Guss'rPugg The Wonderfish Goes To Africa

One day Guss'rPugg's lady, laura, was offered a trip to Africa which she took on the spot. poor Guss'rPugg, he didn't think he'd get to go. first of all how do you transport a fish? wouldn't it be to easy for him to get hurt? and how would the air pressure in the plane effect his poor little brain? Guss'rPugg was very sad.

Laura soon realized the same problems as Guss'rPugg and was very distraught,
"I don't want to go if Guss'rPugg can't go!!" she yelled. how would she live with out Guss'rPugg? he kept her company, was a very good watch fish at night and when she was away and made her feel better when she was blue. Laura couldn't imagine wakeing up every morning with out seeing her happy little fish swish his tale in hello to her.

Laura threatened to not go and cried for days at the thought of not being able to have her fishy by her side. Her dad had bought her a plastic fish that looked like Guss'rPugg only instead of a deep blue/black colour is was an electric blue colour. this narator thought it was very cute, Laura not wanting to hurt her dad's feelings thanked him for the fish and kissed him on the head, but secretly she lothed the fish.
"I can't take that to Wales?! how would Guss'rPugg feel is I replaced him with a plastic fish thing! and it would just make me miss him more!!!" she thought to her self. so she put the plastic fish away, much to Guss'rPuggs delite, he hated teh fish more than Laura, and wished it had never been brought into the house.

A few weeks before Laura's long journy she and Guss'rPugg were watching a programe on the Discovery channel about the hibernation habits of animals. just before Laura and Guss'rPugg fell off to sleep the programe went on to how fish hibernate when they get frozen in the ice. its not really a voluntary hibernation, more of one for nissecity. This gave Laura an idea, Guss'rPugg could see this idea in the corner of Laura's eye. she was looking at the freezer and then back at Guss'rPugg.
"Theres no way i'm ever going to go in that freezer!!!" He said to him self. When she thought about it a little more Laura didn't want to accidentaly Kill Guss'rPugg by trying to freeze him so that she could take him to Africa with her. so she devised a plan.

The next day Laura walked down to the pet store with her money and bought a new fish, this fish was ugly and old and laura thought that no one would mind if an ugly old fish died of freezing, no one had bought it yet and if she didn't, it probably would have died in the pet store.

She brought it home and put it into a big glass bowl, labled the bowl "Old Stinky", which is the name she had given the fish, and filled it with water then she cleared a space in the freezer, mainly by eating everything that was in it. she then put Old Stinky in and wrote a sign saying "do not touch, science exparament in progress" and stuck it on the side of the bowl

she checked on the fish every few hours and when he had finally frozen took him out and put him in a cooler full of ice packs, Guss'rPugg didn't like the look of this. Sure he wanted to go to Wales with Laura, but at what expense, what if he lost all feeling in his fins? how would he swim? What if he remained cold for the rest of his life??

In about 15 hours Laura Checked the fish in the cooler to see if the ice had melted and how much and if Old Stinky was still alive.
"HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE" Laura was shouting and running around the kitchen, she picked up Guss'rPuugs bowl and showed that Old Stinky, while still in the ice, was moving his eyes and mouth, taking in oxygen from the frozen ice around him. Guss'rPugg was now wishing he could stay home.

Soon the Day came that Guss'rPugg was to be frozen, having to convince her parents to let her freeze Guss'rPugg Laura wasn't going to turn back now and Guss'rPugg afraid for his life was given three extra helpings of food and his cactus to keep him company on the long journy.

Guss'rPugg was placed into the freezer which was set as high as it would go so that the freezing process would be faster and freeze all the way through. Poor Old Stinky, he had done the freezing expariment more times than he would have liked to count or remember, he was laughing to him self, wondering and waiting for the day that Guss'rPugg would get his turn and revaling in the fact that it finally had come. Laura was just as worried for Guss'rPugg and Guss'rPugg was.

