Road Trip

Before I leave Alberta, which I'm sure I'll do at some point in my life, I must go the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum.

Yep, gophers, prairie dogs, ground squirrels. Whatever you call them, at this museum, they kill 'em, stuff 'em and dress 'em up in ridiculous clothing. I'm sure there's an PETA campaign here somewhere, but seriously...this HAS to be a ridiculous museum that I have to go to sometime.

Steve has a lot of ground squirrels around his work. They PEEP to each other and stand guard at their various holes in the ground. Steve like to throw nuts at them. I think they are cute. I think they are pretty dumb though. They are probably the reason why there are so many coyotes around there too. Easy prey. But if they were dressed up like women doing their grocery shopping, the coyotes probably wouldn't know what to do.

Hmm...maybe the Torrington Gopher Museum is onto something. Maybe they are trying to teach the gophers how to protect themselves from hungry coyotes.

Sammich!

I had a sammich for dinner. Then I saw this and had to share. Look at this stupid thing. The interwebs will never tire me of all the freaking cuteness and humor out there.

Cops.

It's Stampede season again. I like the Stampy. The windows downtown are painted, the tourists are out in droves, the cowboy hats are in full effect, and free pancake breakfasts every day. If you work downtown, everything slows to a southern drawl and work doesn't seem to happen.

Even the Calgary police who patrol the streets downtown wear cowboy hats. Like the cops I saw on the way to work today. They busted a drug addict and they were going through his bag, pulling out needles and other various drug paraphernalia. It was sad, but had a light-hearted feeling because the cops were wearing their cowboy hats.

Cowboy hats seem to make the saddest situation seem a bit less sad. Next time I have to do something or deal with something sad, I should just put on a cowboy hat. Or a beenie helicopter hat. Those hats are funny too.

Bunnniez

OMG cute! Look at the eye to ear ratio. Holy crap I wan one.

2 more days til movin' day.

Burrrr....

*warning: lame weather post below*

Weather here is nuts. Yesterday is bright and sunny in my neighborhood with 70s and summery. But. It's hailing 3 miles away with crazy amounts of damage. Now today. Burrr...and 40s.

Where's the summer now? Huh?

So, I drink ginger tea and try to warm up while researching how to install tub doors. I think I want a tub door and no more of this shower curtain nonsense.

HAHAHA

Cute!

Aww...a cute mouse ran across the sidewalk in front of me yesterday. He was like a little brown bullet who couldn't find a place to hide, darting back and forth along the building. I hope he found a yummy garbage can to hide out in.

Ouch!

yeah, yeah...haven't posted in a while.

You know that saying "be careful for what you wish for"? It's weird when that becomes true, huh? Yesterday, while riding the bus (the new bus I recently discovered that cuts my commute home by 30 minutes!) I was thinking to myself "gee, it sure is weird that I've never been in an accident on the bus" because there are some crazy bus drivers. 5 minutes after that thought...BONK and a *gasp* from the crowd on the bus. I thought "Wow..an accident...that's weird after I just thought that!"

But apparently, the bus driver had only hit a guy on the head with his side mirror.

...ok I shouldn't laugh, but HAHAH! What is that guy doing, hanging his head into the road when a bus is coming??!?!?

Sarcastic man says "Burning fossil fuels is causing global warming? NO WAY!"

Wow, they finally said it...and scientists are 90% sure that the burning of fossil fuels is causing the Earth to heat up. NO KIDDING? What else did you think it was? A fluke? A one time thing? Have you noticed that there's no snow where there used to be? Have you noticed the storms are bigger and badder than ever? Have you noticed chunks of the Arctic falling off? Canada is shrinking!

Then, lobbying groups in all of their infinate wisdom and care for the general good of people, go ahead and do something like this. Attempting to pay off scientists in an attempt to prevent this information from becoming public or skewing the information to seem less awful. From a company that made $75,000 a minute last year, you'd a-thought they would have tried to bribe them with more than $10,000 per scientist...

