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What part of your childhood do you miss the most?
Submitted by Maretta.

Having a flexible, healthy body.  I used to be able to wrap my legs around my neck and cross my feet behind my neck. Seriously.  As a teenager. 

My back injury means I will never be that way again regardless.

I received a phone message, yesterday, from some guy in the HR department at some company regarding my resume.  When I returned the call, he asked me if I was still looking for employment.  I said yes.  He then asked if I was lookig for full time or part time and I said full time.  Then he said that he didn't have my resume in front of him right then but could I give him a quick rundown of my work history/experience.  As I had no clue who this company was and what the job was, I was a bit taken aback considering HE called me first.....so I asked him if this was about a job I had applied for. I personally like to have an idea of which job someone is calling about...especially when they pull the "I don't have your resume right in front of me" bit.  (I like to have an idea so I can "slant" my talk towards my experience that is relevant to the job)

He said that it was probably not something I had applied for and that he had been forwarded my resume by his Head Office and that they probably got my resume from Workopolis or Monster.  This immediately was strange because I do have my resume on Monster BUT my name and contact info are posted as private so people cannot call me directly. (I've had too many Primerica type calls in the past when I don't post it as private)  When I told  him, totally innocently, that my contact info on Monster is posted as private his attitude immediately got super snarky.

"Are you or are you not looking for employment?"

I said yes but told him I was curious as to what this is all about and how he got my resume since he is saying there was no job posting and my contact info on Monster is private.

He upped his snarkiness again.

I then politely said good-bye.

I still have no idea of what position or anything. He was not forthcoming about anything.

How freakin wierd!  And how totally rude!!!!!

 

 

 

Seriously, folks.....I don't think it gets any cuter than this........

 

 

 

Do I hear a large collective AWWWWWWW.....??!!!! :p

 

If you could take a class right now and learn anything in the world, what class would you take?

This, for me, is a hugely loaded question!  I am in the middle of making a list of things I want to learn and making up an action plan.

 

This year, I plan to take or start taking:

1. voice lessons

2. guitar lessons

3. pilates

4. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

*5. looking into possibly taking some graphic design courses....maybe even get into a program/school if I can find the $$$ to make it happen

 

Next year, I plan to take or start taking:

1. digital photography

2. dancing - not sure where to start as I want to learn quite a few different style like salsa, latin, west coast, blues, hip hop, ballroom... but I am sure I will figure it out next year!

*3.  If I get Adobe CS3 Design Standard done this year, I will probably start work on the Design Professional next year which is all the web apps like Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.

 

Eventually, I want to learn some languages but not sure when:

1. French

2. Italian

3. Spanish

 

I have so many things I want to learn....it's exciting!! :) 

Are you going to be amongst the first people to buy the iPhone 3G? If so, when do you plan on picking yours up and which one will you be purchasing?

 

 ....um.....that would be a no.

The iPhone is pretty, charming, and quite cool but it does not have all the things that I would want and so I will have to pass until Apple makes it more into a Smartphone like a Blackberry.  And with the data-charge raping that is going with our Canadian carriers, there is definitely no reason for me to change from my current hiptop (that would a sidekick to you US peeps) that I have had for the past 4 or so years with a $20 monthly unlimited data plan........at least until something worthy comes along.

With all the hype that is going on with the new iPhone, some people may not know that there are some other cool phones coming out this summer.

The Samsung Instinct looks quite cool and has won quite a few awards already.  It is the closet competitor for the iPhone. It should be debuting in Canada either this month or next.

And the one that I am looking forward to the most is the new Blackberry Bold which has all the regular great Blackberry features and more.....AND you can now edit documents.  That, too, should be debuting in Canada sometime this month or next.  It appears to be the Smartphone that I have been looking for.  I guess we shall see! :)

Bad day?

I am sure some of these people are having a worse day......

(all courtesy of the fail blog)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you find interesting or unique about your family history?

