This is the NEW world!!

checking in… Very short post..

2010-09-13T21:05:00.001-04:00

True story: I've been trying to get on the Telus site to add airtime minutes to our phones. After the site wouldn't load up, I went out and bought the cards. I tried getting on their site using four different browsers. I finally gave up and called in. I gave them the PINs and the chick ends the call with, "and you can always check your balance at www.telusmobility.com" REALLY???????

Well we had some great news..

2010-08-20T20:43:00.001-04:00

..for all of about 30 minutes!

We take the car in to get it fixed. We go home and then we get a call from the garage.. I didn’t answer the phone with “Hello” and I said, “I hope this is good news!” to which the guy said, “depends on how you define good news…” He tells me that the car is fixed. Then asks if I want the e-test done. It’s something we have to do in Ontario, if not Canada. It’s an emissions test. If it’s running good, you can get the plate sticker renewed. Well, it failed ONE thing. Turns out something on the list called NOX didn’t pass. NOX is nitrous oxide. Turns out my car is over the limit. How we need to pay another $129 (plus taxes!) to find out what the problem is. This is where it gets cute. This test will by me over the $450 to get a conditional pass. Meaning, I will have the plate sticker and be able to drive the car until we can get whatever it is fixed. I don’t remember what they said they THOUGHT was the problem, but new the part costs about $150-$300. But they did say they would be able to find a used part to replace it. If it’s not that part, it’s the spark plugs. Something that hasn’t been changed on the car in about 7 years. I’m thinking that’s the problem. I can hope and pray and wish it to be.

Oh yeah.. This all has to happen BEFORE September 16th. That’s when the tag expires.

Today, after we got the car back and I found out that we’re looking at MORE money, I started having these fantasies.. You know the type! Someone you know dies and you get some money. Or, my favorite that made me giggle, someone runs up to you and says, “OMG! I HAVE WAY TOO MUCH MONEY! HERE! TAKE ABOUT $3000!!” That $3000 is not something I came up with on my own. On the lot where we take the car in, they have another, NEWER version of my car. No price tag on it, but when I asked how much they wanted for it, Ken said something like, “another $3000.” I take it that’s with a trade in.

Also, I have started PRAYING! I never do that. The last time I prayed for something it had to do with my dad having cancer. I said, “God, I don’t want my dad to suffer like my mom did. If you’re going to take him, take him soon.” The next morning I get a call from the hospital that he was gone.

Also, I’m entering EVERY contest I can find for getting a new car.

Oh boy!

2010-08-20T12:35:00.001-04:00

So I’m toying with this asshole from Nigeria about a ring. I told him I sent it, but it’s still here. These are the REAL emails I got. This guy seems to think I’m dumb..

First Email:

Hello..
Thanks for the mail...i was introduced to this site by a friend at work and i will like immediate purchase of this item for my Niece 'Ilori' who is away of the state and been requesting for this item...i will offer you $330 including the shipping charges to her.. there because she is in need of it as a matter of urgency and due to my work i don't have time to handle the shipping..i will want you to help me handle the shipping very well to her.. I will like to make the payment via paypal ...Get back to me with your confirmed PayPal email address so that i can send the payment..
Get back to me asap..

And soon I get this.. Like this is what PayPal looks like!

Henson (mailto:derekr1981@googlemail.com), Payment Notification®

Dear

Valuable Customer,
You ought to have shipped the item to the destination by now, You can now forward the shipment proof (reference/tracking number and attached scanned receipt), so that we can credit your account.

We are very sorry for the inconveniences this may cause.
Please bear with us, this new measure is taken to secure our client's interest against lost of item. E..mail us the shipment details at this link verify_funds @officeemail.net and our customer service care will attend to you. As soon as you send us the shipment's tracking number to us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account.

Note: Please reply this mail immediately you receive it .Failure to respond to this mail may leads to Limitation of your PayPal Account .

Ilori Ayodeji
77, sapon road
Abeokuta,
Ogun state
23437
110001
Nigeria

Address Status: Confirmed

Thank you for using PayPal ® We look forward to serving your online auction payment better in the future.

The PayPal Team.
PayPal Email ID PP301

That email (verify_funds @officeemail.net ) doesn’t even work!

Hi,
I will like to let you know that i have issue out the payment into your paypal account and am very sure you will be notify very soon, i will also like to let you know that it should be mail out through the Canada Post International Parcel Air Mail, Canada Post Service only simply because they are cheap.. So get the item mailed out as soon as possible... Let me trust you by shipping it out. Below is the address though it will be giving to you by PayPal but i just wish to give it to you again in order to avoid any mistake that may occur through the shipping process
Ilori Ayodeji
22, sapon road
Abeokuta,
Ogun state
23437
110001
Nigeria
I will be waiting for the tracking numbers as soon as possible......
Cheers.

Notice the addresses are DIFFERENT? The spoof one says 77 and the one they send me says 22. They also want a photocopy of the receipt I never got (since I didn’t mail it.)

I finally decided that I was growing tired of this shit and sent them an email:

I just wanted to find out what the right address is.. The one paypal sent me was different from the one you sent me.

You wrote:

Hi,

I will like to let you know that i have issue out the payment into your paypal account and am very sure you will be notify very soon, i will also like to let you know that it should be mail out through the Canada Post International Parcel Air Mail, Canada Post Service only simply because they are cheap.. So get the item mailed out as soon as possible... Let me trust you by shipping it out. Below is the address though it will be giving to you by PayPal but i just wish to give it to you again in order to avoid any mistake that may occur through the shipping process

Ilori Ayodeji
22, sapon road <--------
Abeokuta,
Ogun state
23437
110001
Nigeria

I will be waiting for the tracking numbers as soon as possible......
Cheers.

BUT! This is what Paypal sent me:

Ilori Ayodeji
77, sapon road <---------
Abeokuta,
Ogun state
23437
110001
Nigeria

Oh yeah.. the email address from PAYPAL doesn't work. So try again.. Actually don't! I still have the ring and you are a SCAMMER! I have enough proof because you have emailed me before. After you can't play with me anymore, you try it again. emailed me at myemail@XXXX and then you emailed me at czechm8@XXXX and then you tried it again with FeezalPhlox@XXXX. Please stop. You can't get me to send something to NIGERIA. Also, I have you blogged and reported. So, have a nice day.

I wasn’t expecting to get an email back.. but they did reply…

“You are a scammer also what are you doing with many emails......we are both SCAMMERS”

At least he admits it!

What kills me about this whole thing how they think no one will catch the spelling mistakes and other things in the “PayPal” emails.

Time to purge the old brain here..

2010-08-16T02:35:00.002-04:00

I’ve been trying, for at least the last two hours, to get to sleep. Finally, I gave up and thought I would talk about anything that would be on my mind at this hour.
First thing: I’ve finally done it! No, I didn’t get the car fixed. It’s coming. I DID manage to come up with $500 to fix it. Just before I went to bed, I thought I might as well count the cash I have on me, then add it to what I have in the bank and then whatever I have left on PayPal. I found out that I had $500.. Actually it’s more like $503.34, and that’s without me counting all the pennies in the penny jar. I don’t have the wrappers for the pennies so to me they don’t exist. One of the last times I called the garage, I was told that for new parts it would be about $400 and if I wanted them on the car it would be $500. The last time I called they said I could come in on Friday and get it done. I’m sure the car will last that long, but I really hate having to wait that long. Also, about $43 just happens to be tied up in an account that I can’t get to, unless I walk into the bank and get it. It’s one of those pesky “you need two signatures” accounts and the nearest bank is in another town. If I had a lift there I could get the car done NOW! I’m not going to ask anyone for a lift until the garage tells me that they won’t let me bring the money after the car is fully functional.
What else is on my mind…… Oh yeah.. There’s a pipe in the bedroom/laundry room that needs fixing. I don’t know if it’s a water pipe or drain, but I think it’s a drain pipe. If you wash your hands in the bathroom, you find water in the bedroom. I’m really bummed out about this, but until the car is fixed, I’m ignoring it.
Anything else? Oh yeah! I was trying to sell a ring on Craigslist. I should just end it there since we all know what happens when you list something there. Here’s what happened: I list the ring and the next day I get an email asking if I still have it. I said yes. Then it was:
Hello..
      Thanks for the mail...i was introduced to this site by a friend at work and i will like immediate purchase of this item for my Niece '' who is away of the state and been requesting for this item...i will offer you $330 including the shipping charges to her.. there because she is in need of it as a matter of urgency and due to my work i don't have time to handle the shipping..i will want you to help me handle the shipping very well to her..Get back to me with your confirmed PayPal email address so that i can send the payment..
Get back to me asap..
Well I told this person that if they were REALLY willing to pay me for a ring to ship somewhere, that I would invoice them from PayPal. for the next few days or so I didn’t hear anything. Then I emailed them saying I didn’t get a reply. This is what I got:
Me: I sent you the invoice to pay for the ring. Did you get it?
Henson Harol: Nop (not a typo on my part!)
Me: I sent you an invoice from paypal.
Henson Harol: resend it ... i did not see it...
Me: check your paypal account.
Henson Harol: hi let me the picture ones more be for i make the payment.... i got the invoice (the picture was on the ad!)
Me: (two days later) I haven't heard from you yet about the ring. Still interested?
Henson Harol: dont worry again
Me: I haven't heard from you about the ring in a while. Are you going to pay?
Henson Harol: don't worry......okay
So I finally decided to scrap the old ad and write a new one. Guess what happened!

Henson Harol: I will love to buy this item ...and i will like to know the best price
...what is the condition of the item?
This time I decided to try something new. I changed my email address to one of the meny I don’t use, and I changed my name to Zoe Flanigan. I said it was used and in great condition. Then this popped up in that account..
Henson Harol: Hello..
      Thanks for the mail...i was introduced to this site by a friend at
work and i will like immediate purchase of this item for my Niece 'Ilori'
who is away of the state and been requesting for this item...i will offer
you $330 including the shipping charges to her.. there because she is in
need of it as a matter of urgency and due to my work i don't have time to
handle the shipping..i will want you to help me handle the shipping very
well to her.. I will like to make the payment via paypal ...Get back to me
with your confirmed PayPal email address so that i can send the payment..
Get back to me asap
I went back to the account that started this in the first place and asked if they were going to pay and this is what I got as a reply:
Henson Harol: get the fuck off okay scamer
Me: You told me that you were sending me money. I sent you an invoice and I
never got anything from you. You try this with me again and I'll report you.
First to Gmail, then to AOL where you started this with and then to
INTERPOL.
I'm not a scammer.. See that? There's TWO m's in SCAMMER. You're the
scammer. Are you even in North America? I've run a trace on your IP address.
So you can fuck off yourself.
Henson Harol: you are a full okay you can't full me
Me: I'm a full? OH!! I get it. you mean FOOL. I'm not a fool. This isn't the first time someone has tried to steal from me. You ask for my bank or PayPal info and then I send you the ring thinking it's in my account and it's not there.
At this point I was having way too much fun and I waited about 10 minutes and wrote this back to the idiot..
Me:
before you start telling me off again.. I traced your IP address..
Is this you?
IP Address
41.155.52.161
Country
NIGERIA
Region
LAGOS
City
LAGOS
Latitude
6.453
Longitude
3.396
IP Name
DIAL POOL SUBNET FOR LAGOS SUBSCRIBERS
Guess what, I haven’t heard shit from this person since.. Was it something I said??? *g* What kills me about people like this is that they turn it around and say you’re scamming them! This happened once before. I was selling a computer (look back on my blog. I wrote about it in depth) and when I told the person that they didn’t send me any money and I wasn’t sending them a computer (this person was ALSO from Nigeria) they told me about how they were going to report me to PayPal and I was going to get into trouble. How the hell can I get into trouble when they (PayPal) can see they didn’t send me money in the first place. I did tell them that I wasn’t scared of the big bad PayPal people, and soon they went away. So now I’m going to do something I never EVER do. I’m posting the email addresses this idiot used to TRY and scam me. If anyone out there should ever get an email in any variation of the following, DON’T TRUST THEM! Please let me know about it too. We can compare notes about what they said.

hensonharol02@gmail.com
hensonharol04@gmail.com
hensonharol@aol.com
Oh yeah… I did end up reporting them to a few people and even though I doubt they will be arrested, I’m sure they will pop up again somewhere else. I can only hope that bots find those addresses and spam the fuck out of them. Or someone else with time on their hands can sit there and bother them. That would be nice.

Yet another car update..

2010-08-11T22:00:00.001-04:00

ok.. I’m going to shut the fuck up about the car now. The last time I said that they were quoting $400. Now it’s up to $500. I’ve managed to raise something like $450 for the car. Still need at least another $50 to $75. I’m leaving room for little parts like gaskets and screws that they might want to charge me for.

