What motivates you

So, I was voluntold to work an event this morning, it was a charity breakfast and the guest speaker talked all about motivation and whether adding an incentive is a good way to motivate.
He talked about Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs, it took me back to psychology 101 that i am sure everyone took in university.  It was the most interesting talk.....it was like he was speaking right too me, all about how i have been negative and unhappy lately.  It is because i am experiencing road blocks in my attempts to move forward in life.  Basically, my spinning wheels have made me build up the frustration and resentment.  The need to rediscover and redevelop my motivation has always been on my mind...and this isn't a new concept to me, but this guest speaker some how really brought the point across in such a way that spoke to me. 
I know i mentioned this yesterday about sharing a booth with heather and bob, and selling my crafts....but i think this will really help me to re-motivate myself.  Find my passion.  Let's face it, I have been blabbing on and on about my negativeness and how i am going to get better but nothing ever changes...i am all talk and no action. 
But let's look at a list of things that i love:
clothes, jewelry, fashion, movies, making people happy, crafting, making things, helping other people learn how to make things
I mean it is obvious to even me, i need to be in a more creative field, i need to develop my artistic side.  But how can i turn that list of things into a paying job...a job i can support myself and my expensive retail habit?
I will now take suggestions.

Also, this isn't what i was going to write about today.  Today i was going to write about a commercial i love...you know those Cloud vs Claude commercials that are for the new Windows Live.  Well i am sure this isn't the point of the commercials, but i would always choose Claude....he tries so hard.  Especially when he fixes up those pictures...and puts pictures of his face over all the other faces...makes me laugh so hard....i would Claude all of my pictures!

This just in...

I am apparently not low thyroid or low iron....i am low b12 and they require more tests of me.  Do you know what that means.....i have to get more blood taken.  The test will be some sort of glucose test....the hemoglobin A something was .02 over what it should have been so my doctor wants me to get that checked out.  I so wanted it to be something that is easily solvable....because i am so done with being exhausted all of the time.

I also have been confirmed for another month on my contract.  That double-edged knife is back, so there is that to look forward too.

I also got the date for my final exam, for the course i am taking....it is April 16, the day after my laser eye surgery.  Some people think i should re-schedule my eye surgery but i just think that if i don't do it now i am either going to chicken out or use the money more wisely by investing it conservatively and saving for my future.  I don't want to do either....i want a life free of glasses!

I have been having long talks with heather and my dad and we have all decided separately that i need to become more decisive about my life...i need to make a decision and move towards it.
Heather and bob are going to start selling some things at some markets in the summer and they have invited me to join their booth and sell some of my crafts.  So i have decided that's what i am going to do.  Now i just need to come up with something to sell and build up some inventory.

It's time for another adventure in meeting my neighbours

So last time I told you about meeting a neighbour, i believe it was the scary laundry lady.  So this time....it was a floor neighbour so I know exactly where she lives.
Steph made me exercise last night even though right now i am weezing like an asmatic smoker...stupid cold.  I was waiting for the elevator on my floor and as it comes, a lady comes out of her apartment and locks the door.  I decide to be polite and nice (i am still trying to build positive karmic energy) and hold the elevator for her.  She was taking a long time to come so i poked my head out to see if she did need the elevator and she saw me and did not speed up her pace at all, she moseyed down the hall way got into the elevator and then basically shoved my hand out of the way to press the first floor button.  She did not acknowledge me at all, she didn't say thanks for holding the elevator, she didn't even say hey neighbour....it was like i was a ghost and did not exsist to her.  I was quite insulted...not because she didn't say thanks for my good deed but because we are neighbours and neighbours should at least acknowledge each other...i always talk to my neighbours to at least say hi.

And another thing......my neighbour accross the hall has some guest that comes over all the time, i never see the person but i assume it is a boy because outside of her door is a cloud of over bearing colonge...it smells so bad, i litterly gag everytime i walk past her door.  Who needs that much colonge...seriously how much must he be wearing if he leaves a cloud of it behind in the hall way for hours at a time. 

