Oh my barf, the bad luck has continued. Why am I surprised?
Last night I decided to make the most of the evening, and get all gussied up and go to our FHE Halloween party. (I went as Miss Victoria Park…not really a costume, seeing as I have won the title, but a lot of the people didn’t know that I had won the title earlier in the year. Plus, it was a good chance to wear my crown again.)
We had a fun time and I ended up winning one of the best costume awards. Really I didn’t have the best costume…I just had loud friends. (Thanks none the less…I get a sick thrill out of winning those dumb FHE awards.)
After FHE, I dragged my poor sick roommate with me to go on our patented Post-FHE errand running. We stopped to get gas, and then made one of our funny trips to get groceries. We goofed around and bought a lot of unnecessary candy, ran into a guy from our ward, had a good time talking to the cashier. And then that is when the trouble started.
I began to pay for my stuff and waited for my debit transaction to go through, and then heard the sound we all hate to hear. Beep...Insufficient Funds in Account. What?!? So, I tried the other account to see if maybe I would have enough in there. I was pretty sure that I wouldn’t, but I was praying for a miracle. Beep…Insufficient Funds in Account.
Oh well, I guess I will just have to put it on my Visa. The cashier runs the card through and we all wait for it. And then, in quite voice she says, “Uhmm…it says your card has expired.” Oh right! I had forgotten that I had gotten a new card in the mail a couple of weeks ago.
“Well, if it is okay, I will just run to the bank machine over there and get some money. Sorry about this.” I said to the very patient cashier. I ran over to the machine. How embarrassing this night had been. Just get the money and get out of here.
And there on the screen said,
“Machine Down for Scheduled Maintenance. Sorry for the Inconvenience.”
Oh my barf. Now what am I going to do. I guess just tell them to take my groceries back and pretty much never darken the doorway of this store again because of this horrible embarrassment.
Then up walks the guy from my ward. “Here Denise, take this...don’t worry about it.” And he pushes a wad of bills at me. Oh my good heavens, if I wasn’t completely mortified before. Hesitating, I take the money from the guy, quickly give it to our cashier, and run as fast as I can out of the store. Vowing to pay cash for everything from now on.
In order to remove the large albatross of debt from around my neck, I hurry to the bank to get money to pay back this wonderful guy. And at the bank realize I was twenty cents short in that account! All of this mess for twenty cents! If only I hadn’t stopped to get gas first. Or if only I wouldn’t have waited until today, payday, to get groceries.
Everything is okay, and I am sure that this guy will never mention this saga again, but still highly embarrassing…although, I guess not too embarrassing to write on here.
Oh well, Happy Halloween. Hopefully November will go better.
Love you. Even if you don’t love me.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Constants Aren't So Constant Anymore
Can you believe that there are people out there that hate me? Okay, seriously, maybe I live in this little bubble where I think the world is pretty cool with me for the most part. But I am oh so wrong! Seriously, this is really stressing me out. So yesterday, this person confronts me to tell me that they hate me. And apparently has been bad mouthing me to other people, and they all feel the same way that this person does. I am seriously next to Satan for most hated person. I think Hitler comes in a close third. I was never really told the reason of the hatred. Just that this person hates me and all of my friends, but I am the worst of the bunch. Now the funniest part is that you would never, Never, NEVER guess that I was hated so much. Everyone has been so nice to me, this person included. So I guess I don’t know what to do now. I don’t really want to be friends with this person. We definitely weren’t best friends before, and I think that is where some of the anger is coming from. Or maybe I should kill them with kindness? Who would hate me?!? Why?!?
Oh my good heavens. First people hate me, and then people tell me I have no style or taste, and everyone I love is going out on dates with other people and my own brother doesn’t want to hang out with his only sister! Maybe my fortune cookie was right when it said, “Now is the time to break away from the old.”
Oh well, someday there will be happiness in Nottingham. I know there are people out there that don’t hate me, even if it is just my mom. And just because I don’t have your style doesn’t mean that I don’t have my own. Who said you had the market on what was good?. People can date other people…heck, I can date other people. Try to stop me. And well, if one brother doesn’t want me, I always have another.
