Presenting: my sister! v.3

 ***note: this post was scheduled for the 15th but for some reason insists on posting today...

so here it is, two days early! ***

This is Lyndon. You may remember her from previous posts. What am I saying, "may"? How could you forget this girl?

 

Anyway, she lives far far away, in a small town on the prairies of Alberta, Canada. And she takes a ton of beautiful photos of the town and its surroundings. Here's a few pictures of hers I stole off facebook. (With her permission, of course.) The chandelier was taken in Boston I believe. The rest are Alberta.

 I asked Lyndon a few interview questions, which I will be posting here and in the next few sister sister posts.

1. Hi Lyndon. yo yo yo what it is?

2. What's up? Drinking coffee and "working".

3. What camera(s) do you use to take your pictures with? I recently got a Canon Rebel XS, its a good starting out camera and it takes really nice pictures, can't wait to get something bigger and better though where I can try out more variety of lens.

4. Tell us about yourself. Where do you live? How old are you? What do you do for work? I are 23 years old, living in the biggest flyest town called Stettler, AB. Its not the most exciting place but if you go out and look for things to do there is lots! And its not so bad, no paying for parking, no commute to work, family and friends are always near by. Work at the Co-operators selling insurance by day, hobby photorapher/bowler/pool player/drinker by night. Though I have made money doing all those at one time or another ;)

5. What's your daily routine? Mostly I work 9-5 and have weekends off so that's pretty rad but can also get super repetative, one of my favorite quotes is "why is it we crave routine but loathe repitition?" very true for me.

6. When do you usually take your photos? I do take a lot of country cruises after work or on the weekends (which isn't far to go where I live) and love to sit out there and rock some tunes and watch a beautiful sunrise or sunset while taking pictures and just enjoying the scenery. One thing photography has made me is appreciative for beauty in everything! I can always see a cool picture and always find im kicking myself when I'm without my camera.

Thanks Lyndon, for answering my kind of random interview questions and sharing your photos. 

Do you guys have any questions for my sister?

Things I Love Thursday

Oh boy, you guys. Have I got some cool junk to share with you this week! Here we go. 

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These 25 greatest "that's what she said" moments in comic book panels. I love things taken out of context like this, hahaha! For example: 

The impossible project. Oh, polaroids!

This stationary of horror. Hahah! So awesome and gross. 

These Die Antwoord t-shirts. Man I love those guys.

This list of ten important pictures that shaped America.

101 rad pin-up post cards.  Maybe not safe for work. 

This super weird picture of a boy and a fish. 

Lomography.com's tips for the amateur street photographer.

These "quirky" coloring books. I still love coloring.

Bento boxes. Pretty food always wins in my opinion. Check out this Flickr pool.

This is a fantastic idea, what to do when you're not sure whether or not you can throw something out.

This Tumblog full of interesting letterheads.

Rock Paper Scissors: you vs the computer.

Dear blank please blank. A series of really short funny open letters. 

This bathroom. Oh my goodness, how terrifying it would be to pee in there! 

This video of my friend Sam getting ready to go on a 2-year-ish bicycle trip...the "what to pack" edition.

See part 1 here.

And last but not least, CAPOW's  map prints. These things are so great!

OW, my feelings!

Print of the day. Nay, the year.

"The Pit" by Ryan Coleman. Found via Laughing Squid. AMAZING! And the best part? You can buy a print of this on his Etsy Store here.

Six Confessions:

(This photo is of my boss' new license plate, awesome huh?)

1. I have a crazy fear of my house catching fire while I'm sleeping at night. I triple check anything I think could start a fire, I sleep with the bedroom door closed tight so the smoke can't get me, and I refuse to sleep in the nude for fear that I'll have to be outside with the firemen naked and cold.

2. My new favorite snack is peanut butter and dill pickles. Like, just dip the pickles into the peanut butter and eat it. Probably because it's salty on top of salty. Salt is my favorite.

