beadacious

beadacious @ 2009-12-16T16:46:00

2009-12-16T20:46:18Z

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Experiences I would Rather have skipped:

2009-12-15T13:16:07Z

I can now add a new one to that list- getting hit by a car. I'm fine, he didn't even knock me down, but I really would have preferred not being hit. As far as it goes, it was a good experience- I have a good clear witness, the guy stayed on the scene and called 911. The RCMP and the paramedics were great to me, I have no wounds, just stiff muscles. But really, I'm gonna say that all things being equal, I would have rather got across the street without incident and hopped on my bus and gone home without all the flashing lights, fuss and bother.

beadacious @ 2009-12-13T15:42:00

2009-12-13T19:42:06Z

It's been forever since I got on lj. I keep running out of time/steam. I have to stop playing Zuma if I'm going to get anything written.

Bathroom is done and gorgeous! Photos are on my facebook. I hung pictures today and a little fiddly stuff, but it's been done for weeks. The only thing that sucks is that the new pipes are smaller than the old ones and our shower isn't nearly as hot as it used to be (we have hot water steam heat in our building, which means you could opt for a shower just shy of boiling). But tepid is fine. I guess. I'll get used to it.

Today and last night was baking time! Shortbread cookies, tart shells, hot & spicy and sweet & spicy nuts have been made. The tart shells will be filled with ginger marmalade and dark chocolate. I still need to make gingerbread/ ginger snaps, some form of molasses and ginger based confection. I am also thinking of fudge and coffee candies. I need more hours.

My sister is back from Japan on Saturday, I am so excited, I just can't wait to see her. I will have to wait, though. I just won't like it. She's coming back via Hawaii with her best friend, so she'll be lightly tanned and relaxed and giddy.

beadacious @ 2009-11-15T10:44:00

2009-11-15T14:44:29Z

So minor flood during renovation Friday; the building manager sent around a note Thursday that said the building water would be turned off between 1-3 to allow our contractors to install the shutoff valves in our bathroom. The person upstairs either didn't read this memo, or just forgot and tried to turn on the water in his unit, which caused the system to de-pressurize all over our crew and the people in the unit underneath us. Not a lot of water, but enough. When our contractor went down to explain to her why her bathroom was wet and explain that it wasn't our fault, she freaked on him. Great.

Need to find a shower tonight. I don't think a sponge bath will cut it for that professional look Monday morning.

beadacious @ 2009-11-12T18:24:00

2009-11-12T22:24:49Z

Reno has begun! No mould has been found. Or insulation. Sigh.So Insulating is definitely a go (we though it would be) Three layers of paint in the wall and three floors.

Poor Bartleby. He had a rough day. Trapped in a room all day with weird and scary noises coming from outside.

beadacious @ 2009-11-01T12:12:00

2009-11-01T16:26:37Z

Not long after I got home from the market, I get a call from my mom, who has the sniffles, and thus doesn't feel up to driving into Hali with my stepfather (also sniffly) to see the play they ordered tickets to. So, free Neptune show! I called my new Emily and she was free, so away we went to check out No Great Mischief, based on the Alistair MacLeod book of the same name. It was a wonderful show.

We ducked into the ladies room after curtain call and I changed quickly into my pirate costume and Emily slipped into her costume and we caught the last two songs of Dub Sabbath's set at Tribeca (Black Sabbath songs in dub reggae style,it actually works really well) There were some great costumes there, especially the staff. Heidi dressed as Binford Tool's Toolgirl Heidi, with a tiny tank top and short shorts and a tool belt. Kathy was a 70's disco diva with a wicked white afro wig, Dawn was a sailor and Fraser went as Tom Cruise from Risky Business. There were a number of hot cops, lots of zombies and pirates, tons of wings for assorted fairies, angels, devils and just weird things. There was a group of guys wearing pink wings, pj's and robes, we still haven't figured out what they were. Togas were around, lots of classic Star Trek uniforms (more than I would have thought) bees were popular as well. My favorite that I saw myself was Genie from Aladdin, with a fez and vest and around his waist was the lamp. I saw a photo from another party where a guy was wrapped in blue material with garbage and unidentifiable stuff on him, he was Halifax Harbour. Mario was really popular, in all of the forms, we saw Mario's with carts, from Nintendo era, from possibly Atari era, at least 4 or 5 different ones. It was a lot of fun.

