kittyloaf

update

surprisingly work has not blocked tumblr yet even though livejournal, facebook, etc. are all still blocked.  whatevs! i’m cool with it!

stampede this year was a complete gong show.  i usually do not participate in such festivities (after living downtown my hatred of all things stampede and hockey reached its peak) but this year i went all out for some strange reason.  10 days of non stop drinking (and hard drinking), going to shows, seeing friends and delicious midway food.  which brings me to now… the cold hard realization that i will be in a bikini/swimsuit in less than 3 weeks (HAWAII!!!!!) and i now have a beer gunt.  operation detox is underway.  not a real detox….. just back to my regular routine and little to no booze.  then i will get to hawaii and grow my beer gunt back in 3 days. 

i went to a physiotherapist last week and got acupuncture for the first time in my life.  on a side note:  i hate when people see that i have tattoo’s and just assume i’m okay with needles.  i used to be okay with needles but for some reason within the past year of my life i’ve become a complete and total wuss when it comes to anything doctor-ee.  the last time i had blood taken i almost had a panic attack and threw up. wtf?!  ANYWAYS.  just because i have tattoo’s does not mean i’m okay with needles! THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.  i had no time to mentally prepare for the fact that i would have 7 needles stuck into each shin and 1 in each foot so i was a little nervous.  but it turned out to be not that bad… except my muscles are so dang tight (the reason for the acupuncture) that it hurts more than it should.  i also made the mistake of flexing both my feet instead of leaving them relaxed and both my legs went into huge muscles spasms like i have never felt in my life.  i almost cried and learned my lesson.  do not move while having acupuncture.  i went again on tuesday and had 17 needles in my legs this time! eeek.  it made my muscles feel all jumpy like they wanted to move and i was so scared to move because i didn’t want to feel those cramps again so then i started feeling panicky and got all sweaty.  i managed to stay still but that was the longest 10 minutes of my life. 

next week is a 4 day work week as i’m taking friday off because i’m going to see juliette lewis on thursday (GONG SHOW… there goes my no drinking rule.. ugh).  getting my hair done friday… and then it’s a long weekend.  so 4 day weekend for me.  then 4 more days of work and MOTHER FUCKING HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  which will basically be beach, food, drinking, shopping, repeat.

COOOOOOOOCK

i wore my new adidas to work today ($35!! what a deal).  i got off the train and walked across the street and my right toe got caught in the train tracks so now my new blue suede shoes have a HUGE FUCKING GREASE STAIN ON THE TOE!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG SO MAD.  this happened to me with my sweet pair of silver asics i got in japan.  brought them home, wore them once and boom.  huge grease stain right on the toe on the light grey suede.  of course.  WHY GOD.  WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY.  i am not going to make the same mistake as my silver asics by putting suede cleaner on it (DOES NOT WORK IT ONLY MAKES THE STAIN WORSE).  so i put some dusting powder i have on the toe to try and soak up the grease.  i don’t think it helped and now has just lightened the suede up a bit in the front.  of course.  why.  why. why. why. why.  WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.  i am so sad.

FALL

Fall stuff is slowly starting trickle in… MY FAVOURITE TIME OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!  I would like this dress please, thanks Santa!

I’m also feeling this top for some reason even though I’m not a white or lace person….

And if I can’t get the dress I will settle for this top.

Friday

Ahhh Friday’s.  My favourite day of the week not only because it’s the last day of work but because I buy my breakfast along with an Artigiano latte.  It’s always #2 from the little cafe in the +15 - bacon, egg and cheese on english muffin.  It’s always a Grande Soy Spanish Latte from Artigiano.  This is seriously the best latte I have ever had… in my life.  I have not tasted better espresso and they mix a small amount of condensed milk into the espresso before adding the milk and it makes it the perfect amount of sweet.  Again… BEST LATTE EVER.  Actually!  I stand corrected… Fiasco Gelato back in the day used to make a “Gelatte”.  You could get any flavour gelato you wanted and they would put it in with the milk and steam it/melt it and then that would be your milk… a gelato milk combo.  They also used Illy espresso, probably my second favourite compared to Artigiano’s, so this Gelatte was out of this world (and probably a billion calories).  Wow… I could go for one of those right about now…

I have absolutely no plans for this weekend.  Corey is Edmonton and I’m looking forward to not seeing or talking to anyone!   I will catch up on my TV watching, I will put a good amount of time into Super Mario Galaxy 2, I will eat lots of nacho cheese and I will drink a couple bottles of wine.  ALL IN SWEAT PANTS.

