Where I live you can't smoke in any building in which people work, nor can you smoke within 15m of any door or air intake. I do feel sorry for the smokers when it's raining, but it's a terrible habit. It's not only bad for the health of the smoker, but anyone around them. It smells bad, it stains your fingers and teeth. They have actually proven that second hand smoke is worse for you than first hand smoke, there's no filter.
I think non-smokers should have the right to clean air and smokers should have the right to slowly kill themselves somewhere far away from me. Luckily, that's the current system.

tags: writer's block

Silly Americans, with your Thanksgiving so close to Christmas! I remember a crossword puzzle we did in school one time and no one could finish it. There were too many letters in "Month Thanksgiving is in", the teacher had to tell us that it was from the US and they celebrate way late. Seriously, it's time to be planning xmas!
Speaking of, I think this is the first time in years that I'm actually looking forward to xmas. I know it's going to be stressfull (I've offered to cook!) but my sister is in town! And I'll be having two dinners. I'm excited.

tags: writer's block

Gah, people bug me! First, my parents. My Dad came over yesterday, apparently for the express purpose of accusing us of doing drugs and telling me we can't get a dog. We've been thinking about getting a dog (read as: Justin has convinced that we should get a dog) possibly soon. Maybe for christmas. Now, we live in my Granny's house, so of course I asked her what she thought. She said fine. A couple days later Dad comes over to tell me we can't, as though he has any authority on the matter. It's not his house!
Next we have my co-worker, B. He has an opinion on everything, and feels the need to share it. He's one of those people who talks like he's the expert on everything, except he also speaks in a monotone. Anytime he relieves me for a break, he has to check his email. If I forget to log out before leaving the desk (I know, I really should) he'll start going on about who the hell is Lillith? The fact that he only encounters the mysterious Lillith after I've been at the desk, and there's a thumbnail sized pic of me with blonde hair has not solved the mystery for him. He just keeps asking. He decided today that she's "someone who doesn't work here, hey?" which doesn't even make sense. How else does "she" log in? Also, he felt the need to inform me that my dinner of pasta and an orange is "real healthy, hey?" Yes, actually, it kinda is. What are you planning to eat? A burger?
I don't even know why he bugs me so much, he just does. Just the sound of his voice, gah!

emotion: annoyed tags: family drama, work

My sister has been staying with us since Saturdayand might be staying until January. I'm not sure I can handle it. She's sleeping on the couch, which limits what I can do in the living room a little.
I love her, and she's been making dinner for us, which is awesome. But she's very moody. We got into a fight last night because I misunderstood what she meant by pan. I thought frying pan (which is not normally involved in the making of nachos), she actually meant baking sheet. And then we got into an argument about christians. She doesn't really listen to what anyone says. Oh well!
Also, she has inappropriate nudity! Who changes their pants with other people in the room?

tags: family drama

None, banning books is almost completely pointless once kids are in high school, and a terrible practice at any age. When I was in grade 12 I did a report on a book called Le chair, la morte et le diable or Flesh, Death and the Devil. It was awesome, although I only got about half-way through the book (it was 1000 words or so). Seriously, I'm pretty sure that's my favourite book report ever, I even made a Bondage Barbie as a visual aid! I think that high school students should be mature enough to deal with most issues, and certainly they can find anything they want on the internet.
I don't even approve of banning books for younger students. All the controversy about One Dad, Two Dads is so silly, I can't believe parents wanted them banned. Your kids are going to come across gay people eventually.

Best weekend ever, partially because I managed to get a four day weekend.
Friday evening we took my parents out to Bill Cosby for their birthdays, very funny! He is a very good story teller. We also went out for dinner at Bo Kong, whish is completely vegetarian.
Saturday we picked up my sister from the airport in the morning and then hid her in the basement until it was time for dinner. Went to my Mom's 50th birthday dinner and she was ridiculously excited about Celina being there. We hadn't told her that Celina would even be in town, so she was pretty surprised. After dinner Justin, the girl-child and I went to our friend Cody's birthday.
Yesterday we slept in, bought groceries and watched Gran Torino.
I'm so excited about hanging out with my sister, we didn't get to spend much time together in July.

So my Granny broke her hip about two months ago. She was originally admitted to Burnaby, but was transfered after a few weeks to Delta. Almost the entire time she's been at Delta they've been saying they "might release her next week". Than they proceed to change their mind and keep her in hospital. We all work, so my Mom asked them to give us some warning when she would be released so we could make sure someone was free to take her home. Yesterday, Mom went with Granny to get some x-rays done, talked to the doctors, they said she was doing good but they wanted to keep observing her. Also, Granny was apparently too dizzy to take a bath. This morning they announced that they were releasing her, like right now. Mom managed to convince them that since Granny has an appointment with a foot nurse tomorrow and no one is available to take her home today, they really should keep her until tomorrow. So much for plenty of warning!

emotion: annoyed tags: family drama

I'd say love evolves, rather than being instant. I certainly didn't love Justin the first time we met. His hair was super short and he was wearing a suit for no readily apparent reason. But we exchanged LJs and got to know each other a bit better. On our first date though, I think the chemistry was pretty immediate, but not love at first sight. It was more: this guy's kinda cool, this guy's really cool, this is the best date ever, I'm totally keeping this guy. So, still evolving.
I'm not really big on second chances. I figure you had a reason to break up, so unless something significant has changed, there's no reason to get back together.

