My co-worker Carly loved to hashtag everything. I have never really understood the need to hashtag everything BUT....this weekend. Was wonderful.
We went for fancy tea as you know, me and some of my co-workers. I planned it thinking it would just be a fun time and an excuse to wear facinators and get all fancy. But apparently it was to celebrate my promotion as well. And they treated me to tea. Isn't that the nicest thing.
With this promotion, so many people at work are coming forward and letting me know that they believe in me. It is overwhelming!
I feel like i should be thanking everyone in the world. I want to make everyone thank you for believing in me presents. But what says thanks best? Too bad i can't get everyone dog hugs. Dog hugs are the best! Maybe i can borrow amy's dog Austin and bring him in to work for everyone to hug him. Austin is the best hugger. I love Austin so MUCH!
Monday, May 26, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Tiny Top Hats
So, i have been bragging to my co-workers about my fun adventures for afternoon tea with my run club. It is literally the best time ever.
So, my co-workers have demanded an afternoon tea adventure. We are going on saturday, Fancy Dress required and maybe even facinators if you have one. So me and kelly have been talking about how great tiny top hats are and that they should be worn more and why aren't they worn more. My co-worker Marion brought in today..........................................................A......Mini Top Hat. And it is glorious.
I may have to wear it tomorrow at tea.
The best part of tomorrow, is that after tea, we are all trekking over to our new favourite place in the world - the VIP cinemas at Yonge/Dundas. We will be seeing X-Men. In our formal wear!
I am very excited.
So, my co-workers have demanded an afternoon tea adventure. We are going on saturday, Fancy Dress required and maybe even facinators if you have one. So me and kelly have been talking about how great tiny top hats are and that they should be worn more and why aren't they worn more. My co-worker Marion brought in today..........................................................A......Mini Top Hat. And it is glorious.
I may have to wear it tomorrow at tea.
The best part of tomorrow, is that after tea, we are all trekking over to our new favourite place in the world - the VIP cinemas at Yonge/Dundas. We will be seeing X-Men. In our formal wear!
I am very excited.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Who would have thought
So....you remember when i promised to not be so negative with myself any more...and to try to be optimistic. Well.................
Guess who got a promotion!!!!
All that hard work....paid off.
I start June 2nd.
I am excited, and terrified, and nervous, and ecstatic. Basically i am feeling ALL THE FEELINGS.
It is only a contract but it is exactly what i need....to get the experience. It is going to be a lot of work but i am ready for it.
I guess positive thinking paid off. Take that negativity!
I want to brag more but i am also super shy and embarrassed about all the praise i am getting....it is weird, i am not use to the attention. I am usually a fly under the radar person (or so i tell myself). Now i am front and center....people expect things of me. I no longer have the support staff lifer protection.
I have two weeks to get my life in order and then everything changes.
As a present to myself for being awesome and getting this new job. I am totally going to buy a circle wicker chair thing....that i have always wanted!
Although buying it then bringing it home and getting rid of my old couch....all seems very hard so......................
Guess who got a promotion!!!!
All that hard work....paid off.
I start June 2nd.
I am excited, and terrified, and nervous, and ecstatic. Basically i am feeling ALL THE FEELINGS.
It is only a contract but it is exactly what i need....to get the experience. It is going to be a lot of work but i am ready for it.
I guess positive thinking paid off. Take that negativity!
I want to brag more but i am also super shy and embarrassed about all the praise i am getting....it is weird, i am not use to the attention. I am usually a fly under the radar person (or so i tell myself). Now i am front and center....people expect things of me. I no longer have the support staff lifer protection.
I have two weeks to get my life in order and then everything changes.
As a present to myself for being awesome and getting this new job. I am totally going to buy a circle wicker chair thing....that i have always wanted!
Although buying it then bringing it home and getting rid of my old couch....all seems very hard so......................
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Nirvana
I went to a magical place yesterday called the VIP Cinema's at Yonge/Dundas.
Fun facts about these movie theatres. To even get into the VIP area, you must show your ID because no one underaged is allowed. The seats are large and cushy like lazy boy chairs. You have a waiter come take your order (you can order full meals and alcohol) and then they deliver to your seat. And finally they have arm tables that slide out so you can store all your food.
IT IS AMAZING.
I don't want to over sell it but you know how i feel about youths (i am such a grumpy old man). And it was a smaller theatre so there weren't as many annoying strangers.
I repeat.....IT WAS AMAZING
So, there is one drawback....the tickets are like 23/each. But silver lining...if you have scene points it costs only 1000 which is the regular amount for any movie.
I believe we have found my new happy place!
Fun facts about these movie theatres. To even get into the VIP area, you must show your ID because no one underaged is allowed. The seats are large and cushy like lazy boy chairs. You have a waiter come take your order (you can order full meals and alcohol) and then they deliver to your seat. And finally they have arm tables that slide out so you can store all your food.
