Nancy says (9:09 PM):
do you care what I make for lunch tomorrow?
Nancy says (9:10 PM):
is that 500 calories with or without oil ?
(I wont put any)
[You have just sent a nudge.]
Steph says (9:31 PM):
I'm not sure if it includes oil
wraps?
Nancy says (10:18 PM):
you took too long to reply, now you have to eat what I made
Steph says (10:31 PM):
ah yeah what's that
Nancy says (10:32 PM):
sauteed boogers in a bed of snot
Steph says (10:33 PM):
Sounds like what I put in your coffee every morning
Nancy says (10:34 PM):
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT
July 2010
We're so mature
TMI Thursdays: you know you want to read!
- This morning, as we were getting dressed, Steph accidentally farted right in front of the fan, and it blew right in my face. Nassstay! (The fart was intentional, the unfortunate location and direction of the fart was accidental.) I made a show of dramatically flopping on my back, on the bed, getting the dogs all excited in the process. It was hilarious and we laughed a lot. We always laugh a lot. :)
- Today, I totally stuffed them. I wore one of my new pairs of shoes today. It was only once I got to work and had walked about 100 ft. in them that I realized that my shoes were too big. They were quite literally, falling off my feet. I couldn't spend the rest of the day sounding like a horse trotting in the hallways, so I stuffed kleenex in the toes of my shoes. That wasn't even enough, so I later added wads of folded brown paper towels too. I'm hoping that buying gel insoles remediates the problem. I really like those shoes. I'm such a Madden Girl :)
- It's blueberry season at Costco and in my mouth!! Enough said.
Fantasy Dinner Party
On my favourite secret online hangout (discussion forum), someone asked this:
Name 10 people you would invite! They have to be alive!
Here's what I answered:
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam front man), because just hearing his voice makes me melt.
Oprah (I'm pretty sure you know who she is), because I like the idea of 'living your best life'.
Nick Vujicic (That guy with no limbs in the famous videos), One of the most inspiring persons I've ever seen/heard. Wow.
Louise Hay (You Can Heal Your Life), to thank her.
Mike Holmes (The home reno show guy), so that he can fix a few things after dinner! lol
Celine Dion (Canadian singer), I don't care what you think, I idolize her. And I think that it's a shame that I had to closet my Celine Dion appreciation for YEARS! Because I wasn't comfortable being ridiculed for it.
Jeremy Piven (Ari Gold on Entourage), Huge crush on Ari Gold. I would ask him to stay in character, please.
One of my exes. A specific one. I would apologize profusely for the way I behaved back then. It's the worst thing I've ever done to anyone, and he's the guy who deserves it the least. I think I'm a good person, I don't know what overcame me... possibly a mixture of college, alcohol, weed, and just plain naïveté. I was 18 or 19, I had no idea how rare people like him are.
Dave Wirtschaffer (President of Wonderbra), to make my case for fat girls with little boobs. I KNOW I can't be the only fat girl with IBT's, why can't they make a good bra (or two) for us! Seriously! Just take a regular 36C bra, elongate and widen the band, and voila! That's all we want! Or make a 44 -B (that's negative B) if you must! (All other garment companies - you can continue with your vanity sizing, I really don't mind!)
A random New Yorker. One with a good New Yorker accent, and good New York stories.
Life is a Beach!
After a pretty good but IBS charged first week at my new job, I had a beautiful, relaxing weekend! Did I tell you that my IBS was sooo bad on Wednesday, that I had to call in sick, on my third day at the new job? Ugh! It's the first time it's happened to me (this bad) since I started working there on March 1st. It hurt so bad, all I could do was lie in bed and alternate between sleeping and reading the entire day. Until 5pm. I really needed this weekend to recharge. Saturday was my favourite kind of summer day - BRIGHT blue skies, hot, and a little windy. Perfect for lounging on the deck, reading a good book. I just finished Middlesex. I think it's the best book I've read in a while. Sunday, we spent almost the entire day at the beach! We had a fried clam platter as big as our heads at l'Aboiteau, on the beach.
It's such a small world...
1 - While floating in the water and doggie paddling, I made a friend whose husband also preferred staying on shore. We started talking and found out that her and her husband have actually worked with my mom up north and know her.
2 - When getting out of the Aboiteau, stuffed with fried clams, we hear a voice "Hey, were you guys in Mexico in February? You were on our flight!" (The woman was sitting with me and Steph,and her husband was sitting a row behind us.)
Weird!
Here's to getting the hand of my new job a little better this week, or at least figuring out what the hell I'm doing!! No, honestly, I think that I'm going to like it. I know I'll be fine. I'll just be really happy to have a routine again.
TMI Tuesdays: The Great Washroom Standoff (Sitoff?)
It's 11:00 AM. I'm sitting at my desk, trying to decide if going to the washroom now would be a good time investment. By the internal rumblings shaking my internal organs, I know that going to my floor's washroom would be a complete waste of time. That washroom is nearly impossible to get to myself. No matter if it's 8:30AM or 6:30PM, there's almost always someone else in there. The second floor washroom is a safer bet, but it is still my employer's floor, so I do know people on that floor... and let's face it, I always look at the shoes, I'm sure a lot of you do too. AND, I've met third floor coworkers in the second floor's washroom. Oh Hi!, Let's pretend that we both have no idea what the other is doing here!
