some pictures

i'm trying to figure this picture-posting program out so bear with me.


rolo and sandy


sandy


kitties eating.


kitties!

back in black

i'm back at work today. can't say i made it here in time, but you know how these things happen.. you sleep in. don't say you've never done it before.

hmm, i meant to have some pictures to put up here today, but i don't. sorry. i will soon.

i want to thank everybody who sent me/us a card/present. you didn't receive anything in return and for that i apologize. my excuse: we were gone until late christmas eve and i'm a procrastinator... the two don't go together well for you getting a card or present. next year might be different.

updates

we got back from bc safe, after long waits everywhere. we weren't cranky at all, unlike most of the people at the airports.

we picked up the kittens today. they're small.

annoyed... by someone

we're still having a good time in beesee. we played games last night. i almost won at scrabble because i scored 90 points on the word cavernous. then i lost by one point after giving someone else their last word and not being able to play my last letters. it was sad.

i can't believe how, here, the woman of the house does all the cooking and cleaning, from what i've seen at least. i hope that it's not that way in my house. everyone knows that i'm not a good cook and that i usually clean when i'm mad.

sarah's plane was cancelled due to the weather. she's stuck in thunderBAY until tomorrow morning. she's pissed. i would be too. i wrote the city that way because when she says it she emphasizes the bay part of the word and we all make fun of her. there was a huge plan to make fun of her when she showed up and said the word for the first time, but that might have to be delayed due to her crabbiness. i'll keep you informed.

we made it!

so we made it. both flights were uneventful. we even scored free breakfast and a movie, that i managed to sleep some.

more later.

beeseeee!

i'm going to beeseee! we're leaving tomorrow morning at 9 and arrive in sunny bc at 12:30 their time. i'm getting excited, but definitely not as excited as last time. last time i was crazy excited.

i had a good week.. got a raise, hardly did any work, christmas partied till i could party no more, are more than i should have and slept like a baby. now, it's time for the holiday season. what could be better than 6 days off work?

so much to do

this is my last week of work before my big trip to victoria. there are so many things going on that when i found out i didn't have to work nights this week i was very happy. instead, i'm going to spend my nights doing other things like getting groceries, pilates and stitch n bitch, and packing. a co-worker of mine asked me yesterday if i had packed yet. i don't think i've ever packed for anything before the day before. so i told her that i didn't have enough clothes to pack and still wear clothes to work. it's partially true. okay, it's all true. but honestly, who packs before the night before? that's what the night before is for.

because of some shit hitting the fan over pay rates and actual pay from agencies, i'm getting a raise. it's a long story that involves another one of my co-workers who was getting the shit end of the stick. i'm just a very very fortunate bystander who's now getting another $5 an hour. that's a shitload more money every pay! yay me! it's funny that i worked my ass off at subway two summers ago (three summers ago?) and when i got a raise it was a meager 15cents an hour. fuck you, subway!

i didn't play hockey last friday night. i wasn't feeling good all week (and i'm still making up the time i took off to get home earlier and go to bed) so i didn't go. i went out to dinner with some friends and then saw oceans 12 instead. it was a good movie. i also saw elf this past weekend. it was much better than i expected. saturday, i was a champion sleeper, puttinig my lazy friends to shame. i was awake for only 9 hours all day. i still can't believe i was able to sleep saturday night.

the end is in sight when it comes to work. we're working on finishing everything up. i have no idea what i will do once this is over, but now that a certain boyfriend has a guaranteed job starting in january, the pressure's off. we can survive on my paycheck alone and he's making more money so we can survive on his paycheck alone for sure. there is a job posted on the jobs.gc.ca website right now for a biology-type job that i'm somewhat qualified for.. i won't bore you with the details, but it involves making crop plants more cold- and pest-tolerant. interesting (to me) stuff. so i'm going to apply for that and maybe contact some of the people there. it would be so much closer to home.. biking distance in the summer. i would love to not have to drive to work and spend 3 hours a day travelling to and from work. blah hull.

that's about enough from me. everyone writing exams: good luck, suckers!

i rolled 370,000km on lumi the other day. still goin strong.. except the doors freezing shut and stuff.

the monday blues

it's monday. ug. back to work. i'm having the worst time getting up in the mornings lately. it's so nice on the weekends being able to sleep in and stay up late, but that makes monday mornings so much harder.

the baseball party last night went well. it was nice to see everyone again. but the same old shit is still there so it's nice that we don't have to jump right back into the same intense time together we spent in august - october. it's not that i don't like ball, it's that 8 weeks of seeing the same people 5 days a week is just too much. i did get a nice plaque though. and the girls who won awards got huge bage of candy. everyone was happy.

hockey wasn't so great saturday night. our team is very prone to penalties. we played the whole third period with no less than four people in the box (5 on 3 in other words). it was awful. i can only hope it gets better. like, what's with one of our players getting a penalty for giving our bench the finger? our own bench! madness.

there are so many things happening these days that i opted out of working garbage this week. it just isn't worth it. though when i have to pay for the car i kick myself for not working as much as i could have. blah to future me.

lots of work to do these days now that our crazy times are over. the canada-us meeting had everyone in a frenzy. i'm happy to report that i didn't fall asleep, though it was close.

i'm starving. i think i need some chocolate. see ya!

kitties!

boxing day is the day we're bringing home our new kittens! we went to the breeders house today and saw our two new guys, a brother and sister duo. they're really soft. we'll have lots of pictures three weeks from tomorrow.

last night we rented the chronicles of riddick. i didn't pay much attention because i was teaching myself how to change colours knitting. my book doesn't explain it very well at all, but trial and error worked just fine. now i just have to learn how to sew pieces together and my blanket will be finito! then i want to learn how to crochet. again, the book i have doesn't help.

i'm trying to decide which nights to take the french course that i'm going to sign up for. i had a free placement test thursday and that wasn't fun at all. the lady, once finding out i knew some french, asked me all about my plans for the holidays and made me respond in full sentences. it was horrible. then she said that i had trouble with my verbs and wanted to place me in one of the beginner classes. well ya? you really think so? i could have told her that! but anyways, my choices are mondays and wednesdays or tuesdays and thursdays. currently i have a pilates class on wednesdays. i don't know if i will come january but it's something i have to keep in mind.

we also went to a wake yesterday. it wasn't as emotional as i thought it would be. i only almost cried twice. i'm glad we went though.

hockey tonight. baseball party tomorrow night. party animal!

it's been a while

i've been busy.. not as busy as last week, but busy enough to not update this site for a while. let's start with last week. it was crazy working as much as i did. i would get in to environment canada at 9 and stay until 6:30 an then head to the garbage job and work that for between 2 and 4 hours a night. blah! i didn't get to lie on the couch and watch tv.. get groceries.. get money out of the bank.. when i was home i was making food for my lunch and dinner the next day and sleeping. not the life for me. but the paycheque in my grubby little hands will be nice.

this week i didn't have to work garbage (i wasn't invited in fact) and it was nice to get home from work on do whatever i wanted. i got to watch jeopardy (though i didn't see ken get kicked off - went to a movie instead) and go shopping and stuff. i'm almost all done my christmas shopping. how sweet is that? this never happens, but usually i'm in school and then exams last until december 23rd.

yesterday mother nature snowed like it was her job. driving was no fun at all, and i actually spent more time in my car getting to and from work than i spent in my office working. but that doesn't include the 4-hour meeting from hell in the afternoon. driving this morning was hell on the streets that didn't get plowed yesterday and are now ice rinks, but fine otherwise.

last night was the first stitch n bitch. i say that proudly so don't make fun of me. eventually we'll be knitting for the red cross. if i was still in high school these would be my community service hours. now they're just my volunteer-make-me-feel-good hours.

some big things coming up soonish: end-of-year baseball party this sunday night (i still have to finish organizing that), christmas parties coming out of the wingwang, hockey party (can't make it because....), trip to bc (!), and then christmas and all that stuff. exciting times.

just some other little things. my hockey team voted me one of the assistant captains. i wasn't even sure people knew my name. apparently they do. so that was very unexpected but nice. i learned how to use the mouse with my left hand because my right hand has been bothering me lately (too much minesweeper and spider solitaire (work, please challenge me more!)).

and i'll leave you with one thing. not upbeat but something on my mind. a quote i heard a long time ago that is really true. the more people you know, the more people you know who die.

sleeeeepy

this garbage girl is pooped.

garbage girl

i am officially a garbage girl. i am happy to report that the whole experience last night wasn't awful, but it was pretty gross and i'm getting flashes of the smell of garbage. yuck. i was there for three and a half hours, the first hour was just us standing around waiting to be let in and the next half hour was us standing around waiting to get started. i'm guessing most nights won't have that much standing around, which is just fine and dandy with me because i would much rather be working and get to go home earlier.

i left home yesterday morning at 8:15am and got home around 9:45pm. it was a long day. when i got home i stripped on the way up the stairs and hopped in the shower then ate some food that jon made and lay on the couch for a little while. i'm so exciting.

there's no way i could keep this up for any amount of time. the smell flashes alone are enough!

