Time begins to Fly

I spent all this morning cutting checks. Paychecks, everyone wanted holiday pay, plus all the bonus checks. I think I cut over 60 thousands dollars in paper today haha. Big money big money.
So the bonus will be perfect to pay for food and stuff when my rents are in Arizona :)

Last night KK got home for the holidays :) had a quick supper and then I went to play pool with the kick ass people known as Josh Johnny Cortlin Matt and Brittney :)
Just some nice chill visit time. I always enjoy that.

Today is going by fast, so fast. It's quite excellent!
Still have to do some month end stuff. GST, installments, statements, payroll deductions. So I think that I'll be kept fairly busy until the day end :)
Tomorrow is only a half day, so I'm not too worried about being totally awake

Which is good, because right after work I'm supposed to see Hannah for a quick catchup. That may or may not happen lol we shall see
Then at 7 I've been invited to go to the Daniels annual family-go-see-a-movie event. So I'm excited for that, I like the cute cheezy family traditions, even if we are going to see Little Fockers.
After that I have a movie/gift exchange with the lovely Courteny :) so I'm pumped for that too. Which reminds me, I need to get some booze for that....

But Ya, it's going to be a busy night. And an even busier day tomorrow. Can you believe it's Christmas tomorrow? ALready?
STILL NEED CURTIS' GIFT

The return of Daryl

Last night was probably not as big a deal as I'm about to make it out to be. Maybe it's just cause I was so hungry.
For some reason, whenever I tried to eat something all day I just felt sick, so by the time work was over I was starving.
Cortlin called saying we should go to Bugsys for its cheap drinks and wings. I said yes plz lol. So delicious. SO freaking delicious. I tried the garlic parmesan and it was fantastic. Not as good as the ones at Beileys, but it was pretty great.

After I dropped him off I went and got a tea at the usual place I go by myself lol. McKensie.

Get home, about to go to bed when I realized that I have no wallet. So I go back to Bugsys. No dice. Go to Mckensie, and it was there thank God. So I just cruised around for a bit.
Got home around 11:30, didn't fall asleep until 2 again. I 'm starting to get used to this whole not sleeping thing.

Holy crap tho, Christmas is two days away for me. Comin up way too fast, and I still have to figure out a gift for Curtis! Gah.

Wish I wasn't working the rest of this week :(

Demons in my House

Last night proved the existence of ghosts of demons.....or just science.

I was sitting in my room, when all of a sudden I hear the most crazy violent crash I've ever heard minus tv stuff. So I assume that the dogs have tipped over the bakers rack or torn down the Christmas tree. I run upstairs, screaming at them as I go, but when I go into the kitchen they are just sitting there, and nothing is broken.
So then I started freaking out, went and grabbed my trusty sword and started to investigate the house for what I assumed may be an intruder through a broken window.
Then I notice that the lights in my parents bathroom is flickering.
First thing I saw was glass.
Lots of fucking glass.
Turns out one of the six foot mirror that frame the bathtub broke. Not just broke, like freaking exploded into millions of pieces all over the place.

I have two theories on what happened:
1. An evil demon escaped from the mirror and will now rule my house through epic terror.
2. Because its on an outside wall, the wind cooled down the glue enough that it couldn't hold the weight of the mirror and it just let go.

Haha I'm hoping for two
But seriously, after 20 years, why did that thing have to fall off?
Plus the rents were out so I got to clean up all on my lonesome :(
No fun, the whole time whenever I heard a tiny noise I would jump back ten feet cause I was scared that the second mirror was going to come down on top of me haha

And so the Season begins :)

Friday:
Liz came over right as I got home from work and she gave me some delicious christmas treats and the most beautiful necklace! Thank you lovely :)
Then Cortlin and I went to Dinos to do a quick hey and hello for this beer night thing.
Around nine we went over to Amber's for the traditional Secret Santa :) it was most excellent. Hailey got my name and gave me the most lovely wallet! I adore it, although I shame her for spending way way too much
I drank mostly wine, as well as a few random yag shots, which was a horrible idea.

