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I just came back from the bank. The lady asked me how old I was and then proceeded to explain that I have to be 18 years old to do what I had to do. To which I responded...

Yes, I know that you have to 18 to do this, and I am 18. But did you know that you only have to be 60 to open a Senior's account... so what are you still waiting for?! --- NOT!

Last night I googled 'piano lessons calgary' and Piano-Works came up on the first page! YAY! We used to not even be on the 20th page. This is very exciting to me. :P

Sorry Milty...

... but Shaw sucks. And this people-powered thing 24/7 might be true, but what's the point of having 24/7 help when the people can't help and just keep transfering you over from 1 waiting list to another... not to mention that I was misinformed several times. So in conclusion all of the phone/cable/Internet service providers are crocks. Sorry Milty, you're okay, but Shaw is not. I give them more thumbs down than I have in customer service.

Other then spending the past 3 days on hold and trying to sort out the Shaw thing, I have been online. I must admit that I was a little disappointed because it seems like the blogging world has slowed down and alas, I am left with nothing to read. I'm so bored! --- now I know how Geo feels when there's no creeping left to do.

Ja is back!

Hello everyone! I missed you! HAHAHA... Man, I can't decide what is better... working so much that you don't have any time to waste, or working less and then having more time to waste.... online. I reactivated my facebook account on Sunday and then last night I went on msn to see who was online. I didn't even realise that msn wasn't even downloaded on our computer since we our old computer broke down a while ago. Kinda crazy. I had to download it. Then when it was finally downloaded, it looked so foreign to me that I had a hard time trying to figure out how to use it again. Kinda lame but true. And today... well, right now it seems like facebook is down, so it is my first day back to the blogging world since my last entry. Man, I feel like a new me. :)

I seem to remember someone telling me that slamming on the breaks when you see a squirrel only confuses them more so you should just keep driving so that they can anticipate where you are going and get out of the way. Well, I had enough time to think about what I was going to do and I decided that I would slow down a little (only a little) and keep on driving. I watched as the squirrel kept turning back and forth like he didn't know what to do... he had so much time to just run one way, but instead he just kept going back and forth and back and forth. Then I passsed him and I looked in the rear view window to make sure that I could still see him running back and forth on the road. He wasn't moving... at all. On Sunday I killed a squirrel. Worst feeling EVAR...

Hmm... that put a downer on this post...

The joys of teaching...

One of the parents called me today and asked if it would be okay for her daughter to come to my house for piano lessons even though she had lice.........................................

Hmmm............................. My first year of student teaching had a student with lice that spread it to a whole bunch of other kids. And then the same kid kept coming back with lice throughout the year. They missed a lot of school.

I wanted to say no, but I had to politically correct cuz the mom was a nurse. Technically, they send kids back to school after 2 days, and it had been 3. She started to describe how lice starts off as a niche (eggs) before hatching into babies. From there, it takes 5-7 days before they become adults. When they become adults they move a lot faster, and drop out of hair and that's when they spread to others. In other words, she would have infected my house last week when she came to lessons. So, if she was going miss lessons, it should have been last week, and not this week. Ugh!

I heard that once you get lice, you have to clean everything... EVERYTHING! If lice starts on one kid, it always spreads in a classroom, it just keeps spreading and circulating within the class because even though parents get ride of the lice in the hair, they don't get rid of it in the car, or in the carpet, or from the towels. So, then they end up getting lice again and passing it on to the other kids without knowing it.

So, if the student was going to infect me, my mom and my dad, she would have done it last week when the adult lice was alive. Supposidly, all of the adult lice are now dead and there are only niches left. It still grosses me out. She said that the adult lice were big... maybe half the size of rice. And the babies and eggs are so small, that you can't see them because they are transparent. You can only see some of the babies because they have sucked blood from you already, and even still, it would just be speck of dust. Sick!

I immediately became itchy all over. I have calculated that if I got lice, it would be about today or tomorrow that the baby lice will become adults and start hatching eggs on my scalp. I have also calculated and anyone sitting in the pews on Sunday should be weary because I was lying in a couple different pews on Sunday after church.

Dedicated to JAckson

Well... today marks the first day in a while that I have been bored enough to check up on people's blog and ultimately update my own. Yeah, I guess you can take credit for inspiring me to update my own.

