i know what we got to do, you let go - and i'll let go too

I have become obsessed with this internet presentation of musicians that do one song in the back of a black cab... so black cab sessions

here are my two favourite episodes so far

holly miranda (who is my new obsession)



and
Lykki li !



oh goodness
i only like female musicians hahah

fin

bang

the world is so noisey
its hard to hear what you need to

fin

i have something that i love long long but my friends keep telling me that somethings wrong

Okay I am a half hour early for my meeting this morning, so I have decided to do my annual top ten albums list.... heeereee we go... this was a tough 10 to make but here it is:

10) Timbre Timbre - Timbre Timbre
9) Humbug - The Arctic Monkeys
8) Blue Print III - Jay Z
7) Manners - Passion Pit
6) Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
5) Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
4) Fame (rerelease) - Lady Gaga
3) Sainthood - Tegan and Sara
2) Begone Dull Care - Junior Boys
and!
1) It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Maybe I am missing something or someone.... but from my car
these are the top 10s
word up miley and taylor (i am too embaressed to add you)
gaga 4 lyfe
i need a nap

fin

crush me baby i'm all ears

blog readers I am oh so tired. personal journaling has become a new addiction - one i hope doesn't get in the way of my real blogging in the coming year.
i promise to blog proper

until then
i only communicate via music videos these days (apparently)



xo
fin

you make my dreams come true

Sometimes you find yourself sitting in a farm field, drinking hot apple cider, and looking at someone and noticing how old they have gotten. I asked if I looked older... the answer was no. He looks older.... the lines in his forehead... his hair is different. It is funny how fast 5 years passes... its crazy they we are 25.

I am so stoked to go to the bahamas..... less than one month now. I cannot wait.

finxo

never sleeps mgeeeeee

i wonder what it will be like to have a life again

i will tell you in 64 hours and 25 weeks

fin

i am not aware of how i could possibly love you without aching

ohhh swwooonnn



new album so soon!
old t&s for life though

fin

The September Issue

Who else is stoked on this ?



fin!

i do, sometimes i think i do

Blog readers... i am alive i promise... its not just you, ive been neglecting my personal diary as well......I wish i had something more exciting to tell... heather is home! but i havent really been able to see her because my school is attempting to kill me... basically i go between my job, my placement, class, and bed
ugh
lame
lammme

fin

a year since you've been gone

i lovvvvveeee ben folds
forever!



fin!

xx v

I have so much to blog about.... and i don't even know where to begin.

First, i am now 25. Twenty five...
I am not sure what that even means. Am i meant to have it all figured out by now? Meh, i think thats next years problem.... for now I am in my last year of school (finally), living in Toronto, and an hour away from my vice.... i have loved, and lost, and found new things to love, and people to love... I found out that sometimes things are allowed to hurt forever, but it doesn't have to ache forever... and most importantly, I am starting to feel a stillness within.... so maybe 25 did mean something....

three books i have read and HIGHLY encourage you to read
1) extremely loud and incredibly close
2) a tree grows in brooklyn
3) my booky wook

three best things about my birthday
1) laura (lt) coming to Toronto
2) sharing my/our birthday with deda
3) polaroids

three best moments since i last blogged
1) meeting mariah carey/mary j blige/ oprah/ jason reitman
2) getting the insides of my fingers tattooed
3) getting my bike

and now my 25 favourite things
25) chocolate anything
24) knitting
23) ike and tina
22) life twins
21) summer
20) ice cream
19) over sized mens button up shirts and 501 levi boyfriend jeans
18) journals
17) mexican food
16) never mind, bitch
15) my parents
14) my grandparents
13) my superstitious habits, and how only the people closest to me notice
12) dundas
11) ruby woo
10) records
9) over the knee boots
8) books that feel make you feel like you are inside them
7) snail mail / post cards
6) polaroids
5) how hard new york city is / how soft san francisco is
4) earned stories (jes)
3) jeff buckley
2) my bed
1) h.a.c.

picture blog to accompany this blog to come

xooxoxoxox
fin

blue

fin

ten dollah

I always garage sale with my grandparents when i can....i mean its saturday morning, so when i open at work i can't really get to hamilton - but if there is anyway I can be there - im there
its always about the time i spend with them - the garage saleing and any subsequent finds are bonus
this past saturday I had a super good find day
i got this amazing vintage 35 mm camera that I am in love with and a polaroid camera (just in time for urban outfitters launch of the polaroid campaign)
AND i got a bunch of sweet vinyl
The Beatles - Live At Hollywood Bowl
Joni Michell - Blue
Led Zeppelin - II
Run Dmc - Raising Hell
Rolling Stones - Love You Live
Elton John - Greatest Hits
Eagles - Greatest Hits
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Eagles - Long Run
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bullocks
Queen - The Game
Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life
Blondie - Eat To The Beat
Fleetwood Mac -Rumors
Billy Joel - Live in the USSR
Otis Redding - Sings Soul Ballads
Joe Cocker - Greatest Hits

I got all those records and the two cameras for 10 dollars
i love hamilton!

fin

even when you're sleeping, i'm watching you

i got eyelash extentions today
my mother watched
they feel weird and uncomfortable, and i have a bad feeling the 'growing out' phase will be awkward at best

but i have a bigger feeling that once i am used to these additions i will be smitten

fin

we don't hear ear to ear

i have this vivid memory of driving up to you at the corner of hess and charlton st w. at 1 am. We were going to go swim until the sun came up, and then sleep all day. It was really hot outside, and you looked so perfect standing there in the street light... the love of my life. We were really beautiful. We have talked a lot about that summer lately.
Its never the end that gets you, you know? its those moments in the summer, in the night - it the day on hikes... its those moments where you realize you are in love... thats what kills you in the end - those are the knives

fin

hamilton

I will love that man unconditionally for the rest of my life. He knows what it is. We have history. I've known him since I was a girl. We just have a love/hate relationship, so I prefer to love him from afar.


fin

i'm empty and aching and i don't know why

the best part about going to the suburbs is the part where i go to value village and buy simon and garfunkle's greatest hits for a dollar

fin

in his own way he loved me until the end

today the Edge Intern Army came into my work really early, and i was the only cashier
they said: we will buy you 50 bucks of anything in the store


so i thought really hard, and concluded I would never buy myself ridiculously expensive vinyl
so they bought me
this
and
this
and
THIS!

