freaking out

ahhhhhhh i'm such a wreck during exam week!!!!! someone please tell me i will do fine. thanks.

Rant.

i know its g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s (btw, i LOVE Fergie and her "Glamorous" song, it gets me grooving and i pretend i'm a star when i sing along) outside today but i am ANGRY! the receptionist at H&R Block was so rude to me! i must vent.

so my dad brought all my income tax stuff into H&R Block last week and I had to go in today to sign the papers or whatever. please note, i do not understand income taxes very well. i am a little slow in this department. my dad and i have the same discussion every year as to why i don't get more money back and he tells me the same thing, you can't get back more than what you paid. well okay but what about this textbook thing that the Conservies put into place, i thought i was supposed to be getting back $80 for my textbooks? well mr. mikey (the guy my dad did our taxes with at H&R) tries to explain it all to me, but all i hear is lkjadf adfalkdj adlkjfadf alkj k adkjrieewao welkrja awoei awklu, owwwaahyay. understand? yah me neither. whatev.

so i go in this afternoon to sign the papers. first of all the receptionist is rude to the lady in front of me. like totally unjustifiably so (the customer was a walk in and the receptionist let the second walk in go in first, and when the customer called her on it, she throws up her hands in the air and says "i said i'm sorry what else am i supposed to do about it, okay?"). yah, reeeeeeealllllll friendly. lovely customer service.

then i go up and tell her my dad has paid the fees already (which he told me he had, but he realized AFTERWARDS that he hadn't and forgot to tell me). so i'm asking her what my dad paid for then and she gets all rude at ME and says well lets just call mike why don't we. so she calls mike (the guy my dad sat with) and find out daddy didn't pay for me, she says "what did i tell you", and she has the nerve to say, "you have to pay for our services you know". hello i am income tax "slow", not completely business retarded.

then she told me i had to sign everywhere it was highlighted and i wanted so badly to ask her to point out each place for me. that would've been awesome of me. so anyway, at one point i say, "listen, i'm not trying to make you angry here, i'm just having a hard time understanding why my dad insisted that he had paid and you're telling me he didn't, so what did he pay for?" i purposely said that in front of about 3 of her coworkers and several customers hoping to humiliate her. it just made her more mad and increased the mad silence. ha!

anyway it was just a big kerfufle and she had me fuming by her sharp, sarcastic answers and her madly demeaning manner!!! at one point when i said i didn't understand something she says "oh and i would just lovvvvve to explain it to you" and oh if only i had a tape recorder for her tone of voice. agugugughghhghghghghghghghhggh.

i was fuming by the time i left. she made me feel completely stupid. you know when you can totally tell when someone is really angry at you and they're trying to be all nice to cover it up? yah. there was major mother tension in the air.

so like, i work in customer service and i have bad days sometimes but seriously i would never be as rude as she was to anyone. i never make people feel stupid no matter how stupid they may be. and a lot of people are very very stupid.

anyway i got my money back.

and my grad photos. i think my hair looks crappy in it. but at least i'm graduating.

i have night class tonight. I HATE THIS NIGHT CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay rant, done. i'll cheer up for tomorrow.


p.s. mike at H&R was great. i don't hate H&R Block. its just the receptionist.

i heart shopping. and the bus.

i have a confession to make. i went to centre mall. i mean, the circle at centre and eighth (i don't want lynnel to accuse me of being an old lady again). and i shopped a teeny bit. but i have to say, the ONLY reason i went there was to get some pants hemmed....and it was only going to take 1 hour....so i figured i could have a minature look around.... and i only spent $10.00.... here's how it went down. i went to bluenotes, which i don't even like, but i had to buy new mitts - new mitts are OBVIOUSLY an exception to my rule because i lost one of my mitts and i live in the coldest place on earth. so that is completely okay. right? then i bought a shirt. it was $4.00. is that okay? i had to think it was. like $4.00! really. you could hardly buy a bottle of water for less than that...in disneyland at least. so THEN, i was strolling by la senza, and ladies, ladies you need to pay attention here, bras for $8.50 and undies 5 for $10.00.... it was simply an opportunity one cannot pass up. you all understand right? to make it more okay, i had a gift card that i recently found from 2005! yes over a year ago. so, once again, i believe my actions are justified because i had a gift card. are we all okay with this? i felt i had to confess my shopping sins on here. okay i'm better now, moving on.

i took the freaking bus today. as mentioned, i no longer have a car since the stupid head gasket blew, so i rely on my daddy and jeff and my sister, and my mom drove me once, although she is my least favorite driver because she tried to drop me off on the street in front of my work place! everyone else takes me right to the door. and when jeff drives me, we stop at starbucks. all expenses paid. ha. anyway, all have proved themselves faithful in this horrible situation i am in. until this morning. so the bus, it really isn't that bad:

Pros:
i like how it is 2 seconds away from my house and that it drops me off right in front of the university. i like how it is toasty warm inside and that the driver this morning was kind of cute. i like how it is full of university students and as far as i can tell, none of them are carrying guns or bombs (i've been scared of busses since speed came out. you can never be too careful!). i like how the seats look like they have been recently recovered, and that they say "saskatoon shines!" on them. i like how if i actually make it to the bus stop on time that i will make it to History 10 minutes early, not 20 minutes late like usual.

