The good news just keeps on coming!

So I called my dear hubby this morning to see if he had finally booked his ticket to come and see me this summer, but he couldn't because he couldn't get on-line to find out what his bank balance was so he told me that he would do so as soon as he could get on line. I get home from school this morning and low and behold I noticed that he called me. So I called him back, he's booked the ticket! June 13th! Awesome!

But it got better, when my mom come home for lunch she told me that the Ralph bucks are here ($400 prosperity checks from the government). Yeahhhhhhh, even though I had to sign mine over to her anyways because I owe her so much money it is going to be at least two lifetimes to pay her back!

Today is a good day indeed!

I seriously question other people's intelligence!

I have a very short patience for those that are stupid, and not the sort that is spontaneous either, I am talking about deliberate stupidity, as a make-up of their own personality. Many who know me and I what I go through at work will completely understand what I am talking about and will know why I want to leave soooo bad!

I paid them off!

I went to the bank today and paid the $1.02 that was outstanding from my loans temporarily going back into repayment.

I am in the process of choosing wedding invitations, oh my god what a process!

I knew it, I KNEW IT!!

Well I think that the writing was on the wall for the last few weeks, Steven Harper eeked out a win, but he got a majority. I think that anyone with half a brain in this nation was breathing a sigh of relief and shaking their heads thinking damn there are alot of dumb people that live here! This is the one and only time you'll ever hear me refer to Steven Harper as Prime Minister. Fuck head sounds more approprate. So let me list the things that I am going to miss now that Fuck Head is in power:
My right to choose
The gay tax base
A government with a surplus
A government working towards eliminating the deficit
Working for the public service
Living in a nation called Canada
Not living in a nation called USA!
The absence of daily prayer in school
The joy of beer and popcorn
The joy of watching a gay wedding
The joy of watching a gay wedding and having a beer and some popcorn
The joy of watching a leader that doesn't look like he could be a very uuuuuuggggllllyyyyyy drag queen on the side
Access to universal public health care
Freedom of speech

Oh my I could go on! I will admit this is sad times for Canada but then again it should be no time at all and well will be back in election mode and maybe just maybe there might be a shake up and the NDP will have a minority government with some greens thrown into the mix.

How should I pay back the Royal Bank of Canada!?!

Those of you who have student loans from the Royal Bank of Canada will know what I am talking about. My loans "mistakenly" went into repayment back in December, just after the new year I got a nasty letter telling me that my account is past due, hello you never sent me a bill! So after about three phone calls to get things straightened out because the first one her english wasn't so hot and well she couldn't give me sufficient reasoning as to why my account went into repayment because I sent all the appropriate work months ago. So I asked for a manager, who was unavailable at the time, the second time was much more successful and as it turns out who every looked at my case was a total screw-up however she neglected to tell me that I would still be responsible for the interest accrued. So the other day I sat here after work and thier automated system called here 4 times within a 10 minute span. So I called again to see what the hell was going on. Turns out I owe the Royal Bank of Canada, $1.02!! I am so angry that I am debating as to how I am going to pay this. Do I pay with 102 pennies, or 25 nickels and 2 pennies, or 10 dimes and 2 pennies or, 4 quarters and 2 pennies or, 1 loonie and 2 pennies.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think that I should do!

So is it going to a majority or a minority?

It yet remains to be seen, the election happens Monday and well it looks like those fucking Conservatives are going to win it. The only thing remains to be seen and that is whether we are going to be having a majority government or a minority government. I hope that for this country's sake that it is a minority government so that it will fall just as fast as the last government did. That way maybe both parties will hold leadership reviews and get some fresh blood (and maybe more brains) into Canadian politics. What I would really love to see is a Independent Party of Canada, with those who follow what their constituents want more so than just to follow party lines. Or even better yet, bring in proportional representation instead! Oh man I think that I am going to burn at the stake for all of this. But one thing is for certain. ON MONDAY JANUARY 23RD VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't trash the 'stache

Leave Jack Layton't mustache alone Steven Harper or I'll start bugging you about your use of eye liner!