Thank you random act of kindness fridays
what a day

fin

lets go get some air with oxygen in it

not to quote Ghost Town, but i have a really sensitive gag reflex
i gag all the time
ALL the time
if im nervous
if i smell something bad
if im sad
if something i eat is gross
if i over eat
GAG
also the funniest because it happens a lot.... if my gum loses flavour i gag
its really embaressing
i gag like three times a day

fin

i'm good i'm gone

Listen to good music (aka my new show) http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=7569 says: (4:24:56 PM)
did you puke?

m says: (4:27:03 PM)
gagged in my washroom alone

Listen to good music (aka my new show) http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=7569 says: (4:27:13 PM)
blargh

fin

i choose ativan and shakakan

i chose to feel it, and he couldn't choose

these event transpired from this point:
- i smoked half a pack of cigs
- i ate half a cheese cake
- i ate a veggie burger, fries, and coleslaw from swiss chalet
- gagged from over eating
- i took my medication
- i took two ativan
- i layed in my bed writting this

tomorrow is a new day

fin

happy people are thin people

Does anyone still read this?!
how have i neglected my baby for three weeks?
i think i have honestly just been enjoying life - thus little internet ha ha ha
heather has been back for about three weeks now - and it has been amazing. Its funny how you don't realize how much you miss someone until you see them again. I am foresure dreading August 1.

So is this garbage strike over yet? I think I heard rumours that it was to end tomorrow - which i truly hope is the case.... at week 7 I am finally starting to really notice the difference..... the unsightly litter is turning in piles I must avoid during rush hour walking... not fun.

I have been working at my job for over 9 months now - is that not insane? where does the time go? I hate it, but honestly what 'after school job' am I not going to hate at this point? At least the people are rad - and the majority of them don't eat, work out too much, and drink more diet coke than I do... it has been really motivating meeting soul mates ha ha... get skinny or die trying...Toronto lifestyle is slowly taking over.
(please note the 'joking' nature of this story... and my joking I mean, secretly half true)
BRUTS

So last night marked the re-reemergence .... that beating of the drum, something wicked this way comes prophecy I made all those months ago... the raining.... well readers
get out the umbrellas... or maybe this time, it will turn into sun
lets hope for the sun.... because with the summer we have had in southern ontario, we need it

fin

fool me twice

its raining a bit

BUT
Heather is home which is glorious

i have a lot to look forward to this weekend like the free broken social scene show at the harbourfront, and the smithfits, and shopping with heather!
horrah!

lately i have been feeling like my job has been eating my soul ... the only problem is that i can't think of any part time job that would eat my soul any less
...... in any case i work in about twelve hours and i am already dreading it
ha ha ha
awful

fin

marry me

oh
my
god

everyone is getting engaged

on this note, i will share with you St. Vincent - i cannot get enough of her



fin

the man of my dreams and his beautiful husband

You know what is weird... i was at work yesterday and there was a stylist returning clothes from a photo shoot.... he was so cute and put together - and obviously gay.
And these two guys, who are in business suits come through my line... they are obviously educated, and in their mid thirties... and they are saying this awful shit about this stylist....
i cannot believe people like this exist...
it is just so disappointing ....
intolerance is perhaps the worst trait in a person...

on a super positive note... heather is coming home in days!!!
i am so stoked on her return

also... what is up with this weather? isn't it summer? i feel like i'm cold all the time

fin

ughh

big PS



whats up ! greatest ever

fin

i want to love you

in an ode to mj, i share my top 5 jams

5) Most under rated mj song, Do You Remember


4) Mn in the Mirror


3)Billie Jean


2) Don't Stop


drum rolllllll

1) PYT !!!


fin

intuition

remember how i told you that "this was the calm before the storm?

its starting to rain

fin

backstreets back alright!

three amazing things happen last night

1) I saw gene simmons walking down yonge st. on my way home last night... and he was wearing a fanny pack

2) Zack Morris! (stick it out through the first 15 seconds of adds before the real clip starts)

3) AJ from BSB came through my till at work last night... and my voice started shaking and i told him that I loved him

AWESOME!

fin

rise up !

So last night i was at a friends house ... it seems as though I have met soul mates..... we watched Obsessed and Intervention to entertain us during the predrink.... and then one of my friends tells me his father was the drummer for Paracute Club...
and then we watched the music video
hahahah this sounds lame... in fact it was glorious

also, i found a new lipstick... it is the year for amazing lip colours... Girl About Town

fin

you're insane!

Jewish Europeans are insane.... like INSANE.  They are really funny about worrying their loved ones.  Therefore, they don't talk about anything.  If you are sick, or lose a job, or even if someone dies, we have a hard time telling other people because we don't want to upset them.  

For example, when I was about 9 or 10 my cat died, and my grandpa tried to keep it from me, because he thought I could go about life not noticing.... this is a true story

Curb your Enthusiasm has depicted this phenomenon perfectly

enjoy!
fin

still its a shock to your soft side

Karma police.  

Is it a sign of being grown up when karma serves someone exactly what they dished out, and I find no gratification in it.  In fact, I find that I can relate to how they feel because I have been there.  Maybe that is just weakness on my behalf?  I thought I would be elated by this news - rather, it just makes me have less faith in people.

It is weird how easy it is to forgive people that make other people look insignificant.....

you know the expression it pales in comparison ... I never thought about it... but like this person actually makes other people look pale to me...

Im older, smarter, experienced now - its not like that.... it is just about how good it feels to finally forgive you

fin

no wonder, no wonder, other half

I think it is funny how we go throughout days and weeks and even  years - and we loose contact with some people, and we meet new people - some people grow up, or apart, or on.... for the longest time i would feel different ways about each person, but to be honest... it never stung.  It was just always unfortunate to me.  A huge disappointment if anything.  

There has always been a particular person that has really stuck with me.  It was really hard for me to let go of them, and i had this epiphany last night.  I have never lost someone i truly cared about before..... lost! as if they can't find there way ha ha ha

(huge side note: my grandfather tells this joke.... in russian you say London, you spell London.... in english you say London, you spell Manchester.... it is his attempt to point out the flaws in our language, in this moment i would have to agree) 

Regardless, this person that is no longer in my everyday life, they taught me what it was like to really miss someone....well i think they taught me more than that, but for that reason I think it has been so hard to totally move on. 

