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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Gorgeous! 

Today is just a gorgeous day! 20C outside and sunny! This was perfect weather for the baptism of my cousin-in-law, Emily. There were LOTS of people we did not know, but we survived. The baptism was in a Portugese Catholic church lead my a priest who spoke 4+ languages. It was mostly done in Portugese. There were 4 other babies being baptised and one or 2 first communions. We didn't understand much. The service was also a full mass... the whole thing lasted 1.5hrs. WOW!

After, M-SB and his mom and her partner went to look at stoves. We need a stove for our new place. It is hard to tell one from another in terms of quality, more so when we don't yet know what size of space we need to fit the stove into. We will find out on Friday. YIPPEE!!! I drooled over chairs, reading chairs and rocking chairs. I still prefer the $80 reading chair from the Sally Ann. But these rockers were wonderful and quiet. They were the same price as the one we saw at Brault & Martineau. The B&M one was an outdoor/indoor chair though, whereas the ones we saw today were strickly indoor.

Then we spent a long while eating food and socializing with near and distant relatives at the baptismal reception party. I was glad to have been there, but also glad to leave.

This lovely weather and the fact that it is just about Beltain (we are on the eve of it now) really called me to want flowers in the house. One day, it would be nice if M-SB surprised me with stuff like flowers now and then. But oh well. We stopped in Reno Depo and picked up a little perennial called FireWitch. It looks pretty and smell sweet. Bonus, it is both the Perenial Plant of the Year 2006 AND it is easy to care for. It will go outdoors once we move.

Now for a siesta before heading to Airea's for tea and cookies.

Once Again Proud... but of others 

Yesterday I got to sleep in. Oh what a blessed moment. I wish it could have lasted all day. I believe people need 3 solid days back to back in order to recoup and be at their best. One day to relax and rest from the stress of the week, one day to run errends and do life need things, and one to plan and prep for the coming week... to gear up. Well, I got a morning. It was blessedly better than the usual which is nothing.

There was a class in the afternoon. We started with kenning hidden objects. They did much better than last time! Then a blind-man's bluff game with the last two who didn't get to do it last time. Again, they were amazing. Then they got a very intensive workout in offensive-defensive postures and techniques. It was their first practicum. They were GREAT! I will do one last practicum in June. I am so proud of them!!! Very impressive.

Today I am off to do the baptism and family things with in-laws. Laters all!

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Geckos 


Spot is the dark leopard gecko above. She belonged to my niece. The yellow leopard gecko was M-SB's sister's gecko, previously named Charlie but M-SB intedns to rename her. She arrived Thursday evening.


This is the newest addition as if Friday evening. This is a marbled gecko. She sticks to the glass and other vertical surfaces. She is less friendly, more easily spooked, jumps far and fast. She will also open her mouth wide wide wide and bite you when she is really upset. Thankfully she hardly has teeth worth noticing. She is calming down now and I can now pet her... maybe one day I will be able to pick her up without her bolting.


New Kitten Pictures to Brighten My Evening 







Friday, April 28, 2006

Much LESS than Proud day 

Well Thursday was busy. And the movies were awesome. Aeon Flux made me think of Logan's Run and The Island a bit. Tristan & Isolde was incredible... but a tragedy. No happy ending. I managed to drum up another sponsor for the charity. But no word from Wil Wheaton if he will be coming to Montreal or not.

The night was an emotional stupid moment on my account. I think I am over it.

Today... was bad on the start and slowly improved then swallowed pride to miserable. Ending with cold dinner now being eaten... cold. The stupid mastercard in collections refused to accpet my $200-sh per month. They gave me to Monday to pay it... so I woke to panic attacks. That was my good morning wake-up call before the day even started. Then sweet Alyson came over and helped me organize the kitchen so I can think and gave me lots of hugs. We actually managed the kitchen, bathroom, vacuuming of the house and bottling of almost all the herbs. She left behind yummy strawberries. My grade for my Winter Concordia Grad class is in. B+!!! YAY!!! That was the highlight of the day. DragonMoone dropped by to talk about the charity and to photo my new rit robe based on the white ones I am most comfy in. Now to play financial catch up. I have to pay her, finished yelling at Sympatigo who processed my payment day before my paycheck... that is fixed now, and have bills and that vile mastercard. If I had known that the debt would have a fit with my payments before i signed my kitten contract, i likely would not have signed the kitten contract... but now I am locked in for the kitten. These next few months are going to be lean in the most aweful of ways. I dashed out to pick up our taxes from our awesome tax guy. We both get some money back! YAY! But not till after we mail in our stuff. *sigh*

Well I picked up M-SB from work and we went to look at furniture at the Sally Ann. New furniture is currently WAY out of the thot processes. There is a nice reading/armchair there for $80. If it is still there after the financial chaos is dealt with, I will get it. I hope it waits for me. *crosses fingers* Then off to Walmart. M-SB NEEDED a new pair of jeans something fierce. ANd we still needed a gift for the baptism we are going to on Sunday... his baby cousin Emily. That done, we headed out to get lizard food. We inherited his sister's leapard gecko. I also picked up a marbled gecko for $20. All three pretty girls are happy in their new home and happily fed. Their tanks has replaced the fishy tank in the entrance.

Home again to swallow the pride and ask Mom for help with the damnable mastercard. Thank you for the help... Yes, I am a shithead in a variety of ways for this getting out of hand. And yes, we will pay it back within 6-8 months, likely sooner (likely September). I am glad I did not have to grovel worse and swallow my pride so far as to ask for help from friends. I am not sure I could live with myself for that big a helping hand from a non-blood relation.

So... I am not proud of myself today. The bads outweighed the goods. But I am now at least feeling safe that things will get managed. We should be completely on our feet by September.

Next steps will be to see the new place and decide what needs doing in it, securing a lease, securing a moving truck, finish cleaning the apartment, pack and move and get kitten. March 2006 really threw us both way off kilter with everything. But we WILL be sorted out by September. There seem to be good prospects for M-SB within his work.

So the plan for the next few days... as those are actually easier to consider for completion.
- sleep in
- tidy apartment
- teach O/D class
- get $$ from mom
- wrap baptism gift
- go to baptism and BBQ
- plan Readers Meeting
- pay mastercard debt
- readers meeting
- meet with potential sponsors
- Beltain
- sort and spring clean the hall

Then it is back to work... I don't even know what is needed... I cannot think past Monday.

Well... dinner is ick. I am going to toss the cold blecky rice. I really hope everyone else is having a better day.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Proud Day 

Today was an awesome day! The landlady actually had the plummer in to give us new bathroom sink faucets, YAY! And the day at work went real well. The two new guys are working out amazingly! I am partly stunned and mostly proud. One of those manager-i-did-good feelings. Also, I got a couple more sponsors for my Serenity Charity baskets. I will post that on the serenity charity list soonish, likely tomorrow. AND crossing my fingers that Wil Wheaton gets back to me about doing a book signing in Montreal.

I come home to a decent pay and new faucets and the rental of 2 new movies. Tristan & Isolde, which I am thinking of watching tonight. Aeonflux which M-SB and I will watch tomorrow night.

