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July 23 9:44P

I am not keeping up with the times. I have an eyeball headache trying to teach myself CSS. I even took a 2 day online course with my boss back in March. I have about 15 pages of notes that I still can't put together nicely to form a good looking website. Why is it that I can do it the hard way (html, notepad coding) and not the new easy way - css? I'm not cut out for this! I need someone by my side, when I have questions.

July 22 6:01P

I limit myself to three TV shows in the Winter. During the summer I ocassionaly watch a bit of TV while eating supper with the beau. We've noticed that lately there are so many TV shows based on Hospitals...but I've got to say that one of my three favorite shows (during the winter!) is House. Someone drew this photo of Hugh Laurie. Is that not the greatest drawing you've ever seen? Wow-wee.

And what's the deal with these "fancy" black tissues costing so much? I don't get it lol.

July 14 6:30P

It's my nephews 2nd birthday on Wednesday. I called him last week just to hear him talk for the first time ever. I rarely call my Brother in Ireland just because it's so expensive calling from cellphone to cellphone. So, I was listening to Kelan talk with a little Irish accent, and he was counting, telling me about his baby brother and then I asked him to blow me some kisses and he did. I'm jealous that one of my co-workers is touring all around Ireland in a few weeks. I want him to bring my Brother over some cheesewhiz and bits'n'bites. Unlikely.

We went camping this weekend at Smugglers Cove, had a pretty wicked time. Got a $25 tent that didn't leak when it rained constantly on us, all night long - got a good deal on out sleeing bags too.

Tonight I'm trying to mimic a dish I had at Alice Fazooli's restaurant one night. Chicken Penne alla Vodka, minus the vodka since I don't want to set the whole apartment on fire with me ignighting the flame. It's simmering right now, smells delish, looks like vomit. Hope it tastes alright!

July 10 7:19P

Shop shop shop. Shop til I drop.

Got a cowboy in your house? Does he like to eat his eggs in style? How about on Sunday morning, making him a sunny-side-sniper? Hehee... I want to get one of these, but sad for me, the link I posted isn't where to buy it. Just where I found it.

I've started doing some online shopping in preparation for my nephews birthdays and Christmas. I know I know! But there's so many of them that I just need to buy all year round. I found a great site and got a whack of neat gifts for a few of the kiddies. The site is called Spoon Sisters and if you ask nicely, they will ship to Canada for a little extra cost. One of my purchases from the site, and my favorite is these eating utensils disguised as construction tools! Isn't that the coolest thing ever? If I knew more toddlers, I'd buy a boat load of them. Another favorite gift that I like to give, is Robeez little brown booties, and they're like little elf shoes! I bought them for my nephew for Christmas last year. This year I think I'm going to buy those again, they're really durable for active little ones.

YA! So I'm going camping this weekend, here. Should be fun! Weather is supposed to be awesome. Just bought a $25 tent from the grocery store. Classy.

Oh! Hey at me being super random today! I wanted to mention that I've updated the links on the left hand side there... check them out.

There's hippys down by the river singing songs, really loud. I can hear them on the 7th floor here.

July 03 9:37P

I can't get over how impatient I get with people on the bus. It actually really makes me angry and when I come home (or into work) I'm mad for like a half hour afterwards. I let it get to me and its way ridiculous. There's a certain type of person who can ride a bus day in and day out, and I'm not one of them. I don't like the pervy males, I don't like the girls who stare, I don't like the smelly ones, and I don't like the dirt bags either. I'm stuck this way for another little while yet. I'm going to be debt free in 7 more pay cheques. Debt-free for the first time I've held a full-time job. It will feel amazing, I'm sure and it will continue to feel that way until I decide on what I want to invest in. Of course I'd love to purchase a vehicle right away, and I know a vehicle isn't considered "debt"; but payments, gas, insurance... all that adds up and then I wouldn't want to drive it as frequently and then be back at square one, taking the bus. Ideally I'd like a chauffer, lol. I have to get an Ontario drivers license... I have my full Newfoundland license, which expires on my birthday in 2009. If I let my Newfoundland one expire, I'll have to take the dreaded drivers ed. course again which is a lot more involved than the Newfoundland's system. Funny... I got my license through Young Drivers of Canada in 1998. Last year I wanted to learn how to drive a standard, so I took it upon myself to call Young Drivers again to teach me. I was SO out of practice. I kept rolling through stop signs, and not doing a few things spot on. It was embarrassing at the time but now I know how to drive a standard! I'm not sure if I'll purchase one when I'm on the look-out for a new car or not. It certainly takes a bit of getting used to. I think I was just nervous with the driver's ed. woman in the car, and controlling a standard at the same time. If it was an automatic, I'm sure I wouldn't have rolled through those stop signs.

Speaking of my budget and taking the bus. I've become quite the penny pincher since moving out on my own. I'm constantly searching for deals, and last I found that Delissio Pizza has a coupon on the save.ca website for $3.00 off! I received the coupons in the mail here at work today.

Canada Day was just on Tuesday and my Boyfriend and I decided to go out hiking. We found a spot in Hamilton called Spencer Gorge, which has a few waterfalls and very beginner trails. It was really pretty, but you could tell we weren't far out of the city with the old ladies wearing their flip flops walking on the wrong side of the trail... "Please keep to the right" I should have said Stop walking into me! We took a bunch of photos and packed a bunch of snacks and ate them while looking over the city of Hamilton. We had terrific weather for it, and it wasn't at all humid. Not a bad day!

June 25 10:39P

Champion mesh shorts are so unbelieveably hard to come by these days. They last SO LONG too! I bought my first pair before I even had my drivers license ... I had a red pair and a black pair. I somehow lost my black pair during all times I've moved in Ontario. I called every store in my area. Looked online for Canadian dealers. Even called the warehouse distrubuter, and also the Champion distrubuter in Montreal. No luck. I called back all the places again in my city and asked if they ever did custom orders. ONE place did. They order from champion like two times a year and I totally lucked out. Anyway, I bought two pairs of my favorite shorts...in white, and in black. can't find the black right now even though I brought them home just tonight.

Reason # 49 why I wish I lived in the states. Anything can be shipped there. Oh sigh. But - Hooray for custom orders ILU ILU ♥

June 24 5:47P

On June 18th I was preparing supper, pad thai was on the menu for the night. The noodles needed to be strained, so I grabbed the large boiling pot of water, put on the lid and continued to strain the noodles. I estimate that 80% of the noodles were strained - I tipped the whole pot over to empty more boiling water out. My hand slipped and the remaining boiling water poured very evenly all over my left hand. I yelped, dropped the pot in the sink with all the noodles in the dirty sink, and ran to the bathroom to run my hand under cold water. What a constant burning feeling - for three hours afterwards even with the icepack resting on my burn. It looked so bad that it was going to bubble up! Thankfully it didn't. The burn was the size of a perfectly shaped band aid that had been ripped off my hand with anger. 4 days after I had gotten burned, I was playing Soccer in the cold rainy weather. My burn had turned a shade of grey, and started to blister - wtf! I rubbed my hand, not realizing that I had not one, but two freaking water blisters on my hand. It was hideous! I noticed that one of the water blisters was right over... or under? my mole. I rubbed my hand to see how tough the water blister was (lol) and it broke - taking that larger mole of the two with it! I can't tell right now if it's going to scar, I hope not. The larger one broke that same night. Today, part of my hand just looks like an elderly woman's wrinkly hand. It's not as red as it used to be, and I've been applying hand cream for the past three days, to make it heal more quickly. Luckily the A/C is cranked at work. While I sit in my disgusting winter sweater, drinking hot chocolate all day long - at least my burn isn't drying out with me liberally applying cream, and having my hands like ice cubes.

