Sightings and the March of Death Continues

As the weekend is winding down, I'm thinking about my week and the fact that the weekend is far too short. Seriously. We should have 4 day work-weeks and 3 day weekends. I like that idea much better. We've got a full house this week at work so that should be fun.

This weekend has been a "run into people" kind of weekend. Not literally of course. I go months and months without seeing random people I know while I'm out and then this weekend it happens to me 3 times in one day.

Yesterday, I went to Costco with JD. Before that, we went to Cora's for breakfast. It was good, or at least mine was. JD wasn't overly impressed with his but I quite enjoyed mine and it really did come with a mountain of fruit, just like advertised. Just as we were finishing up and about to get the bills, I looked up and my friend KayD's sister and her boyfriend had just sat down. I waved and she got up so I met up with her and chatted and she introduced me to her man and we teased her about being a Montreal fan and not an Ottawa fan. You know, usual, stereotypical Canadian conversation. LOL.

Next up, JD and I had just cashed out at Costco (and I was under budget!) when I looked up and noticed that one of the cashiers looked really familiar. Took me about 5 seconds and then I placed him. His name is Justin and I went to College with him. Talk about random. I don't think I've seen him once since I graduated and that was almost 11 years ago.

After JD dropped me off, I headed to the mall as one of my favourite stores had bras and sleep ware on sale. I stuck out with the bras this time but got two new nighties (buy one, get one free) and got 5 new pairs of panties, one of which matches one of my new nighties. How's that for co-ordination? I also got 2 pairs of tights and a 3 pack of trouser socks on the reduced to clear rack. I love saving money :)  While waiting to the bus back home, I heard someone say "Hi Sarah" and I turned around and there was a woman who used to work in my office. She was with her family so I chatted politely for a few minutes before they headed out.

So that was 3 random people in one day.Oh and I saw one of the local news reporters in the mall.

Today I stayed at home and cleaned and hand washed more of my bras. I did the dark coloured ones yesterday and then the light coloured ones today. My bathroom looks like a lingerie ad.

March continues to be a notorious month as well. One friend's step son was stabbed (he's in stable condition and is eating ok etc...) and another lost her father - exactly one week after losing her mother. There's a very real phenomenon where people who are really old or have been together a very long time die within a short time of one and other. Mr.B was 100 so I guess you could say that he'd live a good and long life. He was a very sweet man and I feel blessed just having known him. Now that he and his wife have been re-united with my grandparents and all their old friends, I'm guessing that there's going to be one heck of a bonspiel going on up there in Heaven. I do feel really bad for his daughter and grand daughters. They haven't got over the death of their mother/grandmother from last week and now they have to do it all over again this week. I hope that's the end of the bad things for them for a good, long while.

And March wasn't good to my brother either. He ended up at the hospital Friday morning because he blow his nose and ended up blowing out his eardrum. I told him "I guess that's proof that you really do blow". I don't think he thought my joke was funny. Clearly he wasn't taking enough pain meds. I thought it was a damn funny joke. Poor guy though. I hope he's all better soon and that it's nothing serious/no permanent damage done.

I really hope that March is done with all of its misfortunes. One good thing did come of today. Being St. Patrick's Day, I decided to try to Irish Pear Cider I'd bought last month and forgot was in my fridge. It was really, really good! I've found a new alcohol to enjoy!! YAY!!! And it doesn't taste anything like beer so I'm thrilled about that.

Good Night!

Sarah

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Randomness

I just finished my french home work. He gave us 3 activities to do this time. Thankfully, they were pretty repetitive so it didn't take me long to do. Also, the answers to 2 of the 3 are in the back of the book so that helped. There were only 3 words this time that I didn't know. My buddy Xtinktor translated for me. And then laughed at me. Jerk. LOL. Seriously, in what universe do you get "Stapler" from "Agrafeuse"?? French is fucked up. I'm sooo looking forward to class tomorrow. Yes, I was being sarcastic.