Although i can't really give my neighbours too much trouble...i am the one that spends all night yelling at remy...how many times can you yell 'get your ass out of the recycling bin' before people start to question your sanity?

Steph's Birthday

So my little sister turns a year older tomorrow.  We had her family party on Saturday, it was pretty fun, although there were a few of us who were sick....mainly me and mark.  Life of the party we were not!  But Ally and Brady were in awesome form, excited and happy.  It is so nice to see Brady happy and active again.  He gave us quite a scare and now to see him running around pretending to be spiderman, shooting imaginary webs at everyone. 
Favourite quote from the party: Braydon to Steph - "Here you go Stephanie, we got you a cook book, shhh it's a surprise"

In other news, I am working through my bad luck.  Today is hopefully the day i find out about my job prospects...My mom actually mad me feel a lot better about my situation because she didn't start her career until she was 35...and it turned out pretty awesome. 

No news back on my blood tests....i am thinking i will be anemic but there is still a possibility of low thyroid.

The Harry run is this weekend, i hope we are ready for the exhaustion and pancakes. 

The Flu

So, I am getting some blood work done which means I had to go to a blood lab and get my blood taken....and here's the deal - I am TERRIFIED of needles.  I know that seems strange, coming from a girl with two tattoos and 5 earrings....but needles freak me right out! 
So yesterday, Heather took me to the blood lab, I fainted and they made me put my head between my knees....it wasn't pretty.  But then for some reason, i started feeling worse and worse.....i had the chills and i went really pale, like crazy pale!  I ended up sleeping for the rest of the day.  And i woke up today....with some sort of flu/cold.  I am positive i would have been able to fight of the sickness if i didn't have to give up so much of my blood.

Anyways, i am back at work today and feeling like crap.  I am also pretty depressed from the downer week i had.  My employment situation is still up in the air and all i want to do is sleep for a week.  I know it isn't a smart plan but all i want to do is burrow in my bed and hide from the world for a few days.  But instead, i am going to rally and push through the depression and make it through one day at a time....god, that is such a cheese inspirational poster saying.

Karma Building

So yesterday, i was walking home from tea with heather and a man approached me saying he was stranded without his wallet and couldn't get home.  He asked if i had a dollar or two he could have.  Having just bought tokens that afternoon after the disastrous lost ttc pass incident.  I felt like it was a sign from the universe and gave him one of my tokens. 
Even if i am having a disastrous day, even if i am more grumpy then i can imagine...i am going to try to pass on some good to someone else because i feel like, if i have the ability to make someone elses day better then that is just a chance to build some good universe karma.  Plus it makes me feel better to make someone else feel better. 
So my being good and helping my fellow man is really a selfish need to make myself feel better.  But at least i am making someone else feel better at the same time...therefore it is a positive - positive situation!

I hope everyone else is having a great week, i am sending positive vibes your way.  Tomorrow heather is taking me to get my blood taken so i don't back out...and then she is rewarding with me a trip to some sort of place that i get an aura cleansing or something to release me from the negativity!

Cursed or Bad luck?

So this week has not been going well for me.  Monday, my waterbottle opened in my bag, and soaked my bag and then dripped down my back and soaked my butt which i didn't notice because it was raining out.  Then i get my girl time of the month a day early...which puts me right into a grump...but i recover.  So, i write this off as a bad day and move on right, but then I discover this morning my ttc pass which is always in my jacket pocket...is missing.  I search my entire appartment, not there....i think back to what i did yesterday...and i bet i lost it in the grocery store....so now i have 9 and a half days left of the month and no way to get anywhere.  So this morning i scrounged up 3 dollars in quarters and dimes to get to work but now i have to think about this seriously.  The ttc machine gives out 8 tokens for $20, on the website a weekly unlimited pass costs $36 and 10 tokens costs $25.00.  I have 7 and a half days of work left, two more trips to boot camp and a trip to my parents on the weekend.  that is 21 tokens at the cost of $53, or two weekly passes at the cost of $72.  So this is costing me more that i would enjoy.  I am now full of grump.  Also, three bad things in a row, i could be cursed. 

