Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department.

I'll be the one to say it...

Here is a new thing I'm seeing a lot if lately... "LOLOL". Why does anyone even need to point out how stupid this is? Well I will anyways...

If you're saying "LOLOL" because you think that adding 2 extra letters to that acronym makes it sound like you think it's funnier - your dumb. You are saying "laugh out loud out loud". Where else would you be laughing out loud besides.. out loud? You don't need to clarify for us because we get it. "Laugh Out Loud" is quite literally taken by most people as laughing out loud. We're not thinking to ourselves "Hmm I wonder if they mean they are laughing out loud or just inside at that comment... I wish they would clarify by adding an extra "OL" to that!".

And then I seen it. The icing on the cake... "LOLOLOLOLOL" Hello, my name is: Redundancy.

Speaking of redundancy!

Yesterday I got on the train and sat down. There were 2 high school aged girls sitting across from me talking. I couldn't count the number of times one girl said "FML". "Oh my god, I woke up sooo late this morning and I was all like FML." "I got to school and was .25 cents short at the cafeteria and I was all like FML again." "Then I went to class and my teacher told me to stop talking! FML." ...It went on like this the WHOLE train ride. By the time I got off I just about dropped a FML of my very own. Then I decided a nice little concoction of my own would better serve the situation... FYL. Yes, F*ck Your Life. I stood up, screamed FYL in her face and grabbed her by the hair and threw her off the train and onto the tracks into the oncoming train on the other side.

...Then I woke up from my wonderful daydream and peacefully got off the train and went home.

I'm real annoyed today so I shall vent on. ONWARD TALLY-HO.

Okay so there is this lady. Oh my goodness! Her voice is where I will begin. This voice is something else. You know those nasally voices some people have and you just wish they would take a frozen hockey puck right in the throat so they smash their voice box so they can no longer talk? Ya, she has one of those. And to top it all off, she looooooves to talk!

She is very... opinionated. She will ask you a question and then follow up with a pause until you start to answer and she'll cut you off so she can tell you what she thinks before you can say a whole word. If you start talking to her and tell her a story she will follow it up with an 8 minute story about how her husband likes Cheetos.

Every pointless mind numbing story she tells is about her husband, her 40 year old son who lives at home still, or wal mart. Here is an example and feel free to stop reading the story half way through, I think you will get the point. (her name in this story will be Trudy even tho that's not really her name).

"So last night I watched Dancing With The Stars." (That's her life FYI, I know this because that's all she talks about lately). "My husband comes into the room and he says to me, he says "Trudy" he says "You and that show, I don't get it." So I says back to him, I says "You just don't get it, it's a good show!" And then I made him watch it. But you know, he didn't really like it! So at the end of it I says to him, I says "Go fix the house if you don't want to watch it." And he did! Then I went out to do the dishes and I realized we had no dish soap! So I yelled downstairs to him, I said "I'm going to Wal Mart because that's where dish soap is the cheapest!" and he yells back up "Okay" so I said "okay". I got to Wal Mart and they had Palmolive on sale for $2.99! What a deal! So I bought two and I says to myself, I says "My husband is going to love hearing about this!". So as I was walking to the cashier I noticed they had Bounty paper towel on sale too! I thought wow, what a good night to come here because they always have good deals! That's the only place I shop, you know. They have everything you need in there and it's usually fairly cheap. I also got dog food and a toy for him. You should go, I know how much people like deals!"

The End. I know you enjoyed my rendition of her story. Now imagine listening to that in the voice I talked about earlier. By the end of the first sentence you want to jump off a bridge!

December 11

Exciting news happening on Dec. 11. I can officially tell everyone today! (Except my mom. DON'T tell my mom yet..if you know my mom... if not, still don't tell her. Seriously. You will ruin my surprise!)

So the exciting news, you ask? A PUPPY :) She is a sweet little dachshund who will be named Noodles. Here is her picture and please refrain from being too jealous because I know she is the cutest ever. Also, my game plan is for her to be much friendlier than Milo was (haha). For those of you who had the pleasure of knowing/being bit by Milo have no fear with this little gal, she will love everyone. Okay enough rambling, here she is.....

