a couple of things i am grateful for today:
sunny buttercups and my mother's day begonia. blooming chestnut trees and deep purple irises.
silky, soft, plump, purring creatures with twitchy ears and crazy long whiskahs,
a sack of potatoes and a jug of parmesean
inspiration
prophets
gold and rust eye shadows
my camera and the gift of infinity ways to express and create.
sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents, nieces and nephews, friends--people to love and be loved by
a new day to try again.
yesterday was kind of a yuck day. i stayed in and i missed the saturday session of stake conference. i knew it would make me feel more yuck and it did. so much so that i thought of missing the broadcast today in order to wallow in yuck even more.
as soon as i started getting ready, i started feeling better. i'm so glad i went. i would have missed so much. i would have missed the chance to get filled up on light when i was feeling almost extinguished. and now i feel like i'm beaming. president packer, elder christofferson, elder walker and sister stephens all spoke. sister stephens is the 1st councelor of the general primary. her talk was so good. it spoke right to me right now. she used a scripture about jehosaphat that i didn't know--what he did and caused his people to do when an army they weren't prepared to face was coming against them. how they turned to the Lord and acted in faith despite their fears. she likened it to today and how we have different sorts of adversaries and how we can arm ourselves with power and act in faith. i appreciate that message so much and i always need reminding because it's so easy to get sucked into the cares of everyday and forget what i know and what is the most important in life.
i met her at her hotel. our plan was to play in the outdoor pool before it was time to check out. the pool turned out to be a one lane strip of blue but we had it all to ourselves and we had an underwater camera. we had so much fun fooling around and trying different things. i got a lot of hilarious shots. at one point i was behind katie doing huge splashes while she took a self portrait, and a worker came out to see what all the noise was about. he probably thought we were drowning. when he saw us he asked if we wanted him to take our picture. "it's ok, we're taking them of each other." i told him sheepishly.
it was so sunny and hot on friday and i forgot my sun screen. we were worried that we had burned ourselves. we played for about an hour and then went up to katie and brent's room to shower. our hair looked fuzzier then your wildest dreams. mine was fuzziest. to get to the elevators up to their room we had to streak across this open area right above the lobby, in our suits and towels, which is right when we passed a business man.
when i showered i thought i had burnt my scalp but if i did it was the kind of burn that fades the next day. ie. not a bad one.
after we were all ready, we looked at the pics we took and laughed a lot--then we left. we went to the mall to look for a sports bra for katie, but we were starving so we had some pulled pork poutine from new york fries first. at rulu remon we couldn't find katie's size in the tata tamer. it's a very common size, and yet the girl was like "oh yah, we only ever get one of those and then it's gone right away." well why would they only get one of it then??? and yet they had a ton of 32DD--good to stock up on that.
while katie was in the changeroom i sat on a bench and bided my time taking instagram pics. apparently i was so engrossed that i didn't see her leave. and she didn't notice me sitting there. meanwhile i look up and wonder why someone was wiping a name off katie's door saying "tina's gone." who's tina? i thought. isn't that katie's changing stall? just then katie called me on her cell wondering where i was. boy did i feel like a dolt. smiley face.
so we looked in some different stores for some different things but by this time my foot was killing me big time. the foot that is in the worst condition now, is my right foot. the one that rammed into the sidewalk when i tried to hop it. this foot still swells up on the least provocation. i have pinpointed the pain to a spot on the top of my foot below my last two toes. that's where it swells first too. maybe a stress fracture? i don't know but it seems worse than before. i'm looking forward to the day that both my feet are feeling better. there are a lot of walks i want to go on. i am really in love with the blooming chestnut trees this year. they are just so bounteous and lush. i saw a gorgeous specimen near the end of no.2 road and i want to go back there.
actually i am in love with may this year. may is so miraculous. i spent a lot of time in april noticing the tiny signs of spring--the buds, the cherry blossoms and the early flowers. the trees as they unfurl their new leaves all yellowy green and strange looking. and then suddenly in may it's as though branches have never been bare. glorious green everywhere and flowers busting out all over the place.
speaking of busting, that reminds me of a fawlty towers episode (i just re-watched them all on netflix). this episode has an american in it. he doesn't let fawlty get away with anything and he's afraid of him and also doesn't understand a lot of what he asks for like a screwdriver drink and a waldorf salad. at one point the american guy tells fawlty to go talk to the chef (who isn't there but fawlty is pretending he is) and to bust his a**. the look on fawlty's face is hilar "his a--?" he stutters. then he goes into the kitchen making a big show of yelling at the non-existant chef but says 'bottom' instead of a**. ahhhh i love that show so much! why did they do so few episodes? why??
