good thing I can have like 7 email addresses on Rogers! haha...10M doesn't go far with my giant pictures...

the cottage, seen at low tide

sunset, beautiful

low tide, looking out off the top of the stairs down to the water

I found a great site that tells me how to "roll my own" comment system, but I can't change the properties on the folders on the rogers site, so I can't host my own comment system, which is too bad really. Thing #45982 that I'm going to do when I have some money - get my own webspace.

So apparently it works, which is good.

I had a terrific weekend at the cottage with Mom & Dad and Erin. It's a really perfect spot, about 10 minutes from town where there's a grocery store, hardware store, bank, and most importantly for cottage life, a liquor store. We can walk down the stairs into the water, which is pretty sweet, and the deck gets sun all day, when it's sunny, which it was all weekend. I was really sort of annoyed to have to come back to real life here in Moncton, where I have to wait for call backs from job interviews, apply for still more jobs, and figure out if we can live here for the summer or have to move to Rexton.

In other news, the dehumidifier is running constantly and fills the jug in about a day, which is just foolish. The cats had a fun week in Rexton too, George went to the vet and is "very healthy" and 10.5lbs. Mort goes in the fall, he'll be a bit heavier, haha, but he's on the special food for bladder crystals which is fattening, and even the vet said he's better a bit overweight than dead, which I have to agree with.

I'll resize some weekend pics and post them shortly, I made 3 super panorama shots, but they're pretty big so I'll see about putting those up.

ok, I'm mainly just posting to see if this works, with the new editor and settings and whatnot, so here goes! I'm in Rexton, I have my interview in Miramichi tomorrow AM and then plan to go to the cottage with my parents for the weekend. I'm very excited! Even though we don't have any furniture, like beds and whatnot. details, details. Anyway, yes, we're on a little vacation in Rexton because the apartment is intolerable with the neighbours in the summer. Grant is only just beginning to understand what I put up with all last summer, having worked nights and trying to sleep days. He was always at work days like a normal person, when the devil children were out screaming like banshees outside my windows. grrr. And I like kids!
We brought the boys with us, cause we'll be here for a few days and George has a vet appt on Saturday, so they may end up staying til Sunday when we get back from the cottage. Grant's parents really like them though, so it's good all around.
I think that's about it... we went down to the cape/beach for a little walk today, it was lovely and I took some pictures of beach stuff which I'll post just as soon as I get home, probably Sunday. Until then, enjoy the heat, and keep your fingers crossed for me for tomorrow!

Went to see the Hulk tonight, and while it wasn't terrible as critiqued, it wasn't really great either, and the ending was ter-rib-le.
Had an interview this morning for a job in Minto, in resource, which would be pretty sweet. I do have some experience, and am quite cute and charming (even wore makeup today!), so we'll see how it goes. Don't ask though, I promise I'll let you know if I get any good news. I have another interview on Friday for an English job in Rexton, which would actually be pretty cool, cause it's actually teaching English, and Rexton isn't too too far away from here or Fredericton. Anyway, yes, again I'll keep you posted. Send your happy thoughts my way please! I was up early this morning, relative to my summer routine, so I'm going to go relax for a bit and watch Keen Eddie, which is a great show.
Ah, 2 last things: download the new MSN Messenger, cause there are some kick-ass icons in it, you can add backgrounds and play tic-tac-toe and all sorts of stuff. and make your OWN icons! I made a fish and a bird in MSPaint, pretty effing sweet.
also, DO NOT GET the new Smirnoff Black whatever, it's really gross. It tastes like carbonated wine, like Baby Duck or something, really ick. I know I'm too late for some of you, and I apologize, but if I can spare one person, my job is done.

also, Erin was here last night, she spent the night here so as to catch a plane to Tdot this morning at like 7, to meet her honey man who's been in Sweden the past TEN MONTHS. Yeah, wow. She was in such a good mood because of this, that she brought me a calla lily, my absolute favourite plant/flower in the world.
Beautiful, no?
Also, I'm scaling down the size of the photos I post, cause they're lovely big like they are, but take up too much server space, sadly.

Jenn and I celebrated her birthday today, it was great. I got her bar themed gifts, half at Pier 1 and half at Cameron's Restaurant Supply. It's great there, you can buy a whole box of coctail umbrellas, or little straws! Good times. We went to Jungle Jim's for a drink and were slightly put out that we couldn't swaggle a free drink out of the cute waiter boy, but it's illegal so we won't hold that against him. Also, he brought her a piece of tasty birthday cake with a sparkler in it, so all is forgiven.
Yeah, the sunglasses were from me too, I have a matching pair, in blue. I have to say too, they're great sunglasses, and not just from a style point of view. They, being so large, block out a lot of sunlight, and they have an anti glare coating on them, so they work really well! AND, they're sexy. hehe.



