Egotistically Humble

Wednesday, December 2nd 2009
12:24am

sooooo... I was like DUDE! I totally need to update my LJ and update the few people that still read it cuz I've had major things happen lately... and then I was reading Naeko's journal and voila! perfect meme for just such an update.

So's I stealed it.
Here read for yourself:

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.

1. First Name
Marika. But in highschool I hated it... so everyone called me Marie.... excpet for my close friends who called me Marika or Mika or Mikor...
Online I'm generally known as Hummingbird or Aura.

2. Age
I's be 26. turning 27 in April and I'm freaking out!

3. Location
London, Ontario.... tho I'm not sure I like it yet. I moved here 6 months ago but I'm a bit of a recluse.... and I was unemployed so I didn't meet anyone til last week when I got my job. But I am still not 100% sure I like it here.... I guess we'll see. My parents arranged for me to live in a lovely condo that I only have to pay condo fees for (well at least I will as soon as I get my debts paid off after being unemployed for 6 months) it was kinda a sweet deal. So I moved here for the free place to live.

4. Occupation
I am/was a Nanny. But apparantly London sucks for Nannies... and no one needs one. So now I got a job (last week as aforementioned yay!) at the Aquarium store here in London. I dunno if anyone remembers... but I used to work at the one in Oakville. Let me tell you.... THIS one is sooooo much nicer to work at. The people are FANTASTIC. and they barely had to train me cuz the Oakville one trained me. So it's quite awesome..... BUT my feet were fucking killing me after that first week. Zomg. 6 months sitting on your ass doing nothing but playing wow to 8 hour shift 4 days in a row not being able to sit down at ALL. I thought my feet were gonna fall off. But I got new running shoes out of it.... cuz I complained to my parents. And mine were like 5 years old and completely worn through. yay.

5. Partner
Wedahr. Yep. That LJ guy. We met like 9 years ago and we've been the bestest online friends evar. He came to visit over the summer... see my new place and me cuz we hadn't seen each other in like 6 years.... and well... things really hit off. So's we're giving it a shot despite the extreeeeeeeeeeme long distanceness..... but hey he'll be here in 13 days for like 2 and a half months! yay!

6. Kids
None yet. And unlike Naeko I very very very much want kids.... I think I've wanted nothing more than to be a housewife since I was like 5 years old.... I should have been born in the 50's......

7. Siblings
Sister, 6 years older and a Brother 2 and a half years older. Yep. I'm the Baby Princess in the family. :P
My sister is a quadrepeligic... I can't spell that word... that's prolly not a good thing. and I haven't seen my brother for almost 2 years. Well I haven't seen my brother for longer than 20 minutes in almost 2 years. He set up my internet when I first moved here 6 months ago but he works with comps for a living in Ottawa... so it only took him like 10 minutes. My brother is even more anti-social than I am.

8. Pets
3 cats. Loki, Kitza (rhymes with pizza) and Tiko. No Tiko is not named after Tico from Dora the Explorer... I actuallly made up Tiko myself. I liked Riki Tiki Tavi, and I wanted a T name... but I figured Tiki (lo)ki and Ki(tza) there were too many similar sounding sounds.... all Ki's and I used to have a friend with a cat named Pekoe... (yes as in orange pekoe tea) so I combined the two. and made Tiko. And then I found out Tico is a squirrel on dora the explorer.... SIGH.
Kitza had a problem with her claws curling and starting to grow into the pad.... but I took her to the vet today and they clipped her claws right to the quick.... so now she's cool. Hopefully they grow a lil skinnier so I can actually cut them.
and Tiko is currently licking my necklace... on my neck.... and kneading his paws (claws) into my shoulder and purring his head off. This is what he does when he's STAAAARVING. Tiko is a glutton. he's ALWAYS starving. I get mauled at least 4 times a day.

