Finally..... the weekend..... does this mean I can finally stop pulling my hair out? NOT!!

It's been almost a week since I added anything. Not that I didn't feel like it but it's been so much bullshit it would have taken me hours to put it all down and I type about 100 a minute. Today my sister is visiting and I'm dog sitting. I'm still on the hunt for a dog for myself but all you can ever find at the Humane Society are pit bulls for the most part. I'm looking for a miniature dog. I'm at the point of considering going to a reputable breeder and buying one. That's the plan anyway.... after the laptop is paid off.

Speaking of which..... the laptop blew it's hard drive on me. oh joy, oh joy. I've had it 6 months. If that. Needless to say I'm not impressed. It's in the shop getting fixed which leaves me without my portable puter to use. grrrrrrrrr

Tonight I think we are going to finally get all the holiday decorations put away. Yeah..... every time I went to start something would hit the fan and I wouldn't get anything done. So I cleared off all the boughs yesterday and other stuff from around the place. Next........ tackle the tree. Damn thing is still standing in the corner. No, it's not a live tree.

This day has been bonkers so far too. Went to the bank and that went fine. It's about 50 degree's F out there!!! I'm loving this January. Just as I got home and taking the elevator up doesn't my sister phone me telling me she's just around the corner. So I go up stairs and get the swipe card for the garage and the parking pass and meet her again downstairs. We go over to the door for the underground and swipe the card. Nothing happens. We swipe it again..... nothing..... and again using the other one..... nothing.... so the guy behind us is getting annoyed. Too frikken bad. So we show him that the damn swipe card isn't working and the bonehead finally figures out to back up and let us out of the line up. So up he goes.. swipes his card.... nothing..... hahahahaha what the hell did he expect? Swipes it again... nadda...... off we drive with a shit eatin grin on our face that it didn't work for him either. Parked the car out on the street for two hours.

Got in and called the property managements emergency line to inform them their stupid door isn't working and if a person can't get their car in there, they can't get it out either if they are already in!!! Yup, you have to swipe it to get out too. Seems they can't get the technician in on the weekend so they have to leave it in the open position so anyone and everyone can drive down there and park.

Finally the call me back to tell me this. duh.... Off my sister goes to the hairdresser and while she's out I'm baking, working on my nephew's website and cooking dinner. Decided while I was at the computer to check my email I'd add to this. Boring crapola but what the hell. Better than the rest of my too damn stressful week. So stressful matter of fact that yesterday at 3:45 pm I was doubled over in chest and jaw pain and reaching for my nitro. The rest of the day I felt like hell and nitro gives me a massive headache too.

Anyhooooooo..... I can smell the pastry, time to head back to the kitchen in my Suzie Homemaker Mode.

I thought Sunday was a day of rest???

Not around here anyway. Two of my nephews came around today with their boys. A visit and to help me with a few things around here that I'm not able to do and then they were off to The Dome to the Monster Truck Rally with the kids. After they left I spent hours on end submitting another nephews site to search engines. I think I'm cross eyed for life.... :-)

Tomorrow is our Federal Election. I will be glad when this is over too. Tired of a bunch of middle aged men dragging each other through the mud. It's like televised National Enquirer when you watch the news or t.v. commercials. Mental midgets all of them. We are playing the 'lesser of two (or in this case 3) evils" when it comes to voting these days.

f*cking boneheads.... politicians!

Enough already. What kind of shit is this? These politicians are going too far these days. All the muck throwing, the he did she did crap and now they are pulling shitty little tactics to get you to listen to them.

My sister's daughter moved away last summer and funds are a bit tight for her so her mom (my sister) suggested to my mom to give the kid (well she's 22) a call this weekend sometime. So we are getting ready to go out and the phone rings and it's the Operator asking if we can accept this call. Now.... if someone calls long distance collect you get the operator asking you that so you will accept the bill for it. So of course, my mom thinks it's a call from her granddaughter and accepts the call.