3. I just drank a pot and a half of coffee to myself and don't feel crazy. This is how I know I need to cut back on my caffeine intake.

4. I read the "missed connections" posts on Craigslist at least once a week. Not to look for myself in the ads, but to look for Ryan. He's always being hit on by ladies, and I feel like if I keep looking I'll find some desperate single mom who saw him at the pool with his kids or working with the disabled teenagers at his day job.

5. I am in love with Mexico. And I can't stop. I'm like, obsessed with the damn country. I want to go back.

6. Ask any of my friends, I am literally the hardest person to get onto the phone unless you call me at work.  I don't think I'm alone in this, but I hate the phone. To death. It's stressful and awkward to use.

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On another topic, I got kind of a hateful/nonsensical-swearwords-filled comment recently, and just wanted to let all the haters out there know that I delete those comments and forget them forever. You can't hurt me via the internet.

You're not even a real person to me. 

That is all.

All fisheye, all the time.

Music Monday, ranting and recanting?

For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter...well honestly you're not really missing much.Once in a while I'll retweet something hilarious a celebrity said, or I'll write that my bus hasn't arrived yet, or have a prolonged conversation about reading material with Erin. Riveting. Anyway, yesterday I was zooming through my bloglovin' queue of 167 blog posts I had to read, and I noticed something...

That's right, I am a skimmer. Unless you're wearing a dinosaur costume or holding a kitten I think your clothes are boring. But here's the shitty thing that I noticed. You know what else is boring? Music Monday.

At least I know when I'm wrong. Goodbye Music Monday. You were a chore anyway.

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Update: I do like things, I swear. A few people were all like "So uh, do you like anything, jerk?"
YES! I love blogs! LOOOOOVVVVE YOU GUYS.

I also like seeing your collections, passions, hearing how you met your significant other, funny things your kids or neighbors do, your dreams, wishes, rants about school, travel pictures and stories, your trouble with coworkers, what inspires you, your scariest moments, your saddest moments, your happiest moments, crafts, nature, grammar, dating stories, irrational fears ...

ETCETERA.

So, to recap, you are all interesting people. But...I don't like looking at clothes and song lyrics. The end.

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Update part 2: I forgot that I do like to know what Kaylah at the Dainty Squid is wearing for some reason. It's probably all the colors...and cats in the pictures! :)

panoramic flowers

Not much to report this morning, so here are some pretty flowers instead. Yes, I'm one of those bloggers. Deal with it. Does it help you to know I took these pictures a year ago and all these flowers are currently dead, destroyed not only by our harsh Victoria winter (I joke, I joke) but also by a weiner of a dog who is afraid to get his feet wet when it's raining, and would rather walk through our little planter than on the wet driveway to get to the grass? Yes it's a question, that was just one hell of a run-on sentence. 

So basically what I'm saying is you're looking at the ghosts of flowers past. Passed. Past? Whatever. They're dead but you can see them.

-fin-

One of my very first blog entries ever...

I'm taking a page out of Danielle's book here by deciding to "look back" to my blog I had years ago. All the way in 2007, haha. This is my fourth entry ever. It's not bad actually. Not great either.

The first one was a bunch of Jack Handy quotes, the next one was like "I think a spider bit me on my neck" and the other one was like "I'm doing a cleanse, here are the foods I can and can't eat...". This is the first one with some substance.

It's so amateur blog, it's not even funny. I felt like I was tapping a microphone and saying "Is this thing on?" Anyway, here's my fourth blog entry ever.

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Freak Out

I think I am going to quit myspace. I'm holding on to facebook now because of all the contacts I would lose if I delete my account, plus it makes it so easy to connect with friends.

I am going to try and make this the new "what am i up to" place to look.

