| belldancers, border cops, boats, etc... |
[Apr. 18th, 2007|04:06 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  calm | ] |
So last weekend I had a fun filled weekend. Myself and four other girls took a road trip down to Seattle for a belly dancing work shop. It was amazing. The work shop was put on by the Ultra Gypsy Dance Troupe from San Francisco. I am still sore!
http://www.ultragypsy.com
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| My first race... |
[Mar. 12th, 2007|02:33 am] |
So Sunday morning I ran my first race, the Bazan Bay 5K. It was out in Sidney and I actually LOVED it! I loved it despite the fact that it was pouring rain, cold and windy. It was a really noce course through Sidney with half of it being along the water. My official time was 40:06, which I KNOW sounds fairly unimpressive seeing as the winner was a hair over 15 minutes but my goal was finishing it without stopping to walk an that I did. Not so shabby for someone that couldn't run more for more than 4 minutes in January of this year, YAY ME :)
http://www.raceday.ca/bazan2007.php
http://twc.bc.ca/bb/5_BazanBay_2007_v4.pdf |
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| Question for IT people... |
[Feb. 15th, 2007|08:36 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | nothing? | ] |
My boss has asked the following, please reply if you have a moment:
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| knee diagnosis |
[Feb. 9th, 2007|08:59 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | homey | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | relieved | ] |
Sooo saw the physio guy today. Apparently my hips were out of alignment which made my knees take more of the brunt of the impact than necessary, causing my knee joints to lock. He said it's very common with runners and that he could fix me up - sweet. He did some crazy adjustments, dude was straddling me at one point - quite comical and did some crazy knee things, ultrasound, electrical current thingy and showed me some exercises to build stronger core muscles so that I don't lock my knees or whatever. Yay, it felt a lot better already and I probably won't have to see him again. I can even run on Sunday - if death flu goes away ever.
I also learned I have excellent hyper-something-range which means I am basically a human Gumby.
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| It's been a while... |
[Feb. 9th, 2007|06:01 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blah | ] |
Here's what's up lately:
So right now I am suffering from DEATH FLU 2007. More than half the staff at my work has it. I hear this is pretty much par for thr course at a lot of work places... Damn people and their germs. I was one of the last people at my work to get it, I guess that's what I get for being a cheeky bastard and being proud I was staying so symptom free... now I am achy all over, and stuff is coming out of me at rapid rates and I kinda wanna die. Ugh... Pandemic!
Running - I was really making some awesome progress on the running, almost up to 5K already (run 4 minutes/walk 1 minute intervals, which is really impressive for me because I used to be winded after like running down the street. I say was because then my knees, especially the left one, decided they HATE me and got progressively sorer after each run to the point I haven't been able to go to my last 3 runs (running group won't let me). But the owner of Peninsula Runners has a friend who is a physiotherapist I am supposed to see today to see if it's an actual injury or something called a 'niggle'. All I know is I actually crave running. So I need to decide if I can even make it with this DAMN flu going on up in here. ARG.
On a much cooler note:
John and I moved into our new place... It's so lovely! Much bigger! We now have two bedrooms! Two (no more sleeping on our kitchen floor when you visit Snarf!) WE have a huge kitchen and a dining area and a living room with a fireplace! And, gasp... Bell Express Vu came with the rent so we, the no TV for years couple, has a television. 900 channels and I still couldn't find much to watch! Ha! Our landlord is quite rad as well... Since we were moving from tiny town, we had no living room furniture. He gave us a couch, big comfy chair, side table, coffee table and this cute little telephone table thing - all in excellent condition! His girlfriend was moving in with him and they had 'too much furniture'. Another example of his awesomeness:
John (calling landlord): Hi we noticed that one of the burners on the stove doesn't work
Landlord: Oh, yeah I had tried to fix that before, I thought I had. I might come by to try again but I will probably just get you guys a new stove.
SWEEEEEET!
AND we are no longer in a basement, it's an above ground lower suite and the people upstairs are a couple in their 40's who have lived here forever and seem really cool and laid back so far.
And this was the first and only place to look at! Wheeeeeeeeeee! |
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| Eeek. |
[Jan. 14th, 2007|08:27 am] |
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| | hopeful | ] |
I have joined a running clinic. It is supposed to be every Wednesday night but because of the evil snow, the first class was postponed to this morning :( I have to leaave in about 10 minutes and to tell you the truth, I am terrified. I can run all af about 5 minutes before I get winded and feel like I am going to puke. Hoooray! But I must stay positive, the whole point of the clinic is to make me better... Why WHY WHY did I agree to attempting half the Vancouver marathon with John's sister...? Haaaa.... Oh well... She had the same amount of training I will have had when she did it last year...
5 minutes to about 2.5 hours... it's d0-able, right guys? RIGHT!?! |
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| hmmm |
[Dec. 14th, 2006|12:54 pm] |
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| | cheerful | ] |
A large, paper pineapple recently appeared above my desk at work. No one will own up to it... GOD I LOVE IT HERE! |
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| bring on the IT jokes... |
[Dec. 7th, 2006|04:25 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | WORK | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | crap radio, forgot the iPod :( | ] |
A man in a hot air balloon is lost. He sees a man on the ground and reduces height to speak to him.