NOT!!! It's a freakin political message to vote for Jack Layton! What kind of shit is that? Then he has the nerve in his political messages to bitch about other politicans fooling the voters. grrrrrrrr Think I'm going to go find his website and leave him a little message or email.

Canstruction!

Ever seen this? It's fabulous and an ingenious way to get donations for food banks. Talk about creative! They take the cans of food donated to the food banks and make sculptures with them. This is a link to the "Canstruction" exhibit in Vancouver, personally, I think this should be done everywhere to help with the cause. ahem... which shouldn't even be happening but uncalled for federal elections spending millions of dollars is more important it seems..... ok... off my soapbox for this post, here is the link.
http://www.canstructionvancouver.com/past.html

Conspiracy theory....

ok... don't ya just love conspiracy theories? here, let me plant a thought... The other day Osama bin Laden's video makes the airwaves saying he's going to do more evil to the States. This, just in time to save Bush's neck because he's been illegally spying on Americans. How does this save Bush's neck? Simple..... he can now spew that his illegal wire tapping and crap was justified. It was all in the name of Terrorism. He was justified in spying on his own people illegally. And pardon me but wasn't Nixon impeached for less?

Now.... think back..... when was the last previous video of Osama's that was aired? Oddly enough, just before the last election when old Jed needed some votes. Of course America seeing Osama threatening the States would spur more votes for Bush the warmonger. Seems the last few times Bush has needed justification or help to loosen the noose he put around his own neck, along comes Osama's vid's. hmmmmmm coincidence?

Oh, here's something else to remember too... Bush and Osama's family have been in business together! Nothing like sleeping with the enemy huh?

I went out and replaced Mr. Dick. So here in all his glory is Mr. Dick # 3 He's shy. Just peeking here and saying hi. Couldn't make my mind up between a solid blue guy or a demin look guy or this guy. He's actually kind of pretty when the light hits him. He shimmers. Seems to like his tank, he's started swimming around a lot in it.

Here he finally got a little more nerve and swam by .... time to explore.

Off he goes to explore some more.

How exciting eh?

Anyway, I cancelled the mediation meeting on Monday. Told them this is a thing that needs discussing at a full committee meeting and that this isn't the way I want to start my week. It's been a hellish week this week and I have a busy one again next week so this is my choice.

Time for me to relax. I'm craving French Toast. Think I might make myself a piece for my late snack and watch a movie. Tomorrow is Saturday..... yeeeeehawwwwwwww

Friday...... finally

It's mid January and it's 52 degrees F out there. Bizarre. I know we normally don't get much snow here, much to the surprise of American's who think we live in igloos and wear mucklucs and feed ourselves with seal blubber but this weather is just plain weird. Usually January is sub 0 and our coldest month. Makes me wonder what February is going to be like.

I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to that meeting on Monday. I think I'm cancelling it. I think the others that have voiced an opinion on this situation concerning the mediation are right. This is her problem and not mine. I didn't go into a meeting and make a spectacle of myself by ranting and raving to the point a committee member commented that she looked "crazed". I want to start my week off on a good foot, at least to the best of my ability and by meeting with Miss "I'm such a wounded bird" Connie isn't really the way to do that. Funny, I emailed back asking who the time wasn't good for but I've yet to receive an email back telling me.

Monday is election day here as well. One that is nothing more than a cash grab and waste of time as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, yeah, the Liberals did dirt but when hasn't a political party? And yeah, there was an inquiry and yeah..... our "former" Prime Minister was found guilty of being a bad boy and allowing money to be transferred by the millions to folks he shouldn't have. But that was the former Prime Minister, not this one. Just happens to be the same political party. I guess the other political parties consider you guilty by association. If this is the case then they best watch where they're stepping. The P.C's have had a Prime Minister of their's kicked out of his position as Prime Minister completely! lol They seem to forget that though.

