yesterday didn’t exactly happen as planned but it was a good night nonetheless. my cousin ended up not getting home until late so i didn’t do her hair. mine turned out pretty good however. i was afraid at first because i did some very ‘artistic’ hi-lighting in my hair first which was very scary looking but after i put the red on top it looks pretty good. i am the little mermaid once again! my cousin krystal and her family picked me up and we headed to dinner downtown. somehow i dropped a fork full of pasta on my lap which burned my leg incredibly for such a small bit of food. it also got all over my jacket front, sleeves and collar. not sure how i managed that. luckily it mostly washed off and my jeans dried nicely. we rendezvoused at my cousins van where the drinking of some alcohol went on as well as some photo posing where a poor tree was injured. then we went to the wicket where we waited in line forever as the group in front of us multiplied every five minutes until we finally put our foots down but then we were all let in anyway. the place was mostly empty! what jerks. keeping us outside that long while there is nothing happening inside. lame. my lovely magician friend James was coming to meet me but somehow that didn’t work out. hopefully next time as i miss him a lot. after waiting half an hour in line for a drink, we sat at a table and took photos and laughed a lot at the people outside the window. one guy was doing big muscle poses and alison stuck her butt on the window and he smacked it. i stuck my face on the window and blew my cheeks out. real attractive. that one surprised him! lol. at 1am my cousin decided she wanted to go downstairs to element which i protested but it was her birthday so down we went. had a laugh at the british door man who clearly hated his life. i’m sure 19 year olds in green everything had been driving him nuts all day. the bar was awful as always other than when krystal snapped the suspenders of one of the bussers and he practically cried ‘ooooouch!’ i took a bunch of photos and then we rustled up a couple of rides home although i could have drove if we had a car as i had only two drinks all night. so much for putting my drinking shoes on. i still had a headache in the morning. i was clearly not meant to drink which is fine with me.

the girls

some of the strange things I found in my long lost jewelery box recently

mint kitkat my brother brought me from his grade 12 england trip. expiry date oct 1997. i never ate it because i didn’t like mint back then. pink kitkat i ordered from japan on ebay! lol

my wisdom teeth. no wonder they were hurting so much. twisted roots.

postcard from my dear when he was away working on the cruise ships for 5 months

the last drop of the old body shop vanilla oil before they discontinued it. i was so sad i saved this but it’s long since gone bad. i am still upset and write an email about once a year telling them so.

my buddha that John from whitebird gave me.

a few $1 and a $2

this little guy was the object of obsession for me as a child. my brother had many of these guys, not sure what they were called. the rest were big crazy mean looking things but this little guy was so cute that i had to have him. i would often steal him and my brother would always take him back but i guess i won in the end. his shirt says NIKU.

a poem that one of the boys at work stole from another and gave to me. wow.

a cute postcard from a series i purchased online.

a beautiful rock/crystal given to me by an old boyfriend. i have a collection and this is one of the finest.

my initial pinkie ring given to me at my aunts wedding when i was little. i lost it for many years but found it in the deep pocket of my snowboarding pants one day.

a handful of strange currency. most of it pilfered from the butchart gardens ponds with my friend Marian when we were 11.

my first drivers license that i kept by telling them it was ‘stolen.’ my second one was taken away unfortunately when i mistakenly took both the new one and that one out of my wallet at the same time during a roadblock. dummy!! the picture was bad anyway.