Look! An Update!

Ok, so I haven't written in ages, I know, I know! I've even had complaints (*waves* Hi Chris!). I don't know why I haven't written - I've even had things to say. In the beginning, all I wanted to talk about was the projects I was working on and I couldn't do that. I was making birthday presents for people who might actually check this thing. I made an olive green zippered purse for my sister's birthday out of an old pair of cargo pants that ripped out the week before. Don't worry, I didn't cheap out - inside I put a gift certificate for one of her favourite stores. I really liked the purse although I'm not sure it's her style at all. It was a nice size, small but still big enough for your wallet and crap. Perfect for summer. I can't believe I didn't take a picture of it for my craft pages. I didn't take a picture of my other project either - a bag for my mom for her yoga mat. I had made one before for her but she wanted changes and waterproofing. So this time, I made it out of nylon ripstop which is water repellent and I made it tubular (like a bag for your sleeping bag) instead of a shoulder bag like before.

My other major project has been scrapbooking (and by scrapbooking, I don't mean creative and fancy, I mean organized photos and pamphlets and other odd memorabilia with captions) - I can't believe the box of crap (aka MEMORIES) I had collected. Even after sorting it all out and tossing anything that no longer had relevance or sentimental value, I still had so much. I bought one of those scrapbooks that you can add pages to and bought 3 extra packets of pages. I then went nuts. About 2 weeks ago, I finished up to August 1995 and closed the book on "the early years". I swear, half of the scrapbook is my Grade 12 year alone. The rest are photos my parents may or may not have noticed are missing from their albums *g*. I'm working on my third year university right now, although in a way it's harder. I have photo albums for each year since I moved out here, which means I have to find a way to squish my memory crap into existing albums.

Ok, so where was I before all that? Oh right, why I don't post. I think the biggest reason is I think of rants while at work or while walking home. I rant in my head and then when I get home, I don't feel like typing it all out when I could do something more interesting, like read someone else's posts, or watch tv, or sleep. Sleep often wins. All the stuff at the beginning of this post (right up until this paragraph) was written while I walked home. I had a notebook and a pen so I just started writing. Looks like chicken scratch though. Maybe I should take my old tape recorder (the one i just HAD to have for university so I could record my lectures - I think I recorded one) with me on my walks. I can rant out loud (Look, it's the crazy lady!) and then type it out when I get home. Even better - I can get voice recognition software and it can type for me! *L* Does that stuff work yet?

So what would I have ranted about had I ranted here? Belinda Stronach (go girl go! Defect! Defect!), confidence votes (I got up early to watch it live, holding my breath while Chuck Cadman and the speaker voted, I'm not kidding. I really don't want to have to vote again. Elections. *shudder*), the Alberta nuts who write into the Edmonton Sun (a right-wing paper) about wanting to separate (one more time, NUTS. Where the hell are these people? I don't know any. Stupid idijits anyway, sure sure we have money now, what happens when oil prices tank again or the damn oil runs out hmmm???), Ontario being the first province to make the reporting of gunshot wounds mandatory (who knew it wasn't mandatory? I assumed it was here just like in the United States - too much Law and Order for me again), the canceling of Joan of Arcadia. Ohhhh, I would have ranted about that!! I even wrote CBS to complain. And today, as part of the http://www.savejoanofarcadia.com campaign I emailed a bunch of other networks trying to get them to pick it up. I have little hope, but other shows have been saved before. Buffy got bought by a different network! Of course, I always failed to mention I'm Canadian and that I don't count in their viewing statistics anyway.

And in other news - I had a fabulous long weekend that involved much going out and spending of money. Discovered a new pub that I liked very much, had a taste of Thai, saw Star Wars (two thumbs up), and just had a really great time. Then it was back to work for a 9 night stretch. Some things suck.