Peter and Me

I have the worst luck. The people from Peter the Plantman consistently spill water on my desk while watering the plant above me. And almost without fail there happens to be a client copy of something right where the water falls.

Back to the printer
L

Nasty Text Message Girl

I wasn't out of line. I was calm, I was rational. Why did you get so mad? Why did you over react? Can't you see I'm doing what needs to be done? That this is my role?

I realized last night that for years I've been putting up with someone. Sharing the same space because it was necessary. Well it's no longer necessary and I'm so happy, so relieved. We won't stay in touch.

At the same time I realized that somewhere along the line I think I've become mature. The last 4 big dramas I can remember I've handled with absolutley zero regrets. I've said nothing I shouldn't have and I've been calm and rational. I suppose that's one bonus... now if I could just get rid of the dramas all together.

Disillusioned

I, like many others have discovered and loved Crave Bakery. They make these delicious, yet pricy cupcakes. My favorite being the Princess, they were in fact the inspiration behind the cupcakes I made. But my faith in them has recently been destroyed. I feel this is info I must pass on to fellow Crave lovers... I feel deceived.

Crave does not bake their own Cupcakes, they're outsourced. I can accept that, what I can't accept is where they get the cupcakes from. I've been willing to pay the expensive price... but no longer. Their cupcakes come from SAFEWAY! I can't support that. The price markup is outrageous, and they lead us to believe they make their own cakes.

I went onto their website to see exactly what they say...

“About Crave
The initial Craving started in our Mom’s kitchen. As three young girls growing up on a farm outside High River, Alberta, Mom always had buckets of cookies in the freezer to satisfy our sweet tooth. The recipes she used are the ones we bake with at crave today. And for us, every time we bit into one of our cookies we taste a little bit of our childhood.

What made Mom’s recipes so great is she understood her baking was an indulgence for the three of us. She always used the best ingredients and loaded up the fillings. This belief in indulgence was also transferred to everything we do at Crave. Using the best ingredients and paying attention to every detail makes ever bit of a Crave Cupcake, Cookies or Cake a moment of enjoyment for a sophisticated pallet.

So after celebrating our first year baking together, and supplying cupcakes for events from birthday parties to elegant dinner parties and everything in between, we’re glad we brought these recipes in from the country. Because there’s nothing like seeing so many people enjoy baking just like Mom used to make.”

Now I’ll give them some credit... nowhere in there do they actually claim that they make them but it’s certainly alluded to. They say they bake with the recipes Mom used, I find it hard to believe that Safeway and Mom have the same recipe.

So in short... I’m not sure I can go back. The image has been ruined for me... I can’t justify the price mark up and I can make a cupcake just as good as Crave.

I have heard of Buttercream Bake Shoppe on 17th Ave, I have it on good authority that they actually make their own cupcakes. Anyone want to go with me to try it?

Saturday afternoon maybe?
L

Gasp! It just can't be!

I have this morning routine... it's been in place for years... probably 5 or 6.


I get to work in the morning, turn on my computer and immediately go to www.soapcentral.com/ps


This is an important part of my day, I just HAVE to know what happened on Passions yesterday :) I've been following (through the internet, I never actually watch the show) these characters lives since almost the beginning of the show.


This morning, as usual I go the the website only to see something that has shocked me!



How can it be cancelled? It's my guilty pleasure! Will Teresa ever be with Ethan? Did Grace really die? But Sheridan and Luis aren't together yet! And Kay just married Fox, she needs time to find out he was lying so she can finally be with Miguel!

It's not right and they'll be dearly missed
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There's an Ogre in my Shoes

You ever feel like an ogre woke up in your place?

I'm grouchy today, unreasonable grouchy. I suppose I could blame it on lack of sleep but since I chose to stay up late it's not really a very good excuse.

It's taking all my energy to keep myself in check and not inappropriately rip someone's head off. I'm seriously concerned for Betty... one wrong move and I could blow.

