The Life of Muggs

WELL SHAKE IT UP BABY NOW

2011-05-10T23:38:00.000-07:00

Title courtesy of the first lyrical song to appear pressing shuffle on my iPod.

Promised a new blog post, didn't I?

Well, first, to follow up from last time, I didn't really ended up confronting him. We talked about it for a bit but he just seemed really depressed about the whole thing so I decided not to push it. Hopefully he's learned a Life Lesson from this so this shit doesn't come up again.

And apparently he's back on Facebook and now has a sudden obsession with My Little Pony. Why does that show appeal to 20+ year old guys so much? I'm looking at you, goons from Something Awful.

Annnnyway.

So, I am graduating from the University of Regina next month! And instead of going out and getting a real job like any normal person, I'm heading right back to school. I've been accepted into the Health Information Management program at SIAST. I just went to the information session last Monday. It seems like alot of work but it does seem like something I would enjoy doing. So, can't wait. Hell, I can't wait to be making real money. Two more years!

To get into it, I had to take a typing test. Good times. I don't type properly so I'm only at 50 wpm. Except the first time I took the test (they do repeats), I made like 20 errors. Oops. Good thing they take an average.
And then I have an Accuplacer Assessment this week. Luckily, it's not something I have to do well on (they just want to see where you are in math, writing and reading skills) but for some reason, I feel like I'm going to fuck it up somehow. I guess we'll see.

The only thing about SIAST is that it is such a pain in the ass to get there. It's about a 15 - 20 minute walk from my house, which I wouldn't mind doing but they don't have a sidewalk to get out there. So, there's places where you have to walk on the fucking highway, which is incredibly dangerous. I don't know if I want to pay for 2 min bus trip, so I'm thinking this might be the time to suck it up and get my drivers license. That will probably be my goal this summer. Dad just bought a nice car (Audi A6!) though so I don't think he'd buy one for me like he did for Mike, but who knows.

I also need to get a grad photo taken soon, but not before I get a hair cut (Friday!). And then I have to buy black heels and a black skirt because my mother is crazy. We actually got into an argument the other day because I don't have a skirt and was just going to wear black pants. This was apparently just mind boggling to her, even though I'll be wearing a robe and not one really cares about the ceremony anyway. Sigh.

And still working at McDonalds. I've actually just been promoted to Team Leader, which is cool. More money is good. I'm kind of thinking I should find a better part time job but I'd feel bad for leaving after they've been treating me like a god over there lately. And it is massively convenient. Bah.

So, Mother's Day was fun. My dad was out of town so it was just Mike, Mom and I. We went to Boston Pizza. Apparently (I haven't been to BPs in awhile) they hire a magician for special events like Valentines Day and such, so he was there. I didn't really notice the sign for him so I just kept asking myself "Why is this crazy man talking to me and offering my mother a toilet paper rose?". It was so awkward and awful. I looked away for a minute and he set the paper rose on fire and "made" a real one appear, which Mike told us later that he just pulled out of his pocket. And then he went on to "entertain" another family which just managed to make the 4 year old daughter unimpressed.
When we sat down to eat, he kept walking by trying to find more people to assault. He walked by later on with a guy who was going to the bathroom telling Osama Bin Laden jokes. Classy.
But other than that, dinner was good. Mom got a free brownie. And Mike is taking her to see Elton John tomorrow.

I think that's all that has been new in my life recently. But it's always nice to update, I guess. Should do it more often. :) Tah!

.......

2011-04-27T01:19:00.000-07:00

I haven't blogged for awhile but I need to get something off my chest.

I am really fucking pissed off at Tristan right now.

His birthday was April 25. He had planned a get together with his friends three months ago to be held on April 24 and pretty much all of them accepted. Problem is though that he and his friends didn't realize that April 24 was Easter Sunday and everyone backed out on him a couple weeks ago.

So, what would anyone else do? Probably plan another get together for the weekend after when everyone will be free?

Well, not Tristan. He decides to throw a fucking tantrum.

I should elaborate that Tristan, for reasons that aren't really known to me, absolutely hates Christianity. I'm an atheist, but I think everyone has the right to believe what they want and religion does provide some good to people. He grew up in a Christian family so I don't know if something set him off a few years ago or what but he can not stand it now. I think this has caused some problems within his family (his mother is big on family ceremonial things), but I digress.

Anyway, he decides that he's boycotting Easter. He leaves religion alone if it leaves him alone and apparently Easter got in the way of his plans. So, he's still holding his get together on April 24.
I told him over Facebook, that he's making his friends choose between spending time with their families and him and that he's probably not going to like the answer. He says he doesn't care.

So, on that Friday (April 22), there was a dinner at his parents house that was a combination of a birthday dinner for him and an Easter supper. Which was extremely nice.

Anyway, after supper, it was gift giving time. He first opens up the gift from his parents. New shirts and a new jacket, both pretty expensive looking.
His reaction? Stares at them for a minute, shrugs his shoulders, and says "Mom, I told you not to give me any more clothes."
......WHAT? As his aunt beautifully said: "Why don't you just say 'thank you'?"

Yes, his Mom does get him new clothes for pretty much any occasion. But you know what? He's a hard guy to buy for, he's into geeky things that she doesn't know about and she loves clothes shopping. Hell, if I got new, brand-name, expensive clothing for my birthdays and Christmas, I'd be in fucking heaven. He's not really into clothes, but at least give a positive reaction and stop being a brat.

Oh, and my favorite thing about that dinner: his Mom hands him two cards. One is a birthday card for him and the other is an Easter card addressed to both of us. He looks at the Easter card and says "I'm going to pretend I didn't see that" and throws it down.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
The look on his Mom's face was the most heart-breaking thing I've ever seen.

So, flash forward to Sunday. I had to work that night, unfortunately, but when I came home at 11pm, I noticed that he deleted himself off Facebook. So, I immediately think something is wrong and decided to text him. Here's the conversation:

Me: Is everything alright?
Tristan: Yeah, just peachy.
Me: :( What's wrong?
Tristan: Just had a spot of false hope, that's all. Learned to stick with my initial predictions.
Me: I take it no one showed up tonight?
Tristan: Not a soul.
Me: That's too bad. But Easter is important to alot of people, whether they are religious or not.
Tristan: Obviously, if they are willing to shirk a 3 month commitment for it. I guess you could say I'm jealous of Karl.
Me: Who is Karl and why are you jealous of him?
Tristan: A friend of an online friend. Similar situation, only for the entire weekend. Difference is they stuck with their initial commitment.
Me: Entire weekend? Sounds like he planned a trip or something. Which is a bit harder to get out of.
Tristan: Nah, just had people over everyday. At least the friend I know was sleeping at home.
Me: Ah, sounds like a real shindig. But please tell me that you aren't mad at your friends for not coming to yours.
Tristan: I'd be lying if I didn't say I feel like I've been just casually discarded.
Me: They didn't do this just to spite you. If you give people a choice between a get together which could happen any other weekend and a holiday where family gets together, they will probably choose family.
Tristan: Which is no consolation to someone who would stick to whatever was committed to first.
Me: You've never pulled out of something that you were committed to?
Tristan: None that I can recall, although I' really tired and more than likely there was a mistake or two. But if I say yes, I'll try hardest, other events be damned.
Me: People make mistakes. Things come up. It's life. And it's not like they informed you last minute that they couldn't make it.
Tristan: Compared to how far in advance I planned it, it practically was.

....Okay.
First of all, why would you plan something like this three months ago? Yes, it's a good way to try to guarantee people will come but as we can see, shit happens and people can't possibly know what they'll be doing in the days around your birthday if you plan it that far in advance. Unless it's like a trip or something.
You know what Tristan planned? A games night. Something that you could do on any night and not something appropriate to have on Easter Sunday.

Secondly, when you find out two weeks before that there is a conflict, there is plenty enough time to reschedule, even if it will be on a later date. There's really no need to cause a fuss and it is not really last minute.

Thirdly, just because you don't care about Easter and other religious holidays, doesn't mean other people don't. One thing I can not stand is when people force their beliefs on to other people, which is exactly what Tristan is doing. Religious aspects aside, I love Easter because it means a turkey dinner and spending time with family. That beats a games night any day.
Also, I'm really not seeing how he thinks he's been "casually discarded". Seriously?

Fourthly, I'm calling bullshit that he's never shirked a commitment. No one is that perfect.

Fifthly, have some god damn respect. If your own mother gives you a card, no matter what the occasion is, you DON'T THROW IT BACK IN HER FACE. And I was taught at an early age to always give a positive reaction to gifts, even if you hate it. Someone spent time and money to give you something and there is nothing more horrible than to just not give a reaction or just to scowl at the gift. It's just basic manners.
Also, I always believe you should be respectful of people and their beliefs, including if they give/say something that goes against yours. Unless the person is harassing you or something. I had a teacher in high school that would always say "God bless you" whenever you got your homework done. I was never really bugged by it. He wasn't forcing me to join a religion, he's just giving me a compliment based on his own beliefs. Nothing more to it than that.
Plus, when you start insulting people based on what they believe in, you are the one with the problem.

Sixthly, look at the fucking calendar before you plan a get together three months in advance. Especially since you should have some knowledge if there's a holiday around then.
Also, how the hell can an "arbitrary religious holiday" get in the way if it's been on the calender SINCE LAST FUCKING YEAR?

Seventhly, this is Tristan's 26th birthday. Depressing, isn't it?

There's probably more but I'm getting angry again.

I'm trying to be a supportive girlfriend and trying to make him feel better about this but he's acting like his party was just too important to miss. And because everyone said they could come three months ago, they should still go, Easter be damned.
No. It does not work like that. You planned your party on Easter weekend, you suffer the consequences.

I think I might have to talk to him about this. I hate having confrontations, but I just think this whole thing is just so fucking stupid and I hate the fact that he's alienating friends and family over a simple mistake which could have been easily fixed. And his behaviour at his parent's dinner was just fucking inexcusable.

Anyway, I'll try to post a happier blog as there are good things happening in my life (graduating! YAY!) but I just really needed to get my thoughts out on this.

Mosses and wormholes should never mix

2010-09-15T16:21:00.001-07:00

Ry, thank you so much for introducing me to Star Trek: TNG. Best show ever. XD

Oh look, I haven't blogged in months. Surprise, surprise.

Looking at my last post, it was right before I got the cyst removed. So let's start with that little adventure.
Mom ended up taking me to the emergency room that weekend to get it checked out, as it was monstrous and gross (it was like having a walnut shoved under my chest). They did confirm that was infected and gave me some antibiotics for it. The doctor told me that they might not be able to remove it because it was infected. But I figured I'd keep my appointment and let the doctor at the clinic at least look at it.
I had asked Mom to come with me to the appointment but since she figured that they wouldn't actually do it, she didn't come along that Tuesday. Which is kind of shame. But anyway, I get to the clinic and show the awesome Dr. Paul this monster cyst. I don't think he was quite expecting to see something like that and freaked out. Told me to lie down because he wanted to take it out right then and there, infection be damned.
Now, I was expecting this which actually turned out to be a blessing because I would have completely psyched myself out before hand (I have a tendency of doing that) so I was sort of in a state of shock the entire time he was removing it. Another thing was that he didn't want to use any anesthetic on, just because the sheer size of it would force him to use over 10 needles to numb it and it would hurt a lot more.
But actually, the pain wasn't that bad. Just enough to be uncomfortable. The worst parts were a) the smell and b) the fact that he wanted me to look at the pus as it was coming out. Uh, no thanks doc.
All that's left of it now is a one centimeter long scar on my chest (didn't require stitches though). Hopefully it'll diminish in appearance over the winter. But other than that, it's all good.

My Math 213 summer class went well. I got 100% on the assignments because he forgot to take down his assignment answers from last semester and I downloaded them before he deleted them. HA! Helped a ton too. I got 76. I was hoping for over the 80 but I hate the fucking final for that class. So everything is back on track.

Rest of summer was sort of meh. I'm back at McDonalds now. The only thing I will say about that is that it is so much worse than when I last worked there. I don't even know how that's possible. One of my male managers was arrested and fired the other day for sexually assaulting a male coworker. Also, the coworker is 16 so I'm pretty sure he'll get a child molesting charge out of that. Good times.

Fall classes have started. I'm actually liking my schedule.
Stat 357 (Sampling) - I love this prof and the material is ridiculously easy so far. Lab is going good too.
Stat 351 (Intermediate Probability) - This is the one I'm worried about. it's quite a higher level of Stats than I'm used to and the prof has an extremely thick accent. Hopefully the assignments and tests will be okay but I dunno. The textbook is going to really be a lifeline.
Econ 321 (Econometrics) - LOVE IT! This is a tutorial course, so all that happens is that he gives you an assignment and readings to do and you figure it out for yourself. No lecture. No final. I love the style so much. The only problem is the software we're using is a pain in the ass. I sat there for an hour today trying to figure out why I was getting an error on one of my equations and without changing anything, it randomly started to work. WHAT? Good thing I have 6 weeks to do it.

Oh, and I needed 4 textbooks for these classes. Guess how much? $570. Fuck. Me.

Other than that, I don't have much else to say. But there you go: update! Hopefully my next entry will be sooner. Tah!

c==3 IT'S A ROCKETSHIP

2010-06-23T18:18:00.000-07:00

Man, it's only been like a week since my last post. But I actually have stuff to talk about.

First of all, I got my job back at McDs. I should not be as excited about this as I should be but this means I get FUCKING DISPOSABLE INCOME. It's been so long since I've had that. And with all the birthdays and special occasions that I've had to buy for, I have about $60 in my savings account and about $1200 built up on my Visa. I can't wait to pay that shit down.
The entire thing was kind of stupid though. I went in last Monday, talk to the manager, she tells me to come in for an interview Tuesday. I do the interview Tuesday and she says she'll call me to let me know about the job by Friday.
Friday comes and goes and no phone call. I give her the weekend, still no call. I was going to go in on Monday but it was storming and I hung out with Ryan on yesterday. So, today I go in, I see her in backend and just figured I'd wait until she was free to talk to her, but it was one of those periods where the restaurant should have been dead but it was just a an unending stream of customers. Whatever, I have time.
Finally, she comes and talks to me. She apologizes and says she was going to call me today but would I be available to come in to work tomorrow? Fuck yes! Not sure how long I'm working or where I'm working but I can't fucking wait. MONEY

But first thing I'll have to do is book so time off. Mom's birthday is on Monday, but apparently Mike isn't coming over so it's probably not a huge deal is I work that night (although I would feel like shit).

I booked a doctor's appointment Tuesday morning. I'm fucking scared out of my mind. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I have a sebaceous cyst right in the middle of my chest, directly on my sternum. It used to be about dime sized and flesh coloured so it was pretty invisible even if I wore a tank top or something low cut. But now it's about the twice the size of toonie and has turned red. Plus, it's been getting really sore over this past week. So, it's about time it got removed. I asked Mom is she could come with me. I'm really freaked out about the fact that my chest will be cut into with me being conscious. I'm probably over reacting but for some reason, this is just disturbing to me. Plus, it'll be the first time I've ever gotten stitches so we'll see how that goes.

And then on Wednesday, Tristan and I are going to a Star Wars concert. Yeeeeahh!

I have continued my Ed Norton movie marathon. I finally found Death to Smoochy and Primal Fear. Primal Fear would have been fucking amazing if it had less Richard Gere in it. I hate that guy so much. Death to Smoochy was kind of stupid but it had it's moments (see: title). I hear it's better on second viewing, so maybe I'll give it another try. Ed Norton's character reminded me of an old school Backstreet Boy (stupid bowlcut, tribal necklace, motherfuckin PONCHO) and that made me happy.

So, Mom brought this up to me yesterday and I've been kind of thinking about it. There's this diploma program at SIAST called Heath Information Management. Basically, it's heath data collection, record management and analysis and interpretation of that data. So basically it's combining statistics and health care, both of which I'm interested in. It actually sounds right up my alley. The problem is that it's two more years of school. It doesn't sound like much but I was sort of dead set on graduating this year so I can actually start working and staying at home until I'm 25 doesn't sound that appealing to me. However, I have no idea what kind of job I could get with a Stats/Econ degree, so maybe this is something to look into. Plus, I've already done two of the classes required, so there's a plus. And I'm probably making too big a deal out of the age thing because I know 27 and 28 year olds still in school. I do have a year to think about it though, so we'll see.

Anyway, this week's Hell's Kitchen is calling so I'm going to go watch. Tah!

PS: Maureen, I know I've been slow getting back to you but I've read the first few pages of you thesis. So far, so good! I was actually squirming at the beginning when the assassin was stabbing a young Winifred. I get really freaked when small children are harmed. Anyway, I'll try and finish reading it by the end of next week.

"I want bowel cancer"

2010-06-14T16:04:00.001-07:00

I accidentally clicked publish post when I put the title down. Whoops.

So, it's been a little while but everyone seems to be lagging on the blog posts so whatever.

Today was good day. One of my earbuds went out last night so I walked to the mall today to buy a new pair. On the way back, I stopped off at McDs and talked to the head manager. I have a interview tomorrow with them. Fucking finally. I have $100 in my bank account and birthday presents to buy. I going to have to change my availability as soon as I'm hired though because of my summer class.

Other than the no job thing, life has been good. Dad is now home. It's weird, it's like he never left. It's hard to believe I haven't seen him since January. He brought me a new sweater, and it's probably the comfiest thing I've ever had on. Too bad it's summer and I won't be able to wear it as often. Oh well.
He did compliment me on my "Keep Calm and Carry On" t-shirt (thank you, James May). But he's a WWII buff so of course he liked it.

So, I've started playing Suikoden which I bought a long ass time ago off the PS3 store. It's really fun, and the sprite graphics aren't that bad actually. The translation is atrocious though. There is one point where you have to escape a city and the guy tells you "Head for palace gates". You're trying to escape the palace guard of I thought it was strange but I went there anyway. Nope, he meant the front gates. Buh.
Tristan and I are also still cranking through Tales of the Abyss. I think we're about halfway. Thanks to the 2x experience, we are now about 15 levels ahead than where we should be so it's been a pretty easy playthrough.

I don't know why but the season finale of Glee kind of disappointed me. It was just so sad and I didn't think the Regionals performance was as good as the Sectionals one. But I did think ND's performance was a lot better than VA's. Jesse fucking sucked on Bohemian Rhapsody. But whatever, I still love that show.

I've been having an Edward Norton movie marathon this last week. I love that man. And it's great, because it gave me an excuse to see movies I've been meaning to see like Fight Club and American History X, both of which are amazing. I might watch the Illusionist tonight. Squee!

I can't really think of anything else to say so I'm going to so socialize with the parents. Tah!

Wikipedia told me that King Martin Luther loved the Jews

2010-05-12T20:00:00.000-07:00

So, you know all that permission I had to get to retake Math 213....let's go through it shall we.
First of all, the woman who works at the Faculty of Science Student Services is like the nicest person I ever met. So, anyway, she takes me down to the Dean's office to meet with him. I have it in my head that all Deans are bastards based on my Dad's experiences with the Dean of Arts but this guy was absolutely amazing. I laid out what I wanted to do (take Math 213 concurrently with Stat 351 in the Fall). He said I needed the Math Department Head's permission to take the class concurrently but I "certainly had permission to retake Math 213 again". Like no fuss or anything. Awesome.

So, I head down to the Math Department just for the off-chance that the Head had a minute to discuss this with me....
Me: "Hi, is Dr. Herman available right now?"
Secretary: "Are you one of his students?"
Me: "Well, no, but I need to discuss something with him."
Secretary: "What did you need?"
Me: "I need to see if I can take a class concurrently in the Fall."
Secretary: "Oh, I think you need to discuss this with the Program Coordinator."

Ooooook. First of all, I need the HEAD'S signature for this and second all, the dean specifically told me to go meet with him, but okay. Whatever.

So, this lady comes out and asks me what I want. So I repeat my situation to her (she didn't take me into her office or anything, so this conversation happened in front of the secretaries, which I didn't appreciate). So, she says: "I'll look at your information and email an answer to you tomorrow." Cool.

Next day: no email.
But I'm thinking, the Math department is probably a busy place so I'll give it a week for her to answer.
I never heard from her.
But after a week, I decided to be smart and just to email the Head directly, explaining my situation and would he be available to meet, blah blah blah.
That was a week and half and guess what? No response.

WHAT THE FUCK? Surely I can't be the only student who's ever needed permission to take a concurrent class from this department. And I can understand that Department Head is busy, but guess what? The Economics Department has the most amount of students with the least amounts of professors and last time I emailed the Econ. Head, he replied to me THE NEXT FUCKING DAY. There's no excuse for this.

So, that means I'm taking Math 213 this summer. Which means I can't get a good 9am- 5pm job for the summer and this will be the first year ever I'm not going to Ontario.

Thanks, Math Dept! Hope you all die in a fire.

Anyway, let's talk about happier things.
Mother's Day was kind of blah. I woke up at 10am with the absolute worst pain ever. I had to get up, take some painkillers and go back to bed for an hour until they kicked in. So, I put on a pair of sweatpants and sat with Mom all day while feeling like shit. Mom also didn't have a great sleep and was tired as well. So, we just watched golf and the shopping channel.
Then, Mike came over so we can go out to dinner. He had about 2 hours of sleep the night before so didn't provide much better company. In fact, he almost fell asleep in the chair before supper.
But, we did go to Boston Pizza which was nice, he though all of us were miserable and tired. My pain came back during supper. So, I only ate a couple bites of my dinner. Sigh.
But on the plus side, Mom did seem to like her gifts. We (read: I) got her Young Victoria, a dragon cross stitch pattern and a book of Jane Austen-based sewing projects. Yay.

I didn't tell you guys my marks:

Econ 302: Intermediate Macroeconomics - 69
I'm calling that a 70. I hate Macroeconomics so it's good enough for me. Plus, I thought I did awful on the final so that might have brought it down.

Stat 354: Linear Statistical Models - 60
I hate regression. That is all.

Econ 322: Mathematical Economics - 77
This could have been in the 80's but I kind of burned out towards the end of the class. Oh well.

Stat 384: Categorical Data Analysis - 77
I liked this class a lot better than 354 (you can probably tell). again, this could have been in the 80's if I didn't screw up a couple questions on the final. i was so bitter about that.

Econ 307: Intermediate Microeconomics II - 82
Hahahahahahaha. Still don't know how I got this but I love it.

So, including Math 213, I only have seven more classes left to take. So, I'm thinking that I'll take three classes/semester and make sure I get my marks up. That should be a nice way to finish school.

Anyone watching Glee? The episodes are starting pick up again (the first few were gimmicky and weird). That last episode was amazing. Kurt's version of "Rose's Turn" was probably one the best performance I've ever seen on the show. Plus Finn doing "Jessie's Girl" and Puck doing "Lady is a Tramp" was incredible. Amazing episode.

I picked up Picross 3D the other day. Holy shit, is that game addicting. And a time eater. I played it for 5 hours the other day and I didn't even realize until I looked at the clock. LOVE IT!
I also picked up and finally beat Eliwood's chapter in the Fire Emblem that Tristan gave me over a year ago. I now just need to do Hector's chapter but I think I might take a little break from it. Although, I was curious about the sequel (it was only released in Japan) so I found an English translation on Youtube. It's kind of depressing. Plus Eliwood > Roy.
Tristan and I are also playing Tales of the Abyss again. With an online guide this time. I tried looking for the BradyGames guide but apparently it's really rare and I haven't seen it for less than $100. Uh, no thanks.

Anyway, I'm going to cut this off and possibly do something constructive. Or not. Tah!

FLUMPS

2010-04-28T13:45:00.000-07:00

Oh, my poor abandoned blog....don't blame me though, blame the shit load of work I had to do this semester. Weekly labs (including Wed ones DUE ON FUCKING FRIDAY) should be banned.

But I'm done until Fall. And I'm hoping this will be my last year. Depends how tomorrow goes.
I have an appointment booked with the Associate Dean to ask permission to a) retake Math 213 (fuckfuckfuckfuck) and b)take Math 213 concurrently with Stat 351. I need Stat 351 and it's only offered in the Fall but it requires Math 213. It's a BIG ask but if he can't do permission for both, then I think I'll ask to take Stat 351 without Math 213 and then ask permission for Math 213 for the Winter semester. OR take Math 213 this summer and fucking pass it so I can take Stat 351 in the Fall. I'm really hoping this Dean is nice, because that concurrent choice would be sweet.

Not all my marks are back, but I just got the one for Econ 307 today. This class was very strange. Her notes really sucked and it made it hard to study for her midterms. So, I got 70s on both, which is fine. I also got 75 on a 10% paper because I just couldn't bring myself to care. Also, I was completely burnt out for the final because I had another final that morning which was extremely long and stressful. So, my mark?
82.
WTF? I was expecting a 72. That's AWESOME.

Also, it's summer so it's job hunting time. I don't know why but I just can't bring myself to job search when I'm in school. It's not good though, because all the good summer jobs have been taken.
I did apply to a place called Vector Marketing. After I submitted my online resume, they called back within 30 minutes to set up an interview. Sweet. So, i go and research this company....
They are about as close to a scam as they can legally get. I'd be a sales representative, using MY OWN references to sell knives. And then I would ask people I was selling to for their references. Etc. Plus, I'd have to make and travel to my own appointments, which means I'd require a car.
Yeah, fuck that, I'd rather go back to McDonalds. So, without calling them or anything, I just didn't show up for the interview. They've tried calling back all last week but I haven't picked it up. I think they got the message now. One funny thing though: they sent me an email "You missed your interview time. Can you fill out this survey about the interview process?" WHAT

There's gotta be something better out there....

It was Tristan's birthday last weekend. Big 25. I got him Nintendo Monopoly, a sweet Mario hoodie, and a couple soundtracks. I also bought us tickets to see Star Wars in Concert at the end of June, so I guess that can be included too.
Sunday night was the family celebration. That kid is SPOILED. His parents usually get him gag gifts (little kiddie toys that relate to something he likes and all that). Since he turned 25, there were 25 gag gifts. And in about...20 of them, there was $25 cash/gift card. Plus clothes and a PSP(my suggestion). He got an untold amount of $50 bills from his grandmother. He got countless gift cards. An expensive computer mouse (it used the Doppler effect for some reason we couldn't find out) from his friend. Plus a whole lot more.
That family is goddamn amazing.

Anyway, I'm going to cut this short because I feel like watching last night's Glee. Maybe I'll write later....Tah!

...Nibbles.

2010-02-02T21:00:00.000-08:00

I was going to blog here the other day and then I didn't know what to write. So, screw it I said. I'm kind of in a weird mood tonight (tired, yet a little hyper) so maybe I can pull a few things out of my ass. Also: my life isn't nearly as exciting as Ryan's.

School has been going pretty okay. I seem to be doing good on my assignments and labs. Although, this year, I find myself heavily relying on textbooks. 4/5 of my professors teach directly out of them and the other textbook is incredibly useful. I've always hated reading out of textbooks so it's a little bit of a change. It might be a good thing though.
I really am liking the labs too. It makes all the difference when you have a competent lab instructor. The only thing I hate is that I have Wednesday labs due on Friday. C'mon, at least give us the weekend.

I just finished my first set of marking. It was easy but there were 98 papers to do, which is just time-consuming as all hell. It still amazes me that people still mix up the supply and demand curves. That's like the first thing you learn in Economics. And it's NOT hard to remember. Ugh.

Tristan and I went to one of his office parties the other night. It was at a pool hall, so it was fun. I haven't played pool in a very long time, but I did manage to win a couple games. It just got bad when another couple wants to play and one of them "grew up in a farm with a pool table in the basement and nothing else to do". Yeah, we had no chance against that guy.

Also, after the party, we made a trip down to SportChek because he wanted to get some snowboarding boots. So, we go there and a guy by to take Tristan through all the selections.
This guy had the BEST Canadian accent I've ever heard. He was like Bob and Doug MacKenzie's third brother. And because of what he was showing Tristan, he has to say "boot" a lot. I had to walk away to keep from laughing. God, it was so funny.

He and I also have been playing "Tales of the Abyss" together. I'm finding it a lot easier than Symphonia. None of the boss battles have been giving us difficulty and there seems to be A LOT less random battle encounters. It's actually difficult to find one on the world map. But other than that, it's a fun game.
And Jade is awesome. Just awesome.

Oh, and pro tip guys: don't watch "The Matthew Shepard Story" right before you go out on a date. It just makes you depressed and angry at humanity. And I honestly almost burst into tears over dinner with Tristan because I couldn't stop thinking about it. God, that poor guy.

So, Dad's thinking about bringing my 14 years old cousin down from Nova Scotia this summer. I'm kind of torn on this. It would be a good experience for her to get out of the hellhole that is rural Nova Scotia, but I have no idea what we would do to entertain this girl. 14 year old girls are usually hard to impress. Although, I'm sure anything is better than where she's from.
I did have the same doubts about my male cousin when he came down and we bonded rather well (which surprised me because I thought he would have gone to Mike). The difference there was that he was the same age as me and this girl is 8 years younger (God, I feel old). So, it would be interesting to see what would happen.
I think we would have to make a special trip to Manitoba to visit my aunt and uncle that she's never met though. That would be pretty fun, I think.

So, I made a resolution this year to get into shape. I've put on about 15 pounds since last year (ugh) and I want to be, at least, back down to where I was by summertime. I think this is perfectly achievable. It just hasn't been going so well. I was going to start in January but that's when I was having the foot problems. So, I decided to wait until they got better and start on the treadmill in February. And then I've just been so busy or too tired to do anything. Tomorrow afternoon might be a good time to start though.
I think the problem for me is that I need exercise to be in my daily routine. I figure if I just keep to a schedule, it'll just become automatic for me overtime. But we'll see how this goes.

Anyway, I think that's all I gotta say. Until next time!

All Adders are Puffs.

2010-01-14T22:52:00.000-08:00

Hello peeps!

I should be going to bed right now but I made the mistake of having milk with coffee syrup in it. I'm seriously addicted. I've been burning through 4L jugs of milk within two days. But Mom doesn't want to discourage me so she just happily buys more. It's a sweet set-up I have here.

So, school has officially started. I somehow managed to have it so that my Stats classes fall on MWF and Econ classes are TR. And I'm done at 1:30 on MWF, so no complaints there.
I'm a little nervous about Stats just because it's been a little while since I've taken a Stats class and the prof seems scatter brained (I have her for both classes). However, she does stick close to the textbook.
There's also a guy in both Stats classes and one of my Econ classes that seems to want to buddy up with me for assignments and stuff, which is fine. Except he doesn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed but he is nice enough so whatever. He asked me if I wanted to go see Avatar with him sometime. It might be paranoia but I hope he's not getting the wrong idea. We'll see, I guess.
I also had my first Stats Lab today. The assignment she gave seems easy but it's just learning the programming software that's a pain in the ass. I has this problem last semester where I had to try and figure out all the specialty functions in Excel which took hours, even though I could do the question by hand in 5 minutes. So friggin annoying. But the lab instructor seems impossibly nice. Which is rare since pretty much every other lab instructor I've had has been condescending and talked ot me like I was a moron. I'm looking at you Chem 103.
I LOVE my Econ classes. I might be biased, but the profs in this department are absolutely fantastic (except for a few exceptions). One of them swears like a goddamn sailor. He's from Newfoundland though, so it's understandable. I've had one of my other profs before and she's awesome and the other one is just so damn nice. Squee!

So, I did something to fuck up my feet. I've been having problems with them for about a week now. The bottom of my left foot is absolutely killing me. It gets worse the longer I'm on it, which is not going well with University life (especially when I have to walk to friggin Luther College). Also, the top of the right foot is sore as well and whenever I flex my foot, you can feel something vibrating in it. You can actually feel it though the foot too, which is kind of cool in a freaky way.
But anyway, it was so bad the other day that it took me half an hour to walk home (which is usually a 5 minute walk). I've been kind of hemming and hawing about going to doctor to have them checked out. I'm one of those people who will only go to a doctor if I feel like I'm dying or I'm forced to go. Mom forced me go a couple months ago when I sprained my ankle. It had looked like someone shoved a golf ball under my skin so I guess it was justified, but we waited for 45 minutes for someone to tell us "Put ice on it." Plus, I always feel like I would be wasting their time over something stupidly trivial and would rather just nurse myself back to health.
Anyway, Mom thinks it might be the footwear. I had to throw away my winter boots (the material had worn away to the plastic which was cutting up my heels) so I've been wearing my skater shoes, which aren't the greatest for snow walking. Moms taking me out tomorrow for new boots so hopefully they help.
I'll give them till Monday. Then I'll see a doctor if there's no change.

So, is anyone watching the late night war going on? It's absolutely PHENOMENAL. It's just been a train wreck. I literally taped all the late night shows for the past week and it's been getting worse and worse every night. Tuesday night was one of the best nights of late night I've ever seen on TV.
-Leno had suddenly shut up about the whole thing, even though he made horribly douchy comments the night before about Letterman ("Well, at least I didn't sleep with my staff." Shut the fuck up, Jay).
-Conan came out with guns ablazing. He just does not give a fuck anymore and he's seriously at his best when that happens. I think everything he did that night ended with NBC being the punchline.
-Letterman is enjoying the HELL out of the whole thing. It's like deja vu for him and I think he's been getting about 17 years worth of anger off his chest for the past week because now he can actually attack Leno and NBC and won't get backlash for it. The other night, he ranted for like 10 minutes about it and they couldn't do a bit they had planned because they didn't have time. LOL
-Craig Ferguson pretty much just ranted about it too. There was one instance where he was talking about Simon Cowell for a minute, then all the sudden he went right back to ranting about NBC with a spectacular ending of calling them "lying rat bastards" and went back to talking about Cowell again. Amazing.
-Then Jimmy Kimmel. Fucking hell, he did his ENTIRE show impersonating Leno including his band leader doing a MASTERFUL Kevin Eubanks. They had everything...him explaining the jokes, that horrible guitar riff, Headlines, head wiggle....it was beautiful. Biggest surprise of the evening.
See that particular night HERE!

Tonight was amazing too. Jimmy Kimmel pretty much bitch-slapped Jay on his own show, after Jay was being a dick in his monologue. Karma's a bitch.
Clicky!

This whole thing is one big clusterfuck.
Seriously, I love late night TV so I could go on about this for days. But I can not understand what NBC is hoping to accomplish here. The backlash against them is tremendous and rather than them sucking up their pride and getting rid of the real problem, they choose to fuck with a 60 year old beloved franchise and one of their most popular hosts. I sincerely hope Conan gets the hell out of there before the entire network implodes on itself. And someone needs to shoot Jay Leno. Honestly.

I do love the fact that EVERYONE is sticking up for Conan. Even his rivals. And all are not afraid of slamming Leno. LOVE IT!

I think they're already filming the movie. XD

I finally got to see the new Sherlock Holmes film. It was really good. It's not one of those movies where the audience can figure it with the hero, which I kind of liked. It is strange though, but that's Sherlock Holmes for ya. And Jude Law is so fucking hot. Holy mother.
Oh, when Tristan and I saw it, there was no one there (it was a Thursday night) so we decided to splurge and get popcorn and a couple drinks. It was $18.50! The movie itself cost $18.00. What the fuck?

So, I went to the mall last week to spend my gift certificates. I ended up buying $300 worth of clothes. I don't know how that happened but it was a nice treat. However, am I the only one who's afraid to wear new clothes because I don't want to mess them up? It's weird. One of these days I'll get the courage to wear them. :P

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Have a good weekend, y'all!

PS - Ryan, you must keep the blogging up! :D

2010!

2010-01-04T17:12:00.000-08:00

You know, there's something very strange about writing down "2010". It looks wrong. It should be "20010" or something. But that looks like binary. Minus the two.

But enough about that. Look! More blogging! Except I don't have much to talk about, but I'll press on.

My parents got themselves a new TV for the upstairs. A nice 32" flat screen. One problem it had though: the plug it comes with is three-pronged and we only had a two-pronged power outlet. Oops. So yesterday, my neighbour came over and fixed it plus someone picked up the old TV (Dad sold it for $20). So now, my parents just have to figure out how the remote works. Which is kind of painful to watch.

Spell-check is telling me "neighbour" is wrong. One of their suggestions is "thighbone". Stupid American spelling.

I finally finished a jigsaw puzzle I got for Christmas. It was Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus". I thought it was going to be easier than it was but it turns out there is a lot of skin and shell which look the same.
Mike: "Oh look, a naked chick on a clam"
Me: "Well, she was just born. A god got his penis chopped off and it fell into the ocean. She is just coming out now."
Mike: "Gross."
Mom: "....I really got to start reading some Greek Mythology"
Also: jigsaws aren't easy when you have a furry calico laying in the middle of it and swishing the pieces around with her tail. She also dug pieces OUT of the puzzle. Sigh.

So, I decided that for this season of House, I would actually watch it on TV instead of waiting for the DVD set. This was a stupid idea. They have so many damn 2 week and 3 week breaks scattered through out that it's becoming annoying to wait for new episodes. Especially when next episode looks so damn funny.
Wilson: "Everyone thinks we're gay!"
No shit, Wilson.

I had a good New Years. Tristan and I went over to his friends house and we played board games. "Simpsons: Scene It!" was mighty difficult. I don't know how they expect people to know the WRITERS of the show. Seems dumb. I kicked butt in "Smart Ass" though. Mainly because Tristan isn't good at these type of games and I usually just blurt out the first thing that seemed obvious to me and I got it right.

His friend: "He was a scientist. He was born in Germany. He was-"
Me: "EINSTEIN!"
His friend: "How the...It could have been anybody!"

His friend: "Oh, you guys will never get THIS. It is a hill. It is in Greece. There is a building on top-"
Me: "THE ACROPOLIS!"
His friend: "......the fuck?"

I like that game. :)

But over this break from House, I've gotten into a new show: Top Gear! It's a show about cars. I don't really care for cars. But it is the funniest show that I've seen in awhile. One of my favourite challenges was to make a convertible van and then test through various means including take it through a car wash. It ended with their van getting stuck and them running away while the van erupted into flames and almost burning the car wash down. HEE!

I need to go to the Cornwall Centre at some point to exchange a gift but I'm just so lazy. I'm thinking on Wednesday because the school day will end at 1:30pm so I'll be right there at the bus stop anyway. Whatever.

I don't really have much else to say so I'm ending it here! Tah!

Zoiks.

2009-12-31T01:51:00.000-08:00

169 Posts, last published on May 20, 2009

Welp. Guess who forgot about her blog again?

I figure I'd come on here and give one last blog for 2009. Maybe 2010 will be better in that department.

I am so glad to be done with 2009 though. This was just a shit year all around and I'm looking for a do-over. Let's hope 2010 has good things in store.

This last semester was strange. I took three Econ classes and two Math classes. I did really well in my Econ classes but horrible in my Math classes. I've always been okay at Math and I have no idea what the problem was. But I've encountered this before where I think I know what I'm doing and it turns out I have no friggin clue. In my one Math class, for example, I would get 90s on the assignments and then bomb the midterm (and the final apparently). I just don't get it.

Also: I have no idea what I'm going to do after graduation. I think this is a common problem for a lot of us. I need to get some experience in some sort of field though. I was thinking about going into Coop but I don't know. I just want to finish school as quickly as I can and get out. Not the greatest attitude to have but I am just done with it.

Christmas was good. We had no visiting relatives this year, so it was pretty chill. I didn't really get any expensive items (expect for Tristan who got me a FRIGGIN MASTER SWORD) but I did get stuff I liked/needed, like a new bookbag (which looks like a huge purse) and a complete sleepwear set. Very few DVDs, which surprised me because that's what took up the most room on my list. The only DVD I got was Star Trek, which is a damned good movie.