Is it new math or something? I was told the front pipe would be $180. I paid $80 two years ago for the flex pipe. That’s only $260. With HST it would be $293.80. Even with the hour to hour an a half, it would be $440. I’m not sure what else would be thrown onto the bill, but I’m hoping I can get it done soon. The fucking car sounds like a Harley. I love Harleys, I just don’t want the sound under the hood.

I wanna say something here that I said to a friend of mine this morning: I've saved up money, pawned all my jewelry and did some things in West Quahog I'm not proud of, but I have almost all the money I need to get it fixed..

Yeah, I like Family Guy. And, NO! I didn’t pawn all my jewelry! The car won’t make it to Peterborough!

Please donate

2010-08-03T13:46:00.000-04:00

in light of my car problems, I'll ask if anyone can kick me a few bucks.. not asking for for all it.

Update on the car..

2010-08-03T13:22:00.001-04:00

Well, it turns out that when they said we were getting the exhaust from the manifold back, they might have been wrong. Turns out the flex pipe has broken off from the front exhaust. Right now we’re looking at about $400. We were there and heard the call to the parts place and heard that a front exhaust is $180. After we freaked about that (we also need another flex pipe) he told us he would check at the wreakers. If they have it, I might only have to pay about $200. I might be able to swing that, but I have bills that will not get paid.

This might be a long one…

2010-08-01T06:16:00.001-04:00

Before I get to what’s on my mind I want to go back a few months to when this all started. Hell, let’s go back to 5 years ago…

We moved to Norwood five years ago. Small town life was just the ticket for this city girl and I was happy wherever I was. We would live here, buy food here and usually from the source. We’re in Farm country and we support the local farms.

We were making a trip to Oshawa for a doctor appointment and we got as far as a little town called ROSENEATH. (Google it if you have to. It’s in Ontario.) We heard something hit the underbelly of the car. It was a loud one too. We tried to pull over and the steering was hard. We limped to the garage and found it closed. So I call CAA and they come get us and take us to the only garage we knew in Norwood. There’s three here, at least that’s what I’ve heard. We waited around for someone to look at the car and they said, “We will cannibalize parts from other cars to fix it. Shouldn’t cost too much.” Then we sat around waiting. Then we were driven home by one of the guys there. Seems lunch was coming and they would get around to it after they ate. When we got back, “won’t cost too much…” turned into a bill for $399! Well, we were out here about 6 months and he didn’t know us, but we paid the bill and I told him that I had bills that wouldn’t be paid because of this one. What broke on the car? The serpentine assembly snapped like a rubber band. There’s a drum that the belt goes on and that has a pin that screws into it. Both were stripped.

About once every 6 months or so, something goes wrong with the car. But these days it seems like more and more is going wrong. It’s a 99 Cavalier. I know for it’s age that I will have to shell out for some repairs, but since 2010 started, it’s been a battle trying to keep the car on the road.

In April we were heading to Oshawa for yet another visit to see a doctor. We got as far as Garden Hill (Google that one too.) when the muffler falls off the car. We get towed back to Norwood and after getting welding a piece of tailpipe and reattaching the muffler, we were back on the road. The car ran great for about a week. Then we were heading to Peterborough for dinner when the car started making a loud noise. We turned around and went back to the garage.

I wanna say something about the guys we go to. The owner is a guy by the name of Ken Maybee. I will plug his shop if he can get me deals. He sells cars there as a side job. I have no idea how old this man is, but he’s not young, damn near has a full head of dark hair and is a grandfather. I hope I look that good at his age. He works there with his sons, Mike and Dave, who I believe both of kids of their own.

Anyways, we get to the garage.. They take it out for a test drive, they check to make sure the weld from the week before has held. Then they let the car run while it’s on a lift. Ken calls us over and says he knows what was wrong with the car.

Now I want to give a little bit of a side note. When the muffler fell off the car we thought it was from a stress point from a little problem we had before. There’s a strap that holds the muffler to the underside of the car. It rusted off. Ken did something to fix it and I think there was a hook he added to keep the muffler from slipping off. During the short time this was going on, it caused a stress point and that’s what I thought the problem was. I found out later that I was wrong.. Here’s why…

Ken shows us where he fixed the tailpipe. Mike on the over hand showed us where the problem really was. The catalytic convertor DIED. I didn’t know it was an original part. Also didn’t know a man could put his bare hand on a tailpipe to show us where the problem was either. We had just paid $100 for the last repair and that was only a week before. We only had about $50 on us at this point. So Ken tells us to save up and come back. He said it might cost about $250 to fix. So I think I was able scrape together about $180 that week. Then I find out that what Ken decided to do to the car would actually cost $350. I made a call to a few people I know and I got the rest. Paid it back fast too. He took the exhaust from another Cavalier and welded it on to my car. From the manifold back, it was all replaced. Most of the money went to a new catalytic convertor.

I told you that story to tell you this one.

For the last two weeks or so, I was hearing a noise coming from the engine. It wasn’t all that loud and it would go away after the car warmed up. I thought nothing of it. Then it started up again and wouldn’t go away. If there’s nothing else people understand about me, it’s that I live with my head in the sand at every chance I get. If I don’t talk about it, it’s not real. Well… We went to Peterborough to the farmers market. We got all kinds of stuff! We were coming back when the noise started again and got louder. It sounds like a leak around the manifold. I’m hoping that’s all it is because I don’t have any money to spend on it. Did find out that if it’s the weld, they will redo it for free.

The last few days I haven’t been sleeping. The car is the reason why. I start thinking about stuff if I don’t have a book to read or a game to play. I play my DS in bed. I’m weird. I know it. When I get stressed I tend to clean. I have done the dishes at 3am more nights than I can count. It’s driving me NUTS!

I woke up this morning at about 4am. I did some dishes and started thinking.. Am I paranoid if I think that the guys from the garage come to my house and mess with my car when I’m asleep? I’ll talk to Dave about how we haven’t had any problems on the car and then that week something breaks. Maybe I’m just reading too much into it. At least I hope so. But I will say this.. Whenever we do bring the car in, Ken high fives us. That’s bad, right?

Car goes in on Tuesday. If all goes well, the car will be fixed and I can get some sleep. If not, I will be walking everywhere…

I guess I was right.. that was a long one!

It’s been TWO MONTHS…

2010-06-30T21:37:00.001-04:00

..since I last went to an AA meeting. I gave up on them AGAIN. I found other ways to deal with my life. Not going to say much tonight. The hubby is down here in the living room and I’m growing tired. Just wanted to check in and say hi..

Actually, I will do this.. We had a wild storm here in Norwood. And I took pictures of the Christmas Tree that fell over during the storm..

It’s been two weeks..

2010-06-28T23:35:00.001-04:00

Took ANOTHER paper route.

Oh the joys!

Here’s the first problem.. MY FEET ARE KILLING ME! I’m tired all the time and bitchy. Something else, the last carrier to have this route was THREE MONTHS AGO. The driver who brings us the papers was dropping the papers for that whole time, but she wasn’t collecting. So I come along and start to collect from people. Had TWO people say they never wanted the paper, but they have been getting the paper for free. I don’t play that way. I will cut off someone who will not pay.

When I took the route I went around meeting the people I would be delivering to. I went to most of the houses on one street and everyone was happy to see me.. INCLUDING this one family who decided today that they wouldn’t pay for the papers they got for the last week. Turns out they said they never wanted the papers, this is after they had been paying in by check. For the last 4 months they were getting free papers and I come to find out that they were getting it for free for MONTHS before that.

I walked over everyday for the last two weeks and tried to get money from them. I even called them. Then today they told the paper they never wanted it. My boss had told me about it and then he was swearing about it.

I will say this to anyone reading this who might get home delivery: If you want to NOT get the paper, don’t think that if you don’t pay the bill that you will never get another paper. It goes to carrier collect and then WE end up paying for your bill. Some of the kids end up paying for your paper for a while. I’m a adult. Don’t piss us off.

I’m now plotting my revenge on that family. If I see them I will say something.. just don’t know what just yet..

I’m getting sick of this…

2010-06-14T01:18:00.001-04:00

So, as I wrote a few days ago, I told Peterborough This Week that I wanted to drop one of the routes I have. My manager asked me to hold on to the route until she advertises it. Guess what I noticed??? Yup! Not in the paper! It’s been two weeks and still I don’t see them getting me off that street.

When I was talking to her last, she told me that she never (or hardly ever) comes out to Norwood. She asked if I could ask around and see if anyone wants the route. Doesn’t that sound like I’m doing HER job? She should at least have it listed in the paper with the other routes. I’ve talked to the kids around here. I’ve put an ad on Kijiji and NO ONE WILL TAKE IT. I’m not doing this paper on that street forever and I’m so tempted to call her up and say, “Hey! You said you wanted to run it in the paper. It’s not in there and it’s been two weeks. If you don’t list it this week, I won’t be doing it next week!” I don’t care if I get fired. I’m fed up with people walking all over me and thinking they can get away with it.

The other paper I’m doing, Peterborough Examiner, has given me another route (I did ask for it) and I start that tomorrow. I had a little walk around the streets where I’m delivering to and already I have a guy telling me that he’s not carrier collect and that he sent in a check. I have a feeling that he won’t be with the paper much longer. If he doesn’t pay me, I tell my boss and he mails out a letter and then when he doesn’t pay them, it goes back to me and then we cancel them. After three months, everyone is used to getting the paper for free around there.

Turns out the driver who was dropping off the papers wasn’t collecting from anyone, because, and this is what she told me, “I’m not to get out of the truck.” Remember the $480 I was talking about that they owe the paper? Everyone I talked to said they were NOT paying for it. I see problems.

I did have one problem and it’s an ongoing one. There’s this little old lady in a retirement home who didn’t pay her bill for almost a whole year. She never got a bill. I asked my boss to send it to me. In fact, I had two women, living next door to each other who needed to pay their bills. Woman one, let’s call her Jayne, she never got a bill and couldn’t pay what she didn’t get. Then, I show up and say, “she owes me $140.” To which the manager at the retirement center says, “I’ll have her write you a check.” I get the check for the $140 and tell my boss that she wants a bill. He tells me that she was sent one. Then he sent her another one. Three more notices get mailed out to her, and she doesn’t get them. I finally get a bill sent to me for both Jayne and Marilyn, and then I get to wait a week, since the manager there was now on vacation. When she got back she told me that both checks were signed and sent and they were in the mail. A week later, I get a notice saying that Marilyn was now office pay, but NOTHING about Jayne.

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard crazy shit happening at billing. One person who was office pay as long as I can remember, didn’t get a bill for three months. I was trying to get them to pay me when they told me that they never got the bill. then I find out that someone goofed and they finally sent out out to them. I’m hating the papers and I would love it if they were someone else’s problem, but I’m the carrier and it’s my job to get gray hair worrying about this. And yes I should worry about this. If they don’t get it worked out, I am the one who is paying the bill. I’m now going to post this and call my boss at PE and tell him about this. I’m so mad about this that I could strangle something.

I can’t sleep…

2010-06-09T23:07:00.001-04:00

So I went to bed about two hours ago.. Maybe a little more than that. I couldn’t sleep. I just kept tossing and turning and then I was humming the Joan Jett version of Tossin’ and Turnin’ and thought that it was great that should would cover a song from the decade she was born. I started thinking about it… I was born in 1970 and as far as I’m concerned, there’s no songs from that decade that I would EVER want to sing. I used to sing. I was in a band for about an after noon and after the hash was passed around, I decided that drugs and this band were not for me.

I started to think about how I get into some problems with money, only to be bailed out by a win fall. No one in my family has died (that I know of..*crosses fingers*) I just took ANOTHER paper route that pays better than the others I have. I think I’m up to 5 at the moment. My boss stopped by to sign me up for the route. He told me that out of 13 houses that I will deliver to, eight of them are what we call CC or Carrier Collect. So I had some math to do after he left, and the hubby was hounding me about how much extra was coming into the house. It was listed as earning $85/month. Not much if you think about it, but the CC rates are $3.97/week and most of the time we round up to $4. So… $4 x 8 is $32 a week. Since some people like to pay me for four or five weeks, that works out to $128 for four weeks. Add that with the other’s I have, I’ll be collecting from FIFTEEN people and that means I’ll be making about $240 a month. I’m sure when I start this I will be killing myself and wanting to kill myself, but I do these things for the hubby.

Speaking of him.. He’s been stressed for the last little bit because of the car problems. There’s a guy who will replace the windshield and, I’m NOT making this up, his name is ROB LOWE. Not the actor! I think he does the window thing as a side job. Kinda like I do the papers as a side job for my real job of sitting at a desk all day watching TV and surfing the net.

Wait a minute… wasn’t Fear The Reaper from the 70’s?

Ground Zero is NOT Sacred!

