Category Archives: Life as I know it

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So i\’m quite popular…

Had a fabulous day yesterday, aside from that whole e-mail thing!  Went out for lunch and shopping with Miss Jen and then hung out with her and her future hubby for a bit.  I love how its totally acceptable for me to wear my fuzzy pink hello kitty jammie pants & my HK t-shirt so long as I\’m wearing heels to their wedding in May.  I\’m classy like that 😉  Then I went to Jolly Roger\’s where Jeff was being his usual thorn in my side/pain in my ass/makes me want to stab myself in the forehead with a plastic fork charming self.  Gil wasn\’t there but I made an appointment for April anyway, fingers crossed I have money ha ha!  Then I dashed off to see Krystal for a few hours at her place.  Which was nice, it was good to catch up with her.  I miss our morning coffee/gab fests, when we used to work together.  I despise being texted to death though, got my plan back but Jesus Christ if I\’m busy & can\’t get back to you right that second chill the fuck out!  Girl needs her space yo & if you (meaning anyone) ain\’t willing to give it to me, then my ass will runneth far, far away from you.

Murphy\’s law, the minute you get a job, everyone and their mother is on the phone to you asking for interviews.  I\’ll call them back and see what kind of offer is on the table.  I\’m on a temporary 30 day contract with the daycare so we\’ll see what happens.  I know I can swing two jobs with the hours I have there & if they offer more money then where I am currently then we\’ll see what happens.  Don\’t have proper ID for the background check to go through, which is very specific.  Basically they want to see if I have a federal record (which I don\’t) or anything violent, fraud/theft related and most important of all if I\’m a registered sex offender or not.  Which I of course have to pay for ($63.00), also had to shell out $50.00 for an infant/child specific CPR course which I don\’t mind too much because that could come in handy.  Highly unlikely, but you never know.  Its also required by law due to the fact that I am working a facility with children.  Oh and lets not forget my expedited birth certificate.  Which is kind of my own fault.  My last one was \”misplaced\” and  by misplaced I know where it is, but the chances of me getting it are nil.

Stupid thing is, I applied for a replacement months ago but it didn\’t go through and its slipped my mind since then.  So of course now that I need it like yesterday I had to have it expedited.  Its an extra $30.00 but whatever, at least I\’ll have it in 5 business days as opposed to 15 and the sooner I have it, the better.  So I better keep this damn job since its costing me a small fortune to work there.  At least I get to keep my copy of the background search, which could come in handy somewhere later on in life.  The CPR certification is always good to have and so is my birth certificate.  I don\’t mind spending the money because its all useful. I just don\’t have a lot of it to be throwing around these days.  Then again, who does really?  Although I have never had a job that\’s cost me so much money either.  Isn\’t the whole purpose behind working to make money while there?  Anyway…

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Good things come

to those that wait.

Sometimes at least right?  Got rudely awakened  by the phone this morning which normally irritates the hell out of me and I was cranky and tired so I didn\’t answer it.  Turns out it was the daycare calling me with a job offer which I happily accepted!  No more insane schedule!  I\’m pretty sure I\’m not the only one who\’s going to be happy about that.  As much as I love my foray\’s into the wee hours of the morning, I at least have the option of going to bed as opposed to going straight to work.  After all its hardly fair.  Right?  I don\’t expect anyone to cater to me at all, give and take is where its at after all!  In any case this is one situation where I will happily take responsibility for my own actions.  I always do anyway as a rule but some instances are far better then others!

So yeah pretty stoked about that!  Its a little more money and I of course have the option of staying at COC as well, which I will because I need the cash!  Got to pay off my Visa, I want need another tattoo, school and a million other things.  The nice thing about this place is that I work from 7:30-2:30 M-F YAY!  So I\’ll snag a few shifts from the other place and hopefully get caught up and can still maintain some semblance of a life.  Who knew?  We\’ll see what happens, there\’s one thing that concerns me but I\’m not going to let that bother me too much until I have too.  Let\’s just hope that doesn\’t kick me in the ass, which it very well might.  If it does, well its no one\’s fault but my own.  The only downfall to this week is that I\’m working at the day care Thursday & Friday, then I have a photo-shoot that I totally kinda forgot about  Saturday afternoon for a rather interesting art book.  Then working at COC over the weekend which means no days off until the following Saturday.  Ah well, if that\’s what I have to do then so be it.  Going to totally throw off my sleeping pattern but I\’m thinking that\’s not such a bad thing!

