Sometimes when I walk down the street or sit on the bus I come across a person who is smiling. I dub these the "Smiley People," or for the sake of having to type less, the "SPs." SPs are alone. They are not on the telephone. Why are they smiling? I hope they just have something to be happy about. That would be nice. But SPs don't just look happy, they look like they are smiling about something in particular. I shouldn't overreact. Everyone has a great day once in a while where we all walk around as SPs. Yet this is unusual. Most of us aren't walking around with a giant grin because we don't want to look like idiots, and we don't want people to think we are laughing at them. This is my biggest problem with SPs. Did they just happen to think of a funny anecdote as I walked by? Or is there something on my face? Did the SP just get that joke Steve told her yesterday? Or is she snickering at my outfit? I just don't get it. Maybe one day I'll ask an SP "I'm sorry, did I do something worth laughing at? What are you smiling for?" and he'll say "No no, my wife just packed me a lunch today with a really cute note in it," and my mind will be at rest. Or he'll say "ya, you've got a giant boogie," and I will know it's me they smile about. Until then, I will not know what brings SPs into the world.
Sometimes I really crave a food. I spend time of money getting all the ingredients. I cook it all up or put it together. Then, a I sit down to it, I'm like "nope, I really don't want this at all. In fact, this is the last thing I want to see right now. Ugh." Then I get really upset about it and don't know what to do.
Sometimes I wonder if tin-foil would actually keep aliens out of your head or not.
Sometimes I come up with something amazing. The single best line for the single best poem ever. The rhyme, the metre, the metaphor...it's all perfect. The perfect twist for a story I'm working on. An image in my head that I am just itching to draw and put to paper. But I'm at work, or school, or walking somewhere. Then when I get home I have forgotten it all. What a waste. Then I get really upset about it for like 10 minutes. Then I stop being upset and eat food and watch TV.
29 August 2014
05 August 2014
Pringles
I bought some pringles. 3 cans. Hey, they were on sale. The top of the can said I could get a free retro pringles beach towel. Sweet. Oh darn but I need 5 of them. Okay, let's go get two more pringles cans. Be careful, the reduced fat ones give you a t-shirt instead. I want this towel. Full fat pringles. Oh shoot I needed the foil tops for the free beach towel! I threw away the first three! I don't care I'm committed now. I'll buy three more pringles cans. Mailed in my tops to get the towel. So many pringles. I would like to thank Eric and Charlotte my flatmates, Eric's gf Shannon, and my bf Chris for helping me on my pringles beach towel quest by eating pringles with me. Your efforts are much appreciated. There are still two cans left though. Ugh.
Added:
I would like to note that yes, I did notice the irony of posting this after my healthy dinner.
Added:
I would like to note that yes, I did notice the irony of posting this after my healthy dinner.
Healthy food?
My mum made a turkey chilli one time. It was good. I donno what she did but I made this:
1 lb-ish of turkey. Butcher had ground turkey breast and thigh, so I got half of each; only since thigh is cheaper obv.
1 half an onion. Chopped.
>Cooked onion in olive oil, added turkey and more olive oil as needed. Cooked turkey. Added salt and peppah. Added:
1 cup of water
2 cans of beans. I had 1 can of black beans and 1 can of great northern beans on my shelf, so I dumped out the water, rinsed and used those.
1 big can of diced tomatoes.
The frozen corn that was left in my freezer. Probably about a cup or so.
1 tbsp of tumeric. It's good for you.
1 tsp of cinnammon. It's good for you.
1 tbsp chilli powder. This is chilli.
1 tbsp cayenne pepper
2 big long giant squeezes of sriracha. I put this in at the end. It needed more spice. Needed more salt, too.
Once it was boiling I turned the burner to low and left it for an hour stirring when I remembered it.
Turned out really yummy. Fed me and chris and had three ziploc tupperwares of leftovers. It's a bit watery though, maybe skip the water part? Or add rice to it. Oh you could add rice and make it into burritos. That would be great. Nom Nom.
1 lb-ish of turkey. Butcher had ground turkey breast and thigh, so I got half of each; only since thigh is cheaper obv.
1 half an onion. Chopped.
>Cooked onion in olive oil, added turkey and more olive oil as needed. Cooked turkey. Added salt and peppah. Added:
1 cup of water
2 cans of beans. I had 1 can of black beans and 1 can of great northern beans on my shelf, so I dumped out the water, rinsed and used those.
1 big can of diced tomatoes.
The frozen corn that was left in my freezer. Probably about a cup or so.
1 tbsp of tumeric. It's good for you.
1 tsp of cinnammon. It's good for you.
1 tbsp chilli powder. This is chilli.
1 tbsp cayenne pepper
2 big long giant squeezes of sriracha. I put this in at the end. It needed more spice. Needed more salt, too.
Once it was boiling I turned the burner to low and left it for an hour stirring when I remembered it.
Turned out really yummy. Fed me and chris and had three ziploc tupperwares of leftovers. It's a bit watery though, maybe skip the water part? Or add rice to it. Oh you could add rice and make it into burritos. That would be great. Nom Nom.