wheelchairs and parking

on my floor there are three bathrooms: one female, one male and one handicapped. i can't say anything about the guys bathroom, but the girls bathroom has two stalls one of which is handicapped. and then we have the handicapped bathroom which is a single room. what i don't get is why people use the single handicapped bathroom. and another thing: why do women use the handicapped stall if there's no one in the regular one. man, if i was in a wheelchair i would be pissed if i went into the bathroom and the only stall i could use was taken. now, i can only say that i've ever seen one person in a wheelchair at this building, and never on my floor. so should i care? should it bother me that people are being .. inconsiderate? rude? i don't even like how the wheelie toilets are so much higher. i'll stick with my regular stall in my regular bathroom.

i finally found parking in hull. it's just down the street from my building and now i won't have to go out four-five times a day to move my car. i'm going out in twenty minutes (when my two-hours of street parking is up) and moving to the lot. how exciting is this?

new cell!

i got a new cell phone. it's red. i named her ruby. if you would like my new cell phone number and did not receive an email from me to that end please email me.

work

i found out yesterday that my contract here at environment canada is being extended for another little while (until february 4th). that's not a long time, but it'll give me a chance to finish my work and to start networking around the office. plus i'll have a paycheque over the holidays which is huge. i don't have to revert to eating kraft dinner - which i haven't done in months! - or anything.

the other thing that has come up lately, besides out stitch n bitch that i'm really excited about, is the chance of me getting a new cell phone. that could be exicting. i think i'll go look this weekend. i don't want anything super fancy cause then i'll just lose it.

so i took off the games from my computer at work. i play way too much minesweeper and freecell. and i didn't really take them off, i just deleted them from all the menus. i can still find them... that's what having a computer nerd for a boyfriend will do! super k!

my big pilates plan hasn't come through. i'm taking a class every wednesday night and the plan was to do the exercises at home mondays and fridays. i have yet to do them at home and we're coming up to the end of week 3. i'm bad. that's my goal for today. at least last class i wrote the exercises down so i have something to follow. instead of me just flopping around on the ground "exercising". you know what i'm talking about.

i got a new bank card. mine was pretty old and not working all the time. so i got a new shiny one in the mail.

knitting

did you know that the red cross will give you wool and then you go and knit stuff and they give it to elementary school children? i didn't. but i do now. and i finally found some volunteer activity that i can do. knitting circle here i come!

everything's coming up milhouse

i got a(nother) job. i'm working weeknights for a company called viridis environmental. the jist of it is that we sort through garbage and then weigh it ("auditing"). i start monday. my current job is going and i've heard good things about my contract being extended, though nothing official yet has reached me.

we got word on our new car. eta of mid-to-late january. that's fine by me as long as lumi doesn't kick the can before then. jon's all excited about neons and racing seats and who knows what else. i'm excited about having a car that starts... every time. plus this little car will be way better on gas, and more fun to drive no doubt.

we're looking into getting some kittens. in fact, this past saturday we went to the humane society and almost walked away with two little fuzzy white cats (one would have had to be called "blackie" - one of my conditions). we ultimately decided not to get them and most likely will wait till after we get back from our trip to bc. makes more sense if we get real young kitties. the fuzzier the better. devon rexes is the other route that we might take, due to their lack of fur and therefore better on the boy's allergies. there's a breeder in orleans with three kittens ready to go early january. i'm waiting to hear back from them.

the last thing i want to tell you about is this sweet hit i laid on some girl last night at my hockey game. i was playing terribly and this girl split me and my d partner and went in and shot on our goalie. i was flying down the ice - i like to think that i skate fast enough to call it "flying" - and hit her right after she shot. i haven't had an opportunity like that for years. the absolute best part about the whole thing was that one of her teammates came after me and punched me and SHE got a penalty! sweet deal!

some updates i suppose

last wednesday night was my second pilates class. definitely better than the first. i still don't have it all right, but i'm getting there. and i'm still not on track doing exercises at home, but i'll get on that too. so many goals, so little time.

my hockey team tied last saturday night. we should have won, but i'll blame it on the lack of skaters. we have an off-ice practice tonight and another game this tuesday night.

i finally saw shrek 2. it was pretty funny. we also watched blade runner and i didn't understand what was going on for most of it.

i was knitting. that might have had something to do with it.

i saw carla and marianne saturday. also got to see marianne and small brown's apartment. as well, we saw michelle from carleton baseball at the mall. it was a busy weekend.

now i'm at work and counting the minutes until i get to leave cause i'm feeling like shit. shit shit shit.

new website: http://zuli.net/ !

this week

i thought this week was going by quickly but now it doesn't feel like it. but then i don't have to work tomorrow so i'm hoping that off-sets my mind and makes the week seem really short.

i have my pilates class tonight. do you know how much yoga pants are? i went looking yesterday. they're damn expensive. i can just keep wearing my pyjama pants, cause they're almost the same thing.

i'm so close to being done selling the chocolate bars from baseball. the money was due a month ago. that's how good i am. i've also eaten about 10. that's the reason for the class every wednesday night.

i had an interview at suzy shier. i can't say how it went but funny things did come of it. the dress code at that store is "very strict". you have to wear dress pants and dress shoes and a 'suzy shier fashion top'... as in a shirt-you-buy-at-the-store. i have no idea why they need to call it that. dumb dumb dumb.

finally saw shrek two last night. i now understand what all the commotion was about. it was really good.

ps. green day was awesomly firery bangedly good.

i'm the person i don't like

i'm turning into the kind of person i don't like. i don't like when people don't put up any posts in forever. it's all about to change (fingers crossed).

i officially HATE parking in hull (gatineau). i got another parking ticket today (my third). it makes me so mad. you would think that there would be parking somewhere but no. definitely not. at least this time it was a different bylaw officer. i'm spreading the wealth.

work is going. i'm writing and reviewing and talking. that's my job in a nutshell. i am in the process, however, of looking for another job. and by that i mean a part time job to compliment my nine to fiver. i've applied at both joacob connexion and suzy shier. i have interviews this week (this afternoon and tbd). i'm hoping for suzy shier cause it's closer. they want two references. i haven't had to provide references in so long. i didn't know who to ask. still thinking about it.

and then another job popped up. one of the guys i work with at environment canada is a waste auditor (as in he sorts and weighs garbage). it's week nights and flexible. sounds good to me. i'm waiting to hear back from the lady. i could be a garbage girl... for real! so if that one comes through and the other one i'll have three jobs for a while. and then this one ends and i'll be left with two. i can still afford to eat, but maybe not go out as often.

speaking of going out. friday night we went and saw the incredibles. now, that was a funny movie. what else did i do this weekend? saturday i slept in and then tried to go buy clothes but abandoned that idea when i saw the masses in the mall. everyone was in bayshore. so i went to kanata and hung out with my parents and the dog and cats. i dropped my parents off at a party and stayed for a bit. i ate cheese and dip and drank pepsi. grabbed a sub on my way home and then went to my hockey game. we lost. i didn't get a penalty or hurt myself. then sunday i slept in and did nothing for most of the day. we went over to alan and sylvia's for dinner and then i watched tv and went to bed. the new show, my big fat obnoxious boss is really dumb, but funny enough so that i watched the whole thing. plus a new simpsons was on.

now i'm working (or not working) and i have my interview this afternoon. that's my life.

short week

just to update you on my weekend: i slept in like mad both saturday and sunday and it felt great. i played hockey saturday night. we lost. i played center and made an ass of myself. i'm not so good at center anymore. then i slept through a party saturday night (apparently the sleep-in wasn't good enough). i did some family stuff both saturday and sunday. i was at my parents' place last night giving candy out to the kiddies. i think the highlight of the night was when two little asian boys came to the door. the littler one saw max and said "hey doggy! come and get me!" that was cute. my mom was happy that not too many kids came and she gets to eat the rest of the chocolate. i think jon's happy for the same reason. i left him at home to handle the studying and the kiddies. i don't feel even the littlest bit bad about that.

now today i'm working and lovin' it. just kidding. i'm hardly doing anything though so i can't complain. i looked into some things, like fitness classes and hockey tournaments. not work related obviously.

this week i'm looking forward to thursday night because i'm off to montreal for the green day concert. then i just might sleep in friday morning. we will see how 5:45am feels that day though.

