Ch ch ch changes ...

So I fully admit that when it comes to cars I am probably one of your stereotypical girls. I mean, I know the basics: how to pump my own gas, how to check the pressure in my tires (although I am slack-ass about actually doing that one), how to check my oil, how to fill up the windshield washer fluid. With everything else my attitude is pretty much "if it's not making a funny noise it's not worrying me."

I do love my Jellybean though so every couple of months I take it for an oilchange and engine flush and tire rotation and whatever else those more mechanically inclined people feel like doing in exchange for my money. (Just for the record I am not so naive as to let myself get screwed over and do talk about any major repair work with unbiased people more in the know than I am.) I've been taking the Jellybean to the same place for a while there and I have pretty much dealt with this guy, Steve, the whole time. The last few times there has been this other guy (Not Steve) who has helped me but Steve has always been reassuringly in the background, or else Not Steve will answer the phone and set up the appointment but then Steve is there to walk me through everything else. Steve is my car guy. But then today I went in for my oilchange and there was a New Guy. No Steve. No Not Steve. And I felt very lost and wanted to ask the guy where Steve was because that was where I was taking my car. Which is irrational because it's not like Steve was the guy who worked on my car, and I am sure the mechanics do the same good job whether it is Steve or Not Steve or New Guy who is running things up front. But I want Steve (in case it wasn't already clear where exactly my loyalty lies).

More good news

Suddenly things are starting to gel.

A cute card from Melly & Roscoe complete with fun frog facts & pictures ... I picked my favorites and they were all Tree Frogs & Poison Dart Frogs. Who knew?
And also there is a fruit that has my name.
There you have my 2 Fun Facts for the day.

Plus ... My Greece trip is finally booked! As of about 5 minutes ago! So I am officially allowed to be just a little bit excited and start researching and figuring out exactly how I want to spend my time. Looks like 3 days in Athens and almost a week on Rhodes from April 26 - May 6. I already know I want to do a day trip to Delphi and a day trip to Crete and I think we are going to try and spend a day on either Santorini or Mykonos.

!!!

Have you been to Greece? Leave a comment if you have any suggestions on things I should see or do.

Trade?

I have one dripping sniffy nose that I will very willingly trade for a non-drippy sniffless one.
Any takers??

Somehow I didn't think so.

In other more positive news I got an e-mail from an old friend, managed to put some extra money into my RRSP before March 1 which makes me feel moderately fiscally responsible and got told how fabulous I am looking. Maybe there will be a break in my CrankFest sooner than expected.

Also with no more Thursday night Alias and total OC suckage I am apparently watching Survivor this season ... kind of half heartedly between the pages of the latest book I am reading .... and I have to say Shane? Is CRAZY. and if I was on his tribe I would be purposefully losing challenges so that I could vote him out that much faster. Sadly I am not sure that the other members of his tribe have entirely caught on to the extent of his craziness as witnessed by last weeks blatant refusal to vote him out. Maybe they are kind of crazy too.

Ok. So the point of moving over here was that I would update more. But then my brain sort of imploded on itself and I have not been able to motivate myself in any sort of remotely creative fashion because I am too busy being all "I have a plan!!" then "This plan sucks and is totally unrealistic" and back to the drawing board to "I have a new plan!!" to "this plan is also flawed" and it is so dull and tiresome that I want to poke my own eyes out with sticks never mind subject other people to my self-imposed insanity.

I blame post January blahs and pre April allergies. And possibly the Tim Hortons commercial about hockey that makes me cry everytime I see it.

One Year In

56 in 638 (I think. Bad Math. Bad.)

1.Finish my Europe Scrapbook

2.Make a CD for Kristy

3.Have coffee with Terry

4.Rewrite my resume - completed April 16, 2005

5.Go to the strippers with B & Neil - completed April 16, 2005

6.Continue working out minimum of 2x per week (preferably 4x) for all 1001 days

7.Read a minimum of 50 new books by January 23, 2006:
50 down; 0 to go - completed January 23, 2006

8.Buy a condo

9.Save for & go to Greece

10.Make the skirt that Chantal and I bought fabric for in October 2003

11.Pay off my edited to line of credit

12.Take a class – cooking, dance, pottery, photography, whatever: completed October 2005 - I've been taking step classes at the local gym

13.Visit Dave (I’ve only been promising for 2 years)- completed October 19-23,2005

14.Take a road trip - completed July 30 - August 3, 2005

15.Replace the battery in my watch/buy a new watch - completed March 19, 2004

16.Date someone for more than 2 seconds

17.Get a (at least one) professional massage - accomplished April 20, 2005

18.Learn a little HTML – I would be happy if I could add links in/to my entries - completed October 21, 2005

19.Do a perfect squat: completed July 21, 2005

20.Read something by Jane Austen

21.Drink an entire beer without once making my patented “This is terrible!” face - completed June 24, 2005

22.Renew my passport - completed July 27, 2005

23.Watch Season 7 of Buffy with B - completed March 25, 2005

24.Make cabbage rolls

25.Make perogies

26.Donate to 4 charities: 5 down 0 to go - completed September 16, 2005

27.Read 10 non-fiction books
4 down; 6 to go

28.Return the 4 books that have been sitting on my shelf waiting to go home for ages - completed May 11, 2005

