Gather Ye Rosebuds

So I did the "is love" generator and this is what I came out with aftger answering a few questions.

( hmmm )

In the next year, I hope to:

Master File Maker Pro to the point where I can do it for a regular career. I will do it in stages. Right now I am reading a book for beginners, and once I finish reading it I will re-read it and make the database that the book is walking me through. We need to get the demo on the computer though. Once that is done, I want to look into learning more through books, online materials, and experience making a few things for myself with the help of the friend who inspired me in the first place. Once I have gained some experience and confidence with that, I would like to be able to do some basic work for her...maybe some of the foundation stuff to build up the skills. I would like to be paid, but I would do it free just to gain the experience and confidence. If all goes well, I would like to be able to switch to do that on a regular basis. If it continues to go well, I would like to be able to work more from home. I think it would be good for me, since my allergies and migraines have had a tendency to make office schedules a pain.

I also hope we get a chance to go to Vancouver soon, so we can start planning our move soon. The sooner the better. I need to get the right paperwork first...my passport, which will involve me getting a newer version of my birth certificate first. Once I get that, the rest should not be too bad. It is just a matter of filling the paperwork out, sending it with the other papers, headshots, and the fee. The headshot thing may be hard, as the American passport photo is different than the Canadian, or so I have been told. Different requirements. I can't wait to visit the Lunapads office. It would be great working there even if the File Maker Pro thing works...might be good as a part time thing. The women there seem really cool, and I can totally suport the product.

I would also like to get a better hold on the above mentioned allergies and migraines. The migraines are getting better, but the sinus and allergy headaches are seemingly more frequent. I have been looking at lots of things. Part of my solutions are on hold simply because we have not gotten our new healthcare cards...our copays are so much cheaper under his plan than mine. I will be getting re-tested for my allergies by a different office...they may be the same as they were last time, or they might be different. Whatever the results, I will attempt to see my best options in correcting them, hopefully, since my attempts til now have not been totally successful. I have an appointment with a chiropractor in a few weeks. I was told today I have scoliosis. It has been said that chiropractic adjustments help with the sinuses. I saw a pillow that might help too. Or it might be total bogus.

I want to cook more...healthy would be great. I want to cook by myself as well as with others. Cooking with friends is always fun. I want to cook more than convenience stuff, and I want to do things I haven't done before. I want to help Chas eat healthier. We have been doing a few small changes over the last few months and I hope to continue this and progress further. I can't wait to have another kitchen show with the new Mrs Finley. I saw things at the Pampered Chef booth today that I really want! New things!!! :) I also saw these weird terracota things today...I am so tempted to try them. I can't figure out how terracota can be used on a stove top. Guess I will have to try it out.

I would also like to learn more about my heritage. It would be a stretch, but it would be cool if I could learn Polish so my mom would have someone to talk to. but that would mean I would have to talk to her more. I feel guilty that I don't talk with her more, but sometimes I just don't like talking.

I have other goals, but some of them are more private, but at least I have these in my head and have something to aim for in the upcoming year. I know it seems odd to be stating these things in late May, but there is no rule that says all goals have to be New Year's Resolutions, right?

Well, I just learned that my new glasses have a number of very fine scratches on the left lens which is the main eye I see from, and the one that needs the correction more. It is not affecting my sight or anything, but it is depressing to know that they are there. I have had them less than a week, and have been storing them in the silk cloth and carrying case they provided. I have mostly had them outside of my purse because I have had my other pair there for just in case reasons. On few occasions I have out both pair in my purse but it is kinda tight keeping both pairs in there. I will eventually just carry the one pair. Chas couldn't see the lines like I could and though it was a smudge, but they did not go away after washing them. They have to be scratches...the vertical lines are so close and evenly spaced, though different heights. I don't think I got a warranty on them, but for a week's use, they should do something.

Edit: Since this didn't get posted until now, Chas did end up seeing what I was talking about so I took them in and had them looked at. They told me it was the reflective coating, and they basically insinuated that I had mishandled them by laying them down on something hard. I said "Listen to me. I have had them less than a week, only wear them driving which has been a handful of times so far, and at all other times have had them in your cleaning cloth and case the way you left them when I got them. I have had no problem with my other glasses which I have had for a few years (which didn't have the coating though)," and they said they had to send them off for a new lens because the frame is discontinued now. They made it seem that *sneezing* could scratch them. I mean, they're glasses, they're going to be worn, and used. If the coating is that delicate, then maybe they need to figure out something else to use instead, or make a clearcoat to make it less of an issue. Anyhow, I hope to have them back soon so I can post pics.