Today is Jackson's birthday so I was instructed -ahem, I mean... I chose to come home to have dinner with my brother. Who would've ever known that it is so hard to stay awake this long. I am so tired, my back is killing me, I'm hungry, we have no TV to watch, and I just want to sleep. Yes, I'm getting old... but Jackson is even older than I am! Yes, this blog is dedicated to my dear brother, Jackson. Happy Birthday.

I dread Wednesdays. Wednesdays are the day that I have choir practice with my Grades 4-6's. They have such attitute problems and are so... pre-teen! It's awful. We're preparing for a performance at Southcentre Mall on March 21st at 1:45pm so if you want to come see them you're welcomed to.

On another note, today the grade 1's came to music with two fingers up their nose... One of the very boys said to me, 'Miss Chan, is it me? Or does something smell really bad?'. It was an honest question that he was asking. I tried to avoid the question and then tried to change the topic really quickly. Unfortunately, when you're only 6 years old, you tend to stay focused on one thing at a time. One of the other boys continued to talk to me saying 'I don't know who it is exactly Miss Chan, but it's the person sitting in the back with the orange shirt on.' There was only 1 person in the back and only 1 person with an orange shirt on. Man, I felt so bad for him... but it really did stink like poo. Exactly like poo. I am confident that it was poo. It was bad. It was strong and you could smell it even if you were half way across the room. It was then, that I was grateful that I am not a grade 1 teacher. I dont' think I could deal with it...

... and we're back!

I finally get some time to breathe. It's funny because another teacher at work said to me today, 'Hey look! You have energy again'. It wasn't until she said this that I realised how not fun the past months have been. When I see that the other teachers get to go home at their own pace and relax I get jealous cuz I have 20 minutes to get to the studio, only to work another 6 hours before I get to go home. Ugh. I guess I can't really complain because I chose this lifestyle, but man, sometimes I just want to quit everything and be happy with what I have... but then I remember that I don't want to live at home forever. hehehe.

The huge stress of the Christmas Recital at the studio is over, and the School Winter Celebration is finally done too. Between the teachers at the studio cancelling, getting sick and being out of town, I was finding that I was at my witts end. As a treat to myself, I decided to put in a video for the last week of school so that I could at least have sometime to catch up with myself. The days pass by so much faster when you have entertainment for the kids and they are fully engaged... with the TV :)

The studio finally has it's 4th room, and we finally have 'stuff' up on the walls (thanks to JAckson). I'm still looking for guitar/piano/voice/violin teachers, so if you know anyone, send them my way. Thanks!

Went shopping with Drew on Sunday. I had the tendency to buy 2 thing for someone else, and 1 thing for myself in each store... not the best philosophy for Christmas shopping, but hey... I've been working so much that I been saving tons since I have no time to spend it... technically, I should be entitled to spend a portion of that cuz it normally wouldn't be there anyways:P

Over the Christmas break I have to learn how to use my MAc... I am going to pick up Dreamweaver and some other program that is like Photoshop... oh yeah, and Garage Band. Everyone at school makes fun of me because I type fast... it's not very nice. I hate using Macs... it's so opposite from the PC... I keep trying to right click and ctrl c this and home and end that and shift F7 for the thesaurus... man, you dont' realise how much you use them until they're gone. Now I have to retrain myself for the new shortcut keys.

Don't you hate it when...

... you're starving cuz lunch lets out so late, and the whole morning all you can look forward to Toonie Tuesday at KFC?

"Two Toonie Tuesdays please," I say as I'm thinking about having the extra box of KFC for lunch the next day. The guy just looks at me and starts laughing...

"It's Monday today."

WHAT?!?! I drove out of my way to find a KFC and it's not even Toonie Tuesday?! What am I supposed to do now? Oh man... he's still looking at me... Do I order something else or look cheap and leave cuz I don't want to pay extra for the chicken? Well, since I'm Chinese, 4 things went through my head before I made my move. In sequential order:

1. Maybe I can try bargaining with him and say something like, "can't you just pretend that it's Tuesday today?"... he's about my age... maybe he'll let it slide? No, I can't do that... I'm not in China :)
2. UGH. I don't want to pay so much for chicken!
3. But if I just leave, I will look cheap... cuz people always think that Chinese people are so cheap.
4. I examine his face... Well, he's not that good looking. Who cares what he thinks. (This part has nothing to do with me being Chinese.)

Then I turn around and leave.

That happened last Monday. Today, as I was driving home from work, I was excited that today was Toonie Tuesday... then I remembered what happened last week, so I just came home to make my own lunch.