I think this election is a disgusting waste of money. It costs about 50 million to put on a federal election. At least that. Funny, I thought we had health care, day care and homeless issues in this country. And crime too! We had over 600 murders in this entire country and that's disgusting. Over 60 in Toronto. Hello........ is anyone listening???????? Don't you think that all those millions could be spent elsewhere?

If the P.C.'s get in lookout folks....... Your subsidized day care is going out the door. So all you single mom's or folks working hard minimum wage jobs are in for a cruel shock. Then they will get rid of any repairs to social housing. Goodie.... that makes tenaments like the States has. Funny, I thought we were Canadian!! Then they slap every gay person in this country in the face and remove their right to marry because the P.C.'s are a bunch of prigs and feel they have the right to tell you how to live your life and that you are not moral and have no right to love someone of the same sex. These people need to get a life and get of everyone else's is. The gov't has no right to be in the bedrooms of the people. Plain and simple. Or tell them who they can love or live with. And last but not least...... watch out for your abortion rights ladies. They will go down the toilet too. Oh........ by the way...... the P.C.'s just love that bible thumping, warmonging, redneck Bush in the states too....... just what we need.

I Am Canadian........ "and damn proud of it.

This week cannot end soon enough!!! Today has been a hair pulling freakin nightmare. One thing after another. A doctor once told me due to all my health issues and some of the damndest and weirdest things that happen to me that I'm a "Walking, Talking, Murphy's Law". There are some days I simply can't deny it and today was one of those.

I woke up in a foul mood thanks to the stress of the week so far. I get up in enough pain to make it a demoral day. Nothing really unusual there but I could have done without this today. Next thing I know there's a knock on my door and some yutz on the other side saying "Avon"!. Avon? What the f? It is suppose to be delivered tomorrow. It originally was suppose to be delivered today but that got changed. Or so I thought considering I got an email about it from the mgr. , a phone call about it from the rep leader, and a retarded voice message from Avon head office. All telling me the delivery date had been changed from Thursday to Friday. Today is Thursday. I thought I was freakin confused at times but seems the guy at the door is too. So now I got all these boxes planted in my diningroom. whooppeeeee!! This means I have to start going through all this crap today to get it out of the damn way. *sigh*

Next thing I know I get my Visa bill in my mail. Yooohooo I get to deal with freakin Bell Sympatico again since they only billed me wrong and didn't credit my Visa like they said they would. I look and I look and I look and I can't find the last bill from them that I put the confirmation # on from the last time I called these morons. I never did find it. I could have sworn I put it on the bulletin board but it's not there. It has the account and pin number Mr. Bonehead is going to ask me for. Seems I'm forever after these people to fix billing problems. And they wonder why I won't let them just have automatic withdrawl from my bank account for my phone bill. So now I have to push 16 different #'s to get to the right dept and he wants my bell sympatico code # and pin #. What the hell do I know. It's tucked away somewhere and it's some lengthy twisted stupid thing that they won't let us change so we can somehow remember it. Bozo's. So now this twit needs to think of a question he can ask me to be sure he's talking to the actual person that has the account. ummmm yeah... strangers are going to phone them with my phone number talking about my account and telling them that the credit wasn't applied to my Visa. Makes sense, strangers have all this information. Right? Boneheads. Anyway, I got it straightened out after much debate. Seems they can't credit my Visa, they can only bill it!! To give me the credit I have to wait until next month when they will take it off my regular bill. This... all before noon.

Then I start doing up all this Avon. Of course, the retards bill me for shit they don't send, screw up the order as usual.... etc. etc. etc. I finally finished all that. Took the better part of the day.

