Pink!

So we've all seen the hair now! It's been very well received so far.. I kind of go up and down about it, though for sure the picture that I'm using as a display pic everywhere is randomly really nice. It's weird how I seem to take the best pictures of myself. Actually, I'll post a picture for your sake Jamie since you haven't seen me since I dyed it, haven't seen you online and since you don't have facebook:



Well on Wednesday late at night I visited a friend in Markham, I drank 4 beers in a row.. he kept making me try and chug it (it was his, after all).. and ended up like the drunkest I've ever been (almost) skipping home (literally) by myself and actually laughing out loud at NOTHING at like 4:30 am. Really glad no one is outside in Markham that late lol.. it kinda rocked to be such a happy state of drunk.. but then I paid for it dearly on Thursday.. though I think the hangover might have been mixed with some other bug because.. yeah the nausia woke me up at 11 am and I couldn't stand up without the world spinning until after 4 pm! Crazy what beer can do to me. Haha and now he says he's depressed that I don't remember much of it.. BUT HE'S THE ONE THAT GOT ME DRUNK! *sigh lol

The important thing is that I got to feeling well enough to get downtown and meet up with Paul and go to Anton's celebration!! We ended up at The Red Room.. umm.. highlights... Anton drunkenly doing his first "blow-job", got it all over his face, glasses, hair.. that was hilarious.. "I'd rather give a real one" haha <3 ...umm yeah Lily was REALLY nice to me again.. maybe -this- time the niceness will extend past the alcohol/pub? I sure hope so. Yeah, she might have kissed me.. WITH TONGUE! AHH!!!!! But it's ok, Lily makes out with EVERYONE (if you're a girl.) The hair seems to be doing it's job with the me not blending into the wall as per usual w00t!

Anyways, I didn't drink enough to get drunk because I was afraid of the stomach freaking out.. but I still just had a really good time.. I knew enough people to never feel like I was being left out of anything and that made me secure enough to talk with new people, yay! Paul, I hope you had a good time too... MAN PAUL WAS SOOOO DRUNK! lol (DAMMIT JESSE one day you'll be there when we do 'blow jobs'.. one day.. people were asking after you.. never leave us again *tear)

We (Paul and I) left with Chelsea and Brendan to get food and got pizza (the chili stuff on Paul's nearly made me die but once milk was had it was EXCELLENT) but then I didn't really feel like making the walk home any longer and didn't feel like drinking anymore (god knows Paul didn't need anymore :P) so we let the others go on without us.. and a couple of other people sat down with us and eventually were like.. "were you guys at the red room"? They weren't with Anton's party but we ended up having some pretty hilarious conversation with them.. Emily (who is a klepto) and Will (who is very gay and was in Innis last year so knows a lot of the same people)! That was pretty cool.. making friends randomly is awesome. Oh by the way SNOW WAS FALLING!!! WEEEE!!!! We came back to my apartment by like 2:30ish and watched Home Alone 2.. I love that movie so much.

Okay I wrote all that earlier, and now I will continue this post and tell you about tonight!

So I met up with Chelsea and Brendan and we went to Rancho Relaxo and found Alix and Gita and Morgan and Massa (? :S) and I got to see Max Galactic and the Cloud of Evil play for the first time yay!!!!!! They're SO good.. oh my god loving the jazzy clarinetyness. I definately want to see them again. I randomly saw Josh there, who is a friend of Lily's and has "shocking blue" hair (clearly that makes us soul mates) and the friend he was with knew Alix and his friend looked really familiar and it turns out I've actually met him before in Alix and Chelsea's rez last year.. and his group and our group all ended up at New Ho King together (mmmm sooo good) and another of the guys with them I didn't recognize but after we'd been introduced I starting thinking he was familiar.. and then I heard him mention "Markham"! And it turns out that he's the infamous Scott Christian (infamous because I've heard the name so much from so many people but never knew who he was!!!) ANYWAYS after that I went with Alix to The Red Room for a bit so that she could see the boy and hopefully have a slightly less awkward time with his friends.. at any rate, the whole night was really fun and it was really cool to hang out with people that I don't get to see very often like Gita!!!

