Category Archives: Epic FAIL!

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Debunking myths, rumours & other asst\’ stuff…

So last night I stayed up a little later then usual because I was having the most random, although interesting conversation with Mike on the phone.  Which may I add (should he happen to read this) his roommate & I won a \”bet\” about the weather.  Would it snow before or after Halloween, we both said before (has to stick & stay white on the ground according to him) and well sure enough its fucking snowing!  Welcome to your first winter in Mtl Mike, your in a for a treat (Toronto ain\’t go nufin on this place!) 😉

Anyway then as I\’m about to go to bed, I get a text message at 12:07am out of nowhere that said:  \”I need you to tell me more about the HSV  thing its freaking me out\”.  HSV (Herpes simplex virus) should only raise cause for ANY type of alarm IF its

HSV-2 which is genital herpes (that sounds like a ton of fun! relationship killer) whereas

HSV-1 isn\’t so bad because its nothing more then a cold sore *ahem*

So yeah said person (they know who they are and yes they do on occasion read my blog so no need to name names) apparently isn\’t talking to me anymore because of a fucking cold sore I had two months ago.   Except said person needs to grow a pair and actually say so, I don\’t go away that easily…  But yeah OK saying you have herpes is a hell of a lot more damming/cryptic/nasty whatever then saying you have a cold sore but guess what ladies & gentleman chances are that you have the virus too and don\’t even know it! Its as common as a cold and easily spread and more often then not people come in contact with it in their infancy.  However its So flipping minor, well at least hsv-1 is, that there\’s no legitimate reason to get your panties in a knot over it.

So yes while you can in theory get genital herpes from HSV-1 its STILL only the HSV-1 strain, NOT HSV-2 which is FAR more damming then HSV-1.  Its pretty simple, you have a cold sore/fever blister outbreak, keep your lips to yourself!  My Doctor & both my dentists told me that the only way HSV-1 can spread is *IF* you actually have an open cold sore, HSV-2 well again that\’s a whole other story.  I honestly couldn\’t imagine what on earth I would do if I ended up with this (its a tad graphic) all over my genitals *shudder*!  Christ I have a fit if I have razor burn, never mind anything else!

Thankfully, on the rare occasions I actually have a cold sore( I almost never get them, I\’ve only actually ever had 3); I get uber paranoid about bacteria (well I already am, hate germs) but I kick the precautions up an extra 100 notches to make damn sure that the cold sore stays in the microscopic section of my lip and NO WHERE ELSE.    Not only that, I see my obgyn every 6 months and even though my sex life is non exsistant and has been for a while I still get my blood work done every 3 months just because I\’m paranoid cautious, aside from the fact that I have to get regular stuff checked anyway (sugar levels & blah blah blah) because of that incident in the summer of my blood pressure being sky high & what not.   So I figure if your siphoning blood out of me anyway, might as well cover all the bases and thank God I am STD free and I WILL stay that way too!

So I think that\’s just really a total cop out…  This \”incident\” occured 2 months ago and its only creeping you out now?  WTF?  Makes no sense to me, other then the one comment that they made in conjunction with me possibly being dissapointed (with what I STILL have NO idea).  Well I have some semblance of a clue I suppose based solely on an assumption due to a comment they made once a while ago.  I got news for them however, I have ways of finding things out (sneaky stalker ninja Steph) and they\’re NO where near as hideous as they may think they are.  My opinion actually such as it is, not that it matters now anyway couldn\’t be MORE opposite but whatever…  Ah sometimes I DO love the internet 😉

I am also not the only one who thinks this whole situation is ridiculous either( not only that but I expected a little more from them and thought they were smarter then that)…  Whilst gabbing gossiping/venting with a few friends on MSN, this was the \’jist of it:
C i lack words in danish, Spanish, Swedish AND English to describe how low that is lol
D: He wont talk to you because of THAT? wtf?
Steph says:
I know! OHHHH I\”M SO pissed!
C says:you should be..
Steph says: Thanks! Glad someone agrees with me!
C says:that\’s just incredible lame lol i cant believe he ignores you because of some cold sores..
Steph: I\’ve only had one in the past 5 years, likely due to the extreme stress of Jason dying, the time before that was about a month before I moved here and the time before that I was like 11
C says: damn >.<

So that being said, went on another job interview after work today.  Jason the actual manager was off somewhere so I was talking to the sous Chef and that was well \”interesting\” to say the least.  Bottom line for me on that Bistro job? Its an insult to my qualifications/bank account and my all around personal integrity as a whole.  So came home and applied for a few more that I know I\’m not over qualified for (for a change!) and I need to call Dominic as well sometime soon to see about doing a trial run in his kitchen.  It was such a  sketchy interview though!  Not only that, a lot of time has passed between Saturday and today so I have my doubts but ain\’t going to know squat unless you try.  So try I shall…  I\’m running out of time here though.  My rent ain\’t going to wait or anything else for that matter!

On a final note, my lovely friend and I have a long running inside joke about heels & fancy drinks 😉  So while doing a shoot, she was the first person I thought of (with someone else a close second) when I seen this image (well one of them anyway).

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I <3 long weekends!

I also LOVE Akismet!  I highly recommend it to anyone who blogs and gets a ton of spam comments/trackbacks like myself.  Now I don\’t even have to deal with them aside from giving them a cursory glance to make sure that its not a comment from one of my friends.   Same thing with recaptcha software that too has come in pretty handy I have to admit!