tags: instant love, writer's block

One of the stores in the mall gave us a few hours warning that they would be having a big famous east Indian singer in to sign autographs. Not much time to set up a plan or anything and the supervisor has no idea how popular this guy is. But we get them some stanchions so they can have an orderly line. Apparently this guy is really popular. Some of the other stores have had local NHL players doing autographs and this had almost twice as many people. The line started at least an hour before he was supposed to arrive. Ten minutes before he was scheduled to arrive, they call and ask for two guards. Now, all our guards are busy with the rest of the mall, we would have had to call someone extra in, which requires at least a fwe hours notice, not ten minutes. Luckily everyone was well behaved and we only got one complaint from another store. Yay!
Yesterdays amusement was the contractors arc welding inside the mall, directly on the tile floor. We made them go outside to weld.

emotion: amused tags: work

I stopped posting nearly as much when I got a Facebook and I'm thinking it's really not the same. It updates more people on what's going on in my life, but it doesn't really let you review the past as well as LJ does. It's fun reading entries from a few years ago and seeing what's changed and what hasn't.
Today one of my rings broke, which affects me more than normal people perhaps. I bought it on the exchange and at Dani's wedding Justin convinced the flower girl that it was magic!
I was thinking about yesterday's writer's block question and I can't really think of anything I would go back and change, certainly nothing that could be fixed in an hour. I mean, the only thing I can think of is to go back and study more so as to not flunk out of post secondary, but at the same time, if I was still in school I wouldn't have been able to move out when I did. So I wouldn't change anything, but if I could relive days without changing the course of my life, that would be cool. Relive the exchange. living in Edmonton, first date with Justin, our wedding. That would be cool.

emotion: contemplative

I keep a travel mug at work, so I can drink tea without it getting cold. This morning I went to make my tea and the handle has broken off the mug and the lid is gone. I can not find it anywhere. So apparently, someone knocked over my travel mug, broke it, threw the lid out and then just put the mug back where it lives as though nothing were wrong. I understand breaking things, I break stuff all the time, and I could continue to use the mug without a handle, but not without a lid. The lid screws on, so the top of the mug is threaded, not good for drinking from.

Can I go home now? One stolen car, one TFA, one break-in. A few shoplifters. Finish the day off with two teenage girls beating each other up. I am so done.
You know when you start your shift and it just feels like something's going to happen? It's not ususally this intense.
Plus I spent the morning fighting with my computer. Not a big deal, it's just not my favourite way to start the day.
I am so glad it's my friday!

emotion: irritated tags: work

It would probably depend on if they seemed serious. I'm more likely to correct someone the younger they are. My grandpa says "That's mighty white of you" sometimes and I've never confronted him about that, but at the same time one of my co-workers was making jungle-baby jokes about a lost african canadian child and I told him to shut up or leave my office. The first example doesn't seem deliberately hurtful to me, somehow. More like an expression he might be using without really thinking about it. I know the thing to do would be to point out why he shouldn't say that, but I've only heard him say it maybe three times and it doesn't seem worth making a big fuss over. He's in his eighties, he's not likely to change his speech patterns now.
I don't think the physical presence of someone who would be offended really matters so much as the intention and weather I think there's any chance of the person learning from their mistakes.

tags: confront, homophobic, racist, writer's block

"Seriously, you people can not adopt a child. You're convinced you messed up so badly with your own and you want to take on some child who is already messed up? Just, no."
Everything else has been said already.

tags: confrontation, pain, writer's block

As though anyone wants to see my camera monitors. They have put up a door, to keep people from getting behind the security desk. The door locks automatically and can only be opened from the inside. Next they will be putting in plexiglass from the counter to the ceiling with just a small hole to slide keys through. The counter is already about four feet high, it would be really difficult to see over the top, I don't see how the plexiglass could be necessary.
Oh well, I guess I'll be really well protected.

tags: work

Yesterday I passed my road test and got my N! I can now drive alone and buy groceries any time I want! One of my current pet peeves is that there's no corner store within walking distance of our house.
So far I have driven to the grocery store last night and I drove to work this morning, I know this isn't really exciting, but I'm excited anyways!
In other news, who waits three weeks to report their purse stolen? Seriously.

emotion: dorky

Nothing about my life.
I've heard that Roman Polanski has been arrested for sexual abuse of a minor. There is it seems a petition against his extradition. Some actors I liked signed it, although luckily none of my favourites.
http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/a-case-of-morals/
There is also an opposing petition
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/599143029

The mall in which I work just spent a lot of time and I'm guessing a lot of money putting up giant screens in the food court, putting cords and cables through the walls, installing a weird safe-like thing in the security office to house the controllers. It's honestly been almost two weeks of contractors in everyday after closing installing stuff.
Now that it's all done, they've realised that there are giant skylights above the screen, not to mention a row of artificial lights. This means that you can barely see the images on the screen. Actually, you can barely see images on the screen at night with half the lights on. So now they're going to spend even more time and money moving existing light fixtures, blocking or tinting the skylights and installing a much more powerfull projector. All so that people in the food court can crane their necks to watch the Olympics for a couple weeks. I mean, the screens are actually really badly placed and would be difficult to watch even without the lighting issues.
Meh.

emotion: amused tags: work

The mall is planning on putting giant screens in the food court to show the Olympics. They just put the controller things in the security office. Personally I'm waiting for the gate and plexiglass we've been promised. No more people trying to sneak behind the desk and look at the camera monitors.
In other news, Justin and I bought a car together. First joint purchase, yay!

tags: money i don't have, work

I have now read the "worst HP fanfic ever". It was hilarious. My favourite parts include use of Crookshanks as a spell or curse and "passively making out"
Also, the following passage, which I think has every possible type of mistake.

<“Kawai.” B’loody Mair shook her head enrgtically lethrigcly. “Oh yeah o have a confession after she got expuld I murdered her and den loopin did it with her cause he’s a necphilak.”

“Kawai.” I commnted happily . We talked to each other in silence for da rest uv da movie.>

Energetically lethargically! I am going to use that to describe everything from now on.