October 26:
This entry is just for Laurie, who says I don't update enough.
I am pretty happy right now, as this morning I purchased tickets to see Man of La Mancha. In Australia. With Anthony. I can't believe I did that. I'm really actually going to see him!! Unfortunately, when I called the ticket office in Melbourne, they told me tickets weren't on sale by phone until Tuesday. And so, although I wasn't thrilled with the seats that the website gave me, I bought them anyway, as I was simply unable to wait until Tuesday. :-)
My birthday was very nice - thank you to everyone for your cards/greetings. Karen and I went to Mamma Mia, as planned, and then my roommate and I ordered pizza and had birthday cake and watched The West Wing. It was lovely. :-)
I have a surprise in store regarding my website - I'll let you know what it is next time I update!
October 23:
Okay, this just makes me entirely too happy:
:-) :-) :-)
Tomorrow is my birthday. I am actually a little excited about it, because I took the day off work and Karen and I are going to see Mamma Mia! But I'm also starting to realize why birthdays can be depressing too - another year gone by, and what have I got to show for it? Not much at all. I really need to get a little more aggressive in going after what I want. I used to be much more motivated than I am now. I'm not sure what happened.
"On the Line" comes out Friday. That makes me a little too happy as well. But apparently Lance has a girlfriend now. The injustice! ;-)
I have started my list for Christmas shopping. I can't buy anything until the second weekend of December, for budgetary reasons, so I'll just have to get everything picked out before then. I am not going to be able to go home for as long as I wanted, as my Christmas vacation was cancelled, but I should still get home for 5 or 6 days. I am very much looking forward to it.
October 15:
Thank you to all of you who wrote and expressed concern over my last entry - things are much better now. It wasn't that we were fighting or anything, she was just having trouble at work. But I think it will all work out.
Ouch! I just bent my fingernail way back. Oh, and it cracked the nail polish too, that I just put on last night. Hmph.
Anyway. :-) I had a really nice weekend - Friday night I went and got my hair cut (it's short again!), and rented Bridget Jones' Diary and ordered pizza. Then Saturday we went out grocery shopping, watched the movie again, dyed my hair (it was supposed to be blonde, but it's more of an orangey-red colour - I hated it at first, but it's growing on me), rented Someone Like You (which I've seen like 5 times now) and A Knight's Tale. And yesterday I decorated the house for Halloween and did my reading for my course.
I also watched the Degrassi reunion thing last night. It wasn't quite as exciting as I'd hoped, but it was still neat to see all of them. As a result of watching that though, I had to tape the Canada: A People's History episode, which I'll have to find time to watch sometime this week.
I'll try to get a picture up of my new look before too long! :-)
October 9:
Okay, I'm a little scared of my roommate at the moment. I mean, she's always been a little...flighty, let's say, but I think she may be completely losing it now. Don't get me wrong, I still think she's really nice and all, but she's just got deeper issues than I realized. And it might all come to a head this week. So keep your fingers crossed for me that things really aren't as bad as they might appear.
Anyway, my Thanksgiving was a little weird due to all the aforementioned strangeness. I spent most of the weekend in my room. I did manage to get it a bit more organized though. :-) And I finally bought a frame for my degree and hung it up. That only took me a year and a half. :-)
I did make yummy pumpkin pie though! And I was going to take some to Karen, but I dropped it on the floor this morning while attemping to transfer it to a portable container. :-( It made me sad.
Laurie is ignoring me. :-) I don't think she's doing it intentionally, but every time I have called her place in the last month, nobody's answered the phone. Although, I know she doesn't have call display, so I'm not going to take it too personally. Which is a different story from my little brother hanging up on me on Saturday.
I am starting a course today! I haven't taken a class since I finished university - it will be a little strange. It's a course on General Insurance Essentials - doesn't that sound thrilling?!
October 4:
I really love The West Wing. I thought last night's episode was brilliant. I wish all the people who want to just start bombing Afghanistan would have to sit down and watch that episode first. And I thought the KKK analogy was really good – I wouldn't have thought of that, but it's so true.
I also watched Biography on Sarah Ferguson and E! True Hollywood Story on Scott Hamilton yesterday. And it just made me think, I would really hate to have my entire life on display like that. I don't think I'd ever want to be famous. Rich, sure. :-) But not famous.
I bought some new books this week, including a Dostoyevsky novel I hadn't read before. I'm very excited about it! I think what I love the most about his books is that the characters have such fascinating ideas – and obviously, he must have had them too, in order to give them to his characters. But the conversations that the people in his books have are usually far more interesting than the actual "action" of the novel!
I guess I just wish I knew people who thought like that in real life, and actually sat around having conversations like that! But of course, then I start getting worried that if that were the case, that I wouldn't be able to hold my own among them, so maybe I'm better off as it is. :-)
October 1:
We're a month closer to Christmas!! Well, actually, we're only a day closer than we were yesterday, but when you say October, it just feels much closer than September. Yes, that's my deep thought for the day. :-)
So I went to Saturday Night Fever yesterday with Karen, Gill, Trevor, Noel and Mrs. Blackman. It was pretty much exactly what I expected, which is to say that it's harmless enough, but I wouldn't go again, unless there was somebody in it that I desperately needed to see. It's playing at the "Canon" Theatre, or the former Pantages, and just being there made me miss Livent. We need more theatre producers in Toronto!
I was starting to get a little worried about my cat, as he'd taken to sleeping on the couch downstairs rather than coming up to my room. But then I cleaned up my room, and he came right back. Guess I should take that as a hint that my room was really a disaster area. :-)
I'm very curious about this week's episode of The West Wing – apparently they're doing something special and postponing the season premiere until next week. I'm sure it'll be really good.
I think I've found a new vocation in life. I won't say any more than that about it right now, 'cause I don't want to jinx it, but I'll just say I'm pretty excited about the whole idea. If it works out, I'll tell you all about it. :-)