Love Love Love <3

Other than that I am going to go ahead and NOT use dictionary.com's word of the day and use my own. That word is...

Redundant:
1. characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
2. being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural: a redundant part.
3. having some unusual or extra part or feature.

I just want back in your head...

Screaming: Say Something...

You know what I hate? When your friends hang around someone who says stupid stuff and then they start saying it because they think it sounds cool. Hey guys.. it doesn't sound cool whatsoever.

Here's an example: FML. I HATE those words. "Oh I dropped my pen! FML" "Oh I forgot my juice. FML" Oh I have the hiccups. FML" Why is it necessary to say FML for that crap. How about we get some new words that don't sound completely retarded. Do you realize your saying F*ck your life because you dropped your pen? Ya, sounds stupid right? Right. So stop being annoying.

Here is another one that is becoming ever so popular: Fail. Why do you have to say it all the time? "Oh I dropped my pen. Fail." ...I don't think I need to go on with the examples but come on. Someone says something stupid and you have to reply with "Fail". It's not funny and you sound dumber than the person who said the stupid thing to start with.

What happened to a good old fashioned "your mom" or a "that's what she said". At least those are creative and can be funny. The other ones are not so STOP ALREADY! Please. I think I'm going to start one just to annoy you not so clever people that say either fail or fml. (Even tho the stupider it sounds, the more likely you are to start saying it because you think it's funny). Hmm how about... See I can't even think of anything because I have an IQ. Weird.

While I'm sitting here bitching, let me go off about another thing that bothers me lately. My brother. He got a job at a "bar" (lol) so he works until 2:30 every night. I'm totally fine with this because he needed a job. Here's the thing.. First it was only supposed to be until he found another job. Well he's working two jobs now and he doesn't seem to want to quit the bar. Next, he doesn't drive and we live a little ways away from this bar. Which leaves me picking him up at 2:30 in the morning on week nights. I am not impressed with this. I get up for work at 6:30 in the morning and go to bed around 10. I am not a fan of getting up at 2:15 in the morning to go pick him up because he doesn't seem to care that he has no licence because I drive him anyways. I would love to stop driving him but every time I say something my mom starts in with the guilt trip about how I'm doing her a favor by picking him up and how she used to drive me to work at midnight every day too. Oh boy, anyone know of a decent paying job for him so I can stop chauffeuring him around the city at all hours of the night?

Oh Batman...

So I'm looking for a dog right now. (FYI if anyone knows of anyone with puppies let me know!) This lady just e-mailed me with an offer to lease a Min Pin... How exactly do you lease a dog? What the eff? I want a dog, I don't want a lease on it. It's not a car, or a house. I don't want to give it back at the end of my lease. I want it forever you "special" lady. ...She is probably one that says "FML" or "fail" on a daily basis too. Silly lady. I wonder how she would run an adoption agency.. Hey, would you like to lease this child? 4 year lease with a $1500.00 payment at the end to keep it if you like it, if not ship it back. Oh and shipping and handling fees do apply. -I don't know about her!

Mmmm you know what's delicious? Activia yogurt with fiber. Especially the vanilla kind. Holly heaven in my mouth! Let's make a list of what else is delishhhh! Asparagus.. YUM. Brussel sprouts.. YUM. I bought both of those last night and I'm very excited to have supper this week for sure! But I bought some chicken breasts and they are Schniders frozen ones. You'd think they would be SO good. But they taste processed so I am not impressed at all! I fried it last night and BOY was it salty. Not good chicken, don't buy it. ..Unless you enjoy salty processed chicken, that is.

Okay that's enough story-ing for today my friends...

Exegesis is the word of the day today! And yes, it certainly does mean exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text. But I'm sure you already knew that!

Milk milk lemonaid..

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride...

So the finale of the animal watching ended yesterday because Brad and Tara are home! (I've been watching their cats while they were gone). They were in Jamaica with the rest of the bunch. ..Well they were the reason for being there, of coarse. They got married! Yay, I find this pretty exciting because Tara is pretty much the best (if you didn't already know) and now she's officially my cousin! I think... if she marries my cousin that makes her my cousin-in-law right? Is there such thing? Meh, she's my cousin. Either way she's stuck with us for good now (not that she really had a choice).

