Harvey

Finally, over a year after watching Milk, I finally saw the documentary "The Times of Harvey Milk"

Amazing. Truly amazing.

There are a few events that happened in the world that I wish I was alive for. When Harvey Milk was supervisor in San Fran is one of those events. To be alive when there was actually a compassionate politician in power is something all of us would dream... He gave so much hope to soo many people, broke down the sexual orientation barrier and proved to the world that it didn't matter who you loved because we were all just people... we all have the same needs and wants as anybody else. If you can get your hands on this documentary, I would highly suggest it.. and if you can rent Milk do that too. Sean Penn proved himself once again, that he is brilliant!.

The Kid Quote of the Day

And once again my friends, theeee kid quote of the dayyyy!

Staring Evan Betts

Evan needs to work on his colours, when asking him what the colour of the green mug was he said "Blue" and when asking him what colour the white teapot was he said "Teapot"

Thus concludes todays Kids Quote.

thank you

Free Winona!!

Victoria First Day, feeling slightly less anxious then yesterday, wooo! I might be slightly less anxious but I'm slightly more bored!! good god.

It felt nice to sleep in my own bed, Terry and I's bed. Not the furnished apartment bed that can't seem to hold sheets, but THEEEE bed... nicely made by my mother with hospital corners and all. It also felt nice to cuddle with my little pup, my wee little dee.. my pointy eared hot water bottle that snores.

I've seemed to settle into the norm, get up, drink tea, eat cheerios and recline on the couch until something better comes along. Gotta love the big screen t.v and the lazy boy sofa. To my delight, I hit the afternoon movie marathon wave... Girl, Interrupted fallowed by Reality Bites... just me, my pup and Winona Ryder.

Whatever happened to Winona? she stole some shit, starred in a movie with Adam Sandler and then disappeared...gonzo. In the 80's and early 90's, she ruled! she starred in some of my favourite movies...Edward Scissorhands, BeetleJuice, Great Balls of Fire, How to Make an American Quilt, Mermaids and who can forget Little Women... Her movies are the reason to stay home sick from school.

One reason, I love Reality Bites is its soooo quintessential grunge. I love grunge .. the fusion of 70's polyester, Dickies, vintage t-shirts and PLAID... love plaid. Ever since I moved to the Koots, my plaid ownership has gone up 100%. Grunge is the best excuse to wear whatever you want and never to laundry. Watching this movie as I type this blog, I really feel the need to hit up the Sally Ann and not match for the rest of my life. Perfect!

from home to home

..So after a three hour break and a minor break down, I managed to get myself packed last night.

With a short Gravol induced sleep, I woke up with Terry and we parted ways, he to work and me to the airport. Its going to be an awesome month, but a rough one too... I've grown fond of the Koots.. I like that I can hear myself think and I like the fact that a traffic jam consists of two big rigs and thats it and I like the fact that its a clean slate there... no past demons, no judgement.. just pure growth.

I've litterally walked in the door of my parents house. I dropped my bag down, let Daisy out and went straight for the computer...blogs never stop in my mind. I made it on an earlier flight, I survived the douche dropping a cane on my head from the over head compartment and I made it through ferry traffic...here I am! Silence at mum and dads...mmmmmm silence!. Perfect nap time, I figure I've earned it... I've been up since 5:30 pacific time... so perhaps I shall sleep, and when I get up pick up the pieces and settle into coastal life.

ttyl

Hectic Shmectic

Anyone who knows me well enough, knows that I haaaaaaaaaaate flying. Yessir, I'm more nervous than a drug addict taking a pee test. Gah. This blog is written by pure nerves and nothing else!

Now, I know that flying is the safest way to travel, and I know that the flight is only an hour and fifteen minutes... I know I know I know. However, my flight schedule in the past two days has completely gone hay wire. Originally, I was only going for two weeks, so I can visit and house sit for my parents.... now I will officially be in Victoria for a month!.. which is cool, but I worry about all the Arts Council stuff I have to get done. I fly home for a month and then when I get back I'll be in Elkford for a month and a half and THEN I'll be flying back to Victoria for my cousins wedding...yeeesh.. then not to mention Sara's wedding in August. I better start playing the lotto. Hopefully by the end of the summer, I will be a little more at ease about flying, because today.. today I'm litterally shitting myself.

I feel so SO sorry for Phil tomorrow, because he is the one driving me to Calgary so I can attempt to get on an earlier flight, if I don't get on an earlier flight I will be sitting in the Calgary airport for over 7 hours.. yeeesh. I can't even stomach myself to pack, I've folded two pairs of jeans.. felt overwhelmed and had to take a breather. Hopefully, I can pull myself out of this rut because I don't think its appropriate for me to wander Victoria's streets with only a pair of jeans on...


to be continued.... lol

Don't Moose with the Moose

Austin, Terry and Myself just came back from Becca's house for dinner. And as we were walking to our building's front door, we notice a whoooole crap load of fur and blood.

Fan-Freakin' tastic, where the hell did all this biz come from??? Did some ravenous beast slaughter a dear at our front door? Forget street crime... we got wilder crime. Of course, the Mantracker in Terry and Austin came out and wanted to explore the situation.. me the frantic city girl wanted to run for dear life. As we were contemplating this situation, Becca called and said that Austin forgot most of his stuff there, so Terry said "Come on".. implying we walk.

Nooooo way in hell!, first off this ravenous beast could be lurking around the corner, second off all we had was each other and if this thing charged at us it would totally pick the week and feeble one (which is me, naturally) and third off I was wearing a pair of slippers..so if I did attempt to run for my life, I would eat shit within the first step. I'm not prepared to face my fellow wilder neighbors, not in the slightest bit.

So after making a stink and Terry puffing at me, we chose to drive (totally worth it) and as we were walking over to the car, these two old sods drove up and rolled down the window.
"Did you see the moose?" said sod #1
"Is that what the fur is all about?" I asked

Then they both laughed and suggested we pick up the fur and make fishing flies out of it, you know...so we can make a couple extra dollars being weird hillbillies... hmmmm...not interested.
Anyways, it turns out that a cow (moose terms for lady) got caught in some metal fencing, got scared and started running through our complex trying to get out. And as she was frantically trying to pull herself together, slipped on our walk way, jumbled herself in our railing and fell scraping and injuring herself. The two old sod's saw this and directed her back into the woods behind our place.

So now we have one beat up, angry moose lurking in our woods. This place, I swear its like the Big City for animals... replace graffiti with deer poo, replace loitering with Elk grazing, replace gang violence with the circle of life... bullies are the bears and the humans are the alien invaders...

The Kid Quote of the Day... April 11

Today's kid quote staring Terry and Josh

When Terry was trying to round up the kids to go downstairs he says "Come on Dumb and Dumber"

and Josh replies "I'm dumber!"

Thus concludes today's Kid Quote of the Day. :)