Sunday, June 24, 2007

Yes I'd go with you. Now will you please stop asking.

I've been spending alot of time listening to my iPod lately, mostly on my way to work, but I didn't really notice until the other day that I haven't really added new music in a long time. Or at least not new music that I want to listen to over and over again.

Anyway this got me to thinking, besides the fact that I need to add some new stuff to my musical library, that I've listened to the Josh Turner song "Will you go with me" about a bigillion times. Okay maybe I'm exagerating just a little bit, iTunes says it's only been 53 (but of course it doesn't count when I listen to it on my iPod). That man's voice makes me a little bit weak in the knees and he's cute.

I've generally maintained that I would not shell out any money to see musical acts in concert, partly because I don't want to spend $ 70 to sit in the nosebleeds and watch them perform on a big screen, (if I wanted to do that I could stay at home and save the $70) and secondly because from what I've seen of live shows they are entirely dissapointing from a vocal talent standpoint. That or they lip-synch a la Shania Twain at the Grey Cup. But I would actually go to see Josh Turner in concert.

Oh and for the record I've listened to "just to be your man" 102 times according to iTunes.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Yet another creepy rez/athlete similarity

For those of you who used to read my old blog you know that I was constantly finding people who looked like people that I lived with in rez. Well here's another example. Thank god it's only in this one picture but still the similarities are enough to make me cringe. Oh and his name is Mike by the way. Yet another creepy coincidence.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight after this discovery. Well than and spending last night working on the Morgue video for the yearbook.

Oh that reminds me, if anyone has suggestions for music I should use in the video yearbook please leave a note in the comments. I've got about 4 hall videos left, plus the spring banquet and a video of random pictures.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Catfight at work

So today when I was assigned to a project with one of my co-workers I discovered exactly why the younger generation (the under 30 crowd) don't get along with the baby boomers.

The assignment was basically to make a list of customers which would serve as a waiting list. We had a whole stack of forms that had been faxed to us as well as e-mail requests. The list was to be put in order according to when we recieved the orders. My plan was just to enter all of the relevant information into a spreadsheet and then have it sort it for us. Of course my co-worker thought it would be faster just to sort all of the forms and then put the information that we needed into the spreadsheet.

Since we needed to insert most of the information into the spreadsheet anyway and it would save us from touching the forms more than once, it made perfect sense to me to just add and extra colum to our spreadsheet that could be deleted once the list had been sorted.

I'm not sure if it was simply a case of my co-worker not feeling comfortable with using excel for this purpose or if she truely believed it was faster to handle each of the sheets about 3 times to sort them. Whatever the case may be I didn't really want to start a huge fight and I didn't think it was a good idea to be doing two different things with them (ie: she does her half her way and I do my half my way) so I let her sort them while I went on break. But now we have to enter the bulk of the information into the spreadsheet anyway.

All in all it was a frustrating day. But I don't want to stir up shit just yet, so I let it go. Give me another month or so.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Random thoughts

It's been almost a week since my last post. I didn't even bother to talk about the fair, though that was a good time. There is just nothing about it that I want to put into writing.

Anyway it appears that with the loss of one of my co-workers, who is moving to a different department, much of what we do around here will be falling on me. So I'm about to become much busier than I was for the first month and a half.

Today I was thinking about what to do tommorow night. Tonight OB2 is coming over for supper and Friday night I'm going back out to the country, but I have no firm plans for tommorow. I'm considering going to a movie but then that's pretty much my entire night shot and I won't be able to get anything else done. Though there are a couple of movies playing that I wouldn't mind seeing.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

The long road home

Last night I went home with my older brother to pick up my mom's car. See older brother 2 had borrowed my parents' truck so that he could move so his car was at the farm. Older brother 1 had some time to go and pick it up last night and little brother is off at Brandon with the car he and I share so I was carless. Mom told me I could have her car but I had to go out and get it.