Good luck to us all.
Love You. Come back to me soon.
Oh my good heavens. First people hate me, and then people tell me I have no style or taste, and everyone I love is going out on dates with other people and my own brother doesn’t want to hang out with his only sister! Maybe my fortune cookie was right when it said, “Now is the time to break away from the old.”
Oh well, someday there will be happiness in Nottingham. I know there are people out there that don’t hate me, even if it is just my mom. And just because I don’t have your style doesn’t mean that I don’t have my own. Who said you had the market on what was good?. People can date other people…heck, I can date other people. Try to stop me. And well, if one brother doesn’t want me, I always have another.
Good luck to us all.
Love You. Come back to me soon.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Couldn't Escape If I Wanted To
Another weekend is here. Isn't about time. Although this week did go pretty fast considering the circumstances. C'est La Vie.
The Halloween Dance was last night. I am really not a fan of Halloween. Why am I giving kids I don't know candy? And why do I have to go to a lot of work and money to dress up? For what? Sorry I am the Halloween grinch. The dance was meh, at best. There were insane amounts of people there, and it was super dark in there. It made it difficult to recognize anyone. I went with my patented costume of "Hot Girl with Wings". Trevor went as "Hot Boy with Wings".
Preference is coming up faster than I would like. I am all ready. I finished up my stupid elaborate asking thing the other night, and now I just have to wait for the right time to give it to him. I am so proud of my creativity...it is totally perfect. Now we just need to pray that he hasn't already been asked, or is going to be asked. My thing is so personalized that it just wouldn't work to give it to someone else. Oh my. Okay, enough. I don't know why Preference always gets me in such knots. Check out the entries from last year.
Flick is moving in today. Which will be so nice to have her with me again. It is hard to believe that we only met each other a year ago. It is hard to believe that we were living at 727 a year ago!?! It seems so much longer than that. Plus with Flick in the house, rent will be so much cheaper!
Life seems to be in some weird almost transition stage. Which, I can personally say, I am ready for. Oh well. Where is the year going?
Love you. More than you even know.
The Halloween Dance was last night. I am really not a fan of Halloween. Why am I giving kids I don't know candy? And why do I have to go to a lot of work and money to dress up? For what? Sorry I am the Halloween grinch. The dance was meh, at best. There were insane amounts of people there, and it was super dark in there. It made it difficult to recognize anyone. I went with my patented costume of "Hot Girl with Wings". Trevor went as "Hot Boy with Wings".
Preference is coming up faster than I would like. I am all ready. I finished up my stupid elaborate asking thing the other night, and now I just have to wait for the right time to give it to him. I am so proud of my creativity...it is totally perfect. Now we just need to pray that he hasn't already been asked, or is going to be asked. My thing is so personalized that it just wouldn't work to give it to someone else. Oh my. Okay, enough. I don't know why Preference always gets me in such knots. Check out the entries from last year.
Flick is moving in today. Which will be so nice to have her with me again. It is hard to believe that we only met each other a year ago. It is hard to believe that we were living at 727 a year ago!?! It seems so much longer than that. Plus with Flick in the house, rent will be so much cheaper!
Life seems to be in some weird almost transition stage. Which, I can personally say, I am ready for. Oh well. Where is the year going?
Love you. More than you even know.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
In Case of Emergency, Break Glass
Can we start the day over? Maybe not the day, maybe like the last 12 hours? It seems like everything I touch, falls apart! I don’t know when it all started. Things seemed to be going so well yesterday. I got off work early yesterday, went home finished cleaning the house, and got most of my laundry done before FHE. Following FHE, I was able to talk with a good friend I hadn’t seen in a while and Colin brought over his Logic so that I could help him study. I think this is when it all went wrong.
