Ohhhh I want a nap!!

Right now I am in the midst of writing papers for school, (yeah I am late on two again SURPRISE SURPRISE!!) but at least I am motivated to get stuff done. I have so much left to do and I am going to get it all done, I have the ground work all complete just gotta sit down and write.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I spent the day reading stuff, researching and all that other stuff. I was in the process of counting out quarters because I was flat ass broke and thought just incase the notion strikes that I would like something, the phone rings. It's a natural gas company that deals with my natural gas rights that I inherited from my grandmother (bless her wicked little soul ;) ). Anyways they were in the process of cutting me a royalty check and they just wanted to double check my address and see if I wanted to divulge my banking information just on the off chance that I wanted to have it directly deposited in my bank account.

Today has been a good day though. I was up early this morning reading, sent my car to the shop to get an oil change, found out that my tax refund was deposited in my account (which couldn't have come at a better time), and in that time found out that my credit card is maxed out! And to top it off I have to purchase extended warranty for my car!!

As for things coming up... I start on a different unit tomorrow at work. I hope it's a little less walking around this time around because my knee is bugging me badly this week. I have three days of work and then school starts all over again! Next week I have three papers due, one of which I haven't been able to get the information that I need. GRRRRRR But then again that's seems to be the way things have been going for me lately! Still on track to graduate this summer and I can't wait. I need to work, I need to make some money to pay off that nasty nasty credit card!!

I'm still here!

I know that I haven't posted something in days but I do have a very good reason for that!! I have been pretty busy with my new job!! The hardest thing that I do is make a bed or fill up the med cart!! It's pretty nice. I am not getting yelled at or told that the job that I am doing is total crap or anything negative like that. I get to interact with a whole bunch of people.

There is one really sad aspect of this job that I cannot deny, with our aging population alot of people that were in the ward that I was working (Diabetic/Cardiac)is also a temporary home to quite a number of people who are awaiting placement in a continuing care facility. And judging my the little walk about that my partner and I did yesterday, there are many people in other units that shouldn't be there but we have no placement for them in our health care system! It's pretty sad to see that in the richest province in Canada that we can not take care of our aging citizens!

I told my mom this morning that if I was ever to become demented that the best thing to be done would be to just take me out to the back fourty and just do away from me. That way I would not be a stress on my family, their resources, and my society.

Three weeks left and counting!

So it was brought to my attention last night we have three weeks left and well quite frankly it's a nice thought. I am starting to get tired of the thought that I have a ton of reading to do and 5 papers to write. Oh well can't complain it finally seems like spring here!

Have I lost my freakin head!!!

I got talking with prof yesterday morning, it was so early in the morning for me that I felt completely disorientated!! The reason why I was talking with her is because I have to do an article review for a paper that she wrote last year. It was really interesting for me because it was about the media protrayl of a woman who's child had died and she was found criminally responsible for the death. Anyways I was reading it is found that I love bashing the media and the media portrayl of different stories. And well it got me thinking...

I think that in a few years time I should go back to school. That's right, I am not even finished getting this BA finished and I am thinking that I want to do more! Here, I have been so complacent about things at school and all I really needed was some inspiration. So I think that I am going to look around and see what I can do and go from there. I figure that if I can get things to where they are supposed to be I just might end up getting a MA in Communications. NICE!!!

The most airheaded comment I have ever heard!

This past weekend was our annual Student Perspectives Conference at RDC. It went well, we had lots of interesting papers presented and everything but there is still one thing that is bugging the crap out of me and this is days after the fact!!!

There is this one girl, who for the life of me, is living in a dream world. She speaks very passionately about being an utopian socialist, which around here is worse than what I am!!

Anyways we were discussing the recent blood drive that was at our school. I was bummed out because the one time that I actually have the time to do it I can't because of the tattoos that I got back in November. Anyways this girl pipes up that the reason why she didn't do it is because she fears that her blood will go to some one who favors conservative views!

Here is one person who preaches that we should care enough to fight poverty in third world countries, fair trade, and yadda yadda yadda and yet to donate blood to save a person's life is just too much. So much for the good will to all men eh!