29.Go to Vegas with the Trio of Trouble

30.Find a new job

31.Make a pie

32.Go to the zoo - completed July 30, 2005

33.Go to a museum

34.Go houseboating (even if I have to be in charge of organizing it)

35.Buy more pillows for my bed - completed February 12,2005

36.Buy a book of blender drinks - completed February 9, 2005

37.Buy (and use) shoe racks - completed February 19, 2005

38.Go skinny dipping

39.Buy fun new sheets

40.Learn how to drive stick

41.Try snowboarding

42.Eat at 6 new restaurants
a)Bulgogi House: February 10,2005
b)Dynasty (Dim Sum): February 20, 2005
c)Culina: May 28, 2005
d)Mongolie Grill: June 1, 2005
e)Langano Skies: November 2, 2005

43.Visit Donna & Foreman (not Wisconsin)

44.Visit Warmer than Here

45.Buy a plant - completed February 19, 2005

46.And keep it alive for at least 6 months: completed August 19, 2005

47.Have brunch with Stan: completed November 2, 2005 (technically it was supper but I'm counting it cause the goal was to spend time with Stan)

48.Clean out/organize drawers & closet - completed August 7, 2005

49.Play in the park: completed August 20, 2005

50.Fly a kite

51.Have a picnic lunch

52.Get drunk with Emily and swing on the swings in Gyro Park

53.See 5 plays - completed November 9, 2005
a)The Salon of the Talking Turk - March 4, 2005
b)Romeo & Juliet - July 5, 2005
c)Songs for a New World - August 24, 2005
d)Mamma Mia! - September 7, 2005
e)Chicago - November 9, 2005
f)At the Xenith of the Empire - November 10, 2005

54.Go on ebay

55.And actually buy something

56.Watch a porno

57.Make garlic toast that doesn’t make B gag - completed March 18, 2004

58.Go on an overnight hike

59.Take my used books to a used book store

60.Get a pedicure: completed May 18, 2005

61.Take a strippercise class with B - completed June 30, 2005

62.Go horseback riding

63.Go bowling

64.Watch the second half of Sex in the City Season 6 with Kristy - completed April 26, 2005

65.Go to the beach 3 times
a)Lake Invermere - July 31, 2005
b)Wasa Lake - August 2, 2005
c)Michelon Lake - August 21, 2005

66.Go camping: completed July 1-3, 2005

67.Get a library card - completed February 21, 2002

68.Buy something from a sex toy party/store

69.Make seafood crepes

70.Have a chocolate fondue night: completed January 6, 2006

71.Spend a full day at the spa

72.Get a new makeup bag - completed February 19, 2005

73.Buy a new TV

74.Drink a Hurricane

75.Go for a dress up supper

76.Do an entire crossword without getting help once: completed August 22, 2005

77.Watch Gone With the Wind

78.Clean out my car - completed August 4, 2005

79.Buy Season 1 of CSI - completed June 10, 2005

80.Replace the mats in my car with plastic ones

81.Throw a dinner party: completed December 18, 2005 (I am deciding that Pseudo Christmas counts)

82.Buy flowers for someone, just because - completed April 7, 2005

83.Buy myself flowers - completed April 2, 2005

84.Fix my frog prince (Greg did this for me)- completed November 11, 2005

85.Send 10 pieces of fun mail: 10 down;0 to go - I am considering this done cause I mailed out way more than 10 Christmas cards with personal notes and all. completed December 9, 2005

86.Go skiing

87.Buy a dress coat - completed November 11, 2005

88.Spend an afternoon shopping on Whyte Ave - completed April 2, 2005

89.Have a date with Beth & Melly & Terry

90.Eat Gelato

91.Go to a wine tasting

92.Go see a psychic/palm reader

93.Volunteer somewhere

94.Take a roll of black & white photos

95.Watch the sun rise

96.Take pictures of the city skyline from my current balcony: completed May 29, 2005

97.Go stargazing

98.Go skating

99.Go canoeing

100.Have a waterfight

101. Have hair long enough to put in braids again

* italics denote works in progress

THINKING ...

1. that I am an IDIOT for doing major leg workouts 2 days in a row (I blame BW)

2. that everytime I visit the Television without Pity website I am reminded how pissed I am that no channel that I get picked up Veronica Mars and although CTV will likely pick it up again for the summer season it was such a schmoz last summer that I am likely to be annoyed until I can get the entire season on DVD next Christmas.

3. that I need to stop getting 10 steps ahead of the game re: my meeting tomorrow (stop it)

4. that our new mail guy at work is really super cute. (no seriously. Super Cute) But I am not entirely sold on our "new" courier. I miss Kevin. He brought me a cinnamon bun.

5. I'm still thinking about the mail guy ...

Skepticism

Apparently I am getting a wee bit skeptical.

I am so used to having people call "emergency" when it is totally nothing of the sort.
"I spilled a glass of water."
"I need your fax number."
"I need to know what time you are open until."
"I moved 4 months ago."
"I stubbed my toe."
"I need to know your companies protocol if I were to die overseas AND suffer a Cat loss the same day." (And we thought I overthink things.)
These are not emergencies.

So of course today when a lady called up and claimed to have an emergency I rolled my eyes so hard they nearly popped out of my head. Only this time there actually was an emergency. Le sigh.

I am an asshole sometimes. Let's keep it our little secret.