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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
11:23 pm
Coworker complaining about all the work she's been doing tonight
Carol: I've been bending over all night.
Me: That's what she said!! *grin grin*
Carol:....who?

For some reason that made me laugh uncontrollably. Good times.

Besides that, life generally blows. Too much school/Value Village, plus trying to fit in looking for an apartment.

STRESS. I am feeling you. I rarely ever get stressed out so this is not a fun time.
The only reason I am still alive is 30 Rock and Angel, internet tv distraction makes life worth living.

love, nade

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Friday, January 30th, 2009
12:37 pm

I have rarely been as angry as my supervisor made me at work yesterday.
Yelling at me about something I didn't do? Not cool.
Calling me a liar when I try to defend myself simply because some idiot coworker who doesn't know what she's talking about is somehow more credible than me? Not cool.
Complaining that I'm not working hard enough when I clearly have a sprained thumb, which I warned you about before I started yet you sent me to the worst area of the store? Plus, completely forgetting that I asked for help on a certain area that was way too hard for a sprained thumbed person to do, (which is why it was not done)? Not cool.
Threatening to send me home AND possibly fire me over it? WHAT THE HELL?!?!
Deciding to just "restart and pretend this never happened"? Uh, no. Fuck you and die please.

Apparently when I'm enraged and frustrated, I cry like a baby. Whodathunk.

love, nade

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
10:20 pm
If you don't feel you can cry in front of me, spill your secrets, make mistakes, expose your fears, laugh until you make funny snorting noises, talk on the phone about nothing at all......then how close are we really?

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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
11:30 pm - LIFE??

Ok, that was the second time my entry got deleted thanks to my laptop’s incredible ability to go 10 websites back mid-typing because my palm touches the mousepad thingy majig.

Here is a super abbreviated gist of my 2 previous posts.

Schoollessness: loving it, hate academia, will finish Honours but pursue veg cooking or carpentry in the future, will be dead once class resumes.

New place: orange, nice, clean, food eaten only by me, almost burned down a few times thanks to carelessness.

Slang: trying to revive the 50s and 60s slang, not going so well as I keep forgetting…..daddy-o.

Friends: making new ones, building on current/recent ones, missing old ones. Drifting sucks.

Soccer: half of my team are your stereotypical cliquey mean girls who are only now nice to me since I’ve switched from being a sucky defender to a completely awesome keeper *toots own horn* and I want them to fall face-first on rusty nails. Recently discovered the existence of an all lesbian team in my league and want to join them and take my hot dykey British captain with me.

Drums: got them from my homeskillets, FUN!! Bangbangbang.

Work: is work, not much else. Coworkers make it bearable, one of them is making me homemade hot sauce and I love her.

Pot: smoking almost never, in a good head space.

Dating life: nonexistent still, seriously considering that I may have a social disorder. Or maybe I am and will always be a square. I prefer triangles though.

Things that make life great: walking around downtown in the freezing cold with Laura  having freestyle rap battles and learning dance moves, jamming, drinking wine and discussing serious topics and feelings (yay feelings), getting close with my sister and watching her grow up into an amazing woman (:D), talking myself, my sister and her friends out of trouble with a couple of cops on NYE, Value Village discounts, avocados.

Done.

Love, nade

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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
12:37 am
Yay for life, that's all I have to say.

Moving in T-minus 2 weeks. New place is near Queen W and Ossington, with people who understand how to buy their own food and clean up after themselves and the like. I will miss how very open and relaxed the vibe is in this crazy dirty house, and Rainbow of course. Will miss the late night discussions about life. But I've assured him I will come a-visiting. It's pretty easy considering how the keys for the front door are kept in the mailbox ALWAYS and I'm pretty sure the back door is never locked. But the new room is so tiny, but the house is orange inside. Yeah, I'm easy to please, plus I've got so much going on that I won't need a huge room.