My action plan is sometimes through inaction. I act by recycling, using incandescent bulbs, reusing items, turning off lights and water, etc, etc, etc, that is my action...but I also refuse to give business to people who have such blantent disregard for the future. Join my inaction in boycotting any gas, goods and services from Exxon, Esso or Mobile stations...maybe this year they'll only make $70,000 a minute.

That is my political rant of the day, but really yo...we can't just sit around and pick our noses when it comes to the environment. It's like shitting where you eat. That's just gross and no one will want to be your friend .

The German med student is in da house..

..haha, thanks Nicole...I guess this is the more appropriate website for our new pet. He sure is much more interesting than the Ham. He's awake most of the day and in the wild he likes to create elaborate tunnels, so he's always digging away in his cage. He loves to be pet, but not picked up. We're still working on that. He managed to have an adventure the other night, by leaping from Steve's hands and hiding out (among the many, many wires) under the TV.

"Don't bite the wires, we might have fried squirrel in the house"

He also likes to perch himself at a high point in the cage so he's always climbing and leaping about. Degus also have a variety of squeaks and noises they make, he sounds like a whispering, chirping bird when he's happy and screeeeechs when you scare the hell out of him.

Pretty neat little guy.

Meh-he-ko and Loins

"I ambulance ambulance heart heart square circle!"

That's webdings for "I had a lot of fun in Mexico". We had a few discussions about webdings in Mexico...more like we spoke in webdings. We did a lot of drinking by the pool in the sun (if you're wondering why we were speaking in webdings) and not a lot of anything else. The wedding was really neat, by the ocean with a large hairy man swimming in the background. (Thankfully, he left shortly before the ceremony started) The resort was nice and HUGE! It took us 10 minutes to get from our room to the lobby. It was also quite crowded. I don't know if I want to travel during the winter holidays like that again. But we had lots of fun. Check out icebakes.com for all the photos.

In other sad news. R.I.P. Loins aka Ham.

Poor Samina was the one to find him, in his food dish. At least he died doing what he loved best...sitting in his food dish. He would take all the food out of the dish and disperse it among the corners of his cage. Then he'd sit in the dish. So, Samina comes over to check on the Ham, finds him stiff in his dish. She's not sure what to do so she phones Damo. He tells her to put the Ham in a bag and put him in our freezer. She's worried that we wouldn't want dead Ham germs on our food in the freezer so Damo tells her to bring Ham over to his house to put in his freezer, as he doesn't care about the dead Ham germs. So she does and they have a beer. Now, we have to find a day when the weather is above -20 so we can bury the Ham, next to the other Ham that we buried in Damo and Nicole's backyard.

I'm sad, but we are getting another pet soon. A degu.

The new spread.

This is not so neat. Why you gotta go and do that to Betty and Veronica...not every cartoon character needs to look like an emaciated Hilary Duff. *shivers* What's next? Superman loses his spitcurl and sports a Nick Carter fauxhawk?

The spread of religion.

This is pretty neat.

I don't often brag about myself....

...but I figured if I don't, who will? I forgot to mention that I did some CD art for a friend of mine. You can check out his website and music mumbo-jumbo (hehe) here at OurstoDestroy.com. That's the name of their band. It's two guys, Damo and Steve. You can see some of my art along the side of the site.

Funny story about Steve...one day we're at a party at Damo's house and we're talking about hair rock in the 80s. I tell him that my family member used to be the lead singer of a hair-rock-80s band, but slightly more obscure than that of your Poison, WASP, Journey fame. When I mentioned the band was King Kobra, Steve jumped! He knew all about the band, the members, where they went after the band broke up, etc. It was fun to meet someone who knew about that.

*BLEACCCCCCK*

Oh, I have been so sicky for the last few days. I even had to call in sick to work. I haven't done that in YEARS! I barfed so much my abs were sore the next day...tee-hehehehe. Being sick makes you realize how much it sucks to be sick and how really fun it is to be healthy. Next time I'm having a bad day, I'll remind myself of this pumpkin and think that life could be much worse...Well, if I had to get sick, this is the time to do it and not next week when I go to San Francisco or the week after when I go to Michigan.

