| not over yet |
[29 Jun 2009|12:00pm] |
ahh, it is nice to finally sleep in my own bed.
so, a fun party, huh? i had fun! my only beef is that i didn't get a chance to have a decent conversation with anyone. there was so much rushing around to do, and even with all that rushing we were behind schedule. oops. oh well, everything worked out.
i think all of my slaves are thankful that it's all over. although most of them were voluntary slaves, i still feel bad that they were enslaved.
i admit i was super uncomfortable when people were gushing about me in the speeches, it felt wrong or irrelevant somehow, but i appreciated all of it even though it was pretty hard to listen to. hopefully the rest of the audience wasn't weirded out. it's probably a reaction limited to my own neuroses.
and how perfect were the florals? i couldn't stop admiring my own bouquet. it is sitting in a cup of water in our apartment. yay!
i was also pleased with the gorilla. robbie wanted to read the gordo campbell letter in the gorilla costume. HAHAH. (last year my sister asked me what her bridesmaid dress would look like. i said it would be a gorilla costume).
i chopped up the remaining wedding cake last night with my mom's chinese meat cleaver. that thing can hold half a cake on its own. it fills 80% of our freezer. mmm.
hey, can anyone recommend a reliable dry cleaner? the back of my dress is, uh, covered in red wine. :)
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| arts and crafts |
[24 Jun 2009|09:39am] |
i am consumed by arts and crafts. this isn't a bad thing, but the fact that it's consuming me is a little trying.
monday i searched high and low for affordable but pretty jewelery for my bridesmaids. everything was ugly or extremely expensive so yesterday i went to the bead store and made them earrings instead. they aren't perfect, but they will match and only cost me $20! i made slightly shorter ones for the 10 year old. i hope no one looks too closely because they are a little crooked.
late last night i finished our cake toppers. andrew tied a proper tie on his little doppleganger. this morning i asked him, "what do you think? do they look stupid?" "of course they look stupid. THEY ARE LITTLE BIRDS WEARING A SUIT AND A DRESS." thanks for the support, cranky pants. HAHA. it's ok, he just hates arts and crafts. also, somehow my little birdie ended up taller and thinner than andrew's. fuck. oh well. i can only dream, so i'm gonna let myself have this one.
i am panicking about pom poms.
yesterday i had a wonderful day with my friend C.M.. we went for a run in the woods, ate delicious sandwiches at la grotta on commercial, drank tea, and did arts and crafts.
the weather is no longer stressing me out as much. *phew*
can't wait to get back to my normal life.
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| chinese |
[13 Jun 2009|03:04pm] |
my dad just returned from Hong Kong. that isn't news, he goes there often on business. but he returned with one of my grandma's tea sets, which she's lending us for the traditional chinese tea ceremony.
in other news, i am at home by myself today while andrew gets pelted in the ass with paintballs for his bachelor party. (literally. i think they're putting a target on his bum). he said he would wear a cup but i'm pretty sure he doesn't have one.
as usual, i feel self-conscious when i yawn or burp out loud by myself. the verbal element of these non-word sounds is strangely innately communicative. i don't think i ever laugh out loud by myself, either. even though it's something i do often it's not something i do alone. not to say i am a depressed grump by myself, because smiling is completely different from laughing (but of course, not mutually exclusive of each other). still, it's weird, because if i am at work with headphones on watching a youtube video i am likely to have to stifle a loud laugh even though i am not talking to anyone.
the climbing instructor i am seeing at cliffhanger tells us to make sure we laugh when we fall. out loud, big and bellowing. i think this applies to most of life.
