so today some one said to me “you are taking a few days off soon, right?”

kind of taking that as a hint. Was kind of a rough day around the workStead.

so, how about some good things? (there’s been some bad esteem soul-crushing bad things, but I am not interested in documenting them here for your reading pleasure).

Zombie license plate arrived!
I’m making baubles!
I’m writing words (Ellis told Martyn “Monarchy is a waste of good paperwork” after he admitted stuff about The Queen. I think the queen might be my myomancer. HUZZAH)
My fun hair colour is a delightful rose red
I’ve lost about 14lbs through the POWER OF EATING!
I’m going to see VNV in EXACTLY 11 DAYS.

lookit how adorable that tubby little roman is. crickies i love him.

lucite. not just for strippers anymore!

lucite+swarovski over artisan glass pinwheels. I’m kind of digging it. The green’s greener and the blue’s bluer but the purple is only a smidge darker.

you see my camera is in the caribbean. well, it was. I think it’s in toronto now, but the iphone and a tilted reading lamp is how we roll in this land of magic.

i’m watching the Oscars, like most other people and really, I’m semi amused and semi annoyed (could be because I’m sporting one hella bad attitude, today) and kind of want to punch Kristen Stewart, but was all in hearts with the John Hughes tribute because, let’s be honest here, I named my bike Molly Ringwald for a reason.

gratuitous shot of molly's fender.

okay i magically stopped writing this, so this is all i got.

so this one time we were at Eau Claire at the movies. No idea what movie but my friend L, actor type, you know, decided to faint in the middle of the waiting-area outside the theatre.
just to see what would happen.
we watched, of course, and i have to tell you? People are lousy in an emergency. Also, you wimmins? Get your paws off the fainted cutie

Fo’Shizzle.

So. Was reading ColorMeKatie, which I found via a link of a link and I like strangers’ blogs and so, voila. Katie is a member of improv everywhere and OMG this made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

best ever is the dude at the end “They turned life into a musical!”

it’s kind of flashmob-ie without the mob. it also confirms that most people in this world, just want to have fun.
I can’t tell you how many times a month ppl tell me they wish they had the guts to dye their hair pink. Or purple. And I’m all, OMG! It’s temporary, just do it once before you die. But they can’t.
It makes me sad.

But grocery store musicals?

MAKE ME HAPPY!

I could sleep here.

david meredith

I’m totally digging the echo of the heart-swirly cast iron with the bed linens even though you might recall that yellow makes babies cry. I’m totally into the way the floor randomly stops and there’s that ladder as if an escape is imminent except there seems to be a full-length window right beside the darn thing so how’s THAT for over-prepared? Except when I was looking at it I was thinking “dang this place needs a hint o’ red” and LO’! lookit the colour of the ladder, my little cantaloupes.

So, I’m all for the random ladder.

Kind of into the black Ikea-esque lamp that’s probably some designer something except it does look like it was found in the lamp-bin at your nearby friendly swedish furniture haus.  I’d like a wee rug at the end of the bed and I’m thinking a small piece of art above the bed would stop it from looking like a tear-down movie set, but I’m willing to live with it as-is. I remember once having nothing in my room but a bed and a lamp. It was kind of awesome.

and really, kind of feeling like after spending a few moments in deVille this week? The eames are growing on me. I saw some at Spoon Me, not that I was in Spoon Me (also, we get a Spoon Me, Edmonton gets Anthropologie. HOW IS THIS FAIR!?), but the red on the table, kind of a giveaway and maybe it was just the red (I don’t actually like red. I have a red/blue spare room a red/blue bathroom and a red sofa. Go freakin’ figure), but I was kind of all “hey, that’s groovy”.

and now you know

shattered a flourescent bulb.

made some earrings.

these moments in time are entirely unrelated.

pinwheels go whhhrrrrr!

i’ve probably said that before but now it’s OFFICIAL. I have purchased (airmiles FTW!) flight tickets to Montreal, secured a hotel (same as for world fantasy, gods i hope Nick’s is still there NOM NOM NOM), gotten tickets for the EBM A PALOOZA on May 16 and OMG SO HAPPY.