The next thing Guss'rPugg new he was being fed in Africa. He had made it! Laura was so happy to see him awake at last. Guss'rPugg besides being groggy from his 18 hour nap was prefectly fine he could swim and had all the feeling in his fins, the onlt problem was..........


........how would they get him home?

Duty, not doody

so last night i was on duty, not too bad. we have to open shop (for 15min at least) around 9:00 and i was bored so i went to open early and there was a huge long line. i was hoping no one would be there so i could figure out how to use the till, but oh well. the only button i do know is the one to open the till. so i used the calculator all night. anyway, not to bad of a duty shift.
but this monrning however...on my schedual, and on the master copy Dan has, it says i work in the Kitchen today, but the copy that the kitchen staff has said Diego works today. so we both show up for work, and so does Mik and Pam is working that day too, she just hasn't showed up yet and Naiomi (the cook) is looking at us like we're crazy and asks if we are all working, and i said yes and diego said yes and Naiomi goes to look at her sheet and it says Diego is working. i go ok, and Naiomi tells me to just go back to bed. so i start going down stairs getting fairly ticked off that this was the second time the schdedual has changed and i didn't know, or i read it wrong and got kind of mad with Dan because he's the one who makes the scheduals and all that, so i'm in my room calming down, and thinking i'm to awake to go to sleep now. last night for duty i took all my CD's and my book up to the staff lounge and just left them there so i went back to the the staff room and just started to read. i also figure if i have to work today but in another 'department' i don't want to get up again and Sarah left today and i didn't want to sleep through her leaveing, plus the plumber was coming today and i didn't want to answer my door half asleep (i'll get back to the plumber in a minut) so like i said i go back ot the staff room and start reading. Farily calm by then, not really mad at anyone just sort of feeling stupid and slightly ashamed of myself for getting it wrong, but on my schedual i'm right. so dan comes in and i asked if he changed the schedual and he said yes and i asked to see it so he went and got the but he only changed Melissa's schedual and the funny thing is it says she was in kitchen today too. so i tell him i don't mind taking the day off, even though the whole morning (ok for the two and a half hours i was up before he came in) i was geting ready to have to work in house, all the while not really wanting too. so he gave me the day off, YAY. so i went back to having a really lazy day of sitting on my favorite sofa/loveseat thing listening to soft music and reading. then i went and mailed stuff :D
ok the plumber thing. the other day i went shoping and for somethign i bought, i don't remember what, some cardboard came with it. some how it ended up under my sink against the wall. well i put it there but i don't think i had a reason as to why. and when i go to sleep i hear this weird noise but make it out to be the poster i put up starting to peel off the wall like a few post cards did before and expected to see it on the floor in the morning. next day nothings on the floor and i go over to brush my teeth after i get dressd and have my socks on. by my sink my feet feel a little wet, so i feel the ground and it feels fine i figur i must have splashed water on the floor or my feet are cold or something and ignor it. then i notice the cardboard i put under my sink is soaked. and the flexable pipping going up to my hot water tap is leaking and dripping, i place my garbage can under it and then when i see Ronnie i tell him and thats why the plumber came in, to fix it becuase Ronnie tired and couldn't fix it.

It was raining like Victoria last night. it was so awsome. it rains here, but never that hard or long, and it was just POORING!!! i loved it.

and nothing new on the Jermane front sorry. there was no one at the stables last time we went, but he did make his presence known again and was stareing pretty entently at me when we were leaving. but thats about it










can't you see that its just raining, there ain't no need to go outside

The Guy From the Bar

I don't remember how much i told you about the guy from the Bar before. well he's actually the guy behind the bar at the Pub.

