ugh!!
it's been a good week and a half that i've been sick. bouts of voicelessness, coughing, sneezing and muscle aches have been ruling my world, so i've been staying very close to home lately. except for when i had to go to the doctor... in HOPE!
seriously, it is so frickin' hard to get a doctor around here. in fact:
dear mr. campbell,
please recruit more doctors and while you're at it, increase health care benefits cause the current situation SUCKS!!!
yours truly,
ursula
luckily i already had an appointment for my doctor, for my gimped shoulder, so when i was there she checked out the cold situation and ordered me to rest and fluids.
so what exciting things have i been doing to keep myself busy? reading garbage, getting my butt kicked all over the Wii Friends Network by Jen, Reid and Conor, watching wedding shows and law & order (same thing really, isn't it?) and doing all kinds of fun wedding things like save the date cards and planning website details. and of course, sleeping like crazy. i've also been trying to get off the nyquil now that i have deemed myself not so sick that i need it to sleep.
tonight we have a meeting with a potential photographer and more excitingly, drinks with ang and lief.
whoot, there it is.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
staycation
since wednesday i've been home-alone. as you may know from previous posts, when i'm left alone at home i like to stay up late, do housework and especially organize.
this time alone, i've decided to treat it as a vacation, or because i've stayed home, a staycation.
i've been staying up late reading trashy books, having naps in the afternoon, and really not straying far from home. it's been nice. it has of course been spattered with some laundry and food making. an appointment here, and meeting up with some people there. for the most part, a fairly relaxed pace of enjoying the sunshine and letting my body dictate the hours it wants to keep.
tomorrow i have a lesson to give, but that's already planned. and of course, it's saturday, so i'll be visiting my brother. otherwise, i have a dessert to make for the father's day barbeque at rachel's and then i might pull out my sewing machine to make the yoga mat bag i've been meaning to for ages. hmmm... i guess i should make sure the cord is still in there, from when i first got all of the supplies. maybe this project will be delayed until next week. it's less convenient to want to whip something up when there's no longer a fabric/craft store to get your supplies from for free. :o) and since i'm on staycation, i wouldn't want to go out of my way, and have to stop at a store.
this time alone, i've decided to treat it as a vacation, or because i've stayed home, a staycation.
i've been staying up late reading trashy books, having naps in the afternoon, and really not straying far from home. it's been nice. it has of course been spattered with some laundry and food making. an appointment here, and meeting up with some people there. for the most part, a fairly relaxed pace of enjoying the sunshine and letting my body dictate the hours it wants to keep.
tomorrow i have a lesson to give, but that's already planned. and of course, it's saturday, so i'll be visiting my brother. otherwise, i have a dessert to make for the father's day barbeque at rachel's and then i might pull out my sewing machine to make the yoga mat bag i've been meaning to for ages. hmmm... i guess i should make sure the cord is still in there, from when i first got all of the supplies. maybe this project will be delayed until next week. it's less convenient to want to whip something up when there's no longer a fabric/craft store to get your supplies from for free. :o) and since i'm on staycation, i wouldn't want to go out of my way, and have to stop at a store.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
a little something like this
not exactly, but the idea is there. oh, and p.s. i don't look like her in it. in case we haven't met.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
try this on for size!
tomorrow i have an appointment to try on some wedding dresses. we'll see if the pictures i've ripped from wedding magazines come even close to some resemblance when they're on me.
i'm bringing rachel for this fun escapade, and hopefully she'll be able to take pics. is itbad luck to post wedding dress pictures before you're married? hmm...
i'm bringing rachel for this fun escapade, and hopefully she'll be able to take pics. is itbad luck to post wedding dress pictures before you're married? hmm...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
sexy time
we saw sex and the city on friday. it was really all i could have hoped for. i loved it. i would like to try to see again while it's at our local.
you know how when you the new indy movie? well, it's not like that all. i wasn't disappointed with s&tc. it was like watching the show again, except longer and even more involving. three thumbs up.
other good movies we've seen lately:
what happens in vegas
iron man
baby mama
made of honour
and a bunch of other ones too... but these are what i remember. did you know you can exchange air miles for movie passes? oh, and on tuesdays at our local, it's only $5.25. rock arm.
you know how when you the new indy movie? well, it's not like that all. i wasn't disappointed with s&tc. it was like watching the show again, except longer and even more involving. three thumbs up.
