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.