Here is something exciting! My brother finally got his licence a couple weeks ago! (One of them anyways... Kim can go get his anytime..). So he's been car shopping for about a week. Good god! I thought shoe shopping with Kim was brutal. That's nothing compared to Scott. That guy has NO idea what he wants. I mean, he thinks he knows and he's got this vision of the perfect truck in his head. Only problem is that this "perfect truck" is WAY out of his price range and he doesn't seem to want to settle for less. He makes me feel frustrated!

I remember shopping when we were younger. My dad would take us to the mall for new clothes (always exciting). So Kim and I would find tonnes of stuff and be done before you knew it! Scott would take until lunch -forcing dad to buy us all lunch at the mall, then we would be into the afternoon and walking in and out of stores that we had already been in. Funny thing is that we would always end up in The Bay looking for jeans for him. And Kim and I would stand there and watch while my dad got mad because Scott was worse than a girl (me) and didn't like a thing he tried on. Sometimes they made his ankles look too skinny, sometimes they made his butt look big, sometimes the pockets weren't big enough to hold his tampons. Either way, he was always the worst. This is what him buying a truck is like only 10x worse!

Ladies Love Country Boys...

Yes, this is true. Why is it true? I don't know. All I know is that this morning when I drove up beside this beautiful Chevy and looked in and saw the gorgeous boy in his cowboy hat driving and he smiled like a gentleman, I pretty much took the dumbest smile I could muster up and sent it right back his way followed by almost running into the car in front of me because I couldn't pay attention and wanted to get out of there before I could embarrass myself anymore with whatever other stupid facial expressions I could pull out first thing in the morning. ...It didn't happen. I looked over once more and he was laughing and I went as red as I possibly could and looked away awkwardly pretending that didn't just happen, but we both knew it did. And then the light stayed red some more. Yep, so if your looking for the longest traffic light in the city I would be happy to tell you where to find that.

Maybe it's the trucks.. Put a hot guy in a cowboy hat into a truck and I become useless. Mind you, if you took that same hot guy with the cowboy hat out of the truck he's done for too (and by done I mean locked in my basement forever..). Okay, so maybe it's the hat? BUT you need to be careful boys. That hat will make or break you. Not everyone can pull it off! Stick to the truck, you have a better chance of pulling that off than the hat. Okay I change my mind. I think it's just the whole combination. Hot truck + hot boy + cowboy hat = trouble! ..Trouble that I would like to get myself into! ....I'm just going to stop before this gets awkward for everyone.

It's the most wonderful time of the yearrrrr :)

Christmas time!!! I love Christmas! Everyone is so cheery despite being stressed out more than any other time of the year. It's great! AND this year I got to decorate my own house! (Yes it's already decorated) But I don't have a tree yet. I can't wait to get one tho! My very own tree! Of coarse it will be real (even tho I don't know if we're allowed to actually have a real tree, it's the only way to go). I'm not sure how Wilber is going to be with it tho :S Hopefully he'll cool it and be good with it. Okay, that's wasted hope but it's a nice thought anyway.

I know you love the word of the day!

So today it is perseverate. Something I do with the word of the day :)

Perseverate:
1. To involuntarily repeat a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
2. To repeat something insistently or redundantly.

Watching Airplanes

Another weekend come and gone...

Yes, another weekend has ended. Well for me it was 5 days. 5 long days that felt more like work than actually being at work. ...How sad is it that I was actually hoping they would call me into work for an emergency on my time off? ...A government emergency that they would need my assistance with... Yea okay.

So out of all 5 days the highlight was 3 hockey games. 2 of which went down consecutively on Saturday night. Can't think of any other way I would like to spend my Saturdays. - No for real.

First game, I'm sorry to say was not so hot. At all. I won't get into it. If you were there, you know. If you weren't, well I wasn't too happy with you on Saturday night because we got to play with 8 players. Don't commit to a team if your not going to put in an effort because that makes you a HUGE MAJOR let down to those of us who bother to show up. Thanks for wasting our time with the hope of winning because we might have some players who can do something they commit to. RRRRRRRRRR you suck.
So the second game was much better! We had WAY to many players but I'm not about to complain. It was nice. We won. A LOT. 11-3 I believe? Hmm can you say pwned? Because that's what happened.

