Saturn(a)

This is the largest size this picture can be to be anyway near half decent quality - but you can clearly see the breathtaking moment where there were 3 ferrys PLUS the one I was on all in the same area!

Sooo...I went to Saturna Island on the weekend. Despite what Nate may say, that is not a type for Saturn...I travel only through time...NOT space. It was a lot of fun...got to hang out with the family (most of it anyway), and see the new things there like their kitten and their trampoline. I know...I know...Saturna is sooo exciting. There was even a bottle return event thingy I helped out with for 4 hours.

No, but seriously it was mostly relaxing and I don't get to see my family as much as I'd like to. My dad was at school a bit on both days to work on his Master's thesis. My mom has been working on her rug-making-by-tearing-apart-strips-of-old-clothing-and-weaving-them-together craft stuff. My brother had his birthday yesterday on the 29th, but he is going to an IMAX theater on Friday in Victoria with a whole bunch of friends and such. My sisters are still small and young and innocent and sometimes quite crabby, but Natalie is really learning the piano and Emily is addicted to reading books to the point where she doesn't want to put them down..ever.

Oh...and I got a new keyboard so I took another crappy pic. (It's a keyboard)

Woahh...just stumbled across this site about Street Wars! That's awesome...too bad it already came here.

Looong days

Soo...this weekend has been quite busy. I've barely been home. Yesterday I woke up and left the house at 10:30 with my afro pal Gordo. He had crashed there after the drive-in movie theater escapade of the night before.

Which we BARELY survived getting home from because Rob finds it amusing to drive on the wrong side of the road with ONCOMING TRAFFIC!

We had a very specific goal in mind in leaving the house: eat sushi...eat all we can of sushi. Little did I know I would not return home till 5am the next morning.

First there were 7...Brad, better? Tanya, Gordo, Rob, Murray, Q, and I...who went out for sushi followed by ice cream. I was soooo full after that.

After this we walked down to the other end of the New West Quay where there is a small playground. We ended up playing a game of tag which is awesome because I love doing childish fun activities like that...and it's good exercise. Rob decided to make a bit too hasty of an exit from his climb up a light house looking piece of equipment and actually fell off it (too bad you can't really see that thing in this picture). He fell from the upper bar hit his feet on the lower bar flipped around and landed on his ass on the wood chips with his feet on the base of the tower. Miraculous he then got up and started running away from Q. He didn't make it very far before he slowed down though - but he didn't seem to really be hurt. Also oddly enough he seemed to be in more pain 10 minutes later just from spraining his ankle.

After getting tired of tag and Rob getting in an argument with some lady about our use of the playground, we headed out. Eventually we (all but Q) ended up at Rob's place way over in Delta. We chilled out there for a bit and played some pool while Murray left to go to work. When Rob had to meet up with his dad for dinner we ducked out and the four of us (Brad, better? Tanya, Gordo, and I) left and went over to Brad's place. While there we played poker, guitar, and after Murray and Rob rejoined us we had/played Sex. Yes, they have this game they made for game design class which is called Sex.

All in all it was a looong night and I fell asleep for the last 45 minutes at Brad's. Hopefully they weren't playing too many games with me while I slept. Some of my friend's have a tendency to do that. I'd better go check if there's anything drawn on my face.

Run!

So today I went for a run...and I haven't gone for a run in a looooong time. To give you an idea of how long it's been, let me tell you I ran the exact same route as last time and last time I passed a couple big empty lots and this time instead of the lots I passed an Extra Foods, Shopper's drugmart, Taco del Mar, Subway, Starbucks, Coast Capital, a gas station, two video rental places, two tanning salons, an Esquire coffee house and a sushi restaurant! They certainly weren't there last time...and I didn't even know Starbucks' had drive-thru's.

Oh the lazyiness of me.
Oh the growth of Cloverdale.

Know where to run to

So recently I have been wondering about my living arrangements. They are nice...they are excellent actually because I am paying just $100 a month for food and being spoiled and taken care of. However, I am far from work...so far that the transit trip adds 3 hours to each day (well doesn't actually add 3 hours to it...I don't quite have the power to make my day 27 hours long...but that's the point...it therefore takes time away from other activities).

Recently my brother - who coincidentally lives in Vancouver way closer to where I work has started working with my cousin who lives in Cloverdale with us. So a bunch of people, which actually means just my mom and sister suggested I could switch places with him and live there and get some of those 3 hours back.

UNFORTUNATELY I would no longer be spoiled and I'd have to pay rent and my transit is free anyway and I want to save money for the fall when I will be moving in with some friends and I don't like the small amount of space in the house there and it may also be about to be sold by the landlord and I don't know if my brother really wants to keep working for my cousin yet.

BUT I do like the area and there is a nice park right by there and it would be good to live there in the summer and go swimming in the lake nearby and it so close to work and it is possible to make the early meetings and thus finish work early and it would be much more independent of me and I could afford it while I am working during the summer and it would get me off my lazy ass to do more for myself and see more of the city rather than the boonies and meet some new people not that I don't like the friends I already have.

I'm just crossing my fingers that the landlord actually is selling or my brother comes back from the job he's working on with my cousin in the Queen Charlotte Islands to decide he doesn't like it because then the decision will be out of my hands anyway. Then I will have an excuse. Is that stupid? WELL is it?

BUT it would be nice for my brother to actually have a job because he's had trouble finding one and it would be bad for my brother and my sister if they get kicked out of that house and I like run-on sentences wheeeeee.

I need a picture now...hmm...ok...here's my brother and sister in their most flattering poses: