So my long weekend is coming to a close but I have to say I made the most out of this one for certain! I took care of a lot of little things that I have been putting off because well I love to procrastinate a little too much sometimes and I\’ve been so damn sick the last little while that i\’ve had 0 motivation as well.
My bathroom is done YAY! My pictures came in on Saturday so those are framed and ready to go. Trimmed out my living room window with 1/4 molding to finish off my insulation wall because well that looked hideous, hemmed my living room curtains once and for all, and took care of a million little things around here that I kept telling myself needed to get done and just didn\’t do them so that was nice. My bedroom however looks like a bomb went off in it so that I shall take care of today and the last few tasks that I simply didn\’t feel like doing yesterday. Then they\’re done once and for all and hopefully won\’t drive me crazy any longer.
Not the most exciting way to spend a weekend but I\’m finally starting to feel better so no time like the present or so the saying goes… Then I\’ll finally get around to taking pictures of this place too while I\’m at it lol. Xavier si being a pain in the ass lately, he\’s SO bad! Heddy is finally starting to keep him in line though its somewhat amusing to watch the turf war that\’s going on around here! He however has to stop chewing everything he gets his little teeth on! One of these days he\’s going to electrocute himself and I don\’t see that being a site that I care to see!
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 😉
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?
I like plans, I like knowing that I and I alone hold some semblance of control over *my* life and no one else. So after the most epic meltdown that I think I have ever had which Ian bared the burnt of that via a telephone conversation last night after making the mistake of asking me how my day was lol. So my boss is being a twat and I have officially reached my breaking point! I\’ve been talking about going back to school for years now to pursue something else but that takes time and money that I don\’t necessarily have. Especially time! Being in the culinary industry is a total time whore! No its not impossible to maintain a job and go to school, I\’ve done it. However its so un-predictable it makes time management a tad difficult on occasion.
Enter this beautiful thing that technology permits called e-learning! Lasalle college offers a year long program in multimedia techniques which is online and the tuition fees aren\’t outrageously high either so that\’s a plus! I have little interest in some aspects of the program, but meh why not? Won\’t kill me to learn something new which is somewhat in retrospect to what I was after anyway. I\’m also going to be taking a crash course in web design. I have background knowledge in it anyway and seeing as how my code skills could use some work anyway might as well. Jason and I had discussed that prior to his untimely death and well I figure there\’s no better time then the present. I put it off for several reasons, one of them being he was my personal coding genius.
I already have a copy of the entire macromedia dreamweaver suite (which is included with said class) and associated programs but maybe I\’ll actually learn how to actually use it lol. Because their tutorials well they\’re shit… I also lack the patience to sit there and figure it out on my own. nothing like have a grossly over-priced piece of paper to add to my current collection that say YAY I know how to use it! 😉 Originally it was more so for my own personal benefit with Jason\’s & company\’s joint ventures but I figure since he\’s gone now and even though James did agree to come on board (thank God!) it would be to my own personal benefit to actually know 100% how everything works so that I need not rely on anyone/anything else…
So in order to achieve this I have to continue to whore myself out to the industry that I really am growing to despise and don\’t exactly enjoy anymore regardless of where I work I now have a goal in mind and that if anything gives me the motivation to tolerate this a little bit longer (I hope!) knowing that in the end something bigger and better will be there at the end. Again I can hope right? So we\’ll see what happens, in any case my website will benefit from it in the end (I think).
So I have a job interview tomorrow evening for a sous Chef position which is more *my* deal, and well its more stable since its in an upscale retirement home as opposed to a restaurant environment so if anything its consistent as opposed to being in an alternative culinary environment where your hours are dictated by the amount of customers you have in a day. I need more stability in my life when it comes to my finances because well I have a tattoo habit to support. Also decided that since my knee issue has improved sans surgery I\’m going back to the gym. I miss kick boxing, people may say that its violent blah blah blah but really aside from having and I quote \” good old fashioned angry sex to make me feel better\” which is always fun, I need an outlet for the reams of anger I seem to be experiencing lately and well I like it. Not only that my sex life is well not even in exsistance :p
So maybe I\’ll start shopping for hot pink hello kitty boxing gloves ha ha!