A series of rooms...

I started noveling around 12 hours ago now, and only wrote for probably around an hour. In the end of it, I made it up to 1800 (primarily crappy) words. I am very proud of those words though, crappy as they may have been - they didn't stick to my initial story idea at all. I'm not sure if I'll go back to my original idea, or if I'll just continue writing tomorrow as I did today. I might do that, and then eventually work my way into my initial idea - who knows really, only time will tell!

Jonathan was working from home again today, and his cough has continued to stay away - he has to go back into the office again tomorrow, so we're both curious to see if it comes back again (as seems to be the case each time he returns). 

Did Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mayfair again last night. I forgot my keys so didn't get to ring any bells, and we also forgot to bring the toast - but it was still a pretty fun evening. I got to wear animal ears for no apparent reason this time around. 

Oh, and just so you guys know - it was determined for certain yesterday that I'm going to be meeting Jonathan's parents this Sunday. They're coming into town to celebrate their 35th anniversary, and we're all going out to eat something. Should be interesting, I'm looking forward to it - I think it'll be nice to meet them, and am fairly hopeful (and expectant) that it will go well. The main concern I have for it at the moment is that I don't spill food all over myself lol, but other than that, I'm feeling a lot calmer than I expected to feel. Perhaps a little excited even, but yeah, at very least it should prove to be interesting. I'll keep you updated :-)



 

Today is the first day of November. Let the novel writing begin!

This is pretty old now, but I thought I'd post it so I could retain a copy of this list *and* get rid of the increasingly gross looking receipt it is printed on.

Movies:
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (Ed Wood)
House of the Dead (Uwe Boll)
Bloodrayne (Uwe Boll)
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension (?)
Six String Samurai
Mad Max
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo

Comics/Books to Read:
"Preacher" by Garth Enis
"Watchmen" by Neil Gaimon
"American Gods" an "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaimon

 Saw Cats tonight at the NAC, and I have to say this, it was awesome. I loved it. Way surpassed my expectations.

Jon was less impressed by it, but of course, he saw the original broadway production of the show when he was in his teens - so that kind of surpassed the level of this one I guess by quite a lot.

For me though, so far at least, I'd have to say it's my favourite musical.

"Memory" is an awesome song, which I adored (and recognized). I also loved Macavity, and have vowed to name the next cat I owned Mr. Moustopheles (though I may have spelt that wrong).

Anywho, had an awesome night at the NAC - not so much trying to get there though, Jon and I waited for 1n hour and twenty minutes. We missed the beginning of the show, but for me, I'm just happy I got there though. I'm happy we got let in before the intermission, because I loved it - even if I didn't see it all.

I'll add more on this later though, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares beckons me. Ttyl!

 

Movies I’ve seen with the Ottawa Movie Fans Meetup
SE = Special Engagement
SP = Sneak Preview
NDA = No Discussion Afterwards

 

With Isabella in Charge... (7)
Tuesday, April 17^th, 2007 – Blades of Glory (Empire 7, Royal Oak) – 13 attended
Tuesday, April 24^th, 2007 – Amazing Grace (South Keys, Montana’s – 13 attended
Tuesday, May 1^st, 2007 – Fracture (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 10 attended
Monday, May 7^th, 2007 – Spiderman 3 (South Keys, Montana’s) – 10 attended
Tuesday, May 15^th, 2007 – Away From Her (Bytowne, Don Cherry’s) – 10 attended
Wednesday, May 23^rd, 2007 – Waitress (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 6 attended
Monday, May 28^th, 2007 – 28 Weeks Later (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 7 attended

With myself and Bob in charge...(9)
Tuesday, June 5^th, 2007 – Knocked Up (South Keys, Montana’s) – 7 attended
Tuesday, June 12^th, 2007 – Once (Empire 7, Hotel Indigo Lounge) – 14 attended
Tuesday, June 19^th, 2007 – Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (South Keys, Kelsey’s) – 14 attended
Monday, June 25^th, 2007 – A Mighty Heart (Empire 7, Royal Oak) – 11 attended
Tuesday, July 3^rd, 2007 – Sicko (Empire 7, Darcy McGee’s) – 17 attended
Tuesday, July 10^th, 2007 – Paris, je t’aime (Bytowne, Highlander Pub) – 14 attended
Tuesday, July 17^th, 2007 – Eagle Vs. Shark (Bytowne, Pour House) – 14 attended
Wednesday, July 25^th, 2007 – HP and the Order of the Phoenix (South Keys, Montana’s) – 8 attended
Tuesday, July 31^st, 2007 – Hairspray (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 20 attended