Yay I think this hair is good luck!! I've been having such a good time since I dyed it!!! *touch wood* I hope I didn't just jinx it.

Oh Ma Gawd!

I finally did it! What I've been saying I was going to do! I'm not gonna put pictures up till I get some good light.. doesn't look as cool with the crummy house lighting. But.. you'll get to see it at Einstein's tomorrow or on Friday night if you're going to either! Mmmm it's such a delicious colour! Even though I feel like the bleach has killed a handful of brain cells!

The Stars Are Brightly Shining, It Is The Night..

It's Christmas.. there's no snow but the sky is clear and the air is cold and crisp and the stars are shining brightly.

I went to a midnight service with my dad, it's becoming a tradition.. he was brought up in a Catholic family but had to ditch it to marry my mom (she's not religious at all). I scorn the conventions of organized religion and struggle with the concept of God.. and I try not to listen too hard anymore to the sermon because I find myself being critical.. why do I go at all then? Because of the feeling in the air.. there's just something magical and mysterious about Christmas Eve. You just feel good, you feel like there's something special all around you that you're taking in with every breath.. a presence.. maybe not of God, but maybe of good will. (Of course when I say "you" I mean "me" because.. who knows how many people in that church actually feel the same.) I always find myself near tears at some point and not really knowing why. And I love singing the Christmas carols lol.

I'm not religious and I DESPISE consumerism.. but.. if you give it the chance.. and let go of all the every day trivialities.. there's so much more.

Anyways, I hope you all have a very merry and holly jolly Christmas. I love you all very much and I shall take this opportunity to thank those of you who've taken time over the past few months to be there for me when I've needed a shoulder or an ear, or even just given a few words of reassurance, it means the world to me and you mean the world to me.

<3

Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before!

So I think last night's Star Trek TNG get together was pretty successful, started around 3 pm with a couple of people and added on a couple more as the night progressed.. we talked through most of the episodes, but that's ok lol we drank whenever my computer screen glitched.. and whenever Riker said "hell" or Deanna used telepathy or there was a red alert.. and so on. Haha. We ordered chinese food and played dreidel for swedish berries.. ew groped berries LOL! Not gonna lie, it's pretty cool to all sit around and have Star Trek discussions!

Oh the geekyest group of geeks that I could find <3 (so geeky that Paul AND Carolyn edited this picture... HAHAH  LUFF!!)






Anywho, so I guess I'm gonna have to wait until school starts again to really go hardcore into this meal and workout schedule.. I'm pretty overwhelmed by it.. I have to be at the gym 6 days a week and have to find ways to be eating every 2-3 hours and drink at least 3L of water a day.. my lifestyle is going to need some SERIOUS revamping. He put my goal amount of weight loss at 30 pounds.. which seems like.. an unfathomable amount for me to lose. I really hope I can do this, guys.

Tonight I met up with Jessica and Kelley and saw The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god, it was sooooo cool.. cooler than.. cool. I'd forgotten how much clarinet Danny Elfman put in his scores.. so good. And the NBC is just awesome anyway.

p.s. Jesse is soooooo entertaining when he's high on pain killers!!!  

J?SS? `Bye-bye wisdom teeth...hello painkillers says:
i am on codene

- ? jessica [i'm the master of fright, and a demon of light, and i'll scare you right out of your pants] ? - says:
hahaha jesse, i think you're on STUPID

HAHAHA.

WE DON NEED NO WATA!!

I slept more than 4 hours last night! w00t! finally! Hardly sleeping and then doing long shifts at work =  not cool BUT at least now the lack of sleep is due to fun and not school!

On Saturday night I didn't expect to find anybody to keep me company so I settled down for a night with my PJ's and The Sound of Music on CTV.. BUT.. it was not to be so! My phone rang and caller ID was the name it gives for when somone is calling from the buzzer downstairs..   .. "ANTON?!?" hehe he managed to get locked out of his house with no phone or wallet but he had his car keys so he came to visit me *yay* We continued watching the Sound of Music.. except.. under an influence.. which lead to him marvelling at my collection of jello and us making chocolate jello puddin! So good. I love being.. under that certain green leafy influence one on one with someone because there's a better chance that I'll actually speak and have hilarious conversation.. we had one about reindeer. Then played with my ratties for like 2 hours. They seem to love him, especially his hair.