"don't wanna be an american idiot"

halloween

i can't believe the big kafuffle halloween is here at a government building. wow. and i didn't remember to dress up. oops.

i'm so glad it's the weekend. i get to sleep in. i have a hockey game saturday night, but that's it when it comes to commitments.

i'm starving.

real news

okay guys, for real this time. i have news. and i'm not kidding. i've never lied to you before that stunt yesterday. and this time i'm telling the truth. jon and i just bought a car. honestly. we bought a brand new 2005 mazda3 gs in titanium grey, automatic with no air. i'm not shitting you. it even has automatic windshield wipers, as in they come on when it starts raining and they go faster when it rains harder. i shit you not.

psych!

yeah i was just kidding about the being pregnant bit. sorry guys.

bored is my middle name

i'm surprised how work has been going. i wouldn't say that it was ever fun, but at least i used to be busy. now i'm just sitting here waiting for help. i'm stuck. it's pretty no fun. and to top it off, i got a parking ticket yesterday. that just adds to my three warnings. i honestly don't know what to do about parking. i don't like going out and moving my car every 2 hours at all.

i'm down to one organized sport and i'm getting restless (it's only been two full days). i'm impossible! but there is, nonetheless, excitement in my life. i'm pregnant! it's going to be a great nine months and a great time after that too. i'm hoping for a girl.

one chapter done

baseball is over. we played three games saturday and lost all three. it was.. maybe a little disappointing, but not entirely unexpected. the top two teams for all four divisions made it to the playoff weekend. if it had been the top 8 teams in the league we would not have been there at all. we were definitely the ninth team, but as it stands we placed 8 overall. not bad.

so what am i going to do with all my free time you ask? well i'm not sure. i'm looking into buying a car so test drives will be taking up some of my time. i'm working 37.5 hours a week, though i have been for a while now. i'm playing hockey. for my regular team, which is about once a week, and then for an environment canada pick up team. that starts today. we'll see if it's worth the $10/game they're charging me. i'm also actively searching for a job to start in january. i'm going to meet with my boss soon and straight out ask him about my contract being extended. i don't like working contract because you never know. the money's nice, but the job security is lacking.

until next time, hug a tree for me.

busy girl

it's been a long week. and i should have guessed it would happen when i woke up tuesday morning thinking it was wednesday and not wanting to go to practice. yesterday i was making all sorts of plans for the night, but it was thursday and i can't be cool on a thursday night cause i have to get to bed. you might not know what that's like, but if you work at 7 every morning you'd know right quick.

so now that it is really friday, i do have some plans for tonight. i actually have my options for tonight. i think i'm going to settle on a coaches symposium at a hotel downtown (not an elaborate adultery cover-up, promise). i also am going to check out my mom's ski & snowboard show after work, and head over to the wake of a neighbour. she was old. so tonight's full. and this weekend is full because it's the playoffs. huge!

i scored a goal at my hockey game wednesday night. from the blue line. the goalie obviously wasn't great. we won 6-1. now that's convincing. and we only had one major injury (seems to happen once a game). one girl got her clock cleaned and has a minor concussion.

in other news, i'm ready to get a new car. my car keeps threatening to blow up. this isn't good when i have to cross a bridge twice a day. ka-booooom! can you think of anything for me to put on personalized license plates? i was thinking maybe ka zoom (since i'm thinking of a mazda3). i welcome any suggestions.

carleton beats queen's

last saturday was the battle of the year. we were tied with queen's for the last playoff spot in out division. head-to-head we were 1 and 1, with the same number of points. it came down to the 2pm game. we came out on top, despite having a run disallowed and a player ejected from the game. thanks boys for coming out. playoffs are this weekend at the r.a. center (near billing's bridge). i will post game times soon.

i also had a hockey game saturday night. it was crazy with the whole opposing team in the penalty box. it was a rough game. i managed to knock two of my teeth lose falling down in front of my net. it was the second game of the season. i'm still rusty, or slow as jon tells me. thanks boys and girls for coming out.

work is back to normal without the strikers outside. i have one hour left. definitely looking forward to leaving, but that's not any different from any other day. at least i have my chocolate.

strikes and baseball

happy birthday matt and dave.. and usher. yes, it was usher's birthday yesterday. and i would be sincere with my birthday wishes to him if i didn't think he was such an ass.

i want to say how much i don't like strikes. if i can avoid being part of a union my whole working life i will be a happy girl. though i did get a three hour nap out of the deal.

the biggest day of baseball for carleton's first season is tomorrow! i'm really looking forward to it and i don't even get to play. i realized just how much i miss playing when, on wednesday morning, the shackles were removed and i was able to practice at first for one drill. it felt SO good. the only problem is that if i play next year i'm going to get killed at rookie night. maybe i'll stick to coaching, but playing in the summer. i've already had some offers for this summer when i thought i wouldn't play at all. nice stuff!

and after all this baseball is done i'm going to apply for a job at jacob connexion. i have a connection there (it's a joke, do you get jokes?). i'm looking forward to that too.

who let the dogs out

you know what i don't like? i really don't like strikes. i don't like how they make me stand outside for three hours in the cold. and i was one of the lucky, unrepresented, ones who got to cut about 2 hours of the line. at least now i can eat my lunch (yes, lunchtime already).

tonight i'm going to get myself some warm pants. the pants i'm wearing i bought this summer because they're thin and light. that's not what i need now.

this saturday is the biggest day of baseball for the whole season. carleton will take on both ottawa and queens. we have to win both games and both should be really close. if you're in ottawa i would seriously consider coming out. manotick's only 15 minutes from my place.

crazy nights

rookie night was a huge success.. in my mind. everyone seemed like they were having a good time and our house was disgusting. that means it was fun. highlights: goopy, half chewed mouthfulls of marshmallows, lucky vinegar shot, puking/passing out in the bathroom, and more.

i'm really looking forward to this weekend. have i said that before? sorry if i have. it's just that i want to sleep in. i want to wash and vacuum my car. i want to not go away. plus i'm looking forward to eating turkey until my belly hurts and i fall asleep. can you blame me?

i was in bayshore a couple nights ago and was accosted by this girl selling nail stuff. she did something to my thumb nail and for $35 i could do it myself whenever i wanted. i don't want to spend my money on stuff like that but my nail is still all polished and nice looking. this is a hint for christmas.

music

Going on multiple road trips with close to the same people really makes you realize the importance of singable-to songs. So that's what I've been doing: collecting music in order to make cds that just have songs that you can belt out while you're cruising down the 401. Let me know what your favourites are. I'm going through the rock/pop timecapsules on iceberg radio writing down the best ones. Now it's just a matter of finding the songs online, downloading them, and making cds. The problem with this plan is that I'm never at the computer when I'm at home and can actually do any of these things. I'm guessing this is going to be a long process.

I'm really looking forward to some things coming up:
1) Rookie night! Those girls won't know what hit them.
2) Thanksgiving weekend - sleeping in and eating turkey and pumpkin pie.
3) Green Day concert in Montreal. Oh baby! Haven't seen them live since 97 or so.

Let me know if you want a $3 chocolate bar. I have lots.

western

i'm leaving for london any minute now. another ball tournament. i'm excited though because i just talked to my ex-boyfriend who lives in london and he's going to come see me tomorrow. and he's bringing my other buddy from high school too. a little reunion of sorts.

francize

making up new words is fun. webster's sure thinks so.

i bought new running shoes. i need a whole lot of arch support as my arches have completely collapsed. new shoes feel so good. they make me want to go out and run forever. will i? not likely.

i heard an add on the radio for kidsfutures.ca. i went to the site. it seems like a no-lose thing if you're maybe planning on maybe having kids one day. and if you aren't, you can sign up and link your money to me and my maybe future maybe kids. who am i kidding? i can't even take care of plants!

my mom has been working for the last bunch of months on a wedding show in ottawa. i don't think anyone reading this is thinking of getting married but you never know. send along the link to anyone you think might be interested. the more the merrier. apparently there's a ski show coming up in december sometime. don't worry - i'll keep you posted.

it's weird

i think it's weird that some days fly by while others crawl by, mocking you. today is one of those slow days. it hasn't been any different from any other day at work. i also snoozed more than usual today. it would be so nice to be in school again cause even when you have to get up early you usually have opportunities to nap.

speaking of napping, i get to nap thanksgiving weekend. that's right, i have nothing to do that weekend. i wonder how late my body will be able to sleep. i can't wait. thanksgiving is also an anniversary of sorts for me. guess what it is!

busy girl

so i'm actually really busy at work these days. i was told today by the chief that 3 months isn't a long time to write the policy and that i really have to get my butt in gear. blah!

this past weekend was a lot of fun. we were in kingston. the team did much better than the last two weekends and won 2 games. i went up the friday night and didn't tell any of the team that i was in town so i hung out with carla and sarah and richard. friday night was the least amount of sleep i've had in a long time. i've gotten so used to the whole getting up early thing so my body crashes early at night too.

next weekend we're heading to london. i'm not looking forward to the drive since i think i have to drive. it's a long one. i have some friends in london that hopefully i can get in touch with before the weekend and maybe see them.

i heard lindsay lohan's new song and saw the video. it was nothing special. what is special however is the new green day cd. it's smashingly good.

talk my ear off

it's weird. i'm pretty busy these days with work and with ball and with sleep (that takes up time in my day) but i'm feeling like i should be doing something. don't laugh at me. i'm restless. there are so many things that i want to be doing but i'm not because i think that i don't have enough time. so here are my september resolutions. those exist, right?

i want to be nicer to my body. this includes exercising more and eating well, but also things like spending more time by myself when i'm not driving to wherever i have to be. i want to spend more time with my friends. once cheryl and i get organized and start the potluck wednesdays i'll be a happy camper.

i'm working on accomplishing my goals. i went for a "run" yesterday after work. getting home at 4, even after stopping to run an errand, feels so nice. i wrote run like that because i didn't do much running. in truth, i'm finding i'm not running often because it's pretty boring. so i jogged and then did sprints and situps and pushups. no matter what i do i want to be out there sweating. and that i was, especially when i had water spit all over me.

the other thing i'm thinking about doing is taking the comments section off this page. when there aren't comments i wonder why i ever post anything. but this is more for me than it is for you. i'm selfish. it feels good to get everything out there, and i can just pretend that people read this to make myself feel better. there's nothing like the placebo effect.

