"welcome to Restoration Hardware"
Date: September 28th 2003
Feeling...: anticipation-y
Listening to: "Man on the Moon" by REM
Excitement brewing over: my new job :) and calc classes starting, oddly enough...
Concerned about: failing calc (again...*sigh*)
People/things that made me smile: my puppy...just being extra cute lately :)
New thing(s) I�ve learned: Andy Kaufmann was a lunatic :D But that milk and cookies thing definitely won me over!
Additional witty comments (heh heh heh): Good news first: I officially got a job at Restoration Hardware :) I went in for an interview on Tuesday, everything went really well, and yesterday they (one of my managers named Kathy) phoned to tell me I'm hired :) It's only seasonal for now but they said they do keep some seasonal staff for a permanent position...meh, if nothing else, I have a job till January and maybe after I can take some salsa dancing classes or something :D

Saw "Man on the Moon" yesterday (FINALLY)...really enjoyed it. I think if I'd been around when Andy Kaufmann was famous I'd have been a fan of his. (Although that whole wrestling thing was a little out there...) Now I have the song stuck in my head but it's alright 'cause I like it anyway :)

Date: September 17th 2003
Additional witty comments (heh heh heh): Check it out...new guestbook and a counter :) Looks kinda sad, cause it started at "0" and I KNOW I've gotten more traffic than that in the past year and a bit heh heh heh...anyhoo, enjoy!

alright, little earlobes of mine...you're allowed to heal ANYTIME NOW *grrr*
Date: September 14th 2003
Feeling...: lazy...I always feel this way when it's cloudy and humid like this.
Listening to: the radio, recently...hoping to hear "Boys of Summer" by the Ataris, I haven't really liked a song like this for a while
Excitement brewing over: possibly an interview next week, and night school starting in a couple of weeks
Concerned about: this rut I seem to be in...I'm the kind of person who thrives on change and for the LONGEST time it's been the same old, same old
People/things that made me smile: I just realized as I was typing the date that today is the three-year anniversary of the DPS :) also, my puppy enjoying his new sponge bed, which is bigger thus allowing him to stretch out despite his increasing amount of excess body-fat. (lol)
New thing(s) I�ve learned: The best day to go thrift shopping is Friday cause they've been getting new stock in throughout the week, but the weekend rush hasn't moved in yet heh heh heh
Additional witty comments (heh heh heh): So I think I have a job lined up as a receptionist at the Restoration Hardware at Bayview Village, though I haven't actually gone in for an interview so nothing's certain yet. They just said they were really impressed with me and my r�sum�...said they thought I was "articulate and personable" which was "very important for a position as a receptionist"...and they also need to fill the job really quickly so my odds are looking good...it's so perfect too, Bayview Village is so close (especially with the subway!) and it's only about 30 hours a week, which is perfect cause I'm taking night school so it'll give me some extra time to work.

Speaking of night school, I went down to register on Thursday so I'm now a student at Central Technical School at Bathurst and Bloor. I'm actually looking forward to taking the course, I mean calc is still calc (*sigh*) but it'll be something new, anyway...different place, different people, that sorta thing.

Okay one last thing: I FOUND MY SWISS ARMY KNIFE!!!!!! I'd lost it a while ago, like a few months ago and I finally found it...*hurray*

damn bitch, you STUPID-fly...(oops, was I talking to myself again? lol)
Date: September 9th 2003
Feeling...: pretty :) (despite ever-so-slight pain...)
Listening to: dance music...I feel *light*
Excitement brewing over: everything, right now :) namely how good I look though
Concerned about: getting an infection (alright keep reading, that'll make more sense in a minute)
People/things that made me smile: me and my fine self :D
New thing(s) I�ve learned: two things: 1) when Paul McCartney was born, his dad took one look at him and went home in tears cause he had "never seen an uglier baby in all his life"...imagine that! 2) remember "Hanson", that group of barely pubescent girly-boys who made us all ask "what the f*** IS AN MMMBOP???" Well...they've grown up now. In fact, Taylor - the middle one, whom girls would push his older brother Ike out of the way to get to - is married and the proud father of one. Almost (but not quite) puts McAuley Caulkin to shame, doesn't it?
Additional witty comments (heh heh heh): We FINALLY had our garage sale on Saturday, and I made considerably more money than I'd anticipated - about $100. Hm. All that for old crap lying around the house that I'd initially planned to throw away. Not too shabby...and we didn't even sell everything that we'd put out there, probably about 1/3 of our stuff is still left and we're debating whether to try again next Saturday or just send it off to Goodwill. (Though you can't see this thru the screen, there are dollar signs flashing in my eyes which clearly indicate which option I prefer :D)

Meanwhile I'm having a fantastic day so far...went to A.Y. to have lunch with Julia and then off to the salon to get my hair cut. Buying a straightening iron in June has revolutionized my hairstyle as I no longer dread the 10 minutes under the hairdryer I used to have to spend after washing it. I just let it air dry and then straighten, and voil�, every day can be made a good hair day :D In light of this new approach to styling, I've decided to let my hair grow to new lengths - that's right, we're talking BITCH-LONG. I'm making good progress, too...at this rate I'll achieve my target length by about...December or January. In the meantime today's appointment has left it very layered, very light, and altogether beautiful :) (At this point it's not a matter of conceit, I just have to give credit where it's due :D)

While at the salon I decided that, what with my new-found garage sale wealth I might as well splurge a little and do something I've been wanting to do for AGES...so I got my ears a second pair of piercings :D Just on the lobe, nothing fancy (or very painful, either), but I really love 'em. I was kinda worried about getting them done...kept having slight back-out moments during which I thought to myself, It's not too late to say 'oh nevermind!'. But then I told myself, If you can wax and pluck and ignore the certainty of getting cut to shave and do crunches 'till it aches...getting your ears pierced is chicken shit. And by golly (lol) I went in there smiling (and clenching my teeth, but hey, I'm not Superwoman for Christ's sake). Now I just hope they won't get infected or something gross like that...

