Category Archives: Love! <3

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TATTOO MANIA!

Oh before I get on with the whole tattoo thing…

In case anyone wants to purchase my book, I advise you to wait 🙂  I\’m trying to get in touch with a publishing company based out of North Bay, ON and they\’re FAR more reasonable then blurb is.  I like blurb, it gave me total creative control, but when I got my book I was a little dissapointed in the total overall execution of it all.  So I\’ll keep you all posted when I get that all worked out my dear friends and foundation supporters!

Anyway, here\’s a quick pictorial of my slightly scabby tattoos.  I\’ve been waiting for decent weather to get outdoor shots because my camera is a piece of crap from being dropped too many times and just not so new anymore.  I\’m curious to see what everyone\’s thoughts on them are before I go and explain them all 🙂

I would now, but the family is leaving tomorrow (Thank you God!) I love them, but I really, really want MY space back all to myself you know?  I live in a small-ish one bedroom apt so space is at a premium and I would give my left leg & arm to have a guest room when company is here!

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It\’s been a year… But I\’m going to be OK.

Yesterday marked the end of a very trying year for me…

September 3rd made it a year since I lost one of my best friends.

After the way things went down before his birthday I was a little concerned.  Mostly for my own well being, never mind anyone elses…  Except for his mom, because God knows I couldn\’t bear to deal with what she went through.
And no, I could care less how selfish that sounds.  Because it IS selfish but sometimes you just need to be.  Right?
I think so.

I\’ve had a lot of insanity in my life as of late.  Things have been pretty damn good for the most part.  Except for one thing really.

I miss him…

I miss Jason too, sadly however no amount of missing him of loving him as much as I do can bring him back right?

So I did what any friend would do in times of grief.

I honed in on my sisters tattoo appointment.

Ah yes the family has landed from Ontario and as much as I do love them, it\’s been a tad trying at best.  My sister wanted the ultimate souvenir that she could keep forever and ever.  So I gave her Gil\’s phone number and told her to make an appointment, which she did for September 3rd 2010.  Jason\’s one year anniversary.  So I told her that I was coming with, because I decided at the last minute that I needed to get tattooed that day.

So I did.

I\’m not going to get into the details of it just now, because well it\’s not even a full 24 hours old yet and I don\’t have a decent picture of them all.  Yes ALL as in more then one.

I got five.

Because sometimes one, just isn\’t enough.  They\’re not very large, cater to Jason and I\’s nerdy side but the significance of each one has more impact then a fleet of mac trucks.  4 of them are symbolic of certain things and one, the one I favor the most out of them all represents a turning point in my life.

I learned how to live again.

And you know what?

It feels pretty damn good!

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So I wrote a book…

It\’s FINALLY DONE!

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You can get FREE shipping until August 31st!

here\’s the low down on this book deal:
It\’s printed on demand, I don\’t physically have any copies in my possession at the moment. So in order to buy/have one you do need to order it online through blurb who offers self publishing.
Until August 31st they have free flat rate shipping.

\”Choose Ground or Economy shipping, type in the appropriate promo code below at checkout, click apply, and you’re set:

USD $ coupon code: SHIPPINGFREE
GPB £ coupon code: SHIPPINGFREE1
EUR € coupon code: SHIPPINGFREE2
AUD $ coupon code: SHIPPINGFREE3
CAD $ coupon code: SHIPPINGFREE4

*Free flat-rate shipping offer valid through August 31, 2010 (11:59 pm PDT). Offer covers Ground/Economy shipping costs up to US $6.99, GBP £3.99, EUR €5.99, CAD $7.99, or AUD $9.99 for books in one order, shipped to one address. This offer is good for one-time use and cannot be combined with other promotional codes or used for adjustments on previous orders. This offer can be combined with volume order discounts.

How to Redeem These Special Offers
To take advantage of this special offer, enter the promotion code on the payment options screen at checkout.\”

I got screwed out of this one last night when I ordered my copy, because I didn\’t notice it until after I paid (of course >.<) because God Forbid they just add it automatically…

If you non Montreal-er\’s want it signed, feel free to ship it to me (my work actually) and I\’ll sign it and mail it back to you 🙂

Of course you can purchase it here

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<3

I love my job, LOVE it!  You know when you start working somewhere and it\’s all pretty awesome from the start and then it slowly declines?  As you can plainly see from some of my previous blog posts, my career has had some serious WTF are you kidding me, someone please hand me a knife so I can stab myself in the eye moments!

Except life at the daycare, a place that I had never ever set foot in, let alone ventured in career wise until March of this year.  I got really, really lucky with this place for a number of reasons.  OK no I\’m not rolling in the money and I am well aware that I could make plenty more somewhere else.  However getting up in the morning and not wanting to gouge your eye out with a plastic spoon is beyond priceless.

When I was younger I wanted children, then I got older and changed my mind.  It wasn\’t so much that I despised the little\’s per say, although some of them are so epically bratty that I wish I carried around duct tape with me so that I could just stick them a wall or a moving bus.  Best. Birth. Control. Ever.  I just found that I had no patience for them.  Even my niece and nephew whom I love more then life itself had on occasion tested my limits and killed all those baby wanting urges I had.  Those little\’s are a lot of freaking work.  This became even more obvious to me when I started taking care of 80 of them.

Yes eighty.  80 little\’s under the age of 5.

I love every single one of them!  I kind of feel like Michelle on 10, 15, what is she on 30 kids and counting now?  Mind you, I didn\’t give birth to any single one of them.

Thank God…

Everyday I go into work I feel like a rock star.  I swear it\’s because I feed them 3 times a day that I\’m so popular.  That\’s OK though because there\’s nothing better then coming into work every single day and hearing 65 of them chanting your name (the littlest little\’s in the nursery can\’t fully talk yet) and getting tons and tons of sticky hugs and kisses, not to mention an insurmountable amount of love from each child that I encounter each and every single day.  Work lifts my spirits when i\’m having a really shitty day.

Especially when I\’m really missing him, like I am now.

There really is nothing better then getting a hug 600x\’s a day from the one\’s you just can\’t help but love.  OK I\’ll admit some I love more then others, like my little Elliot.  OMGWTFBBQ I am IN LOVE with this child!

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