With myself in charge alone...(14)
Tuesday, August 7^th, 2007 – Ratatouille (South Keys, Kelsey’s) – 10 attended
Tuesday, August 14^th, 2007 – The Bourne Ultimatum (Don Cherry’s, Darcy McGee’s) – 17 attended
Tuesday, August 21^st, 2007 – 2 Days In Paris (Bytowne, Don Cherry’s) – 14 attended
Tuesday, August 28^th, 2007 – Resurrecting the Champ (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 14 attended
Tuesday, September 4^th, 2007 – The 11^th Hour (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 10 attended
Tuesday, September 11^th, 2007 – Interview (Bytowne, Don Cherry’s) – 11 attended
Sunday, September 16^th, 2007 – SE: Once (Bytowne, NDA) – 9 attended
Tuesday, September 18^th, 2007 – 3:10 to Yuma (South Keys, Kelsey’s) – 8 attended
Sunday, September 23^rd, 2007 – SE: Ratatouille (Mayfair, Patty’s Pub) – 4 attended
Tuesday, September 25^th, 2007 – Eastern Promises (Gloucester, Casey’s) – 7 attended
Tuesday, October 2^nd, 2007 – Across the Universe (Gloucester, Montana’s) – 11 attended
Tuesday, October 4^th, 2007 – SP: The Jane Austen Book Club (Bytowne, NDA) – 13 attended
Tuesday, October 16^th, 2007 – In the Shadow of the Moon (Bytowne, Elephant & Castle) – 13 attended
Tuesday, October 23^rd, 2007 – The Darjeeling Limited (Empire 7, Sheraton) – 16 attended

I also had a little unofficial movie thing, that wasn't on the meetup listing, in between "Knocked Up" and "Once." That night I went to see Iraq in Fragments and The Lives of Others at the Mayfair with Simon and Ali. Bob was still assistant organizer to the group then, but he wasn't there that night - so it doesn't really fit on the upper list at all - thus its being shoved in here.

Uck... remind me that warm milk tastes disgusting.

I'm up out of bed right now, laid there for probably about an hour before I determined that hey, I'm probably not going to fall asleep anytime soon.

Watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show on DVD earlier tonight with Jonathan. He set up all the little prop bags for our charity screening of it tomorrow at the Bytowne.  I'm thinking about glamming it up a little bit for it, but not going all out - I don't feel ready for "all out" quite yet. For the Halloween night screening or next year perhaps.

Anywho, I had a relatively unproductive day today. I did some laundry, made the bed, applied for a couple jobs (four, to be exact), did a couple dishes, and probably some other things - but at the moment, I can't seem to think of what those things are.

Oh! I did a bunch of Movie Meetup related stuff too... like created a listing of all the films I've seen with the group, and how many people attended each, and other information like that. I might post that on here for no good reason in a little bit.

I also created an active member database, which made me realize that out of the groups 110 current members - I have only actually met 56.

On a completely different note, I talked to Chris a little via email midday, and we determined that we were going to forgo our getting together for the night. I'm not sure if we're going to make up for it another night yet, or if we'll just pick up where we left off last week. Either way it's cool.

*yawns and hopes it means she's going to be able to sleep soon*

Mmm... I think I'm going to go for now, I can't think of very much that was interesting to add for today. Maybe I'll think of something later, but till then I'm off... (might still post that movie listing in a moment though)

 Going home later today. Think I'm going to dye my hair. Curl it too possibly.

Today is a very rainy day. It looks rather cold and wet outside. I'm not looking forward to waiting for the bus to get home. 

Movie meetup tonight, 17 RSVP's so far. I expect to have Dan and Louise come out as well, so really that'd make our group 19 in size. I wonder how many people are actually going to show up - my dad might not, so that could bring the number back down a little. I still have to contact the Sheraton about having our meeting there after.

Dad has the day off today, which is why I'm planning on going home. I'm going to try to spend most of the day with him. Hopefully it'll go a bit better than last time. 