Last night was a great game too tho!! Our first win! AND we had like 12 players!! What is that! Hello luxury. ...Hey, maybe from now on we can have close to that turn out every game? Bahahahahaha I'm full of jokes this morning! If you have not played a hockey game with 6 players before you will not be able to completely relate to my jokes here today. As a matter of fact, I probably despise you due to the fact that you have not had to endure such a traumatic experience.

I realize most of you just read that and said to yourself "Traumatic experience? Wow Amanda, you sure can exaggerate!" Well I'll have you know that I am not exaggerating and if you can't understand, we have nothing more to talk about.

This Is My Concerned Face...

Woke up yesterday and realized something. I'm putting on my fake smile for everyone again. I think now it is more fake than the last time I had to put it on. I remember last time. I was working in the hell hole -better known as Home Depot. Gosh did I dislike that place with a passion. It made me dread waking up because I knew I had to go to work with a vast majority of worker drones who had nothing better to do with their lives. I was not about to become one of them!! (No offence to the people I actually liked! You are defenalty not lumped in to that group so don't get defensive here!) Another perk of that job was waking up and knowing you'd be dealing with at least one customer who was much less intelligent than the last moron you had to deal with. Day after day after day until I couldn't do it anymore and had to move on to save my own happiness/sanity.

Today I woke up with the same feeling of dread. Here's the thing tho.. This time it came on fast! I noticed it yesterday and today I dislike everything. I mean, it didn't come out of nowhere, it's been building up but it hit yesterday and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon! I woke up this morning hoping I was sick with the flu so I wouldn't have to work for a few more days... I regret to inform you all that I am surprisingly healthy and full of energy.. Yaaay for being able to come to work.

Let's chat about my work... I can't stand it. I need a new job. Unfortunately they don't just hand out jobs anymore around here so I need to actually work towards finding one before I can leave this godforsaken place. Why do I find it so horrible? Well it's not the decent pay, or awesome benefits, or instant vacation time given, or the Monday-Friday 8-4 shifts, or even the fact that I can sit and entertain you all while I "work" in the background. Nope, none of that. ..None of that is going to make me stay.

It's the EXACT SAME THING EVERYDAY. Not just "the same" as in similar to what I was doing yesterday but with some changes. Nope, I've been working on the exact same project for 2 months now. If you put a blindfold on me from the second I wake up to the second I get home from work I would not be capable of messing up. I could even drive to the train and get on and walk to work and then make it home, all without seeing anything. There are people that have been working here for 35 years... NO EFFING WAY will that be me. I wouldn't make it. I'm the kind of person who needs change and challenges on a daily basis or I get bored verrrrrrrry fast. How I've done this for a year now baffles me. At least now I know that sitting at a desk all day is not for me!

There happens to be one person I will blame at the moment for starting this train of anger inside me, here is what I would like to say to them...

Dear ******,

You useless useless useless person. How dare you. I guess it's my own fault for trusting you after you had already shown me that was a bad choice from the beginning. But me, being the person I am, forgave you and gave you another chance to let me down. It's been about a month now and I still beat myself up because I let you do this again. You made me happy and now I'm left with a nice big pile of regret for believing you were different. Now we will be friends and I will be left putting it behind me and forgetting that I ever wanted something else.

Kind regards, you big ass.

Amanda

Delightful Ramblings...

So if you've actually made it thus far, kudos to you! I like to think I'm interesting but really, deep down, we all know I just like to hear myself talk. I'm wonderful! But so are you my friends :)

I feel that I have now made up for not writing all that much last week so I will end this shortly. But before I can do that you all know what has to happen...

I need to address all the hoi polloi and teach them the word of the day! Hmm conveniently enough the word just so happens to be *drum roll* :

Hoi polloi:
The common people generally; the masses.

Which means we all are considered the hoi polloi, therefore it is important for us all to recognize the word when it comes up!
.....Or you could just ignore this like you usually would and carry on with your day -which I hope is wonderful!!

