I GOT A JOBBBBB!!! Yeeaaahhhh Boiiii!
I have been applying to every damn pub in england for two weeks now and haven't heard ANYTHING back. I was starting to get really discouraged and scared that I was going to end up jobless and broke and having to come home with my tail between my legs. Not ideal.
BUT! I got offered a live in job at a pub in a nice little village thats about ten minutes away from the last village I worked in, so I can still visit my friends without too much trekking.
I'm nervous, of course, but I think it will be fine. I'm excited to meet my boss, she can't possibly be worse than my last one (ugh). It seems like a pretty cute little country pub, that doesn't try to be too fancy. Who's ever heard of pubs with white linen table cloths? I guess that's what you get when you live in the richest part of england.

I'm super duper excited to go back now that everything has fallen into place. I am NOT super duper excited about the 11 hour flight, but that's just what I gotsta deal with.

Ooooh, my gramma just got here. We're going for lunch! Haaaay!

What was I for Halloween?


BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!

( to infinity and beyond... )

Oh my god, I'm fucking starving but there is NO food in this place so I'm just drinking coffee and chain smoking.

Somedays the Overheard in New York are just golden. New Yorkers were really in top hilarious form this week.

Hermit-looking man at bakery counter: Euhh... Yes, I want cake. One will say "Kenny's dead." No! Wait! One will say "I killed Kenny, and I'm not sorry!" And the other will say... it will say, "Obama is my homeboy!"
20-something hipster girl, staring at man: Are you... for real?
Hermit-looking man: Yes, sweetie.
20-something hipster girl: You... you win at life, sir.

Guy holding baking mix: Excuse me, where's the vegetable oil?
Employee: We don't have vegetable oil, but I think canola oil should work fine with that.
Guy, sarcastically: Oh, you think canola oil would work?

Girlfriend: Learn anything new today?
Boyfriend: How to say "sexual offender" in Japanese!

Male employee #1: I am going out on a date tonight with a 4'11" Filipina. She runs triathlons.
Male employee #2: That's short. You know, her head will be at about your stomach.
Male employee #1, after long pause: I kind of want her to break me.

Six-year-old boy to two undercover NYPD officers: Hi, what's your name?
Six-year-old boy's mom: Hey, boy, what did I tell you about speaking to strangers?
NYPD undercover officer: It's okay, we're cops. (flashes badge)
Six-year-old boy: Aahhhhhhhhh! (runs into mother's arms)

Girl #1 to girl #3: In case you were wondering, we're kinda Lady Gaga experts. It's a very complicated subject.
Girl #2: And we don't quite understand it.

AAaahhh, I've been such a bad livejournal-er. I haven't even replied to any comments. I always read them and appreciate them, but I suck at replying to them. Same with facebook messages....people always get so offended when it takes me two weeks to write back, but I am just the worst procrastinator EVER.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I'm going as.....haha you know what....I've decided I'm not going to say. I'm just going to post pictures and make it a suprise. You'll never ever guess! All I'm going to say is that I decided I was too lazy to be slutty and work on cleavage and make sure there's no cellulite hanging out. I'm so excited to NOT look like a whore! hahaha.

I'm supposed to be going on a pubcrawl in TWO hours, but I still haven't heard from Mat and I'm in the wrong city and I'm getting a smidge stressed but I'm sure I'll figure something out. I'm having a purse dilemma again. Do I use the big one so I can bring camera, brush, smokes, glasses+contact case, lighter, id, debit card, snacks for later and have a monster hanging off my shoulder while I'm trying to dance. OR do I bring a nice little one with a long strap and attempt (unsuccessfully) to cram all those very neccessary things into it?

These are the dilemmas of my life. I'm horrible at making descisions.


This is Juan (aka Dave Fabulous) and I going on the Logger's Leap ride for the second time in a row. I'm making that face because the person holding my camera had just threatened to drop it in the water.