One funny thing that Tristan did though: we both had complained about Twilight over the year and how awful it was, etc.
So, the first gift I open from him was...the first Twilight movie on DVD.
Now, I was taught long ago by my mother that even if you don't like a present, you suck it up, thank them and pretend you like it. Which is what I did in this situation. This was hard because I was little mad since I thought he wasn't listening to me.
So I say, "Oh...wow...thanks...never seen that before..." and put it down, very confused.
Then he says: "....Megan, open the case."
It was a PS2 game I has been looking for (Tales of the Abyss). He just slapped the Twilight cover on it as a joke.
So embarrassing. But I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes. And I've decided that I'm keeping the Twilight cover on it, even if I do have to look at the ugly guy's face everytime I want to play that game.

The Master Sword made up for it though. He got it to compliment the Hylian Shield that Mike got me for my birthday, which Mike go to compliment the Buster Sword I got from Tristan years ago. I like the idea of these guys outdoing each other by buying me matching videogame equipment. Not that I'm complaining though. Since the Buster Sword is on it's own now, I think it needs matching armor. Perhaps the shoulder ornament that Cloud wears?

Anyway, it's 4:30 am and I should try and get up tomorrow, so it's bed time. I'll blog more later I PROMISE.

And let me say one last time: go screw yourself, 2009. TAH!

glee

2009-05-20T11:16:00.001-07:00

So, a couple weekends ago, we got to go back to Winnipeg to finally pick up the rest of my stuff. It's only been 5 months overdue, but better late than never.

Mom and I kind of turned it into a nice little weekend to visit, as I have relatives out there.

So, we leave Friday morning at 9am and of course I am very tired because I'm dumb and stayed up too late the night before. So, we drove 4 straight hours to Brandon. Let me tell you, you truly appreciate curves and hills on the road when you travel on the Trans Canada Hwy. Driving on a straight road through nothing but farmland is so freaking monotonous.

One funny thing was that Mom had planned to play some of her CDs on the way there, since whenever Dad goes he won;t let her. So, she was talking about playing Barry Manilow, ABBA, etc. I'm not a huge fan of her music either but I'll listen to anything. Anyway, so when I pulled out the CDs, it was nothing but Dad's music becuase he had taken a road trip of his own and replaced all of her CDs. Oops. So, no ABBA on this trip. However, I did bring my Bee Gees and Backstreet Boys greatest hits albums so we still had a good time.

We stop in Brandon and have lunch at Tim Hortons (ICED CAP TIME!) and make the 2 hour tip to Winnipeg. I was playing the DS in the car last time we went to Winnipeg, so this time, I got to see the Halfway Tree, which I had completely forgotten about. I love that tree.

So, we get to Winnipeg, and check into our hotel. It's kind of weird....the hotel was sort of in this industrial area near the airport. I don't think I would put a hotel there, but whatever.

We went to Suzanne's house to get my stuff. Turns out she had boxed anything I hadn't up and it was all on the first floor waiting for us, so no cllimbing up 2 sets of stairs! So, we get it all int he car and say goodbye.

Next spot was the house my uncle was building and he came down and gave us a tour. It's a freaking HUGE house. There's almost no lawn. After that, we went out for dinner at Boston Pizza. I don't think my cousin, who is turning two years old next month, actually sat down. He was under the table, on top of the table, throwing everything around, standing on the setas and trying to grab for people on the next booth, etc. I was exhausted just watching him. But the dinner was nice.

We then went back to my uncle's house while they watched TV and Mom and I played with Nathan. I think he shoed my mother every toy he had. One funny moment was he noticed that I had a hole in my sock, so my big toe was sticking out a little bit. So, he tried putting various caps and things on my toe to cover it up and I would just wiggle it off and he would try again. So cute.

When Mom and I left to go back to the hotel, the car was starting to make these really weird grinding noises, which is not good. Mom was really worried about it, so we decided to stop at a Lexus dearler on the way out of town the next day to find out what is going on. I had a REALLY good sleep that night.

The next day when we left the hotel....no sound at all. So, okay, we decided to continue on the Brandon, where we were going to spend the day with my aunt. So, we get to her house which is a lot smaller than I remember it. See, she lives in this bungalow with tiny ass rooms (there are three bedrooms all half the size of my room) and no basement or upper floor with three dogs. We didn't even take off our shoes because there were dog biscuits all over her living room floor and one of the rooms was where the dogs went to the bathroom when they couldn't go outside. Not the best living arrangment but my aunt is still awesome.

So, we took the dogs out to this series of baseball diamonds for them to run around. When we were leaving, Mom turned on the car and all these engine warning lights came on. Shit. So, we tryed to call the Toyota dealer to see if they had any mechanics (of course they didn't) and decide that maybe we should put some oil in the car. Mom was almost due for an oil change but thought she would wiat until after our trip (really dumb idea). Of course we put oil in the car and all is pretty much solved.

So, after lunch at Smittys, we did a little shopping (I got a new purse!) and decided to head for a movie and saw Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Not really something I'd pay to see again but I guess it was good to see with other women.

And then we spend the rest of the night at my aunt's and watched her dogs go nuts basically.

Trip back home was pretty uneventful....the car didn't break down though! But all and all it was a fun weekend.

Speaking of my uncle, his daughter was born just this last weekend. They named her Kacey Olivia. I've never been a huge fan of the name Kacey, but it kind of fits well with Olivia. But, yay new first cousins! :D

So, I have a job interview on Friday. I am super freaking excited. Not so much about the job but the fact that I have an interview. It's a summer administrative assistant job for SNC-Lavalin ProFac. It would be pretty sweet if I can get it. I need something to do.

I saw Angels and Demons this last weekend. It was alright. They left out some awesome shit from the book though, which disappoints me. You'd think they would have kept ONE fight scene with the bad guy, but I guess they're too good for that.

I beat Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the DS a couple days ago. I got so frusterated with it. Usually I like riddles, but not of that quantity. It's a weird ass story too. But now I'm playing Hotel Dusk again. I have a severe crush on Kyle Hyde. I realized that he sort of looks like a gruffier version Brian Littrell, so maybe that'd why. *swoon*

I'm getting a haircut today. My aunt thinks I should get a "style", but I don't know. Maybe I'll be adventurous but I wouldn't have any clue what to get. We'll see how this works out though.

For anyone who doesn't watch American Idol, they had a rock week a couple weeks ago. The douche-y Christian guy decided to attempt "Dream On", which features a scream that I don't think even Steven Tyler can do anymore. I present to you: The Gokey Scream. I'd make that as my ringtone if I could.

Also:

But anywho, I'm off to the mall to get some new pajama pants! Tah!

5 months later....

2009-05-04T23:02:00.000-07:00

Whooooops. Kind of forgot about this blog. Ryan has been bugging me to post something, and since he was nice enough to blog, here is mine.

So, what has happened in the last 5 months? Well, I ended up being a TA for two classes this last semester. One class was for Econ 201 with 100 students. The other was Econ 224 (which I've never taken) for 30 students. Econ 224's original professor was a dickwad that got fired halfway through the semester (I recieved nothing from him) and was replaced by the acting head of the Econ department, who expected a little bit too much from me, I think. He wanted me to come up with my own marking scheme and answer sheet, which was kind of daunting since I never took the class before. But it was mostly Stats, so it was nice to refreshed myself and earn some money in the process.

Since I did TA for two classes, I never did end up finding a "shift" job. I'm currently looking now. The ideal job would be a behind the scenes data entry postion. Mom thought she could set me up with a job from her coworker, but it seems a little bit shaky. I have applied to a few places....just sort of waiting to hear some calls back. Sigh.

I am registered for next fall. I have deicided to do a Stat/Econ double major, which I think requires 11 more classes from me. Since I did not pass Math 213 last year, I can't really take any Stats courses, so I definatly need to make sure I pass it this year. I just don't want that damn professor again.
I am actually quite excited to start back at a normal Univeristy. I kind of missed it.

I'm going to Winnipeg this weekend to get the rest of my things. Pretty much all of my summer clothes are there, plus my sandals so I really need to get them back. Mom and I are going to spend Friday in Winnipeg and Saturday in Brandon to visit my aunt and her dogs. For the first time, we have to stay in a hotel in Brandon because my aunt's house can't hold us. It's kind of sad actually.

Speaking of family, my 13 year old cousin, Katelyn, has put me on her Facebook. However, I have learned that she is an idiot. She is getting her lip and nose pierced in a couple weekends and for her birthday, a fucking tattoo. WHO THE FUCK LET'S A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL GET TATTOOED? Ugh. Also, she expresses her undying love for her boyfriend of 8 months every chance she gets. And as Mike so eloquently put it, "he looks like a deformed fetus." It's just so sad.

We're planning our summer vacation right now. Right now, it seems like my brother and I are going to go on a three day roadtrip straight to Ontario while my parents are going to also take a road trip and meander their way there for a week. I love travelling by car so it should be really nice. I think Dad is happy that Mike is going this year as well, since he was always outnumbered by girls whenever we go. At least Mike will chalk up another point for testosterone.

On my Dad's Facebook today: "May the 4th be with you." Ugh.

I'm going to share something a little bit embarassing with guys, but whatever. I haven't blogged in so long, you guys deserve it.
So, I was out with Tristan on Saturday. He invited me out for a sushi lunch with some of his friends and we spent the day doing some errands. So, we go back to his house at around 3:30pm and his parents are both at work at least until 5:00pm. So, he suggests we have some....alone time. Which is fine. So, we're getting into it, but I have this nagging feeling that his Dad (who was to arrive home first) was going to come home early. We were on the living room floor, which isn't exactly behind close doors. Tristan kept reassuring me that his Dad usually comes home late, blah blah blah.
So, we end it around 4:45pm and Tristan goes to the bathroom with all but his shirt on and I get dressed. He comes out of the bathroom still without a shirt on, gives me a hug and all the sudden dashes away from me because right then, guess who walks in the door? Papa Chow!
So, I chit chat with Mr. Chow for a couple seconds just to make sure Tristan can get his shirt on and head to the bathroom trying not to burst out laughing.
So, when we leave the house, Tristan and I just looked at each other and laughed. I swear to God, if we kept going for even a couple more minutes, it would have been a more horrifying situation.

So, I finally managed to get myself on Accutane. Thank God. Right before I went on it, my face broke out so badly. I don't know if was stress or what but it was disgusting. The sides of my head were like a mine field. But, now it's a ton better. I still have a few zits, especially around my mouth and chin, but it's definatly better than a few months ago. I am just so sick of it. I've had acne since Grade 10, time to move on.
The only bad part is that my lips are always chapped and my face tends to get pretty dry and flaky, but nothing a little lotion and lip chap can't handle.

I watched a BSB concert on TV today. Goddamn, Brian is so fucking hot. But it was weird, they'd occasionally panned to the crowd and you'd see these groups of 20-somethings guys with beers in their hands. Did they get lost or something? It was kind of funny to see a group of them singing "I'll Never Break Your Heart". LOL

But I think I'll end it here. Hopefully the next post will not be in September or something. Tah!

A week later....

2009-01-11T23:27:00.000-08:00

So, I'm feeling a hell of a lot better since that last time. Sorry for depressing everyone (again).

I think I'm pretty much over it now. Mom wants me to appeal the decision but honestly? I think I've wasted enough time with this whole program. Plus. I don't know what I can appeal. Maybe what their definition of a "pop quiz" is. Whatever.
So, that's over. Time to move on.
You know what I learned from this though? My parents are amazing. When I talked to my mother, all she wanted to know is why I didn't tell them I was in trouble sooner. My response: "What would you have done? All it would have been was needless worry for you." She didn't have an answer but she did understand why I kept it under wraps.
Then seeing my Dad for the first time after I broke down on him (which was the next day):
Me: "..So, how was your day?"
Dad: "It was okay. Better then yesterday because I get to see you."
That almost made me tear up again. I am so lucky to have such awesome parents.

The rest of this week, wasn't much better. I got sick a couple days ago with a sore throat and now I'm sitting here just about to throw up because Aunt Flo has made her appearance. Ugh. I slept til 6pm on Saturday though and that was lovely.

I think I might get up and do something tomorrow. I have many gift cards to spend.

I think I may have a TA job this semester with the Econ department again. Another once a week class, so that's nice. Apparently the lady I might get is not particularly good though, so we'll see how this goes. Money is money.
I still need to update my resume and go "official" job searching. I don't really want to go back to McDonalds again, though it might be more convienient. Just not sure who to put as references. I was thinking of finding Maryanne but I haven't talked to her in forever and I don't want to seem like I'm using her. I'll see though.

Mike suggests I put that on hold and get my driver's license but I don't want to drive when the roads are complete ice. Sigh.

Christmas was lovely. I won't put together an official list but I got what I wanted: a new laptop and money. Laptop was supposed to be for school and I felt bad about it after I got the good news. It's about the size of a portable DVD player. And it has nothing but the internet and Itumes on it. Perfect.
I did get an awesome Shetland pony shirt from Mike as well.

What else....Oh yeah, Tristan and I have been playing the new Tales of Symphonia game. It started out as me just showing the intro to him because I wanted him to see how shitty the main character is and then we just continued. He's playing the healer, thank goodness. We're about 15 hours in and have just figured out what was up with Lloyd, so that's a relief. I might lend Tristan the first game so he can know what is going on.
Seriously though, worst main character ever. I can't count how many times I have slammed the controller against my head in frusteration. Makes Tristan laugh though.
I've also been playing the fuck out of Shining Force II. LOVE. THAT. GAME. And all my characters are fucking awesome at this point...even Kiwi, though he might get dumped by the end of it.

Oh, speaking of videogames, thank you VGR for finally updating after 6 months. Yay.

Oh, god, I really feel like puking my guts out. I probably should just go to bed then. Goodnight, y'all.

What the hell do I do now?

2009-01-06T23:57:00.000-08:00

Well, I can pretty much say that this is the worst day of my life.

Long story short: I've been kicked out of the Radiation Therapy Program.
Why? Because of one missed pop quiz. It was all it took.
Let me delve deeper, last week I got my transcript. I passed everything except for one class: Clinical Radiation Oncology. 63%, with 65 to pass. I had great marks going into the final exam but the final was probably the worst test ever written (people went up to her after and asked her what the hell was up with that exam). So, they gave me a mark breakdown in a separate letter and I realized that if I wasn't "late" (didn't think school started until 9am, instead of 8am) for one of my pop quizzes I would have passed this class. I was so fucking angry. Anyway, I did have another shot at a supplemental exam, which I needed a 64% on. Fine but, I didn't have my binder for the class here so I was working from memory basically.
I didn't want my parents to know so I made up some lies. One of the clincal coordinators kept calling me about it, which annoyed the fuck out of me. Anyway, I stayed up till 4am everyday last week to study, ignoring the parts I couldn't fill in and using my textbook.
So, I write the supplemental and felt really good about it. I did guess on some of the stuff but otherwise I was really happy with it and was actually in a good mood last night.
I got 60% on it. I have been so shocked about a grade in my life. Thus, that ended my stint with Radiation Therapy.

I managed to keep it together coming home, but as soon as I walked in my house and saw Dad I basically broke down. I told my Dad everything. Instead of yelling at me or smacking me like he should have for failing out and lying to him about it, he said: "Go lay down and relax."
That was at noon, it is now 2 am and I haven't been out of my room since. He probably told Mom because she didn't come in wandering what was wrong but I don't want to even face her right now. I think she was most excited about me being in this program and I have completely let her down. I fucking let everyone down on top of wasting time and money so I could be slapped in the face. That is probably the worst feeling of all.

So, what now?
I guess I have to go back to the U of R and finish off a degree. Mike texted me that I should start in the spring and keep going until it is done. That's probably the best for me. Maybe I'll explore that Stat-Econ major I was looking into before I left.
Even though I have time to register for this semester, I think I should probably take it off, get a job and recover from this blow. Get my head straight again.

Anyway, I can probably post something happier like how my Christmas was but I think I'll say that when I'm not a blubbering mess.

Peanut!

2008-11-26T18:53:00.001-08:00

I did not have a good day today. It's one of those days where it seems everyone's goal is to piss me off as much as possible. Mission fucking accomplished. FUCK

School has somehow taken a dark turn when I wasn't looking. Now that we're approaching the end (thank GOD), all the teachers are now in a race to see how much stuff they can cram in before finals. You know what's horrible though? Unlike the University (which seems like a freaking cakewalk now...why did I ever complain about it), we don't get any time off to study for finals. Our last class is Friday, December 12th at from 1pm - 3pm and our first final is Monday, December 15th at 8am. We then have one final per day for that week, all of which are worth 55%. With a pass mark of 65. GAWWWD. This might be the first year where I don't put off studying until the last minute but we'll see. I'm actually freaking out just thinking about it.

Another thing stressing me out is my financial situation. After I pay off my bus pass, I'll have $15 in my savings account. You read that right. I asked Dad if I could get my Christmas present from Nana early (I get $250 from her every year). He fucking responds: "It hasn't arrived yet. Do you need money?" 1) The money doesn't "arrive" to him, she transfers it to him. In fact, he can go into her account, and transfer the money out himself right now if he wants to. Also, is it such a problem to give me $250 now and then keep my gift when it finally does come and 2) No, Dad, I'm fucking asking for my gift for the hell of it WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK?
I'm probably being a brat right now. I don't care. Let me say though that I'm an idiot for giving half my RESP to dad ($1250 to be exact). He kind of made it seem like he was in desperate need of it so I felt obligated to give it to him. But you know what? He's making a six-figure income. I'm making jack shit. Why the fuck did I give that money to him?
And then he does this whole "Oh, just let me know when you need money and I'll give it to you" schtick, which is nice on paper but it makes me feel like I'm using my Dad as an ATM and I HATE that feeling. I try to keep telling myself "You know, he bought Mike a car, asking him for a few hundred dollars shouldn't be so bad." It really is though. I fucking hate it. I just hate it.
I really looking into getting a loan right now, just to get me through the 2nd semester. And then I'll get a weekend job when I go do my Clinical. It might have to be McDs again but whatever. Seriously though, this "lack of real income until I'm 23" thing will be the death of me.

I can't really think of anything else to rant about so I'll just leave it at that.

But after that depressing post, and since posting funny videos you've seen seems to be a staple now, here's a video that puts a smile on my face.
"Colin...wh-what's going on?" LMFAO
God, I love that show.

Wheeeeooooooo

2008-11-20T14:30:00.000-08:00

So, I WAS on a roll and then I just stopped.....go me.
But that makes for a more exciting post, right? Right!

So, since I last wrote I had my midterms. On all of them I got between 76% and 78%. It actually was kind of freaky. And normally, these marks would be okay with me (although I'd much prefer them in the 80's), some the class averages were like 86%, which just made me feel like a dumbass. But I'm not one to compare myself to others, especially since my class seems to be on the overachieving side. I passed and that's all that matters.

I also went home for a my midterm break. I was so happy since this was my first time home since I've been at school. And of course the day I leave, Winnipeg gets it first snowfall. Just a few centimetres but enough to make me angry. And enough to cause problems at the airport it seems, as Air Canada delayed a bunch of flights. I got on mine on time but we had to wait in line for an hour to be de-iced. Considering it's only an hour flight to Regina, this made me a little mad. But we finally took off and I got there safely.
Mike picked me up and we went to Chili's for lunch. It was pretty good, although the service was a bit slow. We then went home and I hugged Winston. Surprisingly, one of the things I miss most about home is holding my cats, as lame as that sounds. So, yeah, he got a good long hug. Nikki was hiding from me (no surprise there) but she actually came out after a couple hours and actually sat on my lap, which was a huge surprise. She gets freaked by people if they go a two week vacation. Considering I was gone for over 2 months, that was pretty impressive of her. Anyway, so I got reaquainted with them and Mike and I also made a Tim Hortons run. Mmmm...iced cap. We also looked through old photos because Mike was trying to find his elementary class photos. That was pretty fun actually. I was meaning to start an album on facebook dedicated to old photos of us and I got a pretty good start on it. And I found the best one of my mother ever . I'm seriously thinking of framing that.
But to balance it, here's Mike and I in Hawaii. Yeeeah.
Anyway, I went out Friday with Tristan. I walked out the door and he just ran and glomped me. We headed for Trifons (I missed that pasta) and then went back to my house to start House: Season 4.
Saturday was also another day spent with Tristan. He and his friends have turned into Rider fans so I was invited to watch the game with them. Yeah, that really wasn't the game to end the season on. I'm not sure what was worse....the fact that we turned the ball over 4 times in the first quarter or the fact that BC only got 7 points out of all them. Plus we did not score a single touchdown. Thank goodness for Luca or else we wouldn't have had points at all. Better luck next year, I guess.
Sunday was spent at home with the family and we had a nice family meal that night. Tristan also came over later that night to watch some more House. We got up to the season finale!
Monday, I went shopping with mom. I had a killer stomach ache that day but I tried to be positive since I wouldn't be doing this until January. It was nice though. That night, I headed for Ryan's house to watch some 30 Rock, which is an awesome show. It was one of those shows that I always meant to watch but would never get around to. Maybe I'll get the DVD set this Christmas. Although no one has asked me for a list yet. This is either good or bad.
Tuesday, I had lunch with Ryan and Mandy, which was nice. And then Tristan came over one more time to come with us to the airport.
One thing about the airport though...Regina's security sucks. I had toothpaste in my bag (I didn't check on any baggage, just had an overnight bag). I went through Winnipeg fine without putting it into a special plastic baggy so I thought I was alright. Well apparently the security douche in Regina didn't think so. He was scolding me about the fact that I had too much toothpaste (it was suppose to be 100ml and I had 250ml...OOOOOOOH) and I had to follow the rules, blah blah blah. And then we had this exchange:
Douche: "Well you can put it in your checked baggage if you want."
Me: "I don't have any checked baggage."
Douche: "Well, you can check this bag on."
Me: "I am not going back downstairs, lining up for half an hour and checking on a small overnight bag. Just take the stupid toothpaste and let me go, I don't care anymore."
Douche: ".....Next time follow the rules."
Me: "Whatever."
This made me probably more angry then it should. Dad summed up airport security to a tee: "They just want to be seen doing something." You know what...if I was a potential terrorist and wanted to make an impact on the international scene, I sure as hell wouldn't fly out of friggin REGINA and bring down the plane with a TUBE OF TOOTHPASTE. Fuck me backwards, I hate this world sometimes.
But, overall, it was a nice trip but it seemed to just fly by. I really can't wait December 19th. I'm actually more excited about that hen Christmas. Although, I'm a little annoyed because originally someone was supposed to drive down and pick me up in Winnipeg but Dad decided flying home was better. So, I somehow have to pack school stuff, clothes, a fuck ton of Christmas presents, the lap top, etc in a duffel bag or on my carry-on, while still leaving a lot of stuff behind.
Oh, and another bad part about the trip: I left my DS behind in Regina. BOOO! Mike was wondering if he should ship out but I figure I can go a month without any gaming at all....I hope.

So, this week kind of sucked as I got another cold. AAAAHH! I think it was because I didn't have a winter coat when I came back to Winnipeg but there was also something going around the classroom. So, I had a lab on Saturday and just basically spent it with a kleenex to my nose as it would just not stop running. Really gross. And then there was Monday and Tuesday where it was just as bad. I kept excusing myself to run to the bathroom and blow out anything in my nose, which kept my nose dry for about 10 minutes before it started running again. Still kind of recovering but it's finally going away.
Tuesday night though....I set my alarm at 5:30am. Went to bed, fell asleep, and the next time I woke up was 2:30pm Wednesday. Class ends at 3pm. Oops. But I figure enough people saw me sniffling and sneezing to call for a legitmate sick day. The secretary was pretty nice about ("Wait, you haven't been here ALL DAY?") and I got a nice sleeping in day. Win win for everyone. Although I did miss a pop quiz and got a zero on it. BOOOO.
And another thing....last month, I had half a box of Kleenex left so I figure I should get some more. I shop for Kleenex based on the color of the box but don't really pay attention to anything more then that. Kleenex is Kleenex, right? So, since I had this cold, I finished that half box and opened the new one I got. I pulled the first Kleenex out, raised it to me nose and was met with burning sensation on my nostrils that made me leap out of my chair like a goddamn ninny. I thought I was going crazy so I raised the tissue to me nose again to make sure....yup, still smelled like burning. So, wondering what the fuck, I looked at the Kleenex box a little closer...
...each tissue had the scent of Vick's Vapour Rub in it. WTF? This creeped me out more then it should. But since I had this cold it actually helped as I could just hold a tissue against my nose and clear my sinuses right out. However, what is going to happen when I get over this cold and I do not need the Vick's? Blowing my nose will be a pain in the ass. Next time I might take a closer look at the box, I guess.

Today in school, we learned about nutrition and how we can relate to the patients. Apparently every patient is recommended to drink six nutritional drinks (Slim Fast, Boost, etc) a DAY to keep up their nutritional health. So, the activity we did was taste test all these different kinds od drinks and power bars and rate them. I thought she was joking when she first said that but then she brought out about 10 kinds of drinks and bars for the class to try.
Now, you'd think taste testing food would be awesome.....WRONG. The Boost milk wasn't so bad, though all the flavors taste the same.....but the the Boost Juice.....OH MY GOD. I tried the Wildberry flavor and the colour of it was fluorescent fucking PINK. It almost burned the retinas. And the taste....oh god....it tasted like expired medicine. The Power Bars were almost as bad....most of them tasted like chalk. There was one with peanut butter (or "nut butter") but it didn't taste like peanut butter at all...it tasted like...something else. It honestly was the worse thing ever. Everything left the worst aftertaste so you had this combination of bad tasting power bars and milk/juice in your mouth.
After it, we had another class. There was still some horrible peanut butter bar on the table and the next teacher came in, said "Oh, this looks good" and the whole class screamed "NOOOOOOOO!" as he put in his mouth. We acted like it was covered in arsenic or something. But he said it was alright....liar.

Want to see the wonderful facebook notes my brother sends me? This actually made my day.

I must describe to you an odor I was able to produce just now.
Here's a list of everything I've eatten in the last 24 hours:
Last night for supper I just had some minute rice, but I made it with a spicy curry sauce rather than water
Breakfast was coffee and some peanut butter on toast
Lunch was a roasted garlic spread on some rolls
Supper was a tuna sandwich, but I mix the tuna with hummus rather than mayo, and this hummus is a spicy blend (it had garlic, chili pepper, ginger, as well as base ingredients of chick peas, garlic and lime)
Note how pretty much everything has a very distinct, powerful odor to it. OK, so I had all of that brewing together in my stomach. I was laying on the couch watching Chuck, and my stomach started to gurgle. I said "uh oh, this isn't good"
It was building up for a minute, I could feel the increased pressure. Then, I braced for impact, and I let it loose via traditional methods.
It was like a blast of heat radiating from my ass, there is a polar icecap melting right now thanks to me.
Then scent was absolutely unbearable. It was like musty nutmeg. All those chick peas must have fermented good in the curry sauce in my stomach.
I had to share that experience with someone, I could think of no one better. My poor bathroom is going to hate me about 20 minutes after I wake up tomorrow
Have a great day, and try to get a visual and imagine the smell.

Worse part is that I read that at school and I got a couple weird stares. I ought to learn not to read those notes at school.

While I'm in a sharing mood this has been making me laugh for the past couple days. And people thought their dancing was better then BSB. Good lord, I'm embarassed for them.
Also, how can JC look so damn gay but so damn hot at the same time.

Anyway, this is getting a little bit long so cut it off now. Hopefully I can make a post by Christmas but we'll see what happens. Toodles!

A blog about boobies.

2008-10-15T16:29:00.000-07:00

You must admit, I am on a fucking ROLL with this blog.

I almost passed out again today. I should keep a count or something.
We spent the entire afternoon talking at the Breast Screening Program and The Center of Hope for Breast Cancer. So, basically, we just talked about breasts all afternoon. It was a nice time-killer, to say the least. We got a tour of the breast screening place, including looking at the mammogram x-ray machines and such. We then had to sit through a presentation of basically how the Manitoba breast screening program is so much better then any other provinces (seriously, it was like "Oh, look a us, we're first in this category again. And look how low Saskatchewan is here. Don't know what happened there"). We also were each handed fake breasts with "lumps" in them and we had to try and find the lump. Some of the breasts were hilariously small and others were so big that it was nearly impossible to find anything. It was kind of funny to see the three boys in my class grabbing at these breasts and going hard wiht their fingers to find these lumps. I think they enjoyed this afternoon more than everyone.
We then went over to the Center of Hope and got a presentation there. The lady brought up reconstructive surgery was done and the fact that they put on nipples and tattoo on arieoles and things. Some of the girls were really interested in seeing pictures of this (not sure why...) so we piled us into her office and we watched a Powerpoint that included pictures. With 15 of us crowded into this space, with no room to barely breathe and the fact that we were looking at mastectomies and thing....yeah, didn't sit right. I had to leave by the end of it and one girl (who was in my lab of the Pulse Incident) asked me if I was okay as I had went pale. So, we sat down outside the room and I felt much better. WOOP!

I did get my turkey dinner! My uncle said my aunt (from Brandon) was going to come by the house around 2pm, so I could come over anytime around then as my uncle's wife would be home. I wasn't sure of their exact address so I went down to the building site where my uncle was working for the day to find out what it was. It was only a quick bus ride, so it was no big deal. So, I get there, ring the door bell and....no answer except their dog barking. Ring it again. Still no answer. Knock loudly on the door. Nothing. So, I went around to their backdoor (the door they usually use) and it's open. So, I open it...the dogs are at the gate right inside just desperate for attention form me. I call out to Lek (uncle's wife) and no answer. So, I come in and she's not around but I hear music upstairs. So, I head upstairs and see that their master bedroom is shut and Thai music is just BLARING inside the bedroom. Uh....okay. I can't tell you how awkward this felt. I wasn't sure if I should leave and come back or just stay and wait. I elected to stay and sit in the living room with the dog's until Lek came downstairs or my other aunt came to the door.
So, I wait for about half an hour (dogs continuously licking my face) until Lek finally comes downstairs. I asked her if Carol (my other aunt) was coming and she said no, she cancelled last minute. I was saddened by this as Carol is really fucking funny. But oh well. So I just spent the day watching Dancing with the Stars Canada with Lek, which is not a bad way to spend a Monday, I suppose.
The turkey and everything was delicious (I resisted taking the drumstick) and we watched the Teen Choice Awards. This show just made me angry. The only people I knew were Adam Sandler, Will Smith, Fergie and Miley Cyrus. I think everyone else came from the Disney channel or something because I've never heard of these people in my life. Oh, and yes...the fucking Jonas Brothers. What the big deal about these guys? They are FUGLY and I have yet to hear any of their songs on the radio. What the fuck? I was just pissed off at this entire show.

So, I must say....Amadeus is a very good movie. I'm really surprised that it was made in 1984....it looked like it could have been released last year. I guess that what happens when you don't use cheesy ass special effects or anything. Also....despite the giggle....Mozart (in this movie) was pretty hot. He somehow made a pink wig work. Not many men can pull that off.

I really hope I get a good night's sleep tonight. It felt like I was just dozing the entire night last night....never felt like I was quite asleep. My roommate's kid, at one point during the night, yelled out to his mom down the hall that he had a bad dream. This caused his mom to yell back to go back to sleep. This conversation woke me up so well (I'm usually a deep sleeper) that I had thought it was about time to get up until I turned over and looked at the clock....3:25 am. UGH!
Actually....it's not the first time these kids of woken me up. Her son is particularly bad for having these little screeching fits and tantrums that send him screaming into his room. Usually this happens at 8am on the weekends which are prime sleeping in days for me. Sigh. It might be better if I had a door but what can you do.

Anyway, I should probably go do some homework. Tah!

Wa POW!

2008-10-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

So, to all the Canadians reading, Happy Thanksgiving! I am celebrating it by eating Kraft Dinner and watching Amadeus later tonight (I've been meaning to see it since Grade 10). But I think I am heading to my uncle's tomorrow and eating some of his turkey, so that should be good.

Overall, this last week has been alright. We had presentations on Thursday....I think I fucked up ours but whatever. I doubt the teacher will be docking us marks for it. I've been increasingly getting pissed off at my class, especially during Physics. We'd be going through the notes, and understanding everything until someone raises their hand and asks either the most absurd question imaginable or "I don't get it, can you do that again?". Is it that fucking hard to go see him after class? Why should the entire class wait until YOU get it? UGH! He spent the entire Friday class going through what an ionization chamber looked like because someone "just couldn't imagine it". We'd didn't really need to know it's structure and we'll be seeing one in the lab so what the fuck did we have to spend 2 hours on it for? So, that's been really frustrating.

I am really glad for this weekend. We haven't had a day off since we began school and this is a much needed break. The only bad thing is that next Saturday, I will be in a lab all day and will only have Sunday off. That will blow donkey balls.

I went to Polo Park yesterday. I was going to go today as well but I didn't really feel like waiting for a bus in the pouring rain. But anyway, I bought some new earbuds for my iPod because my old ones crapped out. I absolutely love them. They fit in the ear well, have great sound quality, only cost me like $15 and are guaranteed for 3 years. SWEET! I also bought some new underwear, but that's less exciting.
Last weekend I went there and bought Iron Man and The Office: Season 4. So, I think I'm good with DVDs until I head back. I also bought some sweet new dresses that were $10 at Mariposa. No clue when I'd ever wear them but they were too nice to pass up. I also bought some new winter boots. I usually wear my skater shoes during winter but I think they're wearing down so I figure some actual winter shoes would be good.

So, Dad finally got and deposited my RESP cheque and I got $2500. Combined with my GST cheque, that was a very good pay day. I ended up giving $1250 to Dad though because I think with all the stock market mumbo jumbo going on, he needs an extra cash he can get. But yeah, I'm rich again!

So, with my new found money, I'm starting to Christmas shop. I just want it out the way so I can stop worrying about it. Already bought something for Mom. The problem is where I ship it to. Back home? House in Winnipeg? Mike's house? It's kind of annoying.

I'm still plugging away at Pokemon....got Badge #4 last night. It's become pretty easy now because my Gyarados is 15 levels above everyone else and just destroys everything. I have an EXP. All on one other, so they're also getting his experience. So, yeah, it's been a cake walk. Gyarados has pretty much beaten the last two gym leaders on his own. I love him so much.

So, I know how much everyone here like obscure Canadian (and sometimes American) history, so I invite to check out this webcomic. More comics need to make use out of fat Shetland ponies.

Anyway, I think I'm going to finish there and go watch some Amadeus. Tah!

Oy.

2008-10-03T16:01:00.001-07:00

I had a fantastic day today. Add sarcasm to that sentence if you haven't already.

So, first thing we did today was have a pop quiz. What's your guys definition of a pop quiz? Because to me, it's something that should cover the highlights of a course because you're not supposed to study for it. Well, apparently not for this class. It was literally like an exam because you had to look at your module and memorize certain things. And these were things that we just sort of breezed over. What the fuck? So, needless to say my morning did not start off great. But apparently everyone else also did bad so I'm pretty sure we're going to be yelled at when she marks these quizzes.

And then we had labs this afternoon. Four in total.
First two were at the school...they were pretty simple. We just discussed anatomy and drew lymph nodes on piece of paper. I hate lymph nodes, by the way. Waaay too complicated for my tastes.

The other two were at the hospital. For some reason, it was absurdly hot in there, which might contribute to what was coming.
First lab was okay, we just had to take images of "Elvis the Pelvis" and develop them, which is exactly what we did last Lab day so big whoop.
Then, the last lab of the day....hahahahaha.
So, it was on Vital Signs and learning how to take them. These included temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure, in that order.
So, first thing we did was take a our temperatures aurally (through the ear). That was fine, but it was really weird to shove something in someone else's ear and then having something in your own ear. At least it wasn't rectal temperatures. That will be a terrible day if we ever have to learn that. My temp was 36.9 degrees C, which is pretty perfect. We also had to take a strip of plastic and hold it to our foreheads and it measured your temperature almost like a mood ring. That was kind of retarded though.
Second thing was pulse. We learned how to take it carotidly (on the neck) and radically (on the wrist). I get kind of creeped out whenever I have to feel my pulse so this is where my troubles started. We had to measure carotidly for a minute, which kind of suck because no one got good values. When we had to do it radically, I couldn't find my pulse for whatever reason. So, the instructor comes along and shoves her fingers literally between my tendons and tells me "Oh, you have to press your artery against your bone." I'm actually getting kind of sick just talking about this. I did find it but got grossed out and just pretended to do it. I'm screwed if I ever have to do this for a patient.
Third thing was respiration....this was kind of boring. One of my classmates (there was four of us in this group) laid on the bed and we stared at her chest going up and down. I'm sure one of our male classmates would have gotten more of a kick out of it. I had to stand up for this though (I was sitting on the bed before) and sort of noticed that I was still woozy from the whole pulse thing. Nothing I couldn't handle though.
Fourth thing was blood pressure. My classmates all went before me and got values like 110/70, 107/60, etc all normal values. Then I step up to the plate. I have lower then normal blood pressure so I knew it was going to be on the low side. In the process of taking it, I could feel my pulse through the armband and that sort of added to my wooziness. So, my result came up.

66/40

My three lab partners and instructor dropped their mouths went "WHAT?" at the same time. I think kind of anxious at this result because I was never told the value of my blood pressure when I last go it checked. The classmate who put the armband on me claims that she might have screwed up on it so the instructor puts it on me and gives it another try.

73/28. This sent the machine into a panic and started beeping wildly.

My lab partners are now in shock and this was the point were I thought I was full on going to faint. My instructor then started asking me if my BP was ever that serious, etc. I don't remember what I answered, I was so out of it.
So, then, she wanted me to take a pulse oximetry test (test to measure oxygen saturation in hemoglobin), which used some of those finger pulse things. I was started black out at this point so I shoved my finger into the device and let it read me. 100%, which is perfect. "Cool," I thought, "Now let me get out of here."

I excuse myself to the bathroom...and didn't quite make it. I realized after I was sitting right outside it...go figure.
While, I didn't full on go unconscious, I just collapsed against the hallway wall and sat there. Since this was a hospital, it took about 10 seconds for a voice to come up to me and ask me if I was alright. I said "Yes, I just feel faint." and then started gagging. Just wonderful. All the sudden a trash can appeared in front of me and I just sort of gagged into a couple times (didn't actually throw up...go me!) and was then handed some water. I felt fine after that so I just went back to our lab area.
My partners, nor instructor, saw me collapse (they were behind a curtain) so I thought I could get away with no one freaking out about it. Until the RT that found me walked by and handed me some cookies "to get some sugar in me." D'oh!

So, I explained what happened which caused concern from the classmates and instructor . The instructor excused everyone else (it was the end of the lab anyway) but wanted me to stay for a little bit. Ugh. She waited until I looked like I had colour in my face took my BP again but on the other arm:

132/60

...not really surprising. I think those other values came about because I was on the very edge of passing out. Now that I was feeling better, it went back to normal. However, she started coming up with all these theories about how one arm has a better vein then the other ("Enough with the vein talk!" I thought) and asked if fainting was a common occurrence (I've never actually fainted before but have come close), etc. She also wanted me to see a doctor this weekend, which I don't think will happen and she wanted to walk with me back to school and all this. While the concern is nice, I think it was a little overboard. I don't have chronic fainting spells, I just reacted badly to taking a pulse. Then she started asking me "Oh, we have to show these gory pictures in a month form now...are you going to be okay?" Frick.