Okay, one last thing: the job hunt is going alright so far...I blitzkrieged Fairview Mall and Bayview Village with r�sum�s, and emailed a bunch out to places looking for receptionists and the like. Haven't gotten a call-back from anyone yet, but I'm optimistic I'll get something. In the meantime I think I'm gonna do some volunteer work at Dallington, the elementary school where I did my co-op last, last May and June (this was before the official birth of Pandywaff, otherwise I'd put a link to an entry about it). I might as well, aside from admiring my hair in the mirror I have nothing else to do all day. I might as well get thirty little kids to admire it with me :D

Cheers!

I decided to keep August's background...goodness knows I didn't use it nearly enough...
Date: September 1st 2003
Feeling...: uhm...k I'm gonna skip all this and get right to the text heh heh heh
Listening to:
Excitement brewing over:
Concerned about:
People/things that made me smile:
New thing(s) I�ve learned:
Additional witty comments (heh heh heh): I realized I hadn't written for a while. I mean REALLY written. See it's not that nothing's been happening, I just haven't been writing it down - which, for all of Pandywaff's intents and purposes, is as good as nothing having happened I suppose. August just came and went with one entry - ONE ENTRY, that's disgraceful. I've been even less dilligent with my own personal journal...it's as though Laure just sucked all the author right outta me. Well anyway here I am. I just had some hot chocolate and caffeine has an immediately STRONG effect on my so i can't sleep - although it's only 10:30 so I dunno if I'd be tired without it in the first place. Whatever, I just realized that I had a LONG time's worth of writing all pent up so...here it is, in no particular order:

I was looking thru last year's yearbook and I noticed I know a lot of people with very neat writing. This probably says quite a bit about the sort of people I tend to make friends with. Maybe not. Maybe they used a ruler...*dun dun duuuuunnnnn...*

I just saw "The Royal Tenenbaums"...pretty good movie, unless you're into action flicks or Freddie Prinze Jr. movies in which case you wouldn't know a truly good movie if came with a label saying as much. I've been watching a lot of movies, actually...in the past month I've seen "Bruce Almighty" (funny, but only slightly better than Jim Carey's usually over-done movies); "Pirates of the Carribbean" (the plot was predictable but Johnny Depp once again displayed his terrific acting ability); "Johnny English" (Rowan Atkinson is DEFINITELY funnier when he keeps his mouth shut...); "Chicago" (LOVED it, but you've gotta be into musicals...and Rene Zellweger's puffy cheeks); "Snatch" (pretty good but I think I'd appreciate it more if I saw it again...those accents were a little on the thick side...); "Election" (oddly enjoyable, in a sort of hoping-to-get-a-mosquito-bite-cause-they're-fun-to-scratch way...); "Bringin' Down the House" (yech...but then since when does Steve Martin EVER produce anything original?); "Bowling for Columbine" (very interesting, if rather one-sided...); and half of "Amelie" before the power went out and interrupted it (don't tell me what happens, though, I plan to see the rest of it some day). As I usually don't watch much more than one movie every month or so, I'd say this has gotta be a personal record.

We got a new TV for our basement today. Prior to this purchase we were the not-so-proud fourth owners of a TV originally bought six months before I was BORN, in April of 1985. It served us well for almost three years, until one day in the middle of August it started showing everything in shades of red and then, finally, nothing at all. It was rather unceremoniously escorted out of the basement (though providing us with one final service: as my dad happily exclaimed, "this piece of shit has handles!!" which at least facilitated carrying it upstairs and then to the garbage room) and promptly replaced with a slightly larger, considerably newer flat-screen. It's so funny to think, though, that years from now this TV will be considered a relic and who knows what will be in its place...

(The caffeine seems to be wearing off around now...)

I need a job. My "year off" officially starts tomorrow and I don't actually have anything going the way I'd planned. Thought I'd apply for jobs around mid-August...didn't have the time. Wanted to take calc at night school this semester...not sure that's gonna happen since I'm still not registered. Also want to start driving school and get my licence before winter but I'm beginning to wonder how feasible that is...at the rate it's getting cold already, it's gonna be snowing next week and I'll be stuck taking the bus for yet another winter...*sigh*

Apart from all that, I've just been keeping busy...taking Laure places before she left two days ago. Probably the nicest day we had was two Fridays ago...we went down to Front St. and Church St. with my sister for Buskerfest at St. Lawrence market. It was pretty cool, we saw a big fat black man doing the robot dance heh heh heh...then, since it was only 2:30 and we had the afternoon to kill, we walked down to Harbourfront and took the ferry to Center Island, saw some ducks, the Toronto skyline, lotsa suntanned kids, and came back home. The weather was just great though, MUCH clearer skies than usual for Toronto and not very hot either. That's one thing I don't like about summer, the HEAT...anywhere between 25 degrees and 28 degrees C and I'm smilin' but more than that...especially if it's humid, it just feels so yucky. Fall is definitely my favourite season, for so many reasons...the clothes (don't get me started on the clothes!! oh the excitement...), the colors, my birthday, and for SO long, the promise of a fresh new school year. Right now I'm a little concerned about finding a job and all that...but my favourite season's coming up and I'm *excited* :)

I'm also tired. That caffeine kick's GONE...I need sleep. Cheers!