2010-06-06T10:48:00.000-04:00

This morning I turned on the news to hear about a proposed mosque to be built in Manhattan, not far from "ground zero". I have read things like, "they can't build it there! It's like a slap in the face for all the people who died there!" or my personal, favorite, "Ground zero is SACRED!" It's not sacred. Sacred is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers in a given set of spiritual ideas. Ground Zero IS NOT SACRED. The same person went on to say that it's also a burial site. If it's a burial site, why are they planning to put a building on it? Anyone remember Poltergeist??

Yes, some terrible things happened there. Lots of people died. It's not sacred. Sacred ground is where religious people bury their loved ones. Not erect building in their memories. New York needs to get a grip. We're almost at the 10 year mark (in another year, but still...) and all we hear about is how it changed Lower Manhattan, took 3000+ people with it and then there's the conspiracy nutjobs who think that the planes didn't take down the buildings, it was the work of the US government. Whenever I hear about stuff like this I want to kill someone.

Now, before I get hate mail and people threatening to blow up my car for pissing on the American flag or not being patrioted enough, most of that bit on the word SACRED is from Wikipedia. Also, I'm Canadian. We have free speech and if you don't like it, screw off. I never bought into that whole, "America is the best GODDAMNED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD" Bullshit that MOSTLY folks from the southern states say, even though they lost the civil war. Never could understand why a bunch of cousin fuckers and "My daddy is also my brother" would say that after the yankees beat them in a war that never should have happened in the first place. GW Bush wasn't even from the south and he has an accent. Google it. It was from one of the northern states.. Namely New Haven, Connecticut. He might live in Texas NOW, but that accent is too thick to be real. I know someone FROM Texas and he doesn't sound like Bush.

Anyways.. I'm straying from the point I'm trying to make here. Ground zero is not sacred. Never will be. No pope or priest ever blessed the area, the only people buried there were incinerated when the planes hit the buildings, yes the buildings came down by the planes, not explosive charges placed there by the US government, and you can't call it sacred when they start building on it. If you really want it to be scared, put a park there. Let kids play on it, gardeners can plant there and dogs can shit there. Put a marker there saying it's sacred and why the dictionary term doesn't match up with why that area is sacred.

Let the hate mail begin...

I’m in hell…

2010-05-27T22:26:00.002-04:00

Or maybe BACK IN HELL.

Back in December I broke my wisdom tooth. I blame my mother in law in part. She gave us a bunch of hard candies and I broke my tooth on those. I was in some serious pain for about two months – to the point where I couldn’t sleep unless I took some codeine. I can’t have that drug all the time. I used to be addicted to it about 10 years ago when I had a chest infection. Actually I think I had pneumonia. My doctor gave me liquid codeine and I would take it to fall asleep. I now use it just for the tooth. I was fine for a while but last night it started to hurt. I didn’t sleep much last night. I was up every hour on the hour and usually for 20-30 minutes at a shot. I tossed and turned and almost prayed to die. I managed to get some sleep. but I’m fading fast now. I just wish the tooth would die or fall out or both.

In other news, my brother in law asked us up to the cottage where he would make us steaks on the grill. We haven’t seen him since around Christmas. He got into a mood that no one would get him out of. He was laid off and bitter about it. So we tried to help him out a little by giving him a gas card with $10 on it. We don’t know if he got it since he was with a foul mood. Well, this would be the first time we were to see him since then and drove up. I was outside with his girlfriend’s daughter. I didn’t know what happened in the house until all us girls went to the river down the road. Turns out the girlfriend said or did something to piss him off and he told her, “I will punch you in the fucking face!” She asked me if he was always a jerk. I told her yes and even said the whole story about how he grabbed my cat and went to throw her off our 14th floor balcony. I told him that if he threw her off that he would hit the ground before she did. The girlfriend was shocked that he did that. What I don’t get is that she has been with him for about the last 6 years and she’s just now asking me about him. I have a feeling she wanted to just confirm he IS a prick. Turns out dear ol’ brother in-law, went into the shed and came out a changed man. We suspect he was snorting something. I have decided that I don’t need that in my life. He’s going to have to kiss my ass for a long while before I will see him any differently.

Anything else to report…. YES! I posted the pictures of the robins. Bad news on that one. The tree wasn’t able to support the next and one tumbled out soon after hatching. Two more I found under the tree. No idea what happened to the fourth bird. I know the parents abandoned the nest.

We have CROPS!

We just finished planting three beefsteak tomato plants, six Roma and a box of taters. Had to make the garden bigger too. Turns out you plant potatoes on a full moon and they grow better and bigger or something. I don’t understand it, but that’s when we do it. I’m thinking about growing berries this year too. We have a blackberry bush on the side of the house and it only started growing last year. It’s taking over. But this year I would like raspberries or blueberries or MY FAVORITE: STRAWBERRIES!! The local stores around here have started to sell the plants. Just don’t know where we would put them. We have bears out here!

Oh crap.. the pills have worn off. I’m in PAIN AGAIN!

Til next time…

Oh FUCKING GRR!

2010-05-05T17:23:00.001-04:00

It’s a very windy day here in Norwood. I was bring the Peterborough This Week papers up the street when the wind caught them and took the top one down the street. I started cursing loudly. I ran up the street collecting them and bitching out the paper company for all the flyers. Wednesdays are the worst days for this paper. There are so many flyers that you can’t bend it. Also, I have heard the skinny mailboxes creak when I put a paper in it.

Well, I called the office to ask them what happens if a box should break when I put their oversized papers into it. They told me, “you are responsible for any damage.” So I put THEIR paper in the box and it breaks, and *I* have to pay for it?? FUCK NO!

I was talking to my neighbour, Les, who told me that if they are paying me for the paper, they are NOT paying me for all the flyers, I should just take the flyers out and not deliver them. I like that idea, but the paper would fire me for that.

Because my hubby isn’t out walking them around, he’s told me I can’t quit. Seems he thinks we need $85 a month more than I need my sanity. I still think I should.

I should just shut the hell up..

2010-04-24T13:41:00.001-04:00

So two weeks ago I was talking about how the muffler fell off the car. Well it went down hill from there.. For two weeks I got to hear from my hubby, “what was that?” or “Did you hear that?” and my favorite, “I thought I heard a noise.” After about a week of this, and I mean the week after the muffler was put back on, the “noise” got worse to the point where I actually DID hear it. So I tried to tune it out but turning up the radio. Seems he was hip to it and started turning OFF the radio. A full week after the muffler problem, we get to the garage to find out that the catalytic converter was dying. After emptying four bank accounts and borrowing $200 from my father in law, we got the car fixed. I’m never going to tempt fate like that again…

Oh yeah!! As a side note, one of the cedar trees we planted four years ago has a robin living in it with four eggs.

The Picture has only two eggs in it. I didn’t go back out to take an updated picture.

Well, answers THAT question..

2010-04-06T13:50:00.001-04:00

a few days ago I posted that I was wondering when the other shoe was going to drop. It dropped alright.. with a bang and a thud!

We were on a road trip to Oshawa for some doctors appointments. We were listing to the radio when we heard the car make a loud humming sound. More like a roar. We pulled to the side of the road and then heard the muffler drop. The pipe snapped on the other side of the U bracket and down she came. at least there was a hook on there. It’s at the garage, but they won’t be able to get to it until tomorrow. They said they can look at it tonight, but that’s all.

So we’re on the side of the road.. I didn’t need to use the washroom at all until this happened. Then my bladder and bowels let me know I was wrong. This was about 10:35am. I remembered looking at the time and thinking we were making great time. We pulled over to Richardson’s Lookout just outside of Garden Hill. I called CAA and they said it would take about 45 minutes. So I started walking up to the park in search of an outhouse or a bush. Never found one. So I kept my legs crossed for the next while. As soon as the tow truck I was thinking “Almost there!” and then he drove slow and then took the 115. We got to the garage.. For some reason, I didn’t have to go. I’m home now and I STILL don’t have to go. I’m weird.

So we think it’s going to cost about $50 to fix. They want to sell us another muffler. So it would be about $250 AT LEAST. I don’t have it and if they keep saying that, we will push or drive the car home. Let’s hope it’s not too bad. Just needs the pipe cut off where it broke and then put in a small piece of pipe and then get the muffler back on. It’s only about two years old!

Turning over a new Leaf!

2010-04-05T17:43:00.002-04:00

I’m not sure why, but everyone seems to think that I’m like their priest. People tell me secrets and I want it to stop.

I don’t have a problem with keeping a secret. I just don’t want to hear about the dead body that’s floating up Lake Ontario after a friend killed someone. THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED! I know the second I post this, OPP will be at my door. I’m just saying…

NO MORE telling me how/when/where you have sex, and how often. I also don’t want to know about the drugs you take. Don’t care about the number of illegal downloads you got this morning…

Just once I would love to hear some good news from someone. Not the sad, hard luck stories about your car, dead cat or the VD you got from that hooker in Bangkok.

Where is the good news out there???

Have I been quiet or what????

2010-04-04T13:03:00.001-04:00

It’s been a wonderful time for me. Where to start…

Got high speed! A faster computer and been going to auctions at the local auction house. Things just seem to be working out these days. I’m starting to get scared about that. What happens when the shit hits the fan?? Something bad coming my way? is the other shoe about to drop? I hope not.

OH!! Went to the MapleFest at LinLor Farms. Got a LETRE of maple syrup after having the big breakfast of sausages and pancakes. This is the part that was funny.. they made coffee way to strong and the “orange drink” too watered down. I still can’t blink.

This is DEEP!

2010-03-08T01:13:00.001-05:00

My cats have worms. I've known this for some time and I was really trying to avoid facing it. I have three cats. Tara, James and Zoe. Tara is the oldest and she tends to get some health problems. I don't run her to the vet for every little thing. I noticed that she didn't have much hair on her ass and she was looking thin. So I finally, after months of waiting, got her some deworming stuff that you can get at the hardware store. I'm in the country and most people just shoot their pets when they get too old. It's a normal thing to do, to go to Home Hardware and get stuff for worms. Well, I got the stuff last week. I didn't bother to give it to them right away. I'm not sure why. Anyways, I was in bed and started to wonder if maybe I should just do it. Give them the cure. I found myself getting out of bed and mixing the stuff into their food. Tara RAN to the dish and started eating it up. James sniffed at it, but he ate it too. I made the last dish for Zoe. Since it was midnight, and I didn't want to wake up everyone on my street, I walked the dish to her. She was in my bed and didn't really care if she got the good food then and there. I had to put the dish under her nose and even then she didn't want anything to do with it. After eating about half of it, I put the rest of her food into the fridge. I started thinking that she was putting off until tomorrow what she should be doing today.

All this got me thinking about when I was out drinking. If someone came to me and said, "here's a cure for what ails you." Would I be like Tara and jump right in? Would I check it out first and then dive in like James? No. I have a hard head and I had to be pointed to AA like Zoe with her deworming meds.

Some people just take to AA with a little push. Then there are those of us who need to be forced into taking their cure. When I first KNEW I had a problem with alcohol, it took me MONTHS to get into AA. I had to be pushed into making that first step. I haven't missed drinking and I hope that I never want it.

RIP Andrew Koenig (my own story)

2010-02-26T16:14:00.000-05:00

A friend of mine killed himself years ago.

His father had killed himself and he didn't know about it until he was in his 40's. His mom told him that his father was murdered. She thought it was better then him learning the truth about his father's death.

After his mom died, he was put on antidepressants. He didn't like how the pills worked with his body. He was slugish and sex was not an option. He told me his doctor took him off the pills. I took that to mean he was going to be switched. After a few days, he stopped answering the phone. He let the answering machine take all his calls. Then he stopped letting the machine take calls and he ripped it out of the wall. I could never get in touch with him.

In June that year, I called his number to see how he was. His number had been changed. I called the number and got his girlfriend. She told me that she couldn't get in touch with him for a few days and she grew concerned. She called the police and they found him hanging in his apartment, three days dead. He killed himself in February. FOUR months before.

I woke up every morning for months with a dull ache in my chest. I know and understand how Andrew's friends and family are feeling right now.

Unless you have been thru this, you will never know what it's like.

Oh good god!

2010-02-19T12:44:00.001-05:00

Can we get thru a scandal without having a tearful (or not so tearful) apology?? I don't care what people do in their personal time. Tiger has a dick and I don't care if he's fucking parrots on the weekends. He has a private life and it should stay that way. Would we want to hear from some random asshold on the street talking about how he or she fucked a planet of people like they were Capt. Kirk? I'm betting NO! I would be interested in his sex life if he was going to tell us how and where and how good it was. If there's no pictures, I DON'T CARE!

And why do we need to have these news conferences to say how sorry the person in question is? There is only one person he needs to say sorry to. His wife. Maybe his kids too. I wouldn't want to know about my parents' sex lives. Why should his kids have to hear about it too.

Sex is a natural biological need. If he wants to Kirk his way thru life, go for it! He's human and needs to have it. Why is it that when we hear about someone cheating, they have to go into sex rehab? I'm sure he loves his wife and kids, but he could have found a hooker who wouldn't have said anything.

