Whooaaa....

just realized today that Dale has a blog!

In the midst of a few personal goings-on at this point. Rather, I hit the point where I started to re-evaluate a lot of things that are important to me and what things mean to me and hrm...I guess just a huge pot-pourri pile of stuff.

So here's what I've come up with...

I'm a dork. I have so many interests but I really only focus on work.

I'm boring. I don't do anything unless provoked. I'm content sitting at home and just doing something simple like blogging...but I'll go out to movies, dinners, climbing, etc when asked.

I never know where to go for dinners or places to hang out.

I can't hold a beat; I'm a terrible dancer.

I like to be fashionable, but I tend to be 2-4 seasons behind. I think only 1 person I've ever talked to said I have good fashion sense.

I have long hair. I think my hair line is receeding. I should cut my hair.

I'm always so focused on getting ahead to the next job to the next...something or other. I'm always looking at greener grass and I never see what's in front of me. I may be one of those people that spends their whole life looking for the end of a rainbow. That scares me. I don't know when to be content and when to be ambitious.

I have crappy communication skills.

I'm a mess. My room's a mess.

I hate confrontation. I wish people would just understand me than have me understang them sometimes.

I want to travel. I really really want to get out of here sometimes.

I want to get back in touch with my religion. I've put it on the backburner for so long and I know that without God, my life is just empty. I miss that part of my life.

I really care about my bf. When he's not around, I wish he was. When something important comes up in my life, I want to tell him. And despite how it feels like sometimes we can just never ever get through to each other, I know that I'll still care in the end.

I think my friends are the greatest, esp the ones that have managed to put up with my constant rants and worries throughout the years they've known me. I needed someone there and they step in.

I'm terrified of thriller/suspense/horror/anything-non-romantic-comedy-or-disney movies.

I want to lose weight. No likes my flabbiness.

I like money; I can't afford me and my expenditures at the rate I go.

I'm tired...so very very tired right now. :(

I think I'm going to give up trying to put myself in words for now and start anew tmrw.
....come to think of it, I think I should add procrastination as one of my traits.

Oddly enough...i had a busy weekend. I was thinking I would have the whole weekend free to do work and stuff but low and behold, it's 10pm on sunday night and i'm about to START working. spent a few hours walking around downtown toronto yesterday with klaus after getting coveralls for f!rosh week. got some interesting badges though like a sad face with the words "I'm Sorry" written on it b/c apparently it epitomizes me like nobody's business. :) Also got a patch saying "Kiss My Patch" which I'm thinking about appending to the rear end of my get up ... Today, I went trapezing around Fairview and Ikea with loquax (lol -- yes, we really DO keep hitting the same places when we go out!) I gots some stuff though (wallet's empty) so I have clothes for work/skool (dang that stuff is expensive). After a hunt for cutlery at Ikea, we both walked out with less than $3 worth of dishes (this is the _combined value_ of our purchases). The good news is that we have similar tastes. The bad news is that loquax and I will have NO idea whose dishes are whose next year. *sigh* :)

One of the other highlights of the weekend though? a great party thrown by my dudes -- chris and ken. I want to say more about this party but I might end up keeping it shorter than it deserves. Let me just say though that it was one of the best parties I've been to. Definitely good friends and good times. It really made realize how much I'm going to miss these guys -- all of ya. (and no, it wasn't just the alcohol that made me think that) :) I've met a LOT of great people here at IBM and I took it for granted. :( They're amazing brilliant and funny and I know that some of them will stay with me forever -- you kids know who you are!

Now, since Xeo already took the picture I was going to post here, I'm going to post some others. Viewer discretion is advised :)


Not my idea! These are NOT my balloons....haha despite they're being tied to my belt for the whole night..! :)


hehe Chris and Vivian fighting with balloons. (It looks like Chris is getting his butt kicked) ;-) Go, viv, go!


We were trying to play GT3 (i think it was?) and there's dale...dancing in front of the TV. *SIGH* hehe DOOF! :D


While Ken's hanging himself with a 'Good Riddance, nerds!' balloon, dale's all down with it. :)


lol -- the balloon DID say "toronto rules"....but it got defaced..somehow...and...uhmm...enough said.