i would like to announce my outrage. my local snowboarding mountain is no longer going to offer me free parking. i can just about handle the $5 a day fee but the fact that there is only ONE pay machine is just too damn much. not only will we have to stand in line to get our ticket but we will have to walk right to the other side of the car park to make our purchase and then back to our car and then back towards the mountain again. this totally nulifies the time we save by sneaking out of work as early as possible in order to get up the mountain in lickety split time.
ps yes this is all i have to worry about!
9:21 p.m. - October 13, 2003
i've just watched billy elliot. it's so odd for me to see movies like that and the full monty because the streets in the movie are the streets in which i grew up. i grew up in a mining town. i experienced the miners strike. i felt the poverty surrounding me. my father was no longer a miner at the time of the strike (by that time we were living in a nice detached house on a new housing estate) but as a welder at the local power station he often went out on strike in support. it's hard to explain how or why, it's hard to talk about this at all, but my parents somehow lifted themselves and in turn my sister and i from the life we could have had and gave us the opportunity to become more. i am very grateful to them for that but as i sit here in my brand new 23rd storey downtown apartment i remember friday nights at my grandparents place; the back yards all in a row and the cobbled street in-between which led to the park. it was always summer and there were always home-made ice pops and i was always happy. i know where i came from and i worry that i didn't come as far as i should have.
9:53 p.m. - October 12, 2003
rainy days are perfect for going through the boxes of "junk" that accumulate in your wardrobe. i've just found the shoes that i wore on my wedding day. i never really noticed how beautiful they are when i bought them. at the time i didn't really care what i wore on my feet. i just knew i had to find something to match the dress that i cared even less about. i do remember that they cost more than the dress.
it's our 4th wedding anniversary next thursday. we are going out for dinner. i now care what i wear.
3:06 p.m. - October 12, 2003
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