New technology ftw

Wow. Getting a new phone is always exciting however this one is kinda nuts! Still not sure how to really use it but I guess I'll figure it out. Downloaded the neat blogger app for it. Three cheers for my new galaxy S3 and not knowing wtf to do with it!

Random thoughts
-fall is my favourite, it means winter is coming
-I hate cleaning
-it very well could be worse!

My latest findings in life... good? bad? hopeful? what?

Holla! So i've had some stuff happening that's been a real mindfuck lately, and not that it's bad or good... but it just is what it is.
I broke down at work because i was sick and emotional and really wanted to tell someone to just go fuck themself, but couldn't because sometimes you can't just do and say what you want. My dad helped me out and took over painting for me so i could just have a few minutes to just 'be'. A few days before, I got some news that I didn't want or like mind you, and couldn't fully rationalize how i felt about it because i was REALLY sick with the flu and it was Thanksgiving weekend. So I got really upset. fair enough. we all do. And then sometimes we just have to sit back and wait, which doesn't make it any better. Great fun.
Been feeling a little lonely lately, my summer is so busy that my friends stop calling... which sucks especially now, when work is slowing down and i can actually begin to make plans to do things like normal people.
I'm really realizing i'm becoming more and more jaded about the possibility of meeting someone, my love life is in the shitter, and has been for awhile and before that it was good for awhile, but before it ended up being a really BAD decision it was in the shitter and before that I was just fucking stupid. I think its all bollocks and i'm just not good at this whole relationship thing. I have horrible taste in men as i have found. In the last ten years I have had 2 real relationships, one was with a jackass and ended up cheating on me (he was hot, so i guess it was ok to be treated badly-NOT. Was just young and stupid) and the other... well. In a nutshell I thought he was awesome, and that everything was fine until one day he announces he needs space and i'm going home on half a week on the train. Which made things even MORE awesome was after we broke up, he pretty much had a girlfriend right away. I'm not a fucking retard. I knew what was going on. Thanks. My thoughts right around then were "and i was gonna marry you, you asshole". Right now, I have let these things go, and don't let them affect me... until I strung them together into a lovely chain of asshole, because i'm piecing together why shit just doesn't go my way. No wonder I'm a bitter and jaded bitch. HA!
I see friends making babies, creating families, getting married, buying homes/condos, moving in with their significant others... It's great, and I'm really happy for them... but am thinking to myself "what about me?" I don't think I actually want to have children... but maybe that's just right now, maybe not. All I know is that sometimes all this lovey dovey shit makes me wanna puke. Still bitter. still jaded.

One day MY prince will come... hopefully on a fuckin' snowboard ready to rip it up, and not looking for motherfucking barbie.

Random Thoughts...

- it's fall. that means snow is coming
- Thanksgiving. That meal is always awesome
- not working 6 day weeks anymore
- my birthday is around the corner, so let's get drunk.
- if you aren't doing 120kph, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!
- on the same note: Left lane is for PASSING. once you've passed the car you want to, MOVE THE FUCK OVER!!

I was writing a blog post while in BC, but then I got busy...

AND then I got home, and got even more busy. Then close to 6 months goes by and you say "WHERE THE FUCK DID IT GO?!?!?!" So here I am, wondering where the fuckin' time went. OH YEAH! I went back to work. That's right.

The rest of my vacation was absolutely fabulous. Whistler blew my mind. I am going back this coming April for Telus fest again, except I think I shall go for the last week and weekend instead of the first. It's up in the air obviously still, but I am watching westjet's seat sales, to say the least. I cannot even tell you how many times I rode through fresh pow in the glacier yelling to myself "I am so fuckin' happy right now!!! I belong here!!" Yes, thats right. ONE more winter in Onterrible. I need to grow my skills some more, work with some amazing people like Keren and Ken, who know how to push me to be my best. I don't know if either of them will read this, but if they do, a big THANK YOU goes out to them, for sure. ALSO Whistler was so amazing I went back for a couple days. My last day on snow was April 28th. Felt great! Took my last run with a man named Jim Ryan, who used to teach at GE back in the 80's. Met him on the Jersey Cream chair. Small world!!

After Whistler, I took a wicked tiny plane (thanks Uncle Steve!) to Tofino to spend a week with Kim Marrie. One of my best friends for LIFE, and had a great week!! I was there for her through kidney stones the first day I was there, experienced a Toonie Tuesday at the Maq, (Maquinna`s pub) got messy, learned to SURF!! which was so awesome, spent time at Tonquin beach, drank A LOT and so on. We took the bus to Nanaimo to visit her brother Joe, his wife Danicka and their daughter Hannah for Easter. It proved to be an amazing weekend, met Danicka's family who were lovely, and had a great time. Tofino, Nanaimo and Courtenay are all great places! On Easter monday, I took the ferry back to the mainland. Sad to see the island go, but I'll go back some day!

