Life as Rose

Noise

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:06:31 -0800

I really want to know what our neighbours do. I know everyone has weird neighbours who make weird sounds, and this is normal and something apartment dwellers have to live with, but I’m still curious. I mean yes, it is awkward when we hear the guy downstairs having sex with his very excitable girlfriend, but at least I know what he’s doing.

I’m not even sure which neighbour it is that is making these weird sounds. Ben thinks it’s the guy beside us and I think it’s the guy downstairs (the same one who has an excitable girlfriend)

I think I’m probably right, because Ben tends to get stuff like this wrong. The last time Ben thought a neighbour was being noisy, he banged on the suite of an old man who was definitely not the source of the noise. Very rude. (that time it was actually the guy downstairs having a party at 2am on a Thursday night. I wonder what he looks like. I imagine him as one of those loud beefcake guys who love to shout and give high-fives.)

Anyway, this neighbour is just always YELLING. Like he’s watching sports all the time. Which is probably the most likely scenario but it is seriously ALL THE TIME. Like he doesn’t have a job. Like his job is to shout loudly from around noon until 10pm every day. (ok, I’m not actually home all the time to hear this, but on the weekends all day and from when I get home from work until bedtime, there is shouting taking place.)

Sometimes they are small shouts, sometimes they are full-on gorilla man war cries, sometimes there’s some banging as he presumably JUMPS UP! WOAHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh

Is he alone? Sometimes it sounds like he is, but it’s hard to tell. Something about a man shouting alone is even stranger than a bunch of guys all shouting together.

Is it actually sports? Ben thinks it isn’t because there is no way there are that many sports going on every single day for hours and hours. So then I suggested foosball, because that can get pretty rowdy, but who the hell plays foosball for 8 hours straight every day?

…Sunhawk gets featured in an iphone game/game trailer that...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:24:00 -0800

…Sunhawk gets featured in an iphone game/game trailer that lets you ride waves to music from your itunes library. (here it is @ apple store)

Yesterday my mom and I got up at 5am and travelled for twelve...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:54:55 -0800

Yesterday my mom and I got up at 5am and travelled for twelve hours in order to pick up this adorable guy. Some of you may remember that Jada, my mom’s beloved rottie, passed away from cancer several months ago, and mom’s been looking at adopting a new rescue dog ever since.

This is Stoic, a year-old Anatolian Shepherd. He’s absolutely huge, super sweet, and very very handsome.

"So Ben has decided it’s ok to watch downton abbey as long as nobody knows, and he has also..."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:17:00 -0800

“So Ben has decided it’s ok to watch downton abbey as long as nobody knows, and he has also taken to calling “Mr. Bates” “Masturbates” “”

- Me, ruining Ben’s secret all over the Internet.

I tried doing Rag Rolls last night. It was a huge success! ...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:39:00 -0800

I tried doing Rag Rolls last night. It was a huge success! Totally amazing, I had no idea it would work so well.

Also, I apologize for the extremely poor photo quality and my bare shoulder. It is WAY too early in the morning to worry about these kinds of things.

Today is my birthday!!! And this is probably the greatest card...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:24:19 -0800

Today is my birthday!!!

And this is probably the greatest card I have ever received.

For those interested in my working life...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:11:37 -0800

Next week is my last week working with Atomic Crayon. I’ve accepted a job over at MetaLab and I’m really looking forward to it!

I’ve been a big fan of MetaLab for a long time, so the chance to work there is kind of amazing. I know once you actually start a job it all just ends up seeming ‘normal’, but for now I’m super stoked and a little bit star-struck.

Took a few snowy photos today with my iphone!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:57:00 -0800

Took a few snowy photos today with my iphone!

Sort of Like Seinfeld

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:32:06 -0800

Ben and I own this god-awful car.

I actually like to call it Ben’s car, not my car, because I pretty much never drive it anywhere unless there is an extreme emergency and the only way we’ll survive is if I drive the car. For example: If there was a Japan-like earthquake and we had to move to higher ground in order to avoid being crushed by an out-of-control tsunami (as if there’s any other kind of tsunami), I would drive the car. But that’s about the only time I’ll do it.

