Last Saturday

I need to vent!

Here’s an intro to the story just so that you can understand:

4 months ago my girlfriend had an accident that put her out of commission and she hasn’t seen many of her friends since then because of that. For details, please refer to: http://theouchfactor.wordpress.com.

So, since she hadn’t seen anyone or almost in forever (partially because she wasn’t able to get around but that’s not her fault) and for some reason,  her friends or so called friends disappeared from the planet, she decided to organize a little get together with her whole gang.

She fired away an email and sms inviting them out on Saturday. The responses are very good: 12 or 14 people respond saying that they’ll be there, people want to go out and want to see their friend (remember, they HAVEN’T seen her in a very long time!!!)

NOW, THE day:

Some snags come along the way forcing us to change the location of the get together because of reservation problems. Originally, we were supposed to go to the keg downtown and now we have to relocate to a Portuguese restaurant a little out of downtown.

So she fires away another email advising people of the change of location…

2 horny dogs bail out on us: they might meet us later on for drinks and a few other people decide to bail out as well.

Here’s my issue with all of this (and it’s about the 2 dogs):

Dudes, I know that you want to get laid and you are hoping to pick up a blond  18-year old bimbo who will hopefully give you good head tonight but come on, you can try getting during the OTHER 364 days of the year. As a supposed friend, be present at the get together.

See, I think that this is the problem with Anglophone mentalities: ME, MYSELF AND I!!!! (for the most part)

This sort of thing has never happened with my Francophone friends (knock on wood)

2 TRUE friends: Tammy and Jim had already made plans for their evening on their end and CAME BY to join us. This is what I call friendship.

This is what some people should have said: You know what, I’ve already made plans but, because I haven’t seen you in forever (and because I actually care about you), I will come by and have a few drinks.

In resume, I wish to thank: Ed, Roberta, Caroline, Scott, Jim and Tammy for their pleasant company.

It’s almost try what they say: you can count your real, true friends on one hand. In this case, we used one hand and an additional finger.

Thank you very much!

Cheers!!!

Whoa, I feel better all of a sudden. Blogging is MY therapy!!!!

The last week or so…

Well well, where should I start??? There are a bunch of things that happened over the last week that I seriously don’t know what to say!

Let’s try to backtrack to my arrival….geez I think that all the weed that I’ve smoked in my life has affected my memory…hehehe…I don’t regret any of it though.

So, lets focus, I left Montreal on the 19th of August around 9:30Am for my FINAL drive to Toronto. While I was going to my new home, my girlfriend was in Montreal at her national meeting….what are the fucking odds???? I arrived in Toronto close to 3:00Pm, walked in, got changed and went for my 1st interview (damn I’m responsible, I barely make it to Toronto and I’m off for an interview!!!!)

Wednesday, another interview!!!

Thursday, my girlfriend comes back home finally!!! Let’s skip this part since it’s none of your business…hehehe…….

Friday and Saturday, same as Thursday:none of your business…

Sunday, softball finals for my girlfriends league, they’ve played for 15-20 minutes and I see her bump into one of their players….that’s when shit started. All that I remember was seeing her bump and fall onto the ground. I didn’t think much at this point since I’ve seen lots of people fall to the ground before. What followed was a real nightmare though: Screams of pain and someone yelling: CALL 911!!!! At this point, obvoiusly, I got really REALLY worried, jumped off the bench and ran onto the field while calling for an ambulance. She fucked up her knee and to be quite honest, I couldn’t look at it. Yes it was that bad, I’ve seen some fucked up shit in my life but that was horrid. I almost passed out. The ambulance finally arrived 20 some minutes later, imagine that: they took a wrong turn….fuckin idiots!!! We are finally on our way to the hospital. They make us wait in the waiting room for over one hour while my girlfriend is in unbelieavable pain, no pain killers or anything. I must have asked for help 3 times and still nothing. You have to wait they say, it’s based on severity….what the fuck!!!!! Stupid hospitals, I never liked them and I never will it’s all just a bunch of lazy sons of bitches working for a unionized workplace. The stupid paramedics were not any better, there were 4 of them right behind us talking about their mortgages, the parties they’ve been to and what not. Dude, seriously, at this point do I realy care about what your mortgage is??? My girlfriend is in fucking pain and all that I hear are your fucking stupid party stories???? Fucking unprofessional!!! I looked at them, I don’t know what I looked like but 2 of them got my message and finally stepped out.

WE are finally admitted into the emergency (I guess miracles still happen), they finally give my girlfriend some pain killers and soon enough the doctor makes his way in. They decide to put her knee cap back into place. Once again, at this point, I step out otherwise I ould pass out and I figure that it would be easier for them if they did not have to take care of me at the same time….lol They put her knee back in place (please note that she was not sedated at all at this point), go for some x-rays, the knee is still not in place so they give it another try, the difference this time is that they completely sedated her (thank god). Next step: surgery.