Cons:
i dont like how i don't know what stop is the best to get off at because the driver passed the street i needed to go down and i'm too scared to ask him if he is going to go onto waterbury drive or not and that i got off way too early and had to walk 10 minutes to actually get home. ha ha, i laughed at myself. the walk was nice though, except that i had forgotten my new mittens at home that morning. oh well. i also don't like how it takes 25 minutes to get to school and that it won't wait for me if i sleep in a bit. i don't like that this morning i skipped two classes because i was dreading figuring out how to take the bus and then when i actually tried it it was very easy. i suppose that is more a con towards myself though. i love to sleep in so much.

so yes it was a cultural experience this morning. i love thursdays because i'm done at 1 and i don't have class tomorrow so that means no tests, no papers and nothing due on fridays. AND it is Grey's Anatomy night and The Office and even the stupid O.C. which i haven't been watching this season but i still have a small part in my heart open to it. i just saw the preview for "The Hills" starting Feb 5 and i'm super duper excited about that. i heart the hills.

well, my sis is here with my sweet baby and boy so its time for me to babysit for a couple hours. bye now!

in a pickle

i'm back. round 2.

not so funny. JS is much funnier than this is.

i blew a.... something.... in my car. this head gasket perhaps it was, blew a hole in my... engine per say.... and then anti-freeze (this is one thing i am sure of) got mixed in with.... oil i think... and has melted and ruined my engine.

bottom line.

i have no car. i need a ride. everywhere.

what a dilemma.

so this week ....

i'm seriously freaking out. like i'm scared of this week. once this week is over i will probably be okay for the rest of my life, in fact one week from today in this very hour everything will be okay. but no, next monday from 12:30 until 3:30 will be the worst, scariest, sweatiest (haha) and awkward three hours of my life. yes you may have guessed it. i have to do a presentation. on the BORINGIST topic ever, development from the 1940s to the 19790s. ah okay so when i first signed up to do the first presentation for this class, i signed up with three preconceived notions:

1) i had a partner.
2) it was only 30 minutes long
3) it was soley a reverberation of chapter 1, 2 and 3, you know like a summary, in which me and my partner would share.

i was so wrong.
1) my partner dropped the class
2) its an hour long
3) those chapters are simply the starting point of my presentation. i have to lecture to the class about this subject.

what makes it worse. at the end of class i asked her what she was looking for in this presentation, as she has not discussed it in class. she did however on the first day of class, hand out a sheet of paper on what she will be basing the mark on. she didn't give this to us, she just let us look at it and took it back. she has no intention on actually letting us know exactly what she wants. GEEEEEEEEEEZ louise. so i told her i didn't really think that was fair that she won't tell us what exactly she wants us to present about so she let down and is sending me a copy. but seriously that is so unfair that we just have to guess what she wants.

so i'm a little stressed. why oh why did i sign up to go first? i don't know. never again. i wish i wasn't so scared to do presentations. sigh.

on a lighter note. i went to moxie's last night and saw an old friend which was lovely. while talking to him, i started talking to the bartender there who is in this class that i am talking about above, so i have a new friend. and then today a new guy shows up in class who happens to be a guy i graduated high school with and we had a big chat at the end of class. so in the last 24 hours i have met/remet 3 old/new friends. how nice.

on the best note of all, tomorrow is my birthday!!!! yay!!!! i get super excited about my birthday. i just can't help it. it makes me feel special. i will be 24 tomorrow. what a perfect age!

and today is kristy-anne's bday so i hope she is feeling super special as well!!!! i just love her.

okay that is all for today. can you believe how much i have blogged lately? i simply cannot.

love kristin.

ugly day (and i don't mean the rain)!

ever have an ugly day? ladies you know exactly what i mean. hair is flat. hair is dull. hair doesn't even look nice in a ponytail. little tiny zit that feels very not so tiny. the oh so trendy "dewy" skin just feels greasy and shiny. jeans feel slightly tight so you make up for it by having a bag of m&m's. haha i'm just really laughing at myself here because this is me today. i'm a real lovely picture! but don't worry it's just an ugly day! i am fine with myself this way because it just means that i get to hide away in my house (besides going to class of course which i did already) and curl up on the couch and watch my favoritist of all favorite TV nights. i'm okay with ugly days because my family doesn't notice and jeff is out of town (not that he would notice either... i hope ;) ) it's also okay because i'll be extra sure to make tomorrow a "Hot Stylin' Chick Day". so here's to all the girls who are having an ugly day! eat chocolate! wear pj's! watch tv! wow has this day ever just turned around!!!

so speaking of outward beauty and vanity, i am so happy that America's Next Top Model (from this point on, ANTM) started last night. i can't help but be in love with this show. i was so happy to come home from my exhausting seminar class (globalization boo, alternatives to it, no ideas - do we truly need 3 hours to discuss this?) to find it on at 9 pm, and what a nice suprise, it was a two hour special! score! i couldn't believe they started the girls off with a nude portrait. i am pretty sure i could never do that (haha, see above and i'm pretty sure nobody would want to see it anyway! haha).