beadacious @ 2009-11-01T10:01:00

2009-11-01T14:19:48Z

What a busy week. Work, as usual, until Thursday. That day I picked up a rental car in the morning (incidentally, if you go north on Kempt road and turn left, you can't get on the bridge. Live and learn), worked all morning and headed off to Moncton at 1:30, with a quick detour to Truro to pick up two women from the branch there who were also attending Intact Broker Days (atlantic region). Drove up with no incidents, even paid the toll on the Cobequid pass without dropping coins or running into one of the booths (it happened this summer). Hmm, odd, my computer doesn't like the name Moncton, but has no problem with Cobequid. Weird.

So there was a cocktail party that night, once we were all settled into the hotel ( I had a huge room all to myself, it was awesome) and they handed out feather boas; mine was red. Snacks of fresh prime rib, make-it-yourself sandwiches with any trimming you could want was great for me, with music and dancing as well as tons of mingling. I met people from MCT offices in New Brunswick and other parts of NS, as well as some people from Intact and other brokerages. So many women in insurance, it was about 70% female. One young guy was grinning the entire time, if he had wanted to pick up, I'm sure he could have. The seminars the next day were good and we had Candy Palmeter as a motivational speaker, she was great; funny, quick and just right on top of things.

The drive back was uneventful, and I was even home by 7pm, wicked. I drove G down to work, watched some TV, went to bed late. Drove G to work again, went to the market nice and early, found out that Fox Hill was down a body so promised to return after I'd dropped off the rental. Came back, raided the Tickle Trunk and was clocked in there at 9. Guess what the second worst costume to wear the the farmer's market is, after overalls? Hippie. I wore this funky bakik shirt that I stole from my stepfather years ago, tie died bandanna and fake hair down to my waist and half the people didn't even know I was in costume. Sigh.

beadacious @ 2009-10-07T20:00:00

2009-10-07T23:03:46Z

G has a double who lives near my work. He is younger and his messenger bag is lower slung, but height, hair, clothes and build make him almost a dead ringer. It throws me off every time I see him go by.

beadacious @ 2009-10-04T11:57:00

2009-10-04T15:20:16Z

Busy week, no time to post. Well, I'm sure I could have found time, but I didn't. Have I mentioned lazy? Yeah, I'm lazy.

I had a great weekend at Deep Roots, I stayed with my sister, B-i-l and adorable nephew. I'm his favorite aunt right now, I brought him wooden blocks. He built castles all weekend (and probably after as well, I'm just not around to see it). The two late night shows I worked were great shows and they should have been sell outs, the MacKeen room only holds 300 people. Garrett Mason is just an incredibly skilled performer with a great backing band, and those who showed up loved his sets. Andru Branch and Halfway Tree are a great reggae band, they again were not full, but those who showed up really enjoyed the show, lots of dancers.

The Sunday show has a lot of clips on youtube already (check out BasaPete, Deep Roots 2009 for the videos) I love making it to that show because you tend to get people popping in to help out on various songs. Coco actually brought out everyone who was left backstage to help out on Joyful. Nothing quite like having a choir at your beck and call.

The nice thing I noticed this year was the number of people coming from the city to see shows, especially the Saturday afternoon shows. Our overall numbers were way up over previous years, so word is getting out about this festival. I hope they can keep it up, I know Mom was feeling a lot put upon this year, and she does do a lot of work for the office, organizing things for all the fiddly details. And she had house guests this year, so she didn't get to see much stuff at all.

beadacious @ 2009-09-25T09:29:00

2009-09-25T12:32:52Z

Nothing was broken and the bug has been slain. Bartleby is king.

