Politics
Man I am really starting to get tired of politics lately. We have now had every possible election in the last few months. As of today it will be over for a while thankfully. I am tired of hearing the slanderous campaigns. I am tired of hearing each party spend all their time and money on slashing the other party instead of talking about the issues. I think they do that because in reality they all have too similar of views and want the public to think otherwise, for then they might smarten up and vote for the more honest and sincere person instead of for a particular party no matter who the loser leading the party may be. I happen to not really have anything against Ralph Klein, he is one of the few leaders that actually did what he said he was going to do, to the shock of the people. Well we need more people like him. I might not agree with what he did but we voted him in after he said what he was going to do so who are we to complain, RIGHT!
Monday, November 22, 2004
Thursday, November 18, 2004
One day left
I feel like a very repeatitive drone! All I seem to think or talk about lately is the move! Well it's tomorrow! The movers should actually be arriving at my home in Edmonton as we speak, to load all our CRAP into a big truck. They keep it over night and bring it to Calgary sometime tomorrow. So basically that mean I get to sit in a completely empty house and twiddle my thumbs. Man contractors can be such a pain. I am sure everyone at sometime at least once have heard these words "We will arive sometime between 9am and 4pm" At least sometiems they will narrow that down to the AM or PM but come on, how hard is it to schedule apointments, or at least call an hour or so ahead when you have a better idea, that would give you plenty of time to get home in time if you have other things to do. Like come on, I have to spend the whole morning at home because sometime that morning you will arrive to do a 5 minute job. Give me a break!
I did find a cool web site today, seems to be only available in the states though www.emove.com, it's basically a site where students can list their services to make some extra cash by helping people move, they will pack your stuff, or load, or drive your u-haul or what ever else you need. I found the link on U-haul's web site. Kind of a neat business idea. I wonder if the company who manages and placed the website take a portion of the earnings people who get work off the site get. hummm?
I get my Dog tomorrow, tomorrow, it all happens tomorrow!!!!
I feel like a very repeatitive drone! All I seem to think or talk about lately is the move! Well it's tomorrow! The movers should actually be arriving at my home in Edmonton as we speak, to load all our CRAP into a big truck. They keep it over night and bring it to Calgary sometime tomorrow. So basically that mean I get to sit in a completely empty house and twiddle my thumbs. Man contractors can be such a pain. I am sure everyone at sometime at least once have heard these words "We will arive sometime between 9am and 4pm" At least sometiems they will narrow that down to the AM or PM but come on, how hard is it to schedule apointments, or at least call an hour or so ahead when you have a better idea, that would give you plenty of time to get home in time if you have other things to do. Like come on, I have to spend the whole morning at home because sometime that morning you will arrive to do a 5 minute job. Give me a break!
I did find a cool web site today, seems to be only available in the states though www.emove.com, it's basically a site where students can list their services to make some extra cash by helping people move, they will pack your stuff, or load, or drive your u-haul or what ever else you need. I found the link on U-haul's web site. Kind of a neat business idea. I wonder if the company who manages and placed the website take a portion of the earnings people who get work off the site get. hummm?
I get my Dog tomorrow, tomorrow, it all happens tomorrow!!!!
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Moving...
Man the last time we bought a house everything was soooooo... simple. We paid for it, we moved in. This time we decide to buy a new house and now we are having to deal with contractors, and builder's and warrentee's and appliance installations of all things. And don't get me started on Blinds!!!! Then next spring it will be the fence, deck and landscaping. So it sounds like the next few years are going to be caotic! should be loads of Fun!
Man the last time we bought a house everything was soooooo... simple. We paid for it, we moved in. This time we decide to buy a new house and now we are having to deal with contractors, and builder's and warrentee's and appliance installations of all things. And don't get me started on Blinds!!!! Then next spring it will be the fence, deck and landscaping. So it sounds like the next few years are going to be caotic! should be loads of Fun!
