I've added a twitter feed to my blog so that if anyone is interested in keeping tabs on what I'm up to the option is there! I'm still getting used to it, but I will probably update there more often than full out posts.
Enjoy!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Happenings
Oh my. I'm now 26! Crazy how time flies!
Not sure what I last wrote about, so maybe I'll just recap all the (not overly) exciting things I've done in recent memory. And probably not in chronological order.
Birthday - Yesterday! Now 26. Had friends come from all over to hang out with me and celebrate. We gathered at my house before going out to the bar and I made dinner (my standard birthday fare - pasta toss) and my aunt's Mud Pie (ice cream cake). James and Lindsay came down and brought with them my now fixed car.
Broken Car - A few weeks ago I went home to visit my family (and pick up Hamish, as I wrote about). I had the intentions of leaving my car at home so that my creepy-guy-up-the-road could fix my car at his leisure. The brakes needed to be looked at and the exhaust needed to be patched. I didn't get home til later at night, 10:30ish, and I picked up Bailey for a coffee date. About 2/3 of the way up there I started hearing this lovely scraping sound on the ground... it was pitch black out (and freezing cold!) and I didn't want to stop to check it out until I was in town. Drove a few more kms and then stopped in a well lit parking lot to investigate the damage. I expected a small piece of metal to be draggin, but instead I saw my entire exhaust pipe hanging down! Thats right. Where most people's muffler's fall off, my muffler stayed fully attached and everything else fell off of it! Bailey and I performed some emergency McGyvering - consisted of using a Shopper Drug Mart lanyard and a snowboard leash to rig the pipe up high enough for it not to drag anymore.
After it sat at home for a week, I got desperate and asked my brother to fix it for me. He took it to his shop and replaced the entire system for me - $800 it would have cost me - but luckily everything was under warranty from the LAST time I wrecked it! HURRAY!!! There was only a little bit that cost me anything but my dad paid for it as my bday present.
Hamish - My cat now likes me, which is good cuz I was worried for a while there that he really wouldn't adjust to life in Londontown with me and Dave. However, he is my new BFF, and love to meow at me and headbutt me and walk all over me (especially when I'm sleeping) Little by little he is more brave, he even ventures upstairs now to explore the main floor!
New Apartments - Dave and I found an apartment! We move May 1st, which is exciting. It's the top floor of an old house, with cathedral ceilings in the kitchen/living room and a claw foot tub. It's pretty close to school and so we can walk/bike to UWO the days that I'm not working at Henry's. Now starts the super fun job of finding furniture that we like, even though we don't really have money. More updates on that one another day.
Web Ambassador - a few weeks ago, our ASM (area sales manager) approached me with the task of being the SW Ontario Web Ambassador for work. Basically, this job means that I now have it in my job description to spend hours on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Not sure exactly how it will all go down but it gives me somethign else to do here at work.
Twitter - After much deliberation, I joined up on this. It's interesting, though I don't have many people that I watch... but I'm the kinda person who'll update pretty often. If you're interested, I'm on there as (username) alliefoell
Thats about all... OH! Wait...!
Italy - I found out that I have a "free" Contiki trip for this summer... so I think I'm gonna go to Italy. I'm just needing to find someone to go with me. I wish I knew people with money. Booo!
Not sure what I last wrote about, so maybe I'll just recap all the (not overly) exciting things I've done in recent memory. And probably not in chronological order.
Birthday - Yesterday! Now 26. Had friends come from all over to hang out with me and celebrate. We gathered at my house before going out to the bar and I made dinner (my standard birthday fare - pasta toss) and my aunt's Mud Pie (ice cream cake). James and Lindsay came down and brought with them my now fixed car.
Broken Car - A few weeks ago I went home to visit my family (and pick up Hamish, as I wrote about). I had the intentions of leaving my car at home so that my creepy-guy-up-the-road could fix my car at his leisure. The brakes needed to be looked at and the exhaust needed to be patched. I didn't get home til later at night, 10:30ish, and I picked up Bailey for a coffee date. About 2/3 of the way up there I started hearing this lovely scraping sound on the ground... it was pitch black out (and freezing cold!) and I didn't want to stop to check it out until I was in town. Drove a few more kms and then stopped in a well lit parking lot to investigate the damage. I expected a small piece of metal to be draggin, but instead I saw my entire exhaust pipe hanging down! Thats right. Where most people's muffler's fall off, my muffler stayed fully attached and everything else fell off of it! Bailey and I performed some emergency McGyvering - consisted of using a Shopper Drug Mart lanyard and a snowboard leash to rig the pipe up high enough for it not to drag anymore.
After it sat at home for a week, I got desperate and asked my brother to fix it for me. He took it to his shop and replaced the entire system for me - $800 it would have cost me - but luckily everything was under warranty from the LAST time I wrecked it! HURRAY!!! There was only a little bit that cost me anything but my dad paid for it as my bday present.
Hamish - My cat now likes me, which is good cuz I was worried for a while there that he really wouldn't adjust to life in Londontown with me and Dave. However, he is my new BFF, and love to meow at me and headbutt me and walk all over me (especially when I'm sleeping) Little by little he is more brave, he even ventures upstairs now to explore the main floor!
New Apartments - Dave and I found an apartment! We move May 1st, which is exciting. It's the top floor of an old house, with cathedral ceilings in the kitchen/living room and a claw foot tub. It's pretty close to school and so we can walk/bike to UWO the days that I'm not working at Henry's. Now starts the super fun job of finding furniture that we like, even though we don't really have money. More updates on that one another day.
Web Ambassador - a few weeks ago, our ASM (area sales manager) approached me with the task of being the SW Ontario Web Ambassador for work. Basically, this job means that I now have it in my job description to spend hours on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Not sure exactly how it will all go down but it gives me somethign else to do here at work.
Twitter - After much deliberation, I joined up on this. It's interesting, though I don't have many people that I watch... but I'm the kinda person who'll update pretty often. If you're interested, I'm on there as (username) alliefoell
Thats about all... OH! Wait...!
Italy - I found out that I have a "free" Contiki trip for this summer... so I think I'm gonna go to Italy. I'm just needing to find someone to go with me. I wish I knew people with money. Booo!
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