Speaking of ailments... I've had a kink or a pinched nerve in my back that has been bothering me since I was a teenager. I don't know when or how it happened. It just comes and goes. Someone asked me if I felt it when I played Soccer, or did anything active. I can never pin point when it happens. I just move a certain way and it will be a sharp pain. The back of my thigh has been semi-numb the whole day at work, which I'm sure isn't the best thing in the world. I've researched Chiropractors, and have even seen one back in March. She was my next door neighbor, back home and has been in practice with her husband since 2000. Since she hasn't "killed anyone yet" I decided to ask her for an adjustment on my neck, and my back. It felt great! Of course it did! But it still comes back. Thing is, I don't know if I want to go regularly to a Chiro. I don't want to have to depend on seeing one 12x a year for the rest of my life. Fix me and be done with it. Unfortunately that's hard to come by. So, I'm stuck in limbo debating whether or not to go back and see one. Conveniently there is a 'great' chiropractor who's office is just right across the street from my apartment, and my co-worker has been dealing with him for the last twenty years. Exactly what I do not want to be doing. I've seen my cousin about it, who happens to be an orthopedic surgeon. I've also seen two family doctors about it (Newfoundland and in Ontario) and they have told me to rest it. Nothing peculiar shows up in x-rays. I don't get it. Perhaps I shouldn't have moved the furniture around in my room so often as an undeceive teenager.

I've officially declared myself as the disinterested designer. I hate figuring the technical things out with computers, especially anything I.T. related. Wordpress in particular. I've downloaded wordpress, uploaded it to my FTP, deleted my website by accident, renamed things and have it not work. I'm done with it. I'm just going to have to continue updating my website via Dreamweaver, backing up my files then uploading it thru the FTP. I've always done things the hard way. I need to take a class, lol.

Hope you all have a good week. Happy Canada Day weekend! I'll be relaxing at home.

June 17 6:15P

How ironic is that. I'm sitting at home waiting for him to get ready. Isn't the girl supposed to take a while? :P It's our three year anniversary today and we're going to grab some grub... perhaps head down to the delicous gelato place and then see a flick. Long time, three years - went by quickly.

I've been slacking off going to the gym. I suppose you could say I get bored? It's a shame really. One thing that has stuck out though, is my running. It's improving quite a bit. I've been able to keep up my 10 minute mile for three miles now. Whenever I try to go for that fourth mile in 40 minutes, I wear out. I'm thinking of actually signing up for a road race, so it'll get me more motivated to push my limits, more often than once a week. That isn't sufficient if I'm planning on entering more of these races in the future. I need goals! I need to stop being a wuss, and just sign up for one. Eventually I might.... might being a key word here... sign up for a sprint duathlon. Meaning just a 4km run, 10km bike, then finish off with another 4km run or so. Sprint. Not as intimidating as the long course du's.

It's such a crabby day out there - I was all stoked to wear my white capri's and my mennonite-style fitted shirt to work. Well, I did wear it to be honest. When I stepped outside without a sweater on, the goosebumps came popping out of nowhere. Bitter cold 12 degrees. I guess I can't complain too much, since Newfoundland is suffering from RDF (rain drizzle fog) constantly and haven't seen much warm sun since last summer, haha.

We were up in Muskoka the weekend and it was absolutely beautiful out. A bit of a breeze, about 25 degrees... all weekend long. It was a long drive, but well worth it. Scott was in a race - and placed first in his age group!(some muskoka pics here)

Anyway! Better keep this semi-short. Need to turn off the laptop, and have a night full of festivities! Later.

May 02 6:23P

First off, I would like to apologize for not writing for a while. I've become quite lazy and struggle to come up with interesting topics to blog about. 2008 has just ran me over, completely. It seems as though I was only in spending Christmas in Ireland just two weeks ago and now it's Spring, the sun is shining and I'm being spoiled with the hot weather of 25C - but today is 5 out there and I'm bitter cold. Funny how it works like that. If it was 5 degrees or even 15 in Newfoundland, I'd be wearing a t-shirt and shoes without any socks. But here in Ontario, I want to wear my winter jacket and uggs.

Early last week I was thinking about getting involved with Soccer again. I played indoor during the Winter '06 season and before that it was outdoor in Newfoundland. I was missing it way too much, and I needed more excitement in my daily routine. So I called a bunch of numbers, again like last year nobody knew who to call for the women's leagues 18+. The last number on my list to call I reached a woman at the registers office. She told me to e-mail her my name, playing position and contact information and she would "spam it out" to the teams in my region. I thought I would never hear from anyone, just like the two previous years that I tried getting involved. Low and behold, I received a phone call while on the jam-packed 5:00 mad-bus-rush. I'm pretty sure I sounded like I wasn't interested seeing how I didn't want to attract any attention to myself on the loser cruiser. So - first tryouts were last Sunday, not many showed up but I had planned to play my damn best to show them I wasn't rusty in my skills. I even had to play in net for a few shots. (I'm SCARED of the ball, lol) So being in net was a little frightening until I got some confidence when I jumped and dived for a few balls. I hope they don't see me as a goalie, when the ones whiz past my side, I jump out of the way and curl up. hahaha. It stings like a mofo when you try and dive for it too, and hit it with your hands. So, I think they liked me because they told me to register, I'm on the team - and to get a 'Players Book'. Newfoundland has nothing of this sort, so I had no idea what it was. I still don't. All I know is that it has my info, a picture of ME, and some other gobbily goop. But yay for me being on a team again!

I've kept up going to the gym - I had my second Fitness Assessment at the end of March. I lost an inch and three quarters off my behind, my endurance went up slightly and that's about it. I decided enough was enough, I wasn't seeing any results doing my own cardio / weights... so I started going to the classes at the gym. They certainly push you hard if you want it. Right now I do 4 classes a week and go to the gym 4-5 days a week. I'm not getting in as much time on the treadmill as I used to, and I definitely can't run as long as I used to (5 miles!) - but I need to start doing it again, since Soccer is starting up. We had to do sprints around the field, which left me breathless and then do push ups / crunches. Ahh! So Sunday's won't be my off-days anymore, I'll have to pick another day...maybe Mondays since I hate doing anything on Mondays. :P

My Birthday is coming up! Nothing to get too excited about, since I'm getting older every year. Not cool when you have a boyfriend and a few friends younger than you saying over-the-hill type of comments. :( Sad day. Anyway, so nothing is planned or set in stone just yet for my birthday. Probably just a quiet evening out with the BF and I don't know what else. My Mom is sending me up a care package (aww!) and I can't wait to open it. They gave me the tracking number so I'm keeping an eye on that 2x a day - Worse than a child at Christmas.

This summer is going to be fairly busy too, I'm sure. The BF's Duathlons and Triathlons start up in June and it's going to be non-stop excitement for us both. His first Tri is in the first week of June and I just cannot miss that, at all. My cousin's Wedding shower is the same weekend and I don't know if it's the same day or not but if it is, I HAVE to go to the Tri. I'm the dedicated cheerleader.