I have so much to be really grateful for, and new relationships, new friendships.... but i guess it is pretty profound to teach another human how to really miss 

thought of the day

enjoy

fin

how michelle got her groove back

I peeled another apple today ... NO SEEDS

what is going to happen?

no mo apples for the world

So the other day I went to see Billy Joel 

and Elton John with monica and my mom... we had a really great time  ... they were amazing 

In other amazing news... andrew is home!! finallyyyyyyyyy

its funny how you know you miss someone, and you talk to them all the time, but you only realize how much you really missed them until they are back.... i think i realized how much it was when we got to the bar and he opened the door to get out and he face planed from the back seat onto the sidewalk....and just layed there like a stunned cat .... awwww andy 

hmmm what else? it was our friend paulette's birthday, and we went out to her party - and it was a really good time.... i think i also forgot how much i missed going out

ALSO zach moved to Toronto! its always good to have a face from home a bit closer.... he came over and we went out for breakfast with bren - at a jewish restaurant ... obviously lol

hes so jewy

i owe all my knowledge of breakfast joints in the downtown core to the lovely lauren lincoln... the girl loves to eat, and to show me amazing lipstick colours

what a catch!

okay i will post more like this more often

ill get my blog groove back too, i promise

finnnnn

pomme

I just peeled an apple and it had a core with no seeds... i think this a clear sign of the Apocalypse .... also

i will post a real blog with pictures tomorrow

fin!

ALSO 

i found an amazing lip stick colour... mac... pink plaid 

oh god

so good

oyyyy

i always wear contacts so i never really pay attention to my eyes much... but a few days ago i was trying to get something out of my eye and i noticed that they are really changing colour... anyways my mom came to see me yesterday and she noticed.. now i have to go see an optomitrist because apparently this is a sign of a degenerative eye disease ... this is not what i need

although i like this new colour....

i will note my aunts eyes changed colour in her 20s ... so maybe its just time for a change

fin

i know i can make it through

i have some toronto gossip 

jimmy from degrassi is dating rhiana 

i love it

LOVE it

fin

word play

Ha ha ha this is going to be weird... I speak a couple languages, so I always find words that I like the sound of....

my english words are:

Gentrification

Indentured Servitude

and Kiosk 

this is all

fin

pee ess

Diego wanted me to add this picture

he thought it was funny because "he has never seen a man knit"

hilarious

fin!

jelly bean green

okay so when i was in the airport going to nyc i saw this woman and had to take a blackberry picture of her
it was too amazing not to...
note shirt, jacket, pants, carry on, suit case, and shoes

all PERFECTLY matched

it was spectacular !
diego's theory never falters
fin!

glitter on the wet streets

OH MAN

okay, i have always LOVED the yeah yeah yeahs, but ever since they released It's Blitz! last month, I haven't been able to stop listening to it....

I think it is because there are 15 tracks on the cd but only 10 songs, they do 5 of the 10 acoustically - it is just amazing

if you haven't heard the cd, run out and get a copy

here are my two favourite songs.... but they are all stellar 

AND



the first one makes me want to dance, the second one makes me want to melt
oh i am a happy happy girl
one who found closure on a cold may night


fin!

you suddenly complete me

OKAY
so lets catch up.... new york, work, toronto island, sun burn, work, peter's birthday, work, drew's birthday, work, work work work, hamilton, animal collective, work.....
caught up!

pictures to help?
Toronto Island Ferry
Central Park

Empire State Building

OKAY AGAIN

so if you have not seen Animal Collective live you have to - it was really really amazing

alright my loves

i'll be back soon

i have another blog in my head already

fin!

work it girl

i did it! I made my first trip up to the anthropologie in north toronto!
it was amazing ... just amazing
over priced obviously, but my 40% off helped me purchase a romper.... I don't even think I look good in rompers, but this one was amazing
I am a happy happy happy girl

fin!

shes seen her share of devils in this angel town

As a nurse the funniest thing happens .... without noticing, you start to look at everyday situation in a medical way... all of a sudden a bruise is an abrasion ... a hang over? just dehydration: you need more water so that your kreb's cycle can function.....
the funniest part to me is when you see someone you like / used to like / blah blah
and then this pops into my head: acute stress response.
Layman's terms? fight or flight.
It is a theory which states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing. So when I am just chillin, my neurons are just firing up there normally, BUT THEN, an external stimulus ! a stressor! it is relayed from my sensory cortex of the brain through the hypothalamus to the brain stem.
If the stimulus is perceived as a threat, a more intense and prolonged discharge of the locus ceruleus activates the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. This activation is associated with specific physiological actions in the system, both directly and indirectly through the release of epinephrine (adrenaline) and to a lesser extent norepinephrine from the medulla of the adrenal glands. The release is triggered by acetylcholine released from preganglionic sympathetic nerves.

and with this I believe I have lost the last of my readers hahahaha
but for cereal, this is what floats around in my head, in case you were wondering....
most people get jolted and scared.... THAT is what happens to me

heavy dudes
hhhheaaavyyyy

fin

yeux sur toi

It is funny. I have learned in school about sleep patters and deprivation and so on. And I was shocked to learn that you can 'catch up' on sleep. This is not an urban myth. Your body will actually catch up on sleep if you can allow it. Today I experienced this. I have been doing really long day lately, and not sleeping long at all. This morning I didn't even hear Bren get up for work. I woke up at 830am, ate breakfast, and then went back to sleep until now (2:45pm).
I feel AMAZING

viva sleep

fin

a thousand years in between

So I am done school for the year!
another year .... if you would have told me that at 17 I would still be in school 8 years from then, I would have told you that you were fucking insane .....
well here we are

ugh!

but on the bright side, only one more year!!!

also, sometimes I forget about favourite songs.... this is one of them !
glorious:



i dig it!

fin

you look like a douche

I went to see 17 Again last night



it was so teen-rific
and the guy i went with liked it
EVERYONE wins!

also, like Zac Efron is not my type at all... like at all
but he is so so so beautiful
its overwhelming how good looking he is
and funny

he is my new taylor hanson
not that i am replacing taylor hanson, they just sit together in my tree

fin

mister duplicity

Lets take it back ..... way back to Jagged Little Pill

You know when she says "The cross I bare that you gave to me?"
when I was a little Michelle, I thought she said "The cross-eye bear that you gave to me"

what do you expect
i was 9!

fin

i've got money in the bank

Do you know the best part about my situation in Toronto? I get 40% off everything at Urban Outfittes, Anthropologie, and Free People.  Wait wait wait.... but the shipping is so much from the latter two....