Back to VanCity, tried to see a friend who never returned either the text I sent OR the call i made. His loss, but i think his head was wrapped up in work and female matters. Still would have loved to just have coffee. I digress... Spent more time with Uncle Steve, toured Gastown, Chinatown and then realized I still had time and money left- so BACK TO WHISTLER!!! Hopped on the Greyhound and stayed with a friend. Next morning, woke up and went to the mountain. Only Blackcomb was open, and thats ok, because I spent most of my day in the best place on bloody earth- Horstman Glacier. T-bar laps and fresh powder to slash up, not being able to see 5 ft in front of me at times, was bloody fuckin' glorious. Hopped down to glacier creek, had a bite to eat and headed back up. Just an epic day. I have NEVER been on snow on April 28th before, so I was stoked regardless. I headed up for what i thought would be my last runs, and on the jersey cream express, i chatted with an older gentleman. turns out he taught at Glen Eden back in the 80's! Jim Ryan was his name. we parted ways at the top of the lift. I decided to let my heart and supreme logic take me down the hill. I hit a run called cruiser- i was in for cruisin' so it felt like the right run. i came to a point where i had to make my next decision- keep on cruisin or take stoker. i was pretty stoked at the time, so obviously i chose stoker, and i chose so right!! FRESH POW still on the run 1/2 way down the mountain. EPIC! rode it out and went back up on the solar coaster- where i met Jim again. I informed him of the fresh pow i found, so he followed me down. we stopped to chat part way down, rode down to the village and parted ways. Such an amazing day! I left Whistler the next day, and went back to the city to help Uncle Steve, Marlo and Koel move into their new house!! Crazy moving weekend, and then came home... was happy to be home, but sad to leave the mountains and ocean. I'll be back though!

I mentioned I then got busy. Worked hard all summer, August and September were littered with 6 day work weeks... and I can tell you that neither the civic or labour day long weekends were actually long. I got to line the practice court at the ACC for the Raptors this summer, which was awesome, spent some time up north and saw my Nana and Aunt Marianne. I more recently went to Ottawa and saw Nikki for the first time in forever, which was excellent. Now work is slowing down and i'm looking forward to blogging more. so stay tuned!!

Stanley Park and Cypress- I love you.

Have I mentioned that I fuckin love it out here? Well there it is again. I have been here a week as of tomorrow and I have done a lot! First day was Grouse, family time on the weekend, Capilano Monday, bike tour Tuesday, now cypress Wednesday. Tomorrow is walking Granville. I love this place.

Tuesday- Stanley Park, bike tour and Granville island!
I went downtown with Steve and went to see the Olympic Cauldron, which was really freaking cool. Then I headed over to the pacific centre mall to check it out. Entered at holt renfrew and admired the expensive clothes, shoes and accessories. I then got the call from Dave that he was ready to go in a bit so I headed out to kits. Dave got the bikes together and took me on an epic journey to get lunch which was excellent and a tour of the seawall of Stanley Park. After a wicked ride, we then decided to ride false creek and the hit Granville Island. That place is awesome. My most favorite beer of life is there- cypress honey lager. So amazingly good!! Then went back to Dave's place and walked to dinner at The White Spot which is apparently a local favourite around the Vancouver area. I made it back to Richmond just in time to get some decent sleep before my wicked day at cypress!!!

Cypress was wicked. Hands down best hill near Vancouver. Pow up top on skyline chair... Or I think that's what it's called. Either way it was a good day. I rode the run maelle ricker won the gold on!! So good.

I have no random thoughts for this one as I'm behind, and now need to post about whistler!!!

I don't want to leave this place, but the pay sucks out here apparently!

The weekend ends and a wicked week ahead

The weekend was awesome. Saturday I stayed in Richmond with steve and his friends all came over starting at 3pm and we drank beer all night and played pool. Lots of fun was had for sure!!

Sunday I spent most of my day with Koel, Marlo and Mary at her place. She made a wicked roast beef dinner with scalloped potatoes, broccoli and cheese sauce, yorkshires and gravy. Delicious dinner!! Finished it off with donut dessert too! It's been years since I've seen Mary, and she's still the same lady I knew at 8 years old. Most lovely time catching up, playing scrabble and drinking tea!

This morning I left with steve and co to go downtown, and saw his office, which is wicked, and then went and grabbed timmy's and walked to Canada place to get the free shuttle to the capilano suspension bridge. Lovely tour to get there over the lions gate bridge. Got there and spent a good 4 hours Checking it all out. I walked all the way around and after found out that the only way to get my wicked certificate would be to do the passport which I had no idea about before I started. So I did it again, just a little quicker. So I got a bunch of wicked pics on my camera and only a couple on my iPod so you'll all have to wait til I get home to see full experience. It was pretty awesome. Did the treetop adventure, but cliffwalk wasn't open. If any one reading this wants to do the cliffwalk, seriously after June 2nd, unless they get set back.
After the bridge I headed down to lonsdale quay and walked straight up lonsdale road (huge ass hill) to check out the shopping and stuff in north van. Found a wicked purple fairy dress for Ryan and Tana's baby, a couple things I really liked and a new hat, as my toque was getting too warm. It's nice. I walked all the way up to the boardroom board shop and partway back as I got the bus to get to the ballpark up at the top of the hill.
The softball game was awesome! Boy do those young ladies have talent!! It was a great game. Hope I have a chance to see another before I leave!