Veronica Mars, Season Three is out on DVD as of today - I'm wondering if we might go out shopping to pick that up. It's what he was planning on getting me for my birthday, and if he's off today, it'd make sense that we go to get it. 

Hmmm... I have some interesting plot ideas going through my head this time around. I have to read up on the Caste system in particular I think, to see how I might be able to run with that.

Oh well, I'm going to go now though. I should really be getting ready to go home, and I don't have too much to add at the moment anyway. Though I will say this: I'm really glad I raked the lawn yesterday. The weather is supposed to be terrible after (and I guess including) today.

 So, it appears that livejournal has eaten my entry from yesterday. This is my replacement one.

To sum it up, I will say this:

1.  I didn't make it on to the second interview for the Management Trainee position at GoodLife. They're keeping my resume on file for the future though.

2.  I signed a contract with myself saying that I would finish my National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) novel by the end of November. Otherwise, evil guilt-monkeys will eat my soul. (I'm currently trying to come up with additional punishments for myself as well).

3. My canker sores (there are now two of them) are finally going away! I am very pleased about this fact. Very pleased.

4. "No Plot? No Problem!" by Chris Baty is a surprisingly fun read.

5. I applied for jobs at Babies R Us, Winners, Home Sense, The Bay, and HMV yesterday.

Wheee.....

Okay, so yesterday Candice and I had our rescheduled get together from Friday night. Her mom got free tickets to an event taking place at the National Arts Center (NAC) - and I got to tag along. The event was called "Cloud Gate Dance Theatre" and it was the antithesis of "Diavolo Dance Theatre" which I saw at the NAC just over a week ago on my birthday.

Diavolo, is an American dance theatre troupe which uses set pieces of sorts - and creates their performance around that. Diavolo was extremely impressive, and entirely different from anything I had ever seen - it was excecedingly beautiful, and awe-inspiring in a way.

Cloud Gate Dance theatre, is a fairly sizeable group of Taiwanese dancers, which has its pieces formed entirely around the human form. In the background behind the dancers, long pieces of white rice paper flowed to the floor. Ink drizzled down the pieces, almost inperceptibly throughout the performance - and lit in different ways, these papers alone looked quite beautiful. 

The dancing itself was calligraphy inspired. The particular show I saw yesterday was entitled "Wild Cursive" and was the third in a series of Calligraphy inspired pieces this troupe has performed. 

The dancers were dressed more or less identically. All the women were dressed in the same black outfit, and all the men in the same black pants. 

There was no music of sorts in this performance. There was sound, both from the dancers themselves and more natural sounding things - like the sound of wind blowing, over the course of the 70 minute piece.
The movements the dancers made were what astounded me the most. All of the motion I saw was very fluid, very elegant and beautiful. It sort of took my breath away. 

I could see some people being more bored by Cloud Gate, it was a lot different than I expected it to be, but I was entranced by it. I am definitely very happy I went.

Definitely, Cloud Gate was less of a spectacle than Diavolo - but I loved them both in completely different ways. Due to the amount of quiet that yesterdays performance provided me, I spent much of the time comparing it to Diavolo - and pondering which I liked more, out of the two. If I had to choose, I think I might have to go with this one - because overall, I felt it was the stronger of the two. Diavolo was remarkable in an entirely different sort of way though. I'm really happy I saw them both, as they counter-balanced each other nicely.

Oh well, I have to go now - lunch with Jon and Stacy awaits. 

 Spent the early part of the day with my father today. Woke up around 8:30, and called him somewhere around 10:30 AM to make specific plans. He came by Jon's place around 11 to get me, and then we headed out to South Keys for a bit. 

At South Keys, we went to Future Shop and then Wal-Mart (where dad bought two June Carter-Cash CDs, and the Blood Diamond and Letters from Iwo Jima DVDs). I checked out the prices on Grey's Anatomy, but that was about it for me. 

After that, sort of on a whim, my dad and I decided that we were going to try to donate blood (as the "bloodmobile" I think it was called) was present - and it seemed like a good experience to share together. The guy who was standing outside the vehicle actually recognized and knew my father, not only by name - but knew where he worked, and that they would be changing over from bikes to ski's rather shortly.

We didn't end up being able to give blood today, because they had  a bunch of appointments - apparently all of which were planning to show. I got a card from them though, and am going to donate some other time. I signed up as a new donor today on their site.

