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    Tuesday, July 29, 2008

    Go Team Hannah!

    Today I started reading “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” by Lynne Truss. I'm hoping to become a more grammatical person. It already seems very dry and witty.

    Work went well today. I found out last week that one of the co-workers I work closely with is moving to our US office. It's going to be an adjustment without Adam around but life is about adjustment. I went for a walk at noon today to get some pop from 7-11. It's nice to step outside and remember that you are more than just your awesome ability with HS codes and ability to sweet talk customs agents.  

    I had a brief moment of self-doubt this afternoon and it felt really, really terrible. But I'm trying to work through things like that so I can be a better person so I sat down and repeated in my head “This is not because you're boring or uncool or unlikeable.” Of course, admitting that on a blog makes me boring, uncool, and unlikeable. But I don't really care, because this is for me. The people who read it just get the privilege of knowing me that much better after the fact. 

    I went to The Rocket after work at got a really, reallllly sweet shirt printed. Remember Hannah? I know you guys all know who Hannah is and how she makes my days go a lot smoother with “HO NO!” ANYWAY, check this out:

    I'd like everyone to meet the Captain of Team Hannah.

    Sometimes being a girl sucks because words curve where you don't want them to.

    99, because I knew it was some really awesome hockey player's number. Turns out it was Wayne Gretzky. Meet The Great One. 

    Oh, she's just being Mindy. This is in bed, which is actually where 99% of my pictures are taken. I'm not perverted. Just lazy.

    And now I'm going to go get a really good night's sleep. But I'll leave you with this picture:

    $8.50. I won't even show you the other two I got for $4 each, you'll just die of jealousy. Well. Not over Terry Jacks, but over The Muppets and John Denver's Christmas Special.

    Sunday, July 27, 2008

    I'm listening to Motion City Soundtrack's album and contemplating a conversation I had in the wee hours of Saturday morning. I don't know how many people listened to the last song on that album or how many people listen to that band at all, but here, have the song that is about to become the soundtrack to my life:


    And I'll do whatever it takes, even if it kills me. Pick it up, pick me out of it. 

    I know I've said it time and time again, but I mean it. Everything that came before this doesn't matter because it has nothing to do with what I'm doing now. I'm not ashamed of where I came from, I just don't want to continue down that pathway. I've slept better the past two nights than I've slept in years, so thanks. You know who you are. 

    Wednesday, July 23, 2008

    I think I have strep again. This is so not my lifetime. If I get strep every time I hook up, I'm going to probably kill someone. I'm compensating by laying down and sleeping. Watching a lot of TV. I finished Season 1 of Dead Like Me. Now I'm going to start in on the Season 2, then it's totally time for The Hills. I'm still bizarrely infatuated with it.

    This past weekend was Motion City and it was awesome to finally see them playing a headlining set. And I get to see them on Warped Tour. I won't go into details about the weekend, I just realize there are some things I need to change and ways I need to assert myself. This time I mean it, I'm coming clean. [While I was at the show, Jack text messaged me and it said "Someone just came on the walkie and said 'Hannah needs a new shirt' AND YOU MISSED IT!"]

    Vancouver is soon but LA is sooner and I can't wait for either one. I'm going to work my tail off tomorrow at work and I'm also going to go get myself a bus pass for August. Okay, sleep for me now. 

    Friday, July 18, 2008

    The highlight of my day so far

    I walk to the clinic unless it's super cold or super rainy. Today, I walked to the clinic, even though it looked like it was about to rain, Noah's ark-style. On the way to the clinc, there are underpasses that you have to walk under. No big deal, I do this all the time. On my way under, I saw a midget. That in and of itself is pretty awesome. But then I saw a homeless man urinating just off the walkway and the midget and I exchanged equally disgusted looks. Midget interaction, guys. That's the highlight of my day.

    Tuesday, July 15, 2008

    Are you sure you want a piece of me?

    My body says sleep but my brain says be prolific. The eternal struggle. I feel as though it's been a very long week and it only just started. 