Now, hopefully someone will be available to come with me. But you know, you can’t stop living just because you have to have a solo adventure. Although really, things are so much more fun with The Sister.

Laundry, now, and possible hair-dying (red, for a change. Haven’t been red in YEARS. this may mean there’s no more pink/purple for a while, but we’ll see. I’m out of  bleach anyway)

this afternoon Brian and I are going to go do some defensive/performance driving.

my zippy little pick up

I want to have my license proper in the next couple of weeks so I can drive le Brian to Edmontonia for VNV NATION.

DID I MENTION VNV NATION!!?!?!

I also want this:

this doesn't mean we get good parking.

or maybe this:

a license makes it official.

because as you can see on Brian’s bulldog nose, he has a space perfect for a license plate.

• i need to tell you I bought a car. A glacier pearl Nissan Cube. His name is Brian Alexander. I <3 him.
• i halfway committed to wiscon
• totally committed to Kinetik
• am way thrilled about VNV in March. Doop!
• I went to see some babies:

Master P. She spins it to win it.

Special K keeping it real.

Say what you want. I have the biological clock of a floor tile and the maternal instinct of a eames rocker but holy CRAP i got me some cute babies. For the record, Master P? That’s me, about 38 years ago. Special K looks a lot like my sister. Temperaments to match, fo’ shizzle.

Sister doesn’t want us to keep calling her daughter Special K. Trying to change it to Little K, but Special K cracks me up, Seth Green drug refernces FTW (whatever breakfast cereal).

• i cleaned out a bookshelf
• got a super amazing card in the mail from my Twin, KLow (love you!)
• transported a number of greyhounds through the wilds of alberta
• did i mention i bought a car?
• or BABIES!?

Special K and Papa A.

time for a tour through etsy!

Kind of digging this print, the colours remind me of dkim’s Hello, Stranger, that I have hanging on my bedroom wall:

music tree

have we ever discussed the paper dolls from Wool and Water? Well we should.

at night/wool and water

and, for the record, i still think Jellibat’s stuffed Selkie is the most hilarious thing in the known universe:

jellibat/selkie

there have been movies watched. Sherlock Holmes, Daybreakers, Sunshine Cleaning. Sherlock as you know, was just fine and Daybreakers amused me to no end (even though Smaff had to talk me down from the plot holes) because the rules for judging vampire movies are different. Sunshine Cleaning was lovely.

Then we watched Youth In Revolt, which was some magic 180 degrees away from the trailers.

I saw Pontypool (Canadian Zombie movies FTW!) and Push and Fathers & Sons (Hello, Brian Kinney, your movie lacked awesome but I still want to give you kisses), and Knowing, which was kind of fabulous.

I wanted to see Legion but the reviews were even worse than predicted, so did not.

of course, living in the fine land of Canuckistania, there is none of this “snowcopalypse” nonsense, but I thought today, anyway, was a good day for a) doing the untsuck b) random photos of New Zealand from a few years ago.

wanderin' thru taupo, hey! ferns!

waitangi treaty house

waitangi, take 2

it's 'huka' falls, not 'hooker' falls. Fo' Shizzle.

I have greyhound snuggles and Guatemala Finca La Viña coffee from Phil & Sebastian, and cold, omg the butterscotch goes ZOOM! and tastes exactly like burnt caramel and HELLO summertime iced coffee perfection.

I say YUM.

I am playing hermit this weekend. I have one of Those jobs, that takes every single ounce of my energy every second of every day (well, 9 hours of it, daily, anyway) and sometimes, man. Not moving is like, the awesome.

also? I L.O.V.E this tiny kitchen:

domino via desire to inspire

I think it’s the painting. Oddly enough I had that circular storage Thang going on when I lived in the psychiatric hospital/old school (I can’t remember what it was, now) building, rented from a landlord who called me a Prostitute (I know), and later became condos, one of which was under 400 sq feet and was up for sale for just around 300K. Good Gravy.

I’m just hoping they upgraded the wiring. Cuz yeeps.

although I still don’t get the whole droolin’ over the Eames chair/eames lookalikes. I just don’t.