Pics from last night...

I had a headache this morning, it is mostly gone.

The party was good, not great, but good.

These are from beforehand, when we were getting our friend Sanjay all dressied up as Elizabeth I, he definately was the show-stopper.






Then, we decided to walk the 4 blocks downtown instead of cab-ing it, and it was awesome, we got SO many looks, especially Sanjay. It was really cool, he felt like the center of the universe, the Queen that he is, haha !



Cody, er, ravaging the foods of plenty !!




I think this one needs to be on a book cover or something, Jamie has a GREAT couch:



And these are the others that were there:

Girl Guide cookies anyone ?



Sun-bathed Ken and drag-queen-Barbie:



Pirate and scary Police Officer (she had a club... things happened):



TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (missing one):

Partae !

We are off to our Halloween party tonight.

Weee ! Our friend Sanjay from Vancouver is wearing this gorgeous dress that Cody made and going as Elizabeth I, Cody is going as the Count of Monte Christo (I also think he looks like Casanova) with a long brown/black haired curly wig... and I am going as an English Prince, with a blonde bob-like wig and these awesome lace-up boots.

It will be fabulous, pics to come. This is the first time EVER that I have dressed up this much for Halloween, and we are totally going ALL out.

:D

Long Black Hair

Tonight I found a long black hair on the bathroom floor.

There can only be three explanations to this:

A. Cody is having an affair with a man named Eduardo from Spain (or perhaps Argentina), with long, flowing locks of black hair, and while he was vainly brushing it (with MY comb !!) it fell on the floor for me to later discover.

B. My appartment has recently been broken into, without me realizing it. It must have happened when the locks were recently changed. The locksmith was a man in his late 50's, and must have some perversion towards cutting copies of people's keys and giving them to his long-haired wife. She, in turn (because likeness attracts) has a perversion towards having long-warm bathes in other people's places. She takes these keys, draws herself a bath, bathes, and then while also combing her hair (with MY comb!!!) she lost a hair on the bathroom my floor. She probably watched it gently fly through the air, to land on my once-clean bathroom tile, which she then left there as a sick joke, cause she figured it would form a mystery that would haunt me forever. WELL GUESS WHAT, I'M ON TO YOU !!!

C. The other option is that its Cody's mom's hair. She came and stayed with us about 3 weeks ago.

I think option B makes the most sense.

For you, from ME

Chris, and his show, were recently discovered by me.

I am now addicted.

There are 52 episodes, I think I may have watched them all. This is one of my favourites, its fairly funny (although he has funnier), but the cat at the end named 'Riley' reminds me of myself, so I chose this one to post.

Enjoy. (all two of my readers)




P.S. Go to his website, Chris rocks.

Matt in Montreal II

Matt's NOT in that place.

Apparently, the guy wanted some money transferred to him as a deposit to hold the place (illegal), and he wanted it through Western Union... pretty seedy sounding.

So, we are still moving to Montreal, just to a different place that we haven't found yet !

Weee.

Matt in Montreal

Cody went into work today, and gave his notice.

He has been offered a very well-paying contract job for Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal, and we have decided to move there for the next 6 months.

First Cody will drive out, and I will stay here and pack-up some stuff, watch the movers, and monitor them as we place all our stuff in storage here in BC... then I will fly out and meet him after my semester here is done, at the end of December...

Lots of changes, tons of work is involved, but I am excited. Packing is going to be a lot of work, and I am already super busy with schoolwork. Speaking of which, it looks like I will be finishing my degree as a visiting student at Concordia University in Montreal, and then grad from UVic when they transfer the credits back !

Its all exciting, I am a little overwhelmed, and I will post more later, but right now I have to head off to my next class !

P.S. This is the place that we have decided to rent, its right downtown, near Route Guy, and Concordia Univeristy, and its CHEAP compared to our current place (rent in Montreal is much less than here, and its bigger, go figure?)

Mud Skating

Its muddy on campus...

