Halloween!

Almost my favourite day of the year (just because of Christmas... who can compete with that many presents and strange family jokes? "Try it on!")

Started off the day with, of course, chocolate chip pancakes and Settlers. I won, again! Jeff'm will be so pleased when I come home, if we get a chance to play. We did it with the little ships and everything.

I don't know how it is but it's just so much easier to get out of bed at 6 if you don't have to actually go anywhere. If anything, the only place you have to go is back to bed.

mandatory skirts, is this 1934?

Flames lost 2-3 after getting their only goals in the first minute and a half, when I was still getting beer. Sad :(

Training has been brutal, but hopefully we will be done today. Pro: I don't have to work Halloween
Con: I don't know when I work at all, only that it won't be often and it won't be soon.

And I hate walking around in the snow with a skirt on! Hatehatehate. And that concludes my bitch post

I got a job!

at Boston Pizza. I start training this week, and serving hopefully very soon after that. My new boss is .. very involved in his job. I foresee myself holding my tongue a lot. Oh well, monies is monies.

Yoga class today .. awesome.
Pumpkin carving yesterday .. fantastic.
Breakfast at Nellie's this morning .. delicious!

you hardwire, I'll try to play the guitar

Bah! I say. I hate job hunting. The worst part is the waiting, when you've sent out 10 resumes and there is nothing left to do but sit around and see if anyone wants you.

I have been painting a lot, getting a head start on Christmas presents. I asked Aric for a suggestion for a painting for mom - he said, well, gardening is always an option, so I google imaged "Gardener":

mahjong+tea+playing with baby= don't really want to find work anymore

I miss the amount of green in BC but I guess it is winter here already in good ol' Alberta. Last night was our first open mic at the Dog and Duck, Cory's favourite open mic here in Calgary. I'm pretty sure he knew everyone in the bar, and everyone was very excited to see him back. It really made me miss Babas and you know, actually knowing people. But it was a great time and I'm pumped to go back next week. I recommend all you homesick/lonely-without-me people to try out Bottlecap shooters, it does the trick.

Job hunting sucks, but over here is not nearly as bad as on the east coast. I have a couple of options: there is obviously cooking jobs, but there is also a lot of Nanny jobs over here as well, and then there's always serving. I have an in at the Boston Pizza which is very close to where we're living so that would be a great place to start.

For now I'll just play with Annabelle, cutest baby in the world. Last night I was talking to Emily and we heard this weird sound in the kitchen, almost like a thousand little things hitting the floor. It ended up being a whole box of cheerios. Hilarious

Vancouver to Calgary

Went for breakfast yesterday with my cousin Michael at the crack of 10am. Besides when we met briefly in Ft McMurray two years ago, the last time I had seen him was when I was about two years old. It was great to see him! Apparently my aunt Gerry, his mom, said that we are the most alike out of the whole family. He's been living out here since he was 16, going through Whistler and boarding all of the time, DJing and travelling .. so I kind of took it as a compliment!

After a long nap we met up with Heather Jones for coffee downtown and the biggest cinnamon roll I've had in a long time. And delicious chai tea.

Later in the evening we met up with Cory's friend Andrea for beers at Six Acres, a little pub with the biggest beer selection I've ever seen, and a library theme. And the muppets playing in the bathroom! A few delicious Czech/German beers later and we were ready to head home for our last night on the floor.

Our flight today was delayed because of the snow in Calgary, but we made it! And we're all unpacked and everything. The snow sucks but it's going to warm up soon, hopefully. Tomorrow: the job hunt begins.

Vancouver pt 2

Today, day number 3, was pretty lazy.

After sleeping in, we hit up the grocery store to get some Thanksgiving dinner ingreds - one of those bbq'd chickens, a bag of greens, a pear and a carrot for salad, and potato salad. Delicious! We ate it at Pat's on the floor (aka our bed for the past few nights)

I went into turkey coma without eating anything turkey related, somehow, and had a nap while Cory played video games on Pat's huge tv. We tried calling around to see if anyone wanted to hang out, but everyone seems pretty busy this weekend (or missing, if you're Bryce.)

We ate supper at the Eatery, a very cool place down by the waterfront. A little bit of sushi, soup, dumplings, and green tea icecream! Afterwards we went for a very chilly walk to the water (I can't believe Calgary is going to be colder than this..) and headed home.