01 August 2014
Really liking the Trews this week
Pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_m98GAdqKM&feature=youtu.be
Pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5WlY8Uf5U&feature=youtu.be
Really enjoying Russell Brand calling out Hannity. Also, he was married to Katy Perry? Weird. I wish more people called out Fox for turning war into entertainment. Jon Stewart I guess.
Pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5WlY8Uf5U&feature=youtu.be
Really enjoying Russell Brand calling out Hannity. Also, he was married to Katy Perry? Weird. I wish more people called out Fox for turning war into entertainment. Jon Stewart I guess.
29 July 2014
Looong week!
But tomorrow is my friday! I can't wait.
My goal these days is to be a better person, namely to put myself into other peoples' shoes more. I always catch myself being short with people who are short with me, for example, but that doesn't accomplish anything. A little more effort on my part to be cheerful will not only improve my general mood and outlook, but the people I interact with as well. It's pretty hard, actually. When you're tired and cranky and serving people all day and someone comes in 5 minutes to close and asks for a drink and I sometimes catch myself being a little impolite. It's not their fault they're mean and come in when they know I'm closing. They've had a long day too and just want to treat themselves a little, and I need to be friendly no matter what time of day it is. When I order my food and someone messes it up completely by putting cilantro in it, I need to understand that some people actually like that crap and not be shocked, but just take it in stride. I guess it's just hard sometimes when you interact with 300 people in a 8.5 hour shift 4-5 days a week to be nice to everybody you encounter in your life. But that's not an excuse to not be nice to everybody I encounter. I know I never will be. Never have I met anyone who is friendly all the time. But I want to try harder to be. I want to look back at the end of each day and say to myself, "I did my best, and I was at my best." That way no matter where I end up in life, I can feel fulfilled.
My back is KILLING me lately. I also need to make sure I'm lifting things properly and strain it less. I'm getting to that age where you can't abuse your body anymore without feeling it later. A sore back today means throwing out completely 5 years from now, so I have to be careful with myself. On my self improvement phase, I am also exercising more (might be part of the soreness as well). I find that when you work out more you have more energy and are generally in a better mood, so to improve my mind I am striving to improve my body as well. It is a pain in my asshole. Exercise is my kryptonite. Hopefully I will be better though!
My goal these days is to be a better person, namely to put myself into other peoples' shoes more. I always catch myself being short with people who are short with me, for example, but that doesn't accomplish anything. A little more effort on my part to be cheerful will not only improve my general mood and outlook, but the people I interact with as well. It's pretty hard, actually. When you're tired and cranky and serving people all day and someone comes in 5 minutes to close and asks for a drink and I sometimes catch myself being a little impolite. It's not their fault they're mean and come in when they know I'm closing. They've had a long day too and just want to treat themselves a little, and I need to be friendly no matter what time of day it is. When I order my food and someone messes it up completely by putting cilantro in it, I need to understand that some people actually like that crap and not be shocked, but just take it in stride. I guess it's just hard sometimes when you interact with 300 people in a 8.5 hour shift 4-5 days a week to be nice to everybody you encounter in your life. But that's not an excuse to not be nice to everybody I encounter. I know I never will be. Never have I met anyone who is friendly all the time. But I want to try harder to be. I want to look back at the end of each day and say to myself, "I did my best, and I was at my best." That way no matter where I end up in life, I can feel fulfilled.
My back is KILLING me lately. I also need to make sure I'm lifting things properly and strain it less. I'm getting to that age where you can't abuse your body anymore without feeling it later. A sore back today means throwing out completely 5 years from now, so I have to be careful with myself. On my self improvement phase, I am also exercising more (might be part of the soreness as well). I find that when you work out more you have more energy and are generally in a better mood, so to improve my mind I am striving to improve my body as well. It is a pain in my asshole. Exercise is my kryptonite. Hopefully I will be better though!
22 July 2014
Le Sigh
I really freakin miss Italy. I miss Siena, where I felt like I was transported to the early Renaissance. I miss Florence where I saw La Primavera and realized he painted so much gold into it and how massive it is, and the Birth of Venus has so much more detail than I realized. I miss Rome and the history and energy of it. I miss the cathedrals, the grandeur, the over-the-topness of everything. I miss walking on cool marble and tile mosaics. I miss the food. I almost miss the smell of sharp tobacco and too much perfume lol. I feel like I belong there, or at least I belong there part-time. I'm so grateful to my folks for putting down the money for me to be able to go there, and my mum for putting up with me dragging her about and talking about painting and sculpture and architecture by era.
Yet here I go to the beach at night with Eric and his friends and drink a beer and light a fire and sing along with a guitar while I listen to the conversation and the waves playing on the shore. I sit in the sun in the sand and see snow capped mountains in the distance and seals and otters dancing in the waves. I have so much and am so lucky, but still want more. I suppose that's good. School starts again in September and wanting is the best motivation to succeed; but I need to focus more on what I have now and how wonderful it all is.
Julie's AC is working. I don't have AC in my house. Random fact.
