#11 - Start Wearing Purple, Wearing Purple

Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time...

I am home! I am sitting in my living room writing this. There is no one else in the house. It's very strange.

I only lived in this house for a month before I moved, so it is still kind of new to me. I forget where things are in the kitchen. I can't find my hair dryer. This house reminds me of Christmas. I keep having to resist the urge to check the fridge for egg nog.

My family came over for supper last night and talked about politics the whole time. I missed them.

Guess what? I know two people flying home to Regina from Paris this week. Odd coincidence.

I miss Caleb and Jake and Kate. There was a baby about Jake's age on the bus on the way home and it was all I could not to ask to hold him. "Can I have your kid for a sec? I haven't held a baby all day." Also, I miss being able to fast forward through commercials.

I have to go renew my license now. I am soooo excited to drive my car, I cannot even tell you.

#10 - Let's Make Friday Part Of The Weekend

And give every new baby chocolate eclair.

What a good song. It is all I can do not to post all the lyrics.

Just got back from swimming again. Swimming makes me soooo sleepy. But I cannot sleep because I am going shopping. I already spent $80 on books today and am feeling a tad guilty about that, but this is going to be my last chance to shop in Calgary for months. And Regina shopping sucks in comparison.

I was so sad today in Chapters. The computer said that there was one copy of Your Disgusting Head left, and that it was on sale, but it was nowhere to be found. It was a little heartbreaking.

Anyway, I am off to shop. This was a completely useless post, except for the title. Oh, screw it, here is the whole song:

Once I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
Oh... my unspeakable wife, Queen Lisa (now I eat humble pie)
I'm telling you I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
And now I work at the Pizza Pizza

Royalty, lord it looked good on me
Buried in silk in the royal boudoir or going nuclear free
Or playing Crokinole with the Princess of Monaco
Telling my jokes to the OPEC leaders, getting it all on video

Once I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
A palatial palace, that was my home (now I eat humble pie)
I'm telling you I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
And now I vacuum the turf at SkyDome (once he was the King of Spain)

I can't wait, I'm lowering interest rates, my people say:
"King, how are you such a genius?
There's a roof overhead and food on our plates!"
It's laisez-faire, I don't even give a care
Let's make Friday part of the weekend
And give every new baby a chocolate eclair

Once I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
Hey Clinton! Hey Yeltsin! Got problems? You phone me (now I eat humble pie)
I'm telling you I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
Now the Leafs call me up to drive the Zamboni (once he was the King of Spain)

Now some of you are probably wondering how I came to be living in Canada
after being royalty in Spain. Should I tell them, guys?
Tell us, King!

You see late one night when the palace was asleep
Out of my royal chambers and into the garden I creep
And I wait till the appointed time, when the moon is lighting the pitch
At which point my peasant friend, who looks just like me
Arrives and we make a switch
Prince and pauper, junior and whopper
World made up of silver and copper
Out of my own volition, I took a change of position

So next time you drool in the pizza line
Remember, slower pizza's more luscious
The King of Spain never rushes!!!

Once I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble)
I was looking for off-handed ways to improve us (now I eat humble pie)
I'm telling you I was the King of Spain (now I eat humble pie)
And now I'm jamming with Moxy Fruvous! (once he was the King of Spain)

In other news: I'll be home tomorrow night!!!!!!!!!! See all those exclamation points? I am enthused.

# 9 1/2 - a.k.a. Super Mini Post Numero Uno!

I just said 'dang'. This was not as funny as the time in grade 10 when, in a (failed) attempt to act natural, I said 'ya'll', but still kind of amusing.

#9 - Our Aspirations Are Wrapped Up In Books

Our inclinations are hidden in looks.


It has been a good couple of weeks book-wise (and generally, i guess, but this post is about books specifically).

