Lot 43A

Time: 10:20pm
Mood: Excited!
Song of the moment: Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance

It's been quite an exciting weekend for Jimmy and I :D We signed on to purchase our brand new home! It's not official yet, we still have the let the paper work go through and get a pre-approval on our mortgage (eeks a mortgage! I feel old!). But Lot 43A is ours for now! It's been so fast! We started our house-hunting last weekend. We knew which area we wanted to live in, so we went to all the builders that were building homes in that area. We took a crap load of floorplans home and we finally narrowed it down to one. We inquired about which lots were available but the pickin's weren't all that great. It was too close to the main road and I thought it would get too noisy and busy. The sales associate told us that they were expecting to open 5 new lots on Saturday. Saturday (yesterday) rolled along and we called first thing in the morning and lucky for us, the 5 new lots that opened were in a nice location. We went in and signed!

I can't believe it!

There are so many things to think about now! Not only do we have a wedding to plan, we have to think about how to design and decorate our new home! It doesn't close until next May.. but still! Exciting times for Jimmy and I! The next problem is: how are we going to pay for this all?

Anyway, here's the floorplan to our new home :)

















This week is going to be crazy for me :S Gotta get pre-approved for the mortgage, find a lawyer to look over the contract.. and on top of that I have to head down to Michigan for a training session @ Ford. My first business trip! Least I have some time away from the office :) It's crazy.. I'm going to have to go down to Michigan almost every week this month. Next week I have a meeting w/ GM, and then the following week I have training @ Ford again. March is definitely going to be fun fun fun!! Hm... on the plus side... maybe I can sneak in some shopping @ VS :D

Beaten @ Our Own Game...

Time: 10:18pm
Mood: sad :(
Song of the moment: Jack Johnson - Upside Down

I can't believe it. Actually I can. Team Canada (hockey) lost to the Russians in the quarter final game. 2-0. They didn't even score a goal!! Yeah.. so I'm not too happy about that. And I'm guessing my fellow Canadians feel the sting of a no-goal, no-medal showing @ the Olympics. I must say I didn't expect much out of this team after watching them play the Swiss team on the weekend. They just don't play well as a team. Where was the lucky loonie this time?! Obviously not burried @ center ice :P Oh well.. we'll just have to wait 'til the Olympics hit Van-city in 2010!

So I've been a bit frustrated @ work lately. I've been staying late every single day these past two weeks. I stayed until 7:30 yesterday, and 7 today. Partially b/c other people can't do their job properly, making me suffer. I had this guy tell me my work was "unaccetable" because it wasn't organized in the way he wanted it to be organized. But really, it's HIS job to organize the data, I am there merely to provide him w/ it. He INSISTED it was my job (this happened yesterday). I was so flustered after dealing w/ that incompetent asshole of a man, and went back to tell my co-workers. They ALL told me it wasn't my job to organize the data. I even asked the other Validation Engineer, even my old boss and they all said it wasn't my responsiblity. So today I stormed back and told him he could organize it himself. What did he do? He told me he wasn't accepting my work. Period. I told him it wasn't my job and that he could even ask my boss about it. Instead he directed me to his boss. His boss was nice.. and in the end, I agreed (and I made this clear that it was out of the goodness of my heart and I was doing them a HUGE favor) that I would assist them in organizing it (even though I had already organized the data.. they just didn't like the way I organized it... those f**kers!). I'm just too f-ing nice I guess :P

I have no problem stepping beyond what is required of me.. but only if it doesn't keep me from doing what I am being paid to do. I have been completely swamped the past few days, and for these guys that obviously have no idea what they're doing there to tell me what my job is, and pretty much force me to do their job.. that just ticks me off. I hate ppl like that.

At least I have ppl backing me up :) 2 more days til the weekend (this is bad.. I'm starting to work for the weekends...*sigh* I need a new job.. haha)

Olympic Obsessed

Time: 1:58pm
Mood: Tired & Lazy
Song of the moment: Jack Johnson - Upside Down

I know I havn't blogged in the longest time. I've been so busy @ work :S I think I've stayed late every day these past 3 weeks. Last friday I stayed at work until 8:30.. this friday I stayed until 7. This is absolutely ridiculous. There is just too much to do for one person, and I'm getting pushed by 3 different people to do 3 different things, each which needs my absolute full attention. *sigh* I am getting overworked for sure!

So the Torino Olympics started last week and guess who's obsessed? I love watching the olympics, especially the winter ones. I wish I could take 2 weeks off just to watch! Actually I'm watching right now :) haha! Canada has 12 medals so far *yay*! *crosses fingers* hope there are more to come! Go Canada Go!! I'm still pretty pissed off about the Canada/Swiss men's hockey game *grr* Hopefully they play better today...

This week has been so busy that I didn't have a chance to celebrate Valentines day w/ Jimmy until this Friday. His gift to me was to make me dinner :) It just was a little sucky b/c I had to stay late for work on friday, so we ate pretty late (stupid work!). But I did have a chance to celebrate his birthday w/ him on wednesday :D I took him out for Japanese food :)

Hahah I don't quite feel motivated to write for some reason.. partially b/c I'm watching the olympics! haha! Oooh!! Canada definitely has another medal!! Just what colour is yet to come (gold or silver in bobsled...) Exciting!! :D

Absolutely Unreal!

