big news

i'm not pregnant i'm unemployed! my contract was terminated and i will be out of work starting monday. i'll write more later, but i can tell you that i'm happy about this.

money

why is money the root of all evil? i'm totally convinced it is. absolutely.

so yesterday i spent the whole day by myself. jon went to somewhere with his car friends and left me alllll alone. i did mundane things like laundry and vacuuming. i'm so fun. i also watched the first four seasons of prison break. now that's a good show.

but now i feel good because i don't have those things to do. nice and relaxing sunday. so i went to the gym and went for a walk and had a nap. like i said - relaxing.

friday night was my year-end baseball party. it was a good time, but i wasn't feeling great so i didn't go out to the bar.

i've got nothing else. there are some plans in the works and if you're important enough you'll hear about them soon.

the shizzit

i didn't give you enough information last post. i want to go back to school. partly as an avoidance strategy, partly as a survival strategy (avoiding work, surviving by not shooting myself in the head due to crappy work). i have been toying with lots of ideas over the past year and a half since i graduated.

back two summers ago i was thinking about going to school to be an occupational therapist. i don't know where that idea went or why, but it's been gone for a while. lately i've wanted to go to college for the veterinary technician program. it's a 2-year full-time program. i emailed my vet to ask her about the people she employs and she said that if i'm serious about it i should attend st- lawrence college in kingston. i looked into that program and it's a three-year full-time program. haven't i spent enough time in kingston? 4 years of undergrad apart from j might have been enough for me.

then finally, i'm looking into going to carleton or ottawa for my masters in biology. this is probably the smartest idea for many reasons, including that it's related to my undergrad so i wouldn't be "wasting" those four years and i could be in ottawa. downsides: my undergrad marks suck and i don't have any research background.

the answer? well i'm not sure yet. i'm going to meet with the chair of the biology department at carleton in two weeks and as flat out about my marks and my experience. i don't want to pay the $75 to apply if there's no way in the world i will be accepted.

so that's my dilemma. i basically do not want to work anymore so school is my way out. is that so bad?

the wash shrinks everything

i'm patting myself on the back for a job well done this weekend. the surprise party for jon and julie and john went well. somehow it remained a surprise for jon and julie even though matt and i had a million and one things to do day of and so many things to organize and so many ways things could have gone wrong. wow. i don't think i'm ever doing that again. and, as an added bonus, i don't think i will ever cheat because sneaking around is definitely nerve racking.

yesterday we went to stittsville for a family get together. it was good times. finally got to talk to cheryl. she recently broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of the appartment they shared and is now on her own. i'm going to bring her out with my social friends soon.

should i go back to school?

happy birthday to you and happy UNbirthday to me

it's everyone's birthdays this week. not me though. no sirree, i'm a january baby.

yes, my favourite reality tv show is the biggest loser. i know i've talked about it before, but i just want to say that i really like it. i like how it teaches people how to eat properly and about exercise and makes life changes instead of showing that they can gather the most amount of flags while hanging 5 kilometers over water (though i have to admit i also like fear factor).

jon's parents bought him a remote-control helichopper for his birthday. oh my. the hours of flying fun! i'm being sarcastic. it's funny though. he has to keep it in one of the spare bedrooms because the cats like to chew on it.

i got this email today forwarded from a friend:

"Subject: ANNUAL BOOTY SHAK HOMECOMING KEGGER

Hey kids!

Last time ever! Next year we're moving on so come celebrate our final
homecoming at the Shak! The party will be friday night at 514 Johnson
(between Johnson and Frontenac), $10 for beer - bring your friends and
family!

Hope to see you there!!!"

that's where i used to live! so i forwarded it to my old housemates. i think they're actually going to go. i would think about it seriously if i didn't already have plans that night. will i be going to kingston at all? i do not know.

reality tv

my favourite reality tv show is back. guess what it is!

back with a brand new rap

i'm sorry for the delay. time flies.

my brother was in town this weekend so i did much family stuff. plus it's my mom's birthday today and my grandparents are back in ottawa so there was lots going on. but let's backtrack a little.

wednesday night was the last car night at place d'orleans for the year. so we went and we walked around and saw all the oldies-but-goodies. then i went inside and shopped while jon talked car stuff for hours. i found a rubik's cube for my mom (did you know it's the most popular puzzle game EVER? and it's been around for 25 years - longer than i have) and some tank tops for me.