    I've heard some new music today and I heard a song today that reminded me how much I want it. I need to find a music program that isn't Kazaa or Limewire because I don't want my computer pooched for the rest of eternity. I watched Saved! tonight and I forgot how much I love that movie. It reminds me of such a specific time in my life and how it showed one person that indie was not always shit. I like to think that I invented you. ANYWAY, the point of that was they use this Arthur Joseph song in it and the song always tugs at my heartstrings. 

    Wow. Piece of Me by Britney Spears just came on my iTunes and it took me back to February where it was a constant rotation of Blackout and Viva La Cobra. There's nothing quite like drinking champagne out of paper coffee cups in the back of a cab. It's certainly the way to do things right.

    The cards show a page six blind item for September. I can feel the excitement building in the air.

    This weekend I met the most obnoxious BC stoner and then watched The Plain White Ts. I felt bad, the crowd left after they played Hey There, Delilah. They have more than one song. True story. I definitely grinned until my face hurt at You and Me. Because sometimes that shit is just spot on. You and me, we like the same kind of music. That's why we make a good you and me. 

    Saturday, July 12, 2008

    It always makes me feel better to know I have these kind of friends. I know, I just quoted the world's biggest asshole/sellout/best friend/heartbreaker/drama king/genuinely really nice guy on here but it's only because I really feel like I have a few friends who could be that kind of friend for me if I needed them to be.

    Tonight I got a message that said someone was feeling nostalgic a moment ago and they wanted me to be with them. When I think of Vancouver, it's always sunny and warm, even when we're getting rained on and standing in front of church doors saying Our Fathers like they make a difference. Saying September is soon is my way of keeping myself sane, didn't you know?

    You are every one of my favourite songs. You're the way my red shoes look against wet pavement. You're the perfect smoke ring. You're a perfectly clear night where the stars are shining. You're the moment where I feel infinite and insignificant all at once. You're you, and that's somehow even better than everything else.

    Wednesday, July 9, 2008

    It's official, yo. I'm going to see Motion City Soundtrack with my brother not this weekend but next weekend in Edmonton. I'm actually pretty bummed about gas prices being what they are because a half hour flight sounds a lot better than a four hour bus ride. But! It's actually cheaper for me to take the bus than drive because a tank of gas is upwards of $60 now and the bus ticket, round-trip, was $57. It would take me a tank to get there and a tank to get back. You do the math.

    I'm pretty excited about life for the next two months. Let's do the schedule:

    July 19 - 20: Edmonton for Motion City w/ Jeremy
    August 6: Warped Tour Calgary
    August 16 - 19: Los Angeles for Warped Tour and everything else that L.A. entails w/ Meghan and Maroo
    August 20: Mayhaps moving out w/ Meghan
    August 30: Oasis and Ryan Adams w/ Ryan W and Brendon
    September 11 - 15: Vancouver to see Mitchell

    Don't you wish you had my two months coming up?

    I've also, at the suggestion of Meghan, started coding my dayplanner. Yes. I'm really that lame. But it's good to be organized, and not in the "Red in the morning, yellow at lunch, blue in the afternoon" kind of way.

    Friday, July 4, 2008

    Oy vey it's a been awhile. Things are a lot better on my end. The Conference 'O' Doom is over and I no longer have to meet in the boardroom for six hours out of what were turning into ten hour days. I'm grateful for everyone who kept me sane. They know who they are.

    As of right now, I'm setting a new list of goals for myself because the old ones belonged to the old blog which belonged to the old me. There are things I find more important now than getting a huge record collection or seeing a certain band a certain number of times. Like I said, this time I mean it, I'm coming clean.

    Meghan and I had Starbucks hangs last night and the newest love of my life is Venti Iced Passion Tea Lemonade Unsweetened. Sorry, guys, you can't compete. I'm in the middle of reading Mailman and I wish it would hurry up and get to something interesting. The premise sounded so promising. That's what she said.

    I have two flights coming up in two months and I'm deathly excited for both of them. Seeing someone too often spoils me but not seeing them often enough makes my heart break a little more.

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