I knew I was right!

I am not the only one that thinks that Stephen Harper is scary, other people say it too! Gotta love consensus!

Snow Bed Sleep

So here I was commenting about how much I was wishing for snow, and my husband in Sweden is getting shitloads of it! Apparently there is over a foot of snow where my dear hubby is. Damn it, why couldn't I take another year off of school and live in Sweden again!?!

On a much better note, I got a nice delivery today, a new bed, ahhh which is so nice because I haven't had a good night's sleep in ages. This morning I was dosing in and out of sleep and I dreamt about having a baby, and ironically enough it was quick and painless which tells me something that I worry about and that is that it is going to hurt like a son of a bitch!!!

No job offers yet. Shit!

It's snowing!!

I come home from class tonight and there is snow on our driveway! How wonderful! I wonder if I can call in sick tomorrow because of the roads????

Just waiting for the snow to fall

This winter has been mediocre for snow. There is maybe maybe 2 cm of snow on the ground just out side of the front door. Apparently according to the weather forecast we are supposed to get some more snow. I love the snow because people seem to bitch about it so much. I don't know why it makes the shorter days of winter so much easier to bear! So please pray for snow, just for me!

Statcounter rocks!

Ok I have had statcounter on here for about a month and a half now and it's pretty interesting to see who checks this out.

So far someone in Ottawa is checking me out, I think it is for all the negative comments I have made about Stephen Harper and the Conservatives. I think that somehow eventually I am going to end up on some black list. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh scary!!!




I have hits from the UK, Malaysia, Austrailia, India, Brazil, Uraguay (that is probably spelled wrong), and Sweden. Not to mention countless hits from the States and Canada. So leave a message to say hi, I totally encourage it!

That's it! I movin!

Looks like Stephen Harper is going to get elected, man I hope that his government falls faster than the Liberals because it's going to get really scary around here!

Personality

We were discussing personality yesterday in my Personality class (wow what a concept!) anyways we were discussing how environment plays a part in determining personality. So my professor, who I am not too sure I like because a) he's not a regular staff member (not even a U of C prof!) b)he's firmly entrenched in religion and he reminds us of that all the time and c) he's American! I know I know, but the thing is I have had lots of teachers that were originally from the states but they were not as bad as this guy. My old band director is from the same area he is, and my old band director is the sweetest thing you will ever meet. In fact I am pretty sure that they graduated from the same University! This prof talks like UCLA is the next best thing to sliced bread.

So anyways back to yesterdays discussion about how environment can help play a part in determining personality and the prof used two examples, the one I really really liked. He used Sebastian Bach. The guy had something like 21 kids between 2 wives. A good percentage of them became composers or musicians. Ok that's a pretty good case I like that example. One would think that would be suffice, oh no not him, he searches for yet another example so he uses.... get this..... George W. Bush! Ummmmm yeah those who know me know that I have a problem with this, anyone with half a brain would know that this example right here is the lamest one ever. I wonder if I should drop this course now and get money back!

Help!

I need to find a topic for my Brain and Behavior class. I don't want to be typical but then again if I have to be I will. If you can think of strange diseases that affect the brain, LET ME KNOW!!!

Still sooooo boring!

I can't believe that this election is so boring. You would think that they would all come up with something new and refreshing instead of sounding all the same!

Yaddah

Does anyone want to employ me???

Okay I had an incident with someone at work on Sunday and I would love nothing more right now than to quit the job that I am currently at just to find something better so let me know eh!

I am shocked!

In a little surf about that I just did, it turns out the Conservative Party of Canada has actually published a political platform for this the most boring election campaign ever! I am shocked because last time around the Conservatives had something to hide. Could it be that they are grabbing a brain? I hardly think so, if they get elected the women of Canada are going to watch the autonomy of their bodies fly right out of the window. Birth control and abortion will be a thing of the past.

