Category Archives: Epic FAIL!

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WTF! absolute madness!

Jesus Christ, I swear to God my life is rarely dull!  Last night, I went over to a friends house for her birthday which was fine.  We all decided to go out to the bar, so I opted to go home first so I could change and call a friend of mine to see if they wanted to tag along.  So that\’s all fine and dandy except that my phone died when I got back downtown trying to hunt down Lyndsay to find out which bar she ended up at, so that was a epic FAIL moment.  Couldn\’t use my buddy\’s phone because I don\’t know her phone number offhand, so I feel bad because well that was exceptionally rude, however un-intentional.

Anyway ended up back at my house half wasted already and the friend and I decided to hang out and finish the night off.  Got an epic case of the munchies, decided to order pizza so that\’s fine I order it online and we wait, keep drinking.  So by the time he get\’s there I\’m practically comatose by this point.  This is where the drama begins…

I open the door and I swear to God he looked starstruck! He appeared to be late forties/early fifties and was considerably shorter then I was.
He\’s French, says to me Stephanie? I was like yeah.  Oh are you English or French?  Does your boyfriend live here? How come your alone? (said friend was in my room playing the memory foam on my bed at this time).  I was starting to get REALLY irritated at this point and I said can I pay now? That\’ll be on debit (wondering where in the hell his hand held debit machine is) and he kept asking me all kinds of FAR too personal questions to be small talk. I mean really dropping off anything should take no longer then 2 minutes MAX unless I need to sign/pay extra for something or whatever. Then he tried to one arm hug me, I was like WTF? Dodged that bullet and again handed him my card and proclaimed loudly I would like to pay please. Finally he swipes my card but he got all nervous and starts fumbling around and did something wrong so had to swipe it like 4 times before it was finally processed properly.

I\’m really pissed at this point I just want my bill and for this guy to get the fuck out of my hall. So I asked him for my bill and he\’s standing there stammering and trying to talk in English and can\’t quite get the words out right and I\’m trying REALLY hard to be polite because I know what a pain in the ass last minute orders can be, I used to work there when I lived in Ontario. Then he says to me oh I just live over in NDG were neighbors, I\’m like oh that\’s nice, well thanks have a good night thinking fuck it he can keep the receipt.   I turned away to close the door and the next thing I know I\’m in a headlock and he\’s trying to kiss me and ask me out on a date.  He had his arm around my neck so damn tight I could barely breathe let alone do anything else! Thank God my friend picked that moment to stop playing with my bed and came into my livingroom and grabbed me by the waist and yanked me away from him and yelled loudly get your fucking hands off my girlfriend! Which I am of course not, but it worked at the time.

So finally he left, thank God! My friend was like are you OK and I\’m thinking to myself no, it really bothered me because it was SO INVASIVE!

Had I been stone cold sober I would have knocked the shit out of him! Its on thing to hit on someone or pay them a compliment but that was just WRONG, SO VERY WRONG! That pretty much ruined my night because I honestly felt nauseous after that. That thankfully passed and by this point its almost 2am and I opted to go to bed.  As I\’m walking into my bedroom to get said friend some pillows and what not since I wasn\’t letting him drive & made him sleep on my couch; my intercom goes off!

Its the fucking pizza guy! So friend get\’s up and hits the talk button and says who\’s this? I know *I* wasn\’t expecting anyone and very few people actually know where I live so that was a little disturbing.   I didn\’t quite catch what he said because it was garbled and my friend says she\’s busy fuck off! He still wouldn\’t leave so he goes running outside after the pizza guy who had to smarts to leave pretty damn fast after that.  So I e-mailed them, not that I expect Pizza-Pizza to take me seriously or anything.  In hindsight I wish I would have thought to ask him HIS name and I should have phoned the police which I will do if he ever shows up here again.

This is *MY* home and I will NOT tolerate such things under ANY circumstances! For you to assume that its ANYWHERE NEAR OK TO TOUCH ME is asking for trouble! Everyone has 3 feet of personal space and should be respected at ALL times. Unless your a friend, my tattoo artist or I\’m having sex with you, KEEP YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OF ME! I didn\’t invite him into my home, he was invited into my building and he violated that and I am currently deeply disturbed by this.  I\’m proud of this apartment and what I have done with it and the fact that I made it in spite of the fact that a few people thought that I wouldn\’t.   Now I feel almost as if that personal satisfaction has been tainted in some way and I personally feel just a little violated.

