home improvement day

saturday was home improvement day and it was fun and it looks frickin gooood in here. i'm slightly resistant to furniture rearranging, its like all of a sudden the room i LIVE in feels like somewhere i've never been before and the plants in the wrong corner and i keep thinking its someone looking over my shoulder, but it never lasts long and with the right feng shui it feels really good, better than before, really fast.

ryan lets me decorate, i try and keep the girly shit to a minimum and i think for the most part he likes what i come up with. i never like conciously think hey i like decorating but i think i do, i also think im pretty good at it. just one more of the many delightful ways i am turning into my mother.

i made a reading corner so i can read by the window and watch the fall colours change on the mountain at the same time. also so i can practice being the worlds biggest gayest cheesemeister ever.

big road trip comin up in the next couple days, for the next couple weeks. stay tuned!

i'm a computer

hey sarah (and meg?) remember these?


pahahahaha

wicked compilation here. too bad your ass got saaaaaaaaaaaaaassed



happy saturday folks.

my parents were awesome

the thing is, for all the parent slamming i do, once upon a time they were actually two pretty cool dudes.

sheldon (yup, and he's the goddamn most adorable sheldon ever on the planet) wooed lori (suddenly the spelling of my mom's name seems 80's cool instead of 80's hilarious, what is happening to me) by writing her songs and singing to her under trees, their first date was a blind date at a skating rink and dad proposed to mom sitting in his yellow monza spyder in the rain in the parking lot of mcdonalds. hahaha is there anything more 70's than that.

and my mom was a defiant badass and married my dad at 18 to get away from her mom. hahaa.

this website is a treat and i am gonna send something in, thanks bek.

this means i'm not going to hell right?

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related update:

hahaha check out this awesome site i found via tempy
i sent in this picture of shelly, which i love...

conversations with god

GAHA just kidding. i'm crackin up a weeeee bit maybe. is there such a thing as bush fever? GAHAHAHAHAHA

how come no one ever laughs when i tell them the story of my mom talking about beaver fever. i mean i know beaver fever itself isn't FUNNY but come on your mom saying the words over and over, that shits funny.

shut up. you don't know from jokes, you never did.

love,
spazway

conversations with mom

me: hi mom whatchoo doin?
mom: oh just painting the cupboard doors, its a really nice colour actually
me: oh ya what colour
mom: well right now its almost a periwinkle blue, but i'm going to put a treatment on it so that it actually looks exactly like denim

(sarah i assume this post counts as a wedding gift)

adventureland

have you seen this movie? its pretty good! we liked it anyway, laughed a lot.

also i was silently vacuuming with my eyes everything to do with kristen stewarts wardrobe and cool 80's hair the whole time we were watching it.

and im pretty sure my next radio show (maybe tomorrow?) will be almost entirely dedicated to the soundtrack.

gayer than bicycle shorts

i want to do something drastic to my hair. probably the worst timing ever since i have 2 weddings to perform in- i mean BE in (remember on friends when joey's officiating chandler and monica's wedding and he keeps calling it the "show" hahaha)- which means lots of pictures freezing rash decisions in time but i still wanna. i want bangs or to dye it dark. sorta i want bangs more so i can embody this. maybe this would look cool if my roots are grown out past the length of proposed bangage. maybe i should check. maybe someone should stop me. SARAH WHERE ARE YOU.

this post is dedicated to being a loser. and to my little tequila rose.



should i?

p.s.

update

all i wanna do is watch true blood. and play rockband with rye. and lie in bed with rye. and watch true blood.

this weeks all messed up i know for a fact its saturday but it could really be any day, we spent tuesday? and wednesday? on the road for a quick trip to timmins, that's a quick 8 hour drive both ways and we're used to it, we're road warriors and we know how to make it fun- with tunes and and toke or two, make-up-ridiculous-jokes-hour, stopping at flea markets and huffing red bull,

pulling over at terrifying abandoned farmhouses for haunted photo ops
(hahaha alicia remember when you were like, all blithe "is this apartment haunted, it feels haunted!")

but it is a long drive and it takes some recovery time. sleeping in time and sweatpants time and video games time. did i mention i got beatles rockband as an early birthday present?

its so awesome, so addicting. baby you're so awesome, so addicting. fuck i'm spoiled.

but i think right now im gonna pour another coffee and watch true blood. you know whats annoying when you watch episode 6 somehow by accident when you've only seen up to episode 3. confusing! fuckin free streaming. (iloveyou)

riveting blog post.

in other news

how nostalgic does this song/video make you?
most recently its me and rye singing it at karaoke in toronto and crushing out hard on each other, but way way further back it reminds me of being 15 at this cottage (camp) we rented in the summer, hating being there with my family, hanging out in the bunkhouse by myself in the day time, on the top bunk, swatting bugs away. like such a vivid memory its crazy.

embarrassing moments

ya um how is this not already a category on this blog? being a grade A klutz, moron AND dork, i suddenly have a backlog of blog posts here.

so last night i went swimming in lake superior for the first time since i moved here. crazy right, everyone's all how does that happen?? well we've gone swimming in smaller local lakes and once there was leeches and it rained all summer that's really how that happened and anyway things happen when they happen, man. so it was yet another beautiful day-to-evening yesterday in this sweet september summer and we went out to our friends camp (cottage) after work and had a couple beers and a sauna and then jumped in the lake after we were all steamed up. let me tell you that's the BEST feeling in the world. SO good, i guess, that when i jumped in i made the loudest sex sound ever. pAAAAahhaa ohgad. one of the guys was even like "whoa she REALLY likes it" when i came to the surface. hshahaha jesus. im so awesome.
im not generally an easily embarrassed person but there have been plenty of instances like that in my life where i've wanted to die a little or a lot.
ANYWAY swimming in lake superior ruled. it felt like being in the ocean, cept it didn't smell, and my hair is all soft and wavy-like instead of salty strawy-like. after we dried off we walked out to the point on the peninsula and watched a slow sunset over red rock's lights in the distance. holy hell I LOVE YOU SUMMER. and nwo. and you.