Today I was talking to Ryan about how in less than 3 months I will be in Mexico. Me. There. I will actually be there.(NOTE FROM PRESENT DAY ME: I was getting ready to go on a year exchange through the university to Xalapa, Veracruz.) I guess because I have had a few months to think about it, the initial excitement and the spontaneous attitude I would normally have... they faded away. Then I actually forgot I was going. And now the crazy reality of it all is sinking in.I feel like I still have a billion things to do to get ready to go, but its like I am taking one step forward and 2 steps back. Its sneaking up on me so quickly.

I'm sure it will all work out. But right now I am terrified.

Want to know what else is up with me?
ok.
The other day i met chuck palahniuk, one of my favorite writers (for those of you who are asking yourselves "who?" ... he wrote fight club) I'd add a picture but I dont know how to use this thing yet. Ryan and I spent days putting together a "visible man" model for him to sign. It was so exciting for me, he is a great storyteller. I'm going to try to add a couple pictures actually, and we will see what happens.

Currently I am just working at Planet Organic, a grocery store/health food store. I'm a champion deli clerk. Seriously.

I'm living with my brother, my 2 cats Lumplestiltskin and Kersmudgeon Sparkles, and our new roommate Billy. Billy is a Planet Organic customer, and I saw him around UVic quite a bit so we became facebook friends and then when we needed a roommate, he saw the posting and replied. So that is how we came to live with him.

I am really going to give this blog thing a shot, hopefully I dont just lose interest and quit using it. This is supposed to be my way of communicating with everybody when I am far far away. 

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So what is up with the random capitalization, past me? Also, I sure took a lot of pride in my deli clerk skills, hey? And check out that bare arm on me, totally tattoo-free! Weird! I'm not going to post too many of these look backs, but I think I might add a few of my more awesome ones from other blogs I ran before Might As Rella. If I do recall, I had a few gems.

more and more fisheye

Things I Love Thursday

 Well well well, it's time for another edition of 'Things I Love Thursday'. For those of you who don't know, it's a weekly feature in which I tell you about a crapload of cool stuff I found around the internet. Yeah, I said 'crapload', I'm classy like that. 

I love...

This guy's little story he made up using his knuckle tattoos. You can't not like him. 

This 'most useful grammar post ever'. It's really useful! :)

Mariel Clayton's doll photography. It's so creepy and fantastic!

Bryan Lewis Saunders' insane self-portraits. What makes these so interesting is he takes drugs, and then draws himself while under the influence. I love seeing how he sees himself on different substances.

This stack of books.

These pictures of Shanghai in 1990 and 2010. It's amazing how much a city can change so quickly.

Mother effing SMILEY CAM. I want one of these cameras like nobody's business. The pictures it takes? The best.

This list of common misconceptions. There is no evidence that Vikings had horns on their helmets. There's no evidence that iron maidens were even used for torture. What? My mind...blown!

And last but not least, I first found this video on Yes and Yes...holy crap this house is amazing. The. Best.

So yesterday was pretty rad!

I mean...the weather was crap. Frickin' monsoon-like rain and near zero temperatures, and wind. Oh the wind.It was c-c-c-cold out.And that's coming from someone who takes pride in being able to weather the...weather...you know what I mean.

But I was distracted...I was on my way to get my chest tattooed. I was more nervous than you can imagine. Like, more nervous than for any tattoo I have ever gotten before, really! I guess because everybody I have ever talked to about it has made crazy pain faces even at the mention of it, and so many people have said it was the most painful tattoo they've ever gotten.

In actuality, mostly because I was prepared for it, it wasn't so bad. It still hurt, don't get me wrong, but it was like, just another tattoo kind of hurt. Also? I took like three advil just before we started which probably had something to do with it. :)

I don't want to put pictures of the entire thing up here, because you know how people are with stealing crap from the internet, and it's not finished yet...I just feel really protective over it. And Colin hates the internet...I'd be so bummed if someone stole his hard work.  Here are a couple sort of semi-pictures of it with really fancy watermarks, haha.