How do you get rid of a bad luck curse? 

From the Jersey Shore

So Brady this weekend was wearing the most lovely of sweat suits.  It was a Canada Sweat suit, the pants were nice and baggy and the top was a zip-up hoddie.  He wore it without a shirt underneath the hoodie and kept the hoodie unzipped to about mid-chest so everyone could get a nice look at his chest.  We tried to teach him GTL but decided he was just too young.  I asked him if he wanted to get a tan and he said "No Tan".  So his future of being a guido is over before it even began!

I have to get my blood taken this week and i am terrified.  I am looking for excuses not to do it, and i think i am going to need someone to hold my hand.  If anyone wants to come with me to get my blood taken, it would be appreciated!

Also, Steph is diligently helping me run better, she is developing my running ability, i am getting better, and now that it is getting nicer out, i seem to be running a bit better.  But truth be told, i feel more pressure to run faster and keep up with the crowd in a race than running on my own. 

As for the Harry Spring Run Off, it is in two weeks.  I need to build up my running play list because i feel it will help motivate me to run faster.  And now knowing that pancakes wait for me at the end...i will run faster.  Maybe also if i buy something as a treat for myself but i give it to amy to give to me as a prize for finishing my run.  Hmmm....lots to think about.

Dance Party?

So my friend Heather wants to go to a reggae club tonight and i think that sounds like a lot of fun.  I am not sure if we are going to go but we are considering it.  See Radar the dog has been under the weather lately and we are very concerned for him so we may post pone the reggae club for later so heather can be with her baby, radar. 

Tomorrow we are adventuring to the AGO to see the Maharaja event.  Maybe we will have a dance party while viewing the exhibit.  The AGO is one of my favourite places to go....i love to stand in front of a painting and just stare at it.  I like the paintings that take me in....mainly, I love the Emily Carr paintings, they have such vibrant and vivid colours.  I wish that i could use art as a way to express myself.  But alas, i never had any drawing talents. 
I do really want to try glass blowing...but apparently it is really expensive.  I think it would be so exciting and cool.  Plus me and fire have a complicated relationship and i would enjoy working with it instead of cursing it for burning things that i didn't mean to catch on fire.

Anyways, i hope you all have a great and exciting weekend.  I plan to hopefully sleep a lot, maybe hit up a pump and flow class with Amy and celebrate Ally's birthday in fish style.

It's time for another Crazy Tin Dream

It was moving day and i was moving into a first floor walk up, it was more spacious.  The stuff that we were moving into my apartment was much nicer than my usual stuff....it was like all my stuff got an upgrade.  As well, it was a much bigger apartment.  There was also an emergency exit door in my apartment as well as laundry.  So the first night, i go to sleep then get up the next morning to take a walk through my new apartment and there were more rooms, a huge dinning room with lots of furniture in it, it was like the previous person left all of their stuff.  Then i found the best room ever, it was a room that was an entire closet!  A whole room, with drawers and flowy curtains and it was wonderful.  Then i continued my wandering and ended up in a large bulk furniture warehouse......as i wandered that place it seemed perfectly natural that my apartment was attached to it.  But now that i think of it....i think i might have been living in a display house.  Weird.   Anyways.....i woke up shortly after that.  I don't remember all the details but was an interesting dream!

Wednesday

Normally, i really enjoy Wednesdays because it seems like a cool day, you are half way through a week. 

Today.....it seems okay, you know everything is on par with a usual day. 

I am not feeling the blog too much today.  I don't really have anything to say. 

