ho hum
today may have been the most boring day of my life. i'm so filled up with the frustration of inertness that my stomach is in knots with it. boring!
i got up at nine, fed the cats, read my scriptures, read the rs lesson i'm teaching tomorrow, and that is one of the last things i did. i made the mistake of looking up some stuff about different schools and different programs. spent a couple of hours doing that. made me feel the familiar nervous jitters. ate an apple and some toast with hummus. played solitaire. talked to fatima on msn. got dressed around 1:30 or 2 and went out and bought elicia and i each a donair. after that i didn't know what to do. i had a nap. i watched tv. i sat with archie on my lap. i cleaned the bathroom. i watched tv. elicia made me some tea. i flipped channels between shows on commercial. we watched second hand lions and in the commercials, terminal. i made us popcorn. we watched without a trace. elicia went to bed. i tried to do something with my pictures. i had an idea that i could have one album with all my favourite and best pictures in it. i started to look. i wasn't inspired except one picture. the how to bogged me down and i didn't do anything.
boring.
i had fun last night though. there was a weenie roast at mehgan's. elicia didn't come because she had a wicked headache, so it was just me and heather and we picked up barb. i was driving along south marine towards new west to pick up barb and then suddenly i was half way up the hill on boundary. a case of automatic driving. wha?? i spluttered. heather had noticed but didn't want to say anything. she figured i knew where i was going. i mean i was going the right way to metrotown, or to the stake centre... so it took longer to get to barb's than it could have. at least i remembered that canada way turns into 8th. and so i found my way.
mark, randy, candice, gabby, nikki, kyla, jen wood, a guy named thor, and us. and pete made a late appearance. we roasted weenies and smokies in mehgan's fire place. (i have no idea if that is how m spells her name). mehgan said she couldn't believe we finally came to her place. we told her that randy never invites us. we decided randy likes to keep his different circles seperate. mehgan had a really good dip with her veggies that involved a lot of garlic and some feta. i think i may have eaten most of it.
i was sitting by nikki at the table and we were eating and chatting. other people were there too, and i looked at nikki and she was wearing a toque and absolutely no hair was showing. i asked her if she was getting some chemo done. she pulled of her toque to show us her hair in a pony. meahgan decided to do nikki's hair in hot rollers. meanwhile we all began to play apples to apples. i first played this game at christmas and katie and i kicked everyone's butts. well i started off with a bang and got three cards very quickly, and everyone thought i would win, but after that i had crazap, as edith would say, cards and didn't do as well. gab made us all banana boats in the fire, but we didn't think there was enough chocolate, so heather and i piled some more in. basically we all gobbled up meagan's chocolate wafers like there was nothing else left to eat on earth. heather and i secretly confessed to each other that we got chocolate on our cards.
then there was a big commotion in the hall. basically this was nikki resisting showing the rest of us her make-over done by megan. of course she had to make a big deal about showing us. she had on a pretty lip gloss and everything. she looked beautiful, but she was all uncomfy in her glamour skin. then gab left to take a sliver out of m's foot and so mark played for her. we decided that gabby was mark's feminine side. he tried to deny having a feminine side, but redneck/metrosexuals like mark have a feminine side, they just don't like to say so. we called him gark or mabby or gabriark.
kyla ended up winning. i had fun but i realize that i totally have to start curbing my caustic sarcastic side. i realize things like this when i have social interactions with people i don't usually see and i can see in their faces that they are not sure how to take me. i mean when you are with people who know you, and who else have i been with in the past two years?, they already know how to take you, so you don't see it reflected in their faces as much. anyways i think my social skills are rusty because they have not been used much and maybe i've slid a bit down the meaner side of the sarcasm scale which is easy to do.
i guess i just realized now from the experience of going to that little party at meagan's that back in the fall or something of 2004 i totally retreated from the social world. not like i'm a recluse or anything, but maybe i slunk back into what was safe and that is a small number of people. hmm.
anyways revelations aside, after apples to apples was over, people migrated to the living room and there was talk of a movie but in reality people were watching sports and i was bored. i was starting to fall asleep and heather and i were both getting ready to take our leave when nikki, candace, kyla and jen left and the sports watching ended. meaghan wailed "you're going somewhere else aren't you?" nikki replied that she wouldn't go out looking like she did and that's when i chimed in that it was ok to be beautiful and that's when you go out, not when you look like a chemo patient. i heard her telling people what i said as they were leaving. i felt a little mean or too harsh. curb yourself i told myself.