What I am looking forward to is Halloween. I'm very excited at the prospect of getting to go out and party/rock the night away. In a fun costume too. I honestly don't get out much. As I said to a friend earlier tonight, "I think there might be too much of Fun Sarah stored up". She hasn't been out much lately. This might be interesting. Thankfully, my wing-woman for the night (ok, it's a dude in drag) is also the DD so I'll have someone to keep me from doing anything overly stupid.
This is kind of when I miss Calgary (shocking, I know!). There were two awesome little bars within walking distance of my apartment. One had cheap wings, good food and hockey on many tvs and the other had reasonable drink prices and good live bands. My buddy Cam and I would venture out to one of them almost on a weekly basis. I don't really have anything near here like that.

It looks like the babyboom of 2012 is continuing into 2013. I've got 3 co-workers on mat leave already, the 3rd should be popping any day now and I just found out that a 4th one at the office is expecting. In addition to that, I two sets of friends who are expecting new bundles of joy in 2013. The babies just keep on coming! I'm still terrified. But a couple of them are growing on me.

BTW, I'm so in love with Pinterest!!!!!! It's awesome. I've wasted so much time on there. LOL.

Anyhow, I need to be bright eyed and bushy tailed (or something like that) for class tomorrow morning so I'd better log off.

Good Night!

Sarah

"Boy Toy"

What a day! I was at work by 7:20am to set things up and get our pancake breakfast underway. After a few hiccups, we were ready to rock and rock we did. We raised $301 and fed nearly 100 people. That's so awesome. I can't believe it went off as well as it did.

The rest of my day is a bit of a blur, half due to being busy and half due to being sleepy. Our techs were in and we got a lot of long anticipated equipment installed, which seemed to make the people happy.

One the way home tonight, someone cut one on my very crowded bus and I thought I was going to die. I understand that everyone needs to fart but come on! If you're on a crowded bus, be respectful of those around you and HOLD IT IN!!!!!!!!!

After dinner, I had to make a Walmart run to pick up a few things. Afterwards, I decided to treat myself to a sundae from the McDonald's that's inside Walmart. After I got my sundae and I was picking up some napkins, I heard the cashier ask the woman who'd been in line behind me "You want a boy toy?". Say what? My first thought was "You can order those at McDonalds" closely followed by " I didn't see that on the extra value menu". Damn. I'm going to have to do that the next time I'm in McDonald's. Walk up to the counter and say "I'd like a boy toy please". LOL. I am fully aware of the fact that the cashier was asking the lady if she wanted a Happy Meal toy for a male child, but the way that the cashier asked it just struck me as incredibly funny. Boy toy. Hee hee hee. So what if my mind is in the gutter. I'm sleepy.

Speaking of sleepy, I was going to try to watch Grimm tonight but my eyes are having a hard time staying open so I'm opting to blog and go to bed instead. I get to sleep in a tiny bit tomorrow as I said I'd be at work for OT at 9am. I'm only planning on working until 1pm, so I can still get in a little fun tomorrow. Not sure what I'll get up to as I'm flying solo, again, but I'm sure I can find something to keep me amused and occupied.

Good Night!

Sarah

Random Homelss Guy

Another busy one at the salt mines today, but it wasn't quite as insane as the other days have been. There seemed to be a little bit more order to things, a little less crazy. Unless you count the "mis-heard lyrics" conversation that occurred late this afternoon. That was a whole other brand of crazy.

A rather wonderful "fire" popped up this morning and I spent a good part of the day, off and on, assisting in extinguishing it. The upside was that it was dealt with and we're on track. There were even a few laughs along the way thanks in part to our tech team. It was very nice to be able to report back to my boss that the project was done, issue resolved and we could move ahead. It was very welcome news. And somehow I still put in 1.5 hours of over time.

On the way home, something truly random and really amusing happened. I was walking to the bus stop with a co-worker. We were having a conversation, regular stuff. Just after we crossed the street, we passed one of the homeless guys who's frequently in the area. As we passed by him, he put his finger to his mouth and made that blubblubblubblub noise that you make when you run your finger quickly up and down over your lips and blow out air at the same time. My co-worker and I looked at each other and burst out laughing. It was so fucking random!!!! I've walked past that homeless guys about a hundred times. He's never done anything like that. He may mutter to himself every now and then but I've never seen him do something like that before. So bizarre! The homeless guy wasn't even asking for money. He was sitting outside a Starbucks, several feet back off the sidewalk. I honestly didn't know what to make of it. I have to admit, there are days when I'd love to do that to people (random jerks and co-workers alike) but I guess I have more self control. It did make for a rather amusing walk to the bus though.

