ScooterMac

The thing is, no one seems willing to work with me. The chiropractors I've spoken with get concerned when I mention it's an old injury and tell me I should be seeing my regular doctor. My regular doctor doesn't seem concerned that it's an old injury and keeps telling me it'll get better when I lose weight (I've already lost over 100lbs). So yeah....pain.

That's weird. Mine's a very old injury but I've never had anyone not want to look after it.

Congrats on losing the 100lbs! Wow. That is awesome.

I think it's mostly because it was never really treated. I was in a lot of pain for several months after I got kicked, and it finally either became the new normal or eased up enough that I could tolerate it for a number of years. It'll flare up here and there, but this new round of pain is crazy and intense - nothing like the other flare ups (then again, I wasn't carrying furniture the other times either).

Haha, Scooter, I like your boat.

Gracias. With where we live, it only made sense We live about a mile from the lake, so we're hoping to have a (small) boat in the next year or two. Until then, we swim a couple times a week in the lake - during the summer, of course - and walk the lakefront and the ice dunes in the winter.

I wish it was that simple - I got kicked about 8 years ago in the small of my back, by a 12 year old boy. I've had back problems ever since, and I seem to have done some significant damage to it while cleaning the youth center back around Halloween. I've just been kinda dealing with it since, but it seems to be getting worse =\

If I didn't see a chiropractor I would be immobilized. Thank God for good chiropractors.

My insurance doesn't cover it, and my doctor and one of my best friends (who's a chiropractor) told me it's not the best route to go down with the old injury.

The thing is, no one seems willing to work with me. The chiropractors I've spoken with get concerned when I mention it's an old injury and tell me I should be seeing my regular doctor. My regular doctor doesn't seem concerned that it's an old injury and keeps telling me it'll get better when I lose weight (I've already lost over 100lbs). So yeah....pain.

Hurrah, I beat google maps into submission, and added us to that map as well!

A quick and unrelated vent:

Dear back,

I hate you. Stop being hurty.

kthx.

Dear Scooter,

Stop bending over.

Thx.

Back

I wish it was that simple - I got kicked about 8 years ago in the small of my back, by a 12 year old boy. I've had back problems ever since, and I seem to have done some significant damage to it while cleaning the youth center back around Halloween. I've just been kinda dealing with it since, but it seems to be getting worse =\

When I was in Montreal, Spoom and I stayed with friends and went out to have a few drinks with them one night. When we got there, the bar was pretty quiet (hockey game was still going) but by the time we left, it was PACKED. At one point, we could see a line of girls wound 'round the bar waiting to get into the bathroom. After the line subsided a bit, my friend and I hopped in line and were patiently waiting.....when some fairly large, very drunk girl shoved past us. She walked into the tile floor area of the bathroom, pulled down her pants, peed on the floor, and then fell over. I don't know that I've ever laughed harder in my life.

Sorry, your line lineup comment made me think of that story

OMG.

Yeah...we went home and used the bathroom there instead

Signed in, marked us and got the heck out!

NEXT!

It's like a long lineup for the bathroom!

(Only females will understand that. lol)

When I was in Montreal, Spoom and I stayed with friends and went out to have a few drinks with them one night. When we got there, the bar was pretty quiet (hockey game was still going) but by the time we left, it was PACKED. At one point, we could see a line of girls wound 'round the bar waiting to get into the bathroom. After the line subsided a bit, my friend and I hopped in line and were patiently waiting.....when some fairly large, very drunk girl shoved past us. She walked into the tile floor area of the bathroom, pulled down her pants, peed on the floor, and then fell over. I don't know that I've ever laughed harder in my life.

Sorry, your line lineup comment made me think of that story

A quick and unrelated vent:

Dear back,

I hate you. Stop being hurty.

kthx.

Signed in, marked us and got the heck out!

NEXT!

Sam it's your wedding. Do it how you want, and your officiant should be ok with that, unless, you know, it involves murdering someone

Like you said, it's your only wedding. Make it special!

QFT

I guess that's why I don't mind having the bigger wedding. This is the only one I'll ever have, the pastor who's been my pastor my whole life is officiating, and more or less everyone who's played a large role in both of our lives will be there. Fortunately, my parents are the traditional type and want to pay for everything, so we're just kinda enjoying the planning and getting ready

Oh, and I found my flower girl's dress online yesterday!!! I've had one heck of a time finding a 3T flower girl dress that doesn't have spaghetti straps and fits our style (and hers). I found this one secondhand, but it's a david's bridal dress (which is what mine and my bridesmaids have) and in the same color. She's gonna look so adorable

Aaaargh!!!!!