Morality

I totally hate this concept! I think it is because there is such a religious connotation to the concept. And if you know me well you will know that I am not that particularily keen on religion. I think that religion is a source of much discord in the world and a creation of an us vs them mentality that really isn't needed in this day and age.
I think that morality should be outright banned in terms of public administration. Morality should not be involved in law.

I know I know I am probably be burned in hell for this comment, but ah you never know maybe it will become absolutely frigid in hell. Ohhhhhh skiing on the volcanoes of hell. Man just think of all the tourist opportunities!

Can someone please explain this to me!?!

What is this all of a sudden that productivity and rules are starting to rule our lives. Last week my boss called a spontaneous meeting to discuss the fact that we are leaving and coming back from breaks late. Afterall our high level of productivity is suffering substantially (NOT!)
Then my mother comes home from work tonight and tells me that because she works less than 4 hours a day at her part-time job she not entitled to a coffee break. Ok this woman can run circles around the entire staff, trust me I have seen her do it on many occasions but it is primarily because of two things essential to her survival, nicotine and caffine and well taking away her opportunity to consume these two chemicals that are her life blood is going to be rather detrimental to my sanity (eventually this will have some sort of a trickle down effect).

Back to my nutcase of a boss, he hauled someone into his office today to warn her that she is coming back too late from her breaks! At least she works which is more than what I can say for some of the other creatures that are employed there!

You wanna buy my vote???

So for those of you want to know how much my vote is worth check out buymyvote.ca and look under the Red Deer, Alberta riding. E-mail me for my phone number and address when you have cut the check for me eh??

Conservatives scare me!

They really really scare me, it's because they always have something to hide. Christans scare me too, I think it is because they somehow seem so misguided!

I think that I am actually going to do.... it

That is graduate from university!!!! I have now attended at least one of each of my five classes this term and I think that I am going to manage to do it and also get good enough grades that it will increase my GPA just that little bit so that I don't look like a complete moron! I just hope that I can keep this optimism for longer than a few weeks. Here's hoping! Imagine that! Me, the first University grad in my family!! Wow! Evolution!

Wedding invitation dilemma!

Oh my god did you realize how many different wedding invitation designs there are. And then all the wording that goes along with that. And the fonts! AH! It's all a bit overwhelming right now.

Election 2006

BORING!!!!!

Oh the things I am going to do when my in-laws get here.

Ok, some of you might have noticed that I am having a whole host of my in-laws over this summer for a vow renewal. There is something like 20 of them coming over. Which is totally awsome because I have met most of them and they are blast. Although I can't help but wonder what their impression of where I live is going to be. I have a list of different things that are musts. First of all there is the Calgary Stampede, the event that defines what Western Canada is. The Calgary Zoo, which is a lot better than what it used to be. Then there is Banff and Jasper, which a trip to Alberta and even Canada is not complete without. Then you get to the really really redneck aspect of the trip, there is a visit to the Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington. The only reason why I know where Torrington is because I pretty much grew up in Wimborne and well that place is practically non-existent these days. The only viable business there is my uncle's repair shop. They even tore up the railroad tracks a few years back! Then in Innisfail I thought a good old fashioned bar crawl is a must as well, The Zoo and The Fox and maybe even Slickers is a good one to stop by as well. Then well Billy Bob's is also a good place to stop as well, that is Max's sister and boyfriend can handle all the Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots! Ahhhh what an interesting summer this is going to be.

One week in!

So it has been one week since the start of the new year and I am already looking forward to next year. I can't wait to see when Max finally gets to come over. But right now it is one of those things I have so many other things to concentrate on. I gotta get school finished.

Sleeping pills...... good thing!

Ok so as I have been saying, I can't remember the last time that I had a good night's sleep. Especially recently because I think that since the new year I have had two sleepless nights. So last night I took one of my perscription sleeping pills and slept so well that I didn't get out of bed until noon! I couldn't believe it. I didn't wake up at two or at three or at four!!! I heard my mom this morning bring down the dog but I didn't really care. I woke up at around nine rolled over and went back to sleep.