UNBLOCKED

work brought in a new web blocking program and during the switch EVERY SITE WAS OPEN.  even facebook!  for an entire week!  it was glorious but at the same time i was kind of suspicious and thought they were maybe testing us to see who is wasting time during the day.  but now the new program is in place and pretty much every site that was blocked before or needed quota time is now wide open.  this includes youtube, flickr, tumblr, every blog i read, etc.  the only thing still blocked is facebook (not surprising).  so maybe now i can actually update this thing?

sigh

i never update this thing because work blocked tumblr during normal hours… sadness!  and i never think to update at home because well… i’m never sitting at home wanting to stab my eyeballs out from boredom.

i finally finished all seven seasons of gilmore girls on saturday night.  i had one episode left for a couple of days and i just couldn’t bring myself to watch it!  mainly because i didn’t want it to be over and also i didn’t see how they could wrap everything up in ONE EPISODE.  but man did they do a good job.  so sad.  so good.  now it’s over and so is my life.  i want to buy the complete series on dvd since the copies i downloaded are pretty crappy quality and the audio doesn’t sync up to the lips and that drives me INSANE.  then i can watch it all over again from the beginning.  SIGH.

SIGH.

i booked a trip to HAWAII with corey (girl) in august.  so stoked.  we are leaving august 7 and flying to maui for 5 days then flying to honolulu on august 12 and back home on august 16.  it’s going to be 10 glorious days of beach, alcohol, food and warm weather.  plus i want to learn to surf.  hopefully i do not get eaten by a shark.  or loose a limb to one. 

hummm not much else going on in these parts.  i am going to see dillinger escape plan on tuesday night which will probably be mentally insanely retarded.  i took wednesday off because i know i will want to die if i come to work so i’m getting my hair done that day instead.  weeeee!

ha! i just remembered i had a dream i was with rory and lorelai and we were running from zombies together in a giant camper van.   we walked into a house for refuge and ms. patti and babette were zombies!

love

these are my must haves and will be obtained at the 40% off sale in november when i can send them for free to my parents house in florida.  oh yes.  unless i find them on ebay first (have already obtained 2 fall items!) or something better comes along.

the comfy pants!  i don’t understand how holt can get away with charging $298 for them when you can buy them online and save at least $50 even with conversion.  a-holes.

the giant blanket wrap thingy that i posted about before!

these dresses:

and can i just talk about the last one for a second?  i could go on and on about that fucking dress and how exquisite it is in real life.  the pictures do not do it justice.  it’s made with a beautiful light wool and it’s fully lined so it’s not itchy in the least.  i tried it on and wanted to run out of the store in it.  the sweater that she is wearing with it here is also a must.  the ruffles?! the double breasted front?! I AM DYING.

these tops:

this blazer:

and some sweaters that i’m too lazy to post!  in total i will need approximately one million dollars.  hello lottery?  massive early recession sale while i’m in vegas?  christmas bonus?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

worse than vets

so i’ve been to the dentist approximately 700 times this month.  my last appointment i had a cavity filled and a week later i still have a gaping hole between my molars where they filled the cavity.  it’s so big i have to floss after everything i eat because otherwise i’ll end up with a whole meal in there by the end of the day!  it’s ridiculous!  usually my molars are so tight and close together i can barely get floss in there.  now i could hide a 12 foot sub in there!

which leads me to this point.  dentists are almost as bad (if not worse) than vets.  i know whenever i go to the vet i feel majorly riped off.  they tell you your pet needs this and that and who are you to argue?  you’re not a vet so maybe they do need a $100 blood panel to see if they maybe perhaps have some weird underlying condition to cause this mystery ailment they seem to have.  it just seems like they are constantly upselling you on xrays, blood work, etc. in the name of keeping your pet healthy when you don’t know if it’s really necessary (and of course they tell you it is). 