other good movies we've seen lately:
what happens in vegas
iron man
baby mama
made of honour
and a bunch of other ones too... but these are what i remember. did you know you can exchange air miles for movie passes? oh, and on tuesdays at our local, it's only $5.25. rock arm.
hope is the dream of a soul awake.
i'm not sure if it's PMS hormone weird-o issues, or if it's because i recently read the 'when someone's missing' chapter of the wedding book cheryl sent me, or if because on this show last night they dedicated their first dance to this guy's mom who had passed away. in any case, this morning i had a dream. in the dream my mom was alive and living in australia. why not? a lot of the dream involved me being on the plane to go find and see her. i think danielle and gerry were with me.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
huh? what?
it's june 1. i guess i'll blog.
oh, and things have been pretty suck-ass lately so i think it's best to blog. :o)
i got a call from the gov't (finally) for a phone interview. i'd say it went well enough. who knows, really... it was so quick! 3-5 talk to test your communication skills. i also asked when they'd let people know about the position. apparently now it's sometime in the summer.
needless to say, i cannot not be working until i find out. so instead of holding my breath, i've decided to do some shallow breathing. i'm going to continue doing temp stuff until i hear either way. then if it's a big ol' NO, i will have still been earning some cash and keeping my eyes peeled for other jobs earning equivalent $ and with similar benefits.
speaking of temp stuff... on friday my placement was at a clinic that does sample testing from animals. i was doing the intake, so i got to wear a lab coat and touch test tubes and jars full of various body stuff. the grossest was something a cat had coughed up. it looked like something between a gall stone and 1.5 cm diametre chunks of phlegm. also gross? sometimes you could get a whiff of poop. oh, and the fact that the guy i was working with had a sever BO problem. like, stink fest 2008! still, if not for the following two incidents, i would have happily gone back there... it's close to me, easy work, and pays well enough. *but*
1. at lunch a lady literally took the paper i was reading and 5 minutes later asked me if i had been reading it. i said that yes, actually i was, and then she launched into a tirade about the article she just had to read (about the vaccine for cervical cancer) and how she would never get that for her daughters, and if she had to do it all over again, she wouldn't get them other vaccines either, etc.. i just let her talk (for ages) and didn't comment until well into it for the second breath. i asked her about polio. i didn't actually care about her answer, but i wanted to say it. heh heh.
2. one of the ladies i was working with decided to share with the class (a muslim lady, the BO dude and me) that she has been pregnant 10 times. you see, she can get pregnant easily, but staying pregnant is the problem. *ha ha ha!* oh, and she used to be a party girl, and she even got pregnant because she drank too much when she was younger. *oh, how silly of her!* now, the weird thing is that she would have been a grand enough person to work with, except for all of her explanations on why she wants to move to Calgary, but hopefully never see one of her many exes from Edmonton. and her crazy pregnancy talk that she just wouldn't let go for AGES!
also exciting is that i had another argument with my sister. she's really pissing me off right now. well, she often does piss me off, but right now she is really really pushing my buttons. i believe i need a break from her. she doesn't read this blog, so unfortunately i'm going to have to articulate this in another way.
oh, today we bought an HDPVR. it doesn't work yet because the first one we bought was broken. and i almost broke myself on our IKEA tv stand where the glass shelving seems to want to fall on me... taking the VCR and such with it. they didn't have anymore, so we had to go to another London Drugs... after calling 3 different ones to find another PVR. so, we drove the broken one to Cloverdale and was expecting the lovely service you usually get at London Drugs. not this time. the guy, Michel, was so condescending it was making me furious. p.s. Michel... i don't care if this is the last one you have in stock, or that you probably feel like you're wasting it, because you feel that i wouldn't have a clue if something is actually working or not. you work at London Drugs, so take it back and replace it. oh, and when i asked if you should put the bar code in somewhere? yeah, you should have. now we can't register the stupid thing, although it does work now (yay!) because you told me we didn't need to register the number. listen ass-face. a little less condescension, a little more help and customer service, please.
also crappy? the forces worked against us today and there was no time for baby sheep squishing. i'll have to take care of that this week... a little cuddle from almost polar bears would be nice after i tell Michel what i think.
and to top it off, i am extra grumpy because i have severe pms.
