The Red Mug (solved), The Flask (continues)

The investigation for the red mug:
backstory: A friend and I went to do a promo, snuck into some VIP tent, and got ourselves red travel mugs. Last time I saw it, it had been in the dishwasher anticipating being cleaned and then used for the next few months on many random adventures with AnnaB... that is until it went missing, for the better part of a month, somewhere in this house of secret hiding spots.
solved: Yesterday actually, when I got up on our turquois chair to find sandwich bags, but instead, pleasently found the mug... Let the winter adventures begin!

The investigation for my flask:
backstory: Christmas of 2008, my favorite person gifted me a flask.
description: it was black, held about 8-9oz, had a silver slanted shield across it with the inscription "home on a Saturday night" (none of your business) on it.
last seen: I had it when I got back from my Europe adventure, 3rd week of October... It could have possibly been used on my drinking over the Halloween weekend (information that just came into play tonight). But the search continues... please comment if you have any information leading to the safe return of set flask.

The Sharing of Friends

"cuz your friends are my friends, and my friends are your friends, the more we get together the happier will be"... song lyrics. Now maybe they sound familiar to you and maybe they don't, and I guess that depends on how close you were to Barney as a kid... and apparently I had a phase when I was close to him (I got over the purple color of his skin, if only for a short while).

Regardless, it's kind of the mentality I live by. I like for my "friends" to know my other "friends", and together we could be a circle of "friends". Now I had a discussion with one such person this evening, and she will remain unnamed (because N2 didn't really sound that cool, and I already have a friend nicknamed A2 and I think he's awesome, so let's not ruin it) about how she collects friends, but doesn't share friends. Now that just sounds selfish right of the bat, does it not?

Haha, with one of my New Years resolutions being to expand my circle of "friends" I am going to make up a rule to my non-sharing "friends". We can exchange friends, if the word "share" doesn't float with anybody.... for every one person I introduce you to, I should get an introduction in return and:

* (asterisks, sidenote) they have to be the same amount of cool. If I introduce you to a person that's say 9/10 on the cool scale, you can't introduce me to some 2/10 loser that has no friends because his lame! That's the new rule, because apparently "N2" doesn't know how to share! Haha, love!

WTF?!?

I don't even have a BF and I'm apparently "clingy"

good luck to the guy that does eventually go out with me!

That's MY type of Christmas.

The beginning:
3:30 - finish work
3:40 - bus #1 to the hostel
4:15 - get to the hostel to pick up my luggage
4:45 - bus #2 to the south of Edmonton
5:30 - bus #3 further south in Edmonton
6:00 - bus #4 ANYWHERE need highway 2.
6:20- hitchhiking adventure officially begins
6:25 - i get picked up by a rad guy named Joe and his bitchy wife Megan who starts to interrogate me as to why I'm thumbing it with the most disapproving tones in her voice and subtle arguements with the hubby
7:00 - I part with car#1 and am left alongside a dark dark highway singing to myself and dancing trying to stay warm, hoping I get a ride
7:45 - a man driving from Fort Mac picks me up
10:00 - finally get to Calgary and meet up with Kate.

Christmas Eve
10:02 - jellow shots begin
10:25 - Christmas nachos!
10:45 - we start decorating the outside of the house.... looks so ghetto! (btw)
11:20 - more drinks / break
12:00am - take out the already decorated xmas tree from the box
12:20 - 4am - drinks!
4am - drinks, & AnnaB passes out...

Christmas Day
10:30am - AnnaB gets out to rock out to xmas music / clean
11:00 - Kate gets up
12:00 - breakfast shots!
12:20 - Christmas Omelette
1:00 - 3:00 - Christmas fireplace drinking game
3:30 - Gwyn comes to join in the Christmas fun
4:00 - AnnaB passes out
7:30 - Kate wakes AnnaB up to go to Christmas dinner
8:30 - 12:00am - Christmas dinner at BabyMamaNicoles w Ryder and fam!
12am - 4am - AnnaB & Gwyn do more fireplace drinking
4am - 8am - BestBuy promo
8-9am - lay down

Post-Christmas-Day
9-1pm - Drive to Edmonton
1pm - 7pm - Nintendo Wii Promo
8pm - HUNGOVER DEATH!

i think i might need a hug

I'm over the job. Haha. That's not true. I adore playing video games for a living, but today was one of those days where the littlest things got to me. The bitchy people at the mall. The crowds, the inconsiderate kids... I miss being in Calgary, although I adore the hostel, I feel like it's time to just go home and get on with it.