Oh and I got a job finally!! Value Village! I worked my first shift today and it wasn't the worst thing in the world especially considering how nice everyone is. Plus, the time went by so quickly because I always had something to do and they constantly play music so I didn't go crazy!! I could get used to it for sure. Well, we'll see when I get my awesome red vest (excitement!).

It's also such a great people/girl-watching job! I love people/girl-watching. So many hipsters came into the store today. Oh hipsters. I need to buy some shit tomorrow before the crazy Monday sale that will completely gut the store. Good idea me.

My posts are so boring when they lack in the sarcasm and critisicm of America's Next Top Model. I should watch next season.....

Whatever. Yay! I hope my school stays on strike for a bit longer so I can work a shitload, and enjoy some life. I just need to finish this year, I'm so very done with York and academic Women's Studies. I've learned a lot and have been exposed to so many ideas but.....I can't explain it but I had this conversation with a friend about our university experience and how we're exposed to so much crazy awesome radical feminist thought but keep falling back on the "Read this article and tell me the thesis and main points instead of actually engaging with the ideas" or "Here are these awesome people's thoughts but let's not actually be practical and apply it to our lives but just study it for this one week then move on without really being affected by it."

I just want to live now.

love, nade

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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
12:37 pm

I'm alone in the house, all alone, for the first time in a very long time.

Someone bought Q-tips and peanut butter. I am in heaven.

Now I'm sitting here wondering if I've ever been in love. I've heard "if you have to ask, you've never felt it" (at least, that's how it goes with orgasms).

Sometimes I hate my life.

Ha. I laugh whenever I remind myself of an emo kid.

love, nade 

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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
10:48 am - The goings on.
Work ended, my last shift was Saturday. I chilled with hot collecter for the first 1.5 hours of my shift. She was all tired and cranky from lack of sleep, it was so cute and hilarious because we just sat in her booth and commented on the people in the station. Unfortunately she's changed stations and will now be at Finch/North York Centre for the next 6 weeks which will make my inevitable visits much less convenient, but still doable because I still have my work pass. Yes, I told them I lost it and paid $25 and now I have free transit. If I play my cards right, I might be able to use it for the rest of the year. Suckers.

Some part of me is actually going to miss work.

Back to school tomorrow. I am excited (it's my last year!) plus frightened (it's my LAST year!). But I'm looking forward to most of my classes so that should make for a good school year. Besides, my Wednesdays finish at noon (and no class Wed. next semester) and no class on Fridays!! The prospect of no class delights me already.

I need to go food shopping because my stomach doesn't like being empty and I can't eat anymore of Rainbow's potatoes. No more potatoes. I had so many last night and ouch.

Two days ago, me and my sister saw my dad. It had been awhile, like a couple of months :(. I like the feeling of actual parental love. It's really weird to have been raised by one parent and have grown accustomed to her method of parenting (if you want to call it that) and then to spend a mere 5 hours with the other parent and realize how much better things could have been. It made me cry.

And we went back-to-school shopping. Another odd feeling: the one where your parent actually wants to spend money (and time) on you instead of on her vices. I got underwear, And some shirts. I'll be stylin' come Wednesday fo sho.

Then we went for food and I got seriously glutened. It hurt so bad. I think it was the falafel place. People need to stop putting wheat in falafels, like right now.

Then yesterday me and my sister straightened our hair by ourselves (since we usually trudge up to Markham so my hairdresser aunt can do it for us) and we felt so accomplished. My scalp burned mega-time. I almost cried again. But now it's all nice and non-poofy and I'm pleased. It's been a good few days I must say.

Food now byebye.

love, nade

current mood: food now

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
2:38 pm - Room update the second.
It's mine!!

Bwahahahaha.

Dude called me back because some girl bailed on them, and now it's mine!!

I'm their silver medal.

love, nade

current mood: bwhahahaha. Yay.

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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
12:53 am - Room update.
So, turns out that even though I told the dude "If I take the room, I'll be moving mid-August" ( and he never said anything about it being a problem), there was something lost in translation. I called today to make my claim on the room and reminded him when I'd be moving and he's all "That's too late, I'm giving it to someone else."

