Someone caught us in the kitchen with maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank, a vision too removed to mention.

2006-02-10 at 7:46 p.m.

If nothing else, Lavalife is excellent for your self-esteem. Me and Kim compare our success by the number of smiles we receive. Bonus points if they aren't forty and if we would possibly consider dating them. I really don't know why, but I seem to attract flamenco dancers and men who have studio shots of themselves in various recumbent Jacques Louis David poses.

For example.

I really want [this] dress from Banana Republic for our friend's wedding in August. This would be excellent but they don't accept Canadian credit cards / billing addresses . Is it really so hard to spend what, thirty cents extra to mail a bill to Canada? I would get it shipped to the States anyway, I don't really see the problem. I already bought a long mother of pearl necklace from ebay, circa 1890 (or so they say), and plan on buying gold, coin-like art nouveau earrings to go with it. It would be perfect, except I can't buy the dress.

I get to work nine and a half hours tomorrow. With no break because I can't leave the new girl with the register. Yeay.

Oh, I forgot to mention, before me and Kim went to see 'The New World' (and let me just say this now: the mother of that little native baby who allowed it to kiss Colin Farrell's dirty, dirty mouth is CRAZY), we spent almost two hours in Chapters. When we were starting to leave, in walks Jeff Martin, singer of the Tea Party, in all his dark glorious-ness. He walked in, stopped, and waited for someone to notice him. I laughed and asked Kim if she saw. She said oh yes, and started talking about a nerdy boy in the corner. She is really not very observant.

This would be my second Canadian rockstar sighting made in a Chapters store. The first being Our Lady Peace drummer, Jeremy Taggart, in the music magazine section. And then there was a possible K-OS sighting in the same area, he had the army coat and little army cap on but we weren't sure, our only reference at that point being the time we saw him open for Ben Harper at the Ottawa Bluesfest. And we had been standing in the sun for five hours with no water and felt like we were about to die so I'll count that one as unconfirmed.

I bought a Josh Ritter sweatshirt for my birthday because if I don't choose anything for myself then I get nothing. So I sent it to my parents house and I got a call from my mother shrieking at the size of it. I told her it was a men's medium and that it's meant to be worn small. She didn't believe me so she tried it on while I was on the phone with her, went to my dad and said "Peter, look! Look how small this is. Do YOU think this will fit over Kris' boobies? Never! NEVER!" Yeah, thanks for that. She's taking a picture of herself in it and sending it to me. In the Josh Ritter sweatshirt. My mother is hilarious.

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