Excuse me while I rant for a minute

I don't know what it is with people who want to buy something online but they all suck. Or maybe it's just me, maybe I attract all the assholes?

I'm selling my treadmill on Kijiji. I posted it on Craigslist but noticed I was only getting scams so I moved over to Kijiji and I have gotten actual people wanting to buy it. Most have sent numerous questions and then go quiet, others offer an amount that frankly insults me. And then there are the few who set a date and time to come pick the treadmill up. I like those people. Except when they fuck me over!

The first woman set a date and time, then changed and said it would be 2 weeks before she could come out. Ok fine, I wasn't getting any other bites yet. Thing is she just wanted to come see it. Fine, she's spending a lot of money, she wants to make sure i'm not trying to screw her. BUT she never said what she was offering, she wanted to negotiate but never sent and offer and wanted me to hold on to it for two weeks. Well I asked around for selling things online etiquette and decided that no she does not have dibs. Someone else did come along, offered me something and I told her what the offer was. She never wrote back. Fine no treadmill for you! O, the other person never wrote back either :P

A few days later I get another bite. She really wants it, is paying the amount I listed it as and wants to come pick it up on a Sunday. I tell her that I have plans but will make time and meet her. So I leave a family dinner early, drive the hour back to Montreal and wait. She calls to say she's on her way. 2 hours later (she didn't live even an hour away) she is a no show. No email, no phone call. NOTHING. Umm excuse me?? Well up yours internet girl!

A week after that I get another bite. This woman really wants it. She will come on Sunday to pick it up, I am letting it go for a little less than I want. She calls around the time she is supposed to come get the treadmill and says she wont make it because she is in the middle of painting her house. Fine, things happen and she let me know. We move the meeting to the next day at 10am. Well 11:30am comes and we hear nothing. Marc calls her. She apparently forgot BUT she can't actually come pick it up even though she told us on Sunday she really wants it and is coming to get it. She has no fucking room for it, O and she is in the middle of some serious fucking renos on her new house. UMM excuse me woman, you knew about these renos, you knew if you had room or not for the damn treadmill. You just wasted my time. Once again I turned some other people away because you said your ass would be at my place to pick the treadmill up.I think she just wanted me to hold on to it until she figures out if she could even fit the thing in her new house. Sorry dear, doesn't work that way!

Needless to say I am pretty pissed. I am sick of dealing with inconsiderate people online. I guess because I'm not actually a person online they can be assholes. My time is not worth anything, I have no life!! So I don't know what I am going to do. It seems every other person who wants to buy the treadmill is just out to be a asshole.

I should mention that this treadmill is worth over 2000$, we paid about 1600$ or so in 2008. I am selling this monster of a treadmill (and it a monster of a treadmill) for 380$! 380$ people!!! You're getting a hell of deal! But there are still people who don't want to pay more than 100$. Some people are just so cheap it's insane. I don't want to sell this treadmill, I like it! But like i said it's huge! We wont be able to fit it in a new apartment next year because Montreal is too expensive :P.

Ok my rant is done...for now. I'm not sure if this post makes sense at all but I'm just pissed.




People suck!

You might want to look into getting new employees

You know because the ones you have working for you now can't seem to manage making appointments right....and that is kinda a big deal when it's a doctors office. UGH...that's right UGH!

So now we wont know till June for the results from Marcs first post vasectomy test. I'm just hoping it comes back negative so we will not have to drive all the way back there for more tests.

'Sides all that life is good. I have been working out for 3ish weeks straight and i'm proud of that. Marc is doing good too. Nothing much has been happening right now, it's been quiet which is good.

We are going to be booking our trip to Winnipeg mid-May if the doctors give the go ahead. We are looking forward to going :)

Today I did something I may regret later tonight...I threw out my cats bed. It broke. I had a small box that I put in the corner of the room while we were moving into our new place. I forgot about it for awhile and my tabby decided that the box is now his. For almost 4 years he has slept in that box...he would get annoyed if the calico was in there or even if we moved it a bit. 2 weeks ago it ripped on the sides and he could no longer use it. Marc and I have been debating on what to use in it's place but we could never decide on what. Today I was cleaning out my closet and I found an old shoe box. Hey it's another box!! So I rip off the cover and put an old t-shirt in it.....he has not taken to this new box yet. I think it might be too small but I'm not sure as he ignores it :P

I'm just hoping he wont keep us up all night meowing or destroying things (like our souls).

Dresses do not equal fancy dinner

If you look in my closet you will find all of two pairs of pants that I wear, the rest of the clothes in there are dresses and skirts. I like wearing dresses and skirts. For one they flatter my figure more than pants ever could, I'm tall so finding pants that are long enough is annoying. And pants hardly ever fit right in all places (the butt is too baggy, the length isn't good, too tight on the legs, etc.).