This Time Around

Well I have become most inconsistent!

Today is Saturday. I haven't been around since.... Monday? Surprisingly not too much has happened! Been off work since Wednesday and just as I suspected I've done nothing and now it feels like I was working all week anyways. Hupffffff, I need to get away. Anywhere. Here's the thing about that, I have no money. Life story that will probably never end for me any time soon. Depressssssssssssssing? Yes, yes it is.

Well yesterday we went to the Space and Science Center! (I know it's called Telus World of Science now, but to me it will always be the Space and Science Center). It's always a good time! Even better time when you have the worlds cutest little man along with you.

Tonight is going to be interesting. Two hockey games, one after the other. Oh boy, I doubt I'll live to the end of the second game! B-r-u-t-a-l. The worst part is that I have to put on wet hockey equipment after the first game. I hate that, it feels soooo gross!

Anyways, I don't have much else to say right now so I'll try and get back on top of things this week!

10-4

Fish Are Friends, NOT Food.

Well it's been a few days. Wowawewa. Strange enough, while I'm not at work, writing in my blog is not appealing to me! I've got much better things to do, that's good to know because I always assumed if you have a blog you have no life (no offence). Apparently this is false!

So Friday was a mental health day for me :) It was nice. Overall, had a pretty bitchin weekend. Highlight of my whole weekend - Chapters.. wow I'm THAT awesome. But for real, Chapters is pretty much the place to be. It's good if you need to relax, just go walk around and look at books! Trust me, it's a good time. I prefer the Chapters in the west end (not in the mall, the one by the Home Depot) but any one will do in a pinch. ...So onto something that doesn't make me sound like the worlds hugest knobber..

I went home on Sunday (been at aunt Deb's all week FYI if you care). I went home because I missed that stupid cat. I don't even like cats! But I knew Wilber would have been stuck there all week with Kim so I HAD to give the poor guy a break! Here's how it went down:
Walk in the door.. Nothing. Stand at the door until he finally peers around the corner like he does. He walks up to me and I get all excited to see him! I pick him up, he sniffs me for 3 seconds then proceeds to wiggle until I put him down. So I got turn on a movie and lay on the couch and he goes and lays back down in Kim's bed. Ahhhhburn on me. So I grabbed him and gave him some forced love until he had enough and laid on the couch by my feet so I would stop bugging him.
Gee, why don't I like cats? So here he is anyways. He's cute, that's about all he's got going for him.

Huh. So I just read the news this morning after 3 days of not looking. Nothing going on! How boring is that! What am I to talk about! There was no big H1N1 headlines, nothing in the "showbiz" category worth reading with the exception of Britney Spears getting married again-who cares? Hmm well the Leafs won this weekend tho so that's pretty big news!

I would like to pause for a second and take the opportunity to point out that this is the second time I have mentioned Britney Spears in a post. ....What is this world coming to?!

Onto the main event...

So here it is! The story you've all been waiting for! (By "you all" I mean you Danielle. This one's for you).

Got into a fight last night! EXCITING! I don't do that. I think the last time I got into a fight I was playing peewee with the boys and we were playing Whitemud and this big ass monster was being a jerk because I was a girl so I took him into the corner swinging. Boy it felt good when I took him down! Ahh too bad I was about 11.

Not yesterday tho! I don't know why I hit her back, I was just in the mood I guess. Here's how it went down, come with me on a trip down memory lane...

So the play is going on in front of the net and this girl is standing in front of the goalie. I don't like that too much. So I gave her a little shove or two to get her motivated to move her parked behind elsewhere. Apparently she doesn't catch on very fast, but it's all right, not everyone is as fast as the rest of us are mentally. Anyways, she's standing there and standing there and standing there, and I'm pushing and pushing and pushing. Finally I get slightly annoyed so I push her over. I guess she wasn't very impressed, oops! As you can tell, at this point I feel horrible amounts of remorse for what I have just done!

As the puck gets shot out of our end and she gets up, she pushes me and says "Do that again and I'll put you on your ass!" Woooooo Doggy! Thems fightin' words! I love fightin' words because that means my job is done because I've pissed them right off. Only last night I didn't feel like walking away from some good ol' fashioned fightin' words! So as she pushed me and finished her lovely threat I popped her in the face.

