Oops
Today hasn’t gotten off to the best start.
I woke up at 9:30 with a headache that soon turned into a full-blown migraine. If it doesn’t go away soon I might cry. I have to get all dressed up and drive to Cape Breton in a couple of hours.
I almost forgot to call in to work. Like seriously. We’re technically supposed to give them two hours’ notice but for an open shift that’s kind of hard. So I was sitting here trying to fight headaches at 9:35 and said “HOSHIT I have to call in to work!”
No-call-no-show is a million times worse than calling in sick, in case you didn’t know. LOL.
So I grabbed my phone and sounded as pathetic (and as matter of fact) as I could when telling Chris I wouldn’t be making it in today. Then I emailed Mark to remind him to put today down as my personal day and told him I’d see him this afternoon.
Yes, I’m playing hookey from work for a social event that my TM is going to as well. Today is the day of Trina and Shaun’s wedding, and Mark is their best man for some reason. I didn’t think a best man could be married, but oh well. Whatever. Alex and I were invited, so we’re going even though Alex doesn’t want to. I told him last night that we have to at least make something of an appearance at the reception but we don’t have to stay for the whole thing. We do both open tomorrow after all.
Do I really want to go? With a migraine, no. But to show off my new dress and shoes…and to support Trina, who I consider to be a pretty good friend, yes.
So once I got my call and email out of the way I cleared off the kitchen table and wrapped the present we got for the happy couple (a slow cooker). Which I almost forgot to get. Yes my memory is that bad…I almost forgot that we needed to get them a frickin’ wedding gift. Oy. Thank god for my mother yesterday.
“Did you get them a present?”
“o.O. Shit.”
Yeah. That was bad. But at least it was yesterday and not this morning. Because that would have been REALLY bad. *noddle*
I’m going to go grab something to eat and get dressed. Not wedding dressed yet, just normal dressed. I don’t want to get into the fancy clothes until it’s closer to time to leave, which is at 12:30.
I need to find out which church it’s going to be at…
RSS Feed
Courtesy of Robin…if anyone on LJ wants to use a feed to read my posts, here’s the link you can use:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/kawanee_wp/
What really sucks is, I can’t read LJ entries from home. Even the ones that aren’t friends-only. And I can barely remember what everyone’s LJ usernames are, ha ha!
*sigh* I’m going to miss out on so much…
Vacation Play-by-Play
I originally posted this over on my page at Dog’s site, but rather than re-write it, I’m going to just copy and paste it here. It’s really long, I’m sorry!
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SATURDAY MAY 3
Dad drove me to the airport in Halifax (about 2 hours from our house). My flight was supposed to leave at 8:30 local time. Dad dropped me off at around 7:15 and headed home. I went to the gate to wait. We didn’t actually get off the ground until 9, which sucked. Uneventful flight to Toronto was made better by one of the guys I was sitting with who was just as into anime and conventions as I am, and the other guy who was a rubik’s cube whiz. Anyways. Got in late and then spent 15 minutes waiting for luggage to actually be unloaded and brought into the airport. FINALLY met up with my sister (Sharlene) and niece (Abigayle) and Shar’s boyfriend (Jeffrey) and headed home.
20 minutes from the airport is a community called Oakville. It’s on the way to where Shar, Abz and Jeff live. We stopped at a bar/grill there at 11 p.m. local time for wings. Spent a frickin’ fortune. And it should be noted that they didn’t even bat an eye at the idea of my FOURTEEN YEAR OLD NIECE being in a bar at 11 p.m. but it’s probably because she was with her mother, aunt and mother’s boyfriend and we’re all in our 30s, LOL. We left there around 12:30 and headed home to Paris. We arrived an hour later and literally went to bed ten minutes later, LOL.
SUNDAY MAY 4
Got up around 10ish and talked to Sharlene for about 45 minutes about different things. Got Abby up again (Shar had already woken her up at 10) and let her freak out because we had to leave at 11:15. Left on time (amazingly enough) and drove to the Wayne Gretzky Center in Brantford for Abby’s hockey tryouts. Abby plays hockey and has for years. On Sunday she was trying out for the Bantam AA team (highest one around) and didn’t make it, so in August she’s going to try out for one of the lower teams (Bantam B, I think). While there I got to see Abby’s dad (Steve) and half-sister (Marley, who’s 2.5 years old) so that was nice.
Later we just kind of hung out until around 5:15, when Abby and I went across the street to the soccer field for her practice (she plays soccer when she’s not playing hockey). I sat and froze my butt off watching her and her teammates practice, then we came home and had tacos for supper. Not much other than television-watching took place in the evening.
MONDAY MAY 5
Jeff went to work (he’s a firefighter and works seven 24-hour-long shifts a month) and Abby went to school. Shar and I went into Paris for lunch and some shopping. I picked up a book for Alex but otherwise didn’t spend a whole lot because most of the stores on Main St. are closed on Mondays for some reason. Boo. What’s up with that? Then we came home and Shar went to her massage appointment (2:30). I hopped on the computer briefly and then read/napped until Shar got home from her appointment around 4:30. Abby got home from school around 3:30, so that provided a little break from reading/napping, but not much. Abby had another soccer practice at 5:30.
When soccer practice was over, we had pasta for supper and hung out watching TV and goofing off for the evening.
