Hi everyone,
I am moving my content over to another blog. I hope all of you will email me for an update on my new site address as I love all of your comments!
Email me:
nonprofitstyle@gmail.com (of course) and I will give you the updated address for your blogrolls! Seriously, even if you're a lurker, I appreciate the readers, so feel free to give me an email.
See you there!
My apologies for the lack of posts of inspiration as of late, I am just going through a really rough transition at the moment. A transition that may require for my own sake, for me to change where I blog.
I will most certainly keep you all updated on what happens. I just need some time to figure things out.
Am I right?!
It's eerily quiet here at work, only because I am the only one here. It's nice though, because I was actually able to set up a whole new computer for a co-worker without having ten other people ask me to fix something on their computer. I'm pretty proud of the fact that I am the only one here that knows anything about computers, even if that means I constantly get interrupted to fix something. I feel like I am the Master of the Network! ALL MUST PAY HOMAGE TO THE MASTER OF THE NETWORK!
WHAT'S THAT? YOU CANNOT GET INTO YOUR EMAIL??? MASTER OF THE NETWORK WILL HELP YOU!!! HAZAAA!!!!!
Luckily, this will earn me Monday off, and I love having a weekday off, so it's win win. I like being home when everyone else is at work, because then I can go anywhere I like without the INSANE crowds. Delightful.
I went to a party last night that someone attended posing as "Dancing Bear." Literally they got dressed up in a suit, bear paws, and a bear head, and talked in a bear voice, and danced all evening for us. I never even saw their face, it was the weirdest, and yet, most awesome thing I've ever seen.
Okay, so with some crafty html work I can show you my little tattoo experience!
Here's me right after I got my tattoo, I am just not wanting to open my eyes at all. I got my tattoo while listening to Sufjan Stevens! Woo!
Aww, thanks so much for all the nice things you said on my last post. You're all really lovely people, and I'm happy to have you as my e-friends!
In a stroke of good news, I had text messaged a would-be friend inviting her to see the always delightfully scary Saw (4). She got back to me, which I am pretty excited about.
It's a silly little friendship that we have actually. We met a year or two ago through another friend, and have always kept in touch. We've hung out a few times, and she seems like someone I'd really love hanging out with. We were both totally friend crushin' on each other, you know? Like, wow, this person is totally cool, I'd like to hang out with them more! Then you kind of get all girly like, oh man, will they like me? Do I smell? DO I SMELL?!
We actually had a conversation about it once, which was really funny because we were both like YOU ARE GREAT, BUT I AM FRIEND NERVOUS BECAUSE I THINK YOU ARE SO COOL. I don't really know if anyone else gets like this, but I assume since the both of us were thinking the same thing, that there's likely more people out there who feel the same way...
Anyhow, we are gonna go on a nice little friend date and hang out, because we both moved to Vancouver within a month of each other, and what a perfect time to hang out, eh?
In other news, that is more dog-related (as I haven't posted about them in a long time), the puppies are doing good! Zelda has stopped eating her turds so much, which leaves the apartment MUCH less stinky, and Winston is barking less. I haven't quite figured out how to get them to stop freaking out before they get outside on a walk. Maybe I'll take a video of it and show you just how amped up about walkies they get, and then you'll understand how ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL AND EMBARASSING those first three minutes of walkies are.
Also, I saw a pug in Petsmart yesterday in a lion costume. Does it get any better than that??? Do you all know what you're going to be for Halloween? Steve and I are thinking of dressing up and going for dinner somewhere, just for the hell of it. Did someone say WONDER WOMAN COSTUME?!?!
Awesome.
or i might as well be, because it's raining a whole lot today!
I can't seem to get blogger to upload photos on either of the two computers that I've tried. So many photo stories to tell you!
I'm a little bummed out, dudes. I am kind of in an odd situation. I miss my best bud cuz I really don't see this person a lot. I've known them for ages, and have lots of good memories with them. I guess since I've moved here we haven't seen each other hardly at all. I could attribute it to a few things, but I can't tell if it's just a drifting apart kind of thing, or if it's something else.
I miss my bud a lot. Plus, it's really hard meeting people in a new city, which also makes for difficult times. I might take a class or something to meet more people though.
It's interesting when you move though, because most people already have a close group of friends, so it's a little hard to break into something like that. I know a few people here, but for the most part, I don't want to invest in friendships that doesn't really mean anything to the other person, you know?
I dunno, I let a lot of really toxic people go after high school, and kind of kept well invested friendships to a minimum. It's pretty much been that way since. I also have trouble finding young, urban, professional friends. WHERE ARE ALL OF YOU?!!?
I guess I'm also bummed on this front because a really good friend of mine, who I spent all of college with, can't even take the time to write back to an email (it's been weeks). I'm just not sure how you can spend that much of such an important time of your education with someone (in and out of school), and then just stop talking to them.
Bummer people, bummer.
and I totally just got my first tattoo! Dang!