Tomorrow... work and sponsor hunting... then cleaning and planning.

Friends hope to get me out to Ottawa again soonish... But I am not sure what I can manage. I and still confined to Sunday night to Monday night. Since I have ucky key duties and still have classes to teach. Or I can do Thursday evening to Friday night. Not great considering most folks are working while I am off work. Oh well. We will see what I can manage.

I hope tomorrow is as fantastic a day as today was. I also hope the weather is better!!!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Face Lift 

Thanks to Airea, I have a header pic!! And I needed to change my background colour to match it. It feels wierd to not have blue here. Well... I needed a bit more fire in my life anyways!

THANKS!

4 solid undesturbed hours 

Yay... i slept. But oh gods... oh gods... not enough. I feel like hell... tired, nauseous.

*grumble... moan* 

I am awake. Not by choice. I finished watching all the Firefly and Serelity episodes and movie. My basket plan is prepped. I read the rest of my book by Timora Pierce. I am hot, but if I open the window I am cold. My aches are easing, so the weather must be starting to balance out. Unfortunately the bridge of my nose is hurting even more. I am swollen just barely enough that I don't need a mirror to see it. If I am laying down it throbs and then my head pound with the throbbing.

I am going to get a drink now and some advil and crack the window a smidgeon. I have 3 days work ahead of me. I NEED SLEEP.

Oh... I get a new gecko tomorrow. M-SB's sister is giving us hers. She doesn't know if it is male or female. I will check. So I have work then a visit with her.

Please gods... let me sleep these next 4-5 hrs well.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Just got back... 

Did my run-around. The joints still ache, mostly in my hip. What hurts most now is my nose where I wacked it. It is thobbing and sweeling and hurting so much i have a headache and am dizzy. So stupid and annoying!!! I feel like a fool. Thankfully it is NOT swelling so much nor going purple to make me LOOK like a fool.

So I am home. I am going to make Matza Ball soup for me and M-SB for dinner. Then I guess I will tackle laundry while it cooks.

OH! Woohoo! Another sponsor for the Serenity Charity! And on Friday, I will have yet another from an Army Surplus store!

*bleh* 

Well bad sleep, bad weather, bad pains... I was ill all bloody morning which seriously interfered with the things I wanted to do today. I will run my errand, then try to find something safe to put into my tummy. And from there see what I can do of the tasks I wanted for the day:

-take out recycle (not gonna happen till i feel better)
-return books to health services concordia (the errand i am about to run)
-scrub fish tank and store it (ya... will do that)
-fold clean laundry (ya... that too i will do)
-do 2 more loads of laundry (i will try)
-clean and rearrange the bedroom (um... dunno about that)

Cranky and VERY annoyed 

Yes... the timestamp is so frustratingly accurate. I am awake. The cramps have left me to be replaced by joint aches and pains from the chill damp weather and the throb of the bridge of my nose where I wacked it real hard by accident with my heavy clip watch.

Since I could not sleep, I figured I would go online. But internet was not working. After trying a few things and arguing with Bell tech team, I discovered that somehow the modem was not plugged in. I have no idea how that is remotely possible. I mean REALLY have no idea. It should have been plugged into the jack splitter. But there was no jack splitter. I thought I was losing my mind trying to figure out how the phone and modem were using the same jack earlier just fine and now ... well... this just plain don't make sense. I won't be able to make sense of it till M-SB is up and out of bed so I can tear the bed away from the wall to investigate the wiring under the bed. As it was I woke him unpleasantly just unplugging the phone and plugging in the modem.

I am kinda tired, very cranky, and achy in my hip and ankle... and nose. The small bit of shifting of stuff I had to to to get the modem working and that woke M-SB was just shy of me screaming in fury and throwing things. Good thing tomorrow is completely a day off for me. If you get my answering machine while you try calling the house, please try my cell. I might still be having fights with the modem and phone.

This bed against the wall thing is infuriating. M-SB keeps knocking the plug from the wall. I think the bedroom is going to get cleaned tomorrow and REARRANGED... just cuz I am in a pissy mood about this happening all the f-ing time.

Ugh... apparently, Montreal Browncoats need a permit to have a raffle. I will have to call the government place tomorrow and sort that out. Stupid red-tape. Well, after this I will know how it is done for future events.

Ugh... started this blog entry at 4am... it is now 4:30am.

And that CMS L1 book brink wall refuses to budge so far.

**::EDIT 5:00AM::**
Just to piss me off more, Blogger is being extra annoying and not posting for some reason.

**::EDIT 12:40PM::**
All f-ed up and nauseous now from bad morning. I hardly slept and the alarm clock was messed up cuz I was messed up with resetting it. I think I got total maybe 2 hrs sleep. *BLEH*

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Pain and Annoyance 

I am CRAMPING. ARGH!!! Woozy... made for a slow slightly "off" feeling, at least for me, coven afternoon. I apologize to all the coven for me being "off". This pain is very very annoying, especially coupled with somehow I stepped wrong and turned my ankle. It hurts too. This makes me much cranky. It is hard to think through pain and woozy fuzziness. Needless to say, the CMS Level 1 book encountered yet another brick wall. I practically want to scream. I know... the logical person would say, just skip that section and come back to it later. I am not that kind of logical person. I need to push through this wall before I move forward or the wall will piss me off and ruin everything I try afterward.

Maybe I will just go watch Firefly and relax with another hot water bottle. Actually... I think I need to make a trip to the pharmacy. I have nothing left for killing pains. All the med bottles are empty. *sigh*

Oh oh oh... on the plus side. I got yet another sponsor for the Serenity Charity baskets. BlueLine shot glasses. Check out the website for the Montreal screening HERE.

Random Colour Opened for Invisible 



I swiped this from Airea's page where she has more photoc of the concert. I LOVE this shot of Random Colour! It would make a cool album cover! This inspiring all girls rock band opned for the all guys rock band, Invisible. The opened acts were challenging pieces and they once again blew me away! They played one of my FAVORITE song: Moon over Bourbon Street by Sting. I was tunned and mezmerized by how well they did, especially with this song. Ceri chrstined the only guy in their band on stage, Max the sax. He is a smaller sax and was absolutely glorious. He suited her so very well, better than Silver Lady, her big silver sax. I hope we see/hear more of him.

Invisible played a huge full set! We whispered amongst ourselves about whethere we missed a year's concert recently. Why? Beacause they both sounded and performed (theatrically) so well, it was like their skills made an improvement jump of tenfold!!! They were an absolute JOY to watch and hear. Zombie Chickens is still stuck in my head!

All in all, last night was an incredible concert! I am glad I got to bring Sarah in to see it with us. It would have been a great shame for her to miss it cuz Hobbes was at a Men's Retreat. I hope that too is going well, despite the CHILL rain.

Anyways, I suspect the next concert, Invisible will open for Random Colour. I REALLY hope Random Colour plays the sting song again, and maybe others.. Well, time for me to be off to work and then coven, and then more basket planning and book writing.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

A day.... 

Cramping... but surviving. Today I meant to wake early and have breakfast with M-SB. We didn't wake near early enough. Tammy came by while I was in the shower to get the air conditioner. I never heard them... despite them calling to me (supposedly). SORRY!

