a tempest in a teapot

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

I just had one of those moments. My dad's next door, my mom's at work, Sandra's over at Diana's place for a baby shower for a friend. I was puttering around trying to reduce all the junk I have and I happened to look out the window as I was walking up the stairs and was puzzled. The light outside was amazing: some odd shade of pink or salmon. I walked back into the living room upstairs and went out on the porch and just stopped and sat down. Every thought in my head, be it industrious, brooding or hopeful just slipped away and I sat on the steps in awe looking at the indescribable blue sky, at the sparing clouds with wisps of pink in them. At the silhouettes cast by all the foliage and overhanging wires and birds and flies who were all buggering about in the sky in front of me. It was just so odd. For about 15-20 minutes I completely forgot everything but what I was looking at. I came to for a bit and picked up my phone camera and tried to capture it but it didn't really work out. But wow.. that was so friggin neat.

I lost my purse this weekend. It had my driver's license, health card (old version), bank card, 3 credit cards, TTC metropass, library card, McDonalds VIP card, Epost card, 2 gift certificates (Sephora + Guess), Fabricland discount card, 24/7 video rental card, house keys, 1 pair of gangsta pranksta capris, 2 Starman graphic novels and Fables 1001 Arabian Nights hardcover trade. Also my cute new Tokidoki bag!

Luckily I had forgotten my phone at work and also my work entry pass (Lost it once already so it woulda been $20 to replace).

I am surprised at how not terribly difficult it has been to deal with some of this. Bank card replaced, library card replaced, credit cards are on their way. The metropass kinda sucks but I'm only here for 12 more days anyways so I can just get a couple of week long passes in the meantime! Driver's license and health card might be a pain to replace but I'm going to wait a few weeks in the hopes that maybe someone will throw my bag minus the cash and gangsta pranksta pants into a mail box or something. (Come on, you'd keep the pants, they're really stylish!)

I also already replaced my eyeliner. Coz well, I feel so terribly naked without it :D Did I mention 12 more days? Yeah ;)

You know, I had completely forgotten how much I love stuff :)

We just got this thing at work that describes our retirement plan stuff for the company. I can return in 2038. That is sooo far away. I'm not sure if I feel relieved about this or disappointed that I still have to work forever. I miss the days of school and summer holidays. Someone win me the lottery, quick!

I had another distressing dream last night! I was at a comic convention and I was at the table of this really awesome artist who was doing some pretty sweet sketches of Green Lantern. He was really nice and I was debating getting a sketch when I turned around and I saw this cute wee little seal pup/bug/something something with the most adorable little face! It was really tiny.. like you could hold it between your finger and thumb and it was floating in the air with the most adorable look on it's face. And I went to pet it and I accidentally squished it and it died! Oh my god. It was so upsetting!

Also, Ugly Betty. I do believe I've hooked tailchaser on it! Woohoo! This show is so many kinds of awesome. Myself, I'm about 9 episodes in now. It's funny and sweet and heartbreaking and then funny again. Almost all at the same time! It's been my treat to myself before bed for the last while. There is something so decadent about watching tv on your laptop in bed. I like it :)

18 more days before Italy!!

So last night I caught a wee bit of Jurassic Park on tv. I was only half paying attention. It was the part with the raptors chasing the people around through the kitchen and whatever else. It resulted in one of the most messed up dreams that I can remember having in some time. In my dream, everyone was getting attacked by octopuses. Like they were everywhere.. coming through the roofs, in the trees! It was insane. I remember seeing one of their tentacles coming through the roof in my bedroom, it was trying to raise the roof panels (like the ones in offices, only these were in my bedroom). Some of them were huuuge! Gaah, I woke up feeling very distressed!

Edit: they weren't hentai octopuses.. they were down right creepy floating skull crushing octopuses!

I haven't looked at what new dolls are coming out in a while. I've been cutting back my own collecting, so not looking helps. However, here are some of the interesting ones out right now, or coming out soon!


Alice in Wonderland looks kinda nice. I like what they did to her hair and eye makeup!
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The most hilarious thing happened at work a few weeks ago! I was talking to Corey and I looked over at the box of Chewy Chips Ahoy Double Chocolate cookies on my desk and I said "I need a cookie! Do you want a cookie Corey?" and he said "what????" and I repeated it! He finally figured out that I had not said "I want a quicky! Do you want a quicky Corey??" haahahaha!

My dad....

.. is sweet and generous. You will never escape my house without at least a Sambuca shot or a cookie!

.. feeds us roasted chestnuts in the winter time.

.. is an amazing gardener. If you look through my photo albums, half the time there is lush lush greenery behind him. He made that!

.. can make Frankenstein trees! Take a walk around the garden behind our house and you'll find trees with 2 or 3 different fruits grafted to it. Yup, he made that too!

.. feeds us figs in the spring time.

.. can drive a forklift like a mean motherfucker!

.. may be all sweetness but pit him against a haggling car sale man and he can hold his own ground!

.. stuffs our faces with cherries in the summer time.

.. has the loveliest, welcoming smile.

.. always goes out of his way to help his siblings or his neighbours, driving them to places when they are unable to, or giving them seedlings or splitting a case of olive oil that was on sale at Galati.

I hope that my sisters and I can give him even a fraction of the support that he has given us over the years.

Thanks dad, we love you! :)

Edit: About 10 mins after I posted this, he yelled at me to turn off the light in my bedroom and close the window coz the air conditioning was running! heheeeeeeeee