And then on top of all these little things bothering me, I thought about a few people I absolutely adore, and how most of them have not sent me "love" over the holiday season.
Boyfriend#1: I had a brief conversation with. He made me smile and made me laugh, and kinda made my whole holiday... even though we only talked about technical computer stuff cuz I needed advice. He sounded happy to hear from me. But I had to call him. Sadness.
Boyfriend#2: I was gonna play hard to get and not txt/call him at all. But after work today I gave it and thought I'd give him a shout. He was busy doing something and we didn't chat long. He asked where I was though 'Edmonton' was not the answer he wanted to hear. He sounded good and told me he had txt'd me before to say thanks and such. I guess I shouldn't just automatically hold a grudge. But the brief conversation made me miss him more.
Boyfriend#3: I know he's not in school. I hope he's doing well. I called and txt'd and always hope he's online, but I've heard nothing. I left him a voicemail today (yes, gave in and called that one too) and he should give me a shout since he got 2 cards instead of one! How much do you want to bet he doesn't.
Boyfriend#4: If I could chose anyone that I could be with forever, right now, I'd chose him. But aside from opening my cards early and making minimal effort in the past weeks, I've heard nothing from him over the holidays. This one I'm not budging on (yet), he should want to talk to me, obviously even if feelings go both ways, actions do not.
Boyfriend#5.MyFiance: I know he got the card, he mentioned that. I've heard nothing. Do boys have shorter attention spans because they're overseas? Sadness once more.

I just want to hear from the people I love most. No games and all that bullshit, but friendship does work both ways. And I feel like I've put forth the holiday effort.
At least I get to see Sophie in 2 days. She doesn't have to tell me she loves me. I just know.

Tippytoes.

Opening Nintendo is a good time. I get to the mall, hang out for a couple hours in the morning drinking some hot chocolate and eating my donut before it gets busy.... it's good. It's chill. But fuk man, these Edmonton Creepsters are starting to piss me off.

I was playin the new Mario the other day with some old guy cuz he requested specifically to try it out. Since no one was around, I played about 15min's with him, then excused myself and went to the other side of the Nintendo booth. He comes up to me 5 minutes later, brushes my elbow and says "I'd love to play with you later". Creeeeeeepy.

This morning I opened up again, and low and behold, guess who came over to ASK ME OUT. Are you fuken kidding me. Long story short, I'm not comfortable with people touching my elbow anymore and my supervisor Mike thinks it's beyond creepy, and yet kinda funny.

So we came up with the codeword TIPPYTOES. Doesn't matter what game you're playing just say TIPPYTOES as loud as you can and someone will be sure to come help you. Too bad Breanne (the girl I opened with) wasn't aware of the codeword. I coulda been telling the guy to play Mario Brothers on one foot and tippytoes and I still wouldn't'a gotten saved. There may be creepsters in Calgary, but at least they don't come up to me and ask me out!

the Nintendo thing.

So I love the job, really. And I think my boss Mike is an amazing guy. He's got a great attitude, amazing sence of sarcasm, and we could bitch about stuff and laugh about stuff whenever we're together. His friend Dave is even more-so hillarious. He's this big black guy with a deep voice and it's awesome to watch him talk to kids and get them to play the Wii. But his censor button is a little shifted.

Hillarious comments from Dave while working Nintendo:

-This huge creepster guy comes over and starts looking at me playing Super Mario Brothers (think taller and bigger than my brother, but just as creepy and silent). Dave says "hey dude, this is the new Super Mario Brothers, did you want to give it a try?".. The guy stays silent for a bit and than answers "no, I just like to watch". Dave looks over again, and asks "Oh yeah? Other people? Like from windows and stuff?" (I'm laughing my head off), the Creepy guy stays silent, stone faced as if he didn't hear anything. Dave says "that's cool man, I like to do that too", laughing and nudging him... again the Creepy guy says nothing (I'm starting to laugh I'm crying so hard.