Today is the perfect day for me to give you my compiled list of nick names:
Tin-a-Tin
Tin-Tin
Tin
Porcupine
Mr. Belevidere
Urn
Erin-inski
Ninski
Muscles
DJ Dinner Plate (i gave that one to myself so it doesn't technically count but i don't care)
Hawk-eye

Allyson Elizabeth

Today is a very special day because two years ago a crazy monkey named Ally was born.  She is the princess of the family, as girly as a girl can get....and already a great shopping buddy. 
This kid is adorable and charming and knows it.....she will wrap you around her finger in seconds.  I like to say that she is a candy coated chocolate with an evil nougat centre.
I am going to honour this great day by telling you some of my favourite Ally moments.
1.  She has this new thing where she will act out an emotion when you ask her.  She is a drama queen in training.  You tell her to show you sad and she will stick that bottom lip out so far...and mad she will burn you with a look of great disappointment....and my personal favourite silly/funny where she makes a noise and then laughs at her own silliness.
2.  Her first word.....it was Ally.  Spoken like a true diva, she learned to say only the most important words in the beginning, Ally, Me, daddy.  Mommy came much later because daddy was much easier to control hence she learned his name first.
3. She loves nail polish, shoes, sunglasses, and cell phones.....we share all the same interests and i am thinking of making her my new bff.

Anyways, this Sunday we will be celebrating her birthday with an exciting Fish Party!

Morning People

Now I am sure you are all aware that i am not a morning person, i will get up and do morning things if it is required but i prefer to spend my mornings all tucked into my bed enjoying an extended sleep! 
So this unknown species, the morning person, i am completely happy to let them do their thing but in your face cheerful morning people....they make me so grumpy.  Alex knows what i am talking about....see when you are not a morning person and you are up early...you are already pre-disposed to be grumpy.  So if i am up in the morning and i am already grumpy at being up....seeing cheerful morning people makes me so much more grumpy that my grump just may be a little out of control.

I ran the St. Patrick's Day 5 km yesterday and there were some people who were warming up with a choreographed dance number with music and everything.....and instead of being impressed and excited because i love anything dance related and i should appreciate their effort and style.......it made me so much more grumpy!
In regards to the run, it was very crowded and the route did not thin out much so i had a lot of trouble navigating the route and getting around the slower people.  My time is 30.12 and steph says i should be very proud because lately we have been running 7 minute kilometres and to run a mostly 6 minute km yesterday is awesome.  But i need all the speed and energy that i can get for the Harry run off because of the hilly course. 

Logan has also eaten another pair of headphones, i am going to see if my headphones are covered by the ipod warranty my parents got me. 

My plan for the Harry run off because i am much slower than Alex and Ryan, i will need a kick ass play list to run to.

What's up Universe.......

Why you got to play me like that.

So...i was all content to start looking for another job outside my current place of employment....sort of feeling like it's time.....and i get an email today about a job i applied for but didn't get a couple of months ago.  Apparently they have another vacancy and would like me to come in for another interview.  I of course said yes. 

Now here's the question you have to ask yourself....do i hang around in the situation i am in now and wait to see if it all works out or do i jump into a new situation that i have heard rumours about it being really bad but it will be a change of location and maybe that will pull me out of my funk?

On a side note....essay still sucking.  Man do i hate essay writing.  Why does it have to be a research paper....why can't it be an opinion paper.  I am great at forming opinions and writing about them....but to back up my opinions with facts....that just seems like crazy talk.  I wish i could just be like...i know what i am talking about...trust me...i don't need no facts....just opinions.

Signs from the Universe

So...I asked for an end to the uncertainty and i got my answer....I did not get the job i applied for in my department.  But there is now a new job in my department that i can apply for and because i feel that if i don't apply for it, it would be like shooting myself in my foot, i will apply. 

