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This morning I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  Ever have one of those days?  I wish I didn't but I do.  Of course it sometimes gives me a free ticket to act like a burly pirate too... hehe.  But seriously, I am SO BORED today I could cry.  I have things I can do here at the office but none of them inspire me much.  Been sending out CVs with no response so far.  The one thing I was hoping for, didn't pan out either.  Kinda disappointing but I need to keep moving forward.

THEN, I pop in here to find my damn blog's been spammed!  WTF?  Go away you fuckers! (sorry, had to write it).  Gawd, these 'people' who write this shit are retards and I just spend FOREVER trying to clean up old entries etc.  I probably STILL haven't got it all.  It's like hunting for dust bunnies in the dark... good luck!  So what the heck, figured I'd lay out an entry in my dust bunny-covered blog.  Actually, it's probably not the best time to write but I figured I needed a good rant and I haven't done so in a long lonnnnnnnnnng time.

On the home front, things are peachy... except for my cats.  Simon is gonna get a boot to the head one of these days... Earlier this week, he knocked over a SEALED container of butter on the counter and proceeded to eat about the equivallent of 1/3 of a stick of butter.  I believe Oliver partook of it as well because when we got home they were both walking around ill-like and not coming near me either.  Especially Ollie.  He sat as far away as he could from me in the living room, staring at me but not moving for fear his guts would probably fall out.  Simon just slunk away and hid like the guilty little brat he is.  Needless to say, it was the first time in 3 years that NEITHER of them came to eat their dinner.  Nor did they eat much in the morning either.  But oh yeah, yesterday, when I came home from work, it was to find one room FULL of cat puke.  And to make matters worse, it was BUTTERY!  So I had to degrease AND de-smellify the damn room.  Then I cleaned out the litterbox which was full of buttery poo.  Annnnnnnnnnnnnd this morning cleaned up another pile of butter vomit.  Gawd, I do not wants kids EVER.  Oh well, they seem fine now as they ate their breakfast with gusto and Simon decided that going up on the counter to look for more people food is fine again.  I guess his pea-sized brain didn't recall the last 2 days of sick.  The little dork.  I was worried a few weeks ago that Simon might be sick... either a UTI or constipation.  Well I now know it isn't a UTI and if he had any probs with constipation, I'm sure the butter took care of that.  pffffft.

Don't get me wrong, I love the little buggers... but they are like dogs sometimes.  I've never seen cats so freaked out to eat people food...especially because I have NEVER fed them ANY people food.  I've been very strict about that, yet Simon has a penchant for it like some street cat who eats out of garbage pails.  eeeesh, teenagers.

Anyhow, I would like to rant on about my work... but I have done that already in the past and I really don't need to repeat myself on the stupidity that is my day in purgatory.  At least I haven't seen the new guy around a lot lately.  So I have SPACE to breathe in my cell.  Fun times!  woot.

These are the days that I want to run away.  Even for a week. But who's gonna pay the bills and feed the cat-dogs?  lol  Gosh, I sound like a grown up or some such silly thing.

It's summer... I live up North... we take our summers seriously!  I'll be on blog sabatical until September I'm thinkin...  Pop in once and awhile to clean up spam etc.  Hope all is well.  Goin campin this weekend.  Was out campin last weekend too.  WOO!  Fun times.

Cheers to summer!

So in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a sucker for many kinds of music.  In fact, this is the 3rd entry in a row that will be on the subject... perhaps I should create a new blog category for this?  hmmmmmm

Anyhow, I also belong to emusic.com which is an AWESOME place to download music for a VERY small fee and you can find a lot of out-of-the-way types and not too much of the main stream, which I like.  They DO carry some, but most of it is an eclectic mix of the cool and neato awesome music you will never hear on a regular stinky radio station.  For instance, I can get most of the Six Degrees Records titles there... VERY nice.  Six Degrees is one of my favourite record labels that promotes fabulous world  music.  If you sign up for their newsletter, you will also receive a free download every few weeks too! Check it out when you get a chance.

Today, in my musical hiking trip, I found the funniest album yet... All of AC/DC's biggest hits... in LULLABY form!!  Okay, very freaky/creepy/strange.  If you don't believe me, click HERE to listen to it, "Lullaby Renditions of AC/DC".  Emusic provides a free, 30 second clip of each song.  To me, it sort of sounds like the soundtrack to one of those teen, slash 'em, hack 'em flicks... If anything, you'll get a good giggle outta it.

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On a completely different note; HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE SIS!!!  It's my sister's b-day today...  Not like she reads this, but figured I'd push it out into the universe anyhow!

  I think everyone has had this feeling before... lord knows I have. Just a little find on my trip in The SixtyOne.

I just found a pretty cool music site on my net ramblings... well, thanks to the BF actually.  He's the one who intro'd me to it.  It's called "The Sixty One".

