bah, every damn time i open this page, the sheer whiteness of empty update thinger makes me angry.
but, 'what not to wear' is on, so i can not stay angry. listening to clint and stacey rip some poor fashion victim a new one just kinda makes me giddy.
okee, an update on the comings and goings of lisa. we're pretty well settled in the new apartment, and i've even been all alone for a night. not something i'd recommend, but i made it. thanks to andrea for making sure i retained my sanity that weekend (even if i did get a 'holy hooters' comment).
we tiled the bathroom that weekend too, which was interesting in itself. never again will i voluntarily allow myself to be barred from a bathroom. 5 days, sans toilet...except for the one in the poolhouse out in the front yard (which is locked after 9 and required jumping a fence to achieve relief). It was an experience, and i'm sure that one day i'll relate it to my children as a character building moment, but i will never go back and do it again!
that really was pretty much it, the apartment looks pretty good, but still a bit bare. we're getting there, anyways.
we're going away for a couple weeks in july, so i'm taking offers for house sitting now. :P
new house! sooo... got posession of the apartment on saturday, and what followed can only be described as painting insanity...or (dare i say it?) a pankration!! I am aware that pankration is a martial arts dealie, but it just sounds too much like pandemonium to pass up a chance to use it.
when we bought the place the colours were half a shade past 'crazy cat lady' and turning the corner on to holy hell lane. now, though we did end up painting the place (ugh!) beige, it looks fucking incredible. don't worry, i did get a whole pile of before/after shots, and will post those as soon as i get some with furniture in the rooms.
the bathroom is now beautifully sans carpet, and will be tiled and shiny hopefully by next week... other beautiful updates include gorgeous linoleum in the kitchen to replace the utility rug that was present, and the cavern walls being replaced with 'toasted oat' and 'whisper of nature' or nature's whisper' (i continually get those mixed up)...
its an update...in the 'i really really want to put off doing this stupid essay' sense...
i really have nothing exciting to report. Some sad news, some lame news, and my official position on the ever popular emerson debate.
Bailey, my ever faithful companion, kitty, and general layabout, passed away at the startlingly young age of 7 a couple weeks ago. It was peaceful, but that doesn't do a lot to make one feel better when their kitty is gone. I'll miss you, fatboy
Right now, i'm out at the new westminster zellers 4 days a week, helping them to clear out their merchandise, as their store is closing and the standard number of cashiers just wasn't cutting it. it's lame work, but its more hours than at my own store, so off i go, red sharpie in hand.
Ok, now, the moment everyone was waiting for...emerson. there's not much i could say that hasn't already been succinctly put by the other outraged masses. This man has taken the people's trust, given to him in the form of their votes and turned it right on its ass. Perhaps one could believe that he was in the wrong party as a Liberal, and needed to be a Conservative, but it really just smacks of opportunism of the worst sort. I can think of no reason why this riding should not go to an immediate byelection, with emerson representing himself for what he is (powermongering corporate asshole) and the Liberals and NDP being allowed to put forward actual candidates to run opposite of him. THe conservatives received a very small proportion of the votes in the major metropolitan areas, and this shameless act should in way force the residents of the area (which voted overwhelmingly AGAINST a conservative candidate) to be considered a conservative foothold into urban Canada.
While urban centres are generally pro-business (which appears to be some sort of conservative selling point despite a boom of economic activity under the liberals), they are also generally more progressive in social policies such as same-sex marriages, which is a major sticking point for the christian right. By taking a Liberal seat and crossing the floor to become a conservative, Emerson is falsely representing the people's interests in his ridiung and needs to be answerable to it.
ok, rant over. I'm going back to essay-writing now...
ok, so i'm having some serious qualms about voting this year. nobody wants to hear this nonsense, but bear with me while i hash this out for myself.
let's start with the candidates...
gerg watrich - ind. this is just to let everyone know that this man's ENTIRE platform is anti-gay marriage. He quit the conservatives after Moore decided to vote for c-38 and has gone on a full-fledged attack on the (constitutional) rights of homosexuals.
"We are at a turning point. Same Sex Marriage is now law across Canada and it must be repealed as soon as possible. It is rapidly becoming beyond your right to criticize it. (Already, the Bishop of Calgary has been charged with a hate crime by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal for issuing a pastoral letter to his churches defending traditional marriage)."
this is fully and utterly ludicrous and this man should not be representing any SANE peoples.
James Moore - cons. I personally kind of like Moore. He stood up for gay marriage and has done a reasonable job representing our consituency. However, a vote for moore is also a vote for the undead!! Ok, so Harper's not **technically** undead, but jesus...have you LOOKED at him? Perhaps God really IS smiting him for idiocy and crimes against Christianity (If i were God, i'd have PR put the kibosh on any associations with the Conservatives entirely...the man just screams 'aryan race' everytime i look into his watery blue eyes...)
Green Party - I didn't even bother looking up who our candidate is, because you can almost hear the toilet flushing when you drop a green party ballot in the box.
Mary Woo Sims - NDP Shani claims she's some superstar, but how many people have actually ever heard of this woman before? Also, voting for Layton's party just rubs me wrong after he went ahead and held the (federal) Liberals in limbo until they secured a promise on healthcare (which is provincial jurisdiction). That and joining forces with the undead to topple the liberals...
Which, barring all those non-parties like the libertarians and whatnot, leaves us with Liberals.