Monday, November 15, 2004
Dear Twisted Stix;
I read your blog and thought why not ask the question that's been plaguing me lately. You see I'm a 28 year old female and I met this guy who is 23, and I really like him and he's a lot of fun but I can't seem to get my mind past the age difference. Do you think an older female can have a successful relationship with a younger man?
Signed,
Does Age Matter
Dear Does Age Mater;
Thanks for the question, I actually have a good friend who is going through the exact same thing right now and she asked me the same question, so I am going to tell you what I told her. If you were 65 and he was 60, would you have a problem? Most likely No. The issues right now is the particular ages you both are at. It's not different from when your 18 and he was 13. Your at different stages of life generally. Frankly a typically 28 year old female has one thing in her mind when it comes to relationships, "how long before he will ask me to marry him?" Where as a 23 year old male who in his mind still has a good five years before he has to think about such stuff, he's more out to experience life still, where the female has already done that and is ready to move on. Guys seem to have stages and the marring stage seems to fail between 27 and 33, before that they just want to be out and do a lot of stuff, after that they have a new found desire for youth and will try to date very young women or they get to set in their bachelor ways. I am not saying it wont work, for every person is different. Some people mature faster or slower then other's. You may be a women who isn't interested in marriage for at least another 5 to 10 years and the guy could be one of those guys that has been ready to get married since the first day he figured out that girls were different then boys. So it all boils down to... Follow your Heart, if you have doubts that he is ready for what you are looking for then your most likely right. Be honest and talk to him. He could be the same age as you and be less interested in marriage then a 20 year old. If you guys can find some common ground of goals and interests for this stage of your lives even if they are not identical, it could have great potential. But if your looking for that committed relationship and he's still living with mommy and daddy and going to school and can't think ahead past where's he's going out drinking that evening. Then you have a problem.
Signed,
Twisted Stix
I read your blog and thought why not ask the question that's been plaguing me lately. You see I'm a 28 year old female and I met this guy who is 23, and I really like him and he's a lot of fun but I can't seem to get my mind past the age difference. Do you think an older female can have a successful relationship with a younger man?
Signed,
Does Age Matter
Dear Does Age Mater;
Thanks for the question, I actually have a good friend who is going through the exact same thing right now and she asked me the same question, so I am going to tell you what I told her. If you were 65 and he was 60, would you have a problem? Most likely No. The issues right now is the particular ages you both are at. It's not different from when your 18 and he was 13. Your at different stages of life generally. Frankly a typically 28 year old female has one thing in her mind when it comes to relationships, "how long before he will ask me to marry him?" Where as a 23 year old male who in his mind still has a good five years before he has to think about such stuff, he's more out to experience life still, where the female has already done that and is ready to move on. Guys seem to have stages and the marring stage seems to fail between 27 and 33, before that they just want to be out and do a lot of stuff, after that they have a new found desire for youth and will try to date very young women or they get to set in their bachelor ways. I am not saying it wont work, for every person is different. Some people mature faster or slower then other's. You may be a women who isn't interested in marriage for at least another 5 to 10 years and the guy could be one of those guys that has been ready to get married since the first day he figured out that girls were different then boys. So it all boils down to... Follow your Heart, if you have doubts that he is ready for what you are looking for then your most likely right. Be honest and talk to him. He could be the same age as you and be less interested in marriage then a 20 year old. If you guys can find some common ground of goals and interests for this stage of your lives even if they are not identical, it could have great potential. But if your looking for that committed relationship and he's still living with mommy and daddy and going to school and can't think ahead past where's he's going out drinking that evening. Then you have a problem.
Signed,
Twisted Stix
My Weekend!
I hate Moving!
It all started at 5:30 am on Friday when I went to my car to head into work(It was a friday closure) to make up the hours I am taking off on this coming Friday for the offical move. I drove a few blocks and discovered I had a flat tire. I mean flat! luckily there was a gas station there so I pulled over and tried to pump some air into when I discovered not only was it flat but it was popped off the rim so it would never hold air.
