Yarn Haul!!

I totally just realized that I forgot to update my Christmas yarn haul on here. Dressew is EVIL!! $1.99 a ball!?!?

So the story is, I went to Vancouver before Christmas to be a nice and drive my sister up here for the holidays. She had to work on the 23rd and I figured if I got there the night before, then I'd have plenty of time to check out the yarn stores down there since I'd never been. First Yarn stop (not the first stop of the day, in fact by this time I'd already spent most of my budget) was Sweet Georgia Yarns, a lovely lady who has a dye studio that's not really a shop, but you can drop by and see her doin her thing.
An unassuming building:

What you see when the elevator door opens:

I got 2 skeins of Fairy Floss (Purple), and after Christmas I went back and got 2 skeins of Big Buttercrunch



Next stop was Birkeland Bros. where I picked up a little bit of roving. And after MUCH to much walking I made it to Three Bags Full, where I picked up my first 2 balls of Noro.

Then I was headed down to East Hastings to check out Bad Anna's (which was totally awesome AND having a sale the day I was driving my sister BACK to Van) where the totally awesome girl told me about the yarn they had at Dressew for $1.99 a ball. I wasn't originally going to go there as it's mostly just acrylic junk, but they had some 100% wool too, and as it turns out, some yarn that I had been looking for in Kamloops and couldn't find.

So things got a little out of hand there:

3 more Days!!!

3 more days and I get to go home!! Yay!! Not for good though :( Although I am quite enjoying myself out here on the coast, it just isn't home. Well, at least not yet. Maybe after I've been here for a few months, and have a place I can actually call my own, and have my kitty here to keep me company at night, then it will feel more like A home. But Kamloops is still home home.

And it's my birthday on Saturday!! YAY!!! I get to become a cougar in training!! At least I'm a damn hot 29 year old. That's one thing to enjoy. The being single part, I'm still not sure about. it's Ok, but not really what I want. I'm getting to that point where girls can make really stupid decisions based on what they wanted for thier future when they were young, and not based on what is good for them right now. And right now, not being in a relationship is definitly better for me. Please remind me of that next time I say I found the perfect guy...

Man, I have this throbbing headache that is so from my walk up the hill from the bus stop. Sometimes it is really hard to breathe going up that hill. I don't know why, there is no congestion in my lungs, but it still feels heavy to breathe. And my sternum hurts too. And my throat from the breathing. I should go to the doctor... Maybe...

Looking Up?

Hello! How are you? I am fine. Thanks for asking.

Things seem to be looking up right now, but maybe I'm just high on my meds and sleep deprived, who knows... I feel... better. I suppose getting out of the house and doing stuff is helpful. I still kinda feel isolated, but that's because I don't even have my kitty to keep me company at night. And, my body is screaming for a nice HOT relaxing bath, but I no have-y bath tubby :( I can't wait to go home next Friday, snuggle with my kitty, and plunk myself into the tub. Sans kitty of course, she really hates that thing...

The new job is good, I'm already doing a stellar job, like always. Now i just have to be able to answer people's questions about what kind of foam would be best for thier needs. Which sometimes is hard to guess as most of them don't really know what their needs are.

It would also be nice to finally feel settled, which is very hard as I am staying at my sister's with all of her stuff. I've moved it, stacked it, and glared at it with all my might, but it still just looks like a pile of junk cluttering up a tiny space. I think I'm going to have to convince her to go through it, and put most of it in storage for right now. As it is right now, there is no way that her landlady will willingly want to show the place. It looks very much like a slum hole. A very well educated slum hole, but still... You know what I found today while I was rooting through the cupboards trying to make better use of the space in them? A potato. A potato growing up INTO the wall. And the sad part is, I have this feeling that it's happened before. I'm having some serious Deja-Vu about this whole situation.

So ya, it would be nice to have most of my sister's stuff out of here so I can get some normal stuff in here. Like, a bed off the ground. Or an actual TV Stand. Or even better yet, how about a kitchen table and some freakin chairs to sit on. You want to know what there is to sit on right now? The bed, which is a futon and a tonne of blankets on the floor, a computer chair, and a couple of floor mats. i have to watch my DVD's on my laptop, which sits onto of an empty box, while lying in bed. Which isn't terribly bad because at least then I'm warm from being under the covers.