GP is checkin me out!

I checked Statcounter last night and I found that there was a hit from the GP server.
Wow that's pretty cool.

For those of you who are wondering what in the hell is GP, it is actually short-hand for Goteborgs Posten, which is the daily newspaper in Goteborg which is the city that I lived close to when I lived in Sweden. It is pretty much the reading staple in Max's mom and dad's house in Sweden. Hell I am pretty sure that you could find papers that are at least 10 years old in that house. Actually come to think of it I have a paper from the last time I was there. I think that the only thing that I read was the third section to see what I was missing on TV that night!

This is what happens when I take a leadership role!

Many people often remark that when it comes to a group effort thing I tend to take a back seat and let someone else take the lead, there is a rather simple reason for this: I DON'T WANT TO LOOK LIKE THE BITCH!!!!

Anyways in regards to the circumstances of me quitting my job at the laundry I will make it certainly clear. The one time that I have ever seriously had to step up and take the leadership role (quite frankly because the rest of them are too fucking lazy) I get my ass kicked! Seriously if this is how the rest of the real world works, I want a cubicle!

Has this ever happened to you?!?!

This question is posed for you out there who have gone through the whole post-secondary education thang! Is it really designed so that by the time that you are ready to graduate that you are so ready to just admit yourself to the local mental health hospital because you simply can not take it any more!?!

This week is crazy! Not only do I have my regular classes but on top of that I am doing Student Feedback Surveys (which aren't bad becuase you get paid like 10/hr for 10 minutes of work. Then I have a major paper due on Thursday. I sit down to read to pick out interesting stuff for the paper and the articles which I had ordered in are total crap, so now I am left with two days of getting stuff in to do this paper! My Tuesday class which has literally been a gong show since the beginning of term has the serious potential right now of being cancelled which I have no idea how this is going to affect most of us graduating this term. It does and doesn't affect me. I haven't applied to graduate yet, some have and this could seriously screw them up.

And the icing on the cake ( which right now is starting to look rather half-baked and lopsided!) is that I start my new job on Friday! Cool!

Should I be booking a bus ticket to Ponoka????

Spring???? I don't think so!!!

Monday is the first day of spring here but you can hardly imagine it right now with yet another 5 cm of snow on the ground!! AHHHHH SPRING SKIING!!!!! Edmonton got slammed with something like 20 cm. Poor buggers, they have had it rough up there this winter. It seems like you get north of Wetaskawin and you're pretty much in a winter wonderland, or winter hell, depends on your perspective of snow!

I just don't get it!

I went out last night for St. Patty's day and had a total of two drinks, and a huge ass glass of water and a big koobie bun and I woke up this morning with a hangover. I am thinking it is the lack of sleep but I slept way too much this week!

I had fun though, got to play a game of is a chick or a guy!?! Not to mention there was a creepy guy who wanted to dance with us. Instead he just stared at this one fat chick who's boobs were falling out of her shirt. YUCK!!!

It's confirmed! I'm not faking it!!

As you know I went for an MRI last week. The results are in and there is definitely something wrong with my knee. Apparently there is something that is about the size of a quarter floating around in my knee causing all sorts of havoc. So now that I have waited nearly six months for an MRI I now have to wait for a appointment with a specialist and then more than likely another wait for surgery!!

But the good news today is that I'm not faking it!!

Renaming my blog....

Let's face it the title of my blog is rather uninteresting and not creative at all. Infact it is rather generic. I want to rename it but I am not to sure what I should rename it as. Here's a few but they all seem so similar

Confessions of a Tim Horton's Addict
Adventures of a Tim Horton's Addict
The Mis-Adventures of a TIm Horton's Addict

Tales of a Rusticated Life
My-So-Called Rusticated Life


Yeah they all seem so similar. Please leave me some suggestions!

I need to clean my car!