AWWWW PATTY LURVES ANTON
   

At some point Mark give me a ring wanting to borrow something and we ended up meeting up with him and going home with him.. we played some hardcore BOGGLE!!! YEAH BEST GAME EVER!!! No Mark, "oost" is not a word. lol and then watched The Royal Tennenbaums which.. I didn't really get the point of, not gonna lie. Ahh I was in your (Alix + Chelsea's) house until past 4 am but neither of you guys were around!! BOO!

I slept for a few hours then went to work.. which was sort of ok.. because I got a first time volunteer who was SO DAMN HOT OMG. He actually looks a LOT like Mark except a bit taller and lankier. And when he smiles... *melts* He's 17.. but.. oh well lol. He's pretty smart too.. usually my volunteers are morons so I don't let them go near the cash register (that decision is left to my discretion) but I actually took the time to train this one and trust him alone with the register (= me getting to take breaks for once!!). 

Last night, after the gym with Jesse (jogged a whole km without stopping!!! woo improvement!!! )  I watched The Believer.. anyone seen it? Starring Ryan Gosling (LOVE him) about a Jewish anti-Semite. It's really REALLY intense.. and at the end you just want to sit there and think about it and try to figure it out, and then look it up online to see if you can get any insight on it. The last scene was just PURE symbolism. I love it. You should see it, so long as you don't mind seeing jews getting the shit kicked out of them (it doesn't ever actually promote or speak against anti-semitism).

I just got an email back from cousin's boyfriend Marc asking a bunch more questions and he says he should have something for me in the next few days and I'm SO EAGER/EXCITED to get going on this!! He says "Overall I don't think we are gonna have a problem" SQUEE!!   I sure hope he's right.. because I sort of feel like nothing I ever do will ever change me. 

Tomorrow SCP + new member (Gideon) gets together for the first time!!! *excited* 
Wednesday I'm trying to host a Star Trek TNG mini-marathon.. if you're a star trek tng fan you're welcome to come, but I don't know yet if anyone actually can!

WICKED!!!

So, last night was the best and luckiest night ever (finally some good luck!).

I was having a pretty crummy afternoon, just really really depressed-y and pms-y and frustrated that Kippen's website was down for the whole day so I couldn't study really because all the shit I need is on that website, wasn't too excited about attempting to see Wicked.. Renee felt the same way. We met up and made our way over to the Canon Theatre and stood in the "lottery line" and put our names in the ballot... half an hour later we stood in a huge crowd of people, all waiting for 10-ish names to be drawn, thinking "oh fuck.. there's no chance we're gonna actually get tickets.. this SUCKS".. BUT lo and behold.. second to last RENEE'S NAME WAS CALLED!!!!... and as we walked up the stairs to the box office to claim them.. MY NAME WAS CALLED!!! (each is good for two tickets you see, so we only claimed Renee's but isn't that still AMAZING? lol We had SO little chance but got DOUBLE LUCKY!!) So anyways, it was at this point that I got REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SEEING WICKED!!!

We had an hour and a half to spare before the show so we decided to try eating at Popeye's.. it was more entertaining than delicious. While Renee was waiting for her food I went to find a seat.. I prefer corners but the only corner was right beside a group of about 6 police officers. My mind momentarily flashed to everything illegal I've ever done and then decided it would be an interesting opportunity to listen in on whatever it is they talk about. Almost immediately after I sat down, the one nearest me asked "Hart House, what's that?" (on my shirt). And I tried to explain in my awkward way and anyways, it lead to a conversation about his son and my plans for the future (none) so the whole group of them started trying to give suggestions as to what I should do with my life! haha and then the whole time we were eating they kept semi-including us in conversation.. it was pretty awesome, they were SOO nice and hilarious (I love when stuff that like happens, a stranger's only a friend you haven't meant... well, for sure at least in the case of law enforcement in the sense that they're least likely to turn out to kill you later?) .. it kinda made me want to be a cop. This sounds kinda weird, but I feel like I'd only enjoy being a cop if I was a guy.

