The curio cabinet is leaving this weekend with me as I go and visit my father and brother in Petawawa. I rented a car as poor Buttercup is not big enough to carry the curio and my two pups.

I leave Thursday (I booked Friday off a while ago) evening and come back Sunday and that gives me one day to myself (Monday is a stat here).

So supposedly I am suppose to receive, sometime this week, another letter of tentative occupancy for my condo. Who wants to wager that they’ve moved it from December 17th to late January or mid February? Anyone?

I really need to get my act together and really start purging my apartment. No sense moving things I don’t use or that will end up trash there. Before I know it, time to move will be upon me and I will still have an apartment full of stuff I don’t use and no place to put it in the new place.

To do:

1. Take photos of items to sell on craigslist
2. Go through office desk drawers and get rid of the bazillion of pens/highlighters
3. Go through TV stand drawers and do same
4. Clean balcony, couch and garbage bags to downstairs trash
5. Go through already cleaned storage room and go through boxes this time
6. Purge kitchen cupboards
7. Curio cabinet to go to Bobby, Pam or Lisa, email Bobby first
8. Clean inside of car

I saw some videos today of some pretty saddening environmental issues that have popped up in the gulf because of the BP oil spill. One shows Pensacola beach which is known for it’s white sands having washed up black gooey oil marring it as well as what appears to be boiling/bubbling water where the water and oil are mixing. Another was a video in Louisiana after a rain storm and you can see that the storm was able to pick up not just water but oil in it’s rain clouds and rained it on down.

I wonder how BP plans to make this better. The seem to be all about the capping and capturing the oil but what about the oil that escaped? When will clean up start?

The videos are here:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e64_1277415116
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f2_1277343220

I have a friend who is pregnant. I love looking at her growing belly, amazed that there is a baby in there. It seems that this pregnancy she is growing a lot faster than her first one and is looking for a good stretch marks cream this time around. She says she came outout almost unscathed from her last pregnancy but fears for the worst this time around.

I used to have a lot of stretch marks on my belly, though from weight gain, not a baby. My way of removing them? Tummy tuck! But um, I don’t think I will recommend that to her. She’s bound to bop me one.

I was doing some receivable collection today and ended up talking to a US client. We were talking about work and benefits as well as stat holidays. Our benefits are paid for by work which I pay nothing for. Her employer offers North Carolina health insurance too except that she pays close to $500 a month for her family of 5. That is a car payment or 1/2 a months rent! Wow…I’m still shocked.