Water Meters…Really?

Well just when you think they are fucking you every which way they can, they find another way to do it. Now they are going to enforce water meters. I say enforce because I don’t remember being given an option to vote on this crap so what else can you call it really? And honestly how can they charge us for water? I can’t remember if it’s China or Japan but one of them is actually stealing water from our great lakes and SELLING it back to us. Can someone say “what the fuck?” And now they are going to enforce water meters in a time when we are basically in a recession and nobody can afford anything as it is and hydro has just gone up….it’s actually really sad. I just finally got a 2nd job (and no I’m not happy about working 2 jobs and hardly seeing my beautiful little girl but we need the money) and some of the stress was lifted because I will be making extra money for our house and I thought maybe we could FINALLY get out of having to pawn my engagement ring and borrow money when we are in binds but now there’s just going to be an extra bill, an extra stress to worry about, an extra hand in our pockets. There is just simply no getting ahead anymore for anyone unless you are a millionaire I guess. One thing is for sure though, they really need to cut this bullshit about it taking 18 months to get the HST out when they sure got it in there in a fucking hurry. (Sorry, the hst thing is something that REALLY bothers me and I shouldn’t even talk about it, it brings out the worst side of me really). I know I ask a lot but what is this world coming to these days? They are now CHARGING us for water…WATER…an essential of life. They cannot do that and I hope people realize this.

Why does everything have to be so hard?

Wow. You would think having two jobs the problems would kind of diminish but it seems like they just got worse. Everything was going well until yesterday really. Getting Tristan in to day care for September 1st, I thought I would be able to get a job and not have to worry about a babysitter, but I guess I was wrong. I don’t make enough money to be able to call someone up whenever I need and get them to come and watch my daughter for a few hours if my day care doesn’t work out that day, so getting her in to a day care where it’s suppose to be set days and for subsidy, I thought everything would be fine. Then I get a call last night (not even 24 hours notice) that her provider has been sick since FRIDAY and can’t watch my daughter on MONDAY…on top of that she’s also had a bad kidney infection…my daughter has been going to this day care for two weeks. That is a lot to be sick. Not to mention she came home Friday with a bite mark on her from one of the other kids, so she isn’t even being watched properly and now we have to find ANOTHER day care. Sure does make it difficult seeing as how neither I nor her father have the ability to take a day off here or there in order to get her in to a new one, so that poses a whole other problem. So I might not be keeping this job, but I guess we will see. 😦

Things u wish u could say but can’t..(4 all u cleaners out there!)

1. (Garbage all over the floor..right next to the garbage can) Why have trashcans if you’re just going to be a fucking pig!? Is it really THAT hard 2 turn ur damn chair, lift ur lazy ass arm and throw it in the garbage?!

2. (Food left out to expire) Wtf you think because you’ve got a cleaner you’re fucking rich? Hope you choke on it you fat bitch!

3. (Coffee pot left on) Seriously? You gotta hit 1 damn button or pull 1 damn cord..then again if you’re too fucking stupid to throw out your trash, how would you find a bright orange button or a cord leading out the back?

4. (When ur told the bathroom stinks because the toilet isnt being cleaned right) Yea, I’m really sure its cuz the toilet wasn’t cleaned…You ate that food you left out all night didn’t you, you fat fucking cow?

5. (When u get in shit cuz 2 half rolls of toilet paper apparently are considered “almost out”) Wow if I needed half a tree to wipe my fat ass I’d seriously think of losing some weight…not like I don’t see the large pizza boxes in ur trashcan everyday and I know nobody likes you so I doubt anyone else gets anything….

6. (When they treat you like ur lower then them because you have to clean up their mess but you tower over them) You know how the saying goes people think they own cats, but really cats own people? I’d think long and hard before you start treating me like I’M beneath YOU..trust me I will show you who owns who….

