Photos - Nepal, Tibet & India (May 2009)

Neighbourly Gifts

Time: 7:17pm
Mood: Laughing-kinda-mood
Song of the moment: Lady Gaga - Paparazzi

Hello blogging world! It's been a while! I still have to blog about Jimmy and I's trip to Nepal, Tibet & India and the fact that I've lived up to my New Year's resolution this year and applied for my P.Eng designation :D But that can wait - esp. since I'm still compiling my photos from my trip!

So ever since Jimmy and I have moved into our house, we've noticed we have some rather strange neighbours with behaviour I can't quite understand. Before we had our fence, we noticed our neighbour would leave food outside in their yard. We once found a half eaten sub tossed out into their yard... another time we found they had set out an aluminum tray with food bits. I found this behaviour a little odd considering you usually try to avoid attracting animals onto your property. Unfortunately we were the ones that suffered for this weird behaviour - the food attracted a rabbits and they left a half a grocery bag full of rabbit shit all over our lawn. Poor Jimmy had to pick it all up. It screwed up our grass as well - where the rabbit craps were, we had patches of grass missing. We're still trying to fix the patches!

So after our fence came up we thought the situation would improve. In fact, it has gotten stranger...

A few months ago Jimmy was mowing the lawn when he found something that was just made us scratch our heads. He found a half raw chicken wing. wtf?! And it was near the side of the fence we share with our strange neighbour. Since then, we've found random plastic bags, and just today we found a empty dirty styrofoam container.

So I've decided starting today, I am going to keep track of what ridiculous things I find in my yard courtesy of my neighbour.

Back To Dearborn

Time: 10:07pm
Mood: Exhausted
Song of the moment: Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

April is fast becoming the most stressful month of the year! So much as been going on at work that I really haven't found the time to prepare for my upcoming trip in May, except for two weekend when Jimmy and I made the trip downtown to MEC to buy some trip supplies - ended up spending $200+ on stuff! haha! But any chance I am able to squeeze in some down time I just want to laze around and do nothing. Like last weekend - Easter weekend - I didn't even go to church! I've digressing from a "seasonal" Catholic (only going to church during seasonal occasions) to a "wedding" Catholic (only going to chuch for weddings). I feel awful about that.

As I mentioned before, work has been nuts. I had to do a major presentation last week for a major flooring manufacturer - my first one since I started working here. It went really well - it was actually more of a discussion than a presentation, but still, I was nervous! I'm back in Windsor this week for work (sarcastic *yay*) to run some material trials. I'm stressed about the trials because things don't seem to be going the way I would like them to, and it might mean I have to come back next week Monday to finish off the trials. I really don't want to do that! On top of that (to add to the pressure), the materials I'm running need to be submitted for testing - a test that I'm flying out to view. Plane tickets are already booked, so the clock is ticking on this! Ahhh!!

So I took a trip over to Dearborn today - I haven't been there since I quit PMP. Why did I go? I had to buy some flooring products from Home Depot. Unfortunately they don't sell that product in the Canadian Home Depot, but they sell it in the States. So I figured, since I was already in Windsor, might as well drive over and buy it. So I was at the Home Depot, walking towards the flooring product section when all of a sudden this crusty man walked by me and said "Girl! You know you're sexy!" WTF?!? ROFLMAO! The moment he walked away I couldn't help but burst out laughing. Most hilarous thing ever! Stuff like that could only happen in Detroit! haha!

I ended up meeting with Ruby for dinner. I haven't seen here since I stopped coming down to Detroit. It was great seeing her again :D I always like seeing old friends!

*sigh* 3 more days until I can go home....

80K!

Time: 12:33pm
Mood: Happy!
Song of the moment: The Killers - Spaceman

My car hit 80K on my way to Windsor yesterday! Aww it's getting older...

To commemorate this occasion I took a picture :) Taking picture while you're driving - not recommended! LoL

Facebook vs. Twitter

Time: 9:09pm
Mood: Awful (my stomach is upset... again.. blah!)
Song of the moment: Ne Yo - Mad

I've been hearing all the buzz about Twitter and how it's the "in" thing to do in terms of internet social networking. So I thought I would check it out to see what all the hype was about.

I can see that Twitter basically took the most popular thing out of Facebook - updates on what the person is doing. I admit, when I do go on Facebook, I no longer browse through my friend's profiles, or write on their walls. I'm checking up on their status and commenting on them. But I find I still like Facebook better. It is possible that I'm just used to the idea of Facebook, but I still find it fun. Or would it because I simply have more friends using Facebook than Twitter?

I guess I like the idea of having the option of doing more on Facebook. Let me give you an example. Last year, my coworkers are I were engaged in a fighting game which involved vampires, warewolves, zombies and slayers (I'm sure a lot of Facebookers know what I'm talking about). I admit this game was the dumbest game ever but we got so into it. It got really competitive.. and I do mean REALLY competitive. We started forming alliances with each other, even going on message boards to find people to fight us so we could gain more points. But the point of the matter is, this website and it's little games brought us together - it was that fun thing we all did.

Although I'm still enjoy Facebooking every day, I'm going to continue to try out Twitter for the time being. Lets see how long this lasts....