I got some new shoes during Bay Days, nothing spectacular and the sale prices were similiar to other stores in the mall for the same shoes. Thank gosh for my discount. I was looking at some of the more expensive ones that were on sale for $100 but I wasn’t sure how much better those shoes were. I see online people commenting that $300 shoes are worth the investment but my gosh that is like 5 pairs of shoes, and I am hard on my shoes, kicking corners, scuffingn dragging my feet. The new shoes caused some blisters that made me limp for a couple of weeks and made my toes feel squished. They are alright now. Some shoes were so pointy and ugly though, with buckles too. I am guessing womany since they looked like they just squish your toes to a point. I don’t know who would want to do that.

I like flexing my feet in my shoes to stretch them. Makes me feel like shoe hulk

I played dominion finally, that game is a lot more fun than I expected with much more variety as well. Since you just use 10 of the 25 decks in the game you can mix and match a lot and have completely different strategies to play it. There are expansions but the base game has so much variety that it can take a while to play all combos.

Free Comic Book Day came and gone, picked up a few issues. I also got heroclix, it was a bit more than I thought to start but there is a variety of gameplay options and getting additional pieces are cheap. I didn’t realize the rules were complicated though, I gues not complicated but there is a lot of colour coding involved to know what powers you have available. I had a pretend run through of a game and it was fun.

I should get back to work, I need to try and make a few lunches a week, I guess it is a reasonable goal since just going completely to making lunches all the time is too bothersome.

There are some good days and bad days with work. Some days it feels like I am making an impact and a positive change. Most of the time it feels like there is too much work and too much to manage and not enough time. At least I’m not the only one feeling that way not that it makes it any better on the days that I come home at 630, about 12 hours after I leave.

Heh I wrote that a month ago and forgot to finish it

I noticed that the water bottles they have in front of them have donald Trump on the label. Not what I want to see when I am drinking, I can’t see it selling in a store.

So the other day I posted how I threw up water in front of Home Depot, it pretty much looked like this.

The music at this Subway sucks, the music itself is painfully bad. Its hard to put my finger on one part of the song that I dislike more than the rest, actually auto tuning to sound like a robot. I think I hate that part the most. From what we have learned from over using things in the 70s I would think more people would give it a second thought. Luckily when the song is over they are bad enough that they are just forgotten, part of the reason I was having trouble picking one part of the song to dislike the most. The song sounded louder than it should be, I guess its not surprising given all songs have there levels adjusted so they sound louder instead of better, sigh.

Work is work, forecasting 22 weeks and trying to put a good face to the numbers is difficult, I am a bit pessimistic to the sales plan given, they just don’t make sense and don’t jive with marketing and the current strategy, ho hum.

My head seems to be feeling better, not sure if it is from doing the maneuver and I moved my ear rocks to a better place in my head or what. Than again I felt better for a week before feeling like poop again. I guess this means road trips to Windsor are out for the next bit. I was thinking yesterday how much it would suck for my carpoolers if I had to pull over and throw up because when I get to that point I would need a break from traveling for a bit, I guess I would be walking home.

Last year I was really looking forward to getting a seasons pass to wonderland this year, especially when I found out about the new roller coaster that they are building however I am a bit more reluctant to go. Part of that is from my trouble with dizzies but part of it is from the cost, the pass itself isn’t too much comparatively but there is still the cost of gas to get there. The amount I have been paying for gas has steadily been increasing the last few months, partially through higher gas prices but also since Jay has been carpooling less. I think this was the last carpool with him today so it will be even more expensive next month. Another side effect of that is I’ll be getting less chances to sleep while being chauffeured into work.

So I apparently have vertigo I think, or something. I woke up Saturday morning getting ready to go to the zoo. I had a shower in the morning and when I got out I started to feel a little dizzy, I figured it was from the steam and hot water and it went away pretty quickly. I felt a little nauseous as I went downstairs to the kitchen and felt like throwing up and a little dizzy in the kitchen. I was OK when I stuck my head outside so I was thinking it must have been the smell of bacon. Breakfast foods do gross me out so I thought it was just that. I took my yummy hash brown away from the kitchen to eat, much like a squirrel eating an acorn. It than really kicked in, I was sitting and it felt like the room was spinning very quickly, it didn’t matter if my eyes were opened or close everything felt like it was in motion. I was expecting that if my eyes were closed the motion would stop, but nope it still felt it, almost like carsick. I felt like throwing up from the spinning, it was very intense. The extreme spinning stopped in about 30 minutes although I still felt a little bit of spinning on and off for the next hour. I felt nauseous for the next few hours. Not sure what caused it, if I got water in my ear or if this is something new for me or if I am starting to get sick. I guess from those options I hope I am sick and it is just a bit of fluid running around or water in my ear

Turns out that I didn’t miss out on the zoo, Alex was feeling sick too so no one went, hopefully for Sunday.

Well that was a hell of a day.