Part of the fun of driving from Vancouver to Washington D.C. will be the journey itself. I've got a nice big Michelin road atlas and a basic understanding of North, East, South and West...(and I'm pretty sure I need to be going South and East...) And that's it. No GPS here!

Hurray for road trips!

I figured it out!!! (I think.)

- Goto www.quikmaps.com

- Login = VJ Canada

- Password = USCIS

"Login Unsuccessful"

Maybe it's case sensitive?

VJ Canada

uscis

Still unsuccessful

Spoom picked mine out all on his own (with some help from one of my bridesmaids), but it's exactly what I would've picked.

We got to give guided tours of our apartment all day yesterday, since the big family dinner was downstairs. Thankfully, we had it all nice and cleaned up because we were expecting it

Set the date for my bridal shower, picked wedding music and talked about decorating and flowers and stuff (My aunt's our church's organist). Had some AMAZING food, and then went into town to hang out with our friends.

What a great day

I probably could use a diet. But you try working for a place that makes you amazing food every single day! YOU TRY IT! *drops into the fetal position and cries*

I worked for Coldstone Creamery (an AWESOME ice cream place) here for about 6 months, and you got a free bowl of ice cream every day. If I hadn't quit after 6 months, you'd have had to roll me outta that place!

You are CRAZY woman.

Seconded.

I could talk about music all day too. Music, theatre and art... yes I could go on and on about all three.

I saw them during Mellon Collie too, before Jimmy OD'd but after the girl in Australia died, so there was seats at their show. I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens. Before that it was at Lollapalooza, they took Nirvanas spot after Kurt died. I remember my mom told me I couldn't go alone even after I saved up and bought my own ticket and everything. So the morning of the show, I told her I was going to the store and instead hitch hiked to Barrie from North Bay alone and went anyways. I was in SO much trouble when I returned 28 hours later... but it was soo worth it. I had the time of my life.

I met my husband on the zwan board lol. The thing about zwan was at first, I just ate it up, I didn't care what it sounded like, it was Billy - but I soon realized how much it sucked. And then then they broke up and Billy came out with the Future Embrace - AWFUL! I think Billy has just made an extremely insane amount of poor artistic decisions.

Kid A is the only radiohead album I can listen to in it's entirety actually without cringing. When I go see radiohead w/ my husband I go to see Idioteque played live.

I really liked Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, but really lost interest after that. I liked Billy Corgan, but every interview I read or saw on t.v. with him, he came off as so unbelievably pretentious. Good god, now you've got me thinking about all the bands I loved when I was in school. I can remember my freshman year in high school and sneaking down to this club called the jabberjaw. Saw the chilli peppers before they had a major record deal there, but the most influential band I think I saw there was The Melvins playing a cover of the germs song "Lexicon Devil". That song in that moment rocked my world and changed my musical experience forever. Anyone remember the band Ned's Atomic Dustbin? Or am I dating myself a bit much there? I don't know, but this talk of music just made me think of that song "Kill Your Television" by them.

Billy is SO pretentious. I have met him a couple of times and each time it's hard to even hold a conversation with him because he's so out there and his head is stuck so far up his freaking #######. He's like the tortured artist. He whines so much too. I have friends in Chicago who have had to sit with him during social gatherings and they all said the same thing. But man can he write.

I've met Billy once or twice, and yeah....pretentious and whiny about sums it up. I remember after one show a kid (literlly, a kid...no more than 8 or 9) wanted an autograph and he just crushed her. I forget what he said, but it wasn't anything pleasant or nice, and the kid didn't get an autograph. Even Sharon Osbourne couldn't stand him and she's MARRIED to Ozzy. So that's saying something.

"It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons... Billy Corgan was making me sick!!!"

His own bandmates couldn't stand him. They have all now abandoned him.

I mean look at Siamese Dream, he didn't even let them play on the album, the only person who played on the album was Jimmy. He took over James and D'arcys parts. But you gotta admit it was such a solid and amazing album, maybe that just fed his already over flowing ego.

I'm not saying the guy's not talented...it's just that he's a jerk. He's a jerk to his fans, his bandmates, his managers, promoters, etc. I'm sure the success made him crazier, but I'm reasonably certain he was crazy to start with

Pics or it didn't happen... lol j/k

congrats!

Congrats!

I could talk about music all day too. Music, theatre and art... yes I could go on and on about all three.

I saw them during Mellon Collie too, before Jimmy OD'd but after the girl in Australia died, so there was seats at their show. I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens. Before that it was at Lollapalooza, they took Nirvanas spot after Kurt died. I remember my mom told me I couldn't go alone even after I saved up and bought my own ticket and everything. So the morning of the show, I told her I was going to the store and instead hitch hiked to Barrie from North Bay alone and went anyways. I was in SO much trouble when I returned 28 hours later... but it was soo worth it. I had the time of my life.

