#2

So here is costume number two. It is actually the first costume I bought for this Halloween but then ditched it for 1985 prom dress and then homemade dress. I'm fickle.

Oh, and I know how unflattering the do rag is on me ole noggin! Note to self: leave life of piracy to CJ.

Amendment

I forgot to add a little line from boyfriend last night.

"If you had a penis you'd stick it between CJ's boobs."

I did it!

I sewed and I cut and I ripped and I re-sewed and I made the damn dress. It even looked like a dress so I was pleased. I didn't realize I knew how to follow a pattern until I made boyfriend's costume the weekend prior. It was worth all the pin pricks and the many trips to the fabric store to satisfy new ideas! Although my dress was made from sheets from my office. The purple one was a much lighter shade of purple so I dyed the fabric, and my fingers, to make it a bit brighter. And, I now have a passion for eyelets. I may poke eyelet hole into every and anything I own!!!

CJ and hubby came along as well as another friend of mine. CJ's boobies came out for the evening as well. They were some seriously hot smoking guns! I kept staring at her randomly throughout the evening; being a pirate works for her! Check out those eyes (once you get past the boobs that is)! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr baby! I covered her face, that's not part of the costume!

Boyfriend was extremely excited about the whole production. Several times throughout this past week he would don his pirate attire and walk around the house. He digressed to about age 7 or so! Yesterday as we were getting ready he had a bit of a panicked moment, "I just know we're going to be late..." After the reminder that it was just a Halloween party and we'll get there when we get there he removed his watch and concentrated on his transformation to Captain Jack Sparrow. Please notice that, yes, he does own the action figure, which the rest of the world refers to as a doll!

Sigh of relief...

I don't have to work tonight!!! What a relief!?!! I might cry, happy tears!!!!!!

I'm back

I'm an official student again (I say as I'm missing my chemistry lecture, which I'm actually feeling guilty about)! I received my first student newsletter email since 1912. I'm not sure how long it's been since I've received one but it was quite some time but I'm back online!

I have been trying to work on this very simple case study since last evening and every 3 minutes I have to deviate from my task to do ANYthing else. Today is shaping up to be an insanely busy day so I've been dragging my heals to slow its commencement (not sure if that sentence makes grammatical sense but you know what I mean).

I have to work then leave there immediately to go do a workplace safety inspection for a class project, leave there and go right back to work, then pack up my massage table, linens, and such and drive to "home" to work this evening. I should finish there at 9ish but then I'll either drive the hour home tonight or tomorrow AM in order to resume working here at 10 AM. After that, Halloween costume preparations continue. Aggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I'll be fine once I actually start moving!!!!! Hit the ground running!

I keep toying with the idea of making a dress for tomorrow evening's Halloween celebration. I bought two different costumes but have had them both long enough to question their appropriateness. I'm too fickle. I made most of boyfriend's pirate costume on Sunday, I even pulled off a pirate shirt with puffy sleeves and a real collar...who knew!?!! Now, I'm trying to convince myself that it's reasonable to sew a dress with a bodice and two layers of skirt all in less than 24 hours. I just don't sew that well.

Omission

I totally forgot to be catty and gossip about the former co-worker who I loathe. While the Hot One and I were getting settled into the set last night, the host of the show asked if we knew the woman who ran one of the schools as she used to date a friend of his. It turns out he knew her ex and someone had led someone to believe she "ran" the school. Not true. Wienerhead.

Here we go again...

My poor pooch!

I caved

So I FINALLY bought my chemistry text. I have been wanting to buy it all along but had been waiting for my student loan money to be deposited, which conveniently was half way through the term and was not nearly enough to cover my costs. Anyhow, I just went out and bought the stupid thing because I am sinking fast in that course. It makes me a wee bit nauseous to think about the money I owe to various vendors because of poor "sales" on my part but things work out one way or another...keep the faith!

On a positive note, the Hot One and I did a TV interview for a live call-in show last night on our local cable station. I'm not sure if it will generate much business but I did have A LOT more hits on my website last night that what I've been getting normally. *crossing my fingers* We both think we pulled off a respectable performance although we'll see how our colleagues react!!
The host said to "make it fun" so we did! Be careful what you wish for, right!?

New lows

I'm so unmotivated with school still. I'm even having boyfriend do part of my assignment for me. As part of a course in Workplace Health and Safety I'm supposed to assess two construction sites for safety hazards, which I did, but I forgot my camera to do the photographs. Soooo, I'm sending boyfriend up to do that. How sad and pathetic!? I do have to work if that's reasonable!

Rain drops keep falling on my head...

Dufus

I'm a moron. I posted my resume on Monster.ca mostly for when I finish my degree next Christmas. I do love my current career but I like to keep my options open.

