I'm alive. Okay, well barely...got a darn freak'n cold overnite. Ack.

Other than that being at my parents house for the past while has been great! staying up late, sleeping in late, watching movies all day, playing games, skating at the local arena, and eating tons of chocolate :)

Today I'm gonna be out visiting my bestest friend Pam - going skating again, exchanging gifts and just some good ole girl talk.

On saturday after a family reunion on my mom's side I'll be head'n back to Uptown. Enough time to recoop from being home before head'n back to work :P

Anyways on my little sis laptop AND on dialup...not a very good combo.

Later loyal readers! I'll have much more interesting things to talk about once i'm back in the city and back on high speed!

Had a bit of an eventful day.

1. drop buspass/wallet* in mail box with letters

2. wait 15min on hold when calling canada post, submit retreivel request

3. waited 35min for the 1pm regular mail pick up

4. finally reunited with my buspass

5. find out pastor stopped by fully decked out as santa slaus to deliver my present and I wasn't here. apparently the story is that he walked around the office with jolly "ho ho ho" laughs, scare'n my coworkers and I MISSED IT! *sigh*

6. ex-coworker stopped by for a visit which was great, who needs to get any work done?!

7. awesome coworker drive me home early!

*bus pass consisted of my GRT pass/photo id, my debit card, credit card, HBC rewards card, rogers card, and $20 bill...eeek! so hoping for a wallet as a present this wkend!

And then on to tonite:

1. gym for an hour
2. dinner
3. off to the movies with Dee, Elisha and Jason

Also let's throw in present wrapping, bathroom/bedroom cleaning and packing into the mix.

It's nuts!

I gotta jet.

Freedom, freedom is coming,
Freedom is coming, Freedom is coming,
Oh yes, I know.

Great song...especially when I sang it with the praise team on Sunday. But I feel it needs some sprucing up so instead this is my version:

Christmas, Christmas is coming,
Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming,
Oh yes, I know.

And the countdown continues! Only 4 more days 'til Christmas Eve! :)

side note: apparently santa (aka my pastor and his wife) are dropping by my work on Friday. I'm dying of curiousity to know what the big deal is!

of work...

...and feeling high from all the fumes! The office currently reeks of varnish and paint from the next office over doing construction. It's beautiful, i just love this smell. They should bottle it!

At least it's a cheap way to get high.

I just want to get out of this life, for a moment.

To refill, renew

like water crashing over a cliff.

A life is worth living; not dying to life's monotony.

Just to dig a hole and pop down below, to breath in the earthy air and let out a sigh.

Days pass like a car blurring by, I keep seeing reflections but everything seems so a far.

Inside my heart yearns for some quiet.

All these committments, distractions and work. We toil so long for so little and forget
who we are.

So many times we leave out an element in the perfect equation, thinking long and hard
why we can't see to make it equal.

Just stand outside and stretch out your arms, look up to the sky and draw in a few deep
breaths while letting your face stretch into a smile.

Look, see that bird? The one who flys without a care? He lives free.

Forget all your worries and woes, push out some air and sing a few notes.

For now is your time, make it the most.

Another successful Gingiman Fest! A good time where you can dress your man and take him home ;)



















See more pics here.

cold snowy day (-15C yeah!)
+ Friday (best day of the week ever)
+ eggnog in coffee (mmmm...so good!)
+ dharma-ized office (treasure hunt anyone?)
+ chinese food (second time in my life)
+ semi-working outlook (thankgoodness for IT)
+ farewell awesome coworker (you know who u are)
+ ride home (sometimes missing the bus is a good thing)
+ christmas card (thanks Emily!)
=
a bittersweet day (best word to discribe it)

I hope that certain things in life slow down. Eek. 13 hrs of OT in just over a week. It's too much although I'm gonna take advantage of all that hard work and take a day off to go shopping! Who needs presents?

I wish I was a christmas tree, a pretty little pine:

I'd wear a star upon my head and ornaments that shine.

And If I were a Christmas tree, I'd dress myself with care

I'd have nice presents round my feet and tinsles to my toes,

I'd be all wrapped in twinkling lights with pinecones on my nose

(Nice Xmas - Amy Winfrey - Making Fiends)

"Arcade Marketing Inc., in tandem with the California Milk Processor Board, is putting up a new type of advertisement at bus stops that emit the smell of chocolate chip cookies."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061205/2/11ny5.html





How is this wrong? Let me count the ways.

Right, let's make hungry bus riders even hungrier! Crazy people, if you're gonna make it smell like cookies, provide the cookies. It's like false advertising.

*shakes head*

Please think/pray for me. I don't know if I can handle this job transition so quickly. I barely have a grasp on what I'm supposed to be doing on top of trying to finish up the cycle presentation that was already due last week plus move all my personal files and .pst files over and clean out my desk. Oh and let's not forget that both of my bosses are gone for the next two weeks.

I'm so frustrated with myself that I don't remember everything I was told in my two days of training and that I don't understand the new tasks I will be doing? For example - I have the mail key, guess who already forgot that's a new part of my job?

I don't know if I should scream or cry. I'm having a hard time dealing with this.

What was I thinking?

*Update*
I'm doing better right now after a good lunch break... :)

Earlier this week we got the tree in the apartment decorated after it was left standing naked for a couple days. So here's a few shots:
















I think that's one of my christmas ornaments
















Cynthia and Yvonne diligently decorating while I photographed the process
















The attack of the village people.





















We just had to decorate the apartment mascot Kerby.
















Ivan and I posing after the tree looked all pretty.

Today I got the last bit of the decorations up - lights and garland now adorn the balcony! It looks so pretty in here now. Would Christmas come already? Although I haven't even started shopping yet? Yikes. :S

I'm in better spirits now. I took something way to personally today 'cause I was just overwhelmed with on-going events at the moment. It was a very interesting day to say the least.

Thanks goes to Pam and Heather for the nice comments on my blog. You guys rock!

Apparently my blog is a joke.

Uh thanks.

Remind me never to post anything about my life. I'll just write generic crap about nothing.