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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!

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Oh God…

How ironic its Sunday… Heh

So Saturday didn\’t suck as much as I thought it would.  In fact it was actually pretty chill, low key and dare I sat fun?  OMFG I actually said work was a hellish nightmare, fun for a change!  Mostly because it wasn\’t a non-stop ass-rape-a-thon of drama.  Aside from working with F who drives me up the wall.  We have an understanding now, so maybe that\’s a good thing.  There was some stressful moments but no one freaked out and/or pitched a fit.  We had a good crew on last night for the most part.  I have to say that my fellow co-workers/managers/owners are quite the electric bunch.  Maybe I\’m just more calm because I have a plan in place and I don\’t feel like I\’m at total odds?  Really who knows?  I sure as hell don\’t.  What I do know is that I need to make some changes in my life and exercise a little patience because I will get there, eventually.  Today is day 7 of work without a day off, its also Superbowl Sunday ACK!  Darren called me, to see what was up with the other place (nothing so far) and to give me my schedule.  So needless to say as much as I bitch about my job I am pretty damn grateful that I still have one.  They could have said Fuck you Steph, you handed in your notice, your out but they didn\’t <3 Thank you!

Speaking of \”the other place\”…  I chase NO ONE ever!  Had the interview last Thursday, got hired.  Was told that I would be contacted \”sometime next week\” to figure out when I would start training and all that good stuff…  So work called me on Monday wanting to know what the deal was (fair enough) so I called him just to see.  No harm in that right?  Well apparently so, I got blown off ; said he would call me in the middle of the week.  Well it\’s now SUNDAY the middle of the week has come & gone still no word.  So I give up.  I have my pride, I won\’t lower my standards for ANY man for ANY reason.  Don\’t care how good the job is or how cute you are, I DO have standards…  Seriously boys, save the games for your Nintendo, PSP, X-Box whatever your poison.  If your going to play games with me, it better be naked & in my bed or some other random location… 😉

So waiting to start school, and working through reams of paperwork and contacts to get Jason\’s memorial foundation off the ground…  So at least I feel semi-productive.  So. much. work.  Totally worth it though, by & large!  As cheesy and cliche as it sounds I couldn\’t save my friend, but maybe I can help save someone else?  Who knows, if I do; then it will be more then worth it for sure!  Its times like these that I wish I still lived at home or had a roommate or  had a sugar daddy 10 more hours in a day to get this stuff done.  Not quite sure where to start so I\’m going to sit down and figure out a hopefully plausible plan to make this happen.  It has to, there\’s no other way.   Need to make some contacts, check out some avenues and quite simply send in the paperwork and play the waiting game.  Seems like I\’ve been doing that a lot lately!

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Totally pointless…

So I have to work with \”F\” tonight.  Who drives me crazy under normal circumstances, but today is a \”special\” kind of day.  I have PMS, so he might end up dead seriously injured by the end of the night…

So on facebook, everyone\’s doing the whole type your name into urban dictionary and see what pops up.  So I thought why not, might as well kill some time right? Here\’s what it had to say about Stephanie:

  • The sexiest girl in the world
  • Stephanie is very nice and caring towards everyone and she always has a smile on her face no matter what and even though she doesn\’t know it she is very beautiful and smart. (let\’s not kid ourselves here, yeah I do know 😉 lol )
  • A very sexy, sophisticated women. Someone that knows what they want and can get it. Can also mean a sophisticated bitch.
  • Stephanie is, to say the least, an incredible girl. She is an immediate soul mate, before you even have the time to realize it. She is gorgeous, but still stands out from the other pretty girls. She has a sense of humor that never dissapoints or keeps you from laughing. She has this aura about her that no one else could ever have. She carries herself with grace worthy of Grace Kelly herself. Stephanie is loving, unique, and maybe even a bit quirky; but its in a cool addictive way. Once you meet a real Stephanie, don\’t ever let go.
  • the most adorable, retardedly funny, easy and fun to talk to person to walk the earth.
  • A girl who is more addictive than crack and internet porno combined
  • The name of the most beautiful girl in the whole world, who also has the best personality and sense of humor that anyone could imagine. Sometimes referred to as a \”dream girl\”. Perfect marriage material.
  • The most amazing girl you\’ll ever meet. You\’ll fall for her no questions asked. If you find the right Stephanie, never let her go…
  • a cute girl that does not like drama but is usually always around it. she would rather hang out with boys. shes not a girly girl. she belongs with a boy named frank.
  • An amazing and wonderful girl that is truly great! She can steal your heart but trust me, there would be no complaining. \”Freaky\” and totally sexy and she has beautiful bedroom blue eyes.
  • the best friend anyone could ask for, acts weird (not a bad thing), and is always very supportive. She is very pretty and has the coolest eyes ever. its hard not to love a person this great.
  • 1 -A person who is great partner in bed and great fun to be around.

