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i'm 37 now. turning a year older did not sneak up on me or surprise me. i knew it was coming and i prepared myself by thinking of myself as 37 way before the fact. now that i'm really truly 37 i'm kind of surprised that i'm not 38, not that i'm in a hurry to be 38 or anything.
i'm sitting slouching in my cold living room listening to the tunes and working on photos. right now i'm making an offending garbage can disappear. karey's in my bed having a much needed snoozeroo. i've just snuggled into my mexican shawl that mom and dad gave me for christmas one year in the fort. my bloodless arms thank me. and i reply that it t'was indeed my pleasure. my arms and i have a cordial relationship.
this is how karey came to be a snoozin in bedroom--i picked her up at the ferry terminal after kevin's going away dinner--a dinner where i made 4 bucks because delanie paid me to half my deep fried cheesecake and then renee ended up paying for everyone. auntie heather took on all you can eat ribs. she believes ribs are just a rack of bones. the deep friend cheese cake was too rich for del and she gave the rest of hers to doug. i asked doug if he liked it and this is what he said "i made a big mistake". it was the all you can eat ribs.
anyways i had just enough time to get home, empty the litter box and vaccum for karey's imminent arrival. then i rushed out to tsawassen and beat the ferry as usual. when the time was right, i met my bff at the luggage pick up station. she has a super bad cold but she still looked gooooooood.
we stopped at safeway on the way home for karey to buy some cold meds. the pharmacy/cold remedies section was shut up behind a loose rattlesome cage. just reach through and grab what you need i told karey. and she did. and it kind of hit our funny bones.
when we got home i gave her the big tour. she says this place is more cozy than the last place. probably true. we went to bed pretty soon after getting home and that was birthday eve.
birthday morning i woke up 8ish i think. my birthday breakfast was peanut butter maple syrup oatmeal. we had a bit of a lazy morning before we finally got going. i gave karey a side braid. as i was doing it i told her how proud i was of figuring out how to do it and how when i wore my hair in the side braid no one ever commented. i told her i hoped that someone would comment on her side braid that day. i had to fix up some holes in my jeans (karey said mom would be so proud) and i also sewed the lace back on the bottom of one of my under-ts. neither job was fancy or beautiful, but as they say in sweden, det dugger. mom and dad had called earlier in the morning but i didn't hear it. the voice message starts like this:
dad: too bad you're not there-- ( heehee). then mom and dad break into a happy birthday song.
so we decided to go walk around main street and look at all the cute shops but first we stopped for a birthday donair or two. cutie guy was working along side another new guy. it was only karey's second donair from there. novice. i explained to karey that i always get the donairs to go because not only do you not want anyone to see you eat it, but nobody wants to see it either. so we sat in the car and ate them on a side street. she knew what i was talking about once she was done.
we went to sultan cuts to get threaded. i think it's been years since i was there last. the lady remembered me though which is always gratifying. it used to be that one was threaded out in the open in view of all customers and people walking by on the street but this time the lady ushered us into a private area. i made karey go first. she was having a hard time with the eye brow threading and when she said yes to the lip, i knew she was in for some big time owchies. "don't cry" said the lady. (she's the long straight hair, not the motherly curly hair). in contrast when i sat down i was as calm as a summer's day. i don't like to brag but sometimes i have to.
my birthday was an unprecedented cold and rainy day. i was not born in february. martha was. we had martha's birthday weather on my birthday which is just not right. but we still had a good time going through the shops. i found a lap top case for 20 bucks and karey found a cake stand. i found so much cool jewelry that i wanted. unique and beautiful and special... sigh. after front st. we didn't have much of a heart for more browsing. plus it started to rain really hard and i had to hold my lap top case over my head. my feet slid around in my flip flops. my shirt got soaked. we stumbled into a coffee shop and karey bought me a hot chocolate and she got a chamomile tea. we sat in the window and talked and watched the rain come down.
when we got back to the car, there was still an hour left on the metre which was very mysterious. we figger someone just decided to top it up because it was my birthday. thanks faceless do gooder!