I did have a late lunch at Cafe Yi with a Gazette reporter. She was gathering info for her article of witches gathering. She took down tons of info about me and the things I do. I tried to plug the store, the MPRC, the pagan brunch, CMS and the Serenity charity screening. I hope the article is good. I spoke too much academics to her. Supposedly her readers can't handle my big words, like ontology or henotheistic. *shrug* It will be another "let's try to demystify this strange group called modern witches" kind of article.

A quick run to Loblaws for some foodstuffs. Then back to the firefly hunt for basket ideas. Research is so fun!!! I get to rewatch the TV series and movie again for clues. I have great charity raffle baskets planned. And already some sponsors!!

Almost time for a concert!! Random Colour and Invisibles will be playing tonight. I wish I was not cramping so bad. It is making me woozy. I took med... but really need to lie down for a while. I won't get to do that. *sigh*

Friday, April 21, 2006

Busy Bee... ummm... Firefly Montreal Browncoat 

I just spent the last almost 2 hours emailing maybe 30 different places and people who do stuff, make things, etc. for Firefly and Serenity. I feel productive! I am going to go watch the series and movie again and start making a list of things I would really like to see in each of the character raffle baskets. That way I can target more sponsors. I have been a busy little bee... um firefly! This is what I sent the people I contacted this evening...


Hello,

If you have not yet become aware, there is a charity viewing of Serenity being scheduled in various places around the world. More info here (http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/). Here in Montreal we are putting together baskets as raffle prizes. I am in charge of putting these baskets together. I was wondering if you would be willing to donate something? I have 9 baskets, one for each character. Please let me know. And if you do wish to donate, please provide me with something i can put in each basket with your item that can direct folks to your store for more items.

Thanks,
Scarlet

WOOHOO!!!! *dance dance dance* 

Thank you Genvieve and Dimitri!

I finished my paper today! It is handed in on time too. AND I have done the taxes and gave the lot to the tax guy. RELIEF! I hope there will be a great return! If there is, I will use it to clear off the mastercard and be rid of that albatross.

And I have taken on a fun thing. I am helping the Montreal Browncoats plan a charity viewing of Serenity. They will promote the store and the store can help a bit too. And the fun project I have taken on is the making of the 9 gift baskets for the raffle. Each gift basket will be themed after a main character. They have a blog site for info and some other websites:

http://www.serenitymtl.blogspot.com/

http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/

and the charity they support if the one Joss Whedon himself supports:

http://www.equalitynow.org

Anyways... I am off to enjoy the evening.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Condensed Version 

Today...
I worked.
I worked an hour later than expected.
I rushed to the bank and dealt with gettong papers I needed for taxes.

I packed Cloak into the car on his harness and took him with me to get M-SB. Cloak was very good. I hope to do this a bit more often to get them used to it.

Did some groceries and stuffs.

Now sitting down to paper writing while M-SB updates the CMS accounts.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

New Tsuki Pictures!!!!! 




Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Equiterre 

Well that was an exciting meeting! Here are the details. The farm that drops off baskets closest to where I will be living charges $21/week per basket (for 15 weeks starting July ending October) + $15 to Equirterre. The baskets are large like the size of the new green boxes you can buy at grocery stores (maybe even double that depending what is available). You get a range of veggies, herbs and fruits. Pickup is every Tuesday night 7-8pm. They also have a list of Other Things you can ask for and their prices. So, the total for a the sept-oct year is $330. That is VERY reasnable. And the amount is about enough for 2+ people, or so they say. You can double thatr if you like. And when you pick up your basket and want something added to the next basket from the Other Stuff list, you order it there and pay directly (in cash or cheque). This is excellent! So doing this!

Progress? :( 

Well the day's progression is not going as well as I had hoped, yet in some ways better than expected.

I did get my tax guy appointment. He is so awesome! If you still have to do taxes, call Mr. D. Loerick at (514) 488-8198. He is the best tax guy I have ever met! He makes my financial chaos make actual tax sense! Now that is miraculous. Anyways, I have that appointment with him on Friday at 4pm after work.

The weather outside is so beckoning to me with such distraction! I went and stood on the balcony to saok up some sun and ended up spooking the pidgeon who is determined to sleep under my wicher chair. Cloak LOVES to watch him. I hate that he is making a bird-poo mess on the balcony. There is no nest... just bird-poo.

As to the paper, well... I emailed the teacher to take that extension he offered me. I have a ton of useful quotes from the various articles but nothing yet written for the paper. I have 2 hrs to write. I am not sure how to even begin. At least I have a topic and quotes to use for it. The amount of quotes though will make my paper more than 5 pages and the max is 5 pages. I will try to get a draft before class. *sigh* Now that I am on the role with the planning of the paper, I loathe the fact that I will have to stop at 3:30pm to get to class and won't get back to it till I get home.

I get home latish tonight. I am going to a meeting about Equiterre in LaSalle at 7pm.

I need to be like three people to do the physical things my mind needs done at a single time. I need someone to type and print the quotes and cut them all out and arrange them on a giant corkboard while I stand back and make suggestions while they rearrange them to my suggests. And, I need someone to dictate the actual essay to while I do all this. *sigh* I could do all this by myself... but it takes more days to do alone. And I have no patience to retype the quotes and don't have a giant corkboard on which to arrange them. I wish.

MORNING! 

I am up early for some reason. I still wake feeling like I have a cold, but the feeling is gone in an hour. Today is paper writing day. That is the primary focus. Paper, class and then a meeting. I am going to the Equiterre for LaSalle meeting today to see about the costs and whatnots for the organic farm baskets. I will have to rush from class, but I think I can make it. (408A Lafleur at 7pm)

I dreamed paper all night. And the annoying thing is now I can't remember what I dreamed. The details would have made an EXCELLENT paper!

OH... have to call the tax guy too.

Ok, I will dress and eat first, then call tax guy then plough through paper. If there is time (HA!) I will fold the dark laundry.

Some photos I finally got off my camera 

Bagheera on his Entrance Perch where he can receive royal luvvins from every person who comes in or leaves the apartment or passes through to the kitchen. *grin*



Here is me with the tiny clover crown that Airea got for me to wear on St-Patrick's Day while I worked and we watched the parade. She is the only person who can get me to do silly fun things like that!


The Sugar Shack experience! Me and Raphael out at the Sugar Shack. There we enjoyed awesome food and learned about organic farming.




C4 and more to the Brick Wall !!! 

After I vented by tossing stuff around in the bedroom and then fed the snakes, I was able to think more clearly. I was going to work on my paper, but I got all riled up and opinionated about the articles while discussing them with a classmate. Since I have to be not so opinionated or at the very least able to back up those opninions, I deemed it safer to focus on other things till my head was once again clear.

So... I tackled the brick wall with metaphoric C4. BLAM!

I managed to get through the really difficulte reference section on the Level 1 book. I am now on page 40 and pushed the overall pagecount to 154. That is exciting! What is demoralizing is that I haven't cleared the material for class 2 of the first trimester yet. *groan*

Crap... it is 1am... I didn't even realize the time!!!