Thankfully, tomorrow is Friday. From the sounds of it, half the office is heading out to a local pub/bar after work. I do believe that I will be attending with them. I don't think I'll be drinking much. Mostly because I'll be tired and I'm on the broke side. Also, it sounds like there will be A LOT of people going. I'm not overly comfortable with that many co-workers seeing the unrestricted me. When it's a small bunch of us that I'm more familiar with, no problem. But a full house of colleagues? Not quite my cup of tea. I'm hoping that a few former co-workers will come out to visit with us as well. It's been too long since we've seen some of them.

Anyhow, I'm tired (I know, shocking), so I should be off to bed. Maybe I'll have some random drunk stories tomorrow night ;)

Good Night!

Sarah

Random Bus Ranting and Potatoes

It was a good at the office. I'm not 100% sure that I actually got any work done, but I sure did a lot of running around. Our potluck was a huge success and everyone seemed to enjoy the food a lot. There was definitely a lot of leftovers which our night shift got to enjoy. My cobbler turned out really well and there was none left to bring home.

After work, I took the bus home with my friend Steph as we were going shopping afterwards. The bus was packed. I'm talking sardine like here. We were lucky enough to have gotten on the bus earlier in the route and we had seats. There was this one lady who kept complaining quite loudly about how full the bus was and that no one was moving back. I should point out that yes, everyone was back as far as they could go without sitting on people's laps as this bus had a row of seats all the way across the back and she was one of the people who pushed their way onto an already over crowded bus rather than waiting for the next one. Anyhow, at one point she actually started yelling at people to move back. The problem was that everyone at the back was doing the "move out of the way to let people off" shuffle at the time and hadn't had a chance to re-arrange themselves yet. Rather than standing there, yelling at everyone, perhaps paying attention and using some logic would have been a much better approach. I understand that the bus is over-crowded and it's uncomfortable but yelling at perfect strangers is not going to make things better. Perhaps you should try asking the bus driver why he let so many people on in the first place? Oh right, had the bus driver been following the rules, he wouldn't have let you on!

We did managed to make it to Steph's house unscathed and got to GT for our cheap potatoes. So I'm happy. LOL. I know, when 87 cent instant potatoes are something I get excited about, it's time to get a life. But they really are very good for being instant ones. They actually taste like potatoes rather than some grainy chemical whatever.

Oh! I created a new word today. Instead of Pheasant, I said "Phezant". When asked what that was, I said "It's a Pheasant that landed on an electric fence". Get it? Phezzzzzant? It was funny at the time.

And on that note, it's bed time.

Good Night!

Sarah

Ok, so it's not a bus, but it is a form of public transportation !

Hey Mister! Can I Pet Your Snake?

So today turned out to be a rather interesting day.

It started off being pretty normal. The damn garbage and recycling trucks woke me up so my goal of sleeping in past 8 didn't really happen. Remember, I'm on holidays, so sleeping is allowed! Mom, dad and I then headed off to Brampton. It rained the whole way, which sucked. The bathroom in the Shell station just off the highway was surprising clean and smelt nice, so that was great. Getting to see my cousin Linda after WAY TOO LONG totally ROCKED! We all had a nice visit and got to go out for a nice lunch. My dad also managed to back up the car and not run over my thumb ring, so that was an added bonus :) Yes, that's what I said. The darn thing fell off as I was getting out of the car and it rolled under the car, just out of reach. Apparently I need smaller rings.

Anyhow, after our very nice visit, we headed home as we needed to stop in and check up on the oldies (also know as my mom's best friend's parents, or Mr. and Mrs. B). They're a very charming couple who are 98 and 99 respectively. And they're quite a hoot. Well, for me atleast. They remind me a bit of my grandparents so I really do enjoy visiting them. While we were there, they asked if we could run and get some groceries. So my dad and I headed off, leaving mom at the house with Mrs. and Mr. B. The grocery shopping was normal and we managed to fine everything on the list. Dad said that he'd like to stop at the Tim Horton's next to the grocery store for a tea. I thought that was a super idea. So after putting the groceries in the car, we headed over. We're almost at the Tim's when dad points to a man in the parking lot and says "Check out that snake". I look over and sure enough, there's two men in the parking lot, holding a 6 foot long Boa Constrictor. Not exactly something you see everyday in a Tim's parking lot. I just happened to have my camera in my purse so I joked to my dad "Maybe I should ask if I can take a photo". I should know better than to joke with my dad because the next thing you know, he's walked up to the snake man and asked if we can take a photo. Snake man said "Sure! And you can hold him if you like".