Anthropologie opens up in North Toronto on Wednesday

horrah!

fin

understand the lay of the land, and don't let it hurt you - or it will be the first to

Oh My Goodnesssssssssssssssssssssss

So my font decided to be blue today?  I don't mind.  I am not sure how this happened, but I am going to go with it.  

If we remember this fall, Brennan and I were lucky enough to see two secret Feist shows.  At the latter of the two, she told the 45 people there that they were recording this to be part of a live dvd that would include a movie that Kevin Drew was filming of her and The Water.

SO I have long been anticipating this movie, AND it is HERE!!

Cillian Murphy! Feist !

oh god

my heart ... it ... explodes!

fin

looking for a downtown man

I am going to share my opinions on the upcoming fashions / fads for this season.... 

1) Bollywood .... let me express my love for authentic bollywood before the pussy cat dolls further bastardize it.   They have stated their intentions to delve further into this genre of film/dance/ music .... and i am so concerned for that outcome

either way let it be known... michelle loves bollywood

2) A well structured black blazer that preferably has a coloured satin liner so that you can roll the sleeves up to the elbow

3) burn out tshirt or tank top..... with a plain black american apparel black bra underneath

3)high wasted, bright skirts.... i KNOW ... i know! we have been dealing with this for seasons... still ... i'll say its more intersted because instead of block colours we have moved onto block patterns

4) Leather bommer jacket... i'll save you the picture post.... black black black... brown if you must... i say black

5) Shoes? I have a few options from early spring to late spring to summer

Urban outfitters has these really simplistic sandles that are so simple and so cute... perfect when its too hot to care about what is on your feet

I think they are cuter in person... they are soooo must have 

• The second shoe... a plain moccasin shoes ... not the boots ... i am looking for a nice brown pair since I got a cute black pair last season.... they are totally perfect for early spring
  
• Plain biway inspired canvas shoes ! every colour! amazing

6) Pink based red lipstick.... girls, girls, girls... I am going to lend you a makeup trick.  You think you can't pull off red lipstick because your lips are too ____ (thin, big, small etc).... there is a loop hole... when we think red lips we think gwen stefani? marilyn monroe? they wore blue based red lipstick (think big apple red, or russian red)... cold colours... no no no no no..... those colours are for girls with perfect lips ... the rest of us have pink/yellow based reds! which are amazing! you will be a changed woman.  Try Shiseido .... SL7

7) Jean cut off shorts!!!

8) Finally ! onesies with tall brown boots

I have more!! i just am tired

maybe next post!

oh spring! oh new clothing!

fin

AMAZING

FYI party people
this is my 300 post!!

ALSO
look at what monica and i found!! AND it is happening tomorrow night at the Fox and the Fiddle on bloor

it is like fate!
i am a space enthusiast
how convenient .... even more convenient that i spent 10 halloweens being princess leia.... my costume has been in waiting

Yuri's Night !!

THE OFFICIAL SITE!

fin!

alcohol

i am already waiting for my day of atonement to repent my breaking of passover

see you in september shul
see you then

fin

fuck y'all... all y'all... if you don't like me - blow me

Today is our last group conference at school
i would pay someone a lot of money to go for me today
uuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhh
As if I am dreading my last day of school

but here i am

ha ha ha but serious
if you wanna go ... let me know

fin

ps- on a great note... the College Humor Show starts next tuesday! horrah!

stop talking so jewy

Happy Pesach
Passover begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan and lasts for seven or eight days. The festival commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago. It is regarded as one of the most important as well as most favorite of all Jewish holidays.

The youngest child is asked four questions at the table

The four questions that are asked are given here along with their answers:

1. Why do we eat only Matzoh on Pesach and not all kinds of breads and crackers like other nights?

When Pharaoh finally ordered Jews to get out of Egypt after the tenth plague, they were in such a hurry to get away from slavery that they hadn't time to let their dough rise and bake their bread. Thus, they took the raw dough with them on their journey and baked it into hard crackers in the hot desert called Matzoh. Thus, we eat only Matzoh on this day to remind us of their struggles.


2. Why do we eat bitter herbs or Maror at our Seder?

Maror or the bitter herbs are eaten to remind us of the bitterness of slavery and harsh and cruel ways in which Jewish people were treated as slaves under the Pharaoh in Egypt.


3. At our Seder, why do we dip the parsley in salt water and the bitter herbs in Charoset?

Parsley represents new life and Spring while salt water represents tears of Hebrew slaves. Parsley dipped in salt water thus represents new life that emerged from the tears and hardship of the Jewish slaves. Bitter herbs dipped into Charoset represent the bitter days of slavery. Charoset has a coarse texture like clay used to make bricks for the Pharaoh's buildings.


4. Why do we lean on a pillow while eating tonight and do not sit straight like other nights?

Leaning on a pillow signifies the comforts of freedom. As slaves, our ancestors had little comforts. Thus, we lean on a pillow to assert that we are free now and can sit straight or lean on a pillow as much as we like.


and there you go
a little jewish insight

enjoy

fin

self preservation is a full time occupation

remember on the city when diane von furstenberg said that the most important relationship you will ever have is the relationship you have with yourself

deep man

very very deep


fin

a good friend with bad habits

I somehow pulled a shoulder muscle last night

I do not how i did that

I must have a weak shoulder or something ... I feel like I have already done this earlier this year... balls.

It is just like a bad fucking week ha ha ha ha

I have this trait about myself that I hate.  I have a really really hard time forgiving people.  Like REALLY hard time.  I think it is a self preservation mechanism.  I just (from experience) find that once someone does something extremely harsh, they are likely to repeat the behaviour.  That and I feel like I hold a grudge, and I don't like being in a friendship where i feel like I resent the other person.  I wish I could just let things go, and move on - forgive and forget right?  I am incapable.  I have been burned too many times by petty people, and now I just have a one big strike and you are out policy.  I am not talking about the small stuff.... I am not unreasonable .... I just feel like if trust is gone, what friendship is there to salvage?

It just stings a little bit harder when you held that person quite close.

I so wish it was my fourth year and  I was graduating in April ... but I am going to make the most of my last summer ... I am SO looking forward to Heather coming home .... I feel like between that and my trip over seas that September will be here before you know it....

oh oh oh! also i brought my old school keyboard back to Toronto with me... I started to teach myself a song last night.. I am stoked on this

I am also stoked on my roof top patio......bbq, hot tub, sun.....come to me summer.... commmmmeeee tooooooo mmmmeeeeeee

fin

ps- in anticipation of passover I have eating 1.5 bagels today..... carbs 4 lyfe

i bet you'll be strangely relieved when i'm gone

 How is this for some school irony

this is the first time in this program that I do not have 6-7 exams.... in fact! i only have 3

but they are April 20, 27, and 30.... WHAT

i am finished school April 30?

is that even allowed?

gross.

