hi frands,

sorry for the late reply. my firefox has been so slow lately, anyone else finding that, is it just me? every time i go around asking that i always think of that one scene in the life aquatic when bill murray gets hit with swamp leeches and he calmly instructs his crew to check for swamp leeches and everyone's fine and he's like, "nobody else got hit? i'm the only one?" oh man, i'm gonna go watch that now.

rachie, i got a book on television (ha) for $5! great deal and great book. dance class sounds fun i've always wanted to learn how to dance ballroom. i used to work the phone rooms for a private latin dance studio in mississauga and the instructors lived lives like soap stars. every day it was a new affair, a new eating disorder and plenty of drama to go around! it was an amazing time. don't use cover up on your legs if anything add some black and blue eyeshadow to them to deepen the ferocity of the bruises! they'll make great conversation starters. however, i'll question any man intrigued with battered women until he addresses his intentions. i'm also pretty tight on the monetary funds (what's new) but i will celebrate marc's birthday in spirit, which i guess means i'll - in spirit - also be with him who will also join us in spirit. man, i'm tired.

galinerz!!! you made it on! you may literally be on the other side of the world but you already feel so much closer to home, already. i realllly wish i had a scanned photo from the first makeover, omg, these are going to be photos that we look back on every 5-10 years and think WTF. WTF WERE WE ON. and then we'll be all like, oh, nothing. and then we'll high-five. oh you must post photos!!! link us to some seoul life, i'd love to see where you're living and what it's like! that'd be awesome. i think it'd be cool if everyone did that.

oh gosh, i forgot to mention, vern and i bumped in to charles and yvonne on bloor street! what!!! what are the chances. i mean, really. vern and i always avoid bloor and take side streets and on this particular nite we just didn't even think about it. charles and yvonne were killing time in the annex and walking around and vern and i were walking back home with a big cold watermelon that we picked up to help us get through that heatwave. i think it was still like 32 degrees that nite and it was like 9 pm! vern wanted to drop off the watermelon before hitting up clinton's, which is where the newlyweds were heading, so vern and i got to take the two home for a bit and give them a quick tour of our humble abode before heading out for pints. well, i had an apple cider (non-alcoholic) due to my detox but the grown ups got adult drinks.

crassy

my darling loves,

how i miss this place! i was waiting for everyone to reply to crissybob's (i think you are a woman of many nicknames, my dear;) email but i see we've started it up here!

moi? i'm still living it up in seoul teaching esl & just got married last year! of course, everyone in facebookland knows this already ;) i love being a wife & i think i was probably born for domestic bliss. cooking food together, watching movies, hanging out, singing songs, dancing, coffee coffee coffee...i love it :)

i miss you all very much though and would very much love for a reunion when i return! perhaps you gals (rach, criss, vonvon) can give me a ziggy stardusk-esque (did i even spell that right?) makeover again...muahaha

love you and and miss the laughs!
let's keep this thing going!!

g xoxo

Crassy, did you buy any books?

Today I started Latin American Dance (level 1) classes at the community centre. We learned the merengue. I was (surprisingly) doing quite well! I can't wait for the next class!

Muay thai is going pretty well too, though my legs are bruised and ugly. I'm debating whether I should put cover up on them when I go out to work and stuff.

Anyone want to go on a boat cruise July 18th to celebrate Marc's b-day with him in spirit?

wow, five year wedding anniversary. time flies!

rachie, i feel ya. i'm doing my best to find the "right" job for myself. i share similar qualms about my past places of employment, never really feeling content or challenged or creative. it's tough, but i believe in you. where are you volunteering? muay thai doesn't have ranks, it's just a drink! hahaha, the ironing is delicious. i always appreciate a clever simpsons throw-in.

