Merry Merry

Booze, food, karaoke, fireworks, "sleigh" rides, and a near death experience....... Yep, sounds like a typical Christmas to me..

An Ok Christmas this year I do suppose.
I am looking forward to getting back to Halifax and just... being busy again. All this sleeping and sitting around doesn't really agree with me. I went to bed at 10:30 last night because there was nothing to do.... Oh yeah, and I was hung over and hell from the night before....

No real surprises under the tree this year.. digital camera was the big one. Now I can take lots and lots of pictures... some art supplies, some music, some monitary bling, lime green towels... Nothing too crazy... Oh yeah, and a fish named Gillda.

Hmm... New Years plans are non-existant as I have to work coatcheck at the Warehouse. but don't anybody tell your friends because if its dead and stupid I get to leave early and hopefully find somebody sober and coherent enough to answer their cell phone and alert me as to their whereabouts. And then I get to celebrate too!!!!
I'm not that hyped for new Years this year, mostly because i resigned myself to the fact that I would have to be working like 3 months ago and so I just kind of let the disapointment happen little by little.

And now I think I will do one of those obnoxious livejoural year in review things....

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
I went to the Palace.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
My new years resolution was to eat more bacon. Which I did, for like a month. But then I realized that I really only liked the smell of bacon, and so I stopped eating it again, as well as all other meat products except for those that swim in the ocean. As for making some for this year? I think I need to have fun, take things less seriously and remember how to just chill the fuck out again.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Well no, not that I know of atleast.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nay

5. What countries did you visit?
Just good Ol' Canada.

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
A serious relationship

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 30, because it was the saddest day ever because I left Ottawa to move back to Nova Scotia.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Doing as well in school as I did last year while working 30-40 hours a week

9. What was your biggest failure?
Finding successful employment (but it eventually all worked out)

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing that couldn't be directly blamed on too much alkiehol

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A plane ticket to Ottawa

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Ohh.... Good question? Nobody jumps to mind, but I guess in general anybody and everybody who took a risk and went for it. I admire that kind of behaviour.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
A few people. One knows who they are I'm pretty sure, the other does deep down I think, but perhaps refuses to admit that they're done wrong. I'll let you sort that out for yourselves... If you feel you have a guilty conscious then look into it. But seriously, no worries.

14. Where did most of your money go?
My Hair. And Booze I suppose, atleast from January-April

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going to TO, Going to Ottawa, Joel Plaskett concert(s)

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Love This Town- Joel Plaskett

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:i. happier or sadder? . ii. thinner or fatter? .iii. richer or poorer?
indifferent, thinner and richer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Kept the level of fun at a steadier rate rather than spuraddic bursts

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying and second guessing myself.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Well, I spent it at home, and in Halifax, working... The usual... It was better than last year though

The person I stole this from deleted #21 I guess and I can't be assed to renumber the rest.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
No

23. How many one-night stands?
None

24. What was your favorite TV program?
The OC

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No, The list is holding steady

26. What was the best book you read?
For school- Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, for personal- I don't remember the last book I read for fun... Eeep..

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Doves

28. What did you want and get?
A cool job

29. What did you want and not get?
The best of both worlds

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Sin City was pretty good, But I'd have to say Ice Princess took the prize......... jokes.... I really don't know

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
20 and On my actualy birthday I ate ice-cream and fries for lunch, went shopping with some of my favourite people, pizza and beer for dinner and then capped it off with seeing a truly lame movie, followed but an awesome surprise birthday party the next night with a whole bunch of cool folks. Pretty much the best birthday ever.

32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Again, having the best of both worlds, or atleast somebody else to make my decisions for me

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Man I have no idea.. if you know help me out..One of a kind I guess.

34. What kept you sane?
Music, those around me

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Joel Plaskett

36. What political issue stirred you the most
The election in Canada

37. Who did you miss?
My friends and people from home when I was in Ottawa, and my friends and people in Ottawa when I am home.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Those crazy characters from work, Kev and Zach were pretty cool people to meet too

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
You can't have everything and its important sometimes to just take what you have and be happy

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Pretty much the entire song Waiting to be Discovered by Joel Plaskett.. It sums up how I feel about everything and my life especially.

Phew... time to go det drunk again...