A couple days go by and finally we get to see her doctor. He walks into the room and sits down (that cant be good news…) We find out that she has a home pass for one night and that she needs to go back to the hospital for the next morning just in case if they free up an OR. They finally did on Thursday and she got operated. I cant really describe what the operation was because I am far from understanding medical terms  but lets just out it that way: they cut off a part of her left hamstring to put it into her injured right leg and they used some tissues from cadavers…Things have been going well since then, she’s at the hospital to this day but at least, slowly, we see improvements. At this point we are just waiting to find out if she will be going to rehab or if she’ll be going home.

On Tuesday I should be getting an offer for a new job. It’s for a consulting firm in Etobicoke, business to business software support (same as what I was doing at my previous job). Let’s cross our fingers that everything goes well….

I think it’s enough news for one evening, I didn’t go into too many details since I really don’t feel like it and it’s been a hell of a stressful week. I’ll give you updates soon on my girlfriends status and whats going on. To those who come to Toronto at the end of September, I can’t wait to see you!!!!

Peace

to blub or not to blub

Essayons quelque chose de nouveau, je vais tenter d’ecrire un blogue totalement bilingue: ce que j’ecris en Francais, je traduirai en Anglais …on verra bien ce que cela donnera…je pense le savoir deja: beaucoup de travail pour moi…lol

Ok let’s try something new, I will attempt to write an entirely bilingual blog: whatever I write in French, I will translate into English…I guess we’ll see what will come out of this one….I think I already know: a lot of work for me…lol

Avant de commencer je vous invite a ecouter la chanson suivante Before we begin, I would like to invite you to listen to the following song.

Ok maintenant que vous etes au meme niveau que moi nous pouvons poursuivre/Ok now that you are in the same state of mind that I am we can continue.

De un: je m’excuse mais j’ai vole le titre de mon post de quelqu’un…Je ne me rappelle pas de qui/First of all, I am sorry but I stole this blogs title from someone I know…I just don’t remember who.

Je suis assis maintenant en train de profiter d’un bon vodka lime et je me rends compte d’une chose assez ridicule, il n’y a rien de mieux que d’ecrire saoul…Je me sens un peu comme Bukowski lorsqu’il recitait ses poemes a travers les etats unis. I am currenntly enjoying a nice vodka lime and I just realized something: there’s nothing better than to write when you’re drunk…I guess I feel a bit like Bukowski when he was reciting his poems across the USA.

Jusque la ce fut de merveilleuses vacances et je ne peux me plaindre (pas du tout), la temperature est merveilleuse, demain on part dans le nord afin de profiter de l’air plus frais et moins pollue et esperons qu’il va faire beau. Dans le pire des cas, on emmene assez d’alcool pour nous assurer un plaisir garanti. So far the vacation has been great and I seriously cant complain, the temperature has been amazing and tomorrow we are going up north to enjoy the fresh air and less pollution…let’s just hope that it’ll be nice…worse comes to worse, we have more than enough alcohol to guarantee a good time.

Je m’ennuie reellement de mes potes de Montreal mais je me soulage en pensant que lorsque je vous reverrai nous en profiterons encore plus. I miss my friends from Montreal…My hope is that once we see each other, we’ll just enjoy the time we spend together a lot more

Je dois me plaindre sur un petit quelque chose: avez vous vu la publicite de pizza hot en version Francaise??? ils utilisent un seul gars pour faire leur pub. La meme publicite et Anglais utilise 3 gars au total!!!! Maudit qu’on est CHEAP au Quebec, on n’est meme pas capables de se payer une pub equivalente au Canada Anglophone!!!! Ok here’s my rant: has anyone seen the pizza hut ad on tv lately? The French version? They only use one guy!!! The same ad in Eglish shows 3 guys in total!!!! Stupid Quebec!!! God it’s a cheap province, they’re not even able to pay for an equivalent ad!!!!

J’ai fait une merveilleuse decouverte aujourd’hui: il y a une librairie FRANCOPHONE juste a cote de chez moi!!!! Vous ne pouvez pas comprendre quel plaisir j’ai eu a y penetrer plus tot!!! Des livres en Francais, de la musique Francophone et des films Francais!!! Meme les employes parlaient Francais…J’en ai aussi profite pour les faire travailler un peu car je me cherchais un livre. Je viens de m’acheter le plus recent de Beigbeder: Au secours pardon Je vais tenter de le lire dans les semaines a venir.

Ok, I am not translating the last paragraph to English because it really does not concern Anglophone people and quite frankly, I am tired of translating everything in this post…

La dessus mes amis je vous laisse,  je suis fatique et je pense qu’il est temps que je me couche. Des photos de notre sejour au chalet vont probablement suivre et vous connaissez probablement le site de photos dont je parle…sinon, contactez-moi et je vous fais parvenir le lien/ Ok on that note I am leaving you for now, it’s time for me to go and get some rest. Pictures of our stay at the cottage will probably be posted and you should know the website address…if you don’t drop me a line and I will send you the link.

P.S: SansCheeze si tu lis mon blogue, mets les photos de mon party sur ton flick!!!! Oui celles que j’ai faites avec ta camera!!!!!!