Now I loved Logic! Love. It always seemed so logical. But when Colin opened his books…we could have been looking at his physic books for all I knew. Yes, of course some of it came back, like truth tables and conjunctive statements. But what is a “wff” and where are the Venn Diagrams? Needless to say, I wasn’t much help to the studying, so we mostly just goofed around and consequently made the house very messy again. After Colin’s random texting and recurrent girlfriend mentioning, and departure, Flick and I decided to grab some food at Denny’s.
Now you should all know that me and Flick truly hate Denny’s, so what possessed us to go and eat this devil food, so late at night, I will never know. First of all, this food is about the lowest quality you can eat. I am surprised that the Health Board has not shut them down. Plus, everything is covered, covered in grease. I think that even if you got a salad you would find this to be true. And there is always quite a hodge podge of people that hang out at Denny’s late at night. Just like every other trip, last night was no exception.
Flick and I said our goodbyes and I headed home to straighten up our house and fall into bed. Nevertheless, when I got home, I discovered I had locked myself out!
Alright, I understand that I am crazy, but I have all of my keys on separate key chains. The car keys are one key chain, the house on another and the church keys on yet another. This has never been a problem! But of all nights to lock myself out! At least my roommates were going to be home later in the night, but the house was a mess and all the lights were still on. So I headed to my parents house to sleep and got up early this morning to head to the other house to get ready for work. I have kept the house so organized and clean the whole week! And it was all for naught! Best laid schemes!
Sleeping at my parents’ house was quite surreal. My parents’ house was really my grandparents’ house a few years ago, and I spent the five years of college and university living in that house and that room. So this is not the room I grew up. However, the same bed and furniture were in my room in Brooks. Seeing as I moved out of that house shortly after my parents moved to Lethbridge, the walls are completely bare, just a few stray nails to make it look like anyone ever lived in there.
I have been really off all day, and keep dropping things or accidentally turning off my computer and just a general off-ness. I hope that the rest of the day gets a little better, and my roommates are not horribly mad at the state of the house. C’est La Vie?
Love you! Miss you! Pleased as punch for this time with you.
Now I loved Logic! Love. It always seemed so logical. But when Colin opened his books…we could have been looking at his physic books for all I knew. Yes, of course some of it came back, like truth tables and conjunctive statements. But what is a “wff” and where are the Venn Diagrams? Needless to say, I wasn’t much help to the studying, so we mostly just goofed around and consequently made the house very messy again. After Colin’s random texting and recurrent girlfriend mentioning, and departure, Flick and I decided to grab some food at Denny’s.
Now you should all know that me and Flick truly hate Denny’s, so what possessed us to go and eat this devil food, so late at night, I will never know. First of all, this food is about the lowest quality you can eat. I am surprised that the Health Board has not shut them down. Plus, everything is covered, covered in grease. I think that even if you got a salad you would find this to be true. And there is always quite a hodge podge of people that hang out at Denny’s late at night. Just like every other trip, last night was no exception.
Flick and I said our goodbyes and I headed home to straighten up our house and fall into bed. Nevertheless, when I got home, I discovered I had locked myself out!
Alright, I understand that I am crazy, but I have all of my keys on separate key chains. The car keys are one key chain, the house on another and the church keys on yet another. This has never been a problem! But of all nights to lock myself out! At least my roommates were going to be home later in the night, but the house was a mess and all the lights were still on. So I headed to my parents house to sleep and got up early this morning to head to the other house to get ready for work. I have kept the house so organized and clean the whole week! And it was all for naught! Best laid schemes!
Sleeping at my parents’ house was quite surreal. My parents’ house was really my grandparents’ house a few years ago, and I spent the five years of college and university living in that house and that room. So this is not the room I grew up. However, the same bed and furniture were in my room in Brooks. Seeing as I moved out of that house shortly after my parents moved to Lethbridge, the walls are completely bare, just a few stray nails to make it look like anyone ever lived in there.
I have been really off all day, and keep dropping things or accidentally turning off my computer and just a general off-ness. I hope that the rest of the day gets a little better, and my roommates are not horribly mad at the state of the house. C’est La Vie?
