The Strong Man

I don't know what's with me lately. I've had so much energy and I'm just restless. Not bad restless, please keep my mind occupied restless, but I have energy fun restless. I seriously can't believe how much has gotten done in the last couple days, and not, oh gee I'd better do that, but in a how can I make this fun kinda way. I think somewhere in the last 2 years, I lost that part of my personality and it's found it's way back. Also my place is always filled with music, I've missed that too. Whether it's off my computer or I just pick a random galaxy channel, it just puts me at ease. I guess what I'm saying is that I feel more like myself than I have in a long time.

Also I'm starting to open myself up to a 'personal' life again. I think I may have just tried too soon, because it's actually coming naturally. There was a good little while where I just wasn't interested in guys no matter who they were or what they looked like. But now I see myself picking out traits that I find irrisistable, personality and looks wise. I seem to be attracted to the strong assertive type lately. Someone who has the guts to stand up to me and reason with me logically. That and some muscles never hurt anyone ;)

Although, sometimes the pessimist in me wonders, does resentment just come naturally in relationship? I mean sure everything's sunshiney in the beginning in all of them. Fun is had, you can't wait to be with one another. Then a couple years down the road and all of a sudden, both are comfortable so they can do what ever they want and resentment is inevitable. The line I struggle with the most is "I never expected you to actually leave". Well if you take your partner for granted everyday and you know they are very unhappy but aren't doing anything about it, what would you expect? Marriage or no marriage, if it's crappy, you're going to leave. From the girls nights I've been to, this is quite a common line said by guys. It just boggles my mind! Because obviously, if it's said, you know you're acting in a jerky way to your partner!

On the other hand, I was just reading Heather's blog, you tell people how to treat you. Do us girls end up bending so much to keep them happy that we lose a part of ourselves? In many relationships I've been in, especially the longer ones, I try many different attempts to change things, all while communicating that something needs to change for us to be happy. Are all these changes indications that I won't leave? Am I training people to resent me because of my pleasing and understanding nature? Or is it simply just my choice in men? What do you guys think?

A book meme, you're it!

Tagged by James...

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open it to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the next three sentences on your website.
4. Name the book and its author.
5. Tag three people to do the same.

"You can even go to the extreme of devising onmouseover and onmouseout event handlers that pass parameters just like the linkTo() function to display browser-specific URLs.

One last suggestion, which may be useful in many situations, is to use the location.replace() method, rather than assigning a URL to the location.href property. The replace() method instructs the browser to rewrite the browser's navigation history so that the new page take the place of the current page."

from JavaScript&DHTML Cookbook by Danny Goodman


I tag Heather, Matt, and Erika. Hopefully those people read frequently enough that they know they are being tagged.

I cheated too, I went to my book cabinet, the book I had nearest, 123 was the chapter on C pointers and there was no way I was writing down that.

Rudolph was everywhere this weekend

Sweet! My buddy James got an interview at my work! I'm excited. Candice and James together again, just like the old days. There were walks, walks around the mall, Uno, nerf guns, potato heads, dryer balls, HMV and the list goes on. It'll be so awesome to have him here. I say he's a shoe in, but he doesn't want to jynx it.

Christmas mania was lots of fun on the weekend. Off to Regina I went on Friday for the iQMetrix Christmas Formal. It was at the renowned Assiniboia Club. It was pretty neat and the food was really good. They weren't really a party hard bunch, and as usual, programmers were hard to find. We're an elusive bunch, us programmers.

Saturday I raided my parent's basement for more decorations for my tree. It looks pretty good now! Also took off to Sasktoon for Christmas Formal #2, my work party. This was a pretty good party. The supper was really good, and the peanut butter cheesecake for dessert was delicious. I saw one of the bosses make a good fool out of himself, dancing with a Christmas tree, hiding in the Christmas trees, playing a tree like a guitar, making out with a tree, doing the chicken dance to AC/DC, knocking over wall decorations, etc. That was hilarious! We had our very own Team Red consisting of Shannon and Paul, Shannon made a nice sash for her dress that matched Paul's dress shirt perfectly. It was very chic! The door prizes were some of the most geeky prizes I've ever seen. Shannon won a socket set and some tools, Jenn won a flashlight and tire pressure gauge and Kevin won some sort of hardware electronics board and a surge protector. The dj for the dance wasn't the greatest, but Shannon and I still managed to tear up the dance floor. We also managed to accost Kevin as he was leaving and danced him into staying longer on the dance floor. We had a trade off of partners for a while where I danced with Paul, he likes his twirls, where Paul tried to make my date Phil jealous, by giving him the wink and the gun while dancing. I'm not too sure it worked, but twirling is fun. I then witnessed an attack on an ATM, sticking spoons on your face competitions and many a rambling conversation. Also had an encounter with Mrs.Claus. All in all fun was had.

Sunday was a very tough recovery day.

Yesterday I had my very first girls night in a Burger King. I enjoy BK, but no one ever wants to go there with me. So I'm happy that I have friends with kids that like the play area there. If there was a ball pit, I would of enjoyed the play area there as well. I went with Shannon and her friend Michelle. We had many a philosophical discussion, mostly about boys. Oh drama!

Tonight I'm going to stay home, do laundry, tidy up my place a bit. Find a place for all the decoration boxes. Tomorrow is girls night with Barbara and Toni. (What's with all the girls nights? Am I turning into a girl?) I get Max HD tomorrow too, that's exciting! Hooray for the Discovery Channel and TLC, how I miss you so! All the home renovations I can do now! And useless trivial pursuit knowledge! And the Dog Whisperer on National Geographic channel. Wow, I'm a geek.

Fill in the sentence..

Shamelessly stolen from Nadine...

1) I am a(n)... exciting person!
2) My ex-boy/girlfriend was... not ready to be responsible for me, and us, and accept me
3) I'm just a(n)... goof
4) Maybe I should... eat, I believe people do that at lunch.
5) I love... summer and anything associated with summer
6) ____________ is/are cute: Kittens
7) Looking forward... to tonight and tomorrow. Woot! Part-ay!
8) I don't understand... the better beginning of this year.
9) I lost my... oh my, I'm not putting my first thought.
10) My boy/girlfriend is a(n): Well my ideal boyfriend is super thoughtful.
11) In darkness, I... finally sleep well.
12) Why do I...attract the wrong men?
13) Is there such a thing as... a pirate ninja?
14) Does the...... hot chocolate have coffee in it?
15) People say I'm...cute, although I've been getting hot alot lately. I'll have to accept the hotness.
16) Love is... forever
17) You make me wanna...... yeesh, you don't want my first reaction to that either
18) Somewhere, someone is...... shovelling snow, just for me!
19) Is it true that...... love is blind?
20) I will always...... be a control freak.
21) Forever is...a nice thought
22) I never want to... eat floor cake.

Crazy christmas lady!

It's Christmas!!!!!!!!!

I'm excited. Going to a formal christmas party with Phil in Regina tonight, for his work. I have my gown ready at home, the toes are painted, the hair is ready. Now I just need to get through this morning of work. Crap! I'm way to excited to work. I'm pretty much bouncing off the walls, and I haven't eaten anything yet today. So, no sugar or caffeine to blame for this one. It's been a long time since I've been this excited about something. Then tomorrow I'm back in Saskatoon, for my work Christmas party. It's also a formal party. I'm also just as excited for it. Dinner, Dancing, drinks, all free! Plus I get to dress up again! Sweet! I should just be a contessa or something, then I could wear ball gowns all the time! I'd so come to work in a ball gown and drink in hand. Maybe even a pineapple drink! oooh! I like where this is going!

In other news, my Christmas tree is up! Check out how cool it is. Ha, ha, tackiest tree ever. But that's the fun of Christmas! If you don't have a big tacky tree, the spirit has been lost on you. My Christmas shopping is also all done. All that's left is the cards and they will be out Monday morning. Lets cross our fingers that they get to everyone before Christmas.

From December2006

I had a good visit with Barbara and Toni last night. We listened to Christmas music, had some rum and egg nogs, talked about the usual, boys, toys, boy-toys, health and Christmas.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good day!

happy, sad, mad

I really don't know how I'm supposed to feel at the moment. Or whether I feel all of the above at once. How do you deal with someone who isn't as mature as you and doesn't want a deep mature relationship, even though, they promised it all to you? How do you figure out if someone has truly grown up? Is it because they clean up after themselves? Is it because they are organized and have nice things? I think it's because, I would feel that if anything happened to me, I could trust them and they would somehow want and be able to take care of me. I'd also like to feel that everyday. The little things matter so much. That is the definition a true relationship, for either party, I would think. Both parties coming together in good times and in bad to take care of eachother in whatever hardship either is enduring and the trust that either party could handle it. I'm a tough person, but I still need that security, that there's someone out there looking out for me, as much as I'm looking out for them. Without that, there's nothing there...

This isn't Bam! It's Kaboom!

Operation Christmas is in full swing around casa Candice these days. I get a tree and decorations tomorrow. I've been writing Christmas cards like a mad woman and the Christmas music channel has been on non stop. I also bought some christmas cookie cutters. I'm a regular day Martha Stewart, without the jail time and insider trading.

I cleaned my tub today, it needed it. I bought some stuff called Kaboom. I realized when I got home that I was supposed to buy Bam. Who names these things? And can't there be 2 different names than Kaboom and Bam? There must be some copyright infringement in there somewhere, that's just confusing. But the Kaboom worked really well, I didn't even have to put any muscle in it, which is good, because I don't have any. I still don't understand when I'm supposed to say kaboom or bam though....

I got asked out at work today. I totally didn't see it coming. I still don't know how I feel about dating people at work. I don't think it's a very good idea for me, I don't really want to make a name for myself or anything. I'm not against other people dating people at work. But it's been 6 years since I've been asked out. I was so flattered. That took so much courage. So I told him the truth and everything is fine. I think I'll deal with the issues at hand before I tackle the dating at work one.

