Oh and my dad got me Mexican Jumping Beans yesterday. They really do jump. And I got the new Dashboard Confessional cd today. I am eating a microwave pizza right now. It is rather unappetizing, even for me.

On Saturday, I looked up airfare to Vancouver after I heard one of those dinky-ass Westjet commercials on the radio or seen them on tv. I proceeded to tell my mom I wanted to go to Vancouver until Friday. She actually was okay with it, as long as I paid for it myself. I wasn't okay with that part, so that's why I'm still here. BAH.

Ally is peeing her pants. 30 minutes 'til OC. I must finish that pizza.

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23 August 2003

Ally and I are at the internet cafe at the SCIENCE CENTRE! We just watched the chemistry demo. It was spiffy. This keyboard is very messed up, so I'm going to stop typing now! BYEBYE and have a nice day!

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20 August 2003

The days just clump together now and I am unable to distinguish between them. I'm not even sure of the date anymore. It gets confusing when I wake up at 11 and go to bed at 3 or 4ish.

I want to go to work, but this impromtu vacation of sorts has been nice. I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, worked on the MFOS site (I did a HUGE update today; go and see!), played volleyball with Ally C. and her brother Andrew, logged way too many hours on the phone and the instant messengers. I ran into Ally's mom when I went to grab my Lactaid milk, jello, cereal, and ice cream yesterday at No Frills in the late morning/early afternoon. I've resolved to stop using "like" in my vocabulary because it is juvenile and redundant. I'm going to really start researching schools so I can decide where I want to go next year.

I've started to watch Passions again. Nothing's happened during the 4 months or so I stopped watching it. Everyone is still stupid and having babies and falling in and out of love and trying to kill each other. The fucked-up world of soap operas is probably an accurate reflection of people today.

My wrists are covered in purplish-brown spots. They are capillaries that have bursted. I hope they stop hurting and being sore by the time NLS starts next week. I AM PUMPED!

I love this (link via Alex). And this is Mikey's friend's store.

So many people are moving away in a week or so. I want to move away too. AWAY AWAY AWAY from here and everything I hate.

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17 August 2003

I was spared just short of insanity on Friday. After spending just over 24 hours at home with my parents and NO AIR CONDITIONING, Alex and I went to Helen's to watch Drumline. What a WICKED movie. Power to band geeks! Then we got bubble tea. Bubble tea rocks. I LOVE BUBBLE TEA. YAY.

Last night I hung out with Alex and Ally and we had a ball. LMK when you get the picture of the free gas. ;)

Today I went to MCBC and uhm.... yeah I woke up really stinking early for that. It was alright. I actually took a lot of sermon notes (something I don't do at all usually) because the topic was the Biblical perspective of homosexuality. Nothing especially groundbreaking, but rather basic. We know that the Bible does not condone homosexuality. Why dwell on that? Why not talk about something more controversial, like why the recent news of same-sex marriages is causing such a stir? Why can't the church just accept the fact that not all Canadians are Christians and that you can't impose Christain morals and values upon those people because they're entitled to freedom of religion? Talk about THAT, because I want to know. I'm quite aware of Lot offering his daugters to be raped by the people of Sodom, and that Sodom is where the word sodomy comes from already. "Hate the sin of homosexuality, but not homosexuals." Isn't that a paradox, like desiring to be desireless? Maybe church just isn't my thing, no matter where I go.

So anyway. I got home and watched my Music in High Places: Goo Goo Dolls Live in Alaska DVD that I got yesterday when Ally and I went to the mall. Then I started making a phone list from my old agendas because a friend (I've known him since KINDERGARTEN!) and I are planning a reunion/shindig/dinner/get-together thing-a-ma-bob and so I called a million people I knew from elementary school. I haven't talked to a lot of them in a bit over three years now. THREE YEARS! It's been a while.

Apparently I don't have work tomorrow. I have to check my messages to be sure, but that's what I've been told so far. This is crazy. Impromptu four-day weekend!