So, anybody know anyone in Vancouver looking for a roommate? Besides me that is....

Here I Come!!

When I outta say no!!

Got to go see Dragonette the other night, which was AWESOME!!! The first of many concerts I will get to see now that I live in a music hub.

Yes, that's right, Lisa got a job!! It's not particullarily a spectacular job, but it's easy and it pays good. I'm going to be following in my little sister's foot steps and be working at The Foam Shop. I start tomorrow in a location that I still don't quite know where it is, but that's OK. As long as they allow me my few days off to come back to the loops to celebrate my B-day, and pick up things that I am missing. Like my kitty.

I miss my little puss-puss something fierce. I'm sure the fact that my sister has cat that looks almost identical to my baby doesn't help. That and I am alone in this closet all day and night and could sure use her cuddley company.

The good thing is that with all the time I have, I've been able to arrange my sisters crap in such ways as to make room for my crap, and create more floor space. And storage. It's not really her fault, she hardly spends any time here and so hasn't taken the time to focus on how to best use what little space she does have. And appearently I've watched enough HGTV shows to have ideas about how this can be achieved. Mostly with many trips to IKEA, but also just with some rearranging and purging. Which is the hardest thing to do for a pack rat family.

Just because you know it's for the best,

Doesn't make it hurt any less.

The inevitable has happened. I knew that it would come eventually, I just didn't want to accept it. Me and my boyfriend have split. It was semi-mutual, meaning that I knew we probably should, I just really didn't want to.

It's hard to want to let go of someone who is so close to being exactly what you've been looking for. And despite his indiscretions in the past, he is a really nice guy and will one day make some girl really happy. It's just that girl isn't me, and that's hard to bare. Especially when you've spent the last year hoping, praying, and demanding that you get a nice guy. I feel I totally deserve to be finding Mr. Right by now. I've been a good girl, and I've put up with a lot of shit. I think karmic-wise I deserve it by now.

On another note, I have now moved down to Vancouver. It seemed best that I go right away, since the only thing that was keeping from going, was now out of my life. That, and I'm a sensetive one, and wouldn't be able to bare driving past certain places without bursting into tears right now.

So now it's my sisters job to keep me entertained, and gainfully employed. Well, at least make sure that I get off my ass and go out and look anyways.

Now, if only I had an army and a HUGE trash bag, so that I could clean up her tiny closet of an apartment. Or find a better one of my own....

Vancouver?

I've been thinking of moving to Vancouver. My sister lives down there, and I miss her, and I could really use the change of pace and scenery. She has an apartment down there, which we always call here $500 a month storage locker, because she spends most of her time over at her boyfriends house, and basically is just keeping the apartment to keep all her crap in, because his place is just as tiny as hers, but with more walls. They are finally going to be officially moving in with each other when his lease is up too, which will be nice. So for right now, I have a place to live.

The job market down there is also a lot better than it is here. There are lots of warehouse jobs and such, things that I would be interested (good) at doing.

And because my sister has been down there for a couple of years now, she has a good network of friends, that I will get along with too, seeing as half the friends I have now, were hers to begin with. We always end up hanging around the same type of people, which the same morals, values, and such. So much so, that all of our friends get along with each other too. We can through a party and invite all of our friends that don't know each other, and it's pretty guaranteed that a lot of them will leave with some new found friends.

The only things really holding me from running down there right now are:
My boyfriend, the comfort of my best friends, the comfort and inexpenses of living at home, and the fact that I love this little town that I grew up in and don't necissarily want to leave it.

My best friends will understand and support me no matter what I do (that's why they're my BEST freinds), I have lived on my own before and do enjoy it, and my sister will help me by paying the rent on her place until she moves, and I could always move back home after gaining some more experiences.

The boyfriend issue is a little more complex. I have to talk to him about whether or not he even wants to continue the relationship, much less change it to a long distance one, or try to convince him to move down there too. It would give him more job opportunities too, and there is always the option of moving back.

There is still a lot of things that need to be thought about, talked about, and ironed out before I can make any final decisions though....