(also, I stubbed my toe and it hurts like a BITCH. I know nobody cares, but I'm home alone right now and I need to complain. I'm such a whiner. OH also, I need to complain about the fact that my oldold photobucket account was suspended/deleted rcently and now my mood theme isn't hosted anywhere and I have to use these stupid pengus. Thank you. That is all)

Well, I'm back home.

It was really, really sad to leave everyone. I had a going away party/Paul's birthday party and everybody suited up. It was awwweesome! I went to Germany for a week which was great, but I got really sick the second day and stayed sick until I got back to Canada which was a bit of a bummer. Cologne is really beautiful, though. I had no idea!


They all clean up so well.

I feel a bit weird now that I'm back. I don't have any kind of routine, or a job or really....any friends. So I've been spending a lot of time at home, alone, surfing the internet. I just had my birthday which actually ended up being really depressing. A few very lovely people came, but I felt sorry for them for having to sit through the lamest party ever. I don't know, I feel like I just don't fit here....don't belong here anymore. Plus, there's all the drama with Mat and the fact that half the people I know in this city think I'm a horrible, heartbreaking bitch. I'm so confused and so torn. To be honest I've already started searching for jobs and flats in England. I was planning to stay here for Christmas, but if I keep feeling like this, I don't really see that happening.

I'm going to Germany, mothafuckaaaaaa.

I'm so excited! I just hope this doesn't screw up and blow up in my face like everything else I plan/get excited for/spend money on. We're going to Frankfurt, Cologne to visit Daniel and Dusseldorf.

Anyone been there? Any suggestions for good sights/museums to check out?

I went to this crazy chinese restraunt that turns into a nightclub/cheesy wedding after dinner. Complete with cheesy line dances that I didn't understand.


My dad came to visit (in the middle in the glasses)it was so awesome.

Everybody goes through phases with music, and right now I am in SUCH a Los Campesinos! phase. The juxtaposition of happy!dance-y music combined with really touching, sometimes painfl lyrics just leaves me wanting more. Plus they have a violin and a glochenspiel (I'm sure that's spelled very wrong) in their band. How can you say no to that!?



This is the song that got me into them.

Every month I download a torrent called Indie/Rock Playlist and this was on May of last year. I think it was May.....

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A lot of what gets me is their lyrics. My favorite right now is We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
"You kiss my neck, I whisper in your ear:
"This is my downfall"
As you squint and you grimace
We both know your heart's not in it"

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Fondness makes the absence longer
Length loses my interest
I'm a realist, I'm insatiable"

"You said, "He got his teeth fixed"
I'm gonna break them"

"I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love
Is to like the other slightly less than you get in return
I keep feeling like I'm being under-cut"

"I cannot emphasise enough that my body is a
Badly designed, poorly put together vessel
Harbouring these diminishing, so-called vital organs
Hope my heart goes first, I HOPE MY HEART GOES FIRST!

And we are beautiful, we are doomed"

AMAZING. A truly gifted songwriter!

When I was in London with my dad I saw the most AMAZING store. It's pretty girly sqee-ish heaven!







I wanted to buy everything but I settled for a really pretty black hook thing with birds and vines on it. Someday when I'm not lazy and I put it up I'll post a picture. It's way cute.

I had the hardest conversation with Mat, my ex, last night. Basically...through lots and lots of tears he told me that he doesn't want any more contact with me. So last night was the last time I'll ever talk to him. I'm just being eaten alive inside righ now. Every 30 seconds I waffle back and forth from wanting him back to saying No, this is what I need. God, it's just so damn hard. My heart hurts BIG time right now. And I know I've hurt him a thousand times worse which just makes it even harder and...ugh. I hurt.

I'm going to London with my dad for the next two days. I'm well excited, he's never been there before so I want to make it awesome. We're planning to visit the Natural History Museum, British Museum, and the V+A. It's a pretty optimistic itinerary, but I'm sure we'll sort it. Then, we have tickets to We Will Rock You in Covent Garden and the next day we're going to the Sherlock Holmes museum and all the books stores in Charing Cross. It should be awesome.