So I think I've done my job for this month - lengthy updated post. Again, apologies to those who were avid readers of this site. I've got like zero time, and I really want to set up Word Press, but it's so confusing (Like I mention in almost every post right?) Poor me.

Bye all!

April 05 12:38P

It's like twelve degrees outside! Spring has finally arrived. This morning I set my alarm for 8:37AM to get ready and go to the gym. Thankfully it wasn't one of those days where I didn't want to get out of bed. I guess I'm in the routine of getting up early, since last weekend I was up both days by 8. Only, I wish my calves would stop feeling like they're stretched out and going to pop any minute. I can't stand up STRAIGHT. That's how bad they kick my ass at the gym. I did a Strength II class on Wednesday night and I've been feeling it ever since Thursday.

We're so busy at work, that January, February and March all flew by so quickly. I'm falling behind! April has come upon us so quickly. My step-nephew's 16th birthday is on the 10th and he lives in Ireland. I should've mailed his gift in freakin' February. He won't be getting his present on time, that's for sure.

I'm moving places again. Still in the same city, but I'll be saving SO much more money by doing what I'm about to do. I let my landlord know that I'm moving out by June 1. It's such a pain in the hole to move though, I should just sell my bed, bookshelf and desk. That's basically all I have - and all of it is going into storage. I've moved 6 times since I've been in Ontario. Madness! Anyway, enough of this laptoppin' I'm going to go out and enjoy the few minutes of sun before it gets bitter cold again :P

March 22 1:59A

Yep! It's nearly two in the morning and I'm updating my website. BF & I saw Bank Job tonight at a little old school theatre which is literally about a four minute walk from the apartment. Then I went online and filled out my taxes. I'm getting close to a grand back! Ow ow! Every single penny of that return will be going on my loan.

So! Dun dun dun dahhhh, I got my braces off on Tuesday. Such a spectacular feeling. I was semi-nervous crunching into my apple on Wednesday, the first time in 18 months without having to slice the darn thing up. I thought my teeth were going to break off in the apple! If you haven't had braces, I guess you wouldn't understand. I thought I was going mental haha. I also forgot how to chew gum. I got a free pack of Stride in the mail, for filling out something on their website a few months back. Their gum DOES last a ridiculously long time. Mmmm delicous sugar free gum. I bought myself a pack of original hubba hubba too. I didn't forget how to blow bubbles!! Thursday, I went back again to my Orthodontist to pick up my retainer. I talk like such a nerd with this thing!!! It's so embarrassing. Scott just cracks up at me when I say things, and I'm like "huh? What?" and he's like...."You just pronounced that with the hugest lisp." or.. "that sounded SOO nerdy".. I can't say the letters e, q, or p. They all come out funny. I have a permanant retainer on the bottom that you can clearly see. Which I am not fond of, at all. So in 6 weeks when my next checkup is due, I'm going to tell him I HATE it.

Enough nerd talk. Back to computin'. Tee hee. Baiii

March 16 11:18P

I'm sitting up on the couch, waiting for my Boyfriend to come home from Hockey. It's been a busy day for him. We woke up and went to the gym together, and I bet my running record! I ran 6.5 miles in 80 minutes and I WALKED for 7 of those bad babies. How wonderful is that? I just might enter a 10km race this summer. It wasn't even that hard to be honest. I just watched two back-to-back episodes of What Not To Wear! Score.

I wanted to get my hair cut this weekend but I didn't end up doing so. I haven't had it cut for over 9 weeks. Thankfully I have a $2.00 off coupon so when I go tomorrow after work, my hair cut will now only cost me a whopping eleven bucks. That's what you gotta do when you're on a budget I suppose. But that doesn't stop me from buying those sweet sweet things when you get free shipping.

Two days, I get my braces off. Two days you guys! Can you believe it? Those 18 months sure did whiz by. I'm not really looking forward to it, mainly because as soon as I get my braces off - I'm heading to my dermatologist to have four cysts removed from my skull at eighty bucks a pop. Literally, pop. I tried squishing one with my finger ....ok TMI. And I'm scared

Anyway, boy is home. I'm heading off to bed! xo all

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March 06 5:56P

Mmm I'm doing a great job keeping this thing up to date. However I somehow mapped my drives wrong in my Dreamweaver so whenever I upload from local to remote, it goes in the "/" folder & I have to manually go to remote, then drag my index file to the spiffykerms.com folder. It's annoying and I need help because I'm stupid like that.

Yesterday I met up with my boyfriend to go to the gym. It was disgusting how hard I went last night. I went running three times already this week and I'll probably go again tomorrow. I didn't even go for that long - 45 minutes 3.8 miles. Perhaps it's because I didn't have the TV on infront of me, to disctract me. I had a towel flicked over the mph/time because I can't very well run if I know I'm only running a 12:14 minute mile.

I'm not feeling 100% today. Yesterday was so frustrating too. It took 80 minutes to get to work, when it would normally take 35. Leaving work the bus broke down - he let us out and everyone got and there was nowhere else to place our feet but in the huge ankle deep puddle. Second bus came and we got on that to the terminal only to switch again, because remember I do take 2 buses to work. So the 2nd bus was going fine, and it was fine when we stopped at the train tracks to go by.... soo slowly. Why is that? Oh I know. The damn train had to stop! It stopped for a good 3 minutes which seems like forever when you're already pissed off at your soaked right boot.

The adventures of Nancy, continues.

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March 04 7:00P

>Manually entering text and copy + pasting in my "dates + spacers" is really starting to annoy me. But it's annoying to try and come up with a good website design that I'll be staring at for years - because we all know once I settle on a website design, it's going to STAY that way for a long long time. I want someone to install Wordpress for me. Who's up for the challenge?

Annnnd while we're on the topic of challenges. I haven't been going to the gym as much as I should have been. I used to be going 4 and 5 days a week. Keeping up with a Triathalete boyfriend is tough stuff I tell yah. I'm just being lazy. He's actually at the gym now and I'm waiting to hear back from him so I can put on the potatoes, lolol..how wild hey.


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February 27 1:07P

:) Soo! We were on our lunch break from the Adobe Dreamweaver online course in the comfort of our own homes, when my boss pinged me on my Blackberry. She got bumped out. I was so busy with laundry, dishes, prepping supper (since I NEVER take a lunch and an HOUR lunch that we had was sooo long. I was lost! lol) I didn't notice that I too got bumped out. So we get an e-mail from the teacher or whatever you'd like to call him, saying that Adobe Meeting area is currently having problems and we won't be able to connect for a bit. He said we could take 2 hours for lunch. Eekk! What am I going to do with myself? I have another 55 minutes left haha.

I've been practicing. I've learned a lot in only the first part of the morning, and I'm going to be in this class for another two days! Wowee. I opened up this spiffykerms site and started making some changes. I think I'll start from scratch again once this course ends and then I can make my own css based site. So exciting.

I'm gonna go.... find something to do around the apartment. BAI

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February 23 9:58P

I buy a domain, and I don't update it. What gives? Who still comes here???? haha.

Mmmm. Look at what Master Chef (I, myself) made tonight. Ingredients? Top Secret! It's totally going to stain my braces, but I'll be getting my braces off in 24 days. That's exciting. I'm also going to do my OWN taxes this year and not rely on Daddio to do them for me. Uhg, stressed!

I'm doing an online course from Adobe on Wed, Thurs, Fri this coming week. So I get to do it from HOME. In my PEEJAYSSS! Teehee. Alright. That's all I've got now everyone - Keep readin'!