Anyway, the other day we were at the pub and the guy who served me told Ed and Diego that he liked their friend and indicated it was me and made a deal with Diego that he'd find diego a girl if Diego intorduced me to him. 'He' is actually Jermane, or Jermain, you decided.

so we went back to the Pub the other night and jermane was there, i think he's there 24/7 nothing else for him to do you see. any way i hid behind someone when we were ordering drinks and i'm pretty damn sure Diego told Jermane that i was there.

so we go to sit out side and a little while later he comes out to make his presence known, but i ignored him and didn't look at him or anything, Diego was looking at Jermane and then at me and smilling and winking and all that annoying stuff. so later its Melissa, Diego, Ed and me at the tabel and he comes back out talks to Ed and goes away, and does this a cuple times, i still don't pay attention to him. then he comes over add starts talkign to Diego and Me, and Diego "introduced" us so He and i start "chatting" and diego, starts to nudge me under the tabel so i kick him back and tell him to stop it and then jermane goes away again and Diego starts to ask me if i like him and i avoid the quesitons and give him no deffinate answer, then melissa, the saint the she is, made diego shut up and stop asking.

So jermane comes out a cuple more times and sits down to talk to us. then he sees his boss and leaves.

later in the evening, not to much late, but yeah, i got thirsty and Mel wanted a hot chocolate so i go to the bar and guess who comes over emidiately, thats right, you guessed it Jermane. so i order a hot chocolate and a Mango J2O and he starts to complains about not wanting to make the hot chocolate so i give him a bad time and he makes it, (with a lot of marshmellows and cream btw) then he keeps messing up the J2O, i had to tell him three times, the entire time i was there he seemed really flustered and if i hadn't known better i'd say it was only his first week there (but i did know better, and it's not)

so i go back to sit down adn everyone is there again (7-8 of us all went down to gether then 3-4 people left and then came back) and they are all impressed by teh hot chocolate, and Melissa said taht Jermane prolly thought that it was for me. :P

so all in all it was an ok time. its fun to bug/tease boys you don't know, but its annoying to have diego touch you. :P

I don't have any random thoughts lately sorry. i've disocverd Jin and Tonic, yummy. and J2O's are good, they're just non alcoholic, which is perfectly fine. Gionata is elaving soon, tres sad, i don't want him to go, he's so nice

the damn belgums are still here and eating us out of house and home. last night they were the loudest they'd ever been. i was 5sec away from telling them that i had to work in the morning and that if they wanted food they should shut up, but Gionata was 5sec a head of me, and only said that people were trying to sleep and that we had to work in the morning. that sounds slightly like we share a room. we're in the same hall way, and teh ways are paper thing, which is weird because they are made of cinder block, or something like that.

Right now we have a bunch of Indians in, i think they are Muslim, so they have strict diatary needs and half of them don't eat beef and the other half are veggies but the belgums ate everything. well almost. we save the veggie stuff for the other group, but they didn't get half as much as the belgums. luckily there was a lot of extra sticky toffee pudding

cakes = cookies, rice crispy squares anything thats snaky and sweet, pudding=cakes and pies and stuff for dessert for dinners.

thats all for now folks

The Laura Song

So i was in the Kitchen working with Mike (Mik) and Gionata (john) the other day and they started singing "The Laura song", which to them is only a line long
"tell laura i love her, tell laura i dooooooo"
and then Gionata said he knew one in Italian, and it's Lara becuase according to him Lara is Laura in Italian, and i guess he would know, being from Italy and all. So he sang that a couple times and i've been looking on the net for songs with Laura in them, and i've found quite a few, i think this is the one they were trying to sing:

Laura and Tommy were lovers
He wanted to give her everything
Flowers, presents,But most of all,
a wedding ring

He saw a sign for a stock car race
A thousand dollar prize it read
He couldn't get Laura on the phone
So to her mother, Tommy said

Tell Laura I love her
Tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura I may be late
I've something to do, that cannot wait

He drove his car to the racing grounds
He was the youngest driver there
The crowed roared as they started the race
Around the track they drove at a deadly pace

No one knows what happened that day
Or how his car overturned in flames
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
With his dying breath, they heard him say

