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01:14 pm: Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Ancestors - Draw family tree

01:07 pm: Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

01:02 pm:

SO EXCITED!  My trip to Ottawa in January is now confirmed and fully booked.  Work is sending me ie. paying for the whole thing (more or less). I'm tacking on an extra couple of days to do touristy things, so I'll have to pay for that, but the flight & hotel is all taken care of!!  January is probably the worst time of year to go, but what do I care - IT's FREE!!  Anyone ever been there??  Looking for suggestions as to MUST SEE places or things to do.  My course includes a tour of parliament etc, so that's taken care of.  Definitely doing the Museum of Civilization, other than that.....??

09:39 pm: Pissed off
In a really pissed off mood right now.  Eia's cat just peed all over Katrina's blanket & the carpet in the girls room.  Anybody want a cat?? I'm getting a new couch in a few weeks & I'll be damned if she's gonna scratch the shit out of that too. She's already shredded most of the wallpaper she can reach, not to mentioned the rug in my room.  I now have to keep the flipping door closed all the time if I don't want my room destroyed.  She's fixed and has has her shots and her boosters.  Any takers?? Oh, and she is awefully cute - not that that matters in the slightest when faced with having to throw out yet another blanket.....not much of a sales pitch is it??  I tried....

09:49 pm: Run, Bambie, run
 First attempt at adding a picture to my journal.  Here goes:  

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Did it work?? Did it??

06:54 pm: Lesson in advertising

Came across this particular gem on some site.  This guy is trying to sell who-knows-what.  This is the last paragraph:

What are you doing reading down here? Didn’t you order yet?......Oh, you must be one of those idiots thinking my program still sounds too good to be true. Well, if you aren't convinced, I don't really give a s#@%*. Go ahead and keep making your measly couple of grand every month, or whatever pathetic amount you make. When you're fed up with being a loser, you'll be back. You’ve seen proof that I make millions. You’ve seen that I tell it like it is, without all the BS. You’ve seen that I’m a Rich Jerk with nothing to lose. You've even seen that I offer a 60 day money back guarantee. So if you aren't ready to order, you don't even deserve to be on my site. Go away NOW.

Gotta love it - probably works for him too!!

10:24 pm: In which nothing terribly exciting is revealed
 And for you… *grins* I’ve snagged 7 “interests” from you bio. Now you get to copy them onto your own journal and tell us what is special to you about each one.

Boating
Children
Hiking
Reading
Skating
Tubing
Walking

 Me thinks me has to re-do my bio.  None of these sound all that exiting.  But, snagged is tagged - here goes:

Boating - love the feel of the wind in my face; nothing makes me think "this is the life" quite like a boat ride in my brothers spiffy new jet boat.

Children - what can I say; who needs TV sitcoms when you have a couple of them running around - non stop entertainment. The Cosbie family have nothing on us!!

Hiking - the smell of pine & earth & rain coupled with stunning vistas, especially when hiking in the Canadian Rockies - WOW

Reading - go anywhere in the world, be anyone you want, have ridiculous adventures - and never leave your comfy chair.  Any questions?

Skating - Ok, I suck at this, but I used to love it as a kid and have recently tried getting back into it.  Not quite the same as never forgetting how to ride a bike.  My legs still know the mechanics of it, but somewhere along the way my centre of gravity seems to have wandered off & and I'm now deathly afraid of falling and like breaking my hip and then I'll be bed ridden and get pneumonia and die......

Tubing - OMG - way too much fun!!  The speed - the water - the screaming - the face plants into the lake.  Ya gotta try it!!

Walking - best enjoyed in solitude, preferably in the fall with misty / foggy conditions listening to the sound track of King Arthur.

There you have it. The end.

08:45 pm: Autobiography in 5 chapters

                   I.

08:27 pm: Of new computer systems and men
 Day One of our new operational computer program. Months of preparations, weeks of training, several nights of totally bizarre dreams - and today was THE day.  They flipped the switch around 6am this morning - and..........not much happened.  Shades of Y2K.  We did come across a few glitches, but nothing too earth shattering.  Our "go-live" operational support bodies - brought in especially for the occasion to hold our hands, were very impressed with the general calmness of the office staff (my nothingness & two other ladies). Until......
You guessed it - the men arrived.
Talk about looks of panic or near panic.  One guy threatened to shoot the computer before we even got started - way to have a positive attitude! Give that guy a medal.
It's the biggest single technological change in the history of the organization. Ooooh - but hey, no pressure......