I LOVELOVELOVE 3eb. I still remember when "Semi-Charmed Life" came out when I was in the sixth grade.

When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be alright. ALRIGHT!

I'm listening to "Narcolepsy" right now. I finally got the first cd. Its really stinking good. I wish I got it sooner, but it was one of those cds that I'd keep putting off because something else would always come up. I guess getting it now (five or 6 years later) is a good thing because I found it at Sonic Temple used for a more than decent price.

I think the new Dashboard Confessional CD has been bumped. They didn't have it at Sonic Temple on Thursday and I didn't see it at HMV on Saturday either.

I saw Nefertiti Resurrected tonight. Very incredibly spiffy. I even taped it since I'm so darn geekysexycool. ;)

Hmmm I want a MT hack for smilies... do they even have those?

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15 August 2003

BOREDBOREDBORED. At least I have a day off work. But this kind of sucks too, because I'm stuck inside, and so's everyone else. =(
FOUR MINUTES AND FORTY-TWO SECONDS. >;)
1. How much time do you spend online each day?
Maybe an hour or two at most? Used to be a helluva lot more.

2. What is your browser homepage set to?
about:blank

3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? If so, which one(s)?
ICQ and MSN messenger.

4. Where was your first webpage located?
http://angelfire.com/de/pokemon! Its dead now. BOO.

5. How long have you had your current website?
Its hard to say. Stellar is kind of an extension of Silverglitter, which I've had since June 2000. I've been here at Kate's since April/May 2002. You won't find archives from then yet because they're stuck on Blogger and I haven't been able to import them yet (tried but it didn't work).

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Life or Something Like It
» It's sort of like camping, but more like a big block party!
[12:23 PM]

Yesterday afernoon was like any other. Bought a CD at lunch, went to the newsstand at work (the guys like looking at the girly mags, hahaha) and I got the week's issue of Time ("Ahhhnold?!"). Went back upstairs, hung out/chatted with/did mindless work, and went home. Paid my fare at the revolving door entrance as usual and stepped on the platform. The subway was coming (I could see the light through the tunnel) and then the lights went out as the subway came to a stop. I got on anyway, thinking it was just temporary (brown out) and that the generator would kick in or something but then they told us to get off. I got out, grabbed a few transfers, and started walking to Finch station.

It was SWELTERING outside. I peeled my sweater off (its sooo fucking COLD in the office), slapped on the sunglasses, and checked my water bottle, which was near empty. Started walking and walking (I was so glad I had my backpack too; some days I only carry a purse) and then I noticed that there were cars EVERYWHERE and people oooozing out of the subway and office buildings and onto the street. It was pretty nutty. My phone still worked at that point (later the lines would get so jammed up) so I called my dad and asked what the fuck was going on. He told me that power was out everywhere, and that he was about 2 hours from Ottawa, and that I should call my mom. So I did, and I told her I was alive, well, in one piece, and that I was just going get home on my own as usual.

I got to Finch, miandered around the underground tunnels to try to get to the regional bus terminal. I didn't even think about crossing the street; I'd almost gotten hit a few times just trying to walk UP Yonge Street in a straight line! Eventually I just gave up and ran across with a few other people, hopped on YRT bus and started the long ride home. Since there were no lights and no cops directing traffic yet, people were just going whenever whereever. It was pretty horrible. We got on the 407 and it was PACKED. I finally got off the bus at the mall after maybe an hour and a half or so and then I called my dad from a payphone because my cell was dead (battery was fine, but I couldn't get any lines to make a call). He took another half an hour or so to get to the mall and then I finally went home.