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Listening to: Some electronic music that the BF has on the stereo
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January 29 5:28P

I am so cranky. Cranky cranky cranky. I hate taking the bus. This is the second winter up here without a vehicle. I don't mind it in the summers, because I can't get splashed by the mucky brown water left on the dirty roads while it rained last night. I came into work today, and my CEO buddy came back here asking if I was in a bad mood and what was wrong hahaha. I'm like, b'ys... I just need a car. He was all nice trying to coax me into buying one saying that I could afford it and all.

But realistically I'd like to have my loan paid off first. It's not a huge sum of money, so the longest it would take me to pay it off is 13 more months. But I'm trying to be vigorous with it and pay it off by October. I hope it all works out as planned; I get my huge tax return and put all of that on my loan, and then I'll be set.

My braces come off in March so the money that was used to pay off my braces will now be put towards my loan. It's just a never ending cycle. When I get my car, I'll probably be complaining that I'm in debt again with the car loans. But it would be pretty sweet to drive to work, and not slip in the middle of the intersection like I did last week. Embarrassing. Tsk tsk tsk.

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Listening to: Commercials on CBC
Drinking: Nothing, just got home from work to write this entry lol
Open programs: EEEEE mail x2

January 28 9:24P

Don't you hate it when you have an impulse buy, and then you later find out that your purchase is $30 more than every other store in the city? Well, tonight I went to Walmart to dig up a flyer for the BF. Rock band is thirty bucks cheaper everywhere else, except for the place we bought it - Future Shop. Of course now.

However, I can't seem to break my mini-addiction to online shopping! Abercrombie Kids clearance section has clothes in my size: XL lololol. So I had to buy this cute polo and leg warmers. Who knows if I'll ever wear the leg warmers, maybe in the spring on my way to work, if I wear a skirt or something huh. Ooohh I hope it fits!

Here are the rules:
Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share six (6) non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
Tag at least 3 people at the end of your post and link to their blogs.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I'm a Graphic Designer but I hate chatting about design stuff with other people. "Which is better, Photoshop or Illustrator?" or, "Do you prefer Web or Print design?" , "Who is your favorite designer." Each question will have multiple answers. Give me 60 minutes per topic.

2. I'm not really a talkative person. I like sitting down with another, and just chill out - not chat lol. I guess that's why I don't have many friends :(

3. I don't eat breakfast. Cereal sometimes makes me feel ill. If I eat, it's after 10:00AM

4. I have B12 and now a new iron deficiency. I rarely remember to take my supplements. Whoops.

5. I cannot bite my nails while I have my braces on. I'm kinda glad, my nails aren't as ugly looking anymore.

6. I am a coupon feen.

Tagging: Katie, Erin, and Neil! Okay bye!


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January 27 5:24P

WOW! So, how was everyone's Christmas/New Years/Holidays? HAHA! I went to Ireland and didn't go back home to Newfoundland at all during the Holidays. I wanted to meet my nephew and I also got a surprise while over there as well - another nephew was born. That was pretty cute. I took an ass load of photographs but haven't yet got motivated to upload them all onto pbase or anything - so that will just have to wait.

I need to install word press because it's starting to really tick me off to open up dreamweaver and type in here each time I want to write something, especially while I'm at work - I have to open a notepad doc. and just type in there and e-mail it to myself. Not cool.

Work has been quite hectic since I got back from my trip though. We've been advertising and doing marketing promo's like mad. The past two weeks I've been run off my feet - but that's good, I love it when it's like that. I'm just glad it's the weekend right now. Yesterday was totally useless. The BF and I slept til 5pm and then went and ate McDonalds. HAHAHA Ridiculous. At least then we went out to a friends house, so the day wasn't a total waste.

We bought Rock Band last week and I've been playing the drums while the BF plays guitar or sings. It's a pretty rockin' good time, banging on those little drums, making music. I can't wait to get home from work some evenings and just giv'er on the set.

I've been on the scope for climbing areas close to me. I haven't been into it for a whole 16 months. I'm losing my touch. I found an indoor wall at one of the Universities here, so I'll be hitting that up next week. Funny how they're only open for like 3hours out of the whole day. I'm not complaining, at least it's after I'm done work. It'll be hard putting on those tight climbing shoes again for the first time in ages. I'm going to have gross looking feet again!! It's totally my passion. I almost feel empty inside when I don't climb, or play soccer. Those are my two things. Instead, I've been working out at a gym, and that hasn't been fulfilling my emptiness I guess you could say, for lack of a better word. But I'm stoked to get back into it again. I don't even need a climbing buddy. 5 bucks and I'm there for the night. Heeee!

I've been planning a trip with my bestest to NYC during Easter weekend. However, I get my braces off on March 18 which is a Tuesday, and then on the Thursday - the day I was planning to fly to the city, I have to go back into town and get a retainer. Nooooes! I guess our trip will have to wait for another weekend in March/April/May, whenever. It's okay, NYC can wait for me.

Go buy these pajama pants. I got mine in the mail on Friday and I'm wearing them now. I can't believe they used to be $50 though! Shocking.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Some 1970's tv show on SUNTV lol
Drinking: Diet Caffeine free Coke
Open programs: Gmail, Forums, Flickr

December 18 9:41P

What a gal. Yesterday was Scott and I's 2.5yr "anniversary" i guess you could call it. I cooked us up a FEAST. I was so full by the end of it. I made so much food: Chinese style pork stir fry, with rice and a salad. But the stir fry had so many veggies in it: carrots, green pepper, mushrooms, broccoli. The salad was oh so tasty: caesar, pine nuts, bacon bits, cheese chunks, croutons, and tomato chunks. MMm I'm totally drooling for leftovers. I already ate out once tonight with someone though. Can't have more supper!

I know there is a rate your teacher.com, but is there a rate your doctor.com? I want a new family doctor. Mine is psycho. I go get a checkup every six months and she tells me I don't have to come in that often. Yet when I do there's always something wrong (nothing major) but if I came once a year like most women, I'd be in the danger zone, yah? So i said "See you in June!" Brutal. I need to start looking for a new doctor regardless of if I see her in June or not. I'm not happy with this woman. I don't feel like she knows what the hell she's at.

I also got my braces tightened today. "We" are trying to get them off in March. My orthodontist is hilarious actually. After I was done (since I'm usually the last patient of the day for him) we had a grand ol' laugh with him and his staff. I forgot to mail his Christmas card to him and the staff there, though. Whoops. Should get that in the mail before Christmas actually arrives. My Christmas is going to be sooo fantastic. Being around all those Irish kiddies. I'm on a high right now, and time is flying by. I'll soon be on a flight to Dublin! Don't worry, I'll take plenty of snaps and show you all, later! Anyway - the BF is just coming back from the gym ... yes this late in the evening, and me being the wonderful GF I am...am cooking him a feast to enjoy when he returns. Must go check on those roasted potatoes! CYYYAA

Reading: N/A
Listening to: the fan in my laptop
Drinking: nadda thing
Open programs: Nothing...boring, I know

December 10 9:57P

This is gonna be a long one!

All the hussle and bussle of Christmas (T- 15 days!). I enjoy every minute of it. That is, when I'm not in line-up's waiting for little old ladies to pay with their large collection of pennies in that itty bitty coin purse of theirs. Swipe that Visa woman! Luckily, I did all my shopping online this year. I also picked up a few more things at the mall this weekend. I'm officially done! Though I've spent a bit more than I probably should have. But this is the only holiday that I truly love and enjoy to the MAX. LOVE love love Christmas.