All in all I had a wicked last few days, and I'm following it up with Stanley Park and the seawall tomorrow, then riding at cypress on weds, whistler on Friday!! Oh yeah!!!

Random thoughts:
-I love this place.
-people are really friendly here!
-one week until Tofino!

Love you all! Xoxo

An adventure just isn't complete without a few hiccups... Especially when they're mine.

I fucking LOVE it here. The people are nice and rush hour is like Saturday driving In Toronto. I could seriously get used to this. Don't worry Kimmy, i'm coming home. But for how long? Lol.

So I woke up nice and early around 6:45 and Uncle Steve was up and we made tea and breakfast. Hmm. Tea would make this posting experience a little less tedious. Tea and some dishes done and I'm ready to write. Here we go!

So since I was headed to grouse and steve was going to work, he dropped me and my board bag off at the sea bus. The seabus is awesome. Going across the burrard inlet was so cool, you can see the city behind you and north van and mountains ahead. So cool. So then I got on the 236 bus that takes you to capilano and grouse. I will be revisiting this bus on Monday as I plan to do the suspension bridge then. The weather says it should be a decent day. So I got off the bus and grouse doesn't give a CASI discount. $65 later and I'm on the skyride gondola going up the mountain to the hills. That gondola in itself was a most excellent experience. I do have pictures from it, but I will have to post them when I get home as they're on my camera. You see the whole city from up there and the peaks of the lions which is ultimately so awesome. I checked my board bag after I got ready and I was out! There are a couple of nice groomers and quite a few ungroomed runs. I decided to take it easy and stick to the groomers mostly for my first day out on the snow in the mountains. Wise decision though because I'm a little sore this morning! I rode a variety of runs and had a most excellent time. Went in for lunch and had the healthiest looking thing on the menu, which was the chili and it was the special. It was pretty damn tasty. Went back out in the afternoon and decided to hit an ungroomed run and sank a few times as the snow was so deep! I never has as much fun falling than I did yesterday. But the falling let to my phone getting disputed from my pocket and I'm pretty sure it fell out in a lift line when I was clearly snow put of my jacket and pantalons. So I was a little choked when I realized it was missing so I took the run again, fell a few more extra fun times and didn't find it. Hoped I was smart and left it in my bag, but no. So I called and blocked it. Went back out to ride cuz there was no use in leaving I was having so much fun! This is where I meet Jon and his coworkers on the hill. Extremely nice guys and they are in the action sports industry. Jon gave me his number which I plan on using, as he said he'd take me to the billabong party in whistler! Yeehaw! Sick! Rode with those guys for awhile and then when they left I got ready to leave too. I went to get my bag and the girl behind the desk said someone just returned my phone!! Fucking eh! People here are awesome. Had a half hour ordeal trying to get it turned back on, but then was on my way back to the city as my friend Dave said he'd make me dinner! Score! It was great seeing him again. We have plans to do the stanley park seawall next week and go to cypress as he got us passes from his work. Most excellent! Somewhere between tuesday and thursday next week. I left my board bag with him as I'll be riding next at cypress with him, and there was no point in lugging it all the way back to Richmond from kitsilano. Today I'm gonna chill, maybe check out a mall, grab some snacks for next week.

I know I've only been here for like 2 days but so far it's amazing and I'm so glad I planned this trip. If anyone who reads this has never been out here I thoroughly recommend coming.
Love and hugs!

Random thoughts:
-everywhere needs a seabus. Fucking cool.
-people here are so amazing and helpful.
-the snowboarding out here is way better than onterrible.
-I fucking LOVE the mountains.
-game on. (that's for you Christine!)

Vancouver watch out! I'm on my way!

Sitting at gate c41 at yyz and I've got my xl double double. Will turn the cell off in a few. I am so eXcited for this trip and cannot wait to land at yvr to get the party started! Also this iPod is the greatest thing I have ever bought myself. I love the prospect of being a crazy tourist and that Kim booked our surf lesson for tuesday the 19th. I can't wait to see her!! I can't wait to hit van city hard with Dave too. I haven't seen him since 2005. Let's get this party started. If you want to follow my adventures stay tuned!! I promise to keep posting regularly! Love and hugs! Xoxo

Random thoughts
-it's possible to be too excited.
-I hope they let me bring the rest of my coffee on board the flight.
-i heart the airport!
-GAME ON!!!