Share's Sharing

I'VE FINALLY SLEPT. I went to bed at like 1 last night and got up at... 2? this afternoon. And I'm still tired. All I want to go is go back to sleep. Oh my GOSH it feels good to be sleeping more than four hours at a time :-P

Last night, Jenn and Regan took Jodi and I to the Parliment building. It was goregous! They showed us "the purple effect", something that I can't explain... You have to expierence it for yourself. I'm so excited to show Erica when she comes. I've also been planning out other stuff for all of us to do when Erica gets here! She arrives THE day of our Halloween party, so right off the plane she gets to go to a party. I want to do the whole touristy West Ed thing with her, she'll love that. And so will Jodi and I.

Ok I better get up and have a shower or I'm in danger of falling asleep again.

To bed around 6 and up around 8:30... I really hope my body doesn't get used to this. HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I HATE BEING SICK?!?!? This sucks so harsh and I wish I was at home with my Mom close at hand to comfort me.

I woke up a while ago and everything was so surreal to me. I was so confused. The combination of Share not wearing glasses, just waking up, and being sick is NOT the greatest feeling in the world. It SUCKS being sick like this. I haven't been this sick in SOOOO long. I miss the days where I was sick and my Mom would take care of me and people would stop off with special healthy fruit smoothies and ginger ale. Man, was I living the life then.

On the upside, my roomies have been very compassionate, especially Jenn... serving me cough drops and letting me have her humidifier in my room. I love my roomies, and how we randomly sit outside on a Sunday morning and catch up. How we make hemp creations together. How have picked out MUST SEE MOVIES, and the first one we watched was The Last Unicorn. OMG, my siblings would have died to watch that movie again.

Jodi is safe and sound in Edmonton as of Saturday night. We hung out yesterday, paroozing late night stores and getting familiarized with the area. Jodi brought me pictures from home, and I'm stoked to put them up on my Ikea magnetic board! Lol, seriously my room is so bare. I should keep it messy just so that it actually looks lived in.

I guess I should settle back down into bed with a book so I can fall asleep again. There's no way I can get up at 5:30 and NOT crash later, so I might as well try and sleep more now. DAMN COLD!

I'm really trying to get out of my sleeping late routine that I've started up since I got to my new home. The thing was, I would wake up at a regular time, 9 or 10 and go back to sleep. So this morning I forced myself up. Jenn and Regan have confronted me about my sleeping late and getting myself depressed 'cuz I miss home when I have nothing to do. Keep me busy, and I'm fine. But I guess that's how it usually goes.

I feel like I'm really starting to get into the swing of things here with not being as homesick and making more friends. I'm glad I've clicked with the people in my house. Last night we ate pizza and watched Pretty in Pink. I love the people here, it's fun being the youngest in a group.

Last night I said my goodbye to Josh, as he's now on a flight to Australia. Seems to be the trend nowadays! Fortunatly, he's only going for six weeks and really, I can't miss him too much 'cuz I left first! Jodi will be here on Saturday hopefully, and I'm getting stoked to see her! She'll be living about 25 minutes away from us, so I'll get to see her as she goes to school.

No luck yet on a second day job. I'm looking forward to my shift tonight as I finally have comfortable shoes to wear. 9 o'clock will hit and I won't want to colapse for once!

Mkay, so there's a few things I've learned since coming to Edmonton.

1. IT IS COLD.
...And people laugh at you when you mention that you still have to purchase an umbrella. "OH my lord, Share. WHEN have you seen anyone holding an umbrella here? You'd be such a geek." It barely rains [supposedly... although it's done so thrice since I got here], and the snow is DRY. Which I still can't wrap my head around. Dry snow, what's that? OH and my waterproof jacket idea was also shot down. "Seriously, Share. No point." I guess we'll see when... October [lol] hits.

2. BOYS HIT ON YOU MORE
What, is there like a shortage of chicks in this city? I mean don't get me wrong, I don't mind guys flirting with me. Hello self-confidence booster! But it's funny because almost every one of them is so blunt.

3. DRUGS ARE PLENTIFUL
First off, don't worry Mom and Dad. But I definitly have never seen so many deals go down EVER. Like, right in front of me at the bus stop it's happened like four times now. I mean, I've lived in Cloverdale my whole life so maybe I just don't get out much. But it's really sad when you see a fifty-five year old man picking up a baggie of whatever the dealer has.

What else have I learned? I miss my cat more than ANYTHING. And I'm totally okay with anyone calling me lame. But she's my baby and I miss her so much. I've learned that my brother is HORRIBLE with keeping in touch. C'mon, I can't be the only one pushing facebook on him! I've learned that I really miss the company of friends that I didn't see a lot at home. I've learned that no matter how bitchy I am to her, or how bitchy she is to me, I'll always be my Momma's girl.

PS. After working an Oilers' game, I REALLY REALLY wanna go see a Canucks game at home! I've never been to a game and it looks so exciting lol!

