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I haven’t posted about this here.

So I should.

I love tumblr.

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That’s all.

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A few weeks ago, I realized that I had lost my license. I looked everywhere for it and alas, nothing turned up.

So I kept telling myself I’d have to spare the $10 and go get a new one, which I was planning to do last Wednesday. But I didn’t really feel like it, so I didn’t. Then I had mentally made plans to go this Wednesday.

But today, I was cleaning up my room a bit AND I FOUND IT.

…. in the envelope of the Christmas card that Bev gave me. It must have slipped in there when I stashed the card in my purse to bring home.

I almost threw away the envelope without realizing.

That starts the day off well. Today will be a good day. Maybe Carlos will even reply.

Here we go.

So it’s 2009. Officially 2009.
Well I guess it has been for a day now.

New Year’s Eve?

Well, I spent it hanging out with Kat and Melinda. We ate (a lot…), laughed, watched the Gilmore Girls, played some Wii and brought in the new year with some good times and much needed relaxation.

It was nice, despite the fact that I’m sick and apparently can’t stop coughing (and no, I will not give in and have honey with lemon because honey is just gross).

I can’t say I made any New Year’s resolutions… mostly because I forget them within a few days and therefore never keep up with them. What’s the point of making them when you’re just going to break them, right?

I really have no idea how I got home. I remember getting into my car, but it wasn’t until I was on the Skyway when I realized where the hell I was… which was a bit odd. You know how you go in like auto-pilot mode and just kind of… well, go. That’s what it was like..

Tomorrow (which is technically today) I have to go to work. I keep telling myself hey, it’s just one day and then you’ll hit the weekend. But I’m in one of those weird moods right now. I’m exhausted, but I’m not tired. I’m thirsty, but I don’t want anything to drink. You know, where everything you feel like you don’t actually want?

Yeah. Like that.

Protected: When you feel like the pressure is on…

HOLY WIND BATMAN

Oh my god.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt such strong wind in my entire life… I eel like my house is going to blow over, or the roof is going to be ripped off or something. I can feel the whole house moving when these huge gusts of wind blow through. It’s insane!

What is with the weather lately!? A week ago Friday, we had a ridiculous snow storm. For the past few days we’ve had drizzling rain and rain storms. It was really warm last night too. And now, we have these huge, insanely strong gusts of wind.

I’m sure as hell happy I’m not driving over the skyway today.

Watson hates snow.

The snow in the backyard is really deep. As in, you open the back door and it falls into the house because it’s piled that much against the door, deep.

Watson does not like the cold. Or wet. Or too windy. So you can imagine a snow storm isn’t exactly his cup of tea.

When I got home, I went to let him out. I couldn’t find his leash because it was buried in the snow and I wasn’t about to dig it out, so I decided to put on my boots and coat and go out with him. He’ll walk around and stuff, but he won’t run away if I’m there with him and I often go outside when he goes in the summer when it’s nice out.

He stood in the snow for maybe a minute, made no effort to do his business (which is why he wanted out to begin with) and ran back to the door. I thought okay… he probably really does have to go and is being a wimp so I’ll just wait for him to realize that.

But no. He starts pawing at the door to go in.

I guess he didn’t have to go that badly… but man, he’s such a wimp sometimes, haha. He ran back to his bed, and somehow managed to cover himself in his blankets. When I turned up the heat (which switches the furnace on) he moved a little bit off his bed, to sleep on the vent with the hot air blowing on him. His blanket was still covering his back.

My car is in a ditch.

Well, today started off with one hell of an interesting morning.

So, they’d been calling for a snow storm for about a week now. Turns out it really did started snowing… early, early this morning. I woke up at 8:00, got ready and headed off for work, having to clean off my car before I left. It wasn’t too bad though, just some light snow.

All was well and good… but the closer I got to work, the worse the storm came. It was somewhat windy, but snowing an insane amount. I took it pretty sloy, which is quite the task for me because I was not only running late, but when it comes to driving I get a bit impatient.

