March 2007 Archives

I may have gone on a little Etsy spending spree today. I just eBayed some My Little Ponies, so I've got some good cash rolling in, and I haven't shopped for myself in forever, so I went shopping while I'm sitting here at work. ^_^ I bought a bunch of crafty supplies, as well as a few little things I had my eye on, like a tattoo pendant and cutesy skull bobbypins. I love to recieve packages in the mail! I can't wait!

Speaking of packages in the mail, I also haven't done a swap in forever. I'm a member of 2 different swap groups on Flickr, and I haven't done a swap since...October? I stopped with Christmas coming up, and just never started up again. I guess I just haven't had time. But now that I start work 2 hours later in the day Tuesday thru Friday, I feel like I can get more done in the day. Like today, I got all my ebay packaging, weighing, and shipping quotes done, not to mention walking to the mailbox to drop a few paid-for parcels in. AND, I went to the gym, and added a whole load of sets to my regular workout. BAM!

That reminds me, I must talk about the gym again. I was feeling frustrated because I've only lost like 10 pounds in 2 months. It was rather depressing, especially when Rob's lost like 50 pounds or something ridiculous like that (bugger). But, now I'm noticing that I really am losing weight, and I'm building muscle, so that's why I'm not seeing the scales lower too much, because I'm getting buff (and muscle weighs more than fat). I must say, I'm pretty amused with how buff I'm getting. While you can't see my 6-pack abs yet, you can feel them under the little bit of fat that's still there. Rock hard abs baby. And, I'm getting a bum! I've lost enough fat off my thighs that I now have a bit of a round bum again! My boycut underwear is starting to look oh so much better on me bum. Wow do I sound vain? I suppose I might. You've gotta understand though, I've been carring around some extra weight for a few years now, and I'm just tired of it. I'm proud of myself for being diligent about going to the gym. I'm proud because I'm a firm believer that fad diets are crap, and usually unhealthy, and the only way to really lose weight and be healty is to eat right, and to exercise your ass off. Which, I must mention again, I am literally doing. ;)

There was an article in today's paper about a lady in Ottawa who got sick from the tained dog food that's currently in the media. The food, over 90 brands, contained rat poison, and was recently subject to a North American-wide recall. According to the article, the lady had eaten the dog food when her dog stopped eating it, to "try to get him think it was people food so he would eat it." I'm sorry, but if a dog (a species who licks it's own rear end and will eat anything that smells remotely edible) won't eat something, like hell I'll be eating it. And even if he would eat it, it's DOG FOOD. I am very picky when it comes to steak, as it is my favorite food and must be a good cut, and properly cooked, but, even if I wasn't a steak snot, say, if I was someone who enjoyed SPAM, I still wouldn't be tempted to try Fido's lunch.

I'm a firm believer of survival of the fittest. Carry on.

I don't know about these Mondays. Having to be at work at 10:45 am is just torture. ;P I mean, ok I suppose I can get up, eat breakfast, shower and get to work for 10:45, just like I did this morning, but what about the gym? I'd have to get up at like...8, 8:30 to get to the gym and get back home in time to get ready for work. I don't think I can do it. I love my sleep too much. Rob and I both love hitting that snooze button. I've really gotten used to sleeping a little later than I should. Shame on me. Maybe I'll just have to stop going to the gym om Mondays, and go every Saturday instead or something. Rob suggested too that we go when I get off of work tonight, but meh, I don't want to work out that late. I'll be all wound up and not be able to go to bed and go to sleep.

I've always been supportive of animal shelters (non-kill shelters), and animal rescues. A few of us were talking about animals at work today, and I got to looking online for rescues in my area. I was really surprised about how many I found listed just on one page. The Maritime Animal Rescue has dozens animal shelters here in East Coast Canada. If you're thinking of making a furry addition to your family soon, check them out.

