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Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Published on August 19, 2003 in rants. 0 Comments

My neighbor likes these three songs:

1. Bryan Adams – Please Forgive Me
2. Bryan Adams – All For One
3. Enigma – Sadeness Part I

And she repeats them over, and over, and over… I swear, every time she puts on music, these three songs are the only ones she has in her CD player (or whatever). It’s really quite annoying.

It could be slightly worse. Last summer I remember an annoying rap song playing on repeat — literally for hours. I could only hear the baseline through the wall. Yes, it was awful. I still know the beat and can hear it in my head when I think about it. Gack.

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Wal-Mart hates Canada.

Published on July 6, 2003 in hockey, misc and rants. 0 Comments

I played in a hockey game yesterday for the first time in over a year. Woohoo!
Not only did I play, but I got First Star of the Game too. Can you believe it? I never would have thought I’d be playing this good so soon after taking a year off. Granted, they gave me 1st star because I got shelled and kept the score to a 4-1 loss, but still…

It was a lot of fun! I was asked to fill in for a practice/shinny hockey session on Friday and after the practice the guy that runs it said I played great (!!) and wanted to know if I’d be available to play in Toronto on Sunday. I was thrilled to be playing in an actual game — they’re so much more fun than shinny hockey.

The other team was pretty cool too, and there didn’t seem to be one asshole on the ice, which is unusual. You usually see at least one, or maybe I just didn’t notice. (You know, too busy getting pummelled with pucks!) The team I played for was kind of expecting to lose, so there was no pressure and everyone had fun.

Wayde got some cool photos of the game. I’ll put them up in my hockey gallery as soon as I get a chance.

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[Note: The following is cut and pasted from the baby blog.]

I think Wal-Mart hates Canada. I uploaded pictures to their site, thinking I could order the prints online and have my Mom pick them up at her local store — I’d save on shipping and it’d be ultra-convenient for her. But guess what? They won’t take my Canadian credit card. You hafe to fill out a form with your address to verify your credit card, but the drop-down “state” list doesn’t have Ontario. Nor do they accept my postal code. Dammit. It woulda been so cool to do that!

I was thinking that maybe I could get their “online shopping card” and put it on that but (duh!!) you have to pay for it online.

They have a German, Chinese, even Korean website, but not one for Canada. Bah.

What really sucks is that if I want to ship prints to my mom using an online service it’s more expensive — not only because of shipping, but also because they all charge about 15 to 25 cents more per print. Insane! Wal-Mart charges .26 per print, Shutterfly.com charges .49 per print (unless you order a large amount) and Snapfish.com charges .39 per print (again, unless you order a lot). PlanetFoto looks cool, they let you pick up your prints at a local shop, but they don’t have one local to my mom or Wayde’s mom.

I’m going to try to go to Wal-Mart tomorrow to get a Shopping Card if I can — hopefully it will let me order online from Canada.

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Spam rant

Published on May 28, 2002 in geekiness, internet and rants. 0 Comments

There are two types of e-mail I can’t stand (other than spam).

The first is the one you get that tells you all about a horrible virus that will completely destroy your system if you open the attachment — and most of the time, the so-called “virus” isn’t even a virus. Some unsuspecting dimwit (see gullibility virus gets an e-mail in their inbox and decides he (or she!) should warn every single person in the address book. Now, let me tell you…this is the wrong thing to do. First, go to a reputable site like Symantec and do a search for the “virus”. Chances are, it’s just a hoax and the only harm it does is get your panties in a bunch…and everyone else the hoax gets sent to. Don’t forward it. Ever. Even if it isn’t a hoax. Instead, reply with this to the person that sent it to you in the first place.

Second, there is no way forwarding a single e-mail to X number of people will get you free stuff or free money. It just doesn’t happen! You would think after someone does it once and doesn’t get whatever-it-is, they’d figure it out. But, noooooo. If someone sends you one of these kinds of e-mails, reply with this. But then again, the sender is probably an idiot, and won’t get it.

Oh, there are three kinds.

I forgot about the kind that warns you about The Dangerous Situation that you should watch out for, and make sure you send it on to everyone you know! Not everyone realizes they should park in well-lit areas and not trust strange men. Right? (Sorry, no sarcastic response for this one, you’ll have to come up with your own.)

[Update: Send them to Glurge.]

Don’t send me stupid shit. I’ll have to kick your ass.

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Um. People need to learn how to drive in snow.

Published on December 5, 2000 in rants and thing-o-the-day. 0 Comments

It has been snowing all day! Normally I love the snow, but I absolutely hate driving in it. Unless there’s no one else on the road and you know how often that happens…

When I got up this morning and drove to the gym, the roads sucked. Bad. And then, later on, I had to drive to the other side of town. I thought they would have salted the roads by then but nooooooo. On the way back there was this stupid ASSHOLE so far up my ass I couldn’t see his headlights. I came up to a red light and when it turned green I had to drive up a hill, but I couldn’t get traction no matter how gently I gassed it, and the stupid fucker was STILL up my ass. God, I wanted to get out and strangle him. (Uh, oh, road rage!)

