Monday I had school, then Rovers (we went bowling but I didn't bowl, my knee was bothering me). John came with me and registered as part of the crew. We have a new girl, her name is Shivani and she is from India. She is here on an exchange with the Rotary Club and she seems very nice! The people who went were John, Shivani, Will, James, Cory, Rick, Andy and two of Cory's friends from work (Skye and someone...).
Tuesday was a day from HELL!!! :( I had a migraine when I woke up (the weather must be changing) so I took a Motrin and a Tylenol Max and went back to sleep for a couple of hours. I had class all afternoon so John dropped me off around 12:15 and picked me up when I was finally done sectionals just after 7. We went out to see Holly at work and grabbed something to eat and then came home and he went to work.
Today I dropped him off, went to class, came home and cleaned/organized and then tonight I went out for dinner with Will. We went to the Mongolie Grill and it was ok... Sometimes a bit awkward but there doesn't seem to be any way around that. Afterwards I dropped stuff off to Julie for the Silent Auction this weekend and ran over to Rick and Joyce's to drop off a thank you card for Larry.
Now, I am home and I am going to continue cleaning/organizing. I always feel like the place has to be spotless when I have friends over... I am stressing out because I don't think it will be totally clean by the time I have to leave tomorrow. :( I am trying my hardest though! (Who needs sleep? Honestly!) I do need to get a bit of sleep so I can function to drive tomorrow though... Whatever, back to the grindstone!
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Today in point form.
Today I did the following:
- Slept in until 11am (because I could and I have been exhausted recently).
- Hung out with my grandpa.
- Went shopping with my mom and brother.
- Dealt with my dad on a number of topics.
- Went to Ken and Trevor's birthday party (the pizza part, I was dealing with family stuff before it).
- Talked to Ben, nothing was really resolved, in fact, I felt worse after.
- Picked John up and organized groceries for the week.
- Drove to Lethbridge.
- Talked to Holly about the Cabaret.
- Talked to my mom and found out my grandpa is at the ER at the Lougheed because his back was bothering him so much.
- Now... I am going to bed.
- Slept in until 11am (because I could and I have been exhausted recently).
- Hung out with my grandpa.
- Went shopping with my mom and brother.
- Dealt with my dad on a number of topics.
- Went to Ken and Trevor's birthday party (the pizza part, I was dealing with family stuff before it).
- Talked to Ben, nothing was really resolved, in fact, I felt worse after.
- Picked John up and organized groceries for the week.
- Drove to Lethbridge.
- Talked to Holly about the Cabaret.
- Talked to my mom and found out my grandpa is at the ER at the Lougheed because his back was bothering him so much.
- Now... I am going to bed.
Interesting... Birthdays and THING and such.
I keep forgetting how much blogging at the end of the day calms me down... It helps me get to sleep and it's no wonder if that's the case that I haven't been sleeping so well lately.
Hmmm....
This weekend has been quite interesting thus far...
Friday night I went out with Taryn, Jan, Ben, Mika and Stephen for Taryn's birthday. The six of us went to the Wildwood pub (which was actually pretty nice) and then Ben and Stephen left and the four of us went to Karouzo's for their karaoke night. I sang "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and "I Will Survive" and Mika sang "My Way" and we did "If I Had $1,000,000" together. Taryn didn't sing but she did get sung to and she had to do a muff diver (it's a shot) from between some random guys legs. It was pretty amusing and we took tons of pictures/videos. :) I was expecting a call from Ben and never heard from him and Laurel and I talked while I was on my way home. I miss talking to her at random times during the week...
Today I slept in and then went to the bank (to get a new debit card, mine hasn't been swiping properly), to Axe Music (to pick up a silent auction donation and look at/buy a Djembe) and then to Chinook to find a dress for next weekend (the Cab is next Saturday). I spent some time hanging out at the mall once I found a couple of dresses and put them on hold and then met up with my mom to get her opinion and to buy one. We also went to the Build-a-Bear Workshop and made a bear to go with the "Valentine's Gift Basket" that we are making for the Silent Auction. His name is "Valentino" and he is white with a blue nose and he is wearing a tux (complete with shoes) and is holding roses. He is VERY cute. :) Afterwards, I went to the church and worked on some homework and played Zuma while I waited for other people to show up and THING to start. The talk was really good and it created a lot of conversation/discussion afterwards during small groups. After THING, we went to Moxie's and I talked Trevor into going with us. It was awesome to hang out with him, I don't get to do that very often. I sat at the same end of the long table as Matt, Trevor and Britney. It was nice to get a chance to converse about things that weren't mainstream... Meaning, we talked about a ton of different things, basically from the crude to the lame to the indepth, hard hitting stuff. It was interesting.
Now, I'm home and going to bed P.D.Q. Tomorrow I am doing some random stuff, including shopping for the rest of the stuff for the basket with my mom and going to Trevor and Ken's joint birthday party or "BIRTHDAY PANDEMONIUM" at Fish Creek and then Ken's house. Eventually, I will drive back to Lethbridge as I have class on Monday morning... For now, off to bed I go!
Hmmm....
This weekend has been quite interesting thus far...
Friday night I went out with Taryn, Jan, Ben, Mika and Stephen for Taryn's birthday. The six of us went to the Wildwood pub (which was actually pretty nice) and then Ben and Stephen left and the four of us went to Karouzo's for their karaoke night. I sang "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and "I Will Survive" and Mika sang "My Way" and we did "If I Had $1,000,000" together. Taryn didn't sing but she did get sung to and she had to do a muff diver (it's a shot) from between some random guys legs. It was pretty amusing and we took tons of pictures/videos. :) I was expecting a call from Ben and never heard from him and Laurel and I talked while I was on my way home. I miss talking to her at random times during the week...
Today I slept in and then went to the bank (to get a new debit card, mine hasn't been swiping properly), to Axe Music (to pick up a silent auction donation and look at/buy a Djembe) and then to Chinook to find a dress for next weekend (the Cab is next Saturday). I spent some time hanging out at the mall once I found a couple of dresses and put them on hold and then met up with my mom to get her opinion and to buy one. We also went to the Build-a-Bear Workshop and made a bear to go with the "Valentine's Gift Basket" that we are making for the Silent Auction. His name is "Valentino" and he is white with a blue nose and he is wearing a tux (complete with shoes) and is holding roses. He is VERY cute. :) Afterwards, I went to the church and worked on some homework and played Zuma while I waited for other people to show up and THING to start. The talk was really good and it created a lot of conversation/discussion afterwards during small groups. After THING, we went to Moxie's and I talked Trevor into going with us. It was awesome to hang out with him, I don't get to do that very often. I sat at the same end of the long table as Matt, Trevor and Britney. It was nice to get a chance to converse about things that weren't mainstream... Meaning, we talked about a ton of different things, basically from the crude to the lame to the indepth, hard hitting stuff. It was interesting.
Now, I'm home and going to bed P.D.Q. Tomorrow I am doing some random stuff, including shopping for the rest of the stuff for the basket with my mom and going to Trevor and Ken's joint birthday party or "BIRTHDAY PANDEMONIUM" at Fish Creek and then Ken's house. Eventually, I will drive back to Lethbridge as I have class on Monday morning... For now, off to bed I go!
Thursday, January 12, 2006
The last couple of weeks in a nutshell...
Ok, so I haven't written anything on here in a couple of weeks... There are reasons for this, some of which I will get into in this entry and others I'm not going to touch. Also, I don't figure anyone is reading my blogs anyway, so I might as well document what has been happening for myself.
I'll start at New Year's Eve... I spent time with my mom (which was awesome!) and then went to the Cave to hand out pizza and then to Ben's to hang out. The people at Ben's were Elisa, Jameson, Ben, Meghan, Taryn, Cory, Ryan, Naomi and Alessa. We played "Would You Rather?" and then after everyone else had gone home, Meghan and I started watching "Coach Carter" until Ben got back from driving people home. I had a dry New Year's... Yes, that's right. Nothing to drink.