I need some sleep so I can work on that paper tomorrow... as it is DUE tomorrow.

Monday, April 17, 2006

*snarl GRRRR* 

So much f-ing crap in the way!!!

SNARL! *tosses stuff onto pile on floor in bedroom to make room to the snake tank and provide some semblance of clear computer workspace*

I cannot think in mess. And the bedroom has not been high on the priority list. Hallway... then Bedroom. Hallway will be end of this week. Bedroom next week.

Toss stuff on forr for now.

With a Little Helping Hand 

Thanks to M-SB, the freezer is finally scrubbed out. I can't reach the bottom. I am too short. Also, the fish tank was dumped. I will scrub it clean tomorrow. The laundry is all sorted but the machines are in use. I also need 3 more loonies to do all the laundry. I have a bunch of things to hand wash, but I need clothes pegs. My little sac of pegs that was hanging out back is gone. So... laundry will be tomorrow I guess.

Now that we is all fed and the chores essentially done for the day, I need to feed the snakes.

Then consider that paper I am not highly motivated to write at the moment. I am more in clean clean clean mode not write write write mode. *sigh* I need a serious "break" activity to change headspace.

Slow-mo & Hi-speed 

Physically, I feel stuck in slow motion. Mentally, I am in high gear! I barely extricated myself from bed around noon. I was feeling fuzzy headed, mild sore throat, and slightly stuffy. Ugh... NOOOooooOooooo... I don't want a cold! I slept as much as I could. Finally I just got up. Cloak was meering and bouncing all over me to get up. How dare I stay in bed till noon on my day off! Rotten soon-to-be feline slipper.

Well, I did get busy, slowly. I washed 3 loads of dishes. I spring cleaned the foyer. I took apart the fish tank. I need M-SB to empty it and dump the rocks so I can scrub it clean. There are just three pans in the sink and the fish tank accessories. I also have to clean up the shoes on the shoe rack... oh... and toss the shoe rack. I want metal ones from Ikea when next we go there. That will conclude the foyer spring cleaning. I have yet to sort laundry too.

Mentally, I have been in contact with bank and kitten people. The bank has nothing for me yet. A1Savannahs has processed my visa and mailed the slip to me to sign and mail back, even though my bank is being super slow at showing that it has been processed. I planned the CMS schedule for L3 and L4 and sent out emails for guest speaker. I also planned the summer CMS activities. Nope, I have not yet gotten to my paper.

I will finish the shoes and laundry then work on paper.

The brick wall seems to still be firmly in place regard the CMS-L1 book.

OH! Bank just called! FINALLY! My last statement calculation for CMS are in so I can do the taxes. It will cost me $20 to get them. Ugh. Not as bad as I thought, but still. So on Thursday when I have some $$ I will go get it and then call our tax guy for an appointment.

Ok, off to deal with shoes and laundry. Then plan supper and THEN work on paper.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Brick Wall *OWE* 

Came home and worked more on this Level 1 book. Ate dinner and haleped make more cookies. Then worked more on this Level 1 book. I forgot to finish spring cleaning the "foyer".

OH! The airconditioner is now sold.

Back to the book... i discovered all kinds of interesting things!!!

http://www.geist.com/vancouverdesktop/copy.htm

That was the most interesting find. I have been checking formatting and notes and inserting references and further reading and activity advice. Reached page 37 of 152 pages (more pages get added as I add infor and recommendations). Then... hit the proverbial Brick Wall. *owe*

Time for bed I guess.
Tomorrow is spring cleaning, feeding snakes, banking (and praying the finances balance out), writing my term paper... and then working more on the book.
Yup, bedtime. *yawn*

Easter Update 

Last night was AWESOME! Airea has great parties!! THANK YOU!

Today I slept in nice and late. Ahhhhhhh. I work today at the store then come home to bake cookies for M-SB, spring clean the "foyer", and think about my paper.

A little at a time, the house gets spring cleaned. Once it is all spring cleaned, then we will start packing. I can hardly wait to see the new place all empty so we can think about what will go where and how to decorate.

OH! Folks... I have a HUGE airconditioner to sell. It is too big for the windows of our new place. If you are interested, I am selling it for $40. It is big enough to cool a whole single floor 5 1/2 to as large as a single flor 7 1/2. I needs me a littler one.

Contact me at 799-9412 or cougora@sympatico.ca

Saturday, April 15, 2006

work work work 

Today has been fun work though. Just taking the day slow and lazy-like. We did a grocery run so I can have cookie ingredients. Then baked a batch of cookies. I will bake another batch tomorrow just for M-SB with dark chocolate chips in them.

Got the new guys all sorted out for the store. I will be busy making new schedules AGAIN! But it is all good. I actually don't feel stressed about training them. This is especially good to feel the new staff is reliable and competant.

M-SB is now cooking MEAT... well sausages of various types for the potluck Easter dinner tonight. I started spring cleaning the small entry. I will finish it in a moment.

I also decided to act upon some inspiration from the divine and suggestions from friends. I am compiling the CMS material into a publishable book per level. This has been much fun, at least for the Level 1 stuff. It is all compiled. It now just needs some tidying up and insertion of references and stuff. The other levels... well... those are a bit more of a headache. I have been pondering the Level 2 books some. I have a fair idea how I want to handle them and their compilation. Levels 3 & 4... there is a challenge! I am actually considering condensing the Level 3 now down to an intense 25 week course like the Level 2. 40 weeks was great when there were potentially 15 students, but for smaller classes, I can really tighten it up I think. After running it for a couple years now, I think I can. I will ask the level 4's and the current Level 3's to evaluate the idea. But for now, I expect to have a publishable Level 1 BOOK by Beltaine.

Ok, off to finish the spring cleaning of the little entry hall. I call it the foyer, but M-SB laughs at me when I do.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Zen Card: GRACE 

The beauty of grace
is that you receive blessings
for no reason.
As above, so below.
PRACTICE random acts of grace.
Give to others for no reason,
offer kindness to those
who are undeserving,
love those
who no one else loves.
Practice Grace.

Birch 

On my weekend walk with Rick in Ottawa, the trees... well just the Birch trees kept whispering to me. They were quite insistant. I was to bring back birch bark paper bits. One for each coven member. O was to bring back one piece for the altar and one to burn as offering with runes upon it. To be done vefore the end of the full moon. I almost forgot. I brought the birch in today from the car. The runes are Fehu (for wealth) and Berkano (for growth). I will inscribe it later tonight and burn it.

Here are some good sites with info on BIRCH:

http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/birch.html

http://www.druidry.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=0&page_id=72

Berkano: (B: Berchta, the birch-goddess.) Birth, general fertility, both mental and physical and personal growth, liberation. Regenerative power and light of spring, renewal, promise of new beginnings, new growth. Arousal of desire. A love affair or new birth. The prospering of an enterprise or venture.

Private early Easter Dinner 

Today was wonderful for the sleep in. A decision still has not been made regarding a new guy at work. We will give them both second trial days. Maybe in the end hire them both as one of our employees is going traveling across the pond for 2 months in the summer. We shall see.

