Alejandro

I love this song for its catchiness as well as the fact I can roll my rrrr’s while singing it. The video – is a little f***ed up. This is what Wikipedia said about the video:

A music video for the single, which was directed by photographer Steven Klein, was released on June 8, 2010. It was inspired by Gaga's love for her gay friends and admiration of gay love—"her envy of the courage and bravery they require to be together". The music video portrays Gaga with a group of soldiers in a cabaret, dancing to the song. It is interspersed with scenes of Gaga as a nun swallowing a rosary and near-naked men, holding machine guns. The music video received from mixed to positive reviews, with critics complimenting its idea and dark nature, while the Catholic League attacked Gaga for her use of blasphemy, despite Klein dismissing the idea and claiming the scene in question (the swallowing of the Rosary beads) was Gaga's "desire to take in the Holy".

It is most interesting. I love the latex nun outfit. The nude underswear – not so sure on. And the gun bra… hmmm… Check it out and then have fun rolling your rrrr’s singing along. Teehee.

The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM) Song

For all those who care about soccer - what a fun song from Shakira.
Waka Waka



And who knew there was a big debate. Check out this site for some interesting information. Teehee.

I’m bad and you love it.

I am also anal-retentive, slightly untrusting, and exhausted. My nice long weekend I was planning for this one coming up – has gone to heck and a hand basket rather quickly. I had plans to relax, sleep in, prep a couple of upcoming presents, attend a bbq, and do some gaming. Then another bbq was added – still no problem. Lots of time to do other things. Then D’s parentals call and say they are coming up for the weekend. According to them, we are not to rearrange our weekend at all, but they will be staying with us. Sighhhh. So what was supposed to be a nice long weekend has now become rather overwhelming and not relaxing at all. Sure, we aren’t supposed to rearrange our lives – when are they going to see us then? And when do they get up in morning? Because omg – if I don’t get sleep, I am not a happy camper. Plus I will have no time to get the presents prepped like I wanted to. Plus the few days prior (so much for requesting a couple of weeks notice) will be spent cleaning the house like a mad person, trying to get it parent clean. Sighhhh. D is not happy since no longer will there be sleeping in the basement. It is back to the hot upstairs.

Yesterday was mostly outside doing weeding, mowing, and weed whacking. Inside I put my wormies into new dirt (which means several hours sifting through worm manure looking for worms), cleaning the top and bottom ovens, etc. Tonight, I tidied the basement where they will be sleeping – dusting, dragging off slip covers to wash – and cleaning the bathroom they will be using from top to bottom (okay – not the ceiling as I am a little short, but everything else, I cleaned. My hands look rather shriveled right now. To make matters worse, I dropped a beer bottle on my foot while I was trying to clean the empties way and answer the phone. Poor D – I was a little testy on the phone as I was trying not to say all the swear words in my head due to my throbbing toe.

Tomorrow is the kitchen and washing the floors. Joy.

They couldn’t say if they were coming Thursday or Friday (helpful – not!), so Thursday may be spent rushing around or I may just say screw it and prep some presents.

I would talk about work, but it is such a source of frustration right now, what would be the point? And my first week back after holidays - what a crappy, crazy, ridunkulous week. Made me want to run back home and hide.

Alright- I should try to get some sleep – maybe the room upstairs has cooled some – oh please oh please let it have cooled.

Crazy. Trampy. What’s not to love?

Ahhh Happy bunny – how you make my day… :)

1 week of holidays down – back to work on Monday. Joy. I can honestly say the week before I left was a time when I did not love my job in any aspect. It is ridiculous what these people expect from me, knowing I am on holidays and that I come back for one day before 2 days of training which is followed by me facilitating training the next day. After I make all the copies for the training, I get an email (technically when I was off) stating 3 more people were being added and one taken away. So now I have to go through all my print outs and see if I estimated enough (cause you know I printed a couple of extra copies). I have to do that on the day I get back, when I will have a week’s worth of emails to read, print out tons of material to read for the 2 day training session, and my co-facilitator wants to talk, and there will be all the complicated situations I need to resolve, and… yep – not loving the job right now.

My holidays were pretty good, even if I didn’t get to do everything I wanted. I felt like it was mostly spent buying things and putting them together. Last week, when just D was off, we started putting the railing on the deck – 2.5 hours later and only a third was done. Needless to say, I didn’t cook that day as we ran out to get Wendy’s to tide our starving bellies. Then we bought new patio furniture last weekend and put it together - well, D put it together while I weeded the front garden. Then we bought a bbq and put that together – yes both of us. We almost killed each other, but managed not to – teehee. I broke down all the boxes and recycling and stuff – alone. Those boxes are big! Of course, the goal was to have a bbq tomorrow to celebrate the new deck and D’s b-day, but that was nixed by my parentals. Oy! Today, we actually used the bbq and it made delicious hotdogs, sautéed onions, and toasted buns. Thankfully we got it all set up – because the rest of the month is a lot of bbq meals. I hate cooking inside when it is hot.

It is getting hot. I slept like crap last night (even though it was fresh sheet day) partly due to the heat and partly my head just would not shut up. I have been carrying on this storyline in my dreams and last night when I was supposed to be falling asleep, I was in this deep discussion about some previous incident that had never been resolved and had to be. Yes, this all happened in my dreams. It was rather frustrating. I tried to switch thoughts, but it was like my head decided we needed to figure it out right then. Oy!

Weeding is done in most of the garden areas – the areas left are just some side/flower gardens and at the garbage cans where raspberry bushes and some kind of tree have decided to grow. We visited Ikea and hardly spent anything. Got some clothes at International Clothiers in South Edmonton Common – suit jackets (some with vests) for $39!!! I managed not to spend anything at HMV. (WTF??? Am I not feeling well?) I have completely watched the last half of Season 1 and all of Season 2 of United States of Tara (Love this show!!). And found out there will be a second season of Hung – so the PVR is all set to tape that. The PVR is less than 50% full right now – rockin!!

Pretty much the only things I didn’t do that I wanted were – visit Whyte Ave (though we drove down it or past it several times), filing, put away books, and more sewing. So overall, not bad.

One more day to relax and then it is back to work. Just have to survive this week and then it is a 3-day week as I was smart and took July 2 off so 4-day weekend for me. Whoot! Now to decide what we should do on July 1…