carhole hang!

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we’re pretty much wayne’s world 3 right now. good thing they’re both on vacation too. foursome couple expedition pretty funny.

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plus steph’s shirt puts it over the edge. i gave it to her. she already has one exactly like it but thicker for winter. i am getting rid of my possessions guy. bagism.

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persian’s. they’re a finnish doughnut, very airy and sugary and smothered with super rich sweet icing. thunder bay-centric make sure you have one. to be a puritan of one though is to have the raspberry cherry original flavour, this one was just a different flavour. cinnamon chocolate. we were insane after eating these, got a 6 pack. you can get the icing in tubs. this plus coffee holy crap.

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instant convert.

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this head sex shop was having a moving clearance. i kind of want these stripper heels but i feel that’s playing with kismet in a majorly strong way.

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we were into that hot dog making a flame race for the slutty bun.

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we saw terry fox for my second time. emotional holy place. the first time i saw it i got teary over terry.

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it’s pretty much where he ended his run across canada.

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great view.

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you throw quarters onto the monument as donations to cancer, to pay tribute, good luck and you aim for your hometown on the map of canada.

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that mountain over there is the sleeping giant. see his mongolian head staring up at the sky?

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too bad no sun today. tomorrow will be a scorcher. we will be climbing the mountain.

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they met cos of me. i guess i have to prepare a stupid gay speech now right? they also set the date too for next september. guess i’ll be subletting a house here bahahaa.

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i was hoping to find merchandise like a hooter’s uniform of terry’s notorious hipster short shorts and hippie vintage tee. no dice.

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i’m into rural and desolate and, the nothingness. a woman at the supermarket was mega impressed by my tri-summer residency here. everyone knows everyone it’s pretty cool. to be the outsider.

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this is not the mountain, but the one before it. OK NEVERMIND it is the right oNE! gaaah.

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that’s the inn. we almost went to a dance there once but we pre-drank for too long and missed it. we went to the legion and got sloshed. after dinner tonight we’re going to the car hole slash rehearsal space and we’ll sit on van double seats as couches hahah teacher is having a great time.

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their new place is beautiful.

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our room. so cozy. it’s like being in a cool cabin and you can see the mountain it’s ahhhhh so peaceful.

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the master.

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log pillow.

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steph’s crazy woman room ahahahha i mean her moon room. in the native world when women are on their period it’s called their MOON TIME and they don’t have to chop wood or forage for berries or make dinner or wash dishes until it’s over isn’t that amazing but that’s great too cos on our moon time we get the dropsies and are clumsy bumbling retards.

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this is the ugly room, or, the thinking room. the hang room.

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bacon vodka. i introduced this homemade vodka brewing method my first year here.

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they’re gonna pitch it but funny eh it’s like sunday morning grossness on the kitchen counter.

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we’re having shorelunch for dinner. deep fried pickerel. i am so going for a run tomorrow on top of mountain climbing. also making a salad and grilling peppers and zucc.

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the backyard is super dreamy too.

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persianman!

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perfect fit.

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i pointed out the wolf ashtrays on our way in and then on our way out i bought one for them and she’s like we bought one for ourselves! hahahha.

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no regrets! regrets!

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i missed.

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down there was an amazing suspended train track like in stand by me. ancient.

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i liked the canadian pride coloured flowers.

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trucks flying by you like crazy evergreens everywhere it’s a nice drive. thrilling.

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i love discounts.

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me now. my hair is a disaster so i don’t think will be taking many more photos tonight. kay, dinner and bowie time now. sayonara.

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mount mckay aka thunder mountain. this is my third consecutive thunder bay summer. why? the eternal search i suppose and turns out this place is swarming with norwegians, finnish, danish, scandinavians aaaand i recently learned there’s a possible (probable) scandinavian streak in me by way of my grandmother (rip) sheila, which explains the blond hair (brother and i were both born blond, i more so than him) and the, awesome?

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anyway we had a hotel crawl of this hotel that is based on a viking theme lay-out and they give you a map and it looks like middle earth, seriously, totally perfect LARP convention weekend, and the map only represents the first floor. there are five and multi-level bizarrely placed elevators. unfortunately not like willy wonka’s glass elevataors this one will not fly vertically to the adjacent tower where our room is. in short, we’ve been walking in circles through the shining. plus, the staff are aggressive. writing a letter.