After the lack of a blood donation, dad and I hit Denny's and had some lunch. It was pretty good, but my Chicken Ranch Melt or whatever it was ended up tasting pretty overpowering towards the end of the meal. It was really nice at first though.

From there we hit Best Buy, where I checked out some DVDs but again didn't buy anything. I found some more things I will be interested in getting eventually.

From Best Buy we headed back downtown to our place, and dad listened to June Carter-Cash while I did other things. Then I came back over and watched a little bit of Blood Diamond with him, before heading out to meet Candice at the Colliseum.

We ended up meeting at the Tim Hortons instead, and from there headed downtown the NAC to watch Cloud Gate. I'll add more about that tomorrow, but for now let me just say this. It was exquisitely beautiful, and I am really glad I got to see it - I hadn't been expecting to. But again, more on that tomorrow. 

Goodnight!

Oh my, I'm probably going to end up kicking myself for this...

I just signed up to participate in Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month - Na - Know - Rye - Moe) again this year, which means that come November, I'm going to frantically be trying to write a 50,000 word story within a 30 day period. Eep!

I would rather like to pick up a copy of the Nanowrimo guide book thing at Chapters, "No Plot? No Problem!" but quite simply, don't have the money for it at the moment, so I likely will not.

I'm considering at the moment whether or not I want to attend the kick-off party this year or not too. I think I'd like to, it was pretty fun last year - but I might wait and see if I can get Jonathan to go. The other nano events I'll probably have to attend separately, but it'd be nice if he could come with me to that one.

Anywho, my nose is driving me mental today. I definitely have a cold or allergies or something right now, and it's being exceedingly aggravating! I keep sneezing like crazy today, and to that I say Boo.

Hmm... I'm supposed to be making up some artist cards for my mother right now, but I appear to be putting it off. I guess I'll force myself to work on it once this is done. She's out right now, volunteering somewhere. 

I'm also supposed to work on some sort of application to her some of her art in a gallery down the street. She really wants it displayed right now, so there'll at least be an opportunity for her to get a grant or make some sales in the future - for a grant, apparently your work now has to have been on display for the past three years. Her financial situation is really tight at the moment, just like mine. 

I'm going to be needing glasses sometime soon too, it sucks. I don't really have money for them, or the hair cut I want actually, or a number of other things... the only money I get lately comes from Jonathan, and I feel really bad about that. I don't want him to have to buy me everything. Some things sure, that's nice - but not everything. I don't like being completely dependent on him for things, and I don't want him to have to feel he has to buy me things. I'd much rather him make purchases because he actually wants to. 

Over the next week or so I should find out if I end up getting a position at Best Buy or GoodLife Fitness, if I don't, I'm going to have to start working harder again at finding another possible job. I'm still looking, but nothing I'm finding is particularly interesting me - which is unfortunate. 

In the mail the other day, I got a letter and some forms from the CRA with regards to a job I applied for. It's a data entry thing, and I have a typing test with them on the 30th of October. I'm going to be practicing my typing between now and then. Apparently they aren't hiring until February - April though, and I'd really rather like to be working before then.

Oh well, I'm going to go now - I really ought to at least get some work done on moms cards and stuff before she gets back. Maybe I'll add some more stuff to this later, but if not, I'll talk to you tomorrow!

P.S. One more thing, I finished the first volume of the Sandman series yesterday - I'm looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

Met up with Chris around 4:30 yesterday I think it was, at Baseline station. From there we caught the 118 down to his place, hit the Mac's milk to get him a Slurpee, and then mosied on over to his place which is under some serious rennovations. Looks very different than before.

Once we got in, we pretty much went right out again - taking Bowzer out to the dog park by his and Johanna's place. It was pretty nice, and I'm glad it wasn't too cold - though I was dressed for far colder weather than I needed have been.

Bowzer played around with, exchanged balls with, and sniffed the nether-regions of several different dogs while out there: including one named Charlie, who was a pretty cute dog. Bigger than Bowzer though, considerably.

After the dog park, we headed back to Chris's place and ordered pizza (Meat Lovers from Milano's - quite good really), and just hung out and watched TV for a bit. I saw Miette again as well, but didn't see Stella at all (their other cat). 

I guess nothing too exciting happened, but it was nice to just do whatever with Chris again for a bit. He walked me most of the way back to my mothers after, and then theoretically bused back.