    2 -A very artistically inclined and open minded person whose talents impact the magnitude of her sexual powers

    3 -A person with a cute laugh

    4 -A person who gives great head and know how to take a cock

  • Classic but quirky dark haired beauty. Eyes that see through to your soul from clear across the room. Professional yet fun-loving to the business world while at the same time a twisted sick sense of humor with friends. Hangs better with the boys. Not afraid to worship her inner geek. Artistic, with a deep appreciation of the darker things in life. A lyrical heart open to everyone. Always in touch with her inner child. Twisted little vixen when your alone. If you ever found one and were too stupid to notice, find her again and beg her to let you back in to the circle quick before another guy gets your space.
  • a goddess, artistic, powerful, strong woman, often very tattooed
  • The girl that you fall in love with at first sight. Her amazing green eyes make your soul melt. Her smile leaves you aching. The touch of Stephanie will leave your body with endless goosebumps, pleasurable tingles and enchantment. The lips of this beautiful woman remind you of luscious, juicy fruits that you want to indulge yourself in. Its what she does to you. Oh, its what she does to you.
  • The Girl that every guy wants to have, yet her heart belongs to just ONE..

ha ha, yeah its mostly entirely true.  Except I don\’t have green eyes but c\’est la vie.  I love urban dictionary.  Random laughs are the best!

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And so it goes

God there\’s just SO much to tell and seemingly not enough time to cram it into one blog post but alas I shall try my absolute best just the same!  So let\’s back track to Thursday, the St. Woods party.  What a party that was!  It was an alleged costume party, which I really didn\’t care to partake in per say.  I had planned all along to go as a nudist on strike and a few friends had attire planned.  So Kudos to Mag\’s for making a wonder woman costume out of duct tape!  Seriously it was awesome, in spite of the fact that she didn\’t take her jacket off all night because no one else was dressed up at all.  Poor girl!  Yeah she was pretty pissed about that.   Who can blame her though really?

On a quickie side note, I\’m actually thankful for this whole auto-save thing.  As irritating as it can be, I actually started writing this a few days ago and gave up when fire fox decided to act like a douche bag crash on me continuously throughout the evening.  Oh I also finally hooked up my printer & thank God so far it works.  Oh and my computer has a birthday, November 14th 2009.  Just putting it out there… Yep, I\’m a total nerd 🙂

Anyway back to my drunken debauchery that was last Thursday, not to mention totally EPIC! So was the epic and not  nearly as fun worse hangover I\’ve had in a almost a decade  that I had the next day.  I don\’t drink much as a rule (I know strange when my career is loaded with alcoholics)  and its rare that I get that drunk obnoxiously wasted.  However Drunk Steph is an obnoxious bitch really fun!  At least according to my fellow party goers.   Mostly because I don\’t care have no shame.  It was cold (-30, blustery and snowy) and there I am wearing a tiny sweater & a bitching camisole I got at Christmas.  When I should have been wearing a snowsuit!  For some reason, they took the door off the girls bathroom which wouldn\’t have been an issue had it not been \”single usage\”.  I discovered that boys (by that I mean 17 y/o)  use the lamest excuses to try and talk to my hot friends and myself (but asked Darren\’s opinion to make it seem less obvious), I had some kid following me around all night wanting to look down my shirt at my awesome cleavage admire my killer chest pieces, wearing red sequined horns isn\’t that strange, drinking champagne straight from the bottle is trailer park trashy totally acceptable at Vinyl and I am quite the plumber when I\’m wasted.  Oh and drunk texts, yeah I took the cake with those.  Poor Vince…  This is what I sent him from the bar:\”  Holy rhht i\’m just fuckim loadedg 4vs  Unreal holy rhht i\’m yeah wow I can barely snd let alone uext OMFG WHAT A NIGHT! Th4s place is clearhn nut. feel bad 4 thE GVYS. Opps anxway got hired at that place is sum swanky heakth clab in VSL  duno how i\’ma getin Home oh wej l i\’ll get there somehn kol.\”

