Kristine Anderson

Ok so I mentioned a girl I went to high school with. Her name is Kristine Anderson.

(I am totally going to laugh my ass off if in some way she Googles her name and this post comes up as a search result!!!)

I don't really remember her much until about the ninth grade. Hey! I had my own little world to contend with at time as well you know! Ironically enough though I remember her older sister Laura much better at that time. Essentially, two peas in a pod. Anyways in the ninth grade it turned out that we were in class together because we were in a self-directed program together. She was the jock and she had long hair that she would flap in face all the time in math class because she sat infront of me (this continued throughout high school ironically enough). She would rag on me because that year I busted up my knee and had surgery and gained weight, enough so that I ended up having to get some different clothes and they weren't as "name brand" as they used to be (ie: read- tough economic times! dad hitting the bottle ALOT!). The thing that really really chewed my ass was that she was making the fact that I lived on the wrong side of the tracks in a trailer court a huge issue. She was comparing me to people who skipped school because they could, used drugs, and got stinkin drunk every weekend! That was not me... hello! University Grad here!

I thought that after Grade 9 that would be the end of it. OOOOOhhhh soooo wrong on so many levels!! I dated the wrong guy! An Indian (nothing wrong with it by the way, unless you're a redneck) who wasn't exactly keen on school and was in the program to prove it. I remember walking into gym class one morning because of course we has to be in the same gym class (i loved gym in school, it was an easy subject to get a high mark on just for showing up!) and her and a few of her loving sidekicks (which were ever changing, and I'll get to that in a sec) were throwing condoms at me because word had gotten out that my boyfriend at the time were engaging in that certain activity. OOOOOhhhh did I ever get her back at the school ski trip! We had to take a 1 hour lesson, because at least it would look like we were learning something instead of taking a day off of classes just to go skiing, which was one of reasons why I signed up for gym in the first place, 2 or more ski trips a year!! Anyways Kristine came along because she didn't want to left out (awww, poor baby!) but when we were in the lodge getting ready she was crying because she has never done this before and it was soooo scary! So we get our gear and head out, we were all to meet on the top of the bunny hill so the instructors could tell us which level we were supposed to be at. I was in the highest level (which to me was totally cool because I had only been skiing for a few years) she was stuck with the beginners. So lessons were done and we were left to do our own thing. I was going at it alone because normally people slow me down and well I am a loner, I'm used to it. So I am coming to the end of another run and I turn the corner and here is Kristine wiped out and she's having a hard time getting back up. So I stop and ask her if she wants help, I was being honest and genuine, I have done nothing to her at all, and all she does is glare at me. Ok I get the hint and I ski off, but just for me I take the same run again. I come around the corner again she's up on her feet, but she's walking down the hill carrying her skis. I thought to myself wow there's not much depth to that one is there!!!

The next year when it came time to go skiing again, I casually asked her if she was going and she just glared at me again. WOW!

So fast forward to our last year of high school, pretty much the same shit keeps going on. She ragged me about not being smart (in this cast not even trying, I just showed up to make my parents happy), being trailer trash, and being virtually boyfriendless and friendless. Last year of high school, I snagged the foreign exchange student, and broke the biggest rumor that entire school had ever heard. She bragged to her girlfriends one morning that she hooked up with one girl's boyfriend on more than one occassion that previous weekend, but not only that she was hooking up with her own boyfriend at the same time! All I had to do was tell one person and by noon there was a catfight just waiting to break out. Yeah no one ever suspected the loner as the leak!!

It was because of her I didn't have many friends in high school. Trust me it wasn't for a lack of trying on my behalf! It was because of her that I didn't walk to get my diploma, I had it mailed.

Oh and how is this for fate. I took a year off between high school and university to travel and what not, but also to avoid as many people from my grad class as possible. My very first class, who proceeds to sit infront of me again! Kristine Anderson. This time very curious to see how my trip to Europe went and if Max and I were still an item! GGGGRRRRRRRR

So I hope that you found this when you Googled your name, and know that eventhough it was because of you my high school experience bit the big one, I will have graduated from university. And even with a crap knee I can ski better than you!!

Interesting day!