Jon Kingsbury is widely reputed to be a crook. This leads me to question his abilities as a viable representation of my best interests. Call me crazy, but the stigma of being the constituency sold to the highest bidder does not sound like a fair representation of the port moody-westwood-poco area...
thus, the crux of my problem. Do i vote 'party' and risk ending up with a crook or a crazy lady? Or do i vote 'individual' and end up with a brain-eating zombie? Or do i get really REALLY high before the poll and vote green?
as it is now 3am...i am in no state to determine the outcome of this truly terrifying situation. fortunately, i seem to have a bit of time before the dread event.
peace be with you, and happy new year! may we not be eaten by zombies before god rescues us.
(seriously, can't god, like, sue or something to get harper to stop using him?)
The World Hates Me grrr... i have to work both Christmas Eve AND Boxing day... that's just disgusting, people. It's tradition that staff get ONE of the two off, so i didn't bother putting in a 'time off' request, assuming i'd get at least one day of rest around Christmas. But it is not to be... zellers has decided that, its not bad enough working 9 of 10 days BEFORE Christmas, but i must also work at least one (and quite probably 3-4) days AFTER Christmas, as well... if they're pushing for me to quit and find smething else, they're picking the right buttons to push, yesterday was my last day off, and i'm already exhausted. not sure how i'm going to find the strength to face 30 more hours of Christmas music and grumpy shoppers.
I've noticed an inverse relationship between the numbers of days left until Christmas and the amount of Christmas cheer evidenced in my customers. It is my learned opinion that if we held a 'surprise christmas' in, say, mid-november, that everyone would be much happier because they wouldn't have TIME to get grumpy at the zellers employees. (Oh, did i say 'everyone'? I mostly meant that *i* would be happier that they wouldn't have time to get grumpy.)
I shouldn't complain too much, i seem to have the proverbial horseshoe up my ass when it comes to customers...even the crazy man with tourette's is polite to me (though he does tend to call the other people in my lineup 'fuckhead' a lot).
Poor laura (not my sister) got very unlucky sunday. we had an overlap, so there was a period where we were both on smokeshop, operating both tills. she had just started, and this guy (maybe her 3rd customer) starts shrieking about something being on sale that she charged him full price for. long story short, i deal with 5 or 6 delightfully polite customers, while she stands not 3 feet from me with one of the *least* polite customers i have ever seen, and when i go over to help her out, he's just wonderful to me. So apparently, only laura (and later, tara) gets the 'mr. grumpy' treatment, while he laughs and jokes with me (i was trying to stop him from yelling).
i keep hearing horror stories of all these grouchy, screaming customers, but i rarely have ever had an issue. One cutomer made me cry once, but it was because on her way out of the store, she stopped off to where my supervisor was standing, and let her know that i was the sweetest cashier she had ever met. Edith told me about it and i got all sniffly...
i lost the point of this entry about 2 paragraphs back, so, in closing, zellers is evil and christmas should be sprung on the populace in november.
Maggie has left the hospital this morning, after an overnight stay for medical tests. That woman is UNSTOPPABLE...first the hospital, next the WORLD!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
that's all for me at present. but i missed you all terribly during my perilous journey through shark-infested jungle and whatnot...
definitely going to be following this one, if only because the guy reminds me of dave barry...and he takes swipes at stephen harper...which is always cool in my book :)
Last Saturday I turned xenontetroxide in for spitting (3 points). Last Tuesday I set mmckim's puppy on fire (-66 points). In October barberossa and I robbed a bank (-50 points). In June I gave krytes42 a kidney (1000 points). In March I ruled Canada as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points).
Overall, I've been nice (1587 points). For Christmas I deserve an Easy-Bake Oven!
Happy This is for everyone on the 'she could do better' bandwagon.
I am very happy for once. Bad influence or no, i am having a great time just feeling loved and accepted for what i am, and can be. Every night, i go to bed curled up next to someone who would take a bullet for me, and wake up smiling. Every morning, i go home deliciously happy that someone could actually find something in me to love.
If i had wanted to be with someone going to college or pursuing some kind of higher education, i would. I tried that, and found that most of them loved themselves so much that there was no room left in their hearts for me.
So please, just because he won't debate socratic method or conservative fiscal policy with you, don't dismiss him out of hand. I have never met such a warm, gentle person in my life, and I love him.
And if you can't accept that, then you are not respecting the choices i have made in my life, and not respecting me.
huzzah! i'm bored, and stuck at school, so YOU get an update...
now, i know what you're thinking... "who the fuck is treebait and how did they get on my friends list???"
rest assured, that you did once know me, and i'm not some crazy lj-stalker... (that's exactly what i'd have you believe anyway...)
i'm going nuts in this building...slowly melting into a puddle of braindead mush, as i try desperately to maintain focus. there's only so much military budget research one moderately sane student can handle before they start to slip slowly into madness.
with that said, MONKEY PANTS BUTTONS BLIP BLOOP BEESWAX!!!
that feels better...now, unto the show!
i've been spending a whole pile of time being sick this last week...and not enjoying it one bit! i got some sort of crazy sick-virus thingy, and i barely left my bed for 4 days...yuck!
on an unrelated note...i really feel the need to explain something to the unwashed masses...
DAVE CHAPPELLE IS NOT FUNNY!!! HE HAS BRAINWASHED YOU ALL INTO BELIEVING THIS HIDEOUS LIE!! Fart jokes ceased to ellicit giggles from me when i was 8. There's a new craze in town, it's called adult humour...come join me in it occasionally... i promise it only hurts a little bit.
this bringing us to a close on our little episode, as if i spend 10 more minutes in front of this computer, i'm liable to go all 'beeswax' and start running amok in the library... and we all know where that leads...
padded rooms, straightjackets, laughing hysterically every time someone screams "i'm rick JAMES, bitch!"
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