thursday was just a regular day.. at least i can't think of anything exciting. friday was fat tuesdays with the ball girls. it was a lot of fun. fat tuesdays is in the market and has three piano guys (they rotate, this night it was mostly one, but the second came on for a bit). we met at andi's first and i finally got to meet her old roommate meghan. meghan's a crazy bitch, in a good way. so we were out and lots of the girls came which was good to see. it was freezing cold so i had a few beer to elevate my body temperature. i love how slamming back two beers gets me so hammered. oh, cheap drunk. this night was also the night my brother got to town.

saturday was a run around and do errands kinda day. we got a new licence plate sticker and saw vik for a bit.. even got a short little cruise in his mini. then it was off to kanata. jon didn't stay long because HE WENT RACING!!! but i stayed and had chicken burgers and went out with my brother, his gf and some friends. we went to honest lawyer. i was dd so just sat back and laughed at them drinking shots and beer like it was their job. i got home close to 4am, reeking of beer and tired.

but jon went racing. that's a bigger story. he went, with some other mazda 3 boys, to the luskville dragway and for $20 you get to go in and you get to race. he raced and won some and lost more, but had a great time and it was all he could talk about all sunday. apparently the tires now need rotating and we need gas about a week earlier than usual, but it was all worth it. too bad he's itching for his new car though, more than before. and i still don't have a solid job. (this is turning into a long post.. keep reading!)

sunday was another errands day and then off to kanata for mom's birthday and scott's send-off. mom was so pleased with her rubik's cube. we got some nice pictures of everybody before everyone scattered.

okay, only another day to cover. yesterday was monday and usually mondays suck. well this one did too, really. except i drove to work - sshhhhh, don't tell my car insurance guy. i had a job interview in hull for an indeterminant position with environment canada. it was a learning process: i wanted to know what a government competition was all about so i wasn't too concerned that i answered all their questions poorly and have no hopes in hell of getting the position. do i really want a government job anyways? not so much. i want to go back to school. will you finance that?

i went to the gym last night and got the village (you get free 2-day rentals from goodlife). it was a good movie. more of a thinker than i thought it was. and now we're here. i'm sitting at work, waiting for a meeting and putting off the work i actually have to do, which is to make some name tags for a workshop later this week. ooh the fun.

what do i know?

do you ever feel like you don't know a thing? like there's so much out there and the things you know are of so little consequence? do you ever feel small?

not me. i'm an egotistical maniac.

green day! green day!

what can i say? green day was awesome, but i was expecting awesome. they always get three people to come on stage to play hte drums, bass, and guitar, and this time it actually worked and they sounded great. in montreal last time we saw them, they never fuond a drummer who could cut it. and i'm not saying i could do better, because i don't play any of those instruments, but it's early green day material, and from what i've heard, anyone could play it. it's amazing how green day went from songs made entirely of three power cords, to the band they are now.

the rest of the weekend was fun too. lots went down. saturday was my baseball coach's 25th anniversary party. complete with meat roasting on the spit, to hypnotist action. it was a very fun time, though i was completely exhausted by the end of it.

sunday i played in a charity 3-pitch tournament with tina and john out in the sticks. it was a lot of fun. we won the tournament and i didn't break my knee. i gave my medal to john's sister and her husband, who just had their first baby. a huge baby boy. after the tournament we showered and then rushed up to shannon's cottage. there were lots of crazy people there and lots of beer and other consumables (i might have made that word up). we made it home pretty late and i slept like a log until 11:30 sunday.

sunday was a nothing day really, well until the concert. we were going to get groceries and do other shopping, but nothing was open so we didn't. honestly, nothing much happened. it was the kind of day i needed to recover from the weekend.

now it's the beginning of a short work week and i couldn't be happier about that. i started off the week by sleeping in a little too long and getting here late. we're supposed to be having a meeting as i type, but no one is there yet, so i'm holding out. only three more months.

goldfish

breaking news: i have an interview on september 12th. it's a government job and that's about all i know. i'm waiting on an email to find out more. am i happy? moderately so.

my parents anniversary went well i think. j and i headed over there two days ago and brought with us three framed pictures, one from both j's and my brother's grad and one from when my uncle was in town. it seemed like they were both happy... but that might have been because my grandparents, who are back in ottawa, had just moved out again. who knows.

barrymore's last night turned into us standing in line and finally ditching the line and heading to a different bar for food. i heard it was fun inside but very very hot. i guess that's what happens when you cram a million dancing teens into a small space. kingston people - barrymore's is ottawa's aj's, but without the plane (which i didn't notice for years).

this weekend is jammed packed with fun activities and i'm sure i'll have lots to tell tuesday. until then.