weekends

apparently weekends are for sleeping. i must have slept more yesterday than all of last week. it was marvelous.

this is my last week of work. i was talking to my agency on friday. they have two positions at health canada, but said that i was "overqualified". i think that's the worst thing they could have told me. at least when i'm not qualified, i can just say that i'm a quick learner and to sign me up. but over qualified means that the employer will look at my resume and wonder what the hell i want the job for. chances are they wouldn't hire me at all.

this whole job situation was going to be a problem for when the car came, but not anymore. i waltzed into a bank on saturday and was given a line of credit and now, between me and jon, we can pay for the car. no matter where we're working (or not working... ) or how much we're making. how sweet is that?

i watched a whole episode of the ashlee simpson show last night. that girl .. how old is she anyway? she can't be the sharpest knife in the drawer. what a ditz! i think if i could be any popstar i would be hilary duff. she seems the nicest. but maybe that's because i don't know much about her. who knows. that's my opinion so take it or leave it.

soup and salad

airline attendant: "would you like a newspaper?"
me: "no thanks, i can't read."
airline attendant: "so what are doing with that magazine?"
me: "reading."

can you believe that the words "i can't read" actually came out of my mouth? well they did. i am that cool. i think that was on our way to victoria mid-december. we were on a little tiny plane that jon couldn't even stand up straight in the aisle. teeny tiny.

we had a good night last night. we went out and looked for a jacket for my new iPod mini (still nameless - i need YOUR help!), but couldn't find anything. then we went to the mall and i bought a sweater on mega sale that i had seen last week. then we went to dan's for dinner with some people from work. it was great.

then if was off to the carleton fastball pub. some highlights:
1) the skinniest girl who can still support her head was dancing
2) skinny's friend making out with a guy on a couch for a long time
3) said kissy girl then going to the bathroom and puking for a long time
4) us wondering if kissy and boy went to the bathroom together, me checking the girls bathroom and dave checking the boys, dave coming out of the bathroom talking loudly about no one making out in the guys bathroom to_the_makeout_guy.

today is work, my 6th last day, and tonight is french class. i feel like i'm getting sick (along with the rest of the world it seems) so i'm not too thrilled about not being in bed, but i can deal.

i started listening to harry potter and the philosopher's stone on the way to work today. i got through chapters 1 and 2. this is definitely something on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. i haven't posted my list because it isn't done yet, and i'm not sure if i want whoever to see what i want to do. some of the things are pretty personal. we'll see though.

i have to admit that a couple of days ago when i wasn't working (as in i was here but wasn't doing any work) i actually sat here and clicked "next blog" on the top of my page and went from there. i read some pretty interesting things, but nothing spectacular. i wonder how that button works, because sometimes i came across a blog i had already seen. is it completely random? it must be i guess.

c'est mon chapeau!

french class is going well. i'm learning new things every class, but i'm also confirming just how bad i am at the language. when jon picked me up we spoke french to each other. it wasn't as painful as i was expecting, but it was definitely a drain on the gray matter. i didn't feel like rhyming there for some reason.

i always post the book i'm currently reading and the one i just finished over on the right there. if anyone ever wants to talk about either of those books, or ones they've seen previously, by all means let me know. this is my half-assed attempt at starting a book club. i think the problems with book clubs are that you have to read what everyone decides on. what if the book just isn't your thing? and what if you finish way before the allotted time? what then? some months i power through books like it's my job, but other months, i read only one book. i don't think i'm the right material for a book club.

so my final birthday present (unless you have something up your sleeve...) was an iPod mini from my boy. it's silver, to match our new car. and it has my name on it! how cool is that? i'm officially the coolest person you know. it's okay to admit it. so i tried it out on the bus this morning and am still sorting it out, but it's so much lighter and cooler than my discman. now, i need to think of a name for my new music guy. suggestions?

work time.

happy birthday to me!

i just wrote a post for today and went to publish it and blogger crapped out on me. thanks again, blogger, you ass.

so it was my birthday yesterday, and the most depressing day of the year. you have to read the whole article to find out that they did this research in order to determine when people would be most likely to book trips. i have to admit that i went online yesterday to gocuba.ca and decided which resort i would go to. but i have a reason. and it doesn't involve my honeymoon, cause who knows when that's going to happen.

tomorrow night is the carleton pub night. i'm excited because i think a lot of people i know will be going so it should be a good time. a strange mix of people, but a good time.

my work here is almost done. my contract is finished not this friday, but next. i'm looking for a job, but i've been pretty busy (or out of town on the weekends and stuff) so i haven't found anything for after yet. i'm hoping something falls on my lap, to continue the trend of 2004 jobs. i'm all set to apply for EI though so hopefully i won't miss many paycheques.

i finished my book this morning on the bus. turns out i'm getting a lot better at not feeling sick while reading (or doing anything except looking out the window) on the bus. one small victory for me.

back to sleep.. i mean work. lalalalalalalalala.

thanks blogger

i want to take this opportunity to thank blogger for working yesterday. you rock my world.

today is friday. thank goodness for that. this week has gone by quickly, thanks to me being crazy busy. just the usual things though (work, pilates, french, sleep). i'm really really looking forward to this weekend. birthday weekends are always good stuff. it was all supposed to start right after work with skating on the canal with my co-workers, but that's probably cancelled because it's f***ing cold outside.

tonight is dinner at montana's so come if you're in ottawa. tomorrow i'm going to peterborough with my parents and max to see my brother. i don't know what's going on tomorrow night yet, but i'm sure i'll figure something out. sunday is dinner at gramma's and a hockey game at night. monday is my actual birthday and there's pilates class and 24.