TUESDAY MAY 6
Shar picked Jeff up at work in the early morning and Abby went to school. Jeff cooked us a huge-ass breakfast and then passed out on the couch. Shar and I headed to Lime Ridge Mall in Hamilton for a day of shopping. NEW FAVORITE MALL EVER. This thing is huge! We didn’t see every store. It was amazing.
Shar got me a new dress to wear to the wedding I’m going to on Saturday as a belated birthday present. With money my mom gave me, I bought shoes to go with the dress and a new pair of sneakers. I also bought a pair of tan capris and a really cool Hawaiian shirt (not a typical one, I promise, ha ha!) at Old Navy and the DVD box set of The Best Of Seasons 1-3 (plus the Wedding Special) of Dog at the DVD store.
Let’s see…I didn’t buy anything else besides that I don’t think. Shar bought a bunch of things too. We spent about 4-5 hours at the mall and were home around 4:30-5 p.m.
Jeff made an excellent supper of bbq chicken, mashed potatoes and corn, which we ate. Then the four of us drove into Markham (a suburb of Toronto, so…like 1.5 hours away from home) for Jeff’s baseball game, which started at 8. Once there, we all had to go to the bathroom and didn’t want to lose our parking spot so we walked from the ballfield to where Shar’s parents live (long story short…Shar’s my half-sister and the parents I’m talking about are her adoptive parents) so we could use their bathroom. They ended up driving us back to the ballfield and staying for a little while, which was great.
Result of the ball game: Jeff’s team lost. 15-2. But it was the first game of the season so they have lots of time to improve!
We then drove home. Once there, Abby went to bed and the rest of us ate nachos and watched American Idol which Jeff had PRV’d for us. PVR is an amazing thing and I wish we’d get it here. Seriously. I love the idea of being able to pause TV shows and pick them up again right where you left off and fast forward through commercials!
WEDNESDAY MAY 7
Got up at 9 because Shar and I wanted to be in Paris for 10. That didn’t happen…it was closer to 11 when we got on the road. The reason we were going into town again was I wanted to get a new tattoo and we had seen a tattoo place right on Main Street the previous time there. I had decided that I wanted to get either a palm tree on my inner ankle or a lei around the tyet on my arm, in honor of Dog and the Posse (and the spirit of Hawaii).
Spoke to the tattoo artist (Jacqueline) and while I didn’t get the tattoo (had I been able to talk to her on Monday, I very well could have) because she is very professional and wouldn’t just rush it, I have her card and will email her with ideas before my next trip to Ontario so I can get the tattoo on my next trip. So that’s cool. I’ll definitely be doing that when the time comes. She knows what I want roughly (I’m leaning towards the lei because the tyet is too small) and she’s very awesome, so I’m looking forward to getting some ink from her in the next couple of years.
After that we went home and watched some Gene Simmons Family Jewels until it was time to go again. Abby was in a play at school and we had tickets to the last dress rehearsal before the big opening night. LOL. It was a fairy tale play and Abby played a pixie. So cute. That was over at 2:30 and then we left at 3:10 to go to the airport.
I was freaked out because of an accident on the 401 but we left with more than enough time to get me at the gate and ready to go before it was time to board the plane. Flight was supposed to leave at 6 p.m. local time but was a little late. I arrived home to Nova Scotia around 9:30 p.m. local time and met up with my parents, who picked me up. We stopped for some food and I was home at midnight local time…to find my internet connection not working.
There’s something wrong with the hardware on this computer that makes it very difficult to get online if the computer has been turned off. Go figure. Alex is working on narrowing down the actual issue and solution, but at least he can get it working temporarily.
Well here I am
When LiveJournal decided to be a pain in the ass and ban me for things that I had nothing to do with (anybody remember the time when the guy hacked into my old Gambit account there and deleted it before my eyes? Yeah I’m pretty sure this has to do with him.) I decided it was time to move on to bigger and better things.
So I followed my Kiddo to here. WordPress. It’s going to take time to get used to it, but I’ll manage.
I’ve heard from LJ once. This is what they told me:
“Thank you for contacting us. Your account has been tied to another LiveJournal account that was used to compromise other users accounts. As this is a gross violation of LiveJournal’s Terms of Service, the original account and all accounts found to be associated with it were suspended and use of the LiveJournal service was terminated. An email was sent to the primary account explaining this on May 2nd, 2008.
We use several unique and account specific indicators to show association, including email addresses. Your accounts email, among other things, had been used as a current email on the compromised accounts. Because of this, your accounts have been suspended and you are not welcome on the LiveJournal service. Any further accounts found will be suspended without notice.”
This is what makes me think it has to do with the guy who took over my gambit journal. Just because my email address was associated with that account at one time…I get banned. WTF? I wrote them back explaining what happened in that case (and pointing out that they did NOTHING to help me) and said I’d accept their decision without a fuss…and asking for the cost of the permanent account to be credited back to me. I am mad at them, but life’s too short to dwell on shit.
I am officially done with LJ, regardless. They are not worth the energy, at all. I’m just waiting for them to reply to my last message.
So I have this new blog here and will be posting here from now on. I have it set so anybody can comment even if they don’t have a WordPress account, and I’m hoping I can get word out that my blog is now here so my old LJ friends can keep up with me (and keep me up to date on their lives through comments here since I won’t be able to read any friends-only posts on LJ…I will be accessing LJ from work to check on non-friends-only posts though).