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What a day…

That is coming to a close thank God!  We had some psycho nut job call the bakery today talking shit and uttering threats.  I won\’t get into details but whomever it was that called is seriously off her flipping rocker!  Evidently she has some sort of issue with the p/t employee which is fine but… DON\’T BRING YOUR FUCKING DRAMA TO SOMEONE\’S PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT AND DRAG THE STAFF WHO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR EVIDENT PSYCHOPATHIC ISSUES INTO IT! *end rant*

That just blew me away, of course however in typical fashion we used yet another epic event to poke fun at the situation as a whole.  Now every time one of us calls upstairs/downstairs we all \”impersonate\” a black woman and say: Who dis?  Were actually getting quite good at it as a matter of fact…

I only have a suture or two left and the scabs that were residing under them are GONE HOWRAH!   So I\’m halfway on the road to being FULLY recovered from my surgery!  Still have a little ways to go but in spite of it all, I seem to be doing OK!  I still have a little bit of pain in my upper cheek area and I\’m 99.9% certain that its leftover from my infection and not my actual surgery.   Even that (residual discomfort) however is starting to go away.

I\’m quite excited about this and I know that I am not the only one but I\’ll leave them out of it 😉

So the minor \”lifestyle\” changes I\’ve made are seemingly paying off already which is good.  Still have a few more things that I should need to do in order to make my life easier overall and eventually I\’ll get around to them in due time.  My body hates me enough as it is, no need to over-do it for the time being.

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Back from vacation…

Which was \”interesting\” at best. A lot of good, a ton of bad but overall it was pretty awesome! I hit the ground running as soon as I got into town at 9:30am on Saturday. My mom\’s birthday party started at 3pm and I was going to make her cake so I had a really crazy busy morning but I managed to pull it off, cos I\’m awesome like that! My mom\’s party was great, she loved it. It was nice to see family I hadn\’t seen in a while, along with some old friends and of course get shamelessly wasted lol.

Then… On Sunday evening after I recovered from my hangover lol we went out to the bar for a while and that was OK. Monday I headed over to my sisters house for dinner and I had something stuck in my problem child tooth and it was driving me crazy! So I finally managed to dislodge whatever it was and I still had that \”pulse\” you get with nerve pain but I brushed it off and asked my sister for some Advil. After getting to my mom\’s place it was still persisting and I took more painkillers and finally managed to get to sleep that night because we had plans to go to the movies on Tuesday because mom and I wanted to go see Ice Age 3 in 3D. So when I woke up Tuesday morning I was a little swollen and sore but again I blew it off. We went to see the movie which was awesome in case you wondering 🙂 I\’d never seen a 3D movie before and it was a lot of fun. After the movie was over, my mom noticed my face had started to balloon out and I headed over to the clinic that was thankfully across the street.

Turns out I have a bacterial infection in the soft tissue(s) in my mouth because that bitch dentist took TOO much of my tooth away leaving my mouth open to exposure to bacteria and deadly infections. So after shelling out $32.00 to see the Doctor since I was in another province and don\’t have Ontario coverage anymore (I will get reimbursed from the RAMQ) and then headed over to the pharmacy to get my prescription filled. I was put on a very aggressive round of antibiotics and painkillers. The antibiotics are only meant to be taken once a day but I have to take them 3 times a day because it was that bad. I was given percocets w/acetaminophen for the pain/swelling which didn\’t really do anything for me. I shouldn\’t be taking prescription narcotics but the pain was SO EPIC that I had no choice. Thankfully after Tuesday night/Wed morning I was OK with Advil save for one time during my tattoo appointment.
Tuesday afternoon:

This was the HORROR I woke up to on Wed morning. (see gallery for the awesome pictures)

I\’m not a vain person but I cried when I looked at myself in the mirror. I have never ever in my left ever looked or felt SO hideous! I didn\’t want to even leave the house but alas I had a tattoo appointment that afternoon and when I left the house I was wearing big sunglasses and a hoodie to hide my face best as I could. Tim was appalled when I walked in there. He says to me \”what the fuck happened to you!?\” so I told him that I did have an infection to which he said he wasn\’t touching me until I told him I was on meds for it to which he relented thank God. So that kind of ruined my tattoo appointment because I felt like utter crap, looked like a freak and wasn\’t feeling well because of the antibiotics but I tell you the painkillers really helped during my tattoo appointment especially since I had part of the underside of my arm tattooed. So needless to say that didn\’t suck too bad lol.