Just after 5 pm I get an email.... oh goodie.... now I'm asked if I can make changes to my schedule on Monday's mediation meeting with "Miss I'm off my freakin rocker Connie". Screw this. The timing is bad for 'some of us'. Some of us? hmmmmm let's see. There are 4 people that are suppose to be at this meeting. One that set the time. One that confirmed it. me...... and "oh whoa is me Connie". Gee, I wonder who the timing is off for? Too bad. I've talked to a few people who feel this shouldn't even be happening with me in it. I'm beginning to think they are right and I'm also beginning to feel this isn't exactly the way I want to start my week off next week. This week was bad enough and it isn't over yet, do I really want to set myself up for next week? umm I think not. I told the emailer that I'm reconsidering and I'll email back tomorrow and let them know for sure. As it stands, I'm leaning towards skipping it. It really isn't my problem, it's hers.

My poor dead fish is still languishing in the friggin tank. Poor Mr. Dick. Time to go flush him.....

Well this just sucks. Late last night, early this morning actually around 2 am I looked at the fish tank and poor Mr. Dick was dead. Dick...... as in Moby. Actually #2. For some strange reason for Christmas 2003 my sister Sheri decided to give me a fish. One of those nice beta fish in a pretty little tank in purple, my favourite colour. The original Mr. Dick up and died on me last summer sometime for whatever reason and I went out and bought Mr. Dick 2. Last night he went belly up :-( for no reason I can think of other than to really make my week. I liked that stupid fish. Here's how he looked last night...... dumbass dead fish...... floating pretty much up & down in the water instead of sideways and he lost mostly all his colour too. Time for Mr. Dick #3 I guess.

I want to know something... what is it with some names? You just know that person is going to be a putz. I've rarely met a Debra I've liked, Connie's too. Seems some names just need to be avoided.

Just a quick update. So much for the new kitchen. It seems after letting me and others think there were going to be changes made and the kitchen updated properly, the landlord went behind our back and emailed the contractors to not do anything costly. No wall removals, no extra space on the counter, no adjusting the width of the outside counter..... just some new electrical outlets and petty things. We were not amused to say the least. He had no idea the contractor would read his email out to us..... next...... I've already contacted the media and have a meeting this Friday with a reporter that just loves to kick my landlord in the kahoona's. Serve's them right.

Other than that.... dealing with family issues. My brother discovered last Friday he has the same heart problems as I do and went under the knife today. They wanted him in last Friday but he's stupid and stubborn. It didn't go quite as smoothly as it should have due to his b.p. but it seems things are ok now.

geez this week has been a nightmare and I'll be glad when it's over. On Monday I had back to back meetings and the first one I had to deal with a freakin nutbar named Connie who disrupted the entire freakin meeting because she has 'issues' with me. Oh hell, she has 'issues' with everyone. So now I've agreed to do some mediation with her but I think I'm cancelling it. This is her problem not mine and she has some real mental issues that are not my problem and not my job to deal with. Then the next meeting was the meeting from hell where we found out we were jerked around by our landlord concerning the re-renovations of that cubby hole of a kitchen with the illegal electrical outlet.

Tuesday I was still dealing with "Miss out of her freakin mind Connie" and contacting the media and writing my landlord telling them the perverbial shit is going to hit the fan over this. One thing about me, I tell it point blank so no one can say they didn't see it coming or I went behind their back.

Today was extremely stressful with my brother's surgery. Tomorrow I'm taking some time to myself then Friday I meet the press.

Good morning.... seems so, I think Sympatico has fixed it's issues. Now I can actually get down to business again. I think.

Here's another one of those stupid things. Causing me to pitch a fit. The building I live in is 35 yrs old so now the owners are putting 30 million into it and it's 3 'sisters' up the street. That's a lot of bucks. Not that the building is falling apart but it's getting a well deserved facelift. So they contract to an American company. This is the first issue. Are there no Cdn companies out there that renovate bldgs? I guess they are all out building igloo's!. And yeah, these buildings are owned by Cdns not Americans. ok... so anyway, they are hired so nothing can be done about that issue.

