summer!!!... or pretty much, anyway.

today was a long day. and tomorrow will be another. today i worked all day washing windows with dean. and it was BEAUTIFUL. so warm. sunny. i got a tan! not that getting a tan is difficult for me... but it has started. tyler is jealous. his neck is a nice shade of red... not a burn, but that's just what colour he turns in the sun. i bug him and say that his tan is just red, and he says i am being racist because he is part metis. haha. anyway, now i am at the radio station. it's bike to work week in vernon, and so i biked to work. i planned on biking yesterday, but i got down to the end of our street in the car, and realized that i had forgotten. it was too late to go back and get my bike. oh well. i biked today. my mom and i joked yesterday about dean biking to work for window washing and how funny it would be. a trailer with all of the equipment. that would be the longest and hardest day EVER. hahahaha. but funny to see. tomorrow i work with dean again, and then i get to go to roller derby for the first time!

that's right, my radio counterpart is finally back from australia. she left in january, and i have been doing everything that normally her and i share. it has been A LOT of work (all the hockey games, the on air shifts... etc.). but now i have to surrender a few of my evening shifts to her. which is cool. tyler and i might get to see each other a little more often, and of course, i finally get to go to roller derby and use the skates and equipment that we spent so much money to get (i am TERRIFIED to go now... erin has already been going for months... i am going to be so bad). but part of me also feels like i should get to keep the shifts. i worked really hard to get this weeknight spot. i did EVERYTHING they asked me to (including an operating shift where i only had 7 hours between the night before, and when i had to come in at 5 am... and then came back to do my evening show at 5 that evening...) and counterpart just waltzes in after sunbathing and partying on the other side of the world for 4 months and takes some of my prize. i know that it makes sense though, so i can take time off and there is something to cover for me. and i do want time off this summer. i just don't want to lose what i worked so hard to get, ya know? i'm the one who is here for the long haul!!

i got some plants going on my balcony. i'm really excited about it. my mom and i got some strawberry plants at the farmer's market. i got two different kinds. one of which i need to put in a hanging basket. i also got some basil and oregano plants (which aren't outside yet... because its too cold). my mom said she would give me a cherry tomato plant, and some green onions in a pot. i am really really excited about it. i haven't ever had my own garden before. and it's pretty cool that i can make it work without even a yard! just goes to show that anyone can have a garden if they are determined to. i have also seen really cool ideas where you can build a hanging garden in a window. there was something in an old bust magazine (if you haven't checked this magazine out, you need to... good music, books, artists, crafts, recipes, and stories every great feminist will enjoy) where they had built the hanging garden with old pop bottles and you watered it at the top, and it made its way down through all the bottles to water everything. it was so cool. i'm considering building one of those for the spare room maybe... hmmm.... i have to find that old article.

also... amy had mentioned wanting to listen online, you can listen to my show online at 1075kiss.com. 5-9 on weeknights (except tuesdays and wednesdays). the feature that i created, 'food for thought' runs every night at about 5:45. also, if you would like a copy of any of jayme's recipes... let me know. i can email them to you!!

i got some awesome patterns from vogue. i'm really excited to make them. one is a strapless dress... short... kind of hard to explain beyond that, but it is soooo cute. and the other is a vintage vogue pattern that we figured was kind of similar to my wedding dress (i wanted to try on something kind of similar... so my mom and i figured we could make it, considering i can't find anything like it). i also got a pattern for the dress we're going to make for my mom for the wedding. its really nice. i like it. i hope it looks good. i just need to go fabric shopping now. and order more patterns. there is another blog that i have been following, here, and she did a made me march, and made me may. sooooo cool. for an entire month, everything she wore, she made herself. i want to do that really bad. i think it would be really rewarding. and soooo much cheaper than trying to buy all the stuff i want. i would say less frustrating than looking for things i like... but... i don't know about that one.

anyway... thats all for now.

ps. i am obsessed with bjork's all is full of love today... just obsessed.