Girls night thursday night. Movies and Vietnamese food, yum! I'm looking forward. I don't think I've seen Toni in 3 weeks. Poor thing with a cracked tailbone and cold.

snowboarding gymnists

Free time? Where'd you go? You've been all used up.

Shannon dragged me to gymnastics last wednesday. Actually it didn't go too bad. Okay you can all stop laughing now. Yes I'm horribly uncoordinated but with some stretching and practice and professional instruction, I was actually able to do almost a full cartwheel! Yes, after years of attempts, it's almost all there. And now with no falling! Actually with some more stretching and weights I should be able to do alot of that stuff. Just getting rid of the fear, I mean falling on your head on a padded mat really doesn't hurt.

Thursday I had a dance off at my place. A dance dance revolution party. Also I tried out Guitar Hero. I really enjoy that game. It will have to be added to my list of fun things to get. Some of the guys from work came and I realised there was a closet ddr'er in the group. It was fun. I couldn't move my calves on Friday or Saturday from all the dancing.

Friday I went to Earls with Barbara and Marnie. We had some good girl talking. And lots of martinis. Some good laughs. There's a part of Earls that I didn't even know what there. I've lived here 6 months and I don't know the Earls? What's wrong with me?

Saturday I did some Christmas shopping. Knocked a couple presents off my list. Found some new shoes for all the Christmas Formals next weekend. They are gold and sparkely. They are also quite low which increases my dancing options ;)

Sunday was awesome!!!!! I can't believe how much I've missed snowboarding. I really enjoyed it. We went to Table Mountain. I haven't been in about 3 years now. I thought I'd be hopeless on board. I can only carve one way right now. I used to be able to do both. But another day on the hill and that should come back. My muscles gave out halfway through the afternoon though. I was telling them what to do and they were all like "no we've had enough, have fun steering away from that tree". That kinda sucked, I'm sure if they were stronger I could have been back to my skill level 3 years ago. But I still enjoyed being out on that hill. I think a mountain ski trip is in order this winter.

I get a christmas tree this week! Yay! I was really looking forward to starting my own traditions for my own family this year. But since my own family this year consists of just me, I will just have fun with it. I'm not going to put a damper on my own christmas spirit because of something like that. I'm rebelling against the idea, and it's exciting. So everything didn't turn out as planned. But I can still make myself and my own home look festive for the season. I can also bake myself christmas cookies and fudge and eat them all!!!!!!! That's exciting in itself! Or I can invite some friends to share. I can start my own traditions for me and when the time is right, they can be shared with someone else, in turn becoming family traditions. It's kinda exciting.

I found the problem with your spreadsheet, it's a sudoku

Work has been insanely busy lately. Putting in alot of hours. Lots of work on lots of different projects. It's actually alot of fun. I know alot more now so I can actually answer questions on the spot, which also means, more work.

The other half of work fun is that the guys here are so social. They're having a beard growing competition. Shannon and I are judges. We made up 5 categories to score them out of 5 points each, Rugged Handsomeness, Softness, Length, Grooming and Density. So the guys grew their beards for a month and today we went to Smiley's Buffet for the judging. So the guys were strutting their beards around, trying to get brownie points from the judges. We had softness in there, so we actually had to touch the beards. It was too funny. The losers have to shave their beards into handlebar mustaches for a week and the winner gets pride.

It's nice to have another crazy girl at work too. Shannon and I drew a flowchart of the type of guy we want to meet with all the criteria and decisions. We're such geeks. Then we hired Paul as our relationship manager, so if a guy fails the flowchart in some manner or the relationship isn't going where it should be going, he would come in and break it off for us, or for the best for us. Like having a programmatic middleman, who does the dirty work.

Today my winter boots were called "boots of haste". I started laughing. If you don't know why, you are not a nerd. That item was originated from Dungeons and Dragons and has been copied in many RPGs since. So I told Shannon and she knew what I was talking about, then we had the most nerdy conversation about if my boots of haste could beat Shannon's boots of speed. And if they did infact beat out her boots, whether it would level up my boots or not. We had 5 guys starting at us in awe at the lunch table and we totally geeked Matt right out of the conversation, it was too geeky for him. This was from the guy who spent 20 minutes talking about Final Fantasy 10 and 11. I like being a nerd.

Our legs got us in the back of a cop car

This weekend was fun. Friday night I went to cabaret with Shannon. Shannon works here doing the same position as me in another department, we get along quite well. Shannon and I went to the Vanier Cup Cabaret at the fieldhouse on Friday. It was -30 C with the windchill that night. Shannon wore a miniskirt, because we thought we could just park the car in the lot outside of the fieldhouse and run in. But we found out that those lots were reserved for VIPs and Volunteers, the closest places to park were in the fieldhouse parkade, 3 blocks away or at the University Campus and shuttle across the street. We decided to see if we could shuttle across. They told us to park in the X,Y, Z lots at the university. But neither of us went to the UofS and the volunteers couldn't explain to us where these lots were so we ended up driving around the university campus trying to find these lots. We were hopeless, but a cop car just passed us. Shannon honked at the car and it stopped. The cops were more than happy to help us find a place to park the car on campus and they gave us a ride from the car to the fieldhouse. We invited them in, but they said they'd be there later, on duty. So it was barely 9pm and we'd already gotten a ride in a cop car.

The cabaret was alright. It wasn't worth the money we paid. There were 3 bands that maybe played 2 hours of music total. And no DJ in between bands, this was supposedly a 10 hour cabaret. Plus there were no cheap drinks! Drinks were $5 each by ticket, and there was no deal if you bought more tickets. But we had good company with the work guys. Paul's friend was hitting on me. But I wasn't really into him, he was kinda arrogant. It was kinda fun making excuses to get away from him though. Some old dudes were trying to dance with me and Shannon on the dance floor. We giggled and then literally ran away. Poor old dudes.

Saturday, I had a party at the condo. Went shopping all day with the girls, Barbara, Toni and Shannon. We had a giggle fit about some of the outfits in La Vie En Rose, at one point in time we had all 5 sales ladies in the back with us to see what all the giggling was about. Then at night we ended up going to The Pat. It was crammed in there. I guess some guys were trying to pick a fight with Marshall. But I got some speaker dancing in, and fun was had. The Pat is a couple blocks away from my place so it was a nice walk home and most people slept at my place. Sunday was a very very fun recovery day. And this week I'm tired. All the above takes alot out of a person. I'm not 19 anymore where I could stay at the Owl til 2 or 3 and get up at 7 to work at Superstore at 8.

I'm old. In fact I decided that next year I will turn 24 again. Kinda feel like I missed out on a year. Plus I don't want to be a quarter century old. Therefore I will be 24 again in July 2007.

This Tea Smells and Tastes Like Shoes

I was adventurous and tried a new tea this morning. The title says it all. Stay away from the Black Oolong Tea. I should of known, who drinks Oolong, really!

Decided to have a party this weekend. The title of the party is called "Candice and Shannon's Release into the Wild". Shannon has been going through alot of the same things I have, we decided it was a good idea to have a party. We've got all the boys at work all riled up and ready to join in as well. My bedroom door will be barricaded and everything should be fine ;) I'll keep ya updated on all the mishaps!

SaskTel is not making my life easy. I went down there today to get some administrative things done and I'm pretty sure they are still confused. Not very impressed. I'm going to have to phone and see if they actually changed everything I wanted or not and if I do infact have an install date for Max HD. I don't know why it's so hard for them to understand I don't have a home phone, just a cell phone. Yarrrrgh! But I do enjoy Max, Movie Central on Demand is so awesome.

Heather is coming this weekend. Looking forward to that. We'll have to find some trouble. Maybe trouble will find us.

I spent last weekend in Regina. I enjoyed being home. There's so many new things around there. Like new traffic lights and stop signs. Took a tour of the new Peavy Mart parking lot, how dare they put a light there. Spent some time at the lake too. Nice to do that.

I'm thinking of building a media server with my P4. I can stream music and movies from there to the living room. Could be exciting. It needs a rebuild anyways. Too much installing and uninstalling of junk went on with it. I'll let you know when I'm feeling adventurous enough to attempt that.

Britney, Whitney, Reese and I, what do we have in common?

So cold in here today. I don't know what the deal is. I have on winter boots, a tank top, a sweater, another sweater and a coat, and I'm still cold!

I had a really weird dream last night. That I went to the Mall of America with all the girls from high school for a bachelorette party. ( I don't know why I knew it was the Mall of America, since I've never been there ) Somehow I think it was my bachelorette party, but it didn't make any sense. Everyone kept on handing me gifts, which I kept on passing off. Finally I ended up wandering off and found a chocolate 'bar' where I ordered a molten chocolate lava cake. The guy making the dessert was so nice and preparing it just so. Then someone came in the bar and startled everyone and I ended up knocking the cake on the floor. I then picked the cake up off the floor and started eating it, instead of asking for another.

I think, perhaps, that it's saying that I should stop trying so hard to please everyone, otherwise you're going to end up eating cake off the floor. (ewwwww....floor cake) Any suggestions?

Hangover gone, week here, yay

Ugh! This weekend, so much drama, so busy, so relaxing, so exciting. Yeah, so every emotion, or event, I could possibly feel was felt on the long weekend.

I had the friday off, so I thought I'd kick off the weekend thursday night on the Physics student's pubcrawl. There was a beer night kickoff to it at the double deuce, so Toni and I got ready at my place and bused ourselves down there. I was in my dancing clothes waiting to have a good time. All the guys from work were there, I was excited. But the first person I saw when I walked in the bar was Dan. So that wasn't good. My plans quickly changed to a drunken board game night with Paul, Chad and Carol. Which was lots of fun. Lots of drinks were had. We met up with Toni and Blair after the pubcrawl at the Hose. Toni and I got the dancefloor to ourselves for a while. We then ended up cabbing to Dino's, had a couple more drinks and shots until last call and called it a night. Apparently the pubcrawl wasn't very good, so I'm glad I didn't go. Toni said she barely got any dancing time in and it was rushed.