I didn\’t do much for the rest of my vacation except hang out with my best friend who doesn\’t make me feel self conscious and thankfully the antibiotics had started to kick in so the swelling was getting better by that point and I was able to eat and talk better after that. Then Dustin came home from camp in Kentucky and I went to my nieces soccer game and Friday morning we left to come back to Montreal.
Friday we relaxed and didn\’t do much because everyone was hot & tired. Saturday we headed off to St. Denis street and much to my surprise just for laughs was on and that was a lot of fun! We couldn\’t go to see any shows because we couldn\’t afford them for one thing and Dustin was with us and he\’s not 18 yet.

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Then on Sunday we headed off to Pointe-à-Callière, the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History which I have been to before but Dustin & mom really seemed to enjoy it. Aside from that we didn\’t do much, we mostly wanted to relax & veg out. It was too hot and muggy to do everything we wanted to do but it was still fun just the same!

So I got one of 5 ultrasounds booked, of course the most urgent one isn\’t being booked until the middle of 2010 which is INSANE! I talked to one technician today and he was really nice and managed to get me an appointment for Sept as opposed to November which rocked and then I had to call the vascular clinic for the other ultrasounds I needed and she too was super nice and really helpful and felt really bad that she\’s so booked but told me to send in my requisition just the same and she told me she would do her best to see when she could squeeze me in.
I\’m also sending it to other hospitals in hopes that I can get in sooner as opposed to later. She was pretty pissed that my doctor left it up to me to make these appointments when they should be doing it themselves. That might had been more helpful since the Doctor obviously has more pull and could *maybe* get me in sooner but c\’est la vie! I called the clinic today to see when I could come in and see the results of my blood tests and that\’s not until August 3rd so that kind of sucks…
I have to find a new dentist ASAP so I can get my problem child tooth pulled out right away so that I don\’t get re-infected like it just did. Thankfully I was accepted into McGill\’s teaching clinic and while it takes MUCH longer to get treatment (up to 3hrs for a filling) the considerably HUGE price difference makes it a million times worth it. My jaw dropped numerous times when I was being told how little it costs and just how much some dentists are charging for dental care! So once your in, your in which rocks! I need a lot of dental work, which sucks. I need to have one of my front teeth pulled which DOESN\’T make me happy AT ALL! But thank God for dental implants! I need to get a partial for the teeth I recently had pulled because even though McGill is considerably more affordable its still going to cost me about a thousand dollars for the implant because you need to get a crown first and then the implant after that. So I\’m looking at about 2 years before I\’m all caught up so I\’m going to seek out care at a private clinic that I\’ve been eying up in conjunction with McGill simply because this private clinic isn\’t that costly and it will save time because having to take that much time off of work won\’t make much of a difference if I\’m not getting my hours in to pay for said dental bills. Thank God I have a visa! I\’m also filing a complaint with the CDA because what she did to me was WRONG!

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so…

I\’ve had this gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach for a few days now.  It would come & go & at first I thought it was just because my nephew was going to be in Kentucky & going on his first plane trip…  It would come & go and for the most part I ignored it because I refused to let myself get stressed out over what could possibly be nothing.  That is until I came home from work…  You see I rarely get calls on my home phone, and if I do its generally from the family or the bank calling.  I had a voicemail from the clinic I\’ve been going to asking me to call them back.  Well that bad feeling came back with a vengeance and of course they don\’t give you results over the phone…

So I phoned the clinic regardless and was told that Dr. Levy wanted to see me to discuss the results of my blood tests with me and he\’ll be there until 8pm tonight  which doesn\’t work for me because I\’m leaving for Ontario tonight and still have a thousand things to do before I leave & Monday is not an option because I won\’t even be IN Quebec until sometime next week.  So I have NO idea what those tests turned up because there was quite a few aside from the standard ones (sugar, cholesterol, calcium blah blah blah) because all the \”extra\” diagnostics tests are acronyms that mean nothing to my non medical trained self…

One thing I do know, is that I am scared half to death. Part of me wants to go and run to the clinic NOW to see what\’s up but I don\’t have the time & if its really bad then I am content to have my head up my ass until my vacation is over. I know that\’s bad, but I\’ve been waiting for this for SO long and its my mom\’s birthday party on Saturday(happy 50th birthday mom!) and I want to at least attempt to enjoy myself while I\’m there in spite of the fact that there\’s obviously something quite wrong with me and that will hang over me like a dark cloud…

At least I know the cat & my apt will be OK (I would hope) thanks to John. He\’s so sweet 🙂