Reading this today will probably be depressing, that's your fair warning.

All At Once...

Why does everything need to happen all at once? I mean at least before it was one after the other and I could handle that! Now everything that I have been avoiding has come crashing down on me. Fun. I was juggling everything the best I could but now it seems as though I have just dropped it all and so it's just sitting there, in a nice big pile... waiting for me impatiently.

You know what doesn't help? When your roommate doesn't seem to care because his sister will bail him out every time. Well that's what sucks about living with your brother.. Your expected to do it. Not just by him, but by everyone. And to top it all off he doesn't seem to care at all. When I talk to him about it it's my fault or he can't do any better. Well if that's the case my brother is going to be working part-time at a strip club and part-time at Footlocker for the rest of his life. ...Doubt full, right? Right. So I think it's time someone grows up...

PACO!

He died yesterday. What a sad day. Trusty ol' Paco is down for the count. Here is what I'm hoping, he's just cold. That would be nice! But I doubt it. I have a feeling that even when it warms up I'm going to be stuck taking the bus for a while. Why would I be taking the bus you ask? Well I'm not going to go on about it again but it's got something to do with the last paragraph.. No money=No car. Maybe he'll open his eyes on this one because he's going to suffer too. No more rides to/from work all hours of the day for him! His free taxi cab is out of commission. Life is rough.

Here's what I'm worried the most about, getting to and from hockey! I don't want to be "that person". The one who bums rides from everyone because I don't drive. The one who everyone avoids because they don't want to be burdened with driving that person. Guess I got to start asking dad again. I'm sure he's going to be thrilled. He loves helping us out about as much as my brother loves working his full time job. Oh wait, my brother has no full time job.. That about sums it up then.

Freckles <3

Hmm where to begin with this little girly! She STILL refuses to use her puppy pads. This is getting old. She is also starting to bite, hard! Also getting old. I've started getting mad at her. Then I feel bad after!

We started crate training BIG time yesterday. It's on like Donkey Kong Frecks. She pees on the floor-in the crate. She bites hard-in the crate. I don't really have anything else to put her in for but that takes up enough time anyways. Maybe she'll catch on fast. So far.. she's not. I put her in the crate and she cries like I just threw her off the deck! Then she doesn't get to come out until she settles down in there and stops whining which usually takes a good half hour. Then she tires herself out and falls asleep. But as soon as I let her out she's back at the shenanigans. I need to keep reminding myself that it was only the first day. I hope she catches on because I feel horrible when I put her in the crate! I know she just wants to be a puppy and play! Well puppies have rules too!

Negative Nancy..

That's what I sound like today. Sorry I'll smile. How about you smile right now too. Just do it, trust me you'll fell better!

So want to hear a weird story? Speaking of Negative Nancy! I have been told 4 times in the last month by different people that I look like I should be named Nancy! Weird right? Here's what's even weirder... For those of you who don't know my great fantastic mother who I look just like, her name just so happens to be Nancy! It freaks me out a little. Nancy... I just don't see it. I'm perfectly content with being an Amanda.

Okay the end :)

Update :-)

No parking ticket! It's a good day!!

Oh and I heard this quote and loved it so I'll share since writing just one sentence would be a waste of space...

'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of sh*t.'

No Headphones!!!!!!!

A parking ticket is in order...

That's what it's going to say on my car window today. Well, it'll probably be more like "Here's your parking ticket sucka, pay us. Thank you for your business." What led to this unfortunate series of events you ask..? Well let's backtrack to this morning.....

5:15 am: Wake up. Wake up sleeping Freckles who is sleeping very contently beside me snoring very loud for a little gal. Try and make her pee on the puppy pad but she was having none of it. So after about 12 minutes of her sitting on it staring at me I let her take a walk. Then she peed.. on the carpet.. again. I hope she catches on to this game quick!

5:30 am: Get dressed, ready, and make tea. Play with Freckles and Wilber for a bit.

6:00 am: Go down and start my car in the freeeeezing cold so it's warm at 6:30 when I bring the potentially uncooperative Wilbot down to the car.

6:15 am: Put a very disappointed puppy in her kennel to go back to sleep. Have a fighting death match with the cat and attempt to shove him in the other kennel so I can take him with me. ...He didn't want to go peacefully.

6:20 am: Wake Kim up because the stupid cat is fighting and it will take more than one human to get him in that kennel!

6:25 am: Wilber is FINALLY in the kennel and we head to the spay clinic! Poor guy is getting fixed today! *side note* Why do they call it "getting fixed"? He wasn't broken, they're actually breaking him. They should call it "getting broken".

6:40 am: Arrive WAY to early at the clinic! So we sit in the car and have a little life discussion. A.K.A. I sang and he listened.

7:00 am: DOOMSDAY. Take Wilb into the clinic and hand him off. Oh I feel so bad for him!

7:20 am: Get to the parking lot by work and find out that they don't take bills in the Impark machine! How ridiculous is that? They will charge you $26.00 a day to park BUT they won't take bills...

7:23 am: Go to Starbucks and ask for change. I only got $12.00 out of the lady so that's all I had to pay with.

7:30 am: Put my $12.50 in the machine for 2.5 hours of parking. ...HELLO, does this not strike anyone else as EXTREMELY overpriced? None the less, I paid and went on my way.

