#101 - Take Me Down to the Paradise City

where the grass is green
and the girls are pretty

Caleb is playing a video game wit that song on it and it has driven all other music and lyrics out of my head. Also, it kind of makes me want to watch Can't Hardly Wait.

ANYWAYS.

I cleaned my room yesterday, kind of. I didn't vacuum it or anything, but I did wash all the dirty clothes on the floor and put them away in the wardrobe, and I picked up all the little bits of paper and junk that had filtered through the dirty clothes onto the actual carpet (which was mostly obscured from view).

I always forget how nice it feels to have a floor that is clear of obstructions. Like, I can just open my door and walk to me bed without having to kick anything out of the way or step on any books or anything. It's amazing. Why is it not like that all the time. How hard would it be to, either, a) act like any other normally functioning human being and not just throw stuff on the floor when I'm not using it, or b) at least make an effort to pick the crap up of the floor a little more frequently. The whole clean up operation took me about an hours worth of actual work (including taking stuff in and out of the laundry and folding clothes and whatnot), so it is not like I have to make a huge time commitment.

Actually, that fact that this only took me an hour, counting laundry, I take to be an encouraging sign. My room used to take me hours, sometimes even an entire day, to clean thoroughly so obviously I am making progress. My goal is to, one day, manage to maintain a room (and a entire home, at some point) that I can let guests look at without feeling embarrassed and without feeling the need to turn off the light if someone goes in there to make a phone call (which I actually did to Amanda once).

I think I will achieve my goal someday, but it might not be until I am 80 or something, at which point it actually becomes socially acceptable to have a messy house because everyone just assumes you are physically incapable of vacuuming, or whatever.

#100 - You Don't Know Anything

so don't ask me any questions

100 posts! Well, 100 numbered posts. This is actually my 151st post overall, but I didn't count the ones that were just me posting a video or saying sorry for being late on List Friday or something. 100 posts in just over two years means that I averaged about one post a week. That's not bad. Although I have been looking through the archives and I honestly have no idea why anyone reads this. I mean, there are only about four people who actually do (which is how I like it, when I find out there are other people who have seen it I get completely freaked out and embarrased) but even that seems excessive. I am an exceptionally boring person.

You know what I do kind of like though? I like going through all the titles and trying to guess where they are from. That way I don't have to read anything I actually wrote, which is nice.

#99 - I'm Waiting Over Here

for life to begin

I had such a lovely day today. Work was fun, I got soaked in soda water (which was spewing out of one of the pop towers for about and hour and a half, despite our best efforts to stop it) and I saw Jarome Iginla. Apparently. I would not have recognized him if someone hadn't told me who he was. He bought some popcorn and went to see Adventureland.

Did you know that he is not a goalie? I totally thought he was a goalie.*

Anyway, after I came home from work I had some delicious tortellini, called Lua and talked for a while and then watched Pride and Prejudice with my sister. Incidentally, if Matthew Macfadyen had come to see Adventureland today I would absolutely have recognized him.







*He is a forward, according to Harry.

#98 - They Say the Nile Used to Run From East to West

they say the Nile used to run from east to west

Last Night in Numbers

• Number of cups of tea I drank: 4
• Number of times I listened to The Dead Will Walk, Dear all the way through: 2
• Number of Advil I took: 2
• Number of times people commented on my cheeriness: 3
• Number of times the song Spaceman by the Killers played on the movie theatre TVs: roughly 3 times per hour, so... 15 or so?
• Number of times the word murder was used in a single sentence: 3
• Number of times Amelia turned to me and said "Everyone is being so weird tonight": 7
• Number of minutes I stayed late to finish the dishes: 20
• Number of times Harry walked into a conversation about lesbians and said, completely clueless, "But, how can you not like hot dogs?": 1
• Number of times I watched the following video: 2*
  

*Watch it. You must watch it.

#97 - And Now I Give You My Days

all my days

There is this huge set of outdoor stairs that I have to walk down in order to get to work, and a lot of people work out my running up and down them (over and over, which I think is my idea of what hell is like). Today on my way to work I saw this guy in full workout regalia run down the stairs, pause at the bottom to light a cigarette, and then start running back up, smoking. It was great.

#96 - Sugar Dumpling Muffin Baby

this world is going crazy

Hello friends. It's day two of daily blogging! Isn't it weird to think that my the end of daily blogging I will be back in Regina? It feels like I have been gone for a pretty long time, and I guess I have. I feel like the month of April is going to go by quickly.

Things I Am Looking Forward To In April

• Working at the movie theatre for the next couple of weeks (but then I have to quit, which would go on my list of Things That I Am Not Looking Forward To In April)
• The last Jessica Darling book, which comes out on the fourteenth
• All the awesome summer TV that is starting! Greek and My Boys are back and Party Down, the new Rob Thomas show, is awesome so far (the entire first episode is available on YouTube or here). Also, season finales of all my regular season shows are coming up soon.
  
• My friend Nicole (who was my roommate in Montreal last summer) is coming to visit on my birthday weekend! I haven't seen her since we were in Ottawa last July (or maybe the end of June?) and I am super excited.
• My birthday! It probably isn't going to be terribly exciting, but everyone likes a birthday, no?
• Moving home

I have to go now. I have to get up early tomorrow and there will be no time for napping before work, so I am going to try and get to bed at a reasonable hour for once. Also, I want to watch Taking the Stage before I go to sleep, because I find dance-offs soothing.

#95 - We'll Wait 'Til Dark to Dig a Hole Outside

big enough for you to fit inside
all those hearts you broke still beating
this is helping, honey this is healing

Creepy, right? Sooooo creepy. The Dead Will Walk, Dear by The National Lights is my current favourite album and the whole thing is kind of like that. It is all about killing people (mainly teenage girls, so far as I can tell) and burying the bodies and maybe even eating them sometimes. Normally I would find it all kind of reprehensible and disturbing, but I cannot stop listening to it because the songs are so pretty.