One thing that I've been thinking about lately is the music that's popular here vs. the music that's popular at home. For example...these two songs have been the HITS of summer.

One that I loooovveee:

This song is SUCH a tune, it just makes me want to be drunk and dancing and laughing and sweating. So goooood.

And one that I can't STAND:

So tired of hearing this song. every. single. day.

So, my questions to you guys: Have any of you heard these songs?? Are they popular where you live?

My favorite boys are out of town and I've been bored stupid lately. Working every single day because my boss is an uber-cow. I totally fucking hate her SOOOOOOOOOOO much! Rahr!

So, I don't know if anybody actually watches these or finds them entertaining, but I love making them and watching them. I really do imagine my life as a series of movie montages. I first heard this song and said "This sounds like a song that would be set to a montage in a really cute indie film". *ding* Lightbulb in my head, and in the words of Team America....EVERYTHINGS BETTER IN A MONTAGE!!!

I'm going to an outdoor rave tonight.



I've got my glitter, my glowstick and my ticket. I just can't decide what to wear!!! I've got the bottom half sorted out, but I can't figure out what to do with my top half. Nearly all the boys have bailed except Will, so he and I are going to tear shit up tonight. I've been debating whether or not to take my camera. It's really valuable and bulky and annoying, but I also want to have some cool shots. We'll see.

WHAT DO I WEAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Scotland was a total and complete fuck up. What a horrible, disastrous weekend. First, as I had my backpack on and was on my way out the door to the airport I got a message from ticketmaster that the concert had been cancelled. Gutted. Completely gutted. But I figured, oh well, the Edinburgh festival is still going on, there'll be loads to do, let's still go for the weekend. So we get to Gatwick and go to check in and the girl says, "um.....you're supposed to be at Stansted." WRONG AIRPORT. God, I feel like crying just typing it right now. DOUBLE GUTTED. I ended up spending 280 pounds to sit around in this stupid village all weekend doing fuck all. I'm trying not to dwell....

But, Tom wanted to cheer me up so the next day after I had stopped contemplating my suicide, we headed out to Brighton for the day.


( Don't mind the cuts on Sean's face. He got hit with a board on his birthday )

Bruce's little brother told us about this group on facebook called "The Lying Down Game" where you basically.....take pictures of yourself lying down. The weirder or more public the place, the better. So we decided to take lying down pictures in Brighton.


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And, of course, like all boys....they insisted on wasting all their money on those stupid, rigged crane games.

Now that I've booked my tickets for Scotland I am waaaaaay excited. I should really be packing right now. I've got to fit everything into a little backpack because easyjet is freakish about baggage charges. I recently got soooooo fed up with hauling around this giant, metallic handbag of mine, so last time I was in London I bought a little leather purse that I love. It fits my wallet, cigarettes, phone and ipod. And that's it. Problem is, I can't fit my fucking GIANT camera in there, and I really want to bring it. But not my purse the size of a two year old child. Dilemmmmaaaaaaa.

I recently friended a bunch of lj communities that post inspiring pictures, stories, youtube videos and I always save my favorites. So here is a big dump of really pretty stuff.


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I leave for Scotland in 4 days and I haven't booked my flight yet. I am the PICTURE of responsibility. I also don't know how we're going to get to Gatwick at 7 in the morning. Yegods. I'm so fucking excited to see The Streets. It's going to be the best concert EVER. If I can somehow get there. Yipes. Why do I do this to myself??

In unrelated news......FUN PANTIES!!!!

Thank you, Top Shop.

You know, I love Incubus the same way I love my best friend. It's really creepy how attatched and into my music I get. I met a guy on Saturday who happened to mention he'd be listening to a lot of Incubus lately, and I tackled him. REALLY!? WHICH ALBUMS!??? AREN'T THEY GREAT?? WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SONG?!?!?!?!
cue guy backing away slowly going "woah...they're just a good band...umm...I hear my mum calling me....."

