December 2009

31 Days of Giving Update!

15 December 2009 By crazymrsnancy 4

Dec 1 - Sent all my Christmas cards, including a special Thank You for all that you do message inside a Christmas card for a coworker at head office.
Dec 2 - Took a 2 hour lunch with Sophie to help her dress shop and give fashion advice.
Dec 3 - Gave a donation to Simon (Rebecca's Dog) for his surgery.
Dec 4 - Gave 4 Lindt d'or Chocolates to my coworker Sonia.
Dec 5 - Gave Loki & Chanel a special treat - Ham & Sausage.
Dec 6 - Gave a friend break-up advice.
Dec 7 - Gave a compliment to a fabulous friend.
Dec 8 - Gave a turkey to Sue Stultz Turkey Drive for those in need. (www.suestultz.ca)
Dec 9 - Bought and donated ornaments for our office Xmas tree.
Dec 10 - Gave chocolates to my coworker Matt, for his little girls.
Dec 11 - Donated a big bag of clothes to the Canadian Diabetes Association
Dec 12 - Gave myself permission to spend an entire day Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Dec 13 - Gave the bathroom the scrubbing of its life, without expecting DH to perform a chore of equal or greater value. A chore freebie. The chore I despise the most. 
Dec 14 - Small donation to the New Brunswick Food Bank Association.
 

Halfway there! I have decided that I will definitely give more and/or perform Random Acts of Kindless a lot more in 2010. I just won't impose a schedule on that because it's not so Random if it's planned daily hehe. I will most definitely redo the 31 Days of Giving next December and hope to make this a tradition. It helps put me in the Holidays Spirit and hopefully does the same thing for the recipients of my Random Acts :) 

Three strikes you're out!

08 December 2009 By crazymrsnancy 3

Did I ever bog about finally making it into the 'qualified pool of participants' for the Federal Government? After 2 years of testing and interviews, I finally made it. Then I learned that the pool is only valid for 1 year. What?! Not fair! It took me 2 years to get in! And THEN I learned that if you decline 3 job interview invitations, you're out of the pool.

First strike.

They called Friday to invite me to interview for a job position to replace someone on sick leave for 2 months. 2 months!? If this were closer to the end of my contract (End of June) I could consider this more and perhaps take a leap of faith.. but I just can't be jobless in February! Then what? It's hard enough as it is to find a job... It sucks to have my first strike, but I just can't imagine taking that big a risk! Oh well. It wasn't meant to be this time. But I hope that my other 2 invitations won't be for only 2 months also!

It's a beautiful sunny day! This is me ignoring the white shit on the ground. Seriously? Mother nature had to give us this kind of snow for our first snow? You know the kind that freezes into ice, the sidewalks are a mess, my street is a skating rink. This is the only reason I hate snow - It's too slippery!!

It's my coworker Sonia's birthday today! I don't know what I'm going to do when/if she ever decides to move on to greener pastures, I love love love her! 

My parents are coming to town today with my Christmas gift! It's so unusual for mom to allow us to have our Christmas gift before the morning of the 25th, but this year she called and asked : Do you want winter tires for Christmas? Um, Yes!! But 1 - They would take too much room under the tree and 2 - It's kind of best to put them on now.

My parents almost came on Sunday, but we had a snowstorm. We were planning on watching movies in the living room. For once, we were going to actually relax together. I love my parents to death but every single time they come to town it's either running all over town with them to do errands, or waiting at home all day while they run around town doing errands, hoping to see them for five minutes. We almost never just RELAX together. Even when they're in town for an occasion, we still have to run around for all the ingredients and/or gifts, preparing meals etc. For Christmas, I'd like a coupon book full of "This entitles you to spend a day with your parents just hanging out." 

Just Sayin'

05 December 2009 By crazymrsnancy 6

I confess.. I just kind of realized something while reading about a boardie becoming an aunt.