So here I am at 5:30am in a mini skirt having to change a tire at a gas station. people are coming and going and not one person asked if I needed help. Then I discover my jack is bent and wont hold up the car high enough before it loses balance and falls over. So I decide to go into the gas statation and ask if they have a jack. The guy says no but he has one in his car and I ask if I can borrow it and he says no. THEN WHY MENTION IT!!!!!
So back outside I go. So now I am at a loss at what to do so I open my trunk and search through my dirty laundry that I had in the back to take to Edmonton to wash and find my fleece pajama bottoms and put them on over my skirt for warmth for it's like -8 degree's celcius.
So I finally find an alternative jack location that is far enough back that I don't need to raise it as high before the wheel can be removed. So now the tire is changed. You would think my battle was almost complete, but no, I only have a doughnut for a spare so now I need to get a new tire.
It took me an hour to get the tire changed when usually it takes me a max. 10 minutes to change a tire. So it's now 6:30am. Nothing is open so I decide to drive to Canadian Tire to wait till they open to get my tire changed. I am sitting in the parking lot when this guy from the Automotive department who was clearing out the mechanic bays, to put in the car's to be worked on into the garage. He see's me parked there waiting and walks over, so I open my window to hear what he has to say.
He informs me that he had noticed my doughnut and was assuming I was there to have a tire installed and wanted to let me know that before I sat there for another 1 1/2 hours till they opened that they are back logged a lot and they wouldn't get to me till late afternoon so I would have to leave my car.
This wouldn't normally be such a big deal because Canadian Tire is within easy walking distance from My mother-in-laws(who I am living with in Calgary) but my husband was coming in on the bus at 12:30 that afternoon so that we could go see the house we are buying for he hadn't seen it yet, and go to the lawyers to sign all the paper work for selling our house and buying the one here in Calgary.
So I left and decided to find another place, so I went to Walmart and waited till 8am for them to open. Found the service station waited in line for a 1/2 hour for them to tell me as well that they wouldn'tbe able to get to it till late afternoon. So I storm off in a huff swearing at the guy :-) Can you picture it! Me?
So I tried a couple of more places till I came to Baskin & lane and he asked me if he could help me, and I said "Yes, by telling me you can have a tire changed before 12 noon" and he said Sure I can tell you that :-) He had it done by 10:15!!! I was so happy, but by this time to pick up my Husband at 12:30 I didn't have time to drive to work. I would have like what an hour to work, not worth it?
So I went back to Scott's mom's, I decided to die my hair instead and it turned out a heck of a lot darker then it was supposed too. It's almost BLACK! My mother is going to cringe! So once that was done I headed to pick up my husband, Who ended up taking the later bus so I ended up sitting and waiting for him for 45 minutes.
At least viewing the house and seeing the lawyer went some what smoothly. Besides having a heck of a time finding the lawyers office. So then after the Lawyers (like 5:30pm) we headed back to Edmonton. We got to Edmonton a little after 9pm, relaxed for a few minutes watched Enterprise and went to bed.
Got up Saturday morning and took my dog for an 1 1/2 hour walk, and then we started packing, and organizing. Got a call from the guy who bought our house, he had a few potential renters wanting to see the place at noon. We told him the place was a mess but feel free, so he come's by and shows the place which was just fine, but then he got looking and talking over the lawyer papers and he decided they were done wrong which if that is so will put back the whole process of taking possession of the new house and selling our old one and will cost us more money. FUN!
So after he left I had to quickly shower to go meet a friend of mine who had out of the blue called and asked to see me which is very unusual so I felt I should go, plus I always love to see her. Turns out she's pregnant after trying for two months, she's also already 3 months pregnant. Great news!!!! I am glad one of us has been lucky in that department.