yay for me!

when i wish upon a star...

i think i found my new favourite author.. of short things. tom spears from the ottawa citizen writes well and covers science-y things so i like him. his style is reminiscent of dave barry, and another_columnist_i_used_to_read_when_i_was_younger_but_can't_remember_his_name_right_now.

i now intimately know that the government loves to meet. they meet all the time and talk and talk and talk. i thought people were exagerating, but they weren't. unbelievable! well believe it.

i tried yoga today. wow, boot camp! i thought i was going to puke for sure. and i didn't even get a chance to change into work out clothes. i actually didn't know where the changeroom was so i found the gym but because i was late they had already started and the instructor whisked me in. i tried some of the poses and realized that she was extremely more flexible and fit than me, and a hell of a lot stronger. that woman could lift herself up when i was falling on the floor. i think i'm going to try once more and this time i'll be on time and in gym clothes and give it another shot. maybe one day i'll be a yoga master. though maybe not.

down under

where can i find cheap round-trip airfare to australia? comments welcome.

try to keep in mind that i will be leaving from canada.

thank you!

don't you love free food?

i love free food. though you couldn't tell by looking at me last night. i was so tired i just sat there. didn't mean i couldn't shovel three pieces of cake into my belly though.

i'm listening to iceberg radio, an internet radio station. i bought myself some headphones from the dollar store yesterday and i plan to get my money's worth, plus i don't like silence. especially not government building silence. apparently the new green day cd is really good. i haven't heard it all yet, but i trust my sources.

this weekend we're heading out to kingston again. i have to find out where the games are exactly. last time they were 20 minutes north of kingston in the middle of nowhere. thanks for giving us a chance that anyone will make it out to the games... ah well.

does anyone know how to use ALT keys? i certainly don't.

i'm learning french, for real this time. no more wasting 11 years in french immersion and not knowing how to speak the damn language afterwards. i bought myself a french-english dictionary that i plan on carrying around with me at work and hopefully by the end of my contract here i can take the french test and get my c-level certification. then they give you more money.

EI and me

I filled out an online application for EI. It was my dream to get this free money (though it's really my money cause I've given it to the government) while I was searching for a job. They make you jump through hoops, with all the forms and the meetings and the ROEs (Records of Employment) which I didn't have. So I ended up not completing my application because I was hired by the government. Then yesterday, I get a letter in the mail saying that I had to attend a meeting. And if I didn't it would be considered fraud and I could get my benefits taken away. I'm not sure which benefits they were talking about considering I haven't received any. So I filled out the page-long form saying that I have a job and can't attend the meeting because I'll be working. I had to provide documentation so I gave them my phone number at work and told them to call me. Do you think that's enough? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

This afternoon, I'm headed to Guelph, Cambridge actually, for Carleton's first real tournament. And when I say tournament I mean league games on a weekend like a tournament. There's a funny "Press Release" on the website about last weekend. It's nice that the website gets updated, but it will be even nicer when we win. There's only so much I can do from the bench though. I tell the girls how many outs there are (I'm the official score-keeper). I'm like the player who never plays. I don't know that any of the players consider me a coach. That's kinda a good thing though since I have no idea how to be one.

Last night I realized the greatness of Sinutab. I bought some drugs, day and night pills, and took one night pill and was giggly for about an hour. Then I crashed. That must be what being high feels like. I was nutso. I was a little upset though because the package boasted $1 off my next purchase or a $3 mail-in rebate. I was all gung-ho about the $3 BUT you have to buy TWO (2) packages! How long do they expect me to be sick for? Hell, one package is good for 6 days. Maybe I have more faith in their product than they do. Either way I slept soundly, breathing through my nose for the first time in a while. And, if you can tell from the length of this post, I'm feeling much better, thanks for asking.

new AND exciting!

i'm going to beeseee!

jon and i are going to bc for a week right before christmas. the flighs were cheap and it works out well.

that is all.

what's new?

i'm trying to think of things to tell you. i can only update you so many times on my work situation. and on my baseball situation. and on my hockey situation. hell, i don't even know who reads this besides the couple of people who comment now and then.

what i can tell you is this: i like to think i'm an organized person but i'm not always and it's annoying.

i have to go move my car without getting yelled at by security.

new work hours

i got myself some pretty sweet workin hours.

monday and wednesday: 8:30 - 4pm
tuesday and thursday: 7 - 3:30pm
friday: 7 - 3pm

oh baby!

oh avril...

avril lavigne is engaged (link). weird news.

in other news, i'm sick. i'm only at work so that i can meet with my managers and talk about my work hours and then i'm out of here. i don't want to make other people sick.

happy birthday!

this girl was made for working

well kids, i'm currently at work. so far i like it. everyone has been nice and friendly and helpful, but i guess that's what you get for being the new guy. i now have a phone and a computer and pens and this red book i have to write everything in. i chose a funny password that i like. i think i have to get my picture taken by the end of the day - not too fond of that, but a necessary evil to get in and out with any efficiency.

the carleton team didn't do so well this weekend but i think everyone had fun and got to know each other a little better. i know i definitely have never had my ass grabbed that many times in one night. those girls are crazy.

happy thought: hockey starts soon and then i will be officially REALLY busy.

i'm in kingston!

i'm writing you from kingston tonight. that's right. i feel like i'm home again. i even saw some people i used to know. they looked right through me like i wasn't even there. sad.

i'm here for the weekend for a ball tournament. i'll get to see exactly how much i like coaching and not playing. and then it's gw pressnite for the first time in a while. nice knowing that i don't have to deliver that rag next wednesday morning. some other sucker gets to do that.

what does next week hold? two family birthdays and the start of my new job. i have a feeling i'm going to be busy.

employed bitch

so my interview last week went well enough that i know have a job. i'm working for environment canada on a policy about air emissions. it's a three month contract, so i'm not out of the thick when it comes to my career and making money for the rest of my life, but it's a start.

baseball has been going well. this weekend is our first tournament, though it isn't league. so i get to boogey on down to kingston and see those people that hang out there. my car isn't making the trip this time due to billowing smoke coming from the steering wheel. ah lumi, will you ever die....

so this is what it's like

it's been over a week. and it's not because i haven't been thinking about posting.. or didn't have time or anything. i just didn't do it. i don't like people like me.

my last post was about looking for a job. i think i applied for about one hundred jobs. and i did get one interview, but it wasn't from anything i applied for. i was talking to someone i know about hockey this winter and she mentioned that her friend needed help on a project. boom! i have an interview. in hull. but an interview all the same. i forgot though, to ask how much money i would be making. so i have to call back and ask, all sheepishly.

this whole not working thing is getting to me though. i'm going batty. but i am reading a lot of books. now for the cleaning part....

the hunt for red october.. i mean a job

well today is the first day of my unemployment. i didn't mean to, but i slept in. it felt nice. i will admit that.

but now i've eaten and stuff so i'm working on my resume and cover letter. there are a ton of companies in the ottawa area that will be receiving both these things very very soon.

man, i'm one boring girl these days.

though i did go to peterborough this weekend. that makes me cool, right? we weren't even there for 24 hours and we didn't do much but we had to go.

that's all.

does it matter anymore?

today is a good day. i slept in and didn't get to work until 9. then i have a doctor's appointment and we have a year-end lunch that we're allowed to leave afterwards. and then i only have tomorrow left. i'm hoping my next job doesn't suck.

yesterday i went to the tennis courts near our place and saw that you can just go and play on them. i thought you'd need a membership. i thought tennis was generally like that - a rich-man's sport. "give us money!" but apparently it's not. and even if the gate is locked i'll just cliimb the fence. i like how they have those half courts with the concrete wall as the opposition. i'm hoping to become the next anna kournakova (of however you spell that) and maybe nike will give me short short skirts to wear. and maybe a huge computer viirus will be named after me. i'll dye my hair blonde for the event.

i'm toying with the idea of getting some sort of exercise videos (dvds likely cause we don't have a vcr) but i'm not sure that i would be motivated enough to work out in the basement. so i don't know if i'm going to follow that pipe dream.

as of tomorrow i have been in the longest relationship of my life. i guess that's a good thing considering my marital status these days. i still don't have my signature down yet. that'll come with time.

movies

most of my spare time lately has been spent watching movies. last night we saw anchorman. it was funny but i think i'm a little jaded when it comes to will farrell. but movies are always fun with vlatko cause he laughs so loud.

with my summer job coming to an end i feel a huge sense of relief. relief because it's done and hopefully i won't even have to see the dumb girls again.

i had more but it's gone so i'm going to go look at everyone else's blogs and waste more of my time.

the countdown is on!

that's right everybody. i have only 2 and a half more days of my crappity-crap-crap-crap job. and i'm happy about that. next week is my looking-for-a-job week. that should be buckets of fun.

i'm an assistant coach this fall for the new girls fastball team at carleton. i'm looking forward to it. i even got my coaches' shirt. it's about three times as wide as i am. but then i realized it's probably a good thing seeing as how the season goes until after thanksgiving and last year in the final tournament we had rain and snow and hail and wind and sun and thunder and lightning. every possible type of weather.. except a hurricane i suppose. or a tsunami.