This leads me to now. If I went out at 9:30 and put $12.00 more into the machine I would be covered until I leave at lunch.. NO frikin way am I taking an unnecessary walk 3 blocks in minus 25 to over-pay to keep my car parked. So instead I chose to risk the ticket which will inevitably be there when I go to my car at noon. AND I still need to find 12 more dollars in change so I can park this afternoon! Bushly.

Next order of business on the chopping block (...chopping block haha sick joke)...

The devil cat Wilber has been SO good lately. Hes all cuddly and stuff. I feel so horrible for taking him to get spayed today. (spayed or neutered? I don't know.. either way). And I had to take him. His owner couldn't do it. Why? Because he doesn't drive. Hm this is becoming such a pain. That's not even the best part tho. No, no, here it is... He works today and tonight so he won't be home at all. I have to pick his cat up and take care of it all night.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Wilbot. But he's not my responsibility and I am getting full expectations here. I've got a puppy to worry about now and I'm stuck taking care of Kim's big sketchy cat who just had surgery. I wasn't even asked, just expected to. I am becoming less and less impressed by this.

The Freckss...

Let's talk about something a little more exciting! Freckles. Hmm I know I said her name was going to be Noodles but she was definitely NOT a Noodles! So mom came up with the great name Freckles and it suits her 100%!

She is the tiniest sweetest little thing I think I have ever seen! I love her so much already! She is amazing. (Minus the not catching on to the pee pad yet). She is fearless but a big giant baby when she gets hurt! She bumped her head yesterday and she whined and whined and whined and I picked her up and she sat with me and sulked for about 10 minutes before she fell asleep. She's such a sweetheart, I don't know how I'm going to train her because she looks SO upset and hurt when I say "no" to her. Yes, she's got me wrapped around her finger (well, paw) already.


Let us jump to the word of the day,
because I have run out of things to say.
Sometimes I write lots,
sometimes I write few.
I am really concerned about pleasing you.

Because if you don't enjoy the things I write,
I know some will put up a dread full fight.
And then you will no longer read my crap,
Unless I make it sound like a trap.

What kind of trap you ask yourself?
Well I'll have to hire a tiny elf.
So fitting since it is Christmas time,
I guess I'll shut up and cut short this rhyme.

Wow. That just happened. So here's the word of the day...

Fatuous:
1. Inanely foolish and unintelligent; stupid.
2. Illusory; delusive.

Hmm So It's Been A While!

Incredible Turn of Events..

Haven't written for like a week or so! So sorry guys! I was just oh so busy! SO here's the exciting news.......

Noodles comes home tomorrow :) (Noodles is the puppy). She's flying and she will be here at 5:30!!! I am way beyond excited! Next on the exciting block is someone I won't talk about because I don't want to get TOO excited yet.. but I'm excited.. they are fantastic :) So good things come in three. I'm just waiting on number 3! ...Any minute now...

Hmm something else I'm wicked excited for is the Christmas party next weekend!! Oh man, that should be a GREAT time! I love having everyone together because I have the most awesome friends anyone could ask for!

Some Great Music!!

So I listen to music on youtube while I'm working. I stumbled across Eric Church. I knew most of his songs but didn't know they were by him, or even that they were all by the same person! But he is an amazing singer and I've never noticed before. (He's not much to look at tho lol). Here's some of his songs you should take a listen to! (You've probably heard them all but listen again..they're amazing):

Love Your Love the Most, Lightning, How bout' you, Guys Like Me, Two Pink Lines..Just a few but they're all uh-maze-ing. His videos are pretty good too so check him out on youtube if you've got some time!

Hmm so I'm also pretty stoked for the Lonestar concert! Probably not as stoked as Lisa, but still pretty stoked! After all these years, I must thank her for putting me through the torture of country music in Jr. High. I love love love it these days and couldn't imagine what I would be listening to if she didn't make me force love it back in the day. A lot of my favorite songs and bands are country!

Back to Lonestar.. Not in my top favorites but definitely was one of Lisa's. Which means that I had to listen to A LOT of it when I hated country music. There is one song in particular that makes me want to stab my ears out, to this day, every time I hear it. Yet, I will listen to the whole song and sing along. I can't help it! ..I call it number 7 because on all of the CD's she used to make it was ALWAYS number 7. And thinking about it now it was on pretty much every CD she made. ...That doesn't make sense. Why would you put the same song on every CD you were making? Kind of defeats the purpose of a "new" CD. But I won't judge. Either way, I'm excited! I may despise them for making that one song but the rest of they're music was very good!

SNOW SNOW SNOW!

Look at all the snow today!! Isn't it wicked?! I love snow SO much!! I don't like the people who say "Well I like the snow, but I don't like the cold." ...WTF. When does snow come? -In the winter. What happens in the winter? -It gets cold. Cold and snow go together. How ridiculous would it be if it snowed in July when it was +30 out? Bet you wouldn't be very happy then either. So don't say "I like snow but hate the cold" because it's a package deal, like the Backstreet boys.

Hmm we haven't had a word of the day for a while either, have we?! Well you'll all be happy to know that today it's a fun word!

Gallimaufry:

A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.

...hodgepodge..haha.

Well that's all I got, so I hope you all stay warm today and enjoy the beautiful snow!

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.