New Year's Day I went out for dinner to the Spaghetti Factory with my mom and brother. This was the day my grandfather started feeling worse than he had been before. He felt crummy enough that he cancelled his dinner plans and was in bed by around 5pm. That night I went back out to my cousin's place to spend some more time there, with them, instead of by myself. Their kids are awesome! :)
So, MWF I had physio. I was supposed to have a JC appointment on M but I moved it to R and then to F and eventually ended up cancelling it and booking for next Sat. Monday I had made plans with Anders to play Monopoly. I played the risky way (spend all your money so you go bankrupt, thus ending the game) but we were still at it for about 3.5 hours. Tuesday I hung out with Laura and then went shopping with my mom. That night, I went to a movie and dinner with Ben (We saw the newest Zorro movie and went to the Olive Garden). It was fun... :) We wandered the Asian supermarket by the theatre, saw the movie and then went for dinner. Afterwards we went back to his house and watched "Wedding Crashers" (which he had never seen and I had bought that day) and then I went home. Wednesday was pretty uneventful... Physio and hanging out with Laura for a bit. My grandpa had surgery to remove cancerous cells from his head that day and he also had to have a skin grsft so I spent the night sleeping on the floor in my Grandma's room so if he needed anything at night, I would get it for him. I found out that my dad was on his way home that night... Thursday I went to Denny's with Ben for "Brunch" and then we went to Chinook and wandered and shopped. He got some new jeans (they are nice) and I got a couple of scarves, a set of flip flops and I built a bunny at the Build-a-Bear. My mom called while I was at the mall to say that she and my grandfather were at the Foothills. His family doctor figured he had an absess on his liver and had sent him over to see his specialist. The admitting nurse in the ER mis-read the forms and told him to wait for the attending and then, when they realized their mistake they pulled his name from the GP list, then they tried to get in touch with the specialist and he was gone so they put my grandfather back into the GP list but he still have 12 people in front of him as he had lost his spot in line when they pulled him. I went and took them both something to eat and picked up a few things my mom had asked for (namely, his meds and a set of slippers). He was in so much pain that sitting up was hurting him and making it hard for him to breathe. His doctor had said that if it was an absess, they would drain it and would probably get close to 2L of fluid out of it. That explains why he hasn't had much of an appetite, why he hasn't been feeling well and why he has been having problems with his clothes fitting (he had gained 17 pounds and 10 inches in his waist in a month which is what made the doctor take a second look). That night I went back to Laura's as my dad came back from B.C. My mom called around 10:30 to say they were home from the hospital, my grandfather had had enough and told the nurse he was leaving without seeing a doctor and when she protested, he said if he got worse, he would call 911 and come in by ambulance. Friday I did some running around and had physio and then before my JC appointment I stopped at my grandparents to make something to eat, check my e-mail and order my textbooks online. I put something under running water to thaw (those were the directions) and left it for about 15 minutes while I waited for the internet to not be dumb and the tap was barely on so I didn't think anything of it. I had checked the stopper, it appeared to be out so that it didn't hold the water in the sink and then I left it. When I came back to it, the sink was full and was overflowing onto the floor. It was all over the kitchen floor and when I went downstairs to get towels and blankets to sop some of it up, it was leaking into my room through the ceiling. Needless to say, I panicked. I cleaned it all up and nothing was damaged or anything (THANK GOD!!!!) and then I was soaked and exhausted so I cancelled my JC appointment and then went and sat down to rest. After a bit, I mopped the floor (with Mop and Glow) and then warned my grandfather (he was laying down and knew nothing about what had happened) that the floor was a little damp from my mopping it and I left to go back to Cochrane. I figure the 7-year story rule applies on this one... *sigh*
The weekend... Saturday I hung around Cochrane and played with Emma and watched some T.V. with Laura. Afterwards, I called and text messaged some friends to see if they wanted to do something. Sandra, Ben, Meghan and I went to the Club and had something to eat and then went for a swim and then bowled. Ben is a superstar bowler apparently and the first game he killed all of us... After bowling we went up to the 818 for something to drink and we split nachos. Matt came by while we were there (we were watching the Flames game) and we all left the club around 11:30pm. Sunday I was at my grandparents, where I packed to go home (back to Lethbridge anyway, the one place I'm not a "guest"...), and then out running some errands and then to the TEC AGM. It went well, it started later then planned and then when we finished (actually, when my mom called in a panic), I left. I drove back to my grandparents (which wasn't in the original plan) to check on my grandpa as he hadn't been answering the phone. Dad was refusing to go over and Mom was in Lethbridge (she had driven John down) and she was freaking out so I went over. Turned out, he wasn't answering the phone because he figured it was my dad. (Dad was being a complete jerk all day...) After I made sure he was fine, I drove back to Lethbridge in time to fall asleep (I was exhausted) in time to get enough sleep to function at school the next day.
This week... Monday was MY first day of class. It went ok, I only had one class but it was good. I did some running around with my mom and bro in the afternoon and then went to my Rover meeting. Tuesday was a long day... I start class at 9:25am, I have one class and then a break for almost 3 hours. I went home, packed a lunch and then John dropped me off for my afternoon classes. I have class straight from 1:40 to 6:30pm and by the time I got home, I was exhausted. My classes are pretty fun though... I have a History class that might kill me... We are working on listening to popular music and picking out the rhythms and meter in Musicianship... I learned "Oloonkatiza Moobiledi" (I sounded it out, it's an african phrase and I have no idea what it means) and some other drumming rhythms in my World Rhythm class... We got some new pieces in Orchestra and a new clarinetist. She sits behind me in the section... Wednesday and today were pretty much repeats of the previous two days... Except... Tuesday night I got an e-mail from one of the advisors for Fine Arts saying that I was missing a pre-req for one of my courses and if I didn't get a form signed and in by tomorrow at 4pm, I would be removed from the course. I panicked, e-mailed my prof, the chair (who is also one of my prof's) and this guy back. Wednesday I ran around trying to find the prof (who wasn't one campus all day) and the chair. It ended up that the chair gave the other advisor the prof's home phone number and she called him for me... He gave me permission to stay, she signed it off for him, I took it to the chair and he signed it and then I dropped it back off to the advising office. Turns out, when I got home I found out that the guy who had originally e-mailed me had talked to the prof as well and was going to give me until Friday to remedy the situation. Yet, when I was sitting in his office fighting tears, he didn't mention it to me. (GRR!)
So, today was ok, all in all. We listened to more pieces in Musicianship. Dee, Ash and I all did very different pieces... Dee did a yiddish fiddling tune, Ash did "Crazy Frog" and I did "All Along the Watchtower." In Canadian History (the class I was fighting to keep) we listened to Canadian Folk Songs. Specifically, the one I knew and could sing along with was "A la claire fontaine." In World Rhythm we spent most of the class dancing and it sure worked up a sweat! It was fun tho, we did it to a rhythm that he taught to us as "Ta-co Bell is good." They rearranged the Clarinet's again, I'm sitting one chair further up in my section (one of the girls who sat ahead of me is now a section up) and one of the girls who used to be in that section was moved up as well... I came home and watched "Beauty and the Geek 2" and did homework and now I'm pretty much ready for bed.
Tomorrow, I am going to wander the Imaginus poster sale after class and then head for Calgary. I have physio at 3:30 and Taryn's birthday party at 6. It should be an interesting evening...
I'll start at New Year's Eve... I spent time with my mom (which was awesome!) and then went to the Cave to hand out pizza and then to Ben's to hang out. The people at Ben's were Elisa, Jameson, Ben, Meghan, Taryn, Cory, Ryan, Naomi and Alessa. We played "Would You Rather?" and then after everyone else had gone home, Meghan and I started watching "Coach Carter" until Ben got back from driving people home. I had a dry New Year's... Yes, that's right. Nothing to drink.
New Year's Day I went out for dinner to the Spaghetti Factory with my mom and brother. This was the day my grandfather started feeling worse than he had been before. He felt crummy enough that he cancelled his dinner plans and was in bed by around 5pm. That night I went back out to my cousin's place to spend some more time there, with them, instead of by myself. Their kids are awesome! :)
So, MWF I had physio. I was supposed to have a JC appointment on M but I moved it to R and then to F and eventually ended up cancelling it and booking for next Sat. Monday I had made plans with Anders to play Monopoly. I played the risky way (spend all your money so you go bankrupt, thus ending the game) but we were still at it for about 3.5 hours. Tuesday I hung out with Laura and then went shopping with my mom. That night, I went to a movie and dinner with Ben (We saw the newest Zorro movie and went to the Olive Garden). It was fun... :) We wandered the Asian supermarket by the theatre, saw the movie and then went for dinner. Afterwards we went back to his house and watched "Wedding Crashers" (which he had never seen and I had bought that day) and then I went home. Wednesday was pretty uneventful... Physio and hanging out with Laura for a bit. My grandpa had surgery to remove cancerous cells from his head that day and he also had to have a skin grsft so I spent the night sleeping on the floor in my Grandma's room so if he needed anything at night, I would get it for him. I found out that my dad was on his way home that night... Thursday I went to Denny's with Ben for "Brunch" and then we went to Chinook and wandered and shopped. He got some new jeans (they are nice) and I got a couple of scarves, a set of flip flops and I built a bunny at the Build-a-Bear. My mom called while I was at the mall to say that she and my grandfather were at the Foothills. His family doctor figured he had an absess on his liver and had sent him over to see his specialist. The admitting nurse in the ER mis-read the forms and told him to wait for the attending and then, when they realized their mistake they pulled his name from the GP list, then they tried to get in touch with the specialist and he was gone so they put my grandfather back into the GP list but he still have 12 people in front of him as he had lost his spot in line when they pulled him. I went and took them both something to eat and picked up a few things my mom had asked for (namely, his meds and a set of slippers). He was in so much pain that sitting up was hurting him and making it hard for him to breathe. His doctor had said that if it was an absess, they would drain it and would probably get close to 2L of fluid out of it. That explains why he hasn't had much of an appetite, why he hasn't been feeling well and why he has been having problems with his clothes fitting (he had gained 17 pounds and 10 inches in his waist in a month which is what made the doctor take a second look). That night I went back to Laura's as my dad came back from B.C. My mom called around 10:30 to say they were home from the hospital, my grandfather had had enough and told the nurse he was leaving without seeing a doctor and when she protested, he said if he got worse, he would call 911 and come in by ambulance. Friday I did some running around and had physio and then before my JC appointment I stopped at my grandparents to make something to eat, check my e-mail and order my textbooks online. I put something under running water to thaw (those were the directions) and left it for about 15 minutes while I waited for the internet to not be dumb and the tap was barely on so I didn't think anything of it. I had checked the stopper, it appeared to be out so that it didn't hold the water in the sink and then I left it. When I came back to it, the sink was full and was overflowing onto the floor. It was all over the kitchen floor and when I went downstairs to get towels and blankets to sop some of it up, it was leaking into my room through the ceiling. Needless to say, I panicked. I cleaned it all up and nothing was damaged or anything (THANK GOD!!!!) and then I was soaked and exhausted so I cancelled my JC appointment and then went and sat down to rest. After a bit, I mopped the floor (with Mop and Glow) and then warned my grandfather (he was laying down and knew nothing about what had happened) that the floor was a little damp from my mopping it and I left to go back to Cochrane. I figure the 7-year story rule applies on this one... *sigh*
The weekend... Saturday I hung around Cochrane and played with Emma and watched some T.V. with Laura. Afterwards, I called and text messaged some friends to see if they wanted to do something. Sandra, Ben, Meghan and I went to the Club and had something to eat and then went for a swim and then bowled. Ben is a superstar bowler apparently and the first game he killed all of us... After bowling we went up to the 818 for something to drink and we split nachos. Matt came by while we were there (we were watching the Flames game) and we all left the club around 11:30pm. Sunday I was at my grandparents, where I packed to go home (back to Lethbridge anyway, the one place I'm not a "guest"...), and then out running some errands and then to the TEC AGM. It went well, it started later then planned and then when we finished (actually, when my mom called in a panic), I left. I drove back to my grandparents (which wasn't in the original plan) to check on my grandpa as he hadn't been answering the phone. Dad was refusing to go over and Mom was in Lethbridge (she had driven John down) and she was freaking out so I went over. Turned out, he wasn't answering the phone because he figured it was my dad. (Dad was being a complete jerk all day...) After I made sure he was fine, I drove back to Lethbridge in time to fall asleep (I was exhausted) in time to get enough sleep to function at school the next day.