9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life.
New Boyfriend, New town, New Job. YAY
I explained them all up there ^ so um.... yah

OH YAH! And I chopped off all my hair. It was almost to my ass... now it's like at my shoulders... I will post pics next post.
I don't really like it.... but I like having long hair. and I miss my long hair.... but I chopped 11 inches off to donate to wigs for cancer kids so it was all for a good cause. Tho my crazy mother (see below) is glad I'm now 'in the current century' and insists that if I want to keep my hair long I need to "join a mennonite sect or something so it makes sense and I have a reason for being so old fashioned "
If my mother had her way I'd have short spikey hair.... which would SO not look good on me ugh.

10. Parents
I don't really get along with my mother so well. She's insane. Her most recent thing was getting me all hyped up to get a puppy.... and then telling me she wasn't going to until I had my life on track. ie: job/finish school etc etc.
So now I have a job.... and of course no TIME to TRAIN a puppy...
so no puppy for me for another looong long time.

11. Some of your closest friends are:
My bestest friends are Jess.... and um I guess Chelsey if she ever talked to me... but she fell off the edge of the planet so who knows really.
And Wedahr.... I feel super beyond lucky in that regard. And even tho I don't get to talk to her that often.... I consider Naeko my closest 'lj friend' and always panic when she does f-list clean-ups!!!!!!!
I <3 you Naeko even if I've been neglecting LJ lately.

mood: ( contemplative)

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Friday, October 23rd 2009
12:54pm

PS: chickens

that lil aside in my previous post about my sister's horrible chickens.

my sister is now a registered urban chicken farmer.... she has 4 chickens.

I hate them.

Chickens are the most vilely disgusting creatures I have ever come across.

My sister doesn't come home til monday too..... >.<
and I have to clean and feed them every morning.... thank god my dad is doing the 'night shift'

seriously..... I fucking hate chickens with a passion.
and it's raining today.... it could have been a nice day.... but it's FREEZING.... and the lil booties I have to wear to clean the chicken ... shed out got soaked and my toes are frozen and the chickens were all gross and and and UGH.

I came home and stripped and put everything in the wash and took a shower even tho I had one before I left.
I hate chickens.... >.<

Shapeshift / 4 Animals

Friday, October 23rd 2009
12:43pm

Too intense?

Okay lj readers.... those few of you still left on LJ on my flist that is.
I needs your help.

Yesterday my mom and I went to some picture framing place and we were there for a few hours discussing what kind of frames/mattes etc we wanted for the stuff that needed to be framed/reframed.... and so we ended up in huge discussions with Vincent the guy that worked there.

We talked about everything, my cats, his cats, his mom's dog, how he remembers customers by what they like... art, how art is personal, my sister and her (horrible) chickens... etc etc.

Then when we were going to pay for it... my mom handed over her credit card and jokingly said 'oh my husband won't be happy' And he again said that she could do a payment plan he understood blah blah blah... and my mom reassured him (again) that no it was okay she would pay for it all now. And I piped up "Nah it's okay... my dad knows by now that even if he doesn't like it when she walks out the door my mom is going to be spending lots of money."

He laughed and my mom kicked me.

Then she was talking to me today and was like "I finally figured out what it is about you and why it's so painful talking to strangers with you.... you are too personal you are too intense.... you need to joke with people.... you need to be witty but you cannot be intense.... people don't like intense... you get far too personal. "

and she wants me to go over tomorrow so she can lecture me on being 'too intense' with people.

Someone explain this to me.... I don't see how That ^ was too intense in the least bit.
and I don't see how after he's shared a ton of stuff with us and we've shared a bit with him.... it's not like I'm standing there telling him my life story... I share, he shares, he seemed genuinelly (I can't spell that word) pleased with our conversation and liked chatting with us.