We took a stroll through the Stag store.. they've got some REALLY ridiculous stuff.. *note: buy me an explicit sex board game for my birthday.. please?? I've always wanted one lol though it'd definately be less thrilling now than years ago.. nonetheless!

Then.. WICKED.. our seats were REALLY COOL. We got a box ALL TO OURSELVES!!!!! Our view of the stage was partially blocked.. but that wasn't such a big deal considering we had a box to ourselves AND got tickets for like HALF of the price of the actual nose-bleed seats. AND we could see right into the pit orchestra!!!!! Clear view of the reed players!!! SQUEE!!

Oh man.. the show was SO good. SOOOO GOOODD!!! ... SSSOOOOOOOOOO GGGOOOOOODDD!! Everything about it was absolutely phenominal.. the story was so cool, the way it explained stuff that happened in the Wizard of Oz and like totally twisted the story around.. SO cool.. and the set and choreography and costumes were just fucking AWESOME and the singers had incredible voices and the music is stuff that I'd probably buy or download.. I loved the conductor, very young and very into what he was doing.

I'm SO glad we ended up going because it was absolutely worth it.. guys, see Wicked if you can, you will NOT be disappointed... omg the guys with no arms and extending necks HAHA

We went to Future's afterwards for cheesecake and beer respectively and had some super-satisfying venting.

Some buzzed text messaging avec Jesse on the way home made the walk seem really short.

When I got home I watched the new episode of House that I'd taped, tres awesome.

A bit after 2 am I got a call from monsieur Dimitroff (he'd called around 10 when we were still in the show wanting a post-exam celebration of some sort, but when I called him back after the show he didn't pick up, so this was him calling back again) and I told him to come over, so he did lol and we watched last week's Gilmore Girls since last night's was a repeat (gonna make us wait till Jan to find out what happened! NOO!!).. I agreed to make him go home at 3:30.. but I'm an enabler and a push-over so when the time came he got in bed with me and we watched another episode haha he left at about 4:30 am.

At which point I altered my state (so to speak), put on Star Trek and went to sleep...

Can you say.. ABSOLUTE BEST NIGHT EVER?

<3<3<3

p.s. I updated my banner, it's more colourful this way.

awwww

Omg haha I'm going to cry.. one of my little girls from camp, Isabel, bout 3 years old, and her mom left me a voicemail message.. I'm going to copy it out for you because it is honestly the cutest thing EVER

*woman's voice*: Hi this message is for Jennifer.. umm.. hold on
*in the background*: use your loud voice.. that's not a loud voice.. say Hi Jennifer
Kid: HI
Woman: it's..
Kid: ISABEL
Woman: say who it is..
Kid: ISABEL
Woman: what's your last name?
*incoherent muttering*
Woman: What's your last name?
Isabel: (she yells it)
Woman: from? how do you know Jennifer? which camp?
*incoherent muttering*
Woman: from bvg camp? and what do you want to say to Jennifer?
*incoherent muttering*

Woman: Jennifer if you're still listening, this is not a crank call, this is Isabel's mom.. Isabel has been asking me to call you for several days now to invite you to her birthday party, which of course I don't expect you to come to, but I just wanted you to know that you remain in Isabel's heart, I hope that you're school semester is going well and that you have a great holiday season.
There's no need to call back but just wanted to let you know... she's gotten real shy all of a sudden but let me see if she'll say bye.. hold on..

Isabel: BYE
Mom: What do you say?
Isabel: ..I love you.. mommy why is she not talking?
Mom: because it's a message, she's not there
*hang up*

AAAWWWWW!!! I called back and her mom was like.. "Isabel, the phone's for you.." and Isabel goes "IS IT JENNIFER?" and then starts SQUEALING hahahaha her mom was like: you can come to her party but I wouldn't recommend it, there'll be like 80 of her relatives there.
But that I could come visit some time if I wanted, maybe I will! Though I'll have to find a fellow ex-counsellor to come with me so I don't have to go alone.

