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i noticed the picture on my xanga doesn't even look like how i look anymore. it's me - FIVE YEARS AGO!. what i would give to be that young again. the decisions i would make if i could do undergrad ALL OVER AGAIN!!! ( --> not take brain and behaviour...  ).
so working at the keg is quickly losing its 'novel' appeal. the people i work with have become 'real' shall we say - and there is much more cattyness and sulking than i anticipated. puts a downer on the night. i've gone from being willing to take shifts and stay on for extra hours - to wanting to get rid of shifts and sometimes downgrading my hours.
BLEH!.
on another note: i like working out. am working furiously to achieve that 'beach body' even though there are no beaches in calgary. why? because on the off chance that i do go away for the weekend (like, to a friend's cabin) - i would like to not be self-conscious of my one-flab wonder. =). i went tubing for the very first time last weekend and it wass awwwweeeesome. emboldened by my darkened skin, i tried to sit outside and tan yesterday to no avail. it was waayyy to hot. but today is a new day and alas i shall try again!
life is boring. i like the summer days tho!
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| randoms from:
working at the keg:
1) having an elvis 'entertainer' hired to sing to a retirement party. having the retirement party give us 'tude because our GM didn't tell us this entertainer was coming. having tables around the party leave when elvis starts singing. having an elderly man giggle and say 'elvis has left the building' as 'the entertainer' packs up shop and leaves.
2) having a party of 27 ppl come in, stay for 4 hours and then yell at the poor server when they ask for separated bills AFTER they get the full one. smrt people. reaaalll smrt.
3) having an elderly lady hug me and tell me i'm a dear before and after her dinner, for taking a feather out of her glasses frame!
4) having azn 'gangsta' dudes + 1 gangsta girl ask server to ask me to join them for a drink (too bad i've already finished my shift and bizzounced) but then learning these gangsta kids ordered the 2 most expensive bottles of wine in the house + several courses, only to tip $9.
living in calgary:
1) sun doesn't set until like 10:30 . how crazy and amazing is that?!?!
2) yesterday there was a football game near my house. we got a fireworks display after. that was quite cool as well!!!
3) running by the river here and noticing the non-existent 'gag-smell' that you'd usually get from walking by lake ontario
things to do:
1) pick up a pair of rollerblades to go exploring around the city
2) take tennis lessons. hopefully.
3) do more hiiikkkinnnnggg.
4) be less pasty.
5) shower time. now.
 . ciao.
- kat
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1) your mom telling you she bought a wii, and then asking you if you know what it is
2) watching so you think you can dance to catch star moments: some amaazing dancing (though some not) and then having nigel tell a lyrical white-boy dancer that his granma can 'hit it harder' than him in a krunk dance routine (and then watching nigel try to be gangsta)
3) when you call into westjet and ask whether you can get a further discounted price thats on their site now (you paid about $50 more) and switch a flight date for your return trip and they tell you, "sure, it'll cost $40 to do that but you will still have a $50 credit..) i may have bad math skills because i'm not sure where the extra $50 comes from but i sure as heck don't mind
- katz
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small note:
today i went hiking in heart mountain with a friend. it was great for the most part - and the weather really held off for us - because it started raining just as we were heading to the parking lot. weather conditions? a little bit of sun, cloudiness, snow up top, sunshine and then rain to round it all off.
i had soaked shoes the whole descent because we had decided to be adventurous and go down a different way than we had come up, only to find that tracks the 'mountain man' had left us in the snow didn't seem to be going DOWN the mountain anytime soon, but rather around other mountains (we decided this after an hour of following his footsteps in ankle deep snow). so we went another hour or so back the way we came (in snow) and then down the mountain from the way we came up.
i thought today would have been a good day to re-introduce my pasty legs to the sun (remembering how nicely tanned my legs turned out after a week of hiking in the adironacks). because today's hike was a lot shorter, and there was lots of cloud coverage - i decided not to paste on the sunscreen (with the exception of my special face blocker). my legs and half my neck now looks like the lobster my mouth waters for when i work at the keg. =(. oh and that tingly burning feeling all over. *sniff*.
at least my legs aren't pasty anymore... i guess... =P
thanks friends! talk soon
- kat
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tiny rant:
life has been going well here in calgary, mostly. trying to make things work and meet new people, etc. for the most part - been keeping up with some individuals and letting things lie with friendships that haven't been maintained. sometimes it has been frustrating. i know back at home there's more of a hub, and hence it's easier to be around and updated. but i guess its frustrating when part of something you really treasured gets changed so abruptly. a little punch to the gut if you will.
but whatever. so is the cycle of life - everything comes out in the wash eventually. and i guess some things come out more dry than others.
randoms: working nite shifts at the keg has been pretty enlightening. i like people!!.. well - i like the people there - and for the most part, the people we serve. what i can't wait for though? learning about the different sauces and ways to prepare foooood. mmm mmm yum. i miss having regular work outs though - working night shifts definitely screws up your eating schedule. i've had a couple of 'lunners' now because i discovered from my first week of working that i will not be motivated to cook for myself when i come home. and thus i miss dinner. =) housemate was a little astounded to see a little chinese girl eating steak at 3 pm in the afternoon. i hope to go hiking on friday with some nice sunshine and look forward hopefully to making pizza with friends sometime this weekend, dough and all! another sharing story? a little boy brought a picture of his late-puppy to dinner at the keg last night. i guess he really missed the puppy. anyways. little boy forgot to bring the picture home and so his granpa brought him back to look for it. thank goodness our servers didn't get rid of the picture. poor kiddo. i miss working with kids. also got appointed to be a pro-bono student executive next year and i'm looking forward to creating some solid programs for people within the community. i miss having that bit of passion in my life. final note: can someone please tell the weather man that we'd like some sunshine here in calgary now? the grass is a lush green now and worms are trying to make the pavements green too - but really they're only making them a pukey red-yellow colour.
wow. long update. time to watch the residential schools apology from ottawa.
toodles. thanks friends.
- k
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