you may have noticed that i have lost my way due to a very bad case of tangentism. but now i'm back. katie and i got bubble teas. it was katie's first. then we sat where the comfy couches used to be until beefy called me on my cell. she had arrived. she was somewhere near zellers in a parking garage. we found her by driving around the mall and hearing her slappity slap run.
katie needed to be threaded so we found a place near by thanks to esther. it cost more than 5 bucks so i didn't get it done. good thing too, because katie said she was super slow and it was really painful. plus she took A LOT off. i was surprised when i saw. after the threading me and bifabeefy said good bye to katie and i drove her to the ferry (first we ditched her car somewhere nearby).
on the way to the ferry we talked about beefabiff's new gut diet her family is going on. she was anxious we'd miss it but zippypippypippop and we were there. after hugs and shoves towards the line up i was back on the road.
on the long drive home, katie and i were in communication to each other which may or may not have been illegal i'm not incriminating myself here. we thought we might meet in downtown to eat together before they caught their ferry. but brent was being chattylou and i figured they wouldn't have time so i continued driving home after a brief stop in south granville to confer (totally legal). well fast forward to me in marpole turning left onto 70th ave. katie calls "brent wants to take a later ferry!" well what was i going to do? it's not like i had plans. it's not like i get the chance to hang out with my sis every day! so we decided to meet in commercial area. this involved me driving on the low road until victoria and then all the way back up the 1st ave. let's just say i did a lot of driving on friday.
we were going to eat at the memphis bbq but ended up at a little indian place. it was delish and because it took about 5 minutes for my interac to work, i got to watch the man make naan. it was cool. there's this little round oven with a hole on top and you put your rolled out naan on a pillow, and stick it into the oven and it just sticks to the wall until it's done!
brent got a chicken vindaloo and he really enjoyed it. he especially liked how the spice made his head sweaty. guys can be weiwd. fun but weiwd. katie got chicken tandoori chicken (double the chicken eh?) and i got BUTTER chicken. as if i wouldn't have.
after we went to casa gelato of 218 flavours. we discovered ginger ice cream. HELLO. so good! spicy and yummy like ginger beer or chewy ginger candies. love love. we both got that. katie topped hers off with chocolate raspberry truffle, and i got caramel fudge. i love their caramel. it's so light and soft and yet deliciously sugary.
after we ate we parted ways for realsies. the end.
sunny buttercups and my mother's day begonia. blooming chestnut trees and deep purple irises.
silky, soft, plump, purring creatures with twitchy ears and crazy long whiskahs,
a sack of potatoes and a jug of parmesean
inspiration
prophets
gold and rust eye shadows
my camera and the gift of infinity ways to express and create.
sisters, brothers, parents, grandparents, nieces and nephews, friends--people to love and be loved by
a new day to try again.
mother's day begonia
as soon as i started getting ready, i started feeling better. i'm so glad i went. i would have missed so much. i would have missed the chance to get filled up on light when i was feeling almost extinguished. and now i feel like i'm beaming. president packer, elder christofferson, elder walker and sister stephens all spoke. sister stephens is the 1st councelor of the general primary. her talk was so good. it spoke right to me right now. she used a scripture about jehosaphat that i didn't know--what he did and caused his people to do when an army they weren't prepared to face was coming against them. how they turned to the Lord and acted in faith despite their fears. she likened it to today and how we have different sorts of adversaries and how we can arm ourselves with power and act in faith. i appreciate that message so much and i always need reminding because it's so easy to get sucked into the cares of everyday and forget what i know and what is the most important in life.
hi. i'm happy.
saturday may have been yuck but friday was fun. i had the day off because i worked a saturday a while ago. katie and brent were in town, staying at the hilton by metrotown for a work thing for brent. so while brent attended his stuff, katie and i played.i met her at her hotel. our plan was to play in the outdoor pool before it was time to check out. the pool turned out to be a one lane strip of blue but we had it all to ourselves and we had an underwater camera. we had so much fun fooling around and trying different things. i got a lot of hilarious shots. at one point i was behind katie doing huge splashes while she took a self portrait, and a worker came out to see what all the noise was about. he probably thought we were drowning. when he saw us he asked if we wanted him to take our picture. "it's ok, we're taking them of each other." i told him sheepishly.
it was so sunny and hot on friday and i forgot my sun screen. we were worried that we had burned ourselves. we played for about an hour and then went up to katie and brent's room to shower. our hair looked fuzzier then your wildest dreams. mine was fuzziest. to get to the elevators up to their room we had to streak across this open area right above the lobby, in our suits and towels, which is right when we passed a business man.
when i showered i thought i had burnt my scalp but if i did it was the kind of burn that fades the next day. ie. not a bad one.