In a little less than 2 weeks I am heading overseas to see my Brother and his family in Ireland for a two week vacation. I already got my CAD Dollars exchanged to Euro's.... oh, and a 20-pack of batteries unopened and waiting to click-away. I'm going to be the crazy picture taking Aunt. I think I took an estimated 600 pictures in the 3 weeks I was there back in OhFIVE. With the new baby and all, I'll be worse!

Work is keeping me fairly busy. My Boss is the best, ever. I bought her some super yummy smelling things from Fruits & Passion for Christmas, along with a great note telling her how amazing she is. She treats me so well... I mean last week she came in with a huge box of Quality Street chocolates, a poinsettia, and a CSS book - JUST because! Really now! So she deserves a little treat, from me.

Thankfully today isn't bitter, freeze the nose hairs right off you -- cold. Ontario has unbearable weather especially when you haven't climatized to it yet. This will be my second winter, living in Ontario and it's unreal as to how freaking cold it gets, so early. We have a pile of crunchy white snow on the ground right now, but at least it's finally let up and holding at -1C rather than last week when it was -11C for a while. When I wear mittens, my hands are still cold. You really do need to wear layers here. Three pairs of mitts I dear say!

Ooh. I got my scene card in the mail the other day, along with my free 2250pts. So yesterday, the BF and I headed to a (free) matinee (thanks to the Scene card) and saw this disturbing movie. That dude is totally right sketched out. We're still trying to figure it out. I swear, if I saw him in person, he'd make me pee my pants, more so than Anthony Hopkins would. The movie kind of reminds us of Mulholland Drive. Anyone see that!??? Brutal. Seasons Greetings everyone.

Bitta cheese'n'bacon on your cookies, anyone? Gross. My very own BF sent me this link... telling me it was "yummy". I could throw up right now.

Why wasn't Desperate Housewives on last night? I'm so mad. But in regards to that, I found another show to watch. I have become addicted to The Hills (Question: Is that scripted? Or is it a reality show? Idk! Help?). Someone gave me this MTV link and I immediately started watching Season 2. Don't ask me why I didn't start with Season 1... I probably should have. But I didn't. I'm backwards like that. I watched 7 episodes yesterday. Spencer is a bad, bad boyfriend. I want Heidi to smarten up and listen to Lauren! Wtf mate, she even saw him being a dink. I don't get it. I guess this is one of the many reasons why I don't have close, female friends. I don't get them at all. Though I'm definitely jealous of what they have.

~R.I.P. Erin Tilley.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Kitchen Nightmares
Drinking: Milk
Open programs: photoshop, gmail

November 23 9:52P

Three free meals in four days. Can't beat that! Sunday, Scott and I are heading up north for a duathlon banquet / Tuesday is the Annual General Meeting with work / Wednesday is Scott's team christmas party. Sweeeet. Not too much money going out of my pocket for groceries this week. Heehee.

I did the hardest workout today. Mainly because I had a ton of time, since I got a ride up to the gym with a co-worker that saved me 45 minutes on the bus. I ran 3.5miles in 40 minutes, and I did an hour's worth of abs. Doing it all again tomorrow, with Scott. I had my fitness assessment the other day. Not too pleased with the measurements around my belly button -haha but that's why I joined the gym, right? My next assessment is in February, so we'll see how much I improved in 12 weeks.

I uploaded a ton of graphic design work to my web site. But I'm currently only putting it live on my (firstnamelastname).com web site. I'll have to make a few edits before I upload it to this public site. Mainly my work's address. Stay tuned, stay tautened.

Oh my god, I totally forgot to mention that I saw tragically hip & van halen last week at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. HAHAHAHAHAHA. It was wicked. They even played this song! LOL. I gotta say, they're pretty ripped for old guys.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Some CSI rip-off show
Drinking: Diet caffeine free coke
Open programs: ftp client and win zip

November 21 6:11P

Christmas is just around the corner, and I'm done shopping - the beauty on line shopping. So good. At work, rather than doing a Secret Santa this year, we're going to participate in Operation Christmas Child and fill as many provided shoe boxes as possible. Once filled, they will be delivered to kids from all over - including: Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti, Costa Rica, Argentina, and even Senegal. It's so easy to fill up a box of cherished goods for the non-fortunate. I went to the dollar store and spent $22.00 and got three boxes nearly filled! A few co-workers and I will be dropping them off at one of the distribution warehouses next week. It's going to be overwhelming to see how many people will be contributing and helping out kids, in this community.

In other news... I got my braces tightened yesterday. I only became permanent at work 7 weeks ago or so, and I can now claim 50% of my monthly orthodontic fees! It's taking a long time to set up.. already 4 weeks into the process of faxing them my initial orthodontic treatment plan and time duration of the braces. Everyone needs to process, and overlook the amount that I'm submitting. It's taking forever, and I hope I get my money back before I go off for Christmas! I'm kinda desperate for money at the moment :)

Time to make some chicken fajitas!

Reading: N/A
Listening to: CBC News
Drinking: nothing
Open programs: Faceboooook

November 16 6:01P

I hate extreme temperatures. I've had goose bumps, since last night. I went to the RIM Secret Concert in Toronto last night and saw Tragically Hip, and Van Halen play. We went to an after party when the concert was over, and drove home. I was chilled in bed, and I was rushed to get to work this morning on just 6 hours sleep (I shouldn't tell you how much I normally get in a night, haha). I didn't dress warm enough for the weather outside today, mind you - it's only zero degrees Celsius, and winter has barely begun. Shiver~

I joined the gym, not too long ago. Tonight after supper the BF and I are going to walk up to the gym. He's going on the bike while I have my "Fitness Assessment". Not looking forward to that, but I suppose I should go and do it, and see why my heart rate gets abnormally high when I run. 180bpm, whenever I go hard, or even a light jog. There's no justifying it. I'm not overweight, but I guess I'm very very out of shape. Meh!

I can't wait to watch some movies on the BF's big screen this weekend. We watched just one movie on his projector last week and it was GREAT. Leather couches, my own popcorn, front row seats, surround sound. We're definitely watching a movie tonight - just not sure which one yet.

I'm making some Honey Mustard Chicken for supper tonight. I need some more favorite recipes from that site. I've tried a lot of them, but not many have really stood out yet. Keep on searchin'!

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Listening to: TV
Drinking: nothing
Open programs: .....

November 13 8:39P

I'm only going to be wearing these emu's for one season I'm pretty sure. They flop off my feet and shove my my pants out of my boots. I think I bought them too big - you see, I'm regularly an 8.5 in everything. But those emu's don't come in half sizes so I bought a 9. They're HUUUGE. I have elephant feet :(

Mmmm I just made chicken quesadillas. I can't even eat the restaurant kind anymore because I seriously love mine, more. haha. House is on in 20. Can't wait. Love that show. Anyway! Not a really excited update, but an update none the less!

Reading: N/A
Listening to: This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Drinking: milk
Open programs: Celebrity gossip, ftp client, msn

October 27 11:47P

I'm going to Ireland for Christmas - how about that hey! Can you believe that it's more expensive to fly within Canada than it is to go to another Country all together? Yeah, it's messed up. So I'll be going for two weeks and I already have Christmas presents picked out. I have a 1½ year old nephew so I bought him Robeez Booties (how cute are those!), and an unborn nephew/niece due on January 1, and I bought them - again with the slipper/booty theme - flipper slippers. hehehe!!