My mom always accuses me of shit like this.... so I wanna hear it from other people cuz my mom is biased against me I don't care what she says.... she wants me to be like this perfect person who is perfect at everything and I'm not..... and I'm sick of her trying to mold me into what SHE thinks it's perfect I wish she'd just accept me for who I am and maybe suggest things I already am good at and how to improve them rather than trying to rip down my entire personality and change it.... o_O

mood: ( angry)

Shapeshift / 6 Animals

Thursday, September 10th 2009
08:21am

life update:

I have a job interview on tuesday. One kid, a dog and a cat with the hope of horses in the future, and they want someone who knows french.
zomg.... perfect for me or what?

I told my parent's I was broke... like down to 100$ broke.... and my dad gave me 50$ (he was helping me wash/detail my car) and my mom just called she wants to take me to the bulk grocery store. where you buy everything in bulk and it's super cheap.

Loki's been doing okay on the not attacking kitza front. And because of this kitza has become needy and violent. She's been taking it out on Tiko. And poor tiko constantly being attacked by his brother and sister, has been taking it out on me. he's constantly all over me. It's 50/50 cute and annoying.

Also there's a boy.... /gasp and that's all I'm saying about that. ;)

I need to go shower and eat breakfast which oh that reminds me...

In the past like few weeks... I've lost at least 7 or 8 pounds and I'm pretty sure my boobs shrunk (my bra was loose even after I'd just pulled it out of the dryer.... and usually they're tight when I do that) which means that I'm losing weight.
Not sure I like shrinking boobs... but when you lose/gain weight (at least fo me) the first thing to change is the boobs.

I've been making a point to eat breakfast. and Stopping myself at 'portions' rather than stuffing my face til all the food is gone.

That and I've been doing exercises on my giant exercise ball.... I'm hoooping that I can keep this up. Tho partially because of boy I feel more motivated in my life atm.

:P

anyways gotta jet.
Toodles!

mood: ( busy)

Shapeshift / 1 Animal

Tuesday, August 18th 2009
08:03pm

mmm!

I cooked tonight!!

a chicken (yellow) curry! with beans, and pineapple and apples and mushrooms..... I dunno wedahr's recipe :D
I burnt the sauce a lil bit.... but it was yummy.

And now I'm drinking BEER! (raspberry beer of course)

anyways that's the update from the land of mikor.....

if anyone has any easy easy easy EASY poultry/vegetarian dishes they'd wish to share with me.... by all means please do!

Just remember that I only know how to cook 3 things now. Grilled Cheese, Chicken Curry, and Tukey Spaghetti sauce.
I'm a noob in the kitchen.

Bye all!

mood: ( amused)
music: (Metric - Monster Hospital)

Shapeshift / 2 Animals

Monday, July 27th 2009
11:55am

WTB sims 2.5 please

I'm really hating the Sims 3.

which sucks.... cuz if I could get PAST the damn character selection screen I'd prolly love the game.

but.... I don't want a town of all men.
And unlike sims 2 where the women were all hot (or easy to make good looking) and the men not so much, The men are GORGEOUS in this game... and I can't make a fucking hot chick to save my life.

and it's really really annoying me.... as most of the people I tend to make are female.... and I try and make them but they all end up butt-ugly.

/sigh

mood: ( annoyed)

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Saturday, July 25th 2009
01:12pm

LJ twitter?

I don't have twitter.... well not officially.... Unofficially my twitter would be offline msgs to Wedahr:

wedahr . is offline.

Aura: I'm trying to have a day of cleaning and chores and being a responsible adult

and my sister is trying to get me away to go to her friends garden party

/sigh

I got out of it tho

raid at 5 I said ;)

which doesn't give much time

blizzard downloader is at 8%

Sent at 11:29 AM on Saturday

Aura: the elastic band on my pj pants stretched out... so I folded it over and sewed it so they fit now!!

Sent at 11:56 AM on Saturday

Aura: zomg. blizzard downloader is still at 8%

and despite Tiko trying to drive me crazy.... I managed to get the kitchen cleaned! And the storage closet a tiny bit neater.....