And as Andrea pointed out there are people a lot worse off then me.....So, I have decided to stop feeling sorry for myself.  Although it is very had for a drama queen like myself to stop making everything about me.  In fact i have decided to mend my drama queen like ways.  I will try to be much more chill and relaxed although that may require me to take drugs and i have been drug free about 99.5% of my life....i did try the ganja a few times....okay just two times didn't really like it because i didn't feel any sort of anything.
I just never had a huge desire to do the drugs.....it seemed to me that there are a lot better things to spend my money on....like clothes....you know what, clothes are my drugs.  I buy something new and i feel better.  The only problem is that the feeling doesn't last, later after the newness has worn off the clothes, i don't like them as much.  I am working on it...instead of buying lots of new clothes, i have found socks have the same effect and they are cheaper and the effect lasts longer.  Today, i am wearing purple socks with florescent green leopard print.

I am going to finish researching my essay today and then write it tomorrow.  Once it is written, i will hand it in and fingers crossed that i will pass.  That is the plan!

Truth

I always try to be absolutely honest with myself.  I know that one of my biggest weaknesses is living in my own head too much, over thinking, obsessing over the smallest detail.....in basic terms, a basket case.
Even now, i know i am being a huge drama queen but i am who i am!
Okay.....where am i going with all of this? I am trying to be honest....with myself.  And since i basically use this blog as an online diary....a window into who i really am.  I might as well write it here.
Every night, i drink a tea and stare out at the city sky line, i look out and wonder about the lives of the people out there, are they happy? What was their favourite day? How did they get to where they are?
I have always said that if you want to make a change, than do it.
So here's the truth, I want to change some things.
I am not happy.  I have fleeting moments of happiness but every day the largest part of my day is spent being unhappy and unsatisfied with where my life is. 
I know i say this a lot...i know i acknowledge the problems in my life over and over again and never actually fix them.  So here's the deal.  I am going to focus all my energy right now on making a change. 
I am very hard on myself so change number one is to try to accept myself as i am and not be so fatalistic, there is nothing wrong with falling a few times, it is the picking yourself up that counts.  I have this little voice in the back of my head constantly telling me i don't deserve things....it always makes me doubt myself but now i have this idea...i am going to take that voice and use it as a challenge.  I am going to work extremely hard to prove the little voice wrong....when it tells me i don't deserve it or can get it.

So this is all great right, admit your problem and make a plan to change it.  But there is one more small problem.....I have NO IDEA what i want to do with my life.  I would love to be a personal shopper, or a stylist, or have my own wool/craft store.....There are many things i would love to do....but to make a change i really need to focus and make a choice. I am absolutely terrified to make a choice, What if it is the wrong one? What if i get stuck in another unhappy situation?  How will i know if i made the right choice?  All these things lead to one thing....i am too chicken shit to make a decision.  I find this hilarious because i am usually pretty fearless when it comes to some aspects of my life...but life choices they freak me out.  Why do you think i have stayed single so long....because i run from every single relationship opportunity or i pick relationships that are doomed to fail right from the beginning.

So how do i battle my crippling fear of life?  Jump....two feet right into something that will throw my life into chaos.....I have been trying baby steps but they are clearly not working....i can't sustain them, i make a change they fall back into my old patterns when i become too stressed.

Light Bulbs and stripes

Have you ever had something completely insignificant completely change your mind about something? 

It happens to me a lot.  I think it is because I will put up with a lot or I will let a lot slide and then suddenly something totally unimportant will happen or someone will say something casually and a GIANT light bulb will appear above my head and suddenly I see everything from a completely different perspective.

Yesterday, it was mentioned in passing that we have been talking too much....this is nothing new to me, i am always told i am talking too much or too loud.  But I can't help it...i wasn't born with an indoor voice...our whole family doesn't know the meaning of indoor voice.  Most of the time when we are all together in the same room we just try to talk over each other instead.  But here's the eureka moment for me.  I wasn't even told directly....it was mentioned to someone who then mentioned it to me.  That is the type of place i am at right now, i am not even told directly.  I get strung along for 4 months without any notion of permanence. 