Handmade Nation was great, though the camera was occasionally too bumpy for me (I like to focus, I'm crazy that way). I am so glad I was able to go, especially for free (happy dance). I got some nice ideas for hobbies to pick up (Cause everyone knows, I don't have enough of those)

I want to start something like Spins and Needles here in Hali. I wonder if I have any connections with bars in Halifax...

beadacious @ 2009-09-24T19:00:00

2009-09-24T22:02:00Z

The cat is in seventh heaven, there is a bug in the house. Yay, something to hunt! I'm hoping nothing gets broken.

beadacious @ 2009-09-23T21:13:00

2009-09-24T00:23:34Z

I have been so sadly neglecting my lj. So busy with the work, and the facebook and the new Zuma. And Bartleby, always Bartleby. (gives scritches) This weekend will be busy, I am heading up to the Valley for Deep Roots, and tomorrow I'm going to see Handmade Nation at the Film Festival. Should be fun. I get to stay with my nephew (and sister and brother in law) and see my friend Sam, and go to Stirlings, and see my mom and buy books and all kinds of good stuff.

beadacious @ 2009-09-13T18:51:00

2009-09-13T21:56:24Z

Our roommate is moving back to the valley, which is too bad, he was almost never here and gave us money for the priveledge. Alas.

In other news, the cold is still filling me with guck. I did have a pot of Breathe Right tea, and that helped. I was able to get a lot of beadwork done , I fixed a few pieces, made 8 new pieces and cleaned out some junk that I won't use.

beadacious @ 2009-09-08T20:00:00

2009-09-08T23:09:04Z

Dub Sabbath was awesome, they are really having fun with this whole side gig. They even went out and bought robes to perform in, but J Lar was hilarious in his; as he is something like 6' 20" his robe barely covered his shins. They had props, really played to the audience. The openers were both good too.

I invited a bunch of people to come along, the only ones I know who showed up were Jen and her roommate/ex. I really hadn't spent much time with Jen before, just at a wedding or two, but I knew that when she worked with G, he thought she was pretty cool. They both loved the show, and it was nice to hang out with her (I just wish I could remember her roommate's name, eep)

And my two late nights are catching up with me. I think I have a sinus cold. Sucks. And fruit flies have taken over my beer. Sucks. And my cat is ignoring me. Sucks. I'm going to bed early.

beadacious @ 2009-09-06T17:26:00

2009-09-06T20:31:01Z

Ah, another wonderful long weekend. I have nothing planned for tomorrow at all, other than sleeping in. Tonight I want to see the Dub Sabbath show; a band that does Black Sabbath covers in dub reggae style. Should be awesome, with awesome sauce on the side.

I cleaned the storage room this week, amazing how much easier to move in there it is when the crap is in boxes. But if G really wants to buy a small chest freezer and put it in there, we need a proper plug. Maybe now that I can move in there, I'll make some new sparklies. I haven't played with my beads in forever.

beadacious @ 2009-09-02T20:31:00

2009-09-02T23:50:50Z

I took this morning off from work and put the deposit down on the tile. Eeep. Very happy that the bathroom is small. But it will look fantastic. Especially if we get a contractor. Sigh.

Seeing as the tile part didn't take as long as I thought, I was able to have a nice picnic in the park by the river. I read a big chunk of World War Z, which is great. It's the oral history of the Zombie Wars, by the same guy who wrote the Zombie Survival Guide. He does a good job getting into different voices for the different characters.

beadacious @ 2009-08-26T21:58:00

2009-08-27T00:59:51Z

Robot Chicken Star Wars 2 followed by the end of Episode Three means you are constantly expecting the jokes to start flying.

beadacious @ 2009-08-23T17:18:00

2009-08-23T20:25:31Z

WInd is still strong,but the worst of Bill seems to be over. The building next door has lost a lot of siding, and it honestly didn't have much to lose. But I still drank my dark and stormy's. According to NS Power website, we were out of power for ages today which I hadn't noticed so much. Funny, you'd think I would notice something like that.

beadacious @ 2009-08-23T10:56:00

2009-08-23T13:59:44Z

The wind and rain has begun, hopefully this is it, the equivalent of Bill honking his horn as he whizzes by, but just in case I filled three growlers with water, filled the bathtub (for flushing purposes) and made sure I have lots of stuff that can be eaten without cooking. I just made coffee for G which I will put in a Thermos for when he wakes up. Which will be quite some time from now. But if when he wakes up, the power is out and he wants coffee, there it is.

