OC Transpo

My favorite cheer I ever learned when I was a Carleton Cheerleader was one we never got to do. It was considered a taunting cheer and would be in poor taste. In a basketball game when a player for the opposing team travels: "You travelled, you walked, you took too many steps, next time you travel take the B-U-S, OC Transpo, OC Transpo, OC Transpo." I love it. What I don't love is our bus tickets costing $1 each. Every year The City of Ottawa and OC Transpo, our bus system, raise the prices of either tickets or passes. This time the tickets have crawled up. I remember when they were around 80 cents. Now it is going to cost me $3 if I am pay cash and $2 if using tickets since it takes two for adult bus fair.

Fashion 101

Lessons I learned today in the area of fashion:
-It is way to hot outside right now to wear even a light sweater
-Avoid sleeves and potentially avoid sweat spots
-Wide necklines mean wearing a strapless bra
-Once underwire in a bra pokes out the bra is toast
-Black is truly slimming and elegant
-Dress pants are more appropriate for work than jeans
-No socks in shoes makes your feet smell
-Breaded pigtails are not professional looking
-In humidity, hair products must be used to avoid frizziness

Slave Driver

I'm sitting at home procrastinating for another few minutes before starting to do some research for school. I was supposed to go for a run to the library and get some books out but I really don't feel like it. Jerrica scolded me over the phone and told me I could stay at home as long as I did research from my computer for two hours. She is letting me count reading the article for next class as part of the two hours. Obviously blogging, Facebook, and The Sims don't count, she informed me. When she gets home from work we are going to go for a run as well, so I will get everything I wanted to do today done, I hope. I think she really enjoys keeping me on track.

Bell Canada Quote - Part 2

Our home phone line is still broken. Our landlord was supposed to be handling it with Bell but they were not returning his calls or allowing him access to our file. He ask that I call and sort things out, as well as grant him permission to see our repair history. So enraged at Bell's incompetence, I responded to the Bell guy I was talking to with, "Getting the run around? Your right I'm getting the run around. I have been run around so much I can see my own behind!!" The trick is to find amusing, funny, and creative ways to express your anger without using swear words.

Performance Evaluation

I have been at my government job for a year now, almost to the day. In early December I changed from Administrative Support into the newly created Events Coordinator position. This switch brought me into a different team with a new manager. That manager gave me my performance review today which was pretty much glowing. I have had a rough couple of weeks, I returned by thanking her for being so supportive of me, she is just incredible. The main concern was that I tend to take on too much, which I'm going to try to work on. Besides that she is happy with the job I'm doing. We had both been initially concerned that there would be some negative feedback from me taking so much time off, but she told me that she has never heard anything and that all reports on my performance from other managers and team members has been positive. I'm looking forward to my last two months there, and hope that there is an opportunity to continue to work there part-time during the school year.

Canada Day

Right before the fireworks. Z, Anne, Mer, Jer, and I. Happy Canada Day!!

Running Dry

I pushed myself hard this past weekend and ran twice, but that still isn't good enough. There are too many times that I plan to run that I end up staying in. Not only do I want to do the 5K in October but I also want to trim down. Right now I totally hate my body, I hate it so much. This was confirmed by pictures which I'm continually deleting from my camera because I'm in them and look terrible. I'm huge, and my face is losing definition and features so that I don't even look my myself anymore. (See Photo.) So I have a new oath to work at the running more. I also have decided to stop drinking for a while. My mom pointed it out last time I drank that when I do I always feel down afterwards and end up missing work. A depressant like alcohol is never an good idea when you suffer from depression and it also tends to go against the anti-depressants, which is counter productive. I now know that my mom was right, I drank yesterday on Canada Day (because come on, it was Canada Day!) Today I'm not doing so well. I don't feel hopeless, miserable, and so sad that I want to hurt myself, but I do feel very down, empty, sad, and emotionally hollow. It shouldn't be hard to go the rest of the summer without drinking; since I have always said I'm more fun sober anyway, I know that I don't need to drink to have a good time, and most of my friends that are around this summer aren't really drinkers anyway. So I'm going to take a break from the booze for a while until I have the depression thing under control, which will happen through the anti-depressants as well as exercise, another reason for the running.

No Life

I am having such a lame summer that I really don't have much of a life at all. I spend so much time at work and school, neither of which are much fun at the moment. I spend my free time watching Friends and playing Sims. So basically my life right now is watching other people have lives on TV and creating fake lives on the computer. Uhhh, my life sucks.