Friday morning was pretty rough, but I had made a speedy recovery by noon. Enough to go shopping! I bought myself a pair of knee high winter boots, they have fake fur on them! They are so awesome and comfy, I was pretty excited. I ran a bunch of errands here downtown. Friday night there were a couple get togethers, with more drinking. And again Saturday morning was pretty rough. Saturday night I ended up watching a couple movies on the monster tv. I ended up falling asleep on my inflatable furniture. I was somehow perfectly balanced on it, because when I woke up, it flipped. Oh inflatable furniture! My real furniture comes today. And Sunday I had a nice relaxing visit with Barbara and Moose. So this weekend was nice but busy.

Now I'm sitting around waiting for my furniture. Yay furniture! It's sooooooo comfy. It's a chenille covered couch, loveseat and chair. It's like a goldy tan/brown colour. It should look really good in here. All I need are some purple throw pillows and I'm set. Movie nights at my place will become the norm.

I also finally figured out my stereo and tv. Apparently there was a setting on the tvs sound that wasn't allowing the stereo to pickit up. After I finally found that menu setting, I knew there had to be one somewhere, I can play Katamari in surround sound on a 51" TV. Life is truly sweet.

This week looks fairly busy at work. I'm going to have to stay late today and make up some of the time that I'm here waiting for furniture to come. The weekend is also looking promising, although I'm not posting my exact plans, you will hear about it next week.

Star Mile

Artist: Joshua Radin Lyrics
Song: Star Mile Lyrics


Oh doubt in the girl by your side
She’s feeding your pride
As you go for a ride down the star mile

Worlds arise as she lets you come in
A duo begins
To the Hollywood din of lonely

Chorus:
And all the gold dust in her eyes won’t reform into rain
You had and lost the one thing
You kept in a safe place
Remember the face
Of the girl who made you her own
And how you left her alone

All’s well at the base of the hill
You might need to fill
a prescription to kill off the silence.

Look down from your tower on high and take in the night
Look her right in the eye
She’ll listen

(Chorus)

Life comes to those that are true
The regular news
Over playing the blues with the light on

And if you burn the road that’ll lead you back to her in time
I'll watch you turn to stone
Can’t find the sublime

She’s moving on without you
The tide breaks
You watch the stars fade
They gather you back to their home
I guess it’s better than being alone

Turkeyfest etc.

It's been a while since I posted. I didn't want to put anything on here that I would regret or hurt anyone's feelings. From now on I'm going to look forward and try not to look backwards. Well when blog writing anyways. I'm sorry if I offend anyone with my posting but ultimately it's your own choice to read, and these are my feelings, you can't argue with feelings.

Enough of this disclaimer stuff. Let's get on to the weekend. This weekend was a blast. Nothing to get your mind off things than a girly night at Barbara's house and cuddling with her cat. The wine helped too. Then Saturday, I started setting up my new tv. I need some new cables still but it's pretty much good to go. It's huge and takes up alot of room. It's pretty awesome. Then in the afternoon I went over to Kevin's to help him with Turkeyfest. Kevin had all the work people over to his house to deep fry a turkey. He wanted side dishes so I helped him and Blair prepare those. The turkey turned out pretty good. The skin was really good! Then there was lots of GameCube playing, lots of 8 player games on there, lots of fun. Then there was some drama, I'll leave that out, but it was funny. Lots of nudity. We got pics, I'll link to here later.

I saw my therapist today. A couple weeks ago I thought it would probably be a good idea, and I think it has been. My confidence and ego has been a little bruised through this whole ordeal. So she had me write down some traits about myself that I was most proud of and I'm supposed to concentrate on one of them each day this week and go out of my way to express it in some manner. So today's trait is compassion. So I'm supposed to listen to someone's troubles and give advice, or help someone out at work who wouldn't normally ask for help, or do something nice for someone or ideally all those and more. I'll keep ya updated on how it goes. Tomorrow's trait is self confidence. I'll let ya know when I get sick of all these too. For now I think it's a good idea.

So to summarize, I'm okay, there's no need to worry about me. I'll have good days and bad days, but everyone has those.

Feel free to leave me comments on my blog, there's a button underneath, especially if you think there's questionable content, I'm not the best judge of that right now, but I think I'm doing fairly well.

End of an Era

6 years is a long time. It's over half a decade. Over half a decade is a long time for anything. No fashion style or music style has remained popular for over half a decade. Dan and I broke up. Not had a fight, but broke up. I've been on many sides of the spectrum since. Some days or hours I'm fine, it's for the best. Other hours, I'm not fine. Also, note to self, do not check out lavalife in either of these states to see what's out there, it's very depressing.

My best bet is to keep myself busy with something at all times. But I start little projects, find out they bug me and then don't finish, then it makes me feel worse.

Friends and family have been amazing through all of this though. The guys at work pitched in and got me a card, teddy bear and booze, they could see I was upset. Barbara has been amazing, offering cheering up and help where ever I need. Toni's been great too. All the phone calls have been appreciated too. I've only been in Saskatoon for 5 months and there's all these great friends to lean on. I want to thank all of the above for everything.

I'll be okay eventually, I've just got to get past a hard couple of weeks. Right?

Purse Inventory

Alright I participated in this one. Let's get down to business.

6 lipsticks - I always need them when I'm out, no use of keeping them at home in the makeup case.

Wallet - It's a good think no one asked what's in there, that's another post in itself. Surprisingly, money is not one of the objects in there!

Cell Phone - Alright this is all standard purse stuff.

Keys - We all need these

iPod - It goes everywhere with me. Might be some sort of music emergency.....

Card for the date of my dentist appointment in Regina - I should really cancel that.

20% off Regis Card - My hairdresser quit there, I'm pretty sure I can throw this away.

A screw - I'm pretty sure this is for the desk I gave to my sister.

Midol, Advil, Reactine and Tylenol Cold - Yes I'm a walking pharmacy.

Chequebook - Never know when you might need one of them.

Calendar - My life schedule never leaves my side.

Fortune Cookie Fortune - Share your happiness with someone and share his difficulty with you - I always found this hilarious because the grammar is so wrong that it could imply that either I'm difficult and I can laugh at this guy or he's difficult and I need to learn to share...

Combination Lock - I used it for the gym, now I've forgotten the combination, yet it still sits in my purse

Old Gym Membership - I can probably throw this away but if I ever want to join this gym again I'd have to fork out $10 for a new card.....

Pen

Old Grocery List - So tomato sauce was on the list!

Spoon - For lunches, Georgio is protective of the plastic spoons.

Work Name Tag and Key - I can't think of a better spot for it.

Sunglasses

1 Black Button

I should probably take half this stuff out of here instead of write about it....

Da Vinci's Boredom

So I tried reading Da Vinci's Code. I tried so hard. I got halfway through, then the book had to be returned to the library and I had no quarums doing so. Even just getting halfway through the book only accounted for 4 hours of the timeline in the book. I think it would make a good movie, but a book no. First off the code is way too easy. Maybe that's just the Computer Scientist in me talking since we did so many exercises with the Fibonacci sequence. And the antagonist albino guy just gives me the Igore vibe. Taking orders from a superior, having no real thoughts of his own. Too Frankensteiny for me. Plus since Tom Hanks stars in the movie, I can only imagine the main character as Tom Hanks. I like Tom Hanks as an actor but he does not need to be in my imagination. I give up, I'll go see the movie or wikipedia it to find out the rest.

Instead I traded the book in for "The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood. It's a story based on the Odessey told from Penelope's point of view. I know, sounds more boring to you than Davinci's secret code, put it's got plot, character development, murder and non-obvious literary devices. See what IB english has done to me?

And if that gets too heavy I also took out "Wifey" by Judy Blume. She's written about 10 novels for adults and that's one of them. No Fudge in this book. Yes it's chick lit but smart chick lit with actual character development, not shopaholic fairy tale optimism. Although Shopaholic had it's humerous moments, I still felt dumber having read it. The main character learns nothing from her actions as a shopaholic and she gets the guy. Hmmmmm.....is there some sort of societal message for mass consumerism because everything will turn out in the end? Maybe I'm just too logical. I'm definitely too picky with my literature.

yadda, yadda, yadda

Another week, another work freakout. Some days I barely have anything to do and then the next is a mad rush to get something done by the end of the day. Well today's wasn't too bad. When they were explaining to me what they wanted me to spec out, it looked like it was enough work for a week. But after I broke it down and had many a whiteboard session, I actually got it done in a couple hours. And the whiteboard sessions were actually coherent enough that I could use them in the specs. So it's looking good and people will be impressed. I guess it's been a good work day.

We did the Tim Horton's coffee run today. Since it's at the airport, we ran into one of the sales reps going on his way to where I work. He bought us all coffee. I guess he really wants our company to buy his chips. In all fairness coffee came to a whopping $8 for all 7 of us.

He got stuck in some type of Linux or something...

I was in the most hilarious meeting today. A couple noobs were using Linux as an excuse not to do mundane work details, like your time sheet or booking your own meeting rooms. In fact they are just too lazy to interface with the Exchange server. So the boss told them to ask me how I did it, then they were quiet and said they would figure it. Most of us use Linux here. How did they think they could get away with that excuse?

Lobsterfest

The boys at work decided to have a lobsterfest. One of the guys was in the maritimes last week and was telling everyone at work how great the food was and that he really enjoyed the lobster. Hence Lobsterfest was born. So Wednesday night the boys picked up some live lobsters from superstore, bought a lobster cracker and a pot and went over to Kevin's for the feast. The poor lobsters, I made sure I was outside while the guys were inside putting them in the pot. But they sure tasted good! We even had bibs and melted butter.

http://schmingers.0moola.com/lobsterfest/index.html

Toygers

I didn't even know that this type of cat existed! He's a house cat that has the markings of a tiger, likes water, and is still as lovable as a housecat.

blech!

