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Shen at paintmythoughts.org reminded me of this really interesting article on what happens to your body when you drink a can or bottle of Coke. I’m addicted to Diet Coke. While the amount I drink now is nothing compared to the litres I guzzzled as a drive-thru wench at McDonalds, it’s still a lot more than I want to. All of the sugar is replaced with aspartame, a chemical that I know very little about but is linked to such lovely conditions as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma. Woohoo! I’ll take a Big Mac, Diet Coke and some brain lesions to go, please!

Do you know how I know it’s an addiction? Because every time I want a Diet Coke, I crave it. My mouth begins to water and I start to get edgy and annoyed until the moment I have it and I can actually feel the bubbles burst in my mouth. Water doesn’t do that.

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My grad formal is today. I’m not very excited, though, I’m not sure why. Up until today I was really looking forward to it. I think it may be because I had a rather hectic weekend. Saturday I worked the majority of the day and Sunday was my niece’s first Communion which was a big kurfuffle. I’m pretty much going to be wearing the same thing I wore yesterday to tonight’s party except I may get some new accessories to go with it. What I was wearing yesterday didn’t really match but I had no time to go pick something new up.

I’m also feeling a bit self-conscious today. My sister didn’t take very flattering photos of me yesterday and I’ve been feeling poopy about them since. The past few days have also been really gorgeous and I haven’t done anything to enjoy them, either, which has also made me feel guilty. I feel like I’m wasting the sunshine by sitting indoors but I’m not motivated enough to actually go out there and do something about it. It’s silly and I should get over it, I know. Even if I don’t do something today I can do something the next day, after all. If I did enjoy more days outside, though, I think I would feel less guilty.

Hey! Thanks for all the sentiments and congratulatory pats on the back, everyone. :grouphug: To be quite honest, I thought no one went here anymore Boy is my face red now! Or rad. Ya, it’s rad too God these smilies make me want to cringe. I found some new ones that are more awesome, so be on the lookout for those. They’ll be coming shortly.

So what’s new in my life, I hear you ask? Lots of stuff! I’m officially disease free, although Gord now has taken on the burden of wrestling with that hairy woman-beast that is, was rather, my cold Thanks, baby. You’re awesome Seriously though, let’s all wish him well so that we can go back to the smooches. Cause those are always fun!

As you can tell, I’m in a cheerful mood. No real reason why, per say, just had an okay day, you know? Those are always nice. I made it to class on time and listened to 80% of it. The windbag tends to go on, though, so the remainder of the time I spent lavishing attention on my enourmous muffin and catching up on notes from other classes that I had skipped out on :S

Last Friday I got some good news: I have a job at CIBC! I’m now officially - well, starting October 17, I will be a customer service representative. Basically, I handle all the person-to-person banking stuff, if you don’t feel like going to the ABM/ATM/whatever. Fun stuff! I actually handed in my letter of resignation to McDonalds yesterday and it was anticlimactic. There was no one there to accept it! :headwall: The head manager phoned me about a half hour later and asked me to clarify whether I meant October 3 was my last day, or whether I was letting her know on October 3 that I was resigning. :doh: Officially, my last day will be the 16th. My first day at CIBC is on the 17th! Seriously, and I just found out I got the job on Friday. All of this is moving waaay too fast.

It’s sort of nice that I got this really great job, but on the other hand, it makes me kinda cringe. Mostly because I had intended on moving to Toronto for the remainder of the school year. Now that I have this job, I can’t go. I can’t pass up such good money :greedy: I’ll be set for the summer months and maybe even after school. At the very least, it’ll be a great job to have once I graduate and I need to start looking for a “career” :X

Maybe I can get transfered to a Toronto branch after this year? I suppose only time will tell. I feel like this is a new chapter in my life. Heck, I know this is a new chapter in my life. I’m no longer working at McDonalds … do you know how happy that makes me? I’ve been bitching about that job for four years before realizing that I need to actively do something about it. Now that I’m leaving though … I can’t help but be scared. I’ve never left McDonalds. :headwall:

It’s inevitable that I fall sick again. :angry: My throat is constricted and my right ear feels like it’s under deep water. I believe I have an ear infection, which I haven’t had in eons, if ever. It’s a pain in my ass and I wish it never happened cause I need to go to class today.

This morning I had a weird, sleep-deprived dream around 4am. It reminded me of the movie ‘Lean on Me’ even though I’ve never seen it. It was scary. Children were involved and more than one died.

Jesus, I’m so not lucid right now. :O

Wow, does anyone even come here anymore? Probably not, lol. That’s okay. I’ve been a bad website owner. I’m going to get back on the horse though. I’m just starting to get over the strep throat that I managed to catch the day after getting home from the cottage and I’m working pretty much every day until next Thursday, if I recall correctly. I should actually be getting ready to go now, but I just wanted to blog first and mention my new cam image.

My hair used to be down past my boobs. I looked like frickin’ Cher. Now, it’s considerably shorter Do you like?

Thank you everyone on the information about WW. I was just curious about your opinions.

Yesterday was a really shitty day in my book. I got burned at work by a coffee pot and needed to go home early, I’ve had super bad cramps all day long and mid-afternoon yesterday I began throwing up. Somehow I managed to catch my nephew and niece’s food poisoning so both myself and my mother have been paying tribute to the porcelain goddess ever since.

I hate throwing up.

I’m sick. With an awful cold that I most likely caught from sleeping on the cement at the Skydome. See, taking chances has its reprecussions, it makes you sick as a dog! The reason I’m blogging at midnight, though, is cause I slept for about five hours in the afternoon and now I’m pretty much wide awake, although I could probably fall right back to sleep if I tried; which I will, in a bit.

The worst thing about being sick and being in class is that the seconds seem to drag on forever. I think everyone knows what I’m talking about. You want to hurt the prof and everyone within a mile radius of you if you think you can get home quicker to bed. I had to wait in the cold for my mom to pick me up from the bus stop as well and that wasn’t fun either. Hamilton got hit with a snowstorm today and it would have been fine if the snow just fell nicely only it was coupled with a super strong wind that felt like it was biting my ass as I huddled in a phone booth waiting for her. Oi. Today was crap.

On the plus side, I watched Nurse Betty tonight. Reese Witherspoon plays a woman who witnesses the murder of her sleazy husband by a couple of hitmen (Chris Rock & Morgan Freeman); the shock of the ordeal puts her into this sort of trance and she begins to believe that she was once engaged to her favourite character on a soap opera she watches religiously. She travels to LA to find this guy (Greg Kinnear) and he thinks she’s just a really great method actress so he puts her on the set of show thinking she’ll boost ratings; that’s when she finally snaps back to life. Rock and Freeman are after her this entire time and while in the process of finding her, Freeman begins to fall in love with the description he’s given of her and a handful of photographs of her.

It’s a bit of a weird story, but I enjoyed it cause in the end she realizes she doesn’t need to have a man in her life (the doctor from the soap or her dead husband) to live happily. She ends up appearing on the soap opera, as an actor, and she uses the money she gets from the job to go to nursing college and visit Europe (that’s my favourite part, cause she goes to Italy :D).

Anyway, my head hurts. I’m going to bed. Goodnight all!