Cortlin and I went to his house so I could sober up a bit.
Man I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow, and I didn't wake up until 7:30 haha oops.
So I went home and went right back to bed

The good part about drinking wine is my body doesn't feel all pukey or nothing
The Bad part about drinking wine is you get the worst headache of all time
SO I stayed in bed until 2 pm haha

Saturday:
After I crawled out of bed eventually I just hung out with my mom and got ready for my staff Christmas party.
At six Cortlin and I went to Claytons. Cortlin's mom convinced him it was a formal event lol so he was wearing dress pants and a nice dress shirt. He looked pretty sexy I must say
His son Brandon brought a date, and she just so happened to be this girl Bailey that I used to go to daycare with when I was a wee thing. So it was cool to see how much she's grown

When to Jason's house to predrink. Found out that his wife was an old customer of mine when I worked at the coffee shop, and she also was the one who hired Courteny at Hatch.
Crazy small world I tell ya

It was a little awkward, not gonna lie. I hardly recognized any of the guys, because I'm so used to seeing them covered in black grime from head to toe haha. Some of them clean up pretty damn nice

Then we went to the Wildlife Federation for the dinner/dance/drunk time. Food was decent. Drinks made my whole body sad, so I didn't drink too much lol.
Got home around one, and that was pretty much it.
It was fun :)
I enjoyed inhaling the helium balloons then singing "i want a hippopatomus for christmas" lol

Sunday:
Got up at ten and went for dim sum with Matt Cortlin and Joshua :)
It was super delicious

Then i cleaned my room
changed oil in the car
Finished all my christmas shopping except for Curtis :(
wrapped
watched miracle on 29th street
took a nap
went to bed lol

And now I'm back at work
the day is flying
most excellent

Ho Ho Oh?

So MacEwan called me yesterday.
Apparently I forgot to say whether I want to go to the Edmonton campus or some small town campus haha.
Good call, that could have been a disaster.
So I guess that means that my application is actually being processed:)

SECRET SANTA TONIGHT

You know its Christmas when....

When theres freaking food everywhere.

I thought my office would be a safe place from the temptation of sweets, but NO ITS THE WORST.
Last week some guy brought the office a box of these cookie things.
This morning some other guy brought us a huge assorment of chocolate covered nuts and pretzels from The Nut Man.
And just now we got two huge boxes of Cookies by George! You can't even get cookies by george in Stoon anymore!!!!

The guys learned early that if they ask if I want something, I will say no.
If they put it on my desk and say "help yourself" and then leave it there, eventually i'll crack and eat something haha
I can't NOT eat something thats in front of me

I can't even begin to describe how happy I am about these Cookies by George tho, they are my all time favourite cookie. I can't say no to it!

Oh Christmas
At last you have come!

Bring me a pillow, for I wish to snooze

I wish it was Friday. It has now reached that part of the week where I can hardly keep my eyes open and head up on the computer screen. I'm tired of sitting in this desk lol I want to go for walks or runs.
But tomorrow is Friday and that is good enough for me. Plus it is also going to be the night we do our anual Secret Santa. This is honestly one of my fav traditions. I've done it three...maybe four years? And its always a blast :)

Last night I forced myself to workout, le sigh. I've felt too tired lately to want to accomplish anything except Christmas shopping haha. But I did it and that felt great.
Plus the finale of Hells Kitchen was last night. Nona won. I didn't like either who were the last two, but better Nona then ragin Russel.

Then I had to go and pick up dear Cortlin from Kyles. Him and the guys we drinking and gaming, celebrating their last day of class, some for just the break while other are done school completely.
Cortlin will finish the second semester though

Hopefully today goes by as fast as the rest of this week has!

Wednesday already? Most excellent

Dale called in sick today, and I am somewhat freaking out cause I always get sick around Christmas and that yucky feeling is starting to settle in. So I am going to blame Dale for whatever happens.
But yes, with him gone I am going to have little to accomplish today :(
Sucks

Last night was most excellent. Minus the rain/snow.
Made supper with my mom, had some good girl talk haha. Gave me some good advice actually. Who knew moms were so smart?

