Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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1:59 am - So what gives? Here's what gives! What gives?
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I guess it's just like me to drink a bit and think about how great it used to be when I used to drink a bit and write in my livejorurnal like a while ago?! Oh, man, whatever.
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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8:51 pm - A (very) few thoughts on the upcoming election, excerpted from recent conversations with Stephen
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1. What's with how political conservatives have singehandedly ruined the word "conservative", despite so many neutral (conservative dress) and positive (conservative with one's money) meanings?
2. And what's with how (with very few exceptions) all the houses in my neigbourhood with political signs have NDP signs, but all the empty lots have Conservative signs? Sometimes for other ridings! Like, you could at least know what part of town your empty lot is in!
3. My moral/political beliefs are as follows:
1.Help each other out.
2.Leave each other alone.
Obviously, they are very problematic.
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
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3:37 pm - This livejournal entry is too much like a livejournal entry
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You know who I pity?
People who will never find their own initial in a Toblerone bar. Good enough chocolate, but boy, what an "n"!
Also myself, because despite three weeks of sometimes attending class I don't feel like I know enough about the Romantic Poets I: Wordsworth and Coleridge to write a final exam in eighteen minutes. I do know enough to know that if I were to take a page from W. worth's book I'd be out creating an internal essay in communion with nature, and if I went the Coleridge path I'd be too stoned to make it to class.
Should I ever be studied in school I sincerely hope to be studied as I lived. At a tea party. In the bath. After a long nap.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
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11:38 am - What Lu can do.
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I've been up to lots too, but somehow it isn't nearly as interesting (to me) as what Luisa's been up to lately. Actually most of my Lu anecdotes are kinda gross. Notably:
1) She has five teeth now. Before I had a baby I didn't know that their teeth come in with really sharp jagged edges to cut through the gums. Now I not only know, but have some unwanted firsthand experience from when she bit a chunk out of my left nipple! A bloody chunk! Ew! I don't know if I should stop breastfeeding her or not. On the one hand she loves the breast (Stephen taught her the word boob. Every time she hears it she gets excited. And she says "boob" with the same sort of yearning that other people might reserve for a phrase like "my precious"). On the other hand OW OW OW, and I should probably stop before my breasts start hitting my hipbones when I walk. Poor boobs, you were once so majestic...
2) She's figured out what the potty is for, although she's only used it a handfull of times and is totally not ready to be potty trained yet. I woke up the other morning and I was all like "I wonder where Lu is; she isn't in bed" and there was only an empty diaper where she used to be, as if she'd evaporated. But luckily there was a trail of poo that I used to find her. It started at the bed and went all the way to the bathroom, and then stopped about two inches short of the potty. Good try, Lu!
The crib has gone into storage. She really isn't a baby anymore...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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10:27 am - Something I just remembered happened...
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After the war when Austria was occupied by the allies, my family had some British soldiers staying in their house. My grandmother asked one of the soldiers what he did before the war, and he replied that he was a painter. How lucky! They needed someone to paint the kitchen, which this chap was then hired to do. Of course even without the language difference, a word like "painter" has many subtly different meanings, and while my Oma expected a nice clean white, she instead got a full-length dragon mural, complete with flames. It being the forties, this was probably a mural of St George slaying the dragon, or something similar, but when my mum told me the story as a kid I always imagined an illustration from one of Martin's D&D books, complete with half-dressed barbarian lady. I still can't figure out why they didn't keep it. It was around that time that the Americans started sending food aid, which consisted entirely of powdered milk. At the time, every Austrian had a cow, and the ones who didn't had cows. An abundant supply of fresh milk was just about the only food they had (except for the Saint Barnard in the butcher shop window--ew ew ew!) and the well-intentioned American aid all went to white-washing houses. I wonder if it's difficult to whitewash over a dragon mural?
On a marginally related topic, apparently the amount of cheese in our diets is a huge concern because no one's ever eaten so much cheese before and scientists are unsure of what the effects might be. Clearly they never studied Austrians. I think it's safe to say that our cheese-saturated children will all have short legs, beer bellies, and suspiciously rosy cheeks.
I sure do love family stories. Someone tell me one of your family stories! Or convince me to tell you another of mine (or not). I have lots of good ones involving barefooted orphans warming feet in cow manure and harlot girlfriends throwing kettles of boiling water on priests. If only I could draw, they'd make a great series of picture books.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
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11:37 am - Everyone hates Dickens? I don't care!
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I want to have a Victorian-style informal reading night. Actually I want to have series of such nights, but I don't think I know anyone with the dedication to show up week after week. We'll get a novel, preferably a Dickens novel*, and read it aloud one chapter at a time. It would be a big commitment, but oh, the rewards! Bonding! Suspense! Emotional Investment! Etc!
Relatedly, why doesn't anyone publish novels serially anymore? My attention span is ever so short, but I tend to start what I finish** if I can do it a bit at a time. Plus, books are heavy!
*Or I have this Jimmy Buffett novel that I got from the hospital gift shop when I was having Lu. It's amazing (if a thing can be amazing without being particularly good). I didn't think it was possible to write a 400 page prose pop song. But it is!