I also have many doggie photos, including Winston and Zelda eating whipped cream for the first time, and a lovely trip to the dog park!
Bah humbug!
On Saturday, Steve and I made the trek to the Capilano Suspension Bridge!
For those who don't know what this bridge is all about:
"Follow in the footsteps of the millions of visitors who have crossed Capilano Suspension Bridge since 1889. The original bridge was constructed of hemp rope and cedar planks. 450 feet (137m) long and 230 feet (70m) high, today's bridge is made of reinforced steel safely anchored in 13 tons of concrete on either side of the canyon. Can you say "I made it!"?"
This bridge is one of those shaky bridges that everyone's dad pretty much shakes the shit out of when you go on it. It's like a ciy block long and is just a suspension bridge, which pretty much makes it feel like you are going to go plunging into the canyon below at any minute!
I don't think I could have gotten more stressed out than I became this morning. Now, don't get me wrong, I like my job a lot, but when all the shit hits the fan at the same time, I seriously want to just scream and go on a punching rampage.Most of this stress was caused by computers. Computers that I know how to use, and apparently NO ONE ELSE does. For instance, how to properly check your email. Or make a label for an envelope, or where there might be a desk in the building with a free computer and phone.
I also pretty much gave myself a pretty hefty burn on my middle finger from trying to get the shredded shards of an envelope out of a printer. Note to everyone: DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING INSIDE A PRINTER. They heat that shit to like 300 degrees. I am not kidding you. I touched my finger to what I thought was the ink cartridge, and instead got a SEERING HOT blast of pain, which made me run to the kitchen to slam my finger into some cold water.
Then I get the joy of having this dude who is like death manifested into life come in to ask me about some documents for about 30 minutes.
Then enter everyone here coming into my office saying "MY ______ DOESN'T WORK, WAAAAAHHHHH!"
Oh man, I just want to slip into a nice coma right now.
Thank goodness I booked myself a nice, long weekend.
Can we say hello to the newest attachment to my skull???
I have officially become part robot, and so far it is just as awesome as you think it is.
My boss is constantly out of the office, which means he's constantly on my case about me having my cell phone with me AT ALL TIMES.
I am terrible at having my phone with me at all times, and it usually takes me about 30 seconds to actually FIND my phone in every purse I have, which means I constatnly miss his calls.
Which means I constantly have a very large Australian man yelling on my voicemail in a comical voice about my "flipping phone!!!"
Enter the lovely little bluetooth device I picked up today! Now I will be talking handsfree at the office, and can take his calls all the time (if I can remember to charge my phone regularly...).
You wouldn't believe how many messages I can get in a day from this man. He calls to check in more than any boss I've ever seen. Not in a harassing way, but just to make sure everything is going well and that people are getting along, which is pretty good of him.
Oh technology, you make me so giddy! The joy of cracking open the plastic packaging, the nerdiness of syncing up two devices that have never met before....eeeeek, it is so fun.
Can you tell I have turned into a giant nerd? Seriously, break out the pocket protectors and high heels.
What. What.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Well, everyone in Canada. The US peeps have to wait another month for some turkey, or in my case, a LOT of sweet potatoes.
Why do the three-day weekends go by so fast? I could use another, oh, HUNDRED days off. In fact, let's all just take the rest of the year off, okay? Good.
I finally got a lot of reading done, which is a really big accomplishment for me. I tend to feel guilty about reading when I'm at home because I think that I should be playing with the dogs or something. Or cleaning. Or doing about 50 other things that involve making my apartment more tidy and organized.
The apartment never seems to get any more organized though...
Anyhow, I have about ten books I would like to read, and I put a good dent in at least one of them! I love coffee shop reading! LOVE IT. I enjoy it about UMPTEEN times more now that there are so many coffee shops near me that are not STARBUCKS.
Love you SB, but really, we spent three years together, and frankly, I can out-barista any of your employees.
Oh, and a highlight of the weekend? Walking down Robson and seeing a GIANT turd, which Steve and I decided was human, and then we get maybe ten feet from it when this hobo on a bench yells out "IT WAS ME! HAHAHAHA!!!!" and then I realize that this man has PEED HIS PANTS but somehow managed to get his pants down to take a poop in an alley. GO FIGURE.
Also? Lightweight umbrellas with deer sihlouettes are my new favorite thing in the world. If you ever move here, you need a lightweight umbrella because rain manages to START AND STOP ALL THE TIME without any warning because it's cloudy about 90% of the time. I add the deer sihlouettes because I bought the most AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL umbrella in the world last weekend to carry in my purse. LOVE THE RAIN. LOVE UMBRELLAS. LOVE RAIN BOOTS. More specifically, I love the fact that the Blenz coffee shop by my apartment has HEATED OUTDOOR SEATING!!! Excuse me while I lounge around in warmth outside at a coffee shop in mid-October. This would be UNHEARD of in Calgary.
And there are still GREEN LEAVES. I AM IN A DREAM WORLD!!!