7. (When you clean a government building that people go to in order 2 live off of other peoples (including yourself) tax money) Pretty funny how I clean up after your asses and I pay YOUR way in this world…you would think the least you could do is bend your lazy asses down and pick up your own disgusting trash

8. (When the public toilet is constantly shitty) Seriously, if you’ve got that kind of shit coming outta your ass you shouldn’t be here..you should be dead. Might wanna go get that checked and please…I think I speak for all facilities when I say stay the fuck away until you can come in and NOT use the bathroom….

Just a few things I’m sure every cleaner/janitor wishes they could say to the people they clean for. Please, feel free to add to the list if you like, might feel kind of good to vent it out there and let others know what’s on your mind..never know..some people who read it may be the people you work for! 😛

*I’m sure I will be adding to this list over time so please stay updated!*;)

 

Working @ Canada Post

Well yesterday marked the first day I will actually be getting paid for working at the post office! It makes it feel so much more official:). I worked three days last week but that was just to show that I can do it and I am an awesome worker, and it worked great!:D. I was a little disappointed that I will only be making $10 an hour (so I don’t think I’m an official postal worker, or even working at a union Canada Post outlet) but it helps a lot. I am only 4 hours a day for 4 days a week right now so I am keeping my other job as well, and it’s killing me! I know it’s safe to say any normal person HATES split shifts…well..I get up at 6am, go to work, come home for about 1.5 hours, go to work @ the post office, pick my daughter up from day care, go home, go back to work and finally I get to go home for the night to get up and do it again..so my day actually starts at 6am and ends at either 8:30 or 9:30pm. Wow I never actually stepped back to look at the times, my days are really completely filled :S. But if feels great to feel like I am contributing and adding what I need to the house and the family for a change. I sure haven’t had much time though and that might take some getting used to for a bit. Well better go and enjoy the rest of my “half day off” lol. Got to go to work at 7 😦

I figured it out…and all on my own!

Well I think I may have figured out what to do about tomorrow and my new job. I love saying that…”new job”….my old one sucks ass! But any who, my little monkey is going to start daycare 1 day early (at a cost of $15 not covered by subsidy) so that her mommy can go get a job I can finally be proud of! I know when being asked what you do for a living and saying “Postal worker” isn’t the greatest…but for me over the last 6 or so years of being asked what I do for work and having to answer “janitor” “sandwich artist” “gas station attendant” and “chambermaid”, it truly is something for me to be proud of. Not only did I get the interview, I did awesome, I was confident and now I get the chance to prove my worth and properly provide for my family and put in my share of things for a change. I just so can’t wait…I will write tomorrow and let you all know how my New Chapter has started 😉

Canada Post..My new chapter in life…

Well I did it…I had an interview with Canada Post on Friday and I nailed it! I was starting to get so worried that I wasn’t hearing back from them but they called at 8:30 this morning! I know it is just a little post office in a mall but it is still Canada Post and it gives me more opportunity then I’ve had anywhere else before. Not to mention that it’s only part-time for a little while and then close to christmas I will be full-time and right now I am working about 10 hours a week if I’m lucky, so it’s a big step up! I do have one obstacle in my way that is troubling me and that I am hoping I can fix at some point today so I can just be happy and proud of myself for doing this. Tristan’s daycare doesn’t start until the 1st so I have nobody to watch her tomorrow for the 3 hours I will need them to. I know Cory will probably be mad at me for telling them I can go in tomorrow, but I am just so worried of doing anything that might cost me the chance of this job. And stupid me, thinking “hey it’s only 1 day before her daycare starts so I can figure something out!”….well I’ve been trying and I can’t. I am trying to get ahold of her daycare to see if maybe she can go a day early and we can just pay for it instead of it being on subsidy, but then there’s the issue that some places like the first day to be with the parents staying with them to help them feel comfortable and everything…so I may of really backed myself in to a corner here. I HAVE to figure something out though because I cannot call them back and say I can’t make it. This is going to be a new chapter in my life and I’m going to make damn sure it’s a good one. Besides that, I have passed up a lot of jobs over the last little while due to the fact that my availability wasn’t when they needed or wanted or I just simply couldn’t make an interview and it’s getting to be extremely unfair, not only on myself but on my family as well. I need to be providing more and doing more of my share of things and I can’t really do that with the job I have now so this is very much-needed, not only wanted. I just hope I can figure something out and if I can’t I hope Cory will be understanding enough to help me and not just be mad and think I was irresponsible for saying yes :S

Don’t Trust Animal Shelters!

