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I am on a different computer...I am fixing a computer and am so bored waiting for the virus scan to complete I thought I would blog away the time.
Just had a great hour long swim with minimal interruption or irritation...this underwater MP3 player is truly awesome...the thing is its cheap n basic so there is nothing so fancy as "SHUFFLE" on it - meaning it plays the songs alphabetically which is lame b/c then you have a month of all one damn band b/c they are all in a row....so I tried to cheat it by rearranging them by song length and then I highlighted them all and renamed them to permanently change the order...sort of worked. I think I must have been having a seizure when I was loading it though b/c I am not sure why I thought I needed so much 80s music to swim to...tonight half my swim was Streetheart...
I think it is a couch/movie night. Last night I spent ALL NIGHT on youtube (which is becoming something I am a bit too attached to) watching Robert Plant interviews. Obsess much? It made me think of what it would have been like to have the internet when I was a teenager. Being that I am INCREDIBLY sleuthful (made that one up) and possess an uncanny ability to find shit out (AKA nosy) - mix that with an obsessive personality and omfg...scary to think about considering my behavior without such a fantastic tool back then.
My mom and I used to have these fantastic wars - which at times ended in a fist fight but for the most part it was just yelling and ranting. We lived in Ponoka, AB, this little shithole near Red Deer...in a basement suite, my room was a storage room with no window. I did not think twice about this at the time b/c I was happy to have a bedroom b/c in our last apt she took the bedroom and I got the couch. Yep.
Anyhow...I was a bit of a phone asshole back then at 14/15...back when you used to be able to call someone long distance and charge it to a 3rd party #...wasn't smart enough to understand that most ppl are going to notice long LD calls on their bill and call the phone co. to have it reversed back to the originating #...oops.
I drove my mother mental with this shit...and she would get phone calls from the phone co. and police about prank calls originating from her # and then these giant phone bills...back then LD calling was not cheap like it is now. At some point she decided locking the phone in her bedroom while she was at work would be a good remedy. It wasn't...I broke in and plugged the phone in...and probably stole any change she left laying around as well. It escalated....she then locked the phone in her car trunk and took it to work with her...dammit...but then I just went and bummed a phone off someone down the street and plugged it in and went on my merry way to long distance phone call land....eventually she made me go live with my Aunty Pam or step dad or something...I forget the order in which I was flogged off to become other ppls problem. Looking back I think it was kind of my unconscious way to say F-U for moving 500 times since I was born...all my friends were scattered in different provinces.
I was born in Prince George BC...moved to Vancouver...no idea how my mom met my step dad...anyhow they got married when I was 3 and we lived in Regina SK...then:
Swan Hills AB - kindergarten, grade 1 and part of grade 2
Wainwright AB - grade 2-3 and part of 4
Edgerton AB - the rest of grade 4 and some of 5
Shaunavon SK - the rest of grade 5
Rainbow Lake AB - grade 6
Moose Jaw SK - grade 7
DIVORCE HAPPENED
Ponoka AB - grade 8 and a bit of grade 9 (lived with my mom and my Aunty Pam)
Moose Jaw SK - the rest of grade 9 - FAILED GRADE 9 (lived with my step dad and his new wife)
Ponoka AB / Powell River BC for the summer... (back with my mom and then to my grandparents in BC)
Red Deer AB - some of grade 9 (for the second time, back with my mom and her asshole new husband)
Powell River BC - the rest of grade 9, 10, 11, 12.... (lived with my grandparents until grade 12, then I lived with Aunty Pam again)
At some point during all that I lived with my Aunty Cathy as well, I think I was around 8ish...? but then that all went sideways b/c my mother changed her damn mind or some such shit and then I got taken back with her.
Holy shit the fire alarm just went off........
Just had a great hour long swim with minimal interruption or irritation...this underwater MP3 player is truly awesome...the thing is its cheap n basic so there is nothing so fancy as "SHUFFLE" on it - meaning it plays the songs alphabetically which is lame b/c then you have a month of all one damn band b/c they are all in a row....so I tried to cheat it by rearranging them by song length and then I highlighted them all and renamed them to permanently change the order...sort of worked. I think I must have been having a seizure when I was loading it though b/c I am not sure why I thought I needed so much 80s music to swim to...tonight half my swim was Streetheart...
I think it is a couch/movie night. Last night I spent ALL NIGHT on youtube (which is becoming something I am a bit too attached to) watching Robert Plant interviews. Obsess much? It made me think of what it would have been like to have the internet when I was a teenager. Being that I am INCREDIBLY sleuthful (made that one up) and possess an uncanny ability to find shit out (AKA nosy) - mix that with an obsessive personality and omfg...scary to think about considering my behavior without such a fantastic tool back then.
My mom and I used to have these fantastic wars - which at times ended in a fist fight but for the most part it was just yelling and ranting. We lived in Ponoka, AB, this little shithole near Red Deer...in a basement suite, my room was a storage room with no window. I did not think twice about this at the time b/c I was happy to have a bedroom b/c in our last apt she took the bedroom and I got the couch. Yep.
Anyhow...I was a bit of a phone asshole back then at 14/15...back when you used to be able to call someone long distance and charge it to a 3rd party #...wasn't smart enough to understand that most ppl are going to notice long LD calls on their bill and call the phone co. to have it reversed back to the originating #...oops.
I drove my mother mental with this shit...and she would get phone calls from the phone co. and police about prank calls originating from her # and then these giant phone bills...back then LD calling was not cheap like it is now. At some point she decided locking the phone in her bedroom while she was at work would be a good remedy. It wasn't...I broke in and plugged the phone in...and probably stole any change she left laying around as well. It escalated....she then locked the phone in her car trunk and took it to work with her...dammit...but then I just went and bummed a phone off someone down the street and plugged it in and went on my merry way to long distance phone call land....eventually she made me go live with my Aunty Pam or step dad or something...I forget the order in which I was flogged off to become other ppls problem. Looking back I think it was kind of my unconscious way to say F-U for moving 500 times since I was born...all my friends were scattered in different provinces.
I was born in Prince George BC...moved to Vancouver...no idea how my mom met my step dad...anyhow they got married when I was 3 and we lived in Regina SK...then:
Swan Hills AB - kindergarten, grade 1 and part of grade 2
Wainwright AB - grade 2-3 and part of 4
Edgerton AB - the rest of grade 4 and some of 5
Shaunavon SK - the rest of grade 5
Rainbow Lake AB - grade 6
Moose Jaw SK - grade 7
DIVORCE HAPPENED
Ponoka AB - grade 8 and a bit of grade 9 (lived with my mom and my Aunty Pam)
Moose Jaw SK - the rest of grade 9 - FAILED GRADE 9 (lived with my step dad and his new wife)
Ponoka AB / Powell River BC for the summer... (back with my mom and then to my grandparents in BC)
Red Deer AB - some of grade 9 (for the second time, back with my mom and her asshole new husband)
Powell River BC - the rest of grade 9, 10, 11, 12.... (lived with my grandparents until grade 12, then I lived with Aunty Pam again)
At some point during all that I lived with my Aunty Cathy as well, I think I was around 8ish...? but then that all went sideways b/c my mother changed her damn mind or some such shit and then I got taken back with her.
Holy shit the fire alarm just went off........