Love you! Miss you! Pleased as punch for this time with you.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Leave While There's Still Hope For Escape
Well, I am alone. And sick. Not the best combination, but it really hasn’t been that bad. I really hate to admit it, but so far, will minus the inability to breathe; this sabbatical has not been all that bad.
Loneliness is only temporary, as I have held Cody and Flick hostage. I can’t say that we are having the most fun in the world; do you consider pie and Full House fun? The Spin the Bottle party has had to be put on the backburner considering my contagious state.
My room is still a mess, but it is pretty easy to keep the rest of the house clean, and the dishwasher is really great. Maybe living on my own wouldn’t be that bad…who am I kidding. I really would turn into the crazy cat lady if I lived on my own. Well, except I wouldn’t own any cats. So pretty much, I would just be crazy.
In terms of being sick, the only advice I have for you all is to not mock others in their sickness. Bad karma will be returned to you. But I did enjoy the time off of work and all of the sympathy…and subsequent drug offers. Now it is just in that awkward stage, where you have to go to work and spend about half of your day trying not to fall asleep at your desk.
A big thanks to Flick for all the Full House fun and late night slurpees, to Cody for believing in pie without ice cream and of course to my Mama and Papa for making me eat a lot of oranges, take disgusting cough syrup and letting me sleep on their couch all while trying to guilt trip me into dating. What would I do without you all?
Love you! Miss you! Come back soon, or never leave.
Loneliness is only temporary, as I have held Cody and Flick hostage. I can’t say that we are having the most fun in the world; do you consider pie and Full House fun? The Spin the Bottle party has had to be put on the backburner considering my contagious state.
My room is still a mess, but it is pretty easy to keep the rest of the house clean, and the dishwasher is really great. Maybe living on my own wouldn’t be that bad…who am I kidding. I really would turn into the crazy cat lady if I lived on my own. Well, except I wouldn’t own any cats. So pretty much, I would just be crazy.
In terms of being sick, the only advice I have for you all is to not mock others in their sickness. Bad karma will be returned to you. But I did enjoy the time off of work and all of the sympathy…and subsequent drug offers. Now it is just in that awkward stage, where you have to go to work and spend about half of your day trying not to fall asleep at your desk.
A big thanks to Flick for all the Full House fun and late night slurpees, to Cody for believing in pie without ice cream and of course to my Mama and Papa for making me eat a lot of oranges, take disgusting cough syrup and letting me sleep on their couch all while trying to guilt trip me into dating. What would I do without you all?
Love you! Miss you! Come back soon, or never leave.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Why Aren't There More Turkey Dedicated Holidays?
With Thankgiving over all that is left of this year are unpleasant experiences…Halloween, Preference and Christmas. Out of all of those, I can’t decide which I hate more. But who knows, the way this year has gone, maybe they will all be positive experiences. I will be optimistic and hopeful.
This was our first camp free long weekend, but it didn’t stop us from having a wonderful time. Friday started out with a girl’s trip to the mall, which really has turned into a weekly occurrence. What can I say, me and Flick love to shop, and the other don’t mind coming along for a good time.
After some time to get ready, we headed to the dance…I headed there about an hour later…better late than never. I can’t believe that I am going to admit this…but I had fun at the dance. Was it because all of my favourite men were there? Probably. Was it because all of my favourite ladies were there? Most defiantly. I don’t know, it really seemed like all the other dances I have been to…maybe I just had a better attitude.
Following the dance, all of my favourite people came over to watch our new favourite show. Arrested Development. I think Jenny has really made believers out of all of us. What are we going to do when they are all in New York?!? (Which is only a few days away! What am I going to do?!?)
Saturday had an odd start, with waking up at 8:30am, even after we had all stayed up so late the night before. I am seriously in love with sleeping in. It is really the only thing I look forward to all week. So, to be up so early on a Saturday was quite saddening to me. I tried to go back to sleep, but it was no use. So I headed over to my family’s house. Subsequently they were all shocked to have me at their house so early.