Still so full from yummy chicken wings yesterday night. I have found before the wings at zehrs can taste boiled and kind of gross but the last time I had some it tasted really good. I’m not sure if it because I am not getting honey garlic which seems to make the skin seperate from the wings as it swims in the honey garlic all day or if it is because the wings I get have been sitting for quite a while so it is fairly dry and cooked.

The trees by townline have the perfect amount of snow on the branches, it looks so nice. I wanted to get a picture like that this winter but it hasn’t snowed enough to give me a chance to get that picture. I also wanted to get something with Preston downtown with snow and christmas lights but again that wasn’t happeneing.

Tomorrow I am heading to the zoo, I have no idea what there is to see at the zoo during winter but my groupon will be expiring soon so I have to use it. Originally I was going to use right away and hope that it was still warm enough that not many of the exhibits closed. My nephew is suppose to be coming but I’m not sure how interested he actually is in coming with us, couldn’t really get a straight answer before if he wanted to come and I am finding out it is normally very difficult to contact him during the week and I wanted to go at 8am. : /

Today was suppose to be a huge storm out in the morning and that it would be difficult to get to work with freezing rain and such but it really isn’t bad. It is more rainy than snowy, it kind of sounds like the storm is a few hours late despite suppose to have started overnight. It is still above 0 so I guess it is going to be OK unless the temperature drops.

I think work is coming together for me. At first my new area seemed very overwhelming but the pieces are starting to come together. Managing the inventory will still be a problem, I have to understand how much there is of the programs that are being exited. The buyer I work with acknowledges the problem so we all will be working on it. It is a lot better than what my carpooler has to deal with since her buyer sends out emails saying she can’t make her sales because purchases were cut despite the fact that she has more total purchases this year to last year. It makes me pretty sad that someone like that actually works with us.

One of the guys in my CMA group has gotten a new job, funnily enough it is with a company in the same field as one of our cases. He laughed about and said during one of his interviews he brought in the case and paper we wrote about them. Oh well there goes my insider contact with loblaws, I guess I have to troll through linkdin to find someone else I know who works there if I want to get some info about their inner workings.

I missed out on a team lunch today, I could have attended but I feel kind of weird going since it has been a couple of months and I’d essentially be getting a free meal in front of people who well might not have a job next year. It was to celebrate the year and I was there for about 11 months of that year, I just feel weird about it, that too much time has passed by. I am coming up to 15 years with the company, I am a little miffed that I couldn’t do all 15 with Zellers, oh well. It is a lot longer than I originally thought it would be, I was thinking 5 or so and always made jokes about being a lifer. I still have $110 in gift cards to spend, guess I can stock up on some more soup and crackers. Joy.

My nephew is a really good cook, yum shrimp alfredo. I seem to eat a lot of fetichine Alfredo but being as weird as I am I don’t seem to like spaghetti noodles instead and I seem to not like regular tomato based sauces anymore for some reason. I use to always eat ground beef mixed with elbows and ketchup but now I can barely eat 5 mouthfuls. I do eat it now with a classico sauce instead of ketchup, all the sugar I guess was helping but it doesn’t seem to matter anymore.

I did get out of bed and on the road on time. Not bad for going to bed at 1230. Sadly I was up watching Friends of all things not realizing the wedding episode was long.

I went to the local butterfly conservatory for the Family day weekend. My niece was afraid of most of the butterflies, specifically them landing on her. I think I got some good pictures, I’ll find out in a couple of days. There weren’t as many as there usually are flying around but it was fun seeing the birds. A couple of times I thought they were going to bean me. I saw one guy there who was very serious about his pictures, super expensive stuff taking a 1000 shots all at slightly different angles, sometimes taking his girlfriends camera taking a hundred shots while she stands there. Funniest part was when he was done he gave her back her camera and than she proceeded to take a bunch more pics of the same butterfly with the same camera.

On Monday I played some dice games while mostly ignoring my nieces cries for help with her calculus. She is still at a stage where she doesn’t get the connections from one thing to another but can do most of the other stuff fine. It is worrying though that she didn’t know how to add or multiply radicals at all and that was a section of her class so far. I have to give her credit though she did do her homework while everyone else was playing. My nephew has really impressed me, I thought his studying habits were weak and would hold him back despite being bright but he is getting some impressive marks.

I built a light box for taking some pics at home, it looks a lot crappier than I was expecting and I was expecting crap. I will be testing it out tonight.

In weight news I was 245 this morning. I had a bunch of popcorn to keep me from snacking and tuna for a small din din. I’ll probably hover around this weight for a while now.

I guess the weight is still melting off a bit, I dipped under 250 on the scale this morning which seemed pretty good since I have been eating a bit more junk than I should but a lot less than I use to. I was also surprised since I had delicious tacos yesterday and over ate. I ate beyond full but less than what I use to, it wasn’t to the point of feeling sick. Hopefully I can keep it going but a bit more weight loss than my current rate.

Yesterday my niece sent some homework that she needed help with. It is about limits, the theory for calculus. I forgot the derivative is the formula for the slope at any point in the function. I can still do the work, I actually screwed up on the same point as she did. Now it is a matter of getting her to understand what is happening and why. She has the tools for the most part, just not the intuition of when to use what tool.