Hey there, Erica
What's it like in Abbotsford
I'm 100,050 miles away
And I'm super really bored
Without you...
West Ed can't shine as bright as you,
I swear it's true.

Hey there, Erica
Don't you worry about the distance.
I'm right there if you get lonely,
Give your answering machine another listen
Close your eyes.
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side.

Oooooh it's what you feel for meeeeee x4

Hey there, Erica
I know weekends are gettin' hard,
But just believe me, girl
Some day I'll write you a nice little card.
We'll have it good.
We'll have the Simple Life we knew we would.
My word is good.

Hey, there Erica
I've got so much left to say
If every single text I wrote to you
Would make a better day
I'd write them all
And even closer friends we'd fall
We'd have it all

Oooooh it's what you feel for meeeeee x4

A million miles seems pretty far
But they've got trains and planes and cars
I'd bus it to you if I had no other way
Our parents would make fun of us
And we'll just snort along because we know
That they can't understand us to this day
Erica I can promise you
That by the time the snow gets through
The lower mainland will never ever be the same
And we're to blame

Hey there, Erica
You be good and you better miss me
Three more months and Christmas will be here
And I'll be flying back to you
You know it's cuz I miss you too
We can do whatever we want, foo
Hey there, Erica here's to you
This one's for you

Oooooh it's what you feel for meeeeee x4
Ohohhhh Oh ohhhhhhh oh OOOOOOOOOOoohhhh

i would give anything for me to be holding maui right now.

Unless you've been living "under a rock", you obviously know that Britney is starting her comeback. You also must know that she's obvs still on drugs, needs a head shrink, needs rehab, needs Jesus, etc. But I'm rooting for her to pull through. I wanna see her come back like she was eighteen again, looking hot and feeling great. OH and that she's come to terms with her Mom and picked up some parenting skills [DON'T stay up til 5 in the morning when you have the VMA's the next day, DON'T party and leave Tater Tot and Small Fry with the babysitter... Or worse, your "cousin" Ali Sims.]

Here are some videos for your enjoyment that I laughed at. I hope Britney's sitting at home right now, browzing youtube realizing that she needs to shape up. When the whole world is making fun of you, it's NOT a good thing honey. Props to Perez Hilton, Geoff, and Stevie for the findings of these videos.

Great news! I've found a job! I've been told that in Edmonton, you can basically choose what job you want because EVERYWHERE is hiring. So, I ventured out today with my new resume to this huge stadium. I totally forget what it's called, but it's the eqivalent of like, BC Place. The Oilers play their home games there, and lots of concerts are scheduled [the next one being Beyonce lol]. So I got the job! Jenn is employed there as well, and we have orientation tomorrow night. I don't yet know exactly what I'll be doing. Looks like I'll probably be catering or something like that. The wage depends on what job you get, so hopefully I'll be making at least $10/hour. This is a night, part time job... Leaving room earlier for a day, full time job. Miranda is passing on my resume at Telus as of this morning, so we'll see how that goes. But, YEY! I have my first paycheque in more than a MONTH coming soon!

This afternoon I was a total geek and decided to take pictures of my new home so you guys could see where I live! So here's the virtual tour.



Our home is on the street corner, right next to a bus stop.


When you walk in the front door, this is the staircase that take you into our place.


This is our living room... I know, very empty. It's to the right as soon as you walk in.


Jenn in the kitchen!


My bedroom. Also very empty. Send me pictures in the mail so I can put stuff up on my walls :-D


Our backyard.


This is the outside of the garage... AKA Foreman's Basement.


Inside the garage. This is where we hang out.

So, I'd love love love getting some pictures that any of you have lying around that I could decorate my room with! I only have a picture of Maui here, hee hee. I bought a magnetic board from Ikea so I could stick pictures up. If you want to, just ask me for my address :-D

I'm watching the Stewie Griffin movie for the second time, and I've watched A Walk To Remember on and off twice as well. Needless to say, they're really the only 2 movies downstairs. Poor Jenn, she's totally memorized both. So I'm going to have to open an account at a video rental, or start collecting more dvd's.

Downtown Edmonton is nice. I went with Jenn yesterday. It's close to our house, and the bus stop is RIGHT outside the house. You can also take the train downtown which is part of the transit system. It's so weird being on a train rather than a skytrain.

Last night we went to a bar with lots of people. They have this happy hour that you can get highballs for a buck from 8-9. There was like, no one there before 8 and then the place was crowded!

My roomies want my sister to come visit! Hehee, I talk about you so much, Jo. I told them that she wants to come out for her Spring Break and they're gonna push their April party to March so that she be here for it!

One month til I get to see Krissi and Anna, yey!!!!

It's 5:30am and I can't sleep. You would think that after having less than three hours of sleep the night before, I would be out for the next 24 hours! I guess sleeping on the floor doesn't agree with me... I'm not 12 anymore.