So I when I finally did get out of bed I called Max and he's doing well, he's going back to school for another six months because well he can't find a job and he does want to come here and then have to go back again and then come back here again! But nonetheless he is doing well.

I also called the bank that has my loans turns out they screwed up and I don't have to pay them back yet, which is nice because I didn't want to give them their money yet! So it has been a good day!

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Getting tired of being sick and tired!

Well I am sick yet again for the like the second time in less than two months. How I worked a full day on new years I still have no clue. Today I worked half a day, that was all that I could handle. I went to the doctor she poked at me and prodded at me, took my blood pressure and gave me a perscription for an antibiotic and a sedative or what they term as a hypnotic. I decided that it was time that I got something for insomnia because I can not succinctly remember the last night that I got a full 8 hours of sleep. Then again if I didn't have so many stressors in my life I am sure that I would be able to get a good soild nights sleep. Then again if that stupid bank where I have my student loans didn't have to be so stupid and recall my loans before they are due because the government hasn't filed some report. It's not my fault so therefore why am I the one that has to pay for it??? Somehow I just don't understand this logic!! Ahhhhhhhhhh grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Counting down the hours to doom!

So here I go once again, I am heading back to school for yet another semester. I am down to 7 courses left to complete for my degree and then I should finally be done! Hopefully I will be able to get these courses finished and get a decent grade in them too. I am going to try not to work as much and concentrate more on school. The conforting thought is that this term I have a course with a Psychology prof that kicks major ass, I can't wait.

New Year, Same Old Same Old

So I hope everyone out there had a good new years! I had an ok one. Firstly I am sick, because well I just had to make the most out of my time since I am not in school. I have a tendency of slacking off while in school, so when I am off I usually don't sleep all that much. Hence I slept in until 11 on Christmas morning and 2 in the afternoon New Years Eve which just also happens to be my birthday! So I got the usual ice cream cake and pizza and for a nice change of things we went to some very good friends of mine for a kitchen party. Mom also had to bring her shadow which in the end turned out to be a bad thing because the whole way home she bitched that we talked about sex wayyyy too much. Obviously you can tell those two don't get much in terms of action, but then again neither do I but you don't hear me bitching about the lack of sex!!

So I brought in the new year with some friends and then we had to haul ass home and get me to bed so I could get some sleep so I wouldn't feel like a piece of shit the next day at work. Oh I was soooo wrong about that. I didn't have a hang over, that wasn't at all the case, it seems that my "sickness" (read: I haven't got a fucking clue as to what I have) seemed to get the best of me. Somehow I made it through work, I think it was the thought that they would have replaced me with someone who isn't exactly the greatest at anything she does and well I couldn't do that to my team members that and the fact that that time and a half carrot was dangling in front of my face and well I think that would relieve some credit card stress. I get home from work and instead of sitting down for a few minutes and taking a breather, I headed off to the showers, and then off to bed where I crashed for about 5 hours, and in that time mom managed to move the living room around and entertain her shadow. So I managed to eat some subsistence and then head back to bed. I got up this morning for work and just couldn't do it. My sinuses are so blocked up that when I sit up the drain is something else, I wouldn't call it some sort of atmosphereic phenomenon, but I just don't think my co-workers would appreciate me walking around with Kleenexes stuffed up my nostrils. Even though they all think I am crazy anyways.

So comes the new years resolutions in no particular order:
Quit procratinating
Lose some weight (got that second wedding dress to consider)
Concentrate on school (no really I do have trouble focusing)
Be nicer to my mom (because apparently she had told people that I am cranky!)
Try to look more presentable (ie:wear my contacts more, and doing something with my mop!)
Try not to listen to anything that my mother-in-law says (when it is something nasty and upsetting)
Try to be neater
Try to do more laundry

I am pretty sure that I am going to come up with more of these.

Oh and one more

JUST BE HAPPY!!!!!