IT IS AMAZING.
I don't want to over sell it but you know how i feel about youths (i am such a grumpy old man). And it was a smaller theatre so there weren't as many annoying strangers.
I repeat.....IT WAS AMAZING
So, there is one drawback....the tickets are like 23/each. But silver lining...if you have scene points it costs only 1000 which is the regular amount for any movie.
I believe we have found my new happy place!
Monday, May 12, 2014
Running for Mom
It was our annual Mother's Day run on sunday aka Sporting Life 10k. Now i have not been looking forward to it because i have had almost zero training since the last 10k race, plus i had that asthma attack two weeks ago.
But....it is a tradition. and i can't let mom down.
Another transition happened yesterday, Andrea who has been working so hard at her running had a great race. She has found her running high.
I don't think i will ever find that running high. I have decided to embrace....i am an angry runner. It is just the outcome of the running. I will never be like 'this is the best, you know what i would love to go out and run today'. Nope those words won't come out of my mouth. I get mad and angry and every single cheering spectator, i want to punch in the throat. Dad says i should find an exercise that i love. I love yoga, and i do yoga regularly but it doesn't give me the cardio i need and want. Maybe i should take up boxing again. I do enjoy hitting things and it is amazing cardio. But i just don't know where i would go to do it. I have been thinking about joining Marvs again but it was just so expensive. And of my exercise budget, do i want to spend it all on a class i hate. I love the girls, they are my favourite people in the world and i love my brunch. I just don't know if my mind set is exactly where it needs to be to go back to that place that puts competition ahead of encouragement. I know there are a lot of people who are encouraging there but Marv is not....and it really effects my mindset when it comes to exercising. I constantly compare myself to everyone there and judge myself wanting. I know i want to get in better shape. i know it is a constant battle i have to lose weight and eat healthy and keep active. But i have learned in the last little while....negative leads to more negative. Sure i am an angry runner but it helps me get out all my frustration. Would i rather be swimming laps, of course, i love swimming and if there was a pool near by, i would sign up and do laps every day.
Reading Rainbow
I am an 80's kid.....who grew up with Reading Rainbow...anytime those words are said i automatically sing 'it's in a book, just take a look, it's reading rainbow'
It is an automatic response.
Now i have a new favourite Rainbow. Rainbow Rowell.
So Kelly says to me like 2 months ago....i have found a new author we are going to love (we hang out so much that our brains have started to merge into one, we call it the mind meld, normally if she loves something i will love it too and vice versa......except for teen wolf which i will love forever and she won't commit to)
Anyways....i immediately went to the library and put a hold on it. 2 months later and i still haven't gotten it. Then during my daily trip to Lainey Gossip, i see that she is hosting a Rainbow Rowell event. Me and kelly decide it is a MUST...and we start making our plans. I decide i can't go to the event without reading Elenor and Park. So i buy both Fangirl and Elenor & Park.
Elenor & Park....it is like together they are in the eye of a storm....you know they are in the calm center when everything around them storms and swirls around for maximum destruction. It was beautiful and heart breaking. After i was finished, i told kelly that i just want to put them in a snow globe where they are protected and safe forever.
Back to the yesterday. It was a very stressful day. We had this corporate team building session, where i got put into my personality group (the people pleasers). We are suppose to talk about how we work and what makes us work good but put a bunch of quiet people pleasers in a group without a leader...we sit around and stare at each other awkwardly.......seriously. So it was a stressful two hours of trying to talk to people. Then i immediately went into an interview for a job i really want. So my adrenaline and nerves were ratcheted up so much I was like seconds away from snapping.
So....work finally over, me and kelly head up to the library for the reading. We get there like nerdily early. So we sat outside and ate bagels...there were youths loitering. The youths not important information but....you know...i find them so awkward...always trying to prove how cool and grown up they are, so much stress.
Then we went in and sort of started lining up. Lines cause me such stress, it isn't bad if there is a line monitor and it seems like it is there is some measure of control. But lines in general are insane for me. So many strangers all standing around, and then the line started snaking back on itself and it started to seem like chaos. On top of that, i am always worried about cutters and non-rule followers because there are rules and we all waited. What makes them so special that they don't have to wait. It is just RUDE and i hate RUDE.
So the actual Q&A was amazing, Rainbow is a lovely person, amazing personality and you can tell she just has a good soul. I mean when you read her books you can tell she has such a good soul because her books are so beautiful and hopeful. But hearing her talk.....it just made things so much more. I don't know if i could describe it better...it was just so much more!
