about every 6 months, the mood to move strikes me - and i become addicted to mls.ca…
and i can spend hours, looking at lot sizes and bedrooms and floor plans, and comparing addresses with mapblast.com - wondering about parking and windows and commute times… mortgage rates and garages and finished basements… it’s almost like a hobby, really.
i’m not limiting myself to neighbour hoods, i’ve seen outsanding homes in Swansea, Roncesvalle, High Park, Leaside, Old Weston Village, Aurora and even Unionville….not to mention the surprisingly amazing things that are a block north of queen st!!
Still, it’s hard to imagine moving away from the water and the quiet of the quay… even if it *is* to get more dancing and gardening space, and some grass the smapp dog can call her own… so it’s a struggle. A bittersweet, addictive struggle.
… there are now 2 bodies in my bed. Sleeping.
Previously, on Weekend with the Chickadees:
…. at 3:30 am, we found outselves cleaning up the vestages of yesterday’s birthday party meal from the carpet in the chickadees’ room… it was easy, with the help of prosolve and the absence of a smapp dog. We giggled in bed, thinking we had gotten off easy, in the 3 years of chickadee life, to come out puke-unscathed until now…
At 3:40, the littlest chickadee’s tummy wanted to play again.
And this little tummy continued on till 10 am, where, now, both the wiz and the littlest have retired to bed, to try and convice tummy that there really is nothing like a little rest to get back into the swing of things…. which bring us back to the present…. and it’s been thankfully quiet on the digestive front for almost an hour… which leaves the eldest chickadee and i to wonder what to have for breakfast ;-)
Blueberry waffles and butter and syrup. And a little Conjure One on the mp3 player for the eldest… something different from Hilary. Not better, just different.
blink… where did the week go? i’ve somehow got to stop the insanity… it’s simply going too fast. I want time to stand still, the way it did when you were in grade 10 and thought time would NEVR pass fast enough….
what happened to the time? i had 85 things on my list to do this week. I don’t even think i did 3 2 of them. this certainly doesn’t bode well for next week, i’m telling you. aside from sordid gossip and good stellas, the week was entirely too bizarre… and for some reason i have 5 different messages on voicemail screaming banzaii at me ;-)
there’s a really good reason for that.
sure there is.
… of the little bits of things i should know about…. visits to dirty olive keep me in the loop when i least expect it… ;-)
For example…. it’s been National De-Lurking Week, and I didn’t even notice.
For the motley crue who seem to have repeatable footprints in my logs, this means, that it’s a free-for-all for comments… instead of just reading, lurking and leaving. You really can’t pretend that you weren’t here. Really. :-)
… like leetle shadows in the sand, i see your marks all over my logs. is it you? is it really really you? or is it bruce willis?
;-) 
the sexy new word: web 2.0
there’s little consensus on what it really means…. but it seems to mean alot to many interesting and influetential people… it’s a big, messy, over encompassing word to capture the changes that have been happening with the internet. Now, whether it’s all about collaboration, or blogging, or opensource on steroids, or if it’s simply a feeling of "being part of the big picture"… it’s hard to tell. Of course, the theories are multiplying like proverbial bunnies, and they are all tinted the same warm and fuzzy shade….
But no one can quite put their finger on the colour; is it mauve, is it pale purple, is it purpley pink? I think you get my meaning. Check out the wikipedia link above (which is yet another example of web 2.0) and see if you don’t agree… it’s here, it’s an exciting concept to have after all the fuzzles of the past few years… people need something to jump to. People are tired of the fuzzle.
Me, i’m admitting i am excited about web 2.0, even if i don’t really know what it is yet ;-)
today i came across a posting from dirty olive, and by geeze, she did hit the blog nail right on the head… about finding that zing that just resonates with you, when someone "gets you"…. and there is no easier way to get that zing, than via the blogosphere… you would have to circulate ALOT to come across folks like that, and really, who has that much time any more? or interest ;-) to wade through the crud that is humanity.
You know i’m not being cynical.
You know i’m being realistic, and secretly you agree. You are thrilled when someone gets you. I know I am. I was so thrilled, that i realized i couldn’t live without the wizard. But there was a quiet, empty time when i was worried that i wasn’t going to find that. And now, when that zing reappears online, i grin. Analog or digital, the zing is a thrilling reminder that we are all human, and we all need the zing.
Wiz, thank you for your zings. You get it. You get me.
Update on 2006-01-20 12:01 by jules
uhoh.
dirty olive has left the building. There’s no sense in making a hyperlink. Her home directory is simply gone. Nothing left but a dusty cgi-bin. Gulp.
… i realized this morning, as i pulled together all the fixin’s for coffee, that my cup cupboard (is that redundant), reads like a tech resume…. i don’t know for sure whether to be slightly embarassed, or slightly amused…. oracle, allstream, netcom, at&t, dell, webfeat…. i’m sure there are a few cups missing…. or perhaps they’ve broken over the years…. i used to have a nissan mug, but somehow it’s disappeared ;-) i’m not sure it fit with the theme anyways…
what do *you* have in your cupboard?