I get a phone call this afternoon from a company two hours from where I live. They want to set up an interview. I asked them what position it is for and the woman tells me, "junior management, PR, etc." Neat, I do none of that really. I work for myself so I guess I manage, well, me...that's about all...

Maybe it's a sign...

Anyone want to go for a drive tomorrow??

Curse of the bellbottoms

As I sit here waiting for my friend to arrive, I thought of a little story that is both amusing yet sick and a bit disgusting. When I was three my brother and I were outside playing with our cousin one beautiful spring day. It being the spring of 1980 I was sporting some stylish red polyester bellbottoms, I was looking rather adorable!

The day was going rather smoothly when my mother hears a horrific gut wrenching scream coming out of my delicate (ha!) little mouth. I was pounding my leg incessantly like a demon had taken possession of my femur!!! She runs out whips off my pants and there it is...a frog...dead...squished by the hand of a three-year-old.

Coffee love sticks

I bought the best things ever a couple of days ago. They are wafer sticks filled with creamy chocolate that you put in your coffee...mmmmmm...mmmmm! Yummy! I had the girls over for coffee and a giggle this morning, which was fun as I'm usually not the hostess of these gatherings (I'm not good at it is why). CJ's husband (looking all trendy and dashing in his new threads) skipped off and brought us samosas from our local market. Again, yummy!

We planned a bit of our Halloween excursion and costumes, a strong pirate theme seems to be present amongst our group, thank you Captain Jack Sparrow! Boyfriend and I are getting our costumes compiled early this year in spite of our strong tendencies to procrastinate such efforts. I, however, know why I procrastinate the costume buying, I get bored of it by the time Halloween rolls around. I purchased a pirate costume a couple of weeks ago but now I want a new because this one is old now. We'll see. I did buy a Halloween bandana for Vince even though I thought he would look dapper as Princess Leia. Maybe next year!

Dude...

...I love you man...that's some good cat nip!

The before

I meant to post the matching before pictures of the river and trees from this spring. I must confess, I did not take any of these pictures. My cousin's wife took all of them. I can snap a decent pic from time to time though!!!!

Home

I've been waiting for pictures that capture the beauty of our fall colours! Our hardwood trees change colour in the fall and it is such a spectacular sight. Below are some of my favourites from home.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrring!!!!

I FINALLY!!!!! called the phone company about a phone set that I returned to them for repair ONE YEAR AGO!!!! They're sending me a brand new one...yipee!

Sunshine

The weather this past weekend was terrible so it's so nice to see the sun shining out there today. I had a bit of time to walk the dog between work, school, and procrastinating school work. Yesterday we walked to the dog park so we could practice our puppy class homework, which was quite successful. I, however, was the deviant one of the day. I had to pee very badly by the time we arrived at the dog park and given that it is essentially a large doggy toilet, I peed there...on the ground...like the dogs...I didn't cock my leg. I was considerate and did it behind a bench where people wouldn't walk and dogs were unlikely to roam.

I was alone, by the way.

A sign?

After my client this morning I had to go to the university to process my student loan. I was quite relieved that my loan had finally arrived at the university because I had noticed my student online services was no longer accessible to me. Odd. During the paperwork signing the clerk pointed out that I had be withdrawn from all of my courses because of no payment. I had paid a promisary deposit but neglected to sign a promisary note. Whoops! I had to go to the registrar's office after processing my loan to be reinstated as a student in my designated courses. I have to re-register for the winter term on my own.

On the work side of things, my office phone is STILL down. The phone company said someone can be there on Sunday to repair it but I should try unplugging it and then plug it in again because if the technician says the problem didn't require them then I get charged a minimum of $50 for their time. I told her "I will not accept charges of any amount." Morons.

Perhaps I should just quit work and school.

My life isn't all doom and gloom! I was at the grocery store last night with Ms.D. and we laughed...a lot. I think she's misleading me though. She makes me feel funny (haha funny not peculiar funny) because she laughs so whole heartedly at my jokes. I can see me trying a career in comedy but she'd probably be my only fan! Silly girl! All over a smart car!

Jigger

It's Tuesday morning and I'm skipping my first class of an already short school/work week. I was up in time to be ready but my mind is prohibiting me from leaving my little apartment. I am holding out until I have to go to work at 10:30 am.

I had a great Thanksgiving weekend. It was quite quiet, which was exactly the kind of weekend I was aiming to have. I did not accomplish all of the school work organization that I had intended to do but that comes as no surprise given the non existent level of motivation this term. My livingroom is in a better state of repair so not all time was wasted.

I drove out to my parents' place yesterday for supper and it was quite amusing to watch them. They were both quite jovial (not that they're cranky normally) and laughing very hard over their evening out to watch a movie. My dad was laughing to the point of almost giggling like a school girl. It was cute.