I decided I need to change things around in my life in a big way.  I need some serious quarter life spring cleaning.  I talked with my grandfather for a long time this afternoon about life, and my plans for the future... my goals - and how i plan to get there..... and for the first time, I really think I know that I am exactly where I need to be.  I guess if you are a blog reader, this is the time to stay tuned.... I will have a lot to blog about hopefully in the next few months.

now all i need is for the snow to stop!

its april mother nature, cut us some slack

finxooooooooxoxooxoxoxoxxoxoox!

fml.... a reprise

i feel like karma just served me really good...

okay world - we are even now?

fin

fml .... a ps:

ha ha ha ha ha ha 

murphys law?

Brennans friend just brought a disgusting girl back to our apartment and woke me up by offering her our food and drinks

i had to go downstairs and walk it off because i was shaking i was so mad

i don't think i was that unclassy .... ugh ever?

FUCK MY LIFE

fin

for me it's spiders - for you its me.

Comfort is a funny feeling.  It is dangerous.   In the beginning it is reassuring, it provides encouragement, and a safety net - but if you get too enthralled in this comfort, you will eventually lose your footing.  

Nothing lasts forever, so eventually your comforts shift, your situations change, and you find yourself being complacent in new cities, with new people - it is human nature, we all are attracted to the familiar.  

What does this all mean ? what is this convoluted rant trying to get at?

Nothing is unconditional.  Everyone has their price..... everyone has their breaking point.

I love fiercely.  When I let someone in, it is a very very deep in.  So when they end up disappointing me, it always cuts pretty deep.  I have to learn a lesson eventually.  

It is funny, the other day this girl I know was telling me a story about someone doing something shitty to her.... and do you know what i responded with?   I told her that I just expect people to disappoint me now - I don't even get mad, I just wait for it.

I guess I am just over it now.  I am sincerely over turning a blind eye to people treating me with any ounce of disrespect - and I am even more over overextending myself for people who do not deserve it.

Word to the wise.... by the beating of my drum, something wicked this way comes

fin.

apres moi

Yesterday I skipped out of my clinical placement insanely early.... no one ever watches me... and after I finished teaching all the lessons and running the breakfast program -i just left

i went right to telus and returned the shitty phone that didn't work (which i had bought 24 hours earlier)
and decided that it has been too long since i saw Joanna.... so i drove up north and had a really great day with her, and jakers, and laila

yes yes yes i know.... deadlines - but i just needed 10 minutes to myself or i was going to go insane...i am paying for it today
I have a brutal presentation at 6pm .... which will end in our awful teacher ripping it apart

i will confirm this at 8pm for all of you

all in all i think it is safe to say my life is hectic and unpleasent... but only for 28 more days

fin!

ps- look at me ! in my office ! with a new WORKING phone, thanks to the lovely joanna

fail blog

Today was such a big fail that it was comical

Monica and I have three big projects due and essays and a portfolio.... all due - yesterday.
After having slept for ohhh maybe 4 hours on saturday night we met on sunday at 830am and began working until ohh well i didn't get home until about 7pm... and then stayed up half the night writting an essay.
So today Monica and I met at 7:45am to go to school to hand in said (late) essay.

After we handed in the essay we had to run around campus trying to track down people involved in health promotion programs to get some insight in a program we are starting up..... well a little (un)known fact about Ryerson University.... their health promotion office is manned by...uhhh no one. The main office has been taken over my the aboriginal studies office, and one room in the back remained locked all day - and the only advice we were given .... come back in an hour.
Did i mention it is about 1000 stairs straight up?

While we were running around, we had to pop into one of monica's classes she was skipping in order to figure out if her deadline was today or wednesday.... on the way to the class we bumped into my teacher (of the class i was skipping) and then her teacher.... we decided we needed to go eat some lunch, and on the way to the AMC caf we see our prof of the class that we had skipped that morning.
oh ya
thats the prof for those late essays too

epic day fail

at it was all before noon

ugh

fin

blows bubbles with their gum, take photographs, have fun.... have fun

As i end my third year of my second undergraduate degree a lot of things are going through my head - one that i am not most proud of is the fact that I will be making a pretty big salary this time next year.
Well let me rephrase that - i am not proud that the money is appealing - i am proud that I have worked hard enough to earn that money. Either way - recession or not - i will finally be able to be extremely reckless instead of the moderately reckless life I seem to lead now. I have decided that for one year, I am going to do whatever I want to do. Pay my bills and then do whatever I want with the rest of the money.... entirely irresponsible, but like EIGHT FUCKING YEARS OF POST SECONDARY SCHOOL.... i deserve to blow that much money on things like:

1) South By South West .... I will go, I will have a lot of fun
2) Cochella - I will go, I will have a lot of fun - preferably with busy P
3) Guitar - I am going to buy whatever guitar I like the most, and then I am going to take lessons
4) I am going to buy all new furniture for my living room
5) I am going to take my mother somewhere she really wants to go
6) See heather as much as possible, regardless of where she lives
7) I am going to buy a pair (or two) of christian louboutin shoes

by the end of this year I plan to have $1.20 to my name
and then it will be time to save and shit

fin

inside all of us is a wild thing

OH EM GEE

My FAVOURITE book as a child:



i seriously have not been so excited!
arcade fire! wild things!
i teared up

fin
!!!!!!!

to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

Do you ever notice that women who work at hair salons, and spas are brutally honest. I think it is a symptom of being around only women for the majority of the time. I went to get my eyebrows waxed today. Granted it had been too long, and I was beginning to resemble the 13 year old version of my ungroomed face - but that is neither here nor there. I sort of poke light at the fact that I waited too long, and the woman looks at me and says 'oh yes, way too long'
ha ha no need for niceties.
In any case, I have two separate eyebrows now, that are shaped and groomed - hozzah!

So today Heather and I were talking, and she makes reference to a movie I have never heard of. She tells me to go watch the trailer - and so I did - and she was right .... my heart exploded!! it was as if someone made a movie just for me... swoooon

500 Days of Summer


who's coming with me on July 17??

fin

lying in my bed, the blanket is warm, this body will never be safe from harm

I love you
but i am not IN love with you

there is a clear and huge distinction there

fin

i wear my sunglasses at night

I think i go through sunglasses at an unreasonable rate. I used to pride myself in getting years out of 10 dollar shades - but these days I seem to have a monthly habit.

