Month: November 2006

Almost Christmas

Only 3 more weeks until an entire week off and Christmas; it’s going to go by so quickly, November seems to have just gone in an absolute flash. I need to go Christmas shopping! Yesterday I bought my first very own Christmas tree – it’s about a foot high, lol, it cost me $1.50 and I bought a little mini garland and star to put on it, and it’s sitting proudly on my side table by the TV with little candles around the base! I also strung up some Christmas lights (which I plan to keep all year) around my whole kitchen, which looks really lovely 🙂

This weekend’s going to be fun, I wish I was in LA seeing Shelby’s Cowboy Max show, I’d’ve loved to go so badly! But this Friday I have special tickets to this show and Christmas party at the Empire, so that’ll be nice to dress up (and freeze our arses off, lol) and then Sunday another “hibernating” sort of day in with movies and baking cookies, and possibly Christmas shopping. This week I got given an invitation from the dirtiest old man in the world, apparently he used to be this amazing award-winning photographer and he made me this package of a load of his pictures of models (for Playboy, haha) and an invitation on the front to his “dirty old man” hot tub party, “bathing suits optional, and if we can get a hold of the neighbour’s dog, various kinds of illegal sex!” LOL! Wanted to know if me or any of my girlfriends were interested in a part-time modelling job… no thank you sir! 🙂

On a more serious note I had this old lady come in to work this week asking me to type this letter for her, she was writing to Gary Doer and Stephen Harper and the Minister of Health and all those sorts of people, she has 4 children, 3 of which inherited this awful kidney disease from their father, and the one that didn’t inherit it can’t be a donor because she’s not compatible with her brother or something, and anyway it really got me thinking. There’s HUGE wait lists for organ transplants, and if we can live just fine with one kidney, why don’t more people donate? Just because you’re not dead doesn’t mean you can’t be an organ donor. I’ve been doing a little bit of research on it, and I think that at some point in the future I’m going to do that. I don’t know about the NEAR future – looks like I’d need 3 weeks off work to do it, and I just can’t afford that right now, but maybe in a couple of years. Why not? It’d save someone’s life, and that’s got to be an amazing thing. And the research I looked at said there’s basically no complications after successful surgery, and of like a 2000 person sample, 87% of them didn’t want to have kids after donating and the 13% that did had no complications and were successful in doing so. Of course it’ll take a lot of thinking about, and I’d need to be financially okay enough to take that sort of time off (it was different when I was living with Dan and I had my appendix out; rent was way less and I wasn’t in debt as much as I am now). But I think if I can do something to save a life, it’s something I’d really like to do one day.

Psycho Killer Leaves Resume

So this has been a pretty good week, all in all. After Saturday night I spent Sunday recovering and hanging out with my dad, we went shopping for my mum’s birthday presents and we were going to see Saw III but just competely ran out of time. It was really nice to spend a whole day with my dad, I do love him to bits.

Monday, I had to take Rose to the Humane Society. And I discovered I really DO have the best friends in the entire world. Everyone knows how much fell from the sky that day, and how as a result, everyone forgot how to drive. Ryan came to pick me up from work, go get Rose, and then drive us TWO AND A HALF HOURS to the Humane Society. Seriously, never seen traffic so slow in my life. We could’ve left Manitoba in that time. We were supposed to get her thre by 6:45 but luckily the (rather bitchy) vet was still there at 7:30, made it very clear that she was just leaving, but still took her in. And the next day he went BY HIMSELF after he finished work to pick her up to avoid any delays by picking me up first. What a COMPLETE sweetheart! And Rose is all sore and sleepy and I feel so bad for her… but Chloe is happy she’s back 🙂

Tuesday was Actual Halloween, and it felt so weird because after Halloween weekend it was just strange that it hadn’t actually come yet, but I spent the evening meeting a new friend off of Myspace who I’d been corresponding with for the last few weeks. We both freak out at scary movies so we made spaghetti and watched a “diet” scary movie, Gothika, which was still good. Exchanged mix CDs (which were great!!) and chatted for a bit, it was a good night.

YESTERDAY my Psycho Stalker came back. I was in the middle of laminating something when I heard someone come in the front, and he just left this package on the counter and left. I opened it up… it was made of paper and said “To Miss Emily Wood… Resume Enclosed” on the front, and it contained a picture of him, with a message on the back, and three pieces of notepaper, each saying the same thing on the front and he’d written backwards on the back of each of them so I had to hold them up to a mirror to read them. WHACKO. Anyway, at least this time it’s legible, but sadly that doesn’t mean intelligible!!

Disappointment

This is not even directly related to me.

But how can people be so SELFISH, to throw away absolutely everything they ever had, to lie to EVERYONE they know, and ruin other people’s lives in the process. They destroy people who’ve done absolutely nothing wrong; good, honest, wonderful people, and for what? I’m disgusted and appalled by the human race sometimes. Seeing how hurtful people can be, so deceptive, manipulative and dishonest, all for the sake of their own selfish desires. What happened to integrity and honesty? When did people stop living their lives with honour and keeping their promises? Just an observation on the world, not even related to this, but it seems that nowadays, people are more concerned with getting a good fuck than anything else. Friendships, relationships, promises and plans all discarded for the sake of getting laid. When did the physical become so much more important than the emotional? It’s a sad state this world is in; the corruption, the hate, the greed, the way the common mentality is just deteriorating. I hate people sometimes. I know there are good people in the world, and I’m so lucky to have some of them in my life. It’s just hard seeing the people you thought had some sort of decency do something so awful.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November

Tonight, boys and girls, is Bonfire Night!! And I’m excited that although I don’t have a fireworks display,  I do have 12 sparklers, hot chocolate, and a makeshift “bonfire” thanks to the magic of a little paper Guy Fawkes and a box of matches. Which makes me a very happy girl, because Bonfire Night was always one of my favourite times of year!

Today I just got back from doing the Nygard fashion show, which was great fun – I got my hair and makeup done at Essentique this morning which looked very cool. I had a lunch at the show and went out in 3 different outfits amongst all these tables. Mad rushes backstage to get changed quickly, but they were all lovely people, and I did get 2 tickets to a big show at the Symphony for December!

Now off to watch the new X Factor, and hope that Rose hasn’t taken a crap in my bed again, lol. Ever since she got back from her surgery she’s been thrownig up and crapping anywhere but the litter box, I guess in revenge?! Anyone have any light to shed on this? Anyway, I’ve a fun night ahead and I wish everyone a happy Guy Fawkes Day!