1. The women on both sides (paternal and maternal) live a LONG time.  My paternal grandmother and great-grandmother both lived to their late 90's...and my maternal grandmother is still alive and will be 99 this October.

2. I have French ancestory on both sides. Part of my Mom's ancestory is French-Canadian (mostly from my maternal grandmother's side) and my Dad's ancestory goes back to France.

3. I have blue blood (royalty) on both sides of my family.  My Dad's ancestory goes all the way back to the French nobility and the kings of France.  My Mom's ancestory includes an Objiwa "princess" (daughter of a chief).

4. I have native blood in me from my Mom's ancestory on my maternal grandfather's side.  As mentioned in point 3, my mom's ancestory includes an Objiwa "princess". My maternal grandfather was about 3/8 Objiwa. My maternal great-grandmother was 3/4 Objiwa. My maternal great-great grandmother was 1/2 Objiwa and her husband, my great-great grandfather, was full Objiwa. I don't know any further back, at this point. 

5. My siblings and I didn't discover that we have native ancestory until after my maternal grandfather's death in 1990.  My grandfather was ashamed of his ancestory because he was treated with much racism while growing up. He made my Mom and her siblings swear not to tell us grandkids or look into it until after he died.  I never picked up on the ancestory because he always looked like a tanned, French-Canadian to me.  He was always outdoors because he was a logger so being tanned all the time seemed normal.

6. My maternal grandfather, being a logger, was a pretty rustic guy.  I heard he once killed a bear with an axe.  And he often left deer carcasses on our doorstep when I was little.

7. I have never met my paternal grandfather or know where and when he passed away.  My grandmother left him in England in the 1950's when she came to Canada to be with her sons (including my Dad).  My Dad doesn't even know what happened to him.  My grandfather was very abusive to his wife and kids.  I think it was incredibly brave of my grandmother to up and leave him like that.

8. My parents got married fairly quickly....especially for being married as Catholics!!  They met in September 1957, started dating in February of 1948, were engaged in September 1958, and married in December 1958.  They were married for almost 43 years when my Mom passed away.  This December would have been their 50th anniversary. 

9. My eldest brother was born 2 days short of being EXACTLY 9 months from my parents wedding day. haha! :)

10. My parents, me, and all my siblings have names that start with D.  It didn't start out intentional but ended up that way.

11. I think I have mentioned this before but I am named after my Dad.  They thought I was going to be a boy and so they were going to name me after my Dad since I was the 4th and last kid and no one was named after him yet.  But lo and behold, I was a girl and since they had no girl's name ready, they decided to feminize my Dad's name and added "ta" to it and voila...my name! (its unique like me!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most people, by now, know who Randy Pausch is.  Last year, he gave the famous "Last Lecture" which was his last lecture as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.  He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was given 3-6 months to live.  And according to those odds, he should have died this past February.

The video of his last lecture has gone around the world.  He has been featured on many shows, including Oprah.  And now his last lecture has been made into a book.

For some reason, he popped into my mind this morning so I thought I would check up and see how he is doing as I haven't heard anything for some time.

I checked his status update webpage and I am happy to report that he is still alive and kicking.  He is getting sicker but is still alive with hope. 

What I didn't know that I found out from his webpage is that Carnegie Mellon invited him back in May to give the "charge" to the graduates.

Here he is, again, with more inspiring thoughts and words to live by.

 

 

" We don't beat the reaper by living longer.  We beat the reaper by living well and living fully. For the reaper will come for all of us.  The question is what do we do from the time we are born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, its too late to do all the things you were going to kinda get around to doing."  ~ Randy Pausch 

I have a question about Outlook Express and retrieving messages from an old hard-drive.

I have an old hard-drive that I have hooked up to my computer (as a second drive) as I want to find some email messages from Outlook Express from this older drive.  Are they stll available to retrieve or are they gone? (they weren't archived) 

If they are still available, how I do I retrieve them?  I have no clue about this at all.

 

Thanks for any help!!! :)