Feb 6 2010 Saturday

Omg Thursday night @ Evolution was so fun...finally got to go out with Alex the Nutbar and meet her man Kelsey - they are friggin hilarious ppl...Donna & Andrea were there too and they are always just fun fun fun...I like fun ppl...fun ppl rule. 1st band of the night was HIDEOUS...jesus fuck it was the longest set in creation...Rotterdam played next and they always kick ass despite fuckface being in the band it was EXCELLENT...I fucking love that band...fuckface im sure was thinking in his head "omfg those 2 bitches Jen & Alex are here together - brace yourself" but we played it cool... was only minimal derogatory shouting from Alex, all said in joking good fun b.c neither of us really give 2 shits about fuckface anyway...the night was all about vag phobia and mocking...all in good fun...:o)
I ended up really drunk...like pushing ppl around drunk - all in mosh pit fun of course...I love how Donna reacts to these situations...she kills me...I really cannot wait for Graeme to live here so we can go do this stuff...and do the Ghostly Walk downtown...and roam the beach and cemeteries with cameras...and try to out rant each other....

My Friday at work hangover was not TOO bad but by 2-3 pm I was DEAD....and then ENERGIZED when I was done work at 430 haha funny how that works. Definitely will NOT be doing that again for a long while...its hard to not get drunk at the bar when the music is so fucking good...I cant get drunk at home to save my life b/c u cant crank music in apartments and cranked music is the key for me to get a seriously good buzz on the go.

Today I am wandering downtown with Donna...we are going to see a flick...I haven't heard shit all about the EAW job...I was told they had no idea when or if they were going to be hiring anyone for the positions due to budget issues within the govt (don't get me started) for a month or so...but it would be good to know if I even made it to the HIRE-able stage. Ugh. I have pretty much just settled in with the job I have and don't really feel like looking for anything...

I made gross teriyaki meatballs last night...too much ginger...and weird texture. Hmmmf.

Speaking of balls...12.5 days til Graeme's here for a visit...woot! I am making my Valentine a Valentine card right now...wtf has happened to me....?

January 21 2010 - Thursday!

OK I admit it I friggin had a hearty chuckle about not enough snow up on Olympic Mountain Land...oh and don’t forget the seizure of the Whistler Resort...omfg what the hell is that? You are hosting the friggin Olympics and you stop making loan payments...are you kidding me? 1st thing I learned as a grown up is PAY THE RENT FIRST. Duh. Back to business school for you idiots...the real kicker is the snow...the gamble the gov’t took investing in this depends a lot on weather and that’s a pretty BIG bet to make on something so unpredictable as the weather. That is a lot of taxpayers’ money riding on weather! Clearly I think that is a gamble NOT TO BE MADE...although i am sure its no sketchier than other deal that we NEVER hear about – for something this public I wouldn’t want to be the one making that call. Wait....yes I would...b/c then the Olympics wouldn’t be an issue at all b/c that $ would be used for shit that actually MATTERS to real people. Sigh...

Tomorrow is jeans day....BONER! I cannot articulate the excitement I have for this day every single week!

Found out yesterday that I am indeed eligible for benefits and vacation time even as an auxiliary employee. Shocking! I found out only b/c I sent an email to HR requesting that they stop taking union dues off my chqs now that I am NO LONGER IN THE UNION...and then inquired about why the vacation $ and benefit $ was not added on to my chq....Gail then sent me an email saying “my bad!” – she was supposed to send me all this info when I started here but FORGOT...and guess what? You only have 30 days to apply so it is getting pretty damn close! Another week or so and I would have been S.O.L. Thanks Gail you are friggin awesome in your ineptness...then she got snotty with me despite me being far more than polite about this all and said “Oh not to be picky but my name is spelled GAYLE.” Oh really Gail? I thought it was spelled INCOMPETENT? Or USELESS? Or SNOTBAG? I confirmed with the boss...Gail is unpredictable with her moodiness...great. Gail, suck my balls. I will forever spell her name wrong every time I email her now...just because. I am over it now though...the paperwork is done and mailed.

Good news...that EAW testing I did (Employment Assistant Worker) that was BRUTAL and I was sure I failed it in proper epic form...I got called in for an interview.

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AMAZING. This is great b/c this job is something I think that would be a fabulous position to help me develop a sense of what I really want to do...I am drawn to social work type jobs but have managed to avoid exploring that by talking myself out of it figuring I am too messed up to help anyone else who is messed up. This of course, as I have gotten older, is bullshit b/c everyone’s effed up on some level and ppl who go into helping careers tend to be people who have endured all sorts of crap and are messed up by it....which gives them the empathy/experience needed to be in those careers I think...anyhow...I interview for that Feb 1st (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AYLA!) so that should be interesting. There are 4 pages of required work that has to be submitted a week prior to the interview. 4 questions I need to answer, 1 page each...I will be doing that this weekend, getting it all tiddled up and submitted. I haven’t heard anything about the UVic job yet but it just closed on Monday so...hopefully next week.

I haven’t written in a while...so I am Ms Blabbery Blab lady....