bells are ringing

yesterday was a weird day. i didn't get yelled at at work, which is strange cause the boss was in the office. i did manage to not work for most of the day as well. i ran into two of my best friends from while i was little. we ended up going to different high schools so we lost touch. sad considering we lived on the same street, but you know how those things go. so that was nice. i also went out and bought clothes for the wedding we're going to tonight. my $5 shirt will make me shine hopefully.

sorry i'm not more entertaining.

picnic what?

the beetle is not for me. too little visibility in the back. so we test-drove a jetta instead. that still comes in a diesel.

but i still need a job.

if wishes were cars....

we might have an idea for a car for me. if you know me you know that i drive lumi - a 12-year-old, off-white, rusting chevy lumina, who doesn't like to start when it's wet .. or cold.. or on any day of the week that ends in y. the car doesn't like the winter. the past three have been spent in kingston where the winters are relatively mild compared to ottawa, and one week dan and i had to deliver gw through the passenger-side door cause the driver's door would not open. how is my lumi going to handle "real" ottawa winters? i don't know.

so we're thinking that if i score a half-decent job then i can afford a new (new-to-me) car. maybe a beetle. we have a plan for that too.

more to come later.

this life

so work is still work, but it's a job with only three weeks left for me. and the countdown's on! it's strange how last week they emailed all the summer students and invited us to this lunch thing to meet everybody... because it's not the end of the summer or anything. alcatel's a little slow on that one.

i've been looking for another job. it's not the easiest thing in the world, but this time i'm in the right city so that should make my hunt a little easier. i'm really hoping for something biology-related, in fact i'm going to hold out for a bio job, at least until the new year. if i haven't found something by then i'll be so poor and do desperate that if subway offered me a job i would take it.

kick in the box

i don't like advertised programs and how alcatel thinks i don't know enough to install them myself and that my computer automatically restarts when the program's done installing cause i don't have a ton of things open on my computer. fockers.

that reminds me. movies. they made a meet the parents sequel called meet the fockers. i thought it didn't look terrible, but the boys i was with disagreed. they also didn't like the look of the new julianne moore movie (disappeared, or something like that). i thought it looked good. i guess that's where being a girl differentiates me from the boys. though i'm not half as bad as a lot of girls. i don't think that little black boook will be a good movie. i don't generally like chick flicks, nor do i generally like the shitty music that's playing on yahoo! launch right now. it's soft rock. there couldn't be worse music. actually that's not true. there are some other genres of music that i like less than soft rock, but not many.

ramblerambleramble.

monday monday

it is in fact tuesday, but we'll let that one slide since it's the first day back after the long weekend.

and long it was! i ended up doing, and trying to do, so much stuff. among the stuff was: driving around looking for someone's house in the pouring rain, getting stuff for free from the bay, dinner and a movie with three boys, sitting out in the sun and burning my chest and stomach (itchy!), and biking downtown and seeing one act of the busker's festival.

i bought a front and back light and a lock for my bike recently. here are my troubles. the lock is too big to fit inside the frame of my bike (read: my bike is too small for the lock to fit inside the frame), but i managed to rig it up so that it's mounted properly and i don't notice it while i'm biking.

we have a forest growing in our living room. tons and tons of baby trees that will grow up to be masterful bonsais. if you move out of your parents' basement, guess what your apartment-warming gift will be!

i've done a lot of research recently on wills and life insurance and rrsp's. i don't think i'm any smarter having done so. i need someone to take me by the hand and tell me what to do about all three things. i'm lost.

new to me

i've learned a few things so far this summer.  [this is where i relate them to you.]

1.  you can't pick your neighbours.  even when your neighbours call bylaw on you and get your car ticketed for being parked in front of your own house you still can't bomb their house.  but you can come up with smaller, less noticeable things to do to that bitch.

2.  you can't pick your coworkers.  no matter what there will always be a couple of people at work that you really don't get along with.  normally you would just avoid them.  not possible?  do what my coworkers do and backstab each other and then pretend like nothing's going on face to face.  it's sick.  really sick. 

3.  driving through a parking lot-full of sea gulls is fantastic fun.  but always remember to honk because those sea gulls can be lazy bastards and some don't really believe that you would hit them.  it's between slamming on your brakes to avoid these stupid ones or honking while flying through the masses.  i recommend honking.   

we never change a thing

i was upset today when i found out that counting crows do not have an album to accompany their new song "accidentally in love", found on the shrek 2 soundtrack, which i still have not seen.  speaking of movies.. bourne supremacy was really good.  the close camera angles on the action scenes made it a little hard to tell who was winning, but other than that i would recommend the movie. 

i've been thinking about baseball a lot today, mostly because i've been sitting around playing minesweeper instead of actually working.  i'm looking forward to coaching this fall, but not really looking foward to not playing.  i think that's going to be the hardest part, the not playing part.  i'm sure i'll get over it. 

i read a whole lot about robert ludlum and his bourne books.  they differ from the movies in one big way, but you'll have to figure that one out for yourself.  i might read them one day.  right now, i have a back-up of books just waiting to be read, so the bourne trilogy will have to be put on the waiting list. 

bourne again

i'm really excited cause i get to see the bourne supremacy tonight.  last night i started rewatching the bourne identity.  i got through about half so i'll watch the second half before we go out tonight. 

in other news, juan and i went on a shopping spree at sportchek care of a gift certificate given as a wedding present.  it was tons of fun running around the store trying to decide what to buy.  we decided on a volleyball, a tennis racket for me (he already has one), a new basketball net (the actual net part), some new waterbottles and stuff that i can't think of.  i would really recommend shopping this way.  it's so much fun.  bottom line: get married so you, too, can reap the rewards of gift certificate shopping.  not-so-bottom line: gift certificates are good presents.  my birthday is (kinda) coming up. 

well work is getting better.  why, you ask.  it's because the boss realizes that the girls aren't getting along so i got moved upstairs where i can enjoy my days without seeing them at all.  i'm much happier up here. 

movies i want to see (badly): shrek 2, the village (not so badly), the whole ten yards, oceans 12 (is that out yet?), mean girls

baseball update

not only lesbians play baseball: bisexuals do too!

for real this time.  baseball is now officially over.  we went - we saw - and we lost.  like so many great kars teams before us we couldn't win to save our lives.  actually, that could just be our problem.  not enough pressure.  it is only a game afterall. 

with my new found free time i am going to do the following:
              - work on resume
              - look for a new job
              - continue reading
              - unmentionable shenanigans

and within this baseball update post i would like to update you of work as well.  in the office - the basement really - we have 6 girls and used to have 1 boy.  did you catch that?  the boy is gone.  these girls, well three of them, are like the popular girls in high school.  i have no doubt in my mind that two of them were.  but together, these three make an incredible force of bitchiness that not only makes my work days suck ass but also gets my friend fired.  i can't believe these girls.  i honestly hope that when i leave here i will never have to see them again.  if i do, i might have to tell them all the things that i only say about them to myself.  though by then i should have some pretty cunning and witty remarks that would floor them lest their stupidity gets in the way and the meaning soars over their pretty little heads. 

and that my friends is the first time i have used the word lest in a sentence. 

tatoo this!

i'm off this weekend to toronto... again.   i'm hoping this weekend will be a little less painful.

i have the biggest urge to go out and spend lots of money and go dancing and drinking and do reckless things.  takers?

my little brother just turned 22.  he's catching up. 

i updated my pictures page with the wedding pictures that i've been sent so far.  we haven't heard from the photographer yet, but maybe we'll have actual pictures soon.  we have to go out and start spending some of the money that we received (thanks everyone). 

dip it low

apparently changing colours is a go.  sweet deal. 
 
baseball didn't go so well this weekend.  we only won one game, but no one got hurt.  this is important since we're going to the provincials this weekend with only 9 players.  
 
for some reason my coach thinks that making us run windsprints and practicing like we're training for the best ball tournament in the world the week before the provincials will help us become better.  really, it just helps me feel light-headed and nauseous after practice.  i'm only half complaining, cause like i said last time, i'm done after this weekend.  and i'm planning on going out in a blaze of glory.  we'll see how that goes.  
 
i really want to go on a trip.  somewhere hot when it's cold here.  what could be better.  or maybe just a road trip to somewhere in canada cause there are plenty of places i haven't been.  suggestions?
 

this boots were made for walking

it feels weird to be back at work.  i still don't like it much but i have to remember that they're paying me.  i am going to start looking for a post-summer job very soon.  and possibly a little job for the rest of the summer.. something in retail cause i've always wanted to do that.  and the extra money would be nice. 
 
i have baseball tournaments this weekend and next.  downside: i never feel settled when i'm running to toronto on the weekend.  upside: baseball is almost over.  and then i will be a free girl, except for work and such.  but on the horizon are bike rides along the river, learning sign language, and possibly some interior decorating.  we get to build a room around all sorts of new stuff.  people should buy me presents more often. 
 
this link won't be good forever, but there is a huge amount of flooding in peterborough.  my parents are kinda worried cause no one's heard from my brother since he left town a couple of days ago .  i'm sure he's okay, but the whole town seems to be under turmoil. 
 