The BEST place to drop a log in the building is in the public washrooms near the fountain, on the first floor. An access pass is required to go in, so they're pretty clean. Even if someone walks in mid-fart and sees my shoes, chances are pretty slim that we actually work for the same employer and that they recognize my shoes.
But sometimes, you just know it's not an anonymous fart kind of day. You can tell by the rumblings that no one else should be subjected to the sound of that relieving tooting.
Beep.
I open the door to the almost secretive washrooms hidden in plain sight. I slide in and I grab the 'automatic assisted' door behind me to swing it shut, to keep the muggles out. I always do that. I walk the long hall, reach the ladies room, enter, do my usual 'stall feet in the mirror' check... DAMN. White sandals. The type your grandmother would wear.
Okay. Don't panic. You haven't come alllllllll this way to leave without deflating. I walk to the corner stall. I sit down; I hold it in. Why isn't she flushing already? She's been here longer than I have!
[Perfect Silence]
[One minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes...]
A third party enters the ladies washroom. She's intruding on a washroom standoff (sitoff?) and she doesn't even know it. When she flushes, I decide to go for it: Toot. Only it wasn't. Apparently I'm a very calm and relaxed person in a washroom standoff type of situation; I PFFFFFFF'ed. That was it. So I decided to let her win. I exited the stall, washed my hands very loudly...She would enjoy that. Nothing is worse than not being entirely sure if you've heard your adversary leave or not. The washroom door hadn't even finished closing behind me as I heard it. She definitely deserved that win.
acant washroom.
First Day at my New Job!!
My first day at my new job went really well! I wasn't nearly as overwhelmed with information as I was after my first day in Comms. I think it's because of my 8 years of experience at my old job.. A lot of the govt departments, sectors, funding programs, etc are what I'm used to. Don't get me wrong, it was still a tad overwhelming.. but I have a sense of calmness about this new job. I really feel like this what I'm supposed to be doing at this moment. My boss and her boss seem like really awesome people to work with. I am excited!
Stealing Sherene's FB status : Do you ever feel the urge to pinch yourself because you are in disbelief that the life you're living is really yours?
I started watching "The Big Bang Theory".. OMG, why haven't I watched this show before? Hilarious!
One-liners
I don't want to feel restrained by bullets points, as I find they look 'cluttered' when they're not more or less the same length.. I know, I'm crazy. And these are things I really want to tell you guys, I just don't have a whole story about most of these hehe.
Last Friday when we got home from Halifax, we stopped at the mailbox on the way home and I got, I think, the best news letter I've ever received. It said: Welcome to the Canada Public Service Pension Plan!
And then as we pulled in the driveway, I was shocked to see a For Sale sign on my neighbors' lawn!! Noooo! The only neighbors that we're on a 'Hello" basis with! They are so nice and quiet.. we live on a really really quiet street. I hope that we don't get horrible neighbors! (Our current neighbors are moving back up north where the cost of living is way lower, so that she can stay at home with their daughter.)
Today was my last day at my current job. It felt kind of, well.. really weird. I can only imagine how surreal it will be to go to work Monday morning and not come in the same door, but at least I'm still on the same floor in the same building, so really I can't complain at all!
I confess - I am kind of stoked that my new title doesn't have the word 'assistant' in it! LOL Trivial, I know.
It has been REALLY summery around here! All week it's been beautifully sunny, very muggy, and incredibly hot. I can't believe that people are whining about it as much as they are! Come ON! We only ever get one week or two of this a year, if we're lucky. Buy an A/C or shut up! I'll take +40 over -40 any day!!
I've worn skirts every day this week. Long skirts, because the pantyhose shaped compression socks I spent 300$ on the other day? Even if I managed to make the wet curly hair, from the olympian effort of pulling those socks up, look cute... It's still hot as hell wearing them, and the biggest reason - I don't think there's any way that I can go to the washroom and pull them back up while being dressed, even if I brought my rubber gloves with me at all times. Oh well. I would have regretted not trying.
Steph just came up from the basement to inform me that he grabbed his big headphones, put them on, felt something odd tickling his ear, took off the headphones, and found an EARWIG in the ear thing! EW!!!! Don't worry, I googled.
I get to go for Newfoundland for work in December!! I've never been to that province!
Okay so these weren't one-liners at all. I could have done bullets I suppose, but I wasn't in a bulletty mood.
The Fourteen
As requested, here's a picture of the 14 pairs of shoes purchased in one day last week:
Celebrating Seven
What: Seventh Wedding Anniversary
Where: Halifax, Nova Scotia
When: June 28 - July 2, 2010
Hours driven to get there: 3
Off our hotel room thanks to Erin: Nearly 50%
Cuisines eaten: Chinese, Japanese (Sushi), Italian, Canadian, and Thai
Friend met: Erin!
GPS bought in Halifax: Magella (Magellan, but we call her Magella)
Boat rides : 2
Pairs of shoes bought: 14... (But got a killer deal on the first 9 pairs - 3 for 10$!)
Movies seen: 4 - Toy Story, Get Him to the Greek, Eclipse, and Knight & Day.
Number of times The Queen got in our way: 3
Number of times she was still impressive: 3
We had a great time, but I'm feeling sooo tired now, that I can't even find the energy to write about it!