Time: 7:05pm
Mood: pissed off.. but glad it's Friday!
Song of the moment: Oasis - Champagne Supernova

I'm in an Oasis mood right now... partially b/c I just got the Oasis concert tickets I got in the mail *yay*! haha! I'm going w/ Al, a big Oasis fan I used to live w/ in 4th @ Waterloo :D

Anyway, I've had the most 2 unreal days ever. I'll start with the one that completely pissed me off, then I'll get into the fun one! :D

"GO AWAY"

So I was @ work yesterday, and work has been getting increadibly busy lately. I've been working my ass off and staying late almost every night. Today, I didn't have anything to eat until 2:30 :S Anyway, so it was the middle of the afternoon, a lab tech called me up and asked me to get some clips to put on this part so that he could mount in on a testing fixture. So I decided to go to the production floor (which was 3 buildings over!) and see if they had any clips. I talked to the floor manager, and he directed me to another guy who was on the floor. So I began to walk around the floor looking for this guy. I finally find him, but he was busy so I stood by him and waiting for him to be no so busy. Just then, I suppose a customer tour was going through, and among them was this program manager I was working with on one of his programs. He approched me and asked me what I was doing, so I told him. So he began to tell me where I could go about getting these clips. All of a sudden, this Indian man with a snotty British accent came up to us, looked at me and said in the most rude and condescending voice "GO AWAY". I gave him a puzzled look because I was trying to figure out if he was joking or not because it was so increadibly rude it was unreal. He said it again "GO AWAY". At this point I was still trying to see if he was kidding, but I was beginning to think he wasn't. Then he said "GO AWAY BEFORE I LOSE MY TEMPER". So he was serious. I walked away. I was mad and extremely upset. For real, I've never EVER been talked to that way before. No one should. I went back to my desk extremely upset and pissed off.. sat there for a moment then decided to go to the lab and tell the lab tech I couldn't find any clips. As I was walkin to the lab, I saw the program manager I was talking to earlier and he called me into his office. The first thing he did was apologize for the way that guy talked to me. That's when I started to cry. We talked for a while, then I went down to the lab, where I told the lab techs and all the lab ppl there.. and at this point I was just crying so hard I couldn't even talk.

Not only was this experience upsetting.. it was embarassing b/c he yelled @ me in front of ppl. What a jerk. I didn't even know who he was. Apparently he's one of the VPs of the company and he's known to be the biggest fucking ass. The lab manager told me to report it to HR, and demanded that he apologize to me. So that's what I did. The HR lady wasn't surprised that it was the VP guy, which told me this is not the first time someone reported something. I did absolutely nothing to deserve that kind of treatment. I was absolutely enraged at someone w/ that stature could be so increably rude. You know what? w/ the amount of stress he has to go through every day, and w/ that attitude, he's going to die of a heart attack in 2 years. So who cares right? haha! Fucking corporate loser. I would go through a slow painful death than to be like that waste of a human being.

The Unwelcome Guest

The past couple of days prior to this incident we have been noticing little animal droppings around our house. We all assumed it was a mouse. Wednesday evening I come home from work, drop my stuff @ the door and proceed to walk up the stairs towards my room. As I reach the top of the stairs I catch something in the corner of my eye on my banister.. something brown and had a bushy tail. I look over and SHIT it's a SQUIRREL!!! OMG there was a friggin huge-ass squirrel in my house!!! It saw me, and bolted down the stairs, into the dining room, then finally running into the kitchen. I was freaking out. My mom started to scream "skunk! skunk!" HAHA! Anyway, it managed to jump into some plastic bins we had in the corner. My mom called my dad telling him to come home, I called Jimmy telling him to come over.. haha! we're such chicken-shits! Anyway, my dad got home, he couldn't find it anywhere (I was insisting it ws in the plastic bins.. and it was.. but we couldn't see it b/c it was hiding behind the stuff that was in the bin). We managed to have dinner w/o the thing running out. After dinner, we closed off the kitchen and proceeded to lure the squirrel out. My mom didn't want to have any part of this operation so she left. I, on the other hand, wanted to take a picture so I stood there w/ camera in hand. My dad managed to lure it out of the bin by poking it with the end of a broom (my bright idea.. a bad one I might add.. you'll find out soon why...).

It was crazy. It began to run around the kitchen and refused to leave out the sliding doors that lead to the outside, which we had left wide open. The little f--ker jumped on me. Not once.. but TWICE! OMG!! Not fun! I was absolutely no help.. I spent the entire time screaming! HAHAH! It eventually ran back into the bins, and that's when my dad decided to cover the bins w/ a garbage bag to trap the squirrel. Now that bright idea worked. LOL!

Here are some pics!

The top of the picture you can see half the squirrel JUMPNG off my kitchen table. Please note where my dog is (frigging Pepper!)






The limber squirrel walking around (not out) the sliding doors. That little bugger!



Oh gotta go! Got a hot date w/ my man *giggle* :D

Raise Your Voice - Decision 2006

I'm just on my way out to vote :) I hope you fellow Canadians didn't forget to vote! Remember, your vote does count, you have a voice that can be heard!