I burst a vein somehow

I had something truly painful happen to my finger today. & what is strange was I did absolutely NOTHING! I had just finished receiving some boxes at work & was taking a break when I felt this ghastly pain in my right ringfinger. I looked at it to see it rapidly turning purple & swelling beside my knuckle as if a vein busrt or something? Obviously I'm not medically skilled to give the correct terminology here but DAMN dude that HURT! Now I feel slightly incapacitated with a swelled hurty finger. Which is awesome cuz there's so much work to do at the store with the big boss man coming in on Thurs. What's the deal?

How come I get this instead of a free DVD player? HUH!?

(On a side note...I'm currently reliving Deftones Around the Fur album...goody gumdrops)

Mmmmm Likwid

I love that I have friends who can play rockinh dj sets...it was good to here lots of "K & D Sessions" out at a pub.
Weird, however, that Lydia's now serves mostly asian food....um it's an irish bar? Who woulda thought...

In the Natty Jukebox this week - Deadly Snakes: Porcella

Just got this cd tonight from the ArnDog ( I wonder if he hates that nickname??) Wow what a well written album! The lyrics slayed me, it's very different for what I thought they'd be (slotted in the garage band category) I found myself grinning quite largely at many different parts. I'll have to listen to the album again to quote you my favorite lyric, damn I can't find any on the net...but I do have a link to their website here which greatly describes who they are & what they sound like! Make sure you check out the MP3 for Gore Veil, it's awesome that the song SOUNDS so happy go lucky but the lyrics are hopelessly dark! Enjoy!

Oh yeah & my fave song part for whatever song it was (sorry I had my discman on in my bag...no clue what song it was!) had something to do with "being slimy as a fish because my mother was salty" Yeah pretty vague & prolly the worst written review here ever but I'm tired & full from Amazing Race eatery. Just check them out. You won't be disappointed!

Good Samaritan

I arrived in Saskatoon yesterday at about 2:30pm. Talk about the longest flight ever! We had to land in Kelowna first, then switch planes in Calgary & finally land in good old SK. Let me tell you, I was so ready to pass out from the exhaustion of nerves & Gravol. I get to my baggage, lug it to a phone, & find out no one is available to pick me up. Now unfortunately the plan was for me to take a cab to Lawson & bus home from there; but an unexpected $30 cab ride to the Vancouver airport as well as a $15 breakfast, exhausted my funds! (Yeah I slept in...otherwise I would've bused it in Van & saved myself $50!! Getting up at 6am is just too hard!)

So here I am lugging my heavy-ass luggage (Bono can vouch for that...why did I pack so bloody much?!) & guitar down aiport road to McNab Park where I hopefully can catch a bus home. The weather is much warmer here than it was in BC so of course I'm over dressed, & having to pull a lopsided suitcase on wheels in the gravel is so not fun! I also have cars whizzing past me on my left spitting up rocks & giving the finger.
Come on people!! I'm sorry but if I saw a poor soul lugging their shit up the longest road ever, I'd offer them a ride, AT LEAST to the bus stop!!! So yeah I'm disgruntled, sweaty, & buzzing on Gravol. Equation for "Natty's not having fun"

Finally this shitty white van pulls up beside me, & this toothless cigarette smelling 60 yr old man offers me a ride. At this point, I don't care how unsafe this might be, after experiencing donwtown Vancouver this is a cakewalk! Anyway, the man is blaring some sort of gospel music which I later find out is himself singing in Cree. So he can't be THAT bad! Kinda kool, yet awkward. So I'm blessed to hear his life story of beating a life of alcoholism & turning to god. Hey may not be my bag, but kudos to you nice stranger, for beating the stereotype of native-canadians & turning your life around!

I get a ride to the bus mall being he's running out of gas but wow what a save! I finally make it home by 3:30 where my sister JUST pulls up from school. Great timing huh? Anyway that's my good karma of the day. Upon first looking at that man, someone might think alot of nasty things, but after getting to hear what he had to say, it made me really think about how horrible stereotypes & first impressions are in this society. I've made a promise to myself to def. act better in this...so thank you Mr good samaritan!!

Thanksgiving Madness

Brent & I had the pleasure of joining the Wrubleski family for thanskgiving supper last night in Burnaby. Pretty fun night! Oh & say hello to our special guest Mr Fishhead who came all the way from the Kooteney river; he was quite the laugh of the party.

My adventures on Burnaby Mt.

Here are some pictures I took behind Jono/Laura/Guy's appt while I was staying there. Oh man I wanna live in the forrest!!

Here I am!

Wow. I don't believe it! This chica made it to the "big city". It's pretty amazing...I wonder if people are getting annoyed with me constantly pointing out the mountains, the fresh air, the amount of people...I guess thats what happens when a prairie grrl makes it out to somewhere like Vancouver.

So I've been staying at casa Mt Burnaby the last couple of days with Guy, Laura, & Jono. They live on the Simon Fraser campus in a pretty sweet appt. (I'll post some pics soon) It's so beautiful up here! (A bit of a trek from downtown Van however) I really dig the quiet, the clean air, the "student" watching. It's strange to not be at work right now! Oh but I relish...

Today I get to check out some kool shops on Commercial Dr with Jono & Laura where later this evening I'll be hooking up with my lil bro Brent to stay at his place. He lives right downtown on Pacific & literally 10 min walk from the beach. I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE THE OCEAN!!

So more posting latR kool katz, with some pics soon as well. (My folks dig. camera RAWKS!)

Heh anyone give me an update on how the race went? What did people eat? Did Jordy make the hummus? I sure did miss the gang on Tues!! Boo to the Paolos!

Boeing 747

Well this is it folks. I leave in t minus 21 hrs! I can't even describe how naseously excited I've been feeling all day. I kept running around making sure everything was together at the store for the new staff..I apologize guys for not being there for the biggest sale ever! Eek. Well it'll be good training for them!

Woo...I don't even know what to say. I can't get Matt Godd outta my head

"oh be joyful cuz that shit spreads"

What a great line. I AM so joyful. Laura, Guy, & Jono are all meeting me. I'm so freakin pumped to see you goons!! I miss you tons!!!!!! AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *doing the happie dance*

There's so many things I'm excited to see...the ocean, my friends, the new HMV on RObson, my brother...the film fest. *not thinkin bout the plane*

But I'll be ok...I'm too excited to not get on it. Gravol will help (& maybe a swig a DM cough syrup?? hehe)

I'll talk to ya'll latR once I'm in the big metropolis!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My own foolishness

Egadz....I've gone out 2 nights in a row til god knows what hour to then get up & be at work for 8:30am to work like a fiend. (that was a really long sentence) that's good...i'll just be so tired on my flight, I won't even have time to be nervous.

Vanessa is a sugar psycho. I've never seen such a small body eat so much in quantity. Oh man we had fun last night...but my head screams for water at this moment.

Well off I go. I hope someone received all those campaign boxes for me. They really don't mess around when they say "Monster Sale"

....out....