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| flickr tags |
[11 Jun 2009|02:28pm] |
things i didn't want to find while searching flickr for reference photos at work:
search term: burnt hay
findings: --> naked man's crouching self portrait with shadows cleverly obscuring man parts. --> also separately, a web page documenting a romanian family's pig harvest, including photos of tying up the pig's full 2 litre bladder before removal and then carrying it over to the pool of blood to be emptied (a futile attempt to help wash the blood down the gravel road)
search term: caster (y'know, like the wheels)
findings: --> man with a cast fetish. hundreds of pictures of himself in all types of casts, from half a limb to full body cast with a hole for his peener.
search term: rope
findings: --> middle aged man with an obsession with tights, knee socks, roped sandals and birkenstocks (both worn with pale white tights). attends renaissance fair and loves to take pictures of his legs in tights.
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| lactard |
[08 Jun 2009|03:16pm] |
did i mention i finally caved and bought Lactaid? extra strength. FYI: it's not very strong.
i carry it around in my purse. it's surprising how much dairy there is everywhere in this universe. i have been pretty good about avoiding it, though.
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| dresses |
[03 Jun 2009|04:04pm] |
i like dresses. i almost wore one today, the same one i wore a couple weekends ago, but it might be a little too bare shouldered for work. it is SO COLD IN HERE. why am i shivering when it's 29 degrees outside?
i picked up my chinese wedding dress today. i found a pretty nice fabric at Rokko on main street. it has some phoenixes and dragons and shit. the bolt was pretty narrow and carlie had to do some magic to make the pattern look even.
she said there might be some dragon/phoenix hybrids on the dress. AWESOME.
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| males |
[31 May 2009|11:14pm] |
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father/son relationships: i don't get it. at all.
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| dresses and toenails |
[25 May 2009|10:25pm] |
i dragged my miserable ass out of bed today and went with mom to the dressmaker's for my first alterations appointment for the wedding dress. she was delighted with how simple it is but may add some kind of bra-like contraption to help hold it up (it is strapless) since i refuse to wear a bra. i kind of really hate strapless bras and the only reason to wear one would be to hold up the dress.
i bandaged up my mangled toenail and tried on my wedding shoes. thankfully they don't hurt. but i think i will be wearing sandals for the next few months. needless to say i will not be getting that toe painted in any way since the top of it looks like broken potato chip.
lucky me, my flesh is similar in colour to most bandaids, or at least the ones i currently have in my collection, minus the purple enchanted unicorn bandaids i have been saving for an extra special injury. maybe this is the one! i still don't understand why black people aren't more angry about that, or why bandaids aren't really made in their colour.
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| toenail |
[25 May 2009|10:29am] |
( TMI about my gross toenails )
in other news, somehow i am sick again. i've been sick all week and all weekend, and today i am going to stay home to cough my lungs out.
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| burning man |
[20 May 2009|12:00pm] |
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should i go to burning man this year? i think i want to go at least once. but in the last few years i've developed a mysterious disdain for hippies and i'm not sure if i'll be able to handle it.
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| office lunch series pt. 1 |
[19 May 2009|01:17pm] |
i made myself a rather impressive and tasty lunch today at the office, given my limited tools.
in an effort to burn fat more efficiently in these last few weeks leading up to the wedding i have been lamenting the lack of high protein vegetarian options for lunch around my office.
at the granville island market i bought a packet of smoked tofu, a meyer lemon, and a small bunch of organic broccolini.
i steamed the broccolini in the microwave and then squeezed in some lemon juice. added sea salt and pepper and a squeeze of mayo that i found in the fridge. i scraped some zest off the lemon and added some cubes of tofu and mixed it all up.
it was fucking tasty.
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| weekends |
[17 May 2009|11:17pm] |
yesterday i impaled myself on the handlebars of my mountain bike while poorly anticipating the effort required to coast over a giant rock. i have a giant bruise and a scrape between my boobs where i landed, right in the middle of my chest. i also have a second mysterious bruise on the side of my right boob. somehow, despite their insignificant size, i managed to bruise both my boobs.
this is very exciting to me, kind of like having food crumbs accidentally land on a boob, since usually they drop straight down onto my belly. i will never, however, be able to catch anything in my cleavage.
today, after impaling my shin on a rock while sinking into some dried moss, i managed to scrape up and bruise most of my body dragging myself up rocks and resorting to a messy tree climb attempt that should not have been necessary to continue the cliff ascent. live and learn. there were other things to enjoy after that. but ostensibly, everything in nature this weekend has turned into a cheese grater with brass knuckles. ... i still lurve bc.