I make it to the city I work in, get off at the exit and start heading down the road the campground is in. As you’re going down, there’s a huge bend in the road and eventhough I was going slow, I ended up spinning. My dad had told me before to steer into the spin and take your foot off the break. Well, I did half of it. I steered into the spin but I couldn’t take my foot off the break. My head was going TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF, but my foot was dead set on staying clamped down on that break as if it was going to stop the spinning car.

It wasn’t too bad, but the car ended up going headfirst into the ditch. It was going pretty slow, so it’s not like it was this big crash and the car wasn’t hurt or anything. First I tried to reverse, but that was useless so naturally, my next instinct was to panic.

I called my mum, and she told me to try to find a way to the campground and she would call CAA. Some guys passed in a van, noticed my car and stopped to ask if I was okay. They asked if I wanted to use their cell phone, but I said no I had mine. I told them I worked just at the campground up the road, and they said they worked next door. So I asked them if they’d tell whoever was there that I am on my way… but I’m currently stick in a ditch.

A few minutes later a pickup truck came along and stopped, to ask if I was okay. I asked them if they could give me a ride to the campground, because they too worked next door and they were nice enough to do so. Just as I got there, Christina was getting in her van to come and get me, so I was really glad we got there before she left.

So I made some hot chocolate and started doing some work, and Nicole calls. She talks to Christina on the phone, and asks about this car she sees at the bend, in the ditch. She goes, ‘That looks a lot like Adrienne’s car…’ and Christina was like ‘Because it is‘. I wasn’t hurt or anything, so the whole thing was actually somewhat amusing.

My mum got a hold of my dad (who was making a delivery for her) and he said he’d head to the campground and checkout the car. Sometime before he got there, the police call my mum asking her about the car. O_O She was pretty shocked, because on the insurance and everything it’s our phone number… not her business number.

I’m now thinking that maybe our phones really are tapped…

Just as they were on the phone, my dad pulled up to deal with it (I was still at the campground). He left to get me, so I went back to the car with him and by that time CAA had come. The policeman called, so I honestly think that’s why they came so fast… because it wasn’t like a bad accident or anything serious. The two truck got my little red car out of the ditch (yay) while I hide in my mum’s car (that my dad was driving) because I didn’t have my license on me.

I know. I know that’s horrible! I have no idea where I put it (and I will find it tomorrow) but I was searching through my purse for it as we drove down there, and it’s seriously not in there. At all. I always asume it is (I mean, why would I take it out?).  Luckily, I never had to speak to the policeman so I didn’t get fined or found out.

Heading home was an adventure as well. On my way, I passed my boss who stopped (while I was stopped at a light) and got out of the car to make sure I was okay. I told him I could go back to work if he wanted, but he said don’t worry about it and just go home. I think they closed the office early anyways, and I wasn’t doing anything that was overly important. I thought maybe he’d be disappointed in me if I just left, so I’m glad I got to talk to him and I know he was okay with it.

But Jim said it was better to not go on the highway, because they were getting a lot of whiteouts. So we trekked through the city… and my dad pulls over to the side of the road. I’m thinking, wtf are you doing?

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He stops for breakfast. orzorzorzorzorz

Seriously, that’s exactly how I felt.

After breakfast, we obviously had to clean off the cars again. My dad went to clean the ice off my windsheild wipers… and broke it. Well, not really broke it but took it the half of it off, and then he couldn’t get it back on. So we’re standing out there, trying to get it back on… and eventually manage to do so. But it took so long (okay, like five minutes) that we had to clean off the cars again. YES. THAT’S HOW BAD IT WAS SNOWING.

Driving on the highway was a painful experience. I mean, I know you have to go slow because it’s dangerous… but doing 40km/h when you’re used to going 100 ~ 120km/h is a huge difference. But it wasn’t too bad getting back, and I made it home save and sound.