I got up and out of bed with only one mission in mind... my doctors appointment. I got in early which is always nice. I get into my doctors office and he told me that today I get to diagnose myself and I also get to prescribe myself what ever I want (SWEET!!) So I diagnosed myself as having an ear infection (I was right) and that to treat it I should have a round of Zythromax (right again... damn I knew I should have been a GP!) I also told him that I have been so excited by everything going on the last few days that I haven't slept and that I needed a renewal on some sleep meds that I had gotten back in the spring. He looked through my file and chuckled to himself, apparently the doctor that prescribed them prescribed one of the most addictive sleep meds on the market... and knowing my family history of substance abuse found it rather comical that it took me over 4 months to go through a 10 pill pack of sleep medication. He said that vouches well for me and he winked at me. (Damn this is like twice in a week a guy has winked at me). He said that given all the genetic garbage that I could have inherited it is amazing to see that I have turned out so well, and also congratulated me for graduating university! YAY!!!

So I went and got perscriptions filled and checked everything out at work, just to see if there were any "emergencies" to deal with. I guess with product not coming in on time, it's making for an interesting situation on the food floor. Glad I don't work there anymore!! It should be interesting come fall with some changes coming way. One that I hope is that I am no longer working there, and I can go back to Tim Hortons for an English Toffee Cappuccino...mmmmmmmmmmm!

I got home and thought that I should go and have a good long extended nap because I work all by myself the next three days (yeah I know I am tooo damn nice!) nope what do I do?? I end up finding Laguna Beach 3 episodes on the web!! I am soooo excited for Sept 6!!! So I played around on the computer for about 4 hours and decided that maybe I should have a nap up on the couch, that I did accomplish. I slept for about an hour and a half, or at least my mind went completely bank for that amount of time. Thank god it did! I actually felt some what human tonight, could it be the lack of Kleenex stuck up my nose!??! Could be.

Watching tv tonight was going to be a complete waste of time tonight until I realized that I could be watching one of the last tennis matches that Andre Agassi might ever play (professionally that is)! Boy was I ever in for a treat! That possibly is one of the best matches that I have ever seen. It kinda reminds me of when Jimmy Connors was trying to make a comeback at the 1992 US Open. Watching that match reminded me of how much I enjoy watching tennis and how much I miss getting out on to the courts to play. Mind you it's been since high school since I played but I loved it. Partially because I was getting pretty good (with practice), and partially because it was one of two sports (the other being skiing (another love of mine)) that I was better at then Kristine Anderson, and it totally pissed her off! I'll post about that in a sec!

So here's to you Andre, from a girl who dreamed about kissing you when she was 12!!! I am going to be sitting front row center for your next match, hopefully I'll be up to popcorn by then!

The waiting offically begins!

I got an e-mail today from our immigration consultant, our papers have officially been filed with Immigration!! Yayyyy! So now we have to wait the 8-9 months to hear back and see what happens! Knowing Max this could get interesting!

I gotta get one of those jobs!

I got playing around online and again and discovered that I definitely want to get one of the two jobs that I am being considered for! For starters I would be making double the money! OH MY GOSH!! I am going to be debt free! That is until Max and I find our own living arrangements and then all hell is going to break loose!

What a day!

I reluctantly got out of bed this morning. I kinda had to, eventhough the warehouse where I order most of my product from is having staffing problems of their own, I had to order some product in. So I went to work for like a whole hour.

And by the way I should also mention that whatever I am suffering from has moved into my sinuses, which means that I am basically reduced to sticking kleenex up my nose to catch the nasal drip. LOVELY!

So after going into work for the shortest amount of time in a while, I went home. Sat in my chaise and debated about crawling back into bed. I decided to get the mail instead. Good choice!!! I found two letters addressed to me from Human Resources! YAY!!!! The one I was expecting, the other one was a pleasant surprise!! YAY!!! So the second week of September it's going to be like going back to school for me because I have to write two exams, and I should take my CPR/First Aid course as well. I haven't been this excited about something since Max and I started working on the application for him to immigrate here!!!

Oh and less than 10 days and counting till he's here for good!!!!

Some people know how to waste more time than I do!

So with being sick today I thought that I would catch up on the news. I try to watch about three hours a day, different networks, different perspective. So something caught my lacking attention today (hey I'm sick leave me alone!).

Apparently there are people out there with bigger imaginations than me (hard to believe, but I guess that it's true!). On the second page of the new Ikea catalogue there is a dog which some may describe as having a male sexual organ instead of a leg. They wouldn't show it on the newscast so I thought that I would Google Swedish Sausage and low and behold I found a scanned photo of the page in question, if you glance at it quickly you can understand why any red-blooded male would be jelous, but if you examine it more closely you can see it is indeed a leg!

What is also interesting as well is if you Google 2006 Ikea Catalogue, you will find comparisons to the bible! Okay, um, no! But then again this would make an interesting dissertation on the insaitable need for consumer goods that we seem to possess in this day and age!

I am going to bed now. What will they think of next!??!

My dog is loving this!