I met my husband on the zwan board lol. The thing about zwan was at first, I just ate it up, I didn't care what it sounded like, it was Billy - but I soon realized how much it sucked. And then then they broke up and Billy came out with the Future Embrace - AWFUL! I think Billy has just made an extremely insane amount of poor artistic decisions.

Kid A is the only radiohead album I can listen to in it's entirety actually without cringing. When I go see radiohead w/ my husband I go to see Idioteque played live.

I really liked Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, but really lost interest after that. I liked Billy Corgan, but every interview I read or saw on t.v. with him, he came off as so unbelievably pretentious. Good god, now you've got me thinking about all the bands I loved when I was in school. I can remember my freshman year in high school and sneaking down to this club called the jabberjaw. Saw the chilli peppers before they had a major record deal there, but the most influential band I think I saw there was The Melvins playing a cover of the germs song "Lexicon Devil". That song in that moment rocked my world and changed my musical experience forever. Anyone remember the band Ned's Atomic Dustbin? Or am I dating myself a bit much there? I don't know, but this talk of music just made me think of that song "Kill Your Television" by them.

Billy is SO pretentious. I have met him a couple of times and each time it's hard to even hold a conversation with him because he's so out there and his head is stuck so far up his freaking #######. He's like the tortured artist. He whines so much too. I have friends in Chicago who have had to sit with him during social gatherings and they all said the same thing. But man can he write.

I've met Billy once or twice, and yeah....pretentious and whiny about sums it up. I remember after one show a kid (literlly, a kid...no more than 8 or 9) wanted an autograph and he just crushed her. I forget what he said, but it wasn't anything pleasant or nice, and the kid didn't get an autograph. Even Sharon Osbourne couldn't stand him and she's MARRIED to Ozzy. So that's saying something.

"It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons... Billy Corgan was making me sick!!!"

Social Distortion is playing a bunch of small venue shows around here over the next 6-8 weeks. I really want to see them. Unfortunately, they are really hard tickets to get and the ticket brokers are charging an arm and a leg

I would give both an arm and a leg to see Social Distortion

I'm not sure what we're going to do yet - I have off work from Dec. 23 - Jan. 4!! Well, off work from one job at least (I'll only have to work the one job 3 days).

Also, not a big deal, but they'll want $6USD for the I-94.

Except they never asked us for that!

You pull up to the normal lanes and tell them you need to go inside to activate your visa. You WILL need to go inside. They'll take your passports and flag you over to secondary and the parking area. Don't let the border officer tell you that you can "go ahead and have a great day!" as they tried to do with Spoom!

I crossed ! they never looked at my item list nor did they look in the truck!

Go in the regular car/truck entry lane - NOT THE BIG RIG LANE heh.. my mom did that.

Have a list of the contents of the truck, they never asked me for it but Its good to have it incase they do! I numberd the boxes and listed the contents in general like Box 12 - Dishes etc.

I crossed at BWB - bluewater bridge.

What Inky said. We crossed at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo and the officers didn't look at the items list or the u-haul. We had all our documentation (because we're neurotic, not because it's necessary), the "DO NOT OPEN" envelope, and all his paperwork for the car we were importing.

If someone behind you is pulling/driving the uhaul (we drove the imported car, my folks towed the U-haul), make sure you go first and let the officer know the person behind you has your "stuff"

Good luck!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone We're going to my grandparents house for dinner, and my brother's bringing my niece up for the weekend.

We'll actually *have* internet access this weekend (hopefully). The cable people are supposed to be there at noon, let's hope Spoom wakes up in time to answer the door!

That doesn't look like him, so I think maybe it was someone else. I do think we all had the same guy, though. I wish I had asked his name, but I didn't name because I was upset and he wanted us to leave - I wish I had.

The K1 interviewees have said that he was the person interviewing them if I remember correctly - so if this picture is not of the guy that interviewed you then you were not interviewed by Paul Mayer.

That's good news because if it was him then we can just take the reestablishing domicile guidelines and toss them.

Not all us K-1 folks, though. That was definately not the guy who interviewed us.

Yeah, another thing people forget is the electronic door lock opener that you use for your car - can't take that either.

Yes!! That's a great heads-up! I realized after I got there that I couldn't have it, and ran it back to the car while Spoom stood in line.

Wyatt's Torch - it's not just guys...I've never carried a purse a day in my life and I can't imagine myself ever doing so. I carry my wallet in my back pocket, and my car keys and cell phone in my front pockets. I just can't imagine what the heck I'd need a bag for.