Tammy came over with the PERFECT material swatch for a ritual robe. I sent her home with both of my cream robes for her to match the pattern for a black one. I might even ask a second one of her. But for now the $175 for the first will be enough. It is a VERY simple robe. But then, I like simple. I also like veratile, durable and practical... yet elegant. I am a difficult person for these desires/needs. But I trust she will do a wonderful job. I have seen her other work. I am much impressed and highly recommend her. Again go see her website of DragonMoone Designs. We then trussed Bagheera into his harness and leash and took him out on Monkland for a walk and visit to the Tea House. I came home with a fruity Chai. Bagheera was a bit stressed and minimally complaintive. It was his first outing in 5 years. He was so good considering! Next outing will be with Cloak. I want to get them used to outings and walks. Crap... have to get them vaccinated soon. Well, the visit with Tammy was fantastic. I was still tired and not as talkative as I would have liked. Once the paper is done and I have a little more breathing space, that will change... along with several other things.

M-SB and I then headed out to get MEAT... for Easter Dinner tomorrow at Airea's. We picked up HUGE sausages, home-made kinds, of 10 different flavours. We also decided to have a nice dinner of our own tonight. So in the oven is a ham roast with pinapple, maple syrop, brown sugar, onions, carrots, potatoes and spices. MMmmmmMmmm... It will be ready very soon. We are watching Kingdom of Heaven together too.

Ok... off to call people and take out the ham roast.
*content*

sleep... blessed sleep 

Well, I apparently woke M-SB when I came to bed last night/this morning. He asked what time it was and then asked me to turn off the alarm so it would not wake me in the 4hrs it would have if it was left on. I got 4 solid hours of sleep. I feel kinda normal again. Yesterday, after the running around I was hungry and getting to a point of very very uncharacteristically irritable. If I was nasty to anyone, I really reall realy do apologize. I am so sorry. I really am not like that usually. A few people got the nasty side of me. *sorry* M-SB got the brunt of it.

Well, I am feeling much more normal now.

The place M-SB needed to go is closed today anyways. So now I have fewer plans. I have to go to the store for a bit and try to decide on which new guy to hire. OY! Such a hard decision!!! Then home to pass student exams to Hobbes and tidy the house some. Then Tammy from DragonMoone Designs (and a dear friend of mone for ages) will be coming over for tea and chat and stuff. And the weather has actually become remarkably pleasant. It was supposed to rain most of the weekend, but seems to have blown over after all. So, Tammy and I might take a long walk to the Tea House to drool over more teas.

Kingdom of Heaven 

Well... 3:*something* AM... I am still up. Rather, I got hungry amd could not sleep. So, I watched the movie. It was good... really good. I think I wish to own it. I am impressed. Now I will try to get some sleep before the vile alarm goes off.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Busy decent day 

Well, the new guy # 2 worked today. As I suspected... oy... it will be a very tough decision. *sigh* If I had the hours to give them, I would hire them both. *sigh* Being a managerial type is hard sometimes.

I bolted from work shortly after 3pm to get to school and pick up my paper. I had to wait 10min to see the teacher for it. I did really well on it!! B+/A- is amazing for a paper i though sucked. He also gave me some pointers for the next paper and allowed for an expention if I felt I needed it. He really encourages the students and challenges them without overwhelming them. His enthusiasm and encouragement inspires students, makes them really WANT to do their absolute best and then some for him. *smile* He is a truly fantastic teacher.

When I finally got out of that I was stuck in traffic praying to make it to Yevshan on time. And needed to deposit my check before going so I could pay for the order. There was NO bank in sight along the way. I was nervous to use my visa as several things are coming off it over the weekend and I don't want any to bounce. The woman who processed my order informed me that my visa will not be charged till Monday or Tuesday and she will ail me the bill. AWESOME!

Zipped to my Mom's to get my check and hear the family news/gossip. Then I snail-crawled through traffic trying to get to the bank before 6pm so I can get depoits done to register for todays bank business day. I just barely made it. I also got some news on the paperwork I was waiting for at the bank. It should arrive Monday. I will have to pay for that. I be so broke now though. Well, at least the current bills are all covered, barely. Mom has to wait a week for $50 and I hope Sympatico does not pass before I get to deposit next week's paycheck.

M-SB and I then ate out. It is nice to do sometime, just to have a change of pace and scenery. Rented a movie, which I will go watch in a minute. Kingdom of Heavan. I hope it is good. Flight Plan was kinda disappointing. We then took a trip to Breault & Martineaux then Corbeil Electroniques to look at stoves and stuff. I fell absolutely in love, IN LOVE, with a small patio chair that ROCKS. I want want want... $265 *sigh* Really want. It was comfy and I can read and rock on the balcony or wherever I plunk it. *dream dream dream* I have wanted one all my life. Oh.. and the cats CAN'T damage it no matter how hard they try! Must must have. We will have to see after my kitten is bought. Though I sure will be happy if it is gotten for me as a house warming / birthday present! *GRIN* (hope the family reads this blog)

*yawn* 

Well, I got to bed around 2am. But other than that I slept. I want more sleep. Tomorrow I can sleep in. M-SB has Friday off, so we both sleep in. What a blessing! His alarm times KILL me. I have come to the conclusion that when his alarm went of at 6am then 7am and he left for work I still got a solid 2-3 hrs sleep after. Now his alarm goes of at 7am then 8am and I get up when he leaves. F-ed up sleep all morning... no wonder I am tired.

So... today's run-around is...

Work
Concordia for paper
Yevshan
Mom's
Bank
Call Tax Guy

*grumble grumble sigh of exasperation* 

I can't sleep. I am annoyed. Banking stresses. Grumbly.

I forgot that I have errands to run tomorrow, so I can't put in a couple extra hours at work. I have to go pick up my Yevshan order and go to the bank and call my tax guy. I hope to get to do the taxes next week. Mayb the windfall I need will be there in my tax return.

OH! Tax return! Hey! Forgot that mom has a $100 tax return for me! I will stop by her place on my way home from Yevshan.

Ok... this week's finances will balance. I will have absolutely ZERO after, but the priorities this week will be dealt with (car, sympatico, visa). My book club payment will go through soon as well as my kitten payment. I wish these things would just register immediately as opposed to 5+ business days later.

I can't go to Ottawa this Easter weekend. I have to work on Sunday.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

New and Old 

Good and bad. Ok... not bad, well... actually... yes bad.

The good today was that work went smoothly, except for me having to learn to void a credit card for an order SEVERAL times today. Well... now I REALLY know how to do it! We tried out a new guy at work. He was ... impressive! The decision will probably be very very tough. There is another new guy to try tomorrow. Why give trial days? Well, when a couple people seem absolutely equal that interviews cannot help the decision... you give the a day in the environment to see how they fare. Today's new guy fared impressively!

The Reiki workshop for CMS-L1 by Robyn was excellent! Everyone was so very happy! The students did their Sabbats exam afterwards.

The rain was nice and warm-ish. I wish I was not so tired. I would go for a walk. But having woken at 3am for a couple hours kinda through my energy out of wack.