Yeah.

Back to square one.

P.S. Hot collector at Ossington is so hot. She makes me smile. I wish she wasn't in her mid-forties. And named Jackie. It's weird.

love, nade

current mood: unpleased

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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
1:34 am - Found a place??
That  was waaaay too easy.

Okay, I'm a pretty picky person when it comes to the things I do, and the choices I make for myself. I've been checking craigslist like crazy since....way before I even moved into Alex and Konrad's place in which I currently reside. During these many months of checking, I've responded to under 5 postings, and had no one contact me back. Whatever, no big deal.
Each response I made has been via craigslist email. The idea of calling up strangers freaks me out.
Well, last night I was on craigslist and saw a post that completely caught my eye, this person sounded like me. It went along the lines of "Hey, we're a bunch of weird kids looking for a weird kid, sometimes we have bugs so deal with it or don't contact me, move in whenever you want." 
Oooh I'll link it.
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/roo/747523331.html
And as luck would have it, it's literally a 1 minute bike ride from Alex and Konrad's place. Now I'm thinking "This is too good to be true, but oh no!! I have to call a stranger because he wants people to call."
Yes, I called. 
I went there earlier today, the dude was so cool, the other roommate seemed really nice (the third one wasn't there) and they were both total hippies (I like hippies) the place was pretty -Nade-. They have a porch!! I need a rocking chair. I was there for like 10-15 minutes but....I don't know....we got along and the dude is completely willing to hold the room until next Thursday until I make a choice because I was hesitant to take the first room I've looked at and he totally understood.
I'm still looking but I really want to take it.
The only thing is, they have a cat and Mittens is not good with other cats/strangers. I can't stand the idea of Mittenslessness, it hurts my soul, but I want the room.

BLEAURGH!!

I've noticed that she's a pretty adaptive cat though (minus that time we tried to get a second cat) and I think that she wouldn't be as confrontational with a new cat if it's not her territory being imposed on. If I choose to take it, I'm thinking I might give 'er a go, see how Mittens deals. If she doesn't I guess she could live with my Mom and I could visit her. That would make my mom more happy, I'd be more willing to visit.

This is just me rambling, I'm just trying to work through everything. Writing helps.

But I'm excited.

love, nade

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
9:29 pm
I don't know what to do.
Have you ever just found yourself not wanting to associate with someone who has been a friend for years?
When I hang out with this person, I just don't have fun. And I hate to judge people for these reasons, but it says something when your main group of friends do not like this person, and the people you meet through this person are consistently bad news/dumb-ass druggies/complete and utter headdesk-worthy tools.
I've ignored said person for almost the past month, this has been heartbreaking to do because it is probably completely out of the blue for this person but is something I've been dealing with for a very long time now.
I'm just not that kind of person but it's really something I think I need to do, at least for a bit of time.
I feel sad.

love, nade

current mood: sad penguin

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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
2:49 am - If I ever move to Van City, NO BASEMENTS!!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!

The damn rain figured out that it can come in through the bedroom window and the bedroom flooded. AND I have no thingy that squeezes the soaking wet mop dry, so there are a lot of stinky drenched towels on the bedroom floor and against the evil window of Satan. AND for some reason the carpet is wet only at the areas where carpet meets tiles. Strange. I'm going to go recheck the bedroom that should be drying after the last towel wipedown. Oh yes, I must mention that the bedroom has flooded and been wiped dry twice tonight, but not after soaking all my clothes that I had carefully strewn in various locations on the floor. 

Yay, drying! Since the rain stopped, everything should be good now.

Lesson I learned today: No matter how desperate you are, do not try to suck up water through a vacuum cleaner, alls it does is mix with the dirt in the vacuum cleaner and then leak out the other end. :)

love, nade.

current mood: sitting on the floor crying

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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
11:35 pm - Updates!! Wahey!!