I went to school this morning and stopped for my usual Timmy Ho's and I looked over to the passenger side of my car and thought that I have to do something with all the garbage in my car. I have wrappers from bagels that I eat on the road, because well let's face it I am too damn lazy to get out of bed in time to make my own breakfast!! I have petrified timbits, empty coffee cups, coats, mitts, gloves and hats! Not to mention books, journal articles, and CD's. The outside looks just as bad as the inside!! Someone boogered on my car, and the windows desparately need to be cleaned. In all actuality I am surprised that I have not been pulled over yet because of the disaster that is my car!!! I just wish that it would warm up a bit so I could go and get it washed and then maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about treating my inheritance so disrespectfully!

The countdown begins!

I have something like less than 4 weeks of school left! YEAHHHHH!

I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!

So I start my new position on the 24th, which is totally cool, it pretty much gives me a week to get everything finished and start the other position that I said that I would do which starts on the 20th! I can't wait to be finished!! It's getting closer and closer. Just a little over a month from now I am will be start the last two courses of my degree. I think that I have lost something like 5 pounds in the last two days because I have been bouncing around so much!!

WOW!

Ok so I went a quit my job at the Laundry! It was pretty easy. Basically someone told me that there were a few girls going behind my back and saying that I was being too bossy. Yeah! That's it I was out! I shocked a few people, but what else is new.

So now I call in the morning to see when I start at my other new job, oh and the whole contract job this is totally awesome! I work for like a week and a half and get paid killer for it. It's going to be nice to pay the bills.

After I quit I went to a friend's house to discuss what I did! Actually we had a few drinks to celebrate. After that I got a coffee before class, I rolled-up-the-rim and won a coffee.

'Tis a good day indeed!

How do I do this one!?!

Yesterday was undoubtedly the worse day working ever!! I go out to get a coffee and I get my head ripped off and a new asshole! Apparently I fucked up last weekend, tell me how, I was just following directions from my supervisor! So anyways I called this morning to the other job that I just got and I can start right away if I want to, ummmm not really! I have a conference to go to this weekend and so I'd kinda like to do that instead!! I'll have to wait and see I have training today for the contract job that I took as well. Ahhhhhh these are the choices everyone would love to have wouldn't they!!!

I got yet another job!

I got a phone call from one of the ladies that interviewed me last week for a Unit Assitant position. I honestly didn't think that I would get it because it turned out that I wouldn't be able to work as much as I thought that I would be able to. Anyways I got a phone call today, well a voicemail was left, saying that I got the job! Wow. So I will call on Monday morning and find out what is going on. WOW!!!

My mamma and Arlene!

I was looking at my photos from our trip to Sweden last fall and I came across this one. Arlene is my mom's best friend and well she's pretty much the next best thing to an aunt/grandmother that I have.

Harper could be on his way out!!

Damn! It didn't take him long to screw up!! Apparently he violated some legislative act when he appointed Emerson!! SWEET!!!

I finally won!!

I scraped together a whole $2.10 for an english toffee cappuchino and I finally won a free coffee!

Something for future consideration

So I graduate this summer and I can't wait. Finding a job in which I can use my degree and my knowledge of all sorts of different things is going to be difficult I realize that. I have no ambition at this point to go forth to do post-graduate studies, after what I have been through the last couple of years I think that I am just fit leaving it at that! But apparently, according to my friends, I should become some sort of sex therapist. Cool, I love talking about sex but can I actually do this with just a bachelors degree!?! My father would freak if he knew what I was doing this with my degree!

Roll up the rim is a hoax!!

Ok I think I go to Tim Horton's on average about twice a day. I haven't won a thing since this year's roll up the rim to win contest started. What gives? 1 in 9 chance to win? I think it's more like 1 in 20!

Baby boom in Calgary!

This year it is predicted that there will be over 15,000 babies will be born in Calgary this year! Yeah as if I already didn't feel inadequate enough as it is! My second cousin who is 5 years younger than me just had a baby, quite a number of people that I graduated from high school with are expecting. Man, I am just married and finishing school!

Wanna become the Liberal Party Leader???

Let Rick Mercer and his team help you out. Go to www.ebay.ca and search for Liberal Leadership Kit. Please anything would be better than that moron that we have for a Prime Minister!

Some relief at last!