Well I must say, I thought I wasn’t really going to have anything to write about today until I read the following post I am going to put up. Before I do, I just want to take a minute to ask for any of you who know of animal shelters being like THIS, please take a stand for the animals who can’t speak for themselves because this should not be happening and doesn’t happen in any animal shelter I’ve ever heard of. What this person is describing is basically a Nazi internment camp for animals and I can’t imagine any animal rights activists allowing this to happen. I also would like to say that there are FAR too many homes that do no allow pets out there or jack the prices if they do. Please stop…it is not fair to anyone, not the owner who has had the pet so long it’s a member of their family but they have no option but to give them up or lose their home and especially not fair to the pet that has to wonder when you’re coming back and when you don’t they are the ones who don’t understand what they’ve done wrong to deserve to be abandoned. It is heartbreaking for everyone involved and the only reason it happens is because there are landlords and people out there who forbid animals. They are not just pets, they are family members, and every family member should be equal and have a voice, so please help make that happen.

The following is from a post put on Kamloops Craigslist – Please beware of the shelters in your area and please make sure you know what’s going on there before you EVER leave a pet there…

You can’t keep your pet? Really?
~By a Shelter Director

Our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call.
As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all… a “view from the inside” – if you will.

First off, any of you whom have surrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work in the “back” of an animal shelter – for just ONE DAY.

Maybe if you saw the life drain from those sad, lost, confused eyes, you’d stop flagging the ads on here and help these animals find homes.

That puppy you just dropped off will most-likely end up in my shelter when it’s no longer a cute little puppy anymore.

Just so you know, there’s a 90% chance that your dog will never walk out back out, once entered in to the shelter system… Purebred or not!

About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or “strays” that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.

The most common excuses: “We’re moving and can’t take our dog (or cat).” Really? Where are you moving to that doesn’t allow pets?
Or they say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you think a German Shepherd would get?
“We don’t have time for her”. Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs!
“She’s tearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family?
“We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a place for her & we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.

Odds are, your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think it is for your pet?

Did you know…
Your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off?
Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog/cat manages to stay completely healthy.
If it sniffles, it is euthanized.

Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with other barking & crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and will cry constantly for you.
If your pet is lucky, there will be enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk.
If not, your pet won’t get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of it’s pen with a high-powered hose.
If your dog is big, black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door.
If your cat is scared and doesn’t act friendly enough, or if it catches a cold (which most of them ‘do’), it will be put to sleep.
Those dogs & cats just don’t get adopted.
In most cases, it doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well behaved’ they are.
If your pet doesn’t get adopted within it’s 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed.
If the shelter isn’t full and your pet is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long.

Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression.
Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment.

If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize each animal and making money is better than spending money to take this animal to the vet.

Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”.

First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash.
They always look like they think they are going for a walk… happy, wagging their tails… until they get to “The Room”, every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when they get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there. It’s strange, but it happens with every one of them.
Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter workers, depending on the size and how freaked out they are.
Then a shelter worker who we call a “euthanasia tech (not a vet)”finds a vein in the front leg and injects a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”.

Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerks.
I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood… the yelps and screams are deafening.

They all don’t just “go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.

You see, shelters are trying to make money to pay employee pay checks and then, there’s the board of directors… who need to be paid too!

Consequently, corners are cut, & we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning lethal drug in their vein and let them suffer until dead.

If it were not a business for profit, we’d do it humanely and hire a licensed vet do this procedure. That way, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and THEN euthanized.

But to do this procedure correctly would only cost more money… so we don’t necessarily do what is right for the animal, we do what’s expedient so we can continue to make a buck!