I love most of the people...but after that comment...I stewed for a bit and now i have realized...it is never going to be any different.
Am i ever going to be happy here? Is this a place i want to spend like 8 hours a day?  I was starting to think i would be okay here short term...but i don't think that is the case anymore.

In other news....guess who bought a jersey dress with grey and black horizontal stripes....I DID.  I tried this dress on a long time ago and i liked it but it was way too expensive...so i put it out of my mind....but yesterday, i had an outfit emergency....i had an unexpected meeting and an important part of my outfit was a skull scarf....it was a shot of colour that broke up all the black i was wearing...so i had to go find an emergency solution scarf.  Which i did but i also was reminded of that dress and it was on sale...half price.  WOOT.  so i bought it.  I am wearing it today...although i am still crazy paranoid that i look ginormous but i am working through it.

Cable

So, I almost lost it on Friday when i was leaving work at 4:30 to get home for my cable appointment when i saw that i missed 2 calls from the same number.  All i could think was....if i missed my cable call because they came early.....i am going to cry.  But he was waiting for me and fixed my cable but my box was still broken...so i had to go get a new pvr at the rogers store...then it wouldn't authorize so i had to call rogers and get them to actually authorize it.  Then it worked so to celebrate....i rented Burlesque.  It was horrible....absolutely horrible.....I loved every minute of that horrible train wreck!
Then i was going to rent Mean Girls 2 but i didn't because Andrea told me it was horrible.  But i did see a new movie that i am so going to watch soon, Paper Man......look it up because it looks awesome!

What else did i do this weekend, oh i went and bought new rain boots, they are a greeny grey with tiny pink flowers on sale at old navy...$20.  I did see a pair of rain boots i liked at Joe way more...they had more of a nautical theme going on but they were calf crushers.....they cut off the circulation in my legs they were so tight.  I still think of them....and i almost bought them (aka fashion over function) but i decided circulation is important.  I also continued my search for the perfect striped sweater...i thought i found it at Jacob, it was blue and black and slouchy so it wouldn't make me look like i am huge...but it was $60 which is way too much for a sweater from Jacob...in fact Jacob is just too expensive in general.  I also went to H&M and sadly i wasn't impressed although heather found this great bird blazer.....it looked great on her but freaked me out because of my bird fear....even being fashionably fierce birds are still scary.

Sunday i went for a run with steph....we made good time, down to 6.30 a km....but i felt like i was fighting my legs the entire run.  I am seriously disappointed with myself.  i am so out of shape.  I have two runs coming up in the next 4 weeks....and they are going to be bad....seriously bad.  I shall embarrass myself with my slowness....especially the Hilly run of Harry's race.

Horizontal Strips

So....I am sitting here eating my apple fritter and drinking my chocolate milk after finishing my cheese bagel with cream cheese and tomato and I realize that i haven't had a good fashion rant against horizontal strips.  Now this is something I need to rant about because it is a super hot new trend, it looks amazing when done right and I can't do it. 
I go into a store, strips as far as i can see, i love them all and i am like....this time....this is the time i will find a horizontal striped sweater that won't make me look so wide that i probably would have trouble fitting through doors.
See horizontal strips look amazing on super tall skinny people or petite skinny people.  Basically if you are curvy like me....it doesn't work.  Or maybe it does and i am just crazy....but when i try one on, all i see is boobs stretching the sweater and making me look wider than i should.  I want to be able to wear them...there are so many great ways to wear a striped sweater....you can dress it up or dress it down, make it funky or preppy.
Although here is where determination will eventually pay off.  I am going to keep looking and keep trying on horizontal striped sweaters until i find the right one.  I will do it.

Also, still no cable.....hating Rogers more by the moment.  They are lucky that it is re-runs this week because if i had missed a new Community I would be very upset right now.

Check back late tonight or tomorrow morning and i will blog about my cable being fixed.  If it isn't fixed check the news for a report about a crazy person attacking rogers employees with a pvr....it might just be about me.  Someone start preparing the bail money!