On a more depressing note (just what my life calls for) - I'm going to be a "step"-grandma! Yeah....I think.  One of my step-daughters is expecting this coming May.  Hard for me to really say anything about it without being a hypocrite.  I was younger than her when I first got pregnant with the empath.  But......YIKES.......a granny????? You gotta be bloody kidding me. 

Buried in mounds of laundry - better go fold some (at least the mound is clean, small consolation)!!
 

08:36 pm: Wishing my bed would fit in my purse
Day three of eight of my PRIME training course.  PRIME is a monster of a computer program that is replacing two of the current programs at work.  

I'm bored to tears at training.  

There are 16 "students" and the class can only move as fast as the slowest learner. Yesterday I could have compressed the things I actually learned into 15 minutes.  I was there from 8 to 4. *sigh* Nothing for it - course attendance is mandatory.

Fatigue getting worse. 
Aside from barely being able to get out of bed - nothing new there - by 4pm I'm so exhausted I can barely keep my eyes open.  
Not getting any of my bookwork done in the evening - brain is so sluggish I'm having trouble just typing this entry.  Running out of excuses for my clients as to why their stuff isn't done. 
Just want to sleep. The kicker is when I do get to bed, I CAN'T bloody well fall asleep.  My eyes are shut tight - but my brain won't turn off.  Nothing specific kicking around up there - no big worries or anything I can put my finger on - just background noise really. 

Having trouble stringing a coherent thought together - better sign off.

08:58 pm: It's my birthday - yeah!!!!

The empath says I need to make a birthday post.
I have no idea what that is, but since my eyeballs are now rather happily swimming in a pool of Jackson Trigg's Cabernet Blanc Rose, I don't really feel all that concerned with the technicality of things.
So yes, it's my birthday today - my thirty-eleventeeth to be exact. I was handling it rather well - so I thought - until I had this conversation with my boss:

(phone rings):

Me:  blah-blah-Osoyoos

boss: Happy birthday - 41 is it?

Me:  Thanks! Ah, how did you know?

Boss:  I have my sources.

Me: That's kind of scary in a way.

Boss:  Why?  Don't you feel safer knowing that we keep an eye on what you're doing?

Me:  Well, I guess that depends on what I'm doing.....

Boss:  Sadly, in the last little while, that hasn't been very much .....

Me:  SHUT UUUUP!!

Truth hurts sometimes.  But truth it was - here it's Friday night, my birthday to boot, and I'm babysitting my nephew while while my brother and his wife are out at a party.  Now I ask you - WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE???? Oh, well.  Such is life.

Going to go finish off my other bottle - something dark red; not entirely sure what.  Like I said, who cares about the technicalities.  It's alcoholic - that's all I need to know right now ;-))

Got lots of phone calls & well wishing e-mails today along with homemade cards from my two little girls that made me cry - *sniff, sniff*  What more could I ask for??  Well, actually there is ONE thing - oh, never mind........

10:09 pm: WOW! - What a welcome!
So I spend a ridiculous amount of hours creating this account, put my two little scents of info on it & happily send it off into cyperspace.  I'm thinking, this will be a nice way to keep in touch with a certain daughter of mine, since she spends like almost ALL of her time here.  I'm also thinking I wonder how I'm going to get to know people using this site, since I haven't quite figured out how this actually works.

Imagine my surprise when I opened my e-mail this evening and found 31 FLIPPIN' MESSAGES!! OMG!!

To all of you that took the time to send me a note - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!  I actually stayed up way beyond my bedtime to not only read them all, but I even checked out all of your journals (at least briefly) - yeah for me!!

Now I'm thinking - ah, maybe this was a mistake.  I have visions of this like taking over my entire evenings - I already don't much feel like getting any work done after supper and this sure as hell isn't going to help!!!  But WHAT FUN!!

I'll be replying to you individually over the next few days - whenever I need an excuse to get away from the incessant paperwork I always seem to be buried under!

Cheers!

08:49 pm: HOLY COW - I think I did it!!
I think that was only marginally easier than buying a house.  I can't believe how electronically challenged I am.  Honest to God, I didn't know what half the stuff meant while creating my account. Nonetheless, here I am!!

Hoping to meet some like minded single mom's or dad's - but please, I'm sooooo not into whining about my ex. By extension, I don't want to listen to you whine about yours.  I'm trying to drag my sorry little behind out of a bit of a depression, and would terribly appreciate it if you only sent positive stuff my way for the time being. 

Hoping to figure this site out in the next little while - any helpful hints would be appreciated!!