Have not been updating....

Anyway, I'm alittle behind on updating... as you can all see. I think that other week was just to overwhelming... To top off my week of flooding skunks and what not... I found out 2 count them 2 friends are pregnant. Congrationals to the both of you Not that it's a bad thing, don't get me wrong I am happy for the 2 of them. But it was a bit of a bombshell after all the other stuff that happened 2 weeks ago (man am I behind). I haven't even uploaded the pics. from A's little B-day party. I will don't worry, then everyone can see the moms to be. Oh well this past week was uneventful... thank dog. Though I was feeling especially tired and sore. But the weekend made up for that. Michelle and Adam finally got their copy of GT4...the viritual drinking and driving has commenced again. Played late on Saturday and then I was invited over for yummy roast beef dinner and the Oscars last night. I think we watch a whole 20 min. of the Oscar preshow(a little hard to eat and drive)... the cars were calling us. I guess now I will have to save up for my very own copy.

Knitting...

Here's the proof that I have been learning how to knit...

SKUNKED!!!!!

Not only has my apartment been flooded but now my dog has been sprayed by a skunk. I got up this morning and took him out as usual... we were walking along without a care in the world until we reached the little parkette. Suddenly he goes running after something and of course I realize a moment to late that that something is a skunk. Murphy got nailed right in the face. It was horrible. Everytime Murphy got upwind he almost knocked me out with the smell. Anyway, I got him home and had to leave him in the backyard while I looked up a remedy for skunk smell. Of course did I have any of the ingredients... nooooo while I did have the liquid dish soap. But I had to walk to the Sobeys on Broadview to get Hydrogen Peroxide and baking soda. So if you ever need to clean up skunk here's the recipe (for a large dog):

32 once bottle of Hyrdogen Peroxide
2 tablespoons baking soda
1 teaspoon liquid dishsoap

Mix together and throughly soak your dog with it. I found that if your dog is slightly wet that it was much easier to rub in the solution(especilly if they are like Murphy who has a teflon coat). Rub solution in well. Throughly rinse dog.

It's not absolutely perfect. But it is much better than what you start with. So now Murphy smells like wet dog with a faint air de parfume de skunk. At least the smell doesn't really permeate the whole apartment.

Of course, if my apartment was a mess before now it's like a hurricane went through.
Oh well, at least I have today to get it cleaned up.

Clogged Drain Part II

HPIM0049
Originally uploaded by Sehkmet.

So this is what I came home to this afternoon...click on picture to see some more... The plumber was called and it has gone from a clogged drain to something much worse... It is quite possible that the drain is not actually attached to the plumbing or at least not attached properly. It may only be draining into the ground or clay that has completely disengrated and now the water has nowhere to go but into my apartment. So now I am just trying to stem the tide of water inside with my handy-dandy steam vac. it has been doing a hell of a job. Hopefully the water won't seep as far as the electronics... or I might be re-arranging my apartment this week. Anyway... I have to go to bed, hopefully I won't have nightmares about water rushing in or anything. Night.

Clogged Drain

So I woke up this morning to wet carpet... mmmmmmmm wet carpet... it would seem that the drain outside my door is clogged and nothing seems to be able to unclog it. So there I was at 6:30 in the morning using my handy-dandy steam cleaner to suck up as much of the water out of the carpet as I could. At least it seems to be fairly localized to the front door and around the edges of the wall near the bathroom and counter. So no damage to any electronics or furniture has ensued. Now before everyone freaks, I have informed my landlord who is going to check it out today. So hopefully the problem will be solved by the time I get home from work and before it starts raining etc. again. All I need is more water seeping in. The carpet needed a really good cleaning anyways (it's really dirty), so now I guess I have an excuse to have the landlords pay to rent a super-duper steamcleaner, as the water in the apartment is not my fault.

The past weekend was pretty uneventful... I rewrote my CPA Level II exam on Friday morning, so hopefully I did better this time - I need a 68 on the exam to pass both the CPA's and my works expected grade(which is 75% overall). The fact that I have been sick for the past week has me a little worried about how I did. Well there's not much I can do about it now. Speaking of being sick... this whatever it is I have just does not want to go away. I feel like crap one day, then the next not so bad but then I feel like crap again. Sinus headaches, cough, sore throat, feeling crappy... it's really fun. So when D. called to cancal going dancing on Friday night I wasn't all that upset 'cause I was feeling crappy. - Hope L.'s puppy is doing better - Then I call A. about heading to Guelph to visit her on Sat. and guess what... she and D. had been very ill all week too. They've had it much worse than I have so she decided that we will be doing a girls night here in TO on Sat. - Hope you are getting through all that work you had to do A. see you Sat. - So instead of heading out to party in Guelph on Sat.night I ended up at M.'s knitting. We are just so exciting... we had 3 choices for Sat. nights entertainment - A friends art show, a Bday at a pub and staying in and watching some movies. Well since we all felt like crap guess what we picked... movies and wine... so we called L. and ended up having a Stich'n'Bitch - M. learned to knit lefthanded just before L. showed up so that she could teach her, as she is a southpaw. We drank wine, knitted and watched the first 10 episodes of Space Invader Zim. Sunday was pretty much a do nothing day, managed to wash some dishes that's about it.

Straight Hair

Straight Hair - Amber and I
Originally uploaded by Sehkmet.

Okay since this is the first try at posting pictures with a different program we'll see what happens. This is me with staight hair. Thanks to A. for the great job. Just so everyone knows this pic. is from way back at Xmas. ;PPPPPPPPPPP


Okay I just noticed that my orginal attempt at posting pics worked. But I think that is more for the side of my blog not really for putting pics into a post... oh well, I have pictures up....Click on pic to goto more pics.

I Was Knitting....

So on Thursday I went over for dinner at Michelle and Adam's, a yummy pork stirfry, and ended up knitting... Michelle has been looking for other people to knit with, she really wants to have a Stich'n'Bitch... which does sound fun. Sitting around knitting while bitching...a new twist on the old quilting/knitting bee. I did surprising well for someone as uncordinated as I can be. So there I was knitting, drinking beer and watching Deep Impact (minds out of the gutter people). Anyways, that was the most exciting thing I did this weekend. By Friday morning I felt like shit...sore throat, cough, and stuffy so I ended up bailing on going to Sneaky's with Debbie to see her friend Lynda play. Sorry D. But I just felt soooo crappy. So I played Prince of Persia...Thanks M. for another hit of PS2 crack. HAPPY BDAY to AMBER (on the 4th) hope you got my long convoluted message(please forgive me, I was sick). Hope to see you next weekend. Then the rest of the weekend was studying for my CPA level II rewrite... Yes I managed to completely bomb the exam so I have to take it again on Friday. God I'm just too old for all this crap.