i feel the same way about the dentist!  i don’t know anything about dentistry so if the dentist is like we need to do xrays and fill this and drill that you have to be like sure!  luckily i have insurance and everything is 100% covered but STILL.  it’s the principal of the matter!!! for example i went for a cleaning at the beginning of the month.  since i don’t floss the water laser blaster scraper thing is always hell on earth and my gums bleed like crazy and i leave a sweaty nervous mess.  i had a new hygenist and she suggested that since my gums were so bad that i go home and floss and use some special mouth wash for a week then i’ll come back and she’ll re-water laser my teeth so that when the dentist looks at my mouth it won’t be as bad.  sounds good to me but really worth it?  worth it for them since they charged me $300+ for each visit!  so on the second visit i was actually seen by the dentist and i had a cavity that needed to be filled.  i was okay with this considering i was supposed to have it filled a year ago and just never did.  she also pointed out that there was another cavity on the adjacent tooth that she would “evaluate” once she did the other filling.  so at the next appointment (which was also another $300+) after she filled my tooth she evaluated the other one and said that it’s only 50% a cavity (whatever the hell that means!) and that she didn’t need to fill it but maybe in a year or so we could take more xrays and decide then.  i’m thinking, i’m all frozen and you’re in there already just fill that bitch!  but nooooooooooo i couldn’t say anything because my mouth was wide open and covered in latex! UGH.  why fill that cavity now when you can wait a year and charge me for another exam and more xrays? 

SO ANYWAYS.  this is just my long winded explanation for why dentists are a rip off and why i don’t trust them.  same with vets.

my tattoo is FINALLY finished.  done done.  since steve is the king of lining (seriously we lined in every session… EVERY SESSION!!!!!!!!!!) for the touchups he basically just relined a bunch of shit.  and then brought out my shoulders a bit to make it more faded and not such a hard line.  i can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s healed.  at one point during my appointment i was laying facing the window and fucking wasp flew in the window!  i of course freaked out and was like OMG A WASP FLEW IN TO THE STUDIO! and steve is all whatever because he’s all hippy vegan one with the universe and then he is like, oh ya!! you hate bees right? and i’m like yes!!!!!!!! and he’s like okay…. so he gets up and of course won’t kill it so he’s chasing a wasp around the store with a paper cup for like 10 minutes trying to catch him and meanwhile i’m curled up in the fetal position screaming and trying to hide whenever it gets close to me.  hahaha.

boot camp is over… which is sad.  i really enjoyed it! so much so i signed up for the august session and the fall session (sept - oct).  i’m stoked!  i feel like all the hard work i did during the july session was all undone in a matter of 3 days being a fat fucking pig in vancouver.  but that meal at vij’s was well worth it.  i am still dreaming of the lamb popsicles.  we also had goat… my first time trying it.  it was okay but it was a little slimy for my taste.  we made it to the restaurant 5 minutes after opening and there was still a 1.5 hour wait!!! it’s not that bad though because you can sit in the lounge and they feed you free appetizers.  you seriously have to get there 30 minutes before opening to start waiting in line to get a table.  it’s worth it though.  man.

i’m going to go to the bank and buy some american for vegas since the dollar is doing so well.  i hope there are MAD SALES on fall clothing in vegas… i doubt it but i can dream……….

speaking of fall clothes, holt got in a whole shit load of m by mj stuff last week and i went in and nearly shit a brick.  the girl who works there grabbed pretty much every article of clothing and put it in a change room for me.  then i spent the next half an hour trying everything on and trying not to cry because everything was so beautiful!!!  a couple of items really stood out to me and are definite must haves.  for example the most comfortable pair of pants that have ever existed on the planet.  they’re like a cotton spandex kinda deal but they look like skinny jeans… with the back pockets, zipper, etc. and are SO STRETCHY and comfy it feels like you are wearing NO PANTS.  they come in black and grey.  don’t think i could pull off the grey as it would show off to much lumpage but black is a must must must!!!! come on ebay!!! or at least 40% sale at nordstroms!!!

bah!

so turns out blogs, flickr, etc. are definitley still blocked at work except before 8am, between 12 - 1pm and after 4pm.  shitty thing about this is i am at boot camp mon, wed, fri so i am not in the office during lunch hour.  so tues thurs i just open all the blogs i want to read and then don’t close the windows until i’m done.  ugh so annoying!!!

i’m off to vancouver this week and am staying at the Pan Pacific Hotel with my bff who gets sweet rates at vancouver hotels.  it’s supposed to be super hot while i’m there so we’re going to spend thursday by the pool (outdoor pool!!!) drinking “water”… and by water i mean water bottles filled with gin and tonic followed by dinner at Vij’s basically the best indian restaurant on the planet.  lamb popsicles?! lord help me.  this trip actually feels like a semi-vacation but i am still getting tattooed on friday… but hopefully for only a couple of hours and it’s only touchups so thank god.  then i will be done FOR REAL.  then i’m never getting tattooed again.  well at least for another couple of years.