So in spite of the slightly irritating things that have occurred as of late, things are pretty damn good where they matter 🙂

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The train wreck saga continues…

OK so no I have no real reason to complain (kinda), I could be in Haiti right now.  Not to be totally ungrateful because you know, for the most part I have it pretty damn good.  At least in some regards…  There is one \”situation\” (for lack of a better term) that I have 0 intentions of complaining about because well its awesome extraordinary ;).  However on the not so awesome side of things…  Work (do I talk about anything else?) yeah got my schedule yesterday and I have a whole two shifts.  TWO!  WTF?  Max is on vacation and aside from Darren *I* have the most seniority hello!  So I have five freaking days off of work, not so awesome when your not expecting them, and when you had four days off the previous week as well.  SCREW YOU READING WEEK!  Hopefully I get a call back from the daycare I applied to on Tuesday.  Yeah me, working a daycare.  That\’s beyond hilarious!  I will however be the executive Chef, in charge of snacks and meals for 80 birth control failures adorable little children.  Don\’t get me wrong, I don\’t hate kids.  I love anyone Else\’s children.  Its also quite similar to the work I did at Concordia so its not like its foreign to me.  Oh and to top it off, I forgot to top up my damn phone and lost the killer plan I had grandfathered in.  Shit!  So yeah no text messages from me today, must call virgin and make sure I get my text pack back. Done!

We shall see what happens though in the meantime.  In any case I can\’t afford this, so I\’m thinking prostitution,perhaps looking for a new job.  Mostly I want to go back to school, badly.  Yeah I know, WTF is wrong with me?  Ask my mom how many schools I got kicked out of (Hi Mom, I love you!) *yes, my mommy reads my blog*. However being an adult changes everything.  Age to me isn\’t relevant.  Age really is just the numerical definition of how many years you\’ve been on this earth, it does not denote how many years you\’ve lived.  Physically I\’m 31, can pass for 24 on a good day but I\’m old on the inside.

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Slightly somber, kinda sexist & then some…

So I bit the bullet and contacted Jason\’s family with my intentions.   Its something I\’ve been meaning to do for a while but I\’ve been hesitant to do so because really who am I to decide when its OK to hone in on someone\’s grief?  I can only hope that the end result is positive as opposed to negative…  I\’m in the process of filling out the monsoon of paperwork that the government requires me to fill out to obtain actual charity status.  Originally I was going to go the not for profit route because it gave me more flexibility in terms of who I could/couldn\’t donate to.  However being recognized as an actual registered charity I will hopefully be taken more seriously and I can also issue tax receipts which generally encourages more people to give.  This is a big deal to me and I will do everything in my power to make it happen.  To get around the French bullshit that the QC government slaps on you for being well anything in QC, I\’m registering it in Ontario.

QC just has SO much red tape, everything has to be filled out in French, needs a French name blah blah blah so fuck em.  That\’s one thing Jason and I had in common, him being in New Mexico had to deal with the whole Spanish thing.  Myself living in Quebec and dealing with the French, well needless to say we had similar gripes.  OK yes QC\’s official language IS French but I am from Ontario so it just feels like the right thing to do.  Not only that, Jason and I are both Anglophones, so QC you can kiss my pasty white derriere and yes in case you were wondering its totally legal as long as its registered in Canada.  I\’m pretty excited about making this happen!  I\’m not saying anything more then that for now, but big plans for the future are most certainly ahead 🙂

Which once again leads me to work…  Don\’t I always talk about work 97% of the time?  Well today is no different, wish it was but alas its not meant to be.  OK this is going to sound racist but it is what it is.  As much as I hate stereotypes, one I can\’t help but think that some cultures do it to themselves.  Like a good friend of mine is fond of saying:\”They had to start somewhere right?\” I totally agree!  I personally don\’t care who you are, where your from, what your skin color is blah blah blah.  That means nothing to me, however it really gets my panties in a knot when people use the whole \”in my country\” shit.  Fuck you, THIS IS CANADA!  Deal with it, or quite simply go back to wherever your country is where that BS is acceptable, it however doesn\’t fly here.

Prime example, when I worked at the university we had tons of international students because of certain laws set forth if you were in fact an international student; you had to work at/for the university.  So this one snotty brat from ******** was asked to do some dishes, he pointedly said to his superior and I quote:\”I will do no such thing, in my country that\’s woman\’s work\” Excuse me?  So yeah needless to say he was terminated.  So today we have a new guy come in from the same country.  He asked me if the chicken needed to be sliced and portioned, I was on my way out and its not my job to train this little bastards so I said sure go ahead.  Then he says to me:\” Get me a container to put this in\”  Excuse me?  Or more like excuse you!  Where are your fucking manners you ignorant prick?  First of all, I\’m higher up on the totem pole then you WILL EVER be, secondly, you DON\’T EVER talk to me like that.  So I made a point of saying:\”They\’re over there, get one YOURSELF\” he did so in a huff and proceeded to glare at me the entire time I was there.  Let me tell you something kid, I wear the pants in that kitchen.

Not only that, D\’s showing him around and says \’M will be in soon so just hang out and see what goes on as I was 10 mins away from leaving.  So he says oh there\’s no need I\’ve been cooking for 4 years now so it\’ll be easy for me.  I just need to know what\’s what and I\’ll be fine.  Four years eh?  Well I got news for you, I\’ve been doing it for SIXTEEN years.  So obnoxious!  So I of course while waiting to meet someone at the Cafe next door went out of my way to be as offensive and obnoxious as possible.  Needless to say Friday is going to be a REAL treat since I\’M the one who\’s working both Friday & Saturday night, therefore I\’M IN CHARGE can\’t wait!