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Sunday, August 22, 2004

Men.. I just don't get 'em

Girls... you must tell me, and tell me true... why are guys so friggin clueless??? Case in point.. I had a guy friend over today... he comes to me whenever he has a computer problem.. *L* I've been pursuing this guy for a little over a year, and I haven't really been pursuing very hard, because he does have a live in girlfriend... but, he's said some things about the relationship starting to unravel.. so I started pursing a little harder.. *L* I keep dropping little hints here and there... like.. if you need to talk about it, I'm always here.... or.. come on over anytime... but he just doesn't seem to be picking up on them... he's also told me that he didn't think he could get into a relationship with me because of how close we were.. such good friends we were... I'm so SICK of hearing that from guys... Come on, guys.. I can be more than just a friend, you know....

Sunday, August 15, 2004

Internet and Babies

Wow.. Sunday morning.... and I went Saturday night with no internet! Damn ISN and their wacky $50 high speed lines... oh well.. it's working now, so who cares? Bro's been at a party all weekend.. left me at home with the wacky people... oh well.. he came back long enough yesterday to take me to Sobey's.... You see.. a buddy of his had a baby last month, well.. he didn't have the baby, his girlfriend did.... Anyway, she and the baby are moving in with him this week, so no more partying for him... so they had one last bash before the wife and the kid moved in... I don't blame him.. one last hurrah... I'd do it.. As long as he still comes to cards on Monday nights, so I can steal... I mean, win.. his money....

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

a woman's worry... her hair

I cut my hair today... first time I got it cut since I started at Holland College 4 years ago... it feels weird... since it no longer goes down my back, it's nowhere near as heavy... it's been falling out for a little while, and I figured that if I cut it, maybe it would stop falling out so much... I mean.. I used to have really long, thick hair... now it's so thin.. I'm starting to get a bald spot..... and I'm a 26 yr old female!!! Jesus.. I mean.. I know that women lose their hair... but as far as I know, there aren't any women in my family that lost theirs... I stopped taking my anti-rejection medication when I started dialysis.. I wonder if that has anything to do with it... anyway, back to my short hair... now that it's short, I'm thinking about coloring it... there are so many different colors in my hair naturally.. I was thinking.. why not make it one color artificially... I'm wondering... how would I look as a red head?? I've always wanted red hair.. and I do have little bits of red streaking through my brown hair.. so, it could be done.. might look kinda weird with my dark eyebrows, though... what do you think??

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Monday night cards

Monday night... I went to cards tonight, as I do most Monday nights... we play Scat, 2 dollars a game... in our last game of the night, we got down to 3 of us.. and I still had my 4 quarters... I hadn't had to pay once, and there was 5 players out, 8 all together... I thought I was doing good... but they took me down... hand after hand, I had to pay until I was down to my last quarter... I thought I had a good hand.. unfortunately, the other 2 had better hands than I did... oh well... another Monday... night of fun... however, no pay day... the pot went to a good fella, though... his gf just had a baby.. so he probably needed the money.... like for diapers or something.... I'll stick around to win another night, hopefully....

Friday, August 06, 2004

Kids and possible motherhood

No, I don't have any.. but I'd like to someday... most of my friends have kids... my Bro's gf, at least I think she's his gf, has a kid.. a boy... her pride and joy... his name is Kenny.. he was a year old the end of last month... my mom was babysitting him tonight while they went out to the drive in... not a big deal... except the kid pays no attention to me... Mom put him to sleep and set him down.. then went in on the computer... he was only down a few minutes when he woke up... he sat up and looked around... I said hi to him.. but when he couldn't see my mom, he started wailing... he didn't want anything to do with me... kinda makes you feel like shit... but what can you do?? not a damn thing... makes you feel like you're doing something bad to him or something... all I did was look at him and say hi... it was weird... I couldn't get him to play with me at all... the most I got was a few smiles while he sat on Mom's knee... but as soon as his mom got home, my mom got the cold shoulder from him too.. I keep wondering if I'm mom material... I mean.. I can be maternal.. just look at me with my cats... but I can't keep a guy longer than a few months.. and geez... 2 of them turned out to be gay anyway... I'm not girlie... at all... never have been... I don't do the shopping thing... I hate wearing dresses.. I don't wear makeup.. I don't go out just to buy a million pairs of black shoes... in fact, I only own 3 pairs.. my sneakers, my sandals, and my good shoes that I wear to weddings and stuff... oh.. and I don't congregate in the washroom with other girls... I think it's a smelly place to talk.. I just go in, pee, wash my hands, and get the hell out... I like cars, even though I don't drive... I like fast cars... watching races... and I don't mind riding shotgun when my Bro is racing someone through town... I love speed.... the smell of exhaust fumes, tire smoke, and gasoline bring back pleasant memories of my childhood... I've never been with a guy who understood this... Maybe I'm weird... I don't know... what do you think??