I have been watching the Wonder Years lately online..... and it makes me nostalgic for my youth. I cannot believe I am turning 25 this year. Luckily Brennan is half a year older, and I get to come to terms with our advanced age vicariously through him - before the blow actually hits me.

I know I have talked in great lengths about getting older lately. How sometimes I look back at the last 5 years and think : oh my god, where did the time go. I think how much time I spent worrying about the small stuff - and how I have learned that you can't sweat the small stuff - and even more importantly I have learned that it is all small stuff.
I feel like a lot of this reminiscing is rooted in my parents renovating my childhood bedroom. As of sunday there is no longer a bed in that room. It is like I am officially out for good - which is realistic since you know, I am entering my late 20s. Just something about those orange walls being covered in some 'mature' colour, and new furniture, replacing my childhood belongings is a little sad. I spent so much time in that room - loving, and losing, and crying, and laughing .... and now it is covered up in taupe, and modern fixtures. I think a lot about my parents. How me getting older - means them getting older. You never worry realistically about your parents not being there anymore - but it could happen. I mean the likelihood of my father dropping dead from a heart attack is slim - but not unquestionable ... I just remember them being younger. Sometimes I will come home for the day and see them. And once you have been away for a while you start to notice things .... their hair is a little greyer... they seem a bit slower...I guess that is realistic for someone entering their 60s. I mean don't get me wrong - they aren't on deaths door or anything - its just that they aren't 35 anymore. Maybe that is the disadvantage of my mother having me at 20. I have vivid memories of her at my age. I know what she was like when she was 25. So seeing her at 45 is just weird I guess. I just cannot even vocalize it. My father is more than 10 years older than my mother - and with him I see it the most. The scary part must be watching a child - a baby you made, grow up. I know from some secondary experience. My good friend, and aunt have had babies in the last five years - and it is unusual to have a physical representation of time. To see a baby become a little person, with feelings, and opinions, and their own secrets and friends.
Time is a funny thing
it always marches on

fin

goooooood morning mister stevenson

one of my favourite movies growing up was Little Monters
so i decided to see if they had a trailer for it... it turns out there is one... BUT it so misrepresents the movie! the movie is way more scary, and way more suspenseful ..... this clip makes it seem like prost-a-tot delight





its amazing !! try to find it on vhs / dvd if you can

fin

merry spring time

So yesterday Monica and I walked to school. At about spadina and queen my flats began to give me a wicked bad blister. SO at the ardenes right there i bought a pair of flip flops for $1.99! Except it was a bit too cold for sandals and people gave me dirty looks.

i always walk to school, but we compiled a list of street walkers we hate:

5) Slow walkers
4) People that walk 3 or more in a row... there is NO ROOM ... that and you walk too slow and block the pass by
3) People (presumably tourists) that walk around looking up all the time and then bump into people/things
2) Stop walkers.... if you meet a friend in the street move over to the side... do not stop abruptly in the middle of the sidewalk
1) I'm not walking with you walkers.... the people that you dont know that walk at the same pace as you and you sort of look like you are walking together and it gets uncomfortable
ugh
i hate that


Also the best part of the day is when oprah surprised ellen on the ellen show
it was amazing

Oh also a little treat for you all.... a video - i just preface this with, when i make a little cutting motion brennan goes crazy because he thinks i am going to pinch him - but i don't! anyways i wasn't doing anything and he attacked me to 'send me a message'.... I know ... I KNOW how chris brown of him
anyways, i started making the cutting motion to bring on the attacks to share with you all
enjoy

fin

tweet tweet

you know what might be as horrific as retail during christmas break?
retail during march break.

awwwwfuuullllll

So spring is here.... i can feel that it is not going away this time.... I am super stoked to be able to walk everywhere again

also i am excited for heather's tour of canada this summer
i miss that girl

fin

ps- welcome to my world johno

lest we forget

So do we all remember my Sabrina?

as a 14 year old girl, she is obviously in love with Twilight

I made her watch Interview with the Vampire to show her that her generation is trying to be mine
notice the same music.. hilarious



vs



fin

all the words in my mouth

are anyone else' tits moving farther down and farther apart

one thing is forsure

i am not 21 anymore

hot

fin

you'll never be a better kind, if you don't leave the world behind

what is with multiple blogs a day?
i have so much to write, but it is so disjointed

I stumbled on this girl that covers songs.... and has her own original songs too
but in her songs she sort of talks a bit, and you get to know a little about her
Ben Folds actually saw a video of her covering Gone, and got her to open up some shows for him, and sing gone with him on stage... i thought it was pretty impressive for a freshman in college making youtube videos

its super cute
and she plays ukulele
guh i love it
i feel like if i were 19 we would be friends ha ha

Green Gentleman - PATD


Woe- Say Anything


Gone - Ben Folds


Keep Fishin - Weezer


these are some of my favourites!
love it

fin

everybody gets there, everybody gets there

Do you ever think about someone, and then they call you?

I was walking to work yesterday, and I saw all the stuff being set up for CMW, and I was thinking about Nathan... how he was probably super busy this week
and then like 4 blocks later I run into him

i have espn

what a rad dude... he brings a smile to my face

fin

chuck norris lost his virginity before his father did

Happy 69th birthday big guy!


don't bother google-ing chuck norris


fin

love love love

i want to take voice lessons
i want to take guitar lessons
i want to take yogalates lessons

fin

You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

this is an embarrassing but true memory

before i had my first kiss, i knew it was coming... like i knew this boy was going to kiss me and i knew how unprepared i was for this ...
so in anticipation of my inexperience i did 2 things

1) i called heather to ask her to walk me through 'how to kiss someone' .... which now since I have been kissing for some years is such an impossible thing to ask of someone....