News on the Graeme front...looks like he is getting his ducks in a row and is looking to be moving here in March April/May (BOO! HISS!!)...This is exciting! It is forever away BUT not so forever that I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel (Admittedly May sucks hard ass compared to march but it is what it is....)...really looking fwd to having him around...you can quote me later when this blog becomes my personal relationship counseling center. Ha! Seriously though...you all remember that excruciatingly pain-filled pining your heart experiences...the mind numbing ache of absence...the fearsome horniness...? YEAH THAT’S ME RIGHT NOW! LOL (Him too...hehe)

Okay that was the most girly, vulnerable giddy girl thing you will ever see on this blog...for sure! OK...tonight is a mom/kid talk of uber importance...should be fun...I cannot fathom Ayla will be 16 in just over a week.....EGADS!

sunday = funday

ok maybe not funday...i have no plans for anything but laundry today....oh and im gunna play super mario bros. on the Wii so when i play it next im not quite as sucky.

graeme is getting here in 4 days and i gotta say it is about time...i could use some pleasant distraction from my own life please and thank you....i am gunna make some sort of vodka fruit punch that i plan to drink all by myself and get right shittered ny's eve...that is if ayla doesn't find my hidden stash 1st...although i did warn her she resorts to talking my booze (which i never really buy ever) she will be sorry as shit. im not in love with ayla and her attitude currently..i know this is shocking...the "i dont care" line is getting old...oh really...no shit u dont care...plz say it 400 more times so i can keep rolling my eyes.

anyhow...moving on to more interesting topics...i had a debate with tatiana last night about FAMOUS PPL...shes 10 or something....she was saying how awesome famous ppl were...so i questioned why paris hilton was famous....she sed "she carries a little dog around in a purse"....so i asked why she gets to be famous for having ZERO talent? shouldn't fame be reserve for ppl worthy?? who can do something the average person cannot (acting like a diva excluded)? apparently having a rich dad is all it takes for kids to think someones worthy of fame these days...what a messed up idea of the world. just hope these little conversations stick in there somewhere and plant a seed.

ok this new blog post thing is odd, there is not SPELL CHECK button that i can find...this is really bad 4 me.....ha!

i think im gunan give up on the echo comments....no ones gotten back to me from there....ive spent 10.00 on stupider shit i guess....

<--- squidlet and his gramma....my aunty pam!

tea pot

DECEMBER 21 2009

I drank tea out of a teapot yesterday at A & E's house and decided to drag my tea pot out b/c it tasted so good.....
I am making tea in it now...I am a little worried b/c I washed it cuz its been up on the top shelf for years unused but its dark in here and I just woke up....so I don't think it was the best washing.....hopefully there will be no soap flavor in my tea...or floaty dead moths.

Gawd I love sleep...I don't sleep LONG generally {I can get by on 5-6 hrs a night for some time} but fuck I love just waking up on my own (aka no alarm blaring hideously) without having to jump up and get ready 4 work...me and the rest of the humans in the world....not unique that way.

Today I go to BC Pension Corp to do some testing for an hour to determine if I am too retarded to work there...seeing as how the office dohdoh said it was easy I am not too worried about it...its just 1 hour. The testing I do Tuesday for something else is 2 hrs and I have done it before and its a little more serious...I am not fond of typing tests. I am not a great typist AT ALL...so typing tests being that they are timed and recording your accuracy stress me the fuck out...the last one I took informed me that the usually 2 spaces after a period were NOT correct, there should only be 1 space...yeah TRY TO DO THAT DURING A TEST WHEN U HAVE ALWAYS DONE 2 SPACES! lol A stenographer I will never be hahaha

Oh this tea is divine...
I bought the tea MG drinks...(Yes I realize how incredibly adolescent that sounds and is)...called Yorkshire tea...its pretty decent...its pricey though so I dunno if I will always have some in the house....Yesterday on my travels with my favorite lesbos to the anarchy book store...I forget what its called....anyhow..I found a copy of UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry...yes that's right MG recommended it as a read...DON'T JUDGE ME! I value his opinion!

Graeme is sword crazy right now...I blame the Wii...he was eBay-ing for Wii paraphernalia and someone in Hong Kong used Wii instead of WWII in their ad or something and he stumbled upon a store full of katana japanese swords...well omfg...it is now the 2nd coming of christ waiting for his purchase to arrive so he can analyze it to death...its funny to see him so INTO something...he is lucky he missed my recent MG freak out episode as the concert approached...it is kind of the same obsessive, freak of nature behavior...what I like best is he isn't even trying to hide his freakness...

OK I did it..I opened up my presents from my aunty pam already...the same day she left them...whatever - it is a perk to being a grown up...I don't like opening presents xmas day bc I like taking pics of Ayla....(that's my excuse - screw off haha)...anyhow we now have a 3rd Wii controller and nunchucker and the Super Mario Bros game....SAWEEEEETTT!!!

JEN THE INGRATE TALK:
Parcels from my mom arrived. All I will say is I think my mom thinks Ayla is still 8 yrs old...Ayla was 8 when we moved from PR and I seriously think my mother still sees her as an 8 yr old kid judging by the box of weirdness she sent.