I didn't end up reading Sandman at all last night, I did watch some of Dodgeball with my mom and sister though - and also watched most of Private Practice. I missed a little here and there, but saw 95% probably. It was decent. I was dying to go to bed during it though (thus no reading of Sandman).

I fell asleep on the couch after Private Practice ended, and woke up around 3:30AM and went downstairs to an actual bed for the rest of the evening. Got up this morning around 8:30 I think, and mom has already gone out. I don't think I'm going to see her very much during this visit. Oh well...

The meetup ended up going really well last night. Met a couple new people (Chris, Andrea, Tara and José) and they all seemed very nice to me. Chris was apparently there for the very first movie meetup the group ever had, so he long predates me as a member - it was the first time he'd been there in 11 months though, so obviously, the first time I'd actually met him.

I enjoyed what I saw of the movie last night, and what I heard of the discussion afterwards. I quite liked our waiter as well, he was very amusing - especially his random comments about Pilates. Can't remember his name for certain, but I think it might have been Geoffrey. Oh well.

Anywho, Jon walked me home after the movie and came inside for a little bit. It was only his second time visiting my place. He was feeling really sore, and I was feeling somewhat less-so, which was good I guess for me.

Jon had his first experience feeding Fluffy last night, or I'm guessing, any fish at all. 

It was nice having him over for a little bit - even though my place still isn't overly presentable, at least it's better than it was before. 

I'm going to be stopping by his place later today I think, to pick up Super Size Me and Dodgeball for my sister - along with Sarah's cookies (which apparently he brought with him yesterday, but forgot to actually give to me).

 Plans with Chris are still on for this evening, so after I'm done at Jon's place, I should be heading out to my moms. She didn't seem to think she'd be home until sometime after noon, but I'll probably end up leaving here pretty soon. 

I'm about half-way through the first volume of Gaiman's "Sandman" series. And I watched Akira for the first time yesterday. I'm still not sure what I thought of it, I'm wondering if I might have to watch it again. 

I'm looking forward to the other movies I borrowed more though. I have Run Lola Run, Amelie, and Ghost in the Shell to see.

 The ringing in my ears as stopped. I slept at home last night for the first time in I don't know how long. It was nice, kind of. 

My bed and apartment are nowhere near as comfortable as Jonathan's, and I didn't sleep that soundly really... but it was nice to be alone for a change, to just relax in my own place, and have time to think and be with myself properly. I don't have the internet or cable at home, so I can't distract myself from my thoughts as easily there - and that's probably a really good thing right now.

I'm going to be away from Jon's place a lot over the next little while, I was thinking about my plans for that last night. He has been feeling really crappy lately, and so have I... and I've been thinking about it more and more, and I think it's going to be very important for us to take a little step back for a couple of weeks. Nothing in our relationship has happened at a normal pace...

I love being with him, and look forward to continuing to being with him in the future - but we need to slow it down for a little bit. The thing I'm trying to decide now is just how much time I think we need.

Right now I'm going back and forth between 3-4 nights a week apart, for the next couple of weeks. 

There are a couple of reasons for this...

1) Jonathan and I have been, physically, rather exhausted and crappy feeling lately - and we both need time to heal.

2) We've been spending so much time together, it's crazy. He feels he needs some alone time, and I'm not doing enough for myself and have been depending on Jonathan too much for my mood.

3) The winter months are coming, and I'm probably going to want to be outside travelling a lot less shortly - and I should be spending lots of time with my family now, while I still easily and comfortably, can.

I think the most important thing for me, is that I start doing things for myself again. 

I've been having a lot of alone time, but as Jonathan has been doing more things for me - I have been doing less things to please myself. At his place, I'm alone all day - and I'll usually do things like go online and chat with people, clean, look for jobs or just pass out or something. I haven't been writing, I haven't been going outside or getting exercise, I haven't been reading, meditating, or spending enough time with my family and friends. I've only been shopping when I need something, I've stopped just going out and browsing around for fun - and I need to start doing all this stuff again.

I'm going to start doing more stuff again that really makes me happy. I'm so used to being around Jonathan now, that I think I'm going to have to make a point of, for the next little while, forcing myself to be alone. I don't want to be dependent on him to make me happy, and it feels like I'm starting to get on that road - which is wrong. It's not good for him, and it's not remotely good for me either.

