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August, 2007

  1. Watch this

    August 31, 2007 by Louise

    School’s starting again. I’m nervous. I’m okay, just nervous. Although every teacher I met last night told me that the classes were awesome and I’d love my students. I know it’s probably true, but there’s that .00002% chance that they’re just saying that to con me into liking it there.

    It’s funny– my classroom is the one I taught in when I did my final teaching practicum. My cooperating teacher was a doozy– he’s retired now, and 8 years ago I was his first student teacher after 30-odd years in the profession. I don’t think he quite knew what to do with me. Anyway. So I’m familiar with the classroom itself. I’m going to have 36 students in one of the classes I’m teaching– I’m not sure that the classroom is big enough to hold them all! Tomorrow I’ll be bringing in most of my stuff and setting up the rest of my room (maybe I can convince Rob to come with! Except that he’ll probably be sleepy so maybe not). I don’t remember seeing a clock in there (sorry folks, just thinking out loud) and if there’s no clock I will definitely need to either find my watch (I think I saw it around here somewhere… maybe…) or start looking at the Skagen watches site to find an idea as to what kind I would like to get. But I’m 99% sure that if I did that actual looking that all the kids are doing nowadays, I would find my own watch.

    OH BUT PEOPLE I AM SO NERVOUS CALM ME DOWN PLEASE.

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  2. makeup and big brother and yard stuff, oh my.

    August 30, 2007 by Louise

    Carrisa is awesome!

    I just had to say it ;)

    She recently posted about ELF cosmetics– and now I’m all excited. I mean– makeup for a dollar? Hells yeah. At first I was thinking “Okay, so each thing will be a dollar, but shipping will be $20…” but after having gone through, just for kicks, and added 14 items to my shopping cart and finding out shipping would only be $5, well, I’m sold. And cheap. Sold, and cheap, that’s me.

    Also. I am watching Big Brother right now. They REALLY do a LOT of editing on that show– stuff that happens on the feeds is super edited, mixed in with like, events from other days, all kinds of things. Of course it probably just makes for better TV that way. .
    Unfortunately *some* things aren’t edited… such as Amber telling God to bless himself. Serious. She has said, on more than one occasion during her “prayers” (I have nothing against people of faith– I am one– I just have a feeling that Amber hasn’t willingly set foot in a church in years, and once she is out of the house, she won’t then either), “I love you, God. God bless you, God“. It’s hilarious. And a little sad.

    Yard stuff: Our big summer party is on Saturday… and our backyard is in bad shape. Well, not really bad shape– in fact it’s pretty, with the gardens and such, but there are a couple of things I’d love to fix before people come over. Basically we need some tool storage, and we need to re-dig the patio. My nephews were supposed to be doing that this summer but… yeah, typical teenagers. So that’s probably not gonna get done before Saturday. People will have to suffer on our crooked old patio stones! Hopefully nobody falls over! And… it’s not supposed to rain. So that’s good.

    Okay that is all for now.

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  3. POINT FORM! IT RULES!

    August 28, 2007 by Louise

    The Internet is finally back at fullspeed here at our house… and of course I’m 100% writers’ blocked.

    But do you think that will stop me? HA! NO! A little point-form for ya.

    – Ms. Crafty Girl has turned me on to swap-bot… and now I have to force myself not to sign up for every dang swap there is. Because while receiving mail is awesome and one of my favourite things ever, I can’t justify spending thousands of dollars to send mail to others (plus we all know how I am retarded at actually making my way to the post office) (and I WOULD spend thousands of dollars on others, if I could, because I love giving people stuff!) (okay enough parentheses!).

    - Rob has SARS. Or a cold. Something like that. At this very moment he is lying upstairs and I am sending him little messages on the computer (yeah, too lazy to go all the way up there unless completely necessary) making sure he’s still alive. So far so good.

    - Over the past two days I have watched every episode of this past season of Dr. Who. I don’t like the new companion, but what can you do… and oooh, I get all tingly when the Doctor gets angry and wrathful. No reason, really. But yes. It’s a great show, you should watch it (starting at the very least when Chris Eccleston was the Doctor, you don’t have to go back 40-odd years, just three).

    - My eardrum is still all jacked up even though I took my meds like I was supposed to. Have you ever seen a jacked up eardrum? Better yet, have you ever tried to live with one? I’m dizzy all the time and it’s NOT FUN!

    - There is a skunk outside our house right now and it s-t-i-n-k-s. It didn’t spray anything, it’s just going around smelling up the place. Skunks don’t generally bathe that much, you know.

    - This coming saturday we are having an end-of-summer barbecue with over 20 guests. I’m a little nervous. Here’s hoping it doesn’t rain. If it does rain, we will have 20+ people inside our tiny house. Maybe we can play Charades!

    - My parents are leaving their cat with us when they go off on vacation the first week of September. I’m a little nervous of that, too.

    - I just realized that this post sucks the old bone! So I’m stopping now!

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  4. Reason #986838648 why I don’t enjoy dialup!

    August 26, 2007 by Louise

    I love Big Brother. I love it. I have watched every season since the first one, and I am not ashamed. This year we finally have the live feeds and… I missed the best moment of the summer so far, in my humble opinion, because of DIALUP. I mean… jeeze, I feel like I’m missing so much. For all I know they could be, at this very moment, running around in assless chaps and open tip bras, and I would be missing it!

    *pictures Dick Donato and his super-farting ways freed by the assless chaps*

    Eh, yeah, nevermind. I don’t need to see the live feeds THAT badly. Fortunately I have a couple of sources for information. And I’m not *that* addicted *twitch*.

