Okay guys, if anyone is interested:

( this is the stuff I am selling: )

email me here: darkawaii at hotmail dot com

ALL PRICES IN USD - SHIPPING NOT INCLUDED
I take paypal or CAD cash with exchange rate applied.
( http://www.xe.com/ )

So epic dolly meet was epic. Thanks again to snightmoon (and http://www.sakuraden.ca respectively) for renting the room and donating prizes for this year's Halloween dolly meet!

There was a costume contest and I won second prize, earning me a bag of goodies <3 Not too shabby for throwing something together at midnight the night before ^_^; I made Sain's staff and crown, I might sell it, try and maybe make some more things like that to sell :D

( pics under the cut my friends, pics under the cut :3 )

Momo:

After all of the planning and the worrying and the hustle and the bustle around Kimberly's visit to Winnipeg since I first brought it up, how did everything work out?

Pretty relaxed, actually.

( Hello, City )

As you can tell, the visit was laidback, but fun, with the fact that it ended and the absence of Kimberly's husband Scott as the only parts which made me a sad panda. I really hope that his work commitments won't keep him away next time.

As you can also tell (and as I expected), a lot of the trip involved comparisons between many aspects of Canadiana and Americana, most of which I haven't even mentioned yet--everything from the dominance of Kijiji over Craigslist in Winnipeg to the nature of provincial equalisation payments to how companies sneak in a maple leaf on their Canadian logos (the middle of the McDonald's Golden Arches, the apostrophe in "Wendy's," and so on), just in case you forget what country you're in when you're dealing with them.

There was less talk of home redecoration than expected--mostly discussion of potential changes to the apartment rather than actually shopping for new decor or furniture. Kimberly and I seem to be on the same page of ideas, but we never devoted an afternoon to this sort of thing as I'd originally imagined.

On a(nother) side note, I had the rental car for an extra day on either side of the visit, and it becomes immediately clear in that sort of situation how much more oriented Winnipeg is to its entrenched car culture than it is to cyclists, pedestrians, or frequent users of public transit. I was pretty much aware of this already, but the difference in practice is astounding.

All in all, I'm happy with my first attempt at offering some Canadian hospitality here in the new(ish) place, and I can only hope my next opportunity goes at least as well. :)

So I have found a couple of places that I could potentially be working. It's amazing how you can hear nothing for almost a year then be bombarded with interviews within a months time o_o; I went and filled some paperwork out, so technically I'm employed again, it's just a matter of sending me in for the temp work. I went mostly for filing and data entry, people don't seem to bother you too much in those kinds of jobs, so that will be good.

Speaking of 'hearing', I've been having trouble with hearing in my left ear since I can remember. I poked it with a q-tip when I was younger so it was always a bit dull. The other night my boyfriend was experimenting with some science stuff (not ON me lol) and the outcome of it seemed to be my ear plugging up like someone stuffed it with cotton, and immediately after it felt like it filled up the ringing started. I've had ringing in my ear for..what...this is day 5 now. I have to sleep with my headphones on, I was hoping it would go away. I went to the doctor and he told me that there is nothing wrong with my ear physically, so it has to be either attached to my migraines, or part of natural hearing loss. :/ I don't care if I lose hearing in one ear, so long as this high pitched shriek goes out soon. It's nothing to 'get used to' either, because the frequency of it changes at random. =_=;

At any rate, Lotus is finally on her way home! Next week I should have that MNF Marcia....yes yes...CP slut am I...I'm aware of this XD I don't like the newer luts dolls though, I've been told Crobi helps them now or something, hard to follow now where all the dolls I like are going to go since Fairyland doesn't make Delf size dolls. The next one up on the block is Shinji Fox, an SS Harang. I want this one back, so will have to do some saving up once this job mess gets figured out. urgh. Temp work in offices would rock, getting paid more than min wage would rock too, but it's not always guaranteed work :/

I'm currently working on getting my drivers license. I have to get my Health Card address changed over, and then I can go down and write my test, likely next week XD With the start of that comes the start of the job I WANT to do. I wanna DRIVE. Delivery in city, cross country, cross north america...that would be great <3 And hey, I could stop in to see all my fave dolly people XD

My leg is finally healing nicely, the bruise looks ugly, and there's a part of my leg I can no longer feel :/ It grosses me right out...ew.ew.ew....I'm hoping the feeling will come back in it when it's fully healed....I wish I could just get a new body and click my head right on it, just like a dolly, wouldn't that be something?

So it appears I have spoken too soon. No matter what job I get it's always the people that chase me away. I was supposed to work the night before last, and I went to catch the 20, which is notorious for being late, slow or not showing up. My leg hurts from falling at work (my supervisor being too effing lazy to file an accident report), so I decided to catch the 20 instead of the 11 bus. This means waking half a block instead of two and a half. Well the bus never showed, and I know I was on time for the damn thing, so I race as fast as my beaten up leg can carry me and don't make it in time for the last bus. So I race home and call Lois (the bitch I work for) to let her know what happened, and that I have no way to get down there.

So with a huffy attitude she's like "Yeah whatever, see you tomorrow". I didn't understand her attitude, as I was polite and letting her know what was going on and I apologized not one or twice, but THREE times. She's still huffy and hangs up. The other girl told me that if I'd asked, Lois would have given me a ride. I figure, if she was going to do that she would have offered when I phoned and told her that I couldn't get to work...