I went for coffee with dear Katherine for something like two and a half hours too lol. I don't get to see as much of that girl as I would like :(
So it was nice to catch up.

Oh, and Lucy did have to come in to help me out with the bank rec yesterday. I'm glad she did come, because the problem was something even she had never seen, so I would have never figured it out. And thank God it was a bank mistake and not mine, or else I would have felt pretty shitty.

And she brought baby Kazik (pronounced kaz-ick) who is the most beautiful child I have ever seen. And so well behaved too. Well, all he did was sleep haha. Which was somewhat dissapointing because I really wanted to hold him :(
But Lucy says she will bring him back another time for me to babysit haha.

Secret Santa friday! And my ugly christmas sweater is in the mail! I found it on forever 21 of all places. Not as ugly as I wanted, but enough for the one night.

Someone fix this asap

I give up. I give in...
I'm gonna have to email Lucy today. Everytime I think I figure out whats wrong with the bank rec, it just gets worse.

On a better note, I went for supper with Courteny last night :) We went to Moxies and it was fantastic, I had calamari. Minus the screaming child at the table next to us, the mood was rather chill and wonderful.
So we caught up and that was grand :)

When I got home I went to watch gossip girl but it wasnt on :( so I just worked out and watched TRansformers 2 haha. Megan Fox is so hot.
Kyle's bbm photo happened to be of mrs fox so of course I had to comment on it, so that started a convo about how, given the chance, we would totally do her lol.

Went to bed around ten
Woke up around one
didnt sleep again :(
Josh was D and noticed my complaining on Twitter so he kept me company for a brief while haha. Much appreciated.
Then I watched YouTube and was oh so tempted to online shop.

SO today I'm tired, and have no patience for this bank rec

Reconciliation

I can't get this stupid bank reconciliation to balance and it's driving me insane. I can't seem to allocate 300,000.00 and it freaking doesn't make sense.
I'm stubborn, I don't want to call Lucy for help!
GGGAAAHHHHH

Quiet weekend, cold weekend

I thought this weekend would feel like a long one, but it actually went by really fast.

Friday morning was Grandmas funeral. It was nice, although sad just as you'd expect. During the lunch I bit into my cheek so hard that it was bleeding lol so I started bawling for a whole other reason.
That night the family as well as Doug and Madaline went to the Granery for one last hooray supper before D&M dissapeared for good. It was delicious, plus I got their peanut butter pie which I utterly adore.

After that I went over to Cortlins. We ended up going to Dave's apartment where he, Sean, Doug and James were chilling. It was a quiet night, although i learned much about guessing women's breast size and male masterbation >_< oh bro talk.

Saturday I slept in... and then I just ran errands with mum :)

That night me and Cortlin went to the lovely james' house where I got a little silly curtosy of good ol yag. Had a few good laughs, but another quiet night. After Coco and I got mcdicks and started to watch Eddie Murphy standup.
fell asleep like I always do
woke up at six in the morning haha
went home
right back to bed

Sunday I wanted to sleep for days, but I had my first ever massage at noon
omg it was so fantastic. I don't think I've ever felt so relaxed in my entire life
got home
took a nap
showered
Then the whole family came over to celebrate Mason's bday. Cortlin came too, and got a little warm up for what xmas eve will be like. lol
everyone kept patting him on the head as they were leaving haha. Hopefully they didnt scare him away...

The scar where I bit in my cheek has now turned into like five kanker sores, holy fuck im miserable because of it. Anything I eat/drink is excruciating. woe is me :(

My Tongue Hurts

It feels like I spent last night chewing on my tongue :( it aches and hurts to eat, so I don't enjoy this at all!

Last night we met up with Bobs brother Doug and his wife Madeline for supper because they came to town for Grandmas funeral.

I hate these people.