then we drove into yaletown and made our way to skoah for our facials. turns out we were booked in the couples room. we had some funny moments trying to get into our heated beds under the duvets without flashign one another. the facial was delicious. along with the facial you get an arm and shoulder's massage and a scalp massage. my skin felt so soft and glowy afterwards. when it was all over i looked over at karey and there she was with her hair flowing and free over the end of the bed. i didn't think anything of it until she confided that her girl undid the braid. "oh, is my braid in the way?" asked karey. "no, i'm just undoing it." replied the girl non-pulsed. we thought it was kind of funny. we were alone in the room then, and i decided we should take pics of each other so i made karey close her eyes and i dashed out of the covers and grabbed her digital and took her pic. then she had to jump out and grab it from me. well i peeked mid way of her jump out because i thought she hadn't started yet, "you peeked!" she accused. i didn't see anything but her jeaned legs coming towards me folks. after we came out, my girl showed me all the things she used on me and it would cost me a couple hun to get them all. against my better judgement i got the hydradew mask because i have wanted it a long time and it was my birthday and everything... she said i really need eye cream. i've got mature skin now, as fatima would say. i have eye cream but i'm not consistant.
after that we drove to north van to the restaurant i picked out called fishworks. we were too early so we sat in the car and i re-did karey's all important side braid--no comments as of yet. because of the hair re-do fatima and daman were beat us to the restaurant. it was karey and daman's first meeting. they are both running the half marathon on sunday.
our waiter had the brian w. swagger and voice. it made us have some raw food casino flash backs. buddah and bud-in-law got me a beautiful papyrus card (my fave card brand) and daman illustrated the card with a goofy smiling flower and a heart that he named 'bum heart'. it was perfect.
so i got crab cakes to start. karey and i shared. they were good but fatima and i both wished they were a little crispier on the outside. karey and i decided to order two items together and then to split them. so we got salmon wellington with a pesto sauce (yum!) and arctic char with a mushroom pancake. ok so i am confessing here and now that i did not know what artic char was. i thought it was a white fish. but it was not. it was salmon. so we ordered two salmon dishes--what dolts. it arrived wrapped in parchment paper on top of the mushroom pancake. there were blackberries too. i actually loved the mushroom pancake. it was sooo flavourful and mushroomie. karey didn 't like the texture. the salmon wellington was awesome. fatima got it too. daman got the sablefish and if it looked really melt in your mouth. it was our waiters' fave. after we ate and paid, we stayed and talked for a long time. in fact most of the people in the restaurant had left. i wondered mildy if i was supposed to signal the end to the evening, but signaling such things is not my strong suit. eventually fatima brought it up and we all left and went in opposite directions to our cars.
after driving almost all the way home karey reminded me that we were supposed to stop at evan's so she could get a blessing. the door was locked when we got there which was weird. evan explained that there had been a rash of break ins in his neighbourhoods. we went upstairs and had some good talks. just before karey was about to get her blessing i asked evan if he liked her braid. i couldn't hold it in any longer. i just wanted someone to appreciate it. we were so tired so it really hit our funny bone. as he left to get the oil, i said to karey "i just wish someone would notice it!" and we errupted in giggles. she got a really nice blessing though and then we talked more. late night talks with evan is a thing. a thing--an institution. i don't remember everything we talked about but of course there was linguistics involved and also we talked about army stuff and the marines and going to wars and yadda yadda.
karey went right to sleep when we got home. i watched top model first. 'you wanna be on top??' i like watching the photo shoots. i like watching the hair and make up and that creativity, the photo shoots and then seeing the outcome photo. i'd like to learn enough to some day do more artsy photos. that would be funsies. it might even be a fun attack.
this morning i gave karey a side bun and opted for the famed side braid myself. i'm having a chortle fest about the whole side braid thing. karey purposely commented on my side braid but that doesn't count. we took karey's red umbrella and headed down to chinatown for a photo shoot. china town is chalk full of places to shoot but we didn't actually get that far before karey had reached her limit. i feel bad for her because it's no fun to be on vacation and then be sick, although she is less sick than she was yesterday.
