On The Mend

American Idol is on, and I'm kickin back. Work has been CRAZY busy for me lately...you know when you do one thing and you have 1 1/2 more things added to your task while you're at it? Its frustrating...or when you can't get a thing done? Anyways, I'm exhausted now that I've come home. Oh well.

Our home is so comfortable...our new couches, our impressive tv...the snow falling outside our wall window on our busy street in down town Calgary...our fireplace...I love it here. We are so blessed.

We had company for lunch, and dinner yesterday, and then we're having company twice more this week. Its crazy but its fun. Its fun to prepare yummy food for our friends...and to have wine to serve, and delicious desserts. I spent yesterday cleaning and preparing.

Ok so right now A.J. Tabalo is singing for A-Idol...I don't like him, I wish he would go home. He makes me cringe and want to run out of the room. Ugh. For once I disagree with Simon.

The dude who sang first this week, and last, last week...he was awesome! I like that guy. but my FAVORITE is that Rob & Amber are back on the Amazing Race! I love that show! I guess I watch too mych tv. Oh well. I love the Amazing Race, and hopefully this time, they'll win.

Anyway, this post is borning and I'm rambling about nothing.

S

Still Sick

I feel so shoddy! Its strange cause if I take Advil or whatever, it makes me feel a lot better, but when it wares off...yuck. Nasty again. I am so bored though. Watching TV, Suduko puzzles, video-games, reading...and repeat. Its funny...with the world at one's fingertips on the Internet, how can one still get bored.

While I was feeling alright this afternoon I cleaned up our office, which was atrocious. Its a lot better now, but there is a large pile of ironing on the couch calling out to me. I refuse to hear it. I hope Troy doesn't need me to iron plants for him tomorrow.

Anyways, I'm going to go crawl back into bed, I feel horrible still.

S

Family Day Weekend

So far my family day weekend has been me sitting on the couch or in bed, doing little to nothing. Watching TV, or playing videogames. I am feeling so ill. On Friday at work I actually threw up. Those of you who know me well, know that I don't throw up. I can count on my hands the number of times I've thrown up in my life, and I'll detail for you:

• Christmas Party 2004 - woke up hugging toilet...unfortunately.
• In Europe, In Czech Republic actually...I woke up trying to throw up, and with cold sweats, but I couldn't.
• When I was a child we were in vacation in California (I think) and I was very sick there.

Those are the only times I've recalled throwing up. I've been sick, and even tried to make myself throw up (when I've felt like this, to try to make myself feel better). Anyways...so on Friday I threw up at work, and got the cold sweats and the shakes, felt incredibly dizzy, and decided I just could not continue working for the afternoon, so I took off 2 hours early. I've been feeling sick ever since...my throat hurts, my head hurts, my tummy hurts. I'm a piece of work.

So now I'm sitting in my big cloud of a bed, watching "The Wedding Planner" on TV, or rather, listening. Troy is playing at Centre St this evening, so he's not home, but he has been taking great care of me.

Unfortunately its not a snowy weekend like its been for the last while...its beautiful outside, and I'd love to be out walking...shopping...playing. But I'm sitting in bed, trying to make it 2 minutes without taking a drink.

Oh well.

I sent 2 postings last week from my work email to my blog, and none of them arrived. I wonder where they got to?

My Valentines Day was fantastic! We had some appetisers and then went to get Pedicures together. After that, we prepared dinner, and my flowers were delivered. 18 red roses in a beautiful vase. Then we exchanged presents. Troy got concert tickets to see the Killers, a membership to the Killers Victims fanclub, and an itunes gift-card. I got a home-made card, and some paint supplies. Not a romantic gift in itself, but the way it ws presented was romantic. It was a fantastic valentines day...I loved it.

Anyways, nothing more to write. Have a great Family Day long weekend!

S

Its Been Nearly a Year

Well its nearly Valentines day...a day that for years I hated...but now I love, for more reason than just a present from my love, and a present for my love...but I got engaged on Valentines Day, I also started dating the love of my life on Valentines day (not the same one...but A Valentines Day). Troy also started his job on Valentines day...so it makes it a pretty good day.