*sigh* I miss my baayybbies.. I still have dreams about trying to keep them safe and stop them from crying and being scared and all that maternal crap lol I'm probably going to work at that camp again, but as much as I love the little ones I'm going to ask for an older age group (probably 5 and up) because it was just too stressful running after 10 of them and being sick for 2 months because of they way they're all over you.

On the other hand.. 2 or so is a piece of cake after 10.. guys, I want a kid. RIGHT NOW.

Busy Couple Days

Yesterday I woke up, went to work, went to dress rehearsal.. and then.. followed Renee and Jessica home (to Renee's house). And -finally- saw Goodbye Parker play, which I've definately been meaning to do since I met Ben and he started facebook inviting me like half a year ago! They were good.. I totally see what you guys mean now when you say that the band is "cute".. singer is soo funny. And anyone with a tambourine.. And Jessica's cute guy is SOOO cute!!

I'm definately MUCH MUCH more comfortable with the ska/rock/punk scene than the hip hop scene, I LOVE the whole crazy mosh pit adrenaline throwing yourself about wildly thing, it's SO much fun. (How much fun?) And that's actually REALLY ironic (are you clever enough to figure out what I mean exactly? Probably not :P) The walk home was long and cold- I want my bike :( but I ran into Chelsea and Brendan, who had also been at the concert, which provided temporary relief! Was too buzzed from the beer that Jessica bought me (<3) to bother reading so went to blissful sleeeeeep.

Was up again to work this morning, then rushed like mad over to the church. Oh god guys.. when Colin gathers us all around during intermission and tells us that we performed badly? BBRUU-TTALL!! I think we did ok under the circumstances though.. though I definately fucked up a lot.

Anyways, I went out for dinner with my mommy and daddy and oma and opa. It was actually THE FUNNIEST DINNER EVER. They kept making horrible sex jokes:
*Opa pointing out a spot we're driving by where he hung out as a kid*
Opa: And there were two girls who we used to visit on that street
Me: Were they out on the street corner every night?
Opa: Well not every night, maybe once a week
*Everyone laughing hysterically because he totally doesn't get the implication*
Opa: Well we didn't need to visit them more than once a week...
*LAUGHING EVEN HARDER*
He is soooo cute lol

And OHHH MAN when we were in Swiss Chalet my dad (after doing a rap music imitation aka. grunting and saying "fuck" a lot) went on this huge rant about how he thinks it's completely hypocritical for black people to get upset at being called the N-word.. and my Oma is hard of hearing so she's like "WHAT?" and he's like "NIGGAS" and everyone started staring at us hahahaha I don't think I've EVER laughed so hard, and he gets upset that I laugh because he's COMPLETELY serious, which makes me laugh even harder. And my mom was REALLY drugged up because she's got like arthritis in her spine, something shitty like that so she was laughing pretty hysterically too lol! And on the car ride to Hart House they started making jokes about the organ player.. "playing with his organ" etc etc and my oma never quite ever fully catches what's actually going on so the comments she makes are SO funny.

Anyways, Hart House Symphonic Band concert.. it was actually pretty decent in comparison to what we've sounded like at rehearsals.. I'm not gonna lie, I somehow had much more energy and enthusiasm for this concert. Maybe because the music was livelier. Helen and Matt came!! (Matt's bro is in the band..AND-MATT-WOULD-BE-TOO-IF-HE-KNEW-WHAT-WAS-GOOD-FOR-HIM) and sat.. in the front, right by me. Jerks. (Actually it probably made me play better? Shrug) Annnyyyyyyywaaaayysssss.... Helen brought me chocolate!!!!!!!! <3 x 10000! How SWEET (NO PUN INTENDED HAAAAHAAA)! Mmmm endorphins.. myyy favourite.. Well, it's almost as good as sex. (No it's not, but I'll take it.) At any rate I decided getting a ride home from Macy was more appealing than following a bunch of people I don't really know to a pub. And so here I am! And in a rather chipper mood.
Actually.. a social mood. Damn.

Tomorrow = CHICAGO!!! MMMMBSB!!! And the Carnegie screening!
p.s. Jesse is the biggest loser ever for choosing a rehearsal over the screening!!!