I didn't watch the conference.. I caught about 2 minutes of it on the news and then got to hear about five minutes worth of what they thought about it. They said he didn't cry, that he seemed emotionless and didn't seem like he was really sorry. WHO CARES?? He doesn't need to tell us anything. hte general public are just fans. We shouldn't have this much stock in his life.

I'm 39 and I don't remember having to hear about shit like this when I was growing up. And what I remember, we didn't censor anything when I was coming up in the world. I got to see a reporter killed on live tv when I was under 7 years of age, but on the same hand we didn't hear about people cheating and we never condemned anyone for doing it. Everyone, dogs and cats included, knew about JFK. Did anyone care? Nope. So what changed? Are we so bored with our own lives that we need to stick our noses into the likes of Tiger, Paris or any of the political figures who have slipped up?

Give me a break! We don't need to know EVERYTHING about EVERYONE!

What a wild month!!!!

2010-02-01T16:47:00.002-05:00

I need to cover a number of things so this might take a while...

I was talking to a friend of mine who said he had some computer parts he didn't want anymore and said I could pick out anything I wanted.. Well, I ended up with FOUR computers. One my father in law gave me and it's like a P3. Slow as shit and I picked it apart for parts. Then I had the two my friend gave me and my old computer. It's a Dell Dimension 3000 and about 5 years old. I started putting ads up everywhere to get it out of the house. I got an email from someone and this is when the fun started...

What they sent is in BOLD

THANKS FOR THE RESPOND I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU BUT PAYPAL IS NOW SAFE,SECURE AND FAST TO RECEIVE MONEY BECAUSE THERE TECHNOLOGY HAS NOW IMPROVED NOW SO YOU ARE SECURE WITH PAYPAL THAT IS WHY I CHOOSE IT AS PAYMENT WAY TO ANY OF THE TRANSACTION I MADE SO PLEASE YOU CAN MAIL ME BACK WITH YOUR CONFIRM PAYPAL EMAIL ID SO THAT I CAN MAKE THE PAYMENT ASAP OK.

I never use paypal. I deal in cash ONLY and you would have to pick it up. I'm in Canada and you seem to be in the US. I'm not interested in sending a computer to another country.

thanks for the respond am not in the state that is why i want you to help me out to ship the computer back is going to my store and i will be adding shipping money with it so let hear back from you soon okay............

Then I gave them an address I never use for paypal...

Hello,

Am glad to inform you that I am through with the payment,I have add
enough fund with the shipping cost...PayPal have sent me the
confirmation that the money have been deducted from my account..I hope
you would have received the confirmation mail from PayPal if that is
the case, kindly made the shipment immediately Via **(USPS) Global
Express Mail International.(EMS)** 8-10 days to my company agent
located oversea of the confirm address giving to you by PayPal and send
the tracking number to the customer care for more
verification.

So that your account will be credit.....The shipment tracking number
will start with (EH) or (EG) or (EQ) or (ED) or (EV) (EM) or (EB) and
ended with (US)...

Here is the shipping address below:

NAME : Adeolu S
ADDRESS: #70 Agbiowo university.ibadan
CITY : Ibadan
STATE: Oyo State
ZIP CODE: 23402
COUNTRY:Nigeria
TELEPHONE:+2348052893764

Thanks:I trust in you
God Bless...
Best Regards

Note : I want you to ship the item Via **(USPS) Global Express Mail
International.(EMS)** 8- 10 days Only !!!! because is very fast,secure
and cheap.

I wasn't born yesterday. I knew this was a scam from the start. I should email them and say the address was to a cop or something...

Then this week..

Sunday I'm snoozing and it's about 4:30am.. My hubby starts waking me up saying he thought a cat puked in the bed. We have three cats and two of them LOVE to sleep IN the bed. Like under the covers with us. I slowly started to wake up and I realize that my hand is warm and wet.. Yup, someone puked ON my hand. I go and strip the bed and I find out that the pipes are FROZEN. I had to make up the bed, blurry-eyed and we went back to sleep. We were ok for that day.

But then this morning I hear a cat chewing on something. I hit the light and I see one chewing the plastic on one of the arms of my hubby's glasses. She had already chewed most of the other arm off. So My hubby puts the glasses in a case. Then the light was back off and I hear something go thump. I called over the cat and she snuggled up to me. After a few minutes, the hubby gets up and then he panics. I turned the light back on and the glasses in the case were missing. So from about 4:30am I was searching for his glasses. After about an hour, we found them.. UNDER MY DESK! I don't know how she got it out there, but we were happy to find them..

So, who wants a computer? Must be in the 705 area code.

What a Week!

2009-12-30T17:31:00.001-05:00

We've been having nothing but bad luck.

Last week the strap that holds the muffler on the car rusted off. It's a '99
and there's rust all over it. This part is welded on. Only cost $47 to fix.
Not bad.

The house got SO cold the last few days, that a number of things happened..

1 - Pipes for the washing machine froze up. I put a small heater in there
and that helped. But it didn't stop it from freezing up again.
2 - After making the rule that no water would be left standing in the
kitchen sinks, the drain pipes ended up freezing up and after pouring Drano,
boiling hot water and plunging, the pipe started leaking. Still clogged!
Don't think we're having dinner tonight.

I will say this: I will remember this December!

Welcome to Winter!

2009-12-11T22:00:00.001-05:00

As the days started to grow cold, I found out that there was a hole under
the house. We found out there was a raccoon under there. I looked up how to
get rid of it. We poured urine down there and it moved out. Now we have a
skunk in there. I was asking around so I can find out how to get rid of it
and everyone says fox urine will get rid of a skink. If I got fox urine down
there, what's coming next??

Open letter to "The Parents Television Council"

2009-12-02T23:40:00.001-05:00

Not to piss on your parade, but you do know that The Simpsons and Family Guy
are for ADULTS right? Why would you want to pick on them? Sure the Simpsons
are mostly yellow and the father is a drunk, and Family Guy has a talking
baby and a talking dog. so what! They are more real than those religious
shows I've seen on TV. If you're sitting with kids to watch Family Guy or
The Simpsons, hoping to get some quality time with them, you should get rid
of your TV and find a book. Maybe read them the bible and answer why the
whole planet started with Adam and Eve. All we get in that book is how TWO
people populated the whole planet with just their DNA. Sounds like Eve was
having sex with her sons. I'm not a theologian, but that sounds bad.

I grew up in a house where nothing was hidden from me. Back in the 70's I
got to see a reporter shot dead, LIVE on TV. That didn't screw me up. I
didn't want to go out and kill anyone. I didn't stomp on the heads of
puppies and kittens. I have morals and if I see something on TV or hear
something on the radio, I have a nifty little feature on my TV and radio..
it's called the OFF button. Something you should try finding.

I'm having trust issues..

2009-11-18T19:26:00.000-05:00

there's a young woman I know in a building I deliver newspapers to here in
town. Yesterday she saw me walking by and she invited me into her apartment.
I've known her for a while. When I would pick up my nephew from school, she
would be there to pick up two kids who I think were kids of a friend of
hers. I don't remember. Anyhoo, I was in her apartment and I noticed an odor
in the place. Like someone had been throwing up all day and night. So she
told me this little tale....

"Oh my god Sam! We go to Chuck E Cheese with three girls and three boys and
leave them there. They have someone there to look after your kids. We drop
them off for lunch, around 11:30am. We go off to do other things and we get
back the kids are all saying they're sick. So we take them home. I take my
daughter home and she starts puking. She's there saying she's not feeling
well and she's throwing up everywhere. She threw up there and there and
here... So I look at her burger and there's maggots in it! OMG!! I can't
believe it. So I called Chuck E Cheese and they said that I was the tenth
parent to call in. So they were getting calls all day about it. I called my
friends up about it and they said all their kids were puking too. So we have
all the kids in the bathroom in the restaurant and they're all sick. They
are puking everywhere. I go to look at the burger and pull back the bun and
I see maggots! I start screaming and then the other mothers come over and
they see the maggots and then the men came over and they saw the maggots. We
all spent the night in the hospital finding out if there were any maggots in
the kids."

See how the story changed a few times?? They all got home and they were
sick. No, they were sick at the restaurant. This is how I knew she was full
of shit. SHE HAS NO KIDS! How about this one too, the big rat doesn't have
BURGERS! Sheesh. I knew something was up when the story got better and
better.

I was talking to her aunt, who currently lives one floor down from her, and
she said, "She's never had kids and she's never been to Chuck E Cheese."

I'm starting to think I should never trust anything anyone says. I wonder
why I find these people. How about this: How much of what she has said to me
was true?

Not his day...

2009-10-17T15:34:00.001-04:00

Just a quick note about what happened in the 24 hours following the fire.

First, there was the fire. Not good. Then my husband went into the back of
the furnace to take out the stove pipes and he stepped on a nail. He didn't
bother going to see a doctor about it or to get a shot. So he goes to bed
and SNORED the whole night. He kept me and the cats up all night. Then in
the morning we were about to leave to do my paper routes and my cat was
sitting in the paper bag. He goes to move her out of it and she bit him.

I went out and got him a lottery ticket. I hope he wins at SOMETHING this
week.

There was some excitement in this house today!

2009-10-15T17:28:00.001-04:00

I know I don't post like I should, but there's been too much going on around
here for me to sit down and blog it all out.

It went from shorts weather to "Where the hell did I put my scarf?" weather
over night. We have a rather old house - 1880-ish - and one of the joys of
having the house is keeping the snow off us. We don't have snow here yet,
but I wouldn't doubt getting it in the next few days. Along with the old
house we have an old furnace that only keeps one room warm. Last year we had
the pipes freeze on us. I had to replace the taps last year when I forced
them open on a really cold morning. I got it in my head to make coffee that
morning and the taps wouldn't turn. So I twisted the cold one and it
snapped. Then I tried the hot one and it too snapped. I went back to Rona
and got the parts for it, but I never want to wash my dishes in the bathtub
ever again.

You might be asking why this happened in the first place. It's an oil and
wood furnace and the oil stopped working last year. So we have to rely on
the wood part to heat up the house. That didn't work so well last year when
the only room it can heat is the living room. Also had to call in someone to
replace a pipe in the laundry/bedroom. Don't ask about that room. It was a
good idea at the time.

This year my husband finally had enough of freezing and decided to start a
fire in it. We have a deal with each other now that the oil doesn't work. We
set a fire, get it down to coals and then we turn on the blower. Then we
turn it off after about five minutes so we don't set fire to the oil motor
that won't turn off. If this thing is left to run, it will overheat and then
*BOOM* big fire. We let it got this morning for 5 minutes and then I went
out to turn it off. We left the house for a few minutes and then when we got
back, the hubby went to turn on the blower again. He walked in, said he was
going back to his computer upstairs when we hear this banging on the front
door. I started to answer it when the door opened and my neighbour yelled
in, "YOU HAVE A CHIMNEY FIRE!" I ran out the front of the house (far from
the fire) and my husband went out the back. He turned off the blower and by
the time I circled the house to the back where the furnace was, the fire was
out.

We had to wait a few hours for the sucker to cool down. We cleaned it out
and the hubby is STILL putting it back together, but I couldn't believe all
the crap that came out of it. Where is my camera.. I'll post a pic later if
anyone wants to see it. Even found a chunk that was still on fire! The fire
was like 6 hours ago and there was this glowing piece we had to throw into
water. This was almost like we NEVER cleaned it out last year. It was bad.

Remember everyone, this could have been worse! Clean your chimney!!

Oh yeah, when you're cleaning it out WEAR GOGGLES!!!! My eye is still
bothering me!

Why I hate Alcoholics Anonymous.. Or how I stayed sober for TEN years!

2009-09-29T17:29:00.001-04:00

I know this is a bit early, but I wanted to get this off my chest and then I
can have a great day.

In January I will be 10 years sober. How did I do it? Not with the help of
AA. I was going to meetings and doing everything I should be doing but there
was a problem I had with the people in the meetings.

If you haven't been to an AA meeting, this is what happens. You show up,
people greet you with a handshake, smile at you and tell you where the
cookies and coffee are. Then they tell you to find a chair and, if they like
your face, you get someone who has had more time than you have being sober
and they will talk to you and bring you all the AA propaganda. The meeting
starts with a moment of silence, followed by the Serenity Prayer. Then you
get to hear poems that are supposed to make you believe that they are about
hope. Then someone comes up to talk about "The Slogans" and what they mean
to them. Then a "Fellow member comes up to talk about his experience,
strength and hope". This is usually where I tune out. There's never been a
meeting I've been to where I can relate to anything anyone has ever said.
Things I've heard in meetings were like:

I lost my kids - I NEVER HAD KIDS.
My wife/husband/lover left me - NEVER HAPPENED TO ME.
I crashed my car 83 times - I GREW UP IN TORONTO AND NEVER DROVE A CAR IN MY
LIFE.
I went so broke that I lost my house - I HAVE A HOUSE AND I'M ALWAYS BROKE.

