kitty maud.

he's not doing so well, but hanging in there..



i helped a friend and her husband move today. it was fun! i dislike moving myself, but don't mind helping other people. when it's your own stuff, it can get really overwhelming. i'm pretty good at organizing (other peoples things).
i also love tetras, which has fairly transferable skills.

bookshelves and food

Our Internet is down. I moved most of my food to my bedroom.
Neither of these things bother me that much.
Have I reached the pinnacle? Perhaps.
I'm ok with that, too!

kitty purrs

itty bitty old man cat maud. i miss the little guy so much! he gets so happy when i visit.



today was spent waiting for a phone call that never came. a good friend is in afghanistan. he called on wednesday just to say he cared "in case anything were to happen" in the next few hours.

i'm sure he'll be ok, but it's still stressful.

how do people do it? wait like this, i mean?

at just about 2 a.m. i finally got a message from him. he was safe, although couldn't talk about what he had to do.

saved me

on my way home with too much weight on my shoulders
i found friends to stop & chat with
so i look a load off
and stayed for a bit

keep the curtains drawn

sometimes i get really angry that someone broke into my home and fucked my shit up. i feel like i can't function. everything is a mess. my life is not the same, and i want it back.
no-one has the right to do this to me.

trivia tuesdays!

it's tuesday and that means trivia! i'm usually too tired to be of any use, but every now and then i can help out.



i still can't edit raw files, so i'm using my iphone. i have a (borrowed) laptop, it just needs a plug in which i haven't really had the time to sit down long enough to download! hopefully by the time it's my turn again...

i'm slowly getting back on my feet. feels like i'm crawling. i've been searching for the right word that describes what it's like to experience how one persons actions can seriously affect anothers life.
it's going to take me a long time to get back to normal. financially and emotionally.
i was robbed of expensive equipment, but i was also robbed of my personal safety.
i just don't feel safe anymore.

shenanigans

sunday shenanigans. i put corona in a travel mug and went adventuring. it's no subway cup, but it'll do.

Ps. I was robbed

so i have been trying to move and work full time, so my life has been insane. i've been taking my photos, but haven't been able to upload them.

well, now they will never be, because 2 weeks after moving in to my new apartment, we got robbed..

my laptop & camera were everything to me. i have come to terms with the materialistic loss. it's going to be about a $3000 hit, but it's all just stuff, right?
what disturbs me is the invasion and loss of everything on my laptop.
i literally feel like i have been personally violated.

i created a facebook note detailing the events & items stolen. i am going to paste it here, which is going to create an extremely long post. i'm really sorry...



I moved into my apartmen in the middle of April. 2 weeks later we got broken into.
Roommate 1 had her rent money stolen.
Roommate 2 had her laptop & webcam stolen. (she thinks it was a grey & black toshiba)
I had my laptop & camera stolen.

This theft happened on upper prince street around 1pm. They climbed in through a bedroom window that was open a crack.

My camera was brand new. I bought it around august. I don't even have it paid off. It was a canon T1i with a much older 18-55mm lens & a UV filter. This is odd because it's the kit lens from my old camera and all new cameras have the image stabalizing feature.
The strap (likely removed) has lots of awesome buttons.
My laptop is a 15 inch MacBook pro. The battery isnot an apple brand battery. The trackpad & keypad is well used. I had lots of stickers on the outside so there may be residue or scratch marks where they removed the sticker. It is also missing the front 2 feet on the bottom.

We've taken all of the required steps so far. Now it's just pray like fucking hell it shows up.

My life is on that laptop. I'm lost without my camera

meow

i moved today. it's a pretty sweet apartment. i'm really glad i found it.

...but this is the first night in awhile that i didn't go to bed with a purring kitty by my pillow.

when i moved to halifax i missed him, but not like this. i guess before, he was still youthful & active, but in the last 2 months he has really gone downhill. he lives in my room. he lost a LOT of weight. he doesn't play. his appetite went downhill. he doesn't even drool when i pet him...

now i know that his days are numbered, i can SEE it. i feel like i'm wasting them by leaving and my heart aches. we've been through a lot of homes together.
a lot of lives.

he's my itty bitty kitty. my old man cat.
i can bury my head in his side. nuzzle the top of his head. pet his belly. wrap my arm around him & fall asleep.
he'll never squirm away, he trusts me that much.

my kitty-less new room:

lunch time with moe

look up, look waaaay up...

saturday night i hopped in the car with martin & his girlfriend. we went to sackville, new brunswick to see daniel, fred & julie. it was a pretty great show. definitely worth the trip. sackville is a cute little town. delicious coffee! charlottetown could learn a few things.
i can't find a cup of coffee that i actually enjoy here.

today i went for a walk to get milk. possibly the quietest sunday in awhile.

uhoh

my kernels are panicking!



i was just thinking earlier today on my stroll home that this blog, so far, has sort of served the purpose i had in mind.
i'm looking at the world around me through a camera, not just at whatever band is playing on stage.

high five.

om nom nom

i've had this incredibly sore spot right on my spine. it doesn't always hurt, but often enough to be a concern. if you ran your finger slowly along my spine, it would make me gasp if you'd hit that one spot.
i asked my doctor about it years ago. i think he mumbled something about an x-ray, and not really knowing what was wrong, and it's probably because i need to make sure i stand up straight. or something. and advil. the word advil was in there.

now i work in a natural health store. there is a nurse who works there, too. she heard that i was having back problems and she told me to take magnesium (loosens the muscles!), then started poking at my spine.
she hit that sore spot and it was like someone was stabbing my vertebrae with a fucking needle. she held my right arm in one hand, and massaged that spot with her finger.

the pain is gone!

anyway. i went to the mall for lunch today. they make delicious wraps.

photos in booths

have you listened to olenka and the autumn lovers yet?
they are so lovely. i adore them. very strong german influences.
i saw them at a little cafe/shop/art gallery called & (ampersand). it was not the first time they played at this venue, and spoke so very highly of it. sadly, the venue is closed and hope with all of my heart that olenka will come back!
i urge you to have a listen:
myspace.com/olenkalovers
olenkalovers.com
olenka & the autumn lovers on cbc radio 3

oh hey there

i'm behind in posting. i have the photos taken, i just haven't been able to edit them. i'm hoping to have them uploaded by tomorrow or thursday.

mind the gap!

sleep tiems?

i don't have words to describe how physically tired i am.

Today was beautiful. I went for a walk downtown to meet friends, but ended up being too late.
So I turned around and met them at my friend josh's for a couple of drinks.
Later in the evening there was a knock at josh's door. J couldn't see who it was from where I was sitting, but was very confused when the very familiar voice wasn't coming in to say hi. Clearly he was someone we all knew.
Eventually he stepped within my line of sight.
He was my cousin Jim! Jim lives right under Josh! My cousin Amy was over visiting so I popped down for a visit. It's been awhile since I've seen either of them.
Jim & I used to be really close when we were kids. He was like my big brother, but without the sibling rivalry.
Well, usually without the rivalry. I guess there was the odd squabble..

Curlingspeil

Alex, Moe and I curled at the Charlottetown Curling Club's Funspeil today. I found it was hard to try to film peoples shots, or photograph them, while skipping! But, we won! And it was Moe's first time curling and she did really well!

smoothies yum!

i work at a smoothie bar! well, it's not just a smoothie bar. we sell natural food & supplements, too. it's a pretty sweet job. i'm not used to standing for so long, but i'll get used to it.

i'm still working on my ecma photos. i should have them done by the end of the weekend.