Post Bar Conversations in Halifax, Part 1

Random guy: "Hey, how are you doing? Where are you from??"
Ashlee: "Lunenburg..."
Random guy: "THEY BUILD BOATS THERE!!!!!!!
Ashlee: "Yep, they sure do..."
Random guy: "Ok, well I gotta take off, but you keep on building those boats, bro"

4am, Wednesday December 14 (actually Thursday the 15th...)- Outside of Cheers.

Top 3 Simple Pleasures:

• Sleeping in and now waking up to an alarm
• Going for a drive (either as the passanger or the driver)
• Good friends, good company and good conversation

Hmm

2 exams of 4 are written, 2 more to go this week. I have taken a slightly laid back approach to the whole exam thing this year (well... nothing new really) I dunno... I know I won't fail anything, it's really just a matter of reviewing and getting some specifics down... Frankly, I just want this semester behind me. 3 History, no Fridays, no class until 1:30 on Mondays for next semester seems hella tight right now.

Work is what it always is- rediculous. 5+ days a week, 40+ hours... the usual..


It snowed. A lot. And then it rained. A lot.

It's funny the difference between here and Ottawa. The city pretty much shut down for about 10cm of snow. It was impossible to get a cab, the busses were all messed up, power outages, the sidewalks and streets STILL aren't all clear. I took Ottawa for granted in that respect. Nobody blinks there when it snows...
I just can't wait for snow days really.... Snow days... in university.... beautiful

Except my dad won't be awake listening to the radio to tell me to go back to bed this time... as it was in grade school.

And now because I just ran out of steam.......
LOOK AT MY PUPPY!!!!!!!

I lost a friend here in this past year miss his guitar playing in my ear

Thsi is the time of year when my motivation disappears. The time when in 2 days it will all be over with. The time when I am so mentally and physically exhausted that I can't even describe it.
2 papers and a revision of one more is all that stands between me and a day off.

This is pretty much the first year that I think I have actually earned an xmas break.

My parents are bringing my puppy in tomorrow for a visit!
Except, I had a dream last night that she was really ugly, and I couldn't understand why. She had like stubby legs and was super fat and just an ugly puppy in general.

On the subject of dreams, I had one the other night in which somebody (not sure who) told me to "drive fast to the movies". I have no idea.

There was a cross dresser at the function I worked last night. I'm not sure that I have actually ever seen a real-life cross dresser. Although, there's that "lady" in Ottawa who hangs out between downtown and like my old neighbourhood... she wears a lot of purple outfits? Like... head to toe in purple and she has bleached blonde hair that's always done up.... always has the little cart of stuff with her?? Yeah.. anyway... I was always skeptical of her...
But anyway, the point of the story, is that this was a total ful-out real cross dresser.

A band that I really have been liking lately is Fountains of Wayne. That "hey Julie" song they had ruined them for me because I really dislike that song, but their other stuff is pretty good. It's really mellow, I like "Valley Winter Song" for some reason..

Been thinking a lot about next year lately. It is starting to register with me that I only have 1 year left in school and then it's not all fun and games anymore. (was it ever really though?) And like.. I need to decided in less than a year whether or not I want to take a year off or go to grad school... Umm... I don't even really know what grad school is...
I mean... I know, but I am not aware of all that is potentially out there. I don't want to spend more time and money on something and then realize it's still useless, or worse I hate it.
I also am planning a trip.
I am supposed to go to Tennessee and various other parts of the states this summer for Bonaroo, but I feel skeptical about it for some reason. There are a lot of logistic problems...
Anyway, as a result, I have decided that if that doesn't happen, I am going on my own roadtrip. Not necessarily alone, but if nobody else wants to accompany me, then I will be in the exclusive company of me, myself and I.
I have the money saved for either trip and I have more than a strong urge to go. I know I can get the time off from work, so really there is nothing at all stopping me.
I will take my camera and lots of film and just.... drive... and see where I end up.. ultimately, I'd like to make it to BC, and maybe fly home? or maybe not...
The ultimate roadtrip would be to drive to BC and then go down the Pacific Coast of the states, and then across te states and back up the Eastern Seaboard and back to Nova Scotia.
If I won the lottery, that is the trip that I would take first I do believe.... and I'd do it in some kind of sexy convertable...

Bah... I offically have an hour and a half to make lunch, dry my hair and write 500 more words on a paper.







It's not going to happen.