January 31, 2005 by Louise
Okay so the dishes are done and I am ready for a damn margarita.
Wait, I’m not allowed to drink. Okay, water it is. WOOOOOOOOOO!
Anyway. Remember yesterday when I was all stressed out about something? I’m going to talk about it now even though I’ve promised not to. Because I am a PROMISE BREAKER! And no, I’m NOT HYPER!
Our wedding. Oh, our wedding. We are getting married. That’s the main thing, and it’s what I’m happiest about. We could get married in the basement for all I care, as long as it’s done. However if we got married in the basement our parents would kill us and we wouldn’t get to enjoy a long life together, which would be a thing that I would not enjoy at all. So we’re planning a wedding.
Now, I’m having lots of fun planning it, and I keep asking Rob if I’m letting him have his say in things and he says yes and everything. I just worry that I’m taking over and making all the decisions and not thinking of what he might like. The main reason? Well, he’s from Newfoundland and my immediate family lives in PEI (my extended fam lives in Quebec where my mom’s from and Cape Breton where my dad’s from). We’re getting married in PEI. And having a Catholic ceremony (I’m Catholic, Rob isn’t). And I just worry that it’s not fair to him and his side of the family. Not many of them are going to be able to afford to travel to PEI; in fact there is a distinct possibility, for both of us, that only our immediate families will be there because the travel is just too costly. Which is also fine with us– we’d love to have lots of family around us but if they can’t afford it we can’t blame them for not coming. But the thing is, PEI is where I’m from. We’re getting married in my church. Yesterday I suggested a bilingual ceremony and he expressed concern that his family wouldn’t be able to understand it and instead of explaining, I got all stressed out. See, I thought it would be nice because my mother’s side of the family is French, and none of them would really understand a ceremony all in English. Then again, his entire family is English, and they wouldn’t be able to understand a ceremony all in French. So I was thinking a bilingual ceremony would be good — but didn’t explain that it just wouldn’t be “this part of the ceremony is English, this part is French”; the priest would do every part in both languages (am I explaining this well enough?).
Anyway the language thing wasn’t that big a deal, once I explained that part Rob was okay with it, but I just started stressing out that I’m Bridezilla and not taking his family’s wants and needs into consideration.
Then he told me that everything was fine and no I wasn’t Bridezilla (hmmm… Bridezilla. Frankenwang. Gee, Louise, what have you got on the brain?) and it was all good and STOP WORRYING!
So of course I kept worrying.
But I’m not anymore.
See? I stress about silly things.
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by Louise
So I’m taking a little break here.
First of all, I’m prefacing by saying that I KNOW I am home all day and Rob’s working so I KNOW that I should be doing all the housekeeping stuff around here etc. etc. etc. BUT I don’t. Lazy? Possibly. Alot of the time I just feel too… blah… to do much of anything. I mean generally I love cooking but last night was the first time in WEEKS that I even managed to peel a potato (anything beyond sandwiches is too much for me). Depression maybe. Whatever.
When he moved in it was agreed that he would wash the dishes and I would do the glasses, because I hate washing dishes and he hates washing glasses. Great. The only thing is that Rob’s been so busy that he hasn’t had time to do the dishes either. And so for the past week, they’ve been piling up. I don’t enjoy having dishes piled in the sink, so they’re on the counter. But the other day, Rob started the dishes. He filled the sink with water and put all the plates in, and did some of them, but something happened. And the dishes ended up living in there for two days.
I just decided to tackle the Gross Kitchen. Oh my God, people.
Oh my God. Just be happy that there are no batteries in the camera or you’d be retching right now. I emptied the dishes out of the sink. No problem… except at the bottom. The dishes at the bottom of the sink were (are) covered in this disgusting, smelly orange/grayish slime. PLUS, somehow the dish brush had gotten left in the sink, so IT’s all slimy too.
Thank God for dishgloves.
Hopefully from now on we won’t leave the gross dishes in the sink anymore, and I won’t lay in bed instead of cleaning up.
Woo! Okay! Back to the kitchen! And I’ll tell you later what it was that I was stressed about yesterday. If I live through the dishes. Wish me luck.
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January 30, 2005 by Louise
Okay I promised myself and my readers that I wouldn’t let this become a Wedding Blog. So it’s not. But all I want to say is that right now in this very moment SOMETHING IS CAUSING ME STRESS! AND I FEEL BADLY ABOUT SOMETHING! AND THAT’S ALL!
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January 29, 2005 by Louise
Okay so. Our bank card? It’s missing. MISSING. We used it last night, and I know Rob brought it home. I’ve been looking for it all day– under stuff, in stuff, behind stuff… everywhere. It’s impossible to find. Hmm. Maybe I ate it. Hopefully not; anyway I’m hoping Rob can find it when he gets home from work; there are a couple of things we need to get. The bank was closed by the time I got there (dang bank– 11 – 3? Why bother opening at all?) Man. Why don’t we keep emergency cash in the house? DANGIT! OH THE WOE OF BEING PART OF A PLASTIC-DEPENDENT SOCIETY!