well shit, i just found out that my baseball team has fallen apart.  two girls aren't playing anymore for different reasons and one got a line drive in the face (again) and can't play anything for 6 months.   wow.  that girl has terrible luck.
    

i'm all married and stuff

hopefully this means i will have more time and will update more often. i make no promises though.

this is funny

i think it's funny that i only post when there's a party. tonight's the bachelor/bachelorette party. someone help me.

party tonight!

that's right. you heard me. party tonight!

you show up at turdor hall at 9pm with a twoonie in your hand and we'll have a good time all night long.

need more information? call/email/message either me or jon.

it's been a while

work is turning into a sweaty, dusty, musty, gross tour of alcatel's basement and all the secret, yet old, very old, files stored down there. gross.

i have a huge ball tournament this weekend in perth for money. FOR MONEY! it's a neat concept, but much more satisfying when your teams wins games. we have yet to do that in tournament play.

the family cottage party is also this weekend. this is one of the usually two times a year i see my family and i don't think i can go because of this tournament, but i will if i can do it. it might mean showering by jumping in the lake saturday night. i'll just be a dirt muffin for the whole weekend.

we went and saw the movie dodgeball last week. it was fun. but don't take my word for it. apparently my opinion is worth shit. people ask my opinion and then tell me that i'm wrong. honestly, fuck off.

lots of swearing. more than usual.

hey hey my my

have you heard of maroon5? they sing this love. good song. i'm listening to their album right now. i've heard it's good. they were recently featured on much music's one hit wonders, which i don't think is fair seeing as how their album only came out in 2003.

i took a day off work and baseball today. it felt so nice. sleeping for 14 hours i mean. i'm a little sick with something (morning sickness? i think not.) so i slept like a baby.

i read that the diplomas from queens used to suck. i'm lucky that this year they came out with fancy new diplomas so i've got a pretty one.

our family is continuously growing. we add plants on a regular basis. and we name them all. we're up to 11. some big, some small.. every one loved. crazy us. we even have pictures. wow. we're weird.

the man who sold the work

it's been 3:30pm for about an hour. let me explain... work is BORING. i don't know how people work in offices. doing whatever it is that they do. i'm about to shoot myself in the head. and the boss is back so that means i have to be creative about looking busy.

in other news, congratulations go out to the tampa bay bolts for winning the world series of hockey last night. way to go boys. my team, on the other hand, did not win even one game this past weekend. we got officially blown out of the water. and one of the players quit today. yep. good weekend all round.

i had to drive blue car to peterborough for my brother because his car got totalled by some woman. my brother isn't too pleased about his new car situation. when i left the car i gave it a good kick in the bumper before i drove off (in another car). i won't have to drive that piece of shit car ever again. i'm pretty pleased about that.

camel toes.. they have 12 altogether

this is for you, monkey: a whole site about camel toes (www.cameltoe.org/). fun stuff. some of them are remarkably disgusting.

thanks to richard for showing me this site: a softer world. i couldn't stop reading.. until i got to the end that is.

i had a really good weekend. we did lots of stuff. among the best/funnest: taking down a tree with a wench and the tree floating on the post and eventually falling on one of us; partying it up on elgin and seeing a fight where one guys head had a huge cut on it; finally getting me some cake.

this week holds a whopping 4 days of work and a trip to kingston for my graduation. this morning was already wasted on an all staff meeting. it was awful. this afternoon will be wasted on surfing the internet and playing minesweeper. thanks for paying me, alcatel.

uh oh.. another group hug

check out www.foundmagazine.com. a site a lot like grouphug in that you can read it for hours and hours. perfect for those of you with boring office jobs or those of you without jobs who have hours and hours of sitting in front of your computers while the rest of the world either works or sleeps. don't blame me if you get hooked.

news from the office: stolen winnie the pooh mug! i left my bright yellow mug on top of the communal floor fridge (yes this is a lot like residence) last friday only to find it stolen so i made a poster including a mug shot (and i will take a picture for all your crazies to see) and taped it to the fridge. i'm even offering a reward, not cash.. more like piece of mind for returning my mug. if anything i hope the poster gets some laughs.

so we're going to party like it's 1999.. in about 5 weeks. details to follow.

who knew...

most bird shit is liquid. goose shit is solid. who knew?

no matter how bad you think you have it someone has it worse. who knew?

i finally have a secure 9-5 type job that pays well and all i want to be doing is lying out in the sun. who knew?

page stats

i just looked at my page stats. i thought it was strange that monday was such an awful day. like where were you guys on monday? not here!

new avril!

baseball
the team looks good this year. i, however, am not looking so hot yet. my body's getting older and doesn't like it .. apparently.. when i throw it in and make it play 7 games in three days. i don't like getting old. i might get myself a new pair of cleats though. i think that if i do they will last me forever. that's what i say now though. cleats are becoming cheaper and cheaper.. in quality not in price.

work
it's daytime during the week. you guessed it. that means i'm at work. work has gotten a little better. i've met with people that seemed to not not respect me (did that make sense?). and somehow i don't feel too stupid yet. we get to take hour long lunches every day so we (the four of us summer students in legal services) go down to the caf. picture your high school cafeteria. that's about it but with comfy-er chairs and microwaves. it's strange but nice to get away from the computer and desk for an hour a day. plus we get paid for 30 of those minutes.

other
we had company this past week. the house was a little louder and i wasn't the only one making noise. we had a huge birthday dinner.. i ate so much food.

i want a cat. i miss having one around. but i don't want one yet. at least one that i would actually have to take care of.

i set off the house alarm four times yesterday. i was just trying to reset the time on the display.. daylight savings you know.

meetings are for chumps

yay for fridays! and muggy weather and smog. i saw kingston on the news last night.. very smoggy indeed. here it got real dark and threatened rain and tornado activity in some parts, but ended up raining for a solid 5 minutes. that didn't do much for the new grass seed.

i just scheduled myself three meetings for next week. this work thing is really starting to pick up. thank goodness for that. i won't be so terribly bored around here.

i have taken nup reading grouphug.us. it's additive. i hate to admit it but the confessions make me feel good about my life. there are also some rather scary themes throughout the posts, including such things as a male/female leaving their spouse for a male/female/their sibling/their spouses' sister/brother. man, people are fucked up. i decided that if i were ever to post on that site i wuld chang my gramer so that no1 wuld reconiz me at all and u wuld nevr no. how's that?

blogging from work

i've been such a delinquent about blogging recently. i'm going to attempt to fill the void from work.

we're redoing the front lawn so there's dirt everywhere. we were talking about having people over for a barbeque but then the dirt. right. no fun. but soon we'll have a nice nice grassy front yard.

i've been really busy getting used to working 8-4 and having baseball. we had a tournament last weekend and as a result i couldn't walk very well until yesterday. the soreness is finally gone. our team looks good this year. i'll be updating my other site with a schedule if you're terribly interested.

well well

this new blogger stuff is pretty cool. i'm going to take some time and figure it all out, but not tonight. tonight is for eating chicken and scanning stuff at the bay.

i've been super busy with work and sleeping and baseball and running around doing wedding stuff.

i did try that googlism thing and was upset when it found nothing for my name, NOTHING! the name just isn't popular enough. maybe that's a good thing.

until next time.

well well

this new blogger stuff is pretty cool. i'm going to take some time and figure it all out, but not tonight. tonight is for eating chicken and scanning stuff at the bay.

i've been super busy with work and sleeping and baseball and running around doing wedding stuff.

i did try that googlism thing and was upset when it found nothing for my name, NOTHING! the name just isn't popular enough. maybe that's a good thing.

until next time.

i passsssed!

well boys and girls i passed the last course i was waiting for and so i'm graduating university for real. no more school for me suckers!

postin from workie

i'm a little bored. the boss isn't in yet and we can't do anything till we get our system in place (and i have to get help desk to hook up my phone properly). i shouldn't be complaining - i have a job and soon to have a paycheque.

is it bad that i totally missed a t4? i dropped it off yesterday. i think i have to re-file my taxes. good thing mom has an accountant friend.

hey gw'ers, eve totally ranted about the pill. you should have a look-see. i thought it was great. though she didn't mention anything about the complete lack of sex drive. you heard me.

back at it

well boys and girls, it's definitely been a crazy couple of weeks but i'm back into the swing of things. today i start my new job at alcatel. i'm even up early and i went for a run. crazy. and last night i went around the internet and read everyone's blog that i hadn't had a chance to read in a while.

i'm still not quite sure if i passed one of my courses (cause queen's takes about ten million years to mark exams and get the marks up) so i'm not sure if i'll be taking a summer course or not. i don't really know what i'm doing with my life when it comes to furthering my education. hopefully i'll have some of it figured out by the end of the week.

baseball tried to start last night but it was pouring and practice was cancelled. instead of running around in the rain for two hours i came home and addressed invitations and put together my desk and did laundry. we have our first tournament this weekend in Manotick or Kars. i'm guessing i'm going to be a little sore and possibly all scratched up after that.

we have about 400 pictures from bc. i might be able to post some of them on my picture page, but not all. i'll let you know when i've done that. we definitely had a great time. highlites include seeing an albino peacock, going out to sea on the hmcs ottawa, not knowing what day/month it is, and seeing the crab fight and the ugly wolf eels in the undersea gardens. all in all i would have to say that vitoria is beautiful. it felt like we travelled to california (except without the americans like someone likes to say). and now i can definitely say that i've been to the west coast of canada. now: the east coast.