So then I headed home and we got some more packing done and then we had another possible renter come by to view the place and this time the guy who is trying to rent our house showed up late so we ended up having to show her the place. She seemed to love the place but is hoping to move in sooner then what we originally intended to move out by. So now we need to work faster for it would save us a bit of cash. Then at 7pm we had to take Tyra(our Dog) to a Fly ball practice. Where because My Husband can't walk (he had his Knee operated on a short while ago) well let alone run, I ended up having to run with her and my first time down when I was supposed to cross over, I miscalculated how long it would take Tyra to grab the ball and turn around and ended up tripping on her and landed on my head and got a slight concussion.
We were there for two hours, imagine having a slight concussion, now imagine being in a small concrete building with 12 dogs barking as loud as they can and continuously the whole time. NOT PRETTY!!!! and Tyra was the loudest of them all!
Then Sunday came along!!!!!
We got up Sunday morning and I worked on packing up the kitchen while my husband started loading his truck up for taking a load to the dump. Then we get a call from the guy at 9:15 that left his couches at our place for storage, him and a freiend were coming over at 10:30 to get the couches and they needed Our truck to move them. Remember we were loading the truck for a dump trip?
So now we are rushing around trying to load all the garbage up and all the crap stuff we don't want to take with us so we can rush to the dump and unload it all and be back by 10:30, so we had an hour and 15 minutes. FUN! We made it back at 10:45, which worked out well because they had arrived at 10:30 and had the couches already out on the front lawn because Our roommate was home and had let them in.
So we loaded them up and took them to the guys place. We unloaded the stuff and made it home by 12 noon, which was pretty good timing. So now we needed to finish all our packing because it ends up the person who is going to be renting it want's to move in this coming weekend. so now we are in a little bit more of a crunch for we thought we had two weeks left to clean and all that stuff. So we worked our butts off and were done by 4pm.
Now we quickly loaded up another load of truck(1950 ford) parts into Scott's truck to take to my parents place to store. We left at 5pm and we didn't arrive to my parents till almost 8pm. Then it took an hour to get my father motivated and off the phone to help us unload the stuff so that we could head back to the city.
We left them at 9:30pm and arrived back in Edmonton at 11pm last night. So we hit the sack and I got up at 3:30 am to drive to Calgary to be at work by 7am this morning. CRAZY. Plus I had to do all the driving all weekend because My husband still can't drive and his Truck is Horrible to drive!
Well that's my weekend!
I hate Moving!
It all started at 5:30 am on Friday when I went to my car to head into work(It was a friday closure) to make up the hours I am taking off on this coming Friday for the offical move. I drove a few blocks and discovered I had a flat tire. I mean flat! luckily there was a gas station there so I pulled over and tried to pump some air into when I discovered not only was it flat but it was popped off the rim so it would never hold air.
So here I am at 5:30am in a mini skirt having to change a tire at a gas station. people are coming and going and not one person asked if I needed help. Then I discover my jack is bent and wont hold up the car high enough before it loses balance and falls over. So I decide to go into the gas statation and ask if they have a jack. The guy says no but he has one in his car and I ask if I can borrow it and he says no. THEN WHY MENTION IT!!!!!
So back outside I go. So now I am at a loss at what to do so I open my trunk and search through my dirty laundry that I had in the back to take to Edmonton to wash and find my fleece pajama bottoms and put them on over my skirt for warmth for it's like -8 degree's celcius.
So I finally find an alternative jack location that is far enough back that I don't need to raise it as high before the wheel can be removed. So now the tire is changed. You would think my battle was almost complete, but no, I only have a doughnut for a spare so now I need to get a new tire.
It took me an hour to get the tire changed when usually it takes me a max. 10 minutes to change a tire. So it's now 6:30am. Nothing is open so I decide to drive to Canadian Tire to wait till they open to get my tire changed. I am sitting in the parking lot when this guy from the Automotive department who was clearing out the mechanic bays, to put in the car's to be worked on into the garage. He see's me parked there waiting and walks over, so I open my window to hear what he has to say.
He informs me that he had noticed my doughnut and was assuming I was there to have a tire installed and wanted to let me know that before I sat there for another 1 1/2 hours till they opened that they are back logged a lot and they wouldn't get to me till late afternoon so I would have to leave my car.