This week... Monday was MY first day of class. It went ok, I only had one class but it was good. I did some running around with my mom and bro in the afternoon and then went to my Rover meeting. Tuesday was a long day... I start class at 9:25am, I have one class and then a break for almost 3 hours. I went home, packed a lunch and then John dropped me off for my afternoon classes. I have class straight from 1:40 to 6:30pm and by the time I got home, I was exhausted. My classes are pretty fun though... I have a History class that might kill me... We are working on listening to popular music and picking out the rhythms and meter in Musicianship... I learned "Oloonkatiza Moobiledi" (I sounded it out, it's an african phrase and I have no idea what it means) and some other drumming rhythms in my World Rhythm class... We got some new pieces in Orchestra and a new clarinetist. She sits behind me in the section... Wednesday and today were pretty much repeats of the previous two days... Except... Tuesday night I got an e-mail from one of the advisors for Fine Arts saying that I was missing a pre-req for one of my courses and if I didn't get a form signed and in by tomorrow at 4pm, I would be removed from the course. I panicked, e-mailed my prof, the chair (who is also one of my prof's) and this guy back. Wednesday I ran around trying to find the prof (who wasn't one campus all day) and the chair. It ended up that the chair gave the other advisor the prof's home phone number and she called him for me... He gave me permission to stay, she signed it off for him, I took it to the chair and he signed it and then I dropped it back off to the advising office. Turns out, when I got home I found out that the guy who had originally e-mailed me had talked to the prof as well and was going to give me until Friday to remedy the situation. Yet, when I was sitting in his office fighting tears, he didn't mention it to me. (GRR!)
So, today was ok, all in all. We listened to more pieces in Musicianship. Dee, Ash and I all did very different pieces... Dee did a yiddish fiddling tune, Ash did "Crazy Frog" and I did "All Along the Watchtower." In Canadian History (the class I was fighting to keep) we listened to Canadian Folk Songs. Specifically, the one I knew and could sing along with was "A la claire fontaine." In World Rhythm we spent most of the class dancing and it sure worked up a sweat! It was fun tho, we did it to a rhythm that he taught to us as "Ta-co Bell is good." They rearranged the Clarinet's again, I'm sitting one chair further up in my section (one of the girls who sat ahead of me is now a section up) and one of the girls who used to be in that section was moved up as well... I came home and watched "Beauty and the Geek 2" and did homework and now I'm pretty much ready for bed.
Tomorrow, I am going to wander the Imaginus poster sale after class and then head for Calgary. I have physio at 3:30 and Taryn's birthday party at 6. It should be an interesting evening...
Friday, December 30, 2005
Good week... Good friends... :)
It has been a long week and I flipped my sleep schedule completely around but I got to see my friends a lot so it made for a good week.
Monday night I had people over to watch movies. Sandra, Meghan, Matt and Ben came and we watched "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and "Fantastic Four." Ben came when we were most of the way through the first and Matt left before we started the second. It was a good group of people and we had fun.
Tuesday night Sandra, Matt and I went to Elisa's house (Ben's sister) and watched the Flames Game with Kirsten, Ben and Josh. Afterwards we went and found food (KFC, then DQ to find out it was closed, then A&W) and went back to Ben's and watched "Four Brothers." It was kind of frustrating because Kirsten had a modnight curfew and Matt offered to drive her home but Ben ended up driving her. Matt left like 5 minutes after they did and by the time Ben got back, the movie was over and Sandra and I were leaving. I would have hung out for a bit but... I'm not going to sit around waiting to see if he's going to come back... Afterwards I stopped at home and picked some stuff up and Sandra picked up her car (which was at my house) and I went to Victory with her. We had a sleepover and it was cool to meet some of the people she goes to school with the next day during lunch.
Wednesday I went to Pizza and Prayer at Trevor's new place. It is cool to see him living on his own and in the North! :) The people that were there were: Laurel, Ken, Christine, Ian, Trevor, Sandra, Amanda, Matt and I. It was a good night. Afterwards, I went to see "The Family Stone" with Shannon and Stephanie and then I went out to my cousin's house in Cochrane.
Thursday I ran some errands and then Matt, Meghan and Ben came to my cousin's to spend the night. We watched a bunch of movies ("Into the Blue," "Rebound," "American Pie presents Band Camp," "Man of the House" and "Hitch," not in that order...) and Matt fell asleep during the second to last movie and I went to bed just as the last movie was starting. I needed to get some sleep. :)
Today, we got up and I made "breakfast" (Eggo's and orange juice) and then everyone left around 1pm. I went into Calgary for Physio and then came back out to Cochrane and put "Cinderella Man" in and almost immediately fell asleep. :) I woke up around 10:30 and then decided to watch a couple episodes of "What Not to Wear." Bedtime soon... :)
Monday night I had people over to watch movies. Sandra, Meghan, Matt and Ben came and we watched "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and "Fantastic Four." Ben came when we were most of the way through the first and Matt left before we started the second. It was a good group of people and we had fun.
Tuesday night Sandra, Matt and I went to Elisa's house (Ben's sister) and watched the Flames Game with Kirsten, Ben and Josh. Afterwards we went and found food (KFC, then DQ to find out it was closed, then A&W) and went back to Ben's and watched "Four Brothers." It was kind of frustrating because Kirsten had a modnight curfew and Matt offered to drive her home but Ben ended up driving her. Matt left like 5 minutes after they did and by the time Ben got back, the movie was over and Sandra and I were leaving. I would have hung out for a bit but... I'm not going to sit around waiting to see if he's going to come back... Afterwards I stopped at home and picked some stuff up and Sandra picked up her car (which was at my house) and I went to Victory with her. We had a sleepover and it was cool to meet some of the people she goes to school with the next day during lunch.
Wednesday I went to Pizza and Prayer at Trevor's new place. It is cool to see him living on his own and in the North! :) The people that were there were: Laurel, Ken, Christine, Ian, Trevor, Sandra, Amanda, Matt and I. It was a good night. Afterwards, I went to see "The Family Stone" with Shannon and Stephanie and then I went out to my cousin's house in Cochrane.
Thursday I ran some errands and then Matt, Meghan and Ben came to my cousin's to spend the night. We watched a bunch of movies ("Into the Blue," "Rebound," "American Pie presents Band Camp," "Man of the House" and "Hitch," not in that order...) and Matt fell asleep during the second to last movie and I went to bed just as the last movie was starting. I needed to get some sleep. :)
Today, we got up and I made "breakfast" (Eggo's and orange juice) and then everyone left around 1pm. I went into Calgary for Physio and then came back out to Cochrane and put "Cinderella Man" in and almost immediately fell asleep. :) I woke up around 10:30 and then decided to watch a couple episodes of "What Not to Wear." Bedtime soon... :)
Monday, December 26, 2005
Merry Christmas?
Ok, the day started out ok... I got to sleep in a bit and then my mom and my brother came over and we opened packages. I opened my packages from my friends when I first got up and I never seem to realize how loved I am but they made it very clear that they care and that was awesome!
After we opened most of our packages, John had yet to open some of his. He had a hissy fit about the dress shirt and ties my mom and I had gotten him and because he got a few pieces of clothes, he freaked bout us "hating" his taste in clothes... I think he has good taste but I did pick and choose the stuff for him for a reason... :( He didn't end up opening the rest of his gifts until later in the day... "Crown Prince" much???
