Paintball Wars, Season 2?

Things have been picking up at work lately and we are all ready for a break. In my office, though, our idea of a break is not a leisurely company picnic or dinner. Our philosophy at my work place is “work hard, play hard”.

I had the privilege of organizing our fall season company outing last autumn and, I say this without a hint of egotism, we all had an amazing time. I organized outdoor paintball wars. It went over really well with the high energy, extremely competitive nature of pretty much everyone here at work. Even our slightly older receptionist wanted in on the fun (although she backed out last minute).

So everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out if we are planning to make the autumn outdoor paintball wars an annual tradition. Some of the employees are already talking about buying their own paintball guns. They think that it will give them a leg up on the competition but as soon as one guy gets one, all of us will want a better one.

A great source for things like spyder paintball guns, paintball gear, and Smart Parts is Ultimate Paintball. There shipping is free and there prices are said to be awesome.

Hopefully I will get the go ahead to start planning our “Second Annual Paintball War” soon and I will get tons of pics to post on the blog this year.

Dog recovering nicely and hopefully the cat is too

Well Stella seems to be recovering quite nicely from her surgery. I am still being cautious though so I have asked her lovely dog walker to give her a private and leisurely walk session today. Also, I am going to skip her weekly Saturday morning playtime at the park. Poor Stella Bella. First she undergoes surgery and now she isn't even allowed to play with the other dogs!

Hopefully, now that she is fixed, she will stop trying to hump the cat. Honestly, it is so odd. She's a girl, right, so why was she trying to hump the cat? It was the most embarrassing thing. I had a slew of guest over two weeks ago to watch the Simpson premier, which we were supposed to watch in the theatre room downstairs but the network wasn't connecting properly so we all had to cram into our tiny suite and watch it there, and right in front of everyone the dog mounted the cat and attempted to hump her. Boy was the cat pissed! Especially when everyone started laughing. That pissed the cat off even more. She bit Stella and stomped off.

Anyway, hopefully Stella will be back to her normal nonhumping self now that this whole ordeal is over.

Cranky Boyfriend Needs Friends With Better Equipped Shops

As some of you know, my boyfriend is a mechanic. I would be lying if I said that it isn’t handy to have a boyfriend in such a useful profession. Of course, a lot of friends and family find his profession quite useful as well.

Last night he was doing a side job for a friend. Even though he doesn’t mind helping friends out, he complains a lot about having to work in people’s personal shops. Last night, the guy who he was helping out had pretty much no lighting in his garage and when Mark insisted he needed light to work, the guy ended up shining a glaring bulb right in my boyfriend’s face. Poor Mark cam e home with a pounding headache and was still cranky when he woke up this morning.

Maybe he should stipulate that in order to help out friends and family with their car trouble, they need to have proper garage lighting installed.

Time to Start Practicing for the Company Holiday Party

Unlike absolutely everyone that I work with, I am not a huge gambler. At last year's holiday party I was introduced to roulette which is a lot of fun, though. And I do like to play the slots. Ooh and poker, I have been known to play that once in a while too. Hmm, maybe I enjoy gambling a little more than I gave myself credit for. Which is good because our holiday party this year is going to be very heavily gambling focused again.

A lot of people are not bothering to travel all of the way to casinos (or waiting for the company Christmas party) any more. A lot of people are gambling online. I hear that it has gotten to the point that online gambling sites can be pretty social and interactive. There is an online casino called Bet365 that is said to be pretty cool. They have a bunch of interactive games and a whole section dedicated to online poker. All you have to do is sign up for an account and then you can play all kinds of games. It is all said to be very safe and secure.

Maybe I should give this site a try. I can get some practice time in before the company holiday party!

Stella Back From the Vets

My poor Stella Bella is recouperating after what was probably a very traumatic vet experience. She got fixed yesterday. She was pretty groggy and whiney last night and this morning. She seems to have recovered somewhat, though. She is alternating between attemping to torture, the cat, trying to get me to play with her and her new chew toy, and taking impromptu naps.

Even though she is felling better, I feel like such a big meanie! I also keep feelling a twinge of regret that there will not be any baby Stellas running around. I think she is recovering faster than me.

New Digital Camera on the Horizon?

I have decided it is time to get my own personal digital camera. Last year my boyfriend and I bought a Sony camera and we both love it. We should, we spent like three months researching digital cameras before finally deciding which one to purchase.

The problem is that the boyfriend and I have very different views on the use and care of our digital camera. I want the thing in my purse at all times so I can snap a million and three photos, mostly of my dog as anyone who reads my blog knows. My boyfriend, on the other hand, wants to bring it along only on certain excursions. For example, we have no photos at all from the retro dance Halloween party we went to last year because he was afraid the camera would get stolen while we were on the dance floor.

He seems to be relaxing a little bit on the issue but I still think it is time for me to buy my own digital camera. And use t to take about 3000 pictures of whatever. And maybe even buy one or two of those digital picture frames to put my favourite pet pics in; like the pic of my Stella sniffing the flowers.

Back From Buffalo

As evidenced by this post, we all made it back from Buffalo in one piece. I say Buffalo but really it was Cheektawaga that we stayed in. It was an amazing shopping experience. I spent way too much but I now have a dress, shoes, purse, and coat for my cousin's wedding that is coming up in late October...on a friday evening which I think is crazy and now I have to take a day off work to get my hair and nails done, but I digress...

There were a tonne of great deals in the States and I took advantage, that's for sure! I bought a lot of stuff for about half of what I would've paid here. Unfortunatley I did not find anything for my Stella. I wanted to get her the most adorable dog collar from Coach but it was $70 and Mark would have thrown a fit. I did not see any dog boutiques even though I was keeping my eye out for one. I am sure they have them all over in the US, just not in the malls I went to. I did find a dog dish in the Burberry outlet that was a reasonable price but it did not match my kitchen.

We were all very nervous crossing the border because we had bought so much stuff. Fortunately, and I think it had everything to do with Stella's cuteness, the Border officer just wavved us through when we said we had only spent about $500 each.

Stella was sleeping on my lap when we arrived at the border. The Border patrol officer said "Awh, she's zonked." and little Stella Bella raised up her head, looked at her with her big googly eyes, tilted her head to the side and then sat up straight as if she were on display for inspection. We all laughed and the officer waved us through.