And last night we went to see the Easy Star All Stars at Element. Cory and I were both pretty pumped about them, and they totally delivered. Cory got his reggae dance moves on, it was fantastic.

p.s. Bought our tickets for Calgary - we move there in the middle of October!

It makes it easy for me, and that's the kind of easy that I'm into

Cory and I set out yesterday in the pouring rain for a bike adventure because otherwise we would've done nothing all weekend. (Besides a random night at Big Bad John's with a few gay newfies.. but that's another story for another time.) We went downtown towards the legislative buildings and the Empress, making our way to the pretty boat houses on the water, and the sun came out! So we rented kayaks and paddled into the inner harbour. And got delicious fish+chips from Barb's (Cory got a burger) Afterwords we biked down to Beacon Hill Park and checked out the beach down there.

This morning I woke up after having another weird nightmare about school - I went back to UPEI and for our first day back they split us up into "Arts" and "Everything else" and all the arts students got colouring books and pencils. NO LIE. I was really sad in the dream, because while at first I was like, "sweet! Colouring", obviously I grew tired of it and felt that I was not living up to my full potential.

Yup ... what a great way to start the day. Anyway I went for a run on the Goose and felt productive after that. Time for work! Also, Cory started his new job today and the alarm didn't go off :S I lent him my bike and hopefully he got there in time but he missed his bus by 5 minutes.. meaning we woke up 5 minutes after his bus left. Yikes.

regular pushup and situps.. almost everyday

We are all moved in to our "new place", as in Annie and Oleh's. They're still in PEI visiting Annie's family so we have the place to ourselves for a week, which is really nice. Cory found work already! He starts next Tuesday. He literally emailed ONE guy, and had an interview the next day.

Besides that, things are status quo. The sun is shining, the thai food is cookin', the beer is coolin' in the fridge.. I won't let summer go easy.