Socks & Psychic Coincidences

I liked the movie, "I (heart) Huckabees."

And now I have a little story about 'psychic coincidences' that happened to me yesterday. I have just started taking the bus to and from work, as my dear partner ran off with my car to the heathen backwaters of Ross River.

I have a shortcut I take, and I have so far taken it 3 times. I also pack my gym bag to and from work in case I have time to workout at lunch, and the bag contains socks, shorts and a workout tank top.

Yesterday on my way to work I noticed a pair of my socks resting in a heap on the shortcut by the side of the road. Hmm, they must have fallen out of my gym bag on my way home yesterday, I thought to myself. I grabbed them up and stuffed them in my bag, and had a funny story to tell the co-irkers about my wandering socks. After all, I am the person who has their underwear fall out of their laundry basket onto the lobby of my residence building, not notice, and have everyone go through the day seeing pink panties draped on the floor.

I didn't think anything more of my socks until I came home and discovered my gym socks were still in my gym bag. At home! They had never fallen out! Also, these are no ordinary socks--I have a collection bizarre socks, and these particular ones are blue fuzzy ones with pink and yellow argyle. Definitely unusual. Nobody else would have these socks, trust me.

So now I am the owner of two pairs of blue fuzzy argyle socks, one of which providence found fit to gift me with, though dirty, by the side of the road.

I think the cosmos is trying to tell me something. Those socks, on that day, at that time, that look exactly like my gym socks. Psychic coincidence.

I just can't figure out what the message is though. Hm...

Yukon Kennel Club Dog Show

So who's best in show?

The dog show (Most Northern Dog Show!!) took place last weekend as well, at the Mt. Mac Curling Club. It was a multi-day show, with exhibitors coming from all over the Yukon and Alaska.

It was pretty fun, dogs of every description crowded cages, rings, owners laps, floors, stood on grooming tables...

Owners practiced running alongisde their prizewinning pooches with these silly little wire leashes. Ridiculous looking toy poodles stood on grooming stands, and this funny gremlin-looking dog (Pekinese?) was sleeping on a grooming stand, totally oblivious to the other excited dogs barking like crazy.

My fav? A cage full of sleeping Corgis. SO adorable. I think, if I ever get a dog (not likely right now, too into small creatures) I will get a Corgi. Happiest looking dogs ever.

My one grip was I wish a class list was posted, so we could come and watch the agility or obedience classes. Nothing was posted past; Retrievers Class 1-10, Toy Breeds 11-21, etc etc.??? Doesn't help the layperson figure out when the excitement happens!

Oh well. Also the dog ribbons the prize winners recieve are friggin' impressive. HUGE rosettes of every colour, even 4th place had a ribbon I'd be pleased to have. I wish horse shows had ribbons that big!

I really enjoyed the dog show, and it made me wonder if secretly all dog show people are like those from Best In Show. Hm. Didn't see anything crazy, but you never know...haha.

Yukon Wildlife Preserve

Had an open house last weekend, and therefore free bus tours~

Like the vultures we are (well, animal lovers on a budget) my partner and I decided to cruise on by and check out the Preserve. Normally, the tours cost $22 for a bus tour per person, and $15/person for a walking tour. Fairly pricey!

Bus tours last 45mins-1hr and walking tours are 1.5 hrs-2 hrs depending on how slow you can crawl.

The critters were absolutely delightful. Elk, baby mule deer (twins!!!) caribou, lots of random ground squirrels running amok, mountain goats, 2 moose, musk oxen with terrible tempers, bison and thinhorn sheep.

Babies were out in full force and I loooove them. The baby mule deers were so tiny they had trouble standing, and when the tour guide was asked how old they were, he said, " well they weren't here yesterday!" OMG!! squee!!

The only thing that sucked was that human babies were also out in full force, ignoring the cute animals and squalling in only that really annoying way that makes you hate them. We got to hop out of the bus and heft animal antlers and horns, which are very heavy, surprisingly so. I wanted to drop the moose rack on a particularly horrid baby. HA.

Great tour for free! I guess if you pay, you do it once and do it in the summer so you can check out the babies...or just wait until Open House weekend.