-Dave is playing the sword fighting game on the Wii Sports Resort. A guy walks by and stops to check out what he's so into. Dave looks back and says "Just sword fighting, you wanna give it a go?" to which the guy responds "sure, I'll give it a shot". Dave gives him the controller and explains the game, then asks "Do you like a little fight first thing in the morning?", to which the guy says "I guess so". Then Dave says, "well, you're a lot like my dad then". To this I started laughing and crying so hard I had to pause my game and walk away. Haha.

It's cool being at a hostel and when people ask why I'm here I could answer "I play Nintendo for a living this month" and it's actually true. It is in fact the best job you could ever have, simply based on the fact that we haven't been able to think up one that's any better. But with my debts piling up and me not being able to live at home, I'm getting frustrated because (as bad as this may sound) I'm not used to NOT being favoured. Mike is a very fair boss and gives everyone decent hours, but somehow I almost feel like I'm owed something more for coming from Calgary. That's not true and deep down I know that, but on the not-deep-down part of things, I just wanna stomp my feet and throw a tamper tantrum!

So sick of it....

I haven't been this close to calling myself "depressed" since I've worked with Todd all summer. I hate being broke and the whole "money worries" song comes to mind. I feel like I should almost give up the lax'd job of playing video games, and just settle down to make some real money. But then I usually snap out of it.

But times like this, when I'm broke beyond belief and am almost forced to give up my 'job' to just crawl into a hole in the corner of my bedroom and hope for a paycheque.. I'm not okay with this. Lesson learned: I should probably stop buying things and wait to be "reimbursed" for it. It's always like that. Also the paying double rent, never served anyone well...

Enough of that rant. Basically, as much as I could cross my fingers for some money to basically appear in my bank account or mailbox, it's not working. And then I find out other people at work are getting more hours while I'm planning to hitchhike back to Calgary, and that rubs me the wrong way. After which, I go to the grocery store to buy "Mr. Noodles", yah that's right the pathetic life of a college kid 3 years later, only to lose my slipper on the way "home". Yes, I left the hostel again to wander the street of Edmonton in search for my slipper like a lost, depressed Cinderella.

I came up with one theory on this walk though. That pedestrians should also gets "horns" like cars have. (Think those old school silver and black horns that used to go on bikes). They wouldn't be practical, unless you attached them to everyone's shoes somehow. Then if you stomped a certain way, they would "honk". I just think that some drivers are inconsiderate douchebags, but not just to other drives, to pedestrians also... and so, pedestrians should have another alternative to yelling and flipping the birds... as drivers do... PEDESTRIAN HORNS are in order.

That's right. Today I'm pissed off at being broke!

never thought it would happen...

I get up every morning at 7:45, and am out of my room at 8:30. I set my stuff down in the same booth (mostly) and make myself the same cup of hot chocolate, and breakfast. Then at 8:40, I take a walk, and at 8:50 I'm on the same bus that takes me to West Ed Mall. I pay the same amount, sit in the same seat, and have the same bus driver that stops at the same convenience store to get a cup of coffee each day. And after playing Nintendo for a few hours, I take my usual bus home, walk back to the hostel, and sit at the computer for a bit before I pass out.

I never thought I'd fall into a regular, repeated schedule, but HAHA. I might as well have a 9-5 job. But hey, can't complain about playing Nintendo for the rest of the year!

Random Gibberish

The Leafs: Why is it that evey time I watch a goddamn Leafs game, the team fuken sucks and they make me disappointed to ever be raised in Ontario. The goalie's all rolling on the ground, and then they pull him all together, just to get more goals scored against them. I'm totally not impressed with them, not that I ever was. But with 3 years of me being away, and being discouraged with the Flames as well, I might as well start rooting for Vancouver, at least they got the "warm" weather going for them.

Wings: 1st off... It sucks when you come to the realization that you can't eat 20 wings by yourself, and don't have any friends to help you out. Such is my life. Furthermore, the "Pint" on 109th ave in Edmonton is a dope place, but the "redbull" bbq flavoured wings, don't taste like bbq at all!

Heinekin ads: My new favorite commercials ever. Seriously, the beer can falls off the table top, and his life flashes before his eyes? That's brilliant. I wish I was the one that though of it. It ALMOST beats my m&m commercial.... almost!