Oh, well...at least I got free cookies out of it.

Other then that, no real exciting news here. We had a sexual harassment course the other day and instead of, you know, taking it seriously, we now have a Sexual Harassment score going. One point for each harassment. One of our classmates has a porn star mustache so he gets two points. I got my first point the other day for saying the word "balls" excessively. One of the boys is in the lead with 14 points, but mostly because he's been leering at another boy in a derogatory way. Yeah, it's been pretty exciting, although the teachers would murder us if they found out.

I'm going out to buy Iron Man tomorrow. That's my weekend goal. I also have to be up to watch my cousin while his parents pour the concrete for their new house. Since his mom will be there, I'm sure he won't yell at me this time but we'll see.

I finished up House: Season 4 last night. I don't think I've ever cried so hard at a House episode before then I did at the season finale. It was another "House Almost Dies and Hallucinates!" episode, which is always fucked up, but I really liked how they did this one. It was a really good season and I can't wait for Tristan to see it.

I've also been playing Pokemon Pearl for the DS. The last time Pokemon game I played was Yellow, so I'm still getting used to all the new Pokemon and then squealing when I see the old ones (I was so damn happy when I got a Psyduck). I just got the second badge a couple nights ago. I also just caught a Magikarp which I want to level into a Gyarados (probably my favorite Pokemon) so I'm working on that right now. It's been pretty fun though.

So, I found out the Backstreet Boys are coming to Winnipeg on November 12th. I was so excited until I realized I have a night lab then. God dammit, I would have loved to see them again.

Anywho, I think I'm going to run. I think some rest could do me good...haha.

Blech.

2008-09-26T14:49:00.000-07:00

Hello!

Finishing up my first month in Winnipeg. Things are getting settled, I think, and I'm much more comfortable with the city. Doesn't make it any less shitty though. I had to walk by a homeless man passed out on the grass the other day to get to school.

This last week was kind of shitty though. Last weekend, I got hit with a bad cold and basically stayed in bed for 20 hours straight. I'm still recovering from that, but at least I don't want to rip my throat out. I skipped Wednesday this week to sleep until 5pm. It was nice.
I'm also a bit concerned about something medical-wise not relating to the cold...I'm not sure if I want to go into specifics on the internet or not but it is quite worrisome and I might try and find a walk-in clinic tomorrow if it doesn't stop. It could turn out to be nothing but it's something I need to find out about to have peace of mind.

School has been...okay. I'm still trying to fit in with my classmates, as pathetic as that sounds, but they're all very very nice (minus a few exceptions...more on that later). A little whiny and over achieving, but nice.

Want to hear about the elementary school bullshit about me today? Sure you do!

So, right in the first week of classes, we had a little workshop where we each had to talk about a general topic in the front of the class for about 2 minutes (things like "What was your favorite vacation?", etc). This just revealed what your habits were when you were presenting and have the class give feedback. So, I give mine, and the only feedback I got from both the teacher and the class was I needed to make more eye contact with my classmates (I looked either at the back of the class or down on the table) and watch my hand movements (I talk with my hands a lot). These are both acceptable and things I can work on.
Then during lunch, one of my classmates comes up to me and says "You know what else you were doing wrong? You were doing *STIT* a lot and it was distracting. I was actually was counting them."
Press your tongue at the roof of your mouth and pull it off quickly. That's what the *STIT* is. I've been doing that ever since I can remember and it's one of those things I just can't help and I don't even realize I do it anymore. The last time someone brought it to my attention was in Grade 6. Seriously.

Let me tell you more about this classmate though (let's call her Curly). Unfortunately, she's my Regina classmate. When you're talking to Curly and you have a differing opinion than her, you're either wrong or disgusting.

Examples:
Someone: "Oh, I like mushrooms."
Curly: "Ew. I HATE mushrooms. I don't know how ANYONE can eat a FUNGUS. It's just DISGUSTING."

Curly: "My step-sister is so lazy. She didn't get her first job until she was 16. I've been working since I was 12. She also gets everything handed to here on a silver platter. She got a car for her birthday. I had to pay for my own car. I hate her."
This one particularly pissed me off....I didn't get my first job until I was 19, and if I got my license today, there would be a car in the driveway for me. I guess I'm lazy too.

Curly: "I didn't grow up with any videogame consoles and I don't see how anyone can just sit and stare at a screen all day. Like, get a life."

Gets kind of annoying after awhile, doesn't it? I think I've heard her unwanted opinion on thousands of topics so far and I've only known her a month.

Well, after her little comment about my *STIT* (and she was the only one to bring it up with me) I politely thanked her. She looked like she had more to say but she went off on her merry way.

So, what was the point of that workshop? Well, at the beginning of September, we were all given topics that we had to do research on and present it to the class as a 15 minute oral presentation (which happened this last Tuesday). We also had a study sheet on our topic due the week prior to these. Of course, the entire class freaks out and they all start it the first week and gather up 50 articles each, read them all, start their presentation 3 weeks before etc, etc.
Well, me being Little Miss Procrastinator, I did my study sheet the night before. When I handed it in, I looked at some others who probably had three times more than I did, but whatever.
I also did not start my presentation (on PowerPoint, since everything is done on PowerPoint in this school) at 11pm the night before and finished it at around 1am. It was only about 12 slides but for 5%, that's all it was getting.

So, day of the presentations. I was talking to one of my other classmates, and she also only had 12 slides, so I knew I wasn't the only one. Since everyone is eager in this class, I was the last person to go on that day, which isn't the greatest spot to be in, but I really wasn't nervous for whatever reason.
Holy shit. I swear to God, this one girl was up there for an hour. People went into unbelievably great detail, like too much that it made their presentations very hard to understand. Not all of them were like that but a great many were. It was crazy. I think average presentation was seriously half an hour long. Also: pretty much everyone read off their slides, which is a personal pet peeve of mine.
So, I'm the last one, I'm kind of chuckling as I go up there because I know my presentation is a pile of shit compared to everyone else. But, I do it. I still wasn't really nervous and I knew enough about my topic to basically expand on every point without the use of notes. I think that's how people should be when they use PowerPoint, but anyway....I get through it. I didn't really pay attention to the clock but it felt like I was up there for about 5 minutes. At that point, I didn't really care but I wasn't expecting the best mark especially compared to my classmates.

So, we got out marks back yesterday. I was preparing myself for at most a 70%. Not quite:
Study Sheet 10/10
Presentation 38.5/40
DEAR GOD WHAT?
I was stunned. I only lost marks on my voice clarity and the fact I didn't interact with the audience. Whatever, I could have danced. And talking to one of my classmates (Joelle), who had a half an hour long presentation which had lots of class interaction had the same mark as me. And everyone was complaining how they were docked marks for length and stuff. I just couldn't believe it.

So, that was Tuesday.

So, today, I'm in the Resource Center on the computer with Joelle and she asks me:
"Did Curly ever talk to you after your presentation?"
Me: "Uh, no, why?"
Joelle: "She wanted to talk to you about one of your idiosyncrasies."
Me: "Well, she did come up to me after that workshop she did about my *STIT* thing but I didn't hear anything form her after this last presentation."
Joelle: "Yeah, she was going on and on about it after you were done. I couldn't believe it. Like how old is she again? It just really annoyed me."

Oh. My. God. I wanted to go up to Curly and punch her in the face. I should mention that she sounded like a fucking robot during her presentation but you didn't hear anything out of me. But you know what? If I'm presenting a topic, I'd rather focus my attention on that topic then spend my time fixing one thing I do that annoys one other person in this class (that I know of). Like, I didn't even know I did it when I was up there. And I'm pretty sure our teacher or someone else would have mentioned it to me if it was completely obvious. It's like Curly was just waiting for it purposely to hold it against me. UGH. I wanted to say something to her today but I didn't want to turn it into a drama bomb for this class so I kept my mouth shut.

I can't fucking stand people like that. People who are just there to pick out your faults and compare other people to themselves and make it seem like their superior. But I have to suck it up as I'll be working closely with her for the next two years. FUN!

Anyway, on to happier things....
Last Friday night, I babysat my little cousin. I can't even remember the last time I babysitted so I knew this was going to be an interesting night. However, my uncle and aunt were only gone for 2 hours, so I survived....I guess. The first thing Nathan (my cousin) did when we walked into the house was trip over himself and gave himself a fat lip. However, he's one of those kids who will injure himself, cry for 20 seconds and then run off to play again. Actually, he had a number of cuts all over himself because of him "helping" his Dad build the house. He's going to be pretty tough when he grows up, I think.
Anyway, before they left my uncle warned me that Nathan had to pooped yet today. Greeeeat. This kind of made me paranoid but thankfully it never did happen. They also told me that he had just taken a nap so he probably would have been up till 11pm or so, which was fine with me.
So, first hour was good, we dug through his toy box, I found his little hiding stash of toys around the TV and he kind of copied me playing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on the xylophone (I could actually hear some of the right notes whenever it was his turn to play....it was pretty cool).
And then...he started calling (in toddler-ese) upstairs. Last time I was there, he would do that whenever he wanted to see Mom. Uh oh. I tried distracting him which worked for about another 20minutes and then he ran back and called upstairs again. I tired distracting him AGAIN but he wasn't buying it and this is where the evening took a bad turn.
At this point, he wanted to go upstairs. There was a gate across the bottom of the stairs so I wasn't sure I was allowed to take him up there, so I tried telling, him "Oh, not right now." and such. And then came the screaming. I tried giving him is bottle and a soother but he didn't want them, so I figured if I just watched him closely enough, he should be okay to go upstairs. So, I spend a minute trying to figure out the gate (I hate child proof things) all the while he's still screaming at me. I open the gate and he goes running upstairs. He runs to every single bedroom just screaming and crying his head off , trying to look for his parents. How do you tell a 1.5 year old that his parents will be home in an hour? I wasn't sure so I just followed him and let him tantrum at me. I tried to hold him to calm him down a few times but he was done with me, so that sure as hell didn't work. Eventually, we ended up in his bedroom and he sat behind the chair and cried for a few more minutes. He didn't even want me near him at this point, so I just stayed away until he calmed down a bit. There was a pillow on the floor of his bedroom and he laid down and sort put it on top of him and I noticed he was starting to rub his eyes. So, I put him in his crib (which made him scream at me some more) and I put the pillow he was clutching on the floor in there with him, and sat in his room until he just sort of cried himself to sleep. This was at 8:30pm. I spent the rest of the night with their two dogs on my lap.
My uncle and aunt came home at 9pm. First thing they of course noticed was that Nathan wasn't there. When I told them he went to sleep already, they sort of just looked at each other, looked back at me, and said "What?" Apparently, this kid going to before 10pm was highly unusual, especially since he had a nap before I arrived.
I told them what had happened and my uncle jokingly said "So, I guess you won't be coming back..." I laughed. While it wasn't the smoothest evening, I didn't really mind being yelled at by a toddler for half an hour. I have a feeling that if I can suck the energy out of their kid like that, that I will be asked to come back. LOL
Overall, I don't think I'll be winning the Babysitter of the Year award but I figure the evening could have been much worse. At least he didn't poop.

I also went to Polo Park mall a couple of weekends ago. I was hoping for the Disney store, but it is gone unfortunately. I did buy a few DVDs (including House: Season 4!) and went into La Senza for some new bras and pajamas. You know....I think I might be addicted to bra shopping now. I LOVE my new ones.
There was also a Lulu Lemon store there. I decided to check it out since people lined up for miles for their Warehouse Sale in Regina. I was....unimpressed. A stretchy black T-shirt (think Hanes undershirt) was $50. WHAT THE FUCK? I think I found one nice sweater which I might have considered if it wasn't $120. Goddamn.

So, I went to McDonalds yesterday. It still feels like I work there. Urgh. But anyway, the service was terrible. There was only one girl working the counter during the supper rush, which was hard in our little restaurant, much less a huge one like this. I finally get my food and sit down, and these skeezy teenagers sat down in the booth ahead of me. I think my IQ dropped like 50 points. The guy was bragging about his $550 pair of sunglasses (same ones Jay-Z has apparently) for like 10 minutes straight. Sad thing was the girl with him was hugely impressed. I couldn't stop laughing.

Speaking of food, I need to get some supper.

Tah!

Winnipeg sucks.

2008-09-10T15:50:00.000-07:00

Soooooo....a fuck ton has happened since I last blogged. I hate to keep giving the "I'm busy" excuse but the last month has been nuts.

Long story short: I passed my orientation and am now typing on a laptop in Winnipeg.

Orientation was...annoying. I had something due every single day and I was kind of frusterated that I was spending my last two weeks in Regina (for 4 months) doing homework instead of hanging out with my friends and family. Also: the final exam was on a Wednesday, so after we were done it, it felt like we shouldn't be back on floor and we should just go home.

On top of all this, we also had homework from Winnipeg to somehow squeeze into this time and I had one weekend to pack. So, yeah, I didn't really appreciate my last week being a whirlwind of assignments, moving and trying to squeeze whatever time I had to friends and family.

However, the last night I left, I did see the Backstreet Boys. I know certain people were making fun of me for it but you know what? It was one of the best concert experiences I've ever had. Hell, even Tristan enjoyed himself and I don't think he even knew a BSB song.

Winnipeg....has been interesting to say the least. The woman who took me in, Suzanne, is extremely nice and had a nice little loft set aside for me in the attic. I was expecting a small, crappy bedroom but I have more than enough space for everything I have and I could run laps around my room if I wanted too. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Suzanne works at the hospital right across from the school so she was able to show me where it was on the first day. The classroom is pretty nice...three long tables with business chairs for each of us. There's thirteen people in this class, so we're a pretty small group. The one thing that I'm still getting used to is being in that classroom for 7 hours a day. There's no windows or anything around so after awhile it feels like you're in a prison or something, despite how nice the classroom is. Everyone is pretty laid back in the class but they also seem to be over-achievers, which sort of irks the procrastinator in me. Apparently last year's class was very slack. We seem to be the opposite, loser class.

One thing that annoys me about school is how many bloody oral presentations have to be given. I absolutely loathe oral presentations and there's usually one everyday. And for every we started class, we had to introduce and talk a little bit about ourselves. We've had to do this 7 times over the course of the week. SEVEN TIMES. And it wasn't new information, it was the same stupid speeches over and over again. I wish they got all the teachers in on the first introduction and let it be that, but of course not.
While a lot of these oral presentations usually take about 2 minutes, I have to give a 15 - 20 minute one on the 23rd about Radiofrequency Ablation. UGH.

Also, Winnipeg sucks. Everything about this city is disgusting, unorganized and just plain confusing. I think I need to take a day trip to a nicer part of town sometime. I'm planning on going to the Polo Park mall this weekend hopefully get something there.
I think the most difficult thing about living on my own here so far is groceries. Since I don't have a car and I don't like taking a bus for 4 blocks or whatever, I'll walk with my groceries home. Well, my first trip (which I didn't get everything I was hoping for) I had about 50 pounds of groceries to carry home. I ended up borrowing a Zellers basket to carry them all, which I felt really bad for, but there was no way I was carrying 7 bags in two hands. Also: I hate cooking so all I've been doing is making pasta or soup so far. I did make one nice meal with pasta, fish and veggies the other night but I don't want to do that every night. If I ever move in with Tristan, he's doing all the cooking because I fucking hate it.

So, yeah, it's hard to believe it's only the second week. I am going home in November during my midterm break, so that's something nice to look forward to. Not sure what the plans are for Thanksgiving though....maybe I can just head for my uncle's place but we'll see.

Anyway, I'm tired, hungry and a buttload of homework to do so I should best be going. I'll try and update more often but no promises.

Tah!

21!

2008-08-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

So, it was my birthday yesterday. It was pretty chillaxed. No one was home during the day so I decided to walk down to the South McDonalds to get my orange cup. That was pretty nice, except it was really freaking hot. When I got there, I got up to the counter and the first thing the cashier says to me is: "Wow, now I'm serving you and you're behind the counter!". I gave him a puzzled look. Apparently I had served him at the University location. Am I only the only who doesn't remember food service people unless they were really bad? I said as much and he was like "No, no you were good!" Whatever.
I also got an Iced Cap, walked back home and watched What Not to Wear with Nikki (who laid in my lap).
So, I decided on Bushwakkers for my birthday supper, but there was a home Rider game so we needed to be there pretty early. So, as soon as Mike and Tristan came, we headed there.
So, I went in Tristans car....everyone else went into Dads.
We get there and Tristan has to parallel park, which he hasn't done in awhile. This took him like 4 trys (hahaha) and a soon as he pulled it off, Mike gave me a call and said that the place was absolutely packed and we needed to head somewhere else. Dad suggested Tony Roma's which was fine by me, so off we went.

This was the part of my night that made me question Tristan's mentality.
Regina, is not that big and it's very hard to get lost because it's pretty much like a grid. There are two main streets that run North to South that run right through the down town: Broad Street and Albert Street. Tony Romas is on South Albert St.
I'm actually going to take the time and use Google Maps to illustrate this becuase this was just beautiful.
Here is the general area in question. Broad St doesn't stop at the highlighted part and, rather it does all the way through the city. Red dot is Bushwakkers. Blue dot is Tony Romas.
Suggested route will be in purple. Actual route will be in green (Note: I suck at keeping a straight line with the mouse)

So, first thing we did was head east, away from Albert St. I thought he was just going to take Broad St.
Until we headed north.
I didn't say anything about it at this point. I think I was telling a story or something.
Then we headed east.
Me: "Babe, where are we going?"
Tristan: "I'm trying to get to Albert St."
Me: "You realize thats in the complete oppostie direction?"
Tristan: "But that's Broad St."
Me: "Yes, but here's Broad *put out my right hand* and here's Albert *put out my left hand*"
Tristan: "Oh. I always get confused with these side streets."
Me(thinking): The side streets have nothing to do with this.
Me: "Just get back to Broad and turn left."

So, we do and we head South on Broad. He keeps saying we have to go back onto Albert but I tell him to take Hillsdale and then 23rd avenue to Albert St. I just want him to stick to major streets.
So, we get to here. Looking at the map, the west street is Hillsdale (which I said to take) and the right is Wascana Parkway, which goes by the Univeristy.
Annnnnnd he bypasses Hillsdale and takes the Parkway.
Me: *trying not to laugh*
Tristan: ".....I missed Hillsdale, didn't I?"
Me: "Yup. How long have you been living here? 20 years?"
Tristan: "Well, yeah, but I only go downtown to work."
Me: "Yeah, I go downtown about rarly and still know it better than you do. You should really drive around the city more."
Tristan: "Well, at least I have a driver's license!"
Me: "What's the point of it if you don't know where you're going?"
I probably sound like a nagging bitch, but I don't think there's any excuse for this. I wouldhate to see him in Toronto or Ottawa. Christ almighty.
At this point, my last suggestion was to take the Ring Road (Trans Canada Hwy) and head to Albert St. from the South. But he wanted to apporach it from the north, so we went inner city. Note: the black dot in my house so he's knows his way around this area enough to get to Albert St. Thank God.

First thing my parents asked when we finally got to Tony Roma's was "Did you get lost?" Hahahaha.

So, after supper, which included such events as Dad chugging wine and an old lady using Mike's butt as support, we went home for cake and presents.
I was still pretty full, so we decided to open presents first. Here's the official list!

VGR: Lunar: Silver Star Story - Part 7. (Yes, I'm considering this a birthday present)
Holy mother fucking of shit, did I squeal when I saw this. Well worth the wait!

Nana: $50
Nana is always good for money and a sappy card.

Tristan: 5 packs of Chocolate Pocky
5 packs of Strawberry Pocky
Super Smash Brother Brawl for the Wii
A baton for my keychain
Harvey Birdman: Season 1 and 3 (I already had Season 2)
Final Fantasy IV for the DS
SQUEE! He didn't go overboard (except with the Pocky) and it was all things I wanted! He had little sticky notes on everything of inside jokes and things (for the Pocky - "The Winnipeg Sugar Stash" or on Harvey Birdman - "This was almost a Charmed DVD set". I hit him for the latter one.) He has a baton of his own for when he's downtown and he's always worried about me walking around so he also gave me one. Now I hit people. woot!
Annnnd, no cats or penguins!

Mike: Oblivion for the PS3
Harvey Birdman: Seasons 1 and 3
Hahaha. This is what happens when I give people lists. Mike is giving me the reciept today so I can exchange it. Still don't know what I'll get but we'll see. I've been meaning to pick up Oblivion for awhile so that was also a nice treat.
Also, he has continued the tradition of funny cards.
Envelope: "Name of Reciever" (I looked at him oddly about this and he said it fit with the rest of the card)
Outside: "It's your BIRTHDAY! This is a CARD!"
Inside: "This is the INSIDE OF THE CARD"
What what he wrote: "MY NAME goes here."
Thanks, Mike. Although nothing can top the piece of paper with "Insert card here." from last year.

Parents: BSB tickets
Cross Stitch Kit
iPod Dock Station
Music Box from Germany/Switzerland
FUCK YEAH! I already knew about the BSB tickets so I wooped when I saw them again. I didn't put any cross stitch kits on my list because I have too many already but Mom seems determined that I have as many as she does. iPod Dock was exactly what I wanted and the music box is absolutely beautiful. It's kind of weird though....very Victorian on the outside and a pink fuzzy interior. I'm not sure that goes together.

Ryan: A drink and some calamari at Trifons!
Thanks, Ryan! We need to go drinking for real some time on our Symphonia nights!

One thing I was sort of wanting was a laptop but Mom said that I can borrow Dad's when I'm in Winnipeg so now I'm not worried.

So, that's the birthday, but I gotta go and get ready for "date night".

Toodles!

Guess it's time to put on some pants...

2008-08-03T14:14:00.000-07:00

So, my parents are coming back today. Although my brother and I are trying to figure out what flight they're coming in on since they left us no travel information whatsoever. Dad called Mike at 4 am last night and Mike can barely remember anything he told him. But we think the flight is delayed. Le sigh.

So, I am officially done at McDonalds! I worked my last shift with Maryanne, who was awesome as always. The only bad part was that the backend crew was horrendously slow and I was getting very pissed off at them. No customers yelled at me though, which is lucky for them because I wasn't taking any shit that day. :P
But of course, as soon as I quit, they start selling the good shit. Mainly the Olympic Mascot glasses. Holy shit, they're so motherfucking cute. I'm hoping Lily will be able to give me the two new ones tonight.

So, my week and a half alone has been very nice. I definatly did not eat half the food they got for me, but whatever. The important thing wa sthat I did get to have my perogies, which I had to eat over 3 days because I made so much of it. Mmmmm.

So, my birthday is on Thursday and I can't quite put my head around it. I think this whole RT thing has just made me so anxious that I can't get excited for my own birthday. I'm not even sure what I'll be doing for it.

I've started playing Fire Emblem for the GBA again. I did Lyn's story (first 10 chapters) in one night. Now I'm on to Eliwood's story. It's going well except I got frusterated with the fog battle I'm on right now and had to turn it off before I threw the DS against the wall. Otherwise, it's going good.

I started going through the medical terminology book. I was trying to say all the words out loud so I could get the pronounication down. I'm very glad my parents weren't home for that ("Leukocytopenia....hahaha...'penia'"). I still have so much more to go through so that's what I'll be doing for the next few days.

Anyway, I should probably go and do something. Tah!

Hola Keviiiiiiiiin

2008-07-22T15:24:00.000-07:00

First off, go see the new Batman movie. AMAZING. I would go see it for the Joker's "magic trick" alone. It made me miss Heath Ledger because he did such a phenomenal job.

I had to work Saturday to Monday all 3pm - 11pm shifts. They're not the worst shifts but it does get annoying after 3 days of doing it.
So, today, I looked forward to sleeping in and relaxing. But at 12:30pm, Dad came in to my room:
Dad: "Phone for you."
Me: "Are you FUCKING kidding me?"
Dad: "It's not work. It's the MacDonalds across the street (our neighbours). The number started with 79 or something."
Me: "....."
So, I stumble to the phone (I was up until 5am, give me a break!). And I look down at the caller display, which read:

McDonalds
584-3400

FUCK! After rolling my eyes so hard that it hurt, I decline anything Steven asked, accused my Dad of being a liar (he blamed it on "old eyes"....sure man) and listened to my iPod for an hour. And that's how my day started. I can't fucking wait until my parents leave tomorrow so my "young eyes" will be able to see and ignor any damned phone calls from work.

Yes, my parents are heading to Europe tomorrrow for a cruise down the Rhine. Should be nice for them. I just want the house to myself for a couple weeks. Mom and I went out grocery shopping today to pick up foodstuffs. I have PEROGIES! I haven't had perogies in 10+ years. Fuck yeah!

So, I had been trying to find this song for a couple weeks. A cover band played it on Canada Day and Allie and I danced to it. The problem was that the only lyrics I knew was "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah...", which isn't good when trying to find a song. I went on Itunes and listened to anything I could think of to try and find this damned song. Well, yesterday at work I heard it again. But the only other lyrics I could pick up and remember were "Come on baby" and I didn't catch the name/artist.
Well, using that new lyric (surprisingly) I fucking found it: "Mony Mony" - Billy Idol. This might not seem to be a huge ass deal, but I was damned proud of myself for finding it finally.

So, I bought a PS3 game! SingStar! Basically, it's karaoke in your own home. I absolutely love it. I'm not much of a singer but I do enjoy it. The only problem is that sound carries so well in my house that my parents also get a show if they are anywya in the house. Before we went to see Batman, I had Tristan try it out with me. As my Dad put it: "You managed to find a boyfriend who is a worse singer than you." Aww. He was so damn cute though. His voice would crack sometimes when we sang, like a squacky teenager! SQUEE!
I was playing it one night....I think I was singing Creep by Radiohead. If you guys haven't heard of it, there's a long high note in the middle of it. As soon as I attempted to go for that note, I heard a glass break upstairs, which scared me so bad I had to turn the game off. I thought my horrid voice had broke the glass but it was just Dad being a klutz.
Also....I fucking love the Final Countdown.

So, I'm going to a BSB concert at the end of August! Tristan agreed to go with me. Now, there's a great boyfriend for ya! I honestly can't wait though. I've only seen them in pictures so for me to see them for my own eyes will be awesome. Can not wait!

Holy shit, all that SingStar makes me want to go play it! So, I'm off! Hopefully no glass will break this time.

Back from the dead.

2008-07-18T14:46:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been awhile. But I have been busy.

So, I guess I'll start with my news about the RT program.
Right now, I am in. However, I need to demonstrate that I do have the communication skills to work as an RT during the orientation at the end of August. I don't think this will be a problem. I think I'm good at putting any shyness aside when there's a job to get done. So, right now I am working under the assumption that I will be going to Winnipeg this fall. YAY!
I had to go to the doctor yesterday to have a health form filled out. It didn't require a full check-up (which I haven't had since 2001) but she did too some blood pressure and eye tests. Other than having low blood pressure, I'm healthy as a horse.

In preparation for all this, I have quit McDonalds. My last day is July 30th (I said the 31st, but I don't work on Fridays). I would have thought I'd be a little sad about this but I'm not really. Everyone who I've worked with for the past 2 years is also leaving. And with the store kind of going down the shitter, I think it's a good time to jump off the ship. I do feel bad though for the new manager. I think he was happy to have his crew trainer back from vacation and I come back with a 2 week notice in my hand. Oh well.
Apparently I get to work with him on my late night next weekend. At this point, I haven't met him so I'm sure it's going to be an awkward night but whatever.
And as Dad put it, "Maybe they'll stop calling you now."
As, for what I'm going to do for money (as Maureen asked in her blog)....I'm not really sure. I heard school in Winnipeg is much like highschool (8am - 4pm everyday) with university-sized homework. If I get the hang of things at the school and I can fit into my schedule, then I will get a job in Winnipeg. If not, I'll live off the ~$2500 I should have saved by then. Maybe even go back to getting a monthly allowance from Dad (how indignified is that though?). I hate the fact that I won't be paid for the clinical portions of the program, as they did in the past. If that happened, I probably would have gotten my own apartment close to the hospital but look like I'll be living at home until I'm 23, which sucks.

My vacation was fucking awesome.
Allison first came up to Regina for the first week. Mostly, it was just nights of hanging out with either Mike, Ryan or Tristan but it was awesome.
Canada Day was probably the highlight. Mike took us out for the day in the park where we spent it in the beer tent. Al and I (who look younger than people our age) didn't get IDed once. I never really had beer before but I did try it. Al and I kind of got disgusted by it on our third cans, so we gave the rest of our beer tickets to Mike(it was his birthday the next day so it was an early present from us) and he used them all. He had 11 beers by the end of the night, but he handled it pretty well. But anyway, the whole day was spent singing and dancing to the various cover bands performing and also watching the hillbillies around us getting smashed. I got show my Allison our legislature because we didn't want to use the four portapotties they had for the whole park (Even though we did end up using them. Never again.). The fireworks were unspectacular, as most Regina firework dispalys are and we had to walk home because Mike wanted to get it on with one of his female friends who had joined us. Whatever.
And then we headed off for Kingston/Ottawa. That was also a pretty good time. We didn't do a lot of our "tradtions" (see a Blue Jays game, go to the chocolate or cheese factory, cheat at Wheel of Fortune, have a family reunion, play the art game, etc). Heck we didn't even really shop there. All we really did was eat, watch movies, see the Buskers and play Rummoly. And it was fucking amazing. We watched a total of 8 movies in a span of 5 days, including seeing Hancock in the theatre. The buskers were awesome. The first one we watched was called Dream State Circus, which was a youngish couple performing acrobatics and juggling and stuff. Fucking amazing. The girl juggled while standing on top of the guys head. We decided to go back down another night to see them again, and it was a fire performance which was also amazing.
I also learned how to play Euchre. Euchre is sort of a family traditon for everyone in the family except my mother and I. It sort of get intense (The first time my brother played, they yelled at him for not playing a certain card and said a certain uncle of theirs would have shot him if they saw it. Also everything the family plays, there will always be screaming) so I always avoided it. But while I was down in Ottawa my aunt's brother-in-law insisted that I played with them, so I finally learned. My aunt's husband gets way too fucking into it to the point that it's almost unhealthy. He actually carries around a deck of cards with him and we played it while in restaurants waiting for our food. Everything I did worng, he was sure to point it out. It was so bad that I almost said to him "You know what? I'm laying down this fucking card. Deal with it." Actually, if my aunt wasn't in the room I probably would have but she's cool and I don't want to cause a rift because I insulted her "wonderful" husband. That's another story entirely though.
And I won the Rummoly Queen title this year! We absolutely stomped Nana, who always insisted that she is the almighty Queen of it. Haha, not this time!
We also saw a couple plays. We saw Les Miserables at the Ganonoque Playhouse, which was fucking amazing. I've never seen it before and they did a great job for playing on suck a small stage. I bought the soundtrack when I got home and I still get chills when I listen to the beginning of it. We also saw Cinderella at a little church which wasn't as great. Ever see a Cinderella adaption where they make Pokemon jokes? Yeah, me neither. Doesn't really work. I think I was laughing more at the preschoolers in the front row because they were actually dancing to some of the songs and stuff. Cute!
There were a couple of not so good points though. There was a couple of days where Aunt Flo decided to make her presence known and I was sort of down and out. Usually it only last one day but this went on for the better part of two, which is so rare and it sucked. This included the first day we went to Buskers. I kept having to stop and either sit down or just pretend to fiddle with my sandal so I could crouch for a minute. I felt horrible about it because I didn't want to make Allison go home early but I was in so much goddamn pain. Also all of the stores on Princess Street had bathrooms only opened for customers. I had to buy a cookie at a Starbucks (from a cute guy, mind you) to use their bathroom. It wasn't even that good of a bathroom. Ugh. So, yes, for two days I was popping pain killers like House popping Vicadin.
Also, my flight on the way home was quite interesting.
My flight plan was like
Depart: Ottawa @ 6:45pm Arrive: Calgary @ 9:10pm
Depart: Calgary @ 9:40pm Arrive: Regina @ 11:00pm
So, that Calgary connection was very tight as is. But guess what happened to the plane leaving Ottawa? Delayed! For 30 minutes! FUCK!
So, I called Dad up and said that I might not make it home tonight because of this change. He said they should hold it for me, but you never know. Apparently after that conversation he called WestJet and yelled at them for an hour to hold this plane for me. Oh, Dad...
So, we finally leave Ottawa (I was moved up to the first row so I could leave first). I found out that there was about 10 people on this Calgary flight going Regina, so they made a PA saying they'd hold the plane for all of us, which was nice of them.
When we landed in Calgary, the 10 of us were let off first and we all rushed to the other gate which was just finishing their boarding. Just in time! So, I let out a sigh of relief that I made it one this plane and I would not have to find a hotel.
Well, not so fucking fast. Everything was fine when we took off from Calgary. All of the sudden there are flashes of light coming for the window. We were flying over a storm cloud that was emitting lightning every few seconds. It was pretty cool to look at but I thought we were going to be struck by an upward bolt or something. Can lightning even shoot up? Anyway, it was ominous flight nonetheless.
So, it was time for our descent into Regina. Has anyone ever been on a plane going through a storm cloud? I have been a couple times and while it was scary before but this time took the fucking cake. It would feel like we'd just randomly drop 1000ft every few seconds and the plane was rocking so badly that I had to put my arms on the wall of the plane to keep from whapping my head against it. I'm usually not afraid of flying but I thought I was going to faint because I could have sworn the plane was out of control. There was this huge firefighter type guy sitting beside me and he was even clutching the seat in front of him and praying. Not fun.
So, finally, we get out of the cloud, and we see the lights of Regina. At this point I'm chanting under my breath "LandtheplaneLandtheplaneLandtheplane". I wanted off so badly. So, anyway, we sort of fly past Regina and the plane turns around. I just thought we were getting a better angle at the airport....until we ascended again. Right back into that motherfucking cloud. At this point, I wanted to cry because I thougth we were going back to Calgary until the captain came on and said that he couldn't land in Regina and we were going to Saskatoon instead. Saskatoon is a hell lot better than Calgary so I felt better staying there if I had to stay the night.
Anyway, it was about midnight when we landed in Saskatoon. We stayed on the plane while the captain was calling people for about half an hour. He then came out to talk to us. The storm had cleared in Regina and he said we would be home that night. However, we needed to refuel and since Saskatoon doesnt have a 24hr gas guy at the airport, they needed to call someone in. So, they let out into the boarding lounge in the airport, which was aweosme because there were vending machines, real bathrooms and a lot of places to walk around. Well, this fuel guy didnt come until 1:15am. There was a scary moment where the WestJet woman closed the doors to the airplane but we were just changing gates. So, we finally left at 2am for Regina.
When we finally got there (with a smoother descent) at 2:45am, Dad was there to greet me with this huge mocking grin on his face. Apparently his bad travel luck has finally rubbed off on me. Wonderful.
So, all and all, I think Ill be happy not to board another plane for another year. I had all I could handle that night.

Anyway, hopefully thats a good enough update. I need to get ready for Batman tonight! WOOP!

Don't touch the watch.

2008-06-20T14:41:00.000-07:00

Hahaha...oh wow I'm terrible. I have really no excuse because I've been pretty lazy this whole summer. Sorry guys!

So, updates on the whole RT thing.
The interview went extremely well. It was an awesome idea to go right at 8:30am because I had no real chance of being nervous or whatever. And honestly, the whole thing felt like a conversation than anything. I even had an answer for the "tools" quesiton I didn't get last year. The only thing that kind of stumped me was "What motivates you to work hard?" question. I said that seeing myself personally successful was what motivates me. Or something to that effect. And then she says, "You didn't really answer the question...what motivates you?" I was really confused. I don't know if she was just saying "That answer wasn't good enough. Try again." or something but it was really weird.
Then, they invited me to spend a day in the RT department, That was really interesting actually, if not a little eye opening. I was sort of just an observer and the first paitient they had in was a woman getting radiation on her breast. And of course the shirt came off. The was this moment of panic from me of "Should I look at the wall? Do I just walk away? Does she even care?". One of the next paitients had a giant hole where his nose should have been. I think its things like that that are going to make me a little queasy but I guess it's just something you get used to. But other than that, it was a really cool day. It was just a touch overwhelming but I think any new environment you go into is like that.
Right now, I'm waiting on a final confirmation. I'm not sure if their still deciding or what, but I think I'll wait until the end of next week to ask what's going on. It has been 2 weeks and I would like a little letter syaing if I got in or not. I'm just paranoid like that, I guess.
But if I do get in, I'm also faced with a new set of problems: Winnipeg. I'm not sure where I'm going to live. I don't think the Red River College has dorms (or at least i cna't find them on the website) so I probably will have to get an apartment. How am I going to pay for it? If Dad is paying for a $10K tuition, I don't want him paying my rent as well. Am I going to have to find a job while I'm down there (I'll be going to school 8 hours/day, so this would not be desired)? It's only for 2 four month stints but it's fucking scary. Anyway, those are just some things I've been pondering.

So, I got a new bed last weekend. For 17 years, I've been sleeping on a twin bed. The last 5 years, I've been sleeping on one half of my brother's bunk beds that he's had since he was three years old. So, yeah, it was time for a change. And that change came in a Queen Size. It's HUGE. It takes up pretty half my bedroom and my room is not small. It's also elevated. My old bed was about a foot off the ground, this is 3 feet off the ground. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it.

Work has been alright.
McDs has been kind of sketchy on my hours. One week I'll work 11 hours and the next I'll work 25 hours. other than that, I've been in backend a lot lately, and training new people. Next week, I'm actually working a lot of 11-6's or 12-7's which doesn't usually happen. I kind of hate those shifts because you have to do both lunch and supper rushes. Ugh.
Marking has been alright. Their midterms and second assignments both came within a week of each other, so I didn't really get a break last week. It was funny though, the 2nd assignments were due last Tuesday at ~6:30pm. At 5:30pm, the prof calls me at home to say that he's really sick and wants me to hand out the assignmetns and give out evaluations. This class is not small (around 70 people) so I didn't know how I was going to handle myself.
It went alright though. I wrote any information they needed on the board (which sucked because I can't write on chalkboards) and handed out the evaluations and let them pick up their assignments. I think they were really excited that they didn't get a 3 hour class that day. I also had to re-mark a lot of students assignments because he told them something was right when I was marking them wrong for it, which was fine. The funniest part was at the end, this guy stuck around and was like "So...how long have you been marking?" and other chit-chatty stuff. I'm not sure if he was trying to suck up to me or something but I thought it was really funny.

So, Mom and Mike's birthdays have both been shopped for and I went to get their cards yesterday. Birthday cards really do suck. And someone in Carlton cards really stank.
I also picked up some clothes for myself and DVDs. I was so excited when I saw the Sword in the Stone at HMV that I had to pick it up. I also got American Psycho, which they IDed me for. Fucking hell. But to see Christian Bale's ass, I'll do anything. <3

So, my neighbourhood has been completely overrun with canker worms. It's just fucking disgusting. They actually had about 10 foot webs running across my lawn and stuff. I think the city has been around to spray so it's not as bad anymore but it is still kind of bad.

So, the other day, I got the newspaper out of the mailbox and something caught my eye on the front page. My, god it was AJ McLean....and the other boys! And what was written under them? "Backstreet Boys to play Brandt Center on Aug. 30" I could have died right fucking there. I think actually did a jig. Honestly, I've been waiting for them for fucking EVER. A couple years ago, I thought about going to Toronto to see them but I thought that was the only place I could go see them live. I guess this is one of the perks of them kind of not being as popular as they used to...they can play in crappy cities like mine! SQUEE!
But anyway, Dad offered to buy the tickets for me as my birthday present, which I accepted. Mom offered to go see them with me so I won't a total loser and be going by myself. LOL But YAY! I'm so excited! Now only if Linkin Park can play a show in Regina....

