Moving...

Ahh, it has been quite a learning experience moving into another Province that for me is only 2 minutes away.

This WILL BE my last move!

The paperwork that goes with it is absolutely ridiculous and it shows me really how lax we are in Saskatchewan if someone moves into the Province. Trying to get into Alberta or to be a resident there, is like trying to get back into Canada from a vacation abroad! Its insane!!! You might as well go through a pat down!

Anyway, I think we have everything straightened out.

As of today, I have started packing to move....I have realized that I have alot of crap, ummm, I mean stuff! That I really do use. Really Buster, I do!

SO, I have loaded up the new little vehicle and when Bruno, Wilma, Ruthie Tuesday and Katie-did come to visit close to the end of this month, well, there will just be the basics here. A table, beds, and a shower.

This buy the way is the new little Utility Car, I bought....with the help of Buster!!
Let me say, that it can sure pack alot of "stuff" in it. That little vehicle has in it oodles of bags, a bookcase, a plant stand, an end table, scads of bedding, table cloths, breakables, DVD's , oh a stereo, and I can't think what else I put in there, but that baby is packed right to the top!

I think its a nifty little tool!

Ode to the Smurf Mobile.....

I say good bye to my little blue car,
its has seen me through, blizzards, rainstorms, dust storms and the odd bar!

My little car has been with me through thick and thin,
and even a major film it's been in.

It's driven me from one end of the Province to the other,
and has even been drivin by my mother.

I've experienced all emotions while being with you,
I hope the new owner will love you as much as I do.


I am gonna miss you my little blue friend.

Bleeding Green

I am trying to get all my ducks in a row. I am trying to get my Saskatchewan license turned into an Alberta one. I am trying to stop payments on my Sask. marker on the car and get all transferred to the Alberta car.

I may be eventually turning all I know into red but my heart and mind will always be GREEN!

Green, white, fight!

I feel like I am betraying my Province eventhough I will only be an hour away. I will be one hour closer to Edmontonstrous and an extra hour away from my beloved Toon Town.

I am kinda sad.

I'm not an Albertan, Im a Saskatchewanian!!

I always will be.

No matter what happens. When people ask where I live, I will tell them, but will always add " but I'm from the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border".


I will always bleed green.

Always.

The Funnies!!

WOOHOO!!!

Holy Dinah!!!

The 10,000 mark has been hit!!

How come?

I got into work today and the boss sent out an "Atta boy" to Rod-Nick the Stage Manager as he has been working really hard lately due to the $60,000.00 dimmer lights crashing and us having to order new ones as well as the production of the play in full swing not to mention the performances being done....

So, the person that I hate got the update by email of the atta boy and called work. Now we must remember that the person that I hate is in Vancouver being the spot light man. Anyway....he was CHOKED that Rod-Nick got a note of thanks on the newsletter that was sent out to at least 350 people! Hahahahaha.....that really got his goat! He was sooo angry, the F-bombs were flying everywhere. He went on about how he does this and this and this and never gets any thanks. But we must remember too that the world DOES revolve around him and no one else.

Needless to say, we at work, got a big kick out of it.

Maybe this will be the straw that breaks his back and he quits this time...one can only hope!

The Car.

Well, I decided on a Ford Escape. Its gets a little less than my car but its higher off the ground and I can put things in the back like feed, saddles etc. when I go somewhere. I'm not sure if I am excited yet. Until I actually make my first payment without holding my breath then I will be happy. That way, I know its actually mine, the paperwork has gone through and all will be well.

Change is good!

I'm not sure when I pick it up, but what I find most humiliating is that at 38, I needed a consignor.

Don't ever, ever, depend on someone so much that you have nothing when the shit hits the fan and your out.

A consignor! I'm grateful that Buster stepped up to help me out but WTF?


Bah....

I give up.

Can't help it.

"Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes."

I can't help the things I do. It's called Cultural Anthropology. I can reflect afterward and change it for the next time though....

I can't help the fact that when a person says "we", talking about two people and there is a third in the room, makes you feel like a third wheel. I need to be invited and to feel like "we" too.

I can't help asking where you are in an empty house when it's only me I hear. If you can find my dad ask him why he left us alone.

I can't help the fact you don't like change.

I always thought change was a good thing.

Awww...