So I went to my class that I thought was going to be a total disaster because we hadn't done much. Well relief!! The guy came in today with a total game plan, something that we all agree that is well over due! So now I have to finish off the midterm that put off just in case I decided to drop the course. So now I don't have the shakes any more and I don't feel like I am going to scream my full head off!

My hubby!

Here's a photo of my dear husband with his little Fiat (actually it's his parents but he drives more than they do!). Yeah he's a little strange but I love that about him!

Condolences:

My heart goes out to Dana's Reeves children. Wow what a profound loss.

Judgement day!

So I have been taking this one course where the prof is a sweetheart. But that is about the only thing that is redeeming about him. We have less than 6 weeks left in the course and we literally only have 5% of the final mark determined and even then we don't know what the mark is! So now there are about 6 of us that are really very concerned because these are the last courses that we have to take for our degree, we don't want to have to withdraw from the course, but we don't know what else to do. That's all I need! MORE STRESS!!!

Experimenting

I have been asked why I don't put some of my photos on here so here I go. I am going to post a picture, it seems much easier than it used to be on here!

The MRI experience

Wow! Interesting and freakin scary! You learn in school that these machines are capable of all sorts of things, awesome imaging, and that anythng metal will get caught up in the magnetic field. So I get in there and I took great care to make sure that I didn't have any metal on me. About 5 minutes in I remember that I forgot to take out an earring. So I am lying there with my funky gown with my fat ass hanging out, the funky surgical cap, and my headphones on with the radio and all I can think about are three things:

1) I hope like hell that my ear doesn't get ripped off
2) I hope that I don't have an immediate urge to go to the bathroom
3) I hope that my feet don't fall asleep because I'd have to wiggle my toes to wake them up and I can't move my lower body or it would screw everything up.

So now I wait for a week for the results. I can't wait to find out.

Dutch door-to-door kid!

Ok I am just sitting here getting some stuff done and this teenage kid shows up on my doorstep. He's selling some sort of wares (they look like stuff you'd buy at the dollar store). I told him that I was not interested and the next thing that he does is that he asks me for a donation.

Usually people who go door-to-door sport some sort of identification, not this kid. Weeeeeeeeeird. Straaaaaaaaaaaaaange!

Frustration breaking point!

Okay, so I thought that because I have remote access to both the U of C library and the RDC library that I just might be able to get some work done here at home. Oh boy was I every wrong about that one! So now I have to go to school alot earlier than I wanted to just so I can get some articles ordered before next week. On the bright side I can go to Timmy's for the third time today. Ah, I love Roll-up-the-rim!

Most inapproprate thought of the day... (eventhough it was thought yesterday!)

Mom: geesh your aunts have put on alot of weight

Me: doesn't vouch well for their breast cancer does it??

Oscar surprise!

I am not a big movie buff, I watch alot of movies, but I don't dig the whole, it's a great movie and it won this award thing! However I must admit that I am a little disheartened that Brokeback Mountain didn't win. The storyline is new and refreshing. AND IT WAS FILMED IN ALBERTA!!! But I do have to admit that I am pretty happy that Reese Witherspoon won best actress though, Keira Knightley was a close second though!

Whoo hoo! MRI today!

I have been waiting since September for a MRI on my knee! I can't wait to find out what is wrong and maybe go out skiing before all the snow melts away!

Paul McCartney: Terrorist!

Neat thought isn't it??

One of those days...

I'm listening to Matt Good right now because I seem like I am in one of those brooding moods. Frustration seems to be getting the best of me and well this time it was rather self-inflicted and I should have known better!