Not one of these things was from my life. Or as we like to say in AA, "my
story". I stopped going to meetings because I never found anyone who had
been where I was. All I heard in the meetings was a lot of bitching,
complaining and poor me's! In some meetings there are little signs or
posters or someone closing out a meeting saying, "If you have a problem,
share it with someone before you leave. A problem shared is a problem
halved." Doesn't that mean a problem shared is still a problem? Now I know
that sharing a problem is to get it out in the open and deal with it, but
every problem I've ever had could never be solved at an AA meeting. I tried
to voice my problems at a meeting and all I got were a bunch of bobbing
heads telling me they were there. Doesn't help me with my problems. If you
bring the same problems to the meetings week after week, at some point
people don't care anymore. A few years back I didn't have firewood. I was
told to talk to "Phil". I went to Phil and told him I need firewood. Did he
help me? Nope. We froze that year. Last year the motor on the oil part of
the furnace died. You think telling a room of AA people would help? I didn't
think so, so I didn't bother telling anyone. I also stopped going to
meetings after the firewood year. That was for a whole different reason.

I was starting to hate the meetings about two years ago. No one wants to
hear my problems, I don't want to hear their's, but there was a reason that
I stopped going. I felt like I was being pushed out. I was doing everything
I could and should do in the meetings. The first thing you're told is to
find a sponsor. The whole time I was in AA, I could get anyone to take me on
and you need one for the steps. There are parts of the steps where you have
to talk to another member about your past. I would ask someone to be my
sponsor and they were all, "no. I can't". As a female, I would need another
female with more time in than me. So I couldn't do the steps, couldn't talk
to another female about what I was going through and that pretty much kept
me in limbo. So more and more I would show up for these meetings and just
not say anything other than "Hi" "Thank you" and "Bye". Before that, I would
chair meetings, read announcements, talk to new people and do everything I
have been told to do, but I wasn't getting the same back. During a business
meeting, I was informed that someone else would be doing my job of
secretary. That was the last straw. I came in the following week and told
them I was quitting.

I haven't had a drink in 10 years, and I don't have the desire to drink. I
don't need AA. But I have been told by family members that AA needs me.
Turns out the Norwood AA conference that is usually held in September didn't
happen because of new members. I wonder why? I didn't feel wanted in those
meetings and no one would talk to me. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I've met people from the group I used to go to and they ask me if I've
started drinking again. I tell them the truth, "I couldn't take listening to
other people's problems. I don't care about your problems. You don't care
about mine. I'm not going to meetings to hear about problems."

My Sixth Sense..

2009-09-12T00:01:00.000-04:00

A long time ago when I was a baby, I was looking up from inside my crib and
saw about three or four faces looking down at me. They were not the faces of
my family. To this day I'm still not sure what they were, but they were like
round wooden masks you would see in places like Mexico. They would float
over my crib and scare me. I would cry and then my mom would turn on the
light and come to see me. When I got a little older, I would see people
walking around in my room. This was a different house at this point. My
grandmother's house and I was not where near being the baby I was. I think I
was about seven years old and they were coming out of the closet next to my
parents' bed. When I was seven I would sleep in my aunt's room with her. We
shared a bed and I didn't mind. She was maybe in her early twenties about
that time and she wasn't a bed hog like some people tend to be. I would get
into bed and then sleep on my back. My fear was that if I slept with my back
facing the ceiling, that something might get me. Took me YEARS to get out of
that habit, and the road was a long one for me to get through. My parents
decided that my aunt was getting too old for me to share a bed with and they
fixed up a room for me on the third floor. It had pink flowered wallpaper
and was very nice if you liked that sort of thing. But the room had a door
for the room but the closet didn't. I slept with the light on many a night
in that room.

My fear of closets came from this kid who lived next door to our cottage. He
locked me in one in his house and I couldn't get out until his mom heard me
screaming. That kid had issues too. He's a story for another day. What I
want to talk about is how all this relates to the fact that I have a sixth
sense and the closets were not my friend.

Because of the people I saw walking out of the closet, I was able to figure
out that they were not human. At least not in the form that I knew of them.
I would see things and I would hear things and from time to time I would
know things were just plain wrong. I knew when houses were haunted and I
knew enough to stay away from houses with that "vibe" to them. When I was a
kid I just thought that things like ghosts were normal. Just didn't like
them showing up in the middle of the night. I know why I would see things at
night. It's when the world around me is at peace and I'm somewhat tired. I
let my defenses down and then that's when they show up. My house is haunted
and I could tell you all kinds of stories about it, but that's for another
time.

When I was about twelve, I was in Scotland for about a month. I met my dad's
family there and that included HIS aunt Meg who was about 90-something when
I met her. She had a cat who I believe grew up with her. He was an orange
tabby who, whenever you would run a hand over his back, would shed
everywhere. He was not a healthy cat. After we got back to North America,
maybe about a week later, I woke up to an orange tabby on the foot of my
bed. I didn't have an orange tabby at the time. I realized this had to be
Meg's cat. He mewed at me and vanished. In the morning my dad told me that
Meg's cat had died during the night. I knew it already.

I was still new to all this sixth sense stuff at the time. I didn't know
what it was about me that made the dead come to me or for me to just know
something was about to happen. I had the odd time when I knew someone was
going to show up, or something was about to happen. When I was roughly
sixteen, no matter what time I went to bed I would get up at the same time
each and every morning. I would look over and the clock would say something
like 6:15am. I don't remember the exact time, but that sounds about right.
This was after having a dream where I would hear something tapping glass. If
you want to know the sound I was hearing in the dream, take your
ring/key/coin and tap it on a water glass. That's what I was hearing. Then
the next part of the dream, I was flying over the street and it was all
read, like the filters they have on 35mm cameras. I would fly over the
houses and everyone was running away from our side of the street. When I
woke up, the numbers 12, 14 and 16 were in my head. I didn't tell anyone
about this dream, since I had strange dreams all the time, but then I had
the same dream the next night and then the night after that. Each time I
would wake up at the same time. One day there was no dream. I woke up like
the did every other night and I was HEARING that tapping sound. I got up
from my nice warm bed and started down the stairs. I was back in my aunt's
room since she met a guy and got married and moved out. I was halfway down
when my dad opened the door and I heard someone screaming, "HELP ME!!" I saw
my mom on the phone and saying to 911 "I don't know, it sounds like someone
is bring killed out there!" My dad turned and screamed, "OH MY GOD! It's a
fire!!!" I ran up the stairs and dressed faster then I thought I could and
run from the house. When I got across the street I saw that 14 was on fire
and it was taking 12 and 16 with it. We were living in 18. Our house was
spared.

I never thought these dreams were warnings for me. A little heads up if you
will. But I did think it was a little strange that THAT was the only dream I
had up until that point that really did come true. I got in the habit of
journaling my dreams and if they came true that I would have a record of
them. I found, also that telling people about the dreams would also be good.

Between 2001 and 2003, my family suffered a string of deaths. Started with
my mother and ended with my aunt. In-between those two, were my father,
another aunt and my grandmother. With the last death I did get a dream. I
was in the house that was my grandmother's. There was a smoke alarm going
off in the house next door. I ran out with my husband to see what was going
on. My dad was there and he was crying, "They're all dying!" What I was
seeing was a mirror image of the street. I was really in the house next
door - 20. I saw firemen dragging out a body that looked like my uncle.
There was no life there at all. I woke up and told my husband and then I
told my best friend. This dream was on the night of my birthday. Two days
after my birthday, I get a call from my cousin telling me that her mom was
in the hospital. She had breast cancer and it was winning. I got to the
hospital in Toronto to see the family. I knew she was going to die that
night. I was talking to my cousin's then-girlfriend who is a Muslim. I told
her all about the dream and how I thought it was my uncle and not her. Then
it hit me, my aunt and my uncle looked so much alike, that if the dream was
a mirror image, then the gender would be different too. I came back home
that night, went to see my friend and told her about my aunt. She got really
pale after I told her about it. Then I got the call that my aunt had died.
It was something I knew already.

One thing I haven't touched on is the weird feeling I get when something is
about to happen. My aunt's health gave me a little jolt that I knew she had
died. I could almost time it with her death. Years before I was living in
Toronto in a roominghouse and I got this strange feeling that just nagged at
me. I didn't have a phone so there was no way for my family to find me if
anything was wrong. I went to one of the guys living there and asked if I
could use his phone. I called my aunt and she told me that one of my cousins
had suffered a miscarriage. Before that, I knew when another cousin was in
labor. I kinda freaked her out with one thing.. I asked her when she was
going to have the baby and she said something like, "Monday. I'm having a
girl." I told her flat out, "He will be born on Wednesday." I was right and
it took some time for her to look at me after that. She didn't understand
that. I don't either. I just get this weird feeling..

When I think something bad is about to happen, I picture it in my head like
I'm swinging on a vine and there's a brick wall in my path with no way to
avoid it. When my spidey senses are tingling, it's more like I can't think,
can't sleep and I fidget. The restlessness is something I understand. I was
like that when my cousin was pregnant and when the other one lost her baby.
So now when I get that feeling, I get up and wonder who in my family is
sick/dead/dying or pregnant. Just before I started writing this, that was
the feeling I had. It's scary, but I think I'm getting a heads up about
something.

Maybe I should call my family.

A scam turns into some great fun!

2009-09-02T11:37:00.005-04:00

As you can tell, I have nothing much to do in the day and I like to spend my time stirring up shit. A few days ago I was talking to an old woman who was looking to replace her storm door that was torn off the house during a storm about a year ago. I told her I would see what I could find and I put an ad out on CraigsList. I hate doing that since there's too many scammers out there, but I can filter them out most of the time. The other day I get an email from someone with the name "BANK OF AMERICA" they said they had a door. When I asked them for info on it, I got another email with the name "FALSE" (including my reply) saying:

I saw your mail and content are well read,for the prize,although I got for $105 but I'm willing to sell $65 the shipping include $10 within the state...Kindly get back to me with your shipping address so that I can make shipment as soon as I receive the money...get back to me with following shipping information as listed below:
Name:
Address:
City:
Stater:
Zip Code:
I will be waiting to hear from you soon and, shipping delivery within 2 to 3 days after transaction is balanced...Here is the payment information:
Liberty Reserve account number: U0464785
Bank:libertyreserve.com
product information
Model: 5004874
Manf#: F30686
UPC#: 053075306867
Manf: CROFT METAL
Keyword: STORMDOOR CRSBUCK 36"WHT
Description:
* CROFT CROSSBUCK STORM DOOR
* *Imperial Series
* *Style 464
* *Crossbuck design
* *1 thick x 1-7/8 wide
* extruded aluminum frame
* *Hercules sagless corners
* *Reversible hinge system
* allows door to be hung either
* left or right-handed
* *Distortion free tempered
* glass
* *Deluxe push button latch &
* pneumatic closer
* *Anti lock-out feature
* *Adjustable door bottom
* *Fixed screen
* *Wind check chain
* *Bulk
* *Colonial White
* *36 W x 80 H

I can see a scam coming my way. So I went to the address they sent me and I got one of those "LIVE CHATS" going. This is what happened. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I had doing it.