I have a major case of the blahs today. I just feel run down and tired. I'm all stuffed up but I'm not sick. I should go have an allergy test done, which means, begging my old doctor to see me as a patient and making an appointment. Yet another too do list, yet another blah.

I found the coolest store on the weekend. It's called Etc. It's got belts and gloves, purses, wallets. I got my sister a really nice looking knock off guess purse. Coulda spent a fortune in there but all I bought was the purse. I'll have to remember them when I pick out some new gloves for my brown coat.

Barbara was telling me some more about the Pre-marrital classes at the catholic church. If you want to be married by a catholic priest you have to take these classes. Anyways, I guess they had the section on sex last night. I'm surprised in this day and age, people can preach what was being taught in this class. I commend Barb for being able to stay quiet throughout the class, I'm worried, when it becomes my time, I won't be able to. Of course, birth control is bad, and women were told to "give sex a try even thought they might not feel like it that night because you owe it to the guy!". Bull Shit! I believe in Science and Human Psychology. The more I learn about this religion stuff, the more I have a firm dislike for it. If I've picked up after someone all day without any help and I just want to go to sleep, I owe that to myself first, thank you! There were lots of other points I disagreed with too, they were giving out misinformation about birth control and women's health. The thing that irks me the most is that alot of people don't know much about this stuff and alot of people will believe all this. Lets hope that when it's my turn to go through this class I can sit there and keep my mouth shut. Otherwise I'm pretty sure I'll be stoned, or burned at the stake.

Myers-Briggs

I needed a break and no one wanted to take one with me, so I took a Myers-Briggs Personality test. I think it did pretty well. Although, I wouldn't mind being a bookstore owner....


ENTJ
Extraverted Thinking with Introverted Intuition

decisive, fearless, planner, thrill seeker, engaged, social, self centered, comfortable around others, image conscious, likes to be center of attention, adventurous, outgoing, manipulative, emotionally stable, leader, ambitious, hard working, dominant, prepared, hates to be bored, confident, opinionated, analytical, prepares for worst case scenarios, organized, orderly, clean, driven, resourceful, finishes most things they start, achieving, risk taker, desires fame/acclaim, image focused, narcissistic, arrogant, perfectionist, driven, academic, scientific, critical, avoids giving in to others, does not like to compromise, skeptical

favored careers:
marketing specialist, government employee, lawyer, developer, political scientist, bounty hunter, international relations specialist, software designer, systems analyst, business manager, entertainment lawyer, foreign service officer, strategist, project manager, advertising executive, cia agent, marketing manager, geneticist, private investigator, administrator, business analyst, politician, management consultant, producer, financial advisor, entrepreneur, genetics researcher, cardiologist, professor, fbi agent

disfavored careers:
singer, bookstore owner, job in the performing arts, poet, photographer, english professor, chef, health care worker, child psychologist, massage therapist, video editor

Vodka in Spaghetti Sauce

I'm exhausted today, I have no idea why, I went to bed at a good time, I woke up at a good time, what gives? My legs are killing me too. Dan picked a running route around the river that was all uphill on the one side. We did it in reverse yesterday, that was quite a bit easier. I think my legs are catching up to what I did with them the first time though.

The premiere of Gilmore Girls is on tonight! Yay! So many unanswered questions and the suspense, yep, I'm a geek.

The last time we were at the grocery store we noticed a new type of spaghetti sauce. It's flavouring was vodka. I'm not too sure how good this is going to be, I'm going to try it tonight. I get flashbacks to Dave's steak marinated in scotch when I hear this though. (It was not a pleasant experience, steak+scotch=gross)

New feed

For those of you geeks who have a live bookmark for my site or are viewing my blog through a feed of some sort, as you've noticed, it hasn't been working properly lately. With the switch to blogger beta everything is all messed up. So I decided to standardize the feed myself. So you can change your live bookmark address to the one below. http://feeds.feedburner.com/candicesmusings

Or if you have a myspace or an msn space, create a feed box and enter that link and voila, instant updates on your page from my site! Isn't the internet fun?

There, no more feed guess work!

Survived Bridal Show #1

I survived this weekend. I survived my first bridal show. 1000 brides packed into the basement of TCU Place (Centenniel Auditorium), they all brought their closest friends relatives and kids. I really just wanted to go to the fashion show and then dart back out. There were Mom's there telling the young brides what to do very forcefully and loudly, there were excited brides pushing their way everywhere! We ended up going to all the tables anyways, there were lots of free contests and stuff to be won. There were lots of free honeymoons given away. The fashion show was a good experience, I now know what the different types of material is called and how they hang. There was also lots of ideas. All in all it wasn't that bad and I survived. I got a tonne of coupons and information. Having Barbara there helped too since she's more laid back about this stuff just like I am. I survived.

I got a new wedding magazine for free there. Again, I still can't read the articles, they are too dumb but there's lots of pictures of pretty dresses. I get so annoyed with all this stuff because it's such a business! They sell all these little things for weddings that you must have, otherwise your day will not be perfect. It's really annoying.

long question thingy

1.) Where were you when the ball dropped for 2006?:
I was at PrairieLand Park in Saskatoon, dancing the night away in one of the 3 different music rooms, watching live bands, cursing country music. Taking bets if Dave would score and I would have a pair of strange shoes by the door in the morning.

2.) How did you get the idea for your email address?:
I thought it was cute when I was 12. and 22 was taken so I had to settle for 25.

3.) What are you listening to right now?:
actually nothing. I need to suck up to James to make me another cd I might like and then I'll go on another music spree.

4.) Has the death of a celebrity ever made you cry?:
Steve Irwin almost did. He taught me how to love a crocodile.

5.) What colour underwear are you wearing?:
Purple of course, with my purple bra, sweater and socks, I was in a purple mood today.

6.) Do you live in a zoo?:
Not anymore, everything has it's place now.

7.) What did you do this morning?:
Got up, showered, got ready, made lunch, ate lucky charms, went to work.

8.) What does your Mom do for a living?:
She works at the Parole office.

9.) Where do you work?:
At a cool software/hardware company in Saskatoon

10.) What ended your last relationship?:
I didn't have enough time for it and he was too jealous.

11.) What are the last two digits of your phone number?:
81

12.) What was the last concert you attended?:
I don't remember, it's been a while. I hope to go see the New Pornographers next month! It looks exciting.

13.) Who was with you?:
I don't know

14.) What was the last movie you watched?:
My Date with Drew

15.) What do you dislike at the moment?:
Research, grrr...

16.) Who do you dislike at the moment?:
no one at the moment

17.) Did you dream last night?:
I did, it was pretty vivid but I don't remember it now.

18.) What was the last TV show you watched?:
The CTV News.

19.) What is your favourite piece of jewelry?:
that's a tough one. My ruby necklace is nice.

20.) When was the last time you cried?:
I've been close a few times, but it's been a while. It'll take something stupid to push me over the edge though.

21.) What is the last thing you ate?:
Lucky Charms! I went on a Cereal rampage at Superstore last night. They were on sale, I got healthy cereals such as Lucky Charms, Golden Grahms, Reese Peanut Butter Puffs, and Cranberry Almond mania.

22.) Who is your best friend of the opposite sex?:
Brett and Dave

23.) Who last IMed you?:
Dan

24.) Are you on any medication?:
just the usual pill

25.) What side of the bed do you sleep on?:
the right, if you're facing the bed

26.) What colour shirt are you wearing?:
Purple turtleneck

27.) What colour is your razor?:
Blue

28.) What is your favourite frozen treat?:
Real Fudgesicles! None of that no fat crap they try to fool you into being the only kind of fudgesicle.

29.) How many tattoos/piercing do you have?:
3 piercings no tattoos.

30.) What are your favourite stores?:
Jacob, Bryan's, Gap, Old Navy

31.) Are you thirsty right now?:
no I'm drinking Green Tea

32.) Can you imagine yourself ever getting married?:
Yep, it's happening next year.

33.) Who's someone you haven't seen in a while and miss?:
Dave, I miss Dave antics.

34.) What did you do last night?:
Went on a cereal rampage, took pictures off my camera, visited with Dan's parents.

35.) Do you care what people think about you?:
nope not really, just as long as they aren't afraid of me.

36.) Have you ever done something to instigate trouble?:
no not really, I try to avoid drama at all cost. Well there was that one time..

37.) Do you like your nose?:
Yes, I think I got a good one looking at the other options available.

38.) What colour is your bedroom?:
it's hard to explain, it's like a tan-gray.

39.) When was the last time you worked out?:
thursday, I danced alot on Saturday, does that count?

40.) What are you doing after this?:
well I'm reading articles as I'm doing this.

41.) Do you like pedicures?:
Never had one, wouldn't know. My feet get all gross anyways in the summer, with the bare feet and the sand and the running, why waste $30 for a pedi and not be able to do any of the above?

42.) Where do you live?:
Saskatoon, Sk.

43.) Are you an aggressive driver?:
Very, you have to be in this city. A little bit different than Regina.

44.) Who is your cell phone provider?:
SaskTel, more coverage than all the competitors put together.

45.) Do you like the person who posted this last?:
Erika's one cool broad.

46.) Do you know their birthday?:
Oh dear god, I know it's January, I want to say the 7th? 9th, 20th? Oh I give up, I'm terrible with bdays.

47.) What is the thing you'd want to change most about yourself?:
I don't really want to change anything, I'm pretty comfortable with me.

48.) What colour is your car?:
Fusion Orange, it says so in the book.

49.) What do you smell like right now?:
Mary Kay perfume.

50.) What is your favourite colour?:
Purple

51.) Do you like mustard?:
I do, it's on my sandwich.

52.) What do you tell yourself when times get hard?:
they can only get better.

53.) Would you ever sky dive?:
nope you won't catch me doing that crap

54.) What do you sleep on?:
a comfy pillowtop mattress.

55.) What character from a movie/TV most reminds you of yourself?:Sally from when Harry met Sally


56.) Have you ever bid for something on ebay?:
no, I've sold alot of stuff on ebay though.