We had Swiss Chalet for dinner, and then i had nothing to do except read my magazine. The Terminator is running against a pornographer and a porn star. "Pistols for Porn" my ass. Arnie has my vote!! =D Too bad I'm not of voting age nor am I a Californian. I dug up some candles and tea lights and flashlights. I missed having electricity. It felt like camping because being the paranoid freak I am, I was lugging my stuff around in my backpack (water, box of juice, mini first aid kit, extra batteries, etc.) Took a shower, and went to bed, since there was nothing to do. It wasn't probably about 10, but I suddenly felt really tired.

My mom woke me up when she was on the phone this morning. I heard her say (presumably to my dad; I would be correct) that she didn't need help filling the car with the gascan thing. I knew she would come upstairs and wake me up and make me do it. I was correct again. >=( I told her not to go to work because there wouldn't be anyone there anyway and since there's no electricity, there wouldn't be anything she could do anyway. "I have a VERY important meeting" she insisted. My ass. Like anyone else is gonna show up for the VERY important meeting. I would be right for a third time in one morning.

She left for work, I had cereal and watched TV. Mayor Bloomberg used deadwood in his speech. He said "reliancy", which is a nonce word (a word made up in the spur of the moment by adding a suffix, so its not a real word). He should've used the noun "reliance" instead. But oh well. I just found it odd how I noticed that and remembered learning about deadwood in English.

My mom came home, of course. I rubbed it in her face that I was right. Then I made pancakes and watched some more TV. There are still some left; maybe I'll finish them now. Lunch would be in about 10 minutes for me, had this been a normal Friday. My last "normal" Friday! My last day is next week, but a few of the other summer students won't be there (some office golf tournament). Hmm. I wonder where I'd be eating lunch now, had I been at work. Wendy's, Milestones, Lebanese, buffet at the Novotel..... MMMMMM I'm SOO HUNGRY!

The power better stay on. I'm going to be so bored tonight. I wonder if the Cineplex is open... maybe I should call.

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11 August 2003

Ally and I did a design swap of sorts. She did her side of the swap (while I just did mine), and now she has a new layout (not the swap one, but even cooler!), so go and see! I love the purple-y/amethest scheme. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that my birthstone is amethest.

New Dashboard Confessional cd tomorrow. I will probably wait until Thursday (payday!) to get it.

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10 August 2003

New layout! It's fresh, it's new, it's me, and it's ANGELINA! I <3 it. I know you do too (if you're a guy, I know you at least like Ms. Jolie even if you don't like my layout), so tell me so.

Went to Sam's suprise birthday get-together tonight. We met up at James Robinson PS and hung out there and to play baseball. I threw my arm out when I was practicing hitting so I didn't actually play in the game, but otherwise it was great. I kept score and changed cds instead. We went to Wendy's for dindin after. There were 4 cars and maybe about 12 or 15 of us, I can't remember. Lia and I took my car, Jones in Andrew's, and everyone else in a van and another car. We got there last (I, unlike everyone else, at least try to follow speed limits or go about 30 over the limit instead of 50 ;D). As we pulled into the nearly-empty parking lot, we saw two people (guy and girl). At a distance, I thought she was proposing to him but as we got closer, we saw them undo his fly as she leaned in closer, so we put two and two together and starting laughing hysterically. The windows were rolled all the way down (my a/c has been dead since the summer started... BOOO!) so they must've heard us. We parked on the other side (near the entrance) with everyone else, went in, and told everyone. About half of them ran from the line to go see, but apparently they (the horny strangers) had driven away. Some people are just absolutely shameless. LOL.

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Life or Something Like It
» Surprise, surprise!!
[12:14 AM]

I'm going on about 3 hours of sleep and one coffee right now. Not cool.

Friday was wicked. Some co-workers and I pulled of a surprise shindig for Anthony's last day. It was pretty much flawless and a helluva lot of fun.

