April 1st Post

Except I am so damn lazy that it is April 2cd and I am too lazy to blog what I was going to blog about.
Yesterday I heard this chick call in to the CBC when they were doing a show about minimum wage going up in Ontario. And she was one of those angry bitter people, bitching about how she has a university degree and can't get a job. So I was gonna blog about how those people have always pissed me off. But now I find I don't have the energy to be pissy at them anymore. I am over it.
Suffice to say, it annoys me. Seriously, who forced you to go to university? I mean really, what great job did you think that BA or BSc was gonna get you? What are you so angry about? Really, it is our own faults for being naive, not planning ahead, and being too young to know what the hell we were doing. I include myself in that. I mean, God, when I went to UNB at 17 years old, I was so freaking stupid. I had no clue what I was doing. I chose to go there on a whim.
I guess, there are a few people out there who had it figured out at that age. And entered the right program, went straight through, graduated and made a career out of it. But out of the people that I know, not very many. Maybe 1, in a dozen.

I have noticed that so many of my peers, myself included, suffer from this 'kinda thing'. I don't know what to call it. I am going to name it "mid-twenties-ennui/escapism". It is the whole I-don't-know-what-the-hell-to-do-with-my-life-I-will-teach-english-in-Asia thing. I think I am definitely suffering from it too. I mean, that is what nannying is to me. I know a lot of people who are going through this. The perpetual students, the travel abroad-ers, the "well I didn't get into my Masters so I will settle for this job" people.
I guess growing up, we were told that, unlike our parents, we would need university education and degrees to get good jobs. So then we went to school, and came out to find we still couldn't get the jobs. I don't know why that is, in the grand scheme of things? Someone want to explain it to me? Too many people/competition? Are we an entitled feeling generation who want to have it all without earning it? ( I heard on Dr. Phil that we are, but I am not sure.)
Anyways... There is no point to this rambling. I have just been thinking about my own journey a lot lately. Because I am getting tired of being a Nanny. But I am still in that what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life stage. I don't know what is next.
(It doesn't help that I am a snob and don't want to "settle" for less than or that I want to be fabulously wealthy. But that is a topic for another day....)

So I haven't blogged in forever. I dunno why. Hrmmmm what's new?

Well, Jory and I are planning our Newfoundland trip. Very excited about that! We booked a suite at this bed & breakfast, Leaside Manor. It looks beautiful so I am really psyched! And I have been talking to my old friend Kandice, who I haven't seen in 600 years, who is going to show us around, woo!

I went to St Lawrence market on the weekend. That was fun. I posted some pics to my flickr. More pics of the kids, Jeanette's dog Kasey too.

It is mostly spring-y here, which makes me very happy and sunshiney. And um, yeah. Thats about it for me. Hopefully I will have more interesting updates soon! Bye for now!

Heyyyyyyyyy Yo!

I am just gonna go ahead and say it...

Britney Spears last 2 albums have been AWESOME. and I love them. There, I said it.

Yes Madison, me too!

Abigail puked everywhere. A really gross chunky strawberry and ritz cracker one. And Madison immediately looked up at me and said "Man, I WOULD NOT want to be a nanny!" ... sigh....

Also, this made me LOL today... I <3 Lenny Kravitz and I agree.
"Adriana claimed last year or so that she was still a virgin, but this chick dated Lenny Kravitz. Even if he didn't stick it in, Lenny can melt cherries just by touch. So if she even hugged Lenny, the ho ain't a virgin anymore. This is a scientific fact. There was a special on the Discovery Channel about it or something."
lol. From Dlisted.

This weekend I did a lot of shopping and started a little craft project. I bought some home magazines at value village (yay!) and I really like this little desk with matching accessories. I am trying to gt organized around the house and good storage for little things like this would really help me. So I gathered and created my own ensemble of stuff for a (as-of-yet-non- existent) desk, but in a different color scheme. Here are all my blue and brown accessories. I made the vase. The glass frame and blue vase are from goodwill and I already had them. I made the white box with the teal ribbon and the file folder. I already had the blue box.

Here one little project. Glued fabric and ribbon to this white box to make it purty.

Ditto with this $3 vase. It has mini disco balls in it. :)

Also had some scores at Value Village this weekend. New kicks below. I like.

Crazy vintagy swing coat. BIG black buttons, built in black sleeves and kinda bubbly at the bottom.

And a pink candelabra, of course. I think the bright pink goes good with the green in my bathroom. Also got the scarf I am wearing in the pic. Dunno if you can see it.

Thats all for now. So yes, I shopped till I dropped this weekend. Woos.