Anyways I am going to go in order of my day because it seems like that is some semblance of normalacy ( I can't spell worth a shit and I don't fuckin feel like correcting it) (see told ya!):

So this morning I got up for work as per usual, I really didn't feel like working this morning. I am sorry but since a certain chica from Chile returned back to Canada, I don't seem nearly as excited to work. Anyways I get into work this morning and I find out that the other girl from my department that got interviewed for CSR and got the job decided to accept the offer of employment, which is totally awsome because she is a blast to work with. The reason why she accepted the offer is because of our supervisor's is a royal pain in the ass, and she basically made the other girl's mind up for her. So after that little convo it was time to get some work done. I am not even suited up and this one girl, whom I can't decide if I like her or not (verdict swings each time she opens her mouth!) freaks on me. Apparently the queen bitch found out that she was getting written up by the new guy for being too negative ( um HELLO!!!) and some how I got instagated as for letting her in on it. Someone please tell me why on earth why I would do something so absolutely stupid! I have to work with these people, why would I create dividing lines? Once I got that all cleared up and told her that it was the Chilean chica who is thought to be behind it all she dropped it. So being stuck with the Chilean chica wasn't too bad, but I tell ya I am looking forward to June when I am movin out of there and into a more "hospital" environment.
Work was a fiasco at the end of the day because the girls in cart makeup were not getting the stuff that they need in more ways than one. I got out of that one pretty easily! I had to go to my second cousin's baby shower.

Here's where things get even more interesting:
This is the first "family" thing that both my mom and I have been to since my father died almost three years ago. (Long story short on this one: My father was an alcoholic (more than the others on his side) and his family decided that they should just completely disown him because he had been unable to kick the habit and that made him worthless in their eyes.) So mom and I show up to the shower, almost two hours late because I had to come home from work and shower. My cousin was happy to see me, and she hands to me her three-week old like "here cus I trust you!" Wow! Pretty cool. So my aunt walks up to me and with the usual nose up in the air and says hello and walks past. I am sorry but I was invited and unlike you I am happy for my little cousin. Anyways, it took me about a good 45 minutes to feel comfortable enough to go and sit down amongst them. And when I do I can't help but notice that two of my aunts that were so critical of my father and yet are getting shitfaced on wine right in front of me. It was also pretty harsh of my aunt to say that she is "coming to terms with the fact that she's now a "great-grandmother"". My mother noticed that I spent more time biting my tongue than anything else, I could have said soooooo many things but I held back because afterall and somehow I am the bigger person in all of this! Another thing that I noticed as well is that pretty much all of my cousins married young and had kids pretty young. I AM THE ONLY ONE TO GET A UNIVERSITY DEGREE! I have lived my life so much differently than all of them that I think I have earned the right to say fuck off! So anyways once pretty much everyone had left mom and I helped out with the dishes, no body else was helping my cousin, and my aunt referred to my mother and I as slaves! I couldn't fucking believe it! But then again she was probably so drunk that she didn't realize what she was saying. My other cousin was complaining about her saggy eyebrows. She can't even properly feed her children and she taking time off to go for surgery to fix her eyebrows. Something wrong with that I think! It's no wonder that she is single.

So now I sit waiting for the fall out from what could be a very interesting next few months as I prepare to graduate from school and get married yet again. I hardly ate anything because I told my cousin rather decretely how on earth am I going to fit into my wedding dress. I did not dare touch a glass of alcohol just to escape potential comments.

Yeah it is just one of those days!

Oh my aching head!!

I love chinooks, don't get me wrong, but I hate what they do to both my mom and I. I have been getting really bad headaches as of late. Yeah I think that I better get another bottle of liquid advil!

Ralphie boy loses his temper!

So I don't remark much about Alberta politics. But this one I kinda have to make mention about because it just goes to show that Ralphie boy is off his rocker in more than one sense!

Yesterday in a debate in the Alberta legislature Ralph Klein threw a Liberal platform booklet at a page and calling the socument a piece of crap. Realizing this he did apologize to the young girl immediately. But it kinda makes you wonder what on earth this man is thinking about! This was the man who took a bold move and got this province out of debt and turned things around. But with things looking so much better over a decade later one would think that he would use this wealth to improve so many things like health care, education, post secondary education, and some major infrastructure projects, and dealing with growing cities and some of thier problem, but no he some how decides that the best way to share the wealth is to give every man, woman and child in the province $400 to spend one what ever they choose. I think that he should get out while things are still good. Let someone else, with a clearer vision of the future take the reigns away from Ralphie boy.

As for the young page, I hope that you do not become dismayed by the act of our premier and politics is something that if she feels that passionate about that she should pursue it. I think Ralph should pay her way through school!!

