Tuesday, November 30, 2010

I love my job

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Monday, November 29, 2010

Monday

My day was awful. It was super busy from start to finish. Ten hours of the worst customers ever. If that wasn't bad enough my lunch got moved to 1:30. So i had 2 breaks in 4 hours. My lunch is usually at 2:30. I prefer 2:30. When i get back to work at 3:00 i have exactly half of my shift left. Also i get to go with Kath to pick up Diana at school and then she drives me back to work. I didn't even know my lunch got moved to 1:30 until 1:25. And it's gonna be like that for 2 weeks. I've had the same lunch since July so i don't know why all of a sudden it had to change. It especially sucked that i still had 6 hours of work after lunch during todays shit storm of business. I also got stuck on a call until 8;20 tonight by an indian fellow who kept yelling no into the phone no matter what i said. So that was awesome. Now i need to relax. Kath already fell asleep and i put Diana top bed so i guess I'm on my own tonight. Such is life i suppose.

Bye Sunday

Well another Sunday has come and gone and now its time for bed. Diana was so good all day. She made ornaments for the tree and practiced printing. She even let me sleep in--my only day to sleep in i might add.

After 4 weeks we finally aired a live get your geek on. Thanks Rob for making it happen. Man i don't wanna work tomorrow. I am not looking forward to a barrage of stupid questions and comments from customers. I'd prefer to stay in bed all day. Oh well it's nice to dream. Ok off to bed. Fingers crossed that monday doesn't suck.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

My Thanksgiving

Last night Kath made a fantastic thanksgiving dinner. We invited a bunch of people over and ate and watched scott pilgrim vs the world. Damn my wife can cook. Not bad for fake Thanksgiving. Man i love turkey and pumpkin flavored deserts. Good times.

Actors in green sweaters suck balls

Another shitty day of moronic customer complaints is over. My favorite complaint of the day? An older lady called in and bitched the commercials our company puts out. Her biggest complaint was the green sweater worn by an actor in the commercials. She was seriously pissed off! She stated the sweater annoyed her. Seriously? You're calling in on a Saturday morning to bitch about that? Whats wrong with these people.

Anyhow home now and waiting for the family to arrive. I'm working on show stuff as well. Hopefully our show will air this week. Fingers crossed.

Friday, November 26, 2010

charlie brown thanksgiving

Ok the other night Diana and i watched Charlie Browns thanksgiving. It may have been the 30th time I've seen it. Sure miss the dolly madison commercials. That's an inside joke for anyone that may have watched a charlie brown show in the 70's and 80's. Anyhow there were some things i never questioned about the show until now. Some observations if you will

1) man charlie Brows friends were assholes. They all invited themselves over for dinner and then had the nerve to be pissed off at ol' chuck because he didn't make them a turkey. What 10 year old kid knows how to make a turkey? I would have been all "you will eat your f-ing toast and jelly beans and you will like it dammit."

2) so i think i finally realized why snoopy sleeps on the roof of his dog house. His house is crammed full of ovens and tables and chairs and decorations and what not. What a dumb dog. Wait i just realized, snoopy is good enough to make all that toast for charlie browns get together but isn't allowed to sleep in the brown house? I guess Charlie Brown is an ass too

3) snoopy is kind of an a hole to. Apparently a dog has a gi-normous turkey in his house that he shares with woodstock but neglects to mention this to charlie brown who is forced to serve popcorn and jelly beans to his friends. Where does a dog get money for a turkey? I bet he stole it.

4) wait a minute--woodstock is eating turkey? Isn't he a bird? Is that canibalism?

5) snoopy isn't allowed to go to grandma's house? I think pig pen was there and he smelled like dog shit all the time. Thats real fair.

Holiday party

L ast night we attended Kath's work Christmas party. It was pretty descent. WE last went 2 years ago. I still haven't made it to one of my staff parties. 8 years in a row! Why start now. The food was pretty good. Pasta and meatballs and chicken and potatoes. The highlight of the night was when Kath won the last door prize--a lap top computer. She's been wanting one for a long time. So that was pretty cool. Not so cool? Rob trying to give me a lap dance.It was a fun night though. I can't believe its a month until Christmas though. Wtf?

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Dink

I spoke to a customer today and his first name was dink. Thats what he was as well. That is all.

Gobble Gobble

Happy thanksgiving to all my american friends or as we call it in Canada-Thursday.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Oh monday's why do u suck

Sure glad Monday is almost over. What a gloomy, rainy day. Work sucked and the weather was disgusting. A friend of mine was let go today as well. That really sucked.

Just waiting for Kath to get home. Gonna have pumpkin pancakes for dinner and watch a little tv.

