Karma

about a week ago, i found a cell phone in the street. well, it was on a windowledge of a shopfront. i stopped and looked around and couldnt see any obvious owner. i checked the screen to see the phone company, and took it a few blocks out of my way to the store. unfortunately it was closed, so i took it home with me. i called my phone and got the number, then called the phone company to report it 'found' and advise i would leave it at the store for the owner to pick up. the next day the owner called me up, but he only spoke french so someone else got on and i told them where i would leave it. everyone that i dealt with or told, like the guy at the phone store, seemed so surprised at my willingness to help, and go out of my way to do so.

i would hope someone would do the same for me.

now, over a week later, i just received a call from his daughter to say thank you again, and how it was such a nice thing. and hes very glad he didnt receive some enormous phone bill. apparently he was just visiting ottawa, hes in congress or something. so it would have been difficult for him to find it.

anyway, i was just thinking about the good things that have happened to me since i did that nice thing. not only have i started seeing matt, but yesterday i was offered (and accepted) a free ticket to the red hot chili peppers concert in montreal on thursday, all i need to do is help pay for gas. a friend at work, amy, had an extra ticket and no one to go with.

go karma!

Cuddles and Conversations

well, i had thought we had plans to hang out yesterday when he finished school (he had 'celts in the iron age' -fun) . but i finally called him at 8.30 and he was on his way back from taking a friend home who lived way out of town. he called me back later though and we talked for over an hour. he said he would call me before he went to work in the morning. somehow that changed to knock on my door...

anyway, sure enough he shows up at 7.45 this morning, and climbs into bed with me. he just slept for an hour before he had to go to work. how cute is that????

oh, and i am getting sick. my throat is on fire. just horrible. loads of girls at work are sick. goddammit. matt said he would come round and look after me though. except its his mums birthday today and then his sisters and stuff, hes all busy this week. oh well, probably a good thing.

The Magic Bullet

now here is a funny story.

the night before matt and i went our on our date i got in a little trouble with tylers girlfriend victoria. i had put tuna in her new blender (the magic bullet) and she was concerned it was now going to smell.

shortly after this little altercation, i was talking to matt on the phone and i mentioned that my housemates girlfriend was upset with me for using her magic bullet.

now apparently there are 2 kinds of magic bullets. the household variety that i was referring to, and a more personal variety that matt instantly thought of.

needless to say, some confusion ensued. i kept saying that i thought she wouldnt mind if i used it -i always cleaned it afterward. at the point where matt realised i was talking about a blender, i pointed out it was lucky i hadnt got so far as to say i made her magic bullet smell like tuna.

The Boy Next Door

wow. really dont want to rave too much, but i had a great night. everything was just super. matt is absolutely adorable. so far so good.

i think it was a sign when we were at dinner and he out of the blue told me that he thought burping was completely acceptable behaviour. i went speechless, and he thought i was disgusted. i had to explain that i burp -a lot, and i usually dont say excuse me. it was as if he had been stalking me or something. he even thought it was adorable when i was eating and he made me laugh and i kind of spat food everywhere.

and he is just cool. you know, extreme sports, plays drums blah blah. though the living with his parents i guess is not so cool. oh well. he can fly an aeroplane, thats pretty cool.

mmmmmmm

Big Catch Up

gosh i dont even know where to start. the internet has been broken here for the past few days. i want to tell the most exciting news first, but then we wouldnt be in chronological order....

so i still havent heard from joey after we got things 'out in the open'. i did send him an sms like a week later, saying it was lesleys birthday and did he want to come out. he just said he had been on a bender of late so wouldnt. i have tried calling him once since then, but he didnt answer. so its almost 2 weeks, and its a pity cos i would really like to tell him about the guy that i am about to start seeing....

the cute as a button boy that works next door to me at peccos bike shop. his name is matt, and i have had my eye on him from the moment i saw him. he is so dreamy-its the only word that accurately describes him.

it was my second day at work and he came in and was chatting away to the bar staff, so i assumed he worked there. i thought he was so gorgeous, so i just went up and introduced myself. turns out he works next door, so i feel a bit of an idiot. but anyways, he came in another time and we chatted 'australian' he said: 'how ya going?' and that made my day. then i didnt see him for the longest time. i kept cruising past the window of the bike shop but he was never in.

on sunday, i had a couple of beers after work, and then went to go inside to the 'washroom' and there he was. sitting at this huge table of people in one of our bars. i freaked out. so my new friend at work, nicole, said she would get me an opening. and she did. as we were leaving, she calls out, 'bye guys' so that he would look around, and then i got in there with a bit of 'hey, its matt right? hows it going, what are you up to...'etc.
wednesday, i was hung over like a dog and it was quiet and raining and i really wanted to get cut from work, but i lost the draw, and thank god i did, cos in comes matt. all apologetic about not being able to invite me out on the sunday, it was a staff do. he ordered lunch off me and then proceeded to flirt his ASS off with me. i have never had any (welcome) advances that strong before it was kinda freaky. i couldnt function properly. i mentioned to him that my housemate has some extra bikes but each of them are broken in some way, but if i get one fixed i can use it, so he offered to come round and check them out.... etc. so after work i went into his store, and we flirted more and he gave me his number, and said 'yeah, so call me -soon'.

i didnt even get the chance, cos he was in at work when i finished yesterday. (i later found out he wasnt even working and he just came in looking for me!) we sat and flirted way more, and arranged to go out for dinner on saturday night. i gave him my number, but said lets just meet here, when we both finish on saturday. but you have my number in case you need to call. he said he probably would call, but that he would leave me alone tonight (last night). i was so ecstatic.

so then i went on my little girls night out with workmates (mel and amy), we went round to mels house. cooked yummy yummy toast with brie and pear, and then pasta, and then strawberry and rhubarb pie (i didnt have any though). drank and gossipped and talked, and had a jolly old time. im so glad i am making new friends at work. nicole is the best, she just started last week and we totally hit it off. we have been out together a couple of times, with her sister too. loads of fun. they are both very high energy, like hyper hyperactive, so great to be around.

i havent seen much of janaki lately. i work, she works. in fact havent even spoken to her since sunday night, we used to talk everyday. oh well, branching out i guess.

wow, i hope he calls me today. i might call him even. i think we are both being very impatient about getting this off the ground.

in other news: i got new lenses in my glasses -thank god. i can see again, its great.

off to have brekky.

p.s. i just ate a fortune cookie that said: "keep an eye out for someone special" ha ha ha

will try to post a photo soon. he is so pretty!!

p.p.s. he is going to be a helicopter pilot!

The Pouch Cotatoes

i went out with my new friend nicole and her sister on tuesday night. we went to the leiutenants pump on elgin st, where we ran into her sisters friend on a date with a 40 year old stunt man. he was gross. and they made out all night. it was gross.

but we met the pouch cotatoes. they were awesome. a barbers shop quintet. they sang us all sorts of wonderful songs like brown eyed girl and all my lovin, every little thing she does and even i wanna be sedated. they wouldnt take money. they werent busking it was just their idea of a fun way to practice. they kept asking me to join their group. ha ha. it was fun.

a great night was had by all, but i was very sick the next day......

Fall

well, its the first week of september and fall is here. all the new fashions and back to school sales and promotions. though i am left wondering why a back to school promotion involves cell phones and mp3 players....

there are loads of maple trees around the place, but they are all still green -except for this lonely little one by my apartment block, and i just thought i'd show it off.

Fucked it up

no patience