Shelters do not have to have a vet perform their euthanasia procedures. Oftentimes, they are untrained personnel administering lethal injections. So… that employee may take 50 pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get inside the vein.

In the end, your pet’s corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer, usually in the back of the building with all of the other animals that were killed. There they will sit until being picked up like garbage.

What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for schools to dissect and experiment on?

You’ll never know and it probably won’t even cross your mind.

After all, it was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?!

I hope that those of ou who still have a beating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t get the pictures out of your head. I deal with this everyday. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make changes and start educating yourselves, your children, the public. Do the research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are getting into before getting a pet.

These shelters and humane societies exist because people just do not care about animals anymore.
And PLEASE stop breeding!

Animals were not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they’ve become.

For those of you that care— please repost this to at least one other Craigslist in another City.
Let’s see if we can get this all around and have an impact

10 things I would relive in a second…

We all have times in our lives that we wish we could go back and relive. Well I can think of ten that I would relive every day if I could. They are:

1. The day I had my daughter – probably the most amazing day of my life.

2. Being 17 years old – I think I was the happiest in my life at this point.

3. Being 19 years old – The perfect age (I think)

4. Meeting my boyfriend – Can’t get those butterflies anywhere else 😉

5. 1st time I got stoned – Guess I had a good experience my first time with marijuana lol

6. 1st time I got drunk – I am Irish, come on it had to be on here 😛 (plus it was the greatest experience & memory of my life)

7.  My grandpa’s 67th bday – His last bday & probably the last I remember him not being sick from the cancer…

8. Highschool – Ah yes…the time most want to 4get I would love 2 relive, not that I was popular or anything, I was just..free..

9. Living in Victoria – I’ve never felt like I belonged anywhere as much as I belonged there

10. Christmas of 1998 – Weird, I know, but the last xmas my grandpa was with us and the last xmas we did a lot of our traditions

So those are my ten moments I would love to relive, maybe one day time travel will be available and it will be possible 😉 lol. But for now, tell me what your #1 thing to relive would be.

Good Weekend??

Well the last couple of weekends haven’t really been that great. Never do anything and always just end up wasting the days. I  am sure hoping this weekend will be different though, because if it’s not, my faith and hopes in good weekends is really just gonna be gone. I remember the weekends when it was drinking, having fun with friends, watching movies, going camping…now it’s just boring and dreaded. I remember living for the weekends and wanting to just die when Sunday came because it meant the weekend was over, now the weeks are welcome and the weekends are becoming less and less wanted simply because there are things that need to be done during the week. Weekends you just want to chill and have a nice icy cold beer or nice mixed drink or go out to eat or shop..when you can’t do those things, life is just boring. Especially when you work so you can have some hope of doing those things and it just rarely ever happens. I miss my weekends and sleepovers with friends and things that people should never stop doing, because when you do it’s because you’re getting old. I remember feeling physically ill when my best friend would have to go home (he lived out-of-town) on Sundays and the week would feel soooo long until the weekends when I could be with him and my cousins again and just be all together all weekend.

Well I don’t know how this weekend will go, maybe it’s a sign that the hst was scrapped that this will be an awesome weekend, or maybe it will go the way of every other weekend. I hope it goes well though and I am going to try everything I can to make sure it is. It would sure be killer to start it off with a nice cold beer though. But like I said…we will see :S

My Life Soundtrack This Far for 2011 (Pt 1)

1. Where Is My Mind – Pixies (This one explains a few years of my life so far)

2. Time To Pretend – MGMT

3. Airplanes – B.Y.O.B Ft. Haley Williams

4. E.T – Katy Perry

5. Hang Me Up To Dry – Cold War Kids

6. Somewhere Only We Know – Keane

7. The Funeral – Band of Horses

8. Creep – Radiohead

9. White Blank Page – Mumford & Sons

10. Memories – David Guetta

11. Yellow Brick Road – Raine Maida

12. Old Age – Nirvana