Edmonton is the same but SO different than what I'm used to! This is what's weird for me: I realized today that for the first time in my life, I'll be totally completly dependant on maps, bus routes, and asking for directions. I couldn't even tell you if I'm suppose to go up or down the street to get to the Save-On-Foods that I visited earlier. I'm going to be following Jenn around like a puppy for a while. I've decided to put the Edmonton map [the one that I laughed at when my Mom gave it to me] to good use and tape it to the wall of my room until I'm accustomed.

I like our house. I have my own room, which Jenn is in right now... And I'm in hers just for the night. The landlady had to fix something in Jenn's room, so she's moving her stuff in here when she's done and then I'll be able to put away my stuff. I've only met one of the girls upstairs, Regan. I met her a couple winters ago, but she's nice. Their place is more "lived in" considering she's been there for three years. Our place is really empty, we only have one couch in the living room, a lamp, and a TV. But I think we're getting some unwanted furniture from upstairs so that'll actually make it feel like a home. There's a shed in the backyard, which is like their "Foreman's Basement". It's really cute, they have couches, a radio, a table, carpet, etc. where they hang out a lot.

Driving from the airport into Edmonton was so crazy! There's SO many places advertising that they're hiring. I'm going to talk to Miranda tomorrow and get going on getting a job. I think I'll feel better and more at home once I'm making money.

I miss everyone already! It's going to be hard to get used to a completly new place. My mom and sister have already emailed me about my cat and her weird behavior after getting fixed, and I'm ready to jump on a plane back home. I just wanna be chilling on the couch, watching Daniel and Geoff downing their energy drinks as I play with Maui. I want to be able to look out the window and see Heather and Michelle across the street! I want to be talking to people on MSN who I know I could just drive to their house [and get there in less than 20 hours!!!].

Anyway, I should probably try and get a few more hours of sleep before my day actually starts. Someone kiss Maui for me!

tonight was amazing.
i love my friends, i love that i got to say goodbye to everyone.
3 cakes? HOLY.
i love hearing old memories that i had not thought about in so long.
i love that everyone is supporting me and comforting me so much.
johanna, heather, melissa, geoff, laura, beth, joshua,
michelle, jodi, josh. i <3 you guys... and my mom and brother lol

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i loved yesterday.
lunch with jodi getting drunk off long island's
and talking about everything and ANYTHING.
... and hot waiters & free alchy.
dinner with geoff,
sipping wine at a greek resterant, telling stories,
giggling at each other because of the great wine.
and then a horribly bad movie that we laughed through.

I'M ON THE PLANE IN 10 HOURS!!!!
...better go pack.

Your smile is contagious
Your jokes outragous
Memories with you will never fade
When there's many more to be made
Every tear that I cry
Every broken heart I sigh
For all of this, I wouldn't trade.

i can't stop crying.
OMG, seriously. i should go have a period or something.
then at least i could blame my emotions on being a GIRL.
i'm still hurting from 2 people who were my life for so long, and i finally really took action on my feelings. at least we're talking about it now but the hurt is still there.

i'm going to miss my friends.

i'm going to miss your goregous smile, your understanding of everything that i say to you, our girl talks, your hugs... did i mention your goregous smile?

i'm going to miss your crazy stories, your compliments, and YES even your INSANE ghetto-ness... and how i feel so loved by you.

i'm going to miss your mouth, your laugh, our late nights, and how i've finally found someone who i can be myself around who won't judge me.

i'm going to miss you living accross the street, the random visits, your beautiful smile, the long talks, even your allergies lol!

i'm going to miss talking about preggers tests, the girly talks, memories of past endevours that we always bring up, and your warm and PRETTY persona.

i'm going to miss being around you, you saving my ass, even your terrible car [it's done-zo! let it go!], your accomplishments, your reasuring pep talks, your hidden liquer, and how i feel that everything will be great when you're around.

...and i'm going to miss my cat.

of course there's people who i haven't mentioned specifically, but if i've seen you in the past couple of weeks you know i care about you and that i'll miss being in your company.

Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain
Though youre thinking that youre leaving there too soon,
Youre leaving there too soon.

Its so noisy at the fair
But all your friends are there
And the candy floss you had
And your mother and your dad.

Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain
Though youre thinking that youre leaving there too soon,
Youre leaving there too soon.

Theres a girl just down the aisle,
Oh, to turn and see her smile.
You can hear the words she wrote
As you read the hidden note.

Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain
Though youre thinking that youre leaving there too soon,
Youre leaving there too soon.

Now youre underneath the stairs
And youre givin back some glares
To the people who you met
And its your first cigarette.

Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain
Though youre thinking that youre leaving there too soon,
Youre leaving there too soon.

Now you say youre leavin home
cause you want to be alone.
Aint it funny how you feel
When youre findin out its real?

Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain
Though youre thinking that youre leaving there too soon,
Youre leaving there too soon.

Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain
Though youre thinking that youre leaving there too soon,
Youre leaving there too soon.

I have so much to say.
Why won't you listen?