Anywho, I figure this time we're going to have apart will mean that the time we have together should be much nicer again, and less exhausting.

After a little time apart, I should be able to start staying over more again I think. I look forward to when that time comes. But for now, I really feel that this separation is going to be necessary. I'm just not sure how long it's going to have to go on. Until I'm taking care of myself better again, and until we're both physically healed. 

I think it's important that we work on our communication skills more too. We have a great relationship, but we need to learn how to communicate with each other better - so there are less misunderstandings.

The time apart will be great for one other thing: helping us to realize exactly what it is that we want and need, both from each other, and in general. This step back is going to be probably a bit of a shock for me, because I've been practically living with him since the very beginning - but it is a necessary one, I think, should end up being very beneficial to our relationship.

 Sigh. I'm not feeling very well at the moment. I have a headache, ringing in my ears (from the concert I went to see yesterday) and a canker sore. 

I'm going home later today for a couple of days. It's going to be really nice I think to get away. I'm going to miss Jonathan, but I think both of us could probably really make use of this time alone to think and heal, and it'll be good to give each other a little more space.

The plan for me is to leave here once I'm finished my laundry, and packing and everything - and to go and be home tonight and tomorrow night, and visit with my dad for a bit. 

Tomorrow I have the movie meetup again, we're going to see the movie "In the Shadow of the Moon" which should be good I think - or at very least interesting. We didn't have a meetup last week, which was nice, but I'm looking forward to going back again.

Dad might actually be showing up for this meeting too, he seems at least somewhat interested in it - so that could be interesting if he does show up. It'll be the first time he meets Jonathan, assuming of course that Jonathan ends up going.

On Wednesday I'm planning to go out to my mums place, probably in the early afternoon. I should get to spend some more time with my grandma and sister, which will be nice. 

Wednesday night I'm going to be hanging out for a bit with Chris. I don't know what we're going to be doing yet, but it'll be nice to just do nothing in particular with him for a bit. 

Thursday I might be going out with my mum, sister, nanny, Vivian, Eric, Laura, myself, and possibly my father, for a joint birthday dinner (four of us have bday's this month). 

Friday I don't know what I'm going to do, but I might go home again for the evening to rest up. 

I think my dad is working on Sunday this weekend, so I might stay out at my place on Saturday during the day at least to get some father-daughter time in. For either Friday or Saturday  night it is possible that I might be coming back here.

This is going to be point-form for now... I'll update with a longer version later. 

- went out for dinner with Chris
- Patty's Pub (Chicken Boxty!)
- talk about Candice (brief mention of giving up on that)
- meeting Miette and seeing Bowzer again
- "I don't care, said Pierre, I'm from France!"
- Carmanland ad
- Goodlife Fitness, damn thee all to heck! 

 Feeling distinctly crappy today. I've got a health concern of sorts and am going to be heading down to a clinic downtown shortly. Jonathan is taking the morning off to come with me.

Went with Jon to see Phantom of the Opera at the NAC last night, and I thought it was really good for the most part. If there's one thing I would have to say about it it is this, the show looked fantastic. The sound quality, on the other hand - wasn't always so great. There were a number of times when I couldn't figure out what the hell people were singing... and I think that was just because of the acoustics in the theatre.  

I have the complete soundtrack now, which comes with the lyrics to all of the songs... so maybe next time I'll listen to it I'll be better able to follow along.

I'm sorry I haven't been updating my livejournal more lately, I'm going to start writing in it again now I think... I'm able to keep my thoughts a lot better organized if I do. I like having it as a place I can sort of vent, if need be... it'll be nice to stabilize myself a little bit.

Starting this week, Chris and I are going to be trying to get together weekly-ish so that we actually, still, well, see each other... lol. I haven't seen him much over the past little while, and I'm hoping to at least up the frequency of our visits together to a couple times a month. It'll be nice to see him again for sure.

Anywho, I don't have too much more to say for now. The trip to Toronto at the end of last month was awesome, but I've already talked about that to great lengths elsewhere and should really be doing other stuff right now.

I'll try to update again later though. ttyl!

Wow, I'm doing pretty great on this whole livejournal thing again - aren't I? 

I guess I'll have to work on that...

I'm at Jonathan's place again right now, I've been there quite a lot lately. I slept at home last night for the first time in five days, and I slept awfully. Woke up at least five or six times in the middle of the night, and even got sick one of them... it was a really crappy night. I'm not sure what brought on the sickness, probably food I suppose.  I much prefer sleeping here though.

Dad and I decided not to rush to buy a digicam today, we're going to wait to get one that I really want instead of getting one that'll be almost as good as what I'd want lol. We also went to Bayshore today and I looked at shoes, accessories, and lingerie mostly. I didn't have a lot of time there (45 mins) and I forgot my green dress in the car, so that made accessory shopping difficult - so I didn't end up buying much of anything. The trip increased my desire to go back there though... or at least go shopping again sometime soon (and it'll have to be in the next week as I need stuff to go with my dress for next Friday).

The situation with Bob at the movie meetup got really bad this past week. He's not my assistant organizer anymore, and I'm not sure he's going to come back to the group now at all (I've asked him not to return for a month or more anyway, so he could calm down a bit and see things rationally). 

Things with the meetup otherwise are awesome really, it's going great. Two people left comments on the site this week talking about what a great job I was doing organizing the group, and saying how happy they were to be a meetup member. Ed also commented, during the meetup itself, on how consistent the group has been since I took over - all in all it has left me feeling very happy.

Things with Jonathan are also exceedingly awesome lately, and I'm very happy with where that is going at the moment as well. We're going to see Kris Kristofferson tomorrow night at the Ottawa Folk Festival, which should be nice. 

Saturday night is Tynesha's going away party, so we're going to East Side Mario's and then out bowling after that. "I'm not sure exactly when she's coming into town on Saturday yet, but I guess I'll find out tomorrow or, well, Saturday lol about that. If she's in town most of the day, she's semi-agreed to going Dancing on the Street with me in the Glebe (which Jonathan is dying to go do as well, hee).

Mmm... can't think of too much more to say at the moment, oh wait, yes I can... the wedding on Saturday was really good. We had a nice time at it I think, or at least I did. Took advantage of Jon's drunkenness most certainly... wedding's are a beautiful thing.

I have some pictures online if anyone wants to see, just ask me and I'll invite you to the pics. 

Alrighty, well *now* I can't think of anything much to add so I'll talk to you later. G'night!

Woke up today and wondered if the phone call I'd gotten from Chris last night had been a dream or not. The call took place somewhere between 5 and 6am, so I figured it may have been... so the first thing I did today, was call and ask him. It wasn't a dream, that call had happened.

From there I went and set up some simple plans to see him sometime later in the day, after I went on my walk with my father presumably. We met up around 2:20 at Chapters. First I actually met Jonathan there, and then Chris joined us shortly thereafter. We all went to Rideau and to a couple stores there searching for ties to match the suit he'll be wearing to the wedding on Saturday. We failed miserably at that by the way.

After tie shopping, we headed to the LCBO and then out for Gelato (Apple Pie and Cinnamon flavoured for me - yummy!), and then back to my (extremely untidy at the moment) place to just relax and have a couple drinks. Once we finished the drinks and all that we headed out again to get something to eat. Ended up going to T.J. Pagoda's which I thought was pretty nice... quiet at least. Simon called me while we were there, and I said I'd call him back after the meal but I ended up not doing that. I'll call him tomorrow now sometime I suppose.

From T.J. Pagoda's we went to Elephant & Castle, and from there I went home. Yep. So that was my day off from seeing Jonathan for the week. Nice, hmm? (Admit it, you're a little impressed)

I'm told that it should also be noted, that he did indeed present me with a glorious bouquet of flowers which are now sitting at home in my apartment (with my fish who is, I'm certain, enjoying them quite a bit). I'm also being nudged (by my conscience) to mention that he got me some chocolates from Godiva's as well.

Anywho, lol. Ohhh... and I noticed upon returning home today, that Bob has changed his RSVP status for next weeks movie meetup from a "Yes" (which he has had every week since before I joined) to a "No" with no explanation, either on the site or off of it. I'm very curious about that, and I'm hoping that it's nothing too bad... though I kind of have to assume that it is. My money is on him having found out about my being with Jonathan, and then being upset over it and not wanting to have to see me (or rather us) on Tuesday. He was actually the one who suggested we go to see Ratatouille this week, and he's been trying to encourage me to see it for many weeks now, so I'm a little shocked that he isn't supposed to be coming. *looks a little shifty*

Meh.