Also. I just watched a show on TLC about plastic surgery. I have nothing against plastic surgery if you feel like you need to have it; I do question people like the lady who had 49 surgeries and was in for her 50th. The one that really got to me, though, was the guy who was getting penis surgery. Like, a penis implant. They use flesh taken from cadavers to implant into your wang!!! DEATHWANG!
Not that I’m ever going to encounter it, but I think I might be a little… I don’t know. Squicked out, if I came upon a wang in my travels and said wang was all scarred like Frankenstein. Frankenwang.
I’ll spare you any google’d photos or anything like that.
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January 28, 2005 by Louise
My parents gave me a duck goose that someone had given them, way before Christmas. No, not a cute fuzzy live duck goose. One that’s dead. I, of course, can’t turn anything down if it’s free. It’s been in my freezer since November, though, because I don’t know what the heck to do with it. I’ve never eaten duck goose before, let alone cooked it.
The only thing is, it’s been taking up ALL THE ROOM in the freezer! Of course I’m not gonna throw it out, because that would be WASTEFUL, but yesterday was the last straw. Trying to stick a package of frozen vegetables in the freezer caused an avalanche of epic proportions because the damn duck goose is just in the WAY! I almost had to pee my way out of it (thanks, Mac!). I became determined. That duck goose is going DOWN, man. So. DuckGoose is thawing.
Problem is? I don’t know what to do with it after that happens. But the vegetables are all safely in the freezer. Hmmm. Maybe I should go back in the kitchen and sit in front of the fridge some more.
No but seriously. Can anyone help me out with this duck goose business?
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January 27, 2005 by Louise
Say you went to your doctor. And say you told your doctor that your depression medications seem to have stopped working, but you’re not sure if it’s because you’ve had a lot of stressful things happening in your life lately or the meds just didn’t work.
Now say your doctor upped your meds. Then she tells you you need to stop sitting at home in front of the fridge, eating. Then she tells you that if you have to, you should put duct tape over your mouth.
Hypothetically, would this annoy you at all, given the fact that you haven’t been eating any more than you were before; in fact you’re basically living on cheerios and salads?
Just, you know, hypothetically.
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January 25, 2005 by Louise
PREPARE FOR THE 70s FASHIONS!!!
(more…)
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by Louise
So today I was at my therapy appointment (oooooo, I’m one of those…) and we were talking about one thing and she asked me some questions about how I feel about some things (am I being vague enough?). Eventually she asked me about how I react if someone else has something bad going on with them.
“Well, I feel responsible. Even if logically I know it’s not my fault that, say, my best friend had a bad day at work– I feel guilty and I want to make everything better. It’s like I want to fix everything in the world but who cares if I’m having a horrible day as long as everyone else is happy”.
“Oh, this is just GREAT! Exactly what I’ve been waiting for! Do me a favor? My dryer stopped working yesterday. What time can you be over? And do you have your own tool box?”
We sort of looked at each other for a second and both burst out laughing.
It’s so good that she gets me.
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January 24, 2005 by Louise
Our third snowstorm this week. Yesterday, Rob went in to work on the bus, because there was no way I could drive him in that. Then, about an hour after he got to work, buses stopped going because the roads were too bad and there was no plowing going on. He emailed me to let me know that either work was going to do some kind of shuttle service and get everyone home, or they were just going to put people up in rooms at the nearby hotel. Yeah. I haven’t spent a night without him when we’ve been in the same province, and I don’t intend to start; neither did he. Fortunately the shuttle service did work out, and he managed to get home about an hour later than he should have.
Now, today! The storm from yesterday carried through to this morning. Buses weren’t running, and our street wasn’t plowed out yet (it still isn’t, and it’s 4:21 pm– and yes, we do live in the city). So, he called in to work to say that he had no way of getting there. They took his name and address and said that the shuttle service was starting soon, and would call 10 minutes before arriving here to pick him up. This was at 10 am. Oh, now it’s 4:22. Rob’s still here. I’m assuming that they’re not going to be picking him up; it’s nice to have him home and it’s really nice of them to be offering a shuttle service, but for them to not show up? Kind of sucks.
Also, how retarded is it that we have underground parking, but there’s snow covering our car? HUH? HUH?!
Also? Rob is so very sweet.
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January 23, 2005 by Louise
… so it (should) stay at the top of the page for awhile. I’m still writing! Don’t be like me, looking at the sticky entry, and thinking “Gosh, this person hasn’t updated in a week!” only to discover later that you are a dink.
Anyway. This is my semi-annual call for links. No, not for you to link to me, no worries.
I’ve explained this before– I have the attention span and memory of a gnat. Therefore, remembering blogs to go to is hard for me, unless I’ve got you over on my list of links. I find most of my reads through my referrals page– if you link to me, I go and read you, and it’s fun, and then I don’t get a hit from your site for a few days, and I totally forget to read your page, and then I go through life thinking “Hmm. There was a blog I was reading. But I don’t remember what it was”. And, of course, I only remember to check my referrals page like, once a month or something.
SO! If you link to me, if you read me, and you’re not already on my links list (and I’ve noticed that I have a few on there who have stopped blogging but I so hate to take them down!) leave a comment or email me, and let me know. Then I’ll link you, and then I’ll remember to read your blog, and I won’t be driven completely insane by my own bad memory.
Thank you.
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