The Season of Procrastination

The countdown is on. Only 12 short days until my final exam. My brain hurts from all the studying I've done over the years for this. Finally - one left, and I feel spent. I hope I can manage enough energy and desire to study sufficiently for this exam. I'm doing quite well going into it. My mid-term which I was so nervous about, (and which I would have probably marked at 65%, I got a 91% - how that's even possible, I don't know, but I'm not complaining. Anyways, I think I'm going into the exam with 25% already - so I'd be pretty hard up not to get at least a 70% in the class. We'll see. This next 12 days can't come quickly enough, that's for sure.

Life has been busy lately. Work, entertaining, hanging out with my amazing hubby, keeping my house reasonably clean, (I've even started to think that paying someone to do it wouldn't be too bad...) and getting ready for our trip. Its been a gong show. I'm feeling extremely tired...probably due to my caffeine overdose on Monday. Normally I drink 1 cup of coffee a day, and sometimes a diet pop. That's it. On Monday (my Mother-in-law was over) I started off the day with 2 cups of tea, then in the afternoon, I enjoyed a large Tim Hortons Double Double (which won me another in Rooooll up the Rim to Win). Then I drank a pop for dinner, and then another coffee at Cathy Hooge's place. I was exhausted, but I was vibrating from all the energy inside me. Anyways, I didn't sleep a wink until about 6am that day. That sucked.

I've also been having tough luck with booking this online - and so the saga continues.

A couple weeks ago, I booked a hotel for us in Berlin for 3 nights. A whopping 274 Euro's (which was cheaper than the one I'd originally booked for us). Immediately after booking, I noticed their site had in small print, far below the reservation, that they charge you a deposit of 1 nights stay, which is non-refundable. I also noticed that they made 2 bookings for me. I immediately (literally within 1 minute of sending the reservation) I sent an email advising them there'd been an error, and would they please cancel my reservation. They advised me they have "laws" and could not cancel the reservation without charging me the non-refundable deposit. Also they would not cancel the 2nd reservation without the non-refundable portion. (which is $140 Canadian). I finally wrote an email to the original booking centre (BOOKING.COM which I would highly recommend), and they had this hotel cancel the one booking, but they were unable to help with the deposit. Fine.

Anyways, its 2 weeks since they charged my credit card, and they still haven't returned the 2nd deposit. Its making me really mad. I think despite the charge, I think we're going to stay somewhere else...I hate supporting businesses that have horrible business practices, and I feel like that's what this company has. What kind of company, charges you 20% of your entire stay, if you decide to make a cancellation with them well over a month in advance of the booking? That's bizarre.

Anyways - that's one of the weird things I'm having to deal with - well actually I deal with these things, until they get messy, and then my amazing husband steps in, like superman, and fixes the whole mess I've made. I like him (not superman, my husband).

I got to talk to my Dad for a long time today. I like him. I wish him and I lived a lot closer to one another, or else I wish one of us had a plane. One of those comfy ones that they have on Criminal Minds with the comfy leather seats, and stuff - anyways, I wish we had a plane, and could take a plane ride to each other's house for lunch if we wanted. That'd kinda be a waste of money, and the green people would probably have a hemorrhage, but it'd be really fun. Its been about 9 months since I've seen my Dad, even longer since I've seen my Mom. I guess such is life. I decided to move West.

I should be studying - I told Troy I would have to spend the night studying, however I've done very little studying...bad shara. Its so hard...I have so many other things I'd rather be doing, including pulling out my toe nails, and cleaning toilets.

Plus I'm sleepy.

I better go find Troy to see if we can watch Big Brother, I've missed it the last 2 nights. Or maybe I should really study!

S

Problems

I have problems. Last week I ordered a dress for my Mom's wedding online - I ordered it to the wrong address, and in the wrong size. I also didn't give them my expiry date on my credit card. Then today, I booked a flight for my Mother-In-Law to come to visit for Easter, and instead of booking her from Kelowna to Calgary, I booked the flight from Calgary to Kelowna, which won't really help her. Then on my way home today, I forgot to put the lid on my water bottle, and the entire 2 liter of water leaked into my seat (this is not the first time this has happened!). Seriously, what is wrong with me? Apparently I have problems.

Well my husband is home, and I should go and sop up my seat...

S

I Love Mondays

Mondays are my day of solace in a crazy busy time in my life. I've been able to sleep in a lot lately, so that's been a blessing in itself, because I'm not the best at sleeping. Today I slept in until about 9:45am, and then got up, had some yogurt and some water, and then showered, and headed off. I had a couple tasks to do today. First of all - the Bottle Depot.

I know a lot of places are not like this, but in Calgary, you do not have some nice man, driving by your house in a big truck, picking up all your treasures which you place in a blue box on your curb. Neither do we have the same "service" we had in our old condo, where your garbage was rummaged though, for any special treasures, mostly by homeless people. I felt like I was doing a good deed by depositing my bottles/cans in there for them, because then they found a treasure in the midst of the leftover spaghetti (and don't think I'm that cruel - I normally put them in a separate bag). No longer do we have any special service people, picking up our cans. Before Christmas I put a bag of cans in my trunk, hoping to make it to the bottle depot. Well - its March 3rd, and this is the first time since we moved in in June that I've gotten to the depot, for a couple reasons.

First of all, it really stinks in there. Like stale beer - amongst other things. Its also really dirty, and gross in there. Also, its always SO busy, so not only are you spelling nasty smells, you have to wait for a free "table". And finally - you get only pennies. take for example this. My entire trunk was filled. You couldn't have fit anything else in there, if you tried. And my cute little civic has a pretty good sized trunk. Anyways - $16.75 is all I got back. Oh well. Its better than a trunk full of cans I guess. I think that should be a saying.

From there, I headed over to my massage therapists, for a relaxing lovely massage. It was wondrous.

I had a few things to pick up, so I thought I would make a trip to the Superstore. I love this store - although it has its quirks too. I spent a while in there picking out some new cloths, and looking at all the home deco's. The one thing you need to look out for at superstore, is overcharging. I've had it happen a couple times where the posted price is not what comes up when they ring it through. If you're not looking carefully, or not paying attention, you'll end up paying more for what you're purchasing. for me today, this was a hurricane bowl. It was on sale for $7.44, and it rang through at $19.99. Good thing for me, I caught it.

After my fun at superstore, I was off to vote. Unfortunately, they moved the polling station from the place they had it for the last election. So after parking at the far side of the parking lot, and walking all the way to the school - there was a sign that said the voting was going to be done at a different school. So I had to drive around a little bit, cause I wasn't totally sure what school it was, but there aren't too many in Renfrew. I tried another one, only to find that I wasn't on the voting list, because I was at the wrong school. With an address in hand, I was off to find yet another school - which wasn't even in Renfrew. How weird is that? Finally found it - and it was kinda funny cause the guy looking me up on his list, didn't even know the alphabet, he had a very difficult time finding Bierman.

Is it weird they don't need Photo ID to vote?

Since then I've been home, keeping up to date with Oprah and Dr. Phil, and tidying my cute house. Troy should be home soon - assuming he has no problems finding the polling station.

Anyways - Have a great March 3rd!

S