Things That Confuse Me About The Pharmacy...

A new Shopper's Drug Mart opened up down the street, which is kinda sweet because I can walk down the street and get my prescriptions or toilet paper when we run out or when I get a hankering for Fruit Loops...

Popped in the other day to grab a prescription. Headed to the pharmacy and spent five minutes trying to explain things to the girl at the desk (read: pulling teeth). She effs up my phone number, my name, my prescription but I don't say anything because it's obvious she's just started this job and I remember when I started at the Bike Dr. and didn't know anything about the computer or bikes (I was hired because I was seen as "adaptable" [read: girl]) and got yelled at a dude for putting a basket through the computer wrong.

(Side note: working retail sucks enough because you have to cater to people's wants and needs, let alone deal with assholes who think they're better than you because they don't work retail.)

Aaanyway, she literally grabs the pills off the wall to show me to see if they're the proper ones, like, literally has them in her hand... then proceeds to tell me it's going to be half an hour before they're ready. Seriously? Seriously? You could hand them to me right now and take my money. Why do I have to come back in half an hour? It's going to take you more effort to go put them back on the shelf and go about your day for fifteen minutes and then have to go get them again. Why? Why? Whyyyyy can't you just give them to me now?

Luckily the new pharmacy is only a few blocks from my house so I can just walk over and get it but c'mon! So weird. I get the idea that there are other prescriptions and that I'm in a line back there behind the counter but you had them in your hand two feet from me!

Sigh.

Things I Wonder About When I Can't Get to Sleep #36

I used to pile everything on the other side of my bed and sleep on just a corner of it. I don't do that anymore. Now I could stretch out all I like... but I don't.

I wonder what that means or if it means anything at all...

Now if I could only stop eating in bed...

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
~Edmund Vance Cooke

Things That Are Awesome Right Now.

- being able to shave my legs without having to dodge the road rash bits.

- making it to work in 11 minutes

- Third Beach

- beach fires

- Snap peas

- our garden

- pencils

- getting a good picture by shooting from the hip

- going to Canmore, even if it is only for two days

- sunshine

- sunscreen

- chopsticks and the food you can eat them with

- Klosterman books and the questions they put in my brain

- the Sucker Punch Soundtrack

Lonely Blue Boy

For some reason I love this...

"Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain"

Beat Poets

Sleepy but intelligent too

He cares about me

Little grey ghost chases

Sadness blazes in your face

Used to be almost over you

But it is a dream

Love cut deeply & beautifully.

Teacher used an old needle

No bone to put poison in

But if an ocean of affection would

Fetch them

For they know how to play

Hound feeding off him

Then he will always let the animals

At us

Favourite of no men

Beg me as she can devour his companion

Between sex & rotting pie

Only I am porcelain

Marble poetry

Full with a sense of wild

After I walk here

A kiss... yet ask to see you

Sleek growling

Hungry was softly purring

Once good leap

Seep in

Growling chases everywhere

Fly by

Investigating teeth which nip

Never know about that

Could blush.

Desire lingers like an old trick

A brilliant cold

Perhaps heaven and peace

A gift only special here

Drink this dark graceful drink

My sleep is safe though

Decay haunting laughing

Pray for night

Celebrate life become ice

Sad boy

Do as I see

Are you that afraid

Soft velvety voice

Must come and hear the magic

Quiet dazzle in a suffered universe

A child makes things ferociously

You ask why and I say everything

The secret prisoner could live

Vast night air

Remember yesterday

Hard glass liquid window.

Daughter looks at life through

Naked sacred heart

Curious companion

Feline who never dies

Wake from beautiful fever

Learn and understand

Fire from words like smoke

Those we bleed free

Like blind steel circles

We know

Soon you will let go

Young stars give meaning

Pictures wear away almost translucent

As their chain changed our present

Coloured in black

Like fresh kill

Never will he say it out loud

Overly dirty by my hand

Cunning hunter

Born in as of animal.

Give up or scratch

Smile and pounce

Man of messy scratches

Clouded here

The grass is brown

Do it to surround

Dance sweeter than baby breath

God of morning

Have joy like this mourning.

Stay in our bed

Remember the question

By then slow

Give me your best work

But for his gamble

Melted at morning light

So little to do

Together we are bound

Nuzzle on our pillow

No champagne

Water in this street

Bold when funny

So some see more

Come out self

Have more explore

With a stiff eye

Shorter than long stripe

Said so tiger.

If wishes were fishes

I'd still be sorry

Quiet awkward in my head

Words that hang

Between

Just right and

Harder fault

Make me okay.

I am sometimes

Violently opposed

To meeting new people

Only because I don't think

I'm quite done with the ones

I had.

The The Playlist

1. The Temporary Thing - You, Me, and a Bottle of Whiskey

2. The Gaslight Anthem - I Coulda Been a Contender

3. The Thrills - Not For All The Love In The World

4. The Drums - Down By the Water

5. The Ting Tings - Be The One

6. The Switches - Lay Down The Law

7. The Annuals - Fair

8. The Ettes - Crown of Thorns

9. The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol

10. The Bravery - The Spectator

11. The Format - On Your Porch

12. The Clicks - Career Suicide

13. The Gentle Waves - Fall From Grace

14. The Cribs - We Were Aborted

15. The Go! Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O.

16. The Hold Steady - First Night

17. The Naked and the Famous - No Way

18. The Kickdrums - Just a Game

19. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

20. The Knux - Bang Bang

21. The Rapture - Pieces of the People we Love

22. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

23. The Shangri-Las - Remember

24. The Real Tuesday Weld - Last Words

25. The Sounds - Rock and Roll

"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." - Bill Hoest

70

"Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there"

- Bob Dylan

Happy Birthday big guy...