You are now chatting with Brian (Support)

Brian: Welcome to Liberty Reserve!
Brian: Good day! How may I help you?
Samantha: Hello Brian. Before we start, I'm in Canada.
Brian: Hello Samantha!
Samantha: I placed an ad up here and someone replied to it and then I sent them an email asking for info on what they were offering. they replied back with this: I saw your mail and content are well read,for the prize,although I got for $105 but I'm willing to sell $65 the shipping include $10 within the state...Kindly get back to me with your shipping address so that I can make shipment as soon as I receive the money...get back to me with following shipping information as listed below:
Name:
Address:
City:
Stater:
Zip Code:
I will be waiting to hear from you soon and, shipping delivery within 2 to 3 days after transaction is balanced...Here is the payment information:
Liberty Reserve account number: U0464785
Bank:libertyreserve.com
Samantha: I know if I were to send them money that what I'm looking for would never get here.
Samantha: is there anything you can do about this?
Brian: Allow me one moment please !
Samantha: ok
Brian: Is this your account number? = U0464785
Samantha: no.. that was what was sent to me to send money to.
Samantha: I think they are a scammer
Samantha: I'm in Canada and I don't know where they are.
Samantha: The first email they sent me, the senders name was "BANK OF AMERICA"
Brian: Please note that in order to transfer funds from liberty reserve to your local bank, we only suggest the services of the Exchange providers in our list, their account numbers starts with the letter X000
Samantha: are you a real person?
Samantha: I'm telling you, they are trying to scam me
Samantha: they want ME to send THEM money
Brian: Please mark their email address as a spam!
Samantha: so you are not going to do anything about this on your end?
Brian: Yes, please resend your request to our Abuse Department by contact form, they will be more than glad to hear about this situation, they will also provide you security information to protect your accoun!
Samantha: do you have a phone number there?
Brian: I am sorry, we do not offer customer service by phone, We will be more than glad to assist you by contact form or this live chat!
Samantha: you're not helping me.
Samantha: I would rather talk to someone who can help me
Brian: The Abuse department will be glad to help you with this!
Samantha: what's the address?
Brian: The following link will take you to our Contact form, the main access to them! http://help.libertyreserve.com/contact-us.php
________________________________________
http://help.libertyreserve.com/contact-us.php
________________________________________

Samantha: why don't you have a phone number?
Samantha: and what state are you in?
Brian: We will offer customer service by phone later this year!
Brian: We are located in Costa Rica, Central America
Samantha: so you're not legal?
Brian: We are supported by Costa Rican Laws!
Samantha: I'm in Canada and the scammer is in the US..
Samantha: do you do anything about scams?
Brian: Please visit our Consumer Alerts section, specially the section "Auction Fraud", there you will find useful information about this kind of issues, the following link will take you there.
Samantha: you know what, I'm going to tell everyone about your company.
Samantha: How you liked to let scammers get away with things since you happen to be in COSTA RICA
Brian: We apologize for the inconvenient! I understand your situation!
Samantha: That's not even engish
Brian: In order to protect your account and prevent access by third parties, We suggest you the following safety tips: - Never disclose your passwords, personal information as Security answer and password of your mail. If your pass-phrases have been compromised, please change them as soon as possible. - Login to your Liberty Reserve account from a secure computer, with an updated antivirus. - If your account has been compromised, we suggest creating a new and transfer funds. - Increase the security of your email. - Use our free "Liberty Guard," which will indicate whether a page of Liberty Reserve you are entering is real or false. - Always enter your account from the same IP address. - Search for viruses in your computer. and never click on a link in an email, even if it came from your friend.
Samantha: I don't even have an account with you
Brian: The account will be secure as long as the customers follow the instructions and guidelines!
Samantha: what account?
Samantha: I don't have an account!
Brian: The customers accounts!
Samantha: why would I care about the accounts when I don't have one?
Brian: Is there anything else i can help you with?
Samantha: what is your birthday?
Brian: I am sorry, for security measures, we can not reveal personal information
Samantha: are you cute?
Samantha: do you like christmas?
Samantha: you single?
Samantha: I might come down to Costa Rica if you were..
Brian: Thank you for contacting Liberty Reserve.
Samantha: BUT I LOVE YOU!
Brian: We appreciate you taking the time to contact us.
Brian: Good bye!
Samantha: you leaving me?
Samantha: After all we did together?
Brian: Is there anything else i can help you with?
Samantha: Would you give me a baby?
Brian: I am sorry, as i said before, we can not reveal this information "Sercurity measures"
Samantha: If I gave you my email, would you email me? I would love to talk to you
Brian: I am not authorized to reveal this information
Samantha: you can't ASK for my info?
Brian: No, Liberty Reserve will never ask this information through this live chat !
Samantha: But I'm offering
Brian: security protocols! To protect You and your account!
Samantha: I don't have an account
Brian: Is there anything else i can help you with?
Samantha: Marry me?
Brian: Thank you for contacting Liberty Reserve. Have a very nice day!
Brian: Good bye!
Brian has left the chat conversation
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As a footnote, STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!!

Something to get off my chest...

2009-09-01T03:10:00.002-04:00

It's 3am and I can't sleep. Went to bed a bit too early. I'll pay for that mistake in daylight. I wanted to say something and it might be one of the reasons I've not ben posting here much since I set this up.

A number of years ago I met a woman. She seemed to be a bit out there and still my husband was friends with her. It took me a long time to trust her.

One day she woke up and told her boyfriend that she wanted them to buy a house. He did it. He wanted to please her. She moved out to Norwood, Ontario. Not long after, I got the idea to buy a house. I think you just get to an age or some point in your life when you want to buy a house and settle down. I know that's what I did. I understood her desire to buy a house. As a goof, I looked at houses in Norwood as well. I found a house not far from her house and we signed on the dotted line. She told us that she would love it if we moved out here, and, with the promise of her becoming our maid, we moved away from the city. Within six months she had health problems. Turns out she had MS. We tried to support her. We drove out to Kingston hospital to see her. We got there and she started treating us like shit. We walked in and she looked at us and said, "You didn't need to come." This was after her boyfriend said she had no one there to talk to. Then when we said we were leaving, she told hte hospital that she was leaving. After a fully open IV drip for some drug for MS, she drove *US* home. About a year later she talked to boyfriend into marrying her. We were at the wedding and won some goldfish. I never had the best of luck with fish, but the last one died like around Christmas time.

I never fully believed that she was in pain 24/7. She would call us and say she was in pain or that she needed something or she wanted us to come over and keep her company. One night, almost two years ago, she asked us to come over and she would make dinner for us. We found out that the oven wasn't working right. We offered to take the food over to our house (like 5 minutes up the street) and cook it and bring it back. She said we didn't need to. So we left. That was the last time we talked to her. She dropped us as friends on Facebook and I think she blocked us on MSN. I'm not sure since I hardly use MSN. I called her one night and she was like, "I'm in pain.. I'm going to lay down for a bit." and she sounded tired. I talked to one of her NEW friends and she said she was talking to her and was going to call her back, but she didn't seem to be in any pain. After I got off Facebook that day, I called up the ex friend and she was all happy.. until she realized it was me and not her new friend. I knew that was the end of the friendship.

This past spring, she sends Derrick a message saying something like, "I know you might not want to be friends with me....." and she was back in our lives again. Not that I was wishing hateful shit on her, since anything bad happening to her happens to her husband who I happen to like, she told my husband that she and her husband were separating. Well, "We haven't been doing the husband and wife thing for months now..." Then we get a call from her saying that her phone keeps crapping out on her and she needs to call the Oshawa Welfare office so she can finally leave Norwood. She called there one day and they couldn't help her so she had to come back over to call them in the morning. We agreed and she started talking about the break up. I'm not going into it, since neither party sounds good with everything that was said, but after she found a place to live, got welfare, she got out of our lives... AGAIN.

Just before she left, we were back to friends on Facebook and MSN. But that soon dried up. Shit started coming out about what she did to screw over the husband and the little respect I had for her vanished. She never talks to us now and my husband was used to hook her back up with an old friend who was kicked out of her life years ago. This was someone I told him to get rid of from the start. Now that girl isn't talking to him now too. I think he gets the odd message from her, but if I was him, I would tell her to go to hell and I would pack her bags.

The husband told me that he told the ex-again-friend that I didn't like her. She's still friends with me on Facebook, but she doesn't talk to me. I asked him if he told her WHY I don't like her. He said he didn't know. Well, this is the reason I don't like her.

She uses, abuses and rips people apart.

I don't care if she drops off the planet.

She means nothing to me and I will NEVER let her back into my life.

There.. It's off my chest.

Odds and Ends and stuff in the news..

2009-08-25T18:36:00.000-04:00

First I want to say that the potatoes were AMAZING!

Picture of the week is David Nykl (AGAIN!!) and if you ask me, he looks
classic there!

And now for the news...

I just saw on the news that South African runner Caster Semenya who every
one says is female, could be male.. SHE'S A FEMALE!! Any man who wants to
say she's too fast to be a woman hasn't been chased! There are some women
out there who can fight better then men and can run faster than men. Give
her a break! My first thought to this was, "Get her naked and look!" then I
find out that they have to do "gender tests" to see if she really was a she.
She has high doses of testosterone, too much for the average female. Either
she took steroids or she was a third sex. Either way, she can run her ass
off and let her run as a woman. In fact, it's about time we have mixed races
now. Have men AND women run. Sheesh.

****

KISS kissed off a bunch of fans in Peterborough and Oshawa by pretty much
saying the venues were too small. This was after Oshawa won the fan vote to
bring KISS to the city, then KISS pulls the rug out from under them and says
"No. But we are planning something special for Oshawa." People in Oshawa are
pissed and were speechless as they found out that the guys were not coming.
A KISS fan said "They are all about the fans!" No they're not. They are all
about the money! Now, I don't know about anyone else, but to cast my PROTEST
vote, I'm going to download everything KISS ever put out FOR FREE!! Anyone
with me??

****

I was watching Michael Jackson's doctor say how he gave him drugs all night
and then FINALLY gave him the Propofil (sp?) that killed him. This never
would have happened in Canada, where we have public healthcare. This is what
gets me about the folks in the US. "We don't want to be Canada or England or
France!" Generalized Healthcare up here isn't perfect, lots of things have
been delisted, but you will NEVER hear about a doctor up here getting paid
off to drug the living shit out of someone because they can't sleep. Not
that I would know much about this, but abortions are free up here if they
are NEEDED. We still pay the pharmist to get drugs and if you want to keep
your vision, you pay for the eye doctor and then your glasses. There's none
of this "killing grandma" shit that they are talking about on CNN. If they
gave it a shot, they might like having that extra money they're not paying
to the HMO's. I remember a few years back, Canada was going to get an HMO or
three and we stood up against it. Maybe the US should TRY being like Canada.
Save a little money!

Yummy Food!!!

2009-08-24T21:58:00.000-04:00

These are pictures of the "wife" (inside joke) holding the first of the
potatoes and Roma and Beefsteak tomatoes. He's so proud!

Strange Dreams..

2009-08-22T13:56:00.001-04:00

This week I've been having some strange dreams that I'm starting to wonder
about. A few days ago I had a dream that I was running my fingers through my
hair and it started ripping out. It was like I was scalping myself. Blood
everywhere and pain like crazy.. the other night, I Had another dream and I
was bald in the front (where the hair was ripped out before..) and the hair
in the back of my head was ripped out.

Here's the weird part: My head felt lighter.. I was happy.
Weird???

Tornados hit Ontario!

2009-08-21T00:23:00.000-04:00

First I want to say that we're all good here. I saw parts of Ontario that
were hit very hard. There were roofs ripped off, cars flying around and I
heard from the news that one person is dead. Could have been worse!!!

I ended up just heading to bed to read (I have a reader for eBooks) when the
power kept going out. Inside of an hour the lightning was gone and all was
quiet. Heard from a friend of mine, not two blocks away who said her
tomatoes were gone.

I went out in my night shirt to see if anything was damaged around my house.
All my crops are good. The plants look a little sad, but everything is still
in one piece.

Next door a plastic chair was flipped over. They were lucky this time. The
last storm took a gazebo from the backyard and tossed it over their house.
The storm before that ripped the awning off the back of the house and it was
found in their driveway.

Peterborough County was told hours before about the threat of a tornado and
I put everything that could blow away into the shed. I just hope others
thought to do it.

Tomorrow I will be out with the camera seeing if there's any damage. I like
to do that. I'm a freak, I know. I missed out taking a picture of a tree
that was hit by lightning last week. It was burned black where the limb WAS
and then the wood was all white where the tree was split in half.

As a side note, I'm wondering, with all the power that was knocked out in
Toronto, if I will have to deliver papers tomorrow... That's where they are
all printed now.

More to come tomorrow.. STAY TUNED!

Well I'm broke...

2009-08-20T08:21:00.001-04:00

I'm going to do this from the start..

Monday I find out that my pay was short about $30. I called the paper to
find out what happened. I was told that "Cindy" would call me. I never got a
call from her, but I did get a call from "Bill". He told my voicemail that I
would have to call him back. After trying to call and getting his voice
mail, I tried to track down this "Cindy" person, (I also found out that the
number I called was local, but somewhere it was sent to OTTAWA!) and the
first girl I got told me she was in a meeting. "Please call back in an
hour." and she hangs up on me. I WAS CALLING AT 11:00am!! I'm sure she would
be gone for lunch by the time I got on the phone. Sure enough, I called back
and she was at lunch. I asked another girl this time to tell me what Bill's
extension number was. She tells me, "123". Then I asked her for Cindy's
extension number and she tells me, "We don't have extensions here." I hung
up and TRIED to calm down. I called back, different girl this time, told her
I was a carrier and I had a beef. She told me that she could put me through
to Bill. I finally talk to him, we talk about my pay and he tells me, "It
will be included in your next pay." That's in about a week and half away!!

I was talking to one of my neighbors about this and she told me that if the
shoe was on the other foot and I owed THEM money, they would be at my door
demanding it as soon as possible. I'm tempted to call them back and see if
they can give me the money now. Either by direct deposit or check. But if I
ask for a check, I'm sure I would have to wait for two weeks to cash it.

If I thought I had enough gas in the tank, I would drive over to get it. Not
that I would be able to get in the door. The last time I was at the office,
they thought it would be great to block off most of the room. There's two
long counters. Between them is a door. What they did was put six chairs at
the end of the first counter and blocked off the rest of the room. I don't
think anyone actually works there.. other than the two girls who are at that
first counter.