57.) What do you think of Angelina Jolie?:
I can't get past those huge lips! I don't think she's very attractive because of that.

58.) Do you enjoy giving hugs?:
I hug people all the time

59.) Would you consider yourself to be fashionable?:
I think I am.

60.) Do you own a digital camera?:
yeppers

61.) What celebrities have you been compared to?:
in high school people used to compare me to Callista Flockhart. Ally McBeal.

62.) Who is your favourite Star Wars character?:
Leigha and Jabba the Hut.

63.) Does it annoy you when someone says they'll call but never do?:
That really annoys me because I will be waiting for your call!

64.) What books, if any, have made you cry?:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold, the ending.

65.) What food do you crave right now?:
nothing really, maybe sushi?

66.) Are you a jealous person?:
Not really, it takes alot.

67.) Do you ever feel guilty after eating meat?:
depends. I was offered rabbit in the bistro for our anniversary and I couldn't do it. Even after the waiter assured me that they were mean ugly rabbits. I had chicken instead.

68.) If you were born the opposite sex, what would your name be?:
I don't know, boy names suck.

Edmonton-mania

Another weekend come and gone. The Edmonton trip was interesting to say the least. We left for Edmonton after work on Friday, by the time we got on the road it was already 5. The wedding we went to was actually in a town called Westlock, an hour north of Edmonton. It was raining hard all the way on the drive there and it was dark. I made Dan drive, I don't like passing semi trucks when I can't see and they are tidal waving my car away. We had a McDonald's supper in North Battleford and made it to Westlock at about 11. We phoned to see where Dan's parent's were, we were sharing the hotel room with them, they hadn't left Regina yet. At 6am in the morning, there was a knock on our hotel door, it was them, they drove through the night. Since we were awake by 9 and didn't want to wake up Dan's parents, we had a McDonald's breakfast and decided to checkout the Westlock mall.

The mall consisted of a Rexall drugs and Liquidation World. But we managed to waste an hour in Liquidation World. Didn't buy anything though. Now if you've been counting we have had 2 greasy Mcdonald's meals in a row. That meant a trip to the washroom. I'm glad the mall had a washroom and we didn't have to subject the hotel washroom to that, it was not pleasant.

The wedding was nice. We were late to the church and late to the reception. It wasn't anything that surprised me though, I was in a go with the flow mood. Everyone was trying to prepare me for how casual this wedding was going to be but it was very nice! Very formal, most of the guests were dressed quite nice, I don't see what the whole fuss was about. The food was delicious, Turkey and Roastbeef and the bride went with an autumn theme, so you can imagine the desserts! Home made Pumpkin Pie, Apple Rhubarb Crisp, Apple Pie, Peach Pie, Strawberry Pie, we tried everything, they were all good.

Dan doesn't really know his extended family. That made for an interesting night. Most of them thought that I was the relative. They thought I was Dan's sister Carolyn, who is 10 years older than me and is on baby number 4. They didn't even see Dan, which made this all more funny. "You know, the guy in the blue shirt I was with?" Luckily Dan's cousin who was getting married knew who he was. I think that was the most important one. They had an open bar and lots of clamato, fun was had.

Sunday we spent the day in Edmonton with Dan's Grandpa. He was waiting for us to show up. He's lost a little weight since I've seen him last, but he still talked up a storm. One question triggers stories that are 30 mins long. This is the first time we've seen him in the senior's care home. He seems to enjoy it there, he especially likes the food there. He's doing pretty good for 91, that's for sure.

This week should be pretty lax. I'm looking forward to it. I don't really want to drive anywhere for a while.

Flavour of the week....

I would really like a ferret. Okay, gimme a chance here. I can't have pets here in the condo and I like to go places on weekends. So sneaking in a cat would be hard to do, especially since the building supervisors are everywhere! Also if a cat is yowling in the condo when I'm not home, that's a dead give away. But ferret's don't make a noise that would be audible to anyone outside of the condo and they like to travel in backpacks and duffel bags, thus making them easy to sneak out. They are litter trained, sleep during work and love to play and cuddle. Where's the down side to this? I'm going to sleep on this one for a couple weeks, and if it still bugs me, not having an animal around, I'll consider it.



Brett's flavour of the week, when I was there, was a puggle, a cross between a pug and a beagle.

Stuff is good

Just looked at the forecast today....there is a call for either rain or snow in Edmonton saturday. Another trip where I need to pack shorts and a winter coat. Crazy Canada. Other than that, going through a painfully slow moment at work today. I can't wait until the project actually gets planned and I can do real work again, that's much more entertaining. I felt like I read the whole internet today. It's only been an hour of boredom, I'm just not in a 'sit around and read the internet' mood. I want to do stuff.

Work finally announced the plan for moving downtown. Yay! That's exciting. We're supposed to move in January or February. That's perfect because I hate driving in snow and ice. This way it's a nice walk across the street and through the parking lot. They are even talking about subsidizing our parking downtown, which is cool for people that will drive there. I guess they were looking for an actual parking lot they could buy, but if you've been to downtown Saskatoon you know the problems associated with that.

They finally announced the date and selling price for the Nintendo Wii, that will be my only next generation console I've decided. I love my PS2 but I like fun quircky games and alot of the games for it are very serious and button skill intensive. You know, holding down one button to duck, while holding another to pull your gun out and using the 2nd joystick to aim, but all of a sudden I've forgotten why I'm holding down square, let go by accident, my guy stands up and gets shot and I start all over. Whatever happened to jump, switch weapons and shoot, what more do you need? Of course I say this now, until PS3 releases a new Dance Dance Revolution or Katamari and I'll be all over it.

Nacho theives, clothes, and shoes

Slow work day so far. Waiting for my bombardment of tasks, should be coming any minute. It's supposed to rain for 5 days straight here, then it's supposed to snow next week. Oh how I hate living in SK. But I do miss sweaters. Yes, you heard that right. They are comfy and cozy and no chance of getting cold in them. I'm wearing a really nice boat necked angora sweater right now. It's got argyle print on it, so cozy. Yes, it was also a Calgary purchase. Why buy sweaters in Calgary? Because I can find sweaters where the sleeves are long enough, that's why. Not only do I have freakishly long legs, I also have freakishly long arms. Oh the shopping woes don't end.

I implemented a running schedule for myself and outlined some goals and timelines. It's something I can be excited about and it's easy to do since my building has a treadmill for those days I don't want to go outside. I tried to vary the running workouts so I don't get bored, have some distance challenges, intervals, and pace challenges. It'll be good for me. On another note, my new runners keep on bruising my right big toe nail. I have no idea why this occurs, and why it doesn't happen on the other foot. It's so strange, it feels perfectly cozy in the runner, I don't understand. I also don't really notice it happening till the end of my runs, and by that time it's too late to do anything about it!

Going for yummy mexican food with Barb and Brant tonight. For some reason I cannot keep a full bag of nachos in the condo. Everyweek, it tops the grocery list, and every thursday, when I want nachos there are none. So then I'll buy 2 bags and they go twice as fast! They aren't the small bags either, they're the big bulk bags that come in 2 packs. I also have a fiance at the moment who's complaining about weight gain. Is there any correlation?

Catfights?

Girl world seems to go hand in hand with cat fights. Snide remarks, here and there, underlying competition, even in the most masculine of environments. Really women should just say what they mean. Instead they send these cryptic messages to each other or they intentionally hurt each other's feelings to get their points across. It's been so long since I've observed this! The last current memory of this is high school. After high school I didn't really hang out with any girls or socialize with any. It came hand in hand with my program. But, it was bliss at the same time. With the guys, you don't worry about hurting their feelings, you just tell them that they're being an ass and all is forgotten and forgiven within 10 mins. Hurtful remarks aren't taken to heart but rather taken jokingly. I think girls have this feeling that everything is a reflection of themselves. They are the center of everything, it gets to the point where they aren't empathetic and take everything seriously and then get deduced to cat fights. I mean you can't take everything so seriously, where's the fun in that? On the other hand, it's society and pop culture's fault. Girls have to fit an ideal of "pretty" and are blasted with these perfect media images from a very young age. Guys don't really have that pressure thrust upon them. Also you have retards writing books like "He's Just not that Into You" and passing it up as self help for the modern woman. And now this tard has his own television show!!! Yargh! The dumbening of a culture is occuring before our very eyes! Instead of empowering women, our culture is pigeon-holeing women to be catty, self-esteem ridden idiots with a tendancy towards narcissism. Good job everyone!

Miss. Fix-it

I'm good at fixing things. Since I was little I've been taking stuff apart and fixing it. Probably because when stuff was broken, I took it to my Dad, who then sat down with me, took it apart and showed me how to fix it. I remember I had to know how the engine worked in my 1st car and common problems with it, and how to fix a flat tire, before I could even touch it!

Last night Dan was trying to fix the bathroom door knob. He took it apart and was trying to figure out what was wrong. Once the hammer came out to fix the metal door knob, I had to jump in. I couldn't bare to see the door knob disinigrate in front of my face and possibly wreck my counter and floor. So I took a look at it, figured out how it worked and realized the problem right away. It's nothing a metal hammer could fix, a rubber one possibly, and all I got was flack and the "you think I'm stupid" speech. I recognise there's a learning curve for repairs if you've never done them before, but there's also an order of operations. As I was explaining why a hammer wouldn't fix the problem with an analogy I got an even more dirty look. Somehow I'm not supposed to know any of this? Logic and reasoning isn't good enough? I would love to do the household repairs but since Dan's not good at cleaning, I do most of that. Mouldy towels annoy me more than a broken door knob. I had to hand off something! Yes I could do it all, I'm not afraid of it, I know I can do it, but some things need to be delegated to keep it even. I wasn't trying to sound pretentious, or take it over, I thought I could help or educate or explain the reasoning and logic. But no, I'm not supposed to know any of that.

Who Cut the Cheese?