Meh, so it didn't go EXACTLY as planned. I planned for her to stumble back, take another shot in the face and fall. Instead she stumbled back as she pushed me so we traded shots a few more times and looked up and realized no one was looking so we just stopped and skated away nonchalantly. This whole time I was laughing which I think pissed her off more. So as she skated away she made the comment "Your just a little *C-Word*". Ohhhh dear, I don't like that word! So I kept laughing and let her skate away. Stupid cow!

Here is the best part! NO ONE SAW IT HAPPEN! Out of my whole team I think about 3 people saw it go down! The ref didn't even have a clue! How awesome is that! We both dodged a bullet there for sure!!

Fungible

Hmm fungible. Fungible fungible fungible. What exactly is fungible? Well according to dictionary.com it is The Word Of The Day!!
Fungible:
1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.
2. Interchangeable.noun:
3. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.

Yes, it is pronounced fun-juh-buhl. What a fun word. Fun fun fun-gible.

Until next time.. You stay classy planet earth.

Every line is about who I don't want to write about anymore.

I don't think that they'd understand.

I don't like going home this week. It's a big creepy empty house. Well Apollo is there but he's WAY too preoccupied waiting for my aunt and uncle to come home. At least when I go home usually and have nothing to do Kim and Wilber are there. Now it's just nothing. ....How sad is it that I actually miss that stupid cat! Wilberrrr, pff. I wonder what he would do if I brought Apollo over for a visit...? Bahahaha poor little guy wouldn't know what to do.

I saw it early this year.

This morning as I'm walking to work I seen it. I see it every year and it makes me sad. When people start wearing their poppies you see one every year that has fallen off someones jacket and is on the ground. It's not there fault, they don't know. Hey, even I have lost a poppy or two. What bothers me is how so many people walk by it or even step on it! PICK THE POPPY UP. I don't know why but to me it's a thing of respect. I feel strongly on this, everyone should be showing respect for what the poppy stands for. Walking by one on the ground is definitely not showing anything.

While I'm on this topic, lets talk about another thing that REALLY gets under my skin. My parents both raised me to know how important remembrance day is. We all got it in school as well. Hello! They give it to everyone as a "holiday". Why? Because it is important.

So while you have the day off on November 11th and your wondering what you should do with it how about instead of taking advantage of sleeping in you wake up and layer on your jackets and make your way down to the remembrance day stuff going on. Last year it REALLY bothered me because it seems that each year there is less and less people that go out. I tried to get friends to come out with me and I got "it's too cold" or "I'm sleeping in!" I remember us being like 2 and 4 years old and my parents layering us up and dragging us out into the cold to stand for an hour while we pay respect. It's not going to kill you so deal with it. If I ask you this year and I get that same response I'm going to loose my shit on whoever that lucky person is. I'll go stand by myself instead of dealing with your lazy asses.

...Well that escalated quickly!

On to something a little less anger filled...

Okay! How about this weather? No seriously, I'm actually talking about this weather. PLUS 15 THIS AFTERNOON!! WTF. It's November! Bring on the snow already. I want to get out and snowboard! Frik.

Well other than the weather I've got nothing non-anger filled to say today so I'll cut this off before I start another rant :) And begin to maunder :O .....
Maunder:
1. To talk incoherently; to speak in a rambling manner.
2. To wander aimlessly or confusedly.

Wow what a fitting word today! I do this a lot!

Here I Am, You Silly Bitch.

Hello My Name Is:

I had an amazing sleep last night. I also had a dream. Oh boy, I have some gooders! This one wasn't a gooder but I'll share anyways. I had a dream that I was in school! Imagine that... seeing as that's all I want to do right now, and it's all I can think about. Uhhg.

FRIK the lady beside me is setting her watch and everytime she pushes a button it beeps. SHUT UP ALREADY. How hard is it to change a watch time!!!?! She's been beeping for about 2 minutes! It's taking over my brain to the point where I'm about to stand up and tell her to stfu! Woah man. ..."I'm Amanda's brain. I have OCD and love to piss her off!"