Let me give you some background. Doug is Bobs older brother. He's a super genius. Like crazy super genius. Hes some super engineer who went to work in Amsterdam with some big secret government company right out of college. He made tons of money and was saving the world or something.
But one day he decided to quit and he goes and buys a boat that he sails around Victoria. Meets Madeline the super hippie that drives me insane cause shes so god damn loud and keeps interrupting.
Anyway, the whole time ive known Doug he has avoided his family like the plauge. never comes to xmas because he doesnt believe in it etc etc
The most I ever saw him was when his dad died. Mostly because he had to taKe anything of value from the house and wait for a big fat check.
So his mom has been sick for ages, and not once did he come see her! after she died he refused to even go to her viewing because he was having a premadonna moment of complaining because Bob didnt include him in the funeral planning.

So we are at dinner and all they can talk about is all the exciting places they've been (they sold the boat and now live in a motorhome, traveling the continent).

Frustrating ppl I tell ya

Guaranteed that as soon as the funeral is done and the estate is split, we will never hear from then again.
excellent

I could use another 8 hours

So tired today :(

Monday was a long day, after getting back from the hospital I called the office to let them know what went down and I offered to come in in the afternoon if there was anything that needed to be done. But they told me to stay home.
But I didn't feel like staying in the house. So I went to the bookstore, wandered around there for a bit.
Then Cortlin txt me telling me to meet him at Yip Hong for lunch. So that was nice.
After I still didn't feel like going home so I went and did some more Christmas shopping. Almost done now, four more people to go!

Got home and my grandparents as well as Bobs friend was there to pay their respects.
Cortlin called saying because I was sad he would put aside his distaste for Harry Potter and take me to see the new movie :) He's so sweet, I adore this man.
So we went to the movie, and it was super fantastic. There were only two parts that I didnt like. When Harry and Hermione were dancing and when the illusions of them were making out. It was just super awkward, made me shiver.

Yesterday I went back to work expecting to have a ton of work to do, but it looked like I hadnt missed much on Monday. So yesterday dragged.
Got home, then mom came in with Kayla who she had just picked up at the bus depot. Shes got a cute new haircut :)
Then the whole family went to Aroma restraunt in the Radisson. It was pretty great actually. Super fancy, but nice. And the food was good too :)

I bailed at eight though because I had made plans with Liz to go for coffee :) So I picked her up and we went to our usual spot. It was nice visiting with her, I don't get to see her as much as I would like. But we always just pick up where we left off :)

Got home around ten, fell asleep around 11.
Hit the snooze button twice sigh.
still tired.

Today had better fly!

Warning: Unhappy post

Woke up this morning to the phone ringing, since it was six I immediately guessed it was the hospital. So I picked up the phone while Bob was on the other line to eavesdrop. Sure enough, my grandma was down to taking breathes only once every 20 seconds or so and they wanted the family down to say their goodbyes.
Bob left first, then me, then mom.

I didn't make it in time.

Bob did though, which is whats important. He gave her a quick kiss and said "go be with dad" and that was it.

Nurses let me and my mom go in to say our goodbyes. For a brief moment I didn't want to see her. I am personally terrified of death, the thought of nothing is my worst nightmare.
But I went in, and I'll spare you details on an alreayd too detailed entry. Which I appologise for, but writing is the way I deal and this is my tool to use. :(

So we prayed, and I kissed her goodbye.

* * * * * * * * * *

I saw her yesterday, and she looked worse then ever. She had no idea who I was.
For a brief moment I hated mankind for what we've accomplished in medicine. My grandma had been suffering for over a month, and because of the wonder of medicine it only prolonged it.
Sometimes I think we treat our pets better then we do our own kind. We would never let the family dog suffer like that, we put it to rest.
Not saying that thats how I think we should go about it, but there are times where I don't understand why anyone would want to try and help prolong an inevitable deteriorating condition.
Hope I guess?
Not at that age...

I'm just frustrated.

Sorry to everyone to chose to read this >_<

But Grandma, I love you.

Too tired to come up with a title

Last night was one of those nights that just happens, and it's awesome :)

Cortlin had people over, and it started out pretty chill which was nice. I enjoy catching up with people.