Had our housewarming bash on Friday. It was quite the mix of different people, but lots of fun. Old friends I've known from Grade 9 came, university friends, new friends, work friends, it was a good mix.

The inner hostess in me decided to make some appetizers for the party. So I flipped through my cookbooks and picked out a couple of dips that looked interesting and weren't very time consuming. So I settled on having a ham and cheeseball dip, railroad dip and the infamous nacho dip. The one thing I didn't pay attention was the amount of cheese that I was using in these dips. The railroad dip itself was just cheese, onions and mayo. So I stuffed my guests with cheese. Next time I'll have to watch out for that and provide some more variety. I'm sure their digestive tracts will thank me.

Yet another week

It's monday. Work is slow, I'm restless. I know just because I'm not busy right at the moment doesn't mean I'll be going crazy trying to get something done in the afternoon. I was sick all weekend too, that doesn't help my restlessness since I was asleep for most of the weekend.

Going to Edmonton on the weekend. Not real excited about it. Going to a wedding for Dan's cousins. I'm looking forward to seeing his Grandpa though.

I'm having a case of the blahs lately. Depression is such a nasty word, blah is more intuned to what I'm feeling. I don't really want to do anything or plan anything, I'm not really looking forward to anything and when I have an idea, people aren't as excited about it as I am or they shoot it down right away.

I need to find something that I do for me again. Whether it's work on my business or even just running and exercise, and make sure I set time aside for it every day. I don't think this would solve everything but it would get rid of half a blah. Now to brainstorm to get rid of the other half.

Heather and Colin were our first actual houseguests this weekend. (Not our Colin, James). I thought it went pretty well, other than I felt deathly ill. We played the mini golf course of doom (who in their right mind would make a course so hard? And where was the loop de loop?) at Market Mall and checked out the new Moxie's.

Wish I had some sort of rant to put on here, this is all senseless babble....

This Blog brought to you by Ikea

So here I sit in my brown uncut cord blazer with the satin bow and a peach lace blouse with the princess sleeves. (I've made it my mission to commentary every outfit I wear this week, I'm impressed with my Calgary fashion finds) I also find it interesting that I've never really studied fashion, yet I know all these terms.

Work is very unpredictable this week. Each morning I pick a bug, get close to fixing it, then after lunch I'm ready for testing, only to get pulled off into another project to start something completely different, which will be a rush job for the afternoon. Then I start all over the next day. So I've started coming in later, so that gives me more afternoon to ponder over these tasks. The problem is, that even though I'm sleeping in, I'm still tired at my non sleeping-in bedtime 10-11. I don't stay up for an extra couple hours so I just lose 2 hours of my day. I'm not okay with that, I have lots to do! Well luckily it's a short week.

I'm coming down with a cold, I'm in denial mode. My desk is covered in tylenol cold, green tea, fisherman's friends and vitamin C. Like, somehow, I can scare the cold away. Really, I think all this stuff is making me feel more sick, but if I'm well tomorrow, it'll be worth it and I will praise the evils of modern medicine.

As much as I'd like to hide it, my condo is sponsered by Ikea. Why? Because I'm too damn cheap to go anywhere else. I put together some of the pictures I bought from Ikea and hung them, then I realised that every picture in that place was originally from Ikea. Pictures are expensive! Ikea pictures are not. Pick a frame and a picture and voila! You have an elegant masterpiece usually for $15. It looks nice but if you study the Ikea catalog, you know, and they stick out like a sore thumb. I've come to peace with this. I'll look for other pictures, see the price and then come full circle, with going to Ikea for pictures.

Actually after we hung all those pictures last night and moved the living room lamp, it feels quite cozy in the condo. More like home. I don't think I'm going to buy anything for it for a while. Maybe just a tv stand. The other one is being held together by the weight of the tv itself. Which isn't safe, but it's working.

No wonder

Went on my trip to Calgary for the long weekend. It was everything I thought it could be! I slept so well on the weekend. Barbara and I shared an airmattress, so I didn't get kicked or elbowed in the face, it was sooooo nice. Brett's new condo is really nice, there was plenty of room there. I was expecting some sort of box hell, like when I moved, but he seems to be more organised, or has less stuff. He was a good host.

We did 8 1/2 hours of shopping on the weekend. Saturday we went to Signal Hill and to the Chinook mall. I bought myself some work tops that are comfy and warm. For once I didn't need pants! Thank you Tall Girl store in Saskatoon. Barbara did the pants dance, she found a few pairs but tried on over 100. Sunday we hit up Ikea. We spent 3 hours there and I didn't even get my TV stand. Oh well. I picked up little things for the condo, if we really want the tv stand, we're going to edmonton in a couple weeks, I guess. I felt bad for John though. We made him carry all of our stuff in Ikea. Our arms and shoulders were full. He must of been bored out of his mind, but I appreciated the help. I ended up getting a new duvet and cover the spare bed, some pictures, some bathroom stuff and a dining room table centerpiece, so I did pretty good over all.

I stuffed my face full of sushi, literally, until it would not go down into my stomach anymore. We went to the sushi bbq place. So non sushi lovers could have korean bbq. It worked really well. I ate so much! Also ate at the Olive Garden for lunch. I just had the soup, salad and breadsticks. Really, if I order a meal, I usually fill up on the above and can't eat my meal. So it worked out well.

Sunday night we were a little pooped so we bought some grocery store pizzas and cheap liquor ( 6 coolers for $8) and had a classic high school night. We played trapped and sociables, got really drunk and decided to go terrorize the neighborhood. John ended up rolling down a hill and into the gutter on to the street, Barbara rolled down a hill and got a sprikler in the boob, I decided to scale a fence and bruised and sliced my wrist pretty good. Only Brett got away with no injuries.

It was a good and much needed trip. I'm exhausted today, but my mind is rested and I feel much more calm. I drank alot, spent alot of money and did stupid stuff. At least I didn't ruin my memories of Calgary. Now back to work....

Save a horse, ride a cowboy

It's Calgary day today. I'm all excited and ready to go. I haven't been for a couple years. Unfortunately I'm not going to see the friends I made in Calgary, they are all busy. But I get to visit and stay with my good buddy Brett. He's nice enough to let me and Barbara stay with him only a week after he's moved into his new place. I get to go to Ikea and eat lunch at the Olive Garden and buy some clothes that fit me. I get to eat cheap sushi, maybe venture into China town and eat at the good vietnamese soup place. I know, I know, alot of the activities I mention here are eating. And that's fine right? Actually the whole mass consumerism nature of this trip is the reason I can not live in Calgary. I would never have any money. For me, Miss Drunky McLightweight, a typical night at the bar will cost me $100 to get drunk, and that's not including $10 cover! It's a nice place to visit, a fun place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. I will relish in these short visits.

That being said I've never driven myself from Saskatoon to Calgary. This will be a whole new experience. My car is full of maps and atlases in case I get lost. I don't think I will though, should be pretty simple. My iPod is all charged and ready to go, no worries about running out of tunes. I've got so much stuff on there I don't even know what's on there anymore. I had it on random earlier this week and it played a song by the Raconteurs and I had forgotten that I even had that cd!

I contemplated wearing my Save a horse, ride a cowboy tshirt this morning to get into the spirit. I then decided that since I had 3 meetings today that it probably wouldn't be a good idea. The answer of what constitutes a cowboy is spurs. I wore my shiny plaid urban cowgirl shirt instead, less creative innuendo defending with that one.

Pursuit of Challenge

I love the thrill of a challenge. I always have. If something comes too easy I usually get bored with it and I'm off to the next thing. I chose clarinet over trumpet, 48 keys over 3, I learned to snowboard instead of ski. Skiing you strap on your skis and away you go, snowboarding takes precision,fitness and balance to get down a hill without wiping out. At work I take the hard projects, then get more big projects assigned to me. My personal life, I choose difficult relationships instead of the cut and dry and enjoyable. Is it the thrill or the competition? Why am I drawn to this? Why can't I just take the easy way for once? Is it all worth it? At the end of the day I can say "I did that", but really, is that such an accomplishment? Is it worth such ego feeding competitive behaviour?

Tai Chi!

I signed up for a Tai Chi class this fall. Why Tai Chi? It didn't seem too strenuous and it looked interesting, something where I can work on my flexibility. I'm not flexible at all. It does however seem to be graceful, I'm also not very graceful, but Toni is signing up with me, I sure hope she's not graceful either....that would be nice so I don't have to look like a dork by myself, although I'm sure used of it. Here's a little exerpt on Tai Chi shamelessly stolen from wikipedia.org



As the name T'ai Chi Ch'üan is held to be derived from the T'ai Chi symbol, the taijitu or t'ai chi t'u (太極圖, pinyin tàijítú), commonly known in the West as the "yin-yang" diagram, T'ai Chi Ch'üan techniques are said therefore to physically and energetically balance yin (receptive) and yang (active) principles: "From ultimate softness comes ultimate hardness."

The core training involves two primary features: the first being the solo form or ch'üan, a slow sequence of movements which emphasize a straight spine, relaxed breathing and a natural range of motion; the second being different styles of pushing hands or t'ui shou (推手) for training "stickiness" and sensitivity in the reflexes through various motions from the forms in concert with a training partner in order to learn leverage, timing, coordination and positioning when interacting with another. Pushing hands is seen as necessary not only for training the self-defense skills of a soft style such as T'ai Chi by demonstrating the forms' movement principles experientially, but also it is said to improve upon the level of conditioning provided by practice of the solo forms by increasing the workload on students while they practice those movement principles.

Do what I say and you live!

Went to see Snakes on a Plane on the weekend. It was every bit of awesomeness as I had expected. It didn't even try to take itself seriously! It's two thumbs up for the best B movie of the year! There were so many lines and so many things wrong with it, that it just made it great. I mean really, who can sneak that 12 ft Boa Constrictor in the ventilation system? And snakes don't hover to find the perfect spot to bite you. There was a good movie crowd there too, they cheered when Sam said a hilarious line and clapped for the sheer antics of the movie. I suggest you get Sam to phone a friend of yours and go see it!