The heat doesn’t work (it smells like gas when you turn it on, which may explain why it burns $40 in gas every week) and when it freezes over night, our car has to have its windows scraped while all the cars around us are perfectly clear, like somehow OUR CAR freezes over easier than everyone else’s. Motherfucker.

If that’s not enough suckiness for you, the other thing is that this car was given to Ben by a friend who didn’t want to pay for insurance anymore, and immediately after receiving it we had to drop a bunch of money on replacement parts. Luckily, my dad’s a mechanic or we probably would have just left that car to die. However, sometimes the friend brings up what a nice guy he was for giving us his car, and it takes a lot of willpower not to shout “THE CAR IS CURSED, GODDAMNIT!” at him.

Exciting fact: While working on the car, my dad discovered a mouse nest under the hood.

Since this car is:
a) old,
and
b) the absolute poster child for ugly,
not a lot of people own them.

However, shortly after moving into our current apartment, we discovered that there was another person in the neighbourhood who owned the car.

I remember the first time we drove by him, he waved at us, and I was like “BEN! That guy with our car just waved at us!” and he says sort of sadly, “I know. He waves at me Every. Time. I. Drive. By.”

We’ve been living there for nine months now, and the guy never misses a wave. Ben HATES it. “I can’t stop waving now because I’ll seem like a dick. But what are we doing? Waving at each other to acknowledge that we both have the shittiest car on the planet? Who does that? I don’t even know this guy!”

So he keeps dreading passing the waver on the road, and begrudgingly waving back whenever he does, often mumbling insults under his breath because Ben is sort of a dick like that.

Yesterday we were driving home and I saw the car approaching. Ben automatically waves. The guy driving the car gives us an awkward wave back and Ben says “Shit. That’s not the same guy. I just waved for no reason.”

We really have to get a new car.

Hi-lite of 2011: Moving into this ocean front apartment of ours.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:33:21 -0800

Hi-lite of 2011: Moving into this ocean front apartment of ours.

Moon basking in the glow of a sunset. Took this photo in the...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:31:37 -0800

Moon basking in the glow of a sunset. Took this photo in the summer but I thought I’d post it.

A gem found on instagram: Dealing with wrong numbers creatively....

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:08:00 -0800

A gem found on instagram: Dealing with wrong numbers creatively. Wish this had been something hilarious that I’d done, because that would make this post so much more awesome but instead I’m just stealing it from someone else.

Not that anyone ever texts me by accident anyway.
(hilarity credited to @gshellen / Grant Shellen)

Hi Rose! Ummm you're not using wordpress anymore? Btw I've always loved loved your blog! :) - Nurul

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:38:22 -0800

Oh thanks!

Just trying something different over here - lifeasrose.ca was gathering dust and I thought tumblr might make it easier to blog more often. Or not. I don’t know. I’m a lazy blogger.

My portfolio blog is still on wordpress.

New Years Resolution

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:55:01 -0800

I will no longer wear my pajamas down to the lobby of my building.
It’s just too risky. I have run into hot guys WAY too many times down there. Like, more than you would think.

Every time I say to myself “I’ll just quickly run down and no one will even notice!” But the last time I said this I got stuck in the elevator with two construction workers and all I could think about was how I was wearing a bright purple fuzzy top with no bra. Humiliating.

Also, I know you’re all wondering why I’d want to “Just quickly run down to the lobby” while wearing an outfit that Ben dubs “The Barney outfit” And the answer is laundry. Doing some laundry. So it’s not THAT weird that I want to go in my pjs, right?

But anyway. Resolution. No more pajamas in public. Period.

Teen Stops Masturbating Long Enough To Save Family From Fire

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:30:20 -0800

Teen Stops Masturbating Long Enough To Save Family From Fire:

This is probably my favourite Onion headline of all time.

The only somewhat decent photo taken this Christmas.

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:09:00 -0800

The only somewhat decent photo taken this Christmas.