Awesome day!

I know it's only 5 in the evening, but this has been a pretty damn good day!

I woke up this morning not wanting to go to work at all. But I am glad that I went. As it turned out I ended up getting a surprise job interview. I don't get the job just yet because my school schedule doesn't allow for it but, come June I am going to have the opportunity to try out surgical processing. I am pretty excited about it. It's different and it is everchanging so that is nice. One of the other girls that I work with in the laundry also got a position and so now she debates at whether or not she takes it.

My presentation for my one class went well and I was able to come up with a topic right away for a paper in the same class as well.

And my other friend from work wants to do lunch and costco tomorrow after my other job interview. Awesome, this is so nice and refreshing!!

Woah, that was scary!

Where did that come from! Just checked statcounter. That storm must have been something yesterday because someone spent over 9 hours on my blog! AND DIDN'T WRITE A THING!!!!!!!!
OI!

I think that my motivation is back from vacation!!!

I am rather shocked at what I have been able to accomplish within the last few days!!
Monday night after finishing my brain and behavior examination ( I really really don't want to know what I got on it because the one exam that wrote for reading week I bombed on!) I went to the library with some of my classmates to straighten out the absolutely monstrous mess that is my development of sociology class. After about an hour of wrangling about we finally found out that the crazy ass ( and I do mean that it is absofuckinglutely crazy!!) midterm that was due the next day was postponed and that the class was also cancelled which was a good thing because it snowed like hell! Anyways... I was able to research for two papers that night in the library, which in turn I was able to get a paper proposal which is due in about a hours time done as well. So I went to bed pretty pround of myself on monday night because I actually got a few things done.
Yesterday, mom had the day off. I really didn't want to spend the whole day doing school work and ignoring her so instead we decided that it was time to go and get our taxes done. We were getting totally ripped off at this accountant place that we have been using for a number of years because last year I didn't get all the income tax money back that I should have! Anyways that took about 3 hours of my life. Watching this old guy on the computer was rather painstaking. He fucked up on mine. He added an extra zero some where and I was going to get something like $11000 at one point. I couldn't believe it! He looked at me as said it with such a straight face, meanwhile mom and I are looking at each other like "what the fuck??" Anyways as it turns out I get something like $1700 back which is nice, that means that I can pay off my bed and have a nice summer when the hubby gets here. Did I also mention that my in-laws are coming?? Yeah I bet you can see the real excitement about that one eh! So after that long drawn out process mom and I decided that it is snowing so much that we should stop at the bar and have a drink, for me it was a drink and lunch. Nice thing that the bar is only 2 blocks away because I swear that if we had to walk any further in 15 cm of snow I was going to lose it on my mom!
We get home that evening and the news is barely over and mom complains that she is restless. So I put her to work. 3 1/2 hours and 44 invitations later I have my invitations put together and they are envelopes! I still have to put an address on them and send them out but at least they are half way there!
Then this morning oh my gosh!! I got up early, I couldn't sleep, the dog was driving me nuts and my mom was up. So I got up and got my butt into school early enough that I could get a few complaints in. I am sorry but I pay over $150/yr to park here at Red Deer College it was like driving your car into a snowcovered field this morning..... soooo not impressed with that! The exam that I wrote this morning was a complete joke!! I didn't study for it because to me it was a complete waste of time. I guessed most of the answers and judging by some of the discussions that I had with other people, my guesses were right! So after class I went to see if anything I had ordered for my papers had arrived yet, two articles and that was it, good! Went to the bookstore to go and get a Mini Cruzer they wanted over $120 for a 1GB mini Cruzer. I don't think so! I went to Costco and got 2 for the price of 1! Then I went and got some babyshower gifts for my cousin who had just had a baby girl!! I also made an appointment to get grad photos, an appointment to get my hair done for grad photos, and I also got ahold of payroll at work. I finally made the next pay increment!!!! So now I search for something to eat. I have class in about an hour and I need something to get me through. GOD I WISH I WAS A CRACK ADDICT!!!!! ha ha hahahaha hahaha ha haha