around this time pete wanted us to play this game he knew. so i figured out while he was teaching it to us, that he was making it up as he went. i put up my hand and asked him so. "pretty much." he admitted. but it was fun. we had to write for our favourite thing(s) and then hand the slip of paper to pete. then he read them out and everyone had to guess who said what. it was kind of like the quip game of sara b's that we played on new year's. if you got it wrong it was the next person's turn. if you got it right you kept on guessing. i put tamara tagert because i knew everyone would think it was randy or mark. haha. and sure enough i tricked a bunch of people. the next round we wrote things that made us crazy and the next time our embarrassing moment. i wasn't that good at guessing, but it was fun.
when that was done we basically left. we were glad we went too.
i took archie back to the vet for his eye on thursday. i took him to our regular place and i could afford it thanks to a very kind surprise gift. this vet was way better. he didn't say anything about feline aids or leukemia. he thought it could be the kind of kitty litter we had and suggested some changes and prescribed an eye ointment. he also taught us how to brush archie's teeth which i find totally hilarious. the tooth paste is malt flavoured, which they like and they lick their chops after you set them free. archie charmed the vet and the assistant and kept head butting them. he's such a great cat.
dough slept over thursday night. he showed up with a cold. i had to put hydrogen peroxide in his ears and it foamed and bubbled. dough said we had the most spoiled cats ever. that's what happens when you don't have kids.
i'm substituting in rs tomorrow. i don't get to teach lesson one. that's what i wanted. but what i'm supposed to teach is the intro part. i was all bad attitude about it before i read it. i thought it was going to be like just a historical look at president kimball. but it isn't. there's lots of good stuff. one of my favourite parts is what he said when he got called to be an apostle. he said "Oh, Brother Clark! You don't mean me? There must be some mistake. I surely couldn't have heard you right.... It seems so impossible. I am so weak and small and limited and incapable." i forgot how special and lovable he was.
well you know i feel better now that i've done this post. and when i went to get the manual from my bed, where i fell asleep reading it earlier this afternoon, i found archie asleep at the foot of my bed and i kind of want to join him. g'night.
ps. speaking of archie, i found happy days on tv today! there were two episodes. one where a friend of mr. cunningham's who is black has his wedding at the cunningham's and this causes a big commotion. the second one was when richie decides to go democrat because of this cute girl (he said he was a skirt chaser to potsie and ralph) and it made his dad really mad because he was a republican like his dad before him and his dad etc.
i got up at nine, fed the cats, read my scriptures, read the rs lesson i'm teaching tomorrow, and that is one of the last things i did. i made the mistake of looking up some stuff about different schools and different programs. spent a couple of hours doing that. made me feel the familiar nervous jitters. ate an apple and some toast with hummus. played solitaire. talked to fatima on msn. got dressed around 1:30 or 2 and went out and bought elicia and i each a donair. after that i didn't know what to do. i had a nap. i watched tv. i sat with archie on my lap. i cleaned the bathroom. i watched tv. elicia made me some tea. i flipped channels between shows on commercial. we watched second hand lions and in the commercials, terminal. i made us popcorn. we watched without a trace. elicia went to bed. i tried to do something with my pictures. i had an idea that i could have one album with all my favourite and best pictures in it. i started to look. i wasn't inspired except one picture. the how to bogged me down and i didn't do anything.
boring.
i had fun last night though. there was a weenie roast at mehgan's. elicia didn't come because she had a wicked headache, so it was just me and heather and we picked up barb. i was driving along south marine towards new west to pick up barb and then suddenly i was half way up the hill on boundary. a case of automatic driving. wha?? i spluttered. heather had noticed but didn't want to say anything. she figured i knew where i was going. i mean i was going the right way to metrotown, or to the stake centre... so it took longer to get to barb's than it could have. at least i remembered that canada way turns into 8th. and so i found my way.
mark, randy, candice, gabby, nikki, kyla, jen wood, a guy named thor, and us. and pete made a late appearance. we roasted weenies and smokies in mehgan's fire place. (i have no idea if that is how m spells her name). mehgan said she couldn't believe we finally came to her place. we told her that randy never invites us. we decided randy likes to keep his different circles seperate. mehgan had a really good dip with her veggies that involved a lot of garlic and some feta. i think i may have eaten most of it.