So our good friend Amy helped us with the show last night. Kath was working so Amy filled in. Unfortunately the show didn't go out on the internet. Rob was still able to record it and will run the show at some point this week. As soon as he said the show wasn't going out i completely froze up and my mind went blank. I recovered during the first commercial break and we were able to record a pretty good show. Kath is back next week so looking forward to that. Anyhow enough about my shitty monday. It's time to rock. Kath is home. See ya.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Welcome back Huey!

As i stated earlier,when i was in Ohio i picked up the new Huey Lewis and The News cd called Soulsville. I've been a big fan of his since 1984 when the Sports album was kicking ass on the charts. Huey hasn't put out an album since 2001. Thats a whole 9 years! What the hell Huey? Anyhow the new cd is an album of covers from stax records. It's not bad. With the exception of the song Respect Yourself (previously covered by Bruce Willis) I hadn't heard of any of the songs. Unfortunately as good as the album is it probably won't make a dent in the charts. Thats a shame.

Proud of Diana


Friday i went to Diana's school for parent teacher interviews. I'm proud to say she did awesome. Her teacher said she loves having Diana in her class and she is doing awesome when it comes to sounding out words and trying to read. Her math is great as well. All i have to say is thank God she takes after Kath in the smarts department.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Sunday was a day of relaxation. Didn't do to much. Cleaned up a bit. We got some bad news from Rob. The show didn't record properly. So we aired an episode from April. Oh well. Watched a bunch of tv when kath came home and then called it a night. I was not looking forward to a full week of work.

I'm a dumb ass

Here is why i am a dumb ass. I forgot to book Saturday off. So had to cut vacation short so i could go back to work and get yelled at. I suck. And so did work. After work we went and pre recorded get your geek on. Kath had to work on Sunday so no new show this week. Such is life.

vacation day 5; the long road home


It was Friday and it was time to unfortunately come home. We got up and walked to a diner that was about 2 minutes away on foot. I had a turkey panini that had an egg and french fries and coleslaw on it. As weird as that sounds it was actually pretty awesome. We then traveled to best buy where i finally picked up the new Huey Lewis and the news cd- Soulsville. For some reason no one in Canada had it for sale and that was the 3rd place in America i had checked out to purchase it. It was on sale as well! SO that made me happy. We took a bit of a drive as well and checked out Ulana's church.

At 4:00 it was time to hit the road. We decided we would come back next year. The ride wasnt too bad and we had a really good time. Ulana's family is awesome and it was cool getting to know her a little better.

On the way home we stopped for dinner at White Castle. Yup thee restaurant that harold and kumar and neil patrick harris had traveled too. We had to check it out. The burgers were cute and little.

We arrived home around 10. Diana was awesome all the way home. We had an awesome vacation and definately next year i'm gonna book the same days off as Kath and hopefully go back to Ohio. Alas my vacation was over. Thanks to Ulana andher family for putting us up and showing us around. I had a great time.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Vacation day 4; Amish town



Thursday in Ohio. It was another fun filled day. We got up pretty early after a restful sleep. The big plan for the day? All you can eat pizza buffet at a place called cici's. As if that weren't awesome enough if we went between 2 and 4 it was 2.99 each that's 2 dollars and 99 cents for all you can eat pizza. I'm a fat guy so i was in. We had some time to kill. Ulana took us out in the country to an amish community. We took a look at a cheese factory which was cool. Lot's of cheese and fudge samples. We then went to a little general store and took a look around. Had a nice drive out in the country as well. Saw ice cream being made.

Then--the main event--all you can eat pizza. It was amazing. All kinds of pizza. Buffalo chicken pizza, barbeque pizza, macoroni and cheese pizza and a massive dessert bar as well. I think i ate 14 pieces on my own. Yup diet starts Monday. We also visited a Walmart where Diana got justice league stickers.

Had another nice dinner where Kath helped Ulana with pulled pork sandwiches. The good year blimp flew over Ulanas house. We also got to visit with Ulanas brother Bill. We had a nice conversation again as well. Such a nice day. Terrible sleep though. Had a bad stomach ache--gee wonder why--and it caused me to have bad dreams. So that was nice.

Only in America


On the way to Ohio we saw a shop that sold some interesting items. Click on the picture to see what the store was selling. Wow.

Vacation day 3; Ohio bound


It was Wednesday morning. We had finally packed up the car and we were headed off to Ohio. It was to be at least a 4 and a half hour journey. We were worried that Diana would be bored the whole way there. To our surprise not once did she say she was bored. It was cool. Rachel had lent us her portable dvd player so Diana could watch some movies. It was a really nice drive. It took about 2 hours to get to Erie Pa. We stopped there because there is an awesome all you can eat buffet there called the golden Coral.We had discovered that restaurant 6 years earlier when we went to Cleveland to see Springsteen. Man did we pig out. They had everything from pizza to mini burgers and tacos and a salad bar and a sundae bar. It was pretty awesome. After lunch we drove non stop until we got to Ulana's house. We arrived around 4:30.