Happy Birthday Jenn!

I went to the prom tonight, how funny was that. It was a grade 8 prom, so it was pretty sad really, they all get dressed up and then stand around and refuse to dance with each other. And some of them show up in like, jeans. Odd. By the end, most of them were dancing, and they seemed to have a good time regardless, which I suppose is all that matters. There was an "after prom party" too, at one girl's house. As if, as a parent, yes, please invite all your 14 year old friends over at 10pm and start a party. No thanks!
I don't really have a lot of news, just wanted to say hello, and remind you that it's Jenn's birthday tomorrow! The big 2-4...ooh..pop over and spread your happy thoughts with her.

Ok. Went to see Finding Nemo on Friday morning with the grades 4, 5, 6, and 7s from school. It was GREAT! Quite emotional, there were a few very scary parts, and a couple of *quite* sad parts, I had to break out the kleenex there at the end, but it was really really good. There were a lot of parts where Lisa and I were laughing and nobody else was, and some where I was laughing and nobody else was, but whatever, I enjoyed myself.
We went to see Dumb and Dumberer last night, and it was, you guessed it, dumb. Pretty funny, but really stupid. The guy who played Lloyd, Jim Carrey's character, was very much like him, it was kind of weird. Not worth a weekend fee, but go for a matinee or rent it.

Happy Father's Day!

tutoring flowers

Ok. 2 interesting things.

Thing one, a lesson learned: I was coming home from tutoring today, and parked beside me was a pickup truck with an interesting sticker, not on the bumper, but on the back of the truck. It had a picture of a deer, a drawn one but not cartoon-y. Under the deer pic, it says "Hunting is fun, let's keep our guns!". What the...?

Thing two, the saga of the walking catfish continues: Was out with Jenn tonight, went to supper at Arby's and then for a tour to Pets Unlimited. Wandered around the 4 legged animals for a bit, fell in love with a 3 month old Chesapeake / Lab mix puppy who I would have bought, even though she's at a petstore, just because she was so damned cute, mocked the skinny pigs/house hippos, and then decided to check out the fish. After admiring the extremely cool and large saltwater aquarium they have set up, we wandered around to see if they still had any walking catfish. They do, and here's the kicker, they're GIVING THEM AWAY. They're my fish, that I returned, because the other 2 that were in the tank were much bigger and much smaller than mine, who are the same size. So my 2 bastard catfish, still there, now being given away for free, because they're devil fish who eat everything. I think they should be euthanized or something, they can't possibly live in a tank with anything other than eachother, and who wants 2 goddamn ugly giant catfish all by themselves?

Moving on, I got flowers today! I'm so loved lately. It was my last day tutoring, and the mother of the boy I'm working with at school as well as tutoring gave me a potted chrysanthemum of some sort, it's really neat looking, I'll post a picture of it tomorrow. Or in a minute, hang on. I got a card too, and I just felt really good. I love feeling appreciated. I would love to work at the school I'm at too, it's great. I don't think there are many openings there though, which is unfortunate.

So I've started planning, or continued planning I guess. Anyway, I'm still waiting on jobs for the fall, and tutoring...I think I'll have that for next year but I haven't been told yet for sure. Anyway, I'm thinking financially, and I'm wondering what about a bachelor apartment for next year? They're much cheaper than 1 bedrooms, and it'll just be me and the cats... Are there nice bachelors? I don't want something tiny, but I'm cool with not having separate rooms. Has anyone or anyone's friend ever lived in a bachelor? I'll just have to check them out myself I suppose, but extra opinions never hurt.
I want to go see a movie tonight, Grant's gone home to write the exam for his correspondance course, but there's nothing I really want to see in theatres. Old School came out on video, but if I rent that without the boy he'll be all cranky. hah. Bad TV it is!

Hello all. I don't have much to say, but I've been slacking off so I thought I'd better pop by. School is almost done, I finish tutoring on Thursday and my morning job is done the 20th. I'm looking forward to sitting around doing nothing, but I wouldn't mind doing something...so long as I don't have to work some menial minimum wage job at crappy hours. I haven't yet figured out how to avoid that and still work, so it's looking like not much for the summer. Ah well. I'm still on relief at MCRI, so I'll get a couple of shifts there, but definitely not enough to pay rent. I have to do up applications for jobs in other districts now, which is a hassle but may be worth it. Only one job I can do in dist 16, teaching English at Grant's old school. That'd be kind of funny, but I'd rather work here. No jobs in Freddy yet, so the waiting game continues. Anyway, I have to eat something because all I had for brekkie was a granola bar. A healthy one, at that.