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| wart |
[05 May 2009|01:28pm] |
i think i have a wart
it's this thing on my pinky finger and it's been there for months.
i think i'm not going to do anything about it.
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| boo i am sick! |
[26 Apr 2009|10:21pm] |
booooo i am coughing and coughing and coughing. maybe i have swine flu and i'm gonna die like those 80 some mexicans. but apparently north americans don't really die from this flu so maybe i won't die.
today i weighed myself at someone else's house. i do this because i don't own my own scale, but i haven't in a while. i weighed less than i expected but this has little significance because i am softer than usual and not really fitting my clothes.
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| paint on my face |
[20 Apr 2009|09:15pm] |
removing makeup is hard, how do people do it every day?
i had a second consultation today with the makeup artist because the first time freaked me out too much. layers of foundation + powder + makeup = cranky jocelyn. thankfully she's awesome, flexible, and super sweet, and we agreed on skipping the foundation, which weirded me out so much that while she was applying it she said, "you don't look very comfortable..."
today i also learned what toner is. i think i might start using it since i wash my face several times a day.
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| on mountain biking |
[15 Apr 2009|11:30pm] |
also, tonight i went to a kick-off party for the mountain bike season with a all-female bike club. i'm not sure when in my life i became such a jock. i think mountain biking is a terribly jockish sport and sometimes i wonder why i enjoy it, but i do now that i have a bike that fits well.
i'd still choose climbing over mountain biking on any good weather day. but i'm glad this club exists because the dynamic is so different when you do shit with a bunch of people that you may not even know that well and are completely contextual and also the same sex.
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| photography |
[15 Apr 2009|10:59pm] |
most of you know i hate photography. i think every time i talk about photography i introduce myself in that way, and then i blab about having like 5 or 6 different cameras and somehow i still refuse to admit to myself that i might have an interest in taking photos once in a while.
anyways, i rented this puppy on last week to go to Red Rocks, and despite its stellar reviews, i really don't think it's the lens for me. the range and size are completely not ideal for most climbing situations. it gives an awesome background blur but that's not really what i want sometimes.
it weighs a ton, and the lens hood makes it even longer and awkward. the rental lens hood was chipped already. i didn't use the lens hood but i probably should've, i could've minimized the excessive lens flares on a few photos.
i couldn't always stand far away enough from people to get more than their nose hairs. so far my favourite lens for climbing has been my sigma 10-20mm wide angle. i just lent it to a friend for a month to take on their travels to central america. that is how much i love it. i am willing to part with it and share the love. they are much more patient with this stupid "photography" thing than i am and i think their photos will turn out great.
highlight of the trip: fucking mountain goats! damn rights! i don't understand how they are so nimble on their little stiletto hooves. couldn't get a good picture of them. watching them trot around was almost as pleasing as the sensation of that toad scampering across my feet in thailand.
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| iphone |
[08 Apr 2009|11:37am] |
so far the iphone has been pretty cool. andrew has been enjoying lolcats on demand, anywhere.
and in the car:
"what do you think jian ghomeshi looks like?"
*tap tap tap*
"oh, he looks pretty ordinary."
...except i can't see flash websites. like the website of the address i needed last night.
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| changing weather |
[07 Apr 2009|10:45am] |
i'm so relieved it's sunny. this means people won't be all sadddd and whiny and pouty anymore.
i'm not sure why i get so pissed off about people's moods being dictated by the weather. i know most people can't help it. but take some goddamn vitamins or some shit, because your collective boo-hoo affects meee! so much so that now i'm even pissed off that people are happy.
i do not get hayfever. i find it difficult to sympathize, but i feel sorry for you all.
i think i'm cranky today! i'm probably just anxious to escape and go climbing.
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