Basically it's a site that helps introduce you to some new tunes and allows you to rate them and bring your favourites to the top of the list/front page.  All the music is loaded by the artists themselves, you can listen to the entire song and save it in your play list or choose to never hear it again.  The sound quality is great as well. While doing all this, you gain 'experience points' that allow you to 'bump' songs up higher on the scale.  There is a pretty decent variety so far considering it's still in it's Beta form.  I'm enjoying it and finding some pretty neat cool tunes.  It's free to sign up and listen, and if you wish to buy the mp3, it has a link to the Amazon mp3 downloader. 

It's a great way to support the artists and fun to hear some stuff you may not normally hear on the radio etc.

Tell 'em Kalli2B sent ya!!  Enjoy!

Guess what?  This blog is just over 3 years old!!  Wooopeeee!  I know, you are just as excited as I am.  It actually turned 3 in April... even though I haven't been blogging half as much as I used to, I was pretty proud of this little personal tidbit.  The Treehouse has gone through a lot of growing pains over the years... and now, I am considering jumping ship.   Oh no no, I don't mean quitting blogging, I mean jumping the MSN ship.  Similar to what our friend Josh did.  I think it would be fun to be able to design my blog how I WANT it to be without having to bend to the will of the "all-powerful-MSN-Oz" sometimes.  Not that it is something I will do in a short while... this takes a lot of time to do and that is something I don't have at them moment.  It's SPRING!!  Soon to be SUMMER and this weekend is 3 days!!! (As all should be in MY opinion).  So that isn't something I will pondering for a wee bit yet.

I am looking forward to this weekend though.  3 days off and the weather is SUPPOSED to be lovely!  I'll be breaking my winter gelati fast tonight... get to go to Nucci's which is the ONLY place in Winnipeg to get gelati.  They make it fresh and at the store... you can't beat that.  Then, perhaps a drive to the country with the BF on Saturday... See fam on Sunday and Monday, who knows!!!!  I can't wait!!!

Anyhow, gotta finish off my day, have a good one peeps!

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
 -Ralph Hodgson

Around...  Out and about...  or, "oot and aboot" as some people seem to think we Canadians say it... which I don't.

Time slips by easily when you're having fun I suppose.  Got a long weekend coming up and am looking forward to that.  Not too sure yet what I'll be doin, but it won't be gelatinating.  Even though I've sealed some of my fate to couch-potato land by starting to watch the entire Buffy The Vampire Slayer series.  Promised myself I wouldn't do it, but lo and behold!!  I did.  Currently working on season 3 and enjoying every minute of it!  Basically it's my after work programing or when I'm not in the mood to read or whatever.  I'm sure it will take me quite awhile to get it finished, but that's okay, rainy day stuff is always good to have.

I've also been feeding my Lost addiction... only 3 more episodes and it's over for another 6+ months!!  Freeking awesome show that deserves more accolades that it receives from the TV people community.  Apparently John's been instructed to move the island... hehe  My theory is that it's not the island itself they move, but the conduits that lead to it.  I have too many other theories in my head right now to type it all down and bore anyone who may actually read this.  So I'll stop on that one.

Purchased SingStar for dear PD... I think she likes it... we'll have to see.  Can't wait to pop over to her place to have a spin at it.

Work sucks... that's all I intend to write on THAT subject.

Spring is here, I'm just waiting for the lilacs to come out... gonna be a wee bit yet as the leaves are just poking out of the trees.  I'm sure by this weekend, if the weather holds we'll have some lovely greenery to gaze at.  I love this time of year, it's like a thaw for the mind and body.  After seeing nothing but white and grey for months on end, this time of year is truly rejuvenating.  Lord knows I need it.

Anyhoooo off to work again... fun times.  la la 

I'm still here, still alive.  No ridiculous & dramatic jumping off buildings.

Had a busy weekend.  Celebrated my oldest friend's birthday, which was fun.  Took Noni with me too, and I think she had a good time as well.  lol  It was like standing in some weird vortex with both those ladies.  The only person I've known longer than Noni was my friend, M.  So it was cool to have them both in the same room.  Highlight was when we got to play SingStar for the PS2.  What a fun game!  I even got Noni to sing one song with me.  While I will admit, not as fun as Rock Band (Yes, I'm still an addict), it was a good time and I was very impressed with the music selections.  OH yeah, it's not only the music selections, but they include the original videos etc. and THAT was way cool to watch all of those old 80's vids.  The BF tells me they're coming out with a PS3 version that's supposed to be awesome... hmmmmmm  I know for sure PD would LOVE this game, it's all about the singin'.  hehe

What else?  I still have some of the blues, but today, the sun is shining and the weather ain't too bad, so I'll take it and use it for my "try-to-be-a-bit-more-positive-attitude".  The opportunity I was hoping for fell through so I've gotta stop mourning somehow and get back on my feet again.  All I do know is that my stress levels and blue-tone are NOT helping me here.  Hopefully I can change that before the week is through.

Keep on truckin' right?