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Bye Bye B*tch

August 24, 2006 by Tricia

Thirteen Things about Why it will be great when the Princess leaves

The Princess is our boarder from hell.

She’s leaving here at 8 a.m. Friday morning, going to school and then heading to the airport to go back home to Korea immediately after school.

YEaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHhhhhh!

1…. I won’t have someone around telling me what time I have to make dinner by so that SHE can go out with her friends.

2…. I won’t have someone around who doesn’t call when she’s decided not to come home for dinner.

3…. I can actually keep some eggs in the house again. She went through about 9 cartons in the 2.5 months she’s been here!

4…. I won’t have to hide my good pans anymore – the ones that she scratched up and ruined by using metal utensils in.

5…. We can keep some pop in the fridge again, or at least not hide it behind other fridge items. She’d help herself to at least 5 a day – and her room and board did NOT cover extras like that, or all the other items she helped herself to.

6…. We’ll be able to use our own phone whenever we want to now. She uses our phone at least three hours a day now, even when we say we are expecting calls. I’ve taken to hiding the phone or being on it when she’s home.

7…. We can leave our mail, my purse, and Chris’ wallet where we usually do without fear of her going through them. She did that a few times. Plus I just don’t trust her anymore so all the valuable and personal stuff is inconveniently upstairs in our room.

8…. We can watch a TV show without being interrupted 20 times.

9…. She fried a keyboard by spilling water on it and didn’t tell us it was broken for a week, then she download a program and installed it on the computer causing the computer to get a virus (one rule was no downloading or installing). That was the straw that broke the camels back so we removed the computer from her room. Now she always wants to use my computer and has sneaked onto it early in the morning. So …

10…. Now I won’t have to unplug my computer cord and hide it each day to keep her off my computer when I’m not around. (she can use it when I’m around- but not without asking first … and this girl doesn’t ask for anything, she demands)

11…. I won’t have anyone in my home that talks to me rudely, and makes me feel like a servant. I feel used and abused.

12…. We won’t get woken up in the morning by slamming doors and clomping down the stairs.

13…. We’ll have our own space in our own home again. But only for a week and a half. 🙁 We have a Brazilian man coming to stay with us for a month starting on September 7th. He’s 31 so hopefully he’s mature and doesn’t end up being a handful like the princess has been, but who knows!

Soon this turmoil will end. This girl is the most selfish person I think I’ve ever met. I walk around all day with this feeling of hate inside me and man all of the worst words you can call a female are rumbling around inside my head when I think of her or when she does whatever the latest outrageous thing she does. I’m just so angry and I hate feeling this way. I’m never like this.

God, I can’t wait until I start feeling better and getting healthy again so that I can get back to work and we won’t have to have boarders anymore.





Filed Under: Thursday Thirteen Tagged With: boarder from Hell, border, bossy, crazy, Korea, leaving, liar, lying, manipulative, moving, Princess, Renter, rude, selfish, stealing, student, Thursday Thirteen

Tall Structures

August 23, 2006 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesdays

Toronto’s Skydome (now Rogers Center) and the CN Tower

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CN Tower – 1815 Feet and 5 Inches tall. That’s more than a quarter mile folks!

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Filed Under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: Canada, CN Tower, photo, Rogers Center, Skydome, Tall, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday

Pain Pain go AWAY!

August 22, 2006 by Tricia

I feel like crap.

Fever, Chills, abdominal pain, bad, bad abdominal pain.

I’ve been feeling really off since the two Weddings a week and a half ago. I guess four long days of activities were just too much for me. However, on Tuesday I felt the worst that I’ve felt in a several months and I still feel that bad.

Have you ever had a pain so bad that you just wish that you could cut off the part that’s hurting? Say your leg, your knee, your wrist? Well, I’ve got a pain in my stomach right now that feels like a hand reaching just below my right ribs, as if it’s trying to rip and organ out. The pain in my lower right side feels like someones kicking me and stabbing me at the same time.

When the pain gets this bad I sometimes wish I could cut out the painful parts. Yeah, that would help for oh, about a minute, until I either bled to death or until the pain from the wounds set in. So, no, I wouldn’t do that, but I sometimes wish it were that easy to make it go away.

I have pain medication, and I’ve been taking it, but when the pain gets this bad it just doesn’t help. It doesn’t even knock me out so that I can try to sleep through it.

What really sucks about this is that I’m supposed to be going out of town on Friday for the weekend. We’re supposed to go to Chicago to see Bruce Cockburn play in a small venue on Saturday night. We’ve got some friends going with us so I guess if I end up not going Chris will be ok with the drive, but I wanna go. I’ve never been to Chicago. I know I won’t be there for long, but I want to see whatever I can see while I’m there.

I’ve also been meaning to write a number of posts for all of my blogs so that things will keep moving along here while I’m away (see positive thoughts – I’m writing as If I’m going right?). Unfortunately, I just haven’t felt up to writing.

I do have a nice series of photos on Breath of Life right now that I’ve set up to automatically post each day for the next two weeks. This weeks series is photos of Toronto’s Kensington Market. It’s a very interesting place to visit, and I managed to get some great shots while I was there the Saturday before last. I’d love it if you would check out the daily photos and let me know what you think of them.

I’ve also been busy over the last few days working on a new theme for Odd Planet and creating a new home for it too. Krome, formerly of Kromes Obsession, and now from Sugar Vamp and I’ll Dream, had offered to create a new WordPress site for me some time ago. I had been thinking of taking her up on her offer in order to create a collaborative site that I’d been discussing with a few interested parties, but over the weekend when I got it in my head to move Odd Planet, I decided to contact Krome and ask her to do a theme for Odd Planet. She said she would, but she wanted me to hunt for photos or pictures that I would want to use in the theme myself so that I’d be happy with the results.

Well, I went hunting for pictures to use in the theme and the next thing I knew I was designing Odd Planets new home myself. Now I’m in the process of moving all the posts from the original site to the new site. I hope to have it done before the weekend, as I’d like to be able to set up some posts to automatically post while I’m playing in Chicago. Playing – yeah right, that’s hard to believe with the way I’m feeling now. Anyway, if you’d like to check out what I’ve been up to visit Odd Planets new home and let me know what you think. The sidebar isn’t sitting right if you look at it in Internet Explorer, but it’s working for all the rest of the browsers.

I’m off to take another pain pill in the hopes that this one works. Wish me luck!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Graphics, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Services, Shopping, Web Design Tagged With: camera, chicago, crohns, design, digital camera, Fashion, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, new theme, odd planet, pain, pain medication, Photography, Shopping, style, Wordpress

Astilbes blooming Again

August 20, 2006 by Tricia

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Astilbes blooming in the garden. The Astilbes are blooming for the second time for some reason this year. They’ve never bloomed twice before. I’m enjoying their nice pink feathery stalks.

Sorry I’m so late posting this today. Life got in the way!

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: Astilbe, bloom, garden, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, plants

Nieces and Nephews

August 19, 2006 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Youth:

My youthful bunch of Nephews and Nieces –

This is a photo of three of my nieces at my oldest nieces wedding back in April. I wish this one had turned out a bit better as it’s one of the few times that we’ve had them all together lately.

Nicki, Laura and Allie

A group of nieces and nephews. This ones blurry, but again, this is one of the only shots I have of them all together.

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Filed Under: Photo Hunters Tagged With: Nephew, Niece, photo, Photo Hunters, photos, Scavenger hunt, Youth

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