i've been thinking about jobs since mine is almost done. i fired off my resume to some people yesterday. surprisingly, i got a response from a director at agriculture and agri-food canada. i'm happy about that. so i'll keep looking. and last night, conveniently enough, i learned the french word for "unemployed". i'm going to need that one....

i'm baaaaaad

hi friends. there is so much to say, and since my manager is in a meeting i'm going to take this time to get you all caught up on my life.

i've been bussing to work for over a week now and i'm proud to report that yesterday i spent less than two hours on the bus for my combined trip to work and back home. i'm definitely getting much better at this game. today i wore my snowpants because it's so damn cold. it's the kind of cold where you leave your house and your nostrils immediately freeze and your eyes start to water. brrrrrr!

hockey went really well this weekend. we were in kingston for a tournament and managed to win the whole thing. i have a nice little trophy and we were given a bigger team trophy, but us being without a league (we're "independant") we have nowhere to put it. we're thinking of a timeshare sorta thing and adding it to our wills, willing it to the next team mate and the last one alive gets to keep it. i say someone else can have it. what the hell am i going to do with my little trophy let alone a bigger one? that's right: nothing! but it did feel nice to win some games. we haven't done that since october. plus, we had a game without penalties. now that's a first. i even managed to score two goals and get two assists. it's not that i was on fire. it's that the goalies were terrible. all in all a good weekend. oh ps. i shot the puck in the other team's end so i could get off, but i hit the ref right in the elbow/ribs. i went and apologized afterwards, but what kind of ref is ALWAYS in my way? thanks mr. pylon.

i found out late last week that my contract here will not be extended like last time. so as of friday, february 4th i will be unemployed again, unless the garbage lady comes through with more garbage audits. turns out the audits for the first three months of the year are during the day. ding!ding!ding! kamerine doesn't have a day job anymore! so i might become a full time garbage girl.

that reminds me. on fear factor last night (it was a continuation of last week's couples episode) they had to do a stunt in raw sewage. do i think it was really raw sewage? nope. i think they might have some legal issues when everybody dies of grossness, or e-coli or something. hell i don't know. but raw sewage is gross. garbage is gross enough.

also, in my greatness, i watched the bachelorette last night. what a dumb show. i couldn't turn it off though. the crowning moment of the episode was when one cassinova told the chick that he was a virgin. and her line? "that shows his beliefs. but maybe his beliefs are too stringent for me"!! way to go, slut! don't tell her i said that.

it's my life

i learned something about myself: i am scared of missing my bus stop. so scared that i will get off the bus early. this made for a long walk to my building this morning. silly me. other than that and a couple little mishaps, i don't mind the bus so much. though it does mean that i have to get up much earlier. this i mind and my body hates me today. early to bed tonight.

i'm all caught up on 24 now. because of a hockey game, i missed sunday night's episode and then couldn't watch monday's episode monday so i watched it last night. i have to admit that i'm not as turned on this season as i was this time last season. i'm having trouble getting into the characters.

i scored a 2-for1 coupon for the imax. maybe i'll go see something cool.

pub night

the team i coached this fall is having a pub night wednesday, january 26 at oliver's. $5 will get you in. come! it's my birthday.

R.I.P. lumi

lumi was a good car. a nice car. a car that ran well.
lumi had a good life. a long life. a life so full.
lumi is no longer in my life, but served me well. he will be missed.


lumi

my perogative

it's my perogative, you hear me?

last night we had a hockey practice. i hate to complain, but we were on the ice from 10:30 - 11:30 and i didn't get home till around midnight. i'm trying to get back into the swing of things (aka work and getting up early and not napping). late practices certainly don't help. on the up side, i think it really helped the team. i guess we'll see at our two games this weekend. so much hockey.

i find myself thinking more and more about the cats. we took them to the vet and they could have very serious problems that would mean us taking them back and taking advantage of the health guarantee from the breeder. you can get very attached to two little cute balls of fur in a week and a half unfortunately. ug. not nice. i'll just distract myself with work, while i'm here you know.

me

i just realized how busy i'm going to be for the next month and a bit. i'm working. we all knew that though. i even managed to get here at 8 this morning. yay leaving before the sun is entirely set!

next week my french classes start as well as my pilates class. french is two nights a week downtown for an hour and 45 minutes each night. that's a lot of french. and pilates is one hour one night a week. plus there's the wednesday night's stitch & bitch and whatever i need to do during the week.

oh! and! 24 starts this sunday! unfortunately i have a hockey game, but i'll figure something out. they're starting it off well with a 2-hour season premier and then the next episode the very next night. i'm SO excited! i also started watching the sopranos because we have it on the computer. i've seen 7 episodes and am hooked. i'm just not very good at watching them, so i'm about 3 seasons behind jon. we don't watch it together, obviously.

back to work. making the money.

changes

today, i made a big change in my life: i ate vegetables with dinner.

i read four issues of reader's digest, given to me by a family member, and i have to say that there is so much wrong with the world and our society. it makes me feel like i'm going to die next week of cancer, vitamin d deficiency, sids, or arthritis. it's amazing how much crap there is to talk about. and now, i'm seriously considering a career in forest fire fighting.

i'm working on a new picture page, but it's slow going. i'm still trying to figure out the program that will make this all possible.

i want to say that i don't miss hockey at all. we have something like 15 channels.. nothing too exciting and when there's hockey, i'm sure at least two or three of them would be taken up with it. what would i watch then?

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!