Tell Laura I love her
Tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die
Now in the chapel where Laura prays

For her poor Tommy, who passed away
It was just for Laura he lived and died
Alone in the chapel she can hear him cry

Tell Laura I love her
Tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die

Tell Laura I love her
Tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die
http://users.cis.net/sammy/laura.htm

And i was thinking wouldn't it be ironic if Tom and i were dating? it'd be freaky that's what i'd be, lol. and theres a super short one by Frank Sanatra, FRANK SANATRA!!!:

Laura is the face in the misty lights
Footsteps that you hear down the hall
The love that floats on a summer night
That you can never quite recall
And you see laura on a train that is passing through
Those eyes how familiar they seem
She gave your very first kiss to you
That was laura but she's only a dream
She gave your very first kiss to you
That was laura
But she's only a dream

this one is origonaly in spanish i think, i think its funny:

Laura, woman listen to me
Don't mind me
Laura, you have to know
that my love is not false.

I only want to be your friend
I tell you the truth.
I only want to talk with you
I won't do you wrong.
(repeart first stanza)
I only want to be your friend
I tell you the truth.
I only want to be with you
I won't do you wrong....HUH!

Laura....

Play it with flavor (style)! ....
(repeat first stanza)
I only want to be your friend
I tell you the truth.
I only want to talk with you
I won't do you wrong.
(repeat first stanza)
LAURA
http://www.brave.com/bo/lyrics/laura.htm

I also found a song about Dr. Laura, but Dr. Laura is crazy, in the bad way so yeah, thats not going on here. i guess laura wasn't a very good song seller, i've never heard of any of these songs before, which is slightly weird especailly because one of them is by Frank Sanatra, and theres one by the Scissor Sisters, but its not really a laura song, just the first word in the song is laura.

I found a children's book to do with a girl named laura and broken fallen star that she fix's, it looks so cute, i want a copy of Laura's Star. lol.
http://www.littletigerpress.com/lyndall/laura.htm

so yeah, this blog is very about my self, but then again it is my blog adn i'm aloud to be very about my self on here. its better on here than in life i think. and its not really about me, its about songs that share my name. it'd be cool if the songs were about me, but there you go. like that would happen, lol.

well i've run out of things to say.............................now what?
i already told you all about the guy at eh bar, well not at the bar, behind it, i told you about my clumsiness, i told you about..................stuff?????
i went to play badminton the other day, well, that was thursday, i lost every game i played, lol, shows how awsome i am doesn't it?
i bought a cuple new books ones called "The Romance of a Bookstore" or something like that, its a good small book thats only 65 pages long so i'll knock that off in about 5 min. and the other, i don't rememer the name, it has to do with the Royal family getting kicked out of the Palace and losing there titels or something like that and haveing to cope with living like average people. but first i have to finish the moonstone, which i hope becomes more interesting soon.
my back really hurts, well mor emy neck than anything, i don't knwo why, i guess feeling stupid relly hurts the muscels becuase you are always salky and sunken over. i didn't take off my make up last night so when i got up and rushed to the kitchen i stopped int eh bath room to ahve a never ending pee and as i washed my hand si notices the really big dark black lines under my eyes, adn if i had takenmy make up off last night i would have been a few minuts earlier than previously stated. I'm so glad it was Kay in the Kitchen and not niome, she doesn't seem like teh nicest persona dn its not the best first inpression to be late for work, Kay and i have worked together before so she knows i'm not incompotent and stupid, well, she hasn't found out yet. i'm pretty good at covering up my tracks, everyonce and a while i slip up. this entry is so long, no ones going to read it. wel after these two songs i'm going to go pee and then i'll get ready to go back into the kitchen. its only 4:10pm and i work again at 5:00 i started this at 7:24am now its 8:10am, i did spen a bit trying to find teh songs again, and yeah, it wasn't all just me typing. so once again, no ones going to read this and i should start to go.