I fell down yesterday on my way to work. I was suffering from SERIOUS lack of sleep and didn't see a step and down I went. I tried to save myself by falling on my hand but my fingers hit the step in front of me and my pointer and middle fingers bent and are now big and fat like sausages. It's funny to look at. Also, I totally foresaw this happening because the night before I had a dream involving me eating various sausages.....My psychic powers astonish me.
I'm getting paid while I write this. Yeah, work is becoming a serious joke. I spent the first hour and a half of my shift today walking along Queen St., window shopping. My task today was to hardcore clean 2 whole elevators in Queen's Park station. Yes, 2 hours worth of work (which I did) in an 8 hour shift. I left at 11 to come home for some tea and television. Good times.
I went biking today and explored High Park, They have a 'zoo' with various cattle and cattle-like animals. We saw a peacock try to get some by displaying his awesome fan of feathers, using it to corner females and force them to bang him. He failed. It was entertaining. 
Speaking of the word wahey, is it pronounced way-hee or wah-hey? I always thought it was the former, but am now not sure because it doesn't make much sense.
love, nade

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Monday, May 12th, 2008
11:54 pm
I do not know what I am doing.

Nothing is set in stone.
Nothing makes sense.
Nothing is planned.
Nothing is definable.

It's incredibly scary, but only when I stop and think about it.
It's also completely and fascinatingly awesome.

AND I love having a bike, even if it squeaks and I am a dangerous cyclist who should be dead a few times by now.

love, nade

current mood: anxious

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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
2:11 pm - Scary.
Yesterday a friend and I walked into a Scotiabank downtown and the first thing we see is some guy sitting on the floor with a 40 in one hand, and what looked and smelled like a bottle of turpentine in the other. He was completely whacked out of his skull, more than I've ever seen in any person, foaming at the mouth and stumbling around, making crazy sounds. Needless to say, we ran out as soon as we could and did not confront him when he got up to push me for no reason.

That was the one of the scariest things I have ever seen.

love, nade

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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
5:13 pm - Whoa, livejournal.

Whoa Livejournal is right.
It's been a long time and I miss you.
I'm writing in this only because I don't have a dream journal and i just had the scariest nap-dream ever, that I feel must be shared with the world? 
It began with me living in an awesome new house, and on the first day of this awesome new house day I heard rumours about some dudes going around to people's houses and beating them with bats. Scary. As I walk out of my house post-movage, I of course see said dudes approach my neighbour's house and begin to beat them as I run away like the wuss I am, completely seen by them. Needless to say, I am frightened. 
Later on, I'm walking around the area with the guy I'm sharing the house with, a guy I haven't seen in a bit so it's odd that I would be living with him, and this pimped out car races towards us and stops in front of us. The guy runs away while I stand there because apparently we're both well aware that this car of thugs is for me. Of course I yell his name in the hopes that they know him and can find him later. Yes, I was actually thinking this in my dream. So some lady walks out and summons me while her thugs go to some house to beat up its occupants. Basically, she tells me that the thugs are hers and she likes going around asking people for stuff and killing them if they don't do it in time. I then began to psychoanalyze her (in my dream no less, psychology is so useful!) with this psychoanalysis: she's an eccentric rich person so used to having people do stuff for her that she became accustomed to it but was mean and malicious, soon after finding herself without anyone who could stand being around her to do her bidding she hired thugs and began going around the neighbourhood asking people to do terrible things or she would hurt/kill them. Yeah. She was ca-razy! Anyways, she agreed with my psychoanalysis and was all friendly with me and we chilled as some poor innocent person got killed but as she went to leave she goes "Hurt yourself" and I'm all "What?" and she repeats "You have to seriously injure yourself by tomorrow night or I'll kill you."
It gets a bit muddled here as I was in and out of nap, but I think she came over to chill with me and 2 of my roomies, 2 girls I have never ever met before. And I basically wondered how she could want to hang around me when she knows very well that by tomorrow night I will be injured or dead because of her. Apparently she was willing to see past that for an awesome new friend for a day. Then the next morning I call all my friends (everyone made an appearance in this dream, even some girls from school!) to try and figure this shit out and Dan's making Mac-N-Cheese on the stovetop and we come up with the easiest painful thing I can do, burn my hand on the stovetop. We're such geniuses. So we call her up and tell her that I'm going to burn myself on the stove and I guess she agreed, but I still didn't want to do it. I tried to convince Dan to hold my hand down but he's too good of a friend and refused. We were stuck because I couldn't hold my own hand down on the stove and Dan wouldn't, so we were out of ideas. It seems everyone else was useless.
Some side story within my dream: it turns out that the guy who I lived with who ran away had a brother who used to be this woman's thug but now works in the falafel place that exists on our balcony (....what??....although this is starting to sound like my dream house) so I tried to go to him for advice about this woman but the falafel place was way busy so I couldn't. And this jackass guy just stayed in his room the whole time, what a wuss!
Back to main dream: so as the woman and her thugs, who have now agreed to throw me an awesome party with a moon bounce once I have successfully scorched myself, are on their way, we devise an amazing plan. We're going to pretend I burned myself but actually put a layer of plastecine (playdough for artists) on my hand to look like burn scars and try to trick them. Of course we get started as soon as they arrive so we're about to get caught. As a thug is coming up the stairs, Carolyn throws a random block of granite or something on him (my hero!!) and we try to run away but unfortunately we're still in the house so that doesn't work too well. By that time I was pretty ready to accept my fate because there was nowhere for me to go. Then i woke up.
I thought this was a dream journal worthy dream mostly because it mirrors some things going on in my life, to the point that it's really scary.
Plus the falafel place on my balcony was seriously a kickass dream-idea that I will try to work out once I move out.
love, nade