we're in beesee!

didn't get sick in the airplane though the lifesavers didn't help because they were the jelly kind instead of the suckey kind.

we're doing lots of stuff and having a good time.

more news later.. or not.

victoria tomorrow

we're leaving tomorrow for a week.

okay byeeee!

an evening and night out for anouk

again, strange night, but fun. recap: went to greco's for dinner, went to trina's, went to random keg party, went to larry's pit stop, went to aj's, went to pizza place, went to trina's.

again with the dumb drunken boys. this time it was stalker boy who was going around the dance floor (yes, i was dancing) looking every girl up and down and dancing with the pretty (?) ones. he was really creepy. we needed boy intervention more than a couple times. and i had totally forgotten about the creepy guys who stand above the dance floor and just watch. yeah, that doesn't make me feel like a piece of meat or anything, don't worry.

an evening and night for trina

if you are/were a virgin, do you go around telling random people? do you bring it up after 5 minutes of conversation?

guys, honestly now, do you hit on a girl in a bar to "get to know" her? do you want to talk (and i don't mean "talk", i mean actual words)?
girls, do you believe a guy when he says he wants to talk?

guys and girls, do you see a person and think what their personality might be? do you then go and tell them?

i had a strange night.

all done!

well friends, i am officially all done my university career (unless i failed geology in which case i take one correspondence course this summer and then i will officially be done in four months) - yahoooo! i'm excited.

so i'm packin and cleanin (cause our landlords are pretty hardcore) and chillin and relaxin out max... that's me alright.

the plan: get all my shit out of here saturday with the help of my parents, max, and a moving truck. until then - we're gonna party like it's your birthday!

what the hell?

yes, i'm procrastinating. sabrina blooged about one of her profs and it linked to a website called ratemyprofessors.com. i didn't realize this existed and that there are profs on there that i know. crazy!

back to reading bio shit.

and the shit hits the fan. . .

tomorrow!!!

stay tuned.

odds and ends

--> when i was young, i remember a girl i knew coming up to me and saying:
"goose.. geese. moose.. _____?"
and me answering "meese!"
i still don't, with one exam between me and an honours biology degree, know what the hell i was thinking.

--> don't you hate it when you're warm, almost sweating even, and your hands are freezing?

--> when i was younger my dad told me that white and black cows made white milk while the brown cows made brown milk. isn't it awful what parents will tell kids and what kids believe.

--> one of the biggest mistakes, according to financial planners, that a young person (or couple) can make is to put a lot of money into a house and not enough money into an rrsp.

--> the ottawa senators came out of retirement in the 1992/93 season. i was 11 turning 12. i still have a sticker in my window at my parents home. have you ever noticed how gung-ho toronto fans are? i was brought up cheering for ALL canadian teams. now that there is a team in my home town, i'll cheer for them, but when they get beat out of the playoffs i'll cheer, not for toronto but for whatever other canadian team is left just to spite those dumb toronto people. i mean, hell, the msn names and the badgering from toronto fans is just unbelievable. i wish i could be a brainwashed fool too.

--> if i could have dinner with any dead person it would be my grandfather who died before i was old enough to understand death. he never got to see that i'm more than just a stupid kid - i'm a stupid big kid.

something fun?

i thought it might be fun if we all posted our crappy jobs. i'll start:

- pizza pizza counter girl (sexy orange hat and green pleated pants)
- knife salesman (on commission)
- subway sandwich artist

your turn! bring it on! tell me, what was your worst job?
comments comments!
maybe i'll even come up with a prize for the best crappiest job!

ad(d)ams family rules

some family-lial updates:

1. my parents bought a car
- max gets her own window

2. my brother and his housemates are getting sued

tune in next week

bitch face and clomper hippo

trina stopped by this morning and whisked me away to epicure for some breakfast. we sat by the door. while we were there, two chicks walked in. they were both all dressed up (read: skanked up) and one had on really loud clomper shoes. i turned to see what the noise was.

when the girls were heading to leave i turned around to see what the noise was stomping towards me. it was the first girl. then the other told us to stop staring! what strange girls.

i was looking to see what was going to run me over from the back and trina was looking at them cause they were staring at her the whole time they were in the restaurant. in a way, i wish i was a guy cause that would have been a completely different exchange. i'm sure clomper hippo would have said something different or would have been pleased to have attracted the attention if i was a boy. and if i was a boy i could have followed them around downtown and really freaked them out.

too bad.

hey dick!

richard, i AM NOT jumping on the bandwagon (and here). maybe we can still be friends.

someone (Monkey) commented in my last post. he (she?) has a pretty interesting blog. ah the wonders of the intraweb.

the frontman from spacehog has formed a new band (sparticle) along with lead guitarist from blind melon and they're playing the elixir next tuesday. i can see that being pretty interesting, but not enough for $6.

musak: krock and my grumbling stummy

i've been busy

my breaks today have consisted of:
- tanning and a shower
- eating
- updating my wedding page

otherwise i've been sitting here learning. yay exam time!

pigs everywhere!

during hurricane floyd in north carolina in 1999, tons of pigs were killed. (this is what i'm learning about for geology.) anyways, the pictures are just amazing.

pigs

i like to share.

i will run with you wherever you go

time is dragging on and on. i think that i might actually do well on my next exam though since i've been studying good. good thing it's not english, right?

i went out today. i sold back some text books to the bookstore. that damn place rips you off when you buy their books and then kills you when they give you $14 for the $114 book. fuck them! but anyway, i got some money back and then i preceeded to spend it all on stuff. i bought new shoes, a new coat (no more big blue!) and luggage. i've always wanted luggage and now i have some. you'll get a prize if you can guess what colour it is!

i also bought bad boys 1 and 2 at walmart. they were sold together for cheap. usually when they sell two dvds together they're placed back-to-back and shrink-wrapped together. not bad boys. they were beside each other. very strange. but very inconsequential.

musak: fefe take me away

kingston!

hi friends, i'm in kingston now. i'll be here for the rest of the week and all of next week.

i got new windshield wipers for my car and was very pleased when they worked on my drive home. it's nice being able to see the road when it's raining.

i feel like i'm back in highschool: a friend of mine has a crush on another friend of mine. oooooooh! and i wanna tell SO badly!

musak: i want you to want me

stayin alive.. in ottawa

i've decided to camp out in ottawa for a little longer than planned. i like it here, and there's a boy who will cook for me. popeye!

one down two to go

i wrote my exam yesterday. it was nothing short of awful. but then i got to come home and that was great. i waltzed right into aneaster turkey dinner. and then came home to a bunch of friends watching the game in my own basement.

now it's food time.

i can't cook for myself

you know when you get to the point during exams that you just can't seem to make yourself a single meal? yeah well i'm there. and i haven't even started writing exams. how sad is that.

i did leave my house today though. i went to biosci to pick up a quiz from my ta in the greenhouse. the greenhouse was approximately a million degrees celsius. honestly. my ta was in there wearing shorts, a teeshirt, and sandals. smart girl brings clothes to change into to work in there.

exam tomorrow. 2pm. biosci. be there. you don't have to be but i will. i've worked it all out. i've already passed the course and that's how i'm explaining my apparent lack of drive and concern about this exam. you know how it goes. i think i'll end up with a decent mark in the course no matter how much i study.

musak: the hum of the dryer

get an appointment

not much to say during exam time. i found online crosswords today. being doing those WAY too much. i still have tomorrow and saturday morning to study and i'm guessing it's going to come down to saturday morning. just cause i can't seem to care. i can't be bothered.

musak: what a bitch! just a kiss on the lips. oh the attraction. *

* i might have made those lyrics up

this is my world, get your own oyster!

not much to report today. it's exam time and i'm supposed to be studying. the great part is that i'm not. even when i have a review session (at least there were doughnuts!).

picked up my geology lectures on cd after the review session. now i can learn geo, but not until i get back to kingston from easter in ottawa.

i've been promised fish! a fish tank will be in the living room in nepean. someday. maybe by the end of the summer. this is the summer, my friends, THE summer!

musak: touching you touching me, i believe in a thing called love

would you pull the trigger?

there have been things in the news and on tv lately to prompt me to use that title. kurt cobain shot himself (or did he...) 10 years ago and there have been lots of articles and radio programs about him this week. somebody else had to be taken back to the hospital because he didn't fully recover from a gunshot wound that happened superbowl weekend (heard that one on the radio and don't know who it was about). and then on 24 tonight, well last week really, michelle totally shot a guy. right in the back. there was plenty more shooting, and more to come next week no doubt, but that was a big one. there was also talk about shooting yourself to avoid suffering from a nasty virus that you knew was going to kill you. so now i bring this question to you: would you pull the trigger?

happy birthdays

happy birthday goes out to kristina and marianne for yesterday.

add your birthday to my birthday reminder thingy from birthdayalarm.com and i will, from now on, wish you a happy birthday on the right day.

i've been away

i definitely missed the blogging_about_cresting train. i did however receive an email from dan thanking me for taking off all his clothes and showering him. check out richard's website or click on the links to the left to find out what other people have been saying about that night.