I was trying to be quick to get to my class not-more-late-than-usual and therefore didn't walk on the sidewalk, and I slipped, and totally skated on mud for a bit. Seriously, It was the mud-scapades, just minus the grace. Also minus the cheering audience, rather I had two giggly first-year girls watching me, probably some others too (since everyone has nothing better to do than follow me on campus and watch me).

Now, I didn't actually fall, but I sure made a scene in front of all the people at the bus stop. Feet sliding, hips swaying to maintain up-right bipedal locamotion, and the facial expression of concentrating on all the above while avoiding spilling my precious morning coffee.

Sigh, I am just soo cool that its hard to see sometimes.

Perhaps I just invented a new sport: Mud-skating.

Happy Turkey Day !

The Turkey weekend is over, and I have eaten a lot of turkey (and have a lot in my freezer).

Happy Thanksgiving !



Cody left me in charge of the groceries, which resulted in us having three gigantic Yams, (seriously I have never seen yams this big) and a 15-pound turkey. There was only the two of us for dinner last night, so there is a LOT of leftovers. I know whats for lunch for the next month.

Cody is still stressed about work, we are in the process of finding him a new job and looking for other options. It most likely looks like we are going to be moving at some point, although how that will take place is uncertain (you will know when I know...)

Anyways, its raining, and I love it.

Yay leftover stuffing, and turkey !

Dedicated...

to Cat in (her) Gulf.




And yes, I was born in the mid 80's :D

And I must admit that 'White Wedding' is my favourite song, but I don't really like the music video all that much...

Bears, Bears, Bears...

So, Cody and I went up to Cody's parents' cabin this weekend, it was grand.

My mom and her partner Claude and my bro all went up too from Vancouver, it was awesome. Our two families met for the first time, as we stopped in at Cody's parents' place along the way to the cabin, it went really well.

It was a great drive, its about 1.5 hour ferry ride to Vancouver from the Victoria and our little island, and then about 3 hour drive to Merrit, where Cody is from, and then a further 45 minutes to the cabin.

Its absolutely beautiful, deep valleys, and intensely high rugged mountains, along the drive we drove to the highest point in the Canadian highway system, and the cabin is at about 5200 feet above sea level.

Upon arrival Friday night it was dark and Cody lit the wood heating system that heats the cabin, while we unloaded the food from the car and made the beds, etc. The 'cabin' itself is actually a log cabin that was made by Cody and his father about 10 years ago, and is roughly 2000 square feet, with three bedrooms, laundry, decks, two bathrooms, running water, electricity and all that jazz. They just got electricity up there about a year ago, so thats definitely nice.

Walking is a great thing to do up there, the weather wasn't bad, it rained mostly, but it was only about 0-2 degrees celcius the entire time, and it snowed a wee bit too, but the ground is still bare. We ate way too much food, played cards, my mom and I studied (she is doing her Phd in Transpersonal Phsychology right now), my brother and Claude fished, and we all ate. Did I mention we ate a lot ?

WAY too much food was eaten. Between the 6 of us, in two days, we ate 36 egss, salmon fillets, calamari, seafood chowder, bacon, ham, lots of chips with fresh homemade salsa, and lots of wine and beer. Hehe, way too many calories :D

On Sunday, Cody, myself, my bro and Claude and our friend Sanjay from Vancouver who had also come up with us, all went for a big walk around the lake that the cabin is on. Its about 5-7 KMs around the lake, and we kinda took a long way, hehe. Cody was leading. It was simply magical. Cody spotted many moose and deer tracks along the trail, most fresh. I discovered a bear tracks, and we found more, all of which were fresh in the mud. That was a little scary. Luckily, there was no sightings... but it is serious bear country.

It was a great weekend, totally relaxing, and we got lots of fresh air. Long drive to get there, but it was great to see the high alpine mountains and be there right before winter really settles in.

Now, I must return to reality, and my midterms that I have this week...

Oh, and Cody's parents rent out this cabin a lot of the time, so you can see it on their website here.