To keep the residents up to date we have one meeting after the other and a lot of them are redundant and of course, nothing is on schedule either to the point where they are ripping out some people's kitchens the week before Christmas. Boy were those residents happy campers. NOT!.

Anyway, there is a very large room in this building that I use for several of the community programs I run. One of which is the Senior Afternoon Socials. I do this because I like to ok? The seniors are wonderful, always glad to be there and it really helps break the isolation factor for many of them. We serve a nice, well balance hot meal with a fabulous salad of garden greens, fresh fruit and a ton of desserts. I have several volunteers that I couldn't do this without and they rock.

So now the building owners decide they want to show the residents what materials are going to be used for the common areas of the buildings. The foyers, halls, even what the new counter tops, cupboards, etc. are going to look like. Fine by me, I'd like a peek too. So what they do is shut down the room I use for all my committee's and decide to renovate it! I can live with this. The room really needs a major overhaul, matter of fact one of my committee's took the time to write them a letter requesting money be found in the renovation project to renovate the kitchen in it and make it larger. Seemed like a dream come true.

They kept the work a suprise. Pretty much always leaving the door closed, locked, etc. Allowing no one in so we all get a surprise at the grand opening. Yup..... we got a surprise alright! On December 21st some of were invited to the grand opening of the newly renovated room. I went. I walked in and WOW! Talk about turnaround. The main huge room we use as a serving room (holds about 60 seated) is beautiful. From the new floor tiles to the new porcelain tiling on parts of the wall to the wall colour. Everything. The small extra room to the left is similar. Slightly different colours and different floor. It holds about 20 people seated at tables. New tables, chairs, everything. Then I turned right to see the new kitchen and almost lost my freakin mind.
IT'S A CUBBY HOLE!!! I am not friggin kidding. As you can see in this picture, the new kitchen looks messy but all that's in it is what we need and not even half of what we need. In there is the salad spinner, salad bowl, knives to cut with, a toaster, a kettle, dishsoap, paper towels, dish cloth. Oh... and then there is the double sink. Take notice.. no outlets! More about that later.....

It's the size of something that goes into a bachelor apartment at best! The 2 fridges are now also in a stupid freakin cubby hole out of the way but it forces us to circle the entire room to get a damn drink. Can you imagine it when 50 seniors are all asking for beverages at a different time? The kitchen itself has room for one person, two at the very most. We need 4 - 6 people in that room. We are cooking and preparing for 50 here....... not 3. I dragged them into the kitchen. The contractor, the building owner, the designer and asked them what the hell this was? oh....... by the way, the best part....... the recepticle. The one and only kitchen plug was directly on top of the sink & so was the phone jack. This is obviously not up to code!! duh

Below you can see the fridges. Like this? They are so jammed into this cubby hole on the left of the kitchen that if one breaks down and is replaced by another fridge even as much as an inch larger it won't fit!!!

Anyway to make a long, long story shorter..... and less pics....... I called a meeting on Wed. and got changes made. Now I have yet another meeting next Wed. to check over the blue prints again with the changes and everyone at the last meeting will attend this one too and agree to get this done correctly once and for all!!

btw, my freakin sympatico is still cutting out........ arghhhhhhhhhhhh

*^88&&&*^FFF*%%*()###%%!! Can this get any more frustrating? Have you ever tried to ftp a 600 mg site over when it stops every 3 minutes because the connection dies? Sometimes it stops just as I bring the ftp back up. This is such bull...... I have to wait to hit publish on this thing because if I do when I don't have a great connection, it will just sit here and spin until I get another wonderful page cannot get displayed page.

I'm phoning sympatico tomorrow. Oh joy, oh joy. They don't seem to understand the words "I'm disabled, so please don't ask me to get under my desk" because the next thing they tell me to do is get under the desk....... morons...... mental midgets.....

wweeeeeeeeeee my connection is back...... time to hit the publish key on this thing.... grrr gone before I had the chance...... tap...... tap...... tap....... tap........ tap...... tap..... is tapping my fingers annoying you? tough shit.

