well 5 glasses of wine and these stilleto things and i managed not to fall down once this evening

because i am now a sister in law

well i got somewhat hammered last night at a family dinner in honour of my brother (it's flagging 'honour'...American bastards...of which I am one...)

and there was another gathering today, a rather interfaith religious service, ending with people from all religions singing a rousing rendition of "barretts privateers" that made me wish i was in sherbrooke, too

i'm putting the logistical crap of the last few weeks behind me temporarily, it's funny, the taxi incident was not that big of a deal but it met with a licensing person who wanted to see it come to a certain end

oh well, it is better than being a broken man on a halifax pier

but everything is going well, i think my brother and the woman who will be my sister-in-law in less than 24 hours are happy with the way things are going...

i spent the afternoon munching on cut-up melon and chasing little ones through the courtyard...now i am thinking of opening a bottle of wine when my brother gets here

i make him breakfast tomorrow,

does anyone know how to make German pancakes?

well i just got back from the bachelorette party for my sister-in-law to be, my brother gets married this weekend, then tomorrow is the family dinner and saturday is the rehearsal and so forth so i am trying to work my alcohol tolerance to something a little less embarrassing than it is right now

i spent the day on tuesday chasing the police around the city, always preferable to the police chasing me around the city, i was trying to report that taxi driver from a few weeks back, the licensing agency thought that the only way i could be done justice was to speak to the police since all the city of toronto can do is take away the guy's drivers' license

and then today i found out that my interest relief application got rejected, in fact i should not even need interest relief since i have not been out of school long enough but somehow the national student loan people don't have documentation of this. the application got rejected because they were saying they had not received documentation that i had, in fact, sent in- by the time i called though they had received the documentation but were saying they could not begin to process the application until i payed more money because, get this- the bank had put me back into student status in january (although i had been a student since this september and also the previous year) however the national student loan centre had not. this is relevant because you cannot be on interest relief if you are a student, which the bank was saying i was, because i would rightfully have been in non-repayment status while a student and hence my (retroactive) interest relief application would be unnecessary.

aaahh and now this is taking up another paragraph, if you are kind enough to read my blog know that i surely will understand if you skip over this entire part,

SOOOO...

the national student loan centre was saying that i could not be on interest relief if the bank said i was a student. however, the national student loan centre was not saying that i was a student and was saying that the only way they could process my current interest relief application would be for me to pay this money that the national student loan centre said i owed but the bank said i didn't.

so i am looking forward to a weekend of working my alcohol tolerance back. my brother and sister-in-law-to-be will wear mickey mouse ears to their wedding rehearsal and i think i will wear a lime-green fake-lace dress that i bought for some weird dress party a few years back.

on an entirely different note, someone mentioned to me in passing that the cartoon character caillou was based on a child with cancer. i looked it up on the 'net and there is no mention of this except some random bloggers wondering the same thing. the company says that caillou is bald so that he is not tied down to having one particular hair colour, in order to make him seem more universal, kind of like 'brother' and 'sister' bear i suppose.

the spell-check is flagging 'colour', american, i guess.

i ate a whole east-side mario salad, complete with jalapenos, eaten whole, so i would not get too hammered from the one glass of wine in front of my sister-in-law's friends less my behaviour give her any kind of apprehensions about becoming related to me at this stage in the game

now i have to soak some stained clothing (no connection to tonight, just clothing that has become tarnished over the last several months that i have been ignoring) and fold laundry and go to sleep as all my relatives will be at my house for dinner tomorrow night

i forgot to say happy solstice last weekend but i won't forget to say happy pride this weekend

yay

documents, fucking documents

it seems like everything in my life that needed documenting happened now...work, school, money

i've been feeding the goddamned fax machine like it's a starving animal

oh and i stayed awake for like 60-something hours-from when i woke up at 7:30 saturday morning until 10 tuesday night, i may have dozed off for an hour or two in there but not more, due to working the night shift and having things to do during the day...i went to sleep last night which was important although i would've liked to stay out

i know, i know, the world's tiniest violin...

will sleep before this blog shows the results of my head hitting the keyboard

oh and don't trust the fucking drivers in my town, i took my daughter out on her bike, and someone waved so we started to cross and then three drivers zipped by in the opposite direction, she had to very quickly walk her bike backwards to avoid getting run over

once when she was even littler we were crossing the same intersection, i had her in a wagon, and we stepped into the street. after we had begun to cross some car just sped into the intersection and i had to push her backwards in the wagon back onto the sidewalk or else we would have both been toast

BUT ON the plus side, it was raining and it stopped raining (I always try to end on a positive note)

nothing serious, just a cab driver who drove a few miles in the opposite direction of where I was going to a nightclub on lansdowne and tried to get me to come inside and drink with him

it was very much against my better judgement to have gotten in that cab as i recognized the driver from another similar seedy entanglement a few weeks ago...somehow he seemed to convince me this time that he would not do that again

that and also the student loan centre said I still owed them for a time that I was actually in school and should not have been paying anything and that it is now too late to document that I was in school

BUT, like I said, I found my shoes

i have come out of the past week thinking never trust student loan people, cab drivers, or people over 30 (such as me in 23 1/2 months)

on the plus side, i found my shoes. i got them in highschool and then very recently they disappeared. i showed up at work last night and they were just sitting there in the office. apparently they had been there for some time, i just had not noticed.

aaargh, rumbly bears

if you go to sobeys look for teddy grahams, right beside the teddy grahams there will be the sobey's version, called our compliments, and they make something called rumbly bears

the chocolate chip rumbly bears are really good. trust me on this one

not much new

went to a festival in my town where there was lots of fried food

apparently my daughter got some more food for the fish while i was away