- We have infertility problems

- My little brother is back with his gf and her children are grown teenagers and she can't have babies anymore. (And met those kids when they were already teenagers..)

- My three best friends :
....1. Is vehemently Child free by choice
....2. Has 3 sisters
....3. Has 2 children but is very very religious therefore, obviously she needed to pick someone who's actually religious..
- Steph's brother and his wife's kids were born before we were married, and Steph wasn't chosen as godfather either anyway.
I'll NEVER be a freakin' godmother!! Not to toot my own horn too much, but I would make SUCH A kickass godmother.

- I'm really not close to any other people that have children or that are planning too.

I confess that I'm wondering why the universe is keeping its children away from me? Would I be such a horrible mentor or something?

Sorry for the downer post.. I swear, I'm not down. I was just wondering...

31 Days of Giving!

04 December 2009 By crazymrsnancy 2

I read this idea on Mrs. Lukie's blog : 

Ready to hear it? Your challege, should you choose to accept it...

    ...is to give something, to someone, every day of the month, and then blog about it (at your leisure!) The goal is to act with kindness, generosity, hospitality and love. This does not require money or even having to leave the comfort of your home (though it would be AWESOME if you do!) You can volunteer or donate your time/old clothes/extra food/etc. You can pay someone a compliment on their smile or their sweater. Send an encouraging email to someone who may need it. A text message to someone, just to let them know you're thinking about them. Just do something ...anything!... out of the kindess of your heart for another person. Even when you're feeling crabby, are pressed for time, or just plain ol' don't wanna.

I think that this is a FANTASTIC idea, and what a great month to do this too? This is the month to do the little things I always say I'll do someday but seldom do.. like giving a random person on the street some spare change.

I think that I'll write a "31 Days of Giving" update every 7 days or so. I'm still enjoying the break after nablopomo so I don't want to promise daily blogs hehe. Here's what's on my list so far: (And please, I really don't want to come off as show offing or anything, I'm just throwing this fantastic idea out there and hoping to inspire others to do the same!) 

Dec 1 - Sent Christmas cards to all the people that I love (at least the ones whose addresses I have) and that includes sending a card with a Thank You message to an awesome administrative support girl at head office.

Dec 2 - Took a 2 hour lunch, picked up Sophie and we went to the mall where I helped her pick out a dress for her Christmas party. (And we found an awesome one that gives her an incredible hour glass figure. Very elegant and classy. Best part - It was 50% off on sale! 

Dec 3 - Gave a donation to Simon (Rebecca's Dog) for his expensive but crucial surgery. http://helpsimon.blogspot.com/

What a Nightmare!

01 December 2009 By crazymrsnancy 2

Last night I had a scary nightmare. I'm so used to having nightmares about someone or a group of people chasing me and trying to kill me, that those don't even phase me anymore. I wake up from them, roll over and go back to sleep. But last night I had one of those nightmares that's still scary once you're awake. But I cuddled close to Steph, it made me feel safe, and then I went back to sleep.

I dreamed that my brother had sold his soul to the devil! When I woke up in my head that's all I could think "OMG Brian sold his SOUL to the DEVIL!". But when I think about my dream, it was more like he was posessed by a demon. He made me swear to not tell anyone, not even Steph. He was talking slow and weird, kind of like playing a record bakwards to hear the subliminal messages. It was so creepy! 

Is it because 'in real life', I wonder what would ever posess him to go back to HER? 

(Is she the Devil? hehe) 

PS - What makes me angry the most is not even the fact that we thought we were finally rid of that cougar, or the fact that our house is constantly being mistaken for a revolving door Hotel V. What makes me angry the most is that he has NOT called me since he went over there to 'talk' on Sunday evening and never came back. He was online playing World of Warcraft last night while Steph was on, and Steph told him twice that I wanted to talk to him on MSN and he never came. Doesn't he think that I could use a little explanation, or at least a notice of when he's coming to pick his crap up or re-arrange the basement like it was before he messed it up to make room for himself?