A music post…

What’s in my iPod right now:

Random 5 in a row.

1) Still Remains – Stone Temple Pilots -  This song has one of my favourite song lyrics of all time;  “Take a bath, I’ll drink the water that you leave. If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.”

2) Alive – Pearl Jam – “Is something wrong she said?” “Of course there is”. “You’re still alive she said”. “Do I deserve to be?” “Is that the question?” “…and if so (if so), who answers (who answers)?!?”

3) Doperide – Saliva (A “doperide” is a very pimped up car)

4) Long Time – Guns ‘N’ Roses (very disappointing new album, Chinese Democracy)

5) Striptease – Buckcherry – Listen to this song on regular radio, it’s quite a hoot as every 3rd word is censored out.

We’re back…

From a week aboard the Norwegian Pearl and while I would like to spend a little more time talking about our family vacation with Grammy and Gampa, I will make the following comments;

1.  American Airlines sucks shit.

2. The Norwegian Pearl Kids Club also sucks shit

3. Damian… AA guy… You know who you are.  You suck shit too.

4. Roatan… left a lasting impression on all of us.

5. Al and Caroline made the trip a LOT of fun

6. Birthday Tepanyaki was great, as was the birthday photoshoot of me and my boys.

7. I sang karyoke on the ship… I can’t sing… No wonder the audience didn’t clap.  LOL.

More to come…

On vacation!

Hi folks!

No posts from me for a week, as I take my family and in-laws down south for a cruise for the next week.  My first time off since I started my new job in September.  I’m so beat, yet so looking forward to it! 

My staff cannot believe that I’m off in the middle of tax season, but that’s what happens when you book a vacation 6 months in advance.

Going to finish packing… Enjoy the weather… Giggle.

Shut up!

Shut up!

Pardon me?

Shut up!  Daddy!

Shut up!

That was Tuesday.

Wednesday included a hurt chick – distraught child and a razor blade across my nose (still bleeding).

Oh, and my boss reamed out my ass…

How was your day?

Another day at the… gym!

Yup.  Another day at the gym for me.  My colleague has already lost 10 pounds but me???  maybe 3.  I have, according to my Wii Fit, lost 2.2 pounds and my BMI has dropped 1 unit from Obese to… well… Obese.  I’m close, though.  I see Overweight in the horizon…

Today we spent 30 minutes on cardio, then 45 minutes on chest and triceps.  Throw in some abs, a nice hot shower and by 2pm I was so done for the day.  I’ll log into work later tonight and get some work done.

I don’t see much of a difference on my body, my pants are still tight, but my thighs don’t seem to be rubbing as much and my “mommy milk” chest is looking more like a mans chest.  Take that, Stewie!

If I ever make it to my desired weight level (200 pounds), I so will NOT be buying my new threads at Moore’s… (See previous post).

 

An aside:

This was post 293.

Comments sit at 597.

I’ve been blogging for… a while.    My first post was May 29, 2006, and I was bitching about, of course, the TTC.

Moores the ??? People

Insert descriptive word here…   Mine would be screw-ups.

Here is a letter I sent to “customer service” of Moores.  Response to date… NONE.

In August 2009 I went into the Moore’s clothing location at Steeles and Yonge in Toronto in order to buy a new suit to help me with a series of  upcoming job interviews.  It must have worked because the suit – not the colour I would have thought going in, and may or may not have been the right cut for me – helped me through the process and onto a new endeavour in my career. 
 
As a show of good faith, I came in a few weeks later and bought 3 pairs of dress pants, 5 dress shirts and 3 ties.  My bill came to just over $800.00.  I had them shortened (I wanted cuffs on the pants but the very young salesman told me I did NOT want cuffs – I did not get cuffs) and proceeded to wear them starting with my first day on the job, only to find out that all three pants were 2 inches too short.  I looked like I was walking in a flood.  It was pretty embarrassing.  At first I thought it might be the style, but later realized they were just too short.  My father-in-law also thinks they are not cut well and there is way too much material in the rear.  I was so disappointed and worried about having to bring them back – Moore’s is expensive for alterations - to be lengthened that I found a mom and pop shop in Richmond Hill that added back the 2 inches to all 3 of my pants…
 
But it gets worse…
 
Turns out I am alergic to whatever material the 5 dress shirts are made of.  There is no label indicating what they are made of – I presumed cotton, but I have 20 other dress shirts, and have never had the reaction I had to these.  I have since stopped wearing them, and look at the pretty colours hanging in my closet every morning when I walk in to get dressed.  The ties, are beautiful – although they were bought for the shirts.  I tried the shirts again – with undershirts – to see if I could salvage them, but to no avail.  It feels like my skin is on fire and I scratched all day and night.  

