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Friday, October 31, 2003
It turns out that certain considerations are going to keep the downstairs roommates from moving out tomorrow and are now going to move at the end of November. Oh boy, this is going to be one tense month in the old homestead. Personally I still don't understand how one fight in over a year together would make them want to just dash so quickly, but hey, that's their choice. I'm sure this extra month will make the move easier for them. It'll certainly be different at home once they are gone, and mostly in a good way. I just can't wait to get my own place again. This summer! It's going to be nice.
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by Tabby at 10/31/2003 07:21:00 a.m.
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Thursday, October 30, 2003
I'm not terribly excited about Halloween this year, but I think that's because I'm working instead of going to any parties or taking the kids out trick or treating. Sure, I could put on a costume for work, but there aren't that many of us in the office at any one time and I don't deal with the public face-to-face, so it would be kind of pointless.
What I am looking forward to is next month when our downstairs roommates move out. There was a big fight the other night (apparently people living upstairs keeps the one from getting any sleep) and the next thing I know I hear they're moving out on the 1st. Okay. They were alright but I never really cared for living with them. This just moves the timetable up, now I just need to get rid of the roommates upstairs. They are the ones I love, but I am so looking forward to having my own place again, and it looks like this will be happening this summer. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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by Tabby at 10/30/2003 07:16:00 a.m.
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Sunday, October 26, 2003
Did you set your clocks back an hour? I did everything except my watch, so I was in a bit of an unexplained panic as I got off the train today on my way to work. How the hell was I that freakin' late? The panic was unexplained because I knew I left on time and got on the bus and the train on time, so how could I suddenly be so late. Urgh.
The good news is though that it's the end of my work week! Break out the champagne, we're gonna party tonight! Yes, I used "party" as a verb. Get over it.
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by Tabby at 10/26/2003 03:14:00 p.m.
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Saturday, October 25, 2003
It's raining outside and there's a perfect chill in the air, but here in the office I'm perspiring like a race horse. Damn, we need to turn the heater down. But I'm the one who seems to have the biggest problem with heat and the others are probably comfortable, so I'll just put up with it for now. Maybe fan myself down. I carry a little paper fan in my purse all the time, and I used to avoid using it in public because I was a little embarrassed by it, but this summer was just too damned hot so I thought screw it, why suffer?
I did try buying hand-held electric fans, but twice I bought them and twice they broke down way too quickly. I'm not going to keep throwing my money away. Well, maybe one more time this summer. The manual ones might give me carpal tunnel syndrome.
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by Tabby at 10/25/2003 02:55:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 24, 2003
Halfway through my work week. And it's Friday. Oh I miss the regular weekends and I'd love to never have to take the bus again, period, but especially on Friday and Saturday nights. I care as much about the environment as anyone else, but when they ask you to give up your car for public transportation they don't mention the risks at night or the crowding during the day. The bus is nice in theory but in practice, give me a car any day.
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by Tabby at 10/24/2003 03:18:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 23, 2003
Damn my roommate for leading me further and further down the road to geekdom. Okay, he got me into playing role playing games on the XBox and computer by buying the damned things. Bad enough. But now he's decided he'd like to try playing Magic: The Gathering again so he went and bought a bunch of cards. Of course he needed to practice because he hasn't played for many years, so I valiantly volunteered. Damn him. Yes, I now have my own deck. I don't need this.
What I do need is a long weekend. Soon, my friends, soon. I have a couple coming up next month and I just can't wait. Pity I rarely actually do anything on my long weekends, but the rest and time to myself is just as nice.
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by Tabby at 10/23/2003 04:46:00 p.m.
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Sunday, October 19, 2003
Am I awake or is this only a sweet, sweet dream? I'm finally at the end of my tiring six day work week and can now go home. Home. Is there a more beautiful word in existance (other than "Depp")? Warm bed, a blanket on the couch, a dog whose one good reason for being is to cuddle up with, snack foods and movies and fine company. Home.
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by Tabby at 10/19/2003 02:58:00 p.m.
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Saturday, October 18, 2003
I've been here at work close to twelve hours now. After my regular shift, I stayed around to work on making some changes and updating our website, then after that I just did a whole bunch of Internet stuff that, well, I just felt like doing. So no surprise here that I'm pooped. Really pooped. And I went to bed quite early last night, so I'm almost ready to go to bed now. Except I'm not at home yet and at least I'll have my book on the bus and train so I won't fall asleep there.