Be patient with me today, I'll be my usual cheery self tomorrow, promise.
L

Mascara Lament

The day was bright, the sky was blue,
and then came the shock, it can't be true.

What to do? I think I'll cry
But then it'll smudge, it must be a lie.

They're gone from Canada, never to return.
But where will I get the mascara I yearn?

Calorie 2000, so thick and black;
I tried some Great Lash... Boy did it lack.

I want some drama, my tantrum will last
But my favorite mascara is a thing of the past.

So I'm forced to switch to some other brand
While I wait for Max Factor to return to my Land

So this is my Eulogy, I'll continue to cry
To my fair mascara, I bid you goodbye
L

By Invitation Only

I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine the other day. We were both going to the same wedding; he asked if I wanted a ride so I said sure. I was also giving my roommate a ride so I asked if that was okay. He asked where her boyfriend was. I said I wasn’t sure if he knew the Bride and Groom, maybe he hadn’t been invited? He then asked the most absurd question...

“Oh, is this wedding invite only?”

Invite only! Weddings are always invite only! That’s why they give out invitations!

I asked why he went if he wasn’t invited, “Well, there are people there I know.”

“So you go to weddings to socialize?!” I’m a little shocked! To add a cherry to this story, he’d invited someone else to this wedding that he wasn’t invited to.

I’ve been invited to a lot of weddings this year... 17 to be exact and the year’s not over yet. In general, I love weddings. I love how happy everyone is and how much family comes together.

I thought I’d share a list of the highlights of each wedding
Elise & Alex Andrews - The Hairspray Comment
Jeff & Shelia Smigel - Jeff’s Vest and the Men’s ties
Devon & Kimberly Tyers - Cookie’s by George cookies
Daniel & Teddi Lee - The incredibly over decorated gym
Kim & Jordan Wheatley*
Ricky & Chelsea Bennett - The on again / off again relationship that worked
Mike & Janeal Bullock*
Justin & Andea Morton*
Byron & Rosie Redd - The Food and the long tablecloths
Ed & Meagan Yu - Mllowing Meenah to live out her dream
Leticia & Ammon Christensen - The Picture Perfect Couple
Lisa & Doug Johnson - The letter from Clive and all the Pink
Mark & Kim Hughes - The Temple and how much I love them both
Leah & Murray Phillips - The honeymoon in Mountain View
Josh & Nicole Tagg - The Chopsticks and the instructional video and the bride and groom on the top of the cake
Brent & Jen Garner - The most classy, traditional wedding all year. They used simple, beautiful roses as table centers and they had actual toasts with sparkling apple juice. We actually ate the wedding cake (I love that)
James & Lucy West - The new Sister I’m gaining

* not attended

I’ve also come up with a rule for all my friends... NO MORE WEDDINGS THIS YEAR!The wedding gift budget is spent so if you suddenly get engaged you get NO GIFT :)
L

Mean is hereditary

So I have this really mean landlady... and when I say mean I'm referring to the kind of person that takes pleasure in drowning kittens. Somehow she's gotten the idea that we're really bad tenants, I'm not sure how she came to this conclusion. We pay our rent, we mow the lawn (occasionally), we haven't destroyed anything in the house and we very seldom call to have things fixed. But despite the mentioned points she thinks we're awful. She's decided to raise our rent $300 which is unfortunate.

So she called about 2 1/2 weeks ago to say she'd be out of town for a while. She gave us the name of either her son or daughter to call if we had problems and she reminded me that she needed new rent cheques... no problem. I had every intention of taking them over early just to be considerate but things came up and I forgot. So today I realize it's the 30th and she needs cheques by tomorrow so I dropped them off in her mailbox around noon.

I come home this evening around 8:00 and there's a message from Mean Landlady's daughter. I'm going to type the message in as much detail as I can remember:

"Hi this is Mean Landlady's Daughter, I was supposed to have cheques from you by this morning but when I checked the mailbox they weren't there. Just wondering where they are or if this is your way of giving notice. Please call me because until I hear from you I'm going to assume this is your way of giving notice to vacate the property."