2) i tried to look it up online... which just seemed to scare me more

all in all, he just did it, and i sort of just stood there and knew what to do

ipso facto

research isn't always the answer ... which has been proven by me successfully completing 7 years of university.... and that kissing thing

fin

make love to the camera

I LOVE America's next top model
we are in season 12!
twelve!

yo girls, do me a favour, think of 5 top models, and 5 designers before you meet Tyra

I don't go to my job interviews without my resume, don't step to that woman without 10 names in your pretty little head

fin

if you can't beat them, join them?

remember my twitter blog down there...?
after getting several responses about HOW misinformed i am/was - and encouragement to try it out - i have broken down....

my rules about twitter club:
1) i will not post about my day to day activities - such as dinner, showering, etc.
2) i will not use it as i use this blog - this blog is personal insight ... twitter will be used as a facebook type of deal - i don't air my laundry on such forums
3) if i become an obnoxious user as i outlined a few blogs ago - please make me aware so that i can delete that bad boy

ugh god
here we go

michelle's twitter

fin

black wednesday

three posts in one day :|

sad day for beautiful hamilton, ontario

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/523647

over 2000 people left jobless this week - it is not a good scene for our city

fin

oh em gee

how could i forget to post this?

happy 24.5 birthday michelle!

fin

you might win some, but you just lost one

boooooobooobooo

last night i felt like i had 100 things about to blog about.... and now i can't remember any of them.

(+) i am addicted to pudding cups that are in the fridge
(-) my furniture in my room is all pushed against walls because i got a new bed, and haven't rearranged
(+) i got a new bed
(-) half the people that view my blog are just googling abba lyrics, or aldo shoes
(+) people actually view my blog
(+) I smell really good from using all the Lush stuff heather sent me
(+) the semester is half over
(-) no summer job

You know what is too much to handle? Regis Philbin saying "I Love Lil Kim" .... at 9 am
he is too much
its like your parents saying something wrong - like "hey michelle, have your heard of that artist fifty cents"

did i mention (+) i got a new bed?

glory

fin

thoughts on the interwebz

wired magazine said twitter is the new blog

you know what i think?
i don't need a play to play of your lives
it is by far the most narcissistic thing i have ever come across

at least blogs serve as a sort of 'diary' - keeps people up to date on your feelings, and likes, and troubles

Let me make an analogy. Twitter is the msn names of those guys you used to hang out with - the ones that give you a play by play of their lame lives ....
like do i give a fuck that you are going to dinner at 4:19pm?
But i guess the obvious answer is - if you don't like it, don't read it... right?
oh god
so little faith in my age bracket.

fin

ps- a post script while i am on a rant. I wonder if people ever think that they are the problem - that they are the undesirable one? As in, if unconnected individuals who are outside your family and friends continually feel that you are unsatisfactory, perhaps you need to reassess what type of person are are presenting to the outside world. If they are all wrong, maybe you are the problem. Elitist attitudes, that are not backed with any sort of credential, or experience, coupled with a manipulative demeanor that is apparent within 5 minutes of contact will continually result in failure. But again - maybe it is just karma.

hope to die? oui

SO
i have a guilty pleasure confession
at the gym, I always listen to really really REALLY ridiculous music - which makes sense i guess
i just need some upbeat tunes to keep me going. The problem is, that sometimes I find myself really liking these songs outside of the gym,
which leads me to this :



Anyways, on friday it is pretty cold and SUPER windy. But I decide to walk to work, because it isn't -100, and who doesn't want to save 2.75? WHO?
Anyways, I walk past the Tattoo Rock Parlour, and some dude somes barrelling out of the ally beside it. so obviously, I glance down the ally and there is a band unloading, and this dude who ran out and almost fucking runs into me gives me a DIRTY LOOK. Anyways, I look back because he was a jerk and he points me out to someone in the band. I was super fucking pissed.... like do you think I am seriously looking back because i am intrigued who is playing the rock parlour?
fuck off right?
anyways I look it up today - and guess who they were
Mariannas Fucking Trench..... that little gym obssession is over
like word up dudes.... you are new found glory wannabes
you will never make it big inside or outside of canada
go home

fin

i am suffocating under the weight of your collective disapproval

I have become obsessed with a new show: Being Erica

it is so smart, and entertaining, AND it is shot all over downtown toronto....very cute

enjoy

fin!

i've played all my cards

do you know AT LEAST once a week someone searches lyrics from ABBA's The Winner Takes It All, and is referred to my sight because i blogged about meryl streeps beautiful randition of it.... i feel like if i am to be known for something

i am happy it is abba!

ha ha

fin

it was all a dream, i used to read word up magazine

as promised

drummmmm rollll please

HUGE thank you to the beautiful and talented Carole Nelan

i think i did biggie smalls proud

fin

what's the difference between you and me?

I have something very exciting to show you tomorrow blog readers. Initially I had planned to post a vlog today featuring two tiny special guest, but it will make an appearance soon enough.
After much consideration i decided to be honest will all of you with the help of some of my friends (a prelude to tomorrow surprise oh la la)

"People talk so much about me in barber shops, they forget to get they hair cut" - Kanye

"It ain't that i'm too big to listen to the rumors, it's just that i'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em" - Dre

"You can tell the people you roll with whatever you want, but you and I know what's going on" - tupac

"Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas, backstabbers do this. Forgive them father for they know not what they do - It took me a little while to discover wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers. Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves" - Lauryn Hill

These last few days, a past situation of mine has been brought to light. Someone i loved hurt me in an awful way, and he got hurt in an awful way earlier this year. I never would wish that on anyone, but it was reassurance that karma is a bitch.

That's the difference

fin

its only therapy, thats all that they do

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;"
- Alexander Pope

they always get away with attitude, but they'll try to convince you of your mood

sometimes, hearing a story you don't want to hear sobers you

and you realize

oh my god, how did i spend the last two years, 

wait maybe three years so wrapped up in other things

i can't believe i am almost 25

i feel like i graduated from western, was 21, blinked, and here i am

24

fuck eh

fin

bang bang

you know what i think is super unclassy

girls that take off their shoes mid way through a party/wedding/formal/night in general

if you put them on commit to them

if you can't walk in them

don't wear them

it just looks ridiculous

fin

love me, love me, say that you love me

I just got home from work, sat down to watch some tv before taking a shower and do you know what is on right now?

Star Wars.....

you know that some really nerdy dudes just sat down with fast food, saw that movie on and fist pumped....

the tv networks know their demographics... especially on looooove holidays

on that note

happy valentines day to all

fin

i won't mistake you for problems with me

today in the dollar store i hear

"tegan, how are you??" and of course i turn around because im obsessed with tegan and sara - only to see one of the clerks that obviously knows the family talking to a little girl

and then

AND THEN

she turns to the little girls sister and says "sara, you are so big!"

yes... i am not even kidding

ps- the dad was totally young, and obviously a t&s fan

fin

the timing, the structure, did you hear he fucked her

One of the best moments of the last few years

THEY ARE BACK!
I HAVE BEEN WAITING

tom i forgive

Travis' near death sparked the love

never again!

fin

you can pick you friends, and you can pick your nose

brennan picked my nose just now
to get a hanging booger out

it was awesome

fin

the internets

This is a vlog inspired by Heather ... its in two parts because i'm not good at vlogging yet - anyways enjoy a glimps into our life

fin!

nothing comes as easy as you

Brennan and I are disgusting.

case and point: we have a communal glass that sits on our coffee table.  I don't know how long it has been there, and we both keep filling it up and drink from it.  I always 'knew' this... but i didn't fully grasp it until yesterday when we had this conversation:

Michelle - did you drink out of my glass?