so i plan on sleeping through this heatwave. when the weather forecast says "feels like" 43 degrees celsius, i pack it in. maybe skulk around later when it's dark, like i did last nite which probably felt like about 38 so it was kinda pointless yet not the point. bought a book from bmv (open til 11!), infamous annex bookstore about 5 minutes down the street. i called at about 10:15 pm and surly annex book shop guy answers with a long, surly drawn out "elevennnnn," when i asked what time they're open til tonite. then we bought some sweet cold watermelon. yum, it's what summer's made of! even when it "feels like" my insides are sweating.

also on that note, rachie, i think a bbbq sounds awesome!

crassy

Oh wow it's definitely been a while. It's coming up on Janice and Aaron's 5th anniversary and they're still going strong. Thanks for hashing up the memories Crassalejandro (Crassandro). Btw, I love your pic!

Well, my update would consist of this:
I've been living the somewhat retired life, minus the globe-trotting, since I'm working part time. I've been doing way too much volunteering so now I'm job hunting & hoping that I gracefully fall into my "perfect" job. I'm at home with my parents & they're the same. The love life comes and goes in turbulent waves ;) For fun I am slowly working my way through the ranks of muay thai. That's pretty much it. I think that was as short as Crassy's.

It's funny that when I entered my e-mail address, another blog came up and I realized that though so much has changed, I've pretty much stayed the same. It's a little depressing and funny at the same time. The other blog was my own little rant journal, but it mostly consisted of me going on about how much I missed "Tim" (Andy). It's creepy that how I felt back then, after having been dumped by "Tim," is exactly how I'd felt last year after me and "Blanket" (Tish---) broke up: I feel like I just failed at something so horribly. That's me and love. A failure. That's what it feels like. Will I ever get this thing right?? It's quite weird the way I go through relationships- who knew I'd be so bad at them!!
I forgot how dramatic I can be...

And even back then, I wondered if I'd ever find my perfect job: Oh my gosh, I hate working in retail! It's so tiring to put up with customers for nine hours on a Saturday- a day that's supposed to be relaxing! I wonder if I'll ever find the perfect job for me...? Retail makes me want to eliminate the human race, while social services makes me want to help mankind. "The ironing is delicious."
There's always room for a Simpsons quote.

Well, hopefully I'll have much more positive news to spew out to the rest of y'all. Miss you guys. Maybe the next time everyone's in the area, we should do a little blogger bbbq? The extra "b" is for BYOB (that was for Crassy).

Will anyone even read this?

HUZZAH! YOU'RE HERE!!! IT WORKED (MANIACAL LAUGHTER) (BIG HUG) (LURES YOU IN TO BLOG CAVE) ***FOLLOW CRASSY***

"oh, hey!"

doesn't this blog bring you back to 2001. like i was telling cgal, we were so ahead of our time! gosh.

okay, where do we begin! where...

my last post here was on...

Tuesday, July 19, 2005
omg rach i just read your post on the wedding. man, you know you're getting old and hopeless when you *tear* during wedding stories!
posted by lucy barcelona @ 2:49 PM

wow, old, i was 22. btw, lucy barcelona is a pseudonym for another-type beta blog that i use to purge an excess of randomness out of my head. i can't find a way to sign different names to different blogs. but it is i, your friend crassy, crassandra, crassalejandro (rach)!!! ahem. crissandra. hm, maybe i should have put that at the beginning of this post.

ok so just a tiny little update to get things "warmed" "up." i'm still living in toronto (little korea!) with my lovely boyfriend vernon (not a little korean) and four lovely housemates. i'm unemployed (story for another day?) i'm upset that party down was not renewed for a new season. i just discovered that i love twitter because i feel like i'm getting text messages from celebrities (on the other hand, facebook still hasn't grown on me). and i guess i'm nocturnal which i'm sure doesn't surprise a few of you. i run on new zealand time which is 16 hours ahead of eastern standard time. and, i've never been to new zealand.

i don't think that paragraph counts so much as an update, but clearly after i mentioned i was unemployed i had run out of life-things to update you all on. you all. y'all.

i'm gonna end this like how many posts in our blog toward its recession ended, which was, "is anyone even reading this?"