Going to assume we're vacating the property??? What? That was completely unecessarey... rent is due on the 1st, not the 30th. I have every right to wait until tomorrow to deliver them if I so choose. I called and left a very pleasant message saying we are not giving notice and the cheques are in the mailbox but I'm annoyed... there's no reason to be so mean about everything. Her tone was very rude and condescending.

And we get it already... you want us to move...

Good to see her mother is rubbing off on her
L

Rant

I oficially hate Stabilo (it's a music group)

A friend of mine loaned me their cd so, as per usual, I brought it home, opened up my iTunes and went to listen. But wait - iTunes doesn't recognize the cd, that's odd. Oh well, I'll just open its folder and copy it onto my computer and then I'll put it into iTunes.

Why would anyone... at this day and age make a cd that isn't compatible with iTunes?!! I don't get it but I'm angry!

The cd will let me burn it or copy it to my computer but it won't play in iTunes. The only program I ever use to listen to cd's is iTunes but they expect me to count them as an exception and use another program? Forget it... I just won't listen to it. I spend the majority of my time listening to music on my iPod... can't do that with this cd.

The only up side to this whole situation is I actually don't really like Stabilo's music so I wouldn't really want to listen to them anyway.. it's the pricipal of the situation though.

So, in conclusion... not being able to use iTunes ticks me off

So I just googled itunes and Stabilo together and came up with this message from the band...

"We're very sorry your experience buying our music was a negative one. e are grateful that you actually went to the effort and shelled out the cash to actually buy the cd. unfortunately, we the band have no control over the copy protection on the album. in fact, we asked the label not to make our disc copy protected. unfortunately the bottom line is that it's not our call. however, there are ways around it particularly if you are running a mac (which i'm assuming you aren't otherwise it should have worked). itunes is another option. again, we're sorry this was your experience, realize there is a lot of great music and hope you will find a way to listen to ours. thanks for the support."

stabilo

I feel a little less angry
L

I Carry Your Heart

So I watched the movie In Her Shoes this weekend and despite my low expectations I loved it! It was such a great girl movie. In the movie they read this poem that I think is really beautiful so I'm going to post it here...just because I can :o)
L

i carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

Lip Balm Anonymous

http://www.lipbalmanonymous.com/

They say the first step towards solving the problem is admitting you have one...

I firmly and proudly say "I don't have a problem" :o)

So I like my lip gloss, what's the big deal...so what if I have 6 different varieties in my purse right now and wouldn't leave home with out them, that's not an addiction, it's an interest...right?

It did make me second guess myself when the site talked about how companies are devious and give you free samples to hook you. All I could think was "Fee samples? Where?"