so i have a few opinions about the girls. first of all, monique what a nasty little girl, i couldn't believe she took that bed like that. and yet she's so beautiful. OKAY SO those twins...um i'm not sure about anyone else but do they not look like Hutterites? what are they doing on this show? am i blind? okay their pictures turned out pretty good in the end, and i had to laugh when they had to do "bulimic girl" and "anorexic girl" because they are so freaking skinny, but to me they scream homely and very very plain. and they BOTH made it. unbelievable. tyra sees something i don't i guess. i was okay with that one girl being sent home (i can't even remember her name). i'm obviously not emotionally attached yet. and i was soooooo annoyed with A.J. when she got all stupid at the end "i'm not as beautiful as the other girls, i'm different than them" when in her home video to GET ON the show was all about her being a different type of beauty! that was annoying. and i want melrose gone she bugs me.

okay so more on TV - tonight is going to be superb. My Name is Earl and The Office, what better appetizers?! soooooo darn hilarious. my problem is going to be watching Survivor, Grey's Anatomy, ER and trying out the new show 6 Degrees - which are all on in the same 2 hours. luckily i have all the higher channels which play everything over again around 9pm. because there's no way i'm missing a second of Grey's Anatomy. i'm very excited. there is not going to be any textbook reading this evening that is one thing for sure.

i was just listening to oprah in the background (ha, so i watch the morning news when i get ready in the AM, and today they were talking about how there is this website to "vote oprah for president" it's some little thinger in the states which i think is hilarious) anyways, john legend was on and i LOVE john legend and i am going to buy his cd next month. that can be my birthday present to myself! super. usually i buy underwear from lasenza but i did that already this month. haha. now THAT is a remedy for ugly day!

lynnel is coming home this weekend! yay for my friend! and carmen, my carmen is moving to england, like in a week. i am so proud. and jenna is having a baby so soo sooooooooooo soon!!!! i can't wait to meet my first little neice. i just love her so much already.

so with that, i have laundry to do and pj's to put on (i love it, it's 3:30 pm and i'm AT HOME!!! this is so much better than working full time!) and lots of reading to finish before 6 pm.

love kristin

espanol RANT and RAVE!

oh MY school has started again with a big bang boom. i started it all off with fricken SPANISH of alllllllllllll classes. i am DREADING IT!!!! i've already failed it once!!! first of all, it's at EIGHT FREAKING THIRTY in the morning. second of all, the one friend that i have in this class was not there this morning. this fact terrifies me . thirdly, he went through the class asking random questions and i have no idea what he is saying and all i can do is look down and pray to God he will not ask me how big my family is or what my major in school is or how i'm freaking doing today!!!!! AAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH! i can figure out the question and i can answer it, but it takes me 18 minutes to do it before i'm ready to answer!!!!!!! fourthly of all (hehe maybe i should take an english class) i thought i was so awesome because i was gonna borrow lynnel's text book from her 114 class which SHOULD be the same for 117 except this year he decided to CHANGE it and i just went and spent $145 on a new TEXT BOOK for a class i DESPISE!!!!!! i'm just dying people, i don't think i'm gonna make it. again.

that is all i have to say for now.

it's me again

i came home from work yesterday and dad asked me if i wanted to go to K-OS and i said well sure if you wanna pay for it, and he did! and then he paid for jenna too. well my goodness dad aren't you in a lovely mood! those are probably my most favorite moods of my dad. i also like when he gets in the lasagna making mood where he goes out and and buys all the special noodles and cheeses for the best lasagna ever. so anyway, K-OS put on a great show. Chad , Bjorn and Rylan were all going too, so they saved us wicked awesome seats right near the front, and Jenn B was there with her posse, and she brought us baking treats to enjoy. and it didn't rain and i had a comfy lawn chair and a warm blanket, so i felt perfect. what a perfect start to summer. this year i have taken in more jazz festival than any other - i also went and saw theresa sokyrka on friday night, and she was just so sweet. but K-OS was truly fun. i'm glad i have a generous dad.

i bought a new cell phone on saturday. i'm so excited about it. call me so that i can hear it ring.

so my rant...
i gave my prof a cheque for $475.00 for tuition fees to go to prague. i handed this cheque to him in April. he decided to cash it last night, 3 months later. WHO DOES THAT?!!!!? he is sure one lucky fellow that i just got paid last night. but frick i am a little ticked that he waited 3 months to cash that cheque. and if you're a smart one thinking "kristin is retarded for not noticing a $475 payment not coming out of her account" well i am a little retarded, i agree. but he is definitely the biggest retarded one in this little situation. i'm pretty sure if someone gave me a cheque for that much money that i would cash it right away. i think that is called being polite. frick.

well, friends...good day.

oh friday

oh thank goodness this week is over. if ever i've had a long week it has been this week. i'm going for a massage at 5 and after that i think i'm going to go to sleep. yay for the weekend even if it rains.