If you think all this is bad, during a call with one of these girls, they
told me, "We have a staff of OVER 200. I don't know what CINDY you want."

* for the record, I have not used real names or extension numbers here. I
also didn't say what paper I work for.

I was RIGHT!

2009-08-18T12:30:00.000-04:00

I got a call from the paper today saying that my boss, "No longer works
here..." So they are REALLY cutting jobs there.

I fear unemployment...

Oh yeah...

2009-08-17T23:48:00.000-04:00

I'm hearing things again.. I'm bi polar and from time to time I hear noises.
NOT VOICES!! at least not thing time around.

got paid.. sorta..

2009-08-17T23:40:00.001-04:00

I get paid every two weeks and two weeks ago I was paid half of what I was
to get for doing the paper routes for someone else. This week I got paid but
not all of it was there. Boss told me I would get like $160 for doing it.
She said nothing about MY routes. Well, I got $90 at first and this week I
got $33. Nothing for the other routes. I'll be calling them tomorrow.

oh yeah..

2009-08-17T18:07:00.000-04:00

I wanted to show off that storm that kinda hit us earlier....

Should I be looking for a new job?

2009-08-17T18:02:00.001-04:00

I thought I would email my boss and remind her that someone was trying to
cancel the paper. I told her like a month ago and I still have an extra
paper. I emailed her and I get

"This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
failed......"

Then I go to facebook, because she is on my friend's list. She's not there.
I called her extension and it goes to someone else. I think she was "Let
Go".

When will it be that I have to go too?

I should start looking for another job now or wait for the pink slip. I hate
it when I don't know what's going on..

HOLY CRAP!!!

2009-08-17T17:01:00.000-04:00

I'm sitting here, playing a game of some sort and I hear and feel something
that shakes the house. I thought something hit the house or fell. The cats
are freaked.

There's a bad storm coming and if I can get my heart to slow down, I'll be
walking around the house unplugging things. I'm shaking!

I'm going to do look at pictures of David Nykl. *g* He IS my happy place.

Nothing goin' on..

2009-08-16T20:05:00.001-04:00

I managed to piss off my cats today AND cut my finger in the process.

No the cats did not cut my finger. If they did, it would have been worse
than it is. I got it in my head today to move around a few things in the
bathroom. The sink, toilet and tub are in the same spots, but I moved a tall
bookcase from beside the sink to under the window. That's when it happened.
I was moving things off it when my middle finger found a razor blade. It's
like a big paper cut and I can barely type. (yeah I know.. it happens and I
run to blog about it!) I ended up moving the litter boxes to where the
bookcase was.

That's the first thing I did to piss off the cats. The second thing was
moving that bookcase. One cat loves to sleep on the top of it and all of
them love to sit in the window it's under.

Also pissed them off by forgetting to buy them food. They have enough for
tonight but I'll have to pick them up some tomorrow or I can't come home.

Oh yeah... Snazim se ucit cesky!!!!

Last day.. I'M FREE!

2009-08-15T18:36:00.001-04:00

Well.. three routes lighter.. I got through the day without killing anyone
or starting any fights. Going to lose someone else come Monday. Turns out
the later delivery times are driving people away. So I'm not shocked.
Anyway, I'm good, less stressed and now I want MORE MONEY!!

I bitched out one paper.. let me do the other now...

2009-08-14T17:19:00.002-04:00

I actually do TWO papers here in town. I love to walk so paper routes get me out of the house for a few hours a week. The second paper I do on Wednesdays (a big war and peace size paper that doesn't fit in any mailbox I have met!!) and then a very thin one on Fridays. When I have to do these papers I have to walk up to every house and not throw the papers on the driveways.

When I signed up they said, "No blue bags(they call them "Examiner bags" since they are the ones in Peterborough who use them They are used by Community Press out here too. Guess they don't know about that!) and you can only use elastic bands. You can not throw them at the door. They go in the screen doors or mail boxes ONLY." There's a house that has NO screen door and NO mail box. I don't deliver there.

I get calls from the paper and they treat me like I'm 8 and not 38. See, they will call a house and say, "Did you get your paper today?" and if they get a "no", they will hang up and call me. They never ask if the people they call WANT the paper. So this is what a call from them will sound like, "123 Main Street did not get a paper today. Make sure you bring them one today. That's 123 Main Street. 123 Main Street." I should record the next time I get a call like that.

Remember what I said about the "DO NO USE BLUE BAGS"? I remember asking them for bags when I first started and they told me NO ONE can use the bags. Get this, when someone decides they don't want to do the papers, or gets fired, the drivers come out with bags and just toss the papers on the driveways. HOW IS THAT FAIR???

I'm sick as a dog...

2009-08-14T13:02:00.003-04:00

I was looking after a 12 year old who told us he wasn't sick. Yeah, he was lying to us. He was sneezing, snorting and coughing.. yeah, he was lying.. He gave whatever it was to my husband and I SWORE I would NOT get it. Well... Monday I got the cough and then Tuesday morning I was in hell. I got some NyQuil and took that for two nights. My blood pressure went up and I was feeling worse. There's one thing NyQuil doesn't take care of: The slime I'm coughing up from my lungs. I was out walking today and puked slime onto someone's driveway.. It's a hot day and I have a cold.. YUCK!

Yeah I know.. I don't post like I should...

2009-08-14T00:17:00.004-04:00

so shoot me!

A few updates on me. I've been working my ass off. My boss at the newspaper I deliver asked me to take someone's THREE routes. I had FOUR to start with and going to seven should have been a big HELL NO! but I decided to take them anyways.

I started July 24th with the three extra routes. The people I was delivering to were mad that the papers came late. If you want to call 9am LATE! It was a lot of me walking up to houses, looking at the numbers, looking down at my list and doing a lot of, "Where the hell is HOUSE NUMBER WHATEVER??" Some guy hit me in the head with his paper.. Playfully, but after telling a few people about that, they all agreed with each other that I should have punched him in the head for it.

The next day was better but then the shit hit the fan.

Monday morning I'm out in the driveway looking for the papers. They usually get to me at 6am. 7am comes and I'm starting to worry. 9am comes and I'm on the phone trying to find out what happened. I got the standard, "She's on her way!" and they hung up. Then at about 11:30am the truck pulls up, drops off the papers and takes off before I can get out there to ask why she was late. The next day it was about 8:30 that I got the papers and then I find out on the news that the paper was not going to be printed in Peterborough, but in TORONTO!! Had one person tell me she was cancelling the paper because, "the people in my restaurant want the paper in the morning. They are here as early as 5:30am and if the paper isn't going to get here sooner than 10am, then I don't want the paper anymore!" I told her she can take it up with the usual carrier or the paper itself. I have NO control over how fast I get them. Also, where was she going to get the paper? The driver who brings me my bundle(s) is the same one who takes them to the stores here in town.

My big problem with the way the paper is getting to me is that it's done at the same place in Toronto as the Toronto Sun and they manage to get to Norwood before the sun comes up.

One woman (from one of the other routes) told me that she didn't get Tuesday's paper. I put it where she asked, on a chair in the lobby. (as a side note, you get the strangest requests from people. "Please put my paper on the roof of my house during the summer, and under the car in the winter." I've heard it all, I've seen it all!) She also said that when she called to say I didn't deliver her the paper (I did, someone nicked it) she asked if she could cancel the paper. They told her it would cost HER $20 to cancel. Needless to say, she's going to keep the paper until the fees are due again and then she will cancel or not pay.

That's something else I hate. People think that if they don't pay the bill they will be cancelled. Here's the truth on this one. The paper gives people a certain grace period to send in the checks. If you don't, they turn you from "Office Pay" to "Carrier Collect" and we become the COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT where we get to knock on your door, demand money and then get told, "But I don't want the paper anymore..." then we get to say, "Call the paper and tell them that!" That's happened with me so many times that I want to kill people. Got someone on my route who did that. They didn't tell me that they wanted to end it with the paper. Didn't tell the paper. I couldn't get anyone at the house to answer the door and day after day the papers would pile up. I finally got her to answer the door, she told me she didn't want the paper and then I called the office to tell them. You know what? They STILL are not cancelled and I'm paying to read an extra paper. I have talked to them at the office and they keep saying it's cancelled, but it's not!

Wow.. I think I was just a bit wound up... It's great to get this all off my chest. In case you're wondering, my last day with the extra routes ends on Saturday! I'll be happy then.

DAMN IT'S COLD!

2009-01-16T14:53:00.002-05:00

This cold snap has finally gotten to me. The house is freezing, the furnace won'twork and the pipes are plugged with ice. I'm done with this. I'm going to FLORIDA!! Then again, I would need to quit work and then get over my fear of planes.. DAMN! I'm stuck here!

Now I've done it!!

2009-01-14T13:52:00.001-05:00

My hair was too long and too thick and my arm was always hurting me after brushing it.. So I'e finally gone and done it.. I've had all my hair cut off. I look like a dyke. That's cool, tho. Now I feel lighter.

OH!! I forgot..

2009-01-13T16:00:00.003-05:00

we got a new cat.. Her name is Zoe (I tried to rename her, but she didn't like her name..) She's what they call a Bengal. She's like a tabby, but she has spots instead of stripes. She's cute, she treats everyone but me like shit, and she's all mine! The other cat is James. He's all black and her boyfriend.

I'm still here!

2009-01-13T15:55:00.002-05:00

I've been trying to work on my webpage and then I get so frustrated that I give up. So I'm going to do something simple. I'm going to copy and past a webpage I love (maybe Yahoo!) and put that on my page.. Then again, I'm bored so much during the day I'll come up with something else.. I did do something tho.. myblog.myweb-page.com now points to this blog. Go ahead, try it! I DARE YOU! I DOUBLE dare you!

Yes it IS Haunted!

2008-03-22T15:52:00.002-04:00

I just thought I would get this out there and see if anyone, living or not, wants to debate this.

My house is haunted.

Want proof? I have pictures of orbs all over the house. Even ran into the ghost of a farmer who was walking up the stairs when I was walking down.

I'm thinking I should be a ghost hunter..

How dumb do they think we are??

2008-03-22T15:41:00.003-04:00

The commercial starts with some fake-assed girl, with a fake-ass smile, asking, "Moms! Are you looking for a lunch product that's nutritious and easy to use?" Just once I would love to see a mother yell back, "NO! I want something so complicated, I need to have a PH:D in something to know how it works. And why should it be good for kids? I want food that will be so bad for the kid, that little Jimmy will have chest pains before recess!" Brand Power kills me every time they have something new on there. I don't care what they're selling to us, it can all be found in the no-name section of any supermarket!

Little known fact (as I found out when I was talking to other people...) the PC brand of ketchup is the same as the others. The bag of 99 cent chips were made by Humpty Dumpty.

STOP BUYING BRAND NAMES PEOPLE!!

2008-02-08T14:59:00.000-05:00

There are some people I know who get under my skin and make me want to kill them... or at least they make me want to rip my hair out. I won't say who they are or why I wish they would get swallowed up by a big crack in the earth, but I will just say there are some people who just have to be the center of the universe and will bitch, whine and complain about everything that's wrong in their lives without ever doing anything about it.

The other day someone told me everything that could go wrong in their life and the one thing I was thinking was, "GET ME A GUN!" I'm not sure I would kill them or me, but I would take bullet over hearing someone whine. One person I once knew would tell you that she didn't want to hear about your problems, but she went out of her way to inflict her problems on you. She finally told me she didn't want to be friends anymore and cut off all ties to us. I was happy. Still am. Now if only I could get everyone else away from me who are like that, I WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE HAPPIER!

I'm tired....

2005-09-06T04:47:00.000-04:00

I got a call from a friend of mine the other day. She told me that someone in the building I used to live had died.

She told me who it was and ever since then I'm having trouble sleeping. At first I thought it was the fact the cats sleep on top of me (I've tried shooing them, but they don't leave!!) or the room it too cold or too hot or there's too much light. I'm finding all kinds of excuses. I've heard that she took her own life. If she did I never saw it coming.

I'm snapping at everyone. I want to go for drives to forget. I'm not sure if I can ever sleep. It's almost 5 am as I write this and I've got a cold. I don't remember if the cold started before I heard the news or after. I'd love to just sleep for a week. Maybe I'll pick up some sleeping pills and get at least one good night of rest.

We've moved....

