I'M NOT DEAD YET!!!
...though after these last few weeks, I'm sometimes surprised I'm still alive...
Very rough last few weeks, especially at work, where our poor Executive Assistant's son was hit by a car and died. She and her husband were such a mess at the funeral. But the son (only 28... so sad!!!)'s sister played and sang a song on the piano (very touching and wonderfully performed), and then proceeded to offer up a very touching and humourous summary of her brother's life.
At work, I have had to essentially become the temporary Exec Assistant for the big cheese, while still doing all of my normal duties, too. And all of this happening a month before our big annual general meeting. So yeah, very busy and trying and stressful and etc.
Had problems with my bank, too, with money not being there that was supposed to be there, which caused a hiccup with my rent, AND I had just run out of cheques, and the replacement cheques were yet to arrive, and etc etc etc...
But at least, things all kinda resolved nicely yesterday, when the bank problem was rectified, AND I received my cheques, AND Meaghan found 600 dollars' worth of cheques that I had forgotten to cash over the summer (can you see how busy I must be if I am forgetting to cash MONEY???)...
AND I got a credit card finally.
I think it absolutely hilarious that I received this credit card from a bank where I have no account, when my OWN bank declined me TWICE now when I asked them for a credit card. And the bank who gave me the credit card is actually HANDLING my student debt, too!
So of course, I had to make a ew purchases with it already -- I got Might and Magic 8, and pre-ordered NHL 2005, and Megs and I got a few more domain names, too (notdamonk.com, anyone? ^_^)
But in happier news, my sis Vern is adjusting to Ottawa just fine, it seems. And she stays over for a few days each week so far, which I totally LOVE. ^_^
She's really doing well now, and I'm very happy that she moved up to Ottawa. She needed to get away from Dieppe for awhile, because there's just too much negative vibe going on there. The only real positive thing left for her in Dieppe was my parents (and the Leblan family, of course), and even their worry for Vern was prolly doing more harm than good... it can't be easy to be a parent when you love your children as much as my mom and dad do. The worry can just eat away at you like you wouldn't believe, and it can weigh on the child, too.
But Vern's spirits are really reacting well here. She spent the first few weeks just adjusting, sleeping (she really needs to sleep a lot to balance out the physical toll taken out by the lithium), taking walks to accustom herself to the areas (since Bridg and I live in two separate parts of the city), and now she's starting to look for work. She's already got her resume all set up, and she's applied at a few places, and is looking around for more option, too. She's such a very bright, very wonderful woman!
Heh. She's a woman. That's so weird and cool at the same time. My little Vern, all grown up and prolly more mature and wise and smart than I'll ever be.
We bought her a futon, too, so she wouldn't have to sleep on the floor at Bridg's like I had to last year (of course, I liked sleeping on the floor, so it wasn't too bad). And she's hooked on the Grave Robbers From Outer Space games, which is great (Zubububu, we'll always be indebted to you for introducing us to this great series!)!
Wow. This is a huge entry. Sorry 'bout that -- I guess I should just post more often, rather than offer sporadic massive updates like this.
But you know what? Despite all the stress of the last month and so, despite all the tiny little problems and obstacles and crappy things (like our 9th floor apartment being slightly FLOODED in the big rainstorm two nights ago), well...
...life IS good.
It really is.
And I'm lucky to have everything I do, and to have Meaghan by my side always and forever.
Very rough last few weeks, especially at work, where our poor Executive Assistant's son was hit by a car and died. She and her husband were such a mess at the funeral. But the son (only 28... so sad!!!)'s sister played and sang a song on the piano (very touching and wonderfully performed), and then proceeded to offer up a very touching and humourous summary of her brother's life.
At work, I have had to essentially become the temporary Exec Assistant for the big cheese, while still doing all of my normal duties, too. And all of this happening a month before our big annual general meeting. So yeah, very busy and trying and stressful and etc.
Had problems with my bank, too, with money not being there that was supposed to be there, which caused a hiccup with my rent, AND I had just run out of cheques, and the replacement cheques were yet to arrive, and etc etc etc...
But at least, things all kinda resolved nicely yesterday, when the bank problem was rectified, AND I received my cheques, AND Meaghan found 600 dollars' worth of cheques that I had forgotten to cash over the summer (can you see how busy I must be if I am forgetting to cash MONEY???)...
AND I got a credit card finally.
I think it absolutely hilarious that I received this credit card from a bank where I have no account, when my OWN bank declined me TWICE now when I asked them for a credit card. And the bank who gave me the credit card is actually HANDLING my student debt, too!
So of course, I had to make a ew purchases with it already -- I got Might and Magic 8, and pre-ordered NHL 2005, and Megs and I got a few more domain names, too (notdamonk.com, anyone? ^_^)
But in happier news, my sis Vern is adjusting to Ottawa just fine, it seems. And she stays over for a few days each week so far, which I totally LOVE. ^_^
She's really doing well now, and I'm very happy that she moved up to Ottawa. She needed to get away from Dieppe for awhile, because there's just too much negative vibe going on there. The only real positive thing left for her in Dieppe was my parents (and the Leblan family, of course), and even their worry for Vern was prolly doing more harm than good... it can't be easy to be a parent when you love your children as much as my mom and dad do. The worry can just eat away at you like you wouldn't believe, and it can weigh on the child, too.
But Vern's spirits are really reacting well here. She spent the first few weeks just adjusting, sleeping (she really needs to sleep a lot to balance out the physical toll taken out by the lithium), taking walks to accustom herself to the areas (since Bridg and I live in two separate parts of the city), and now she's starting to look for work. She's already got her resume all set up, and she's applied at a few places, and is looking around for more option, too. She's such a very bright, very wonderful woman!
Heh. She's a woman. That's so weird and cool at the same time. My little Vern, all grown up and prolly more mature and wise and smart than I'll ever be.
We bought her a futon, too, so she wouldn't have to sleep on the floor at Bridg's like I had to last year (of course, I liked sleeping on the floor, so it wasn't too bad). And she's hooked on the Grave Robbers From Outer Space games, which is great (Zubububu, we'll always be indebted to you for introducing us to this great series!)!
Wow. This is a huge entry. Sorry 'bout that -- I guess I should just post more often, rather than offer sporadic massive updates like this.
But you know what? Despite all the stress of the last month and so, despite all the tiny little problems and obstacles and crappy things (like our 9th floor apartment being slightly FLOODED in the big rainstorm two nights ago), well...
...life IS good.
It really is.
And I'm lucky to have everything I do, and to have Meaghan by my side always and forever.