What the hell is wrong with people? Okay, there is snow on the road and it’s slippery. Is it safe to drive like Mario Andretti in a 4×4 and tailgate? Think, people!!!

And to lift my spirits, here is auite possibly one of the funniest sites I’ve ever seen: CHICKENHEAD – now fortified with corn!

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No kids for me.

Published on November 2, 2000 in rants. 0 Comments

I don’t want kids. At least I know I don’t want any right now, nor within the next year or so. I’m 25 years old and I thought when I was younger, according to the timetable I dreamed about my future, that I would have a child by now. But now that I’m 25 and I’m living the life I am, which is not an exciting or glamorous life, I still don’t feel I want kids.

Other people have kids and that’s fine. But why does society make you feel guilty about not wanting kids? If I did want to have a child, I would be congratulated on having a (hopefully) healthy baby. I’ve never actually been directly told I should have children — Lord have pity on the person who does say that to me. But I do feel guilty even so.

Nearly everyone I know has at least one kid. So no one has time to “hang out” with me…even if they knew me they wouldn’t have time because they’ve got work, kids, a husband, a LIFE. Which is pretty ironic considering one of the reasons I don’t want to have kids is because I don’t want to not have a life.

The other day my husband and I were in a restaurant to have some lunch. We were seated in a booth next to a table with a girl and two women. Now the girl looked like she was about 10 years old or so but one of the women, I’m assuming her mother, was coddling her a bit more — way more — than she should have been.

I didn’t think much of it when we first sat down. I thought maybe she was just an extremely overprotective mother. I don’t have kids, so who am I to say what she’s doing is right?

Well, halfway through our lunch the girl suddenly stood up, turned around to face our table and launched herself at a Coke on our table. Yikes!! Where the Hell did that come from? Apparently she was retarded (oh sorry, mentally handicapped) and really wanted that drink.

My point is that her mother was extremely patient with her. I don’t know if I could do that. I mean, having a kid is one thing and requires lots of patience, but adding some sort of physical or mental handicap makes it a lot harder. I know, I know, some would say that you have to have the patience and you’d just acquire it and get used to it, but I don’t know.

I don’t see me changing my mind anytime soon. I don’t want to give up hockey. I don’t want to give up time with my husband. I don’t want to be broke. I don’t want to have to worry if my kid is growing up too fast, like they do now… I don’t want to go into labor, it sounds way too scary for me. I don’t want to have a 14 year old kid in 2014, can you imagine what he/she would be like in a society 14 years from now? I don’t want to grow up, or give up anything I have now. I’m very very happy with what I have now, why would I want to change it?

Just Say No To Children

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Talk shows or freak shows?

Published on September 29, 2000 in rants. 0 Comments

Talk shows should be called “circus shows” or “freak shows”. What intelligent person in their right mind would go on TV so they could yell at someone? Half the time they’re uneducated and emotionally unstable, I’m sure they don’t need to go on a talk show to make their life better.

What’s worse are the talk show hosts who are bringing these people up on stage and exploiting them. The guy that slept with his best friend’s girlfriend, or the KKK member that insists on saying every racial slur in the book, or the girl that doesn’t know which boy is the father…these are things that happen every day. *I* know they shouldn’t be happening, *you* know it shouldn’t happen, but these talk-show hosts are practically encouraging people into these kinds of behaviors.

There is one talk show that actually seems to try to help the people that come on the show, but it’s still a form of encouragment. Hey, if you’re a fuck-up, or you know someone who is, call this number and you can be on our show!

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My landlord is an ass.

Published on September 28, 2000 in rants. 0 Comments

My landlord is an ass.

Okay, so I’m not from Canada, I don’t have much body fat, and I must have poor circulation. I’m inside the apartment all friggin day because I can’t get a job yet (I don’t have work visa.) and I’m freezing my ass off.

I called the landlord and he mumbled something about not having it turned on yet and he would send someone over. That was two days ago. I’m wearing two layers of clothes and I have a glove on my mousing hand. Pathetic.
posted by Angela R 5:48 PM

Ahh, it’s Thursday. I was supposed to go to my grandmother-in-law’s place today to work on her computer, but she’s not feeling well today. I guess I’ll go next week.

I was browsing through my links and saw a site I hadn’t been to in a while, The Misanthropic Bitch, so I took a look at it. I forgot how funny it is. I love sarcastic humor. I agree with a lot of what she says, and I hate it when people beat around the bush about what they want to say, but feel they can’t because they might step on some toes. Just say it like it is!

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