I wear dresses/skirts every day of the week (well weekends I can be found roaming in my pj shorts) and I like it. But I hate...HATE when I get asked "why are you soooo dressed up!!?" "Where are you going all dressed up like that?" What I can't wear a simple blue dress to take a piss? I'm not going anywhere half the time, I'm not going to a place that charges 100$ a plate. I just like looking good and wearing dresses/skirts!

Is it such a foreign concept to want to dress in something other than pants. Am I suddenly against the whole feminist movement because I am wearing a dress while cooking dinner?! NO! NO! I just like it. So bug off! I don't question why you're wearing pants! Who cares if I wear dresses/skirts on a daily basis. But no I can not leave the house in a dress without being asked "Why are you dressed so nice" Next time I will leave in nothing but a paper bag...then I guess I will fit in.

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Catching up.....

Well not really.

I don't know how I will make it. There is a lot of school work and I just can't catch up. I have midterms for the next 3 weeks and it seems the people who told me they would send notes fell off the fucking planet. There is only so many times I will remind someone..if you don't want to do it then fuck off and don't say anything.

Anyways I wont make it this semester. I just wont. I will fail and get kicked out. What else is new? Maybe I can talk with someone in the school and get some kind of paper saying it wont affect my transcript...maybe I can start over next semester. Maybe. All maybes. That is all it ever is.

It's sunny here today and It makes me a little happy. I might go out later to get some hair dye and a few other things. I also really need to go get my tattoo touched up..I keep forgetting about it :S.

My problems with Fido

My issues with Fido didn't really start as problems, more like indifference. Dropped calls, low call quality, poor customer service... these are things common to the wireless industry, I told myself. Even while my wife repeatedly told me they were a bad company, and she wanted away from them, my pessism told me the grass couldn't be greener anywhere else.

But then, loving my wife, I tried to give her what she wanted, escape from Fido... and that's when the hatred began. We found a legitimate cause to end our contracts early with no fees. We struggled to educate the operators on the phone about the laws regarding wireless companies in Canada (finding out that not only did they not have a copy in their cubicles or access to them on the web, but had never even HEARD of these laws). Eventually, sufficiently educated, they agreed that I was allowed to cancel my contract with no fees, but that my wife would have to be on the line to do the same. I was given a reference number and told it would be "no problem" to process hers in the same way that night.

LIES. When I called them back that night, I had to "educate" a whole new person, who did not believe the notes in the file explaining what these laws were. I had to speak to his supervisor, and convince him too. Finally, I was told everything was in order, and let off the phone. At this point, I had spent 4 hours over the course of the day on the phone with this company.

Five minutes after getting off the phone and taking a calming breath, my phone rings. A super-supervisor. He says that we are 1 day to late to be eligible to cancel based on these laws (oh look, someone who DOES know what he's talking about). I argue with him for 15 minutes, and concede depressing defeat. He offers us new contracts with iPhones or Blackberries to try to make us feel better.

Fido: when someone has spent over 4 hours learning to hate your company due to your intentional ignorance, do not console them with offers of increased contract length. That's just in bad taste.

Anywho, long story short, switching to Videotron.

My Rant

Last post was made by Marc. And i don't blame him for his anger towards that hospital, i hate them. I do not care if my guts are hanging out of me i will not go to that hospital. I am frankly surprised they didn't kill him.

I have to add to that they should start taking a look at their nurses and maybe train them to not give their opinion on something they know nothing about and also to NEVER tell a person who is not the patient that they are fat. Also your ultrasound technicians either need to get more training or hire more people because waiting over 4 hours for a leg ultrasound is unacceptable...o and also have no record of finding the clot or how big it is is unacceptable. Also tell the people who draw blood to lose the attitude. If i get a call from the family doctor asking me where the blood test is and then we find out they fucked up the blood test and would not of told us till god knows when and then we get told we have to drive all the way back there from Montreal is more than enough reason for me to tell them they suck and to get their act together.And no giving me 3$ to get free parking is not enough, your whole hospital can go fuck itself.

Alright my little rant about the hospital is over. Like i said i will NEVER go back to that place, and if i see that nurse who thinks she's the smartest person i'm going after her.

So we headed up to the parents this weekend and it was fun. We didn't get home till 3am, i think we are still tired from Saturday night. I have the day off and it really sucks. I think i am getting to the end of work, i really need another job.

I ordered a dress about 2 weeks ago and i measured to make sure it was long enough, well it arrived and guess what. To damn short, removing the hem wouldn't save it. I really wanted that dress too. I ordered a skirt and hopefully it will look good.

an ounce of prevention

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On Thursday, while researching the results of my ultrasound, I discovered that it's standard procedure to prescribe anti-embolic compression stockings within a month of diagnosis of a DVT -- and it's often done within the first week, and can prevent post-thrombic reflux.  (I was prescribed stockings two months after diagnosis).

In other words, Hawkesbury General Hospital, thank you for the irreparable vein damage.

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