Anyway, my dad didn't come (which wasn't a big surprise, he had apparently gotten upset with my mom earlier in the day which wasn't fair as far as we were all concerned) and my grandma joined us later in the afternoon. My grandpa went and got her and brought her home... She was "doing laps" (as Will referred to it once which was kind of hurtful at the time but that was what she was doing) and then she laid down for a bit... She kept asking to be taken back "home" and only opened like four of her gifts. It hurt that she didn't open most of her packages... But there wasn't anything we could really do. The day took a turn for the worst when my grandma disappeared during dinner... She did something I can't even write about... And my mom threw up after it and then was really upset in general because she was picturing herself in 30 years and was sad... I didn't know what to tell her other than to not worry about it...
After dinner, my mom and grandpa took my grandma home and then John took mom home and went to Amanda's and I went to see "Rumor has it" with Sandra. It was good ending to the day...
After we opened most of our packages, John had yet to open some of his. He had a hissy fit about the dress shirt and ties my mom and I had gotten him and because he got a few pieces of clothes, he freaked bout us "hating" his taste in clothes... I think he has good taste but I did pick and choose the stuff for him for a reason... :( He didn't end up opening the rest of his gifts until later in the day... "Crown Prince" much???
Anyway, my dad didn't come (which wasn't a big surprise, he had apparently gotten upset with my mom earlier in the day which wasn't fair as far as we were all concerned) and my grandma joined us later in the afternoon. My grandpa went and got her and brought her home... She was "doing laps" (as Will referred to it once which was kind of hurtful at the time but that was what she was doing) and then she laid down for a bit... She kept asking to be taken back "home" and only opened like four of her gifts. It hurt that she didn't open most of her packages... But there wasn't anything we could really do. The day took a turn for the worst when my grandma disappeared during dinner... She did something I can't even write about... And my mom threw up after it and then was really upset in general because she was picturing herself in 30 years and was sad... I didn't know what to tell her other than to not worry about it...
After dinner, my mom and grandpa took my grandma home and then John took mom home and went to Amanda's and I went to see "Rumor has it" with Sandra. It was good ending to the day...
Friday, December 23, 2005
Open House, etc...
Last night was interesting...
I am not going to go into a run through of my last few days as a play by play is a good way of me winding down sometimes but in retrospect of a couple of days, maybe not so much. So I will touch on the highlights...
Tuesday we got back into town and I spent some time at my mom's school. Afterwards, John went to the CAVE and mom and I drove out to Cochrane to see Laura, Jason, Anders, Jack and Emma. We gave them their Christmas gifts and Anders and Jack their birthday gifts as well and I hung out for a bit and chatted with Laura after my mom left to go pick up John.
Ben called around 10 and I made plans to meet him at my house around 11 so we could go rent a movie (it was too late to go to a theatre) and I left Cochrane around 10:30.
Ben and I met up and unloaded my car and then went to Blockbuster and Wendy's. We went back to my place and watched "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and then sat and talked. He left around 4:30am.
The next day I hung out at the house and spent some time with my grandpa, went to my J.C. appointment and then to see my physiotherapist. Turns out I'm not nuts, I did screw up a tendon in my knee and he worked on it (ultrasound, electric stimulation,etc.) and did acupuncture. I felt better but sore after and went to meet my mom and brother (anyone ever notice you take out one letter and it becomes "bother" I wonder if there is a reason for that...???) at North Hill. John greeted me with "Luke's getting married!" and I was surprised but happy for Luke. (He is a friend of John's who has been around for years and I know his older sister's.) We did some Christmas shopping, organized food and beverages for the Open House the next day and then went in our separate directions. I ended up at Shaun's house with Ben and Shaun and we watched "Must Love Dogs" and they both rolled their eyes and such but it was cute in a sappy kind of way... :) I dropped Ben off at home and then came home and crashed.
Wednesday was our Christmas Open House... I spent the day running around and picking up food, decorating the house and generally, trying not to panic. Our first guests arrived at 4:45 (or so) and we hung out for a while before anyone else came. It was a good night though. The final list of who came was fairly short and mainly my friends but it was fun. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves at least. The people who came were: John, Mom, Papa, Britney, Taryn, Laurel, Kurtis, Jackie, Ben, Matt, Korrina, Katrina, Jan, Shannon and I. Six of us crashed in the living room for the night... It was an interesting evening. I don't know what else to say about it... I had a good time overall and my friends seemed to as well. Some people did or said stuff they may regret later but that is typical of a gathering where there are many people.
We went for a walk to find a park and tried the elementary school by my house first. Turns out, there is a park there, it is further back in the field than we walked and we went to this other park that has skating rink by my place instead. We split into girls and guys and talked and such and then walked back to the house. A few people added layers of clothes and then we went and laid in the field across the street and looked at the stars. Matt and I had found Orion while we were walking but we were looking for the dippers. We found the big dipper just before we went in but we were having issues finding the little dipper... Could be that we were slightly intoxicated at the time... :) When we got back, we put on "Raise Your Voice" and Brit, Matt and Taryn fell asleep almost immediately. I sat in the kitchen and talked to Jan until a little past 3. We talked about a lot of random stuff. It was a good conversation.
In the morning, we cleaned up a bit and then at noon(ish) Ben and Britney left with Brit's dad and then the rest of the people who had stayed helped me clean up the rest of the dishes, the furniture, the food, etc. I vacuumed the living room, hallway and dining room and around 1 Matt drove Taryn home and Jan to a train station.
I then went to get my hair cut and then back home to meet up with my mom to finish off Christmas shopping. My dad was here when I got home tonight so I am going to bed early. I am going to get as much sleep as I can!
I am not going to go into a run through of my last few days as a play by play is a good way of me winding down sometimes but in retrospect of a couple of days, maybe not so much. So I will touch on the highlights...
Tuesday we got back into town and I spent some time at my mom's school. Afterwards, John went to the CAVE and mom and I drove out to Cochrane to see Laura, Jason, Anders, Jack and Emma. We gave them their Christmas gifts and Anders and Jack their birthday gifts as well and I hung out for a bit and chatted with Laura after my mom left to go pick up John.
Ben called around 10 and I made plans to meet him at my house around 11 so we could go rent a movie (it was too late to go to a theatre) and I left Cochrane around 10:30.
Ben and I met up and unloaded my car and then went to Blockbuster and Wendy's. We went back to my place and watched "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and then sat and talked. He left around 4:30am.
The next day I hung out at the house and spent some time with my grandpa, went to my J.C. appointment and then to see my physiotherapist. Turns out I'm not nuts, I did screw up a tendon in my knee and he worked on it (ultrasound, electric stimulation,etc.) and did acupuncture. I felt better but sore after and went to meet my mom and brother (anyone ever notice you take out one letter and it becomes "bother" I wonder if there is a reason for that...???) at North Hill. John greeted me with "Luke's getting married!" and I was surprised but happy for Luke. (He is a friend of John's who has been around for years and I know his older sister's.) We did some Christmas shopping, organized food and beverages for the Open House the next day and then went in our separate directions. I ended up at Shaun's house with Ben and Shaun and we watched "Must Love Dogs" and they both rolled their eyes and such but it was cute in a sappy kind of way... :) I dropped Ben off at home and then came home and crashed.
Wednesday was our Christmas Open House... I spent the day running around and picking up food, decorating the house and generally, trying not to panic. Our first guests arrived at 4:45 (or so) and we hung out for a while before anyone else came. It was a good night though. The final list of who came was fairly short and mainly my friends but it was fun. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves at least. The people who came were: John, Mom, Papa, Britney, Taryn, Laurel, Kurtis, Jackie, Ben, Matt, Korrina, Katrina, Jan, Shannon and I. Six of us crashed in the living room for the night... It was an interesting evening. I don't know what else to say about it... I had a good time overall and my friends seemed to as well. Some people did or said stuff they may regret later but that is typical of a gathering where there are many people.
We went for a walk to find a park and tried the elementary school by my house first. Turns out, there is a park there, it is further back in the field than we walked and we went to this other park that has skating rink by my place instead. We split into girls and guys and talked and such and then walked back to the house. A few people added layers of clothes and then we went and laid in the field across the street and looked at the stars. Matt and I had found Orion while we were walking but we were looking for the dippers. We found the big dipper just before we went in but we were having issues finding the little dipper... Could be that we were slightly intoxicated at the time... :) When we got back, we put on "Raise Your Voice" and Brit, Matt and Taryn fell asleep almost immediately. I sat in the kitchen and talked to Jan until a little past 3. We talked about a lot of random stuff. It was a good conversation.
In the morning, we cleaned up a bit and then at noon(ish) Ben and Britney left with Brit's dad and then the rest of the people who had stayed helped me clean up the rest of the dishes, the furniture, the food, etc. I vacuumed the living room, hallway and dining room and around 1 Matt drove Taryn home and Jan to a train station.
I then went to get my hair cut and then back home to meet up with my mom to finish off Christmas shopping. My dad was here when I got home tonight so I am going to bed early. I am going to get as much sleep as I can!
Monday, December 19, 2005
Last Exam!!!! Lunch and a movie... :D
Last night I watched most of "Roll Bounce" and from what I have seen so far I really like it. It is different from most of the other movies I have watched lately and is a nice change of pace. I watched it until I was feeling pretty sleepy and then went to bed. Not majorly early, but earlier than normal.
This morning my mom called at 6:45 to wake us up to make sure we got up for our exams. Ash called around 8 to say she was leaving for school and she would see me there. John and I left here around 8:45 and he dropped me off. (I don't know exactly what he did after that until he picked me up...) I told him I would call him when I was done and needed him to come get me as he had an exam this morning from 10-12 and I had until 1:30 to write my exam if I needed it.