Warmed up my credit card for this weekend. I'm going to Calgary for long weekend! Yay! New clothes for me! New clothes that fit! I bought a couple new things on the weekend, an urban cowgirl shirt, which I absolutely love, and a new blouse for work. I shall have to take a pic in the urban cowgirl shirt, it's so chic.

I replied to a work email in haiku this morning. My boss thought it was hilarious and responded in haiku. I got congratulated in the meeting for my creativity. Really, I didn't mean to reply in haiku, I wrote a response and noticed it had a rhythm to it, then I counded the syllables and realised it was a haiku, then formatted and cut out a couple "the"s and sent. It was pretty funny. People are starting to realise what a geek I am so that's a good thing. They are getting less afraid to come see me.

I've officially planned my housewarming party. I don't think I missed anyone but if I did, email me and come! I think I have all the Saskatonians on my list but let me know. It should be awesome.

Full o'beans

We went to EE Burritos for lunch today. That is the best Mexican food I have ever tasted. They also had a wide variety of hot sauces! So spicy, so good! It wasn't really greasy either, so that was nice. I'll definitely go back. Their beans are soooooo good. I'm sooooo gasy right now it's not even funny. It's a good thing I don't sit with the rest of the guys I went with, I'm pretty sure that's a smelly corner right now.

Cooler than you

It's Friday! Time to celebrate with some Ben Folds....



Smile
Like you've got nothing to prove
No matter what you might do
There's always someone out there cooler than you

I know that's hard to believe
But there are people you meet
They're into something that is too big to be

Expressed
Through their clothes
And they'll put up with all the poses you'll throw
And you won't

Even know
that they're not sizing you up
They know your mom fucked you up
Or maybe let you watch too much TV

But they'll still look in your eyes
To find the human inside
You know there's always something in there to see

Beneath
The veneer
Not everybody made the list this year
Have a beer

Make me feel tiny if it makes you feel tall
But there's always someone cooler than you

Yeah, you're the shit but you won't be here for long
Oh, there's always someone cooler than you
Yeah, there's always someone cooler than you

Now that I've got the disease
In a way I'm relieved
'Cause I don't have to stress about it like you do

I might just get up and dance
Or buy some acid-wash pants
When you don't care then you got nothing to lose

And I won't
Hesitate
'Cause every moment life is slipping away
It's ok

Make me feel tiny if it makes you feel tall
But there's always someone cooler than you

Yeah, you're the shit but you won't be it for long
Oh, there's always someone cooler than you
Yeah, there's always someone cooler than you
Oh, there's always someone cooler than...

Life is wonderful
Life is beautiful
We're all children of
One big universe
So you don't have to be a chump

And you know (you know)
That I won't (I won't)
Hesitate (hesitate)
'Cause every moment life is slipping away (away)
It's ok (it's ok)

Make me feel tiny if it makes you feel tall
Oh, 'cause there's always someone cooler than you

Yeah, you're the shit but you won't be it for long
But there's always someone cooler than you
Oh yeah, there's always someone cooler than you
Because there's always someone cooler than you

Cooler than you (boy)
Cooler than you (girl)
Cooler than you (sir)
Cooler than you (my lady)

Oh
Nerds go wild
Yeah Yeah

Watchout for the pickles?

Had a good conversation at coffee time about why Intellivision was the best system ever made. In what other gaming system could you play tennis, crush martians, destroy asteroids, get chased by man eating pickles, and have various monsters beep meanly at you in a maze, all of this in 2D! Yes, the side controller buttons hurt after a while and maybe a disc wasn't the best way to control your game, but it was some of the most addictive gaming fun. I think because it took alot more imagination to get into the games. That was half the fun. I remember turning a corner in Dungeons and Dragons and having a Stick Man with a sheild scare the begeeses out of me. Now I turn the corner in games on my PS2 and a flesh eating realistic looking zombie doesn't even phase me. Oh a zombie, how about that? And down he goes.

Ashamed

I am so totally ashamed of myself. I have been mixing up Samuel L Jackson and Wesley Snipes for weeks, and no one has called me on it! Why have you people been listening to my rants and not pointing out that Blade is Wesley Snipes! Shame on you and shame on me!

Non-sensicle is unpossible

Been a while since I blogged something non sensicle here. Let's try it.

Everyone is going on and on here about Snakes on a Plane. Samuel L Jackson did phone me personally to go and see it, he did that last week. James had something to do with that one... The problem I have with Snakes on a Plane is that it only encourages this "tell it like it is" naming convention. Badgers on a Hovercraft anyone? Annoyingly Lonely Girl Meets Lost but Good Headed Boy. I cannot encourage these movie titles. But on the other hand it's Sam fighting snakes. I've watched him fight vampires and watched him fight terrorists, but never snakes, this is a whole new experience that I can't miss out on! And the one liners! How I love them! The key to any Sam movie. I'll cave and see it.

My table came and my place is feeling like it has some sort of order to it now. I enjoy it. I'm going to throw some housewarming parties soon. One for friends and another for family. Sadly I think the family guests out number the friends guests, we'll have to take care of that.

Went camping this weekend and had a blast. Lounged on the beach, ate some good food, babbled some senseless drunk talk, yes it was a full camping experience. We buried Brant in the sand on the beach and turned him into a transgendered mermaid/merman. I wish I had my camera for that one. The boys had an ax throwing competition. I somehow don't this was safe but they both claim it was.

This week I'm indulging in the girly stuff, we're going to see the Devil Wears Prada on Wed. I want to see it, but I know it will turn out like every other chick flick and I will feel dumber having seen it and probably give myself heck for seeing such mindless predictable drivel, but I'll do it anyways and then in 6 months, I'll probably do it again.

Taking Back Sunday

"Divine Intervention"

Despondent, distracted,
You're vicious and romantic;
These are a few of my favorite things.
All of those flavors and
This is what you choose:
Past the blues, past the blues,
And on to something new,

Something real, make it timeless,
An act of God and nothing less will be accepted.
So if you're calling me out,
Then count me out.

Yeah, we're stubborn and melodramatic,
A real class act.
You see, I know a few of your favorite things.
Five in the morning and all comes out pouring,
Love, out the same way in.

Something real, make it timeless,
An act of God and nothing less will be accepted.
Now if you're calling me out,
Then count me out.

You're in Saskatchewan when...

You get to work and there's a cow in your parking spot, no word of a lie, there was an actual cow in my parking spot, it had buddies throughout the parking lot.

There's a farmer's field next door, I suspect that had something to do with it.....

Hiding porn the more effective way

Okay guys, really! Do not hide your porn in any cd case that might sound remotely interesting. The first cd on the desk here is labelled Rock Spring 2003. After getting speakers set up here in the computer room, I thought perfect, a rock cd to test them out with, and I was also thinking about what would be popular in 2003, it was kind of exciting. Once again I got a rude surprise, fellatio on my screen pops up without asking on Window's Media Player.

Now, I don't really care that it's here, it's just I really wasn't in the mood for that, and the sound! Does it always have to be volume 10? Please label your porn effectively so that I don't get a rude awakening.

Thanks.

Time Waster, Heartbreaker

Well I'm at a standstill while I download these software packages....so here I go.


[ The Basics ]



:: Name? Candice

:: Any nicknames? Candy, the token female

:: Date of birth? July 5th, 1982

:: Age? 24 (Almost quarter century old, shudder)

:: Gender? female



[ More In-Depth ]



:: Height? 5'9 1/2"

:: Shoe-size?6 1/2

:: Eye color/any contacts or glasses?green/both

:: Hair color/natural or dyed?light brown and it's natural and dyed. I've got some highlights

:: Describe yourself with 4 words: This one is hard! Easy-going, sensible, quirky and clumsy

:: How do people often describe you? I've heard "the responisble one" kicked around a bunch

:: Best qualities? I don't really know

:: Any worst qualities? I'm sometimes impervious to social situations. I just finished reading JPod by Douglas Coupland, in that book they explore the idea that all programmers have some form of Autism, after really thinking about it, I concurr.

:: Hobbies? Running, computers, ping pong?



[ School Spirit ]



:: Do you like school? I liked it for a while

:: Part of any certain cliques? In high school I was part of a couple. Oh girl world, one clique would get mad and oust you, so there were many back ups.

:: Describe your school with 5 words: nah

:: Describe your teachers with 5 words: nope

:: Favorite subject[s]? Sciences

:: Favorite teachers/classes? I loved the teachers who were enthusiastic and actually cared, Hamilton, Yang.



[ Your Family ]



:: Do you like your family? Yeah, there's not much choice in the matter is there?

:: Any siblings/names? Just my sister Kristen

:: If so, describe with 4 words: not going to touch that one, "emotional timebomb"

:: Any divorces with parents? Nope

:: Strict family, or just carefree? They weren't strict nor were they carefree. My Dad always knows what's going on in the all the social circles so he didn't worry about us because he knew where we were. The only advice that stuck was to "leave before the cops come"

:: Family member you seem closest to? My Dad



[ Love Life ]


:: Any crushes on actors/actresses? If so, who? Ewan McGregor for now...

:: What do you like about them; their acting or their looks? I really don't know what it is. I think it's because he's in 2 of my favorite most emotional movies, Moulin Rouge and Big Fish

:: Musicians? If so, who? None at the moment. Perhaps Gavin Rossdale pre-Bush experimental remix days.

:: What do you like about them; their music or their looks? I think that was a looks thing.



:: Do you like taking the lead in a relationship? It's usually just thrust upon me, but sometimes I like to be lead too! Just doesn't happen though

:: Be the first to kiss someone? yep

:: Ask them out/tell them you like them first? not generally

:: Do you usually 'break the ice' during akward silences? yeah, if it's really awkward it will always be with a story that makes absolutely no sense and then I end up feeling like a bigger moron.



