Mail clerk

I really really dislike our mail clerk. There are many reasons why...for example, this is an email she sent the staff this morning:

Good Morning Everyone

It has been brought to my attention that someone is making a pot of coffee after 3:00 P.M. It has happened a couple of times . The coffee has been thrown out the next morning which is a waste.
PLSE DO NOT MAKE COFFEE AFTER 3:00 PM AS IT IS A WASTE !

Thank you for your cooperation

Seriously. Now we are banned from making coffee after 3PM? What if someone is working late and wants to make coffee? She is such an IDIOT. I don't know why the company hired her dumb ass.
Yesterday, she also hounded one of the assistants on why she was leaving early. The assistant said, "I have the afternoon off" and the dumbass mail clerk kept hounding her on why it isn't noted down on the calendar at the front desk. Our supervisor approved it and sent the info to the receptionist who has been away this week so she didn't get a chance to put it in the calendar. Since when do we have to report to the mail clerk? She's such a IDIOT. I can't facking stand her and her stinky perfume that she bathes in every morning.

FACK FACK FACK FACK FACK

potential wedding hairstyles

I visited my hairdresser yesterday and he gave me a lovely trim. my hair feels so much better now! We also talked about what kind of hairstyles I'm looking at for the wedding and after searching the net, I think I'm leaning towards an updo:







any other suggestions would be most appreciated, thanks!

guests inviting themselves

ok, this is more of a rant than anything else, but a couple of people have already started inviting themselves, or at least assumed they're invited to our wedding. a girl i went to elementary school with found me on facebook and we've been catching up. so now she's moving back to vancouver after living in japan for a few years and she's wondering when our wedding is so she can make sure she can come. what the heck? i haven't replied or told her when the wedding is. i've mentioned our wedding in passing, but never in detail.
i was afraid this might happen. we intended our wedding to be small-ish. 100 people max. we are definately not inviting everyone we know, just friends and family we are close to. "close" is the key word. if we haven't kept in touch in the last 5 - 10 years, chances are, you won't be invited. if we did, our guest list would resemble a full out filipino wedding where you have 20 sponsors, 10 bridesmaids and 10 groomsmen and 8 ring bearers and flowergirls. HAH not going to happen.
i've been really careful to not talk about the wedding or mention it to people whom we know will not be invited, but i guess it didn't work. people hear it from other people and before you know it, i'm getting emails asking when our wedding is so that they can book time off or plane tickets.

in other news, i wrote my advanced underwriting course yesterday and it was the shits. why a 20 point question on aviation risks? who writes aviation risks?? not commercial insurers that's for sure. don't know why they would have that on the exam. not practical at all.
alas, one more course to go and i get my CIP designation, wahoo!

i watch dvds

when i turn on the tv, i'm disappointed. it's slim pickins nowadays. the only shows i watch are law & order, big brother and 3 different bridal shows. i thought about cancelling our cable, but that would only upset jason since he won't be able to access the food network.
did i mention i looove big brother?? this year is pretty good. lots of drama and i'm rooting for the underdog, James.
so i've bought quite a few tv dvds to pass the time when i'm home alone. this past weekend i bought the 8th season of frasier (my absolute favorite sitcom). i also have all seasons of entourage and the last season of sex and the city. oh and i have the first season of the tudors.
another tv series i'm interested in getting is Rome. we saw an episode on the history channel and it's great!! a bit gory, but it's expected.

now that we also bought a flat screen monitor for our computer, we can watch our movies on it from the bed. BAD IDEA. now jason watches the food network on TV in the living room and i hole myself up in the bedroom watching my dvds. it's like having a tv in the bedroom. but better because there are no commercials. hmm i'm contradicting myself.

so off i go to make myself a ginormous salad for dinner, study another chapter in my textbook and wait till 9pm to watch big brother. GO JAMES GO!

wtf

i found out recently that an old and good friend of mine got married on Mar 5th in Las Vegas. I've never met the guy and I don't think they've been dating long??? (a month tops??)
holy crap.
going to meet her and the husband for dinner this saturday so i'll get to the bottom of this.
WTF!

it would be my pleasure...

a month ago, when i asked jason's 6 year old nephew, Carter, if he'd like to be our ring bearer, he said, "it would be my pleasure." so cute.
yesterday, jason and i dropped by his sister's house for a quick visit. his sister has 3 kids: Carter, Blake and the newborn - Rhett. She asked the both of us to be Rhett's Godparents. I must say I am really flattered and honored that she would like me to be the Godmum. I've always felt that we never really got along that great, but Jason would always say that she likes me and that i'm just being paranoid.
The Toths aren't an excitable or emotional family. They don't really get excited about things. So when Chantal asked if we could be godparents, jason mumbled some sort of answer that I can only imagine was a "yes." I had to ask her to repeat herself in case i misheard what she said. Of course, I'm all smiles and am excited. After I said yes too, that topic was over and they started talking about their Mum planting something in the garden. so nonchalant.
me, i'm sitting giddy in my chair wanting to talk more about it.
and that's why i'm the lovable one.

waste of time

so this spitzer NY governor guy....who the fuck cares? seriously, who cares what he does in the boudoir? he's politician - is this such a shocker?
if Gordon Campbell or (even better) Sam Sullivan were caught in some sort of sex scandal, i think it would be viewed as more of a farce than some dramatic bullcrap. imagine how good "This Hour Has 60 Minutes" would be! Rick Mercer would have a heyday with that one. i would laugh my ass off if the Premier of BC or the Mayor of Vancouver was caught hiring high-class hookers. WHO CARES. if the lady of the night is not a minor, then it would be consensual sex, n'est-ce pas? He pays, she delivers a service. end of that. The only victims here are the families involved, so why make this even bigger than it should be?
It's weird culture down there.

guilty pleasure

last year when jason and i went to ireland, we watched a lot of movies on the plane. A LOT. 4 movies our way there and 4 movies on our way back. one of them was blades of glory. as they started playing the movie, i obnoxiously rolled my eyes and changed the station to plain old music. but wait. people are laughing. hysterically laughing. i turn around and jason is crying laughing. i quickly change the station back to watch the movie and unfortunately i only caught the end of the movie.

last saturday, i went to my local rogers videostore and decided to rent 2 Days in Paris (very good movie by the way). as i was waiting for the next cashier, i looked at a bin to my left with a stack of movies on sale. $5.99 + 25% off! how could i resist? so i rummage through them and guess what i saw: Blades of Glory. so of course i had to buy it - i mean, i couldn't pass that up. $5.99 + 25% off? What a steal!

so i watched the entire movie tonight and i admit, it made me laugh. a lot. i laughed so hard at their choreography. total hilarity!
oh, what a bargain.

puppy love

i had a big crush on trevor linden in high school. HUGE. crashed his wedding with a classmate huge.

last friday night, valerie and i went to Glowbal in Yaletown and guess what? A few canucks were there to celebrate their lousy play, including Trevor Linden!!!

too fucking cool.

i've met him a couple of times at autograph signings in my teens, but who knew 15 years later, i would see him again? LOVE IT!!!

edit

sorry about the bit yesterday. i was in a cranky mood. good thing i have this blog to vent!
feeling much better today. don't hate twenteens as much as i did yesterday.