• It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini (very good! I liked it way better than Be More Chill)
• An Abundance of Katherines - John Green (formulas! graphs! footnotes! It's impossible to go wrong really...)
• The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie - Jaclyn Moriarty (I love books that refer to other books without actually being their sequels. Also, Jaclyn Moriarty is a genius)
• Sorcery and Cecelia - Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (is super funny. It kind of reminds me of Libba Bray's books, only with more hilarity)

But now I have finished all of these books and have nothing else to read. Well, I have Cryptonomicon but it is pretty huge and I won't be able to finish it before I leave, thus I am reluctant to start it. Also it would be kind of an abrupt change seeing as last week I read nothing but YA.

#8 - We Got Too Much Time To Kill

like pigeons on my windowsill
we hang around

I was going to write about books and movies, but that will take to long and I am tired. Instead I am going totake an idea from Matt and his thoughts about Sufjan Stevens.

A list of people I would like to have a conversation with, but probably never will:

1. Douglas Coupland
2. Dave Eggers
3. The Pope
4. Cameron Crowe
5. Will Shortz
6. Diane Keaton
7. Sarah Vowell
8. Sofia Coppola
9. Michael Cera
10. Jaclyn Moriarty
11. Megan McCafferty
12. Jon Stewart


This list is by no means complete. Plus, I might need a whole other list for dead people. And fictional people.

#7 - Let’s Pretend We Don’t Exist

Let's pretend we're in Antartica

Here are some random thoughts, events and links:
1. I went swimming today. Swimming always makes me feel tired, but not really in a sleepy way. In a quiet, lets-not-do-much kind of day. I have embraced the feeling.

2. I have been hanging out with Jake since because apparently swimming makes Kate and Caleb feel tired in an I-want-to-go-to-sleep-way. I spent about 10 minutes singing to Jake about his toys. He seems to be feeling quiet too.

3. I read Ned Vizzini's blog every day, because he is an interesting dude, even though I am often overcome by suspicion that he is an asshole. The other day he wrote about going to see a taping of Dancing with the Stars and at the end he mentions a conversation he once had with Joey Fatone and reading about it put in me in a really good mood. Why? I'm not sure. It was a nice thing to say, I guess.

4. My shirt has melted Skor blizzard and chicken casserole baby food all over it, yet I haven't changed it. Normally I would be bothered by this but today I am not.

5. I really love Jaclyn Moriarty a lot.

6. The Delays as well.

8. This is my favorite of recent Married to the Sea comics. Natalie Dee's videos are funny too.

9. I forgot 7.

#6 - What You Gonna Do With All That Junk?

All that junk inside your trunk?

I love Alanis Morrisette again...




In other news: I added an Amazon.com wishlist in the sidebar... because I found out I could.

#5 - Well The Four Walls They Collide

until the blue-eyed girl decides to let me go home

I will be back in Regina two weeks from tomorrow!! I am kind of afraid I'm building the whole thing up a little to much in my head. But I can't help it, I am really excited to go home. Reasons why:

1. the Winnie the Pooh wallpaper is officially gone from my room, and I get to paint it, and buy myself a desk, and actually have my bed back instead of a futon on the floor, and put stuff up on the walls.

2. Lou is moving to Regina for the summer, and even though she is going to be super busy this is still the first time we've lived in the same place in six years.

3. Kyla and Matt are both coming home in May. Plus I get to see everyone else I haven't seen in months.

4. My cabin.

5. I am hopefully getting a bike from Chris!

6. I will have bittorrent again, anf the capabilty to download the shows I have been missing (Boston Legal, The L Word, The Tudors, etc...). I also miss the songs on my iTunes that I didn't bring with me to Calgary.

7. I know I make fun of it a lot, but I really miss The Hearse. And driving places that aren't elementary schools or SAIT.

8. My house, as far as I know, doesn't have any giant, shedding dogs. That'll be a nice change.

9. I am dead set on learning how to cook this summer.

10. A dishwasher!

Seriously, that last one is a big deal.