I wrote my exam in the prof's office and honestly, it was less distracting than writing it in the classroom would have been... He kept walking in and out of the room which was distracting but I tried to ignore him. He didn't get the school laptop for me which was fine, better even, as I prefer my laptop. But I could have pointed out that with the fact that I was using my laptop, and most of my notes for that class are on the laptop... *eyes-rolling* I guess he didn't think of it and I wouldn't cheat but it is weird that it didn't even cross his mind because he's the prof who is SO worried about cheating due to the fact that he is the chair of the department... It's the same as plaigerism as far as I'm concerned, it could get me expelled and that would suck. I knew someone last year who used to bring crib sheets into exams and I was surprised she never got caught. She has since transferred elsewhere but it always seemes stupid because she always failed the exams even when she cheated... No comment on that one... But on this exam, I guessed on a few definitions... I know what they are but they are processes rather than definable terms so I also showed how they are done and the ones I guessed on I was talking to Ash about after and she said she thinks on a couple we were way off from what the other said but we will have to wait until we get the exams back to see. I asked her about something I wasn't clear on and from what she told me, it sounds as though I may have been way off on one of the concepts we went over in the past couple of weeks... We'll see.
In the middle of my exam my phone rang... It was a surprise for many reasons. Firstly, because I thought it was on silent. Secondly, because it was my brother. (Apparently, the whole "I'll call YOU didn't register...) Thirdly, I couldn't find it and that wasn't so good. The good thing was the prof was out of the office at the time...
I only hit one question that I wasn't sure of... The rest of the exam was ok. But it's over and that's the best part!!! I am done for the semester... Now, I wait for marks! *gag*
I got upset with John this afternoon over a list of things but I'm not going to go into that.... I will leave it at I am frustrated and can't do anything to fix it.
I went for lunch with Ash and we made tentative plans that turned into solidified plans later this aft to go see "Just Friends" tonight. We went to Moxie's for lunch (I had a gift certificate that Geoff had given me last Christmas... I go to Moxie's a lot and had used one but not the other, it's weird that way...) and then we had to go get John to his exam. Just as we got home, Holly was leaving to go to work. Ash and I dropped John off for his exam and then I dropped her off at home. We sat in her car and talked for almost an hour... It was a good cnversation. :)
I stopped at Shopper's and picked up a few things I have been meaning to get but keep forgetting and then went and sat outside the college to wait for John to be done. When he was finished, we came home, I ran through the shower and threw in a load of clothes and then went to meet Ash for the movie.
It was a cute movie! It is something that has parts that could feasibly happen in real life and it made it hard to watch at the beginning and then made it more endearing as it went on... There was one part where he is singing "I Swear" in the mirror and it's freaking hilarious! That song came out my grade 7 year and it's their grade 12 grad... Oh boy... :D
Now I'm home, I'm going to go grab something to eat and finish "Roll Bounce" and then finish packing and sleep... I have to get up early tomorrow to get John to his last exam and we need to have the car loaded and ready to go before we leave...
***I don't know how often I will be online in the next couple of weeks... If anyone needs me, please call my cell... Love you all!!! :)***
This morning my mom called at 6:45 to wake us up to make sure we got up for our exams. Ash called around 8 to say she was leaving for school and she would see me there. John and I left here around 8:45 and he dropped me off. (I don't know exactly what he did after that until he picked me up...) I told him I would call him when I was done and needed him to come get me as he had an exam this morning from 10-12 and I had until 1:30 to write my exam if I needed it.
I wrote my exam in the prof's office and honestly, it was less distracting than writing it in the classroom would have been... He kept walking in and out of the room which was distracting but I tried to ignore him. He didn't get the school laptop for me which was fine, better even, as I prefer my laptop. But I could have pointed out that with the fact that I was using my laptop, and most of my notes for that class are on the laptop... *eyes-rolling* I guess he didn't think of it and I wouldn't cheat but it is weird that it didn't even cross his mind because he's the prof who is SO worried about cheating due to the fact that he is the chair of the department... It's the same as plaigerism as far as I'm concerned, it could get me expelled and that would suck. I knew someone last year who used to bring crib sheets into exams and I was surprised she never got caught. She has since transferred elsewhere but it always seemes stupid because she always failed the exams even when she cheated... No comment on that one... But on this exam, I guessed on a few definitions... I know what they are but they are processes rather than definable terms so I also showed how they are done and the ones I guessed on I was talking to Ash about after and she said she thinks on a couple we were way off from what the other said but we will have to wait until we get the exams back to see. I asked her about something I wasn't clear on and from what she told me, it sounds as though I may have been way off on one of the concepts we went over in the past couple of weeks... We'll see.
In the middle of my exam my phone rang... It was a surprise for many reasons. Firstly, because I thought it was on silent. Secondly, because it was my brother. (Apparently, the whole "I'll call YOU didn't register...) Thirdly, I couldn't find it and that wasn't so good. The good thing was the prof was out of the office at the time...
I only hit one question that I wasn't sure of... The rest of the exam was ok. But it's over and that's the best part!!! I am done for the semester... Now, I wait for marks! *gag*
I got upset with John this afternoon over a list of things but I'm not going to go into that.... I will leave it at I am frustrated and can't do anything to fix it.
I went for lunch with Ash and we made tentative plans that turned into solidified plans later this aft to go see "Just Friends" tonight. We went to Moxie's for lunch (I had a gift certificate that Geoff had given me last Christmas... I go to Moxie's a lot and had used one but not the other, it's weird that way...) and then we had to go get John to his exam. Just as we got home, Holly was leaving to go to work. Ash and I dropped John off for his exam and then I dropped her off at home. We sat in her car and talked for almost an hour... It was a good cnversation. :)
I stopped at Shopper's and picked up a few things I have been meaning to get but keep forgetting and then went and sat outside the college to wait for John to be done. When he was finished, we came home, I ran through the shower and threw in a load of clothes and then went to meet Ash for the movie.
It was a cute movie! It is something that has parts that could feasibly happen in real life and it made it hard to watch at the beginning and then made it more endearing as it went on... There was one part where he is singing "I Swear" in the mirror and it's freaking hilarious! That song came out my grade 7 year and it's their grade 12 grad... Oh boy... :D
Now I'm home, I'm going to go grab something to eat and finish "Roll Bounce" and then finish packing and sleep... I have to get up early tomorrow to get John to his last exam and we need to have the car loaded and ready to go before we leave...
***I don't know how often I will be online in the next couple of weeks... If anyone needs me, please call my cell... Love you all!!! :)***
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Mini road trip...
So last night Shaun and I talked until just after 3 and then I finished watching a DVD. I watched "Deuce Bigelow European Gigolo" and then fell asleep around 5am. I slept until 11:30am or so and then got up and packed some stuff into my car and John and I drove to Claresholm and met mom around 1:30. We hung out and visited with her for a bit and then come back to Lethbridge.
We went to the mall and picked John up a phone at Rogers so he now has a Lethbridge cell phone. The guy we dealt with at Rogers was really nice and said he'd give us a deal on accessories so we should go see him again sometime. We said we would. :) We grabbed something to eat at the mall and wandered until they closed. John picked up a ring and I got a couple of sets of earrings and we each got a piece of jewellery that can be worn around the neck. We hit Michael's and bought a Santa wine box for our grandpa and some ornaments for our cousins.
We got home and Holly came over and she and I played LIFE and John studied while I made dinner. Vicki stopped by to drop off a Christmas gift to me and wish me a Merry Christmas and it was great to see her. John and I had pasta (Holly had already eaten) and then she and John started to watch Coyote Ugly and I am going to go watch a DVD in my room.
Ashleigh is supposed to call me later in regards to our test tomorrow and I am going to bed early as the exam is at 9am tomorrow. Prayer please! I am so tired I need sleep... *yawn* I still haven't talked to Ben and I am worried because that is abnormal but... I can't do much of anything. I haven't talked to Matt today either but I'm sure I'll talk to both of them at some point tomorrow online. (I hope.)
Gone to watch that DVD and go to bed early!!!
We went to the mall and picked John up a phone at Rogers so he now has a Lethbridge cell phone. The guy we dealt with at Rogers was really nice and said he'd give us a deal on accessories so we should go see him again sometime. We said we would. :) We grabbed something to eat at the mall and wandered until they closed. John picked up a ring and I got a couple of sets of earrings and we each got a piece of jewellery that can be worn around the neck. We hit Michael's and bought a Santa wine box for our grandpa and some ornaments for our cousins.
We got home and Holly came over and she and I played LIFE and John studied while I made dinner. Vicki stopped by to drop off a Christmas gift to me and wish me a Merry Christmas and it was great to see her. John and I had pasta (Holly had already eaten) and then she and John started to watch Coyote Ugly and I am going to go watch a DVD in my room.
Ashleigh is supposed to call me later in regards to our test tomorrow and I am going to bed early as the exam is at 9am tomorrow. Prayer please! I am so tired I need sleep... *yawn* I still haven't talked to Ben and I am worried because that is abnormal but... I can't do much of anything. I haven't talked to Matt today either but I'm sure I'll talk to both of them at some point tomorrow online. (I hope.)
Gone to watch that DVD and go to bed early!!!
News, tired, a missed exam and the second Christmas party of the season...
