the pruning proccess

so like i mentioned earlier i bought these big honking long wooden handled pruners at canadian tire on tuesday night. we have bushes gone wild at our house. or should i said we had bushes gone wild. but not no more. on friday after i wrote in here, i took the pruners out to take my angst out on the bushes. and boy did i ever. one had wild branches reaching up above our window sill and now it's just a happy little unassuming shrub and one bushed way over the path the side of the house and now it's a trim modest little thing as it should be. i had piles and piles of branches and greenery all around me. it was so fun. while i was trimming the bushes i looked over at our rose bushes of which there is more than a few. i thought they looked scraggly and i wondered if they weren't going to bloom this year. i thought that they had bloomed by this time last year. i did prune them extensively last year as you may or may not recall. but mom told me "roses like to be pruned" and i believed her. then all of a sudden i noticed a lone yellow rose on one of the bushes and then i began to see them. buds all over the place! multiple buds! the bushes were thick with buds and i dind't even know it. so then i went around clipping off the rose hips and last years dead ends. most of this time karey was out sitting on the swing talking to me or sitting on the front steps with sarita. she helped me trim the bushes too. it was nice to be out in the sun clipping things off with huge sharp blades and to become excited about all the live growing beautiful things. i noticed too that the peonies are coming up. i was worried they wouldn't come back. i don't know anything about peonies, but i love them. i love them a lot. i love their big beautiful bawdy fullness. so gradually my crankiness drifted away and it was replaced with a brimming gratitude for our garden and for sunshine and for pruning.

karey and i went to metrotown to spend our mac gift certifricates. we have to go to metro because we fine the bay macs to be unfriendly at times. karey got on great with the girl that helped us, but the girl didn't have a vision for me. i think it's because i was acting more picky than karey. i paralized her visions for me. she did karey up real nice and then i asked her to do my eyes. well. i could see her asking the other girls what she should do and when she came back she had purple and a dark smokie blue. everyone including karey loved it. it did change my blue eyes into a more turquoisie oceanie blue, but it was sooo dark that i felt uncomfy. especially because i was so dressed down and frizzy haired at the time. i didn't buy anything saying i needed to think about it. but karey bought a lot, but we had to walk to the bay because her gc which i got for her last birthday in AUGUST was only good at the bay mac and i didn't remember how much was on it either. so we walked across the mall which was very trying for poor karey who is dealing with a bad case of plantar fasciitis and walks/limps with a lot of painful feelings in her foot region. i kept offering to get her a scooter but she would only laugh. the lady at the bay mac ended up being really nice too, and kept giving karey lots of tips. meanwhile i kept feeling uncomfy in my dark eye make-up. i also had on the long lasting lip gloss in a frosted peach colour that i didn't care for either. and is it EVER long lasting. it's probably still on me now. it was weird to wake up and look in the mirror at the peach lips.

karey and i went to get a movie but all the good ones were sold out. but then we remembered that we wanted to see double jeprody again, so i got that. when i got to the till the tired and unenthusiastic clerk read out "delores clairborne" uh what? i asked. they didn't have double jeprody it turned out. so we got the greatest game ever played which was only our back up movie and went home and watched narnia instead which karey had won at work. karey fell asleep (and was incidentally snoring but i'm not supposed to write about that anymore...) and then left for bed. i was crying about everything because i had a lot of emotions to release. my heavily made up eyes kept stinging because of all the tears mixed with make up so i had to pause the movie and go wash them. then i could cry to my heart's content. and i did. then i went to bed.