Thursday, August 05, 2004

Up all night again...

So, it's 3:43am, and I'm sitting at this fool computer.. my dialysis machine is whirring away behind me.. as it does every night.. vile thing... getting me up every damned 2 and a half hours to drain.. and if I don't sit up, it'll beep at me until I do.. it didn't last night, though... I was up all night the night before.. couldn't sleep, so I played this game on yahoo.. called addictive solitaire, I think... it's named right anyway... and when I got off the dialysis machine in the morning, I couldn't take a nap because me and bro were gonna go to Murray Harbour to see the Stanley Cup.. Yeah, I was excited.. being the hockey fan that I am.. I only watch during the finals.. *L* I couldn't wait to go.. the Cup had been in New Glasgow twice.. and my dumb cousin never told me when, so I missed it twice.. I wasn't missing it this time... So Bro and I got in the car.. the drive to Murray Harbour from Charlottetown isn't a long one, maybe about 45 mins.. we drove through Montague, which is cool.. I like Montague.. we followed all the signs they put up.. Brad Richards and Stanley Cup this way kinda deal.. felt like we were going through a maze.. We finally got to the place where they were parking the cars.. no problem.. car parked.. we got on a school bus.. cool.. haven't been on a school bus since I graduated high school.. about 7 years ago.. we got off the bus a mile or so down the road... across the street from what they were calling a community centre.. and a ball field.. people everywhere.. couple of golf carts hauling people around.. the biggest thing you saw were the tents and the cbc truck with the satellite dish on the roof.. we walked across the ball field in the searing heat.. they say it hit 30 degrees that afternoon.. we got to the line to wait to see the Cup... and I almost fell down.. I was nearing dehydration.. and I knew how it feels because I've had it happen before... and you're stuck in the hospital the whole damn day when it happens... I think the volunteer at the end of the line recognized the symptoms.. he told Bro that if we had proof of a disability, we could get to the front of the line.. no waiting.. cool... Bro walked back to the car and got my disabled parking permit.. we just happen to have 2 of 'em cuz we lost one... thought it was stolen a few months ago.. but we found it.. after we bought a new one.. so he put one in the window of the car.. put the other in his pocket... they allowed him to drive back and park in a disabled parking area.. about 200 feet away from where we got off the bus... sweet... he came back and collected me.. and we walked back across the field to the end of the line again... showed the volunteer the parking permit.. boom.. we're at the front of the friggin line... people had been waiting for hours in the hot sun in that line... we walked across the field twice.. and Bro walked back up to the car... so I think it might have been a half hour, 45 mins for us to get our pictures taken with the cup... and what I think is even more cool.. just after we went through, they started only taking one picture per group... we got 2.. Anyway, we started walking back across the field, going back to the car... we got as far as the other side of the fence and I started getting weak again... we sat down on the ground in the shade next to this black guy, and we started talking to him about the camera he had on his lap.. it looked like a 35 milimetre, but it was digital... I'm a nut for gadgets, but I was too weak to talk at first, and Bro is much more social than I am.. so he started talking to him... we sat there a half hour or so, talking to this guy and Bro was snapping pics of good looking girls walking by... after sitting for about a half hour, I got up, but was still dizzy, so Bro flagged down a golf cart and this dude driving the golf cart drove us over to the car... On the way home, we stopped to pick up 3 women who were walking home from the ball field... they were hitching... but then, it was way too hot for anyone to be walking anyway.. we drove them to their road, which wasn't that far up anyway.. they told us that they thought Bruce Rainnie was cute.. We stopped at Gillis' in Montague to have a bite to eat, then we went home... That night, we watched all the Brad Richards stuff on the news.... and we found out that the black guy we were sitting with was a reporter from Tampa Bay who was following the Cup to every little town it went to through the summer.. reporting back to the people of Tampa Bay what the players were doing with it... Cool, don't you think?? Anyway.. that's the end of my Stanley Cup story...