i left cresting around midnight and drove to ottawa. saturday jon and i went to kanata to see my parents, the dog and cats, and the new floor. we then drove to peterborough to hang out for the night with my brother, his girlfriend sarah, and housemate jon. it was a good time. those boys sure can cook!

we made it back to ottawa through the snow and ice and generally gross weather. just hung out all night at home cause it was too gross to go anywhere.

i managed to sleep for about twelve hours and woke up still in decent time today. i stopped by my mom's office and then drove back to kingston. i don't know yet what i'll be doing all day. probably unpacking and getting some work done. damn exams stand in my way.

other news:
- i secured a job for the summer. my phone interview was just protocol. it was me on speakerphone with my aunt and her coworker. they asked more questions about jon and my upcoming trip than they asked about me.
- we are officially going to victoria, BC for a week. we leave ottawa sunday, april 25th (the day after i move all my shit home) and return saturday, may 1st (work starts the monday after that). i am so excited!

music: krock, were you expecting anything else?

vision clouded by falling angels

today was pretty easy. i didn't go to class and had a group meeting at 3pm. i was good and woke up at 9:30. i got some work done today. enough so that i can hand in everything due tomorrow and still go to bed when i want.

so two hours of lecture stand in the way of me being done school for the year and for my life. this is way more exciting than i imagined it would be. and the chocolate bar i have will make it that much better. i also have a job interview tomorrow afternoon. and after that it's grad club time! drinking with the bio kids. and later on it's cresting time, drinking with the gw kids. and then it's hometime, sleeping with .. well, no any kind of kids. who wants those anyways?

it was nice talking to you.

music: limpbiskit on the news at 9 on k-rock

a is for apple, athletic letter

today was a long day. i spent all day on campus. i had lots of class (and i actually went to all of my lectures.. weird for a wednesday) and had a poster presentation. that went okay. the prof wasn't as intimidating as i was expecting and the timbits were key.

i have to tell you something: i was walking to campus. this morning felt like any other morning, except i couldn't turn on the cold water to have a shower (you can't shower in scolding hot water), and i was walking through the jduc on my way to class. i walked by the walkhome kiosk and what do i see? a bundle of golden words that i didn't deliver! oh the joy! and that's when it hit me. i had an extra 3 hours of sleep this morning and i didn't have to nap cause that job is all done. all i'm waiting on is my last paycheque which is waiting for me at engsoc.

i went to the year-end banquet for queen's intramurals today. it was at qp. there was free food, including those little meatballs and cheese and crackers and veggies and fruit and bread and dip. i stuffed my face and then left, but not before getting my athletic letter that i have been so patiently waiting for. it's a giant yellow a. not sure what i'm going to do with it yet. maybe hang it on the hall next to my old hockey adams name bar. we'll see. i get to move soon so maybe when i "decorate" my perma home.

people are talkin'.

music: some shit on k-rock

so very special, i wish i was special

i have in my hands the special edition of scientific american purchased by my housemate carla. it has all the cool stuff from my geology class last semester in one quick-read magazine. what did i take a 4-month course for again?

some good news from today:
- one more school day done
- group meeting lasted only 3.5 hours
- this time next month i might be sailing in victoria
- it's so warm i broke out big blue
- 24 is back on tonight!

i went to geology lecture this morning for the first time since the midterm. i tried to read a paper and ignore the prof. i just want to know what's on the exam. i don't like her lectures.

i wore my new $5 sweater today. yay for cheap clothes.

current music: sublime cd

ow! ow!

i'm finally done my seminar. i am so happy about that. and after class i was just hanging around and my prof actually offered to write me a letter of recommendation for when i apply to grad school. how sweet is that? i think my jaw actually dropped and hit the floor when the words came out of her mouth.

the other good news i have is that i got a phone call today for a job interview (phone interview no less) for the summer job working at alcatel. hopefully it goes well and i'll have summer employment making the big bucks.

i might be taking a trip. right after i'm done and have moved out of here, jon and i are thinking about going to victoria (with the cats in tow) to see his parents. i'm excited cause i've never been out that way (or the other way for that matter...). we just have to decide how to get there, which flight to take. did i mention that i haven't been on an airplane for 7 years either?

i'm pretty exhausted today. i didn't get much sleep (~4 hours) and have been doing stuff all day. it's almost time for bed. yes, i am a loser.

currnet music: world album premiere of aerosmith's new album

and that's kamerine in an egg shell

this is the end of the weekend. for me at least. some people are still truckin (GW staffers makin the paper). i'm working on my fighting seminar that i'm presenting tomorrow morning. for some reason i just can't seem to care and get to work. i've been talking to people and wandering around on the internet instead. we have some pictures posted from this weekend. they make me laugh.

so i'll write more later, after my seminar is over.

current music: fefe dobson cd

step into my hair

i missed posting last night because we went to the science fair at clark. it was fun, except when one very drunk judge spilled scotch all over me. that was awesome.

i'll write more at the end of the weekend, earlier if i have time.

currently listening to: krock crap

>insert cunning title here<

i had one but i lost it. a good title i mean. ah well. i have a good cookie instead.

we went out to qp tonight for brenda's birthday. there was a huge line so we went to clark but they were charging cover so carla and i left.

i finished my paper tonight. it feels weird to have something finished this far in advance (~ 14 hours early). i still have a quiz to finish for tomorrow though.

currently listening to: sum 41 - does this look infected

add a little tail, add a lot of tail

it's wednesday. wordsday. i delivered this morning and got home earlier than usual. i had nothing to worry about really. i even went to mcdonalds and got an egg mcmuffin. i'm SO glad that i won't have to deliver any more papers. i can clean my car out and hopefully get the smell of news print out.

i had a stellar nap today. konked out for a solid 2 and a half hours. and since i put my alarm clock across the room on my desk i'm much more able to get up in the mornings. hitting snooze isn't quite the same cause i have to get up and cross the room and cross the room again to get back to sleep for 9 minutes. is it worth it? short answer: yes!

i read a lot about hilary duff and avril lavigne (thanks to frank). these two popstars aren't pleasant when it comes to each other. why can't we all just get along? i found out today that hillary duff has a new clothing line called... you guessed it: stuff by duff. it's at zellers, along with a really neat chair that i like. it's round.

i'm almost done my fish paper. i have about 300 words left to reach the max then it's editing and printing and handing in time. yahoooo!

currently listening to: stereo by the watchmen

screaming silence

i finished my book today. it was really good. the last line was priceless. tied everything together. i love books like that. i'm going to miss it though.. i do everytime i end a good book. i'm left wanting more. and then there's the task of starting a new book, getting to know all new characters. ug. not right now.

right now i have to write me a paper. i've been putting it off and procrastinating tons. i think i've talked on the phone more this week than any other this whole year. i also found out today that i wrote the wrong quiz (aka assignment) for one of my biology classes, so i have to write the correct one for friday. gah!

i can't wait for friday and science fair and then the banquet saturday. i really think this weekend will be a good one. jon and richard are coming to the banquet with me and carla. we're at a table with erika and brenda. i'm looking forward to it.

tomorrow morning is my last papers. i can't wait. dan copped out though.. he wants to sleep in. sleeping in is for the weak, though napping is not. i will definitely be napping tomorrow at some point, though i'm really not sure when.

currently listening: cut my life into pieces (incubus?)

lobster march

i wanted to post now so i can concentrate on writing my grant proposal. i knew a kid named grant when i was younger. he wasn't very nice to me. seemed like he didn't like girls at all.

my face got burnt today. it's kinda nice cause it feels like it's summer, but it hurts like any old burn hurts.

i just found out this afternoon about another "quiz" (aka take home assignment) in one of my courses. i thought i was through with those damn quizzes. so this week i have a quiz tomorrow morning and my paper due friday by the end of the day. next week i have another quiz, and that "quiz", a poster presentation, my seminar and a dumb little paper due. and i wonder why i want out of here. too much crap.

i really feel like i've made some good decisions in my life. without going on and chancing getting sappy that is all i will say about that.

i'll be here and you'll be there and we'll all scream for ice cream.

currently listening: krock, ozzy in on and rage against the machine just finished oddly enough

spontaneity in its place

i made myself a list today. well more of a timeline. the things i have to get done this week. it isn't very quantiful, but it is qualiful. i'm making up words.

i worked on my paper and my acquiring notes from people today, and i dropped by engsoc to talk to people. i got to meet (again, cause i have worked with her at the pec) the new distro chick, noelle. i showed her where to park and where the papers would be wednesday and told her to get some mitts and some scissors cause she'll be needing those. wednesday morning will probably be one of the slowest distro days of the year. but my last one and, as dan can tell you, i've been looking forward to this day for a LONG time.

riz posted a fun picture.

i would like to point out that as of tomorrow i have exactly one month of school left.

just keep swimming swimming swimming

we just watched monsters, inc and finding nemo and all the extras (well not all but lots of them). i'm exhausted which is nice. earlier tonight i tried to go to the dance show but they were all sold out. i really didn't have a very exciting day today. my plan of getting people in my class to send me notes (from lectures i missed) is coming to fruition. it's great just sitting here and having people hand me notes. i should do this more often.

meet you on the other side