Saturday we had a birthday party for Ginger. Jenny and I had been stressing about it for the past month when we came up with the idea. It seemed like every time we would get everything settled on this birthday party, there would be some setback, and we would have to start all over. Nevertheless, everything went as intended, with all of our favourite people in attendance, and a couple of rounds of Around the World Ping Pong….a Malacko favourite. The night ended with a creepy movie (but then again, I only saw half of it) and some awkward, unnecessary physical contact. Yes! Again!
The weekend rounded out with more Arrested Development watching…”How grand, how terribly grand.” The weekend just turned into a wonderful blur, and one of the best Thanksgivings’ to date.
Here’s too more turkey sandwiches, wonderful friends, excellent laughs all with wonderful thanksgiving.
Love you more everyday! Thankful for you all the time!
This was our first camp free long weekend, but it didn’t stop us from having a wonderful time. Friday started out with a girl’s trip to the mall, which really has turned into a weekly occurrence. What can I say, me and Flick love to shop, and the other don’t mind coming along for a good time.
After some time to get ready, we headed to the dance…I headed there about an hour later…better late than never. I can’t believe that I am going to admit this…but I had fun at the dance. Was it because all of my favourite men were there? Probably. Was it because all of my favourite ladies were there? Most defiantly. I don’t know, it really seemed like all the other dances I have been to…maybe I just had a better attitude.
Following the dance, all of my favourite people came over to watch our new favourite show. Arrested Development. I think Jenny has really made believers out of all of us. What are we going to do when they are all in New York?!? (Which is only a few days away! What am I going to do?!?)
Saturday had an odd start, with waking up at 8:30am, even after we had all stayed up so late the night before. I am seriously in love with sleeping in. It is really the only thing I look forward to all week. So, to be up so early on a Saturday was quite saddening to me. I tried to go back to sleep, but it was no use. So I headed over to my family’s house. Subsequently they were all shocked to have me at their house so early.
Saturday we had a birthday party for Ginger. Jenny and I had been stressing about it for the past month when we came up with the idea. It seemed like every time we would get everything settled on this birthday party, there would be some setback, and we would have to start all over. Nevertheless, everything went as intended, with all of our favourite people in attendance, and a couple of rounds of Around the World Ping Pong….a Malacko favourite. The night ended with a creepy movie (but then again, I only saw half of it) and some awkward, unnecessary physical contact. Yes! Again!
The weekend rounded out with more Arrested Development watching…”How grand, how terribly grand.” The weekend just turned into a wonderful blur, and one of the best Thanksgivings’ to date.
Here’s too more turkey sandwiches, wonderful friends, excellent laughs all with wonderful thanksgiving.
Love you more everyday! Thankful for you all the time!
Thursday, October 05, 2006
"This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays"
A BIG Happy Birthday to Ginger today! Although she would die if she knew that I had announced it on here. Oh well, Happy Birthday anyways. Plans for her party are coming along well, considering what a Gong Show it has been to get everything together. But I think all of the major crisis are over, and everything should be okay, and relatively low key. (Too hard to get someone to jump out of a cake these days…although keep that in mind for my next birthday.)
We were all at institute last night; everything was going well, very institute-esque. Then all of the sudden the girl in front of me passed out and fell right out of her chair! Seriously, it was so scary. So class stopped and we were all trying to get out of the way so that she could get some help. She apparently is hypoglycemic, which means she needs to keep her blood sugar at a constant level. So everyone is looking for candy and someone from the back of the room yells, “Denise will have candy!” So everyone helplessly looked at me. I like that out of everything I do and am, candy is the only thing that I get remembered for. (I don’t really mind, I do like candy, it is true.)But sadly I didn’t have anything! Nothing! I had considered bringing suckers to institute, but then thought against it! If only I had, I could have been the real hero or at least made the girl feel a bit better. I guess the moral of the story is always, ALWAYS have candy with you. You never know when it will save someone’s life or just make you feel better.
We all came home, ate some candy for good measure, wrote some more HILAROUS songs and settled in to watch our new favourite show, Arrested Development. After a lot of laughs, we finally went to bed.