after we were all ready, we looked at the pics we took and laughed a lot--then we left. we went to the mall to look for a sports bra for katie, but we were starving so we had some pulled pork poutine from new york fries first. at rulu remon we couldn't find katie's size in the tata tamer. it's a very common size, and yet the girl was like "oh yah, we only ever get one of those and then it's gone right away." well why would they only get one of it then??? and yet they had a ton of 32DD--good to stock up on that.
while katie was in the changeroom i sat on a bench and bided my time taking instagram pics. apparently i was so engrossed that i didn't see her leave. and she didn't notice me sitting there. meanwhile i look up and wonder why someone was wiping a name off katie's door saying "tina's gone." who's tina? i thought. isn't that katie's changing stall? just then katie called me on her cell wondering where i was. boy did i feel like a dolt. smiley face.
so we looked in some different stores for some different things but by this time my foot was killing me big time. the foot that is in the worst condition now, is my right foot. the one that rammed into the sidewalk when i tried to hop it. this foot still swells up on the least provocation. i have pinpointed the pain to a spot on the top of my foot below my last two toes. that's where it swells first too. maybe a stress fracture? i don't know but it seems worse than before. i'm looking forward to the day that both my feet are feeling better. there are a lot of walks i want to go on. i am really in love with the blooming chestnut trees this year. they are just so bounteous and lush. i saw a gorgeous specimen near the end of no.2 road and i want to go back there.
actually i am in love with may this year. may is so miraculous. i spent a lot of time in april noticing the tiny signs of spring--the buds, the cherry blossoms and the early flowers. the trees as they unfurl their new leaves all yellowy green and strange looking. and then suddenly in may it's as though branches have never been bare. glorious green everywhere and flowers busting out all over the place.
speaking of busting, that reminds me of a fawlty towers episode (i just re-watched them all on netflix). this episode has an american in it. he doesn't let fawlty get away with anything and he's afraid of him and also doesn't understand a lot of what he asks for like a screwdriver drink and a waldorf salad. at one point the american guy tells fawlty to go talk to the chef (who isn't there but fawlty is pretending he is) and to bust his a**. the look on fawlty's face is hilar "his a--?" he stutters. then he goes into the kitchen making a big show of yelling at the non-existant chef but says 'bottom' instead of a**. ahhhh i love that show so much! why did they do so few episodes? why??
you may have noticed that i have lost my way due to a very bad case of tangentism. but now i'm back. katie and i got bubble teas. it was katie's first. then we sat where the comfy couches used to be until beefy called me on my cell. she had arrived. she was somewhere near zellers in a parking garage. we found her by driving around the mall and hearing her slappity slap run.
katie needed to be threaded so we found a place near by thanks to esther. it cost more than 5 bucks so i didn't get it done. good thing too, because katie said she was super slow and it was really painful. plus she took A LOT off. i was surprised when i saw. after the threading me and bifabeefy said good bye to katie and i drove her to the ferry (first we ditched her car somewhere nearby).
on the way to the ferry we talked about beefabiff's new gut diet her family is going on. she was anxious we'd miss it but zippypippypippop and we were there. after hugs and shoves towards the line up i was back on the road.
on the long drive home, katie and i were in communication to each other which may or may not have been illegal i'm not incriminating myself here. we thought we might meet in downtown to eat together before they caught their ferry. but brent was being chattylou and i figured they wouldn't have time so i continued driving home after a brief stop in south granville to confer (totally legal). well fast forward to me in marpole turning left onto 70th ave. katie calls "brent wants to take a later ferry!" well what was i going to do? it's not like i had plans. it's not like i get the chance to hang out with my sis every day! so we decided to meet in commercial area. this involved me driving on the low road until victoria and then all the way back up the 1st ave. let's just say i did a lot of driving on friday.
we were going to eat at the memphis bbq but ended up at a little indian place. it was delish and because it took about 5 minutes for my interac to work, i got to watch the man make naan. it was cool. there's this little round oven with a hole on top and you put your rolled out naan on a pillow, and stick it into the oven and it just sticks to the wall until it's done!
brent got a chicken vindaloo and he really enjoyed it. he especially liked how the spice made his head sweaty. guys can be weiwd. fun but weiwd. katie got chicken tandoori chicken (double the chicken eh?) and i got BUTTER chicken. as if i wouldn't have.
after we went to casa gelato of 218 flavours. we discovered ginger ice cream. HELLO. so good! spicy and yummy like ginger beer or chewy ginger candies. love love. we both got that. katie topped hers off with chocolate raspberry truffle, and i got caramel fudge. i love their caramel. it's so light and soft and yet deliciously sugary.
after we ate we parted ways for realsies. the end.
Comments
what a fun full day, glad I appeared on it's radar in my zippypippop way!
That ginger ice cream sounds GOOOD.