2005-08-29T13:45:00.000-04:00

We just moved into the house on Saturday. The cats are a little freaked out and my mother in law is DRIVING ME NUTS!! I don't mind her helping out, but she's bring crap here that she gets at yard sales. Sunday I get a call from her saying that she got a stand for the TV (after the last one broke before it go to the truck) and I know that if I put my big Sony Trinitron (sorry to Sony if that's spelled wrong) on it, the whole thing will come crashing down. She offered to put my dishes away. I told her where I wanted them and walked off to do something else. I was called back in and they were not where I wanted them. She told me "you're too short for them to be where you want them..." She's also trying to decorate the house. She saw a small round table and said "that could do under this window with a nice plant on it!" I felt like telling her I would put a bad-assed plant on it in a dark room that would kill people if they got too close to it. There's also my father in law who might be dead by the end of the week if he keeps pissing me off. He came in with a friend of his and they rewired the house. We were lucky that all that happened was a small fire in the breaker box. He's also boxing in a small vent in the wall that wasn't boxed before. It was in there flat before we pulled out the wall. This is a man who starts everything with "You should...." or "what you should do is...." These people asked where their key to MY house was... I'm scared to see what they might bring up here as we live here. I looked at my husband and asked him why he told them where the house was and why he gave them the phone number. They even went to see our friend Ernie who is trying to fix up his house. My father in law started with his "I would put [whatever] up there and [something] over there..." Ernie, who didn't know who this guy was, told him off and told him to get back in his truck and leave. Why didn't I think of that???

2005-06-25T21:17:00.001-04:00

Da House

2005-06-25T21:17:00.000-04:00

I want to put a patio back there.

2005-06-25T21:16:00.001-04:00

Roof needs work

2005-06-25T21:16:00.000-04:00

Needs Paint

2005-06-25T21:15:00.002-04:00

Loose Corner

2005-06-25T21:15:00.001-04:00

Basement

2005-06-25T21:15:00.000-04:00

Basement

2005-06-25T21:14:00.002-04:00

Basement

2005-06-25T21:14:00.001-04:00

basement

2005-06-25T21:14:00.000-04:00

Below the door

2005-05-27T21:17:00.001-04:00

Mum and a baby

2005-05-27T21:17:00.000-04:00

Mum and piggies

WOO HOO!!

2005-05-21T23:23:00.000-04:00

YOU, my friend, are 100% Canadian! You are what
Canadians are all about! (and that's about. not
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SOAPBOX!!!

2005-05-11T10:44:00.000-04:00

So I called the phone company to ask if they have DSL out where I want to move to.. The guy tells me no, but that they are expanding. So that answered my question. He then starts in on the promotions they have and I kept telling him no and then I wasn't interested. After about 5 minutes I just hung up on him. HE CALLED ME BACK!
Sam: Hello?
BELL: what happened?
Sam: I told you I wasn't interested.
I hung up and calls the manager at bell. I tell her what happened and she told me, "I'll try to find out who that was who called you and have them re-trained."

DON'T CALL BELL CANADA!!!

2005-05-01T11:35:00.002-04:00

I think I look cute...

2005-05-01T11:35:00.001-04:00

More of my pink hair

2005-05-01T11:35:00.000-04:00

My pink hair...

Think PINK!

2005-05-01T11:25:00.000-04:00

Ok.. I thought I would streak my hair. The little brush that came with the dye broke and I only had a little bit of my hair done, so I thought I just put the whole thing on. The reason for the difference in color is the bright pink is from my natural brown and the rest was from the last dye job I did.. It was Blue/Black.
****A word of advice: Don't wash out dye when you have an open sore on your hand.****
*blows on the still smoking cut*

Just kill me!

2005-04-13T23:34:00.000-04:00

I usually say that I will NEVER do something and stand by it. But these days I've been slacking off on this promise.

Last week I watched "Mean Girls". In the first ten minutes of the movie I said I was turning it off. Did I? Nope. I should have. That movie was like a train wreck and I couldn't turn it off.

Tonight someone took my brain and got me to watch Scooby Doo 2. Another train wreck.

What's going on with me?

2005-04-09T05:48:00.000-04:00

Derrick took this picture and since he's so proud.. These are his mutant mushrooms. That coin is a quarter. This is what I get for letting him into my kitchen!

2005-04-09T05:45:00.000-04:00

unlike Tera, Lancelot was this dry after a few minutes. This is a cat who will join you in the tub.

2005-04-09T05:43:00.000-04:00

This was a pissed off cat that day. She was out of the tub around an hour before this was taken. Now I understand why cats don't like water.

2005-04-09T05:42:00.000-04:00

This year we decided to go to the Purple Woods Pancake Fest. I thought I would bring the camera and this was the only picture taken.

2005-04-09T05:41:00.000-04:00

This is Lancelot in a "bed" that my hubby kinda made for him. Actually, Derrick came home from a weekend out with the boys and Lancelot found out that Derrick's clothes were comfortable.

2005-04-09T05:38:00.000-04:00

This is Tara "claiming her human". Funny thing is, she does this to me too, but she only looks pissed when I take a picture. Can't you see the evil in her eyes?

2005-04-09T05:37:00.000-04:00

You think I *LIKE* looking like Slash and Joey Ramone had a baby? Trust me, I wake up looking like this!

Well that's 4 hours I'll never get back....

2005-03-27T20:36:00.000-05:00

I got the spend Easter Sunday with my husband's parents and brother.

His mom is very loud and, I believe, could end up in a clock tower shooting people at random.

His father is the kind of person you would want to shoot. "You should...." starts everything he wants to preach. One day I lost it and told him to F-off. He gave me a look as I was walking out of the house. My husband told me that I was very close to not being invited back. All I remember after that was me asking why he talked them out of that.

His brother is a racist jerk. What I don't get is that he's all into a sort of white power and yet he's not even white! They're Blackfoot Indian!

Anyway.. We're sitting at the table and they all start talking about traveling and my husband pulls out all the maps for our trip this summer. My husband's family look at maps like most men look at porn. I didn't say anything most of the time we were there, and after the men took off to the computer, I was stuck in the kitchen with my mother in law doing the dishes. We finally got to leave and we got hugs from his mom.

after every visit I tell my husband I never want to go back there. Do I ever get my wish??? NO!

2005-03-19T17:09:00.000-05:00

Tara on her "bed".

2005-03-13T00:35:00.001-05:00

THE PRANK:
Black Bra + Little Blue Echo = hours of laughs.

2005-03-13T00:35:00.000-05:00

Part Two

Pranks!

2005-03-13T00:20:00.000-05:00

My friend Lisa called me the other day and asked if I was interested in pulling a prank on John, a guy who works in the building. I told her I was and went up to see what the plan was.

The Victim: John is a guy who can take a joke. He'll be pissed about it for a short time and then he will laugh about it. He's the best guy in the world to do things to.

The plan: Tie a black lacy bra (size 34 A for you people who need to know) to John's car and see if he notices.

We went out to his car and slipped a strap around a wiper blade. (pictures to follow) and waited for John to drive off somewhere. We told three people who were to go out with him and they said they would be sure not to let on that they knew about it.

Jon walked out to the car, got in and drove off. Didn't notice it.

We waited for him to get back and we saw that the bra was not on the car anymore. He came in waving the bra at us and told us how he picked up spead and it came right up on the window. A few people on the street saw this and gave him dirty looks, including a woman in her car with her young kids.

Here's the kicker: He refused to get out of the car to take it off and drove through the downtown core with this thing blowing in his face.

It All Started With A Voice Mail...

2005-03-11T19:16:00.000-05:00

About a week ago I was listening to my voice mail and found something that I figured was spam. "Hello, my name is Adam and your ballot had won! Please call me at 519...." I'm in 905 and I know that 519 is in Kitchener somewhere. I deleted it without a second thought. Today, my husband was heading out the door to pick me up and told me the phone was ringing when he was walking out. When I got home I listened to the message and it was from the same place. Finally I thought I would go and call them.

Girl: Hello?
Me: Someone there keeps calling me.
Girl: Did you fill out a ballot?
Me: No.
Girl: Did you go to a home show or sports show?
Me: No. We don't go to shows.
Girl: Did one of your friends put your name on a ballot?
Me: Friends? I have no friends.
Girl: What's your number?
Me: 905...
Girl: Ok. We're offering families a mini vacation to Georgian Bay. Does this sound like something you would be interested in?
Me: Depends on the catch.
Girl: No catch. It's all free. The resort has been renovating and would like to invite people up to enjoy what they have to offer. There's no catch, no timesharing and all they ask is that when you get back that you spread the word about this resort. They are just looking for word-of-mouth advertising.
Me: Ok.. what else?
Girl: they just want $69 to hold your room.
Me: *click*

NOW WHO PUT MY NAME ON THE BALLOT???

2005-03-05T15:40:00.000-05:00

This is Lancelot in hiding!

Ok.. another one...

2005-03-05T06:06:00.000-05:00

I'm very tired, but I'm having a manic depressive moment here. So how about a little freeform poetry!

There's snow on the ground.
I have Green Day blasting in my ears and with them I'm building a wall of soda cans on my desk to keep the voices out of my head.
The contrast of the snow and the blue morning sky is beautiful.
The buses have started and are taking people around the city.
For some it's to work.
Others it's home after a wild or not-so wild night out.
Whores and drunks wandering the streets after a full night of getting their fix.
All is quiet for now.
No voices.
No death.
No more beauty than what I can see outside my window.
I crash into my warm bed and see what kind of terrors await me.
I have no control in my dreams. They're full of people long gone dead. Ghosts of my past come to me in the deepest reaches of my dreams.
When they are too bad I learn to turn them off.
I hear them talking to me as I slip away into dreamland.
They will still find me.
They always do.

About my plants...

2005-03-05T06:00:00.000-05:00

I thought I should talk about these things since I have like four pictures up of them.

I went out and got two plants. I kept one and gave the other to a friend. She used hers for skin conditions and I just ignored mine. Well she asked me if I could nurse her plant back to health since doing nothing was working for mine. I didn't water it, talk to it or even look at it for like a whole year. Now the plant is about three inches thick and has HUGE stems. I get the other plant back and I swear, all the little plants in those pictures are from that ONE little plant. I CAN'T KILL THEM! They will keep thriving! I'm still nursing the plants from my friend but I'm running out of room!

2005-03-04T23:44:00.000-05:00

My very first aloe. Turns out this is a male. There's no pups from this one.

2005-03-04T23:42:00.001-05:00

The Mother on the left with some of the family.

2005-03-04T23:42:00.000-05:00

Two young aloes just potted.

2005-03-04T23:41:00.000-05:00

Young Aloe..

Welcome To My World!

2005-03-04T23:13:00.000-05:00

I'm having a big problem with idiots and red lights.

We're driving down the street and there was a red light. This guy thought he would go against it and start walking. I guess he thought people would stop for him because he just walked faster when we were trying to get around him. I was very close to opening the window and telling this guy in my best manners to get the hell off the road. He had the nerve to look annoyed at us. There was another moment just before this where we were coming up to a green light and some yahoo ran the red light. I wish I could beam these jerks out of my way!

This is the NEW world!!

checking in… Very short post..

Well we had some great news..

Oh boy!

Valuable Customer, You ought to have shipped the item to the destination by now, You can now forward the shipment proof (reference/tracking number and attached scanned receipt), so that we can credit your account.

Time to purge the old brain here..

Yet another car update..

Please donate

Update on the car..

This might be a long one…

It’s been TWO MONTHS…

It’s been two weeks..

I’m getting sick of this…

I can’t sleep…

Ground Zero is NOT Sacred!

I’m in hell…

Oh FUCKING GRR!

I should just shut the hell up..

Well, answers THAT question..

Turning over a new Leaf!

Have I been quiet or what????

This is DEEP!

RIP Andrew Koenig (my own story)

Oh good god!

What a wild month!!!!

What a Week!

Welcome to Winter!

Open letter to "The Parents Television Council"

I'm having trust issues..

Not his day...

There was some excitement in this house today!

Why I hate Alcoholics Anonymous.. Or how I stayed sober for TEN years!

My Sixth Sense..

A scam turns into some great fun!

Something to get off my chest...

Odds and Ends and stuff in the news..

Yummy Food!!!

Strange Dreams..

Tornados hit Ontario!

Well I'm broke...

I was RIGHT!

Oh yeah...

got paid.. sorta..

oh yeah..

Should I be looking for a new job?

HOLY CRAP!!!

Nothing goin' on..

Last day.. I'M FREE!

I bitched out one paper.. let me do the other now...

I'm sick as a dog...

Yeah I know.. I don't post like I should...

DAMN IT'S COLD!

Now I've done it!!

OH!! I forgot..

I'm still here!

Yes it *IS* Haunted!

How dumb do they think we are??

I'm tired....

We've moved....

WOO HOO!!

SOAPBOX!!!

Think PINK!

Just kill me!

Well that's 4 hours I'll never get back....

Pranks!

It All Started With A Voice Mail...

Ok.. another one...

About my plants...

Welcome To My World!

Valuable Customer,
You ought to have shipped the item to the destination by now, You can now forward the shipment proof (reference/tracking number and attached scanned receipt), so that we can credit your account.

Yes it IS Haunted!