100 random things about ME!!!

okay I decided to tag myself from kate's blog and write up 100 things about me. I hope I can make it.....

100. When I was in Grade 5 I was sold on the idea to change my name to Maxine because I hated Preet so much. I got the forms and everything but my dad wouldn't sign it. i really wanted everyone to call be Maxi. It's true, it's true. I thought in my innocent mind that preet feet would be far waorse than anything they could come up with to go with Maxi. yeah right!

99. My mom used to help me cheat to get my brownie badges.

98. I never peed or pooped in an outhouse throughout all my girl guide camping trips. One lasted for a full week.

97. I still listen to New Kids on teh Block. A lot. Especially My favorite Girl and Didn't I Blow ya Mind.

96. I have two tattooes but they are both on my back so I often forget about them.

95. If I have a daughter that doesn't let me watch teen tv with her and read her teen magazines, i will be crushed.

94. Wherever I go I leave a trail of curly black hair... from my head.

93. I suck on my split ends when I am bored.

92. I don't care what anyone says, I have a GREAT singing voice; and it sounds the best when I'm in the car or cleaning my house.

91. I hate tomatoes.

90. I love mexican food.

89. I cheated so many times the last year i was a "vegetarian."

88. Hangovers and cold Mcdonald's cheesburgers were my downfall.

87. If I wear something white; I will spill on it; no question.

86. The first thing I notice about a gut is his hair.

85. the last thing I notice about a guy is his butt.

84. Even if I had a million dollars i would still shop vintage. It wouldn't be Value Village Couture anymore; but I wold still look at upscale vintage stores.

83. I beleive that teh world of music-lovers is divided into two camps: the people whose lives were changed by Nirvana and teh people whose lives weren't.

82. I belong to the former group.

81. When Kurt Cobain died I lost almost all of my friends.

80. I still remember exactly what I was doing teh first time I heard Nirvana.

79. Good Live music is my favorite thing.

78. I hate using pens that don't make a clicker on top; they just have a cap.
ate packing a lunch; and rarely do.

76. I still miss my Neon.

75. I will always prefer to wear sneaks.

74. I 'm a lot less cool than you think.

73. Mark my words, raven Symone will be remembered as teh black Lucille Ball.

72. I cry all the time.

71. I think of my family as my kids, these days.

70. I plan to take my dad to see Canada win teh gold medal in hocket in 2010.

69. I plan to go to Glastonbury in 2007.

68. I plan to go see the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.

67. I use a lot of q-tips. not only do i clean my ears complusively but i use them for make-up; for cleaning under my nails; for cleaning my belly button.

66. This list is taking a lot longer than expected.

65. I don't like Starbucks coffee anymore. Their chai lattes are still da bomb though. But for lattes and coffe I have bene spoiled by cafe Artigiano.

64. I don't eat cookies anymore. i eat biscotti....

63. I often wonder if when I look back on my life, my "career highlight" will have been working at teh Grand Forks Gazette.

62. Sometimes, i think I must have been a gangsta rapper in another life.

61. The first movie I ever saw in teh theatre was Adventures in Babysitting.

60. Th last movie i saw in teh theatre was She's the Man.

59. I am no longer very ambitious.

58. I am always sleepy.

57. I would usually rather be shopping or watching soaps.

56. My favorite restaurant is Red Robins.

55. I still always wear little, white, 'sockettes.'

54. I have one sister.

53. Everyone says we look alike.

52. We don't see it.

51. Chicks always tell me i should straighten my hair.

50. Most guys I've dated say they love my mangly mane.

49. More importantly, I for teh most part, love my mini-afro.

48. I've abused my hair more times than i care to recount.

47. But I will.

46. I've cut my own bangs.

45. Badly.

44. I've used 1950s afro relaxing to get teh kink out of my hair.

43. That stuff burns.

42. And half your hair falls out.

41. BUt it works.

40. I cannot do my hair with scissors in teh immediate reachable area. Bad things are bound to happen.

39. I'm running out of things to say.

38. I tape General Hospital and beverly Hills 90210 every weekday.

37. I hope my kids end up watching GH.

36. I hope my son ends up in teh NHL and play for teh Canadian Oylmpic team.

35. I had a bagel for breakfast.

34. We're out of toliet paper at my house.

33. I started this list yesterday.

32. I'm going to buy the new Christina CD today.

31. I don't like silence.

30. I want to join a writer's club.

29. I want to try stripper -robics.

28. I want some new sneakers.

27. Some new jeans.

26. Some new bras.

25. A new jacket.

24. I wonder if this is cheating?

23. I don't care, this is hard.

22. I am at work, you know.

21. With actual work that needs to be done.

20. I think about moving to Victoria a lot lately.

19. I wish I lived in the Victorian times.

18. We would all wear corsets and take walks through teh Moores in teh moonlight... It would be sooo romantic.

17. If I got plastic surgery, I would get a hand transplant.

16. I am proud that I was a child of teh 90s.

15. I hate 80s.

14. Except 80s clothes. They are pretty cool.

13. Thirteen is my favorite number.

12. I won my first writing prize in grade four for a scary Halloween story I wrote about how October 31 was like Friday the 13th.