So, this summer has been pretty good for movies....so that what Tristan and I have been doing lately. We saw Iron Man (fucking awesome), Narnia(also awesome...espceially the retarded bear), Kung Fu Panda (awesome as well), Zohan(pretty dumb but had its moments) and I'm thinking we're seeing Hulk tonight. I also saw Indiana Jones with Ryan and Phil. It had its moments but there were points in the movie that were so stupid you just had to shake your head. I'm also excited to see Get Smart and Wall-E. Tristan and I are also drooling over The Dark Knight. I've said it before and I'll say it again....that movie is going to break fucking RECORDS. I've never been creeped out by the Joker before and I've only just seen the few glances of him in the trailers. HOLY SHIT!

Anyway, I'm getting warm being upstairs and I'll think I'll go sit in the cool downstairs and watch What Not to Wear. TAH!

Haaaaayll NO.

2008-05-22T14:04:00.000-07:00

Shit guys, remember when I updated this thing every week? Those were good times.

While I haven't updated this in awhile, a lot of things happened this past week that just made it starnge and awesome. The best place to start is last weekend.

It was my manager, Maryanne's, birthday last weekend and even though initially, I didn't think I was going to go, the late night I spent with her made me all excited for it, so I went. And I'm so glad I did.
She picked me up and we went to JD's, her favourtie bar. People kept telling me how bad this place was but I actually liked it a lot. There were a lot of bartenders and the place wasn't packed so it was quite enjoyable. So, we get our drinks and sit down and start talking. I think there was a pub crawl going on so there were a lot of guys there, inculding one dressed like a chick who insisted on standing in fornt of our table, with his hairy thighs in plain sight. Here, she pointed out people who made fun of her, new girlfriends of her ex, and others. She keeps telling me about them but it was nice to put names to faces.
I think after a few drinks someone stole our booth so we went to sit by the dance floor. Here's where the night took a turn....Maryanne's ex-boyfriend showed up. And not just any ex, the ex she's still not over with plus his wife. This guy...unimpressed me. He was so fat and unattractive that I don't understand what she saw in him in the first place. She started freaking out at this point and, for some reason, I wanted her to go say "Hi" to him. I think I wanted her to be the better person but looking back on it, it was really stupid idea. So, we sit down and watch him and his ugly, old wife go at it on the dance floor. Maryanne insisted that he was trying to make her jealous by doing this, but I don't know. He then went off and stared at us for awhile and hung his head in shame. Yeah, you should be doing that buddy. I think at this point, her friend April showed up and she freaked out about him to her.
So, I felt bad about wanting to make her go talk to him, so I asked her what she wanted to do. She said she wanted a smoke. Fine. So, we head out on the patio (where all the smokers were), I whip out $5 from my purse and walked around seeing if I buy a smoke off somebody. First guy said he only had two left, so no. Second guy, who turned out to be the MC, gave it to me for free. Not sure why since I was willing to part with the $5, but whatever. Maryanne told me after that the MC didn't like her and if he had known the smoke was for her, he wouldn't have gave it to me. I swear, she has a paranoia problem or something. Like everyone is out to get her. But I think she's gone through enough shit in her life to warrant this. Poor girl.
So, she calmed down after her smoke and we went back in to sit down. This is the point where everything is a blur. But there are things I do remember. I know I called Tristan at for some reason. I went to the bathroom like 5 times and the pants I was wearing for a pain in the ass to button. Rick (the bartender, also an ex of Maryanne) gave me like three drinks for free but I had to stick my tongue out at one point to get one. Drinks kept showing up in front of my on the table (I'm not sure if I paid for them or not). I talked to Matt (Tristan's best friend and a bouncer there) several times. I think I saw Xin dancing very aggressivly with some guy and maybe talked to her. I danced for a bit and accidently sat down somewhere I wasn't suppose to but Matt came to tell me to get down nicely. OH, and I think I also kicked Dean at one point in the leg, but he ignored me. I should have kicked harder, I guess. Oh, another guy sat down with at one point and we had our pictures taken with him. Still don't know who he was. And the last thing I remember is some random girl asking me if I had too much to drink. Fuck knows who she was.
After that, we left to go to Dennys and I sobered up at this point and actually was aware of my surroundings. The waiter there was probably one of the dorkiest guys I've ever seen, and his name was Maurice for cripesake. I think I gave him the $5 for putting up with us drunk chicks. I ordered some mozza sticks but could only eat one. And then when we got in the car, we found out that Maryanne was sitting on a tub of butter. Who the fuck keeps butter in the back seat of a car? I thought this was hilarious.
SO, Maryanne was sober enough to drive me home but first we stopped at McDonalds and said "hi" to Charmaine and David. I took off my shoes because they were hurting and walked around lobby and the kitchen in my bare feet. Probably not the most santiary thing to do, but whatever. After talking for a bit, I was tired so I walked (read: stumbled) home to go to bed.
Awesome, AWESOME night.

So, the other night after working, I come home and the first thing Dad says to me is: "Megan, I was looking at a car for you today." WHAT? Apprantely some guy was asking him if he wanted to buy a car and Dad says "well, it's a little early but let me see it." It was a stick shift, so he didn't but it, thank goodness. I can't get over how freaking generous my father is. I keep telling him to go buy a car for himself and I'll find my own way, but Mom thinks that he gets some pleasure of buying expensive stuff for people. I think the day I get my licence, he'll probably have a new car for me in the driveway the day after. Unbelieveable.

So, I beat Apollo Justice the other day. I don't know if I'm just bad at guessing endings but I did not see the some moments in the last case coming at all. Like holy shit. I actually teared up a little bit because I was so happy for everyone. And Phoenix is ADORABLE. I love the "hobo" look, I don't care what anyone else says. And something he says at the end gives me hope that he'll be coming back to law. I so want to play as snarky Phoenix, so I hope he does.

I also beat Shining Force! I think after playing Fire Emblem, I see the usefulness in magic users and snipers now, so that was basically my whole party. And it was pretty easy. I still don't get how the hero survives and goes off somewhere else. At least Bowie married a princess with huge tits, so maybe Max is a gay or something.

I've been working a lot lately. Since minimum wage went up, I now make $9.15/hour, which I think is just nuts. It's rare my pay cheque to be under $400, which used to only happen if I worked 35 hours/week. It's pretty nice.
One thing that happened yesterday though, which makes me feel depressed....someone abandoned a 4 year old kid at our store. This happened before I came so I only heard about it. He was playing around lobby for about an hour before someone noticed him. He didn't speak English so we couldn't get a name or age out of him or even where his parents were. So, Charmaine just babysat him until Child Services came. No one ever did come and ask about him, which we were fully expecting. I just find it so ridiculous that someone would leave him at a fucking restaurant to fend for himself. It was lucky he didn't get outside or who knows where he would have ended up. Poor liitle guy. Hopefully they find a good home for him.

So, I get my first batch of assignments to mark tonight. I'm hopign he uses the same question, but I think he's the type to switch them up. I have to get them done by Tuesday though, so that will be my weekend. It's nice to not have school though, so I do have free time.

Also on Tuesday: my RT interview. It's weird, this time last year, I was absoltuely freaking out about it but now...I want to do it. I think I just want it over and done with, like ripping off a bandaid or something. Now that I know what to expect, I think I'm more relaxed which I think can only help. We'll see!

So, my aunt recently bought a new dog. It started having seizures so she took him to Saskatoon to have him checked out and she stopped by our house on her way and broguth this dog into our house. That was...exciting. I have never heard Winston hiss at anything before but I don't blame him as this dog was quite excitable. We were just worried because since we haven't cut Winnie's claws in awhile....if he took a swipe at this puppy, there would have blood. Our aunt said this was okay though, but I was sort of on edge the whole time. It was so nice to see my aunt though because it's been a couple years since she's come down.

Speaking of Saskatoon, I had a great time there. Shopping was excellent and the Phantom was beyond amazing. However, we went to see the 2 pm showing, and it was my Mom and I plus 20 school groups. Why you would take a class of 7 year olds to this, I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever seen that many people get up to go the bathroom during a performance before. Also, a woman came in 20 minutes late and they sat her right in front of my mother in a chair that had her a foot taller than everyone else. Goddamn. Other than that though, it was amazing. The set was absolutely spectacular, although I think they could have done the chandlier better. It fell kind of slow...

Anywho, I'm going to run and watch some Survivor or something. Tah!

POOP BAG!

2008-05-07T06:55:00.000-07:00

So, it's currently 7:52 am right now and I haven't slept yet. For some reason, I am just not really tired. It'll probably hit me around 3pm or so, but at the moment, I'm quite chipper.

So, like I said...this semester was not too bad at all (except for Math). I got 80's in three of my classes, which I don't think has happened in my University career. I really need to drop classes before the due date though, because that Math mark is a freakin shit stain on my transcript.

So, I'm happy because Mike cut his hair and shaved his monster goatee. I haven't seen his hair this short in over a decade so it's a pretty big deal. He was scared of the whole process so he took the digital camera and documented it, which I thought was funny. He looks so good now (he kind of looks like a young Tom Hanks) and I'm willing to bet he'll be hired within a few weeks. Oh yeah, he quit his manager job finally, and we're hoping he'll find a new one before he has to sell his stuff or something to live.

Work has been kind of slack lately. I've been given three shifts a week for some reason. I don't mind though because that leaves me more time for chillaxin. And shopping. The day after finals were over, I walked to the mall and bought ~$400 worth of clothes. The good news is that I'm fucking set for the summer. I even bought a pair of heels! I found though that it's really hard at the end of the day to be carrying all those bags when you don't have a car. I ended up going to Mom's office and watching her work for a bit. Fun stuff!

So, I just handed in my application for the RT program. Now, I'm just waiting for the interview at the end of the month. I think there's a better chance of me getting in this year since there's only 5 people applying in Regina for 3 positions. Unless they consider Saskatoon applicants for Regina positions, which would be shitty. Mike was helping me with some of the perfromance examples. I couldn't think of an experience I've had where I solved a problem by analzing the situation. What the hell kind of question is that? It just calls for bullshit, which is what I gave them. So, Mike and I made up this story where I locked myself out of my house and I broke in through the window. Fuck YEAH

So, Tristan got to go to Las Vegas last week. And of course, the boy buys me more stuff than he does for himself. He gave me two T-shirts, a figurine, chocolate, a "growing ninja", macadamia nuts, and a necklace. Jesus. Of course, he got mad at me at the gifts I bought him for his birthday. I don't think there's anyway to win here.

So, with that little update, I'm going to shower, go get some Egg McMuffins and go to the mall for a Mothers Day card. Tah!

"From my point of view, a monkey wrote this script with his penis."

2008-04-11T10:17:00.001-07:00

Christ, has it really been a month since I've last posted?

So, what's been up with me lately? Well, school and work mostly. I've been trying to finish up all the assignments that seem to accumulate on the last week. I am officially done classes and my last final is on the 23rd, so the end is in sight!

Classics was awesome, except for the Logbook. But that was entirely my fault. I had to do 11 entries in 2 days and stayed up till 4:30 am finishing it on Wednesday night. But it's done, so whatever.

The paper for Geography wasn't much better. I just did not give a shit about the whole thing, took huge chunks of quotes from my articales and just sort of summed them up in the next paragraph. I still got 80% on it, so that's cool. I actually really liked Geography, even though some people will disagree. I think it was a matter of getting used to his style of teaching.

I have fully given up on Math. I haven't been there in about 3 weeks, because my time is better spent elsewhere (opportunity cost and all that). So, it'll be a good day when I write that final and finally put myself out of this misery. Why are Math professors at this univeristy so freaking terrible?

Economics went great. I got 41/50 on the second midterm and that basically covered the entire course except one section. So, I don't think the final will be all that hard.

Annnnd Stats? It went well but I found out he's putting an essay quesiton on the final? Huh?

So, I think if I didn't have Math, this would have been a very good semster. I'm just hoping my average doesn;t drop too much because of it.

I have yet to register for classes, but I think I'll do it after finals. Maybe even in June after I find out if I get into the RT program or not. I think I have a good chance because not a lot of people applyed this year and the number usually goes down a lot because people don't go through the process all the way. We'll see.

Work has been...alright, I guess. We just changed our entire menu around so I'm still getting used to the tills and backend. I think I have backend pretty much down now but I think I need a long shift in front end to get used to the till. That might come on my Saturday late night if Maryanne doesn't get better before then (that will be a sucky night).

I have been working with Ryan a lot more lately, since Andrea is gone. On Monday, I had to be by myself in backend from 5pm - 6pm doing orders with 5 or more sandwiches and I think I did decently well. When Frank and Karl came in, Ryan said to them: "Okay, Megan just did this by herself and I didn't have to wait for anything. So, I want you twoo guys to be just as speedy as she was." YAY!
And then I worked with him for 7 hours on Wednesday. It was just me and him after 8pm, so that was fun. Time went by really fast though and I think we did pretty well. He's definatly one of the better managers to work with.

I marked my last assignment as a TA. It went well except the answers he gave we were a little bit wrong. He also wanted me to do a few of the questions and put them in Excel for future markers to have. As he puts it: "I usually do it, but I figure it can fall on your lap this year." Gee, thanks.
He also wants me to mark part of the final exam. Just the multiple choice and another easy section so it shouldn't be too bad. Plus, more money!

So, I am now officially hooked on Rifftrax. Mike has always been my favourtie host and I'm so happy to see him ripping movies again. And compared to the $15/movie I pay for the MST3K DVD sets, $3.99/movie is pretty fucking awesome. They just did Spiderman 3, so I know what I'll be watching after finals are over.

TV has started to pick up again. Hell's Kitchen and the Office is back, and American Idol, Survivor, and Beauty and the Geek are still going strong. Kristy is still on American Idol, which makes me sad. (Here's the performance again, Ryan). I did get HK: Season 1 on DVD the other day which I'm stoked about because I never saw the first season. I only know who won and after seeing the first episode, it's really obvious. And him comparing Dewberry to a muffin is just perfect..

Tristan and I have been movie watching again. I got him to watch Se7en with me. I'm not sure if he liked it or not though. He did guess the twist about two minutes before it happened so props to him for that. God, do I love that movie. The murders are just so fucking awesome.
I feel so bad though because he invited me to another family function last Sunday. I had declined the last few because I had to spend them with my family or I was sick or whatever. So I had every intention on going to this one and what happens? I get a headache. A MOTHERFUCKING HEADACHE. Something I haven't had since elementary school. What the fuck? Am I just cursed or something? I'm probably sending out the worng message to his family but I do really want to see them. Argh.

So, I've been buying shirts again. I absolutely love how long they are, which I need for this stupid body of mine. I love Threadless but their shirts are a little bit too short for me (although I could probably the the next size up). I just need to get to a damn mall and buy some new shorts.

Anyway, I'm hungry so I'm going to get me some Subway. Tah!

A month left....

2008-03-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm am really starting to get fed up with school.

Actually, it's just one class.
I think I'm about to fail another Math class. Hip hip hurrah. I don't know why I can't do this class. In class, it all seems really simple and then I come home, read through my notes and just so fucking confused. This might be because of a few reasons:
1) His notes are a mess.
2) The textbook sucks
3) He picks the hardest examples for assignments.
I started to do the new assignment yesterday and got so fed up on one section that I threw the entire thing in the trash in a fit of rage. I think this is one of the few times I've ever been furious over something school related. I did pick it out this morning (now that I feel better) and will try it again tonight. But I'm really not having a lot of hope for it.
So, yes, at this point I'm asking myself whether this class is worth my time anymore. I will still show up and try to kick butt on the final but if I'm just going to fail anyways...what's the point?
And the thing that makes me mad it that I don't think the material is that hard. I just think the way he presents it is shitty (although he's about a billion times better than my Math 122 prof). I don't know why my marks get so affected by teachers this much....

But actually, it I do fail it and have to take it again next year, I'm not terribly worried. I can take a few more Stats courses that don't require Math 213 and get those out of the way or maybe take more Econ courses. I'm still deciding on that Stats-Econ major. Hell, I could do a Stats Major and Econ Minor too, I guess. Well, see how the summer goes.

Oh, yes, if I haven't said already, I have decided to reapply for the RT program this year. Mom came to me last week and said no people have applyed (usually they get 10-15 around this time) and she thinks I should try it again. What the hell, I said. And you what, I'm really not worried if I get in anymore, so I shouldn't be as nervous at that interview. Fuck that interview.

All my other classes are going swimmingly though, so I guess it isn't all bad. I do have a Geography paper due on Monday which I've not started yet. However, I do the day on Friday, the day of Saturday and all of Sunday to do it so I'm not freaking out. Plus, it's a goddamn 100 level paper....I doubt he'll be expecting great theses of lore. Whatever.

So, I got a chance to work with Ryan this last Monday. I got in there and everything was a disaster. Well, just backend actually, Kyra and a very tired-looking Maryanne were back there. The KVS average was 1:56, which is probably the highest I've ever seen it at 5pm. Nothing was stocked, everything was a mess, so I took over (with Karl) and tried to get it as straightened out as possible. I asked Ryan is it was busy today, which might explain the time being so high and everything else and he replys: "No. Not really. And I'm as pissed as hell about this fucking mess."
Well, I was stocking some reg meat and he comes up to me and says "Megan, when Karl gets back, can you tell him to do a bun pull, a sink wash and put the garbage out? I want you to stick around kitchen as much as possible." I hate fucking telling people what to do. I absolutely loathe it. I feel like I have absoutely no right to tell anyone what to do around there. But I'm not one to piss off my boss so I told Karl (which is a chore in of itself) to do these things. I feel so shitty doing that. I hope Karl didn't take it to mean that I was too lazy to do these things myself.
So, after 7 it was just Karl, Ryan and I, which wasn't bad. Ryan and I helped each other out and Ryan put down product for Karl so we never really had to wait. Karl left after 10, so it was just Ryan and I. This was good, because it gave me a chance to talk to him about being a manager if he needed me to 9since Andrea is on the verge of leaving). I told him that I don't need the money so people who need/deserve it more should be promoted before I do and he told me that I'm one of two people who he can see being a manager in the near future, mainly becaise he doesn't like a lot of peoples work ethic or that some great people work too few hours a week. So, I guess we'll see what happens. I've never been completely against the idea of being a manager, it's just that I don't see myself as one and I don't really need that pay raise. It was nice to finally chat with him about that though.

So, the other day in Economics, the mayor came down to give lecture. I've shaken the man's hand once but have never heard him give a presentation, so it was really interesting. He's actually a pretty cool guy. A student asked him about the recent Maclean's magazine article about Regina being the most dangerous city in Canada. He said (exact words)
"That article came from a magazine with no credibility whatsoever. I believe they said that assault in this city went up 164% since last year. Do you know what that means? We went from 5 assaults to 8. OOOOOH LOOK AT SCARY REGINA! Also, we had five murders last year compared to ten in 2003, all of which were relationship-based and not random. I bet you they didn't say anything about that did they? Yeah, I didn't think so. Notice that I haven't give any public response on it because that article just pisses me off so much."
Dad chimed in to say that on a job interview he was giving, the guy (who was from Nashville) asked about Regina being a dangerous city. Dad told him that Regina saw 5 murders last year, which shut the guy up because 5 murders is probably a weekly occurance in Nashville.
Anwyay, it was a great class. Mayor Pat would be a great Univeristy professor.

So, Tristan and I finished up watching the Lord of the Ring trilogy the other night. I have never noticed how goddamn gay Legolas is. Seriously, he's got a thing for Aragorn. There's nothing else to it. I told Tristan about this and his response was: "You'd like that, wouldn't you?" Well...yes...but that's not the point. I thought he was going to kiss Aragorn in his little princess outfit at the end of RotK. And millions of women FAWNED over him.....GAAAAAAY!
but now I have a craving to read the books again. Dammit.

This week we are going to watch Se7en, which is one of the best movies ever. Minus the fat man penis. I could go about my life happily without seeing that.

Well, I have put away my winter coat for the year and am counting down the days in which I can pull out my sandals. It's getting beautiful out there.
But unfourtunaly all this melting as made problems on my street...again. The lake in front of my house has grown considerably and at one point, the entire street in front of the Presdient's house was covered in water. I usually walk by that way so I had to navigate on a series of snow mounds. It was seriously like navigating across a river. They have paved it since then so now it's just a sheet of ice spanning half the freaking block. Thank you for that, City of Regina.

Reality show update:
Survivor - Fucking Chet. I am so glad he off my TV screen now (until the reunion, that is). My favourite player there had to leave kicking and screaming because he got a goddamn infection in his knee that could have turned fatal for him and this guy complains about his ankle hurting and him needing to leave the game. Even though he could have stayed three more days and pulled one of the greatest tribal councils in the history of this game to save Tracy who has saved his ass time and time again. He is the most pathetic person I have ever seen. Good fucking riddance, asshat.

Beauty and the Geek - ARRRRRRGH WHY DID THEY TURN THIS INTO SURVIVOR: HIGHSCHOOL? Beauties and Geeks need to pair up wiht each other. Now. Although last night's outcome was awesome. "But I puuuuushed iiiiiiit!" Haha, good bye whore!

American Idol - Why they expanded on last week's theme, I do not know. I love the Beatles as much as anybody else, but last week was awesome and they should have left on that high note. All the contestants managed to pick some of the shittiest songs out of the Beatles collection. How the fuck do you do that? The only songs I liked that were picked were Yesterday, which was so generic and Day Tripper, which had a voice box solo. What the fuck?
None of them were really as bad as Kristy's performance last week. Seriously, look at this. This is one of my favourite Beatles songs and I was uncomfortable watching it. BITCH HAS GOTS TO GO!

Anyway, I think I'll end it here. Tah!

Making your way in the world today takes everything you got...

2008-03-03T21:31:00.000-08:00

Shit, it's been awhile. I was going to post but whenever I got to the Blogger website, I didn't feel like doing it. Whatever, I'm sure you all survived.

Break week was awesome but unproductive. Which sucks because I had 3 midterms to study for. But who can study when Nana is in town? It was quite nice to see her. Her expression when she saw Winnie (who has bulked up quite a bit since a year ago) was priceless. Mike actually came over a few times and we watched the Last Samurai and the Oscars the night before she left.

Speaking of the Oscars, Enchanted was nominated 3 times in one category and didn't win? Ouch. It was kind of funny to see Amy Adams up there singing Happy Working Song with absolutely nothing on stage. It made her look kind of wacko.

So, I did complete my cookies for Tristan. I was just going to stop at just cookies, but then he got me a stuffed animal, a real bouquet of roses, a fake bouquet of roses, a Beauty and the Beast picture frame, and truffles, I figured I go the extra mile and get him a couple Wii games as well. Yay.
One thing to note about the cookies though, everything went faster and well (except I kind of burnt my first batch..oops) but I had to make my own icing this year, which I've never done before. Well, Mom described it to me in brief saying put in "a little milk". Well, for some reason, I took this to mean the amount you put into a batch of Kraft Dinner (which is probably 3/4 of a cup) and my first two attempts at resulted in sugar milk, basically. On my third atttempt, I actually looked at a damn recipe and found out I only needed AT MOST a tablespoon. Oops. I sort of wasted a bag of icing sugar doing this so I'll have to buy Mom a new bag.

Work has been alright. I guess. I did work wiht Ryan on my last two shifts which was nice. He's a funny guy to talk to sometimes. He nearly flipped out when he got grease on his white shirt today. Haha.

I got some midterms to mark over this last weekend. Some of them were pretty terrible, but marking-wise, it wasn't bad. I finished in probably 10 hours, which was a alot better than the assignments,

As for my midterms:
1) Math - Let's just not talk about this. Fucked this one right up.
2) Stats - I actually thought this wans't bad but whenever I think that in this class I get a 60 so who knows.
3) Econ - Not bad either. My Ricardian model fucking rocked. The only thing that was bad was that the guy beside me was tapping his pen, sighing, putting his head on the desk, etc whcih was fucking annoying. I don't think he worte anything in the time I was there and went up to Dad after to see if he could his exam weighted to 0%. And he wasn't the only one. Bah.

So, I haven't seen the Fifth Element in probably a decade. I caught a glimpse of it when I was at work and thought it was funny, so I bought the DVD for $10 to watch the rest. It's fucking awesome. But now, everytime I turn on the TV, it's on one of the movie channels. What the fuck?

In fact, I've been watching a lot of movies lately. Like:
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: I had a fun time explaining to Tristan what it was about and how his beloved Agent Smith was a drag queen. Hee!

Little Miss Sunshine: I had heard it was good, so I picked it up in a 2 for $20 thing at HMV. It was so funny. The Grandpa is amazing. However, one part reminded me of my Poppy. The teenage kid's dream was to fly jets, which he had trained close to a year for, only to find out that he was colourblind. This is exactly what happened to my grandfather (he did make Captain in the Canadian Air Force but he was never allowed to fly) and it just made me so depressed. You'd think they'd make special jets for the colourblind but I guess that'd be too much money.

LOTR: Tristan and I watched the Fellowship. He hasn't seen them since they appeared in theatres so I figure we should change that. plus, I do like to watch Aragorn. Hawt.

The Last Samurai: I always cry at the end. ALWAYS. Of course I did this right in front of Mike so he made fum of me. Feh. At least I don't cry over ER.

Rambo: You know, I do like a little gore. But this was 2 hours of exploding people with their red chunks hitting the camera. Not really what I was expecting (I had not seen a Rambo movie before and I probably won't again)

Whee!

So, I'm sure there's other things to talk about but I am tired and going to bed. Tah!

Dishwisher!

2008-02-12T14:44:00.000-08:00

Fuck yes.

So Ryan, you don't post for a fucking month and then you freak out on me after a couple weeks? Chill out.

This weekend sucked. A lot.
I got my first assignment to mark. Now, when I took Econ 201, the assignments were all multiple choice and short answer questions. Hell, it was like that when I took 202. But not this class. The first question and last question could be taken as an essay questions. Then the questions between were all math type questions where I had to make sure they labeled their graphs and all that. I spent 24 hours this wekeend marking and just finished a couple minutes ago. I feel like a weight has been lifted. And some of these people are so fucking stupid that I had actually had to walk away from it at one point. Despite that, the class average was pretty decent, which makes me think I went too easy on them. Oh well.
And not only that, Mother Nature kicked in on Saturday and made me want to die. I wasn't sore or anything but I felt so drained that I thought I was going to pass out a couple of times, including at work yesterday (thank God I only worked 3 hours). Hell, I even stared at a wall for a couple hours without realizing it.
Plus, because of marking and my ailment, I didn't do an assignment this weekend that was due today, couldn't get any studying done for a midterm on Thursday (and I work 8 hours tomorrow) and I couldn't get anything together for Valentines Day. I told Tristan that he'll have to wait until next week until I whip something together (probably cookies) but he understood.
I also had to cancel a dinner with his family on Sunday night. They always time these things well with my cycle. I think this is the 4th time I couldn't go to one of their functions becasue of my thingy.

Friday night was alright. Tristan took me out to dinner and then his friends house to show me Rock Band. It was pretty fun, but I think I should have tried out vocals at least once, no matter how embarassing it would have been. I did try drumming, which sucked. I got 57% on one song and Tristan's friend's friend turned to me and said "Wow. Drumming really blew on that." Well, I'm sorry if I'm not a fucking expert on my first try at it, jackass. Other than that though, it was pretty fun.

And we're seeing Cloverfield next week for Valentines Day! A romantic movie if there ever was one.

I got really giddy the other day when I read VGR's preview to the upcoming FFVII recap(s). They haven't updated it in like 3 years so I'm quite looking forward to it. And they introduce Cait Sith! HEEEEE!

Work has been sort of non-existant. They only booked me for two shifts last week and I'm working only 3 hour shifts this week (except the 8 hour one tomorrow). I'm not complaining.

School has been alright. Everything has been going pretty well but I am scared for a ton of midterms coming up. At least break week, I can get something I done (I hope).

My grandmother is coming down for break week, which will be nice because we didn't see her at Christmas. I'm not sure if mom will be taking the week off, so I'll probably entertain her somehow. I think we have puzzles around here somewhere. I haven't done a jigsaw in a long time.

So, despite my hesitance, I think I'm going to apply for the Radiation School again this year. One of the students this year dropped out (I think this has been like 5th year in a row this has happened) and Mom was talking to one of the coordinators, joking how they should have picked me and she goes "Yeah, looking back on it, that probably would have been the better choice."
So, unless she was saying that to be nice, I think do have a good chance of getting in. My grades have improved, I've taken on another job and thinking about the interview now, that I know what will be going on, I think I can handle it. And I'm not really worried about getting in since I have a back up plan that I like. But this will be the last time I apply, regardless.

I haven't really been playing any videogames lately, but I have been watching DVDs. I finished watching the first volume of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. I have such a huge crush on Gordon Ramsay. Something about a man who swears and has such a passion for what he does. Damn. I can't wait til Hell's Kitchen starts up again.

Speaking of reality shows, both Survivor and American Idol have been awesome. I wasn't expecting Fairplay to be kicked out first on Survivor but oh well. I never did like him. And American Idol is done auditions (which I don't paritcularly like) and is now on to the singing portion, whcih I love. YAY!

Anywho, I'm going to go and bug a cat. Toodles!

No wonder no one lives here.

2008-01-28T22:17:00.000-08:00

So, the weather today absolutely sucked. -46 degrees C with the wind chill and blizzarding. It was actually pretty nice at 9 am, walking to school. But at noon, all hell broke loose. My nice scrapped sidewalk and driveway are now covered in snow drifts. Hell, Mom even came to pick me up today from work. And I live a block away from McDs.

School was interesting today. As Ryan and I made our way to Geography, we were whisked back by an oncoming crowd. Apparently, there was a fire in either the Lab building or Classroom building. I kind of freaked out over this because Dad's office is in the Classroom building and I doubt he'd be happy if his office burnt down while he was away (he's in Palm Springs right now, lucky bastard). But it was just a false alarm so we stil had class.
And I didn't have Econ today either! Whee!

So, Mom and I went shopping last Friday afternoon. We went to Michael's which is my mother's Heaven on earth. There wasn't anything new in the cross stitch aisle but I wanted to pick up some hangers for my bulliten board (one of the previous hangers broke). they were in the picture framing aisle and on the way, we passed these framed Disney pictures for $10 each. I am such a dweeb but I couldn't goddamn resist. Annnnd, they had Belle and Aurora with the same background so they complimented each other. I was shaking, I was so excited.
Than I asked Mom if we could make a stop at Best Buy. So, we go there, and I just like to look up and down the DVD aisle, even if there's nothing I really want. So, I did this and headed toward the videogames. I look up and down the Wii and DS aisle, and then go into the Playstation aisle. There were these two HUGE guys kind of blocking the aisle so I went around to the other side and looked around. Right behind the two guys (though I couldn't reach for it since they took up the whole goddamn width of the aisle) were boxes of Guitar Hero III. I just sort of assumed they were for the PS2 and kept looking. Then, one of the guys picked up a box for GHIII.
On the side of the box, it said "Playstation 3".
After nearly jumping out my skin, I jumped for one (both guys had taken one and another guy was on his way) I ran for the checkout and got a look of death from Mom.

This game is so goddamn addictive. I suck at it, but hoooooly hell is it fun. I got to the last section and failed horribly on the boss. I will try again when I get better at it. Maybe take on medium or something.
Although, I'm going to spin off from this and rant about my boyfriend, bless his soul. For some reason, and I think it's because his all friends do this, he thought he would "show" me songs from GHIII. So, he nearly beat the game on medium. This pissed me off because this was my goddman game and he has already beaten this a long time ago, so there's no reason for it. And I like being able to explore songs on my own and let them be a surprise for when I get them. Well, he sort of ruined that. And he spent an hour and a half doing this. I think I was suppose to be impressed or something but it almost made me fall asleep because what the hell else am I suppose to do? Anyway, that just sort of annoyed. And he's like that with other games too. he wants to tell me plot twists and how to beat bosses I haven't got to, etc. Dude, just let me be and let me do it my own way. I don't care if your way is better, this is my game and I will do what I please.
You know...I just realized how pathetic it is to get this mad at him over a vidoegame but honestly, it just pisses me off.

But other than that, Friday night was pretty fun. We went to dinner with Ryan and Phil. For some reason though, I was really giddy. I'm usually dead tired on Friday night so it was quite a nice change.

SO, I bought myself a little Valentines Day present. Yes, I know Tristan can buy me things but I could not pass this up. Considering it's peridot (my birthstone) and it's $50 including shipping and taxes.....thats not a bad deal at all. And I love really big rings like that, so I'm quite excited about it. Dad would be proud, I think.

I'm almost done FFX. I'm at the point now where I can go defeat Sin but I am levelling up first. Everyone is done their sphere grid path (except Lulu) and are now on their second ones. I really want to take on the monsters in the arena, but that is going to be a lot of work. I also have to get final aerons, weapons, etc so it'll be quite awhile before the game is beat. Yunalesce was a bitch as usual. I accidenlty took off zombie status and she kill everyone with a Death attack. D'oh.

Work tonight kind of sucked. It was dead for two hours and then suddenly picked up. Ryan had an ear infection, so he couldn't take drive-thru. So I had to do counter, drive-thru and train at the same time. Somehow it worked though. My trainee was probably one of the best I've had in awhile. She got everything but now she just needs some practice, which is awesome.

Anywho, I'm going to go to bed. Tah!

Only loooooooove can make it raaaaain

2008-01-18T10:15:00.000-08:00

I love that song.

Today, it hit -43 C with the windchill. Somehow, the walk to school feels twice as long on this weather. It took all my might to leave the warm cocoon of my bed this morning. There's that Saskatchewan winter I was waiting for.
This, however, does not lower the desire of the cat wanting to be outside. He's so stupid sometimes.

School is starting to pick up a bit. I got my first Math and Stats assignments for this weekend and I've got to start reading for Econ and Classics. I'm very glad, however, that my midterms have been reduced drastically this year. And hell, with all the ones I had to do last semster, it just doesn't feel like that big of a deal anymore. I think I know what studying works beat for me and now all I need to do is start a week before and do it. Reading week will help a boat load I'm sure.

So, after much confusion, I finally got the TA job sorted out. Dad first gave me a letter that said I was marking Econ 201. Then that night he said it was now Econ 100 (which is basically the same class so no big deal) but now I'm back to 201.
I met with Perry (the teacher) yesterday. He's pretty intimidating, but he's nice. Apparently he recognizes me because his family goes to McDs alot. I'll have to keep an eye out for him.
The only thing that's bad is that he also works full time as a highschool teacher, so the only times he has to meet is Tuesday night and Thursday night. So my plan is to try and get his assignments on the Thursday after his class and to have them by him on Tuesday, which I think is reasonable. He only has two assignments and a midterm, so I figure I can just take the Thursdays off if need be to go pick them up. But if he can just keep them with the secretary and I could pick them up on the following Friday, that'd be okay too.
Another thing though: he wants me to tutor for his class. I don't think I'd be terribly comfortable doing that as I'm definatly not an Economics expert. The concepts are pretty simple though, so I could give it a shot.
Annnnd next Tuesday night, he wants me to help with his 100 level class in an experiment. He tried to explain it to me but I still have no idea whats going on so I'm sure that will be interesting.

So, last Friday, I figure I would go out and spend an hour shovelling. This turned into 3 hours. I'm so dumb, I insisted on shovelling right down to the pavement. Combined with doing this on my long ass driveway and sideway (which is about 4 times longer than any of our neighbours), it took a long ass time. Some of the chunks I pulled off the driveway were so big that I had to pick them up with both hands and throw them to the side. I also broke my favourite shovel doing this, which sucked. But I did get compliments from both Mom and Dad, so there we go.

Also last Friday, Tristan and I watched the Lion King. He hadn't seen it since he was in elementary school so it was a little trip down memory lane for him. I think he enjoyed it more than he thought he would because he did laugh hard a couple parts. Mostly Rafiki. Rafiki is fucking awesome.

Final Fantasy X has been going well. I think I'm more than half way there (not counting the multiple side quests). I'm just about to fight Seymour for the first time. For some reason, I love the levelling system in this game. Sure, it's not as realistic (put spheres into a grid, hur) but I enjoy it.
I am finding battles to be pretty easy though. I'm not sure it's because of said levelling or I know what to do or something else. I've also been reading recap as I've been playign it which is good too.

Speaking of which, I'd like to congradulate VGR on its recent updates and its turning into a blog style site. Now all I want is (1)recaps that I actually read to be updated and (2)for them to get a new site design because now it looks kind of crappy. Either way though, they're going in a good direction.

Work has been...alright, I guess. The last couple of nights have been kind of rough because either it would just be me and a manager or Frank, me and a manager. It's a shitty situation in either case. Manager Ryan and I did work by ourselves for an hour last Monday and that was actually pretty good. Everyone thinks he's so mean and bitchy but he's always been nice to me. He is quite a perfectionist though, which I don't really mind.

My Kenny vs. Spenny DVD came today! YAY! I had to get this because it features the "Who can wear an octopus on their head the longest?" episode. Spenny on LSD is fucking priceless.

So, one of my Dad's colleagues died last Monday. He was pretty old and he broke his hip on Christmas Eve, so we're assuming he died from some sort of complications from that. Still, he just taught last semster, so I think everyone was pretty shocked.
So, on Wednesday, I looked in the Obituaries to read his and I also saw Gage's, who was my friend's nephew, obituary. I knew both of them had died but it was just really depressing to see their pictures side by side like that.
But to add salt to that wound, right beside Gage's picture was Mr D'Almeida who was my highschool's guidance counseller. I had no idea that he had cancer so that was quite a shock. Apparently he's been in the news a lot about his struggle with it so Mom knew about it beofree I did. He was awesome though. I had a little bit of a tiff with some of the girls in my class in Grade 9, which made me upset, and he spent like 2 hours just talking to me about it and how I can avoid it, etc. He was such a great guy.

Anywho, I'm going to go and chill for a bit. Tah!

Scchhhooooollll shakes fist

2008-01-09T09:45:00.000-08:00

Yes, I know it's been awhile. I've been busy. Sue me.

The rest of my break was alright.
On Boxing Day, though I did not go shopping, I was invited for a get together at Tristan's uncle's place. His family basically lives within three blocks within each other so they have these things like once a week. It was nice. They decided to get me even more gifts, which was nice but I felt kind of shitty that I didn't buy anything for them. They're on the list for next year though.
So, to add to the gift check list
-Matching touque, scarf and gloves (though I lost the gloves already which sucks because they were really nice)
-Another penguin blanket/penguin stuffie
-Penguin wall hanger
-Yet another stuffed penguin
-A tic tac toe thing with penguins and polar bears
-$15 to Blockbuster
-An Old Navy zip-up sweater

I think I need to install a "No Penguins" rule for next year or else my room will become a museum. I love penguins dearly, but even I can have too much penguiny goodness. How sad.

I worked a lot during the break which sucked because it absolutely dead. There would be two or three hour periods of no customers. It's nice to be paid for standing around and staring at the floor but I'd much rather use my time for something else. Oh well. My last pay cheque was around $400 so I can't complain.