That was part of the bad. The other is that damnable Master Card outstanding debt. It needs addressing. Just haven't figured out how to address it. I am still trying to do "catch-up" on all my finances after the March rent thing. *sigh* A windfall would be real nice about very soon... like within the next few weeks. I am pretty much caught up on ALL the other old debts. What a wierd feeling... feels all "grown up". Except that damnable Master Card. *grrr* I'd rethink my kitten if it wasn't already 1/4 paid for. And the Master Card debt would be fine if they just would accept the $100 a month I was giving them. But they aren't. *sigh* Moments like these, I try to remind myself that the Divine will provide (as long as I am not a bump on a log). Doesn't mean I won't stress about it though.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

OH! New pictures of Tsuki! 

Apparently, despite him being a bit camera shy (he just will not look AT the camera), his eyes are STILL blue!!! BLUE!!! Neat! The breeders won't garuntee that his eyes will stay blue, but think that it is a good likelyhood. WOW! Special!!









Ottawa "Weekend" 

Sunday:
Busy day with stuffs and coven. After coven, I met up with Hobbes, Sarah, Sam (MPRC: Elf), and Marie. We ate dinner and chatted about Domaine LARPing at the Old Orchard pub on Monkland. Then drove back to Ottawa where her and Rick turned me to mush with their fine healing and massage. *purr purr purr*

Monday:
Rick & Marie had to work. I spent most of the day nibbling my tortillas and maple butter while reading reading reading my article for today's class. I passed out asleep in my book on the bed late in the afternoon, dead to the world. Dead enough that Rick seriously started me awake when he called me up. We headed out to the Ottawa Pagan Pub Moot. That was awesome!!! Met up with a few folks I had not seen in years and made a few new connections. Home again for a hot shower and back to reading. Rick helped me out incredibly by reading some of my article himself and discussing and debating the points with me till I understood it. THANK YOU!!! I have no idea how late we were at that... but it was late.

Today:
Hugs and kisses as Marie headed out to work. Then up and read read read some more for the last couple pages. Breakfast was followed by oggling Savannah kittens. Then we went and raomed a wooded area with trails (VERY SMALL) while Shadow, Rick's dog, ran about freely chasing things and digging holes. It was rejuvenating to walk for a couple hours in nature. This was more therapeutic than anything! Must repeat this kind of activity again SOON. Then off home. Got to try out the DVD player I got from mom at Yule in the car. The little portable thing worked like a charm! I got to listen to Firefly all the way home! I got home at 3pm and checked email, discussed some details of coven event with someone till 3:55pm. My class started at 4pm. AK! I headed out, got 1/3 of the way out and forgot my wallet at home. I rushed back, grabbed the wallet and was off again. I was going to be late for class. If I could manage to not have any hiccups, I would make it into the class during the late grace period of 10min. But I was going ever so slightly too fast around one corner and was tagged for speeding. CRAP! I didn't even realize I was going to fast. I was going the speed of traffic and we were all nabbed. DOH! It took the cop 30-45min to write up my ticket. So much for class. *sigh* And it was an important class and the LAST info class. DAMMIT! *sigh* Moping, I headed home, stopping to get M-SB from work on my way back. He made me a soft ice cream at his work to cheer me up. We rented the movie Flight Plan to watch during dinner. It was ok.

Folks from Ottawa want me out again next weekend. Next Sunday is the Ottawa Pagan Conference. If I have money for gas after I have paid things this week, I will go. I have a few things planned for Friday, namely a potluck "easter" dinner at a friend's on Friday. I also have my final paper to write. We'll see.

Plan this week:

Wednesday - work, call bank re: taxes, write a chapter on my novel while CMS-L1 happens

Thursday - work, pick up Yevshan order of Pysanka stuffs, clean house

Friday - meet teacher, spring clean something in the house, pay bills, make something for potluck, attend "easter" dinner

Saturday - drive out to Ottawa, enjoy time with Rick & Marie, work on paper

Sunday - Ottawa Pagan Conference, relax, work on paper

Monday - work on paper, drive home, work on paper

Tuesday - work on paper, present paper, celebrate being done the course

Well, I am tired. Night night all!

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Gone for 3 days 

Ok... I am gone now till Tuesday afternoon. So i will not be replying to anything or anyone. Blissful retreat with friends, here I come.

BYE ALL!

Tea and Meditation 

Today I packed for my trip to Ottawa. Crap... I forgot to pack my homework. DOH! There. Now I am packed.

I am sipping a tea, the oneI got from Alyson. I found the distributer and am hoping to become a cliet of theirs. I will hear back from them sometime this week.

So... sipping tea... relaxing... meditating. I drew one of my Zen cards to consider.

UNITY

UNITE all things,
When all of your energies
are going in the same direstions,
great things will happen.
When you unify others,
success is assured.
Work in HARMONY
with the Way,
and all things will flourish.

I am reminded about how I am so divided: work @ the store, teaching, teaching CMS, coordinating CMS, University courses, coven, family, moving, living my path, Fest security, etc. My energy is not harmonized nor is it all going in the same direction. Some of these things work together, but not all. No wonder I am so exhausted all the time. I mean I knew that. But I am not certain of what to do about it. Or I am just too afraid to cut any of these things from my life. Some of these are short term activities. Moving will be over by July. AI fest will be over by July.

How to unite things and harmonize them....

Well, for now, I will sip my tea. It will come to me. *hopefully before I am burnt out*

Friday, April 07, 2006

Day with Alyson 

These are GREAT days! We get so much done from private teaching to the work here. She arrived around 11am. We ran errands. Off we headed to Montreal West where I showed her around the little shop area of the small town village busy sector. We looked into an antique shop where I found a LOVELY antique wooden chest perfect for coven stuff. $275. She does a lay away program too. Hmmm... Will think on that. Also, she has these LOVELY chairs but they were really expensive. I so wanted one or two for the new place. And there was this 200 year old corner hutch for dishes. She had it reduced from $975 to $600 because after closer inspection, there was some damage to it and the front drawer does not match. Shame. I will seriously consider the chest. I might get it just for things like ritual robes and altar cloths. It was not too big and had a rounded top. We had a lovely walk. I left Alyson at the second hand book shop while I went to the bank. They will get me a copy of my 2005 business account statements so I can finish the CMS accounting. That will take a few days. Finished paying stuffs. Still have to go get the GST check from Mom. I poked into the book store too and got me a novel to read. Then we returned the movie I rented. Pride & Prejudice was decent. I think I like the other version of it, though. Then to the grocery store. They have these big reusavle bags AND these GREAT green boxes with handles for carrying groceries in. I got one of each. On our way home, we picked up cat food at the vet clinic and then booked a vaccination appointment for my little boys for May 5th. That won't be fun. Oh well. They need it.

Once back, we worked on energy work. Reviewed what she knew and taught her how to make a ball and cast a circle. Then had butternut squash soup for lunch. Continued with stone lore and drama & costume in religion. I left her with my teacher notes, since I am still having fights with the documents. Next time I see her, I will test her on stone lore. I loaned her my copy of the stress management book (yes, I found my copy!). We will talk about stress management, counseling, animal lore and researching.