We have performance here tonight at work and for helping out with hospitality in the green room, I was given....eggs.

You read it here first my friends!

Boot Camp and other things...

The girls and I have started boot camp last week. After the little excursion to Mexico, I had gained even more.

SO! I have been at it for 4 days....the bad thing is NO ALCOHOL for the next 12 weeks, and this week, I really could have used a shot or two, especially yesterday and so far even today yet and its only morning!!

I move my belongings from the ex's on Saturday and in the process I managed to scare the bejiggers out of Buster by having a metal breakdown.... I think I am back on track again, thank Goodness for the happy pills. Thank the Good Lord for Buster. I am truly blessed to have him in my life.

I am nervous about going out there on Saturday to pick up my stuff. I am renting a Uhaul van and that has got me nervous more than anything. I'm hoping I can handle driving it. The drive is two and so hours one way, which means 4+ hours driving time...yuck.


Yesterday morning I got into a car accident and the girl who crashed into me doesn't want to go through her insurance. I filed a police report and went to my insurance and this afternoon I have a meetingwith her and her mom. The autobody people say the damage may be worth more than the car....I'm not impressed. Im ok, just a little stiff. It was nothing like the Presidential Rollover I had with Bruno a few years back. But the same time, its a real pain in the ass to get all my bases covered. Like booking an appointment to get the car appraised for damage, then booking the autobody and having a rental car while mine either gets fixed OR buy a new one, if it gets written off.

This week has been busy with shows, rehearsals and meetings. I am looking forward to next week when things calm down a bit.

I'll have gin and tonic please!

Drama and Soup

Had a wee bit of drama at the hell job yesterday. It seems that the company changed the policy on part time workers...which includes me, that if you don't work more than two days in a row, you don't get your staff discount. My lovely manager made it so that I would work every second day last month, which in retrospect I should have know this was coming and then this month got one day.

Crock! You bet.

I had a few words with the district manager, told her I was tired of being the nice guy and we all know where they end up! and told her I was stooping to her and the managers level and quit. Told them to find someone from now on who will drop what they are doing at work to go help out at the second job when they are a man down. Yup! I used to do that.

I'm not angry but disappointed yet again in the manager anddistrict manager. Why can't they grow up?

Anyway, I no longer have to worry about it and actually feel a weight lift off my shoulders.

Today, I have been asked to be a soup judge here at the college. I am looking forward to it since I am an awseom soup maker myself.

I have my mom and grama to thank for that!

I was told to have no breakfast and to bring my appetite which is exactly what I am going to do!

Back again....

Mexico was a great vacation. Going with Buster was a great thing to do. We laughed, we cried laughing! and we laughed some more. We decided to go on an Outdoor Adventure up the mountain, that was out first outing. We hopped on a Zodiac boat and sped across for about 45 minutes to the other side of the bay and then went on a truck up the mountain to our designated spot.

We mounted up on Mules and headed up the mountain. My Mules name was Charro and was a little sorrel long ear sweetheart. I had one of the guides behind me always "hitting my ass" to make him go faster and I was forever telling him to stop!, that my ass started to hurt! Once we packed up the mountain we dismounted and was given a quick do's and dont's of ziplining and repelling down a mountain....ahh haaa. Thank you for that.

The Zip lining was fabulous and would do it again in a second. The "walking" down the face of a massive amount of rock made my skin crawl. I won't be rock climbing too soon!

Once we got down from the rock we zip lined some more and when we got closer to the bottom we hiked to the cabin to change our clothes, have a beer and some nachos and salsa. Oh, did I mention we zip lined right into a pool of water...yup!~ Soaked and the water was not warm! What wasn't pointy or shirivelled before was when you hit the water!!!

During the evenings we would have a drink with some really great people. Most from B.C. and Saskatchewan, a handful from Alberta and the same with the Quebecers. All that we at that resort were Canadians. It was nice.

One of the girls (Blanche) just came back from a weightloss bootcamp. In 12 weeks she lost 25 pounds. The other box office guru (Berline) and I decided we should join too. Blanche said not to join that she would start us off. So next Monday we start. Weigh in is at Blanche's house and bootcamp starts.

Its time to get my nose to the grindstone. There was no point in starting a diet before vacation, but I am pleased to say with the exercise and food they served in Mexico, I came back losing 3 pounds!

Here goes....