old skool photo shoot

the fam, 2004

jamie at gros morne

nick, circa 2003

the count (and zane in the rear), 2003

photo shoot!

moving car shot #01: trees

moving car shot #02: bridge to nowhere



moving car shot #03: church

jamie, skating?



me (notice the coat of coats)



two geeks on a walk

notice: no cat pictures. this will be rectified in the coming days!

it's early in the morning..

..and things are pretty good.

a sampling:

• becky and ronnie are healthy and happy
  
• i'm at school, so getting over the sick
• it's cold, but not too cold outside. the kind that makes you happy you have mittens, but doesn't make your eyes tear up - very pleasant
  
• the common room is strange and quiet and altogether enjoyable early in the morning. sometimes i feel like it's a big secret and if more people knew, i'd not get to be here all alone. then i think logically, and realize that most sane people are still in bed by the time i get here. and that kind of makes me happy, oddly enough
• it's almost the end of january, last semester of school (for a while, anyway). scary but good
• tomorrow is market day
• therefore, today is friday!

oh.. and the bridge has apparently been crossed; enough is enough, so they say. i promise i'll post pictures of something OTHER than the cat. at least once. maybe. tee hee!

i'm crazy, no?

most of you will probably think i'm insane, but i've started in on a new regime (tee hee!). this consists of andrea's body being:

• coffee free
• refined sugar free

not really 100% certain that i can do this. not really 100% certain that i WANT to do this. but i think my body wants it, so i'm going to see where that takes me.

today = day 3 of coffee-free and day 1 of the sugar-free attempt.

perhaps i should have only announced the regime after i had lived it for a while. after the first three months, mayhaps? too late. long road ahead, mates. loooooooooooooooong road.

so, green tea is now my new friend, as it is reportedly good for me and has some amount of caffine, so i'm not a total cow (as h.b. would say). the thing is, i really LIKE coffee. i'll now have to deal with just the lovely scent (waft towards your face with your hand, don't sniff directly) of the delicious beans. i've tried this coffee-free bit before. i'm like a smoker: i know it's bad for me, but i just keep falling off the wagon. keep me on the godforsaken wagon, would you, people??

the sugar thing is a different story. i. love. chocolate. i. love. candy. i. love. sugar. gimmegimmegimmegimme! this is gonna be BRUTAL!

my body better love this, or i'm out of here!

photo shoot!!

blurry shot posted specifically for dob: tee hee!

i'm so boring.

yep. you got it.. boring.
BORING.
boring.

been sick, so not doing anything but reading ya and considering doing other school work but never quite getting there. ya is so much more enjoyable. just finished a fabulous book, house of the scorpion by nancy farmer. will be eventually writing about in in ya library, but the bottom line is: read it!

oh, and i just started reading lamb, christ's childhood according to his friend, biff. apparently, biff's responsible for the invention of sarcasm and hosts of other interesting things! i think i can make this a ya crossover selection, maybe.. so perhaps ya library will also be graced with joshua and biff's adventures.

on a side note: i take way too many pictures of the cat. he's so much of a better subject than other people, and random things are only interesting for so long. granted, cats are probably only interesting for so long as well.... but we'll cross that bridge eventually. what does this mean for you, dear reader... a photo shoot is in the making, that's what that means!

on a second side note: i'm a complete idiot when it comes to electronic items and i cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to watch a VHS instead of a DVD. i wanted to check out yoga tape thingies that julie has, and no go. i got so frustrated that i ate and now cannot do yoga at all, taped or otherwise, until i digest my mini-wheats. sigh.

new digital camera = photo shoot

me and jamie

jamie, pensive



jase and julie



sgt. martin riggs

riggs

and you guessed it: riggs!

:)

it's my birthday :)

and it's only lunchtime and i've already gotten great cards (thanks afg and my seester and kat and momma!) and great gifts (kudos, j.) and great hugs and i've even been sung to! shaping up well!

so.. anyone want to celebrate next week? pan's labyrinth is apparently coming to halifax on january 26th and it looks amazing.

yay!!

p.s. i swear i'll actually start saying something other than birthday related things soon. january's a hot month ;)

and the birthday award goes to:

katherine f. k. p. !!

hope you have a wonderful birthday, sweetie!
you're great and i loves you!

not to be a complete arse, but..

..this dude in the computer lab on his cell phone talking french REALLY loud is driving me nutty!

oh god!! he hung up!!!

YAY!

p.s. afg: birthday pressies are completely unnecessary! so there!

kelly, it's your birthday!

happy birthday kelly!

one of the most amazing, funny, brilliant, beautiful and inspiring women in the known universe is, today, celebrating her day of birth!

i loves my seester :)

poetry corner:

apparatus

two moths pitched on the white
of a page left under lamplight,
sleek and symmetrical
in the margins of the text
like components of some apparatus
ancient and esoteric as poetry,
stilled antennae and the long
dusk-coloured cloak of wings,
both so watchful they seem
almost inanimate

touch the paper and they're up
storming the bare light,
nearly translucent against the glass
and fierce
fierce

michael crummey

right..

so i'm at school.
no snow day.
meaning no magic.
*sigh*

i knew it was too good to be true.

i think i'm magic.

last wednesday i politely asked the gods of weather to supply me with a snow day on tuesday, january 16.

it is currently monday, january 15 and a winter storm watch is in effect.

i am, therefore, magical. perhaps even godlike.

revel in my majesty.

or, you know.. go make a snowman!

be prepared:

sooking will commence NOW:

• i'm sick.
• i'm cold.
• i haven't gotten even 20% of the things done that i should have.
• i want my momma.
  

on a brighter note:

tee hee!!

photo shoot!

renting from family - chapter one

background:
so i'm living w/ j. in a roommate-sort of arrangement with his brother and sister-in-law. they own the house, we pay rent, the cat gets lots of love and it's generally pretty great.

current story:
so yesterday was monsoon season in halifax: rain, wind, sleet, hail, snow, rain, wind. bad. very, very bad. and... this brand new house that j's brother et. al. have purchased - leaks. not the kind of leak where you put a towel down under the door when it rains hard. but the kind of leak where you go through the floor like tom hanks in the money pit. (mild exaggeration. MILD).

after 4 blankets, 5 towels, the destruction of ceramic tiles, the removal of rotten wood, a huge roll of plastic to cover everything up and 5 hours of enjoyment, they're closing in on a $$$$ recovery project.

things i've learned from this:

1. if something goes wrong in the house that you're living in that your boyfriend's twin brother owns, there is no calling the landlord and gettin' outta dodge.
2. cats DO NOT enjoy being shut up in a room for their own safety.
3. people never find out bad things about their house in the morning. it's always nightish.
   
4. central vacuums are evil.

quote of the evening:

"we bought a LEMON!!!"

a NL photo christmas:

magnus!

gus!

eric and bonnie.

abby!

kelly and brenda.

crystal and david.

steve (and my mom, kinda).

kelly and bob.

my momma!

kelly's melted dreams.