I took Vince with me to get another car ride under his belt and we had a puke free journey, both ways! My dad and grandmother both pretend they don't like the dog and they yank their hands up away from him everytime he sniffs them, which is confusing for Vince because that's his sit command. They would do it and he would plunk his bum down and stare at them intently waiting for his reward. Silly kids.

The drive over to my homeland was beautiful as it always is this time of year. I'm waiting to get a good picture and I'll post a summer/fall comparison.

Consumer affairs

Tim Horton's drive through:

Server: *static* ....you?

Boyfriend: Yeah, I'll have a medium coffee with milk and a large peppermint tea.

Server: Ok, that'll be *static*

We drive through and the server awaits payment so boyfriend asks the total. With a look to kill she repeats the total:

Server: $2.60

Boyfriend: Sorry 'bout that, I couldn't really hear the speaker.

Server: I know the rain makes it hard to hear.

Who knew!! Rain interferes with sounds waves to the point of muffling a speaker system in a drive through. I'll be damned.

Squirt

This may be a mean post but it is not ill intended. I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of my nephew. He was born the day before my birthday last year; I was not impressed. I like having my birthday to myself and now I will have to share birthday parties forevermore. At least that's what I've been telling everyone all year long only to turn around and crash the baby's party for my convenience! I had to go camping!

He had a bit of a rough entrance to the world having been yanked out of mummy with forceps. I saw a birth story show one time and they showed the doctor using forceps and I almost died! He leaned back using his entire body weight to tugged this wee little baby out of its warm cozy spot. EEeeeek! And we're all so timid of hurting them! They're tougher than we think.

When he was a month old, I was scared to look at him. Man! He was NOT cute. He was actually quite frightening. I have no problem pointing out a homely child albeit in another room away from his parents who I hope realize now just how scary he was.

At Christmas time he had gained some weight but still look like a poster child for Canada Children's Fund. "Please send money, I'm starving!"

Once you spent time with him he became very cute because he's such an easy baby. He rarely cries and isn't afraid of people and he laughs all of the time. The personality certainly overshadowed his lean body. My mother will tell you she was "very concerned" that he wasn't getting enough nutrition, not for lack of trying. My sister-in-law is an excellent mother but perhaps the quality of milk was off but the doctor was advising her the whole time.

Anyhow, a birthday party later and lots of cake, he came around.

Now

Here's that after...

(check out our cakes...mine's chocolate his wasn't...hahahaha!!!!)

"Owen, is it warm in Australia?"

Ooops

I fell between the seats...

New Addition

Sometimes you meet people that you truly like and sometimes you meet people that you truly like what they SEEM to be about. I met a woman this spring that I truly like, the real her not the circumstances surrounding her.

She was dating boyfriend's friend, who was a bit of a dink, and when they broke up I was so sad I might not see her anymore or at least as often. Although, it was in her best interest to not be dating a self centered moron. She is one of those kind hearted, honest, friendly people that you just enjoy being around.

On Wednesday as I was walking upstairs to my building manager's office (at work) and I see a piece of mail addressed to Vince from this woman's dog! After staring at it for a moment I was certain that it was indeed for Vince and I take it from the mail slot. Ranger had sent him doggie treats to console him after the loss of his balls; a bit of a "join the club" gesture! How cute!

Needless to say C and I emailed back and forth from dog to dog. Vince told Ranger that boyfriend and I like her better than the Weird Little Short Man (aka WLSM). So mature I am!

I am quite excited that Ranger and C will be passing through town this weekend and are planning to stop by for a doggie date! I really hope we keep in touch!

The scary envelope

It's HST time. Actually it was HST (haromized sales tax) time last Friday and I'm just sending it in now. For those of you who are not aware, Atlantic Canadians get to give the government all of their money one way or another. *wow this really reminds of CJ's post the other day* I have to collected and pay the government 15% of all my service sales. Every three months I have to sit down and work out the balance of what I bought and what earned and send the difference to Revenue Canada *said with spooky Halloween voice* So, 15% of everything I earn goes to Rev. Can. for HST and then another 38% (or more, I am uncertain and don't want to know) goes to Rev. Can. for income tax. Therefore, when you calculate everything, I make $4.00/month.


Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to void my bank account.

Ahhhhhhhhhh...

I am SO excited to have a quiet weekend! I really was not looking forward to the possibility of driving to my parents' place twice in three days, and now I don't have to do that. I really was hoping to take this weekend to get my school stuff organized, which I should have done weeks ago but have been neglecting my work. I also need to get my apartment organized and get it to a somewhat sanitary state. But, all of those things I can do on my own schedule and there will be no hangover to slow me down! My motivation level has been nonexistent this term, which is very frightening as the fall term is usually my best one. I can't wait to see what the winter term has in store for me, or me for it (I love my ambiguous pronouns!).