then we came home and i made us semi-charred grilled cheeses and karey went for a snooze and now we're full circle. actually she's gone out with her friend marina now. i'm a little frightened that i'm coming down with her cold. i so so so so so hope that i don't get it. but we did share our meals yesterday even though there were seperate chunks of wellington that we got and we are sleeping in the same bed... please spare me Lord. :)
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this is how karey came to be a snoozin in bedroom--i picked her up at the ferry terminal after kevin's going away dinner--a dinner where i made 4 bucks because delanie paid me to half my deep fried cheesecake and then renee ended up paying for everyone. auntie heather took on all you can eat ribs. she believes ribs are just a rack of bones. the deep friend cheese cake was too rich for del and she gave the rest of hers to doug. i asked doug if he liked it and this is what he said "i made a big mistake". it was the all you can eat ribs.
anyways i had just enough time to get home, empty the litter box and vaccum for karey's imminent arrival. then i rushed out to tsawassen and beat the ferry as usual. when the time was right, i met my bff at the luggage pick up station. she has a super bad cold but she still looked gooooooood.
we stopped at safeway on the way home for karey to buy some cold meds. the pharmacy/cold remedies section was shut up behind a loose rattlesome cage. just reach through and grab what you need i told karey. and she did. and it kind of hit our funny bones.
when we got home i gave her the big tour. she says this place is more cozy than the last place. probably true. we went to bed pretty soon after getting home and that was birthday eve.
birthday morning i woke up 8ish i think. my birthday breakfast was peanut butter maple syrup oatmeal. we had a bit of a lazy morning before we finally got going. i gave karey a side braid. as i was doing it i told her how proud i was of figuring out how to do it and how when i wore my hair in the side braid no one ever commented. i told her i hoped that someone would comment on her side braid that day. i had to fix up some holes in my jeans (karey said mom would be so proud) and i also sewed the lace back on the bottom of one of my under-ts. neither job was fancy or beautiful, but as they say in sweden, det dugger. mom and dad had called earlier in the morning but i didn't hear it. the voice message starts like this:
dad: too bad you're not there-- ( heehee). then mom and dad break into a happy birthday song.
so we decided to go walk around main street and look at all the cute shops but first we stopped for a birthday donair or two. cutie guy was working along side another new guy. it was only karey's second donair from there. novice. i explained to karey that i always get the donairs to go because not only do you not want anyone to see you eat it, but nobody wants to see it either. so we sat in the car and ate them on a side street. she knew what i was talking about once she was done.
we went to sultan cuts to get threaded. i think it's been years since i was there last. the lady remembered me though which is always gratifying. it used to be that one was threaded out in the open in view of all customers and people walking by on the street but this time the lady ushered us into a private area. i made karey go first. she was having a hard time with the eye brow threading and when she said yes to the lip, i knew she was in for some big time owchies. "don't cry" said the lady. (she's the long straight hair, not the motherly curly hair). in contrast when i sat down i was as calm as a summer's day. i don't like to brag but sometimes i have to.
my birthday was an unprecedented cold and rainy day. i was not born in february. martha was. we had martha's birthday weather on my birthday which is just not right. but we still had a good time going through the shops. i found a lap top case for 20 bucks and karey found a cake stand. i found so much cool jewelry that i wanted. unique and beautiful and special... sigh. after front st. we didn't have much of a heart for more browsing. plus it started to rain really hard and i had to hold my lap top case over my head. my feet slid around in my flip flops. my shirt got soaked. we stumbled into a coffee shop and karey bought me a hot chocolate and she got a chamomile tea. we sat in the window and talked and watched the rain come down.
when we got back to the car, there was still an hour left on the metre which was very mysterious. we figger someone just decided to top it up because it was my birthday. thanks faceless do gooder!