Sent at 12:46 PM on Saturday

Aura: I'm cleaning the bathroom now

blizzard downloader is still at 8%

Sent at 12:58 PM on Saturday

Aura: Apparantly the bathrooms aren't as fun to annoy me in as the kitchen is. So I'm done the bathrooms!!

but now i'm going to have a shower

Sent at 1:15 PM on Saturday

Aura: Did I mention the blizzard downloader is STILL at 8% ??

mood: ( productive)

Shapeshift / 1 Animal

Wednesday, July 1st 2009
09:24am

random

I was soooound asleep dreaming.... something.... when suddenly the train went by (and it goes by at least once an hour so I shouldn't have been surprised)

anyways.... the sound of the train must not have fit into what I was dreaming. Because I woke up sooo startled and shocked, god my heart was beating a mile a minute and my cats all sleeping on me were not impressed.

I'm sooo tired I can barely keep my eyes open.

Thinking I might go back to bed....

mood: ( sleepy)

Shapeshift /

Saturday, June 27th 2009
11:19am

Bunny

I promised a bunny post didn't I?

Well here ya go.

The bunny was doing horribly this last winter.... there were a few times that I was pretty sure I'd come home from work and the poor thing would be dead. He gets really depessed in the winter cuz he hates being inside.... and I was working a shit ton this past winter so the poor guy was prolly lonely.

Anyways we were gonna move in into my condo - maybe - but we didn't want him to have to deal with all the stress of moving and shit cuz he was already pretty stressed out. Soooo.... I took him to my parent's a few weeks before I moved and he lived on their porch. He perked up quite a bit... but he was still not 100% better.

My mom agreed that he prolly wouldn't last through another winter, so we decided once the green stuff starting growing in the forest to put his cage down in my parent's backyard (it backs onto a nice forest) and let him go.

he absolutely loved it. He rolled around in the dirt got as muddy as possible and became the healthiest, happiest rabbit I have ever seen.
He wouldn't go very far from his cage at first.... but eventually he was romping around the entire back yard and into the forest and back.

He always came back.
We were just wondering what we were gonna do with him, my parents were in the process of having their backyard dug out for a pool - don't worry he was appropriately locked on the deck high above the backyard when the workers were there. But even then locked up on the porch he was still happy... he's chase the workers around the porch (they were putting the finishing touches on the veranda/porch/balcony thing.) and the workers fell in love with him. So they wanted to take him. Two did anyways. The one's wife said no. The other had hunting dogs and figured it wouldn't be a good idea.

So what to do with him?
Well one day some people, who are going with the same builders as the people who built my parent's house, came to look at the house for ideas on their own house that they hadn't started yet.

Apparantly they had *just* been at the pet store looking for a bunny but the pet store had none.
So they took Switch.
Mom, Dad and 2 kids. One boy one girl. Switch LOVES kids... he grew up around em.

So.... now he's a super happy bunny with kids of his own who take him outside to play on a regular basis.
And he's already proven that even with a safe lush forest he doesn't run away.

I miss my bunny... but the balcony I have in my new apt is not animal safe. I won't let my cats out there.... let alone the bunny. It has a space large enough for bunnies to throw themselves off of. and I'm 10 floors up. So that really wouldn't have been good.

And there's really no place for him inside the apt cuz my second bedroom is actually a bedroom that I have set up as a guest room for people to sleep over.

but it all worked out great so no worries.

mood: ( tired)

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Sunday, May 10th 2009
06:51pm

star trek

I hardly knew there was even going to BE a star trek movie til a couple weeks ago...
And then my mom wanted to see it for Mother's Day... so I had noooooooooooooooo idea what to expect.... but after Enterprise.... I wasn't expecting much.
I didn't know who directed it... I didn't know who was in it. I knew it was Star Trek.

This week's Fringe had a crazy guy who thought we was Spock... and he talked about... well basically the premise of the movie.