I thought I'd show you a picture of the doggie goulash from last night.
Yummy yummy. He gets one little piece everytime he does something correctly that I ask him to do.

So my middle son, Owen, the grey and white cat, is driving me insane. He has this habit scratching around his food dish when he's through eating. This would be perfectly acceptable if he wasn't digging as though trying to tunnel to Australia. He's so coarse and rough he pulls random objects over the dish and ultimately breaking a dish if a glass one is nearby. He has broken 3 dishes in three days. Yes, I realize it's my fault for putting a glass dish at his disposal. The really annoying part is the food that gets dispersed all throughout my kitchen, which is vacuumed up by the dog who will later barf it back up. It's a vicious cycle.

Gourmet

The day was actually good after all. I thought my client this afternoon might go into labour on my table (I don't just treat pregnant women although they seem to be plentiful among my clientele lately). I expect a phone call in the next day or two announcing the new arrival! I'm still hoping someone will go into all out labour mid-massage.

I popped by the grocery store this evening to pick up the obedience school approved treats for class and practice. I have wieners, I have cheese, I have cheerios all baked to death with garlic powder and mixed together like pooch trail-mix. I shudder to think what I paid for the concauction but he goes ape-shit over the stuff. It's a bit sad to think my mongral dog eats better than I do!

Off to research!!!!

Disgruntled

"Damn, I hate that dog."

Stiff

Oh my! I woke up on my belly with my neck cranked around about 420 degrees or so resulting in a very slow departure from my bed this morning. Ouch!

My first client cancelled because she gave birth on Monday...excuses, excuses.

I have a bunch of school work to do this afternoon and I'm already plotting my mental map of procrastination.

This day could go either really well or really not so well.

We shall see...

Conspiring kids

"You cause a distraction and Max and I will run right out the door..."

Grow some balls man!

He's not a boy not yet a man...and never will be now. My poor little poochy poo was neutered this morning and is slooooooooooooooowly recovering by snoozing lots.

Idiot

What a long day! I have been on the go since 6:45 am and I have just sat down now! I worked out of town today which always makes my back want to fall right off of my body. Lugging my table around, even though it's light, wears on me after a while. *whine whine* I did get to visit my nephew for an hour or so once he and my brother arrived at my parents' house.

I took Vince to his first obedience class tonight. My smart smart dog is an idiot after all. I never considered him to be hyper but apparently I have no standards whatsoever. He pulled and tugged and barked and ignored me. He was even tricky for the instructor to handle. Excuses: 1) he was left alone longer than normal today, 2) he started smoking crack after breakfast, 3) mummy was drunk and threw up setting a bad example. Solutions: 1) Mummy's going to start smoking crack after breakfast too, 2) Mummy may drink and throw up more...

Fall

I found this leaf the other day. It made me sad that the leaves are all falling off of the trees but I do enjoy the fall.

Oh Canada!

The Bay

Boyfriend and I took a drive with Vince today to one our province's parks near the bay. It was a two hour drive during which Vince vomited three times; he's not too good with driving just yet but it is coming along. He was a good navigator today though, check him out!

We had a great afternoon once we washed the seat covers at a local laundromat while we let Vince run loose on the beach. You know, I didn't realize that you could buy a side use box of Tide and two sheets of Bounce. $0.59 a box!

He tuckered himself out and plopped down on a hole he dug in the sand!

We walked along this beach for 45 minutes or so after feeding Vince his replacement breakfast since the original one was shaken out of the soiled blankets. I had to buy him an extra bag of food because a meal of milk bones isn't that healthy!

Look at my boys playing in the sand! I like this shot even though you can't really see either of them clearly!

It's so sad to admit but I sat in the backseat with Vince for half of the drive home. I thought it might help ease his fear of driving. Can you imagine me with real children!?!?! I'll be everything that I mock!

What a great day!

Mamma's Helpers

I must admit being slowed down today worked to my benefit. I got a jump on my HST stuff for work although in doing so I realized the amount of money I have been spending on gas. It was much more than I had thought. It doubled from last year this time...obviously.

I had my little helpers hanging around to help me with my healing process. I think they may have absorbed some of my sleepiness! I don't know how comfy it is to curl up in a milk crate but Owen has taken up residence there all afternoon. Hopefully Vince can bank some of that sleep since we're taking him hiking tomorrow for the afternoon! It will be a celebration of his final few days with "the boys." He's being neutered on Tuesday.

Huh?!

I love CJ, The Hot One, and Matt the Rat! SOOOOOOOO much fun last nigh! Sooooo drunk!!!!! I have to type this with my eyes closed or I get too confused as to where the letters are. Weird, I know....