So a year ago today, I went to bed thinking, "Will I be getting a ring tomorrow? Will it be ugly? Will it be exactly what I want? What if he doesn't propose? I wonder what he's done..." And a year from then I'm happily married, going for pedicures and hot stone foot massages for Valentines Day, and making a yummy meal together with my love...then possily watching a romantic movie on our new tv, sitting on our new couches, enjoying life.

Mmmmm....yum.

Well I want to hang out with my man a bit, so I'll sign off. I thought I'd post a couple more links, and bake this blog a bit more fun. Anyways, happy Valentines day is a crock day! (that's what I used to call it...so why stop now!)

S

Beautiful Today

 

It looks incredibly beautiful from my office today…so serene, with the snow sitting so gracefully on the roof-tops and the trees.  Thank goodness I’m not out there.  Its frigid.  So my car is dead.  It wouldn’t start yesterday morning…so we had the unique privilege of being a 1 car family for 1 day.  Not fun.  I didn’t enjoy it at all…and Troy didn’t even get to work until 10am. Oh well.

We get our new TV on Monday.  We’re excited! 

I don’t really have anything to write about…I’m just bored at work.  I love su doko puzzles.

 

S

 

 

 

Not Only That

I also had a lady come in today, and breast feed a 2 year old child right in front of me while I was talking to her.  He was crying, so she offered him an afternoon treat.  How nasty.  (her Grandfather was sitting right beside her)

 

 

 

Another Thing I Hate

I had a conversation like this today.

Me – Would you like glass insurance on your vehicle.

Him – yes

Me – Ok well I’ll just give you that information now. Its $168/year with a …

Him – (interrupting me) That’s not with ING, that’s with AMI isn’t it?

Me – Yes it sure is! They offer better coverage with….

Him – No they don’t.

Me – Um…they offer great coverage, and have lower deductibles than the other companies are…

Him – No they don’t. I was just at Canadian Direct and they gave me a quote for $100 for glass insurance.

Me – They were probably offering you a $250 deductible with that, with this…

Him – No they weren’t. But its not worth arguing about.

I nearly blew a gasket. Don’t come into my office, seeking my expertise, and then try to prove you know more than me. Also, he was arguing with me about whether a 2006 Mazda came in a V6 model. He was telling me it didn’t…when I had the information in front of me telling me it did.

I nearly blew an even bigger gasket, when I gave him the price, and he laughed in my face. I’m not kidding. Probably 1 minute of him laughing loudly…asking me if I was serious, that that was a joke, and he couldn’t believe it.

He was a complete jerk. I’ve never had a bigger jerk I don’t’ think. I’ve had some jerks, but no one like him, that’s for sure.

One More For The Show

It is so dreary and glum outside.  I can’t wait for summer…and flip-flops…and having the fan on while I’m sleeping.  Mmmmm….summer.  We’re having Chelsea & Andrew and Jack over for dinner.  Well Jack won’t be eating with us…but Troy and Andrew will play some Nintendo Wii, and Chelsea and I will play some board games, and Jack will sit there and coo…and look cute.  I’m excited. We’re having Taco’s.  I better go, I just needed to pass a few minutes.  I love Troy.

 

Things That REALLY make me mad

1. Driving in LESS than the speed limit, in the left lane.
2. People who don’t signal.
3. Persons who will go unnamed, who live directly beside you, and insist that their base cranked up to max, is appropriate noise for living in a condo.
4. People who tell me they can’t hear me on the phone. (even if they can’t…it still makes me mad)
5. People who drive into a traffic-jammed intersection, even if they have to sit in the middle of it, blocking traffic going the other direction.
6. Stupid people.
7. People in any public place where there are large groups of people….who are walking and then stop abruptly, nearly causing others to bash into them. (in my opinion…bash away)
8. People who talk r-e-a-l-l-y r—e—a—l—l—y—slowly.

