Monday, October 25, 2010

mobile upload Monday

For most people, Mondays suck. After a weekend away from the office, who really wants to get back to the grind? (Besides me?) Mondays usually suck because the shittiest things that can happen during a week will always happen on the Monday. And this morning, this is what pissed everyone off and confused people on the roads .... SNOW!


But this is Calgary. And in Calgary, it snows just in time for our kids to dress up in costumes that are made big enough to fit over snow pants and waddle through the streets collecting candy from strangers. Or in my neighborhood, where most of the residents are new to Canada, dress up in just their snow pants and waddle through the streets following the kids that are collecting candy from strangers. They almost got the hang of it.

Overall, I don't mind Mondays, today especially. I decided to take part in this ....



Which means as long as we sport this sticker each day this week, we're allowed to wear jeans in the office. I made my $10 contribution to the United Way, $7 of which will probably go directly into the pocket of the CEO of United Way. I'm not a fan of being forced into donating to charities at the office, but as long as I'm comfortable in jeans all week, that's all that really matters.

My company is always doing fun things for it's employees ... I mean look at what they recently gave us ....



They told us they're business card holders. I personally think they look like roach clips. Others seem to agree.

Well, a few things I've been up to over the past few months ... a whole lot of nothing really ... looks a little like this ...



So I'm just trying to write a blog out of things that have amused me enough to take a picture because I really haven't been up to much. Actually, I did throw a bag of clothes, chips, pop, beef jerky, a stack of Friends trivia cards, and Sydnerella in the car on October 1st and drove five hours to see my sister and her handful o' boys. Aside from my visual issues, it was a nice drive ... visual being the fucking sun. In my eyes. For two damn hours. When it wasn't here ....



it was here ...



And when it wasn't there, it was here ....




Yes, I was bitchy as shit over the sun and maybe even referred to it as a whore in my head. But I had to chuckle when we passed this ....



Actually, I didn't chuckle until I started to pronounce it outloud then stopped at 'Aurel' ... Sydnerella looked confused when I snapped the pic then pointed at a duck on the other side of the car...
Eventually, we got to the tiny oil & gas town in central Alberta where we got to hang with my sister, nephews, dog, and two cats in a one floor, one bedroom portion of the house they decided to build but haven't yet finished. Did I mention she has a handful of kids? I'm telling ya ... people reading this from families where kids out number parents ... well, let's just say that I'd pray for you if I were a person that prayed.



And now, some more random crap ...



Never cook when you're mad ...



Teach your kids to take proper phone messages ...



And always keep something like this on hand so you can righfully punch your kids when they piss you off ...



Also, I bought this big bitch for $13 the other day ...



$13 because it was too big to fit on the scale at the grocery store so they estimated how much it would cost. I believe it to be roughly 40 pounds, judging by how hard it was to get from the car into the house, so I figured that to be a good deal. That's a 2-litre pop bottle beside it to show the sheer magnitude of that beast. And for you Americans reading this, I think 2 litres is about 1/2 a gallon ....


5 comments:

  1. Us American's buy soda's in two liter bottles...LOL for some reason, they don't sell "half-gallon" sodas...LMFAO

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  2. Pardon my ignorance, eh! All I hear is gallons this and gallons that, rofl. That was my attempt to educate, and I failed. My bad!


    bahahahaha

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  3. I am do with you on the donation thing...I hate giving money so some rich dude can get richer off the backs of innocents. at my expense...If I give I want it to go direct to the need..

    That is some serious pumpkin there, you gonna have to borrow Candance's purple switch blade to cut it?????? LOL

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  4. now THAT is one big fukken pumpkin!!!!!

    ~shoes~

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  5. I think two-liters sounds less harmful than half-gallon. So it's got to be a marketing ploy for us Americans.

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