Oh yes, and everyone make sure that you watch for Flick’s shirt at the dance on Friday. We all think it is going to be funny. Although our motto is, when you think you are funny, you aren’t.
Here’s to Thursday! We are so close to the weekend, it might as well be Saturday.
Love you! Miss you! Think the world of you!
We were all at institute last night; everything was going well, very institute-esque. Then all of the sudden the girl in front of me passed out and fell right out of her chair! Seriously, it was so scary. So class stopped and we were all trying to get out of the way so that she could get some help. She apparently is hypoglycemic, which means she needs to keep her blood sugar at a constant level. So everyone is looking for candy and someone from the back of the room yells, “Denise will have candy!” So everyone helplessly looked at me. I like that out of everything I do and am, candy is the only thing that I get remembered for. (I don’t really mind, I do like candy, it is true.)But sadly I didn’t have anything! Nothing! I had considered bringing suckers to institute, but then thought against it! If only I had, I could have been the real hero or at least made the girl feel a bit better. I guess the moral of the story is always, ALWAYS have candy with you. You never know when it will save someone’s life or just make you feel better.
We all came home, ate some candy for good measure, wrote some more HILAROUS songs and settled in to watch our new favourite show, Arrested Development. After a lot of laughs, we finally went to bed.
Oh yes, and everyone make sure that you watch for Flick’s shirt at the dance on Friday. We all think it is going to be funny. Although our motto is, when you think you are funny, you aren’t.
Here’s to Thursday! We are so close to the weekend, it might as well be Saturday.
Love you! Miss you! Think the world of you!
Monday, October 02, 2006
Happy October?!?
A bright and cheery Monday to you all. Actually, I feel more like death this morning and heaven knows the last place I want to be today is at work... I just need to go back to bed today.
The weekend was such a blur, seriously, where did it go?
Friday was pretty low key with some new friends and some of our favourite old friends. Jenny introduced us to the worst, most horrific “game” in the world. I don’t know how any of us are going to look at some people the same way again, especially the Wood brothers.
Saturday, after some erratic driving, and a lot more running than any of us bargained for, we ended up all staying up WAY, WAY too late and subsequently really felt the pain of that decision on Sunday.
The conference party was such a big success. Better than last time? I don’t know, but it was still good. Great food, lots of friends and heaps of candy. Our house it completely trashed, we were way too tired to clean it up yesterday, but it was still a great time. I can’t wait for April for it to all happen again.
We went on a beautiful walk last night, wrote some songs, like “Turkeys are Satan’s Bird on Earth”, “Scrubbing a Fork” and "Kinder Suprise", and then watched The Third Wheel, well watched it the best way that we could with all the noisy talking around us.
We all fell asleep quite easily. Life keeps going by at a lightening speed. It is amazing that every weekend is so jam packed, and over before we know it.
Love you! Thankful for every minute spent with you.
The weekend was such a blur, seriously, where did it go?
Friday was pretty low key with some new friends and some of our favourite old friends. Jenny introduced us to the worst, most horrific “game” in the world. I don’t know how any of us are going to look at some people the same way again, especially the Wood brothers.
Saturday, after some erratic driving, and a lot more running than any of us bargained for, we ended up all staying up WAY, WAY too late and subsequently really felt the pain of that decision on Sunday.
The conference party was such a big success. Better than last time? I don’t know, but it was still good. Great food, lots of friends and heaps of candy. Our house it completely trashed, we were way too tired to clean it up yesterday, but it was still a great time. I can’t wait for April for it to all happen again.
We went on a beautiful walk last night, wrote some songs, like “Turkeys are Satan’s Bird on Earth”, “Scrubbing a Fork” and "Kinder Suprise", and then watched The Third Wheel, well watched it the best way that we could with all the noisy talking around us.
We all fell asleep quite easily. Life keeps going by at a lightening speed. It is amazing that every weekend is so jam packed, and over before we know it.
Love you! Thankful for every minute spent with you.
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