then we drove into yaletown and made our way to skoah for our facials. turns out we were booked in the couples room. we had some funny moments trying to get into our heated beds under the duvets without flashign one another. the facial was delicious. along with the facial you get an arm and shoulder's massage and a scalp massage. my skin felt so soft and glowy afterwards. when it was all over i looked over at karey and there she was with her hair flowing and free over the end of the bed. i didn't think anything of it until she confided that her girl undid the braid. "oh, is my braid in the way?" asked karey. "no, i'm just undoing it." replied the girl non-pulsed. we thought it was kind of funny. we were alone in the room then, and i decided we should take pics of each other so i made karey close her eyes and i dashed out of the covers and grabbed her digital and took her pic. then she had to jump out and grab it from me. well i peeked mid way of her jump out because i thought she hadn't started yet, "you peeked!" she accused. i didn't see anything but her jeaned legs coming towards me folks. after we came out, my girl showed me all the things she used on me and it would cost me a couple hun to get them all. against my better judgement i got the hydradew mask because i have wanted it a long time and it was my birthday and everything... she said i really need eye cream. i've got mature skin now, as fatima would say. i have eye cream but i'm not consistant.
after that we drove to north van to the restaurant i picked out called fishworks. we were too early so we sat in the car and i re-did karey's all important side braid--no comments as of yet. because of the hair re-do fatima and daman were beat us to the restaurant. it was karey and daman's first meeting. they are both running the half marathon on sunday.
our waiter had the brian w. swagger and voice. it made us have some raw food casino flash backs. buddah and bud-in-law got me a beautiful papyrus card (my fave card brand) and daman illustrated the card with a goofy smiling flower and a heart that he named 'bum heart'. it was perfect.
so i got crab cakes to start. karey and i shared. they were good but fatima and i both wished they were a little crispier on the outside. karey and i decided to order two items together and then to split them. so we got salmon wellington with a pesto sauce (yum!) and arctic char with a mushroom pancake. ok so i am confessing here and now that i did not know what artic char was. i thought it was a white fish. but it was not. it was salmon. so we ordered two salmon dishes--what dolts. it arrived wrapped in parchment paper on top of the mushroom pancake. there were blackberries too. i actually loved the mushroom pancake. it was sooo flavourful and mushroomie. karey didn 't like the texture. the salmon wellington was awesome. fatima got it too. daman got the sablefish and if it looked really melt in your mouth. it was our waiters' fave. after we ate and paid, we stayed and talked for a long time. in fact most of the people in the restaurant had left. i wondered mildy if i was supposed to signal the end to the evening, but signaling such things is not my strong suit. eventually fatima brought it up and we all left and went in opposite directions to our cars.
after driving almost all the way home karey reminded me that we were supposed to stop at evan's so she could get a blessing. the door was locked when we got there which was weird. evan explained that there had been a rash of break ins in his neighbourhoods. we went upstairs and had some good talks. just before karey was about to get her blessing i asked evan if he liked her braid. i couldn't hold it in any longer. i just wanted someone to appreciate it. we were so tired so it really hit our funny bone. as he left to get the oil, i said to karey "i just wish someone would notice it!" and we errupted in giggles. she got a really nice blessing though and then we talked more. late night talks with evan is a thing. a thing--an institution. i don't remember everything we talked about but of course there was linguistics involved and also we talked about army stuff and the marines and going to wars and yadda yadda.
karey went right to sleep when we got home. i watched top model first. 'you wanna be on top??' i like watching the photo shoots. i like watching the hair and make up and that creativity, the photo shoots and then seeing the outcome photo. i'd like to learn enough to some day do more artsy photos. that would be funsies. it might even be a fun attack.
this morning i gave karey a side bun and opted for the famed side braid myself. i'm having a chortle fest about the whole side braid thing. karey purposely commented on my side braid but that doesn't count. we took karey's red umbrella and headed down to chinatown for a photo shoot. china town is chalk full of places to shoot but we didn't actually get that far before karey had reached her limit. i feel bad for her because it's no fun to be on vacation and then be sick, although she is less sick than she was yesterday.
then we came home and i made us semi-charred grilled cheeses and karey went for a snooze and now we're full circle. actually she's gone out with her friend marina now. i'm a little frightened that i'm coming down with her cold. i so so so so so hope that i don't get it. but we did share our meals yesterday even though there were seperate chunks of wellington that we got and we are sleeping in the same bed... please spare me Lord. :)
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