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
"You're in a hot air balloon hovering thirty feet above this field," comes the reply.
"You must work in Information Technology," says the balloonist.
"I do," says the man, "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "Everything you told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."
"You must be in business," says the man.
"I am," says the balloonist, "How did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault." |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 18th, 2006|05:47 am] |
here is why I love my new job:
-the "Super Call" wall: where we print off our really dumb calls and tack 'em to the wall, at the end of the month, the dumbest call gets a prize... a good one, like half a day off with pay. October's winner: my co-worker actually took a call (at the Help Desk of TECH SUPPORT) from a girl asking if there were only '28 days in October"?? Ummmmm it's called a calendar!
-the "Rule of Three": there are 3 very well known "special staff" who call help desk several times a day (one called 300 times in one month) with dumb questions and don't understand ANYTHING (one has been doing her job for 12 years and still calls for the same things repeatedly). If you get all three of these people in one day, you get to go home for the rest of the day.
-many of my co-workes have equipped their desks with nerf guns and other such projectiles. Sudden nerf gun fights can and do happen on a daily basis. My bosses often get involved. Sometimes they get inventive... i.e. coating nerf darts in vaseline, shooting repeatedly at one staff members screen, often waiting for him to completely clean said screen before launching another attack
-the lovely photoshop art. for instance, the entrance door to our office has a plethora of cheesy album covers from the 70's (TINO, for example) with all the help desk crews' faces photoshopped on... One co-worker has another copy of it taped above his desk, this is exactly what he told me after I let him know how disturbing he looked as TINO:
"I just leave it above my desk now because if I ever take it down, it will be back up as soon as I next leave my desk. This has been happening for over a year".
LOVE IT!
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| i love halloween! |
[Oct. 30th, 2006|05:46 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | nada | ] |
Went to TOna's for a little Halloween shin diggy last Saturday. I have to say my favourite part is seeing everyone's great costumes, and there were definitely some great ones...
( look ) |
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| i have no shame |
[Oct. 27th, 2006|05:26 pm] |
My bestest friend, Kylie, has joined the land of youtube... check out her sillyness... she's got this little hobby of making funny little videos, that I often get as gifts, here's the first few she has posted... please note, my guest appearance was a drunken one.
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| we're baccccck |
[Oct. 17th, 2006|09:07 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  sleepy | ] |
After over 24 hrs of travelling, we are back... last plane hit a bird (seriously, we all heard a thud and it smnelled like burning) and had to go back to Vancouver and change planes... will give lots of trip details once I no longer feel like a zombie.... |
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| Ich haben ein kase auf mein kopf... |
[Oct. 5th, 2006|05:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  thirsty | ] |
Hello! It is Thursday in Germany.
The city of Pinneberg is very nice and our hosts could not be nicer... my cousin and her boyfriend George also like to play games so this works out well for John and I... Today we took a train to Hamburg and took a bus tour around the city... then we went to this super old church and went to the top (560 stairs!) and looked at the whole city... John and I just got back from picking up some beer (which is CHEAPER than water here, literally) and are resting before we ave dinner and a games night with Andrea and George... We are having fun and I have learned I can basically communicate with strangers through nods, grunts and vague hand gestures... I would so live here in a heart beat. The letters are äll screwy ön this keyböärd sö I must stöp nöw. |
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| Auf Wiedersehen!!!!! |
[Oct. 2nd, 2006|07:22 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  hyper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | John is sleeping... shhhh | ] |
Today is the the day!!! I woke up at 6 this morning, yet we fly at 4 p.m.... Excited much? Oh yes.
So see you all in two weeks! |
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| things I will miss about this job... |
[Sep. 29th, 2006|05:15 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  crazy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | nothing! why no radio in this joint?! | ] |
The fact that I have not actually seen a customer since 2:00 today... yet I am still getting paid...
Muahahahahahahaaaaaaaa. Tomorrow is my last day, this week probably couldn't have been any more slower.
Another thing I will miss:
Myself, three other co-workers and OUR BOSS just stood around joking and laughing... again, getting paid for it.
But everything else? Won't miss it at all, my friends, won't miss it at all... |
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| 5 more sleeps |
[Sep. 27th, 2006|04:58 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  confused | ] |
...until Germany... and I am getting SO CONFUSED as to what I can and cannot bring on the plane... they keep changing what's allowed every few days (I am NOT exagerrating* either)... all I know is we are stopping in London basically, if they had their way, we'd all walk through security naked carry a clear plastic bag of clothes only. no one needs to see that.
*exaggerating is hard to spell |
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| i am so gonna love it... |
[Sep. 20th, 2006|06:31 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "All Good Naysayers..." by Sufjan Stevens | ] |
so my new boss e-mailed me the job manual and I found this little ditty...
"DRESS CODE: We encourage your individuality as long as you stay within the 'business casual' guidelines"
I kind of got that impression since my boss had a red faux-hawk. I then looked up "business casual" in the company manual and it basically means "no jeans, no boobies hanging out"
SWEEEET. No more suits for me... wahoo! |
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