Brennan - does it matter?

Michelle - I guess not

Brennan - well it shouldn't because i just drank out of the bottle you poured out of 5 minutes        ago, and I used that cup yesterday.

germs galore!

fin

don't pretend you ever forgot about me

I have something to admit. I love fallout boy. And not even in a funny way – like they are legitimately one of my favourite bands … I wish that I was joking – but I am most certainly not. I feel like by admitting this I am taking away from other bands I dig – like one musical indiscretion negates my credibility? Either way, I stick by my love – I decided I needed to publicly admit this after realizing I have REAL (not burned) copies of every fallout boy cd in my car…..I mean Jay-z does the intro to their newest cd - that is some serious cred.

So there is this hilarious web site that Bren introduced me to called Fuck My Life – basically it is people sharing stories about their life, and at the end they say FML (fuck my life). I was reading some today, and I had to cover my mouth from laughing out loud since I am at work.
In Ottawa there's been a bus strike for 51 days. I was waiting after work in a parking lot for my ride and was dancing a little to keep warm. Next thing I know the cops pull up to me and said that someone called in to report someone dancing in an empty parking lot. FML
Hilarious? I think so.
Everything is good on the Toronto front – nothing really new – but no news is good news I think? The only thing I can really share is that Bren and I might be going to Bonnaroo which would be crazy fun.

SOOO
Happy Birthday Joanna!

And
Fin!

i love mk

MK says: (8:01:55 PM)
he left early and went home and when we got back to his place at like 6am  he was lying in bed fully naked with his dick in his hand

m says: (8:02:10 PM)
my dream man

fin

hoochie coochie man

I am really digging Muddy Waters lately.... i don't remember if you remember my blog a while back about me going to an Ani Difranco show
and me being really impressed with her opener Pieta Brown

anyways, here is her and Bo Ramsey doing a cover of a Muddy Waters song



enjoy

fin

i just love your flashy ways

I have been watch Restuarnt Makeover recently, and the contractor is so calm and understanding and HILARIOUS
i love him

http://www.foodtv.ca/ontv/hostdetails.aspx?hostid=41752

igor 4 lyfe

fin

the world has changed, you can too

I love this commercial

fin

Lame

What is with inappropriate msn names and facebook status'??

I feel like once a day I see one or the other and think: that is WAY too serious/personal/awkward to be posting on these forums. I mean writting something serious as a public status really takes away from the impact.

For example,
On my msn, someones name is : Mom is cancer free (with a thumbs up sign)

INAPPROPRIATE

fin

oh my god becky, look at her but

You know how everyone has their comfort outfit... like 'ohhh i don't feel great, i feel bloated, i don't know what to wear..... blah blah"
so then you get into your comfy jeans and plain tshirt....

my comfort outfit: shiny stretch pants and an oversized striped tshirt... it is prehaps the most UNFLATTERING outfit of ALL time

but i still rock it all the time

happy wednesday y'all

win!

fin

do dum

Did you know that the third monday of january is reported to be the most depressing day of the year
that is today!
AND i agree

what a depressing day

fin

no-no-notorious

I started to watch Notorious online just now
but i couldn't do it
i can't respect biggie like that... this is most definitely a theater movie

fin

i've never seen Good Will Hunting (true story)

Sometimes I go to blog about things, and i think how uninteresting they would be to other people, so i stop myself. Less of that. This morning .... and well actually for most winters I listen to a lot of Elliott Smith.  

So I bring you my top 5 Elliott Smith Songs

5) 

Son of Sam


4) Miss Misery


3) Angeles


2) Thirteen


1) Somebody I Used To Know


fin

ps- notable mention: Fond Farewell

soap box

I am back. I didn't go anywhere.
I work for a new company. It is BALLS. How mature of me? It really is. There is something about the notion of 'cool'. I work for this place, and they just arbitrarily fire people. Last week they fired a manager - because he wasn't manager material, and he called in sick for work twice. Translation? They fired him because the main managers roommate came to the store to work, and then needed to fire someone. I have worked there for about 6 weeks now, and I think there is a biweekly firing. And almost every fire should be a 'warning'. No one cares enough to report them for being CRAZY, but someone really should. They are an awful company to work for. We all had to do inventory last week, which meant we had to be at the store at 4:45am. One of the guys was pretending that the scan gun was an enormous cell phone - it was really funny. The main manager walked by and is like "WHAT are you DOING?" (she thought she was on a real cell phone).... granted if it was a cell, he shouldn't be on it at work - the managers reaction was this: I thought that was a real cell, and I was about to fire you on the spot. This is to probably the best employee I have ever worked with. This dude is awesome, and always gets great reviews by secret shoppers - she was ready to fire him on the spot?
To conclude my rant, there is a call sheet of employees that is dated 6 months ago - over half the people on the list don't work there anymore.... does that not say something.... ha ha ha as soon as I get fired, I will talk about this all more publicly .... until then, they are a man, and I need to make rent.

fin

kfed, you shouldn't have signed that prenup

here is a little hilarious gift from me to you

it is worth the four minutes

i have a whole new respect for the all american rejects

enjoy!

fin

secret heart

Today bren and I went and saw Gran Torino in theaters .... it was a classic clint eastwood flick - but this time with no big names (minus him), and no big budget... Clint describes the movie as what he wanted to do - the rest of the movies were for the fans... i have to say it was pretty awesome
what is more awesome
Ron Sexsmith was watching the movie in the same theater

oh toronto
oh clint!

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nu beer

Thoughts in 2009:
-my lists sucked - i made like two of them *sorry*
-i hate stupid album names on facebook - it makes me want to delete people
-my insomnia is back
-i feel like i am worried about something, but i don't know what it is
-i miss hamilton sometimes
-i miss heather all the time
-i miss my side bangs, and being tanned
-i crave the summer time and montreal

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