So, last night I blogged and then figured I'd read for a bit and head for bed. So I chatted for a bit longer on MSN to Meghan and such and then waited to see if Ben would show up online and when he didn't, I headed for my room... But around 1:40am the phone rang. John and I both answered it and it was my dad wanting to talk to John. He and I both stayed on the phone and he and dad "talked." It was more like dad talked and John listened. John asked dad why he has been acting so out of control and he told him he has been scaring people and dad said that he hasn't been doing anything wrong. The call progressed, he said a ton of untrue things that were degrading to my character and integrity and finally started yelling and swearing at John and hung up on us. We took the phone off the hook at that point...
I needed air. I needed space to breathe. I needed to go out. So I went for a drive. I drove around the Westside for a bit and then stopped at Mac's to get a Froster and talk to Will for a few and then I figured I'd head home. A few turned into over an hour. I left home around 2:30, got to Mac's around 3 and got home just after 4.
I went online when I got home for a few minutes before heading for bed and the bestfriend of one of my oldest guy friends was online. He had recently told me that he and his common-law wife are expecting a baby. So tonight he told me that the friend that we have in common is getting married in July and that he and his "wife" are getting married shortly after that. I said congrats to him and asked him to pass my congrats on to our friend as I haven't seen or heard from him since he moved in with the fiancee. I didn't say the last part, it is a known fact to this person. He spazzed out about something to do with "I better be invited to your wedding when you get married" and then he "wasn't getting in the middle" and then went offline. I am puzzled and perplexed as I don't really know what prompted the first and why the second as I wouldn't put him in the middle. He has tried to be the middle man and I won't let him. I also talked to my friend Shaun as he was up studying for an exam he had to write at 8am today.
I went to bed around 5 or so and then got up around 11. I got into the shower at noon(ish) and John rapped on the bathroom door about 10 minutes later. I was in the process of rinsing my hair for the final time so I yelled for him to wait and then turned off the water. All I could hear was something about an exam so I got out and quickly dried off and opened the door enough that I could hear him. It turns out that the exam he thought was today from 4-6 was this morning from 10-12 and he had missed it. He found out by one of the people in his class coming online and saying "Dude, why weren't you there this morning? It's not like you to miss an exam." Full blown panic attack!!!! Due to the stress and anxiety he and I have both been dealing with all week, I was surprised neither of us was in tears last night over dad's stupidity.... Hell, I almost cried for him over the missed exam... I threw my contacts in and grabbed clothes and we booked it over to the College to try and find his professor. We found her, explained what has been happening and the mix up of the times written down and he can write the exam on Tuesday. *HUGE sigh of relief*
I made it to the mall where I was supposed to have my hair done at 1 by 1:20 (my friend Laura was supposed to do it originally but had to cancel as she got called in to work more hours) and I was glad I had washed my hair already because she just needed to finish blowdrying it and then flat iron it. It is gorgeous straight and I felt much better once it was done. We stopped at Music World on the way out and I bought the Il Divo Christmas CD... It is amazing... They are amazing...Anyway, John and I hiked out to my car (it was parked outside Jysk at the far end of the mall facing the highway) and then went home.
When I got home I began to peel potatoes (I was supposed to bring mashed potatoes to dinner tonight) and realized we don't have a potato masher. I had done about 4 out of the 12 that needed doing so John took over while I ran to Safeway and bought one. By the time I got back (about 20 minutes later), the potatoes were peeled, chopped and ready to be cooked. We turned them on and I went to work on other things.
I talked to Sandra online and then on the phone, Laurel on the phone, wrote my Christmas Cards for the Rover Crew, talked to Matt on MSN and made the mashed potatoes, got dressed and did my make-up, all between 3 and 6. By 6:15 I was on my way to the Rover's Christmas party.
I got to wear my "No Place Like Home" shoes again. :) We had a traditional turkey dinner and I had sparkling apple juice, punch, eggnog and water to drink... I seriously felt like I could float... We opened presents and I drew the number 7 so by the time we got to me, I chose a fairly small gift (on purpose) and got a set of coasters and shot glasses with the suits of the deck of cards on them. They are pretty cool. :) Joyce got the gift I brought and she seemed to really like it. Joyce and Rick gave us all little snowmen and we had dessert and then helped clean up and left to come home. I drove Cory home.
On my way, I stopped at Safeway, Blockbuster and Liquor World. I picked up Cherries, a couple of DVD's and a bottle of Yellow Tail Chardonnay. I figured I would have a glass of wine when I got home (no drinking and driving for me!). When I was in the liquor store, I was talking to Shaun on the phone and the guy behind the counter was giving me kind of strange looks and then kind of laughing at my side of the conversation. I should probably point out that I am all dressed up, talking about kinds of white wines and the fact that Liquor Depot owns Liquor World or something and about some guy who bought 12 bottles of Arbour Mist wine and a bottle of scotch... I'm sure my conversation was weird sounding. But the guy in the store... He was kind of cute... I may have to go back sometime. :D
I got home, the bottle of wine went into the fridge (where it still is and will probably stay for a bit) and then I hung out and talked to Matt online and then Laurel on the phone. I just made chocolate chip/chunk cookies and I reheated some mashed potatoes and I am going to go watch a DVD with a glass of milk and some cherries. Meal #2 of the day at 1:30am. :)
I am going to bed once I am either a) done eating or b) the DVD finishes. We have unplugged the phones in our rooms tonight and our mom is going to call us in the morning on one of our cell phones to figure out what time we are meeting her in Claresholm tomorrow. Off to watch a movie!!!
I needed air. I needed space to breathe. I needed to go out. So I went for a drive. I drove around the Westside for a bit and then stopped at Mac's to get a Froster and talk to Will for a few and then I figured I'd head home. A few turned into over an hour. I left home around 2:30, got to Mac's around 3 and got home just after 4.
I went online when I got home for a few minutes before heading for bed and the bestfriend of one of my oldest guy friends was online. He had recently told me that he and his common-law wife are expecting a baby. So tonight he told me that the friend that we have in common is getting married in July and that he and his "wife" are getting married shortly after that. I said congrats to him and asked him to pass my congrats on to our friend as I haven't seen or heard from him since he moved in with the fiancee. I didn't say the last part, it is a known fact to this person. He spazzed out about something to do with "I better be invited to your wedding when you get married" and then he "wasn't getting in the middle" and then went offline. I am puzzled and perplexed as I don't really know what prompted the first and why the second as I wouldn't put him in the middle. He has tried to be the middle man and I won't let him. I also talked to my friend Shaun as he was up studying for an exam he had to write at 8am today.
I went to bed around 5 or so and then got up around 11. I got into the shower at noon(ish) and John rapped on the bathroom door about 10 minutes later. I was in the process of rinsing my hair for the final time so I yelled for him to wait and then turned off the water. All I could hear was something about an exam so I got out and quickly dried off and opened the door enough that I could hear him. It turns out that the exam he thought was today from 4-6 was this morning from 10-12 and he had missed it. He found out by one of the people in his class coming online and saying "Dude, why weren't you there this morning? It's not like you to miss an exam." Full blown panic attack!!!! Due to the stress and anxiety he and I have both been dealing with all week, I was surprised neither of us was in tears last night over dad's stupidity.... Hell, I almost cried for him over the missed exam... I threw my contacts in and grabbed clothes and we booked it over to the College to try and find his professor. We found her, explained what has been happening and the mix up of the times written down and he can write the exam on Tuesday. *HUGE sigh of relief*
I made it to the mall where I was supposed to have my hair done at 1 by 1:20 (my friend Laura was supposed to do it originally but had to cancel as she got called in to work more hours) and I was glad I had washed my hair already because she just needed to finish blowdrying it and then flat iron it. It is gorgeous straight and I felt much better once it was done. We stopped at Music World on the way out and I bought the Il Divo Christmas CD... It is amazing... They are amazing...Anyway, John and I hiked out to my car (it was parked outside Jysk at the far end of the mall facing the highway) and then went home.
When I got home I began to peel potatoes (I was supposed to bring mashed potatoes to dinner tonight) and realized we don't have a potato masher. I had done about 4 out of the 12 that needed doing so John took over while I ran to Safeway and bought one. By the time I got back (about 20 minutes later), the potatoes were peeled, chopped and ready to be cooked. We turned them on and I went to work on other things.
I talked to Sandra online and then on the phone, Laurel on the phone, wrote my Christmas Cards for the Rover Crew, talked to Matt on MSN and made the mashed potatoes, got dressed and did my make-up, all between 3 and 6. By 6:15 I was on my way to the Rover's Christmas party.
I got to wear my "No Place Like Home" shoes again. :) We had a traditional turkey dinner and I had sparkling apple juice, punch, eggnog and water to drink... I seriously felt like I could float... We opened presents and I drew the number 7 so by the time we got to me, I chose a fairly small gift (on purpose) and got a set of coasters and shot glasses with the suits of the deck of cards on them. They are pretty cool. :) Joyce got the gift I brought and she seemed to really like it. Joyce and Rick gave us all little snowmen and we had dessert and then helped clean up and left to come home. I drove Cory home.
