on a high

Taking a break from blogging has been surprisingly nice. I found myself only writing when I was feeling low, giving the false impression that I'm absolutely miserable. I am going through an awkward stage right now and have had some rough days, but most days are either fine or I am too tired to have any sort of emotion. You, unfortunately, only seem to get me at my worst. Sorry for that.

But today is quite a nice day. A hopeful day, even!

Yesterday I arrived home after a work party* and discovered a delivery attempt door hanging thing. Wowza! In a (in retrospect) fit of insanity, I decided to order the 360 degree camera from the Lomo site because, since I've been working so much, I thought I should get something that I will enjoy when I no longer work 55 hours a week. The 360 just looks neat, literally taking a 360 degree photo. I ordered it on Sunday night and it was at my door at 1pm yesterday. That's fricking fast! Makes me think I still have time to send Christmas cards.

Unfortunately, I have about 18 piggy bucks to spend before the 20th, so will probably order something from them again in the next week. Might be time to just get film or something less camera-y. But I love the cameras...

Also went to the Christmas Market with my friend during the workday. There were a lot of sausages. Sausages are good and all, but I'm all about the pretzel and schnitzel (though I wasn't overly excited about the schnitzel. It was fine, but I'm sure a sausage with onions and sauerkraut would have hit the spot). Being the middle of the workday and all, we didn't have the specially imported German beer, but I like that, once inside, you can walk around with a beer in your hand. The Woodwards window display reminded me that I want to do the Woodwards window display walk sometime before Christmas. I toyed with the idea of making it a food-related thing as well, but I haven't put much more thought into it because I have very few thoughts lately other than "sleep," "work," and "sneeze." (I have allergies or something.) Maybe this weekend! Or another day when I don't work! Maybe I should see if other people want to walk, look and eat/drink. Hmm...

Tonight I'm finally going to get to the Waldorf, and in my birthday dress that was sewn specifically for the tiki room. Just a month-and-a-half late. One of my workplaces is having a Christmas party there, and the soul DJs have moved over there from the Astoria, so I'll be a dancing machine tonight. I didn't quite get a full night's sleep last night (or any night this week, to be honest), so I'm hoping I can stay upright until at least midnight or later. All I know is that I wish I could get my hair done before the parties, but I'm not sure the hair salon in the hotel is open at that time. Guess I can see.

The fit of insanity I mentioned is because I wound up putting down a down payment on adult braces on Tuesday, meaning I'll be watching my pennies a little bit until I get used to paying for braces instead of saving money. Boo! This is especially painful for me because I suffered through braces when I was in high school and they made me so miserable, especially during the elastic stage. But this time around I'll have non-grey ones, ones that will hopefully be hard to see at all, and will last only about 8 months if I keep them in my mouth long enough each day. When my dentist and I started discussing this possibility earlier this year**, I started crying thinking about getting the grey ones again. I think he was surprised, which is surprising since I seem to cry a lot around my dentist. There's never good news when I visit. But I'll be pleased to have straight teeth one day next year.

*At the bakery restaurant thing in the CBC building. I like food on sticks, and there were chicken pieces on sticks and cheese & bocconcini on sticks and two free drinks each and lots of people that I don't know. I did have interesting conversations with a couple of people from French radio and French TV, and won a shirt that is too small and a toque. I also ate one perogy, introduced for the news people only (the lucky bastards), and it makes me so excited to both make perogies next week with my delightfully awesome friend Rebecca and eat perogies until I explode on Christmas Eve with my family. I love flavourful perogies.

**You may be asking yourself, why the hell would anyone get adult braces?! The answer is simple: I have to get a front tooth pulled out because it's infecting my gums. It is gross. It is blackening. It has bugged me since I got a root canal in it about 17 years ago. Now it is being pulled out and leaving a space that is too small to get an implant and too wide to just leave. Thus... braces. Sigh.