Last night I slept at my place (for once) and I don't know why but my room is pitch black (which you think you'd sleep a lot longer, right?) My body clock must think it's weekdays when I sleep at my apartment. I don't know why, I can't sleep in past 9am here! So I woke up and joined a gym, but not officially. I asked for a free week, and that I received! Then if I sign up (for a corporate membership, from work) before my free week is up, I get a free month. Then when I DO sign up - I get a mini-manicure, hahaha. How cool.

Wow, my laptop fan just went wild there for a few minutes. Perhaps it's not the best to be keeping my laptop on my duvet...

I'm going to have to watch DHW tomorrow night on this rather than the TV as I don't have cable and won't be at the BF's... at least this way I can watch it right through, with no commercials. I'm not sure how fast it'll get uploaded online though. AHH.

Anyway, it's Saturday night and I'm gonna wake up early so I can bus it to the gym at a decent hour. (The treadmills have built in tv's!!!)

G' Night friends!

Reading: Forums
Listening to: The fan going wild on my laptop
Drinking: Water
Open programs: FTP, my web site, MSN, forums...

October 17 12:05P

I forgot my lunch at work today. My stomach wasn't doing the best yesterday and I haven't gone grocery shopping for lunches since last week. I ran out of apples, grapes, cheese & crackers. I'm a muncher and I've ran outta my munchies. My BF & I have gift certificates from the Drug Mart to go to Montana's - so we're going there tonight for All-You-Can-Eat-RIBS. I'm just getting chicken nachos though. Mmm mmmmmm.

I really don't like leaving things to the last minute, but it's in my nature and I've done it my whole life. You see, my boyfriend is having a few friends over of rollicking. However, there's cardboard boxes piled high everywhere. I'd like to just do it all myself and chuck all his odds and ends out but they're not mine, and I don't know what's junk and what's precious. We lack motivation. We need that girl to come in and help. Shame I'm a Graphic Designer but can't even imagine where to start at the BF's. He doesn't even have an unorganized mess. He can't find anything, and doesn't want to throw anything out. He's probably gonna get angry that I'm writing an entry solely on him. Too bad she has a TV show. I wouldn't want to be on TV - she needs to make house calls and not bring the camera.

Anyhoogle...I'm totally Christmas shopping early this year. Maybe because I'm looking at expensive flights home. Who even knows if I can actually MAKE it home with the price the flights are at, already. I don't have many people to shop for, but for those I do - I'm doing it mostly online. Very convenient.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Nothing now
Drinking: nadda
Open programs: MSN, Email, Facebook

October 15 11:31P

What a day. Can you believe that the bus broke down on my way home from work!? It takes me nearly an hour to get home - annnnd it's Monday! However I was one of the people remaining calm, while others actually yelled profanities at the driver lol.

I'm looking into a few CSS books for myself for Christmas - this one certainly stands out. I read part of it at Chapters this weekend and it's pretty easy to understand. I also cannot believe that I am admitting that I can't wrap my brain around word press!! I tried installing it myself, and I get to the second last step. Where it tells me to enter my server name and whatnot. It's supposed to be simple. What's wrong with my pea brain.

So, Christmas is coming and airplane tickets to fly home aren't going to get any cheaper. But I'm waiting for some extravagant deal in the newspaper to push me over the edge to get that sweet seat sale. 98% sure it's not going to be happening. It seems like each year the boyfriend & i have to book further and further in advance. My best bud who lives in Ottawa is always organized and well ahead of the game, booking her flight in like... idk, SEPTEMBER? (Okay. Maybe not that early) but she always seems to get the best deals, EVER. I should loan her my credit card each year.. and find me a nice deal too

Have YOU heard the breakup letter? Please turn on your speakers for full effectiveness. Good night, friends.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Some new Canadian TV show
Drinking: A diet coke, at 11:35pm.
Open programs:Gmail

October 11 8:02P

First of all, I want everyone to put on headphones and visit the Virtual Barber Shop! To truly experience it - you need headphones. It's like you're actually in the shop getting a haircut, and the noises surrounding is unreal. It's an amazing piece of work, I tell ya.

So my BF's Birthday was last week and his present still hasn't came in the mail! I ordered it on September 30, and yesterday the place called me saying they lost in in the mail. Now, this is a very reputable company and I've bought things from them before and it only took two business days to get here. I don't get it, but anyway they refunded my shipping & resent out another order yesterday. All I hope for now, is that I get the package twice and he gets double his presents. Hee hee.

I gotta go out and grab a bite to eat... starved!

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Listening to: N/A
Drinking: Nothing
Open programs: YouTube

September 30 8:38P

So I did everything that I planned, and wanted to this weekend. Finish up one of the web sites I had a side-job with for a while - and sleep at my new place, haha. It wasn't as scary as I had intended, mainly because my landlord and my room mate stayed there as well.

My BF's getting old and his birthday's this week. I've got a little something for him, but I have to go out later on and see what else I can find. I find that BF's are hard to shop for, especially when you're low on dough

DHW season premiere is on tonight! YES.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: the teee veee
Drinking: Grape Juice!
Open programs: Facebook, Photoshop

September 24 6:59P

My weekend was such a BLAST! Scott's last duathlon of the season was on Saturday, so we headed down to the small town of Niagara on the Lake. We were so close to the Buffalo USA border but we hadn't planned well enough in advance to bring our passports and shop around in the states. Regardless of that, we decided to stay in that region and go to Niagara Falls where I took some shots of rainbows and did touristy things.

I think my new room mate moves into the apartment tonight. It'll be exciting to actually meet her face-to-face. We chatted on the phone, and added each other on Facebook, but that was pretty much it.

Ooh, I dyed my hair last night, since Shoppers Drug Mart was having a cool deal where if you spend $50 you get a $10 gift card to Montana's/Swiss Chalet/ and some other random restaurants, and if you spent $75 or more (which we did) you got TWO $10 gift cards. WOOO HOO. We're totally going to All-You-Can-Eat-Ribs on Wednesday... catch is, that you have to use it before October 31 or something. Whatever! We'll totally use that up. So back my hair - I've gotta be el-cheapo for the next 15 months like I mentioned in my previous post. So I went and got this ridiculously cheap $13.20 hair cut (however, I only got a hair cut and no blow-dry. She let me go outside with SOPPING wet hair. I was not impressed, but that's what I got for $13.20, right?) Then I bought some L'Oreal box of dk brown hair dye. I like it much better than my faux-almost-blonde hair days. This dk brown will be staying with me for a long time I'd say. I feel more myself, and my hair looks THICKER and a lot more healthier. It's great! In pictures, though... it looks not as dark as it really is. So I'm going to have to do some photoshop adjustments to show you the reallll color, ;)

14 more days until I'm permanent at my fun job! Who's counting? I can't get over how excited I am going to work each day. The other Graphic Design job that I left in January '07 was fun for ohhh, about 3 months until I had a new boss come in and take over. It WAS my dream job - I had buddies my own age, my work was fun... but I just had to leave. Now, I have a ton of fun designing and being my own boss (with designs lol), but the drawback is that nobody in the company is around my age. But most of the time, this new job of mine is helping me become a lot more outgoing with people I've never met. It's the Marketing Assistant part of the job that scares me - being the prime speaker in weekly Staff Meetings, and presenting stuff.