**er, finish what I start. Is it possible not to start what one finishes? Discuss.
current mood:  cheerful
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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10:51 am - So when I'm at work and nothing breaks...
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I have some time to read the internet! But what to read? Please post your favorite websites for (informative? hilarious?) recreational reading. Thanks!
current mood:  bored
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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6:27 pm - I imagine when I'm on my deathbed, I'll be regretting all the time I spent on hold.
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I hate the idea that I'm spending the prime hours of the prime years of my life on the phone with Telus, trying to explain that I don't know the phone number of whoever lived in my place in 2005, and asking for the fifth time "I've never been asked for that when I've hooked up a phone before; do you really need it?". Nor do I relish staying home all day tomorrow waiting for the technician. Seriously, they can't even tell me morning or afternoon. But they will call to give me ten minutes notice in case I'm in the shower. Why do I want a phone again?
Observational humor without the humor? I feel like a really unfunny stand-up comedian.
current mood:  annoyed
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
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12:53 pm - It's almost the same as my parent's number. They are senile and won't be able to remember otherwise
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New address and phone#!
729 Wilson St
Victoria BC
V9A 3H4
250 386 8459
and the old cell, which I might continue to never answer:
250 884 5597
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
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10:44 am - Maybe my last several entries were too excited?
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Lu can walk and talk but she can't walk and talk, if you you know what I mean. She gets too nervous and wants to hold on to my hand even when she isn't putting any weight on it. And the other day she called Scrumptious "Grandpa" (grandpa and cat are the two words she's learning right now). I guess it will be a while before she can say "Scrumptious". I used to have a whole lot to say, but now I mostly think about a baby.
Stevesy, Lu, and I are all moved out of the Tideline and back into my parent's basement, where it seems I belong. The move was pretty aggrivating with many ridiculous demands from the Manager which it turned out were mere empty threats ("If the fridge manual is missing, you WILL be charged for it"), which kind of aggrivates me when the reaction to the serious water leakage problem (we're talking mould country) was "put down a towel". The new place is coming along nicely. There's still a lot of nailing up mouldings and painting and unpacking and stuff to do, but I encourage you to see it in it's unfinished state tonight for Peidi's Power Point Presentation Party. I might be asleep; I don't know. It's been a busy week.
current mood: calm
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
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9:21 pm - I guess all that learning wore her out?
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6:32 pm - What an exciting day!
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Luisa just said her first sentence! "Bye Bye Ma Ma"! That's right, both of the words she consistently uses correctly! Yay, Lu!
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11:37 am - OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
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Luisa can walk! She just took her first steps (like, five of them!) between me and Stephen, and then back again, and then back again! No handsies!
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
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6:04 pm - TOO CLUMSY!
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I've already ruined my new i-pod and my new boots and Christmas was only a week ago. Luckily when I say "ruined" I don't mean "ruined ruined" but just enough to let me feel sorry for myself.
current mood: good
current music: I'm Only Dreaming-The Small Faces
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
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1:05 pm - She can talk!...?
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With all the sounds babies make, how do you ever figure out what their first word is (nevermind remember it)? Martin's first word was "bird". My parents don't remember mine (or even if I had one at all?) About a month ago Lu said "banana" and reached for a banana. Now twice she's said "bye bye" at the approptiate time (once on the phone!). And she calls her crackers "mum mum" which is what they are called (becuase all babies have a secret desire to eat their mothers?)
Stephen assures me it's all a series of coincidences. At least she definately knows how to wave.
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
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12:44 pm - Guess what Stephen's new shoes are made of?
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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11:31 am - Miss McCarvill...Ms McCarvill...Mrs--no, not Mrs anything. Sometimes I forget I'm not married.
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So until someone buys my picture book (it's about how all children's books are about animals, and about how a dead-beat dad is sometimes the best dad you could have. I think it's really good!) I need to start thinking about what I'd like to do with my future. According to every internet career aptitude quiz I do, I'd be suited to do something half language-based, half inter-personal. So riddle me this: would I be totally nuts to go to school to become a high-school English teacher? If you'd had me in high-school would you have thought "oh Miss McCarvill is so/kinda cool/nice. She even makes reading/writing/being in school fun/bearable/comprehensible! Even though I totally don't want to go to school, if I had to choose one class to go to it would be hers" or would you have thought "do not want. Mr Other-Teacher is better."
It doesn't hurt that I already (coincidently) have all the pre-requisites...and I don't find teenagers nearly as annoying as most people do. You might even say I like them, although I wouldn't (because for some reason I can't put my finger on that sounds kinda creepy).
So seriously dudes: pros and cons, yays or nays, etc?
current mood: recumbent
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
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12:11 pm - Guess who stood up twice?! All by herself!
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Luisa!
But she's been crawling for two months now and the house still isn't babyproofed. Oh, my.
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
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7:41 pm - Luisa crawls a little, and hits her head a little!
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
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3:04 pm - BEST FREE BOX FIND EVER!
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I just got a free karaokee machine! In perfect working order! If someone has a microphone and some tunes (the sample disc it came with only has three songs on it) then it will be chill tymez for all!
current mood: ecstatic
current music: Karaokee Britney Spears
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