Friday, February 25

car car!




so this is the only picture of the new car without the license plate in it so it's the only one i can show you on here cause you might be some weirdo freak who's stalking me and boy, you have to work for it. i'm not going to give away too much.

we finally did groceries tonight. feels nice knowing that there's actually some food around here. guess what the first thing i ate was... cookies! mmmm fresh-from-the-store cookies.

so this year i'm going to do my own taxes. i'm a little apprehensive but i think i can handle it. i just won't claim anything. a T4? what's that? i'm telling you - i could be blonde. blonde. that reminds me. the book i'm reading now is about a guy who kills blonde porn stars with huge fake tits. it's a good book though not as scary as the last one, or maybe it was the one before that. i love them when i'm afraid to go pee by myself and have to take jon.. er.. i mean a cat with me. that's right, i take a poor little cat who i've woken up with me into the bathroom. and i love it!

Thursday, February 24

smokin new car

the past couple of days have been mostly uneventful. we did however get insurance and are picking up our new car tomorrow. i'm excited, but blah from earlier tonight so i'll be more excited tomorrow.

i had my last french class tonight. i still don't know if i'll sign up for the next one. i want to, but i feel bad because i'm not making any money and the ei lady said that it takes 6 weeks to get a cheque so i have to wait for a while to know how much/for how long i will be getting/i will be getting it. (that's a dumb sentence.)

i'll go now.

Tuesday, February 22

my favourite mistake

i already wrote this post before i managed to fuck it up and lose everything i wrote. here's hoping i can come up with something just as good the second time around.

car insurance. own a car - you need insurance. have a ticket - hard to get someone to insure you and your car. i was looking around at different places today in preparation for the arrival of our new car. you can get quotes online these days and so i was busy going to websites and filling in the appropriate information. you know, some places won't give you a quote online or by phone if you have even one little ticket on your record, which i have. well those places, i don't want my insurance from you anyway.

i was at the td/canada trust website and i filled out all the information and clicked the "Give me my quote" button and was dismayed to see almost $5,000/year for 2 drivers and 2 cars. then i re-did the whole process as a queen's alumni and guess what they quoted me then? just guess. no, really. guess. okay fine. they quoted me under $3,000 with all the same information. do you think the savings could possibly be that much? i don't know what i think. but even with the savings they aren't the cheapest place so screw them!

in other news, we didn't lost our hockey game sunday afternoon: we tied. we have one game left (tomorrow night) and then we're into playoffs. that is all on that subject.

last night was my dad's birthday dinner. i was pleased to see my brother's car in the driveway when we got there. he came all the way from peterborough. we had a good dinner. and i convinced my brother to come by today and drive me around because i had to go prove my identity to complete my ei claim. retards. no wait, that was my fault. we went back out there tonight after my french class cause my brother's leaving tonight. so we still haven't seen monday's episode of 24 so no one say anything or i might have to kill you.

and in conclusion, we are no longer poor but i am still an unemployed housewife. someone shoot me now.

Sunday, February 20

strange times

i'm watching the movie pay it forward. it's weird.

what else is weird is how i was feeling after my hockey game today. it was weird playing in the afternoon and on such a small ice surface. it was weird that we didn't lose (we tied).

it's weird how someone deleted spider solitaire from this computer - what am i supposed to do now? how am i going to spend my days.

i do actually have stuff to do tomorrow. i'm going to look into car insurance. try and find the cheapest place. and then i have to get something for my dad. and tomorrow night will be busy with pilates and then dinner with my parents. i'm sure we're going to miss 24 so we'll have to get it and watch it later on, maybe tuesday night.

enough? okay.

Saturday, February 19

no picture today i'm afraid

so last week i dyed parts of my hair bright orange and today i dyed the rest of my head to cover up the orange, but it didn't work. i'm just waiting for my hair to dry to see the final product but i'm not optimistic.

we went in today and bought our car (again) after calling and hearing that we had to wait for another 3-4 weeks (what the hell happened to mid-january???). so we said fuck that and bought one with air. at least we still get the nice colour though - dark dark gray. so we get our car by the end of the week. booyah! now, i can leave the house during the day and stop being so damn stuck until someone gets home and drives me around to my various night events (i sell myself... during the nights and am unemployed during the day).

in all my awesomeness i already know what i'm getting for jon for his birthday, though i'm not positive what to get my dad. let's review: jon's birthday in 7 months, dad's birthday in 2 days. my my. tomorrow's project.

Friday, February 18

tgif! (7569)

friday! finally! you're here! every day feels like a friday when you're unemployed. except that i know tonight my boyfriend might be able to stay up later than 10pm (with the help of a nap only).



today is the day i find the fugitive! away!