At one point we decided to go to McDonalds because I kept seeing the new xmas nugget dipping sauce commercial and I was super determined to try it out. SO wasn't worth it. Johnny put it perfectly, it was like dipping nuggets in jam. But i'm glad i tried it for sake of experimentation haha

Ran into Owen there and he was with some people that I believe were a year or two younger then us at Joes? Ya they said that they were going to meet us back at Cortlins, and for some reason when we saw them standing outside the house we drove away again? Lol except Owen was hanging onto the door and got dragged/thrown into the snow.

we be dicks.

big jerks too.

Cortlin fell down a flight of stairs, right on his ass haha. I tried not to laugh, but it was unsuccessful and we all lol'd. He is not a happy camper this morning.

And then we all sat around the computer and went major nostalgia on pictures of all the shows we used to watch as kids. A lot of laughs were had :)

It was a really good time actually.

So far my plan of not drinking until xmas is going pretty good! I enjoy waking up and not feeling gross.

Although I am tired. When Cortlin wakes up he refuses to go back to sleep and entertains himself by tying knots in my hair and poking me while whining. Lovely haha

so Im tired.

But Christmas shopping must be accomplished today

time to brave the hoard of shoppers!

Say it again BABY

I intended to write this blog five minutes ago, but I got distracted by the white cheese popcorn I brough tfor lunch. Freaking delicious ^_^

Came to work this morning to the guys freaking out because they found out that Lucy hadn't taken a couple ex employees off the insurance policy so they had gone like nine months with our coverage haha. So I used my mad mad skills and fixed that shit like it was nuttin.
Just kidding it was annoying, Im still sending emails back and forth with GWL trying to figure it all out.

The guys all go out for lunch every Friday so I get to stay here and man the desk with the sole purpose of telling people who call that they are gone and I would LOVE to take a message.

But its ok, because today is Friday and Friday is gold :)
Plans tonight?
Lets go party
I'll be dd because I told myself I wasnt going to get silly until the Secret Santa joy experience. For which I'm shopping for my ugly xmas sweater this weekend btw. so i hope thats still the theme!

In other news, Kayla chopped all her hair off last night :) and it looks uber cute.

And that's about as interesting as I get for now

Kill me it's not even eleven?!?!

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my job. I just enjoy it more when I have something to do. Yesterday was freak show busy so of course today has to be dead with nothing to accomplish.
Nothing to even write about really. Last night all I did was work out then watch the finale to Americas next top model (to which I was very dissapointed) and then watched some Hells Kitchen which was also kind of lame because they've kicked out every person who I thought deserved to win. Now its just assholes.

But tonight is Thursday, which means Vampire Diaries and Fringe. Joy :)
I watch too much tv :(

I need a second job again haha. I'm kind of regretting quitting Outlaws....I don't miss the work, but I sure do miss the extra money :(

Just Breathe

Today is freaking busy. Its already almost one and I havent even finished my morning duties yet haha. So I came in today, couldnt find the new times cards that I had made yesterday, go out into the shop to discover that some genius had gone into my desk and put them out. And the stupid guys didn't know what day it was and started stamping in on everyday but Dec 1st. Lol so entertaining.
Did some installments or whatever they are called. I have to start learning the lingo a bit. Like allocated. I see that god damn word a million times a day and I only kinda know what it means.

Clayton asked me to make up a christmas card for the company to mail out, so I went and made something that I thought was pretty great, but it kinda got kyboshed for something more simple. Le sigh.

I'm tired today tho :(
Last night I watched the Victoria Secret fashion show, which to be honest is one of the many things I look forward to on an annual basis. I think those women are the most beautiful people on the planet. Even though their asses alone have six layers of makeup >_< and the majority of them are underage. Its a good show anyway.
Did my workout
Tried to go to bed but ended up staying up late thinking.

OMG Johnnys what the hell happened to Bugsys last night?!?!?!
lol I totally forgot :(
thursday is same deals! or next week haha

Its already Wednesday! Yay!
Christmas shopping this weekend $$$$