I gotta run to the grocery, as I'm gonna make some tasty Chicken Ranch Salad for our supper. Mmm Mmm tasties.

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Listening to:Proton Radio
Drinking: N/A
Open programs:MSN

September 21 6:01P

I've wanted this zip up sweater ever since I found out about it while I was a Graphic Design student. It's so clever and perfect for designers. I'm itching for one - but not at that price, not now. It's been around for a few years and the price hasn't budged. Eventually I'll give in to my nerd-ness and purchase it for myself, maybe a Birthday present to myself next year. [If I remember.]

I've been doing a lot of CTRL + C, CTRL + V-ing today. For some reason I keep hitting the start menu... and messing everything up on myself. You love it when I'm random.

The up and coming 15 months I'm going to be on a strict, tight budget. I've had student loans even before I knew what they were (not literally) but really now. I've had them a LONG time. A few too many years. I actually can't even estimate how long I've had them. I'm taking it upon myself to pay down this debt in 1 year and 3 months. I work at a Credit Union, and my credit score is significantly high so I'll be getting prime rate, rather than 2% higher than I'm paying, on BOTH loans right now. I gotta stop being foolish with my money and start disciplining myself. I think I've got it all under control now - once I know how much I have left over at the end of each month. Oh my GOSH. Look at this climbing wall - it's so modern, and almost like a piece of art. Too bad it's in Japanese and un-readable. lol

I am waaay hungry. Gonna make some mean pasta tonight! This is the last Friday of summer - enjoy it!

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Listening to:Proton Radio
Drinking: N/A
Open programs:MSN

September 20 10:49P

DUDE needs to stop creepin' on me, searching for my first and last name on google and visiting my site from there. I could embarrass him, by writing his name out - but I won't. There's a reason why I haven't given many people "IRL" my web site. It's personal. Stop visiting, if I've never spoken about my site before. GOSH!

Scott bought a leather couch/love seat off his boss there today. We cleared up some space in his apartment, and it looks beautiful. So much better than those uncomfortable loveseats he had before.

That's all. Go'on, no more news. I gotta run to my apartment and pick up some clothes for the wkend. Lata.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: CBC News
Drinking: N/A
Open programs:MSN

September 18 8:02P

You know. It's fun viewing my web site statistics. I can tell who's creepin' on me constantly. Found out someone I know is viewing my site 5x a day, and I never gave them my site address. Wondderrfull!

Had my braces tightened today, always fun. Took two hours to get to there, since it's in Guelph and I don't live there anymore. But I got a free ride back with one of the orthodontists assistants, how nice of her to do that.

This upcoming weekend is Scott's last duathlon of the season, I gotta make sure I take pictures of him this time. Last weekend he was wearing a Newfoundland jersey and I was tooooo cold to take any snaps, and I think he was expecting me to take pics - especially with that jersey on. Whoops!

I can't believe how fast Thanksgiving is popping up on me! It's soon hey!

Boring update, nothing new to write about but I still wanted to keep this updated. I'm hungry now... so bye guys!

Reading: E-mails
Listening to: Thievery Corporation - Omg Lounge
Drinking: Nothing
Open programs:gmail

September 13 7:22P

I'm not sure how people blatantly assume that the food stored in the fridge is automatically theirs, and only theirs. I'm on a really tight budget since I went to NL (without pay) for two weeks in August, came back to Ontario and moved into a new place where I had to pay first and last months rent. I bought about $25 worth of food/drinks and stored it in the fridge for when I came back to my apartment on weekends. (I normally stay with Scott).

Today I went to my apartment after work, to pack up some clothes for the weekend - since we're heading up north for one of his last Duathlons of the season. I was feeling a little parched, so I went down to the fridge, opened it ... and thought that it was very nice of my landlord to clear a spot for my foot, and empty shelf. NO WAIT. Where the eff did all my food/drinks go that I bought only last weekend? lol. I know it wasn't my landlord because she lives in Toronto 6 days a week. It was that Irish guy! I was literally shocked. I bought so much stuff. So I decided to take it upon myself and write "that person" (could've been anyone, not just the Irish guy) a BIG note on the fridge. "Please buy your own food and drinks. Do not polish off mine. - Thanks, Nancy. P.S: Where did my pizza go!? OMG! I had to get out of there. If this is too much information for you, then do not read the rest of this paragraph. I had to hover over the toilet seat today because there's no darn way I wasn't going to clean off dried on pee stains, and stuck on hairs onto the toilet seat. There's only one bathroom in this place, and I had to HOVER. HOVER PEOPLE! Grossssssssssssssss. I got out of there pretty fast.

I have to go make some high carb supper for Scott and I tonight. (What should I make? Besides boring pasta or potatoes? Ideas/Recipes would be great!) I also changed the MP3 so you guys can enjoy a new songgggg.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Thievery Corporation - Omg Lounge
Drinking: Nothing
Open programs:Too many programs.

September 11 6:19P

"She" came in this afternoon while I was working away at her computer lol.. One of my four managers came in and kind of stuttered "umm... nancy, she needs to uh" I said sure, and walked out of the office. I couldn't get this huge grin off my face! I went into the lunch room and some of the women thought I just got engaged or something. But, I couldn't tell them what was going on since it wasn't my place, nor did I know what was going on in the office back there.

I came back 15 minutes later (it seemed like it was 40 mins!) and Shari (my marketing manager) whispered and literally hugged me and jumped up and down saying "The office is yours. She just resigned. Congratulations. We'll talk to Dennis (CEO) about offering you a salary tomorrow."

HOLY F!

What a relief having this off my shoulders. Now I can be financially stable again. I don't think anyone understood how hard it's been on me since JANUARY when I quit my old job and have had temp jobs ever since.

Lordy.. Lordy lordy lordy. Soo happy.

Scott gets back in about 45 minutes and then we're going to go zoom around in his car together. Ontario has this funny thing where you have a drivers license, for .... I don't know how long. Then you have to do a SECOND drivers test sometime after that. So we're gonna go out in his car and practice tonight, because his final road test is tomorrow!

HAPPY!

Reading: E-mails
Listening to: Be Good - A lesson in crime
Drinking: Nothing
Open programs:MSN, Gmail

September 8 3:02P

I'm starting to get headaches everyday. Wondering if my current job is going to become permanent. I've heard so much about the situation I'm reliving in the past four months. It should come to an end soon on what's going down. I'd rather not go into details, as this is a public website and anyone can find anything these days. It annoys me a little bit. If my job becomes permanent now, and I've moved into a place I'm not 100% comfortable with, and I could've afforded a one bedroom apartment in a highrise. I guess it's good that I moved into a cheaper house rather than a 1 bedroom apartment for the next little while, saves me money. Though I thrive for my own space, privacy, and walking around in anything or nothing whenever I feel like it. The landlord and I have a verbal agreement that I will be living at this house for 6 months and then I can move out whenever I please. I've moved too much, I'm sorta glad I have that agreement. I haven't put anything up on my bedroom walls for nearly a year. It doesn't feel like it's "mine". I haven't slept there yet either, as I'm not comfortable - for good reason! A British man is living there, for the next 3 weeks until he goes back to England. I met him today. It was really awkward....we did the general meet and greet.. said our hellos and then just stood there. I was in my bedroom and he was in the hallway. Then he just walked away lol.....groan.

As my Mom says, some people are worse off than me though. Very true.