… gotcha.
nakedfurniture.ca
my new tv unit is there.
that is all.
Update on 2006-01-10 11:51 by jules
… the furniture is going to be outstanding…. a very non-traditional living room piece… think side board and jam cupboards…. :-) and it matches the rest of the living room….
imagine that.
matching furniture. who woulda thought…
Update on 2006-01-11 23:26 by jules
sweet mary - it’s going to take 4 to 6 WEEKS. Don’t they know i am instant gratification gurl? How am I going to survive that long. This is just mean.
;-)
… dancing through my head - yet not a one is going to see the worthy light of day…
- i could be talking about how i bought outstanding used blundstone boots, and how, after a day of loving wear, the turn on me and chew my Achilles tendon to the marrow, making it impossible to wear any other boots for days
- i could be talking about finding bloggers in the most bizarre places, and the code of silence we observe while at the "place of work" (tm) nudge nudge, wink wink.
- i could be talking about an insane desire to sell bandwidth like one would sell crack… pssst, hey - wanna by 45 Mbps between toronto and chicago? I can get you a good deal….
- i could talk about the tribulations of tying up the smapp dog to the only doggie hitching post at the variety store
- i could talk about my wish of competition for grocery gateway
but alas - my brain has 3 cells left, and i think i am going to save them, and watch house of wax. so there.
yeesh.
fast - crazy - insane. working till 10 every night to catch up on what didn’t get done during the day. no time for good sleep, no time for cleaning or laundry; no time for making dinners either… i need a wife ;-)
the weekly web shop for groceries has even been relegated to next week - which mean more eating out, or a guerilla style attack on the local grocery store. and i’m not good with that, not with 60 stairs to climb to my kitchen…. oh my.
… of christmas vaca. i’m not ready, it hasn’t been long enough, there are more things i still want to do! did i menation that i’m not ready yet?
:-(
last night the wiz and i went to see narnia… and it was surprising, the audience was old. not old old, but old like us ;-) and i suppose it was just as well, considering that old people are becoming just as noisy and unfocused as kids… :-) common sense, i’ll say it again, isn’t as common as you think… people who think it’s ok to walk on the road, people who think it’s ok to let a cell phone ring in a theatre, people who think it’s ok to walk partway through doors, and then stop to talk to friends… people who DO stop in the middle of the sidewalk to chat, not caring enough about their surroundings to realize they are stopped in the middle of a busy sidewalk; and one of my all time favourites, people who stop to talk just in front of elevator doors….
you hafto think… at some point, how do you get these people to smarten up? How can we enlighten them that their choices are inappropriate in a city of over 2 million?
hmmm….
yes, it’s december 28th… the time for tinsel to die, for silly festive decorations to resturn to their dark abode in the garage, the time for recycling, and culling and finding homes for the sacks of kid pressies…. methinks it’s time for some little ones to graduate from a hope chest toy chest, to a full fledged shelving and storage unit…. if only to spare my sanity (and by extension, theirs). They won’t be able to find anything in their room soon… that could work in my favour, if i want to simply wrap something they haven’t seen for months, for their birthdays ;-)
it was quite a worthy christmas, full of skates and ear buds and mp3 players. And this was the Year of the Slipper. :-) And the Year of the Bootlegged Movie. We watched Saw II on christmas eve. Festive, I tell yah. It was OUTSTANDING. And t carry on the disturbing entertainment holiday tradition, my seester loaned me Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk - not disappointed, it’s troublesome.
today the wiz returns to the office, and i am left to fend for myself with the holiday deco. Pffft.
… oh god. it’s amazing. go to pandora.com
you will love it.
in a nutshell, it helps you adventure into music you may not have heard before. all you do is plug in an artist or a song you like, and pandora will create a full radio station of songs/artists that are similar… it’s all streamed, and the quality is outstanding. i am addicted. woke up early to listen :-)
so i have just about exhausted my fill of christmas movies, so when i had a chance to record and watch ZERO DAY today, whilst wrapping pressies, I took it….
…perhaps one of the most bizarre movies i have ever seen; based on the columbine killings, told from the killer’s point of view. it was very well done. creepy and more emotionally charged than you might expect.
ahhh, the sweet smell of nothingness. sleeping in, drinking tea, looking about the tower and realizing that the only things i have to do for the next 2 days involve sleeping, wrapping and cleaning. it’s good to be on vacation. you can barele see the living room floor, for all the pressies strewn about…. perhaps i should photograph for posterity.
3rd christmas party last night, with pressies and lasagna and veal! i am convinced i spent yesterday in a state of "snake who ate a lamb"…. it took nothing to fall asleep last night ;-)
… you know the feeling - when you’ve managed to hook the most perfect pressie. the pressie to rival all pressies? that’s the feeling that i will be basking in for the next 6 days.
finally - i’ve got the wiz beaten.
i am thrilled and can’t wait!!!
;-)
loads of work.
compounded by loads of life stuff.
there isn’t enough time.
my head is going to pop off; or else i will rip it off and throw it at someone.
i need a tea and some jule time.
… aren’t you excited? ;-)
1 christmas party down, a few more to go… then santa, and a new year.