We hung out for a bit with Ulana and her husband Rusty and their 2 sons Daniel and Jacob. They also had a really nice dog named Aspen. She was such a friendly dog that even Diana liked. After we sat and talked for awhile Ulana took us to a cool comic book store called heroic adventures that was about a half mile from her house. The store was great and the owner gave us a tour of the store. I picked up some books and we left him some get your geek on business cards.

Went back to Ulanas and had an amazing steak dinner. We sat up and talked until about 11:00. I got to hear lots of stories about Kath and Ulana in high school. By 11 we were all pretty tired so we called it a night. We slept in a very comfortable bed in a nice guest room. Soon we had all passed out after a long day

Vacation day 2; Megamind good times

Day 2 was more of the same. Caught up on a lot of tv with Kstew. WE picked Diana up from school and went to Niagara Falls. Diana was going to her 2nd movie in a theater. The movie was Megamind-- an animated tale about a super villain that becomes a super hero. It featured the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Brad Pitt. It was pretty awesome. Diana was good as gold which bodes well for future movies.

We also stopped at Pulp comics where i picked up an issue of Vanishing Point. I was also able to obtain a copy of the new Bryan Adams acoustic cd.

We went home and were soon joined by Rob and Nickle and Anthony. We had some dinner and watched Glee. We packed our bags and got to bed early. Tomorrow would be our first Stewart family vacation.

vacation day 1

I had an amazing week. I as already in a great mood after seeing Dennis and Lisa and that was just the beginning. Sunday was a bit of a downer because we weren't able to do a show. Such is life i guess.

SO I had booked off a week from work. Kath already had the week off so this was a chance to spend time together. We planned to drive up to Ohio to visit Kath's longtime friend Ulana and her family. They've been friends since high school. I've only met her a handful of times. The first time i met her was about 10 minutes before i got married!
We planned to go up Wednesday and come back Friday. I am an idiot and forgot to book Saturday off. So i had to come back so i could work that day. We would take it easy on Monday and Tuesday.

Monday Kath and i caught up on a lot of tv while Diana was in school Did some chores. That was about it. I like lazy days. Anything is better than my usual getting yelled at by customer days. I do enjoy my red neck less days. I was happy just to be hanging out with Kath. Her new schedule has been weird. Anyhow that was just day one of an awesome week to come.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Old friends and karaokee

I had a fantastic night Saturday night. I was invited out by my good friends Dennis and Lisa to go to karaokee. I hadn't seen them in about 3 years. I've known Dennis since the kfc days back in 1988. We've been buddies ever since. It sucks that we haven't seen in each other in so long but we all work long hours and we all have families. We used to go to karaokee all the time when we were younger. Of course in those days we drank very heavy as well. I haven't attempted to sing karaokee in 5 years since before Diana was born. Unfortunately we couldn't find a babysitter so Kath stayed home with Diana.

Man it was like no time had gone by at all. We talked a lot about old times. I will say its scary singing sober. I sang a couple of Tom Petty songs and i saw you first by John Mellencamp. Before we said goodnight we promised to not let 3 years go by before we hang out again.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Raindrops suck

Holy crap could the weather be any crappier? Not only is it freezing out but again its non stop rain. I was planning on walking to the comic book store but i don't think its gonna let up any time soon. It seems like it rains every day now. Whats the deal with that? Not a fan of being wet. Some might say that sucks.

Rob was actually kind enough to take me to comics. Thank you man. Just gonna chill out until 3 when i have to pick up Diana. Gonna get some groceries with Kath when she's done work. Ok gonna go vaccuum and try and watch the movie predator. Have a great day

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Trick Or Treat



I forgot to talk about trick or treating 2010. It went really well. Man halloween starts and ends earlier every year. Kids started coming early before it was even dark at 6 o clock. It seems it was over an hour later. We gave out comics courtesy of pulp comics. We ran out an hour into halloween. Nickle came over and went with me to take Diana out. Diana was a witch and Nickle was Boba Fett. I just wore a spiderman t shirt. As usual Diana got bored after 5 houses. We went through our whole complex and called it a night. We had a good time and the kid is already planning next years costume. Maybe trick or treaters will come at 5 next year.

Hello November

Wow 5 days since a blog. Here is my first november blog. Not feeling so good today. I have a really bad sore throat.Pretty cold out as well. Work was rough so far this week. Yeah the customers were as crabby as ever. I realized i hate the phrase "thanks for nothing." Heard it a few times this week and its a stupid thing to say especially after you feel you have done something on a call. Ignorant inbred bastards. I'm just taking it easy today. Trying to come up with show ideas and stuff. I'll pick Diana up at 3 and then she has ballet at 6:30. So just a wonderful regular day featuring no screaming customers. I love it. Just sitting here blogging and listening to Weezer. Good times.