On my way, I stopped at Safeway, Blockbuster and Liquor World. I picked up Cherries, a couple of DVD's and a bottle of Yellow Tail Chardonnay. I figured I would have a glass of wine when I got home (no drinking and driving for me!). When I was in the liquor store, I was talking to Shaun on the phone and the guy behind the counter was giving me kind of strange looks and then kind of laughing at my side of the conversation. I should probably point out that I am all dressed up, talking about kinds of white wines and the fact that Liquor Depot owns Liquor World or something and about some guy who bought 12 bottles of Arbour Mist wine and a bottle of scotch... I'm sure my conversation was weird sounding. But the guy in the store... He was kind of cute... I may have to go back sometime. :D
I got home, the bottle of wine went into the fridge (where it still is and will probably stay for a bit) and then I hung out and talked to Matt online and then Laurel on the phone. I just made chocolate chip/chunk cookies and I reheated some mashed potatoes and I am going to go watch a DVD with a glass of milk and some cherries. Meal #2 of the day at 1:30am. :)
I am going to bed once I am either a) done eating or b) the DVD finishes. We have unplugged the phones in our rooms tonight and our mom is going to call us in the morning on one of our cell phones to figure out what time we are meeting her in Claresholm tomorrow. Off to watch a movie!!!
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Ignoring him, exam and wrapping...
This morning the phone rang. I rolled over and answered it, figuring it was my mom calling to wake my brother up because he had an exam first thing and not looking at the clock. Not so much. Turns out it was my dad and it was 4:30am. All I got back on the other end was a long line of swearing and such so I hung up. The phone rang again. I didn't answer it this time. He left a message and among the swearing was names calling and accusations that were completely not valid. When he called the third time, I didn't answer, he left a message and I took the phone off the hook. I then spent an hour and a half on the phone trying to fix some of the damage he had done in the phone calls he had previously made (based on what I understood around the demeaning names and profanity) and then tried to get a little more sleep.
Will called around 7:30 because I had called him to ask if he had a tape recorder and couldn't reach him (that was around 6:15, I knew he'd be at work but didn't know if he would have his cell with him or not...) and I told him I would call him later, I didn't feel much like talking. I fell back asleep until around 9:00 and the got up and dressed and ready to go to my exam which was at 10.
I am feeling pretty shaky now, even as I write this and during the exam, I wasn't feeling much better. I wrote as much as I could for the three essay-type questions and tried not to repeat myself of put in unnecessary information. I finished in a little under 2 hours, handed in my final paper as well and then John picked me up.
I was talking to my grandpa when he picked me up and I found out my dad has been going through and opening some of my mail and such at their house (which is technically MY house) so I may need to make some phone calls to change my mailing address on things again, this time to Lethbridge... My grandpa said he is trying to pull mail for me before my dad can see it and he is hiding it and I am expecing a couple of packages in the next couple of weeks so he said he will make sure those go somewhere safe as well. I also talked to my mom and she is trying to get a hold of dad's doctor's and has had no luck so far... :(
We came home and I had a nap until it was time to go to my dr's appointment at 3:00. John had an exam this afternoon as well so he dropped me off, I went to my appointment and then I walked home. I have to say, it was colder than I had anticipated...
John got home and he and I wrapped presents for a bit and then he ran out to get pizza for dinner and potatoes because I need them for tomorrow (I am taking mashed potatoes to the potluck I am going to) and then Holly came over. (Holly is a friend of John's.) They helped me wrap presents and now they are all done with only a few exceptions that I am not sure if I am supposed to wrap because I have to check with my mom. At one point John and Holly ran out to Wal-Mart to get Will a present from John (kind of an inside joke) and I can't wait to see the reaction tomorrow!
I am currently waiting to hear that my mom got home from her staff Christmas party okay and I just checked my messages on my pager and I have 2 new ones from my dad, left around 5:30am today... So, that means he left me a total of 5 messages on various answering machines... *sigh* I wish he would just leave me alone.
Just as an FYI for anyone who wants to know, I am probably staying at my cousins house in Cochrane while I am home if things with my dad don't settle down. They are going to be out of town and I have the place to myself. I will, however, welcome company!
I'm going to go wait for my mom to call and read a book or something... Night...
Will called around 7:30 because I had called him to ask if he had a tape recorder and couldn't reach him (that was around 6:15, I knew he'd be at work but didn't know if he would have his cell with him or not...) and I told him I would call him later, I didn't feel much like talking. I fell back asleep until around 9:00 and the got up and dressed and ready to go to my exam which was at 10.
I am feeling pretty shaky now, even as I write this and during the exam, I wasn't feeling much better. I wrote as much as I could for the three essay-type questions and tried not to repeat myself of put in unnecessary information. I finished in a little under 2 hours, handed in my final paper as well and then John picked me up.
I was talking to my grandpa when he picked me up and I found out my dad has been going through and opening some of my mail and such at their house (which is technically MY house) so I may need to make some phone calls to change my mailing address on things again, this time to Lethbridge... My grandpa said he is trying to pull mail for me before my dad can see it and he is hiding it and I am expecing a couple of packages in the next couple of weeks so he said he will make sure those go somewhere safe as well. I also talked to my mom and she is trying to get a hold of dad's doctor's and has had no luck so far... :(
We came home and I had a nap until it was time to go to my dr's appointment at 3:00. John had an exam this afternoon as well so he dropped me off, I went to my appointment and then I walked home. I have to say, it was colder than I had anticipated...
John got home and he and I wrapped presents for a bit and then he ran out to get pizza for dinner and potatoes because I need them for tomorrow (I am taking mashed potatoes to the potluck I am going to) and then Holly came over. (Holly is a friend of John's.) They helped me wrap presents and now they are all done with only a few exceptions that I am not sure if I am supposed to wrap because I have to check with my mom. At one point John and Holly ran out to Wal-Mart to get Will a present from John (kind of an inside joke) and I can't wait to see the reaction tomorrow!
I am currently waiting to hear that my mom got home from her staff Christmas party okay and I just checked my messages on my pager and I have 2 new ones from my dad, left around 5:30am today... So, that means he left me a total of 5 messages on various answering machines... *sigh* I wish he would just leave me alone.
Just as an FYI for anyone who wants to know, I am probably staying at my cousins house in Cochrane while I am home if things with my dad don't settle down. They are going to be out of town and I have the place to myself. I will, however, welcome company!
I'm going to go wait for my mom to call and read a book or something... Night...
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Phone calls, packages, exam and a paper...
Ok, this morning I got up and had a migraine. I downed a couple of advil and some water and decided I wasn't going to let it kill me. I woke up a couple of hours before I needed to be anywhere (around 7:30) and hung out...
John drove me to my exam and I wrote it and I figure I did ok. I don't think I got an A on it or anything but I at least passed it. I got a couple of assignments back and I got a 95% on my Film Music project and a 90% on my Analysis #3 so I am pretty happy. Also, I either just barely passed or just barely failed the ear training quiz I was freaking out over but whatever...
John picked me up and then he and I ran some errands downtown and then came home so he could lay down for a bit and I could tighten up my references/footnotes in my essay and fit in my musical examples. He told me there was a package for me from DHL and it turns out it was a package I had given to someone that they sent back to me. I wasn't very happy about it but what can I do. All I can say right now is he will have to grow up sooner or later...
I ended up spending almost an hour on the phone with Rogers to get a new phone on my Lethbridge number (I haven't had a phone on it and have been paying through the nose since July) and to try and get a phone added for John. The long and the short of it ended up being that they will send me one phone and the other one I can go pick up in store on Sunday so John and I are going to go do that and mine should be in Calgary on Monday or Tuesday. (It's pink!!!)
So I drove John to curling and came back to use his printer and his computer was passworded and the password I thought should work, didn't. I couldn't get a hold of him to get the password so I sat and read my textbook for my final tomorrow until he needed to be picked up. We stopped at the College so he could check when his exams are and then came home. I printed off my paper and I am a genius!!! All of the paces I left for my examples are perfect and I don't have to reprint it at all! YAY! So it is done, hole punched and in a duotang to hand in first thing tomorrow!
I have one exam tomorrow and another on Monday... I am more freaked about the one tomorrow than the one on Monday. The one on Monday is theory and I'm pretty confident in my skills in that class. History is another story... I need all the prayer I can get on that one. Anyway, I'm going to bed. I need some sleep before my exam at 10am tomorrow. Night!
John drove me to my exam and I wrote it and I figure I did ok. I don't think I got an A on it or anything but I at least passed it. I got a couple of assignments back and I got a 95% on my Film Music project and a 90% on my Analysis #3 so I am pretty happy. Also, I either just barely passed or just barely failed the ear training quiz I was freaking out over but whatever...
John picked me up and then he and I ran some errands downtown and then came home so he could lay down for a bit and I could tighten up my references/footnotes in my essay and fit in my musical examples. He told me there was a package for me from DHL and it turns out it was a package I had given to someone that they sent back to me. I wasn't very happy about it but what can I do. All I can say right now is he will have to grow up sooner or later...
I ended up spending almost an hour on the phone with Rogers to get a new phone on my Lethbridge number (I haven't had a phone on it and have been paying through the nose since July) and to try and get a phone added for John. The long and the short of it ended up being that they will send me one phone and the other one I can go pick up in store on Sunday so John and I are going to go do that and mine should be in Calgary on Monday or Tuesday. (It's pink!!!)
So I drove John to curling and came back to use his printer and his computer was passworded and the password I thought should work, didn't. I couldn't get a hold of him to get the password so I sat and read my textbook for my final tomorrow until he needed to be picked up. We stopped at the College so he could check when his exams are and then came home. I printed off my paper and I am a genius!!! All of the paces I left for my examples are perfect and I don't have to reprint it at all! YAY! So it is done, hole punched and in a duotang to hand in first thing tomorrow!