News Years was kind of a bust.
I had originally planned on spending it with Ryan and Phil because Ryan wanted me to try Amaretto and Pepsi, which is a good excuse as any.
Then Tristan asks me "What I was doing Monday night?", I did not make the connection that he was talking about New Years Eve so I made a plan with him. I think I realized this the night before and kicked myself in the ass.
So, I ended up spending it with Tristan, which is fine except for a couple things a) no booze and b) I had to spend it with one of his friends watching a gay (in the literal sense) romantic comedy. We did play this lawyer game though, which was pretty fun. I just suck at those kinds of games so I got in third or something. Tristan's face when I sued him for $85000 was awesome.
Thats the night I lost my gloves. I have no idea how they came out of my purse, but oh well.

Before school started, I decided to clean up my room and have it somewhat organzied. I have decided that I have waaay to much stuff. I threw out two garbage bags worth of stuff (which I think were 50 pounds each or somthing) and I still have trouble finding places for things. Feh.

So. School. Since I've had a taste of every class, I can review them.

Geography 100: You think for a 100 level class this would be cake, right? Well, I guess the teacher has other plans. First of all, he has very little notes and wants us to write down what he says. I suck at this because I'm a slow writer and I forget half the shit he says. So, I'll be clinging to the textbook on this. Also, we have to write a paper, which sucks and he had a midterm that is worth just as much as the final. He calls it "the final for the first half of the course". Fuuuck. Remember folks 100 LEVEL COURSE.

Statistics 252: This will probably be the same as 251, as I have the same professor and everything. With less probability. Yay.

Economics 354: I don't know if I'm just biased but whenever Dad talks, you just naturally listen to him. He has this amazing ability of taking something that I shouldn't be interested in, and make it sound completely awesome and exciting. He's also hilarious and actually changes the tone of his voice, so it's not a chore to listen to him. It's refreshing to actually have someone who knows how to lecture. I could think of a few professors who could learn a thing or two from him. Anyway, I think it's going to be a great course. Lots of reading, but hey, I can handle that and NO RESEARCH PAPER WHOOOOOO!

Classics 200: I can't wait to get into this class because I love Greek myth. The only bad thing is that there are pop quizzes every week (just one question that we don't study for but still...) and a log book, with a journal to be completed every week. My bullshit cap will be used a lot for this class, I'm sure.

Math 213: I was kind of nervous for this class because the prof got really bad reviews, but so far it's not so bad. He just really seems unorganzied which could become a problem later on but I'll have to wait and see. The textbook for this class was the 6th edition, while I had the 5th edition. I was going to bring this up with him after class but it seems that everyone but 2 people has the 5th Edition so I think he'll be using that. That makes me happy.

So, overall, this semester will be a lot of work but I think if i can organize my time and NOT procrastinate, then it shouldn't be a problem. Hopefully. I'll see how I am in April.

So, last night I finally beat Fire Emblem. I was at the endgame, so I figured I'd spend a couple hours beating one battle or whatever. Well, it was actually 5 battles and took me around 5 hours to beat. Oh well.
Some thoughts:
-I was so glad to kill Lekain. What a bitch.
-The Dragon boss could have been the last boss himself. Good lord.
-Haar was at number one with killed enemies which surprised me because I had Tibarn solo a couple battles (he was maxed at level 40 at the endgame). I guess I used Haar for a longer period though, so maybe that's it. So, yeah, Ike, Tibarn, and Haar were my Triad of Awesome.
-Micaiah is such a Mary Sue that it almost makes me want to scream. I was about to say that at least she didn't get kidnapped BUT I FORGOT SHE FUCKING DID. Ugh. But she got married to Sothe. Aw.
-The epilouge always makes me sad. I do like the titles they get though. Something about the use of the word "plucky" makes me giggle.
-I so thought Rolf and Mist would have hooked up but Mist apprarently "lived happily alone for the rest of her days". Did she turn lesbian or something?
-I always fall in love with Ike when his voice actor kicks in. His voice...AND HIS MUSCLES....ohmygod...new videogame crush has been formed.
-Ena was pregnant the entire time between PoR, RD and beyond that. That's like 20 years. Jesus.
-Zelgius is awesome. I don't care who he really is, he's still awesome.
-Sephrian...not so much.
-Rolf can also be added to the Awesome list. He took out a third of the last boss' health without her hitting back. Without Nihil on him. ROLF, YOU'RE AWESOME!

So yeah, a good 40 hour game. Next on the list: Final Fantasy X. I had an intense craving for it near the end of the game (I think with all the "Yune" talk) so that's next. I'm going to try and get the Final weapons. I might have to pay Tristan to do it (it took him 4 hours to beat that chocobo race for Tidus' sword...and he's like the friggin Master of the Final Fantasy) but by gum, I'll get them. I think that chocobo race and the 200 lightning strikes will be my biggest foes.

Anywho, almost time for Econ! Tah!

Christmasy post!

2007-12-25T20:57:00.000-08:00

Well, I hope you all had a good Christmas. I sure did, though I wish I could have slept in a little. I was awoken at 10 with a cat being shoved in my face.

Mike slept over last night. We had a round of Wii Sports, which hadn't happened in awhile. he still kicked my ass in tennis and golf while I killed him in bowling. Some things never changed.

So, here's my official present check list. I'll add comments to the ones not mentioned yet.

Mandy
- Big ass basket of bath stuff.

Ryan
- Golden Compass series
- Snow White ornament

Tristan
-Two penguin blankets
-Penguin slippers
-Penguin stuffy
-Penguin dancing toy
-Simpsons Season 6

Nana
-$250 (Fuck yes!)

Aunt Carol
-$100 (Two Canadian $50 bills actually. I don't get to see them too often)

Mike
-Mystery Science Theater Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (HELL FUCKING YES! I finally get to see Pod People...God do I love this show)

Aunt Sandra
-Socks (...what?...)
-$30 Future Shop gift certificate (I bought KvS Season 3 and Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares with it. Hee!)

Mom and Dad (oooooh shit, here we go)
-Cell phone (Dad lied to me and said it didn't have text messaging but it sure did. I just need a plan for said text messaging)
-A bracelet from Ice.com
-Rochers
-Kinder surprises (it's a tradition)
-2 sweaters, and a shirt
-Mocassans
-A cross stitch kit
-Pirates 3, The Simpsons movie, the Shrek Trilogy
-A mother/daughter type book (I don't know what this is about)
-A calander - Cat in the Garden (Heh)
-Penguin beanie baby
-Penguin ornament (I must like penguins or something)
-Hairbrush (I really needed it)
-Glasses case (also needed this)
-A crystal ornament
-Pirates of the Carribean mug
-A zipper strap thingy
-A lottery ticket pack (My whole family go tthese and we had a competetion....Mike won a 649 subscription worth $52, I got $6 (going towards a slurpee and a Lucky Lines), Dad won $5 and Mom won $4. So, I won based on cash. woop)

And I'm pretty sure I'm missing some stuff. Each of us went all fucking out on each other. I guess I know where I got it from. So, yeah, it was a great Christmas.

We just spent the last 3 hours playing Trivial Pursuit. This is why we only play it once a year. Everyone was battling each other with 6 pie, except me, who had only 2. Mike won again. Bastard.

In other news, my Geology mark came back: 73. I wish it was a little higher but I'm sure as hell not greedy. Math has yet to come up. What the fuck? There needs to be a trule in which all marks must be up by Christmas. Bah!

Anywho, I'm going to end it here. Tah!

Wow...

2007-12-21T21:14:00.000-08:00

So, here I am, with school books and paper surrounding me and I feel like I need to open something and start reading. But alas, I am done with this horrid semester.

Some of my marks are in, the others I hope will be in sometime this weekend.

Like I've said earlier, I got 88 in Psychology.

Economics...get ready for this....I got a freakin SEVENTY FOUR! FUCK YEAH! I was really expecting a 54 to pop up. Of course, Dad got all pissy on me because this clearly wasn't a good enough mark and I needed to ask him questions. What fucking ever. I never did tell him how terrible I did on the final so I'll just let him think of this mark as a disappointment, when really, I could not be fucking happier.

Stats on the other hand was extremely disappointing. 65. Not the lowest mark I've gotten but I was really betting on a 70 for this class. I think my problem was that I wasn't doing the practice exercises he was giving us and those are really important, as you really needed to practice to get these questions. But since I did pass the class, I hoping for a second chance next senester in 252 (I have the same prof).

This leads me into my goals for next semester. I think I will take 2 or 3 days off a week to make sure I can keep on top of the material. I find the best way for me to remember things is practice on math based problems or write everything we did out again (which is what I've been doing for almost every subject when studying). And as much I don't want to let anyone down at McDs, I do not need to be working. I do not need the money, therefore I do have the luxary of working as little as I want. Plus, since I am getting the marking job, there will be more money flowing in.

As my Dad puts it: "Being a student is a full-time job." It really is, and I think I'm finally learning to set my priorities as a University student.

My overall average is at a 70 right now and assuming Geology and Math 122 are good marks (which I think they are) it should stay that way. It will never fall below 70 again. I swear it.

As for my last finals...heh.
Math was alright. The only bad was it was at night. The worst part about exams for me is waiting for them. So, that entire day was just depressing. The final itself wasn't bad. However, I was talking to a coworker of mine and her class got an outline for the exam, which pissed me right off. But I pretty much all the questions to be what they were. So, I'm hoping for a 70 in this class (I screwed up on some assignments) which is infinatly better than the 44 I got last semester.

Geology...HAHAHAHAHA!
So, the midterm for this class was hard. Even though I didn't do that badly on it, it still scared the fuck out of me. The final wasn't comprehensive and didn't cover the rocks, and thank goodness because I hated those fuckers.
So, Ryan and I spent Tuesday studying our asses off. Quizzing each other, going thorugh each chapter separately, that whole bit. We spent about 9 hours doing this. We memorized this complicated diagrams because this was what the midterm was like.
So, the morning of the final comes, we're sitting in the classroom. First of all, I like peace and quiet so I can think things over in my head, and usually I'm pretty good at zoning out other people when I need to do this. But that morning, Mr. Red-Headed Belly Shirt man decides to talk as loud as he could about computer science when I was trying to think, and I could not zone him out. You could have probably heard him from downstairs. I sincerly hope he is not in any of my classes next semster because I could have killed him.
Then, our professer comes in. the first thing she says is: "This exam is really easy." Ooook. But I still had the Wilson cycle going in my head just in case.
The test comes.
The major diagram question that we had was "Draw a normal fault." which we spent a huge fucking lab doing. And then there were such questions like "What is the difference between and epicenter and a focus." "List differences between P and S waves" "What are conduction and convection? Which is most efficient?" "In what plate tectonic setting do deep earthquakes take place in?"
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I spent 9 hours studying for THAT? I was out in about 40 minutes. The first person was out in what seemd like 20 minutes. It was ridiculous.

But after that it was all good.

Ryan, Mandy and I decided to finish our Christmas shopping. First of all, Mandy got me this huge ass basket of bath stuff. Sweet mother fucking Jesus, I wasn't expecting that thing to come out. It seriously looks like a $50 basket. But hey, I got tea, bitches.
We then headed for le mall. We looked around for awhile and Ryan and I ended up getting Mandy a Wii game. Ryan then got me a Snow White ornament (which I lurve) and the Golden Compass series. I can't really remember the last novel I read, so those will be a treat.
After lunch, Ryan, me, his step sister and her boyfriend went out shopping to finish up. I got Will and Grace for Ryan and we went to various places to finish up theirs. And that was pretty much that day. Pretty fun.

I also just finished Christmas shopping tonight by giving Ryan a eight cans of Full Throttle. It was suppose to be a case of 12 but a) they didn't sell cases at Macs and b) those fuckers at expensive and I wanted to keep things even money-wise. So, I hope you enjoy them, Ryan!

Tristan and I had our gift exchange last night. First of all, he forgot that I worked till 8pm so he showed up at my house when I wasn't home. He did drop of presents for my parents, cats and myself. After showing up at McDs, we went to Pasta Prima and had a very lovely dinner. Yay for mushroom alfredo penne!
After that, we went back to my house for present time. I found out that he got the cats a new placemat and food dish with a rubber bottom. Maybe this will stop Winston from pushing around the water bowl.
He got my parents a box of chocolates, which I think Mom was ecstatic about.
As for me...well, it was a very penguin themed occasion.
I got penguin slippers, a penguin blanket (which I'm cuddled in right now!), a penguin stuffed animal with another blanket in it, a penguin toy that dances to music (its groovin to some BSB right now) annnd the Simpsons Season 6! w00t! The only bad thing is that the slippers are a little small for my feet. They're a size 7-8 and I'm a size 9. Yes, I have very long feet. I'm pretty sure that if you cut off my big toe though, I'd be down to a size 5. It's a big lightbulb shaped lunker. I'm actually draped in one of the blankets right now. One of the comfiest things I've ever felt. Almost up there with Nikki.

Over all, we did cut back on spending on each other. He still thinks I spent too much for him (I bought him 4 DS games, $100 EB Gift card, and a graphic novel) but meh. As long as he likes it, it doesn't matter the price. :D

We put up our tree this last weekend. We seem to have a very feminine tree. Full of fairies, angels, princesses, unicorns, etc. We have a Montreal Canadians ball for Mike and a random Hummer, but other than that, it's pretty girly.
Also, Mom has way too many candles and candle holders. It's almost sick. And we can't light any of them because a cat would probably catch on fire.
And shocker! The cats have actually been pretty good this year. Winston hasn''t tried climbing the tree once and Nikki isn't beating up the tree skirt. It's really shocking. Maybe they're learning!

So, time for my bitch rant about work.
It seems that I can't win. If I don't allow myself to work everyday, they just give me 8 hour shifts on the days I can work. While, it keeps it even, I really hate that. 4 hours shifts are just fine, thank you.
I decided to open my schedule after finals. I knew deep down that this was not a good idea and I don't think it was. My schedule for next week:

Monday (the 24th): 12pm - 8pm. What in holy fuck am I going to do for 8 hours? I worked Christmas eve last year for 3 hours (I think) and they were the most boring of my life. No one comes to a fast food place on Christmas eve. So, I'll probably just end up cleaning for 8 hours. Great. The only good thing is that I miss tourtière that night. God, do I hate tourtière.
Thursday: 5pm - 11pm. Probably the only good shift out of this week.
Friday: Late night. I hope it is with Maryanne.
Sunday: 7am - 3pm. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Work hasn't been too bad of late. Just really long. I work an 8 hour today. I don't know why I needed to show before 3pm though, because there was 8 people when I got there. Waaay too much. I work a 7 hour tomorrow, which is with Ryan (maybe) so I hope it's not too bad.

Hahaha....Pengie's really getting into the Final Countdown. Who wouldn't?

So, I finally caught up in TV watching.
The Biggest Loser finale was good. But I can not understand how a person can lose 51%of their body weight. That's just ridicoulous. Its also amazing how people look 20 years younger when they lose that much weight. There was a 40 year old mother who looked normal at the start but now could probably pass as a 20 year old. It's carrrazy.
The Survivor finale was meh. I felt really bad for Denise. The poor girl couldn't get anything to go right for her. But yay for Mark Burnett for getting her 50 grand. Maybe she'll cut her mullet off now.

Anywho, I'm tired and this is getting long. Bedtime! Tah!

Streeeeessssss.

2007-12-12T19:37:00.000-08:00

Wow, do I hate finals.

Three are done so far. My next one is on Monday.
The good thing is that the three that are done are the three that were causing the most stress, so I'm actually feeling quite relaxed right now.

Psychology wasn't too bad. We had 6 chapters to learn but it wasn't bad at all. 144 multiple choice questions. I was the first one finshed, which made me a little nervous. However, I got my final grade back yesterday. 88! w00t.

Economics....oh my God.
So, he explained that all the questions were going to come from past finals, assignments and tests he had posted on WebCT. Well, that's good. So, I print everything off and looked over everything I thought would be on the test. There was a question he used on a final a few years ago that was a multi part question. Usually, we have 5 separate questions in the short answer, so I thought he wouldn't use it and I skipped over it.
That question was there. And worth 50% of the exam. Shiiiiiiiiiiiit. So, yeah, I basically bullshited the entire part. I know I got enough multiple choice right to pass the course (I needed a 10% on the exam to pass with a 50) but the question is whether or not my grade is a 50, 60, or 70. I'm betting on a 60 but I'm really just disappointed in myself. I hate the fact I probably got a 10% lower grade because of one question. And the fact that Dad will be the first to see it (as he approves the marks) isn't making me any less nervous. Dad does know how awful a prof I had though, so I hope he is sympathetic.
But the entire afternoon after the exam, I layed in my bed trying go to sleep (I had 6 hours total sleep in two days) and I just kept tossing and turning over it.

Statistics....was interesting. He gave us a sample final from a few years ago, but he didn't give us answers for it. He wanted us to come see him if we needed help, but frankly, I didn't really have the time to do that. There were some questions that I had no idea what to do so I just didn't do them and hoped they wouldn't be asked, which is not the best way to go about things. I also was having troubles studying. It felt like I knew nothing when I left for the exam and I had gone over it so many times. I feel like that sometimes when I study for tests and I don't know why.
Anyway, the exam was actually varily easy. I don't think I did well on the proof questions, which was just expected because I hate doing the darn things, but he also gives a lot of part marks so I'm hoping for those. Other than that though....I think I did alright.

I couldn't get my $200 back from Health and Dental. Apparently they're not liable for what I do (or don't do) online. They gave me a number to call for the headquarters in Montreal, but frankly, I just don't care anymore. Next time, I'll just get Dad to do it online or do it the old fashioned way. Live and learn.

So, I got the Lion King on DVD (my first eBay purchase!) and I watched it today after my final. I don't know if it's my DMS or finals or what but I bawled through the entire movie. From the "Circle of Life" onward. I don't care if you hate Disney, this is just an epic movie. I'm glad I got it finally.

Mom is setting up the tree this weekend. I don't think I can help her, with my work schedule and all. So, I think it'll just be her and the cats doing it, unless she calls Mike over or something.

I got my wrapping done! Well, I still need to wrap Mom's gift card but that'll take all of 5 seconds. I get so tired after though. I mean, it's such a physical job and all. Well, I guess I was dancing aorund so maybe that was it. Hee!

So, lately, my family has been discussing religion over dinner more and more. I think it's because of the seemingly more frequent news stories about various religious nutjobs doing stupid things. Like the whole teddy bear fiasco in Sudan, the Christian school board in the States wanting Creation Science taught or the Toronto girl who was almost killed by her father for not wearing her hijab. Man, oh man.
We talked about Adam and Eve the other night. We had some questions about it. Here's some of the conversation:

Me: "So, Adam and Eve had two sons."
Dad: "Well, three sons."
Me: "Okay. Cain kills Abel and Cain is banished. Cain then gets married. Who does he get married to if it was just his parents and brother with him?"
Mom: "Yeah, I never understood that either."
Dad: "There must have been another Creation story happening in the next town over."
******

Dad: "One thing that always bugged me was how the snake got off so easy."
Me: "Oh?"
Dad: "When the apple was eaten, God sentenced Eve to the pain of child birth, Adam to labour and the snake to crawl on his belly for the rest of his life."
Me: "Yeah..."
Dad: "So, was this a walking snake before God sentenced him? Came out tap dancing? He must have just been torn up about getting such a hard punishment."
Me: "Wasn't the snake also created by God if he was in the garden? If so, was he there as a test? And if he was put there for a test, how come he was punished? And even then, isn't God always watching anyway? If so, why didn't he stop Eve?"
Dad: "And people want this story taught in school. Instead of evolution, they want people to learn that humanity was shaped by a talking snake."

Oh, how I love this family.

Anywho, off I go! Tah!

Gaaaaaaaaaaaawd.

2007-12-09T17:30:00.000-08:00

So this is pretty much how I'm feeling right now. Great timing too. Nothing like trying to study with the feeling that you're going to barf all over your notes. Good thing I stayed up late last night or Mom would have to wash my sheets.

So, my late night was pretty awesome. It was so dead that Maryanne shut down at 2:30. I think about 10 cars went through between 2:30 and 6:10 (when we opened), so not a huge loss. I kind of don't remember last night though because I was so tired for some unknown reason. I know I had no motivation to do anything, but cleaning seemed easier this time around.
Also: do not scald your hand and then put salt on it. PAAAAIIIN.

Dad is forcing me to get my $200 back, so I'll probably try tomorrrow. Apparently, I need to drop his name more when I need stuff because the HR and financial people fear him. I sort of hate it because it feels like I need Daddy to do all the work for me, but like another case in the past, if the only way to get them to respond is by threateninig to have him show up, then I guess I can do that.

(OH GOD WHY DOES MY STOMACH HURT SO MUCH)

So, Tristan and I saw Enchanted last night. Awesome movie, even Tristan was laughing his ass off and he's not a Disney freak like I am (although he told me after that he was kind of a sap for these movies). Whenever I see a movie, I like to go on IMDB and see what actors and actreses I recognize and stuff like that. The guy who played Prince Edward was Cyclops from X-Men, which I thought was pretty funny. I also learned that some of the voice actresses for past Disney princesses made cameos. So, I want to watch it again and imagine that it's Belle talking on the soap opera.

It's our 5th (!!) year anniversery on Thursday (the 13th)...and he's writing a final. We time these things just perfectly. I don't think we'll do anything particularly fancy anyway. We're seeing the Golden Compass next weekend. It looks alomost like the Chronicles of Narnia, so it shouldn't be too bad. I also want to see what the Christian community is all up in arms about. Bashing organized religion? Sounds like a movie for me!

I watched Beauty and the Beast last night, because I was in the mood for a Disney love story. I learned recently that the Prince's name is Adam. But now, everytime I look at Human Beast, I think of He-Man, with his pick shirt and tight purple leotards. It makes me laugh. I cried at the end again. I go from crying because he's almost dead to crying because I'm so damn happy for everyone. Love that movie.

Anywho, I should get back to studying. And take a Midol. Tah!

Peachy keen

2007-12-07T12:36:00.000-08:00

So, yesterdays work shift was probably one of the worst in my life. I was in backend, which is fine and dandy, but I was working with Jerry, who is by far from dandy. Good God, I wanted to punch him throughout the shift. We did $400/hour for three hours, which is stressful enough, but then he was taking his sweet ass time with things and dancing. If I asked him to put reg meat down, it would seriously take him 3 minutes to just put it on the grill and start the timer. It drove me nuts. Charmaine would come back and help whenever she could but we only had 5 people so, front end needed her more. I apologized to Charmaine after about backends performance (we really did suck) and she said I did fantastic and the best I could do with who I had. Feh. I certainly didn't feel that way.
I was in front end for the rest of the night after supper and we shut drive thru down, so it was pretty nice. I think I was still a little frazzled though, because people kept asking how I was. I notice people do that if I'm having a stressful shift, so I must not hide it very well.
That and when Thomas came in, I looked at him, shook my head and he patted me on the back. Even he knew.

Tonight is my late night, and I'm quite looking foreward to it since it is with Maryanne. I've never had a bad late night with her because she doesn't put up with shit for very long and is not a lazy dumbass. Whee!

Also, they've stepped up my work week a bit next week:
Thursday: 3pm - 11pm
Friday; 4pm - 8pm
Saturday: 3pm - 11pm
Well, it's a damn good thing I took Sunday off, or I'd be screwed for Math. Yeesh.

So, school is done and finals start Monday. here is my final schedule:
December 10 - Psychology 102
Really not worried about this because it is not comprehensive and is worth as much as our midterms. Assuming I do well, I'll get a high 80 in this class. Sweet.

December 11 - Economics 202
I was worried about this but then he said he's using quesitons form past assignments and exams. Sweet. That cuts down studying drastically.

December 12 - Statistics 251
I'm semi-worried about this because I haven't been doing as well as I would as late. He did give us a sample final to work on and said "You'll expcet to see all of these type questions on the exam." And it didn't look that hard, so I am a litle bit more confident.

December 17 - Math 122
This class has been a total 180 from last year. I'm expecting an low 80 or high 70 in this class, both of which I'd be happy with. Not worried.

December 19 - Geology 201
This final isn't comprehensive and the things we have to study, I am actually interested in. No metamorphic rocks! WHOO!

So, yeah, not really worried about finals this year. I just want them over and done with so I can enjoy my Christmas break. Less than 2 weeks!

So, all my presents that I ordered have arrived and are now just sitting and waiting to be wrapped. It is so nice to have Christmas shopping (save Ryan) done with. I also just need to see if Mike got that gift card yet. Something tells me he forgot and I'll have to kick his ass.

Mike is coming over sometime this weekend to hook Dad's home theater system up to the TV downstairs. Dad would have done it himself, but he didn't want to interfere with the "ten million gaming systems on the TV". Okay, Dad....
1) There's only two systems down there.
2) One is also serving as a DVD player.
3) Combining the two, they serve the purpose of probably 10+ other systems, in terms of what games can be played on them.
Jesus Christ.

Fire Emblem has been going good. I'm almost done Part III. I'm back at the sucky party though, so I'm not happy about it. Why is Micaiah so dumb? Le sigh.

So, apparently I will be a TA for the Economics department for sure next semester. The extra money will be nice, I'm sure. I think I'm also going to take one day off from McDonalds a week, just to make sure I'll be able to do this.

Actually, Dad was telling me about his class and apparently I'll be writing a research paper. I haven't done one yet in University, so I'm kind of nervous. Hopefully it's something that won't be too hard to research.

Knot cutting adventures with Nikki have continued. I cut off three of her knots yesterday, including finishing the real bad one on her side, a small one on her butt and a loonie sized one on her other side. I wish I got more, but I'm not greedy.

Speaking of which...picture time!
Here's the cat. Nikki is so hard to take a picture of because she's always moving and she won't look up at the camera. She's so uncooperative.
I'm not sure how well you can see the bad cutting in these pictures, but they were the best I could get.

A full side shot of her. The other side of her isn't nearly that bad.
The particularly bad area. This knot extended the length of her side. Parts of her skin are showing. Mom thinks we need to knit her a sweater to keep her warm while her hair grows back.

Remember how I commented last time that the poutine might be difficult because gravy was hard to come by at my house?
Mom made gravy with our meal that same night. It's like she read my mind. I couldn't help but laugh.

There wasn't a lot left over, but it did the trick.
The ingredients! McDonalds fries, leftover gravy and cheese. Simple and effective.
The cat wondering what the fuck I'm doing taking pictures of poutine at midnight.
The microwaved and finished product. It was actually pretty good. Not something I can eat everyday but pretty good. Thanks for the suggestion, Maureen! It provided me with tasty snack.

Anywhos, back to studying! Tah!

My cat is a hairy piece of Swiss cheese.

2007-12-04T11:45:00.000-08:00

Well, look at me, posting again!

Economics is done, and I can't tell you how happy that makes me. The final, I don't think, is going to be that hard because he's taking all the questions from previous assignments, exams and practice tests. Sweet. That alleviates some stress.

So, I'm not sure how she did this, but Nikki of late has had so many knots and mats on her body that one side of her body feels completely solid instead of fluffy. I think this came from a few factors: a) she has this silky fine fur that makes it easy for mats to form and b) she has completely stopped letting Mom brush her. This apparently is my fault. Everytime I come upstairs or out of the bedroom Nikki flies out of Mom's lap to come see me (her nick name in this house is Slut Kitty). This is bad when Mom's brushing her because the comb is usually stuck in her fur, scaring her, which is why she doesn't want to be groomed anymore. By Mom anyway.
So, lately, I've been walking arond with a pair of scissors in case she wants to come in my lap and I can work some of them out. It's been slow but I'm doing okay. She let me cut away for half an hour yesterday, so that was nice. Some of them, though, go right to her skin so at some parts of her body, she's naked. It's a good look for her, I think. If she wasn't so damn nervous, I'd just take her to a groomer and pay them to do this but the poor dear would probably have a heartattack if I did that. Oh, the woes of having a medium-haired cat.

Last night, I played Fire Emblem for a few hours. I am now on Part III which has been easy because the party I have rocks. The last fight of Part II was really tough because there was like 100 guys, coming at you, and I only had about 3 strong people and 10 mediocre people, and a couple that I didn't dare let to the fighting. It was incredibly intense but definatly one of the funner battles I've had in a videogame. It tooks a few tries, but I got it. I can't even imagine what it is like of hard or maniac mode. I guess I'll ask Tristan as he is playing hard mode right now.
Also: the FMVs in this game are amazing. If you're not afraid of spoiling the game, go look them up on Youtube. They're quite gorgeous. Especially the Part II ending. *swoon*

So yesterday, I was browsing the Univeristy of Regina website and looked at my account summmary because I was curious to see how much tuition cost for various semesters. It was quite a difference for some of them. So, then I looked at the fall 2007 semester and saw that there was still $200 that we owed. I sort of jumped and looked at the charges....
I opted out of my Health and Dental insurance online this year. I thought it worked. I guess it didn't. Fuck me backwards.
Oh, how I love paying $200 over a damn mistake. Next semster, I'm going to do it the analog opt out or Dad can try the website for me because I swear to God, it did say that it opted me out. I'm not sure where I went wrong.

So, Ryan requested pictures of my closet. I actually organized it not too long ago, but I have so much shit that it probably doesn't look like it. Whatever:

Doors closed. Dad actaully thought I stole that Beatles poster from him. Even though I showed him that I bought it before he accused me. Silly Dad.

Left Side top. I got my Game Gear up there, CDs, Backstreet Boy tapes (HA!), box of random crap, boxes of game, etc.

Left Side middle. Rider hat, extra backpacks, sweaters I don't really wear, fancy shirts, froggy housecoat.

Left Side floor. This is where I keep my shoes. but I have too many stuffed animals that I put them on top of them. Extra blankets are on top of that So, I'm pretty screwed if I need to get shoes from my closet.

Right Side top. This is just boxes that I can't throw out incase I need to pack something away. I hate that.

Right Side middle. More sweaters and coats I don't really wear. Two grad dresses. Other fancy shirts and dresses too. Scarves and belts are kept on a hook.

Right Side floor. Little cabinet for more random things. Posters not on my walls are kept behind that.

So, there you go, Ryan. I hope it's everything you dreamed it was.

This is my December...

2007-12-02T21:38:00.000-08:00

Holy shit, it's already the 2nd.

This weekend has been pretty awesome, well after 8pm on Friday and onward anyways. Work on Friday sucked ass because we had this tsunami of people that just came out of fucking nowhere. Jerry and I were just about at our wits end in the backend. I think we made about 300 Nuggets or so. And 8 Double Quarters ina row. People are disgusting.
I did get to make some special fajitas, and they were pretty good. That almost made up for it.

I also stayed up till 2 am that night playing Fire Emblem. w00t!

Yesterday, it felt like the first time in a long time where I didn't have to set my alarm, so I didn't. I slept in till 4 pm. It was amazing. I felt so happy after. Then Tristan and I hung out. We've started going through my Fresh Prince of Belair DVDs, which has been pretty fun. I love that show, though Carlton has yet to dance.

Today, I worked from 10pm - 1am, though it was so dead it felt like I wasn't really needed. It was pretty fun though. I like the weekend people because they're actually competent and not annoying. I also got my Christmas present from them: a $20 Arch Card. Sweet. That'll buy me a lot of Double Cheeseburgers.
Then, I decided to finish my Christmas shopping. I was going to do it yesterday if I got up early enough, but yeah, that didn't work out so great. So, I went today. Although, because I don't have a license and I don't feel like waiting for a bus, I usually just walk to Southland, which is about a 30 - 40 minute walk taking short cuts. It's not a terrible walk and I don't mind it. Although, Mom gets all pissy at me because I was always refuse her offers for a ride there. Eh. I'm sure she has better things to do then to drive me around.
So, I bundled up and headed out. It wasn't too bad actually except by the time I got there, I couldn't feel my thighs. I'm pretty used to that in winter though.

The mall was a fucking zoo. And people need to learn how to walk an appropriate speed. It drives me nuts. But yeah, my shopping for Mom, Mike and Tristan is offcially done. However, it was kind of sad because I was going to get Tristan Hotel Dusk and I just assumed EB would have it. But apparently it was discontinued last week or something. D'oh!
So, it's just Ryan I need to worry about now, and thats not even a cause for worry since he'll be picking out his own gift. Yay!

My Lab Final and Stats midterm ended this week. Lab final was okay. I realised though when I got home, that I totally fucked up on the half life question because I forgot the ln in the equation (dur). Stats was okay. Better than the last test anyway. He tends to give really hard tests for some reason so I actually prepared for it. I did have to bullshit a couple questions though, which is never good. I'm just hoping I passed.
Math 122 is done! YAY!

So, I was thinking about doing something fun with this blog, which was sort of inspired by one of Maureen's polls. Since I have a digital camera that rarely gets used and I'm bored a lot, I've decided to take requests of pictures people might want to see. Cat antics? Me doing something stupid? Whats inside my fridge? Whatever. I'll update it on my next blog posting (which seems to be every two weeks or so) HOWEVER, I will not show certain body parts of mine, so no asking. Not that they're not AMAZING or anything but I do not want my certain body parts anywhere near the internet.
Other than that, I think it should be okay. I'll do my best. :D

Gotta love felted fur.

2007-11-26T21:33:00.000-08:00

So, apparently winter is officially upon us.
When I was about to leave this morning, Dad told me to put on a hat because it was cold out. I sort of scoffed at him put got out my toque anyway. I love that thing.
Well, always listen to your father because holy shit, I was NOT expecting that. Oh, how I've missed the wind blowing towards you, causing your whole face to hurt like someone punched you. And only 5 more months of it!

Classes are kind of tiring. I got my homework for tonight done this morning, so that was nice. I usually don't do that. I still have a mapping project to finish by early Thursday. I'm not too worried as I have 6 hours tomorrow and 6 hours on Wednesday, plus the morning of if I really need it. I just want this week to be over (how many times have I said that this semester?) because all I have for the weekend is one last Stats assignment. Unless I get assigned one tomorrow, and knowing my luck, that is a distinct possibility.
I've skipped Geology twice in a row. I did it on Friday because I was feeling really queasy after Psychology and just wanted to sleep and today because it was a guest speaker. which I don't give two shits about.

Work has been...alright. Yesterday kind of sucked because I had to work two 4 hour shifts. I convinced Creeson to let me go half way through my second shift, so that was nice. I just got home from my shift tonight. I was suppose to work until midnight but Maryanne shut the store down early. I sent in my availilbity for my finals week, which I'm glad I remembered. I'm only going to be working Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I felt kind of bad but I really want concentrate on studying this year. Plus, I'll open my availiblity up for Christmas break, so that should make up for it.

Speaking of Christmas, I'm feeling a lot better about it. I sat down the other night and spent $400+ on Amazon, plus about $100 at some other sites. I just need to pick up a few more things at the mall and I'll be pretty much done. What a great feeling.

Oh, and Ryan, a new season of Will and Grace comes out December 4 (I think). Just letting you know.

So, on my way to class today, Tristan saw me in the hall, rushed up to me and said hello. I think we're getting better at this socializing at school thing.

I beat Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, the other night. What a great game. Ashnard wasn't horrible because Ike and Tibarn just teamed up on him. I didn't even really attack him, I just used Elixers on myself and just counterattacked, which got the job done. I'm now on to Radiant Dawn. There's a couple things I like better about PoR...like say...the camera being close enough for me to see which guy I'm choosing on the map. Why do they have the damn camera so far away? They did that in Suikoden V and it annoyed the piss out of me. Also, for some reason, I get trigger happy and will push the OK button twice quickly when I don't mean to. This is a problem because if I'm attacking someone, I can't see the Stats to see if a) I can even kill the guy or b) if he can kill me. Not cool. Maybe I should start using the classic controller.
Also, Micaiah is too fragile to be a hero and Sothe needs to get a shirt that fits him.

When the hell is Shining Force II coming for VC? I got reviewed that same time as Super Mario Borthers 3 and that came out weeks ago. I need me some Bowie, darnit.

So, Rider game last night. I was squealing so hard through out the entire thing that it scared poor Winston away. The beginning was pretty painful to watch. The end was pretty funny to watch. Poor Dimwiddie. Also: that one hit from the Blue Bomber that hit the in the head Rider so hard, I could clearly hear the crack of the helmets on my TV, with no mics around them...oh my god...and the Rider just shook it off. Any normal person would have been in a friggin coma.
And also: Third Grey Cup in 80 years! EEEEEE!

Anywho, thats all folks. Tah!

Sleepy and wet.

2007-11-20T12:45:00.000-08:00

So, guess who slept in and missed both her classes today?
Man, I'm terrible for that. But it did provide a nice break.

So, I beat PW:3. The last case is absolutely fantastic, probably the best in the series. I had tears in my eyes at the end because I was so happy for everyone. Yes, I am a dork.
After that, I had a craving for more evidence finding so I'm playing Hotel Dusk (I keep wanting to put "Hotel Duck") again. I think Kyle and Phoenix should team up. I'm sure Kyle would be able to handle himself in a courtroom. Though I can also imagine him beating the shit out of Phoenix, so maaybe it's not such a hot team. Oh well.

I'm just about finished Fire Emblem too. I need a night were I can sit down and just finish it, because it seems I can only do one battle at a time before I have to go and do soemthing. It'll probably have to be this Thursday.

So, Mike made the whole family proud. Click here.
I did also watch that game. It's so nice to watch when you don't have a kicker who completly misses a 18 yard field kick, something I could probably make, that blows your chance of making it to the Grey Cup. Also, how perfect is it that we're in the Grey Cup with our good rivals, the Blue Bombers. I've seen us kick Winnipeg's ass so many times before, so I have high hopes that I might be able to watch a Grey Cup win live. WEE!

Anywho, there's nothing much else new so I'm going to play Hotel Duck. Tah!

Weenies is a funny word.

2007-11-16T22:20:00.000-08:00

So, I'm much happier since last blog. Probably because this week is over and I only have one more midterm to go! FUCK YEAH!

The two on Thursday were...okay, I guess. I don't think I did good on the Economics one, because by the time I got to studying for it, I just couldn't bring myself to care. I'm hoping I at least passed though.
Math 122 was okay. I think I missed a couple questions, but other than that, it was good. Before the exam, he explained how to do some of the questions on it, so that was very nice of him.

I totally forgot to tell you about my videogame excursions in the last blog!
So, the other weekend, I stopped in EB and went over to the Nintendo section where they keep Wii games and DS games side by side. In the Wii section, I notice Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. I didn't even realize it was out so I squee and pick it up. I'm almost done Path of Radiance, so that'll be a good continuation. And then I look at the DS section, to see if they had the new Phoenix Wright game. Odds were that they didn't have it but I wanted to check anyway.
There it was. Not displayed or anything. but filed alphabetically with older games.
SO happy. I told Tristan, who also bought Fire Emblem from EB that day, and he got all jealous because he didn't think to look for it. Sucker!

I also bought Guitar Hero III for the PS2. But, it didn't quite work out because I'm an idiot who should research things before I buy them. I made the assumption that the PS2 game would be compatible with the PS3. While the game itself is, the guitar wasn't fit to plug in to anything on the PS3. I thought that the guitar plugged into the memory slot of the PS2 (mistake #2) so I bought a memory card adapter. Turns out thats it plugged into the controller slot of the PS2, which doesn't have an official adapter for the PS3. D'oh! Since I opened that game, I thought they would never take it back but Mike thought we would give it a shot, so he took me to Wal-mart to return it. It was the easiest thing ever. We had this whole story lined up and they didn't even ask us any quesitons. Nice!

