smell that?

Vancouver smells tonight.

I don’t mean that as a complaint, just an observation – tonight the entire city of Vancouver and its surrounding suburbs all smell. While we were out scooting tonight, I smelled:

  • Freshly cut hay (quite possibly the most delightful smell ever)
  • Freshly cut grass (also good)
  • Burnt coffee (horrible)
  • Delicious foods (yummy)
  • Lush (nostalgic and delicious)
  • Salmon being smoked (odd but not bad
  • Marijuana being smoked (wouldn’t be traffic in Vancouver without it)
  • Unidentified roasting flesh (unpleasant)
  • Sewage treatment (normal)
  • The ocean (fabulous)
  • Exhaust (Ed smells)
  • Skunks (aka home)

It was mostly nice, sometimes awful, and very strange. Everything was so fragrant tonight, so much so that I am telling the internet. Vancouver smells! A lot!

ten! ten years!

While we’ve technically been together for 10 years and 4 days, today is our official Tenthiversary – ten years of togetherness as some sort of couple. Wacky! To celebrate, we’re going out for a Fancy Dinner at Quattro and also to pick up the laundry. Ed’s been raving about Quattro since his (real and not horrible) job took him there for fun times and eats, so he made reservations and a-dinin’ we shall go. Exciting! I want to dress up, but I think we’re scooting there and it’s difficult to ride in a ball gown. Not that I actually OWN a ball gown, but it’s nice to pretend I do – that way, all those tiaras I have don’t seem so out of place.

I want to be more excited about the anniversaries than I currently am, but it’s hard. For one, my increasingly bizarre “job” is weighing heavily on my mind. Also, the closer we get to the Deathiversary, the sadder I am. I miss my dad. I keep seeing or hearing things he would have liked and I think, “hey I should tell dad” but I can’t. Death sucks, yo.

I sent a letter off to my “boss” asking him to let me know exactly what my status is. I’ve been firing off resumes like mad, trying to find something before the inevitable happens. Given the facts so far, it really does seem like I’ve been fired – they’ve just forgotten to let me know.

Oh well. I have an anniversary to celebrate, laundry to pick up, and I’m in desperate need of a shower.

Happy Tenthiversary, Ed! I do love you, even if you are extremely weird.

can’t sleep

Things that bother me more than they should:

  • Ed’s snoring
  • Fingerprints on my Macbook surface
  • Misplaced apostrophes
  • My removal from my work’s staff page
  • My lack of caring about my inability to sleep

Hm.