i was sitting by nikki at the table and we were eating and chatting. other people were there too, and i looked at nikki and she was wearing a toque and absolutely no hair was showing. i asked her if she was getting some chemo done. she pulled of her toque to show us her hair in a pony. meahgan decided to do nikki's hair in hot rollers. meanwhile we all began to play apples to apples. i first played this game at christmas and katie and i kicked everyone's butts. well i started off with a bang and got three cards very quickly, and everyone thought i would win, but after that i had crazap, as edith would say, cards and didn't do as well. gab made us all banana boats in the fire, but we didn't think there was enough chocolate, so heather and i piled some more in. basically we all gobbled up meagan's chocolate wafers like there was nothing else left to eat on earth. heather and i secretly confessed to each other that we got chocolate on our cards.
then there was a big commotion in the hall. basically this was nikki resisting showing the rest of us her make-over done by megan. of course she had to make a big deal about showing us. she had on a pretty lip gloss and everything. she looked beautiful, but she was all uncomfy in her glamour skin. then gab left to take a sliver out of m's foot and so mark played for her. we decided that gabby was mark's feminine side. he tried to deny having a feminine side, but redneck/metrosexuals like mark have a feminine side, they just don't like to say so. we called him gark or mabby or gabriark.
kyla ended up winning. i had fun but i realize that i totally have to start curbing my caustic sarcastic side. i realize things like this when i have social interactions with people i don't usually see and i can see in their faces that they are not sure how to take me. i mean when you are with people who know you, and who else have i been with in the past two years?, they already know how to take you, so you don't see it reflected in their faces as much. anyways i think my social skills are rusty because they have not been used much and maybe i've slid a bit down the meaner side of the sarcasm scale which is easy to do.
i guess i just realized now from the experience of going to that little party at meagan's that back in the fall or something of 2004 i totally retreated from the social world. not like i'm a recluse or anything, but maybe i slunk back into what was safe and that is a small number of people. hmm.
anyways revelations aside, after apples to apples was over, people migrated to the living room and there was talk of a movie but in reality people were watching sports and i was bored. i was starting to fall asleep and heather and i were both getting ready to take our leave when nikki, candace, kyla and jen left and the sports watching ended. meaghan wailed "you're going somewhere else aren't you?" nikki replied that she wouldn't go out looking like she did and that's when i chimed in that it was ok to be beautiful and that's when you go out, not when you look like a chemo patient. i heard her telling people what i said as they were leaving. i felt a little mean or too harsh. curb yourself i told myself.
around this time pete wanted us to play this game he knew. so i figured out while he was teaching it to us, that he was making it up as he went. i put up my hand and asked him so. "pretty much." he admitted. but it was fun. we had to write for our favourite thing(s) and then hand the slip of paper to pete. then he read them out and everyone had to guess who said what. it was kind of like the quip game of sara b's that we played on new year's. if you got it wrong it was the next person's turn. if you got it right you kept on guessing. i put tamara tagert because i knew everyone would think it was randy or mark. haha. and sure enough i tricked a bunch of people. the next round we wrote things that made us crazy and the next time our embarrassing moment. i wasn't that good at guessing, but it was fun.
when that was done we basically left. we were glad we went too.
i took archie back to the vet for his eye on thursday. i took him to our regular place and i could afford it thanks to a very kind surprise gift. this vet was way better. he didn't say anything about feline aids or leukemia. he thought it could be the kind of kitty litter we had and suggested some changes and prescribed an eye ointment. he also taught us how to brush archie's teeth which i find totally hilarious. the tooth paste is malt flavoured, which they like and they lick their chops after you set them free. archie charmed the vet and the assistant and kept head butting them. he's such a great cat.
dough slept over thursday night. he showed up with a cold. i had to put hydrogen peroxide in his ears and it foamed and bubbled. dough said we had the most spoiled cats ever. that's what happens when you don't have kids.
i'm substituting in rs tomorrow. i don't get to teach lesson one. that's what i wanted. but what i'm supposed to teach is the intro part. i was all bad attitude about it before i read it. i thought it was going to be like just a historical look at president kimball. but it isn't. there's lots of good stuff. one of my favourite parts is what he said when he got called to be an apostle. he said "Oh, Brother Clark! You don't mean me? There must be some mistake. I surely couldn't have heard you right.... It seems so impossible. I am so weak and small and limited and incapable." i forgot how special and lovable he was.
well you know i feel better now that i've done this post. and when i went to get the manual from my bed, where i fell asleep reading it earlier this afternoon, i found archie asleep at the foot of my bed and i kind of want to join him. g'night.
ps. speaking of archie, i found happy days on tv today! there were two episodes. one where a friend of mr. cunningham's who is black has his wedding at the cunningham's and this causes a big commotion. the second one was when richie decides to go democrat because of this cute girl (he said he was a skirt chaser to potsie and ralph) and it made his dad really mad because he was a republican like his dad before him and his dad etc.
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