So I go to work last night, and Lois basically sits on her ass (like she always does...smoking in the building which is AGAINST THE LAW HERE, never mind the fact that it STINKS) and lets the other girl "train" me. This is fine, but the whole time I'm working, these two are sitting around talking, the other girl working more than Lois does. Lois ignores me, like I'm invisible, not talking to me, and whenever directing what the other girl and I are supposed to be doing, tells the other girl to tell me what to do. WTF...you can't tell me yourself??

I've had it with workplaces and people who just don't do their jobs, or slough it off or ignore the rules so I have to smell their disgusting stench of smoke. I also think she's mad because I am uninterested in talking about her personal life. She was telling me all about her sex buddies and things, and she disgusts me, not because she a fat whore, because I am fat as well, but because she's a greasy slob. Ugh.

So I've been working all night pretty much as I said...and my foot was hurting and I couldn't find the other two. Day managers are now in and one of them walks by...I had been sitting for two minutes and she says "I'm not paying you to sit around, Patricia" and I like O_O!!! They obviously don't watch the other two clean at night or she's be giving them consistent shit for doing nothing for HOURS! Not kidding!! HOURS!!!!

So I'm looking for another job while I work at this one. The moment I find one, I'm out of there. My lungs, and mind don't need that shit. I have a hard enough time with my own paranoia when people aren't talking behind my back.

so i have taken to using that delightful expression first introduced to me by coco73 whenever i screw things up (which is often).

it's amusing, and supplies accountability and lulz at the same time. it seems appropriate for all manner of screw-ups.

well almost all. consider the email i just sent my group because i accidentally overslept and failed to give the project one last look over before it was to be submitted at 9am:

"i'm really sorry everyone. i set my alarm but obviously shit the bed on waking up."

... yeahhhh.

i'm gonna go with "appropriate for all manner of screw-ups except for those actually involving YOUR BED" where people are inclined to take you at your literal word.

Just got home from work, I got off a little earlier today but still got in 7 hrs. The job is going fine, aside from the fact that on my second day I fell and hurt my leg. The bruising was from my knee to my ankle on my left leg. Luckily the bruising is mostly gone, and it only hurts when I walk or am kneeling instead of all the time. It's strange to have your skin hurt just by walking around.

I was supposed to go to the comic convention this weekend, plus it was Halloween and I ended up just staying home. I spent time with Matt for the most part, with our new flatmate Derek and our other flatmate Shawn making appearances here and there. Derek has finished moving in finally, and is now here more often, and it's strange having another person here, but not in a bad way. I met of few of his friends while I was tripping balls, and it's cool because I could handle them even though they were sober...so that's a good indication.

I went to Jeff's party Friday night with Matt and there were probably over 30 people in that little house, and the most of them weren't even Jeff's friends, they were friends of this girl Chantal, so we bounced. It was good to see Roger, Ken and Cindy though, and Ken was dressed like a star trek dood...the one in the red shirt that always dies lol and Cindy was a devil and Roger was one of the blue man group doods XD. I pulled out Maleficent because I am always cold and wearing a costume that is pretty much a large blanket is yummy. matt didn't really dress up so much as wear his hat again...it's a strange mix of a pimp hat and a fuzzy pink hat o_O; He's crazy about the thing....lol...everywhere we go people yell NICE HAT o_o He got annoyed at some jock-like personality calling him a pimp because of that hat.

Well, I hope everyone else had a great Halloween!!

Happy Hallowe'en lj!

(  i own a lot of victoriana for someone who was never cool enough to be goth )

theoryofgravity is very funny, in case you weren't aware:

( finding the lulz in shipping fail )

So I was hired finally <3

I'm actually just waiting to go now, sitting in the living room. It's amazing how quickly things fell into place here. The job is perfect. It's cleaning a high class bar after closing. About 6 hrs a night, 4 days a week. It's one bus to and from the place. I am allowed to listen to my ipod while I work too, and the woman who hired me seems rather weathered. I find that to be the thing that makes people more relaxed. I can wear my piercings, I can have fun colors in my hair if I so choose. After three months I can get a raise if I do well...I know I will do just fine. I don't have to deal with phones or people, just music and cleaning for $10.00/hr. It's not a lot, but it's not minimum wage <3

This excites me so much. I took the dolls I was selling down, and feel awesome about being able to play with them again. Xiao gets to stay and that makes me very happy, he's such a grumpy puss. The same with Sydney. I'm very excited as well, because this means I can start my collection again.

Matt told me he doesn't care how I spend my money, so long as I am happy, that's all that matters to him. I don't know if he realizes just how happy he makes me. For the first time in my life I know what real love is, it's intense. We fit together so bloody well that nothing is odd or awkward, we just laugh at those kinds of moments.

Once my debts are paid off I'm going to start padding my savings account from every cheque. A small amount will go in to paypal for doll purposes <3 and of course the rest to expenses. Since I've quit smoking and drinking, I really don't need to spend a lot of money on them, so I'm not really sure what I will spend my money on, might as well start saving...perhaps spend money on some RRSPs.

Things looks so good right now <3 <3 <3 A lot of my previous angst was due to financial stress. I need to learn to relax some more, I thought I was already pretty chill, I guess I am when it comes to certain things. Live life and learn, that's what it's all about!

Move that muffin top to your chest: New study details a plastic surgery procedure that puts pudge to good use

ARE. YOU. FUCKING. KIDDING ME.

More on this later, when I recover.