Right after work I went shopping for a dress for Jon's wedding, which would be on Saturday morning. "No black, no tanks, no halters, and no picking up guys!" Alex advised me on Thursday. ;) Seeing that most of my clothes are black, and I prefer tanks in during the summer (death to farmer's tan!), I would have to acquire something new. I found one after about an hour. Since I didn't like the print of the one that did fit me, I had to get a bigger one (in the print I liked) altered. That took another hour or so; I had my dress by eight. Strolled into Didopalooza (annual film festival at my church youth group) fashionably late. Its the second time in about 2 years I've actually gone to Didomi. Afterwards, Gina, Steph, Ally M. and I went to Wendy's and then crashed at Ally's. We wrapped the presents, tried on dresses, and just hung out and caught up with stuff and talked everything to death. Its been too long. =)

We finally decided to rest a little after four; the wedding was in 6 hours. I woke up at 7ish, took a shower, made coffee, ate breky, and changed. We were still running around doing hair and makeup when Galen came to pick us up.

The wedding was nice. Just the usual stuff, no crazy pink dresses a la For Better or For Worse. They had sushi at the reception. Galen drove us back to Ally's after. We packed up and went for bubble tea at Destiny. WOW, I LOVE THAT PLACE! Woot.

Tonight is my NERD IT UP night. Been scanning piles of MFOS pictures. My scanner is offically a piece of shit that's mad at me (I've come across way to many of those in my life). Its old and its sheetfed. It'll scan half a picture, stop, and spit the rest of the picture out. I'll have to scan and rescan 3 or 4 times before it works. I'm working my way through the three rolls, and thinking about when and how I'm gonna get a digital camera.

Note to self: pick up the rest of Sam's birthday present tomorrow!

There's a new layout in the works. I'm done the main graphic; I just have to code the thing now. Not sure when it'll be out; I'm rather bogged down with other projects lately, and this layout's pretty new, so I want to keep it for a little while longer. But who knows.

Ally C. and I are kind of doing a style swap of sorts to try out new stuff in our designs. She tried using black in her Hidell layout (she NEVER uses black as a background!), so this new layout I'm working on now will be on the lighter side of the colour spectrum. It'll be the second time ever that I'll be using a white background. The last time a background wasn't black was back when sg.net was still up. It'll also be the second time I use a celebrity in my layout, something that Ally always has in hers and I've only done once (again, back in the sg.net days).

Go and congratulate Kate on her A in Bio! *hugs*

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5 August 2003

I'm setting myself up for the greatest fall of all time again. But in that case, is it the greatest fall of all time anymore?

New Dashboard Confessional cd August 12. I'm dying for it already, just listening to "Hands Down". DYING! *sigh* =)

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4 August 2003

Assurance is nice; insurance is a safer bet.

Too bad I'm too gosh darn giddy to give a damn right about now.

>;)

I <3 <3 <3 Matchbook Romance.

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Life or Something Like It
» My New Rockstar Boyfriend
[12:49 AM]

This weekend has been WICKED beyond belief. Mostly yesterday was wicked beyond all belief, but Friday was very fun too. Why don't we start with that?

After work I went to the Eaton Centre with some co-workers (other summer students) and we had dinner. Then we went to the ACC for the Vince Carter charity all-star game thing. We'd bought the tickets earlier during the day, so we had nosebleed seats: second-last row in the 300 level. It was HILARIOUS, because two people were not cool with heights and they were freaking out ("I didn't want HEAVEN seats!!!!!"). I'd never been to a basketball game before (I am so un-sporty!) and so the whole thing was all new to me. The seats weren't as bad as I'd thought. I liked them because I could see the whole court and the people weren't the size of ants. You could still make out the numbers and tell who's who. So anyway. The half-time show was pretty neat... some acrobatic group. And the Raptors dance squad people were there too so that was cool.