Then she was signing books....and i braved another chaotic line to get my book signed. Although secretly i was like DAMN....i don't want to meet her because I embarrass myself so easily. Also, i have never been a gushy fan...i like to admire from afar....close up...there is just too much pressure. I expect too much and they can never measure up to my expectations so it is better to keep the distance and the glossy expectations are never ruined.
Okay....anyways....me and Kelly decide it is best if we go up together to keep the other from embarrassment. We talk to her, a real normal conversation about buttons and office space and how you can never have too much flare. I know what you are thinking....how is that a normal conversation. Well it is as normal as we get. and it was fun and jokey and casual. It kept things light. Then afterwards...on a high of meeting her and not embarrassing ourselves.....we decided that we were the coolest people ever and then on the elevator back down to the street....We double high fived.
AND
FREEZE FRAME!
And that is my adventure with Rainbow Rowell
It is an automatic response.
Now i have a new favourite Rainbow. Rainbow Rowell.
So Kelly says to me like 2 months ago....i have found a new author we are going to love (we hang out so much that our brains have started to merge into one, we call it the mind meld, normally if she loves something i will love it too and vice versa......except for teen wolf which i will love forever and she won't commit to)
Anyways....i immediately went to the library and put a hold on it. 2 months later and i still haven't gotten it. Then during my daily trip to Lainey Gossip, i see that she is hosting a Rainbow Rowell event. Me and kelly decide it is a MUST...and we start making our plans. I decide i can't go to the event without reading Elenor and Park. So i buy both Fangirl and Elenor & Park.
Elenor & Park....it is like together they are in the eye of a storm....you know they are in the calm center when everything around them storms and swirls around for maximum destruction. It was beautiful and heart breaking. After i was finished, i told kelly that i just want to put them in a snow globe where they are protected and safe forever.
Back to the yesterday. It was a very stressful day. We had this corporate team building session, where i got put into my personality group (the people pleasers). We are suppose to talk about how we work and what makes us work good but put a bunch of quiet people pleasers in a group without a leader...we sit around and stare at each other awkwardly.......seriously. So it was a stressful two hours of trying to talk to people. Then i immediately went into an interview for a job i really want. So my adrenaline and nerves were ratcheted up so much I was like seconds away from snapping.
So....work finally over, me and kelly head up to the library for the reading. We get there like nerdily early. So we sat outside and ate bagels...there were youths loitering. The youths not important information but....you know...i find them so awkward...always trying to prove how cool and grown up they are, so much stress.
Then we went in and sort of started lining up. Lines cause me such stress, it isn't bad if there is a line monitor and it seems like it is there is some measure of control. But lines in general are insane for me. So many strangers all standing around, and then the line started snaking back on itself and it started to seem like chaos. On top of that, i am always worried about cutters and non-rule followers because there are rules and we all waited. What makes them so special that they don't have to wait. It is just RUDE and i hate RUDE.
So the actual Q&A was amazing, Rainbow is a lovely person, amazing personality and you can tell she just has a good soul. I mean when you read her books you can tell she has such a good soul because her books are so beautiful and hopeful. But hearing her talk.....it just made things so much more. I don't know if i could describe it better...it was just so much more!
Then she was signing books....and i braved another chaotic line to get my book signed. Although secretly i was like DAMN....i don't want to meet her because I embarrass myself so easily. Also, i have never been a gushy fan...i like to admire from afar....close up...there is just too much pressure. I expect too much and they can never measure up to my expectations so it is better to keep the distance and the glossy expectations are never ruined.
Okay....anyways....me and Kelly decide it is best if we go up together to keep the other from embarrassment. We talk to her, a real normal conversation about buttons and office space and how you can never have too much flare. I know what you are thinking....how is that a normal conversation. Well it is as normal as we get. and it was fun and jokey and casual. It kept things light. Then afterwards...on a high of meeting her and not embarrassing ourselves.....we decided that we were the coolest people ever and then on the elevator back down to the street....We double high fived.
AND
FREEZE FRAME!
And that is my adventure with Rainbow Rowell
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
The Final Countdown
Things haven't gone so smoothly in my life this past year. It has sort of been one unexpected gong show after another. I probably shouldn't complain too much because i got past it all. BUT i am just so tired of life punching me in the face.
Dad always says, you put positive out into the universe it returns to you. Basically Like attracts Like. So what does it say about me that i keep attracting these things? Am i really just a giant ball of grump.
My friend has a wedding in june and i went shopping for a dress to wear this weekend, and not a single thing actually fit over my boobs or my fat ass. Sometimes i wish i had that crazy exercise switch that the rest of my family has.....it seems like they just wake up one day and they are in crazy exercise town. They are focused and super motivated and disciplined. I try that...and like 10 minutes into disciplined lane, i am like good job...i really pushed it today, i should stop and watch tv. But do i want to flip that switch. Sure i would love to be skinny and model like but let's face it. I am short and curvy...i can't just exercise those things away....they will always be there. Maybe it is better if i just embrace the curve.