I like to come to Moores because of the “tall” style, where I can get shirts long enough for my slightly longer arms without requiring a bigger shirt.
 
I really feel throughout this experience that the staff at this location were looking out for themselves and not for me.  I am really disappointed and right now I will never set foot into a Moores location again.  
 
Sincerely,
 

Hey Moores… I didn’t hear back… I was hoping for a refund on the shirts and credit for the alterations…

Now I’ll just have to blog about it.

Thanks for a horrible experience!

Rock Win! Rock Win!

The Toronto Rock beat the Edmonton Rush 14-9 yesterday afternoon at the Air Canada Centre – and I was there!  (no duh, I have had seasons tickets for 10 years), but I had Linus with me and we had fun!

After the game was the autograph session on the arena floor and we waited in line for 45 minutes and headed down to the floor for autographs, hugh-fives and an intimate meet and greet with the Toronto Rock dance team. 

After the session was over, Linus uncharacteristically ran over to the blow-up lacrosse shooting demo booth and took a few shots on the goalie.  It was… Adorable. 

Subway home, dinner and bed! 

Sure he was 1 1/2 hours late for bed but that might be because he had candy floss, popcorn and… raisins at the game.  Oh, and a tim bit that the lady at Tim Hortons gave him because he was so cute in his little Toronto Maple Leafs jersey.

I have pictures and I intend on posting them!

Go Rock Go!

More government bullshit…

I know some of you come here specifically to read this and you are probably the ones who run back, tell your “friends” and play 8th grade gossip.  There are some of you who come to read this stuff because you, like me, cannot understand how an organization – or a group of “adults” can behave so horribly.  There are some of you who come here for other reasons – and well quite frankly I’m curious why.  LOL.

So I’ve been on leave from the government for almost 6 months… 6 glorious months.  My brain turned back on, I feel like I’m 24 years old again trying to try and learn new things.  I just completed my first set of performance appraisals for my staff and I thought the process was fascinating.   Odd, eh?

I was hoping that all the issues with the government were over… they are not.

Let me re-cap.

I took leave – I’m entitled through the collective agreement and I found a job in management, something that I would never had received at the government no matter how much I asked, hard I worked, or education I received.  For some reason some dingbat/vendictive/fucked up former colleague of mine “googled” me and forwarded an anonymous print out showing my new position, then began to plan my demise and talk about it.

Long story short… I still work there and am still on leave.  For some reason the rumour mill is in high season (seriously, don’t these people have ANYTHING else to talk about) and my leave has become me doing illegal work and getting fired.  I’ve been “fired” probably once a week for 5 months now, for many horrible things.   I have sent a letter and emailed the director asking her to make this harassment stop and spoke to my former group manager to to ask him to stop talking about this situation and while he claims innocence, I know it still exists.

So fast forward to today… I am standing in a post office way north of the city when I am approached by a former client of mine through the government and what does she tell me… That someone there told her that I was fired for wrongdoings and much more horrible lies that one should never tell a member of the public.  Nice, eh?  So this former client tells me of the ills she has ad and the way she has been treated by my former employer and I gave her the same advice I would have given to her if I still worked there.  She provided me the name and phone number of the “team leader” who was talking about me and tomorrow I will proceed to call my former group manager to once again ask (should I have to?) that they use some common sense and keep their mouths shut.  For some reason these morons think any of this is going to make a difference to me?!?  I don’t live and breathe that gossip crap and as it always pained me to see so many unqualified twats get promoted before me, I really could care less what someone thinks about me.  They don’t know how I live or what I do in my spare time, nor should they want to… But they do.  That’s just creepy.