I started playing Phoenix Wright: 3 last weekend and now I'm on the fifth case. I like it better than the other games because it kind of gives you background information, including how Mia and Phoenix met (HA!). The gayness of this game also trumps any of the previous game. Flirting amoung the men, weenies, Phoenix in a pink sweater, a murder victim named Doug Swallows, etc. I'm not liking Godot all that much though. I don't think he's evil as some of the other prosecuters. Like Miles was sort of a rival, Franziska was just an all around bitch out for revenge but we don't know the reason why this guy doesn't like Phoenix so it's kind of hard to take an interest in him. The coffee addiction thing is kind of funny though. Remind me of some people I know....

So, yeah, I'm on Chapter 23 of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. The game actually got easier for me. I haven't died in a few chapters now, so I'm quite happy. I'm quite impressed with Soren. I've never been a fan of mages but I can have him stand far away and kill guys in a single turn and if they counter, he just dodges. I'm trying to level up Mist so she might actually be useful in the fight against the Black Knight (HA!) but we'll see.

I really need to start thinking about Christmas, but I just can't seem to really get into it. It's only a motnh a way though. Jesus. I think this is the first time ever that we're not going to have any relatives over, so I'm hoping to sleep in Christmas morning. Probably not.

Anywho, I'm going to catch up in my TV watching. Tah!

....

2007-11-12T21:05:00.000-08:00

Right now, I'm feeling really depressed.
I'm not sure why. Maybe because this week will be a piece of shit. Maybe because I got no homework done this weekend, and everything I have to do will be done on Wednesday night, since I work 8 hours tomorrow. Or maybe because I hate being a woman. Probably a combination of all three.

I got a couple midterms back this week.
Psychology: 88%. Really wasn't expecting that. In fact, that's higher than my first midterm, so I was pleasantly surprised.
Stats: 30%. Yeah, that's what I was pretty much expecting. I was talking to some other students though, and they all failed as well. So maybe I'm not the only one thinking how tough that midterm was. I am getting the stuff we're learning now, so the next one should be okay.

Work this weekend kind of sucked. The shifts themselves weren't bad, but they made me feel so damn tired afterwards. I hate napping because I don't cat nap, I sleep for 8 hours.
The one on Saturday....we had a grand total of 6 people in front end and 1 person in backend. Poor Yi. On top of that, I trained from 8am - 1pm and then trained another person from 12pm - 4pm. So, there was an hour where I had two trainees to take care of. Since it was their third shifts though, it went alright. Plus, some of the other crew helped them if I wasn't around or whatever. Plus, we never really got busy. Only drive-thru was constant so we just helped Beyanka.
Yesterday, I came in and everyone was telling me how the vat caught on fire and they had spent the morning cleaning it up. Nice. We also had a lot of people and we all worked together until 3pm (I was the last one to show up at 10). So, at 3pm, five people were lined up at the hand sensor to sign out. Crazy stuff. This shift also never got busy excpet at about 2:45, when some Rider fans came in. And even then, that was handled alright.

Speaking of which, Go Riders! It always a cause for celebration for winning a game that we haven't won in 30 years or so. Seriously, Dad was my age when they last won a playoff game. In a league of 8 teams. That's just so sad.

So, Tristan came over on Friday night.
I'm going to admit something here that I don't really want to admit, and I will probably be laughed at but whatever.
I think I'm afraid of getting physical in a relationship.
My parents went out of town for the weekend. Therefore, house was to ourselves, no chance of someone walking in on us, whatever. I fucking KNEW Tristan was going to want to make out. I knew it. And I was dreading it the whole night. It's not his fault (in fact he's a great kisser) and I'm not really sure why I feel this way.
You know, I'll watch movies, TV shows, read forums, whatever and people will crave sex. Will die or somehitng if they don't get some. I was reading a thread on SA once and people were saying that if a girl didn't have sex with them in the first month or so, they were dumped.
I've been dating Tristan for almost 5 years, and we're both still virgins (I'm assuming with him, anyway). I can count on one hand how many times we've even made out. And I think this is my fault because I can not stand the thought of it. It pertrifies me.
The stupid thing is, I know sex and physical contact is an important part of a relationship. For a relationship to work, you need to be sexually compatible with each other. I know this, and I'm still reluctant.
Anyway, the whole night, we were sitting on my couch, watching TV. He would try and make a move, and I would just elbow him away and he'd lay off for awhile, and then try again. Finally I let him have it his way and you know what? It really was not that bad. Fun, actually. But I know that will always have these feelings of "Get the fuck away from me" everytime he wants to do this and I'm not sure how to get over it.
I actually admitted this to him afterwards and he said it might be a protection instinct, which is not bad to have. Maybe. I don't know.
I was sexually abused at one time but it was stupid and not sometime I need to be dreading over. Still. This whole thing makes me wonder.

Anyway, after that depressing thought, I'm going to bed.

Grey cats and black sweaters never mix. :(

2007-11-06T21:04:00.000-08:00

For the first time in awhile, I feel like I can breathe.

These last couple of weeks haven't been the most stressful ever but there's been so many midterms, assignments and work hours that I just never seemed to have a break.

I worked 7 hours yesterday. Going to school from 8:30 - 2:30 then working from 4:00 - 11:00 makes for a long day, but it wasn't actually too bad. The first three hours of my shift, I was training someone. I think she has the potential to be really good but she just needs some practice first. I think people learn more from experience, so I'm sure she'll be fine. I think i get to train her on breakfast on Saturday, which should be okay. But then Ryan (manager) came up and went all weird on me: "Megan! You're such a GOOD trainer! Holy crap, you're awesome! No wonder everyone here is so good, because they were all probably trained by you!" Uh...what? Where did that come from?
And then from 8:00 onwards, it was Aven, Doug, Maryanne and I. A fine bunch of people if there ever was one. Aven, at one point, found a $5 dollar bill in lobby. She was being all panicky, asking what she should do with it. We just all looked at her and said "Uh...KEEP IT!". She didn't want it, for whatever reason, and then bought about 6 Double Cheeseburgers to share between everyone. It's always so rare seeing someone that freaking nice.
It also never got busy. I was in Drive Thru all night and the biggest rush I got was about three cars. It was actually a really relaxing shift.

I had a Stats midterm last Friday. I failed it for sure. I just could not get the subjects that were on there. Probability distributions really suck. But I am getting the things we're learning now, so hopefully the next one will be better.
I also had a Psychology midterm this past Monday. I don't think it went as well as the last one, but I'm hoping for an 80. There was a ton more things to memorize this time around and all it is, is just lists. tons and tons of lists. Ugh.
I have another round of Econ and Math 122 next Thursday. So, this weekend will be put towards studying for them and getting ready for it. Moreso for Econ, because that class is just a disaster. I hate teaching myself from the textbook, but I don't have a choice.

So, because Tristan finished Heroes on his own (the bastard), he made me try out Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance the other day. It's actually a really fun game. I just really suck at it. My usual strategy of levelling people until they're tanks just does not work for this game. I also completely forget to guard weaker characters, and then they get killed, which means I have to reset. This happens more than it should. Other than that, it's a really good game.
Then the other night, I went out with Tristan's family for dinner, which included his sister's boyfriend. I think he came into McDs once but didn't recognize me, so he gave me this strange look when I walked in. We then talked about getting drunk, including Tristan's parents. I think Tristan is the only one without a drunken experience. Poor guy.
We then set out to find Guitar hero for the Wii. Tristan was wanting to find it. Apparently it was popular because it was sold out everywhere. Tons of Playstaion and Xbox ones though. Thinking back, I should have picked on up because everyone has been talking about it. I think I would play a PS one than a Wii one anyway. Oh well.
I did pick up 4 DVDs though: Transformers, Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller and the Haunting. All for $58, which is not too shabby. I got Tristan to watch Ferris Bueller because he never saw it before (what the hell?). He seemed to enjoy it. Maybe we'll watch The Haunting next week, and not have a nerdy girl yelling at us to quit laughing.

Speaking of next weekend, my parents are going down to Minot. I do have to work though. It'd be bad though if I slept in because I would not be able to hear the phone if it rang so I would probably sleep through my whole shift or soemthing. i guess we'll see.
The parents are also planning their cruise next year for their 30th Anniversery. i think they're going on the "Castles of the Rhine" tour, which sounds awesome. And that'll be another couple weeks of no parents then! w00t!

So, election tomorrow. I'm just glad that the place to vote is actually along my way to school. The last couple of times, it was a little bit out of the way. I was going to vote NDP, but I think I'm going with Sask Party. The NDP is just being really dumb. Yeah, $1000 tuition cut...sounds nice...but where are they going to find the money to replace that? They never said. So, classes would be cut down a ton. Plus, a flyer came today that was just so dumb. the last time the Sask Party was in office, the province almost went bankrupt, because of low prices of wheat, uranium, whatever. First of all, this happened when I was 4 years old. DROP IT NDP! And secondly, if the NDP were in power at that time, they would bankrupted the province more because they had almost the exact same policy, except for housing costs were lower.
Then during the debate, the prescription plan was discussed.
Sask Party: "Don't you think there are better ways to spend health care money?" Good point.
Liberal: "I think the NDP had it lowered so it could afford truth serum." Haha. Joke. Whatever.
NDP: "DON'T YOU THINK THE PEOPLE OF SASKATCHEWAN DESERVE LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUGS?" What? That's not a counterpoint. That's just stupid debating.

So, go Sask Party.

Halloween was very uneventful this year. We had a grand total of 6 people, and Mom bought for at least 100. Great.

I did also figure out my schedule for next year. I'm thinking:
Econ 354 (with Dad!)
Classics 200
Math 213
Stats 252
Geography 100
And no labs. I don't think it should be too bad. I'm worrie dbaout the class with Dad though. He's a great teacher, but if I do bad on one of his assignments/exams, he'll probably be extra hard on me. Feh.

I also applyed to be an Economics TA next semester, becuase they were pretty desperate. It'll be good money, I'm sure, and they'll give me an intro class. Plus, I have a Econ prof in the house, if I'm having trouble. Wah!

Well, I think I'm done typing for now! Tah!

Holky fudge!

2007-10-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

Wow, I'm actually writing in this. It seemed like I never even had time to sit at the computer this week, much less write a blog.

I worked the late-night last night. I don't have to work one tonight, which is nice. This one didn't start off tooo badly and then it just sort of turned ugly.
There wasn't a whole ton of people coming through, but they were ordering disgusting amounts of food. Here were some of the orders:
-6 Double Cheeseburgers, 6 Junior Chickens
-3 Big Macs, 2 Double Big Macs
-8 Junior Chickens
-40 Nuggets
-Right after that, 30 Nuggets
-10 Cheeseburgers
-14 Double Cheeseburgers
On top of all this, Charmaine didn't close one of the doors properly on the way out, so 4 guys ended up coming into lobby demanding we serve them. Maryanne kicked them out.
She ended up closing at 3 am because she couldn't deal with it anymore. We counted at least 20 cars passing through from 3:00 - 3:30, so we would have been slaughtered the whole night if she didn't shut down.
We didn't open till 6am, so those 3 hours were pretty nice and relaxing, excpet for occasionally hiding from the people banging on the window.
So, 6 am comes around and a few people show up. One guy comes in lobby at 6:30. Maryanne was in the back so I took his order:
"You're going to hate me for this but could I get 20 Egg McMuffins."
You son of a bitch.
It came close to $50 and the till said that it was too large of an amount and I needed to get a code Maryanne. The look on her face when I told her was priceless.
Anyway, this took us about 10 minutes to make wiht Maryanne helping me (I hate making eggs) but the guy said that we were really fast. Thank God SOMEONE appreciates our hard work.
So, all and all a fun night.

The last couple of weeks have been rough because I had my Geology class midterm and then my Geology Lab midterm the next week. I'm not a huge fan of Geology so I was kind of freaking out about them.
The class midterm was...interesting.
I ended up staying up till 5 in the morning studying for it. So, I got there dead tired. This is probably one of the worst exams I've written because it was mainly on metamorphic rocks which I suck ass at. Plus she had a diagram of plate bounderies that was wrong. Last time I checked, the San Andreas fault was running THROUGH California, not through the ocean beside it. And on top of that, due to my tiredness, my mind just blanked on the stupidest things. So, I had to pull out my Bullshit hat and hope I was in the ballpark. I was not impressed.
We got them back yesterday though: 71%. What the deuce? That shouldn't have happened, but I'll take it! God, was I happy.
The Geology Lab midterm....actually I'm pretty confident about it. It wasn't too bad and comparing my answers with Ryan, we seemed to get the same things. So, that makes me happy. Then again, I'm being cautiosly optimistic because you just never know with these rocks. We've been way off before. Waaay off. Ryan and I were also 2 out of 4 people to leave first, so I don't know if this class is just really stupid or if we should have had a look at the rocks again. Whatever. I guess we'll see on Thursday.

I also got my Econ midterm back since the last blog: 72%! I'm happy with any mark above a 70 in Econ, so I was content. When I told Dad though, he didn't think it was so hot. It's like he expcts me to be an Economics enthusiast like he is, and I really am not great at the subject. I do need to start going to class though.

So, I cleaned my room the other day. I even went into my closet and desk. So, it actually feels pretty nice for the first time in awhile. shit, I still had highschool papers stashed in my desk. Ick! Apparently, I'm getting a new bed at some point so it needs to be clean for when that happens. If it ever does. I'm still waiting for a friggin shelf in the basement to put my DVDs on.

You know, it's amazing how looking for a couple of songs on iTunes can turn into "Holy shit, I remember this song! BUYBUYBUY!" But $30 later, I'm pretty happy. Bryan Adams, Foo Figthers and Our Lady Peasce for the win!

Has anyone seen the new Linkin Park music video? I thought Chester was naked at the beginning and I got VERY excited. He wasn't though. Damn. But I really wish they would stop with the political videos. It's getting kind of old.

So, I watched the Canadian version of "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" last week. If they had Ben Mulroney hosting this, I would have killed myself, so thank goodness for Colin. And I so got the Dennis Lee question. One question confused the hell out of me though: "A structure is designed to hold a load. What is the load of a car called?" I want to see the text book this came out of because that's just ridiculous. The answer is chasis, by the way. I don't know either.

Anywhos, I think I'm going to go an watch some TV. Tah!

Sick of midterms. And not even half done them yet.

2007-10-17T14:10:00.000-07:00

This week hasn't been too bad.

I got my Math 122 midterm back yesterday. 38/40! This is much better than the 40% I got on last years midterm. I could have had 100% if I remembered what a trace was. And all I had to do for that was add 2 + 5. God, I'm stupid sometimes.

Economics has yet to come back. He said tomorrow but I guess we'll see.

And I have a Geology midterm on Friday (I keep thinking it's tomorrow for some reason). I don't think it'll be too bad but I just need to get myself to study for it. That's the hard part. But I'm really not too worried about it for some reason.

There's also been this thing I've been noticing in Stats lately. He hands back assignments and things manually by calling out peoples names. Everytime he gets to my name, he says it, I put up my hand or call for him, and he says "Oh. Right." Like he's supposed to know who I am or something. It's probably nothing but I don't think I'm particularly special and I'm the only one he does this to. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

So, my cousin is coming down this summer. EEEEE! I like her coming to visit for some reason. Maybe because we don't have her come down that often. Or maybe because we actually have things to do here. Anyway, we're trying to figure out whether to have her come down in May or July. I wouldn't mind her coming down in July and then flying with her to Nana's, but we'll see how it pans out.

I worked a 9am - 12pm shift on Saturday. This was the first time I've worked with Ryan (manager) and of course I woke up late. I did that with Roscoe too so maybe it's like an initiation or something. Anyway, it was okay. We had a ton of people working so everything went smoothly. Except at 10:45 when I went to get fries and discovered that there was one box left. So, Ryan had to leave the store to go get some and left me in charge (scary thought there). Chelsea got mad at me because she was also a crew trainer and thought she should have been in charge (HAHAHAHA!). Turns out I started working 3 months earlier than she did, thus I was more experienced. Ice burn!
It wasn't too bad except I was working with Kyra and Chelsea, who are dumbasses. Kyra was taking orders and money at booth and had someone pay for the wrong order. So, I had to punch it in again for them (and it was a big motherfucking order) and went from there which probably confused the hell out of backend. And then Chelsea, who was supposed to be running for counter, was taking my job and running for drive-thru and not telling me. This lead to several "Oh. I already got that for you." Just stick to counter Chelsea, for the love of God.
I didn't get to leave until 12:30 when Ryan got back, so I think I made up for my lateness.

Then later that day was just doing errands with Mom. I helped her rake leaves until it started raining. We only have the other half of our front lawn to go *sigh*. And while we were doing that, she decided to put Winston on a leash and keep him in the yard. Dumb cat kept getting stuck though, so I walked around the yard with him. He's was so darn cute because all he did was scrap his belly on the pavement/grass and he was in a pink leash because the other one didn't fit him. The neighbours must think we're nuts.
Then we went to Sarcan, which is always a magical experience. We picked the good line though so the wait wasn't too bad. I didn't notice at the time but apparently when I was dumping the cans out, a large dead spider came out with them. Eeeeew. But, after that, we got almost $37.00 back! w00t!
Mom and I went to Readers to spend our new found cash. I'm not much of a comics person, so I just looked at figurines. I just found out then that they sold video game figurines. Oh. My. GOD! They had a Squally, Vincent and Auron, which are all decent characters. I think Mom would have thrown a fit if I bought one so I think I might wait until next pay cheque and get one. HEE!
They also had a plushie of The Cheat, which I squealed over. $45 though. Mom wondered when I got back into Pokemon. I laughed.

On Sunday, I went out with Phil and Ryan for breakfast. We went to Smittys which I haven't been to in years. The last time I went there, I was called a lesbian (ah, memories). Anyway, that was pretty good. And then we went to Chapters and Future Shop to look aorund. I got a new Zits book (love!) and Ryan got himself some new, very sexy headphones. So, that was good.

I also beat Lunar the other night. It was pretty easy. I was never in danger of being killed. Also: his little Chaos Shield had no effect. HEE!
I started Heavenly Sword. It's a beautiful game but I really suck at it. It had some sniping things which I've never been able to do. But now that I have the damn sword, maybe that'll be the end of it. Or not.

Anywho, I should probably go and try to study. We'll see how that turns out. Tah!

Tiiiiiny Bubbles.

2007-10-12T16:23:00.000-07:00

I am very glad this week is over.

It wasn't as bad as last week but the stress level was enormous.

Last weekend was okay. I went to Tristan's fathers birthday party on Saturday. It was pretty fun but they had 60+ people in their house, so it was very crowded. It made getting food extremely annoying, so all I had that night was fourtune cookies, because that was the closest thing to get to on the table. But they were delcious. I felt kind of bad for Tristan though. He was official doorman, coatman, photographer (which involved following his father around and taking pictures of people), videographer and punching bag for his little cousins. I spent most of my time helping him because he seemed to have needed a couple extra arms. But we made the best out of it.

On Wednesday, I had to go to my Econ professor's office to pick up an assignment, since the midterm was on Thursday. First off, I get there and there's already about 5 people standing around his door. His door is slightly open and he was talking to someone so we all figured we just wait until he was finished. Well, apprently he was giving a full tutoring session in there because it took 45 minutes for someone brave enough to knock on the door. Of course, he is happy to give out our assignments right away. Figures.
So, anyway, I walk in:
Prof: "Name?"
Me: *hesitating* "Tompkins."
Prof: *flips through assignments* "Tompkins...Tompkins...Tompkins...Tomp-"
*Prof then slowly looks up and stares at me*
Me: *knows what's coming*
Prof: "I KNOW YOU! You're Gary's daughter, right?!"
Me: "....yeah."
Prof: "OH MY GOOOOD! You've grown so much!"
Me: "Uh, thank you?"
So now he knows. Whether or not this will affect his teaching is yet to be seen. He's probably going to accuse Dad of spying on him or something.

Apparently I got the top grade on the assignment though! Yay for cheating and Dad!

Anyway, Wednesday night kind of sucked because I worked till midnight and had two midterms the next day (Math 122 and Economics). I was kind of freaking out that night. So, I stayed up till 4 am studying. I would have stayed up the whole night if I also didn't have a lab to do the next day. I then got up at 7 am to study some more.
Economics wasn't too bad actually. He had some of his old midterms up on the website and they seemed kind of hard, so I spent most of my time studying for it. Knowing me though, I probably got a bad mark. My common sense doesn't always equal economic common sense. Dad and I tend to fight about it. Feh.
Math was also pretty easy. He has another class on MWF and he wanted to make things even, so he taught for a bit at the beginning to bring the midterm time to 50 minutes. That really annoyed me. I was ready to write, dammit! Also, people were asking the stupidest questions of things that were primarily on the midterm. People, you need to fucking understand determinents BEFORE writing a test on them. Yeesh. Anyway, Ariele sat beside me and we just made fun of everyone. But other than that, it was good. I was the first one to hand it in, which worries me a bit.

Today, I got my Stats midterm back. After the fiasco of writing it, I would have been very surprised to get a passing mark on it. Well, I got 35/50 aka 70%. It's not the best mark but holy God am I happy with it. I actually did a little strut as I left the room. Whee!

I also went shopping today. On Monday, I asked Mom if she could pick up the new Whose Line DVD set for me. She kept coming home and saying Walmart didn't have it and she didn't go to HMV. So, I went there myself to get it. I also picked up Reign Over Me (I really wanted to see it), a PS3 game with guide, a couple sweaters and a card for Ryan. At the end of my shopping, I went to Walmart just to look around, and guess what I see in the middle of the top shelf in the new DVD Boxset section? Whose Line! Le sigh.

I almost have Lunar beat. I'm level 55, which is the highest I've ever been and I can now go fight Xenobia. When I fought Royce though, I forgot to put Star Lights on my characters for the battle, so I had to bet on killing her before my magic ran out. She also has this move which she puts someone into a cocoon-type thing and the only way to get them out is to let them die. This person was Jessica, my healer. So, it was kind of a rough battle, but I managed to finish her off pretty quickly. Thank God for over-leveling.

We finally got our living room furniture! YAY! I like having chairs to sit on instead of a loveseat, but I don't really like the colour of them. I don't think they go that well with the rest of the decor but whatever. Mom and I will always clash on our colour choices.

The university had its poster sale this week. Ryan and I went and I bought Ryan a poster for his birthday because he couldn't afford. I went back there again and found another poster that I think he would like. I'm also giving him some cash, so I think that should be good enough. Ryan, no complaints out of you! :P (Oh, by the way, what time did you want to go out for breakfast on Sunday?)

Anyway, I think I'm going to break out some Whose Line. Tah!

Did I make it?

2007-10-05T14:22:00.000-07:00

So, this week has been one that I don't want to repeat.

Mainly because of work. Fuck that schedule. Fuck it to hell. I have no trouble staying up but then I don't get to bed until 3 am in which I get a big 4 hour or 6 hour sleep, which is not enough for me. So, right now, I'm having trouble remembering what I did today.
Tuesday, though, was probably one of the worst shifts of my life.
First, an hour before my shift, my "aunt" comes. This is probably the catalyst for all this. So, I got there there, Tonja was there. It wasn't busy so whatever. But as soon as she left, the fucking MINUTE she left, it got busy. I was the only one in backend and had 6 orders in a row where I had to make 5 sandwiches or more. Of course, with three people in front end, they were having no problems and kept waiting and staring at me, which didn't help things. This sent me into one of the worst rages I've probably ever had. I was throwing things, kicking the anything in my way, swearing pretty loudly at every person who came through the door, etc. At one point, I was making a deli and I guess Ashley didn't see me making it and asked where it was. All I could was just give her the biggest death glare I've ever had. She shut up after that.
So, after it calms down, Andrea sends me on my break. I think she could tell I was a little flustered.
I sign out, run to the back, go into the bathroom, lock it, and proceed to bawl my eyes out for the next half an hour. That was actually really good because I felt a ton better and a lot more relaxed than I was before. The problem with me crying though, is that afterwards, my eyes don't go back to normal for at least 4 hours (and depending how hard I cry, maybe a day or two). So, had I put my hat down over my eyes the rest of the night. No one asked me what was wrong though, which I was glad for because I didn't really have a reason.

However, my schedule for nest week is so much better:
Tuesday: 4pm - 7pm
Wednesday: 7pm - 12am
Saturday: 9am - 12pm
That is fucking better. Much better.

So, today was my first Stats midterm.
Wow. Just wow.
Ever go through a test and you're just about to hand it in when suddenly you realize that there's another page? Well, I sure did that today. And just as I realized this, he goes: "Okay, it's now 2:20. I'll give you another 5 minutes." SHIIIIT. So, I'm pretty sure he won't be able to read the few questions because it's just scribbles of any bull shit I could pull out at that moment. Oh well. Thank goodness for his marking schemes.

So, Thanksgiving is this weekend and I'm pretty stoked about it. Sleeping in and turkey, there's nothing finer than that. I don't even work this weekend, which is also fantastic. Whee!

So, the other night, something strange happened: Winston slept right between my Mom and Dad. Not only is that dangerous for him, but I didn't think he could lower his dignity that much to actaully sleep with other people especially when his blankie isn't in sight. But the thing about Winston, is that if he's sleeping by someone, he must have at least one paw on you, if not all four. So, that night, about every half an hour or so Dad would feel this poke in this back from Winston making sure Dad was still there. Needless to say Dad didn't get a good sleep that night.

Anyway, I think I'll go and do nothing in celbration of this crappy week being over. Ta ta peeps!

Pantsa!

2007-10-02T13:46:00.000-07:00

So, last weekend was pretty rank. Friday night sucked becuase I was so tired. Usually, the first night is pretty tough but I was literally falling asleep on my feet at 2 am. This lead to me not giving a shit about how fast I was and forgetting to drop chicken and such. So, I sucked that night, I admit it.
The next night, Jackie joined us. I was a lot better that night, but she's still getting the hang of things in front end, I think. I looked over at one point and saw her whole screen lit up and she was still taking orders. That's when I got Warren, who was picking his ass in the office at the time. We managed to get through it though. One funny thing that happened was that Warren was emptying the grease vats into the bucket and must have slipped or something because the next thing I knw, there's a huge streak of grease running the length of the backend. It was nasty but I laughed. But very Warren-like, he did not clean it up right away. He left ti for an hour until Jackie finally came and cleaned it up. Poor girl.

And then I worked 8 hours last night. It wasn't too bad but Kyra was just pissing me off. She's seems like the type of person who must have all the attention focused on her, like say this example:
Me: "So are you doing the schedules today."
Maryanne: "Yeah, I'm actually doingthem today."
Me: "Great. Can you-"
Kyra: "OH ARE YOU? CAN I HAVE THIS WEEKEND OFF BECAUSE I WANT TO GO HOME AND I SHOULDN'T EVEN BE WORKING AND BLAHBLAHBLAH.."

Fucking bravo, Kyra.

END OF WORK RANT

So, my Psychology midterm mark got posted: 87. Not too shabby at all. Was kind of hoping for a 90 though but maybe next time! Now we're learning about the eyes which I think is really fun actually. I am an Anatomy nerd.

Geology last class was really funny. A guy we didn't know was in there and he put on a movie: "Secrets of the Sandstone" and left. Exciting class that was. God, if she didn't want to come to class, she should have cancelled it, not put on an outdated video. Yeesh.

So, I bought a few more shirts off Threadless. I figured that since I was working so hard lately, I should treat myself. I was thinking about joining the 12 month club but I should build up my money a little before that. :P

The Lunaring has also been going pretty swell. I am now going up the Grindery and I'm on level 48. This is a pretty good level for going to fight Xenobia, so I think I'm okay. Hell, I'm only been using Alex and Nash so far. Less magic power to worry about that way.

Anywho, I'm going to end it here. Later taters!

Work sucks.

2007-09-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

This week has been okay.

The late nights last weekend were both bad and awesome. Friday was the bad. South had closed so we got hit pretty hard and people were just being dumb. The debit machine being down didn't help things because people claimed they didn't see the sign. Right off the bat, someone called Maryanne a bitch and she told to them to fuck off, which I think put her in a foul mood. Then these guys came in and ordered 10 Cheeseburgers. I was halfway through making them when they found out they didn't have any cash. So, I wasted all the buns. Then they came back, so I wasted 10 buns for nothing. Fuck. Me.
Saturday night was awesome. When we closed lobby at 12, Maryanne was like, "You know, I don't think I can handle it tonight. We're shutting down." WOOP! Of course this didn't stop the drunks from banging on the windows. Amoung these people were two guys. Maryanne was talking to one of them and noticed during this conversation that the other guy was humping the first guy from behind. Nice. So, Maryanne and I sat in lobby and talked till 3am. Then we got all our cleaning, stocking and maitenence done by 6 am. Where there was nothing else to do but talk some more. No one came during that last hour, so that was quite nice.

I have more late nights to do this weekend but they're with Warren this time, which I'm not happy about. But tomorrow night, Jackie is joining us, so that'll be fun. Hopefully. Maybe I cane convince Warren to shut down. He's working at a different restaurant, so what does he care? Heh.

Also, Roscoe has left our restaurant this week and we got a new manager, Ryan. Everyone's been hearing a lot of nasty rumors about him but he seems really nice. I have yet to work with him though, so hopefully he's a good manager.

However, I do think he made the schedules this week. I told Maryanne that I wanted a cut in my hours, but stupid me forgot she wasn't doing them this week. So, here is my shitty schedule next week:
Monday: 4pm - 12am
Tuesday: 6pm - 12am
Wednesday: 8pm - 12am
Thursday: 7pm - 12am
Friday: 5pm - 11pm.
At least there's no late nights. But that's 29 hours, folks. It's like somehow they thought I was a full time employee when I am only PART TIME and a UNIVERSITY STUDENT with 8:30 CLASSES. So, key to next week: lots of naps.

Anyway, enough about work.

I am continuing to get high marks on my Geology labs and I'm not sure why. However, it is kind of fun to argue with Ryan about what the sparkly things are in the rock. Muscovite, biotch.

I also had my first midterm of many today. It was laughably easy. If I don't get at least an 85 on it, I'll be angry. Although, the guy beside me was asking the dumbest questions with the teacher responding "Well, you would have known this if you came to class." Ice burn!

My Lunaring has been going pretty. I'm really overleveled for some reason. I'm at level 37 which is around the level you go the final dungeon on. And I stll have a couple more long dungeons to go through before that. So, I think I got this game cased. Although, I did come across my some of my favourtie parts, which includes the male bath scenes (including Nash's pasty ass), the whole Damon Spire sequence ("It looks like a giant IUD.") and the singing to get into the Blue Dragon shrine. Good stuff.

I finally found the software for the digital camera, so there might be new(!) pics of me up and about. Right now, I'm just been taking pictures of cats. But cats are much cuter than me, so whatever.

So, I was thnking of getting a new coat for spring/fall but I went through my closter last night and found one of my mom's old coats that I confiscated a couple years ago. I think it's from the 70's but it's actually really nice and probably something I would buy today. It didn't fit me when I first got it, but I've lost some weight since then so I decided to try it on. It actually fits me now, though the arms are still kind of tight. But I can still move in it, and that's the important thing. So, now I have a pretty nice coat to wear. YAY!

Anyway, I think I'm going to get some lunch. Tah tah!

Dristan is the best drug ever.

2007-09-21T13:30:00.000-07:00

So, this week has not been so hot.

Last Sunday night, I felt extremely shitty and woke up the next morning and realized that I had gotten a cold. GREAT! So, I head to school. Ever have the feeling where your body is kind of on autopilot and you are just completely somewhere else? That's what it was like. I couldn't tell you what I did in those classes but I did take notes. Even though I can't read them. Apparently Autopilot!Megan does not have very neat handwriting.
Anyway, during my 3 hour break, I went home and for the first time ever, called in sick for work. Roscoe answered and he did not sound too pleased. I felt really shitty about it, so I went to bed. I managed to drag myself to Stats and then went to sleep after that until Tuesday morning. There's nothing quite like a 18 hour sleep.

The water mane on my street broke that day too, and it took the workers 4 hours to fix it. So, no water, which sucked. And my poor mother had to park on the next street until they were done.

I wasn't feeling that much better on Tuesday, so I called in sick again for work. Heather answered and was more sympathetic. As the day wore on though, I started feeling a lot better. Though, I didn't want to go to sleep so I spent this day doing all my assignments that were assigned, including one given to me that day. SCORE! My procrastnating self NEVER does that, so I was quite proud.

Wednesday on, I was back to myself again, so yay!
However, Ryan told me something interesting on Wednesday: Roscoe thought I was faking it and skipping out on my shifts.
Hold the fucking phone.
I have been working at McDonalds for almost a year and a half now. I have never ONCE called in sick. The only times I've even been late was either because I slept in, read the time wrong, or forgot I was scheduled earlier than planned. And the one time that I do call in sick, he says I'm faking it....that offends me. I even called about 10 hours in advence to make sure they could find someone, but apparently that just doesn't fucking matter. I talked to Charmaine about it and she says that he had heard that I had been complaining about being called in and thought I was rebelling or something. One does not correlate with the other. There's a difference between working a scheduled shift and volenteering what should be your free time to help out. I wish he would pull his head out of his ass sometimes. Fucking idiot.

And while I'm on the subject of work, here's my schedule for next week:
Monday: 8pm - 12am
Tuesday: 4pm - 12am (FUCK!)
Thursday: 7pm - 12am
Friday: 11pm - 7am
Saturday: 11pm - 7am
That's 33 hours, folks. That's a full time schedule. What the fuck? And also, I wasn't aware that I had become the new late night person. I wish they would tell me thse things before doing this. Le sigh. But at least I get to work with the scheduler this weekend so I'll ask her to cut back my hours... by about 10 hours or so....

Anyway, enough about work. Happy thoughts!

I'm currently playing Lunar: SSSC. The FMVs look really pixelly on the big screen but the sprites look amazing, which is the complete opposite of what I expected. Luna just got kidnapped, which I'm happy for because she is fucking annoying. And I'll get my party of awesomeness soon! YAY!

Tristan came over yesterday. He got sick too, which sucks. We did finish off House and then watched the first episode of Heroes. It's fun to watch because I can pick up on things that I didn't catch the first time through. We're going to go see Balls of Fury next weekend, so that should be fun.

Oh God, I could live in these new pajama pants. I'll never doubt you again, Ryan.

So, we had our 2nd Geology lab yesterday. It wasn't too bad but apparently some people had great diffculty with it (spending 6 hours on it...what the fuck?). However, we got our first labs back. I got 91% on it, which is good but I thought that's what the class in general got. Ryan got slightly less than me (I'm not sure how that happened....). Anyway, so a couple Geology teachers were talking and our teacher mentioned that Ryan go the highest mark in the class on the last lab. Ryan pointed out that I got a higher mark than him and she says that I must have go the highest mark then.
What the fuck? Not only am I an idiot when it comes to Geology and I'm in a class of 90% Geology majors, I was bascially writing shit on my last lab because I was anxious to get out of there (the joy of not eating). Yet I beat out a guy who keeps a magnifying eye piece on his belt. It sure doesn't make sense to me.

So, Dad gave me the Instructor CD Rom that goes with my textbook for Econ. Guess what I found out? My instructor stole all of his powerpoint notes from this CD Rom. Know what else I found out? All the questions on his assignment are also from there. With solutions. What a fucking idiot.

So, I guess I should go online shopping since the loonie is par with the dollar. Whee!

Anywho, I'm going to jet. Tah tah!

Killed by a bra strap

2007-09-15T14:53:00.000-07:00

So, I finished my first full week of school. This included having my first lab. One find thing I found out was that I must make myself a sandwich on this day or else I'll just be wanting to through all the damn rocks out the window. Having school from 11:30 - 5:30 staright really sucks. I'm not including those 15 minute breaks because if my Econ professor continues to keep us late and if the hallway continues to be packed on my way to class, then I don't have enough time anyway. I love University.

Other then that, this week has been pretty boring. I did however, change my major to Statistics last Tuesday. I find myself to really be not interested in Physics anymore (I kind of blame Mathie for that one) and I want to go do something a little bit more Math based. And I'm finding Statistics to be really fun this year. So, there we go. Also: it is way too easy to change your major. I think it took her about 10 seconds tops to change it. I found it funny.

I beat Suikoden V the other night. I found the last dungeon to really fun, actually. It was a close call on one of the sub bosses but other than that, the whole thing was pretty easy. The final boss consisted of me using Creation (a spell that hurts the boss and heals the party), with a couple more bigger spells and attacking. Yeah. Fun stuff. Also: probably one of the best games I've ever played. Highly recommended.

Next on the list: Lunar: Silver Star Story for about the 15th time. I want to see what it looks like on the Plasma TV and I also just have a craving for it. I was going to start it toay but Dad is watching the Rider game. And I work tonight. So, I guess tomorrow is my best bet. :)

Speaking of work, looks like next wekk is going to be fun:
Monday: 7pm - 12am
Tuesday: 4pm - 7pm
Wednesday: 8pm - 12am
Friday and Saturday: Late nights!
Bah. But one good thing is that these are all back end shifts. Hee!

Tristan and I hung out last night. He took me to Lee's Chop Suey because his family was having a function there. It wasn't too bad except for the fact I had to use chop sticks. Why the fuck would anyone want to use chop sitcks? The fork is a magnificent invention. But anyway, it took me a bit to get the hang of them but I was okay by the end of it. It's kind of annoying trying to eat a big piece fo meat (hur) because there's no way of cutting it and you have to bite right off the sticks. Lovely.
Then we went back to my place to watch House. We finished up Disc 4, so we just have 4 episdoe left, which I'm sure we'll finish next week. I did tear up a couple times. Especially the fetus's hand coming out of the womb and clutching House's finger. Oh God.

I need to buy a new purse. the strap on my old on broke off this week, It was pretty cheap (a Winner's special :P) and it did survive a year, so I'm not complaining. I just need a time to actually go out and get one. Maybe tomorrow.

Also, the Biggest Loser started this week, which I as excited about. I think they started in the diner that BSB took their Never Gone photoshoot in. Squee! They usually have good weight losses in the first week but the token old guy lost 30 pounds. In 7 days. I'm not even sure how that is possible but as long as he's not dead, good for him, I guess. And also: Jillian is back! YAY!

Speaking of BSB, I just saw they're new video. It's very nice. Makes me miss Kevin, though. But I have a strong feeling that Howie will be a lead from now on. And I'm happy for him. :)

Anyway, enough dorkiness. I'm going to go and clean my room.
Tah tah!

Leadershipy!

2007-09-09T20:12:00.000-07:00

So, forgive me if this post is more out there than usual. I just spent about 7 hours lying in my bed. Yup, it's been a productive Sunday.

Work has been okay. Charamine kept calling my house all week and then when I got to work, she would ask me to stay later. Ugh. Also, when i walk into the door now, she's like: "Megan. Drive-thru. Now." Well, hello to you too Charmaine.
I worked 7am - 3pm yesterday and 7am - 1pm today. It actually wasn't too bad. Maybe school is turning me into a morning person....hahaha, yeah right. Anyway, it was Mandy, Roscoe and I for morning. It never really got too busy except people had no idea how to order and Roscoe would steal all the coffee. I also worked with Mandy during backend at lunch, which went a smnooth as fucking silk. I love working with competent people. I also got my review yesterday. The most "No"'s I got were in the Crew Trainer section because I rarely do SOC's on people and I hate telling people to get to work. I guess that's part of the job though. So, apparently I need to make more "Magic Moments" for people, talk to customers more, and take a more leadership role. Whatever. I doubt anything will change. But I do make $8.77/hour now! YAY!
Today wasn't bad either, same as yesterday except replace Roscoe with Warren. The only bad thing was that Warren had to leave briefly to get Crispy Chicken from South Albert. He gave me his code to the tills and left me in charge. No one came during that period though so that was boring.
and the rush today didn't start until 12:30. Warren and I talked form like 11:30 to 12:30 and barely anyone came. It was pretty nice. But when the customers did come they ordered like, 4 Supersized meals, 10 Cheeseburgers, 3 Large fries, etc. Which kind of sucked, but we made it work.