Woo hee!!!

Looks like all I have is a slightly yellowish grey mark on my forehead. Yay, it didn't darken!

I have a busy day tomorrow. We have the wedding in the evening, but a cooking exhibition in the morning and afternoon. One of the chef's from the Wilderness Lodge will be there. If I get to speak to him, I must thank him for the fantastic meals Chas and I had for our anniversary last year, even if he was not directly responsible. It was that good, and that memorable. :)

I'm doing well with my new glasses. I have been carrying both pairs just in case there is a problem with the new ones, but there hasn't been so far.

I decided to give migraine meds another chance now that I have been learning more about the others out there. I had such a horrible experience on Imitrex a year or so ago, I said "Fuck it, I will stick to what I am doing now," and left it at that. But I really need to find a way to have a quicker recovery time. I hate losing a whole day of work. Anyhow, I called the doctor the other day to see about getting a few samples of the other stuff, and whether I really needed an appointment to get samples. The nurse called back in the early evening and said she will let me try Maxalt, and that if 3 in 24 hours doesn't help, then we will try something else. I had hoped I would have been given a few brands to try but whatever.

Going to Fringe soon I think. Need some Moe's.

Well, yesterday did not go as planned. Was supposed to go to Titusville and test drive a Ford Escape hybrid for an article. In the end, I ate at McDonald's and did not get sick, ate at Betos and did get sick (in the name of a fish taco and a horchata), spent more time and money in an urgent care center than I had planned to, spent a few hours at Chas's office while he worked late hours, and topped it all off by introducing my forehead to the door frame on Chas' car at 1:30 in the morning. Needless to say that within minutes, a rather pronounced bump appeared. Once I got home and could see it in the light, it looked as though I had a sub-dermal implant about the size of a quarter. I have had ointment and ice on it all day, but it still hurts like a bitch, especially when I sneeze. But there was no broken skin or bleeding, and only the slightest sign of bruising, so I can't complain that much. But I can still complain. It stilI hurts. though the swelling has slightly gone down.

I was able to pick up my new glasses tonight, but I won't be able to tell if they fit right because my head already hurts. But at least I payed them off and got them, and that does make me happy. I can get them adjusted later on if I need to, though from the basic test they did tonight, I think they will be ok as is.

Better get some rest and take more medicine for my head.

I wonder if anyone has beaten the EVIL level of SNOOD before. It seems like no matter how well I go, it is pure luck, but I never win and clear the board. Bugger.

EDIT: I just won!!! Woo hoo!!! Must have been the post. :)

Don't know how true these are, but I have had my fair share of funny/excruciatingly painful calls.


( FUNNY TALES OF THE TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED )

Saw a good play last night called "Auntie and Me" (aka Vigil). It was from the Orlando Theater Project, at SCC. Good thing I was already in the area from being at work. Anyhow, another play I think realitystylist would like, and one that he has a good chance of seeing, as it was originally created and performed in Vancouver and Victoria, BC. Played Canada all over, hopped the pond to the UK, and back to the US now.

[rant]

You drive me crazy sometimes! I mean, I love you dearly, but it is times like this that I hate. The times where I get scolded for doing nothing wrong, for just questioning individual motives, because I don't know what's going on in your brain, or why you are thinking a particular way. We are married, and we do think a like a lot, but I guess tonight is not one of them. I just want to understand your reasoning for your decision! If you yell at me and say "never mind" in your not so popular sarcastic stressed out tone of voice, I won't know the answer, and that will drive me crazy, up the bloody wall crazy. And I will need to find resolution, so I will go to you, and you will resent me for bringing up a subject you ended. And I hate that. We are partners, we are supposed to communicate. If you get upset because you think I don't get it, then maybe you need to take a different approach to the issue instead of instantly huffing off into one of your moods, and making me feel worthless. I'll still probably try to talk to you about this later, because I want to know, and I want to end the conflict over the issue. I guess this is all for now.

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Edit: I am glad we were able to talk, and I am glad I decided to post this (as I don't usually do this sort of thing), as it was a way for me to organize my thoughts, and be prepared to try to resolve this issue. Thinking it out and writing it helped I think. I knew that once we both let our hot heads cool down, that things would be alright again. I love you.

When NWI (News World International) goes off the air in July [goddammit], I think that the thing I will miss the most is Rex Murphy on CBC News. Screw you Al Gore.


( Rex Murphy is Love )