Not only that, this is Day 5 of a six day stretch, and I really can't wait for my weekend. But only one more day, so I'm going to go home now, because the sooner I go to bed the sooner tomorrow will come then the sooner I can come back to work then the sooner it'll be over and whoo hoo! Two days off! Sayonara, suckers!
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by Tabby at 10/18/2003 06:47:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 17, 2003
I almost missed my stop on the train this morning. You see, on my way home yesterday I stopped by a store to pick a couple of things up and while I was there I decided to peruse their books. Imagine my sheer joy in discovering an Anne Rice novel I haven't read yet! Well, there are a few I haven't read, but this is a vampire/witches one and of those I've read them all. Any of her supernatural stuff.
Well, I started reading it on my way to work today and was just a little too enraptured. Somewhere in the periphery of my senses I heard, barely, my stop being announced and with a quiet gasp of "Shit!" I got up quickly and made for the door. Yeesh.
It's like the time I read The Witching Hour and at one point looked up and was literally shocked to find myself in Edmonton, not New Orleans. I can't stand heat or humidity, but the way she writes about that city makes it one I'd love to visit some day.
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by Tabby at 10/17/2003 04:46:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
There's been a wonderful autumnal chill in the air lately. I'm not good with heat, which may be a possible genetic thing considering my cold weather ancestory, and this past summer was a little too much. Now it's over and we're in my favourite season of the year. Autumn. Fall. I don't care which one you call it as long as it's here. I'm not really looking forward to winter, but at least I can bundle up. The thing about the cold is that you can always add an extra layer. With the heat there is only so much you can take off before you get arrested.
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by Tabby at 10/16/2003 01:44:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003
I went to bed before midnight last night! That may not seem like a strange or wonderous thing to most people, but it's highly unusual for me and I'm quite proud of myself for doing it. Considering I need to be here by 7am tomorrow, let's see if I can be in bed even earlier tonight. Of course for that to happen I need to actually leave here and go home.
Hmmm. Go home. Sounds good to me!
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by Tabby at 10/15/2003 04:31:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003
That weekend was way too short. It was Thanksgiving in Canada which is fine and dandy, but I didn't get a long weekend. I did however get paid for not having to work yesterday, so that's not too bad and I am thankful for that extra day of money.
I'm not so thankful that this is a six day work week. I'm going to be so beat by the end of it. All day shifts too. Oy. I'd love to have nothing but day shifts, but as long as I'm switching around like this they are my least favourite sleepwise. I never get enough. Every time there's that same promise, "I will be in bed before 10pm!" Ha. I think I pulled that off once. We'll see. Mark my words, we will see.
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by Tabby at 10/14/2003 02:48:00 p.m.
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Saturday, October 11, 2003
Some weeks you just need a weekend more than usual, and this is one of them. I'm tired and grumpy and just want to not talk to anyone for two days. Of course I live with other people so I'll have little choice, but when I get my own apartment again next year I can spend nice quiet days by myself when I need them. Seriously, at times I think I'm two bad days away from being a crazy old lady sans cats. I've tried having a cat a couple of times before but it never works out. Hell, I've had my fish longer than I've ever had a mammal for a pet (of my own).
It has been busy this week, between just crazy days early on and trying to train someone at the same time. Today was going to be different, I'm trainee-free so I was going to relax a little more, take it easy, but I'm the senior staff member in tonight so nuh-uh. At least I'm able to take a few minutes and write a little more than I have been. The problem there is I don't really have too much else to say. Nothing is niggling at my brain insisting that I talk about it. Except I probably should apologize for not saying anything about this earlier, and I wasn't really following it, but... Governor Schwartzenegger. Now I'm more sure than ever before that there are no higher forces in the universe that care about humanity.
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by Tabby at 10/11/2003 08:36:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 10, 2003
I'm having dreams now about Rupert from Survivor: Pearl Islands. Go figure. I like the guy and really want him to win, but come on now. Dreams? Do I really want that?
Maybe I do. He may not be conventionally good looking, but I do find him compellingly sexy in a way I don't normally find big, hairy guys sexy. Huh. I think I have a little introspection to do with a couple of Johnny Depp movies.
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by Tabby at 10/10/2003 09:19:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 09, 2003
I had a Christmas carol stuck in my head today. The ironic thing about that music as an atheist is that my favourite holiday songs have always been the religious ones. The words themselves don't mean anything to me, though some are poetic in an of themselves, but the music itself tends to be more beautiful than the tunes most secular Christmas songs are set to. Maybe it's just more difficult to come up with a spectacular melody about Santa Claus and reindeer.
