Work, work and more work

Okay this one is the ranting blog entry. Why is everyone around me sick?! Everyone is spreading their dirty sick germs all around me and I don’t want them. But at the same time I’m really tired of covering other people’s shifts because they are home sick with the flu. I’m sorry but I really don’t enjoy working 13 hour shifts at a crappy drug store. Which by the way stinks, because people come in with their sick children who are nearly throwing up in the aisles.

  And another thing, people stop with the hand sanitizers! You are letting these companies charge ridiculous money because they are shortages on hand sanitizers. What happened to good old fashioned washing of the hands?

Anyway, that was what I had to get out of my system today. On a positive note: I made it to the gym tonight just in time. I feel great! (That’s code for I’m heading to bed this minute)

Amy Butler's "In Stitches" hanging toiletry bag

So since I'm all excited about school and will be living in a dorm for the first time in my life I'm trying to think of all the things I might need. During my undergrad I always lived off campus and so I knew what ever I used at home I would need in my apartments. But now I'm going to have to downsize drastically and one of the things I'm going to have to get most used to is communal showers/bathrooms (I shudder at the thought). Anyway, the point is I bought Amy Butler's book In Stitches about three years ago and remembered seeing a hanging toiletry bag that I thought would probably come in really handy for dorm life. I've been working on this sucker for 3 days on and off, well more off than on, and I'm having a bit of trouble on the bottom inside lining of the bag. Once I conquer that bit, I'm thinking and hour more and it should be done. Then I can take pictures of it and show it off in all it's glory.

One thing that I don't like about the patterns in this book is that she has a list of all the materials you'll need for each project, but the amount of fabric that she has listed is incredibly exaggerated. As a beginner I take her suggestions as truth and buy all the fabric she suggests, but when I'm done with the project I have SO MUCH fabric left over. Seeing to the fact that I'm not rich right now that's wasted money because I don't have plans for the left over fabric and I'm not much of a hoarder/"stasher". On the contrary I LOVE getting to the bottom of a product and the satisfaction of knowing that none of it went to waste, but that's off topic. Anyway the point is that for this project (hanging toiletry bag) when I went to Fabric Land for the boning and Timtex I got the nicest lady, which is unusual because I always get snooty older ladies who laugh at my sad attempts at sewing, and of course why am I even trying if I don't know what Timtex is, sorry again off topic. Any who, this lady suggested how much she thought I needed just by looking at the picture of the toiletry bag and actually she also mentioned that all of Amy Butler's pattern's ask for incredible amounts of fabric (as she rolled her eyes and said, "Oh yes, Amy Butler, that young designer"). So she saved me money plus the fact that the material I'm using for the bag is coming from a pillow case I liked the pattern of at Value Village.

On another topic completely, I now have only 29 lbs to go to hit my goal weight. :)

Blah....

Today is not a good day. I'm feeling really down I guess and listening to depressing love songs is not helping! But I can't make myself turn it off. Anyway, along with complete boredom comes the strange urge to take random pictures of myself on my crappy MacBook camera. So I just added it on here and as you can see from my eyes today is one if those self pity filled days. I have one at least once a month and then I'm over it and on I go to a new day.

I guess I'm just really starting to feel the distance between my boyfriend and I. I think I'm just being a big baby because we talk every day on the phone and see each other at least once a month. But for the five years that we have been dating we basically saw each other almost every day. But then in October of 2008 I had to move back home for financial reasons and we are now a long distance relationship. And although I try hard not to think about it or just be happy that we do communicate as much as we do, it's really hard for me. And now that I will be moving to Toronto for at least four years for school, who knows how much longer we'll be apart. It stinks ultra bad (lol).

Wow that sounds so depressing, lol, I'm sorry guys. Okay let me try to end this on a happier note...nope I got nothing right now. I'll try again tomorrow.

Not for the faint of heart

Every summer, in the city where I grew up and am living in presently, around June and July there is an infestation of Fish Flies. They are the most disgusting insects I have ever laid eyes on. They cling onto everything: store fronts, cars, roads, people! So even if you don't want to, you end up stepping on them and hear the "crunch" as you're killing them with every step. And although this should make me feel good since I loathe the nasty creatures it just makes me feel like vomiting. I have such a huge phobia of these insects, it is not even funny! I swear if one EVER landed on me, you would be able to hear my screams in the next continent! So needless to say I wish they would go away and never come back! Or more realistically once I leave for Toronto, I will never make this city my home again. I'll visit but not make it my permanent residence.

YEAH ME! (x1)

Weight loss update:

I've lost 3 pounds...booooo. But my boyfriend is down around 7 lbs, YEAH HIM!!!

The next blurb you may or may not find silly. Right now I am living 2 hours away from my boyfriend, so we end up seeing each other usually 1-2 a month. So we made a promise that we will be at least 5 lbs thinner each time we meet. So far he has beat me and I, sadly, couldn't even do 5 lbs. BUT this only means I just have to try harder.

Life update:

So....last time I said I had a feeling I would have something exciting to share with all of you? Well it has come true! I applied to a professional school in Toronto and I got in :) Which means I start a new chapter of my life come January 2010. SO EXCITED! A bit anxious about having to do the whole study/exams/sleepless nights bit again but Lord knows I DO NOT wish to work as a cashier for life. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but it is not for me.

Life is looking up again and the sun is shinning on my world.