Then came the heavy stuff. I Spring Cleaned the bathroom while she tackled my floors. I can't believe the amount of crap I have collected into such a TINY room!!! Anyways, big garbage bag gone. Less to move when we do. I am grateful for this exchange. It is wonderful to have company and I don't feel like the tough cleaning is so daunting with said company. AND she gets to also learn Level 2 in order to be able to join the rest of the Level 2 when they move into Level 3 in September. Thank you Alyson for all your help.

Now I am sitting with tea... Rooiboos Earl Grey with a tough of organic sugar. Mmmmm....

When I am done the tea, I will run my last errand. Out to the new Bureau En Gros in Westmount on Sherbrooke West. I need a few things and I have a $10 gift card. Then home for supper: diced chicken, egg noodles, alfredo sauce. Mmmmmm...

Last will be finishing up the planning for tomorrow's classes. I am missing the gem show again this round. But i bought groceries instead, so there be no extra for stones. Besides, I want money for gas to go to Ottawa to visit with Rick & Marie.

So, today has been a good day so far.

Functional 

I still woke a few times in the night, but at least I slept between them. I am still kinda slow today, but my head at least has some modicum of thought processes today.

I was trying to work on a level 2 workbook that is similar to the level 1 workbooks in structure to the trimesters of curriculum, but the book formatting has some oddities i could not fix and was mad at it last night.

Today, I am teaching Alyson some L2 stuff. Then working on the apartment. Then I don't know what. I am not yet fully awake.

Oh joy! Mom got my Gov check for GST. I need to get it and deposit it... but it is $106. Awesome. Good candle! Thank you Divine for helping smooth the way for us.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Late Day 

So I made it to work and worked. I didn't make it out of work till 5:30om instead of 3pm. Ugh. Good, but also ugh. Got lots done... just not the nap. Missed returning library books. Managed to squeak inot the post office just before they closed. Banking got mostly done. Missed depositing a check, will do that tomorrow. Paid lots of stuff today (visa, M-SB, Bell, Kitten, and whatnot.) Brain fuzzy. Picked up a movie to lounge with. Pride & Prejudice. I hope it is good. I have $1700USD left on my kitten to pay. M-SB is making pizza for dinner. Cats destroyed a cheese breadstick because I forgot to feed them this morning. Is my brain putting stuff down here in any form of coherency? Maybe not... I think I will just set up for movie and relax for the night.

Tomorrow Alyson comes over. We talk CMS-L2 stuff, tidy kitchen, spring clean other things, run errands, and have tea!

OH! Tea! I met up with Tammy from DragonMoon Designs. She will be coming over next week to see my cream ritual robes and talk about getting others made with my extreme fussiness over material. What has that got to do with tea? I figured we would have tea together since we hardly ever get together these days. Ok... off for a relaxing night.

*pain* 

4:45am
I am still awake. I am not sure whether I want to kill something or just die. My hip hurts. Stupid damp chill weather. No position eases it. I have taken drugs and am now hoping they kick in soon. Shoulder is still acting up too, but not the stabbing blinding pain that my hip is giving me. The alarm goes off in 2hrs 15min.

I want to scream.

I want to cry.

I know neither will help.

**::EDIT::**
5:30am
I am still up. I still hurt... minimally less. 1hr 30min till the alarm goes off. Is there a point to sleeping? Or trying to?

Well let's consider tomorrow's plan of activities and see if I can sneak in a nap somewhere:
- work 10am-3pm
- post office to mail off student package
- banking
- get cat litter
- Con. U. Health Services to drop off books and pay late fees
- spring clean bathroom
- dinner
- spring clean locker
- rent movie or do something fun

**::EDIT::**
6:00am
Ok... I will drop the spring cleaning for tomorrow and put in a nap and maybe some novel writing. Try to do destress things in hopes that I can rebalance my system enough to sleep. Also try to be WAY MORE DILIGENT about taking my glucosamine. If you see me or speak to me, ask me if I took it. If I didn't it will remind me to bloody well do so.

Ugh... M-SB suggested just getting up when I am not sleeping well. If this doesn't work, I might kill him. Oh... and 222's have not helped one wit regarding the pain.

AND... my email is being stupid! I can email out but can't seem to get anything in. After M-SB wakes, I will call them and give them HELL.

Oh... and if this pain is the result of some nut doing voodoo on me... May the Morrigan ruin your life 1000 fold till you beg for mercy then may she laugh in your face and give you more! So mote it be!

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Squeeee!!!! AAAAAAhhhhhhhh !!! Squeeeeee!!! 

Concordia is hosting an 8-weeks in China Language course!!! June 1st to August 1st. SQUEEE!!!!! $3000 everything included except meals (though you can eat in the Nanjing cafeteria for sheap. Qualifying students may apply for a student travel bursary of $750 per month. SQUEE!!!!

I want to go. It would be my 2 years (12 credits) of Chinese in 8 weeks immersion.

I just don't have the initial $3000. Also, I would still have to manage to pay my half of the bills at home and get my kitten. *sigh*

If I could do both... I would sign up right now!

Alas... I hate when reality bursts such a nice bubble.
*pout*

shoot me 

Shoot me now. I am so non-functional. I slept maybe 3 hours. I couldn't get to sleep till like 1am. Then I was awake like it was morning at 4am. Just as I managed to fall asleep, the alarm at 7am went off. Then again, just as I am falling alseep, the alarm at 8am goes off. I crawl groggily from bed at 8:30am. I feel like a zombie. The walking near-dead. Shoot me, shoot me now. The going to bed at 1am is not a problem. It is the waking up at 4am and not getting back to sleep cuz my body is CERTAIN it is late morning despite my argument with it that is is 4am and still bloody dark out! If I slept till 7am... I would be just fine.

Today is also a LONG long day for me. I work the store till 6pm then wait around for the class to be over around 9(ish)pm. Today I will bring my laptop and novel to work on. I also have to make spiced apple cider for class.

As I am functions super slow, I better start getting read now.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Stalled and rebooting 

That is how I feel. I stalled today and was barely functional in class. I barely made it home too. This weather or something... geez. Had dinner and relaxed. Essentially rebooted mentally.

Now I am back in creative gear. I started another novel. This time I have the whole outline of Chapter Titles. And the first mini chapter. I am working on the rest as we speak. When I am roughly satisfied with a chapter I will post it. For now... you can check it out here:
http://field-lion.blogspot.com/

Passed out 

I was dead till noon today.

Now it is snowing... hmmm... more like falling sluch.

I am down to reading for class. I just need to survive 3 more weeks.

Monday, April 03, 2006

COSTCO & CMS 

Well the trip to Costco was successful save for one thing. I do not have anything with the new address on it so I did not get my card. As soon as I sign the lease with the new place, I will get a card. I even stopped at my parents' place and my grandmother's for a bit on the way home!

Dinner was yummy as always. I love when M-SB cooks.

He helped me with the extremely daunting CMS accounting. It is done. All I have left now is to go to the bank and ask for last year's statements and call the tax guy to see what final calculations I need to do before I see him. I would gladly pay a fee for companies to send an anual statement of the account activity (like Bell, Hydro, Gaz, cell, etc, etc, etc). It would make this a bit easier. I prefer paying someone for the convenience they provide for me to save me time in my already overbooked and busy life schedule.