I have one exam tomorrow and another on Monday... I am more freaked about the one tomorrow than the one on Monday. The one on Monday is theory and I'm pretty confident in my skills in that class. History is another story... I need all the prayer I can get on that one. Anyway, I'm going to bed. I need some sleep before my exam at 10am tomorrow. Night!
Not doing well....
Today I woke up in tears. This is quite abnormal for me. I have had it happen in the past when I have had nightmares or whatever and in grade 12 there were some mornings I woke up like that but not in a very long time. I wasn't sure why I was like that but I knew I wasn't doing so hot.
I called the head of disability services, the counsellor I deal with at school and my professor to see what I could do about my exam. I was in tears, shaky and dizzy, the combination of which was making me kind of sea sick... I finally got a hold of my prof and he told me I could write the exam on Friday... After thanking him profusely, I collapsed back into bed and slept for about 4 hours.
When I got up, I felt a bit better, I guess the emotional stress of the last few days had taken it's toll on me more heavily than I had realized. I put the finishing touches on my paper and organized my musical examples to take to Staples later to photocopy them and went to have a shower. I had some Lemon Meringue yogurt (it's Source brand and it's pretty good) and some raspberries and read for a bit.
John asked if he could take the car to go meet a friend and I let him and then I went back in and watched T.V. and studied for my Film Music test. When John got back he made Chicken Noodle Soup with crackers for dinner and then I drove him to curling and I went to Staples to photocopy the musical examples and then to the University to return some library books. I came home for long enough to do a bit of reading and talk to Matt and Brit online for a few and then I went back to get John. He and I came home and I read and watched T.V. for a bit before bed...
I'm pretty tired so I am going to be fairly early (1am instead of 3am) but I will see if I can actually fall asleep...
I called the head of disability services, the counsellor I deal with at school and my professor to see what I could do about my exam. I was in tears, shaky and dizzy, the combination of which was making me kind of sea sick... I finally got a hold of my prof and he told me I could write the exam on Friday... After thanking him profusely, I collapsed back into bed and slept for about 4 hours.
When I got up, I felt a bit better, I guess the emotional stress of the last few days had taken it's toll on me more heavily than I had realized. I put the finishing touches on my paper and organized my musical examples to take to Staples later to photocopy them and went to have a shower. I had some Lemon Meringue yogurt (it's Source brand and it's pretty good) and some raspberries and read for a bit.
John asked if he could take the car to go meet a friend and I let him and then I went back in and watched T.V. and studied for my Film Music test. When John got back he made Chicken Noodle Soup with crackers for dinner and then I drove him to curling and I went to Staples to photocopy the musical examples and then to the University to return some library books. I came home for long enough to do a bit of reading and talk to Matt and Brit online for a few and then I went back to get John. He and I came home and I read and watched T.V. for a bit before bed...
I'm pretty tired so I am going to be fairly early (1am instead of 3am) but I will see if I can actually fall asleep...
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Phones, Travel and Studying.
When I woke up at 6am *groan* and tried to call my mom to see if I could take the later bus, my cell redirected me to Rogers. I was not impressed. So I called mom from a land line, called Rogers and fixed things, called Ben and told him I was going to take the later bus and went back to sleep.
I got up at 11 or so and then studied for a bit and talked to my mom on the phone. She told me that my dad had called and found out the balance on my home phone bill was over $400 (which is definitely not normal!) and I needed to call and put a payment on it. I called Telus as I had already put several payments on it and couldn't figure out why John would have called me from Lethbridge and then mom to sy that they were going to cut off our phone service at the house... As it turns out, they had changed our account ID# without informing me of the new one and had been letting me put the payments through on the old ID# and the payments were basically just sitting there. The agent transferred the payments to the new ID# and we are ok. I also had her put a password on the account as what my dad had done was called and said "who he was" but he'd said he was "John the roommate" not "John the father of the roommate." So, two John's same last name, no one questioned it and they gave him information that was none of his business. So he now doesn't have access to that information as he shouldn't have had access and they shouldn't have given him the information to begin with. I was pretty much livid when she told me, "your roommate John called early this morning for a balance check on the account" when my roommate John would have been ASLEEP at the time of the call.... Grrr.... It's fixed now.
Anyway, I called Ben around noon and asked him if he could still give me a ride to the bus to be there by 1. He said no problem... He picked me up around 12:45 and made small talk with my grandpa and we drove to the bus station. I felt weird having so many bags.. One small one with clothes, a rolling suitcase with Christmas presents in it, one full of textbooks and my laptop case with my laptop and textbooks in it. I could take two on the bus and two off. Ben thought it was kind of funny that my smallest bag was my bag of clothes. And that the bag also had a pair of winter boots in it... :)
I bought my ticket and Ben sat with me and we chatted and such until they made the boarding call for my bus and then Ben left. I lined up to board...
I got a seat by myself for the entire trip. I did some reading (romance novel, school books, etc.), some work on my essay and napped for a little while. I also ate the snack/lunch I had brought (leftover Lipshevnik, yougurt smoothie, lemonade, applesauce, granola bar) and watched the scenery go by. It wasn't as bad a trip as others I have taken. The bus only stopped in South Calgary, High River, Nanton, Claresholm and Fort MacLeod before Lethbridge instead of every little town. I got back to Lethbridge and the bus station was literally crawling with police officers. John met me and helped me carry my bags. Turns out, they were looking for this mom and little girl I had been talking to as I had waited to board in Calgary... The little girl had told me she was 5 today. She had just gotten her Cabbage Patch Doll at her birthday party yesterday and they were going to visit family. They are from Drumheller. She was really proud of her Winnie-the-Pooh suitcase with the wheels and handle that she could pull like her moms. It seemed sad that the police were looking for them... Abduction or something was what John figured. Weird.
We stopped and picked up groceries because we were majorly low on milk and I picked up some cherries and raspberries and we needed cheese and bread... We also got pop because it was on sale...
I came home and went straight to work on my essay. I checked my e-mail and had a ton of new ones that I disregarded if they weren't important and the only one I read was one from my dad that really upset me. It upset me enough that I am now emotionally exhausted again... I was feeling kind of tired to begin with and fairly emotionally raw from my weekend at home, especially the past 48 hours. I am finished my essay, all except getting it printed and fitting the musical examples in. I will do that in the morning... For now, sleep is good.
I got up at 11 or so and then studied for a bit and talked to my mom on the phone. She told me that my dad had called and found out the balance on my home phone bill was over $400 (which is definitely not normal!) and I needed to call and put a payment on it. I called Telus as I had already put several payments on it and couldn't figure out why John would have called me from Lethbridge and then mom to sy that they were going to cut off our phone service at the house... As it turns out, they had changed our account ID# without informing me of the new one and had been letting me put the payments through on the old ID# and the payments were basically just sitting there. The agent transferred the payments to the new ID# and we are ok. I also had her put a password on the account as what my dad had done was called and said "who he was" but he'd said he was "John the roommate" not "John the father of the roommate." So, two John's same last name, no one questioned it and they gave him information that was none of his business. So he now doesn't have access to that information as he shouldn't have had access and they shouldn't have given him the information to begin with. I was pretty much livid when she told me, "your roommate John called early this morning for a balance check on the account" when my roommate John would have been ASLEEP at the time of the call.... Grrr.... It's fixed now.
Anyway, I called Ben around noon and asked him if he could still give me a ride to the bus to be there by 1. He said no problem... He picked me up around 12:45 and made small talk with my grandpa and we drove to the bus station. I felt weird having so many bags.. One small one with clothes, a rolling suitcase with Christmas presents in it, one full of textbooks and my laptop case with my laptop and textbooks in it. I could take two on the bus and two off. Ben thought it was kind of funny that my smallest bag was my bag of clothes. And that the bag also had a pair of winter boots in it... :)
I bought my ticket and Ben sat with me and we chatted and such until they made the boarding call for my bus and then Ben left. I lined up to board...
I got a seat by myself for the entire trip. I did some reading (romance novel, school books, etc.), some work on my essay and napped for a little while. I also ate the snack/lunch I had brought (leftover Lipshevnik, yougurt smoothie, lemonade, applesauce, granola bar) and watched the scenery go by. It wasn't as bad a trip as others I have taken. The bus only stopped in South Calgary, High River, Nanton, Claresholm and Fort MacLeod before Lethbridge instead of every little town. I got back to Lethbridge and the bus station was literally crawling with police officers. John met me and helped me carry my bags. Turns out, they were looking for this mom and little girl I had been talking to as I had waited to board in Calgary... The little girl had told me she was 5 today. She had just gotten her Cabbage Patch Doll at her birthday party yesterday and they were going to visit family. They are from Drumheller. She was really proud of her Winnie-the-Pooh suitcase with the wheels and handle that she could pull like her moms. It seemed sad that the police were looking for them... Abduction or something was what John figured. Weird.
We stopped and picked up groceries because we were majorly low on milk and I picked up some cherries and raspberries and we needed cheese and bread... We also got pop because it was on sale...
I came home and went straight to work on my essay. I checked my e-mail and had a ton of new ones that I disregarded if they weren't important and the only one I read was one from my dad that really upset me. It upset me enough that I am now emotionally exhausted again... I was feeling kind of tired to begin with and fairly emotionally raw from my weekend at home, especially the past 48 hours. I am finished my essay, all except getting it printed and fitting the musical examples in. I will do that in the morning... For now, sleep is good.
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