Lip Balm Anonymous Self-Test for Lip Balm Addiction

1. Do you ever use more lip balm than you planned?
2. Has the use of lip balm interfered with your job?
3. Is your lip balm use causing conflict with your spouse or family?
4. Do you feel depressed, guilty, or remorseful after you use lip balm?
5. Do you use whatever lip balm you have almost continuously until the supply is exhausted?
6. Do you ever wish that you had never taken that first application or hit of lip balm?
7. Do you have an obsession to get lip balm when you don't have it?
8. Are you experiencing financial difficulties due to your lip balm use?
9. Do you experience an anticipation high just knowing you are about to use lip balm?
10. Without using lip balm, do you have difficulty sleeping without taking a drink or another drug?
11. Are you absorbed with the thought of getting coated even while interacting with a friend or loved one?
12. Have you begun to use lip balm while alone?
13. Do your lips, nose, or other areas hurt when you avoid Lip Balm?
14. Do you ever have feelings that people are talking about you or watching you?
15. Do you use larger doses of lip balm to get the same protection you once experienced?
16. Have you tried to quit or cut down on your lip balm use only to find that you couldn't?
17. Have any of your friends or family suggested that you may have a problem?
18. Have you ever lied to or misled those around you about how much or how often you use?
19. Do you use lip balm in your car, at work, in the bathroom, on airplanes, or other public places?
20. Do you occasionally coat heavily after a disappointment, quarrel or rough day?
21. When under pressure, do you always use more heavily than usual?
22. Can you handle more lip balm now than when you first started using?
23. When using with others, do you try to have a few extra coats when they won't know it?
24. Are there certain occasions when you feel uncomfortable if lip balm is not available?
25. When you start using, are you in more of a hurry to get the first hit than you used to be?
26. Are you secretly irritated when friends or family discuss your lip balm use?
27. Do you usually have a reason for occasions when you use heavily?
28. Have you tried to control your lip balm use by switching brands or following different plans?
29. Have you often failed to keep promises about controlling your lip balm?
30. Have you tried to control your lip balm use by changing jobs or moving?
31. Do you try to avoid family or friends while using?
32. Are you having an increasing number of financial and work problems?
33. Do more people seem to be treating you unfairly without reason?
34. Have you ever decided to stop using for a week or so, but only lasted for a couple of days?
35. Do you wish people would mind their own business about your lip balm use--stop telling you what to do?
36. Is lip balm affecting your reputation?
37. Do you crave lip balm at a definite time daily?
38. Does lip balm cause you to have difficulty sleeping?
39. Have you ever been to a hospital or institution on account of lip balm?
40. Are you afraid that if you stop using lip balm your work will suffer or you will lose your energy, motivation, or confidence?
41. Do you spend time with people or in places you otherwise would not be around but for the availability of lip balm?
42. Have you ever stolen lip balm or money from friends or family?
43. Can you apply lip balm with one hand?

Lip Balm Anonymous members adhere to a set of principles which are listed in Twelve Steps.

1. We admitted we were powerless over lip balm - - that our lives had become unmanagemeable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would ijure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other lip balm addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Good luck kicking your habit...personally I'm going to revel in mine for a little longer
L

Update on Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey

So get this...it turns out Jonathon's been arrested.
Hopefully this will put an end to his campaign.

Minn. governor candidate impaled by his past

Sharkey arrested on Indiana warrants issued for his pro wresting persona

MORA, Minn. - A fringe candidate for governor who played up his satanic side — and pledged public impalement for terrorists — wound up behind bars Tuesday thanks to a sharp-eyed sheriff's dispatcher.

Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey, 41, of Princeton was arrested Monday night on two felony counts from Indiana, said Mike Smith, the Mille Lacs County jail administrator. One warrant was for escape, another for stalking.

Sharkey launched his campaign last month under the banner of the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party. His platform includes an emphasis on education, tax breaks for farmers and better benefits for veterans, but he also said he favored impaling certain wrongdoers in front of the State Capitol.

Sheriff Brent Lindgren said Sharkey's warrants were discovered by a dispatcher making routine warrant queries. Lindgren said the dispatcher had seen news stories about Sharkey's campaign and recognized the name on the warrant — Rocky Flash — as a name Sharkey had used as a pro wrestler.

Sharkey was arrested by police in Princeton without incident, Lindgren said. He remained in the jail Tuesday pending extradition proceedings.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11116988/
L

Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey for Govenor

Okay...this guy is so freaky...check out the site. The more I read the more I'm horrified by him.

He's a Satanic Dark Priest, Sanguinarian Vampryre and Hecate Witch. And he's running for Governor of Minnesota.

He hates God and his agenda includes impaling terrorists and George Bush and this next one was so good I wanted to include it word for word "Blacklist - I will blacklist all companies that have left the US and relocated to another Country. No company will prosper as a result of causing Americans financial hardship from losing their jobs, as a result of that company relocating to another country. He likes casinos a lot so he's going put up 13 of them. He also plans on running for president eventually.

There are too many point of interest to type...seriously check out this website. It's so crazy, messed up. He'd better not get on single vote.
L

http://www.jonathonforgovernor.us/Home_page.html