So, school has started.
Economics: So, here's some backgorund....my father is the head of the Economics Department. Over the last year or so, he's been having some major problems dealing with the professor of this class, because this professor is an idiot. But I thought it would be nice to to actually see this man in action, not just from my Dad's rant about work.
So, he gives us the course outline, and it has a starred section saying: "If you fail to attend at least 90% of the classes, you will not write the midterms or final exam." There's nothing about excused absences or anything. So, bascially, you miss two classes and fail. You know...life happens. The flu, your car not starting, missing the bus, sleeping in accidently, etc can cause you to miss some classes. It's a stupid policy. Also: his way of taking attendance is sending around a sign-in sheet, where you sign next to your name. So, you can get someone to sign your name for you. And as Dad put it: "He's only discriminating against people who don't have any friends."
He also went on about how this Econ class was one of the toughest classes one could take and the class average was around 50%. First of all, this is an introductory class. There's nothing that should be too difficult here. And secondly, after asking my dad (who approves all the marks), his average is 50% because he includes people who dropped his class. His average is no lower than anyone else.
So, the day after I went ot Economics class, Dad got some complaints about the attendance policy and asked my professor about it. Here's the kicker: he was never going to enforce it. So, all this about attendance and low averages were just scare tactics to drive students away from his class. Lovely, huh?
Also, as for teaching so far, all he did on the first day was hold up too pictures: one of a rich family in Britain and one of a poor family in India. He explained for 45 minutes, the differences between the two pictures, going into detailed family background, which was just unnecessary. I'm going to love this class, I just know it.

Linear Algebra: Round 2. But with a professor who I love and can understand. He taught on the first day, which I wasn't surprised about. What sucks though, is that this class has 2 midterms. Econ has two midterms. These two classes have the exact same dates for midterms. Argh.
I also found out that Tristan's sister and Autumn's boyfriend are both in this clas. You can tell I'm the sociable type and really look around at the people who are in it.

Psychology: I love this class at 8:30 in the morning. No thinking whatsoever. Although, I'm pretty sure I'm the oldest person in the class. Damned freshmen.

Geology: I'm very indifferent to geology, but this professor has a way of making it really interesting. The only problem is that she doesn't let you takenotes, so I'll probably be going to the textbook every week to get my notetaking done. It shouldn't be too bad though.
On the first day, I had to wait for the class to be in there to finish and i looked in and saw Tristan in there. So, I stood by the stairs and when he came out, he walked right past me down the stairs. I laughed. Me and him are alike that if we're tired or we're not walking with anyone, we tend to not pay attention of who is around us. I did this to him God knows how many times when I was working and he was getting food. Oh well.

Stats: I think I'll like this class. The professor seems really funny and it's in a classroom that resembles one in a highschool. I kind of miss those because all I susually get are auditoriums with little lap desks. it's nice to have your own space. The only bad thing is that tall people tend to sit in front of me and I have to lean to one side to see. Damn you tall people.

Overall, I don't think this semester will be too bad. I do have 11 midterms though. Which I think is just downright mean. The only class I'm worrying about right now is Geology because I don't know how I'll do in the Lab and stuff. But I guess I have Ryan, so it shouldn't be too bad. :)

So, this weekend has been a weekend of watching really shitty movies. On Friday night, Tristan took me to see War. I have never heard of it. Tristan said I had, but I swear I hadn't. Anyway, it has the guy from the Transpoter and Jet Li. Yeah, one of those movies. First of all, I could pretty much predict everything that was going to happen 3/4 of the movie. Then they have this huge plot twist that I never saw coming. While it was good in concept, it didn't make sense in execution because it involved a guy changing his entire physique and voice. Didn't convince me at all. And THEN, the ending is the most hilarious thing ever because one guy dies suddenly and that's it. It's like they forgot to write a conclusion and just cut it off there. I was laughing all the way home.
And then Mom and I watched Marie Antoinette last night. I'm kind of a geek for this stuff and I thought it was going to a biography about her life and death, etc. Well, it was...sort of....
This movie's script is probably about 2 pages long because all this movie contained was a long ackward silence. While it showed what she had to go through and stuff, it just turned boring after awhile. Lots of sex though and a lot of shots of Kirsten Dunst's ass. That didn't really do a lot for me. And then they throw in this random, sequence of cakes and fashion and shit. It's like it wanted to be a teenaged girly movie and historical at the same time. You can't both. And then the movie ended with her leaving Versailles. WHAT! I wanted to see her damn head come off! BAH!

But anyway, I think Dad wants on so I'll be off now. Buh bye!

I'm too damn tired to think of a title.

2007-08-29T22:15:00.000-07:00

Look, Ryan, a blog. ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY NOW?

Just got back from a 6 hour shift of work. Normally they're not too bad but the combination of Roscoe having NOTHING stocked in backend to me having to wait of every fucking sandwich just made it a bad shift. Plus, it was just steady all the way through. What makes people get meals at 10 pm anyway? If I'm jhungry at that time, I just have cookies, not a fucking burger.
And then, while I was on my break I heard screeching. So, when my break was over I come back to the kitchen and some girl has her legs wrapped around Roscoe's waist and another is checking her hair in the mirror behind the fry station. Ummmmm...okay. he told me that he knew them and they do that to him every year. Yeah, I'm sure you really hated that, dude. I wanted his wife to walk in at that point and slap him. That would have made me happy.

I do have the day off tomorrow. I don't think I'll even set my alarm. I'll sleep all damn day if I have to.

Or maybe I'm tired because I've been rudly awaken 2 morning in a row because the people who are paving my street are doing something to cause my whole house to shake. I don't really wake up to loud noises (hell even my alarm clock has to buzz in my ear for 5 minutes before I respond to it) but if I'm moved or touched I wake up instantly. Thus, getting gently shaken at 9 am is not good for me. Feh.

I've been playing a lot of Suikoden V of late. I have all 108 people recruited (the last one made me a little depressed) and am just working on training people, since I need three parties for the last dungeon. But I could probably go right now, but meh, might as weel rack up skill points and such.

Torrie came back to town this week, so we had an erotic party. God, that was so much fun. I think the group of us can make anything, including innocent board games, disgustingly dirty. But awesome. Plus I got to meet Phil, who is just adorable.
Although, I brought Tristan because people complain that they never see him. But I don't think he fits in with my friends too well. He tries, he does, but I just don't think he does. Plus, he kind of annoys me with this one thing he does every time he does go out with them: he fucking stares at me.
I hate being stared at. Fucking hate it. My dad just stares at me sometimes because he knows how much it bugs me. So, I'll be talking or listening to my friends and all Tristan will do is stare at me with this weird ass smile on his face. WHAT THE FUCK? Is he trying to get my attention or something? Does he think it's romantic? Because all it's doing is creeping me out and pissing me off. Sometimes I'll playfully slap his face away so he looks at something else and tell him to stop it but he still does it. Why can't he take a goddamn hint? Fuck.

So, I got my hair cut a couple weeks ago. I think I got 10 inches off or something. I like it. It's short enough to be manageable and long enough to still maintian fluffiness. Plus, now I can put it into a nice, short pont tail, which wasn't possible before. Although, when she cut it at first, she flattened it out, which I didn't like. I spent the whole day trying to fluff it out. I like fluffy hair.

So, after that big long rant about Tristan, here's a paragrph to praise him. He went to Edmonton last week. (For my dear American friend, the only thing in Edmonton is the largest shopping mall in North America (according to Wikipedia, it's the third largest in the world...w00t!)). Anyway, so he brought me back a Sephiroth figurine. It's pretty damn nice. you can even change his hands so he could be holding his sword (which is a foot long, by the way...rawr) or he could look like he's boxing someone. Good times.

I've been shopping a lot lately, mostly for DVDs. I did buy some nice jeans though. They're much tighter than I usually have them but now I'll actually look like a girl. Yay. I also managed to snag a copy of Hamlet, which I've only been looking for 4 years. It's niiiice but 4 hours long. It's one of those few movies who has an Intermission and is serious about it. But I like it. I like Hamlet's coats a lot. He is a very fashionable and depressed young man.
I also got House: Season 3, which Tristan and I are now watching. I've missed House a lot so I'm loving it. I'm always so busy during the school year that I miss it. Oh well.

Speaking of school, that starts on Tuesday. I'm not really excited. But I am buying my books this year to give Dad a little bit of a break. I'm waitng till tomrrow though. Pay day!

So, Dad's laser printer came last week. It came in the box the size of Nigeria so it blocked the backdoor way until Dad just dragged it down the stairs. It's fucking huge. It's a printer a large company would use, so apparently we're going to save some money on ink because I'm pretty sure we won't go through 5000 pages in a hurry. Not like this printer, which goes down 4 notchs everytime you print a single page. Stupid thing.

But alas, Suikoden V is calling so I'm going to. See you in another month. Maybe sooner if you're lucky!

Toodles!

Woop.

2007-08-13T20:32:00.000-07:00

Jesus, I suck at this. I guess I haven't been on the computer much lately (more on that later) but you'd think I'd find some time in two weeks for an update. Whatever. this one will just be extra long.

Work has been kind of gross lately, mainly because they've only been giving me morning shifts. I hate mornings, so very much. I had to work at 7 am two times in a row, with only 6 hours sleep between both days. Roscoe was nice enough to send me home the second shift because because I think he could tell I was sort of out of it. I went home at 9:30 and slept till 6 pm where we then went out for Dad's birthday supper. Damn, that was nice.
Also, everything has been breaking down or being stolen. The drive-thru till completely froze on me on Sunday for the lunch rush. One lady got mad at me but whatever. The spray nozzle on our sink is also broken, which makes sink wash really annoying. Also: half of our big "M" sign got stolen along with our chairity box on our drive thru window. I can understand the sign but how the hell did they steal the friggin chairty box? It's right under the damn window, where people pass by frequently. Then again, it was on Warren's shift and he usually has his head up his ass.

So, I mentioned Dad's birthday. Mine was on Tuesday. It was great. My boyfriend kind of over did it though. Really over did it.
I slept in and then went to go get an Iced Cap, while passing my way through the school, I came across Ryan and Mandy shopping at the bookstore. They then took me to the mall so Mandy could buy me a present (I hadn't talked to her in awhile so I never gave her a list or anything. I felt kind of bad but it seemed kind of rude to send out a birthday list to people I jhaven't talked to in a couple months). We went to Chapters, and looked around for awhile and then to the mall. The desired present seemed to buy me some bar clothes so we went clothes shopping. I ended up getting 4 new shirts, a new pair of pants, some jewelry and black shoes. And I also got workaholic pills form them. It was great.
I went back home where Tristan was waiting for me. Hey, he gave me a time frame, not a specific time, and I was well within that frame. Anyway, the first thing he gives me is a dozen multicoloured roses. Blue, pink, yellow, white and red roses. Absolutely gorgeous. We waited till after supper for the other gifts but the bag was talking to me...
Anyway, so we chill until the family gets home, I put on my new outfit and Tristan and I headed for Bushwakkers. I had the Greek platter, which was delicious. We headed back home for cake and presents.
After waiting for a bit to Mike to get there (he was late), it was present time, here is the list:
Nana: $100 (Everyone else, including Dad, got $50 for their Bday. The hell?)
Mom and Dad: Tweety bird shirt, cross-stitch kit, sapphire neckleace, "Without a Trace" Seasons 1 and 2, a Royal Daluton Firgurine (the "Megan" one)
Mike: The Office Seasons 1 and 2
Ryan: The Office Seasons 1 and 2 (Haha!)
Tristan's family: $50 EB Gift certificate
Tristan (shit, here we go): Roses, a Puss n' Boots doll (that was the thing that talked and it WOULDN'T SHUT UP! :P), He-man: The Movie, 300, a cat figurine, cat paperclip, cat napkins (you can sense a theme), $50 in Tim Hortons Gift certificates (JESUS!), a GameCube controller and GameCube memory card.
So, yes, I got spoiled. Again.
Anyway, we had cake, and watched my father and brother get into a heated debate about what Dad knows apparently. Why Tristan didn't run away then, I don't know. We then went down and I beat FFVII. Yup. I got the Gold Chocobo finally. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be actually, you just need to know what you're doing and have the money for it. But Knights of the Round was so worth it, even if it did slow my PS3 down to a screeching halt. And with KotR, W-Summon, and Mimic, Sephy went down pretty easy. Ooooh, yeah.
Anyway, thats was my birthday. Two decades on this earth peeps! w00t!

So, the main reason for beating FFVII was so I could start Suikoden V, which Tristan lent me. And I sort of got addicted to it. Hence the no blogging. it's starts off slow but the story line is amazing. The plot twists have been kind of weird. I would have bet on my life that I would have faced off against one character but all of the sudden, a knight passes by and says "So-and-So has been murdered." Jesus. Wasn't expecting that one. Anyway, I love it and will probably spend the rest of my summer playing it. Heck, at this rate, I might have it beat by then.

Mike also took our living room couches for his place. There was a hole at the bottom of our loveseat, which we never really thought about. But when the movers came and picked it up, about 4 dozen toy mice came pouring out the hole. Some are so old, that we think that Tiger might have actually been storing them in there. And when they go the couched out of there, Mike came back 20 minutes later with a handful of more mice. Holy crap. So, I guess the cats will have to find a new hiding spot for their mice.
So, we have the computer chair in our living froom right now to replace the couches. Due to the lack of seating, Dad has been going on the compy more often. It works for me since I've been enthrawled with Suiko5.
We did order new couches though. Hopefully they don't take 6 weeks to get here.

Speaking of which, Dad wants on so I'll be off now. The kingston post is coming, it's just taking me awhile. :P

Tah!

Hurrah for paranoid mothers.

2007-07-31T23:08:00.000-07:00

So, I saw the Simpsons movie the other day. It wasn't too bad. I think people had too high of hopes for it and I had too low of hopes. But the animation was spectacular and it got to show off some the voice that I would have never seen in a regular episode. I teared up in a couple spots.
It was also miraculous that Tristan and I could find a seat together as it was sold out. It was also nice to go to the Galaxy again since we haven't been there since I dragged him there to see the Phantom of the Opera...over two years ago. No driving 20 minutes for us!

The parents have gone away and it's been quite nice around here. Mom bought a shit load of food so I won't starve. Mike has also been told to come check on me everyday. I fully believe that my mom thinks I'm not capable of suriving without her cooking a meal for me every night. Yeesh.

I did help Mike move into his new apartment. It's nice. If I were living on my own, I would want something like that. However, it would be too crowded if two people were in there so hopefully he doesn't find a roommate. He's also surrounded my Asian students who have BMWs, Mercedes and Cadillacs. The Lexus actually looked inferior there in the parking lot.
He also took the entertainment center. Thank God. That thing was so useless. Apparently we're also getting new furniture for the living room and he's taking the couches we have now. Mike was commenting how beat up the couches are from when Tiger used to scratch the cornors, but I told him they were fond memories of the little devil. You can't put a price on that.

Work has been pretty annoying. Mainly because they have been calling nearly everday, even when I was on vacation time. And apparently Charmaine has an extreme fetish of seeing me work because she has been behind most of these.
Today, I worked a 3pm - 8pm shift and had to train someone from 3pm - 7pm. So, I get there, talk to charmaine for the first time in weeks and the first thing she says to me:
Charmaine: "What are you doing this weekend?"
Me: "I work a late night on Sunday."
Charmaine: "How about Saturday?"
Me: "No."
Charmaine: "I just need you for a couple hours. A boy scout troop called and they want 60 Bacon-Double Cheeseburgers and we need to make them in half an hour."
Me: "Fuck. Fine."
I have a feeling it's going to be dead and they won't need me anyway.

Then she comes back:
Charmaine: "Oh, did you want any shifts at Prince of Wales? Because Roscoe-"
Me: "No."
Charmaine: "But they're willing to pay overtime."
Me: "No."
I probably sounded bitchy but they gave me a bad enough schedule as it is. Plus, I don't have a car or license and i'm sure as fuck not taking a cab or bus to go work for a shit store under a shit manager.

So, I get through the day, got sent home early (it was terribly dead and I had a feeling Tonja could handle herself). Then at 11pm, the phone rings. McDonalds has called for now the 5th day in a row. I did not answer any of the other calls, so I figured I should answer this one because they might get suspicious.
Charmaine: "Hey Megan!"
Me: "....Hi."
Charmaine: "So, one of the trainers called in sick for tomorrow....actually it was Ryan so you probably knew that! HAW HAW HAW! Anywho, can you take over his shift?"
Me: "...at what time?"
Charmaine: "Well, the original shift was from 8am - 6pm...(Me: WTF?)...but if you could do 8am - 4pm, that'd be great."
Me: "......"
Charamine: "Oh WAIT! I'm looking at Kevin's schedule...just a sec....well, we need you from 11am - 4pm, for sure!"
Me: "....Okay."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don't answer the fucking phone when they call. I'm such an idiot.
So....I am now working everyday this week, including two 8 hour shifts, I haven't done that since Chibi was in power. Great. But I guess money is money.

...I have a suspicious feeling that someone will ask me to work next Tuesday. In any case, I will tell them to go fuck themselves. Hell, I'm feeling kind of PMSy. whey not?

So, I have the easiest credit card number in the world to memorize. I'm so lucky with numbers, I can't even tell you. Anyway, I did by an LPU memebership and a hell of a bunch of shirts from Threadless. It's all good except LPU charged me twice so I need to get that sorted out. It's no biggie though. One thing I don't like is waiting 3 days before charges show up and another 3 days when paying it off. You'd think his kind of thing would be instant but apparently it's more complicated than that. Oh well.

So, I've been pretty addicted to my Dad's Avenger DVDs right now. The fight scenes are cheesy but John Steed is one slick motherfucker. Emma Peel is just meh. I don't quite understand why she needs to where skin-tight, leather cat suits when snooping. I can't imagine how uncomforatble that would be. Oy.

Well, since I got to go to work tomorrow, I guess I should go to bed. Heck, I might hit Charmiane over the head with the clipboard tomorrow. That might make me feel better.

Hope you feel better, Ryan!

Spalpeen!

2007-07-26T21:44:00.001-07:00

You know...I was so going to post before I left for Kingston but then I just sort of forgot. Oh well. I'm sure you all survived. All two of you.

Kingston was amazing, as usual. I'll go into a more detailed, novel-length post about it later.

Right now, I'll just do the things that weren't trip related.

I saw Transformers before I left. It was amazing. The CGI was fantastic and the masturbating/hiding for the parents scene was hilarious. Plus it has a Linkin Park song in it. What's not to like?

Mike was evicted from his house. I haven't got the full story yet but apparently the guy who owns the house got mad at the other two roomates who were leaving and then proceeded to kick Mike out. So, Mike is now back home but is moving into a new basement apartment in a couple days. He'll be alone so it'll probably be better. He might sue the guy who evicted him but I don't know what on. There was only a gentleman's agreement, not a contract or anything. We'll see.

I applyed for a credit card before I left and I'm now holding it right now. I'm not sure if I can activate it now, as it is now 11 pm but I'll do it tomorrow for sure. finally, no more bummming off Mike/Dad.

My work schedule next week sucks ass.
Monday: 9am - 1pm
Tuesday: 3pm - 8pm
Thursday: 10am - 4pm
Friday: 8am - 4pm
Sunday: 11pm - 7am
At least I'll be working with Ryan. A lot. And the great thing about that Sunday shift is that I'll sleep in through Monday (August 6th) and then BAM! Birthday.

Mom and Dad are leaving for the States in a couple days. So, I'll be on my own unless dear Mikey decides to stick around. I can't wait. Although judging for the work schedule, the only things I'll be doing are working and sleeping. But fuck, will it ever be nice.

Anywho, I'm going to go unpack, kill all spiders I see in the basement and then catch up on some TV. Tah!

Yar yar yar.

2007-07-10T15:26:00.001-07:00

So, I made it through my late nights. Although I'm still trying to get back on a regular sleeping schedule but whatever. Warren is absolutely useless. He stayed in the office until 4:30 and then he would come out and do food safety and then go back. It didn't get that busy but it was kind of annoying to do stocking or whatever and he would just sit there looking at webcomics. And he gets $12 an hour compared to my $9. Cripes.
Although Thomas was there and he's my fucking hero.
Me: *filling the meat freezer after it was cleaned*
Thomas: "Okay. If you're thinking about filling the chicken freezer, don't.
Me: "Why? Is it not the right temperature yet?"
Thomas: "No, it's fine. But you let that asshole, Kevin, do it. It'll give the retard something to do."
Good stuff.

So, I had the weekend to sort myself out. However, I worked Monday morning (7am - 3pm). So, Sunday night, I try and go to bed early and get some sleep and I just never go tired. So, at 5 am, I figured I'd just stay up and suck it up for that day. It wasn't too bad actually. It was me, Heather, Kevin and Aaron at 7am. I figured I was going to be in backend because Aaron and Kevin usually fight for it but then when the first order came up, they just stared at each other in front end. So, I went for it. The only order they waited on was the first one because the sausages were black and I insisted on new ones. And I go the time down from 1:25 to 31 seconds! w00t!
Then Warren's girlfriend came and I showed her around the store. Not ackward or anything. She seems nice but I get a real nerd vibe from her. Whatever.
And then no customers came and I was sent home at 11 am. Sah-weet!

So, I get home, have something to eat and them go to bed, hoping to wake up that evening. I wake up at 12 am, get up for a little bit, brush my teeth, go on the compy, etc. then I go back to be and sleep for another 10 hours. It was fantastic. I didn't see my mother all of yesterday but whatever.

So, Triatn and I saw the new Die Hard movie. I've never actually seen a Die hard movie before but he just told me it had a lot of action in it, so whatever. I think the entire movie was just one big explosion with a plot in there....somewhere. While entertaining to watch, it's kind of brainless. I shouldn't complain though. eh's taking me to see Licence to Wed next week which I heard was pretty bad. But it had Jim fucking Halpert in it so it'll be good. Reeeal good. :D

I lost my debit card today. So, Dad took me down to the bank to get a new one. Dad and I get up to the counter and all the clerk asks me is for my first name. So, I tell him. And then he automatically says my address. I thought this was strange becuase either this guy is a psychic or I am the only Megan using the Royal Bank. Well, I get my replacement and Dad an I walk out and I comment to him how weird that was. And Dad responds: "Oh, I taught him. Looks like it's useful to have a famous father." Le sigh.
And then Dad and I go to Safeway for some cream cheese. We pick the cheese up, walk down an aisle and we see a card laying on the floor. It says something like "Procotas Security Systems" and had a number on it. We figure this is something important somebody dropped so we stop by the Customer Service desk and leave it there. The lady goes "Oh. That's our alarm password. Thank you." Way to go, Safeway. Let's just leave your secutiry passwords on the fucking floor for everyone to see. I should got a better look at that number. I doubt they'll even change it.

Anywho, I'm going to go and do the crossword. Tah!

Duck breast!

2007-07-04T19:57:00.000-07:00

I keep thinking I should update this and then just generally don't feel like it. Bah.

So, both Mom and Mike's birthdays went over pretty well. Mike berated me on getting Mom a Walmart gift card and argued I should have got her something that she normally wouldn't buy herself. Whatever. She seemed to like it.
One funny thing happened during Mike's birthday though. Mom had made a coconut cake from scratch, which included coconut shavings on top of it. She put 23 candles on there, so required a big breath from Mike to blow them out. Well, he did get them all except he also blew off all the coconut shavings in the process. So, we had coconut all over the table, floor, cats, etc. I wish we had a picture of that.

My late nights have been in full swing this week. My one night with Roscoe wasn't too bad, actually. He actually got took every order that came in (usually thats not the case with other managers) and we weren't that busy for Canada Day. The only bad part about the night was this tour group came in through lobby at 11:30 pm and we finally finished taking orders for them at 1 am. In the middle of all this, someone pulled the same stunt on Roscoe that they did on me where they grabbed the bag from drive-thru and took off. Unlike me, though, Roscoe jumped out the window and ran after him. He's damn lucky he didn't get knifed or something.
My night with Warren was pretty dead. Although I was filling the shake machine while he was talking to me at the drive-thru when I hear this FRAAAAAP. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed his shoe squeaked or something. He then looks at me sheepishly, apologizes and sticks his ass out the drive-thru window. Good start to that night.

And tonight I'm working with Warren again, although we have Thomas as well. This should cut down my jobs to basically nothing. Sweet.

The Final Fantasying has been going okay. I haven't moved the story line any since last time but now I'm working on Chocobo breeding. You know, I would think that if a Good and a Great Chocobo mated to create a special breed, you'd think two Wonderfuls would do that same, but faster. Apparently not, and came to this conclusion after I wasted 2 hours of my life breeding Chocobos I didn't have to. So, I have two S Class Wonderful Chocobos just sitting in the stables, with no useful purpose until I get a Black one. God. Also: fuck Joe and his goddamn Black Chocobo. What the fuck is he doing in C Class races anyway?

So, I was suppose to go out last Saturday with Tristan to do our Ocean marathon, except the night before, I couldn't get any sleep due my stomach not shutting up and me not getting comfortable. So, at 7:30 am, I get up and fire him off an email saying that I was in no condition to go out that evening. My mother wanted to go shopping wiht me that day so I stayed up and was basically a zombie by supper. And guess who pulls up to my house? Mr. Tristan "Today was the Perfect Day to Not Check my Email" Chow. The worst part was that his family was having a BBQ and wanted me to come over. Yeah. That would have been awesome. I felt so bad about turing him down but there was no way I could go out.
But we did have our Ocean-thon yesterday. O12 was not as bad as I thought it would be. And O13 was good as well. Actually, I just like those movies in general.

So, I found a pretty cool geneology site today that details specifically on the Van Alstine family, which is my grandmothers family. With my specific family, it goes bak to 1591. I like this kind of stuff so it was a neat fine. And I learned that one of my great-uncles uses his middle name instead of his real first name. Go figure. And also, in one family with 13(!) kids there were two girls named Victoria Alberta and Alberta Victoria. I don't know if they were twins or if they just ran out of names to use. Good stuff though.

So, since Dad had July off, he wanted to go for a drive today. Since I haven't drove in...fuck I can't even remember when....we went to the Conexus Center parking lot. So, we get there, switch seats and because there's quite a size difference between my Dad and I, I need to adjust the seat. So, I reach down for the little sliding bar on the drivers seat...and it's not there. I tell Dad this and he comes around and checks it and curses because he is just noticing it's missing now. So, we switch back, and head over to Taylor's to get this part. We get there and they don't have it. It'll cost us $42 dollars and needs to be shipped from California. For a little two inch piece of plastic. What the fuck? So, that eneded the driving lesson rather quickly.

Well, I think I shall end it there and pump myslef up for my late night. Toodle loo!

Another day, another $200 spent at HMV.

2007-06-27T15:43:00.000-07:00

So, just got back from walking to the mall. It wasn't too bad, although I bought a couple rolls of wrapping paper and those were kind of ackward to carry. Whatever. I ended up picking Mom up a couple more chick flicks and a $100 Walmart Gift card. Hopefully she'll be happy wiht it.

I also bought a couple things for myself: the 300 Soundtrack, Independance Day, Ocean's Twelve (story coming up about this), the Match Game DVD set and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (this was a 2 for $20 deal with ID).

So, t'was a good trip.

Yesterday, Tristan and I hung out because he finished his summer final. A couple weeks ago, I asked him if he ever saw Ocean's Eleven. He didn't. It's a good movie, so I had him watch it and he really liked it. So, yesterday, we were going to see what movies were playing in theaters. Ocean's Thirteen was up. It would have been a good choice but none of us have seen Ocean's Twelve yet. In fact, I've been avoiding it because I heard it was awful. This was at 9:30 so we went to Walmart to see if we could pick up O12 so we could see O13 next time.
We get there. They have O11. No O12 in sight.
So, we go back and decide to try Shopper's (I didn't even know they sold DVDs). Nothing and all their DVDs looked like they would give us STDs if we touched them.
Then we decided to try Blockbuster. They gotta have it, right?
WRONG! They didn't even have it for rental. Was this movie so bad that Blockbuster has taken it off the shelf, while Gigli was there and gleaming? UGH.
At that point, I called Mike and asked if maybe one of his roommates had it. Nope. He told me to try Roger's because they would for sure have it. So, off we went.
NOPE! In fact, the only Ocean movie for rental at Roger's was the 1960's O11.
What the fuck? We wasted an hour looking for this stupid movie. I told Tristan, that since I was headed for HMV today and I KNOW they had it, I would pick it. He told me that they were probably the only ones in the city to still carry it. So, we're going to watch it early on Saturday and head to the theater after. God, I hate this city sometimes.

So, my Dad went to this Economics party on Sunday. At one point, they were discussing how nice it is to have all the kids out of the house and have a quiet evening at home to themselves. So, they were discussing what they did when the kids were out (at this point, I thought this story was going to take a nasty turn for the worst...it doesn't...).
One of my dad's collegues and his wife (who is a religious fanatic) liked to read in bed. The nutso wife said that she didn't read that much but she did like to read quotes from the Bible from time to time.
Later, my dad was talking to another person about this conversation and said "Yeah, I held my tongue, but I was going to ask her if there was any other works of fiction she enjoyed."
I high fived him.

So, my late nights were interesting....to say the least....
Friday night was steady. I can not believe how slow Warren is. It was all good, until at 4:30. This guy came throug drive thru and only ordered a Crispy Chicken sandwich. I even went to Warren after and he only heard a Crispy. So, I give it to him and I'm dealing with the next person. The Crispy guy comes back and walks up to my window.
Crispy Guy: "There's no fries and drink."
Me: "You didn't order a meal."
CG: "Yes, I did! I ordered a Number Seven Meal!" (No, he didn't)
Me: "No, you only ordered the sandwich."
CG: "Well, it doesn't cost $4.00 for a sandwich. You charged me for a fry and drink."
Me: *I pull up his reciept* "Do you see fries and a drink on here? I never charged you for them. And I can't make you fries anyway because our fry station is down."
CG: "You never told me that."
Me: "You never ordered a meal!"
CG: "YES I DID!"
Me: *realzing that I'm getting nowhere* "Fine. I can give you a drink if you want."
CG: "I'll take a bottled water then."
Of course thats one of the most expensive things on the menu. Fucker. I would have put up more of a fight with him but he kind of looked like OJ Simpson and I didn't feel like beng murdered. w00t.

The next night was slower. And Warren made me clean the vat filter for the first time. God, do I ever respect Thomas for doing that every night. I think I did okay though. Then, around 4:30, two guys came in through drive-thru. They ordered 2 McChicken meals and a Double Big Mac meal all supersized. Since everything was sort of shut down, I had to make everything fresh, so it took about 5 minutes to get everything ready. This was kind of annoying. I did hand out the three Large Cokes beforehand for them to sip on or whatever.
So, I finally get everything ready (Warren was doing God knows what so I was on my own), cram it into a big breakfast bag, and hold it out of drive-thru so the drive could take it.
All the sudden, a hooded guy runs between me in the window and the drivers side of the car and rips the bag out of my hand.
At first, I thought it was their friend joking around until both guys get out of the car and go "WHAT THE FUCK?".
Okay, maybe it wasn't someone they knew.
I went to get Warren, by the time I told him, the guys were coming back and they chatted with Warren for a bit. The didn't catch the guy and Warren asked if they wanted a refund or the food replaced. Of course, they went with the food replacement. Son of a bitch. Thats what annoyed me about the whole this was replacing the $15 worth of food.
The more I think about it though, the more I think we were scammed.
-3 Supersized meals for 2 guys?
-Who the fuck waits around McDs at 4:30 to steal what could be $2 worth of food? It's lots of risk and low gain. Excpet in this situation.
-The driver seemed really interested on how long it would take for the food to get ready.
-So, the hooded guy gets the food and runs around the cornor....where is he going to go or hide from there? He still has to make it across an enpty parking lot before he's home free. Considering that, why couldn't these two guys who looked like in decent shape (one of them smoked though) catch him or at least see where he went and drive the car to catch him?
-Warren told them to drive a lap around to see if they could find them since it would take anoth 5 minutes to get the food ready. They were back in like...a minute. whaich makes me think that they didn't really try.
-When I was holding out the bag, the driver didn't reach out back. It was only about 5 seconds, but usually people reach for their bag right away.
So, definatly suspicious. However, the fact that the reactions seemed really genuine and that if someone was walking around at 4:30 would probably do something like steal a bag of food, still hold me in doubt that this was a real robbery. Whatever. Not much we can do about it now.

Oh, and guess who I get to work with on Canada Day late night? My restaurant manager, who is probably the most uninteresting person I've ever met. I have a feeling I'm going to have to clean under the grill or something. UGH!

So, the Final Fantasying has been going really good. In one night, I went from the start of Disc 2, to the Icicle Village, snowboarded, went through the snow field, did the Snow Cliffs, got to the Crater, went through the story line there, lost Cloud, almost got executed, got the Highwind, found Cloud, got the Huge Materia from Corel (with 5 minutes to spare! w00t!) and Fort Condor, and went into Cloud's head and did that whole storyline. Now Cloud is a healthy leader again. It was a very productive night.

The other day, I hung out with Xin for the first time in two years. YAY! It was a fun night however, Xin wanted to go to my house to play on the Wii, instead of Ryan's house, which was the inital plan. It was all good though. Played some games, watched some Youtube videos, played some more. It was fun.

However, that night finally pushed me enough to suck it up and clean the bathroom. I had to keep sending everyone upstairs, which I think annoyed my Dad a little. This was my first time cleaning a bathroom, so it was quite an event. Not. it wasn't that bad actually, expect I don't know how Mike has any hair left...anywhere. And usually I'm pretty good at handling revolting things (McDs hightened that even more) but I had to take a step back when I lifted the toilet seat up. Good LORD. It looked like he peed all over the rim and picked out his pubic hair and sprinkled it around. Fuck, was I pissed off. I should have called him up and told him to get the fuck over to clean up that mess. But since I'm such a nice sister, I didn't and cleaned it myself. And he has the gall to call me messy. Asshole.

Anywho, it's almost supper so I'm going to jet. Till next post, everyone!

Malaysia. Truly Asia.

2007-06-21T22:47:00.000-07:00

So, work this week has been a little rough. The last two days have been my 7am shifts. I didn't nap after the first one because I thought I would just crash that night. Yeah, I finally fell asleep around 3 am, so this morning was extremely fun. Wasn't too bad though. When you have all crew trainers and competeant managers there, things go pretty smoothly. Plus, minus some communication issues ("Salad? There was a salad?"), Ryan and I kick ass in backend. 27 seconds today. Bam.

Although I do have a customer story today. We don't serve lunch until 10:30 because all the meat needs to be checked and all that. This black girl came in around 10. Let me be the first to say that I am absolute shitty on picking up accents and this girl had a thick one. Combined with the fact that she was really quiet and I was running on 3 hours sleep didn't help either. Finally, I figure out that she wants a hamburger meal. I tell her that we are not serving lunch yet. She looks at me upset and walks out the store. I feel kind of shitty but there's really nothing I can do.
So, she comes back in with an older white lady. I figure that this is good because I might have misunderstood the black girl earlier. The white lady tells me that she wants a hamburger meal with a coke.
Me: "I'm sorry but we're not serving lunch yet."
Lady: "You mean to tell me you can't make a simple hamburger?"
Heather (who was standing behind me): "No. We can't serve any lunch before 10:30."
Lady: "Well, what else can you serve me then?"
Me: *thinking* You know, the lighted board two feet above my head isn't just for fucking decoration.
Me: "Anything for breakfast is fine."
They discussed it for a few minutes and the black girl looks like she's going to break down into tears because there's nothing that she wants and they both storm out of the store. Real nice.

Then I had a shower after work and fell asleep. Ah, there's nothing sweeter.

So starting tomorrow, I get to do my late night weekend. I am very happy about this. What I am not happy about is working the late night next Sunday. When I looked at the schedule I was kind of confused because they only really need one person there Sunday nights. Then it dawned on me that the day was July 1. Canada Day. Mother of God. I smell another St. Patricks Day fiasco. I have a feeling that if I'm with Warren, he'll just be pissy all night. Le sigh.

So, I finally put some video on my iPod. Fifteen episodes of LPTV, because it's fucking hilarious and I am a dork. They only problem was that I had to capture them from Youtube, so it was a real process of getting the .flv then converting them to .mp4 on a totally different website. Oh well, it's funny and it looks pretty nice.
Quotes!
"Phoenix and I are wearing the same clothes again."
"I was telling Mike that for this tour, I packed 50 T-shirts, 2 pairs of pants, and 1 pair of shorts. And then Mike went out the other day and bought the exact same pair of shorts that I have."
"Why didn't you pack more shorts?! The tour started July 4th and it ends in the middle of August and this guy packs 2 pairs of pants and one pair of shorts and expects to get away with that. It's impossible. You need to buy at least one more pair of shorts."
"Well, perhaps I'll look in your suitcase to see your other shorts and buy a pair for myself."

Anyway, I'm thinking of putting Advent Children on there too, so I'll have a movie to watch when I go to Ontario on the plane. I need at leats one and thats always a gooder.

So, I just finished Disc 1 of FFVII. I was trying to level up limits and as a result, Cloud is level 54. I've heard people beating Sephiroth at this level. So Temple of the Ancients was a breeze, which is not always the case when I play this game. I don't get why Tseng said Sephiroth wasn't looking for the Promised Land though. The whole point of the game is to chase Sephiroth to the Promised Land. Sigh. The City of the Ancients always creeps the fuck out of me. I don't know if it's just the music, or thats it's deserted or the fact that I know what's coming up in the next scene. Oh well. But I do know that snowboarding is coming up! Yay!

And I'm done Mike's birthday shopping and halfway done Moms. I sure hope they like DVDs. Especially Mike, who is just awful.

Anywho, I'm going to hit the hay. Toodle-loo!

Soundtrack Playlist: 1105 Songs!

2007-06-17T23:19:00.000-07:00

First, I'd like to thank VGR for finally fucking updating. With a game I've played, no less! But while it's always nice to have new game to the list, I'd rather have them update older recaps. Like FFVII. It was their first recap and they're not even done with the first disc, for crissakes. But I shouldn't complin. And update is an update.

I still haven't got my SIAST mark back. If it's not back tomorrow I'm emailing her and asking whats up. Last years final took her 2 days to mark. it's been a week and a half now. It's bullshit.

And I got more shifts to add to my schedule next week. I'm covering someone's 7am - 12pm shifts on Wednesday and Thursday. For some reason Roscoe thought I was covering all of them and losing the late nights. Oh fuck no. Five 7am shifts in a row is not good for me. This will be a very rough week but the money will be nice and there's always the coveted nap. Or 8 Large Iced Caps. Whatever works.

Today was Father's Day. My dad was in a snit all day (the cats were really annoying this morning) so I just sort of stayed away from him. What an awesome family this is. Anyway, we had a cake so that was good. Mike also brought a card for me to sign and we gave him a Chapters gift card. His Monty Python DVD set is still on the way.

