singles awareness day.

i am usually very cynical about valentine's day. i always thought it hilarious to refer to it as singles awareness day. i think i heard it originally from my friend tenille, but it always stuck with me. when i worked here at the station before, cole and i made a big joke out of it and how i was bitter and alone... i wasn't even single. but it was funny. until someone called in and suggested that cole and i date... he didn't think that was so funny and dropped the whole thing. which i thought was even funnier.

i've been talking to sarah a lot. its nice. nice to have her back in my life. i'm sure most of you who read my blog know what it is like to reconnect with your sister. haha. we've been talking so much about families, and like laura said, it is sooo interesting. interesting to look at old pictures of both her and me, and norm, and see likeness in her 3 kids. her boy really does look a lot like norm, its weird. i got really nostalgic (as if any of you didn't notice) and went through the entire box of old pictures i have. its a pretty big box. i took pictures of pictures, so they quality isn't fantastic. but you get the idea. i need to get some photo albums and actually sort through them properly. a lot of them have been wrecked over the years in that box. not to mention the box is all but completely falling apart. you know what i did find though, in all those piles and piles of old pictures. SLANTED EYES. like clarke eyes. but on my dad's side too. how did i avoid those? really... its quite amazing.

i'm really excited for the day that i finally get to meet my nieces and nephew. sarah sends me pictures of them sometimes on my cell phone, and they look like fantastic kids. lots of energy. i want to really get a chance to be an aunt to them.

the ad for the car is going in the paper on sunday, according to dean. so we'll see what happens with that. tyler is now having cold feet about selling it and thinking we might be better off hanging on to it. i don't know. i figure if it sells, it sells. if not, then we keep it for a while. i have a lot of other things going on... i don't even want to think about it, really. i am working both jobs tomorrow. and apparently last year valentines day was ridiculously busy at the pub. i'm really not looking forward to it. monday is my staff review with the boss at the pub. i have been told by some of the other girls not to expect it to be anything good. i am now expecting to be told i am doing a mediocre job and i really need to improve on everything if i want to keep my job... which stresses me out. and that's what i left my last job for! tuesday is interviews for shaw cable for the our kids have talent competition. i am being interviewed, as well as having pictures taken with the top 10. and there is a hockey game on either tuesday or wednesday night that i have to do... so... busy busy busy. and then i work thursday and friday nights. work day at the pub next saturday, and night here. followed by sunday at the pub. the next week is just really not looking that great...

olympics are here. and everyone keeps talking about it. i'm sick of it already. tyler wants to watch some of it, and i'm just NOT interested. it makes me angry. the opening ceremonies were on at the pub last night when i was working. and it was just a gross display of a disgusting waste of money. like... honestly.... consider all the budget cuts that have been made to the arts over the last 2 or 3 years. health care. social programs. ALL so we can put on a big show for the olympics that will last 17 days, and then we have a few decades of debt to follow so to pay it all off. its sad. i am SO glad i am not living in vancouver right now. the cost of living is ridiculous. there are probably just so many MORE people around. far too many people for my liking.

i like living in the okanagan.

today was so warm and sunny and wonderful... i am really just hoping for spring so i can get my bike in top condition and RIDE. and get my spare bike running. and have other people ride with me.

tyler is bringing me coffee so i can make it through the rest of my night here! WOO!!