Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
[b]I came home early. [/b] It was Adam’s birthday on Sunday and I ‘ass’umed my mom had me in for my fittings on Thursday and Monday not thinking that NOTHING is open in Prince George on Holidays and therefore my fittings where Thursday and Saturday and I came home Sunday. Adam and I have had so many errands to run it is a good thing I did. I gotta work this week too. I came home smelling like five dogs, four from the barn dance Sparkle, Jackal, Rusty and Rosie my parents dog JJ and the cat, Bear and Gus would not talk to me for hours. I finally had to take a shower which she just returned with more protesting until I was ready to fall asleep and she decided my chin, nose and cheeks needed to be licked for no reason other than she must love my flailing head to avoid that sand paper tongue thing, kisses on the lips are FINE but more than two and I’m out. I have sensitive skin. The paw massssage to the neck and face would have been more appreciated were it not on her schedule of deciding when I was worthy of her love again when I didn’t even do anything wrong, I meowed to her on the phone and she had a good sitter.
[b]DRAMA ALERT[/b]
I get to Prince George, on Thursday morning I go to try on my dress and IT WAS DIRTY. Like for real. The whole top boob area. Looked like blood or lipstick. I stayed calm it was insane I don’t know how I did it. AND the accessories that can come on the dress but weren’t even on the dress when I found it to try on were on the fucking thing and had to be cut off leaving holes in it when I KNOW I requested ‘they’ not be there because had they been there I would have passed the dress by and likely not tried it on because I wouldn’t have and didn’t know at the time they could be removed. They tried to tell me NO ONE had tried it on and I’m LIKE YEAH RIGHT AND IT HAS HOLES IN IT!?! But I didn’t say this as mentioned because to be honest I think I was in shock I must have been.
My mom and I left and went to play golf and have a day I got to see my friend ‘Bobby’ from high school and we watched Big Brother and I played bocce with him and his roommate because his wife is up in Vanderhoof until they can both be in Prince George. I came in second, I was losing badly, then I was kicking ass and then I became the first loser.
I played golf again on Friday and Saturday. I played ok, but sometimes really bad.
Saturday was my second fitting and I was pretty fucking nervous. I had left a message demanding the stains be out of the dress by 4:30PM on the Saturday or shit was going to hit the fan so I had a bridezilla moment and it didn’t feel good at all. I just wanted the stains OUT there was NO WAY I could leave Prince George with THOSE stains still in that dress and not see it again until the wedding are you KIDDING ME?????? The holes will ‘apparently’ steam out easily but the ‘accessories’ still should not have even been there in the first place. I don’t know how the fuck they did it but the stains and all the alterations including the adding of BOOBS to the dress were done by Saturday. Apparently it was dress makers chalk or some shit but I find it pretty interesting she just didn’t fucking tell me that instead of getting all OH MY GOD I’m going to have to call the designer and complain etc etc. HELLO bitch just tell me it comes out in five seconds why don’t you! GEEEEESH. Talk about unnecessary stress to add to a bride’s plate. My dad saw the dress and said I look fine in it.
Then we went to the barn dance. I didn’t bug Haiko about my paddle because I like Haiko but I will get him back somehow likely at Christmas when he least expects it.
























Neko is funny and gorgeous and was wearing converse shoes and jeans that made it look like her legs went on forever and I wanted to yell out SING THE TRAIN FROM KANAS CITY but I didn’t. I just cried and wiped my eyes with the handkerchief that Adam brought for me and I chair danced so hard when she sang ’John Saw That Number’ I thought I might break the fucking thing. She, broke a gi-tar string when she launched into ‘Margaret vs Pauline’ but busted out the four string tenor Gibson SG telling us we were getting a full on Vancouver remix. I love her, I love her, I love her. I know that will not be the last time I listen to her voice LIVE it pierced my mother-fucking soul and Sarah McLaughlin you just lost the number one spot. I never in my life expected any female would ever replace her in the number one female artist category EVEN though let’s be honest although Sarah’s music has helped me through many and I mean MANY a time she still pisses the shit out of me when she does money grab re-mix bullshit albums that put all that I take from her writing into question. A live album a greatest hits maybe but I get so sick of her shit in between albums. It is one thing to sell out it is another to show blatant disrespect for your fans- -like we won’t wait for her or something- - it has always offended me and I guess I really shouldn’t speak for her fans.
Nineteen years old driving home from the late shift at Future Shop Music blasting Tool, Aenima in my ‘85 Honda Civic when suddenly I am so dizzy and disorientated that I can’t see straight. I pull over and assess myself. Can I drive the rest of the way home? Would Maynard be mad cause I had to turn the Tool down? What the fuck is wrong with me? I decide I can make it. I concentrate as hard as humanly possible and drive- probably one of the dumber things I’ve done. When I get out of the car it feels as if the earth is sort of falling out from underneath me but not. I grip my car to walk. When I get to the end of the hood I actually have to figure out how I’m going to get to the edge of the house to get around back to my basement suite without injuring myself. I let go of the car and stagger so far left I think I’m a goner but manage to stagger back right and fall into the house so I can grip, feel and fall down to my door.
We were so close to getting out of here. A suite came available down the street in one of the two buildings we are waiting on. Anyone unfamiliar with our landlord situation there are stories a plenty regarding Mrs. E. in the