happy halloween!!!

and the magic 8 ball says...

pulled out of a fortune cookie this week:


obviously, we're not going to san fran this weekend. financially, probably the better move. work wise, definitely a better move. but still, i'm stuck in this damp, grey, rainy wasteland with nothing to look forward to and the camera question has yet to be answered...

diversions of course. the real question being what the goddamn hell am i going to do with the rest of my life?

as seen in simcoe county...

this week, shawn was driving through southern simcoe county behind this pick up truck:

in case you can't read that, it says, "master bait farm, home of the big chub, making money hand over fist."

got milk?

okay, so i've been making considerable efforts to drink more milk. i've always liked milk, i have it every day with cereal, etc. but as i approach 30, i've been making sure to increase my calcium intake with yogurt, cottage cheese, supplements, and of course, milk.

it's 11am so i head to the fridge to get my carton. quick look at the date - excellent, december 2006. open and gulp.

something nasty slids down my esophagus.

what the hell was that!?! i look into the carton, yellow liquid looks back. i throw the carton into the garbage with such force, that it dumps all over the place. i spit oh-so-lady-like several times into the garbage pail.

again, i pick up the carton and look at it. the offender:

nasty. my stomach does not deal well with egg. for the remainder of the day, i feel like i am constantly trying not to throw. mark, who thinks this is the funniest shit ever, says to me, "can't you just feel the placenta dangling off your tonsils?"

5 years...

And I'll be happy for you
If you can be happy for me
We have changed but we're still the same
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool...

- gwen stefani "cool"

it has been exactly 5 years since matti and i met. this morning we gave each other a big hug and wished each other a good day. tonight, i will head to burlington to spend the weekend with the guys drinking, dancing, and laughing. it will be good for me.

on my drive to work this morning, i was behind a pick-up with the license plate "DICKSTRCK". huh. (i thought MTO censored these things?) regardless, it reminded me of a co-worker who said she only got married because she was "fuckstruck", made me laugh.

sometimes, laughter really is the best medicine.

must pack: pomtinis, fms, id, $, camera?

yea me!

when i got to work today, there was a huge cardboard envelope waiting for me in my inbox. my first thought was, "oh god what kind of new found torture is this?" but alas, i opened it to find my certificate in economic development from the university of waterloo. woo hoo!

of course it's wrinkled to shit (thanks canada post) and there are some misplaced ink splotches on it, but hey, my name is spelt correctly so it's all good.

i kid you not...

this is the weather forecast for the next week:


how freakin' depressing is that?

assvice please!

i like photography. i know a good pic when i see one but like a good carpenter, if you haven't got the tools, then the job just isn't going to get done right.

the camera i have now is a piece of crap. for the love of god, we won it at a staff christmas party. in its defence, it was great at the time and did give me some good pictures from england and vegas but i am very disappointed in my shots from DC. so, i have decided that it's time for a new one. a decent one.

so here's the deal. after hours of painstaking research and justification budgeting, i have found the camera for me. the bigger problem being that i can save major cash (like $220 - seriously) by getting it from the USA. however, by buying it in the USA, the warranty is void in canada. i have to buy the camera in canada for it to have a canadian warranty.

sidenote: matti and i have been talking about going to san fran for a week in october/november. we can get a sweet deal on a flight out of buffalo and can stay at marko and christine's making it a great budget get-away. besides, i've always wanted to visit san fransisco.

so, people what do i do? assvice sought... please and thank you!

stupidity kills...

on my usual formula 1 race to work, i pass a dump truck lying at a 45 degree angle in the ditch. it's flanked by two huge tow trucks with cranes. as it has been raining at typhoon levels for weeks now, i thought that maybe the truck was passing someone on the right and given the soft shoulder, slid into the ditch. i later found out that the driver, with a full load of gravel, was not paying attention while reading a map. i am thankful now for the ditch and that she missed the 20 or so kids who wait for their school bus 20 feet away. moron.

the long standing joke in ontario is that there are 4 seasons: almost-winter, winter, still winter, and construction. during construction season, of course a bridge i take every day to work has been undergoing repairs. the sign says "april to september". as i recall, construction started in late march but what evs, if it's not construction, it's school bus traffic so regardless, i'll still be late for work. (side note: for those who know me, this is not a shock. i'm known to run on "tami standard time" which means at least 10 minutes late for everything.)

anyhow, they have this contraption set up so that traffic on the bridge is reduced to one lane while the other lane is used by workers. so every 5 mintues or so, the one working lane works for eastbound traffic, then the next 5 mintues for westbound, etc. so there i am, stuck in the queue, using my 5 mintues to finish dressing (doing up shirt, brushing hair, checking palm pilot for important meetings i may be missing, etc.) when the light turns green and all the other impatient commuters surge ahead. all of a sudden, everyone slams on their brakes.

why you ask? because some moron yapping on the cell phone is driving the wrong way on the one-way bridge. instead of getting off the phone and reversing to the other side of the bridge, she pulls onto the side of the bridge where the workers are and keeps driving/yapping like nothing is wrong! almost plows into 10 construction workers and head-on into a row of cars but does not see the point in getting off the phone! grrrrrrrrrrr...

also, please note how bridge repairs were to be finished in september and they are STILL working on it in october. (fuming mad - how dare they make me late)

going for a walk on an early fall day...

a brief account of walking the puff at 9:00 a.m. sunday morning:

• take in warm sun and cool breeze
• appreciate the early start of changing leaves
• enjoy the silence as it is too early for screaming children and their obnoxious parents to be outside shattering eardrums and being excessively irritating
• think of creative and constructive ways to spend the day
• pass fire truck with yummy looking firefighters
• witness chloe eat poo (for the love of all things holy, why?!?) for the second time in 2 days
• realize that i look like crap with hair in clip, dirty runners, and oversized sweats when passing fire truck with yummy looking firefighters
• return home as it starts to rain, again, for the 10th time in 10 days
• wonder if the grass will ever be dry enough to mow again (now reaching jungle status in rear yard)
• spend the majority of the day e-shopping for new digital camera

relaxation factor: 10

constructiveness factor: 0

(sigh) sometimes being lazy is the best therapy...