Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Hee hee. Not sure where this is going to end up, but this is lunch today.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
100 things about me
1. My name is Angela
2. I live in Dartmouth
3. My husbands name is Luc
4. He's my second husband
5. I won't ever talk about my first husband in this blog
6. I have two kids, a girl and a boy
7. I have a step son
8. I am an accountant
9. My kids play soccer. A lot of soccer.
10. I sing karaoke. A lot of karaoke. LOL.
11. I am trying to learn to play the guitar.
12. I can knit, but I don't like to
13. I can crochet, but my hands don't like me to.
14. I make greeting cards
15. I scrapbook
16. I currently live around the corner from where I grew up
17. My kids therefore go to the same schools as I did
18. And there are still a couple of teachers still left there from the good ole days.
19. Ahhh. Secretary's music.
20. I love Country music
21. I'm 40 something
22. I like cooking
23. I hate cleaning
24. I love grocery shopping
25. I hate shopping for clothes
26. I love camping
27. I own a Motorhome
28. I drive a mustang in the summer
29. And a beater in the winter
30. I have a tattoo of a rose on my shoulder
31. I have a tattoo of flowers around my wrist
32. I have a tattoo of the mustang logo on my calf
33. I have a pitty mixed dog named Daisy
34. I have a shark, pleco and a couple of molly's in a fish tank
35. I used to have a cat until July. He was put to sleep.
36. I spent my summers in Cape Breton while I was growing up
37. I plan on full time RVing during retirement
38. I have to come up with a plan to finance said retirement
39. I am very number oriented
40. I like math
41. I don't like English
42. I prefer non-fiction over fiction
43. I believe in ghosts
44. I believe in the premise behind "The Secret"
45. I believe that the bible was written as a coercion tactic
46. I do believe that there is something greater than I can comprehend out there
47. I believe it is probably a male / female duo
48. I don't have a university degree
49. I am halfway through the CGA program
50. I don't know if I want to finish it
51. I am considering going to MSVU to complete my degree
52. I often dream about another career. Any other career.
53. I lay awake stressing about stuff. A lot.
54. I drink Keith's beer typically
55. I like Rye though
56. I love cheese. Cheddar Cheese. Mmm melty goodness
57. I watch a lot of TV
58. I own a Wii
59. I spend way too much time on a computer.
60. I try to think of ways to finance said retirement with something computer related
61. My free computer time is spent on a couple of message boards, facebook, and reading blogs.
62. I have thought about buying a campground
63. We are not thinking about it anymore, we are doing it.
64. I own a rental property
65. but it will be officially sold sometime in April 2009
66. I have a sister in town
67. I have a brother that lives in the US
68. My father lives in BC
69. My mother died in 1994
70. I am extremely close to my aunt (mother's sister.)
71. I am a Leo
72. I like rules.
73. I've been known to break a few rules.
74. I have hyperthyroidism
75. I hate paper.
76. I like computer and video games.
77. My concentration sucks
78. I like to fall asleep with the TV on because it drowns out the crap in my head.
79. Christmas is my favorite time of year
80. I still believe in Santa Claus
81. I haven't been down South
82. I haven't been to Europe
83. My daughter has been to Europe
84. I have seen the Rocky Mountains (in a plane)
85. I listen to the radio all day.
86. It's hard coming up with 100 things
87. I started this list a couple of months ago
88. I have been consuming a lot of sushi lately
89. I don't normally watch what I eat
90. Which would be why I'm getting to be as big as a house
91. I bought a blackberry curve a few months ago
92. And am very very addicted.
93. Probably the best gadget I've purchased
94. I twitter
95. I like parti lite candles
96. I like candles in general
97. I like Chinese food
98. I'm impressed that the majority of these 100 are positive
99. I work in the auto industry
100. Which is crumbling down.
2. I live in Dartmouth
3. My husbands name is Luc
4. He's my second husband
5. I won't ever talk about my first husband in this blog
6. I have two kids, a girl and a boy
7. I have a step son