I can't explain the thought process that occurred, but the next thing you know, I have my arms full of snake. Turns out, that it was a very nice snake. He's 2 years old and his name is Goliath. I have held a snake before, just not one this big. He seemed to like me because after wrapping himself up in my arms, he proceeded to do the snake equivalent of falling asleep. Good to know that I have a calming effect on large snakes. Or maybe it was the threat of turning him into shoes to match my new purse that made the snake behave.

I got to hold Goliath for almost 5 minutes before it was time to head into Tim's and get our caffeine fix. Goliath didn't want to let go and his owner had to un-wrap him from my hand. If you've never held a snake before (and I'm talking the reptile kind for all of you who have your minds in the gutter), they're actually quite smooth and feel a little on the cool side to the touch. And at no point was I afraid of it. Had it been a giant ass spider, I would have been on the other side of the parking lot in a heart beat, but I have no problems with snakes. Even ones big enough to swallow my leg :)

So that was my day. My evening was quite tame in comparison seeing as it was spent just sitting outside with my parents or inside watching tv with them. I did get to see their friendly neighbourhood rabbit before dinner. It was in the neighbour's yard and it chased a bluejay, which had swooped in to get a peanut. I didn't know that rabbits didn't like birds. Interesting.

Who knows what adventure I'll stumble upon tomorrow?

Good Night!

Sarah

Ramble On!

The first day back after a long weekend and you'd think the world blew up or something. My morning at work was crazy! And this afternoon I was almost killed by sarcasm thanks to two of our managers. I keep telling them that it's Sarcastic Wednesday, not Tuesday. Sheesh. Some people just don't listen. My office is usually an unlimited source of amusement but today was a strange day all around. I'm blaming the heat.

I don't really have a point to tonight's blog. This falls into the "Rambling" category. I did see something funny on my bus ride home. A guy and a girl get off a at a stop. Almost as soon as she gets off, the girl hopes back onto the bus because she's forgotten her cell phone. She grabs it and gets to the door just as it closes and the bus pulls away with boy standing outside on the platform. Atleast the girl laughed about it and simply got off at the next stop. I have to admit, it was amusing. One of my co-workers, let's call them Mandy, was texting me on Saturday while on a train to Toronto. I still don't know how it happened, but Mandy somehow forgot to get off at the correct stop. Thankfully Mandy got off at the right stop upon their return to Ottawa. It's harder to miss your stop when it's the end of the line.

My co-workers aren't the only ones who amuse others. I made a rather juvenile penis joke at lunch today, which thankfully only the friend/co-worker sitting to my right heard. But as we thought about it, the joke got funnier until we were both laughing and had drawn everyone's attention to ourselves. A quick change of subject managed to work and we calmed down :) I swear to god, it's the heat. Or I'm in heat. Or both. Our office is very hot. We have heating/cooling issues. Some days I completely believe that the hotter it is in the office, the lower our maturity levels are. That sure would explain a lot. Except for Jack. I've got no explanation for him. I can't quite figure him out that bothers me. I'm usually very, very good at getting a feel for people (not literally!) but this one, I can't seem to place him. He reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who. A lot of what he does tickles some distant memories in the back of my head. It's fucking frustrating. Maybe if I stop thinking about it, the answer will come to me. It's worth a try.

Silly is good sometimes. If we take ourselves too seriously all the time, we grow old too fast. Taking a moment for silly seems to slow down the aging process and I'm all in favour of that.

By the sounds of things, it has started to rain again. We really need it so I hope it keeps up. Rain gently falling on the trees is one of my most favourite sounds in the world. So kids, I think I'll sign off here and go listen to the rain for a bit. I hope everyone made it through the day in one piece and I hope no one was eaten by zombies.

Good Night!

Sarah

Since it was a pretty random blog tonight, here's a random photo of my foot. Yes, I'm wearing bowling shoes.