Okay she's done. Thank goodness. ...Now she's digging around in a bag that is crinkling. There is no hope here. They're going to be dragging me out of here in a straight jacket today.

So anyways. This morning I rolled over in bed and opened my eyes only to find a big old dog panting in my face. Nothing like the smell of dog breath first thing in the morning, thats for sure! I miss having a dog :( I specifically miss Milo but since he's sitting in a box in my room in ash form I will have to find a new alternative.

I've decided since I can't get a big dog (space restrictions) I will settle for a small dog. Here's the thing tho... I don't want a little fluffy yappy dog that everyone pretends to like but really it looks like everyone elses little fluffy yappy dog. I want a real dog. What kind of small dog could pass as a real dog?? I'm thinking just another weiner dog since they arent fluffy looking. I've always wanted a Basset Hound, I just love them! BUT my dad raised a good point. "Basset Hounds aren't like fish or lizzards that only grow to fit their tanks" Which translates into = Basset Hounds can be big mofos! So, what's a minature Basset Hound...? A weiner dog! Ta-da!

Hey watch this....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

I have nothing interesting to say today... Time is on standstill here at work and my brain is shut off. But the word of the day is cool so this wasn't a complete waste of time!
Skulduggery:
Devious, dishonest, or unscrupulous behavior or activity; also: an instance thereof

There's Nothing That's Worth Keeping Me!

GAME PLAN!

All right, so this is going to be intense today.

I realized last night that all of my friends that matter to me have found their person. Of coarse this is great for them all! I'm so happy they're all happy! (Side note: When I say "all" I mean the few friends I have that are for real friends.)

Here's the thing... I am no longer as important or as needed in they're lives. I don't mean they don't care or don't try. I mean they don't need me as much. Instead of coming to talk to your friend about your everyday problems, they go to the other person. Instead of calling me on a night where you've got nothing to do they spend time with the other person. Calling me up and saying "Hey Amanda, want to hang out right now?" Is no longer an option. It is always plans plans plans. Because on a Wednesday night you don't care what I'm up to because the other person is home.

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not sitting here writing about how sad it is that I don't have that person blah blah blah. If you know me, you know that I have never been the girl that needs someone just to say I have someone. And the reason I am where I am now is because I haven't found that person that can be my best friend before being the other kind of friend ;) lol. So far - he doesn't exist.

SO!!!

I have full intentions of taking advantage of that! I am no longer living worrying about what my friends will do without me. They have what they need from the other person and I am left feeling like I have things I need to do before I take the route they're taking and settle down. I just don't think I'm meant to be settled yet. I got places to go, things to do and people to see! ...Once I manage to save some money (welcome to the reality side..) - this is step 2.

Step 2 is to save money. Bahahahahahahahahah we're going to be here a while. But that's all right, I'm ready to work at it. AND I have completed step 1. (Read earlier blogs to find step 1 if your confused). But good news! I have a friend! She has graciously offered to help with step 2 and I'm pretty stoked about it. We just need to get started... So far, it's looking like that's not going to be able to happen until about January :S .....New Year, New Habits!! (Hopefully)

A Little Less Intense...

So I'm reading this article called "7 Foods that should never cross your lips" very interesting! Let me share the 7 foods!

1) Canned tomatoes! YUM! They say pick tomatoes in glass or tetra packs because :"The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity." ...Good to know.

2) Corn-Fed Beef. How do you know what they feed them when you go to the grocery store? Okay, here's why:"Cattle evolved to eat grass, not grains. But farmers today feed their animals corn and soybeans, which fatten up the animals faster for slaughter...compared with corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef is higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), calcium, magnesium, and potassium; lower in inflammatory omega-6s; and lower in saturated fats that have been linked to heart disease."

3) Oh Dear! Microwave Popcorn :O I don't even want to hear why! But here it is...:"Chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), in the lining of the bag, are part of a class of compounds that may be linked to infertility in humans, according to a recent study. In animal testing, the chemicals cause liver, testicular, and pancreatic cancer." ...Sounds worse off for guys!