School is an exciting prospect but daunting. It's always hard to balance time and money and work and studies. Better check those lotto tickets I've got. I'm at a point where I'm okay as things are, but would be in trouble if anything happened like my work burned down or my house did.
Oh shit I just jinxed myself. KNOCK ON WOOD ok safe.
I need to relax and enjoy the rest of the summer but damn it's going by so quickly. I need to go to SFU and talk to them about transferring there in January. I hope it will work out, but the transition to uni will also mean harder to get the A's and more moolah. Gotta trudge through it though. I hope to get into grad school a few years from now with enough scholarship to not have to work while I study, so I really have to work hard. But for now, I still have a month to relax and only worry about work, which is going well I think. I have my six month review coming soon as starbucks supervisor so we will see what he tells me, and until then all I can do is try my best. But I feel like if he had problems with anything he would have told me already so I'm expecting an average to positive review. Although saying that now means I may have jinxed that, too. So my house will burn down and I will get a bad review. Where's that wood table..stretch..wood has been knocked upon.
Some of the regulars at work are really nice and lend me books to read. The guy likes historical setting murder mysteries. The latest is "A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery" series by Diane A.S. Stuckart. A young girl in renaissance Italy runs away from home so she doesn't get forced into marriage. In order to study under Leonardo she disguises herself like a boy. They discover a body and the mystery takes hold. It's light and lots of fun to read.
Downloaded a beer app. Untappd. You can add me, Gremlin11 is my username. I don't drink much so I don't have much but you take a photo of your beer and rate it and then you can see what your friends are drinking and what they like or don't like. Kinda neat I guess.
Starbucks has a seasonal limited time coconut mocha frappuccino. It's disgusting (full of syrup as is everything) but delicious as all hell. Try it but just one time so you don't have a heart attack or get diabetes. Then go back to drinking the iced unsweetened green tea which is good for you.
Welp I need a shower, I'm covered in sweat and syrup and coffee (probably smell great though, sweet and coffeelike) so off I go.
Yet here I go to the beach at night with Eric and his friends and drink a beer and light a fire and sing along with a guitar while I listen to the conversation and the waves playing on the shore. I sit in the sun in the sand and see snow capped mountains in the distance and seals and otters dancing in the waves. I have so much and am so lucky, but still want more. I suppose that's good. School starts again in September and wanting is the best motivation to succeed; but I need to focus more on what I have now and how wonderful it all is.
Julie's AC is working. I don't have AC in my house. Random fact.
School is an exciting prospect but daunting. It's always hard to balance time and money and work and studies. Better check those lotto tickets I've got. I'm at a point where I'm okay as things are, but would be in trouble if anything happened like my work burned down or my house did.
Oh shit I just jinxed myself. KNOCK ON WOOD ok safe.
I need to relax and enjoy the rest of the summer but damn it's going by so quickly. I need to go to SFU and talk to them about transferring there in January. I hope it will work out, but the transition to uni will also mean harder to get the A's and more moolah. Gotta trudge through it though. I hope to get into grad school a few years from now with enough scholarship to not have to work while I study, so I really have to work hard. But for now, I still have a month to relax and only worry about work, which is going well I think. I have my six month review coming soon as starbucks supervisor so we will see what he tells me, and until then all I can do is try my best. But I feel like if he had problems with anything he would have told me already so I'm expecting an average to positive review. Although saying that now means I may have jinxed that, too. So my house will burn down and I will get a bad review. Where's that wood table..stretch..wood has been knocked upon.
Some of the regulars at work are really nice and lend me books to read. The guy likes historical setting murder mysteries. The latest is "A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery" series by Diane A.S. Stuckart. A young girl in renaissance Italy runs away from home so she doesn't get forced into marriage. In order to study under Leonardo she disguises herself like a boy. They discover a body and the mystery takes hold. It's light and lots of fun to read.
Downloaded a beer app. Untappd. You can add me, Gremlin11 is my username. I don't drink much so I don't have much but you take a photo of your beer and rate it and then you can see what your friends are drinking and what they like or don't like. Kinda neat I guess.
Starbucks has a seasonal limited time coconut mocha frappuccino. It's disgusting (full of syrup as is everything) but delicious as all hell. Try it but just one time so you don't have a heart attack or get diabetes. Then go back to drinking the iced unsweetened green tea which is good for you.
Welp I need a shower, I'm covered in sweat and syrup and coffee (probably smell great though, sweet and coffeelike) so off I go.
02 June 2014
Italia!
Italy was fan-freakin-tastic. I want to go back. Never before have I stood on one spot and seen 2000years of architecture all at once. Super cool. I saw Bernini's, Bronzo's, Botticelli's, and Bruneleschi's. I saw the Ninja turtles' work at it's finest. I saw the spot the senate met and walked on the oldest road. And now I'm back in Vancouver, a city that is sadly lacking any nice architecture and only likes contemporary art (I do not). I was in awe the entire time. Luckily, I threw a quarter into the Trevy so I know that I will go back one day.
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