Vancouver Adventure pt 1

We left Victoria Saturday afternoon after a wonderful night of drinking and playing Clue with Annie, Oleh, friends of theirs and the new girl at my work, Katie. Saturday morning rolled around a little too early for my liking but Cory packed up while I made breakfast (Steak+eggs+hashbrowns) Annie and Oleh drove us to the ferry, and we were off!

Almost. When we got over to Van, we discovered the bus tickets we had were for a bus ON the ferry, and we were supposed to board it before we docked. Oops. We stuck around in a sketchy bus stop drinking spiced rum and played guitar to wait for the next one (roughly an hour later) To top it off, we were supposed to be staying with Bryce all weekend and he wasn't answering any of my calls. We made it downtown and Cory got a hold of his friend Pat, who very graciously offered up his place. While downtown we picked up some Gogol Bordello tickets, and then headed to Pat's to drop off our stuff and grab a bottle of cheap wine.

Took the skytrain back to the Vogue, this run-down looking theatre, where we saw Gogol play in the smallest venue we could have hoped for. They were incredible, they were tight, they had these two Asian chicks running around in cheerleading spandex playing drums and cymbals. For the first bit we were right in front of the fiddle player, my favourite, but we were tossed around in the little area up front during the show. At the end the band came forwards and shook everyones hand and I grabbed Eugene's arm! He also took a girl up front's hand and spat in it haha. And spit red wine over everyone. It was a big gypsy dance fest, loved it.

We met up with Pat, went out for beers and chicken burgers, and called it a night.

Day two! We woke up after sleeping on the floor and made our way downtown to see Granville Island. We ate some delicious curry at the market, and then made our way around the island. We checked out all the little artisan shops and bakeries and walked along the boardwalk. We met up with our friend Lucienne from the east coast, and went for a few beers with him at the Taproom - Granville Island's brewery pub. Their seasonal beer was pumpkin beer! Which was delicious.

During the afternoon we had met up with my cousin Michael, who offered us two free tickets to see the Canucks! The game started at 7 so we headed to the stadium. Our seats were awesome, the beer was tasty, the game went into not only overtime but a shoot out! And we won! And I got to see Brad Richards pussy out in said shoot out. It was a great time.

broken english for the win

Ah, starting off the day by reading about my favourite hobos. Props to whoever thought of it, but what is the point of it? Just to see if they can do it? (Kate I am mostly asking you here)

Yesterday Tanale gave me a goodbye package from Pikul. She had written me a note:

Hi Morgan,
Here's silk scarf for you. I've brought it from Thailand. Hope you like it. Take care,
Pikul
*Let's try my cookies. I made them from your recipe but they taste totally different!! But this is my first time that it taste like cookie

They were delicious! She put sesame seeds in them which made them super delicious. I am going to miss my funny thai work people.

When I told one of the regulars at work yesterday that I was moving to Calgary, and he compared me to the Littlest Hobo.

Not only sweet! and very Canadian but also an interesting coincidence because of Patty's (and those other guys) Campus Hobo Project

Transformers in IMAX!!

..was actually just Transformers on a big screen. Granted, it was 6 stories high, but still. Cory and I were so pumped haha, oh well. It was still pretty impressive. We all got headaches though, it is a lot to take in for a few hours. What amazed me was that there were little kids everywhere! As in children. Ages 4-6. I thought they would get scared and cry! I thought they would think, this is too much for my little eyes to handle! There was none of that. I bet they didn't even get headaches either. Desensitized little buggers.

We have 4 days left in Victoria. 4 days left of beautiful fall weather (15 degrees, sunny) until we hit -2 and snowing. Sigh. Well, actually, we're heading to Vancouver first for a few days to do some couch surfing. And hopefully seeing a Gogol Bordello concert! (Damn not having a credit card!) As long as it's not sold out by the time we get there.

Grocery shopping the other day I got another compliment on my bike - that brings it up to 4 this summer from random people. Mostly they have been crackheads. I still don't really understand, it's not that nice of a bike, I thought. I mean, I like it, but it's my bike. Anyway this really cool black guy outside the grocery store was like "maaaan, that is a sweet ride" and I was like "yeaaah thanks man." It was pretty cool.