I want to be settled. I just don't want my ironing board hung up on my bedroom door. I don't want a coffee table at the foot of my bed. I want to hang up my mirrors and paintings. But anyway, at least I'm getting my laundry done today. Then I'm going to jet out of here. My landlord is having a party... and I don't think I'm invited haha.

Scott and I were talking about The Three Tenors last night, and he was saying how Pavarotti was ill. I was shocked to hear that he passed away the other morning.


Reading:N/A
Listening to: Be Good - A lesson in crime
Drinking: Chocolate milk
Open programs:MSN, iTunes, Gmail, FTP client

September 4 9:58P

Did everyone have a great long Labour Day weekend?! I certainly did - but one thing I don't get is: Why am I not allowed to wear white after Labour Day? Is it white shoes? White pants? White tops? Which is it!

Scott had a duathlon out in G-town on Saturday morning, and I was out there cheering for him. I remember buying a $2.50 piece of crap hot dog and waiting (srsly) 25 minutes for it. I was UBER pissed, since I thought I might have missed Scott in the transition area. Anyway, I took ONE bite of the hot dog, ran up the hill to the transition area... with my mouth full of miscellaneous hot dog meat and saw Scott going on the final run, right outside the transition area. So I yelled lol... "GOOOO SCOTT" I thin k he heard me, and that's all that matters. I did devour that hot dog, and it was delicious, especially waiting that long for it. Tsk tsk.

Sunday, we were going to head out to the CNE. It took us 2½ hours to get onto Lakeside Drive in Toronto, from KW. WTH. The traffic was brutal. We decided to turn around and go to Ikea for the afternoon. That's where I bought a black/brown coffee table, 4 white bowls, and a comfy very dark brown throw. We relaxed after that night. I think we were both angry that we kinda wasted that time in Toronto traffic. Monday we had in our minds to go back to the CNE, super early. Which we did. No traffic, easy parking spaces, and not too many people around that early either. It was perfect. We spent the whole day walking around and enjoying the attractions, and cannndd dyyy! . There was so much going on! In one of the many monstrous buildings, I bought a $2.00 orange iPod sock holder for my cute white iPod nano (1st generation!). I don't care how real it is - it was two bucks! and looks stylin. They also had iPod shuffle rip-off's for $45 ahah, but they were thicker and the scrolly face didn't look 100% real. I had to do a double take, because my first glimpse, the shuffle looked great. Reality check.

We had this iPod promotion thing going on at work for the last few months. Finally we did the draw for under 17 youth who opened a new bank account. We drew out two ballots to each win a black 30GB iPod. OH MY LORD. A five year old girl won one of the iPods (she didn't quite know what it was), and a 12 year old girl. I had to take their portraits, each holding their new gadget while their parents signed a prize declaration and name release form, so that when I designed the next quarterly children's newsletter I'd post their picture and name on it. I nearly died when I saw how young the the first winner was (the 5 year old). I was hoping she'd be ecstatic. But how can you be, if you don't really know what it is that you won? Her parents are going to have a new play toy, that's for sure.

Work today was pretty slow for the most part. Another 5,000 brochures were delivered to me. Remember how happy I was about my 4 panel acodian fold fancy nancy designs? Yeah, I guess it was time for some crap brochures to come out. See, I'm pretty much re-designing a lot of the pamphlets/posters etc for the company and the Products and Services brochures came out all pretty and clean. The Service Fee brochures...looks sick. Hospital sick. Icky green, and the stock images do not compliment the main color of the brochure whatsoever. I'm not 100% pleased with it. Once you look inside the brochure, it looks nice. Just the cover is terrible ... haha, and everyone agrees :) Oh and since I'm sitting next to the server room, right after the long weekend.. everything decides to take a poop. One of the server batteries is running low, and I'm not really the one to fix it, so it's just beeping a really high pitch noise every 5 seconds. I've seemed to tone it out for the most part, but it does come back... uagh. Strangle me!

Reading:Fourm & Facebook ♥
Listening to: Be Good - A lesson in crime
Drinking: Water
Open programs: Illustrator, Outlook Express, Gmail, Dreamweaver, iTunes

August 31 11:28A

So.....new layout! Be patient, as I'm still not 100% finished with it. I somehow deleted my comments too. Whoops. Check back soon!

My biceps are sore. I drove a huge cargo van. And! I haven't met my new house mate. None the less, I am moved into the new apartment. Definitely not unpacked. My bed doesn't even have sheets on it. It all happened last night. What a long journey. We gotter done though. I've accumulated quite a lot of "stuff" since being in Ontario. I'm going to start snappin' away at the pictures of my new place and posting them here later. It's not as big as my old place - since I had the master bedroom and private bath... but what can ya do.

This weekend Scott is doing another Duathlon in just the neighbouring city. It's one of his last ones of the year. I think next year he's getting into Triathlons! Madness.

I'm so excited! Some brochures that I designed a few weeks ago were sent out to the printer, we got a box delivered today and they turned out absolutly fantastic. They were folded as double parallel, and all the text aligned perfectly. My first brochure, and it's the design I'm actually most proud of to date. I've gotta show you - *Note: I've edited out the logo/website of the company where I work.

Reading:E-mails about the printer going down!!
Listening to: Be Good - A lesson in crime
Drinking: Sunny D
Open programs: Microsoft Outlook, Firefox, Photoshop

August 26 3:01P

It's such a scorcher out there today. I walked to pick up the key to my new place which is only a 20 minute walk from the BF's. Nice! The girl who owns the house is super chatty so we were talking there for about a good hour before I left to walk back. I booked a cargo truck for Thursday, so that's when my big move is - can't wait to get settled in somewhere, again and stop living out of a suitcase. (Since March!)

My work is really great to me. I told my boss I canceled my cell phone due to the fact I was getting terrible service and my parents couldn't call me because it said my phone number wasn't registered! Anyway, so my boss just gave me a company blackberry to use! One less bill to pay for me. 350 day time minutes, and unlimited evenings and weekends. Now I just gotta figure out how to text people. So leave me your pin number if you want to chat!

Scott and I were in Toronto for the day yesterday. He had to bring in his tri bike to get tuned up, so rather than just drop the bike off and drive back to the 'loo, we went and saw a 3D iMax film! I was rather disapointed at the 15 minutes of 3D fun, but none the less it was really amazing when it happened. I actually reached my finger out and tried to touch the animals that were flying OUT OF MY FACE. I saw the last Harry Potter film that came out. Neither of us are HP fans, so we were a little lost in the story line haha.... it was soo cool though.

I'm super lazy today and I don't know what to cook for supper. I'm thinking of a simple pad thai mix from the grocery. Those are so easy to make. Get all the veggies you want, pick up some rice noodles & pad thai sauce mix, and it's done in like 15 minutes.

Reading: N/A
Listening to: 10,000 meter race on TV
Drinking: Just finished an icecream cone!
Open programs: Gmail, LJ, Vox

August 22 10:34P

Work is awesome. Being home was awesome. And I will update soon. Currently moving to a different city. 4 moves since I moved to Ontario. UHG. Hate. But - it's needed, I guess. I also cancelled my cell phone. Almost sounds like I'm being stalked. I'm really not! Update real soon. Super duper. Happy 30th Birthday, Brotherrrr. xo

Reading: N/A
Listening to: Computer hum
Drinking: N/A
Open programs: Dreamweaver, FTP