tell laura i love her, tell laura i dooo

Talk like a Pirate day and Laundry

in two days its talk like a pirate day , so you better talk like a pirate, or else *shakes fist*
today was a bad day, its not over yet either. well it wasn't really bad, i just got up late arrived in the kitchen 10-20min late and i felt bad about that, becuase i've already slept in really late one day, the day i though i was off but i was really in house, which is house cleaning and stuff. i was only an hour late for that and Elyis (A-lis) was supper sweet about it, she's the head house keeper. so yeah, and then after we had eaten i broke a glass, and thats the second time i've broken a glass, and the second thing i dropped in one week. i dropped bread rolls earlier in the week, but it was ok, because there was extras and the floor wasn't that dirty, 5sec rule and all. but those buns didn't go out to the masses, they went out to the staff, but we didn't tell anyone. now when ever Pam or Gionata gives bread rolls to the staff i wounder why, or whats happened to them. lol.
Last night we went to the pub, i have to say Guinness is horribel. anyway, I went with Melissa, Gionata, Ed and Diego. Diego and Ed promptly went to go have a smoke and then they started hitting on girls at the Bar, and when we were leaving for home they tell me that the Bar guy who served me, liked me, or thought i was cute or something. Diego tried to call him over but i left rather suddenly. When he served me Gionata and Melissa, i thought he was looking at me kind of weirdly, but i thought i was just being crazy, but anyway, i thought he was cute too. and if i play my cards right i might get free drinks for me and all my friends. lol, just kidding its nice to have people think you are pretty/cute when you are feeling down, it picks you up. Now Diego is telling everyone that he found me a boyfriend, at least now i know he's not trying to hit on me all teh time. lol
an all girls school is staying at the center for this week, Diego, is very happy about that, when they were renting wellies (boots) and rain stuff he was sitting on the bench out side the boot store and hitting/"talking" to all of them, it was ammusing.
so i'm feelign better now i just felt like such an incompotent mug earlier. not mug as in "i drink from my mug", btw.
I want to do my laundery, but theres no dryer, theres a drying room, but i'm not going to put all my stuff in the drying room for all to see, and what if some of it goes missing? that would be so creepy adn weird, and onll staff can get to the staff dryign room so i'd sit around at tea breaks and staff meetings woundering who has my stuff and why?!?!? and if i want to wash my clothes i might as well sit on the washing machine to make sure nothing goes missing or so someone doesn't take all my stuff out and leave it on the floor or something, as has happend to everyone many times.









summer time, and the liven's easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is high

Climbing

I went rock clombing, like actually rock, climbing. it was so cool, i don't remember the name of the place i went, mainly because i can't pronounce it, all i know is that the Devil's Kitchen adn the Granny Stopper was to my right and Angelsea was behing me, and that Snowdon was on the other side. not that that makes much sence to any of you. for the most part it was really easy, except when you got up near the top, there was no foot hold or hand holds, and it was difficult but super fun. i can't wait to do it again.

Been to the pub a few times, ok, almost every night this week and they're juuuuust starting to catch on that i don't drink. took them long enough eh? lol

Diego is becoming a pain in the ass (get you head out of the gutter) and i'm not sure i can take living with im anymore. oh well only six months, that is short period of time, when you're having fun.

i'm having fun, melissa and i have a lot in common, i mean A LOT. like: the music we like, the movies we like, and want to see, the fabric of our grad dresses, the relationships we've had, the things we do for fun, things we don't like about Diego, thigns we don't like in general, theres more but i can't think of it. we have fun, its awsome.

tomorrow is my day off so melissa and i are going into "town" to get nightmare before christmas shirt and stuff, shoudl be awsome anyway, its 1:16am wher ei am, i know it's only 5:02 in Canada land, but i'm sleepy,

