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Friday Miscellaneous August 20, 2010

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Last night I went to a friend’s house for a BBQ. There was nothing else on, so she forced me to watch The Last Song on her laptop with her. I absolutely cannot stand Miley Cyrus. And also, it was literally the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. But do you want to know what the most horrifying part of the entire night was? The realization that she was the best actor in that entire movie. Everybody else was so awful that I wanted to stab my eyeballs with knives.

Moving on … in news about my car, I’m still waiting to get my bumper fixed. I took it into the shop and they ordered the parts in, but then they had to cut out a HUGE chunk of my bumper to colour match the paint. Hopefully it will be done by the weekend!

Oh, and finally in blog-related news … the big “reveal” will be happening around the second week of September. So stay tuned! :)

Have a good weekend everyone!


Waiting for my money! July 30, 2010

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Over the next week, I should be receiving…

The Vegas expenses will go back into my chequing account for normal expenses, and the extended health and Google Adsense money will go towards my MBP – which I will be picking up late next week!


Hello, Sister July 23, 2010

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So, my sister found my blog a couple of days ago. She said that she was Googling for Shaw Cable’s student promotional rates, and since I just blogged about it a few weeks ago, my post came up in her search. At least I know that Google is indexing my blog properly! :)

This is the first time a family member has seen my blog (that I know of). It’s a little weird, but I don’t really mind. I’ve asked her to keep it a secret until I stop blogging anonymously (sometime next month). I still don’t really know how I’m going to organize this blog when that happens, so I’m really going to have to figure that out.


Busy bee! July 8, 2010

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Sorry for not being around to blog much lately. I’ve been SWAMPED at work with so many projects, and will be out of town next week while in Vegas. I’ve got some great ideas to blog about, so stay tuned.

Oh, and did I mention that this weekend I’m going to Seattle with a girlfriend to watch 2 baseball games, drink wine, and shop? I’m so excited! Well, not for the shopping part. I’ve got nothing that I need (or much money to spend), but I do want to try to find a nice dress to wear for the wedding in Hawaii (and versatile enough to wear to another wedding that I’m attending this summer). Budget will be around $50-75.


Landed a PT job! June 23, 2010

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I have secured a PT job. It vaguely has to do with this blog. And it’s an area of my professional life that I’ve always been interested in, but has remained undeveloped.

I originally wanted a customer-oriented PT job so that I could meet other people, but I couldn’t pass this amazing opportunity up. Plus, I’d be making way more doing this than I ever could working in retail or wherever … and hopefully I’ll be meeting new people when I start playing field hockey in the fall anyway. I won’t start this new PT job until closer to the end of the summer (probably late August), so until then my lips are sealed.

I’m a bit nervous about this new opportunity, but mostly excited. So stay tuned!


Blog improvements April 13, 2010

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Excuse the chaos and dust around this blog for the next few days, as I’m working hard at improving the look/feel of the website. :)

I’ve also heard that people have been having problems on other blogs with Intense Debate (the program I’m using to monitor blog comments). If anyone is having problems commenting, can you please do me a huge favour and just shoot me an email (gmbmfb [at] gmail [dot] com)? I like Intense Debate, but not if people are having problems with it.


Weekend Recap March 22, 2010

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Even though I’m unemployed, Mondays still feel like Mondays. Somehow, that just doesn’t seem fair. :)

The weekend was nice though. On Friday I was asked to be interviewed for a story that would be aired on CBC. It was in response to a recent report from David Dodge and the C.D.  Howe Institute saying that Canadians aren’t saving enough for retirement. I would have LOVED to do the interview, but unfortunately it would have totally blown my ‘anonymous’ cover. :( Which kind of makes me feel like … why shouldn’t I just start blogging as the real me? It’s not like I have a job to worry about anymore, and really. I don’t blog about work-related issues or anything too personal.  I’ve always believed that I write better knowing that I have an anonymous mask on, but do I really? And would my writing really change? It’s something to definitely think about.

Anyway, Friday evening we went to the Norm MacDonald show (I had bought tickets to the show months ago). It was great! So funny, probably even better than the last time I saw him.

On Saturday I washed my car and found a few chips in the paint. :( Guess that happens. I went down to the Suzuki dealership, and for some reason the paint pens in my colour aren’t in stock so I’ll have to go back tomorrow to pick one up. They’re only $10, so it’s not that big a deal. I still need to vacuum and clean the inside of the car, but that won’t take too long. Oh, and take off the ski rack. I think ski season is officially over. What a waste of money that Grouse pass turned out to be. :( Now we have to think about what we want to do for next season – splurge and get a pass to Cypress (BF gets free skiing there, so we’d split the cost of my pass), or both get passes to Grouse again (2 passes to Grouse are cheaper than 1 pass to Cypress)? Neither of us like Seymour, so that’s out of the question. And obviously so is Whistler.

I also listed 15 books on Amazon, so hopefully some of them sell. I want to take a look at my DVD collection today and see if I can try to sell some of those as well. Other than that, I don’t have much more that I can sell. Probably a few items of clothing, but I donated a lot of clothes when I moved in with BF, so most of the stuff I have left, I actually wear.

BF is sick, so we didn’t get any hiking done on the weekend like we had planned.


Why the change? March 3, 2010

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Some people have commented that I’ve changed little things about the blog – the names of people, the banner, little details, etc. Most of it is to protect myself a bit better. I’m not sure it does any good, since I think most of my readers are long-time readers anyway, but it does make me feel a bit better about continuing to blog under an “anonymous” mask that’s not so anonymous. So just in case you were wondering, that’s why. :)

Oh, and also – comment moderation is on and will stay on for the time being.