The next morning I woke up, picked up Le, and we went to the other side of town and met up with Sam. Then we went to Courtney's and the back to Sam's. We stopped at Tim Horton's where we grabbed a late breky/snack (5 Macadamia white chocolate cookies and 2 double chocolate cookies for me) and then we were off to Barrie for the Warped Tour! Fucking people who go to their cottages on long weekends need to learn to fucking drive, more specifically, merge and exit a freeway properly. Thanks to all those morons, we were CRAWLING along the 400 at about 20 km/h for most of the way up there. Fucking hell. It started POURING even before we got to In A Sniffle (teehee... its what Courtney calls Innisfil) and I ended up dozing off for about 20 minutes. I felt so sick after eating all those cookies (they were soooooo sugary) and I ended up dozing off. After 3 hours in the car, we got to Molson Park at 2pm. Lined up in the pouring rain for another hour before we got in. It was STILL raining (not pouring now) when we watched Matchbook Romance. But at around 5, the sun came out and I was dry by 6.

We ran into EVERYONE—498663648 (or so) people from school, the guitarist from Not By Choice (twice), one of the girls from X Marks the Spot, Sam and Courtney's "concert buddy" (this guy they run into at every show) RJ and his friend Shane and Courtney's friend from Kitchener—before I found Ally and Adrienne and Adrienne's boyfriend. What a JOKE! LOL. Mind you, Molson Park is hugemongus to say the least, but its just funny how I saw/spoke to so many people that I was acquainted with before I found the people I meant to meet up with.

But anyhoo. It was amazing. We saw in no particular order: Eleventeen (local), Matchbook Romance, Count the Stars, Coheed and Cambria (the singer sounds EXACTLY like Geddy Lee. I am SO NOT KIDDING!), Slick Shoes, Tsunami Bomb, Less than Jake, Rancid, Yellowcard, Vendetta Red, Brand New. And probably more, but I can't remember.

Count the Stars were AMAZING. They played a song called "Better Off Alone" and the lead singer (Chris) was like "I see a lot of couples here today... and that's great and all... but this one's for everyone who didn't come with a boyfriend or girlfriend today" and Courtney and I went NUTS. I guess you could say Le went nuts too, but he was already nuts. LOL. I think that was the best pit I've been in in a long while. I felt so... energized. WOOT!!

I think it was after Rancid (Courtney and I left after 1 song because I wanted to see Yellowcard and he wanted to see C & C and they were going to start a few minutes into the Rancid set on the Maurice and Volcom stages, which are in the same area but not near the main stages where Rancid and LTJ were) when we stopped by the CTS merch booth. I bought the CD, a patch, and a button. And I got some stickers. Their merch guy was on lunch or something, so the band was selling stuff. The bassist was really nice: he didn't charge me for the button and patch—just the CD. Then Courtney and I wrestled with the damn wrapper on the cd so I could get it signed. Just as a sidenote when I was saying how nice Clarke was, I blurted out "He's SOOO cute!!" and I felt really silly after. We finally got the wrapper off, so I went back to get it signed, but Clarke wasn't there =*(, so Chris (vocals/guitar) and David (drums) signed it. But anyhoo. Courtney and I went to see C & C and then I went to see Yellowcard when they went to see Glassjaw. After Yellowcard, I went back to the Brian stage to meet them and they told me Simple Plan already played their set because MEST went to the hospital. I was APPALLED. Not PISSED, but APPALLED. But I ran to the merch booth because apparently they were there signing stuff. There was a HUGEMONGOUS mob of teenies there already. Not a line, but a mob. The merch guy started screaming and squirting waterguns but to no avail. I went to line up and the guys and Ally met up with me. The damn teenies were pushing me out of line so Sam took the liberty to reprise his role as the Human Blockade again (how else do we get through/to the front of pits?). What a champ. =) But even the Human Blockade was helpless when SP decided to stop signing. While we were waiting, Ally filled me in on the SP set: some people were throwing waterbottles at them and stuff again. Not surprising; they've been getting a less than warm reception from some people throughout the tour. Pierre was hurling insults when one of the bottles hit Jeff squarely on the head. My issues with SP are an entirely separate issue; I will resume that discussion later.