News today:

I *finally* learned what the hell the BMT in the Subway Italian BMT sub stands for. It's like, Bostom Metro Transit or something, some kind of train system. Very odd, nothing to do with sandwiches, but it's good to know. I've been asking at every Subway for about 2 months now, and this was the first time anyone had any idea.

Also, I was chatting with a couple of the girls in my grade 7 class, and I mentioned how I wanted to get a dog, but had to wait til I got a house. One student said "Miss Smith, I work at the SPCA, do you want a dog? Cause I can get you one!". I don't know if she was offering to pick one out or sneak one out for me, but either way it was funny. anyway, now it's bedtime.

Alright. Just got back from Down With Love. It was cute, funny, but sort of weird. Lots of laughs, but lots of groans too. Honestly, hard to explain. I went with Jenn (who has comments now) after work today, it was the last night that it's showing. It was definitely worth the $7. Anyway, it's just about midnight and I do have to work tomorrow, so bon soir a vous autres.

it's great to feel loved. I got flowers on Friday just for being at the school I'm at. All the TA's and such got them, so I felt pretty special. Aren't they lovely?

Just to keep you entertained....I had to pull over on Wheeler Blvd today to take pictures of some trees, because for some reason they are really the most bent and still growing there. Odd, but fun. So, for your viewing pleasure, a bendy birch tree, and a bendy evergreen. Neat eh? Oh, yeah, they're bendy because of the ice storm way back, they got so weighed down that they just never really recovered, but seem to be doing fine. Lots of trees just died, and a lot came back, but these ones are the most interesting.

Also, I did a pretty poor write up of my weekend didn't I? It was pretty good! I went up to Freddy for the day, just for fun. Grant had to do work on his senior proposal presentation, so I figured I may as well get out. I went with Tirésa to the Clay Cafe up there, and it was terrific. If I had like, $100, 000...I would really open one up here in Moncton. So, if you do have that kind of cash, or access to it, I'd go for it. You pick your ceramic pieces, everything from blank tiles to sushi bowl sets. I chose 3 sweet bud vases, all different shapes, and painted them each a different solid colour, with a different colour on the inside that was visible, and an apple-shaped box for holding knick-knacks on my imaginary desk in my imaginary classroom. I'm hoping this 'power of positive thought' thing works out. My apple is a granny smith, just because. Erin and her terrific new roommate Katie, who's also trying to break her way in to the full-time teaching world, made us a great, Chinese type supper with rice, chicken, eggrolls etc. I hadn't planned on spending the night, but supper ended at about 9, so I opted not to drive home. It was then that we rented 25th Hour, which I have rented again, but it's due back at 11pm and I'm not sure that I'll watch it before then.

Anyway, going to go sit and vegetate for a bit before work.

Heaven help me for the way I am
Save me from these evil deeds
Before I get them done
I know tomorrow brings
The consequence at hand
But I keep livin' this day like
The next will never come
Oh help me but don't tell me to deny it
I've got to cleanse myself
Of all these lies till I'm good enough for him
I've got a lot to lose
and I'm bettin' high so I'm beggin' you
before it ends just tell me where to begin

Just rented a really good movie. Welcome to Collinwood. You should all rent it, and definitely remember to watch the bonus footage, and the credits at the end of the bonus footage. It's just terrifically funny. Grant and I are very close to declaring a ban on renting movies we've heard of, because they're so rarely as good as you hope they will be, and the smaller movies are so often very very good. I'm sure if Erin reads this she'll be like, duh, I could have told you that. But as with most things, I had to figure it out for myself.
I've also rented 25th Hour, with Ed Norton. Now, I rented it with Tirésa on Saturday night, and we turned it off because we were a bit tired and it was a bit slow. I do want to see the end, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope that it'll thrill me. Apparently that's a "Spike Lee Joint" thing, sort of slow to develop. I say boo to that, I want interesting plot before the movie is half over.
That's about all my advice for tonight I guess. I reorganized my car cd collection, that's always a good thing. I've been listening to Fiona Apple somewhat obsessively for the past couple of days I haven't listened to her for quite a long time, and surprised myself at how much of the cd I remember. Criminal is such a great song to turn up loud and sing along. I suppose most of the reason I enjoy her is because she's in my key.

ooh, giant pictures! I've been playing with my camera, and I did some close ups. I got some skittles, and the Rubick's Cube. Fun stuff! These are about half the size they were when they came off the camera.