now, there is some good news, so i can maybe have some nice dreams... S&TC was brilliant. yay. i loved it. i might even get ambitious at some point and watch the entire series and the movie sometime. that would really nice for me. with some popcorn and peanut butter fingers. yup. that'd be nice.
gerry brought me home DQ tonight and chocolate. which really could have been a meal replacement today.
and to finish it, things are moving along well enought for all things wedding.
yay. bed. now.
oh, and things have been pretty suck-ass lately so i think it's best to blog. :o)
i got a call from the gov't (finally) for a phone interview. i'd say it went well enough. who knows, really... it was so quick! 3-5 talk to test your communication skills. i also asked when they'd let people know about the position. apparently now it's sometime in the summer.
needless to say, i cannot not be working until i find out. so instead of holding my breath, i've decided to do some shallow breathing. i'm going to continue doing temp stuff until i hear either way. then if it's a big ol' NO, i will have still been earning some cash and keeping my eyes peeled for other jobs earning equivalent $ and with similar benefits.
speaking of temp stuff... on friday my placement was at a clinic that does sample testing from animals. i was doing the intake, so i got to wear a lab coat and touch test tubes and jars full of various body stuff. the grossest was something a cat had coughed up. it looked like something between a gall stone and 1.5 cm diametre chunks of phlegm. also gross? sometimes you could get a whiff of poop. oh, and the fact that the guy i was working with had a sever BO problem. like, stink fest 2008! still, if not for the following two incidents, i would have happily gone back there... it's close to me, easy work, and pays well enough. *but*
1. at lunch a lady literally took the paper i was reading and 5 minutes later asked me if i had been reading it. i said that yes, actually i was, and then she launched into a tirade about the article she just had to read (about the vaccine for cervical cancer) and how she would never get that for her daughters, and if she had to do it all over again, she wouldn't get them other vaccines either, etc.. i just let her talk (for ages) and didn't comment until well into it for the second breath. i asked her about polio. i didn't actually care about her answer, but i wanted to say it. heh heh.
2. one of the ladies i was working with decided to share with the class (a muslim lady, the BO dude and me) that she has been pregnant 10 times. you see, she can get pregnant easily, but staying pregnant is the problem. *ha ha ha!* oh, and she used to be a party girl, and she even got pregnant because she drank too much when she was younger. *oh, how silly of her!* now, the weird thing is that she would have been a grand enough person to work with, except for all of her explanations on why she wants to move to Calgary, but hopefully never see one of her many exes from Edmonton. and her crazy pregnancy talk that she just wouldn't let go for AGES!
also exciting is that i had another argument with my sister. she's really pissing me off right now. well, she often does piss me off, but right now she is really really pushing my buttons. i believe i need a break from her. she doesn't read this blog, so unfortunately i'm going to have to articulate this in another way.
oh, today we bought an HDPVR. it doesn't work yet because the first one we bought was broken. and i almost broke myself on our IKEA tv stand where the glass shelving seems to want to fall on me... taking the VCR and such with it. they didn't have anymore, so we had to go to another London Drugs... after calling 3 different ones to find another PVR. so, we drove the broken one to Cloverdale and was expecting the lovely service you usually get at London Drugs. not this time. the guy, Michel, was so condescending it was making me furious. p.s. Michel... i don't care if this is the last one you have in stock, or that you probably feel like you're wasting it, because you feel that i wouldn't have a clue if something is actually working or not. you work at London Drugs, so take it back and replace it. oh, and when i asked if you should put the bar code in somewhere? yeah, you should have. now we can't register the stupid thing, although it does work now (yay!) because you told me we didn't need to register the number. listen ass-face. a little less condescension, a little more help and customer service, please.
also crappy? the forces worked against us today and there was no time for baby sheep squishing. i'll have to take care of that this week... a little cuddle from almost polar bears would be nice after i tell Michel what i think.
and to top it off, i am extra grumpy because i have severe pms.
now, there is some good news, so i can maybe have some nice dreams... S&TC was brilliant. yay. i loved it. i might even get ambitious at some point and watch the entire series and the movie sometime. that would really nice for me. with some popcorn and peanut butter fingers. yup. that'd be nice.
gerry brought me home DQ tonight and chocolate. which really could have been a meal replacement today.
and to finish it, things are moving along well enought for all things wedding.
yay. bed. now.
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