Had something else strange happen today too. My hosting server.. I couldn't get ahold of it. My nephew is opening a tattoo shop very soon and wanted me to purchase his web hosting and domain name and such and I did the domain name and then set up the DNS and then when I had the chance I went to my hosting server to buy some space for him. I call, phone rings, message comes on, I push 2 for customer service and get a message telling me I'm first in line and someone will take care of me directly. I wait, get canned music and the next thing I know I get this stupid message telling me that the voice mail is full and to please call back later!

No matter what line of theirs I called I got the same crap. The only line I got through on was the tech support and even with that I just got an answering machine. I left a message but no one called me back. hmmmmmm Kinda creeps me out. I had a company go belly up on me before and it's not something I'm looking forward to again. I must get ahold of my domains that they always redo for me and start doing them myself when they come up for renewals. I don't like the idea they are out of my hands any more. Not with not being able to get ahold of them like this. They had phone problems before now that I think of it. It was a Bell issue. Gotta love Bell..... blah!

grrrrrrr sympatico! This dsl is not worth the money spent. I'd get cable except for I live smack downtown and some mental midget is always digging for some reason. New condo, store, whatever, next thing you know, the cable is hit and bang, down it goes.

All day today my dsl has been dying. Goes fine for a while then it's like it's on slow motion. Sometimes it's so weak it can't even pull in my email and other times all I get is a freakin 'page cannot be displayed'. Wonder what is going on with this thing. If it keeps up tomorrow I'll call them.

This is always a fun activity. Calling Bell Sympatico. I just had to call them two days ago because they seemed to have thought they sold me something they didn't. Not only that, they charged me 10.00 + 15% tax for it. Nice eh? Morons. I literally had to get to the point of yelling at them that there was no way I was paying for services I didn't have on my computer. Finally they saw fit to remove it from my plan and credit me the $11.50. But only after I threatened to remove the auto payments and send them a cheque when I get around to it.

Mental midgets...... I'm tellin ya, they're everywhere!

VOILA!!! No I'm not French Canadian. And I can't speak French either..... lol I just figured out how to get rid of the stupid 'about me' section or at least change it. You have to go back to the posts here and then instead of clicking republish the index page, you must republish the entire blog! Then the stupid thing works.

Is it me or is it this thing? I clear my profile 'about me' section, save it and low and behold, the freakin thing still shows here!!! grrrrrr Seems no matter what I do I can't get it to clear. Or even change for that matter. This will drive me nuts in the end.

Now I've figured this thing out I guess I can share a pic or two I've taken over the years. This one was shot in Muskoka, Ontario Oct. 11/2003. It was a beautiful Fall day. Colour change was strikingly perfect.

Whomever invented these needs to be slapped. I just spent who knows how long going through the coding to change colours and such. In all the time I've been on the net I've never seen a 3 digit colour number like 579 or fc6 or whatever. I encountered them everywhere in this coding. Why don't they just use the normal 6 digit number/letter codes on this? Anyway, it finally came out pretty much like I wanted it to so now I just have to remember to write in it regularly.

oh... btw, I didn't misspell 'colour'. I'm Canadian, we spell different than Americans.

This will be filled with babble of the every day life of a 40 something crip out to take the world by the kuhonahs!! Marvel at my madness..... careen around the corners with me..... watch me take on anything and everything in my way.... and watch all sorts of shit hit the fan while I try to make it through another day meeting every stupid person on this planet, trying to get into places that basically say "hey crip, gimme your money but I'm not spending a cent to put in a door you can use!"...... lol Or how about if we just relegate you to the freight elevator?????

hmmmmmm as you can see, this will be filled with babble for the most part but..... since I've been dubbed a walking, talking Murphy's Law, watch for the everyday adventures to jump up and hit me smack in the ass. Yeah, yeah, you can laugh if you like, I do. :-)