So I have Monday off for thanksgiving, which is always nice!  I don\’t bother going home to Cambridge,  Ontario because its really just too damn long (8-12 hours depending on how I get there) and well its quite simply not worth it.  Also the last time my mom asked me if I was coming home and I said no, she said good lol.  Mostly though because I\’m here in Montreal and my sister and her family usually ended up doing whatever with the in-laws.  Maybe this year will be different but in any case  I won\’t be there.  I\’d rather come home at Christmas knowing that I could see my whole family and have more time to visit my friends as well.

Speaking of my friends…  I have to share this random little story.  My good childhood friend Adam used to text me all the time via his work cell phone but then the texting privileges got taken away and then sadly he got laid off.  So anyway he got called back to work and now has a cell phone of his own so he asked for my cell number so he could text me but the messages were never going through to me.  Long story short, he saved my number as 519 area code as opposed to 514 so he was texting someone\’s landline which is hilarious because we call each other fucker and often lol.  I can only imagine what those people were thinking when texts meant for me were going to their home phone ha ha!

On another random side note:  you just can\’t fix stupid also jacked from that thread is this because well, most people should know by now how I feel about stupid people 😉

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Thanks that was fun…

Don\’t forget, no regrets…  I just happened to have that song stuck in my head, and in a way it somewhat applies I guess for the most part in a round-about-sorta-way…  With the exception of \”I thought that you would be begging to be with me. I’m the one on my knees, blubbering,
\”please, let me stay\”.\”  Cos well I don\’t/won\’t do that…  EVER…  Granted I have had people begging to be with me because well I am awesome 😉

Yeah that was totally random in a way but in another way I can\’t entirely divulge what exactly I\’m talking about/referring to mostly because I\’m not 100% certain myself… lol  In a way I\’m putting my foot down in regards to certain things.  In some ways I feel like a dog that chases its tail but in the same token I can\’t get pissed because I\’ve been SO damn sick lately and really, really angry!  I managed once again to get myself into one hell of a really bad situation that\’s bound to be FULL of absolute FAIL…  We\’ll see how it all works out in the end though I guess.  At least I know where I stand with some people and well that\’s better then nothing I suppose right?  Needless to say the way that some people handle certain situations serves as a shining example of things to come!  I just hope that they keep that particular fact in mind…  Someone\’s going to win and someone\’s going to loose and I have a feeling that I already know who that is… One can never truly know until it happens, and maybe I\’ll surprise myself…

*I can only imagine the assumptions that some people are going to arrive at while reading this, in any case don\’t assume that its about you because it very well might not be, but it just very well may be about you, you\’ll never know.*

So anyway time to turn the page and move on to more randomness that\’s my life…
Bathroom is painted and partially decorated.  Of course the previous decor just didn\’t fit in with the current color so that had to be changed.  Now I have to play the waiting game because I ordered 8×10 prints of my own work that I altered in paint-shop pro to \”appear\” as if they\’re already matted and well to just add visual interest as opposed to having the entire image fill it.   They won\’t be ready until Monday which is also thanksgiving day which means that *I* get a PAID day off of work, excellent!  Not sure if the place is actually open or not, but perhaps it is.  I hope so, because its making my OCD go a little insane 😉

I\’ve come to the conclusion that my kitty affectionately known as Mrs. Kitler isn\’t anorexic, I think she just hates her food or maybe she hates her new brother…  She hasn\’t eaten SFA in DAYS and even though she was a total fat ass, she\’s lost a little too much weight and I was starting to get concerned.  I can\’t \”free feed\” her like I was doing because Xavier is a total pig and eats his food and then her\’s too!  So that poses a bit of an issue because I can\’t drag her off into my room or something to ensure that she\’s eating.  I would hate to have to send him back to the shelter but it looks like I may not have a choice in the matter.  After all Heddy got here first and she\’s my baby!

I had a job interview yesterday, went OK I guess.  The executive Chef is super nice and the money is AMAZING!  So that would be exceptional but I\’m never that fortunate so I\’m not getting my hopes up at this time.   Because well that\’s just foolish and all now isn\’t it?

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And i\’m done…

Its official, I HAVE reached my breaking point as of right now!  I mean seriously, I just want to curl up into the fetal position in a padded room and scream!  I\’ve been saying for years now that I need HAVE to not be a Chef anymore…  After today the more I think about it, the more it needs to happen.  My boss has some serious issues with communication, I mean really.  Its one thing to rag on me for something I DIDN\’T do or have the audacity to say to me I told you that earlier when in fact it WAS my co-worker, NOT her in a snotty ass bitchy tone.  That, I can\’t handle that!  There\’s no damn way I can take her, this industry and the reams of BS that come with it!

I\’m pretty sure that I\’m going to unjustly get fired from my job because my boss refuses to acknowledge when she\’s wrong or when she\’s convinced in *her* mind that I didn\’t do something or her new favorite pastime, writing me up for something that she told me ONE time to do and I forgot or it wasn\’t done when SHE wanted it done without taking into consideration what I need to get done in the morning with only ONE hour to get it done.  So yes please pile more work onto my ass because you assume that I don\’t manage my time properly or something…

No I\’m not perfect and contrary to her belief, I AM mature enough, responsible enough to in fact take responsibility for my OWN ACTIONS!  She however can\’t…  Tells ME that *I* don\’t communicate enough but when anyone attempts to, she doesn\’t fucking listen and argues with you to the point that you want to stab yourself in the face due to extreme frustration!  I don\’t give a damn if your the one who signs my cheques, if you don\’t provide me with the necessary tools to do my job I can\’t make it happen!  I am not a mind reader either, I posses numerous gifts but that\’s NOT one of them!

That being said I applied for a bunch of jobs yesterday…  Got a few phone calls back today but there\’s only one that interests me at the moment.  One of them didn\’t even bother to leave me a voicemail, oh well c\’est la vie…  I\’ll see what happens, because I need to get out of this industry right now.