nasty! The tv lied they said that the Amazing Race was on at 9:00 oclock it is now 8:00 oclock and the Amazing Race is on. I was planning on working from 8 until 9, can't now, have to watch the Amazing Race, darn. Just another one of those little quirky things that makes us here in Saskatchewan so special, having all of our tv shows come on at the wrong time.

nasty! The tv lied they said that the Amazing Race was on at 9:00 oclock it is now 8:00 oclock and the Amazing Race is on. I was planning on working from 8 until 9, can't now, have to watch the Amazing Race, darn. Just another one of those little quirky things that makes us here in Saskatchewan so special, having all of our tv shows come on at the wrong time.

One more Christmas present bought today. Something for Angela. I think I need to make a list for some reason Christmas is coming up very fast for me this year. This is the weekend for the Christmas tree to be put up. For the second year in a row we are having an artificial tree, that still just doesn't seem right. A real tree is so much more Christmassy sort of like chestnuts roasting on an open fire, although who has an open fire these days and where are the chestnuts?

I put off buying a refilled ink cartridge for months, as I believed the price was probably too good to be true. It is. The black ink refilled cartridge I was cajoled into purchasing (after all why pay 49 dollars when you could pay 29) ran out of ink after less than 75 pages of printing. grrrr. and I didnt have a more expensive refill on hand to replace it with. Annoying!! Consequently I will not under any circumstances purchase another refilled ink cartridge, especially from Staples.

The sweet smell, swirl, tingle to the taste buds of a glass of red wine. This particular wine bottled in 2001 in a vineyard in Austria. Yet I think I prefer the wine bottled in the Okanagan Valley. Perhaps a bit of a warning on this particular bottle from Austria as to the 14% alcohol content ..hic.. would have been appropriate.

aah the satisfying feeling of having completed a successful event. Much like the feeling brought on by a great performance by an invidual in the arts. Now onward and forward on to the next adventure.

Well the conference is only a few days away, all the hard work and organizing will be over after Friday. It sort of feels like christmas where there is anticipation and then it is all over. Oh well, at least it has been a good learning experience and one just never knows what could come of it.

Conference committee meeting tommorrow, we shall see how things go. Decisions, decisions decisions, what to eat, where to sit, how to faciliate that, this and the other thing, such a complicated affair. I will enjoy the conference itself though, when it does get here. Hopefully nothing to serious will go wrong.

ok, the shower was fun, the trip to saskatoon was good and as always the food was soooo much better than in Nipawin. The whole working out of an office out of your own home is alright too. I realized that this afternoon when I got to work at my desk without any socks and shoes on, try that in a business suit.

whew found my usb cord for my printer, thought I had lost it again, in yet another move. a year ago when I moved I lost my usb cord, because I couldn't remember where I packed it, never did show up. This time I remember wrapping it up, putting in a place where I would never forget and promptly forgetting once I was moved and needing my usb cord. Last time I had to buy a new one, this time that wasnt an option so thank goodness we found the cord. It was packed in Arianna's duffle bag. Halloween was as hallowed as ever, we had about twenty five halloweeners and 123 chocolate bars later not to mention the ones the kids came home with. Next year I'm buying something that is good, like carrots, ha ha ha .

that strange little tickle in my ear is back, and no it is not someone elses romantic sweet whisperings in my ear, last time it turned out to be a nasty little infection that requried penicillin, perhaps if I over load on vit c and echinaccea I will be fine. Except oh joys of moving the good stuff is packed somewhere. oh where oh where could that be??

bought a house today, built in 1977, 918 sq ft bilevel with 1 1/2 car garage for $72,000.00. I sure do like Saskatchewan

An interesting dilema the undue button on Spider Solataire, cheating or learning from ones mistakes. hmmm (as you may have noticed I am deeply encroached in writing grants and proposals)

A new and interesting non profit org has found my little consulting company, and is looking for some organizational help and sourcing for funds. The Search and Rescue Associaiton is made up of trained, managed and well organized volunteers. With relatively little financial support. interesting, they work hard, save people's lives when possible yet are paid nothing. Oh and a professional hockey player works hard, saves peoples lives oops not and gets paid how much???!! It always seems to me that in the grand scheme of things our priorities are all wrong.

The seven wonders of Saskatchewan, oh did anyone mention three feet of snow in October!!!! moving, moving, moving, we are on the move again. But I am soooo busy with my own work, how to fit in a move, hmmmm. Oh well what needs to be done, shall be done.

what strange malady has infected my ears and throat, hangs on like the aliens in alien, pains me every time I swallow much akin to the pain one would feel if scratchy sand paper was rubbed down the inside of ones esophagus, lasting now for over four days, one must suppose at some point that the echanaccea and vitamin c are not working as usual in harmony and perhaps need either assistance from the penicillin family or a bottle brandy.

It would appear that no one in this group is particularly faithful to blogging these days. My personal space has been somewhat positive lately, I've been looking for a house with a suite so that I can live and work for free while someone else's money makes the mortgage payments. Apparently I may be able to go ahead with this, as CMHC seems to be more comfortable with my credit rating this time around, perhaps the difference from a 600 a month payment to a 380 a month payment has something to do with it. Arianna had a good day to day, or at least she didn't get beat up and she didnt have to phone me and make me rush home from work to give her and crystal a ride to school because crystal wouldnt listen to arianna. In reality all crystal needed was to go to the bathroom, then she went to school quite fine. Now that it is dark outside so much earlier, it is so much easier to convince Crystal that it is bedtime, low and behold in bed and asleep by 8 rather than 9.

caffeine addiction you say, I would certainly have to agree, symptoms including headache upon withdrawel, irritablity?? how about serious mental impairment leading to complete insanity. This from one who sometime waits in a Tim Horton's line up for the drive thru window behind 15 cars which cross at least one intersection and a curve. I wonder just how much caffeine is really in an extra large double double!!

hmmm, time for bed

Well, ok one proposal is off to spmc, the ywca research proposal is about 3/4 way done anddue by wed, the child care 2003 oultine and working paper of solutions tothe government is just starting and for the next three days I will be working from 4 to 6 on the extra accountng job I have. yuckkk, even 25 dollars an hour isnt enough to get excited about that.