beadacious @ 2009-08-21T20:22:00

2009-08-21T23:26:56Z

I saw an ad for the Nissan Cube which billed it as a "mobile device". When I think of mobile devices, I think MP3 players, cell phones. Technically I suppose it's correct...

beadacious @ 2009-08-20T20:21:00

2009-08-20T23:41:30Z

Moment of hope for my co-workers today- I walked into the kitchen and one of the guys had his French press set up. Then dashed when I found out he puts Tim Hortons coffee in it. Sigh.

The insanity of July and early August is over and I'm back to trying to find enough stuff to fill the day.

I really hope Hurricane Bill doesn't hit very hard, as the Incr-Edible Picnic is on Sunday. Not much fun picnicing in high winds and driving rain.

beadacious @ 2009-08-16T15:59:00

2009-08-16T19:09:28Z

Beach! Yay, beach! Just got back from showing my new friend Emily how to get to Crystal Crescent (we just went as far the second beach, don't get worked up) We sat and relaxed with her dog Andy and did some wading, I wasn't in the mood for full on swimming. Andy made some friends and splashed quite a bit. Good fun.

And now back to the warm apartment. So warm. Alas. Once Scott gets up, I can open his door for the cross ventilation. Until then, melty.

beadacious @ 2009-08-11T21:13:00

2009-08-12T00:29:11Z

Another busy weekend- I had a quick nap Friday evening, then off to see the first of the 4 bands playing at the Paragon for the Hootenany. I couldn't stay late as I was working the market the next day, but I made time to finally see Dawn, Heidi and Kathy play together. They play classic country songs like Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Hank Williams. They play under the name Skank Williams and they're great. In addition to an amazing Jolene and fantastic Folsom Prison Blues, they did a few originals, including "Drinking triples, seeing double and feelin' single tonight". Great fun.

Saturday was Beer Fest and it was packed. They ran out of the official cups by 8pm and had to raid Garrison for their stock of small sample cups. There was an advantage to having so many people: it was so hard to get through to the beer, you didn't get as loaded as quickly. I really liked an orange beer from Ontario that I tried and there was an amazing stout from Quebec that was like dessert with it's chocolate and vanilla flavours. There were quite a few other good ones, but I don't feel like getting my booklet out to remember them.

Sunday was basketball! I didn't play, I got tickets to see 94 Inc take on the Rainmen, so I treated Jena to her first skybox experience. Not that we had keys to the liquor or anything, but we did had drinks brought to us, which was nice. The game itself was ok, it took a little while to get the hang of scoring as it was a street style game, so no foul shots; instead the fouled team got a point. There wasn't as much fancy shooting and ball play that I thought a street game might have, but they did work well together on a fews neat moves.

beadacious @ 2009-08-07T18:52:00

2009-08-07T21:53:50Z

I have a boil in an uncomfortable spot. It is starting to affect my mood. I will definitely impede my dancing.

beadacious @ 2009-08-06T20:47:00

2009-08-07T00:02:05Z

I survived the meltyness of the weekend, hoo-rah. I did absolutely nothing with my spare day, just read my book and melted a little more. I wonder if I've lost any weight from this?

OK, my little mini rant. People don't know how to walk on a street with no sidewalks. You walk single file, facing oncoming traffic, and move over as far as you can when a vehicle is approaching. Yes, you are a pedestrian, and the cars do have to watch out for you, but forcing them out into the other lane so they can give you space is dangerous and slowing or stopping traffic is just rude. Don't get me wrong, I get pretty annoyed when vehicles ignore me when I'm trying to do something perfectly legal like cross a street, but I also try to stay out of their way. Oh, and if there is only a sidewalk on one side of the street, use it even if it's the "wrong side" of the street, especially on oh, say a narrow busy bridge. Stupid woman almost got flattened by a honey wagon on the lower Little Sackville River bridge.