I'm on a bus.

Blogging on a bus. What an age we live in!!

I'm on my way home. Well, as close a home can be that's 8 hours away and gets visited maybe 3 times a year. Off to see parents, brother and whoever I still keep in contact with from highschool. So... Maybe 4 other people.

Don't get me wrong, I love my family. But as I get older, blood relation and the term 'family' are not one in the same. Family is who I hold dear in my life, and sometimes that list of seniority doesn't include blood ties.

It will be good to see them though. 3 times a year is kinda sucky. And with the chaos of life, I could use a temporary escape from the real world. Go and enjoy time where I can relax, NOT work, eat and drink my face off, and attempt some kind of rest, both mentally and physically.

But for now, I'm on a bus. I get to spend 9 hours in a seat that doesn't feel properly screwed in, along with 52 others, crammed in like sardines together, trapped in a moving box on a highway. How does one entertain oneself these days? I think I may need to MacGuyver some entertainment for myself.

And my seat just slid forward a foot. Sweet.
Pray for me and my swivel seat.

-janeovision.

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best of 2009. yeaaa.

So, a wonderful, annual tradition amongst friends is the 'Best of 2009' cd exchange party. We choose and create what we felt were the best songs/albums of 2009, make cd's (and cover art!) and exchange among friends. always a great time, where we just chill out, drink and enjoy music and explain our awesome choices.

Sooo... with no further ado, here's my list!

1. Demon Host - Timber Timbre
2. The Rake's Song - The Decemberists
3. My Girls - Animal Collective
4. Heads Up - Karen O and the Kids
5. Never Forget You - Noisettes
6. 1901 - Phoenix
7. Black Ice - Ohbijou
8. Little Secrets - Passion Pit
9. Son, You're Daddy Was Bad - United Steelworkers of Montreal
10. Oh My God - The Wooden Sky
11. Skeletons - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
12. Laura Palmer's Prom - You Say Party! We say Die!
13. Crystalised - The XX
14. Commes des enfants - Coeur de Pirate
15. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
16. (snare off) first edit. - The Love Machine
17. You're Not Coming Home Tonight - First Aid Kit
18. Yer My Byatch - The Acorn

Now, I know that not all of these are 2009. at least one song is 2008, and another hasn't even been released to public ears yet. but this is MY 2009. so there.

Enjoy, compare, contrast, and keep enjoying music!



-janeovision

p.s. you can also ejoy my friend Kyle's list at
www.stealtheselists.blogspot.com

'delayed' is the best thing you can call it, I guess.

So, yea.

Remember that whole thing where I was supposed to move to Toronto in the new year? Where I was going to move to supposedly bigger and better things, continue on in my supposed career and do an overall theme of moving forward and onward?

Yea...

I've had some stuff come up. It's crappy stuff. Crappy, in that, because of this stuff, I have to stay in Ottawa for a bit longer. I lucked out in that I have my job still, my apartment still, and , obviously all of my friends here to have and love and enjoy general merriment with. But Toronto would've still been nice.

As a friend told me, things have just been 'delayed': Toronto WILL happen, I just need to take care of a few things before I can do it.

I don't want any of you to worry about why I'm sticking around. It's stuff. It sucks, but it's just stuff. Stuff will pass. I'm not dead, I'm not dying, it's just stuff. It's stuff that's big enough to keep me here, because I'm not one to change my mind easily or to back out of something or quit without good cause, but it's only temporary.

So that's the story. That's what's going on.


Ottawa, you're stuck with me just a little bit longer.



-janeovision

let me tell you a joke...

So, the other night I was walking home in the drizzly december weather and a homeless man walked up to me.

Now before he asked me for anything, he showed me this trick with a jumbo bread clip, where you throw it like a boomerang. He then did ask for change, but requested that he perform a few jokes first.

One of them was:
what did the ocean say to the shore?
Nothing, it just waved.

I did have a quarter, and was pretty happy to give it to him, but before I could give it to him, he wanted me to guess the number I was thinking between 1 and 100.

He guessed 74. Nope, higher.
He guessed 98. Nope, lower.
Then he guessed 83. I gave him the quarter.

It was actually 86, but I had to tell him he was right. He had so much spirit, and when I high-fived him to 'congratulate' him, his face lit up like a little kid.


That's pretty much the whole story. He and I had this random interaction alone in the soggy streets, but it was kinda neat to have this exchange with him. I didn't feel harassed, I didn't feel guilty or annoyed, and he was truly happy to have this contact.

I dunno. It was just a night moment, thought I'd share.

-janeovision