 

 

Its been a while

Today our living room is getting a make-over. Ok, not a total make over, just a couch make-over. The hideous couches we've inherited from Troy's parents...(thankfully it has been covered with a couch cover) is being picked up by the Women In Need Society. I've inserted a photo, so you realze how hideous it really is. I'm also donating the couch cover if they'll take it.

Hopefully after this couch is taken away, our new couches will arrive (hopefully not the other way around). We purchased them across the street from our house at Urban Cottage. I can't wait to get them. Not only that...but hoepfully next week, our new tv will be arriving. We've purchased the 42 inch Panasonic HD Plasma television. Our experience at Soundsaround was not great...but...hopefully we'll have a tv before not too long.

We walked in and knew what we were looking for, but Troy decided to ask a few questions. The salesman (Stephen) went on and on about how he prides himself about customer service, and how he once purchased a stereo from Soundsurround about 12 years ago, long before he started working there...and 10 years later, the salesman came up to him and said hello to him by name, asked him about the product he'd sold to him and that impressed Stephen so much that he wanted to work at Soundsaround. Funny thing...Stephen didn't even ask for Troy's name, or my name, until we were paying for the thing. We came shortly before closing (about 45 minutes) and decided we'd like to go ahead and purchase it. Stephen started to do up the paperwork, and called over some dude with braces and a white shirt on. He started talking a mile a minute, trying to sell us cords, and dvd players, and all kinds of things. He was talking like an auctioneer...hardly taking time to breath. Moving his hands like crazy. (On an entirely different subject, I wish I was a writer or a tv producer, cause recently I've come across some phenominal characters, and he's one of them!). Anyways...crazy man, didn't end up selling us anything, but we'd mentioned to him that we'd like to pick up the tv since we didn't want to pay the $100 for delivery. He informed us that we needed a truck or a mini-van. Not an SUV or anything else. We inquired as to the dimentions of the box, just to make sure it would fit in our car. Before we got this, they rang through the sale. When the man came back finally with the dimentions, we found out what the pick-up hours were. 9-11am, 1-3pm. When on earth can someone pick up their tv...? So we decided that delivery would probably be better. Now white shirt/braces man was mad, cause he needed to reverse our entire order, and re-start, and it was about 2 minutes to closing. So he re-does the entire thing, and then says, ok, when is good for us to deliver. We deliver between 9-11am, and 1-3pm. AGAIN...WHO IS HOME FOR THIS??? He was being rude, and short with us. So un-confrontational me...says "You should probably tell your patrons when the pick-up hours, and the deliver hours are, before you ring through their purchase." He looks me square in the eyes, and pulls out the invoice, and says, "well originally you said you wanted to pick it up.." and I cut him off with "Yeah I know what we said, but we were uninformed about the pick-up hours." He points to Stephen and says, "well that's his fault." Then he finishes with me, "And now we've transacted the delivery for these hours", and I said "Yes, and we were never told what those were either." once again, that was Stephen's fault.

I think it is extremely unprofessional for a manager to push the blame onto someone else, when both Troy and I agree, it was his fault.

Anyways, I've left a message for some dude at Soundsaround to call me back. I left the message at 8:10am. No call back as of yet. Once again, unprofessional. Oh well. I don't think we'll purchase there again. I'd actually be tempted to call them and have them credit back our order, except that they have a strict NO REFUNDS policy. Stores with that policy, you should definitely stay away from.

Anyways. Soon we'll have a NEW living room.

In other news I won tickets to last Friday's Calgary Flames game. It was a fantastic game and I was thrilled to see my favorite player Craig Conroy back. I cried (literally) when they traded him, and I'm thrilled he's back, and playing on the same line as Iggy no less!

I also purchased tickets to go see Bill Cosby at the Jubilee on May 10. What a fun night I'm looking forward to.

I should go...I've been playing Zelda like mad...last night, my dreams were a video-game. You know you're a video-games nerd when!

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