But honestly, for the first part of the morning all I could manage was ‘My car is in a ditch’. It died on the highway in the summer, and this time I drove it into a ditch. Nicole said it looked like I had intentionally done it, haha. I’m really glad that’s all it was though; and since we’re CAA members, we didn’t have to pay for them to yank it out.

The policeman wondered why I didn’t go to the gas station, which was actually closer… but my dad said ‘You don’t know my daughter, she had to go to work’. And I guess I’m like that. I would have felt so guilty had I not made it, so even if I was only there for a few hours, I’m still happy I made it. Especially because half the office didn’t come… all but one of the girls came… and the only guy that came was my boss.

Due to that fact, Nicole changed her FB status to Nicole is wondering how is it that all the girls can make it to work but the boys always have problems… I have one word and it starts with a “P.”

The rest of the day I spent working on S-T and playing Tales of Symphonia.

Meme day two

I told Ailea I’d do that meme, so here’s day two.

Something that made me happy today… well, my students! And Fiona wanting me to come early on Thursday to the staff party so she wouldn’t have to wait alone, haha. I know that sounds lame, but it’s nice when someone doesn’t mind spending time with you. We also tried playing a duet of Angels We Have Heard on High again, haha.

IT WAS AWESOME.

We also tried We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

So that made me happy and it was a lot of fun.

Today, one of my students was learning the song ‘Money Can’t Buy Everything’. He’s in a beginner level, and all the songs have lyrics to them. He makes a point to always read the lyrics before he tries the song.

So he reads through them. I think they’re something like
Money can’t by everything
Money can’t make you a king
Money cannot bring success
Money can’t buy happiness
But there’s one thing that I am sure
Money doesn’t make you poor
Money doesn’t make you sad
Money can’t be all that bad

So he reads through them and goes, “They forgot that money can’t buy you friendship or love either”.

Aww.
I thought that was so cute. He’s around nine.

New wordpress is sexy.

Okay, I’ve had this headache pretty much all day.

At first, I thought I was tired, but I got a good amount of sleep. Then I thought I was hungry, because really I didn’t eat much all day, just a sub for dinner (courtesy of my mum’s store, naturally) and after that, I felt a bit better. Then the damn thing came back, so I thought maybe because I didn’t have any tea today. Had some tea, and alas, it’s still here.

I think I need to ask someone to take over the raffle ticket sending for a couple of days. Although for some reason, I doubt anyone would actually do it beacuse it’s a lot of work. More than I anticipated. I mean, I’ve sent up to 1099 tickets out… which is 1099 e-mails and far over 1099 submissions (because people do get them wrong sometimes).

I was thinking the other day, and you know I haven’t had more than a couple of days off for almost a year. I think my longest break recently, was in May when Kat and I went to NYC and that was for three days. The last time I had a week or more off, was when I went to Holland.

I’m tired of feeling like I’m in this alone. It’s like everytime someone starts to be active, I get this false sense of security which is soon pulled out from under m when I realize it was short lived activity.

This weekend was my Dad’s birthday and my parent’s wedding anniversary. Saturday, Kat and I hung out whch was awesome because  I haven’t seen her for a couple months due to her being in Europe.

I have more to say, but I really should be asleep. It’s past 2am, my head is trying to explode, and I have to be at work bright and early. Not to mention I need to remain chipper throughout the day, because I have my kids tomorrow as well. Ah, I don’t mean to make it sound like a chore. I love teaching and I adore my students, Mondays are just incredibly long days. And it feels like after work 1 and work 2, I come home and do unofficial work 3.

I keep telling myself that somewhere down the road, all this hard work will pay off.

I mean, it has to.

Right?

Tagged by Ailea

Ailea tagged me to do this meme, so here I am. Doing it.

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag 8 people to do the same.

So today… something that made me happy…

Well, I talked with Kotaro on Skype which was fun. Had some Lindor chocolates which were awesome. And had far too many cups of my newest addiction, hot chocolate.

I don’t really want to tag anyone, so if you want to do it, go for it.