This wouldn't normally be such a big deal because Canadian Tire is within easy walking distance from My mother-in-laws(who I am living with in Calgary) but my husband was coming in on the bus at 12:30 that afternoon so that we could go see the house we are buying for he hadn't seen it yet, and go to the lawyers to sign all the paper work for selling our house and buying the one here in Calgary.
So I left and decided to find another place, so I went to Walmart and waited till 8am for them to open. Found the service station waited in line for a 1/2 hour for them to tell me as well that they wouldn'tbe able to get to it till late afternoon. So I storm off in a huff swearing at the guy :-) Can you picture it! Me?
So I tried a couple of more places till I came to Baskin & lane and he asked me if he could help me, and I said "Yes, by telling me you can have a tire changed before 12 noon" and he said Sure I can tell you that :-) He had it done by 10:15!!! I was so happy, but by this time to pick up my Husband at 12:30 I didn't have time to drive to work. I would have like what an hour to work, not worth it?
So I went back to Scott's mom's, I decided to die my hair instead and it turned out a heck of a lot darker then it was supposed too. It's almost BLACK! My mother is going to cringe! So once that was done I headed to pick up my husband, Who ended up taking the later bus so I ended up sitting and waiting for him for 45 minutes.
At least viewing the house and seeing the lawyer went some what smoothly. Besides having a heck of a time finding the lawyers office. So then after the Lawyers (like 5:30pm) we headed back to Edmonton. We got to Edmonton a little after 9pm, relaxed for a few minutes watched Enterprise and went to bed.
Got up Saturday morning and took my dog for an 1 1/2 hour walk, and then we started packing, and organizing. Got a call from the guy who bought our house, he had a few potential renters wanting to see the place at noon. We told him the place was a mess but feel free, so he come's by and shows the place which was just fine, but then he got looking and talking over the lawyer papers and he decided they were done wrong which if that is so will put back the whole process of taking possession of the new house and selling our old one and will cost us more money. FUN!
So after he left I had to quickly shower to go meet a friend of mine who had out of the blue called and asked to see me which is very unusual so I felt I should go, plus I always love to see her. Turns out she's pregnant after trying for two months, she's also already 3 months pregnant. Great news!!!! I am glad one of us has been lucky in that department.
So then I headed home and we got some more packing done and then we had another possible renter come by to view the place and this time the guy who is trying to rent our house showed up late so we ended up having to show her the place. She seemed to love the place but is hoping to move in sooner then what we originally intended to move out by. So now we need to work faster for it would save us a bit of cash. Then at 7pm we had to take Tyra(our Dog) to a Fly ball practice. Where because My Husband can't walk (he had his Knee operated on a short while ago) well let alone run, I ended up having to run with her and my first time down when I was supposed to cross over, I miscalculated how long it would take Tyra to grab the ball and turn around and ended up tripping on her and landed on my head and got a slight concussion.
We were there for two hours, imagine having a slight concussion, now imagine being in a small concrete building with 12 dogs barking as loud as they can and continuously the whole time. NOT PRETTY!!!! and Tyra was the loudest of them all!
Then Sunday came along!!!!!
We got up Sunday morning and I worked on packing up the kitchen while my husband started loading his truck up for taking a load to the dump. Then we get a call from the guy at 9:15 that left his couches at our place for storage, him and a freiend were coming over at 10:30 to get the couches and they needed Our truck to move them. Remember we were loading the truck for a dump trip?
So now we are rushing around trying to load all the garbage up and all the crap stuff we don't want to take with us so we can rush to the dump and unload it all and be back by 10:30, so we had an hour and 15 minutes. FUN! We made it back at 10:45, which worked out well because they had arrived at 10:30 and had the couches already out on the front lawn because Our roommate was home and had let them in.
So we loaded them up and took them to the guys place. We unloaded the stuff and made it home by 12 noon, which was pretty good timing. So now we needed to finish all our packing because it ends up the person who is going to be renting it want's to move in this coming weekend. so now we are in a little bit more of a crunch for we thought we had two weeks left to clean and all that stuff. So we worked our butts off and were done by 4pm.