So I'm watching the movie (omg hey! it's jennifer morriston from House!) and all this crazy stuff is going on and I'm like WTF! then one of the characters asks the star date and I go 'ooohhhhh Fringe'

And then I understood what was going on in the movie and could sit back and enjoy it more.

It really was quite awesome.

I seriously looove all the actors they got to play the classic characters we know and love.... and I keep thinking about the movie after the fact.... which to me says it was really good.

So yah... if you like sci-fi... or trek even a tiny bit... go see this movie you'll prolly enjoy it.

mood: ( tired)

Shapeshift /

Thursday, May 7th 2009
01:50pm

<3 fringe!

Fringe is totally the new X-Files..... and I was tooootally all for Xfiles when it was on!

Shapeshift /

Wednesday, May 6th 2009
11:58am

POST DAMN YOU!!

I have all these stories to tell you.... all maybe one of you that read this journal anymore....

but everytime I sit down well like right now A) I'm heading out the door and B) I have noooo frakkin clue where to start!!

I need to tell you guys about the finale of my last job.... about moving... about my cats.... and about my bunny!!!

I'm hoping if I talk about it like this someone might respond and egg me on to post. ;)

becuase I reaaaally have to start posting.
even tho the only one who really posts anything with any regularity on my flist is Naeko. :D

mood: ( busy)

Shapeshift / 3 Animals

Saturday, April 4th 2009
01:23am

thanks brain

you know you have a lot on your mind when you go take the garbage out and forget your keys to let yourself back into your apartment building..... and it's after midnight.

go me.

mood: ( tired)

Shapeshift / 1 Animal

Friday, March 27th 2009
11:46am

So the older of the two kids I used to look after just got her very first email address!

and emailed me....

it was very cute.

I miss the kids.....

Shapeshift / 1 Animal

Thursday, March 12th 2009
10:50pm

fruit anyone?

So there will totally be an explanation coming up eventually... Next week... when I have a crap ton of time on my hands.....

but until then it should be known that I'm a complete and utter basket case.

I'm sooo fucking stressed out about everything, tho by this point I don't even get why I should be anymore, and have even been having nightmares.....

I will be glad when tomorrow is over... and starting Monday I will have NOTHING on my plate for awhile and can write to you all about that.

anyways gotta take the garbage out now and go. to. bed.

I'm very tired.

See ya!

Shapeshift / 1 Animal

Tuesday, February 24th 2009
10:37pm

Eyes in front please...

So I think either someone was cheating.... or they compared notes... but I find it kind of ironic that last week Addison delivers a hermaphrodite baby on Private Practice.... and then this week on House he treats a sick boy who was born a hermaphrodite.

soooomeone didn't have their eyes on their own test paper..... :D

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Monday, February 9th 2009
11:44pm

bunnies!

I love bunnies... the feed on LJ used to have like 50 comments a day... but apparantly no one liked this comic....

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/bunnycomic/339675.html

I liked my Comment... but apparantly you have to be Canadian to get it.....

mood: ( tired)

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Tuesday, February 3rd 2009
08:25pm

movie review

So on the weekend I totally saw the latest Indiana Jones.
I was completely blown away by Cate Blanchett... I think I might actually find some of her other stuff to watch... I mean I've loved her in everything I've seen her in.... she's got amazing talent.... but I've not seen much she's actually had more than a supporting role in, other than Curious Case of Benjamin Button. So I should.

Anyways. Indiana Jones is a very good Classic Indiana Jones movie

( Until )

mood: ( blank)

Shapeshift / 5 Animals

Saturday, January 31st 2009
10:16am

lol

Apparantly Google search engine is a paranoid schizophrenic and forgot to take it's medicine this morning.

EVERY single page 'may harm (my) computer' .... INCLUDING the google help forum. how's that for irony. and it refuses to let me go to the page unless I manually copy and past the url....

Come on gooogle.... yer better than that. Take your meds and let me continue to search the web without issues.

mood: ( busy)

Shapeshift / 1 Animal