So, last Friday, Tristan and I went for sushi and to his house, which is a rare treat. I asked him if I could borrow some of his soundtracks to put on my iPod and he happily carried down a carton full of them. I only took three. I'm happy about the Suikoden III one. I so want to play that game. And then I watched him play Fire Emblem...whatever one is for Gamecube. That actually looks like a pretty fun game. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole "if someone dies they're gone forever" thing. It makes more sense reality-wise then reviving them but it'd be fucking annoying. But it seems a lot like Shining Force which is good in my book. I was kind of disgusted how the fat bad guy wanted to fuck the pretty angel Legolas guy. I felt so dirty that. And not the good kind. I also discussed with Tristan how Cloud, Sephiroth, Squall, Vincent and Sora in a mud puddle would make an awesome sex scene in KH2. God, I don't know how he puts up with me sometimes.

Anyway, I'll cut it off here because I'm tired (i got up at 11:30 today! Too early!) and I need all the rest I can get for my 7 hour shift tomorrow. Tah!

Groucho llama in an iron lung!

2007-06-14T08:59:00.000-07:00

So, I shouldn't have complained about my work schedule this week. I woke up yesterday, had a shower and something to eat and decided to check the messages. 3 new messages. The hell? One was for Mike. Another was from Ryan who was calling to get me to come to work at noon. The time I checked that message? 2:15. Heh. Oops. The other was also from Ryan saying that they didn't need me anymore. :P
I was sort of confused because, dear Ryan, you know I wouldn't be up before noon and even if I did get up and hear the message, I wouldn't be going near work without a shower and something to eat.
But then I woke up at 8:30 am today, so maybe I'm wrong. I also was called in at 3:30 yesterday to work 8 hours so it was good I didn't work earlier after all. And work was awful. Just steady busy all night. I was about to fall on my face when I got home. Ugh. But I did keep the time at 40 seconds. Yay.

Next weeks schedule:
Monday: 5pm - 12am
Wednesday: 9pm - 12am
Friday: 11pm - 7am
Saturday: 11pm - 7am

That's more like it. I love me some late nights. Hopefully it's with Maryanne and NOT Warren.Ii don't know if I can take 8 hours with him. I guess I'll have to bring my DS.

I don't know whats up with all the fucking spiders lately. It's getting to the point now where if I go into the basement and not find one, it's a good night. And they're all icky black ones too. In fact, I went into the basement one night after work and saw a long spider web hanging fromt the middle of the room. I didn't see a spider though, so I thought nothing of it. Then, half way through Conan, guess what came down from the roof about 6 inches from my face? Fucking brown one the size of a loonie. Good thing I held back my scream because it was 2:30 am and I doubt Mom and Dad would have appreciated it. So, now, the toilet in the basement is the official spider burial ground. Nothing can survive the flush.

So, lately I've been trying to load a lot of music onto my iPod. I bought Queen's greatest hits randomly the other day. It's not too bad. I really like Radio Ga Ga. I also bought Queens of the Stone Age, who I heard were aweome. Meh. I think I need to hear them over a couple times. I've also been adding to the soundtrack playlist (760 songs...woo!). Tristan let me uplod his Pirates 2 soundtrack and I put one of the Lord of the Ring ones on there too. Next soundtracks: Disney!

The Final Fantasying has been going pretty good. I am way overlevelled now, which is where I like to be. I just got Cid the other day. Everyone has their Level 3 limits now, but I still need to finish off Level 2s. It's easy to kill off 200 enemies but it's so hard to actually use limits, which is part of the process. Why can't everyone be like Vincent and Cait Sith? I had Vincent's Level 3 Limit before I could use his Level 1 Limit and now he's done. That's hot. I'm going to work on Aeris, Yuffie and Red because Aeris will be gone soon and Red and Yuffie have their final ones. God, that Five Level Pagoda tower was painful. Well, just the last fight actually. It's not fair when you hit them for 1210 and they heal themselves for 1200. Everytime. So, that took longer then it should have. But I won and I guess that's all that matters.

So, Mike has officially vacated. Mom came home after helping him move bawling her eyes out. I can understand if he moved to another city or something but he's freaking 5 minutes away. She can see him anytime she likes. Oh, well. I guess her little boy leaving the nest has a huge impact on her. Or something. His house is pretty nice. A definite bachlors pad, including a broken pool table, fire pit in the backyard and a room with a single lamp and a gateway into the next room through a giant hole in the closet. Hope he likes it there.

Oh God, I want to see Licence to Wed so badly. John Krasinski is so damn hot.
Also, I was watching Conan the other day and Eli Roth was on, who is the director of Hostel and Hostel: Part II. They showed a clip from the latter. Jesus. If one scene that they can show on network TV was that bad then I can't imagine what the rest of the movie is like. Does not seem like something I want to see. Ick.

Anywho, it's now 10:30 and I'm going to go shower and perhaps get an Iced Cap. Schweet! Talk to you guys later!

A-glub-glub

2007-06-06T23:09:00.000-07:00

I swear I was going to post this week but I just sort of...didn't.

So, I got a letter from the RT program yesterday. Rejected. Boooo. Oh well. I'll just try again next year. And perhaps I might try applying for different provinces, though I think they are pretty region specific. So, I'm in Regina for another year...

Tristan and I went out to FutureShop last weekend. I didn't find any DVDs I wanted (shocker!) and the only game I wanted was Mario Party 8, which I'll wait on. However, I did pick up an 80 GB iPod. God, it's beautiful. I'm so not used to colour on my screen but I'm getting there. I'm not sure what to do with my other one though. I suppose I could sell it and get some cash back. I would give it to Mike but I don't think he would like the bright pink. :P

Yesterday was also Mike's graduation. He did make it back in time so props for Air Canada for that. The ceremony was pretty unexciting. My mom and I got there late so we had to sit on the second balcony. We got a pretty good bird's eye but thanks to my near-sightedness, I couldn't make out faces very well. There was also a family with 3 young children (why would you even bring your kids to something like this? Honeslty, if you listened at any point of the ceremony, you'd hear a kid in the auidene having a tantrum. God, people). Anyway, one of the kids sat besdie me and was randomly feeling my dress and poking my leg. I wanted to hit the little shit off the balcony. But I just ignored him because I'm cool like that. Also, my Dad got to sit on stage wearing a black robe while everyone else got these funny looking colourful robes with feathery hats. Some of these Grad tradions are weird. So, yeah, Dad got to hood Mike which was funny because Dad is so short that he ended up gagging Mike. Mike also snubbed the president from a photo. Good times.

Today, I wrote my SIAST final. I hate the comprehensive finals. The tests themselves are bad enough but knowing everything will be a bitch. Anyway, I stayed up till 4 am last night studying. I was pretty chillaxed this morning and I think I did pretty well. I was giggling the whole time I had had to write the sperms journey from creation to secretion. I also drew a happy sperm on the side so I hope she get a kick out of that.

I found out that I have a new cousin yesterday. Yay! The photo they sent had my incredibly tired uncle holding a screaming baby, which I think just sums up the whole experience. His wife was in labour for 33 hours so it's understandable. They named him Nathan Alexander. Which is good considering they were thinking about naming him freaking Marlon before (I think the whole family went into an uproar when he mentioned that). So, yay for that.

So, I helped Mike pack up his DVDs and videogames today. We filled the entire computer chair box with it. God knows how we're going to get that out of the house, but we'll see. He also showed me where his house is. It's nice. Very close to the Golden Mile so I don't have to walk to the freaking other end of town to see him.

My Final Fantasying has been going pretty good. I just got Vincent and managed to defeat that thing in the safe with no trouble (usually thats not the case). Since I got Red's last Limit Break, I'll be working on that. Cloud on his Level 3 Limits (even before Junon actually). It takes awhile to build it up but once he has it, it usually destroys any boss around. It's niiiice. The guide is kind of annoying me though. It had a page-long description and strategy about one of the bosses (in Cosmo Canyon) when all it could have said was "Use an X-Potion on it." I'm lucky I'm on top of things here. Jeez.

Work has been...okay. I worked last Tuesday and it was so boring. It went by pretty quickly to begin with and then just go slower as it went on. I beleive the last customer was at 11:15 pm, and I was there till midnight with nothing to do. I did find that a couple of the ketchup pouches exploded in the box so Maryanne and I cleaned that up, while Thomas swore about it. Good times.

Oh, and next week is just pathetic:
Monday: 6:00 pm to 12:00 am
Saturday: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

What the fuck? I've worked more hours in one day then I do next week. Whatever. It'll give me some good Final Fantasy time. Ya-huh.

Anywho, I'm going to go and....do something. Tah!

Short legs and puddles don't mix.

2007-05-31T23:16:00.000-07:00

So, my interview on Monday? Hilarious.
Let me just say that I am not a good interviewee. Give me a question and ten minutes to think and I'll give you a great answer. I just can't think off the top of my head or provide bullshit answers like other people do. My mother is like this as well.
So, this, combined with the act that 5 people were staring at me with their deadpan expressions made for a very awkward interview.
Some highlights:
-"Going back to your Guiding, can you provide some examples of when you were a team member?" HUH? Guides was like 5 years ago and all we did was sit around and gossip. I think after a minute of panicing, I finally mentioned camping. Good save, Megan.
-"Can you give us an example where you fixed someting with tools provided?" I don't know if they meant literally or figuratively. This was one of my bullshit ones: "I'm into computer programming so I tend to fix anything wrong on our computers at home with various programs." >.>
-At the end they gave me a scenario where I ahd to go out and write down what I would do. They read it to me but I missed the last half of it and didn't have the queston to read. So, I made something up with what I knew about the first half. I'm thinking i probably should have drew a picture or something but whatever.

Anyway, I'm just glad it's done. Despite the awkwardness, I thought the whole thing was hilarious. I've always had a weird sense of humor though. but at least, I looked very stylish. Well, minus the shoes. Woot.

This week has been pretty relaxing. I haven't worked since Sunday which has been a nice break. Work all this weekend though.

I started to play Final Fantasy 7 again. It's more difficult then I remember. Perhaps I just got used to the easiness of Kingdom Hearts or something. Anyway, I can't express any more love than the Transvestite Hour of it. Just brilliant stuff. Although, when I was in the Shinra building, I thought the fight with Cloud and Rufus was before the elevator fight, so I didn't equip the proper materia to Aeris, Barret and Red. Oops. All I could do was have Red (who had NO materia) use potions and Aeris and Barret cast Fire. Epic fight, that was. Never want to repeat that again. And then I spent 3 hours tonight trying to catch a damn Chocobo without buying Greens from Assrape Farm. I bought the Materia and thats they were getting out of me. Fucking tedious, that was. My levels shot up like a rocket, though.

So, Mike is in Toronto this week for his pita training. Poor guy couldn't take Dad's laptop so he has no Internet access all week unless he goes to a cafe. I did let him have my DS though, so he won't be TOTALLY bored. AND his flight was cancelled so he had to go on a later one. He didn't get to his hotel until 3 am. I think the Tompkins name is just a signal for Air Canada to go out of their way to fuck things up. I'm so scared to travel with them this summer.

So, my $100 Futureshop Gift Card came and I've been trying to figure out what to buy. I was thinking of getting the Vicar of Dibley, which is an hilarious show, but I'm still thinking. I always forget what movies I want until I see them. Maybe I should just wait for Heroes to come out in August and buy that. And I'm still waiting for word of when House and the Office are coming out too. We'll see.

So, today I had a test at SIAST. Since I have no licence and it's fairly close, I always walk there. Few problems though: there is no sidewalk halfway there, I have to walk along a highway (which considering our drivers, is fucking dangerous) and it was raining today. So, I got to walk through a field filled with water. Yaaaay. I was drenched by the time I got there. I'm sure the testing laadies had a good laugh.

Yeah, the test was pretty easy. Even though I only studied for an hour. SHHH!

Anywho, I'm tired and have to get up fairly early tomorrow (8:45...OH NO!) so i will cut this blog here. TAH EVERYONE!

wipes tears away

2007-05-27T16:56:00.000-07:00

So, today work was quite a bitch because it was Sunday and abnormally busy. i couldn't do shit all day and lobby was a disaster but there was nothing I could do about because I always had eight people in line. Yay for under-staffing.

However, while browsing the Something Awful forums today I came across probably the funniest post I've ever read. Essentially, the OP's father commited suicide that day and he described in detail what he was going through and all that. The thread was full of "Condolences" and "Sorry for your loss." and all that.

Then Spoonce comes along:
"I know I'll probably be attacked for this (video games are for losers, etc.), but this is exactly how I felt when Aerith died. I honestly didn't know what to do, I was pretty much in a daze.. I would go into battle without any materia equipped, I'd forget to heal my characters after battles, completely neglected my chocobos. I would just go to the Golden Saucer and dick around for hours at a time playing minigames... I just didn't see any point to advancing the story, how could there be a story without her? Well, it took some time, but I got over it (and took my revenge on Sephy [KoTR + Mimic ftw]), and the point is, I'm sure you will too. If there's anything I'd take from this, it's that life goes on even after losing a loved one, it's just up to you how long it takes. Goondolences."

So, naturally, the seriousness of the thread fell apart after this post. Mom had to come in and see what I was laughing it. God damn, some people.

and now there will be no mistakin, the levees are breakin.

2007-05-26T19:42:00.000-07:00

It's been an okay week.

I went out with Tristan last night. We were going to go see Pirates 3, but we decided to do some shopping first. That was good. We went to EB first and neither of us got anything. Then to HMV, where I picked up some DVD sets for Mike's birthday. I also picked up Mortal Kombat. $6.00. You can't go wrong with that. We then headed for Walmart where they had like 8 trillion Nunchucks. Tristan was looking for them and picked three(!) up. I doubt he'll ever use all four of them at once but whatever. I picked up another wireless controller for the PS3 and found out the USB cable doesn't come with it. $60 and you'd think they'd throw in a damn wire for it. Fuck you, Sony. Finding the USB took longer than it should because the stoner guy at the counter was useless. After like 20 minutes, he found a fat nerd to help me and it was on the damn shelf right next to the controller. Sigh. I also got new Ipod headphones. YAY!

After that, we headed for the clothing stores. I realized the other day that I had nothing to where to my interview so I went to pick out an outfit. This was a confusing process becuase I'm not the one to clothes shop and Tristan's mom buys his clothes for him (haha). We eventually qound up in Suzy Shier and their blindingly bright store. I got some nice pants, a shirt, and a nice coat for $60. The same price as the WIRELESS CONTROLLER. SCREW IT UP YOUR ASS SONY!

So, all and all VERY successful shopping...night.

Then we saw the movie. There was a scary moment in the previews when the projector crapped out. The theater was packed so I couldn't imagine the riot the would erupt if they couldn't fix it. But they did and we rejoiced. It was pretty good. I found it better than the second one. But it was kind of gross in parts. Like the little kid being hanged at the beginning, the Asian hooker being shot in the head, or my favourite, Davy Jones tentacle coming out someones eye. All the while, 6 year olds are sitting in front of me. Way to go, Disney.

I worked 8 hours today. The first half sucked because it was busy as hell. Roscoe insisted on being in back end when he fucking sucked at it and he kept being called away to the phone or whatever. I was the only other crew who knew backend there so I had to jump in the back several times to get the line moving. God. The second half alright. I was training someone on drive-thru. She's pretty good on getting money and running but she does not know what she's doing when taking orders. at all. If i asked her where the Double Cheeseburger was on the till, she wouldn't be able to find it. Oy. And whenever she took new orders, she would modify previous ones. GAH! I think she was catching on by the end of the day though, so I'm glad.

I work 6 hours tomorrow and then I don't work until next Friday. Woo.

Anywho, I'm going to go watch a movie. Tah!

"It smells like hot dog flavoured popcorn"

2007-05-20T12:25:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I just got back from 3 hours at work. They tried to call me in this morning but my parents ignored it (YAAAAY!). Anyway, Charmaine was pissing me off this morning. She did absolutely NOTHING today of any value. I beleive she ate nuggets, occasionally helped Dylan in backend and talked to Warren. I would be cleaning or stocking and she interuppting me to complete the stupidest jobs while she picked her ass. Such jobs included getting quarter meat when I wasn't in backend, cleaning the vents in the mens and womens bathroom, getting one bag from the freezer to top off the fry hopper (which was already full), cleaning the orange juice machine, etc. I was so close to snapping at her because it wasn't like I was standing around doing nothing and she could see that I was already doing something. Good fucking GOD.

Anyway, that's my rant for today.

I finished cleaning my room the other day. ZOMG! It's puuuurdy. I have way too many clothes and large stuffed animals.

I saw Shrek 3 last night. It was...okay. Definatly not as good as the second one but it had it's moments. It was really short too (an hour and a half). The only problem was that these teenagers beside me kept turning on their phones every few minutes and would essentially light up the theater with the backlights. I wish some people would get lives.

So, I got an interview for the Raditaion Therapy program! W00t! I was so surprised because everyone at the tour seemed so smart and accomplished. So, I just have to get past this one and I'll find out for sure if I'm in or not. I can't wait!

Anyway, I got to get the laundry ready. Tah!

PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY!

2007-05-16T16:01:00.000-07:00

So, I went out yesterday to buy the new Linkin Park CD. I saw Ryan on MSN but he drives me around eveywhere so I figured I could just walk there. Well, about half way there, Ryan pulls over out of nowhere and picks me up. Except I didn't recognize his car at first. Don't ask.

As for the CD....wow, I felt like I should cut myself after. Yes, Linkin Park has always been emo but at least they had up tempo to completely rock the fuck out on. Their last couple of CDs were chock full of these and were good. There is one song like that on this album. The others all sound the damn same. So, yeah, a little disappointed.

So, I was suppose to have Monday off and was happily planning on sleeping in, but McDs called at 6:30 am asking if I could come in. GOD. it was only for two hours but it compleetly messed me up for the rest of the day and the parents weren't too happy either. they need to have a rule that bars phone calls until at least 8 am. It's just ridiculous.

The next couple of days I have late nights. I'm excited. I LOVE sleeping in all day and this provides a good excuse. :P

So, my dad bitched at me yesterday that I left the backdoor open while I was in my room not paying attention to it. First of all, it was Mike who left it open. Second of all, this isn't fucking Harlem. The only threat this neighbourhood has is a squirrel and he's not breaking in any time soon. Anyway, so I wake up this morning and the FRONT FUCKING DOOR IS OPEN, with Dad as the only culprit since he's the one who takes in the papers in the morning. Way to go, Dad.

Sine Ryan haas been playing KH2 lately, I've decided to start my own game last night. Actaully I just took his and made a new file with it but whatever. I love that game. I also decided to start a new game of FF7 since I don't need ot buy a memory card for it. Holy shit, is it ever pixelated on the HDTV. It looks like an NES game. And it is so hard to get used to the controls. X should be select NOT cancel.

Anywho, my mom's not here for supper so I need to go find out what Dad and I are doing. Tah!

My feet are throbbing.

2007-05-12T22:16:00.000-07:00

So, apparently I am suppose to blog even though I did this two damn days ago. And Ryan that was your first blog in a week? Two weeks? Real fair, man.

So, I went to see Spiderman 3 last night. It was a little disappointing. There wasn't a really good fight. It was either Spiderman kicking someones ass or having his ass kicked and no real in-between struggles. And there should have been more Venom. A lot more Venom. One of the most awesome villians ever and he goes down from banging sticks together? BAH!
However, it did offer a few laughs. Like the random dance sequence in the middle of the movie. The HELL was that? And then Emo!Peter. I was expecting the hair swoop but I nearly died when he showed up at Harry's place with what looked like eyeliner on. He sort of looked like DJ Qualls which was even more hilarious because he is one of the geekiest guys ever.

Tristan got me a few gifts from Hawaii: a little door plaque that says: This Room is a Wreck. So very true. I also got a lttle license plate that has my Hawaiian name on it. The funny part is that I have this exact same license plate from when I went to Hawaii ten years ago. Are they that unoriginal that they're selling the same souvieniors for ten years now? And I also got a little cat toy that talks really loud. Scared the shit of the cats.

Work has been pretty boring. I work a 7 hours shift today. It was probably one of the most boring shifts ever because it was absolutely dead and Roscoe was working. Roscoe isn't exactly the most fun person to talk to, so it was just ackwardness for 7 hours. I did manage to swipe two Puss'n'Boots toys though, so that was good.
And then I work 7 am tomorrow. I was planning on doing the laundry for mom tomorrow but I don't know if I can make it to that night. As least I'll be able to sleep in on Monday but we'll see how it goes.

Anywho, I'm going to watch SNL because Linkin Park is the musical guest on it. Toodles!

My sack of fries.

2007-05-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

So, over all it's been a pretty good week.

I got my Radiation Therapy form handed in early so I wouldn't have to worry about it any more. All the performance examples are from work so I hope they don't mind. If I make it past that part then the interview is later this month. I'm sort of anxious to get it over with because I want to know if I'm getting into this program or not. We'll see though.

Work has been pretty meh. I got the Monday and Tuesday off, went in yesterday for 3 hours and worked 4 hours today. Today was weird. We had eight people there and it wasn't busy, so it was crowded and I couldn't really do anything becuase it was already done. It was alright but it made for a slow day. I have a weird schedule next week though. On one night, I work 8pm - 4am. What the hell kind of shift is that?

I beat Trace Memory the other day. All 5 hours of it. What the hell Cing? You can do better than that. I also didn't get all of D's memories because I thought it would just wrap up itself. Whoops.

I finished off Mothers Day shopping yesterday. Along with the DVDs, I got her a crystal lighthouse. My mom is from Nova Scotia so she's really into Maritime themed things. I just hope the cats don't break it.

And then I picked up a PS3. I think I made the HMV guy shit himself. I got it set up last night after I got home from work. Good lord, is it ever heavy. And SHINY! Also, I'm very amused by the fact that there is no buttons on the console but a little sensor thing you put your finger one. Awesome! So, I just need to get some games for it....dammit KH3, come out soon.

And thats pretty much all from me. On a parting note I encourage you guys to check out this video . I lost it when he pulls the bread open.

Tah!

Grargh.

2007-05-03T19:48:00.000-07:00

So, this is my 100th post. Yippee.

So, I was kind of a slouch today as I was sick. So, I sat around and played Hotel Dusk while the cat laid on my lap and then tried to crawl onto my shoulder. She's got her needs apparently.

I attempted to clean my room the other day. I got my desk and dresser cleaned off and that was it. But honestly, it's just clothes, bags and empty boxes on the ground so it shouldn't take me too long to clean up. I just need to not have a cramp the size of Texas.

Tristan is in Hawaii but apparently he doesn't want to be there. Yeah, it must be awful to forced against your will to go to FUCKING HAWAII! Because, you know, Regina just is as beautiful and exotic as they come. Man, I would kill to see an ocean right now. He's so strange sometimes.

White chocolate is fucking delicious.

I went back to work this week. Man, you go away for two weeks and the whole place changes. New debit system, which I just hate. It remind me of using a DOS. New KVS beep, which will need getting used to. New confusing charity thing which i know nothing about. But other than that it's been okay. I sort of created an ackward moment with Roscoe because he thought I had a fun weekend instead of going to a funeral (which he guessed right but shhhh!). And then Alvin thought I had the week off. These people are so strange.

I also think I left my visor there. Oops.

On a final note - Bon Jovi on American Idol was AWESOME!

Anyway, I'm off! Tah!

What is wrong with me?

2007-04-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

I'm seriously at a loss right now.
All my marks have come back:

Chemistry - 56. So this isn't a great mark but this marks the end of taking Chemistry for me. Yay!

English - 63. Eh. It was the same mark I got in English 100. I'll take it.

Biology - 81. Yay!

Physics - 58.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
I....I don't know what to say. I thought I was doing so well (MUCH better than last semester) and I only get a one mark difference? Jesus Christ. The best part is that I got 2% then a class I never went to. God almighty.
So, I really don't know what to do. Obviously, I'm not a Physics major anymore. I doubt I'll get into the RT program because they'll look at this mark and laugh. Plus, my Phyiscs prof is a reference so he can say how crappy at Physics I am. I'll still try though but I highly doubt I'll be ever to get in.
So, essentially, unless by some miracle, I get into the RT program, I have to re-evulate what I want to do with my life. I might go back to Math and/or Stats but I don't know. I have to think about it.

So, let's talk about happier things, shall we?

Tristan's birthday was on Wednesday. It was okay, but his friends insisted on showing him games rather than us all playing some sort of multiplayer game. That sort of annoyed me. It's like one of his friends wants to show off how big his penis was by beating the last boss of Sonic in front of all of us or the last boss in Zelda or whatever. Nobody cares, dude. But Tristan did like his presents, so that was good. He's in Hawaii right now. Lucky bum.

I also went out with him again the next day to buy some games and such. I got Wii Play. Mike kicked my butt with it. Pool is awesome though.

I just came back from my outing in Saskatoon. It was good. There were a few things about our hotel room that incredibly annoyed me, like the shower, and the no air conditioning. However, I did have an incredibly successful shopping trip which included my mother's presents for next month, a couple games, 3 pairs of pants and 3 shirts, a new dress, and some Nair for this summer. Oh, and an Iced Cap. Mmmmm.

So, I've been playing a new game on the DS called Hotel Dusk. It's really good but the way things are going, it's going to be about 80 hours long. Every mystery i solve leads to 3 others it seems. Oh well, I'm getting through it. ANYWAY, the main character is extremely hot. he has this gruffiness to him that's just....delicious. So, yeah, I've been playing it A LOT. :P

Anywho, I'm going to go and see what's what. Toodles people!

Curses!

2007-04-19T16:36:00.000-07:00

So, today was just not my day.
I get up and check my messages. I didn't do so well on my Physics Lab Final. Failed it, in fact. Boo. So, I guess the answer was 24 seconds, after all. :P Oh well, still passed the Lab itself.
Then, I have a shower. Coming out the the shower, I hit the toilet paper roll holder with my knee and the apparatus flys off the wall and hits the door. My knee hurts now.
So, I go to school becasue I wanted to see if my Bio Lab marks were up. Nope. Check to see if I could get my last Lab from my teacher. Nope. Check my Physics final Lab again just to be sure. Yup, bad mark. Go get an Iced Cap. They ran out of mix. Sigh.
I did, however, by a gift bag and card for Tristan's birthday. Yay.

Also, I promised Dad that I would go with him to Saskatoon next weekend (after finals). However, I completely forgot to book it off. Well, guess what McDoanlds did? Booked me for Friday, Saturday AND Sunday next weekend. Oh fucking JOY! And I told him after he booked a room with two twin beds. ARRRRRGH.

Speaking of which, Ryan, you want some hours next weekend? :P

So, I had my Chemistry final last Monday. I think it went okay. I hope it went okay as I don't want to take another Chemistry class in my life. However, I've been freaking out a little bit because, for some reason, I think I might have accidently missed a question. You see in the last Part, it was long answer questions. I did a Limiting Reagant question, which we did before the midterm, but...when I flipped through the test at the beginning of the exam, I could have sworn there was a long Equilibrium question. But I also could have been seeing a multiple choice question, becuase there was a lot of Equilibrium in the multiple choice. All and all, I think I'm going crazy.

Next final is Physics, which I'm going to rock on. Fuck that lab.

So, we almost had ourselves another cat.
One of Tristan's friends was moving and she had to get rid of her cat. He recommended me to her and we talked for a bit. She didn't want to take him to the Humae Society because they were already overrun with cats and she wanted to see him go to a good home. Ultimatly, since this would become my parent's cat it was their decision. And it was a no.
Something about this has been bothering me. As much as I'd like to take in every single cat we come across, we can't. My house is not an animal shelter. And as well meaning as Tristan was recommending me to her, everytime one his stupid friends (I'll explain why she is stupid in a second) can't be responsible enough to hold on to a pet, he just can't come running to me and expect me to take it in. It just doesn't work that way.
And in talking to this girl, I found out that in this 6 month old cat's life, she has moved 4 times. FOUR FUCKING TIMES. Why would you get a cat if you can't establish youself in one place? A cat is a 20 year commitment and not something to fling show off to people or a novelty. I hate people who are irresponsible like this.

Next on the rant list: Virginia Tech.
It's always terrible when something like this happens, but you know what's been pissing me off about this whole thing? The gunman was probably the biggest douchebag on the planet. Just look at this picture:

I don't think there are enough words on how much I hate this guy. Next time, just do us all a favour and just kill yourself dude. Don't be such an attention whore about it and selfishly claim 30 other lives. Ass.

Also, did anyone see American idol the other night?
"On behalf on all of us at Fox, we'd like offer our condolences to the families of the victims of Virginia Tech....
....THIS is AMERICAN IDOL!"
Pure class.

So, work has been okay (besides them booking me for enext weekend, grrr!). I got Employee of the Month, which was pretty cool. I also got my Platinum card which has the most awful picture of me on it. Oh well.
I've also been training again. In backend. The guy I got was super nice and pretty funny. By the time our second training shift was done, he could basically do everything except breakfast. And apparently Chelsea is training him on Saturday. Poor guy.

So, that's all I have to say for now. See ya!

This is why I hate Luther classes.

2007-04-13T00:33:00.000-07:00

So, we had an assignment for Biology 140 awhile ago, whic was go on the message board on WebCT and post your answer to this:
Is it ever ethical for an ethnobotanist to learn about the native plants from another culture, and if so, under what circumstances and what constraints should this work be done?

Nevermind that this is HUMAN biology, but that's another post.

So, I was bored tonight and was reading through some of the responses and came upon this little gem:
All thanks and all praise is due to The Creator of the heavens and the earth, the one upon whom all creation depends while He Himself depends on nothing. There is no creation that does not have a purpose, each little organism; insect, plant, birds, herbivores, carnivores and human beings all have a specific purpose while they live. Our Creator does not create anything in vain. As human beings our Sustainer has blessed us with a high position as viceroys over the earth. The problem is that as viceroys to the earth, the majority of human beings are not grateful for that elevated position. Our job is to take care of the earth as well as Gods creatures but instead we act as if we are gods ourselves and take what we want, kill what we want or turn plants that our Creator made for medicine into deadly addictive drugs. I do think it is ethical to learn traditional knowledge from other cultures but not only for the purpose of taking the plant and using it as a potential cure for disease. Although this is important it is even more important to submit to God by announcing to Him your intentions as well as offering your gratitude. This is the purpose of the human being. It is not the tribal chiefs who deserve thanks nor the shamans but only One that is the One who created it. Everybody wants to thank somebody but nobody thanks God, why? After our inevitable death and we come to meet our Creator what is important? Will “additional training in such areas as archeology, chemistry, ecology, anthropology, linguistics, history, pharmacology, sociology, religion, and, mythology” benefit us on that day? Maybe it is beneficial in this life but after this life the only thing that benefits anyone is their good deeds, who was grateful and who was not? So it is very important to be aware of a divine Creator and thankful to that Creator, that’s gratitude. This gratitude would include replacing the plant and not getting greedy so that people start suffering. This gratitude would not include destroying whole habitats. This gratitude would include treating the land and the inhabitants of that particular area with the utmost respect. This gratitude would never take Gods creation and alter it so that it serves an evil purpose. Human beings should make use of what is given in a positive way. There are no plants that are reserved for only one particular race or tribe or religion rather these medicines are not biased, they are for all of human kind we just have to give thanks and not destroy and kill in vain. All creatures breathe the same oxygen as us and drink the same water as us so nothing should die without a just reason that includes cultures. In An Introduction to Ethno botany it says “Where indigenous knowledge is lost through acculturation the people will be drawn into destructive Western ways of using the environment, such as clear cutting for logging and cattle pasture. In order to survive, native peoples will be forced into “destroying the environment that has sustained them”. I don’t think that it is ethical to change the culture of one group just because another culture has contact with them especially western culture since it has proven to be the least healthy. All plants, creatures and cultures should carry on as usual. In today’s world there are many diseases that need remedies, if the medicine must be found in remote areas where people inhabit the land then no part of that land or culture should be altered in any way except for taking what is needed and replacing it. Some Indigenous cultures make an offering for what is taken; nevertheless it should not be looked at as a commodity that will generate millions of dollars but rather a blessing from God because as soon as greed manifests itself, Gods creatures pay the price.

I'm still laughing.

Asbestos reminds me of tacos.

2007-04-10T14:37:00.000-07:00

Well, I hope everyone had a good Easter.

This last week has been okay. I finished my Chem Lab and Physics Lab Exams. Both went pretty well, I thought. Chemistry was stupidly easy and Physics was the exact same as last year. Also: I got a half life time of 12 minutes on the practical portion, not 24 seconds. WHOO!

So, I just have my Biology Lab exam and then Monday is the start of finals. Oooy.

Work has been pretty fucking annoying lately. I worked the morning on Good Friday, which I was very relaxed for some reason. It also went by pretty fast, it seemed. However, this didn't stop the tiredness. I went home at 1pm, had a shower, and napped till 10pm. Fuck, did that feel awesome.

I had Saturday off, so I watched some movies. Mom and I went to go see The Queen that day. It was good. I can't believe that James Cromwell is still alive though. Shit, I thought he was old when I first saw Babe. What was that, 10 years ago?
And having looked at his IMDB profile, I just found out he's not even 70 yet. Maybe he just looks naturally old. Jesus, I thought he was in his late 80's for sure.

Sunday, I worked again in the morning. It was okay but we seemed to have gotten the shitiest customers. One woman yelled at Ashley to turn our music down. Ashley expalined that the music was the people working in the back. This woman did not care and continued to yell. We responded by turning it up. Fucking bitch.
I also tried to nap after work but only until suppertime, in which Mike was sent in and banged my hamper around my room to get me up. This did not work (I heard him but I didn't respond) and he then starting poking me with said hamper. Ass.
So, for Easter I got Happy Feet. Yaaay.

So, last Thursday Ryan, Autty and I went shopping for Mandy's present: clothing. You'd think thei would have been an easy task but alas, we were wandering for an hour and had no clue what to get her. We finally saw this amazing coat and got her a bluse and necklace to go with it. She seemed to really like it, so it was all wroth it.
That night, we went to the Pump. Now, I'm the type of person who doens't like to be around a lot of people and would rather be able to talk to a few people for a night. Call me strange, but that is a lot more fun than any nightclub can give me.
Anyway, we get there and we had to wait like 45 minutes in line to get in. There was a drunk group of people behind us who kept pushing foreward even though they said they weren't. I felt guy for the guy in front of me because I was basically flat against his back and butt. NOT hot.
So, we get in and this place is PACKED. You can barely move. So, we grab a drink and head for the dance floor. We dance for a bit and then head down to the karaoke, then they wanted to go dance again, and then go back down to karaoke...shit I wished they would stay one spot. So, we dance for an hour, I tried to get another drink a couple of times but the lines are long so I just said screw it. And that was it. We spent 45 minutes in line to dance. You couldn't even talk to people cause the music was so loud. I guessed they liked the atmosphere but I sure didn't. So, all and all I wish I didn't go.
Then they tell me that it was NOT busy and Friday nights are much worse then that. What the FUCK? why do they like going to this place? It just seems like a huge waste of time and pointless to me. Whatever.

Anyway, I think i'm going to go and watch the Apprentice. Tah!

Alanis singing "My Humps" is the best thing ever.

2007-04-02T13:06:00.000-07:00

First of all, can I just say how lame VGR's April Fools joke was this year. Last year's was absolutely brilliant and this was just sort of a let down. Wow, I sound obsessed. But dammit, they could have actually had a real update.

So, I think my stress is melting away. I finsihed my English essay last night, which included the reading of the texts which I hadn't done yet (oops). I don't think I got a very mark on it. The question didn't make a whole lot of sense to me so it's just vague examples. Oh well.

Speaking of English, as much as I want to talk about vampires for a whole class...I'd much rather be sleeping. Also, fork tongue slicing open a vein in the neck? Ew.

Work has been a little stressful of late. I picked up a 6 hour shift this Saturday (oh fuck, did I regret that). It was okay but there was four people in back-end at one point. With two people, you would be fast enough. And then it was me and Kristin in front end. The shit? On top of that, it was a constant string of people all day, all wanting to eat inside. Becaus eof this lobby, was a mess but I couldn't get out there because no one would cover counter for me. On top of that, my till was short $10 so I got my first verbal warning. UGH.

Sunday was a little better. I was in back-end with another girl until 1 pm when she left. It was pretty dead, but of course, after she left, it got really fucking busy. One guy ordered 11 Snack wraps. Jesus!

I got my Casino Royale DVD today! YAY!

Also, what is up with people lately paying hundreds of dollars for a pure bred pet. Spending $600 on an ugly ass dog or a snotty cat is not a good way to economize. It's about $100 to adopt at the Humane Society and you're saving an animal in the process. Who cares if it's a pure bred or not. Seriously, people are not going to be impressed with that. Sigh.

So, supper is nearly ready so I'm gonna go. Later peeps!

Treeson! Squee!

2007-03-29T19:03:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the lateness of this. The last two times, I was interuptted by my Dad who wanted to do various things on the compy. We need separate computers. Oh, that's right, WE DO. Ugh.

So, I've been doing pretty good in school as of late. I got 87.5% on my Anatomy test, 84.5% on my Biology midterm, 72% on my Creative Writing story (I did it on no sleep and a stupid idea...yaaaay!) and 6.5/8 on my Chem Lab. w00t. Hopefully this streak will keep up through finals.

But dude, summer is in like, 4 weeks. AWESOME!

So, I trained again this week. My first back-end person. YAY! I was pretty happy because he was making burgers by himself on the first day of training. Considering my last trainee, who is STILL having trouble, this is very nice. He has his first breakfast shift on Saturday so I'll probably help him with that. Breakfast back-end sucks hardcore.

Oh, I didn't tell about that Saturday Shift with the Special One in Front End. Holy fucking shift. We took about 18 steps back from the previous shift. Poor Charmaine had to open the till like 15 fucking times becuase of mistake she made.
Also:
Special Front End Girl: "Megan, I need help!"
Me: "What's wrong?"
SFEG: "She wants a Double Cheeseburger meal."
Me: ".....so whats the problem?"
SFEG: "I can't find it!"
Me: *bangs head on counter because the double cheeseburger is only THE MOST POPULAR BURGER IN WHICH SHE'S PUNCHED IN ABOUT 18 HUNDRED TIMES*

And

Chinese guy with thick accent comes to counter
Chinese guy: "I want 20 nuggets and 2 Junior Chickens"
SFEG: ".....What?"
Chinese guy: "I want 20 nuggets and 2 Junior Chickens"
SFEG: "MEGAN I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S SAYING!"
Me: *profusely apologizes to Chinese guy as I take his order while she runs away*

And then to end this shift, I put her on drive-thru. She got stage fright. At the first order she completely freaked out. The only difference between drive-thru and counter is you talk into a microphone and press an extra button. That's it. Nothing to freak out about.
Then she got the headset stuck in the ONLY till. The till couldn't open and it took two of my managers with a screwdriver 10 minutes to get the till open while there was a 20 mile line-up. I was on the verge of just walking out and not coming back. God DAMMIT.

I picked up an 8 hour shift on saturday. I'm so dumb. I shouldn't be picking up any more shifts but I need money right now since "Holiday Season" is coming up. I know this because Tristan's birthday is next month and that's usually the start of it. Bah. However, I started shopping for him today. Already spent $180 and I still need to get a DS for him. I doubt they'll get here on time though but whatever.

My application for the RT program is officially in so I can relax a little now. Thank God March is almost over.

So, I bought WarioWare for the Wii last weekend because Tristan said it was pretty awesome. It is. Holy crap, is it ever crazy. And fun. I still suck at it but oh well. Tristan doing the Dance! minigame was probably in my Top Ten of the Best Things I've Seen. I almost died laughing so hard.

Anyway, I got some Physics to do so I'll talk to you all later!