Cheated this yuletide season

I feel cheated right now. I didn't really get a "Christmas" this year, because I chose to work. I also worked late on Christmas Eve, and worked a whole day yesterday. After running myself ragged this past week, my body has finally succumbed to sickness. My head hurts, I think my sinuses are infected again, the thought of food makes me want to gag, I am hot/cold all the time, and I am very sore.

And just before my two days off! I was hoping to see my friends, and actually have a bit of a holiday on these two coming days.

I bought myself a cocktail of over-the-counter medications and called in sick to work today (which I never, EVER, do!) and will lay low. Perhaps the Advil Cold & Sinus, the Gravol and the Unisom will see me better in the morning. Otherwise, I am going to have start cancelling my plans for the coming days.

Why? Why me? Why now, of all times?! It's the calling in sick that bugs me the most. In five years of working at The Gardens, I have only called in sick once before.

Anyways, I'm off to have a long nap and watch stupid daytime TV until my eyes are square!

Christmas Wishes

Merry Christmas everyone!

With the best of the season to you all,

Dave

Weird blogs

Lately I have been spending time just looking at random blogs of people I don't know. Sometimes I just click off the blogs of people I know, or I will just look for a new one. Some a really interesting. Blogging is really in innovative medium. There are people like my friend Mera, who post interesting tidbits quite frequently, and people like Tara, who post tidbits, quotes, and frequently post interesting question.

But I have stumbled across a new blog in the last couple of months. It isn't updated very frequently, and is certainly tawdry. The blog is operated by a man who is cheating on his wife while away on extended business trips, and then blogging his experiences. I don't really know what I think of it, a lot of comments are from people who think he should tell his wife. But despite my little moral and ethical voice telling me to not read it, I do check it fairly frequently, which is strange. It is kinda like watching a train wreck in slow motion, because you know that one day he will be found out. Or as one commenter pointed out, perhaps his wife is at home getting banged by the milkman...

Anyways, I just thought that I would throw this blog out there as an interesting read. Let me know what you think of the moral and ethical implications.

Click here to read the blog for yourself.

Don;t get me wrong, I am not on a quest to shut this guy down or anything, after all it is his life. I guess I am just curious as to what people's reactions are.

I'm a weirdo.

Things to make you think

I spent the day at the Vancouver Art Gallery, seeing an exhibit called "Massive Change." I can't really tell you what it was about, but it was sort of like a lecture was made into a museum, and then housed in an Art Gallery. I would recommend that if any of you are in the Vancouver area, you should go see the exhibit.

You can visit their website here.

And now that exams are over, I am free to do what I wish for the duration of the holiday (except when I have to work)!

Good Holiday Spirit everyone!

WOOHOO!!!

I just finished my exams! School is done!! YAY!!!

And I have even better news...

My RESP came through!!! I am financially viable for next semester, and comfortably so! I was sooooo stressed about it, and now I can relax!

To whatever power above saw to that, I thank you!

Good friends mean good times

Last night I went to Butchart Gardens with all my best friends from high school. We have done it every year now for the last three years, and are making a tradition of it. We always have such a good time chatting, laughing, and counting the twelve days of Christmas displays.

These people are one of the main reasons I am coming back to Victoria. They are the people who know me the best, and as my friend Lindsay says, we will still be having "get-drunk-at-Claire's" nights for an awful long time to come.

To good friends, good times, and good experiences!

Cheers!

My favourite Christmas view at work.

My favourite people

Finals and movies

Well, two down and one to go. I have wrote my Media Studies final, as well as English (thank Frickin' christ that course is over!)

I watched the Bourne Supremacy and The Terminal. Both were good, although the Bourne Supremacy was not as good as the Bourne Identity, in my humble opinion.

Anyways, off to more studying and working!

Christmas humour

Cartman learns the words to "O Holy Night"

It's bloody hilarious!

The best christmas ornament EVER!

dearest darling sister...

My brother-in-law and room-mate...

I feel stupid...

I feel really dumb right now. I have sinusitis, and I think the antibiotics are getting to my brain.

I can't even type right now.

A week worth pondering

You know what?

This week in Victoria has been a really good experience for me. I have had a lot of time to do some thinking, and I came to the realization that I am far happier here then in Nanaimo. I really miss the people here, my friends, and my family (inasmuch as they drive me around the bend!)

Don't get me wrong! I have met some cool people while I have been school, and you know who you are, but I am just not having fun at school. I know that every parent out there (at least mine)would say that there are times in your life when what you like doesn't matter, and what you need to do takes precedence over everything. However, I think that at the age of 21, I have gone past that point. I have lived on my own for almost two years, been responsible for my own finances, bought a car, and established a great reputation with a fantastic employer.

I want to go back to work. I am born to work with the public. My employer wants me back, I want to go back, so I think I will. I'll see this year through to the end, and then I think I will establish myself in Victoria.

I have never felt very sure about any decision I have made in my life, but I figure that you have got to go with your gut most of the time, and my gut tells me to go to work. Maybe I'll do some online courses, or upgrade and take evening classes at Royal Roads University, but I want to get started in life. The idea of spending the next four years of my life in a degree program that I am not dedicated to does not sound appealing. Never mind the thousands of dollars in tuition!

I think it is because I like a lot of structure in my life. I like going to work, 8-4:30pm, then going home, and having my day be complete. My evening belongs to me, not to a research paper or midterm.

Who knows, maybe my gut will change between now and the end of the school year, but we'll see.

And I'm out for now.

YAY!

That's it! School is finished! All of my papers are done and submitted, and I have only exams left!

I am looking forward to the next semester. Now we'll just see if the money materializes.

This post is petering out.

Very.......slowly........

and I'm out.

Garburator goo

Have you ever wondered what food looks like after it has come out of the garburator?

Well, I haven't.

And yet, I have seen it.

I will never be able to eat soup again.