Now we quickly loaded up another load of truck(1950 ford) parts into Scott's truck to take to my parents place to store. We left at 5pm and we didn't arrive to my parents till almost 8pm. Then it took an hour to get my father motivated and off the phone to help us unload the stuff so that we could head back to the city.
We left them at 9:30pm and arrived back in Edmonton at 11pm last night. So we hit the sack and I got up at 3:30 am to drive to Calgary to be at work by 7am this morning. CRAZY. Plus I had to do all the driving all weekend because My husband still can't drive and his Truck is Horrible to drive!
Well that's my weekend!
Thursday, November 11, 2004
What's Your Beef!
I have been thinking lately that is what I should have named my Blog, for that's all I have been using this for. That when something would happen that would piss me off, I would submit a blog. So all considered since I have a somewhat normal life, nothing much happens, so repercussions are, lack of entry's. So I thought I might try to do more about my day to day life.
So who am I?
Well I would like to think of myself as someone who is open minded, curious, non-judgmental, someone who has experienced a lot of relationship and life issues but not much of world experience outside of the province I have grown up in. I love Music and Art, I love anything unusual. I like to understand, not just people but how they think and what makes them who they are and believe what they believe. I have a lot of common sense (which isn't all that common) and am also very practical. I have found myself pigeon holed into a world of normalcy that sometimes I find myself suffocating.
I love my life, and yes I have had to make sacrifices of some of the stuff I loved, but I did so to bring other things into my life that I also love. So can I complain? Yes, but the real question is, would I change anything? No.
There are small things I can do though, I can start painting again, which I have. I miss seeing bands but I can't handle to noise level and smoke, you know being Old and everything, ha, ha! Not sure what the solution would be. But I do want to start taking dance lesson's and I have gotten my Husband to agree :-) (could be interesting). So I'm thinking to find a more high class bar that has dinner and live band of Jazz or Blues. Now that would be Great! The other thing I want to start doing is going to see live entertainment, like Improv Theatre. I know of a great place in Calgary that I want to start being a regular at "AGAIN".
We are just moving to a different city so it's a great time to make some changes in our lives.
We don't know too many people here, so hopefully over time that will change and we will meet couples at the same stage of life as we are now.
Hummmm! Time will tell.
I have been thinking lately that is what I should have named my Blog, for that's all I have been using this for. That when something would happen that would piss me off, I would submit a blog. So all considered since I have a somewhat normal life, nothing much happens, so repercussions are, lack of entry's. So I thought I might try to do more about my day to day life.
So who am I?
Well I would like to think of myself as someone who is open minded, curious, non-judgmental, someone who has experienced a lot of relationship and life issues but not much of world experience outside of the province I have grown up in. I love Music and Art, I love anything unusual. I like to understand, not just people but how they think and what makes them who they are and believe what they believe. I have a lot of common sense (which isn't all that common) and am also very practical. I have found myself pigeon holed into a world of normalcy that sometimes I find myself suffocating.
I love my life, and yes I have had to make sacrifices of some of the stuff I loved, but I did so to bring other things into my life that I also love. So can I complain? Yes, but the real question is, would I change anything? No.
There are small things I can do though, I can start painting again, which I have. I miss seeing bands but I can't handle to noise level and smoke, you know being Old and everything, ha, ha! Not sure what the solution would be. But I do want to start taking dance lesson's and I have gotten my Husband to agree :-) (could be interesting). So I'm thinking to find a more high class bar that has dinner and live band of Jazz or Blues. Now that would be Great! The other thing I want to start doing is going to see live entertainment, like Improv Theatre. I know of a great place in Calgary that I want to start being a regular at "AGAIN".
We are just moving to a different city so it's a great time to make some changes in our lives.
We don't know too many people here, so hopefully over time that will change and we will meet couples at the same stage of life as we are now.
Hummmm! Time will tell.
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