So Older Brother 1 (OB1) and I went out in the truck to pick up the 2 cars. First of all it was pouring rain last night when I left work and I was soaked by the time I walked the 3 blocks home from the bus. OB1 told me he would be leaving his place by 5:00 which would get him to my place by 5:30. We also had to wait for his girlfreind to get off work at 6:30. So about 5:45 OB1 calls me to get directions to my place. When he finally gets there he bitches about how long it took for his supper to cook. I was pretty upset because I hadn't eaten, of course thinking we were going to be leaving my place by 6 and we would have to pick something up. Then we go to pick up his girlfreind at work and she's not there. She had gone home to eat. So the only person who hadn't eaten was me. Now I don't know if you've seen me when I haven't eaten but I get a little grumpy. So we stopped at McDonald's so that I could at least get something to eat.

Then on the way home OB1 and I talked about all sort of stuff that led into an arguement about the declaration of Quebec as a nation within a nation which he insists makes them legally closer to seperation to which I said it depends on what the legislation says. He said the words didn't matter and it was the idea. So obviously he doesn't understand how the legal system works. It blew up into a huge arguement which lead to hypothetically 100 years from now Quebec could be declare an autonomus state. Which true could hypothetically happen but lots of things could hypothetically happen.

Anyway so we didn't end up leaving the city until 7:00 which got us home about 8:45. But when we got there Mom's car wasn't there. She was on call and had gone in and then stopped to visit my Aunt who lives in town. Apparently she thought we weren't coming out. So she didn't get home until 9:45, which gave me time to go through the mail and visit with dad. I finally made it back to the city about 11:40 last night which left me with about 6 hours of sleep if I had gone to bed immediatly which I didn't . So now I'm dragging my ass through work thinking about my bed and how nice it'll be to get some sleep.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

My blog sucks!

I came to this realization today, without sports my blog is nothing. Also my sports blog is less about sports and more about hot athletes. Part of the problem is that I can't liveblog as I used to before. Also I don't have the same oppurtunity to blog as I used to. Back in the rez days I could roll out of bed in the morning and blog. I'd come home from class and blog. Some of my favorite blogging came after a late night of drinking.

I have to admit that so far the sports blog has gotten far more use however I've had a whole 4 comments here while I'm still sitting at zero over at the sports one. Don't get me wrong I don't expect any of you to run off and leave me sympathy comments. I could care less, sure it's nice to hear from you guys once in a while but really I blog for my own sanity. So I will continue to write 2 sucky blogs everyday. Though I suspect that the sports will slowdown after the Stanley Cup final is over (possibly tonight) and the French Open ends, though there is more Tennis just around the corner.

Monday, June 04, 2007

Shadowing in the call centre

So my boss had this brilliant idea that I should job shadow in the call centre. Not that this is nessecarily a bad idea it's just boring as all hell. Right now is a down time for them so basically me and my shadowee sat and talked about farming. There was also discussion with the people around us about baseball. I just nodded my head and smiled because ever since I broke my leg in high school I hate baseball. I think it's the Devil.

It's not that I hate baseball so much as I've vowed never to play it again. Suprisingly 5 years later my knee is still giving me trouble occasionally. But yeah shadowing is boring and I get a new shadowee the day after tommorow, but hey at least I'm getting to know people.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Well I feel sheepish

This morning I decided to wear a dress to work. I suppose if I look back on it the decision was made last night when I decided I was too lazy to do laundry. Anyway so I found out that I had it on backwards when I went to the washroom and noticed that it wasn't fitting quite right. The problem is that this dress is one of the ones you slip over your head so there's no zipper to tell you that you're wearing it wrong. Additionally it was a little big when I bought it so I had it tailored and the tag was removed. So they're no way to know which way to put it on unless you look in a mirror and I was running a little behind this morning so I didn't really have time to examine it closely.

But it's fixed now and it looks much better. But I feel kind of silly now, instead of the confident, powerful business woman look I was trying to portray.