How is it that i am super comfortable with who i am personality wise but hate the package it comes in.
Wow...i am super insecure today......or every day....i guess if i am being completely honest....i have never thought i was attractive...like ever. That is such a sad thought!
Okay people....this is it...the final count down. I can't keep beating myself up about looks. Seriously...i need to embrace my "i am who i am" philosophy for outside not just inside.
So...here is the plan. Just stop being critical of myself. Okay, so it isn't really a plan per say...it is more of a mantra or whatever. But hopefully it will help.
Also, i am running another 10km race on sunday...which i probably won't survive because of that whole asthma thing. So if this is my last week....i might as well be nice to myself about it.
Dad always says, you put positive out into the universe it returns to you. Basically Like attracts Like. So what does it say about me that i keep attracting these things? Am i really just a giant ball of grump.
My friend has a wedding in june and i went shopping for a dress to wear this weekend, and not a single thing actually fit over my boobs or my fat ass. Sometimes i wish i had that crazy exercise switch that the rest of my family has.....it seems like they just wake up one day and they are in crazy exercise town. They are focused and super motivated and disciplined. I try that...and like 10 minutes into disciplined lane, i am like good job...i really pushed it today, i should stop and watch tv. But do i want to flip that switch. Sure i would love to be skinny and model like but let's face it. I am short and curvy...i can't just exercise those things away....they will always be there. Maybe it is better if i just embrace the curve.
How is it that i am super comfortable with who i am personality wise but hate the package it comes in.
Wow...i am super insecure today......or every day....i guess if i am being completely honest....i have never thought i was attractive...like ever. That is such a sad thought!
Okay people....this is it...the final count down. I can't keep beating myself up about looks. Seriously...i need to embrace my "i am who i am" philosophy for outside not just inside.
So...here is the plan. Just stop being critical of myself. Okay, so it isn't really a plan per say...it is more of a mantra or whatever. But hopefully it will help.
Also, i am running another 10km race on sunday...which i probably won't survive because of that whole asthma thing. So if this is my last week....i might as well be nice to myself about it.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Life as i now know it
So.....i had people over to watch the hockey game on saturday. Yes, it is a big surprise because people in my space is new to me. But i took the time to clean and i have been feeling the need for a spring clean for awhile so it was a good time to do it. Cleaning complete and people come over....it is getting later in the evening and it is starting to ferl like someone is sitting on my chest. I can still breath but it is harder than normal. By the time they all go home the wheezing has started. I of course am cursing the gods because i am always terrified of that damned pneumonia. I don't sleep well and sunday my breathing is so laboured that I spend all day focusing on not panicking.
Monday I VOLUNTARILY go to the walk in by myself.....that is how you can tell it is bad it was because I irrationally hate the doctors.
The walk in clinic guy tells my I am having an acute asthma attack. If I could have breathed my response would havd been a lot more sassy but because I hadn't really slept or ate in two days I went with.......what?
I have never had breathing problems...I am not a smoker....and I exercise regularly.....so where the hell did asthma come from? Apparently that fucking pneumonia is the gift that keeps on giving. My lungs have become weakened and asthma is a potential benefit.
So I get my puffers and head to work. I get to work and finally start to feel like I can breath.....I decide that is the perfect time for a breakdown and cry. Perfect start to my week.
My breathing managed to normalize by Wednesday. And I got the all clear from my doctor today.
So outcome from my adventures....in a month's time when my lungs have recovered and normalized I will have to do breathing tests to find out how severe or milx this asthma is.
So.....what did I learn from this whole adventure? ?
Cleaning leads to horrible illness.
Monday I VOLUNTARILY go to the walk in by myself.....that is how you can tell it is bad it was because I irrationally hate the doctors.
The walk in clinic guy tells my I am having an acute asthma attack. If I could have breathed my response would havd been a lot more sassy but because I hadn't really slept or ate in two days I went with.......what?
I have never had breathing problems...I am not a smoker....and I exercise regularly.....so where the hell did asthma come from? Apparently that fucking pneumonia is the gift that keeps on giving. My lungs have become weakened and asthma is a potential benefit.
So I get my puffers and head to work. I get to work and finally start to feel like I can breath.....I decide that is the perfect time for a breakdown and cry. Perfect start to my week.
My breathing managed to normalize by Wednesday. And I got the all clear from my doctor today.
So outcome from my adventures....in a month's time when my lungs have recovered and normalized I will have to do breathing tests to find out how severe or milx this asthma is.
So.....what did I learn from this whole adventure? ?
Cleaning leads to horrible illness.
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