In lighter news...

Changed the layout, like it better now.

And has anyone seen that Single Ladies music video by Beyonce?
James and I sat there and stared at this thing the other day without saying a word.
Who knew somethin as simple three girls (one borderline man-face) dancing in a round room couple be so mesmerizing??

For some reason it won't let me embed, so here's the link.

They say you don't have a problem until you start bringin it home

Work is killing me lately.

I used to be a slave to the autoclave on the last project, but since we've started this new contract and sterility isn't an issue, I'm frustrated by less tangible (and hate-able) things.

The most stressful aspect of everything is the fact that neither my boss nor I have done any of the protocols we've been starting. Hell, I still haven't read over everything that was supposed to have been started last Monday. Not to mention the fact that I'm not even close to a fucking biochemist, so I'm sort of out to lunch on most things.

On top of the basic frustrations, the fact that before today all of my data was strewn all over countless sheets of paper has also been killing me.

I have no time to even think about the next steps as I'm racing to complete the current things.
The breath is down my neck for what always seems to be the least important thing at the time.
I jammed my wrist trying to bash apart a glass vacuum chamber.
My shit is going wrong all the time.
I'm working brutal overtime. 11 hour days are fint.

I guess that means I officially have a problem.

I got a left front tire throwin' thread, by tomorrow mornin' I could dead

Somehow I haven't updated on all the news that came over the Christmas break, so here goes:

1. Mintvis became an uncle (again). My step-sis Jess had a baby girl "Jahnavi" on the 28th of December. She was actually born about a month early, but her weight was good and everything worked out fine. It was just a bit unexpected, as my step-mom, dad and I had to race back to TO from Chatham the day it all went down.
2. My friends Mike and Erin got engaged on the 24th (I think... either that or the 25th)
3. My brother and his girlfriend Angela got engaged on the 28th, 29th, or 30th in Cuba. I dunno. Mangela is gonna be a part of the family now, so maybe I'll have to be nicer to her. Probably not though.
   
4. My buddy NVP and his girlfriend Laura got engaged too. No idea on the date of that one.
5. My cousin's youngest son swallowed a penny in Penetang and had to be rushed to sick kids in TO via ambulance to have the thing removed. Apparently he dropped some shreddies and when he scooped em up to feast, he took a penny with em. He then started puking all over the place so they had to get him help. But it all worked out. Unfortunately I had to vacate my bed at my dad's place to crash on a love seat at Findlay's downtwon. But it was good to chill with him so I can't complain.
6. I got coma-worthy drunk twice over the break (new year's included), and had at least a beer everyday during my time off. My boss gave me 2 solid weeks which was mint.
7. I saw Fred Eaglesmith with the old man. Jahnavi was actually born during the concert. Eaglesmith is mint.

The anecdote ends at about the 5 minute point. Solid fuckin tune.

Itchy toe

Today was a rather shitty day.


Woke up at twenty after five with a hangover and couldn't get back to sleep.
Car got stuck in the driveway, which made me late for work.
Forgot my keycard again, which makes booze pooz much harder to sneak in during the work day.
My gut was rotting all day long from a 3 day bender.
And I got home to find another terrible snowplowing job by our sketchbag landlord. Instead of actually clearing our driveway, he seems to think that plowing all of the snow into our parking space is a great plan. Not to mention he half covered our damn BBQ which I had to dig out of the snow bank just to use for dinner.

And on top of that I'm still hacking up a lung from this bloody chest cough.

Gotta love self pity eh.

The weekend was entertaining. Met some interesting characters and made a complete asshole of myself at the bar on saturday. That's what a hangover day without food gets you on the second night of boozing - raging drunk on only 10 beers or so.

Speaking of, I went to Cole's place yesterday for the NFL playoffs and we ordered up some Domino's for dinner. He raved about the wings but I was too hungover (again) to eat anything but the pizza. Worked out nicely for me tho, cuz Cole and his buddy felt like shit last night from the wings, and they might even have food poisoning right now, by the sounds of it.

Cards game (save the third quarter) was entertaining, but the Steelers win was a snooze-fest. Almost passed out with a beer in hand. Those two hits in the late game were fucking spectacular though, don't get me wrong.

Anywho, off to KP's place for a little 24 action. Hopefully Jack delivers the goods tonight.

These dreams seem to cost money, but money costs some dreams

It seems to me that most people are glad the year 2008 is over with and done.
Most people are probably just pissed off due to the economy, but alot of friends have legitimate claims that it was a shite year for all sorts of other reasons.
My year was, if nothing else, interesting as hell.

In 08 I,

• finally graduated from university

• took a trip to the mountains (never to return)

• drove the best relationship of my life into the ground for no apparent reason

• got my first real job

• sat in the front row, and sat in the bleeders

• could've died a few times

• met a ton of new people and made some solid new friends

• lost alot of respect for old ones

• spent way to fuckin much money, and saved none

• did more in one year than the past five combined

Even though it's an arbitrary mark on a calendar, lets hope the new year brings more good than bad. This last one was a little rough.