Last on today's list of to do's was to read my articles for tomorrow's class. I am bushed though. I think it will be early to bed for me. Then I will read all day tomorrow before class.

The little chores 

Well, I got up and did the littel things. Finished the kitchen cleaning and swept. Called in and paid my book club. Paid the vet (with the $20 bounce fee...grrr... I told him NOT to cash it... so that on top of my bank bounce fee of $35 means I lost $55...grrr). Sally Ann stuff is gone. Dropped off the movie. And paid the agreement on my tickets. Those fees were a hard hit for me. Meant I had to use the visa to pay the ticket agreement. I must remember to get that back into my visa for Thursday so my Kitten payment goes through.

My hair is having a bad day and the headache is still around. My hair has been all staticky and fly-away. Today I put "stuff" in it to tame it. I feel like I betrayed my hair and body as I NEVER put "stuff" in my hair. The headache lingers, despite drugs. I should have stopped at the pharmacy and picked up migraine advil. Oh well.

The Chinese Language Department of Concordia University got back to me. They have a very restricted course. It is a hard and heavy load of 9 credits in one semester, 16-hrs (8 class hrs + 8 lab practice hrs per week). They have opened the class for me and will hold me a seat if I can get permission to take it. I am excited! I am also worried. Heavy loads means that working will kill me or my grade or both. This will require some serious thought. I may just want to focus on the classes for the grad and wait on the languages.

Now to go fold laundry, sort more laundry to wash, wash dishes, and cut broccoli.

Evil Air pressure 

Woke with the headache from hell. Still have the headache from hell... since 6am this morning. I am up though. I will get my morning stuffs done. No reading. Head hurts. No vacuuming... I will sweep instead.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

not much done 

After I watched my movie and finished griping about stuffs, a few individuals from 2 very unrelated circles seriously pissed me off. There definately NOT going to be anything regarding accounting happening after that. My focus was well... very dark. So I vented on the kitchen some. Did a bit more cleaning.

Next weekend I will take a little get-away to see Ottawa Rick and Marie.

I need to establish my Monday/Friday sacrosanct days again. I fear that things will be very bad otherwise.

Tomorrow's plan:
- vacuum the kitchen
- pay the vet and the book club
- drop stuff off at the Sally-Ann
- pay the ticket agreement
- read some of my articles
- meet up with Autumn & Ash for a costco field trip (mmmm... jarlseburg)
- stop by mom's to get books and stuff (she found my USB key with my thesis!)
- home for beef & broccoli dinner
- CMS accounting (need to really push for it)

M-SB isn't feel well at the moment. Poor guy.

Tuesday:
reading, spring clean the bathroom, class

Wednesday:
work, reading, plan workshop, banking

Thursday:
work, pay kitten, spring clean the hallway, pay mom for car, pay bell

Friday:
Alyson comes over, spring clean the living room and the bedroom, plan Saturday classes

ok... enough brainstorming... Goodnight all!

Inventory Griping 

Every Inventory we have ever done, the day was a Mandatory work day for everyone. I gave up a needed homework day to do this one today. ANd Nathalie gave up the day she has with her kids. The youths... "i have homework" "i made other plans" " i don't feel well and besides the store isn't open anyways" Well... it left us severely short-staffed. And meant we were there longer than we would have been. I even called in my husband to help. Employees... beware of Scarlet this week. She is going to be very cranky with all of you, guttersnipes! Don't even THINK of asking for a day grace unless you are in the hospital dying and can return with a bloody note! I can be very accommodating until I have been taken advantage of. Be nice to me and I'll be nice to you. Shaft me... and GODS HELP YOU!

Ok... I am done ranting.
Thank you Nathalie for coming out and staying the many hours it took to do this.
Thank you Dimitri for doing the front inventory with us... I know this means you still have to try to do the back inventory tomorrow along with regular work.
Thank you M-SB for coming in and giving us some much needed help.
Thanks Debra for the great pizza! We managed to get it done by 5:30pm despite everything.

I am tired, sick of seeing numbers and just want to chill. So does M-SB. *sigh* and there is so much needed to be done here too. I will go tidy the kitchen and push to have the smaller chores done. Then I will chill and watch a movie. THEN we will tackle the CMS accounting.

Alas... it is morning of daylight savings time 

If you have not moved your clocks ahead an hour, then for you it is 8am. For me it is 9am. I have been up almost every hour. However, I think my sleep in each of those hours has been like power naps. Either that or the nice sunshine outside is really helping me. I feel ok and not overly groggy. Spring sunshine is so cheery.

Today I have lots of things to do and with luck, they will be done quickly so I can manage to tackle them all, especially since some of these things have been on my list all week.

- Inventory work day at the store.
- tidy kitchen (which I hope M-SB does all the little things on the to do list)
- put my bags and their content away
- Spring Clean the bathroom
- CMS accounting
- pack the non-essentials of the kitchen into the boxes I brought home
- read articles for school

Today should be a bright sunshiny day of a high of 10 C. Have a great day everyone!!!
*where is this bright awakeful cheery mood and energy coming from?*

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Energy Workout 

Today's classes were AMAZING!!! Everyone did so well that I was much impressed.

We started off with "guess what I am!" This is where I take several interesting items with different energy and hide them under cloth. I place a # by each and the students sense the energy of each item and try to guess what each one is wiout seeing it nor touching it physically. They did 60% + or better!! They actually all read accruate energy off each item for the most part. Identifying the object can be very tough though. Cudos to those who guessed right on a few!

Then we played "blind-man's bluff" where one student is blindfolded. Everyone else stands still and shields with energy that readiates. There are also chairs as labrynth obstacles with shield placed on them. The blindfolded person then must navigate the room without bumping into items or people and must find and itentify each person without looking nor touching physically. Again, they all did amazingly, both as the blindfolded person and as the shielding person. This is LOTS of energy work!!!

Then Ash did a fine introduction to offensive/defensive energy work. The students were given an assignment and we closed with one more game of "blind-mans bluff".

We were FAMISHED after so much energy work ... and exhausted!

Moved the clocks forward an hour and now are just lounging and relaxing after yummy pizza dinner. I think I will watch Howl's Moving Castle in bed. Tomorrow I have to be up early and out to the store to counts stuff all day for inventory. Then home to to CMS accounting before M-SB has a complete fit about not having the taxes done... as the CMS accounting has to be done first.

Time for tea... and bed... and movie. Hmmm tea... which one do I want to have? Peach Ginger. Or Raspberry... hmmm... Peach Ginger.

April Fool's Day 

4:00am WAKE UP!!! *snicker snicker...* I woke to the first April Fool's joke. Mother nature's. I woke thinking it was midsummer since it was so hot.

5:30am WAKE UP!! *snicker snicker* I woke to the second April Fool's joke. The birds were singing near the window and I was certain it was after sunrise. Nope.

I did get some sleep, despite waking at stupid hours. The rain and air pressure has left me groggy and achy. I am glad it is noon. Supposedly April Fool's day jokes are not supposed to happen after noon. I also got to sleep in. What a novelty! Today the CMS classes are merged for an afternoon. With all this rain... all I want to do is sleep sleep sleep.