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  5. See you in September

    August 24, 2007 by Louise

    Work starts again for me next week (well, officially, the week after, but I?ll be going in to get things ready next week because I like to Be Prepared). Am I excited? Sort of, yeah. I mean, if I?ve gotta work, as opposed to being independently wealthy with my own personal grape-peeler guy, then I may as well be working at a job that I love. And I?m super-excited that this year, I will be working like, ten minutes from home.

    This has never happened before.

    When I started teaching, I was living with my parents, half an hour outside town (where my job was). Then I moved to Halifax, and getting ANYWHERE took at least 45 minutes, if not more. And, for the past two years, I have worked an hour?s drive away from home. So now? To be working a ten-minute drive from my own house? That?s like HEAVEN! We had been spending at least $200 per month on gas; I can only see that expense going down, plus Al Gore won?t want to kick my ass as much.
    So yeah, kinda excited. Of course the second I see the reception desks in the main office I will probably start whining (?Ohhh, why wasn?t summer longerrrr??) but there?s only so much lounging one can do.

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  6. ka-ching

    by Louise

    On Sunday, a bunch of people from Rob?s work are coming over to watch something on Pay Per View. I will not say what it is, only that it involves fake punching. There will be chips and pop consumed. Possibly yelling on the part of the viewers (even the girls?GIRLS WILL YELL AT FAKE PUNCHING). Generally when these get-togethers occur I take myself off to another room and, well, don?t watch, but I swear I?m going to try to be less antisocial this weekend. Maybe. I mean, I?ll TRY. But there?s only so much I can take of the ? you know.
    Anyway?the title of this post. We don?t exactly have home theater seating up in our crib (remember the bucket couch? Yeah, you remember), so I?m trying to make sure our guests will be pretty comfy. You might be asking yourself what technology I am using to make sure of this? Well, I am making use of a very high-tech comfort-assurance method: I am sitting everywhere to test out all the chairs. I just found like, six dollars? worth of change in one of the chairs that we never ever sit in. Imagine if I hadn?t been concerned for our guests? comfort! We?d be so poor! So, let this be a lesson to you– being polite pays off.
    I?m thinking of going over to my friends? houses and checking out their sofas for comfort. You know, purely out of concern for their well-being. Would that be rude?

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  7. IS THIS THING ON?!!!

    by Louise

    Yesterday afternoon, I wanted to come on line and feed my addiction check on some things I?ve been looking at on Etsy. Tried. The lappy told me it couldn?t connect to the Internet. Of course I hollered for Rob ? I can 100% tell you that I don?t know how to fix the computer. There was once a time when I could bungle along fairly well, but nowadays, with all the newfangled programming and um? fire?wires and? computer things? Basically the only thing I know how to do is restart. Anyway. Rob came along. He tried connecting to the Internet. That didn?t work. He did some things to the wireless router. Didn?t work. He went to the actual ?real? computer and fiddled with that. Nope, nothing. Finally a phone call was made to the phone company, who had Rob re-do all the things he had just done, to no avail. Their conclusion? Something is wrong. The earliest they can send a tech to see what that might be? Monday, maybe Tuesday.

    FINE.

    People, I am now writing to you from the depths of Dialup. DIALUP. Has dialup always been this slow? I don?t think it was always this slow. I remember using dialup for quite awhile, and it being fine. So? how come in the time it took for me to log on here, I was able to go and cook a pot of oatmeal (no lie) ? This is not a good thing. Not a good thing at all.

    (also I have just now realized how much of a hold the Internet actually has on me?SIX TIMES yesterday alone I found myself in need of information ? a recipe, a knitting pattern, a phone number?and automatically thought ?I?ll look it up online?. Woe! Woe is me!)

    (AND! THE BIGGEST SLAP IN THE FACE! I can?t watch my Big Brother live feeds with dialup! LIFE IS SO UNFAIR! (/drama))

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  8. These are a few…

    August 22, 2007 by Louise

    I have to say, this has been one of my favourite things so far today.

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  9. Class of ’94

    by Louise

    Another meme, again, not sure where I swiped it from, but enjoy.

    (more…)

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  10. I’m youthful!

    August 20, 2007 by Louise

    Know what’s fun? Taking pills. Taking lots and lots of pills, every day.

    Okay not really. But I like to pretend that it is, since I find myself taking eight pills a day at the moment. Granted this is nowhere near the 18 a day I had to take at the high point of my rampant prednisone consumption, but it’s still a pain in the… throat.
    Not dying or anything! I just have lots of capsules to swallow sometimes!
    One is my much-lower-dose Tom Cruise Vitamin ™ . Two are folic acid. Two more are acid controllers. And then, three times a day, I have to take antibiotics for yet *another* ear infection.
    I swear, it’s like this summer is the Summer of Bad Ears. I haven’t had any problems with my ears since I was about 14 or 15 (granted, before that I had problems with them Every Day of my Life) and now– boom. Two courses of antibiotics in two months. I had to go to Outpatients’ this last time, because the soonest I could get an appointment with my family doctor was two weeks from now (by the way, I’m kind of curious as to why, when I went in for a problem with my ear, did they have to check my oxygen levels with a pulse oximeter???). Luckily we didn’t have to wait around very long, and the doctor just looked in, said “Hey, adults don’t usually have this type of ear problem, this isn’t swimmer’s ear, this is something kids outgrow by the time they’re seven”. He also said “Ew, gross”, but I wasn’t going to mention that.
    So. I *do* have a hole in my eardrum. I am also down about 75% of my hearing in my right ear. But damn, homey, I can hear like a son of a bitch with my left one, so don’t try to put anything past me!

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