61: what's the stupidest gift you've ever given? the stupidest one you've ever received?

I don't think I'd call any gift I've ever been given stupid. Ill-timed for maturity purposes, maybe. Like, once my mom got me a hand-crafted old fashioned-esque bunny for easter but I was about 13 or so by that time and was past stuffies, especially one that ( Read more... )

• It snowed as much in six hours last night as it pretty much has the entire season so far. That was an interesting drive to work. It was actually a bit easier than it usually is with over a half foot of snow on the ground! See, in my area of the city they'll plow and sand the hills (first priority since those generally don't work well with ( Read more... )

Mom and I saw Arrival today.

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Today was a bit of a weird day. I waited all day for C to text me about going into work so she could do the month ends for June & July of the network I despise. We didn't go in until about 6:30 and we were there for about 45 minutes while she sped through "teaching me". I took notes but we'll see how this goes when I do August month end. I'm ( Read more... )

Found out today that work was expecting me back as of this Friday, which I wasn't expecting. I thought I had into next week but I guess I was looking at the calendar as full weeks and not just 5 work days x 6 weeks. Whatever. I'm taking a vacation day Friday so I can start back on Monday. Next week is a short week as Friday is Canada day so it' ( Read more... )

So yeah. Imma get hella wordy up in the bitch, just an FYI. I'm a chatty Cathy when it comes to these things.

I'm Erin, 33 and currently living in Alberta, Canada. I grew up on the east cost, in New Brunswick, but moved out here 10 years ago this coming September.

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icecoldrain posted about a different kind of friending meme than I've seen before.

It's called the "Circling the Wagons Friending meme".

Go to this post and comment with "I'm in"; there are 5 rules.

RULE 1. If you answer the post you must friend everyone else who answers and they should friend you back. The OP will make a list in a week or two for ( Read more... )