I managed to bribe con pay one of our drivers to take me home.  Cos there was no way I was making it home on my own accord (could have grabbed a taxi but with the weather J was easier).  So meanwhile waiting for him to finish work, and having a early morning dinner, R asks me to make a quick delivery to the hotel a few doors down.  I was still pretty drunk but getting tired wanted to sleep kind of drunk at this point.  Of course the hotel is FULL of teenagers from NY going to Mt. Tremblant the next day.  So this kid is arguing with me about the exchange rate, tried to pay me off in Bacardi and meanwhile I\’m thinking I just want your money so I can leave and crawl into my awesome bed.  Didn\’t have the energy to argue and didn\’t want to case a scene either.  So in lieu of a tip, and before he paid me we did oh I dunno at least 10 straight shots.  So there I go, completely loaded ALL over again.  Well not over again but it totally renewed my drunkenness that\’s for damn sure!  So J makes sure I get home in one piece and not wanting to sleep through my shift the next day I set what I thought was my alarm…

Nope I actually changed the time on my clock 2 hours ahead of time.  So thinking that it was 10:30 am when my bladder demanded that I wake up, it was only 8:30am.  WTF SERIOUSLY!?! So I crawled to my fridge for my stash of vitamin water (I\’m pretty sure I was still kinda drunk) borderline hungover to try and ward off the evil effects of what I knew was to come.  Except I drank it way too fast and well my body didn\’t much care for that.  Sleep? Yeah forget about that…  Worst sleep I have had in ages, which sucked!  There\’s nothing worse then a pre-dawn hangover and you can\’t sleep worth a damn.  This is precisely why I don\’t drink that much…  Yeah it was fun and its been a damn long time since I\’ve stepped foot in a bar for a fairly major event as opposed to casual hanging out.  At least I know I can still hold my liquor, but thinking I should space that out just a little more…  One minute I wasn\’t feeling any pain and then the next minute (or at least it felt that way)I was utterly smashed.

So I get a new job, guys at work take it exceptionally well!  They all thanked me for my professionalism in not sneaking out the back door like Cody did.  Its tempting to, I ain\’t going to lie…  However I *am* an adult (at least in a numerical definition) and nothing that they have done to me personally (which is nothing but treat me with respect) I shall respond in kind.  If anything I am fiercely loyal to anyone who matters and I love those guys in my own twisted kind of way.  Even if most of them call me mom which deserves a smack in the face if it wasn\’t so funny!  Because I do sound like their mom on occasion and being that I am not only the oldest, I\’m also the only woman who works in the kitchen.  So D asked me if I was going to still bring them care packages from time to time.  Seems like I\’m the only one (aside from him) who\’s  gone out of their way to make sure things run smoothly.  That and just have what we need on hand.  Like a proper hand soap dispenser. So D in his typical smart-ass fashion says to me \”Hey Steph, you still going to bring us in hand soap and socks and stuff?\”  I just laughed and said not likely.  Although I\’m not officially leaving per say.  I offered to fill in if someone needed a day off/called in sick that sort of thing.  Maybe I\’ll even work a shift.

So today after being seriously annoyed with not having a peeler (we had 3, who knows where they are), then having our silicone pastry brush go MIA, one of the seasoning shakers break and countless other little things that I happen to be super anal retentive about to maintain some proper organization and what have you, I went shopping today.  This is why I love the dollar store: You can buy some sanity for the sum of $18.07 brilliant!  No point in going high end when you know shits going to end up missing/broken regardless of how much you paid for it.  Oh and I bought D some socks, which he thought was hilarious.  So I knew I was going to be a few mins late, told him I was shopping and had the ultimate care package.  He texts me back with \”Ha ha, awesome?!  Thanks Mom!\” lol.  Cheeky bastard, I\’m going to miss that guy…

As for said new job, well I called Chris on Monday.  I had the interview on Thursday and he told me that he would get back to me \”sometime next week\” once he knew what the story was and dealt with some things.  OK fine.  However I left the COC crew in limbo as to when I was leaving exactly and I thought there was nothing wrong with doing a follow up right?  Well he somewhat blew me off with the whole I told you on Friday (actually it was Thursday) that I had to blah blah blah and I\’ll call you in the middle of the week.  Well to me that means Wed.  Although I need to keep in mind that being a Chef myself, your schedule doesn\’t confer with the norm either.  But still…  So no phone call thus far.  Its technically Friday so needless to say I\’m BEYOND annoyed.  I quit my job already 2 people have been hired to replace me  and while G assured me that there was hours to be had, I don\’t want to take away from the new guys either because its not fair.  So once again I\’m looking for a job.  I swear to God this is a vicious cycle.  I\’m also applying for school soon once my new Visa arrives.  Started boxing again, can\’t wait to get in a better frame of mind.  Need to take better care of myself…