8. I am an accountant
9. My kids play soccer. A lot of soccer.
10. I sing karaoke. A lot of karaoke. LOL.
11. I am trying to learn to play the guitar.
12. I can knit, but I don't like to
13. I can crochet, but my hands don't like me to.
14. I make greeting cards
15. I scrapbook
16. I currently live around the corner from where I grew up
17. My kids therefore go to the same schools as I did
18. And there are still a couple of teachers still left there from the good ole days.
19. Ahhh. Secretary's music.
20. I love Country music
21. I'm 40 something
22. I like cooking
23. I hate cleaning
24. I love grocery shopping
25. I hate shopping for clothes
26. I love camping
27. I own a Motorhome
28. I drive a mustang in the summer
29. And a beater in the winter
30. I have a tattoo of a rose on my shoulder
31. I have a tattoo of flowers around my wrist
32. I have a tattoo of the mustang logo on my calf
33. I have a pitty mixed dog named Daisy
34. I have a shark, pleco and a couple of molly's in a fish tank
35. I used to have a cat until July. He was put to sleep.
36. I spent my summers in Cape Breton while I was growing up
37. I plan on full time RVing during retirement
38. I have to come up with a plan to finance said retirement
39. I am very number oriented
40. I like math
41. I don't like English
42. I prefer non-fiction over fiction
43. I believe in ghosts
44. I believe in the premise behind "The Secret"
45. I believe that the bible was written as a coercion tactic
46. I do believe that there is something greater than I can comprehend out there
47. I believe it is probably a male / female duo
48. I don't have a university degree
49. I am halfway through the CGA program
50. I don't know if I want to finish it
51. I am considering going to MSVU to complete my degree
52. I often dream about another career. Any other career.
53. I lay awake stressing about stuff. A lot.
54. I drink Keith's beer typically
55. I like Rye though
56. I love cheese. Cheddar Cheese. Mmm melty goodness
57. I watch a lot of TV
58. I own a Wii
59. I spend way too much time on a computer.
60. I try to think of ways to finance said retirement with something computer related
61. My free computer time is spent on a couple of message boards, facebook, and reading blogs.
62. I have thought about buying a campground
63. We are not thinking about it anymore, we are doing it.
64. I own a rental property
65. but it will be officially sold sometime in April 2009
66. I have a sister in town
67. I have a brother that lives in the US
68. My father lives in BC
69. My mother died in 1994
70. I am extremely close to my aunt (mother's sister.)
71. I am a Leo
72. I like rules.
73. I've been known to break a few rules.
74. I have hyperthyroidism
75. I hate paper.
76. I like computer and video games.
77. My concentration sucks
78. I like to fall asleep with the TV on because it drowns out the crap in my head.
79. Christmas is my favorite time of year
80. I still believe in Santa Claus
81. I haven't been down South
82. I haven't been to Europe
83. My daughter has been to Europe
84. I have seen the Rocky Mountains (in a plane)
85. I listen to the radio all day.
86. It's hard coming up with 100 things
87. I started this list a couple of months ago
88. I have been consuming a lot of sushi lately
89. I don't normally watch what I eat
90. Which would be why I'm getting to be as big as a house
91. I bought a blackberry curve a few months ago
92. And am very very addicted.
93. Probably the best gadget I've purchased
94. I twitter
95. I like parti lite candles
96. I like candles in general
97. I like Chinese food
98. I'm impressed that the majority of these 100 are positive
99. I work in the auto industry
100. Which is crumbling down.
Ok. Why did I have to ruin it with the last two. LOL.
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We are still waiting
Yesterday was the deadline for having our financing in place. Which we did not meet, so we had to file an extension. I haven't heard back yet, so I don't even know if it's even been accepted or not.
As far as the financing goes, what a slow process for a commercial deal. We get a question, turn it around in a few hours, maybe a day, and then wait days and days and days for the next question. It's ridiculous.
We hit a speed bump late last week, that slowed us down to almost moving backwards.