Everythign is fine

Its all been cleared, up it didn't expire on the 5th i just read the transfur wrong, it expires today so its all well and dandy. one ticket has three place names on it, so thats all good to, Melissa and i aren't sure about the tube but thats ok, we'll ask when we get there. I'm really not looking forward to lugging around my lugage, 'twon't be fun. but there will be a bunch of us so we can all help each other, i hope. i leave at ll:45, thats in an hour. woo. i just really want to get where i'm living, i want to spread out my clothes and make a huge mes i wont have to clean untill March. I really hope Andy (our host) lets us take the morning off tomorrow, that would be awsome. sleep, sleep is good.

last night wasn't scarey. i was on the camp untill about 12:00 my time so that would be 4pm Victoria time. surprised to see not a lot of people we online. talked to AT and RT. the disco downstairs that was below my room ended or setteled down around 12:00 so i was able to sleep. i slept through breakfast, again, i forgot to turn my alarm on, i set it but then didn't turn it on. oh well thats what those apples i bought were for. that and the super long trip today. i ahve so much food and i wont be able to eat it all i hope Deago and Melissa get hungrey, that or i can just save it and eat it those midnights when i'm still up and hungrey.

comeing over we watched Monster in Law and Moulin Rouge, so now i have a bunch of Moulin Rouge songs and ballads and stuff stuck in my head. its a good thing i have the Elephatn Ballad on a CD somewhere, i just need to find me CD's and figure out which one its on.

oh weird i just noticed the time at the bottome. when you make a blog entry theres a time and date thing at the bottom so you can change it and keep it up to date adn all taht good stuff, and it still on Victoria time. thats awsome, when ever i want to find out Victoria time all i have to do is go on here. sweeet.

well i really don't want to go up to my room but i have to go in about 5 min adn it'll only take my 5 seconds to get there so i mightas well stay here. its 10:56 here i leave at ll:45 like i said before, and i feel ill.
tata

First Night in The UK

my first night in teh UK was freaking scarey. First of all i fell asleep around 8 rreading my book then i woke up an hour later adn changd adn got reay for bed adn fell proptly back to sleep. after that i woke up pretty much every hour on the hour untill about 12, a few times really smashed people tried to get into my room, luckily their key didn't fit and my room was locked. then around 12 theses three guys we hammering down on my door, not just knocking but pounding practically knocking down teh door looking for some kid named luck adn whisky, i almost shit my pants i was so scared. but they finally left about 5 min later. the bar was open and the music was playng so loud i could sing along to the lyrics on the third floor, where i happened to be trying to sleep. tonight theres a disco and i want to cry i'm so tired adn i need to pack for tomorrow when i finally get to go to reading, woot.

small problem when getting to reading theres 5 transfurs and three different vehicular devices, train, tube, bus train train. omg! another small problem, theres only two tickets and one transfur ticket and the transfur expired on the 5th. but hopefully it'll all work out, i'll go talk to Zhida later. Zhida is the Canadian GAP person thing.




so yeah.....excitment is slowly bilding up, woot

Packing (omg)

OK, the first ordeal of my trip was packing, holy crap that took forever. i should have packed three weeks before i went..........but then what would i wear? anyway i packed it once my self, and that was in the bassment, then i moved to Rogers room becuase its big and empty 'cause rog is in Edmonton and took everything out and tried to repack it but it didn't go so well, so i brought everything upstairs and mom and i packed it, and repacked it, then we took some stuff out, then jeena came over and help us pack and it was to heavey so we re-packed it adn took stuff out. then we took the hockey bag my carry on and personal carry on to my Aunts as well as two extra bags, just incase. then we took everything out of the hockey bag packed everything in the three smaller bags and called it a night. At teh air port we bought a new bag, a huge wheely one and everyting fit in there and a backpack and checked both those in. and then bought my a new day pack. so all my lugage my suitecase, my pack adn my back pack have never been used and two of the three were bought at the air port. i thought it was awsome


i'd write more, but theres not much else to tell that and i'm so dizzy i'm about to fall of this chair