My pc is being a biatch this week, so Rob was such a sweetie to let me use his laptop. I mean, I can use it whenever, but now it's "mine" until he fixes his pc. Meaning, it's parked on my craft table, or sometimes I tote it to the bedroom. He's the best Bert ever. ^_^ I've got Rob on the brain today. I miss him terribly. :(

Menu Foods, a company that produces dozens of major brands of dog and cat foods, is currently issuing a huge North American (Canada, US, and Mexico) recall of some of it's pet foods. Affected are meat cuts in gravy type foods, for both dogs and cats, in cans and pouches. A full list of products can be found here: http://menufoods.com/recall/, or you can also call 1-866-895-2708. There's 48 brands of dog food affected, and 40 brands of cat food. Make sure to carefully check the list, there's a lot of brands on there, even "no name" local brands like Compliments from Sobeys and President's Choice from Loblaws. At least 10 animals have died so far, and many more have gotten very sick and suffered from kidney failure.

Thank god we haven't fed our babies anything off of the list.

May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!

(stolen from an email at work) ^_^

I feel bleh today. I don't think it's because I was vominted on either. As much as I hate vomit, baby hurl is ok. Mom babysits the twins (1 1/2 yrs old), and their big sister (4), on Thursdays, and they just happened to come over today too. I love it. Nothing better than waking up to giggling twins. ^_^ And when I came out of the bedroom this morning, they both got all excited when they saw me. hehehe

No, I just feel bleh. I feel kind of hurly myself. I skipped the gym today because of it, although Rob insisted I'd feel better if we went, but I wasn't convinced. I'm not sure if I'm going to stay the whole day here at work or not. BLEH Oh well, it's almost the weekend. YIP.

Friday I started with this flu that's been going around work. All weekend, I had a crazy fever, and was just drained. All I did was sleep. Sunday my fever broke, and since then I have been feeling a lot better, just a few sniffles yesterday, and I still feel a bit foggy. For the weekend though, it was horrible. I've never felt like that before. I was just burning up, and was all delerious. It sucked. I'm glad it only lasted the weekend, because if it had lasted any longer than that, I don't know if I could have survived. Or, if Rob could have survived. I think I drove him nuts. All night long, I would kick the blankets off, he'd haul them all back up, and I'd put the boots to them again. Poor bugger froze to death, and nevermind that I got up half a dozen times during the night to pee.hehe

Someone at work approached me about trading shifts, since she needed Fridays off. I traded, and my new shift is Mon 10:45-8:45, Tues-Fri 4-11:30, with weekends off. It's not far off from what I had before, with the exception of the 10 hour shift on Monday, and with weekends off. Yay for weekends off! ^_^

Got my new shift yesterday, I was pleased. Well, it could have been Sat & Sun off, but it's still ok. I picked Sun-Thurs 4-12. I have 2-10 now, and I could have had it again, but I'd rather have 4-12. I like to have my mornings to do stuff, and this way I can eat an early supper before I go to work, and I'm up til 1-2 am anyways, so I like the shift. AND, I can now go to Centergy on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays if I feel like it. Now I only go on Tuesdays and Thursdays, because centergy is early enough that I can still go home and get ready to go to work, but MWF it's later in the day, and it doesn't give me enough time to get ready and get to work on time. I think it will work out better for me.

I love my DS. I've got it here at work quite regularly. Rob had bought himself a black ds last fall, and I jsut play it A LOT more than he does. He's only played it a few times in the past few months. I had tried to get him to buy a pink one, but he wanted the black one. So, when Bucky went to buy himself one a few weeks ago, he bought the pink one, and traded me for the black one. Rob and him cooked up the scheme, and they made the switch when they came to pick me up at work one evening. I get in the van, and Buck asks to see the DS (I'd had it with me at work), so I hand it to him. He plays around for a bit, then gives it back to me. I jsut stuff it in my purse (it was in its case). So, we get home, and he asks to see it again. And again, I just take the case out of my purse and hand it to him, then I walk away. Finally, they managed to get ME to open the case, and there was a shiny new baby pink DS. EEK! I so love it. :) I'm thinking about blinging it up with some rhinestones or something... The next game on my want list is Diddy Kong Racing. It looks awesome. I already have (and love) MarioKart, but someone erased all teh game stats. I had worked so hard to unlock a lot of new characters, cars, and laps. It all got erased a few weeks ago, and I jsut haven't brought myself to do it all over again. I also love FF3, but after 40 something hours in, I'm out of the mood to play that for a bit. :) For now, at work, I play sudoku, as it's easy to just put down, no having to pause or save or anything.