They're not the best pictures but you can get the general idea of what it's going to be like anyway. On the other shoulder it meets up with my mummy/My Little Pony sleeve and goes kind of behind the mummy's head. Thanks a billion COLIN! I feel all proud, it's so pretty and he has been working like fourteen hour days every day for the past two weeks. It was so nice of him to fit me into his schedule.

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After I left the tattoo shop, I went to the photo place and picked up some photos I dropped off a few days ago. I have finally figured out my lomography fisheye camera! This time the majority of my photos actually worked out, which is great news. Usually they're underexposed or my hand was covering the flash or something. This bunch of  photos totally ruled. Here's a preview:

Pretty good, right? I'm going to be posting more throughout the next month or two. 

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And so I took the bus home wearing a ridiculous chest bandage...I put a couple pictures of it on my Tumblr here. Check it out for a laugh. I looked ridiculous in that v-neck sweater and a big blue thing taped to my chest. I went to the grocery store looking like that because getting tattooed turns me into a ravenous freak. A couple chocolate bars made it into my grocery basket...the cashier asked if I was going to eat both of them myself, and I smiled and told her "As soon as I get home" and she said

"You go girl."

Hahaha. Yes. I do go. I eat two chocolate bars whenever I want. Girl power!

When I got home I found mother effin' TOMS shoes waiting for me. They must have come in the mail while I was out. I tried them on and they fit like a glove. I know everyone on the internet keeps saying how great they are, but I'm going to add my voice to the chorus...AMAAAAAZING!

What a great day!

TOMS SHOES, BITCHES!

COMFIEST SHOES EVER!

The hilarious conversations you have in bed...

Lying in bed a while ago, Ryan and I were talking about the natures of our housepets. We decided to pair them up with celebrities who matched their demeanors best. I can't remember the criteria we set but we were laughing pretty hard when we came up with their celebrity twins.

Yeti is a chubby Meryl Streep.

And Tank is John Goodman.

self-portrait, sitting at the bus stop

Music Monday: White/Rob Zombie

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Yes, I am serious. In high school in the mid to late nineties I listened to a lot of White Zombie, and then subsequently Rob Zombie. I also went through a reaaaal goth phase. Black clothes. Black eyeliner. Black nailpolish. Black everything. Let me see if I can find a photo...

Um, well I guess you'll have to take my word for it. I'm the one in the back and I'm wearing a Marilyn Manson 'sweet dreams' era t-shirt. That's my friend Sheena in front of me, also in her goth phase, obviously.

Anyway so we liked music that was kind of cheesy metal-dance music with distorted vocals with songs about monsters. We also liked Rammstein and Prodigy back then, so...yeah. I took this video seriously, because I thought that Rob Zombie was a total babe, there was a cool girl in the band, and I used this video as a guide on how to dress and *ahem* how to dance.

 

I can also remember listening to  AstroCreep 2000, cruising in infinite loops around our small town. Of course, every time More Human Than Human came on, my mom was in the room or something...on the CD there's a lot of sex noises. MORTIFYING.

 

And then Rob Zombie went on to do his own thing...which was worse. But I still liked it. 

 

 

Luckily, the music thing isn't the only thing he does. Rob Zombie directed the movie House of 1000 Corpses which is one of my all-time favorites. It's gory as fuck, creepy, and visually...awesome.  

 

He also directed the sequel, The Devil's Rejects, one of the trailers on Grindhouse, a Halloween remake and tons of other stuff. Check out his imdb page for everything. 

 

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I'm being super harsh here, calling him cheesy and stuff...I still have a soft spot in my heart for the guy. AND I just found out that Slayer is touring up in my neck of the woods this summer and Rob Zombie is sharing the headline...guess I'm gonna see him in concert after all these years after all! ;)

 

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I think she had a hard time being taken seriously.

dog-ti-pede

My phone takes panoramic photos. And they're fun! Also, I did this by accident.

What ever happened to...

...salad fingers?

Do you remember these videos from, like, the beginning of the internet? They were my favorite. Just the right mix of funny and totally terrifying. Here are eight of them. Enjoy!