I'm ready to put my fingers in my ears and start screaming blah blah blah I can't hear you. I almost don't even want to deal with this anymore. I want the vendor, the RE agent and the mortgage broker to deal with all this stupid crap. Just either say No, or give me the damn papers to sign.
I have enough to worry about once it's approved to have to worry about the getting there.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The life span of Canadian Broadcasting.
From a consumers point of view of course.
So today CBC announced it was going to lay off 800 employees. I guess they can't make a go of it with Canadian content. I wonder if they are kicking their asses now for giving up the HNIC theme?
As an aside, they are increasing funding to the CBC.ca website. It's about time the media outlets started paying attention to what's going on around them. I hope it's not too late.
Meanwhile the CRTC is in hearings trying to force Canadian content down our throats.
I know we have to support Canadian Arts. I know this. But apparently a lot of Canadians don't realise this. They would rather be entertained, than poke their eyes out with a hot poker, all in the name of Canadian content. And how can I blame them. Entertainment is just that. Entertainment. It's supposed to be fun. Do we have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do our civic duty?
Why are these companies and government agencies fighting the losing battle of the status quo, instead of being innovative and coming up with new and unique ideas.
Canadians can not compete with budgets of the big US. Why bother trying. We need to come up with something else.
Umm. That's sounds kind of defeatest, and that's not really the point I was trying to get at. Maybe the point is to accept that we can not win. So we either have to accept second place and work within those confines, or we need to come up with another plan.
But forcing the consumer to buy into something that they just don't want is, well defeatest.
Anyway, now my post is rambly and doesn't make sense, but there are too many words to delete.
Muahahaha. See what you will be stuck reading if the CRTC, get's their canadian content way.
Take that Anderson Cooper.
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So today CBC announced it was going to lay off 800 employees. I guess they can't make a go of it with Canadian content. I wonder if they are kicking their asses now for giving up the HNIC theme?
As an aside, they are increasing funding to the CBC.ca website. It's about time the media outlets started paying attention to what's going on around them. I hope it's not too late.
Meanwhile the CRTC is in hearings trying to force Canadian content down our throats.
I know we have to support Canadian Arts. I know this. But apparently a lot of Canadians don't realise this. They would rather be entertained, than poke their eyes out with a hot poker, all in the name of Canadian content. And how can I blame them. Entertainment is just that. Entertainment. It's supposed to be fun. Do we have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do our civic duty?
Why are these companies and government agencies fighting the losing battle of the status quo, instead of being innovative and coming up with new and unique ideas.
Canadians can not compete with budgets of the big US. Why bother trying. We need to come up with something else.
Umm. That's sounds kind of defeatest, and that's not really the point I was trying to get at. Maybe the point is to accept that we can not win. So we either have to accept second place and work within those confines, or we need to come up with another plan.
But forcing the consumer to buy into something that they just don't want is, well defeatest.
Anyway, now my post is rambly and doesn't make sense, but there are too many words to delete.
Muahahaha. See what you will be stuck reading if the CRTC, get's their canadian content way.
Take that Anderson Cooper.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
She's off...
Daughter left yesterday on her European Vacation. Her and 50 of her classmates and 6 soon to be in a mental institution, chaperones. Gone for 10 days.
I know she's going to have the time of her life, but because I'm the Mommy, I'm allowed to have irrational fear. Of plane crashes, terrorists, murderers and rapists. Pick pockets. Her going to jail for stepping in a flower bed (This is a Star Trek reference, that haunts me. LOL). Her getting separated from her group. Her running out of money and not being able to pay for her overweight luggage. Her running out of money and not being able to pay for some stupid airport fee. Her losing her passport. Her losing her money. Her getting into a tiff with her friends and not having a good time.
I think I'm the one that's going to end up in a mental institution.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
On a little break
We met with the mortgage broker last night and now we wait.
We go on Sunday for our inspection.
And then we wait some more for someone to give us some money.
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Friday, March 06, 2009
Can I have your maintenance department please…
For YEARS, I have been getting phone calls like this. It’s maintenance, or toner, or something. You only get scammed once and yes I did, in the early ‘90’s, so that tells you how long these types of company’s have been around.