It's now something like 11:30 and I have only gotten out of bed to go to the bathroom, make a cup of tea and get the mail. My new drivers licence showed up!Yayyyy I can go to the bar again! Meanwhile my dog has no budged an inch. No he's not dead, he occasionally does his paw twitch thing which tells me two things, he's still alive (thank god for that) and that he's probably dreaming, either of eating food he's not supposed to or chasing tail, his or someone elses!

I think he's taking advantage of the fact that I am sick because normally he is left home alone all day and he doesn't like that. He has cried and whined so much that when he barks he goes arf arf, which makes one of the neighbours laugh becuase he sounds more like a seal than a dog! And he has taken to panting quite a bit, I think it's because he gets all worked up when we're not home.

Why is that? Well for most of his life he was rarely left home alone. My grandmother lived out her last 3 1/2 years here with us. My dog never left her side, he was a regular visitor when she was in hospital recouperating from hip replacement surgery. It's kinda funny when you think about it because she was never the type to have animals in the house but some how Tinker weasled his way into her heart. My father on the other hand was unemployed for most of my dog's life so they spent a great deal of time together, when my dad died that is when most of my dog's anxiety began.

Needless to say the dog gets to go out for alot more car rides than he used when he was younger. At one point I was taking him to school with me, when I only had an hour long class that is!

He's an old fart, he'll be 16 in October, which I guess is about average for a small mutt like him. He's pretty deaf and blind, but most days you'd swear he was a puppy! He still flies (some pretty sweet air for a dog!) off the automan when mom or I come home.

Anyways mom is home, he hasn't clued in so I guess that I better clue him in that she is.

YUCK! I hate being sick!

The one and only day that I have off this week and I am stuck in bed! I am pretty sure that it is my tonsils that have flared up on me! Yeah I know what you're thinking, she doesn't have her tonsils out yet!?!

When I was younger it was pretty much guranteed that I would get tonsilitis at least once a year! When I was in high school it was one of those things that my doctor told me that the next time I got it that they would take them out. Still hasn't happened.

I guess I better phone for a doctors appointment! GRRRRRRR! Oh well at least it's not one of my signature ear, throat, sinus infections!! Those are doozies to get over.

I'm debating.

Ok so I have been left to my thoughts as to what I should do, if I can get into the training program. Do I want to work in Drumheller or Bowden?

I'm sick!!

I woke up this morning with a sore throat, even worse from the night before, and I knew it, I'm sick! It's probably because I have been so stressed out about alot of things lately namely my mother wanting to charge me rent, when I can barely make payments on my car, credit cards and a student loan.

So I am declaring Shenanagans on the day tomorrow and I am not getting out of bed unless a Katrina-like disaster is imminent and I have to evacuate.

Getting a few steps closer!

So I got another voicemail from a recruiter. I have to go through all sorts of testing first and if I get through all of that then I get to go through training! YEAHHHH! He also said that with me having my degree (or close to having) that I will be able to move up quite quickly and take advantage of those who are retiring early!!! Plus (and I can't believe that I am saying this) with the Harper government in power it will mean more jobs like this in the future for others!!

Do I have a back bone?

Can I take it? Can I take it working with a bunch of cons! I think so. I don't get pushed around easily! Dare I say that I am good at being a BITCH?!?!

Anyone up for some powder!!

Rumor has it we are going to get a hard winter, I guess this spring when the apple trees were flowering they were flowering quite a bit which could mean a hard winter. Good. I don't remember the last time we had a decent winter.

Oh and if you haven't figured it out I love winter. Yes, I do have a garage :) I even love to shovel the walks because usually I have the nicest, longest, and hottest showers/ bubble baths!! Not only that but winter is the only time of year when you can justify going to Tim Hortons multiple times a day. And whereby I can also justfy wearing sweatpants, sweatshirts, and Grandma Forsberg's hand kitted socks.

Ohhhh and it is also the only time of year wereby I can justify calling in sick so I can either stay in bed or go out to the mountains!! With hubby finally being able to come here I think that I am going to be calling in sick alot this winter to take advantage of a human heat source!

Things are lookin up!

Well nothing disasterous has happened yet this weekend. I had a good day yesterday. Business was steady, steady is good, wish it were busier but oh well. I can't wait for tomorrow morning. Finally getting a good lead, maybe I shouldn't have been grumpy about the whole resume thing afterall!! Figures!

Could this be the break that I am looking for?

So I went to the resume thing. I was the only one there so I ended up getting one custom made resume. It only took like two hours and I was out of there, so I went home and chilled out.

