All the Pretty Faces

So, I'm not dead... I am still alive, just to throw that out there.

It's August 26............

What the fuck! Where did summer go.
I can remember sitting here when i first moved in when it was cold and raining and counting the days until school started and I could finally go out and do something and know people in the city again.

Well, now I don't want that to happen.

I know people now. It's warm. I finally have a job that I like. And I just don't wanna damnit.

I'm even delaying the inevitable by missing my first day of school to stay in Ottawa.
I thought being there would be more important than going to school for like 20min to get my syllabus....

And I am so freaking excited to go that it is kind of rediculous. I am like a little kid counting down the days until Christmas morning or something, only replace Xmas with Ottawa...... right

On the down side, there has been a dire shortage of Mel time lately.
Last night was supposed to be the first night that I would be home longer than just to sleep in weeks, but then the dryer decided that it wasn't going to work so I ended up trekking my wet clothes across town to use somebody else's dryer.
And when I got home I was tired and pissed off and just ended up going to bed anyway.

So to compensate, I went shopping today with my mom and bought make-up. I do feel better... I really do. Small things my friends, small things..

Saturday night I am going to Shakespeare By the Sea's production of the Merchant of Venice. I am sooo excited. Firstly, it's shakespeare, outside, in point pleasant park! And second, MOV is a wicked play and I will actually know what it going on instead of sitting there half confused as was the case with The Tempest last year....

Yay culture!

So to sum up, August has totally made up for some of the shittiness that was the rest of the summer.... Not to say that the whole summer was shitty all the time, it was just... not as cool as August.
The End.

PS. OTTAWA IN 9 DAYS, 18 HOURS AND 10MIN
AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally something to write about!!!!!!

Yes! It's true!
I actually have something worthy of writing about. It is truly a big day for me........

Woo!
Ok, first of all, I got a new job! Well, 2 actually... but I'm only going to work at one of them. I quit Perks today!!!!! It was effing awesome. Such a good feeling to be like, eff you.
I have to work tonight and then tomorrow, but then I am done. I start my new job Thursday for training and then I work the weekend.
I'm a banquet server at a pretty posh hotel that is only a 15min walk away. It seems like a pretty good company to work for and there is a lot of potential to move up and do other stuff like waitressing in the pub thats there and what not.
The important part is that it is NOT PERKS. And believe me, that is super key.

The other job I was offered was at a restaurant in the casino hotel. I would be waitressing/hostessing/bartending, but it would be casual work, thus no guarantee of hours and no obligation to give me hours, so it seemed kind of risky I guess? More up in the air and I don't really do well with up in the air when it makes the difference between me getting a paycheque to buy groceries or not...

So that pretty much capped what was quite possibly the best damn weekend that I have had in ages.

Friday was pretty slow, but nice. I got to sleep in and stuff which was pretty cool.
Saturday was a blast.. thats the only way to put it.. I worked during the day (not such a blast) but then Sat. night me, joce, and 2 other ladies headed out to the fireworks. Of course, not before drinking before at the appartment. The fireworks were really good, we made all kinds of stupid funny comments and the people immediately around us had a good time listening to us and joining in. Afterwards, we headed over to the beer tent.
It is at this point that things get messy.
We drank, we enjoyed, we sang, we danced... good times had by all
At this point, since we are already twisted drunk, we decide that going to a pub where there were $2 drinks would be the best course of action. So off we go.
But first, we made a detour at the 24 hour Perks downtown to hit up the bathroom facilities.
The place is of course a mess, so there is no toilet paper and one of the seats is broken, so there are 4 or 5 of us in total in there (me and joce, and then these 3 other girls who were together). So anyway, we're waiting our turn and this girl was drying her hands right beside Joce, so her being chatty and drunk to boot, compliments her on her very pretty ring. The girl replies "Aw, thanks! It's my engagement ring!" So of course, the next obvious question is, "When are you getting married", said Jocelyn. To which the girl replied in this still-happy-too-drunk-to-care voice, "Oh, he died in March!"
!!!!
Oh shit!
So here me and Joce are, trying our hardest not to burst out laughing and we're both like.... "oh wow... I'm really sorry....."
Holy shades of the girl in the bathroom at the Rideau Centre!!!!!!!!!!!! (for those of you who don't know, me and kat were hammed in the bathroom at the Rideua centre in Ottawa one night and started talking to this girl who was like, maybe 15 and about 90 pounds soaking wet.. and we were talking and kat said something about going out, and she was like "Yeah, it's my first night out since the baby! See ya later girls!" leaving us to laugh hysterically and be confused in general..)
Um so, lesson learned here is that its better to just not talk to strange people while intoxicated in public bathrooms.....

So then we went to Peddler's Pub eventually.. after making some detours to direct confused tourists and do a rocking version of drop it like its hot in the CIBC bank on Barrington street.. Snnnoooooooooop!
Peddler's is packed, and there are several dozen rugby players there.....There are far too many good looking guys who go out with their ugly and nasty best friends. Somebody should look into this.. I mean come on.

Anyway, we finally made it home.. crashed in bed around 3.
Sunday was also another wonderful day. Had an interview and then went and spend the day with Joce, Bex and eventually Allison. We walked around, we lunched, we ate homemade gelato, we made fun of people in the street in the sunshine. It was beautiful.
Monday I went on a road trip with my parents which was actually super fun. We went to a museum and it was really cool and we had this super hot guide who kept like following us around explaining things to us. History, Museums and Hot Boys are some of my favourite things...... and then imagine them.. ALL TOGETHER! So much awesome... Then we went to more fireworks which were good but slightly missing due to the fog. And then MORE BEER! but altogether a much more tame night than Saturday.
I wish it was natal day long weekend every weekend... Thanks Halifax for being founded and then spurring such a wonderful weekend..

The end.