4) Non organic Potatoes? "Root vegetables absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. In the case of potatoes--the nation's most popular vegetable--they're treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting. After they're dug up, the potatoes are treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting." - So that makes sense, but if your that worried, I can tell you now that everything non organic is like this, LEARN TO LOVE IT!

5) Farmed Salmon.. Well I'm in the clear here! But once again, how do you know when you go to buy fish if it was "farm raised" or not? ..Okay here's why. "farmed salmon is lower in vitamin D and higher in contaminants, including carcinogens, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, and pesticides such as dioxin and DDT."

6) Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones. What does this mean your asking? "Milk producers treat their dairy cattle with recombinant bovine growth hormone to boost milk production. But rBGH also increases udder infections and even pus in the milk (SICK). It also leads to higher levels of a hormone called insulin-like growth factor in milk. In people, high levels of IGF-1 may contribute to breast, prostate, and colon cancers." Oh I looove milk.

7) Conventional Apples. I think this is the same deal as the potatoes. "If fall fruits held a "most doused in pesticides contest," apples would win." Well that's a pretty decent explanation, but I like shiny apples!

I'm pretty sure if Lisa just read this she wrote it down and will no longer be eating beef, apples, potatoes, or drinking milk. That's all I could think of while writing this LOL. Here is the link Lisa, don't freak out just read what they have to say... http://lifestyle.ca.msn.com/health-fitness/diet/rodale-gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=22463436&page=7

So on that note, this has gotten rather lengthy so sommelier. Oh what's sommelier, you ask?
Sommelier:
A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings.

Doesn't that sound peachy... :)

Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows.

Because it was Halloween weekend I decided that was a fitting title for today.

Halloween weekend went like this...

Friday: Friday Friday Friday. LONGEST DAY EVER. Luckily turned into great night. Went for coffee where I drank 2 (Yes 2!) XL green teas from Timmy Hoes. For some reason their green tea makes me bounce off walls, to put it mildly. So needless to say I had some energy to kill when I left that place! Good thing I was going to my hockey game!

Well it was a GREAT hockey game!!! I racked up 3 goals! And we kept up with only 7 players! Unfortunately my 3 goals were not enough to pick up a win for us just yet. So we shall keep working towards that.

Saturday: Hmm what happened Saturday... Oh yes! What an exciting day! I got up nice and early (early counts as 10:00 a.m. on weekends) and took Scott driving to practice for his test that afternoon. Apparently I am a great teacher because that mofo passed with flying colors!! Yay! Now he gets to drive me around instead of the other way. However you look at it, he passed and that's too exciting!

This lead me to Saturday night. No parties for me. Went to Lyndsay's place and watched a couple moves, got drunk and we both passed out. Woop Woop. We're exciting, deal with it.

Sunday: Hold on to your hats, this was an exciting day. Wake up from a night of drinking at 8:00 (hupffff I can feel how ridiculous that was just typing it). Went for breakfast, had some delicious eggs benedict!! Went home did tons of laundry/slept/watched TV/packed then headed over to Aunt Debs. Now I'm there for a while! Very stoked about staying with Apollo, pretty much because he's the coolest dog ever.
Also had a game last night, didn't go as well as the Friday game :S That's all I'll say. We are Toronto, minus a win.

Sometimes Stuff Bothers Me.

Here it is - I'm bored a lot at work so I read a lot of strangers blogs because it's a load of crap that I don't much care about, but it keeps me entertained. What did we go through 12 years of school for if you don't yet know that a capital letter starts a sentence? Or that "A Lot" is 2 words. OR at the very least, that there is a spellcheck function on every computer. In this case it's right in front of you on the very page your typing on.

Allright, I'm not saying you need to be brilliant, or that I don't have mistakes in my stuff... But come on. It seems to me that a whole bunch of you guys don't realize that people are reading the crap your writing and that every time you spell an obvious word wrong you don't look too bright and your annoying me. I thought this was kind of funny and went well with what I'm saying. If you don't get it... well I won't go there.

Also fitting, the word Truculent! Dictionary.com's word of the day! Maybe some of you should discover dictionary.com hmm...?

Truculent:
1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.
2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.