Fashion over Function?

So if you were to choose, which would it be Fashion or Function???

I almost always choose fashion.  For example, yesterday I was going out with my new friend....the one i told you I met at that weird meet and greet/job interview.  And we were going to South Side, in the village.  So YUMMY!  I had Lobster Mac & Cheese.  We need to go here when we are all in the city.  It is tiny but delicious and i enjoy the small intimate atmosphere.  Also their brunch is like psycho killer awesome.  Anyways, i am getting distracted from my original point of this story....food has a way of distracting me.  So i decided since i was going out with a new friend, I should use this as an excuse to wear my fun boots I bought on sale from Aldo.  Amy's seen them, they are black platform heeled boots with straps around them and sheep skin on the inside to keep my feet toasty.
This is a picture of them.
They are awesome and comfy and i wear them at work lots but on the uncertain terrain of outside, especially with ice, they are not so awesome.  Now they looked awesome, i just may have been a little too stumblely.

This is a perfect example of fashion over function....i could have worn my sorrels and been fine, they are cute and fun and rustic but i was feeling fancy last night so i just had to wear these boots.

Also, i have made myself a scarf, a circle scarf....I had made one in the past for Andrea, you wrap it around twice and use it like a hood.  I loved it, so i just made one for myself but i think that i made it way too thick this time.  It doesn't wrap right.  I am going to have to experiment.  But i love scarfs with hoods attached

Not Ready

So, me and the steph went running last night.  As you know i have some big runs coming up....i don't know if i am going to be ready in time.  I guess it is time to crack down and really get to training.  Right now i run a like 6:40/km.....and i want to bring it down to 6.  I know it seems ambitious...but have i ever done things small potatoes.  Not really.

Also, I am debating becoming a personal shopper and lots of people ask me all the time for advice when it comes to clothes/accessories & shopping.  So i am going to try to play around with this blog and add a part that is strictly dedicated to fashion, the buys of the week, the hot new trend (stupid horizontal stripes) and other fun things.  So we will see if i can figure out some sort of way to integrate that into my blog.

Right now my favourite winter accessory is cowls and long circular scarfs that you can sort of make into a hood.  I have crocheted two long scarfs and knitted a cowl.  Now with this cowl i have knitted...i am trying to decided...do i keep it short so it is just like a neck warmer or do i make it crazy long so it is like a neck warmer plus hat?  Opinions, questions, requests.....let me know.

Just a few Announcements

1) Rogers can SUCK IT!!!!!!!  Apparently my apartment, the first time ever, is experiencing low signal so my cable box keeps rebooting itself and now the first available non-work time that a service technician can come is Friday night.  Like i had nothing better to do than wait around Friday night for the cable guy....that sounds like the start of a bad x-rated movie.  Worst part....now i am down to basic basic cable at my place and because i love cable and TV is my best friend, i pay for deluxe cable.  So I = GRUMPY.  I even threatened to switch to bell and they told me they couldn't do anything.  I am starting my research on this new bell cable.  We will see how it goes.

2) A sad loss has happened in our family that we should have a moment of silence for.  Olive has passed on.  She was a wonderful cat and she will be missed by everyone!

3) I am debating becoming a personal shopper, since one of my main talents is shopping....i was thinking, maybe i would be good at the whole personal shopper thing.  I am starting to do some research about it and will keep you posted.

4) I am starting my essay tonight, I was going to start it last night but i spent most of the night swearing at Rogers.  So it was kind of a busy night.  I am like everyone else when their internet goes out.  I mean i am grumpy when the internet goes out but i am okay waiting for it to get fixed...i don't use it much at home.  But cable...now that is my thing....so when it goes out, i am sad!

5) Rogers still sucks!

Hope everyone has a great day.  I will be going on a run later to vent my grump.  Hopefully it will be successful.