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by Tabby at 10/09/2003 09:53:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Another quick one today because I'm still training a new employee at work so I don't really have the time and I don't want to stay after work. This is keeping me so busy at work which is a good thing, but I'm doing a LOT of talking which is tiring.
She's on a break, and I should take one too but it's too busy, so gotta go!
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by Tabby at 10/08/2003 03:57:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Ugh, it was so busy today and I slept in because my alarm clock didn't go off and I was up for many, many hours this weekend, about 40 hours. Oh well. I'm almost off and I just wanted to write something. See you tomorrow!
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by Tabby at 10/07/2003 11:53:00 p.m.
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Saturday, October 04, 2003
That's another week done, and what a week it was. I spent most of my days at work training a new employee, so it was a little overwhelming because that's still new to me here at this job, so in a way we were both in training. At home I was staying up too late, so I've been tired. That's nothing really new though, is it? But I'd say the topper to the week would be the really good sandwiches I made with some black forest ham I bought. They were so very good.
Now it's time for the weekend, so I'm outta here for a couple of days now. Rest, relaxation, couch potato city. For now. But mark my words, one of these days I'm going to be able to buy a kayak and when I do, I will spend a lot of time on the river. That's the plan anyway. Whether it ever happens or not is another thing altogether. The idea is very pleasing to me though. Especially if I could paddle to somewhere that would let me pitch a tent for the night. I could really see spending quite a few weekends doing that and just totally getting away.
Edmonton fact: The river that runs through my fair city is the North Saskatchewan River. I live north of it, but do so love Old Strathcona on the south side.
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by Tabby at 10/04/2003 05:47:00 a.m.
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Friday, October 03, 2003
I bought the Weekly World News last night and quite frankly I was a little disappointed. They just don't seem to be putting the love and effort into their doctored photos that they used to. It's almost like they don't care about the fake news anymore and that's a little sad. Don't get me wrong as some things remain the same, the rabid conservatism is still there and Ed is still angry and disturbing, but Dottie seems to be mellowing out a little which is terribly wrong.
At least they're still using the same Bat Boy head model for their pictures of their little mascot. If they ever change that, then the tabloid will never be worth reading any more.
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by Tabby at 10/03/2003 07:31:00 a.m.
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Thursday, October 02, 2003
It's my own fault really. On the day after my first graveyard shift I wasn't very tired so I wound up getting about four hours of sleep. Yesterday however I was tired and could well have gone to bed a lot earlier but I stayed up for no good reason and now I'm paying for it. I am so friggin' tired right now. Damn it, I need to blame someone! I don't want to accept responsibility for my own actions. Dagnabit being an adult sucks sometimes. Not that staying up when I'm feeling tired is an adult thing to do, but that's beside the point. Yeesh.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't get worked up but I'm feeling a little cranky right now. It comes with being tired, and that's my own fault really. I also get repetitive when I'm tired.
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by Tabby at 10/02/2003 04:53:00 a.m.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Fun Things to do on Elevators
If on the elevator alone and there are people outside the door when it's time to get off...
- Turn to the back corner and say, "It was great talking to you, see you tomorrow!"
- Curl up in a ball on the floor and when the door opens, cry and whimper that it was so lonely, so very, very lonely.
- Crawl out the door gasping for water.
- Warn the people getting in about the evil third floor and how they should avoid it at all costs.
If on the elevator alone and other people get in before your floor...
- Before the door opens, turn and face the side or the back.
- Scream and back into a corner.
- Ask them what year it is.
- Warn them not to tickle you. Well, at least not for a couple of floors.
If on the elevator with other people...
- If the elevator is going down, scream that you're all doomed and the elevator is taking you all to Hell.
- If the elevator is going up, shout "We're coming, God! We're coming!"
- Make a face and sound like someone farted, because fart jokes are sometimes funny.
- Jump up and down.
- Hold your hand up to your ear and start saying, "Hello? Hello? I can't hear you! You'll have to call back later, I don't have a phone!"
If getting on the elevator...
- Walk in but don't turn around.
- Ask anyone there what they're doing in your bedroom.
- Ask if the elevator goes down to the Batcave.
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by Tabby at 10/01/2003 08:35:00 a.m.
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