Actually what happened was I was trying to work the courage up to drive down to the Pen and drop my resume in on some unsuspecting human resources lady. Instead I found my friendly neighbour, he said that he would take it to this one guy, I turned around and there he was!!! Yeahhhh!

So I handed him my resume he took one look at it was impressed, nodded his head and looked happy, like a little boy at Christmas, he asked me what I was looking for and I told him a foot in the door, he said that he will call next week and then he gave me the wink of his eye! I think I made his day. Hope so because I really need to get out of the coffee business!

*UPDATE*
I got home from work today and found a voice mail. My resume got handed off to someone else who called and left me a voice mail!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Performance Review Postponed!!!

Damn it!! Not that I care any but apparently this has to go to the big boss first. I guess that my boss is going to push for a raise of some sorts. I really don't care! So I should get it some time next week. Hopefully some time next week I'll hear about a different job by then!

300 Posts!!!

Wow! Really? That many already!!! Cool!

Here's to three hundred more! Bottoms up!

Have you seen what Bob Mills, MP of Red Deer South has been doing??

Ok I seen something in the Calgary Herald the other day about some Conservative Members of Parliament. Some of them have been MIA.

Now I must admit I am not that politcally minded, I tend to be highly opinionated when it comes to alot of things within our society. For instance, people are complaining about having to pay for school fees and some medical services but if we were to introduce some higher taxes we might have the money to fund the basics of our society.

However this article got me thinking, what exactly does Bob Mills do?? I honestly can't think of when he was in Innisfail campaigning for the election and taking on Kelly Bickford in a debate (although Kelly was a class mate of mine it would have been good to see the both of them go at it, maybe it would have tired her out and I wouldn't have to sit through a 3 hour lecture of hers instead of the prof, but right now that is besides the point). Anyways, today I find it rather ironic that I open up the Innisfail Province and find out what exactly Bob Mills, MP of Red Deer South is up to these days. He's spending the summer in Europe. Wow I wish that I could! Really, I have a wedding that I need to be at in three weeks, I wonder if I can get tax payers to fund part of my vacation. Ironically enough he was in Sweden. Damn, that's just where I need to be.

So according to Bob Mills this is what he's been up to (just for my reference and for the person who wrote the article in the Calgary Herald on Sunday)
-He has an offical role (NOT SPECIFIED)as Canada's representative to the Seventh Conference of the Arctic in Kiruna, Sweden. (oooohhhhh so Stevey boy is taking this whole arctic sovereignty issue seriously!)
-Then he notes that since he was in Europe, him and his wife should take a vacation to Spain. He takes the time to also note that they paid for this part themselves!! (I could just imagine him on a cheap Ryanair flight to the south of Spain can you?? Do you detect a sense of sarcasm here?? Please tell me you do!) He then goes on to say that while they were in Spain they went to visit garbage facilities. WHAT???? WHAT???? WHAT??? OH MY GOD!!!! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

He had to go to Spain to see that? If anyone out there watches the CBC and I know you do, you'll know that back around April sometime (around Earth Day if I remember correctly) videographer Stefan Randstrom examined the exact same thing. And I betcha that it didn't cost as much as Mr. Mills trip to Spain. In Sweden they drive on dead cows, something we have alot of here in good old Alberta. Grrr, why can't we get some normal people to become politicians???

Oh and Mr. Mills I hope you took the opportunity to work on your tan on your trip to Spain!

Thanks but no thanks?

Got reading in the news today about a story which I find rather intriguing.

Math genius gives up million dollar prize for solving centuries old mystery.

Wow what was this guy thinking?? Apparently this guy lives with his mother and can be found hiding out in the basement of a Russian university in St. Petersburg.

Scientists are very special people. I have met many on occasion as my husband went to one of the most recognized technical universities in the world. I can only imagine how many of these people there are hiding out in their labs figuring out the ultimate mysteries of the world. I do worry about them though.

I met one guy who was a pure germaphobe. This guy tracked every cent he spent and he would get upset if he had to buy a new pen because you just happened to use it for one quick second. We have often joked about what he would do in the event that he ever found a girlfriend and wanted to take the relationship to "the next level"

Oh my all the things that I have thought about doing a masters thesis on!

Adventures in job hunting...

So today I had some time to go into Red Deer and get a few administrative things done. I also thought that I would take advantage of some free services that the government offers to those trying to seek a job. So I took my resume in to see what was wrong.

Yeah this guy tried to tell me that I should be happy with my crappy ass managerial position that I possess! I don't think so. So now I have been signed up for a day long seminar on resume writing and job searching. I think my job search needs aren't the average persons.