I could really handle a 3 days off - 4 days on with 10 hour shifts. That's my ideal shift, for sure. 3 days off a week would be sweet, and what's another 2 hours a day really? Someday maybe. For now, for our shift bid coming up next week, I'm surprised that I'm not as close to the botton of the pecking order as I thought I would be. I may not have to work til 2 am afterall. I'm thinking that I'd actually not mind working 6-2 though; I'm up til at least 2am anyways every night. And I'd have all day, til 6pm to do stuff at home. Weekends off are more important to me then the shift hours. Hopefully I'll be able to hang on to my weekends! *crosses fingers*

We had a pretty quiet weekend. Friday Bucky came over, we did the usual, hang out, play some video games, watch a movie, eat some Zio's pizza. Saturday we went bowling with Dad, Sandra, Bucky, and Sabrina. I hadn't been bowling for years. It was fun, but I sucked out pretty bad. Well, I suppose I did alright after I practiced a little bit; not fantastic, but alright. ^_^ Then last night, Nick came over. He's been coming over every couple of weekends. He likes doign crafty things, and soemtimes we go for a walk to McDonald's, and he loves that. He's so cute, and he's always saying things that crack me right up.

I just scored 100% on my quality! YAY! K, let me explain. Here at work, we're monitored for quality of calls. And, my quality has been my worst stat so far. It seems I always forget one or 2 little details in a call. Tonight I seem to be on FIRE! I so just got my first 100%. I'm so proud of me. I've always taken pride in my customer service, wether it's working a retail job, or in my own businesses, and so it was really bugging me that I couldn't seem to get my quality here up to par. It feels so great to hit 100%! Especially since I've been having crazy calls today. (full moon, remember?). I think I deserve a big hug when I get home. *hint*hint* ;)

Wanna give a big shout out to my Mom, because today is her birthday. I was so mean to her too. heh. Rob and I went out to get her a cake and some Deluxe fish & chips, since that's her fave fast food. Then we come home, I sit at the table, open the bag fof fish & chips, and start eating. She didn't take long to say "What?!?! Why didn't you pick me up something too??" I said that I didn't have time, I had to cram the food in and get to work. I couldn't keep it up long though, poor thing. So, while she was eating her F&C, Rob get her cake out and put some candles in it, and I brought her over her african violets, and found the cutesy little sewing basket we had bought a couple of months ago and put away. She loved it all. Her cake is HUGE. I feel bad for not making her a cake, but I honestly didn't have time to decorate a cake this week. It would have had to have happened yesterday, and we had Susanne's 3 little ladies over yesterday morning, so I had no time there to make a cake. ^_^ Too much cuteness going on, I wouldn't have been able to concentrate. I think Mom liked the cake we bought though; we were going to buy her one of those little birthday cakes at Sobey's, because if we bought a big cake, we'd have to help eat it. But, when we got to Sobey's, they had no little cakes (ack!). But, they did have a quarter of a chocolate lovers cake. It was like 3 layers high, and the cut sides had also been frosted, and had little crunchy cookie bits as a coating. Man, it looked SO choclatey. She couldn't believe it when we said we weren't going to help her eat it. ahaha, she's probably got it all gone now. hehhe

Heh, well, when my site was hosted at the last place it was hosted, I couldn't even view it here at work, let alone post to it. Now that it's moved, I can not only view it, I can now post too. Suh-weet. Expect a lot more posts from here on out. ^_^ I can't believe I actually remembered the url to post. Yay me!

So yep. I'm at work, and I'm currently on lunch break. Today we were given smoothies (freshly made with fruit and yogurt), and caramels. They're so good with feeding us here. Thankfully the bad stuff is in small quantites though. I had 3 caramels. Sure, they were probably like 500 calories, but hey, I need a treat every once in awhile.

I'm actually not sure how much posting I'll get done, as there's not much time in between calls today. With the snow through the US and Canada, we're pretty busy. I like it that way though, because time just flies by. The thing I don't like is it's a full moon either tonight or soon, because that's when all the crazies are out. I know, it makes me sound all superstitous, but I swear to God, around the full moon, it's just retarded. Not even funny.

Really creepy, but still kind of neat, check out this eye chair that Craftster member Meats_no_treat. I like the idea, but I definitely wouldn't want it in my bedroom at night watching me sleep. ^_^