current mood: whack dream

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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
1:27 am
I live for things like this.
For anyone who likes music and finding new bands, go to this site.
Basically you type in an artist you like and it starts playing songs by artists with similar sounds.
Plus, you tell it what you like and what you don't. You can completely personalize it.
*Heaven*
Enjoy.
love, nade

current mood: woot

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
3:58 am
I wish I loved and wanted something enough that I would actually fight and work hard for it.
It's pretty sad that nothing in my life right now makes me feel like that.
Whoa. first post in a million years.
love, nade

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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
9:47 am

So to all friends, my cell phone number has been blocked so call me at home.
My (boring) story:
Basically, the phone is broken and I am unable to hear people when they call. My cousin told me he once called in to report his phone as stolen and they ended up sending him a free phone so I was all "I can do that then!!" 
This morning I called them up saying my phone was lost, blocked the number, then asked to cancel my account because I was thinking of switching anyways, my mom got a Telus phone plus my cousins have Rogers and Telus phones that they can give me. Anyways, I ended up getting $80 taken off the purchase of a new phone. That means I can buy any phone I want and they'll put $80 on my Fido account!! Yay!! 
Wow.  What a boring update.
I really don't know what to do. The guy at Fido was nice enough though. He says I won't have to pay for the time my number is blocked....So he says...I need advice. I could buy a new phone or just switch anyways. 

AFTER ALL THAT CRAP MY PHONE IS FIXED. I called Fido again to unblock the number and now my phone works. Totally whack. So yeah, ignore everything I just boringly said.

Things I need to do: 
- go to the gym
- get my OSAP before it gets to be too late and I have to start paying them back
- figure out this phone shit I guess I figured it out, well, something happened and now it's all better.
- start going to school again (I really need to do this)
- buy the rest of my books (this too)
- buy one last thing for Jackie's birthday! Done and done!

love, nade

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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
11:56 pm
My schedule for Jackie mostly, minus class names because I'm too lazy.

Monday:
10:30-12:30: class
12:30-2:30: nothing
2:30-5:30: class

Tuesday:
1:00-4:30: class

Wednesday:
12:00-1200: NO CLASS BECAUSE I HAVE WEDNESDAYS OFF!!

Thursday:
10:00-12:30: class
12:30-1:00: nothing
1:00-2:30: class

Friday:
10:30-12:30: class
12:30-1:00: nothing
1:00-2:30: class

love, nade

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