In A Mood

Yesterday was Canada Day so I was home with Bruiser for the day. I did not have a good day as I woke up with a huge head, due to the weather. I took about 4 tylenol and then headed back to bed much to Bruiser’s chagrin. I got up at 10am and even though the headache was still there it had let up enough that I thought if I could move around and do things, that I would feel better. So I took Bruiser to the dog park.

The headache seemed to disappear midway through our visit but came back around noon so we headed home where I watched HGTV (there is some lovely Wilmington NC real estate I wouldn’t mind owning, especially at a lot smaller cost of my 648sqft condo, lol) and then some TLC.

I then turned off the TV and decided to read…which wasn’t the greatest idea since I was starting the last Twilight book and had to force myself to put it down at 3am…

Needless to say I was tried this morning. Also…I still have the headache :(

Bruiser loves tennis balls. But in the last week the five he had have dwindled down to um…none as he has taken to stripping them of their green material and then destroying the rubber. Thankfully he hasn’t eaten any part of it, just destroying it.

So today while I was at Walmart to pick up some more, I decided to once again try a Kong. I bought one when he was a wee one, but he didn’t want it at all. So it ended up in the garbage.

Today though…loving it. In fact he’s been at it since 510pm; 2 hours so far! It is fun to watch him chase after it as he whips it from his mouth anticipating that it will bounce like a tennis ball not bounce towards him or veer to the left.

Yay for Kong! He hasn’t even touched his new three tennis balls.

I have been looking at my finances again. I still haven’t approached my bank about a debt consolidation though. I am waiting until I have made my last upgrade payment on my condo which is July 9th. Paying $7K in 120 days is a bit stressfull I tell you :)

One area I’ve been looking at is car insurance. I am currently paying $202 and I think my last ticket (10km over and no proof of insurance) fell off my record in May (3 years) and I should be able to get my insurance down to about $130-$150 at least that is what Kanetix says. I saved all the quotes and will do some calling around on Thursday as tomorrow I am working at head office.

My last Dell payment for my laptop which I no longer have anymore was this month. If I can get my insurance down to even $150 I will put back in my pocket $125 between Dell and insurance…nice :)

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Bruiser was neutered on Friday at the OSPCA. Friday he was groggy, yesterday tired and today has so much energy that I wish I could bottle it up and make some weight loss pills out of it. I’d sure be as skinny as him if I had that energy!

He’s not allowed to go to the dog park nor actually have walks for a week. Just potty breaks and I think by next Saturday he’s gonna go nutso, lol. I have promised the D-O-G-P-A-R-K (have to spell it out rather than say it else he goes bananas) next weekend. I think I owe him big for taking away his um…boy parts.

I am in awe of runners, especially those runners who before them have a baby jogger stroller. I just don’t know how they do it. Pushing yourself to run and then a child in a stroller? Amazing.

Why are these thoughts in my head? I’m thinking of checking out my local Running Room and joining a beginner running clinic. I think I am nutso.

I read the Red Flag Deal Home and Personal Finance boards and had to laugh out loud when I was reading a post about Toronto moving companies. Someone was looking for a word of mouth recommendation and a newbie poster (someone with 1 or 2 posts only) named a whole pile of moving companies New York. The only reason I could think he was listing all these NY companies was trying to get the bots and spiders to read the names from the board.

Meanwhile the OP got some good recommendations but wow…what spammers do nowadays. I wonder how much they get paid spreading this crap around?

“Expensive white leather couche, only for the grown and sexy.Six seater,Still looks new as you can see.Now i’m trying to get rid of it because i am rellocating(gonna be a b***h to move em) so bargain reasonably or i will curse you. Peace out and have a great summer.”

I don’t know about you but those cushions don’t look like they fit nor belong.

Yep, I am still perusing AP, love that site :)

Anyways today, I ran across this post and I’m posting here at IAM for future use. They have a great tutorial on diy ottoman slipcovers which seems pretty straight forward.

I love this red leaf one they did. In the post at AP they also have a cute pleated blue one they did which reminds me of a skirt.

I saw this shelf over at Apartment Therapy and I love it! This one would look great in my office at work and I would love two more (including a more squarish one rather than rectangular painted in black for home.

Aren’t they cute? I think I need to show my father…I think he could make these shelves for me easily.

Bruiser eats Beneful dry kibble and is free fed about a cup and a half a day depending on his appetite. For a very hyper dog he surprising goes through eating spurts to sometimes hardly nothing to gobbling down everything in sight. He also gets a some wet food for supper.

But back to the kibble. I have never met a dog that could make as much mess as mine. Beneful has about 5 different colours of kibble (I would also assume taste as well) and after a feeding at his bowl he had the gold cross shapped ones all over the floor. Knowing him he has spit them out. And I do not use the word loosely, he spits food out if he doesn’t like it.

For example he loves blueberries but give him a sour one and give him two seconds to realize it and it will be flung across the room. So I am assuming that is what he is doing with some of the kibble he doesn’t like.

Nothing like going into what looks like a nice spotless kitchen and look over and see kibble all over the floor…

Oh and for those that think I should feed him better food…I have tried. I have tried all the expensive brands (freebies handed out at Woofstock last year) and he will not eat them. He likes Beneful or Caesars.

I was perusing craigslist tonight and came across this beauty by Neo Metro. Sells for $1,750 – ouch! But wow…it is a beauty!

So it is has just over 10 months but I am still hearting this sofa. It also goes with the colours I am thinking of bringing into the condo and the price has decreased by $400 in eight months.

Instead of doing the espresso with dark red accents which is what I’ve been doing for the last few years and has worked nicely, I am thinking of going with the colours that are used within this Corelle plate set (which I want as well).

I think the greens, oranges, yellows would go great with the my colour choices for the kitchen floor, cabinets and backsplash as well as the livingroom floor. My TV stand is huge but will fit great with the 10ft ceilings I will have. I also have a bookshelf in the same look so using some colour I think would help out in making it more homey.

It shall be interesting to actually see what I do compared to my blog entries over the two years of waiting for it to be built. Oh…and this currently what it looks like:

Another year and a bit and I hopefully will be in the new place…cannot wait!

I realized late last week that the MS1 exam I deferred in December takes place June 11th…so I am currently in exam prep mode. I printed off 6 old exams and my books are out and I’ve been going over the 10 modules. I have less than two weeks to prep for this exam and I’m pretty sure I will do fine. I also looked at the class pass stats and even though their exam is only worth 70% whereas mind is worth 100% (because of deferral), in the lat two years, approximately 77% of the classes across Canada have passed this course. Makes me feel better.

After this exam it is onto finishing my skirt. I have the material I chose for the skirt now washed so now I can just move on. I just need to read the web and watch some YouTube and I’m pretty sure I can finish it on my own.

But first I have to get through the CGA exam.

I am on a huge TLC kick right now, the channel only changes on Thursdays when they have on their car shows or on Friday nights at 11pm when the 8pm shows repeat and I’m not in the mood to watch them again. This Thursday though I left the boob tube on and watched Overhauling which can be a pretty fun show to watch depending on the con used to hijack the car and the owner’s response to it, lol. They take old and new cars (normally old) and overhaul them into beautiful specimens :)

Depending on the car they being overhauled (say an old Ferrari) they actually look for authentic old Ferrari parts to ensure the car is like ‘new’ or old again.

Last week they did it to an old convertible belonging to a woman who was quite the b&*ch and I certainly didn’t feel she deserved it but the car was beautifully done and she did seem appreciative.