11. My Fvaorite Indian food is mutter panear.

10. I probably didn't spell that right.

09. I have a poster of Raven Symone by my computer.

08. I have a framed photo of me and my sister by my desk too.

07. And a philosophical quote a day calendar. That still is checked to July 27.

06. Today's quote says " To set up what you like against what you don't like- this is the disease of the mind. -Sengtsan.

05. I am a really bad typer.

04. My tummy is grumbling.

03. Even though I hate the ladies of the View, I miss watching it sometimes.

02. Once I buy a place, I will probably get involved in municipal politics.

01. I'm done!!!

00. Now you know 100 things about me!!!!


I tag Ms. Golightly because she is a talker if I ever met a talker and she probably will find this challenge a breeze!

Merci Montreal; Vous m'avez tres tres EDGY...

Oh Montreal. You have won me over. Seriously you cocky Quebecois with your self-assured, shoe-gazing style and effeminate posturing. That's edgy. I love it. I love it even though everytime I tell you that I am from Vanocuver you spend the next 20 minutes trying to tell me why Montreal is sooo much better than Vancouver. (Yes, It's true Adri, I told them I was FROM Vancouver, my sister even said i could!)

The trip was awesome! Awesome despite a few roadblocks including being charged $230 to spend like 40 minutes in a hostel that was basically this weird hippie chicks' house; in a room with a mattress on the floor; no sheets and a comforter that smelled like puke! SO being the divas that we are we high-tailed it outta there and cabbed it to the Holiday Inn. YOu know how we do:)

The next day we went to H&M and it was everything I'd ever imagined. And there were having a sale and there was their fall and summer stuff there. It was sooo awesome. i was in heaven. I think we spent at least 3 hours there. That night we went to this circus called Ola Kala and this one guy bailed like 6 times right in front of us. There was an opera singer and a wind tunnel and everyone was sitting on these recliners. It was very European......

The next day we went to teh big gay festival and met some gay olympians and had random dudes teaching how to dance like'sexy' gay guys and try to hit on us and chilled out to House music and watched a crazy drag show with an Edwards Scissorhands-esque Marilyn Manson drag queen doing Sweet Dream and a big black and fabulous drag queen stripping down everything and writhing on teh floor after her top accidently started falling off!

We did a lot of touristy things like we went to the Biodome and saw the cutest penguins and we went to the Museum of Contemporary Art and saw these cool exhibits about the evolution of teh music video and some Brian Jungen sneaker Native Masks.. SO cool. We took a morning boat ride along the St. Lawrence River and wandered through Old Montreal, Little Italy, The Village, the Latin Quarter; St. Laurent Boulevard... Did I mention my feet hurt?

All in all it was soo fun. I didn't get into TOOO much trouble; my sister and I didn't get on each nerves too much we didn't put ourselves into too much debt. And this trip really re-opened my love for vacations. Everyone should take vacations. All the time! screw working!


A building in Old Montreal. I could whip out my guidebook and telll you which one it is but I won't just look at it and saw it's old andf pretty....
these penguins look so fake, right? well theya re not! Stuffed penguins and reall penguins look surprising similar! but stilll soooo cute:)

The Biodome as seen from a yacht on teh St. Lawrence River. Okay , okay probably not a yacht. maybe it was more of a boat. But definetly closer to a yacht than a dingy!
Did I mention that everyone loves teh Gays in Montreal? They do. They even but huge medals on their banks for teh Gays. I even let some people think I was a lesbian to just fit in with teh gays!! How's that for a ROLE REVERSAL???
Me and my sister are such bad-ass hommies. Especially my sister. She's right out of East L.A. Look at her pipes!!!
Oh Mon dieu! Ou es la magasin H&M si vous plait? Merci, Merci . Mais, Nous n'avons pas d'argent maintenant!!!!

Au revoir Vancouver, Bonjour Montreal!!!!

Au revoir mes amis..... J'ai aller etre EDGY. Vous entendez nous avons tres chic. oui. oui. oui.

Je t'aime entendu heures!!!
Bye!!! See y'all in a week:)