When I was in London I went to a looooot of museums. I'm not so much for castles and history. I want art and beauty and aesthetics. I loved the National Gallery, I loved Somerset House, but nothing.....nothing came close to how in love I was with the Victoria and Albert Museum. They have everything!!!



The first floor has Asia: China, Islamic Middle East, Japan, Korea, South Asia and it's all so incredibly beautiful. It makes me wonder if the tiny asian lady who carved these statues had any idea how many people would admire her work for years to come. Don't you just wish you could go back in time and thank her? People used to have this urge to make everything beautiful. From knives, to clocks, to teapots...everything was artistic and we've lost that.


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There's a huge collection of the history of fashion. I wish Tallas had been there, she would have DIED! I wandered through the halls imagining myself wearing all these dresses, and the kind of ladies that must have first inhabited them so many years ago.

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My favorite part is the Theater & Performance section. They have the most incredible collection of costumes, including a closet where you can dress up in them! I was prancing around in Juliet and Birdgirl costumes all by myself, which garnered a few confused glances from other museum goers. Hahaha, fuck them.

( Umm....maybe they were staring because I had it on backwards )

The entire building is beautiful. The walls, the floors, the stairs. Around every corner is a pretty little suprise. It's so amazing.

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I spent the entire day there, and it was one of the best days I've had since I've been in England.

You know, I think this is the first time I broke my new years resoloution to write in here once a week. Honestly, breakups are painful and I don't want to document what's happened and how I felt because I don't want to be able to look back and remember feeling like that. If that makes sense....

Well, I suppose I'll ease back into it with a meme from viagra
• Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
• NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
• They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
• You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like. (I'll explain any pictures you ask about, of course.)
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I like teh pretty.

Ooooh, things are complicated in my little english life right now. I don't wanna think about it, or even blog about it. Maybe in a couple days when my brain doesn't feel like mush. But right now I just want to tune out.

So I make montages! It was weird doing it without Tallas.

I swear I don't always drink that much.

Since I've gotten here I have been trying really hard to decorate my room and make it feel a bit more like home. It's just my little way of fending off homesickness. Tom has been pimping the FUCK out of my room. Everytime we hang out he has something else for me to put up in my room.


I bought the Banksy print in Camden, and Tom brought me a book of photos that I cut out and taped up.
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I was going to update this further, but Daniel just knocked on my door and we're going to watch Bringing Up Baby.

Here are some things I have been obsessed with lately:


Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz and James Morrison. Two pretty boys with prettier voices. I listen to this every morning when I'm setting up the pub, and my co-worker Daniel said this song will always remind him of me because of that. It's so beautiful, I want to learn it on guitar.


This comedian is Michael Macintyre and I am in love. He is SO fucking funny, I was dying with laughter within the first five minutes, and usually I hate things right away. Tom and I smoked a joint on the way to his house and had to sneak in so we didn't wake up his mum. Then we decided to watch Michael Macintyre. Stoned Lisa + Amazing Comedian + Need to be Quiet = do not compute.


Apparently Alphabeat is a band I should be embarassed to like. It seems like everyone here likes them, but is ashamed to admit it, or if they do...it's a "guilty pleasure". I don't know enough about Alphabeat to be embarassed that this is the HAPPIEST song I have ever heard. I dare you to listen to this and not bop your head along, it's great. I have such a weakness for boy/girl harmonies.

The Streets are playing in Scotland in August and I want to go sooooooo bad. And I actually got the time off work, so I'm going! I can't wait!! I'm going to be standing and looking up at Mike Skinner on stage!! WAH! The only problem is that ticketmaster.co.uk will only ship the tickets to the billing address on your credit card, and they're not going to do me much good in my mailbox in Canada. Hopefully I can sort that out because it's going to be AWWWEEESOMEEEE.

SURVEY TIME! Admit it, everybody likes filling out surveys because everybody likes talking about themselves. If we didn't, why would we have livejournals?? Aha, touche.
Fill it out, I'm interested, I swear. It's get to know you day.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?