I was miffed MIFFED when I didn't get my stuff signed. I wanted them to finish singing my demo ep from 2 Warped Tours ago and my 7" jacket for "Addicted", especially since the record jacket sustained water damage and creasing, which was expected so whatever, I don't really care, but mostly because I just wanted to make it worth my while for lugging them around all day and in pits and stuff. I left the booth rather dejected than anything else, and Courtney was walking in our direction. I guess he could tell from the expression on my face what had happened, so he said "I have something that isn't quite the same, but it might cheer you up." I was curious by now; he pulled out a little piece of folded paper and opened it and told me the story, which I will paraphrase:

While Sam and Ally and I were in line at the SP booth and Le was off somewhere, Courtney ran into the lead singer (Chris) from CTS and they chatted for a LONG time (30+ minutes). The (cute) bassist (Clarke) stopped by and Courtney told him how his friend (me) LOVED the set and that I really like the material and bought stuff and and blahblahlbah and that I'd mentioned something about him (Clarke) being cute, but when I went back to get my cd signed, he wasn't there and I was a teensy bit bummed. Maybe he mentioned me missing the SP set too, but I'm not sure. But anyway, Clarke was slightly stoked, so he dug around and found a little handbill and write me a PERSONALIZED autograph from "the cute bassist" himself:

I scanned the back as well, because the writing is hard to see on the front.

Needless to say I was BEYOND stoked. ;) But alas. Everyone thought it was the whole schpiel was "cute".

All in all, I wasn't too pissed about missing SP. I've already seen them three times, and met them. So poo-poo. I saw a bunch of other bands and they were amazing. I was really glad I saw Yellowcard (that's when I missed SP). I would've gotten their CD as well, but I was down to a sad little toonie.

And the mass exodus began.

We were walking and walking with throngs of people, all on their way out. We passed by some dude sitting on a chair with a box of cds and a mob of people around him. Courtney was like "I want a CD; its only 5 bucks!" and Sam's like "You don't HAVE 5 bucks that's why I have to buy you dinner!!!!" and pulled him away from the dude. Then some guy chimes in "You would've HAD five bucks if you were here earlier when I was handing out free money." We were all like "WHAT?!" Turns out he had a bunch of fives and was giving them out for free but no one took any and then one guy took one and then everyone took them.

So we walk and walk and we got to Casey's. There were throngs and throngs of people and we figured it would be kind of expensive-ish so we kept walking. Got to Swiss Chalet but Courtney said he didn't want it and that he wanted Joey's Only, but Sam said he didn't want fish and chips so we kept walking. We saw the beautiful Golden Arches and went in, but there were HUGEMONGOUS lineups so we left and spotted a Wendy's in the distance. Walked and walked some more, and finally got there. There was still a significant lineup but I was like "FUCK IT! We'll end up walking all the way back to MARKHAM if we don't stop and eat NOW!" So we stopped and ate, laughed, chatted, revelled, and reminisced. Then we went home. I took a shower, crawled into bed, and dreamed something that I could not remember when I woke up this morning, but it must've been nice. =)

If you read all of this you must:
a) be Sam, Courtney, Le, or Ally.
b) be very bored.
c) be extremely nosy.
d) dislike me, but for some reason, are obsessed with keeping tabs on me.
e) be b, c, and d.

I don't care if you are any of the above. I don't care if you are nosy or bored or if you hate me. I am an exhibitionist; I like telling people stuff. Everything I say or do not say is here or not here for a reason.

Oh and you better leave a comment if you're reading this right now. Beeetch! TEEHEE.

I started this entry earlier this afternoon, but I finished it now. I was at Ally's. We listened to stuff from yesterday, beat each other up with pillows, talked about boys (CLARKE!!!!! teeeeeeheeeeee....) and looked at old photos and not-so-old photos, and reminisced. We decided that everything is a bad re-run, but that's okay.

We're all champs now. ;)

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