Not quite as cool as Quebec's Parc Omega, where you can feed the animals and they expect it and roam to your car, but for the Yukon? I'll take it.

Bunny Times!

This blog is a bit of a depart...

I'm writing today to examine the relationships between different species (creatures, in my vernacular). I have an elderly and ailing female guinea pig, and just obtained by accident and fluke, a young male rabbit. My pig is excited and interested in the rabbit, and started following him around with much interest, and the rabbit? Not so much. Ran away from the pig at first, and then turned and bit her --twice! That was too much for the pig, and she got upset and ran for cover. Poor piggy!

The rabbit ran for cover too. Hm, not very successful.

I was hoping for a sort of friendship, I mean my pig was more than willing to extend the olive branch of curiosity. This was no '"Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us about the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship" A book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson about raising animals that should be at each other's necks yet instead live in harmony. His is a pychological experiment, and mine? Arghhh....

Time will tell, let me wish!

Teeth-whitening update

Feedback is pretty good. My friends have said they noticed a difference, and I have even been slacking off a bit due to never being home, and the gel started irritating my gums.

Oh yeah, that. I would caution those who want to try Crest Whitestrips that any gel they get on their sensative parts to beware, those gels contain peroxide and will definitely cause soreness/swelling. Luckily it just means you have to take a day or so off then be extra careful when reapplying, keep just to the tooth.

Mine cost $38, which isn't too bad for noticeable results. The only part I haven't really seen a difference in is my yellowed incisors, which are still...yellowish. Hm.

My front teeth are now very white. Woo!

I finish the whitening set in the next day or so, and overall it's fairly painless. You can jog, talk, shower, do makeup with the strips on, just no eating or drinking. I did lips a bit with the strips, residual interference I think. It wasn't that bad but it was obvious. Haha.

I will have to post an update photo, and we did take before/after pix. To be uploaded soon!

No good luck

*Warning, self-pitying rant up ahead*

Honestly? I need to get out and I need a change. I just received news that a position I have been vying for since March is now on permanent standbye and it was supposed to start LAST FRIDAY.

I feel that I am going to slowly age and then have a brain as malleable as brie cheese if I stay at the mind-numbing situation I currently find myself in, and have found myself in for the last god awful 6 months. I am shocked and surprised I have lasted this long and honestly the only thing that keeps me from freaking out at the job is the fact I think of every day like my last day.

Today, I am very angry. That is all. The weather outside matches my inner seething, grey and furious.

I need to get the hell out. I think I will, job falling ass end out regardless. Everytime I have tried to escape everything blows fuck all into my face.

GRRRRRRRRRR

Anti-Bride

I am.

I have never been to a wedding as a fully-formed adult. Weddings attended as a flower girl don't count, as children aren't people.

This makes planning my own wedding more than a little tricky. How do you reconcile your dear parents wanting to take the whole show and run with it? Or they push you to invite 'dear Aunt Linda Burkowski' or 'Uncle Chuck' when I have never met these people? Yeesh.

I hate religion, and therefore shun the very idea of a 'ceremony' of sorts. I am not taking my partner's last name, though I have to say I'd be tickled if he took mine. If not, no prob.

Why am I getting married? Jesus, that's a tough one. I think it's because I want a big celebration, a gathering-together of all my friends and family to eat, drink and have fun. I do plan on being with my partner 'forever'..or at least as long as 'forever' happens to be!

I really hate getting bogged down in all this drudgery and wedding ennui. I have to say, I think women who dream, desire and fight for huge weddings are totally insane. It's so boring! People who want huge princessy-type weddings, I hate to say it, want to be famous on that day. This is their chance to get all the fame and stardom by purchasing it. So they do.

I don't want to buy a wedding. I want to buy a horse.

My wedding dress is pink. I won't be wearing a veil. I haven't even thought of vows and my wedding is in less than a month. I haven't registered anywhere for gifts. I don't know what my place settings look like. I don't have a seating chart.

Just writing that makes me want to scream. Jeebus! I am never doing this again and I think I would counsel anyone anticipating a marriage to just elope and get the damn thing over with...