The toner guy calls and says that he is your toner supplier and that he needs to send you your toner. You say OK, he asks for your machine make and model and you give it to him and then he sends you your toner with an outrageous bill.
Consider yourself SCAMMED.
Flip to 11 or 12 years later, and I come to work for this company. We are a small company and so we don’t have set departments like HR, IT, Maintenance, etc. So you have to ask for a little bit of information from the caller in order to put them through to the right person.
It didn’t take long before the calls started.
Scammer: “Can I speak to your maintenance manager please”
Me: “We don’t have a maintenance manager, what is the nature of your call?”
Scammer: “I want to speak to whoever is in charge of your maintenance”
Me: “You will have to be more specific, so that I can direct your call to the proper person”
By this point scammer gets pissed and either hangs up, calls me a name, or tells me off.
So I get the call this morning.
Scammer: “I’m looking for Chester”
Me: “I’m sorry, we don’t have anyone here by that name”
Scammer: “Oh, maybe I have the name wrong, I was speaking to him the other day, the maintenance manager”
Me: “What company are you calling from?”
Scammer: “XXX”
Me: “And what is the nature of your call?”
Scammer hangs up and I laugh my ass off.
IDIOT.
The toner guy calls and says that he is your toner supplier and that he needs to send you your toner. You say OK, he asks for your machine make and model and you give it to him and then he sends you your toner with an outrageous bill.
Consider yourself SCAMMED.
Flip to 11 or 12 years later, and I come to work for this company. We are a small company and so we don’t have set departments like HR, IT, Maintenance, etc. So you have to ask for a little bit of information from the caller in order to put them through to the right person.
It didn’t take long before the calls started.
Scammer: “Can I speak to your maintenance manager please”
Me: “We don’t have a maintenance manager, what is the nature of your call?”
Scammer: “I want to speak to whoever is in charge of your maintenance”
Me: “You will have to be more specific, so that I can direct your call to the proper person”
By this point scammer gets pissed and either hangs up, calls me a name, or tells me off.
So I get the call this morning.
Scammer: “I’m looking for Chester”
Me: “I’m sorry, we don’t have anyone here by that name”
Scammer: “Oh, maybe I have the name wrong, I was speaking to him the other day, the maintenance manager”
Me: “What company are you calling from?”
Scammer: “XXX”
Me: “And what is the nature of your call?”
Scammer hangs up and I laugh my ass off.
IDIOT.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
So exciting
So we are on the hunt for the campground and we found one that we are falling in love with. It is just so so cute. And you can tell that it has been lovingly maintained for years.
It's beee u teee full.
I twitpic'd a summer picture of it earlier, if anyone was watching.
In order to finance this project, we have to sell our rental property. Which is ok. We have bigger and better plans. :-)
We have two realtors on the go at the moment. P is selling the house, and A is working on the campground.
Luc called a few minutes ago.
"What time is A coming over tonight?" (To get us to sign the offer for the campground)
I said I don't know that it might have to wait until tomorrow because the realtors are still going back and forth with requests for information.
"Why?"
"Because P is coming over at 9"
Woohoo. Freaking AWESOME.
We have an offer on the house.
Hopefully it's not. a low ball offer that I'm famous for.
*Doin' a happy dance*
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It's beee u teee full.
I twitpic'd a summer picture of it earlier, if anyone was watching.
In order to finance this project, we have to sell our rental property. Which is ok. We have bigger and better plans. :-)
We have two realtors on the go at the moment. P is selling the house, and A is working on the campground.
Luc called a few minutes ago.
"What time is A coming over tonight?" (To get us to sign the offer for the campground)
I said I don't know that it might have to wait until tomorrow because the realtors are still going back and forth with requests for information.
"Why?"
"Because P is coming over at 9"
Woohoo. Freaking AWESOME.
We have an offer on the house.
Hopefully it's not. a low ball offer that I'm famous for.
*Doin' a happy dance*
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