in other news i heard this on sirius this morning and i liked it

radio friendly song

this song is so fucking funny dudes

I <3 N Y

probably a lot of people are thinking about where they were on 9/11 eight years ago, kinda hard not to when you see that date. nyc is truly one of my favourite places in the world, so much so that when i catch a glimpse of it in a movie or someone mentions it i get this little ache in my gut. weird but true, they say there's just something about that city and its true, and its hard to explain unless you feel it too. maybe its just that my best friend and i are tied to it together, that my heart is tied to it.

once upon a weekend

our pals the j's made the 1000 mile trek north to visit us 2 weeks ago and i'm just blogging about it now? wah? as usual, my excuse is a steaming pile of laziness. i have accomplished less than blogging in the last 2 weeks? i am a disgrace.
but i disgracefully digress.

i use these glasses for everything now. they are also the perfect iced tea glasses dontcha know. thats the second time ive said dontcha know today, DONTCHA KNOW. k there now its mine. rye wanna move to minnesota sometime, for some time? sweet. anyway these were gin tonics and rye whiskeys in the making for some CHEERS welcome to nwo, welcome to the skid pad, welcome to the mario party party. part of what was great about their visit was when the weather was shit for the first couple days we all just pure out hung out. sittin on the couch, smokin, watchin the making of pump. its those people in your life that no matter what it always feels the same, as close as familiar, well that's family ain't it.

saturday was looking better and better by the hour, so after breakfast we got up and at ' em george mcfadden and hiked up the trail to lloyd's lookout. that's exactly how jenn hikes. she's a ballet dancer so that sort of explains it i guess.

totally listening

then we came home and played some jeopardy and bocce in the backyard for all the beers. ps look out toronto there's a new adorable hat in town

rye's dad came over and brought fresh grilled salmon, watermelon and white wine, how nice is that??! that wine is still in the fridge i just remembered why am i not drinking that right now.

sunday on the way into thunder bay we stopped at Eagle Canyon to take a stroll on canada's longest suspension bridge. it was a BEAUTIFUL sight. and i nearly shit myself i was so scared.

i had like no warning i'd be so scared, im not totally comfortable with heights but like who is, yet i did not expect to feel any fear at all. i nearly froze in the middle of the first one. oh ya that's right, we walked across one to walk back across on the longer one.

we smoked a dooobie in between

click to enlarge the expression on my face. also, jenn & jer in the background is hilarious to me.

hahahahaha. the smallest gust of wind sends the bridge in some sort of terrifying motion. everyone was having a gay old time "look through the boards, look down its so cool!" ya, pass.

but it really was an incredible sight, experience, and i'm glad we did it. and i may have experienced one of the top romantic moments of my life when rye and i stopped in the middle. just sayin.

we decided to walk down along the bottom of the canyon to get out. gorgeous. get it GORGEous? heh.

then we took them to visit terry on the highway, to a remote control car club race, and on to the hoito for burgers.

hi guys! we miss you already, thanks for coming come back ANY time and see you in a few weeks!!

in other news i'm watching vicky christina barcelona again. its a gorgeous movie. jenn and i have this theory that every woman alive wanted to be penelope cruz in vanilla sky. back us up ladies.

i live in a house of chords

i do. right now im on the living room floor and i can count 13 cords just from where i'm sitting. kinda funny. also probably a bit of a fire hazard. also ryan got some new guitar strings while we were in timmins so our house is filled with his beautiful chords again. last night i don't even know what time it was cause we stayed up until 6 this morning he just picked up the guitar and found a tune, walked into the kitchen and sat down and turned the tune into a song and recorded it in like, 15 minutes while i layed on the couch with the tv on mute listening in stoned bliss.

this long weekends been bliss too, sleeping in every morning and lazing the fuck around all afternoon and night, watching movies and pigging out on the smorgasbord of goodness we got from m&m's last week, smokin and drinkin and being good christians, playing video games (im the WORST at video games, not only am i the worst and therefore no fun to play with, i get super mad that im the worst which makes me even less fun to play with), we went to a dance too somewhere in there and you know when you just want to freak out and break into a footloose (was on this weekend) routine cause you're so damn happy in your life?

so i actually have some work to do and im thinking about doing it today. sort of goes against everything labour day stands for, but i might.

long weekend love-in

we've been laying low at home since we got back from timmins thursday night. and it's been GREAT. so i'm not totally ignoring you but also i kinda really am.

we've been drinking these. blueberry collinses. consult your lcbo recipe guide. and thanks j's for the perfect blueberry collinses glasses!

the j's also gave us this awesome tray with the glasses. i love it .

view from canada's longest suspension bridge. my legs are shaking looking at this. more on that later.

i am the master of the white mans overbite. actually i think i look more like a chipmunk here. a chipmunk with an awesome bag. stay tuned for a whole blog post on that guy alone, i'm in love with it right meow.

the leaves are just starting to turn up here. im pretty excited for fall, and that's the understatement of 2009 for ya.

haha cool sweatshirts meet you at the coffee house later. i have way more pictures from the j's totally awesome chill fun beautiful delicious visit, stay tuned for that too. but for now i really need to get back to the couch. don't you love those long weekends that actually FEEL long? ill tell you what the is secret my friends- do NOTHING. do absolutely nothing. less than you think you can.