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willy wonka shower though. we have a luxury suite. it’s gorgeous. we are practically ON the landing airway strip too i saw the hotel FROM the plane.

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there is celtic font words written with names like SCANDIA II gold gild wood dark hallways of rooms leading to weird bomb shelter plaster dorm-like cult compound lesser luxury suites, the room we got for steph & rye which is kind of amazing as it’s tree-level overlooking the courtyard, cottage treehouse cavernous.

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it’s a pretty wacky tripped out scene. we are annoying the hell out of this hotel they feel as if they are babysitting us. i wrote ahead and was assured VIP treatment and instead of that we are getting dog shit. maybe that’s the norm here apparently they have a thing against southern ontario which triggers a memory i stifled from last summer of how rude everyone was to me and i was in my own mega-depression so was aloof to it but now i’m kind of hyperly-focused (as teacher says) so i can’t not see it. anyway we’re having a great time so complaining is dumb. but that’s what canadians do. complain.

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but not in paradise.

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great sun. very quiet. a convention was going on and we walked by in our degenerate bathing suits robes smoking drinking while a reunion or club reception of sorts went on. we were in the pool watching and they watched us back, like cedar rapids (the movie, watch it it’s hilarious) and an older loner man read the longest winter by the pool while steph and i swam. why is he reading a depressing book about the longest winter in summer?

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it took them 4 hours to bus our table after we were done with this and they chastised us for being 2 minutes late to get it on this courtyard THE ONLY ONE IN ALLOF MIDDLE EARTH at this place. i was huffed at on the phone, CORRECTED, snarked with glee that it was 5 after eleven once the kitchen was closed. just ridiculous. vip my ass ian.

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mountains everywhere. or the same mountain.

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steph wore my jumper when i took us to see florence. i am giving it to her.

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see? kind of like being in a school.

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our room. we have a mountain view.

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that was stuck to the wall.

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so we had to order pizza. we watched hanna. half of it. amazing film.

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the best pizza. best. best i’ve had in a year? i’ll find outthe name again. also in part cos of the way i topping’d it but it was their pepperoni that put it over the edge of greatness.

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polluted. maybe we’ll climb the mountain today.

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they said my bubbles hat won.

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ok gotta check out now.

xoxoxo

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went on a crazy run yesterday.

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yeah look how hyper i look.

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now picture this scaling a mountain.

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that mountain.

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pretty tropical there in the sumer time.

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you get vertigo the next day or at night lying in bed picturing this but while there it’s totally cool. it looks like you could be in fiji when you look out on to the water, lake superior? islands foreverrrr.

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also flying into danger zone. forest fires. jesus right?

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gahah wiener. found bottles of stephy’s favourite discontinued iced tea vodka and kept one for us. like pirate stow-aways i hope they make it safely in our luggage we checked. pretty delish.

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we HAVE to climb this mountain i talk about it all the time, we didn’t climb it last year. i am going to do it in my vintage keds meredith got me from saskatoon last summer, they’re already pretty dirty and i didn’t have a chance to make it to adventurehouse to grab my desert trek clarks which you can see i wore last time, sockless. animal. bug spray? we’ll outrun ‘em i said. now it’s a thing down there outrunning mosquitos.

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steph wiped out right here last time with that daquiri bottle in her hand. didn’t smash. phewf.

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but it is beautiful replete with train and it’s going to be HOT. we’re going tubing, beer float tubing.

okee dokeeeee see ya in the sky.

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i’ll be checkin’ in to the legion again and signing the book and entering in the meat draw haha. you can’t swear in there either. look out!

also, the roof blew off the thunder bay airport last week so, these are all good omens.

we watched sucker punch last night. holy hot film. highly suggest you watch it. there’re numerous raymi correlations throughout. it’s like nerd geek dude comicon p0rn.

we were actually in a fight at the time. HIS FAULT!

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here’s another lois dress. crazy right?

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was also filming this simultaneously on the macbook. don’t worry that angle was loads more retarded so you don’t have to watch it again.

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now.

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1.5 years ago.

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last night.