[ Love Life - Female Section ]



:: What kind of physical features do you find appealing:

:: Long/short hair? Short, can't do the long thing, if it's longer than mine, that's freaky

:: Freckles? Doesn't matter

:: Dimples? Also doesn't matter

:: A good smile or a good laugh? Smile

:: Tanned or fair skin? tanned usually suggests outdoorsy, but I've been fooled before

:: Athletic or lanky? athletic

:: Classy or casual clothes? classy

:: How important are looks to you? not very, that's not usually the first thing I'm drawn to.



:: What kind of personality[ies] do you find appealing:

:: Naughty or nice? nice

:: Mysterious or just fun to be with? fun to be with

:: Brains or brawl type of guy? brains, oh dear god, brains.

:: How would you feel about a guy crying in front of you? It's been done, it's fine, they are human

:: Sensitive or tough guy?sensitive but not overly sensitive, he can't be a wimp.

:: Innocent, deep, or macho? Between innocent and deep, but they must be able to fix stuff which is more in the macho category.

:: How important are personalities to you? Very



[ Love Life - Male Section ]



:: What kind of physical features do you find appealing:

:: Long/short hair?

:: Freckles?

:: Dimples?

:: A nice smile or a sexy smirk?

:: Tanned or fair skin?

:: Athletic or just curvy?

:: Showy or casual clothes?

:: How important are looks to you?



:: What kind of personality[ies] do you find appealing:

:: Naughty or nice?

:: Mysterious or just fun to be with?

:: Smart, athletic, or just a looker?

:: How would you feel about them crying in front of you?

:: Does a good sense of style matter to you?

:: Innocent, deep, or wild?

:: How important are personalities to you?



[ Your Favorites ]



:: Movie[s]? Moulin Rouge, Holy Grail, When Harry met Sally, Old School

:: TV Show[s]?Gilmore Girls, South Park

:: CD/song[s]? Ben Fold's Rocking the Suburbs

:: Band[s]?Ben Folds, The Used, Blink 182, Arcade Fire, New Pornographers, Foo Fighters

:: Singer[s]?uh, see above

:: Musician[s]? Isn't this the same damn question?

:: Color[s]? purple, orange

:: The most favorite random thing on your computer desk? awww, my little tux penguin, reminds me of simplier times at SaskTel

:: Any favorite friend? No I don't pick favorites, I enjoy them all for different reasons

:: Type of beverage/alcoholic or non? oooh Caesar. I'm going to try making my first vodka martini tomorrow.

:: Candy or snacks? snacks, I'm assuming the distinction is that snacks are salty. Because Candy can very well be a snack...

:: Number? 22

:: Brand of tissues? Kleenex. I'm going to include my favorite brand of toilet paper too, it's Charmin, it's like wiping your ass with a pillow. You have to go buy this toilet paper!



[ This or That ]



:: Strawberries or cherries? no you can't make me choose!

:: Coke or Pepsi? Coke

:: Music or Television? Music

:: Mails or e-mails? email! Mail implies bills implies no fun

:: Online Messengers or the phone? I do both

:: In person or online? Person

:: Love or lust? a little of both is good

:: Pencils or pens? pens, purple or pink please

:: Cake or pie? mmmmm cake pie

:: Cosmetics or clothes? clothes

:: Roses or Tulips? Tulips

:: Metal or Techno? I like both, you can't make me choose

:: Paper clips or duct tape? I also can't choose between these. Both are held in high regard.



[ Your Friends ]



:: Do you have friends? yes

:: Do you like your friends? well obviously

:: Who's the nicest? hmmmm,

:: Cleanest? Barbara

:: Funniest? the Brett and Dave Duo is pretty funny

:: Kindest/most caring? Heather

:: Wild/bubbly one? Toni

:: Rebel? no one really

:: Oldest? [how long they've been your friend, not age] I think that's Heather, yep it is

:: The greatest person in the world? they are all great

:: Just plain weird one? most of my cs friends

:: Narrow your friends down to your closet, and give each of them a word that'd sum them up: I'm assuming they mean closest. And I'm not doing that. Although if sed friends would like to see my new walk in closet, I'd be happy to show them. (I think I'm so funny)

:: Are they really your most trusted friends, or just people you wave and smile at? The wavers and smilers are gone

:: The friend you probably hang out/talk with the most: Right now that would be Barbara



[ The Last Person/Thing You ]



:: Ate? Taco Salad from the cafeteria, I feel like grease now

:: Drank? Raspberry Orange fruit and veggie juice.

:: Read? Book-wise it was jPod by Douglas Coupland, I read all the time non-bookwise

:: Listened to? Dixie Chicks new cd, waiting for the rotten tomatoes to hit me.......now

:: Talked with? I think it was Matt after lunch

:: Laughed with? I think we were laughing at someone as we were talking

:: Smiled at? People walking by my cube

:: Blush at? hmmmm, I don't know

:: Missed? ho hum can't really say

:: Poked? oh man I haven't poked anyone for a long time. I used to be the poking queen. I think Brett has the scars from university to prove that. If I do that here I think people would just think I'm weird, not that they don't already...

:: Annoyed? Last person I annoyed......I don't really know......couldn't of been that long ago.....

:: Got mad at? My stupid software programs!!!!!!

:: Said sorry to? I think to Doug even though the hardware I broke wasn't my fault, honestly

More Cowbell!

Tomorrow it looks like I'll finally be seeing Talladega Night's. I've been looking forward to it so much that I will leave the room if a commercial for it comes on, I don't want to ruin it.

I think I've broken everything that I can here at work, it's insane. I broke an entire piece of hardware yesterday, well I didn't break it, per se, it just stopped working in my care. Apparently flash memory doesn't erase itself but honestly I didn't touch it. Then I broke some software programs this morning. I'm cursed. So I'm downloading a bunch of packages to install that will fix it, but downloads are taking forever...not fun!

Sears has officially lost my dining room set. I wasn't too happy with them. Now they are doing goofy things to my credit card, maybe next week I'll have a table? I guess that's what I get by trying to save $300 ordering online than in the store. I just want to eat on a table not the couch, that's apparently too much to ask.

Going to the exhibition this weekend too. I'm looking forward to that. Give me an elephant ear and I'll be quite content for the next little while. It's amazing that a deep fried piece of dough has that much power over me.

My computer room is almost all set up, that's exciting, it came together pretty quickly. I have a stuffed animal problem though. I took a couple with me from home, but it's still too many. I thought it's nice to have a couple around. Even with 1 around it still looks like a 10 year old lives there or something. I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll get a nice feminine bedspread for the spare bed and they can live there? That's still crazy 40 year old spinster vibe-y though.

Last night I was getting ready for bed, I heard a rumbling outside. Just as I was cursing a "thunderstorm", I happened to look out the bedroom patio doors. It wasn't a thunderstorm at all, in fact, I could see the exhibition fireworks perfectly from the doors and on the balcony. I couldn't see the really low ones but there were a ton of high ones. That was pretty cool. So I sat outside in my pjs for a while and watched the rest of the fireworks. If I had known they were going on, I would have personally gone and saw them, but this was pretty good too.

I'm also noticing I'm becoming a clean freak. If anyone had ever seen my bedroom in my parents house, you know that that is hard to believe. I'm becoming one of those obsessive, everything has a spot and it better be there person too. It's really annoying, I have to try to lighten up on these issues but it's tough! I never saw this one coming. When I was little, we always had a room that no one could go into, the living room, in order to keep it clean. Even the cats weren't allowed in there. Although they would sit at the edge of the room and gaze longingly into it. Then you would catch them putting a paw in if they thought you weren't looking, but one word to them and they were out again. I always said that there wouldn't be this type of room in my house ever. But now I'm starting to see the upside of it. One space all to you that you can keep clean, because no one uses it. Okay it still makes no logical sense, but it appeals to the organizational nature of my personality. Wow, I'm messed up.

Incessant Chatter

It's almost the long weekend! Yay! I'm going to take off to the lake this weekend. No my condo isn't in any sort of order, but I need a break. My feet and knees are still sore from last weekend. But they'll get better hopefully. I also still don't have my dining room table. If it's not here by after work today, they are hearing from me. I know I said that everyday this week.

I finally got a much needed haircut yesterday. It looks okay. It at least looks healthy. I found a good hair dresser first try, which is odd for me. We replaced Dan's surround sound system the other night. We noticed before we moved that the old one wasn't playing DVDs or CDs properly. It wasn't even a year old. So London Drugs gave us our full money back, which was nice. We then bought a really really good 1000 Watt Pioneer Receiver and DVD/DVR player. It's sweet, although I don't want to turn it up too loud and piss off the neighbors our first week there.

I've met a couple of our neighbors. They are both ladies in their 40's. They said everyone in the building pretty much keeps to themselves, they don't really know anyone in the building, in fact I don't even think they've met each other. So far you can't hear anything in our condo, it's really solid concrete. In fact every time I try to hang a picture I usually end up buying a wall anchor because I hit concrete right after the gyprock. It's a good thing, now I can play my Dance Dance Revolution and not have to worry about the people downstairs being angry. I've also been to the hot tub many a time and haven't run into a single soul. I brought my racquet ball raquets but I forgot the balls. I'll have to take a look for those this weekend. We also bought some ping pong paddles. Still haven't tried them out yet. At least I know I won't go stir crazy in the winter because I won't drive anywhere, I've got everything in one building.

Having the tall girl store close is going to be a challenge. There's a really nice pair of parasuco jeans there that fit me perfect that I want. But I don't really need them right now, and I'm trying to focus on condo needs, but they still taunt me everytime I go by. We'll have to see if I can hold out, I'll keep you updated.

I was walking through Sears yesterday and they had a bunch of board games on sale for 50% off. I stocked up since I had to leave a bunch at home in Regina. Once we get some furniture, I'm pretty sure setting up a biweekly game night with friends here wouldn't be too hard of a problem. I'll also have to meander to Toys R Us one day. James keeps on telling me about these mythical Saskatoon board game sales, which I still need to see for myself.