Wednesday, February 16

salmons (7448)

below is a picture of an obviously dead salmon. when we were in bc in december we missed the salmon run by a week or so and all that was left was an awful smell and tons and tons of salmon carcasses. hmm, i took another one with my foot so you can see just how big these suckers are.. you'll just have to believe me when i say they're huge!



on the same trip we went to butchart gardens which is a botanical garden. it was really nice.. all lit up for christmas. the size of the trees there, and in bc in general, are enormous. here's one:

Tuesday, February 15

cleaning house (7447)

today feels like wednesday... it started. this unemployed-ness really gets to you and throws off everything. even though i have things every night of the week i still can't keep track of what day it is. shoot me now.

i finished my book last night. it was really good, if you like that kind of book, which i obviously do since that's all i read.

yesterday i applied for more jobs and registered with some more agencies. it's weord though, usually by now i would have had someone i know call me and say they had a job for me. that's how it's worked the past couple of times. am i spoiled? quite perhaps.

seems like everyone's getting cell phones. good for you. it's about time you hopped on the technology wagon lest all your friends laugh at you. i'm very happy with my cell phone, ruby, except how long it takes her to turn on. damn girls! i mean, damn telus!

i was looking online the other night at houses for sale in our area. we're going to be in the market for a house/new place to live in about 2 years. good thing i'm working and making money to help save up for the down payment on a house. fuck!

no, i'm just kidding. we can afford to not have me working for a little while though saving up is obviously easier when there are two incomes. and that said, i don't think i'll be continuing on with french class next session. i would love for my employer to pay for me to (re-)learn the language. i did learn some good phrases though:

english: What knockers!
french: Quels nichons!

i will leave you on that note.

Sunday, February 13

orange

i kinda streaked my hair orange. fluorescent orange. i don't know if i like it yet or not. we'll see.

we watched saved! last night. i really liked the movie. i would like to know how many takes they had to do for a lot of the scenes. i'm guessing if i was an actress i would have been laughing at so many of the lines they had to say. so much of it was ridiculous, but the overall movie was really good. in my opinion.

today didn't feel like sunday. i slept in - which did feel like sunday - but then we did a bunch of running around. plus, i didn't go to hockey last night. so i'm all screwed up. probably doesn't help that i haven't gone to work in a week now. oh being unemployed....

Saturday, February 12

old things, new things, and weird things

last night my queen's clipboard broke. you know when you're in first year and you want all the things that everyone seems to have. well that was me and my clipboard. though i will say that as a leftie, the clipboard sure does make taking notes a lot easier. stupid binders (and most everything else) being made for right-handed people!



the new thing that i'm referring to in the title of this post is my new school bag to replace my very broken old one. i actually went to MEC and bought a good one so it better not break. meet bear:



lastly, our boy cat rolo is very weird in that he has nine (9) nipples! count that! 9! so i took a picture. it's kinda hard to see, but it's a little like where's waldo... so spot the ninth nipple!



in other news, i am still unemployed, but i had a great week off and next week i'm going to seriously start looking for a job.

Monday, February 7

my brother and me


this is me and my brother from my recent trip to peterborough with the fam. ladies, he's single....

this is my effort to post more pictures, and now that i'm home full time i should be able to do that. i made another blog where i thought i would post pictures, but the client that helps me post them doesn't like me having two blogger websites and i don't know how to figure it out.

today, i slept in. i told myself i was going to take today off and not do anything. so when i woke up i decided that on my day off i would try and find the hot 89.9 fugitive. i listened to the clue at 12noon, but it didn't make a lick of sense so that plan was shot to hell. at least there's another clue in 20 minutes. could you imagine $50,000? i wouldn't have anymore debt and my new car would be paid for. ahhhhh... i'll just keep dreaming.

but some good news, since one of our friends also wants a mazda 3 we're going to get $400 off our car for bringing him in. sweet deal.

in other news, we're trying to convince jon's sister to come and live in ottawa. we're even looking for a job for her. should i be looking for a job for me?

Saturday, February 5

knitting

i took a long break from knitting that started the night my lumi died. i was on my way to our weekly S&B (stitch & bitch)and really couldn't concentrate and haven't knit since. it's a strange thing, but i find that i miss it. so last wednesday night i tried, but again didn't do much. i'm actually trying to learn how to crochet, but it isn't going well.

so my next project is to knit a cozy for my iPod mini (named Kevin, thanks to richard). i started and finished my first attempt at a cozy, and it works and stuff, but it's not great. so i'm looking for a pattern to attempt to follow.

i also have to finish the blanket i started 4 years ago. it was one of my first projects.

have i bored you all to death yet?

goodbye job hello unemployment

i say unemployment but i might be working my garbage job so who knows. i might not, depending on how much money EI will give me.

i have some money now. thanks to the bank for giving me free money (aka a line of credit). so i think i'm going to talk to a financial planner about rrsp's and other investments.

i just today found out about frank's website. i figured he was lost to the non-blogging community, but alas, he's back. and his special friend sure does get a lot of time.

who doesn't like ice cream? i like ice cream. why am i not allowed to get ice cream?

i didn't go to hockey last night and i'm glad i didn't. it was my last day of work and i didn't feel like living up to any obligations. so i didn't go. but my team won 7-1 without a goalie for the first half of the game. good for us. and tonight, we were supposed to play the exact same team, but they forfeit because their goalie can't come. so i guess we win that one too. and that means i get to skate around for an hour. and then i'll get home and my man-friend (frank - does that work for you?) won't be there because he'll be off being a nerd. he does that from time to time. so i'll be at home, and maybe i won't shower after hockey. i'll hang out with my nacho cats.

Wednesday, February 2

me and barbie

there are many different reasons why i don't get along with barbie girls and i can't explain them. am i high maintenance? do i make unreasonable requests?

i have two and a half days of work left. i am looking for another job, but it just so happens that this week is a super busy one. so between making a gazillion changes to my report and meeting about these changes, i look at job postings and work on my resume. do you have a job for me?