C'est l'Halloween!

Well, almost Halloween...

It feels like it's over because we already celebrated it on Saturday at the Green Fool's Party. It was super fun! Steve and I won a costume contest. The 'Artsy Fartsy' category. We went as American Gothic, the painting by Grant Wood. We won this painting as our prize!! Sorry for the crappy quality, but it's quite huge and really colorful! It's done by a local artist who has also done a few murals around the city. I was really excited about winning this. That's pretty neat to get an original painting. (and nice to have an original painting that isn't mine hanging in my house)

In other news, I decided to poke a hole in my head. I got my upper ear pierced. Not sure what you call it, it's through the cartilage, but not in a place that most people get done.. When I went to the piercing place, I actually wanted it a bit lower but the guy doing the piercing said he didn't want to go much lower in case it got infected, it has the potential to infect a facial nerve, leaving half my face paralyzed (rare but still possible). I thanked him for his opinion and opted to NOT have that happen. So it's higher than I wanted, but it's growing on me (haha, no pun intended) and I really like it.

Stay the Course!

So I try to not care about politics, sometimes I can't help myself though. Especially when it gets closer to election time and the smearing ad campaigns inundate your relaxing evenings in front of the idiot box. I guess it really makes a tv more like an 'idiot box' if you believe half the stuff that comes out of these campaign ads. With the whole Michael J. Fox vs. Rush 'The Big Fat Liar' Limbaugh some of these ads and retorts are becoming down-right mean and unfounded. But this little nugget of goodness I found on YouTube/Digg made me laugh out loud. Wow...people voted this slimeball in. Geez Georgie...do you ever actually LISTEN to what you say?

Turkey Lurky

Monday was Thanksgiving Day here in Canada so we invited our other orphaned friends over for a turkey dinner and football and hockey games. It was a lot of fun to have people over for dinner, even if we all had to crowd around on the floor for a space on our coffee table. When I have my dream house, I'll be sure to have a large dinner table so I can have dinner parties. I wish Canada's turkey day was not on a Monday though...what is it with all holidays here being on Mondays? Americans know where it's at having Turkey Day on Thursday...gives you time to recouperate after the large dinner and a FOUR instead of THREE day weekend.

Halloween is coming too! We're going to go to the Green Fools Halloween party this year instead of a house party. I'm glad. The Green Fools put on a good party with amazing costumes. I think I finally know what I'm going to be (and no, I'm not going to say what it is) but I need to hit up a fabric store this weekend and start sewing. Unfortunately I have to work this weekend though...BOOS! Working on weekends is poo, I can't believe I did it all the time at the ugly frame shop.

Total couch potato!

Yay...I'm sitting on the couch, posting in my blog. Now, I don't ever have to get up! Research, writing, emails, even video conferencing can be done from the comfort of my own big red couch. This is the epitomy of laziness....I now have my Mac Book.

Earlier today, with the click of a button, we were video-chatting with Steve's parents and brother. He walked around the house, using the built in camera to give them a tour of our apartment. It's surprisingly fast and easy and clear...and silly when you play with Photobooth. (see photo, no I don't really look like that.)

Hoot.

Hoot.

I had my first golf tournament last weekend. We played a "best ball" game, basically we all drive, take the best drive, we all hit from there, take the best ball, etc. You had to use everyone's drive at least 4 times, alas...I suck. But we still won!

But Dinosaur Trail has the most difficult back 9 EVER! I'd like to see a course that was more challenging than this one. Actually, no I wouldn't. After I lost about 7 balls, I did get frustrated. We spent the night in Drumheller and our hotel had a waterslide! After lots of beers, Steve and I took a few trips down the slide. Then we went to a silly, bad rendition of an Irish pub. Silly small towns, I'm glad I don't live in 'em. But it was fun golfing with the dinosaurs.