For those of you not paying attention to my Twitter feed, this week was interesting to say the least.
I decided that Valentine’s Day was my best shot with the redhead, so I went for the gusto and got her some flowers. I simply wrote “hope you enjoy the flowers, how about dinner sometime” on the card and made arrangements to have the bouquet delivered to the school where she teaches at. 50 bucks later and the flowers are all taken care of, all I’m waiting for is a response at this point.
On Tuesday night, I receive a text message. To paraphrase, she wants to be friends, but really doesn’t want a boyfriend to take her focus away from teaching. She teaches grade 1. Just how much focus does she need? Honestly, I would have much preferred something to the effect of “sorry, you’re a nice guy but I’m not interested in that way”. Why do we always make excuses for this type of thing? Just come out and tell the person you’re not interested.
And no, I don’t want to be friends. If I wanted to be friends, I WOULDN’T HAVE ASKED HER OUT FOR A DATE. Stupid.
Random Thing That Irritated Me This Week
My boss calls me this week and tells me that my position doesn’t qualify for holidays. Ever.
On the one hand, I’m not too excited about this. I was hired to train under the guy running my route, taking over for him when he retires in June. Once June hits, I’m guaranteed 3 weeks a year, increasing to 4 weeks after 5 years, and maxing out at 6 weeks after 10 years.
On the other hand, I’m going to get a co-worker in about 4 months that will never get a day off unless I work for him. Looks like I’ll still have to work weekends after all!
Random Thing I Enjoyed This Week
I thought The Office was great on Thursday. Let’s go with that.
Oh, and my Mommy bought me a Valentine’s card. So that was nice of her.
Everyone on Twitter was very nice about my Valentine’s rejection. So thanks to everyone for that.
Song I Like And Therefore You Should Too
Considering my recent rejection, let’s go with an anti-love song this week.
That’s the beauty of love. Sometimes it stinks, but when it works it makes all the rejection and loneliness worth it. It’s just the waiting that sucks. So I’ll just listen to this song over and over again until it happens.
A hint for the fellas: don’t play this song around your special lady.
Simpsons Quote Of The Week
Grampa: Oh, it’s not a swindle. What you do is, see, you give them all your credit card numbers, and if one of them is lucky, they send you a prize.
Sports You Should Watch This Week
Unlike my announcement of the NHL All Star Game, I’ll actually be right if I tell you to watch the NBA All Star Game this weekend. That might be fun… I guess.
Baseball spring training is just starting, which is fun for me and the other 19 baseball fans in Canada. They’re still a couple of weeks away from games, so don’t get too excited.
The Scotties Tournament of Hearts starts later on today, for all you curling fans out there. Last year PEI had a couple of hotties (namely Erin Carmody) on their team, hopefully this year’s selection is decent. You might as well check out the ladies, because curling is the worst sport ever.
Blogging Snack of The Week
I’ve had such a good week eating that I really didn’t eat anything bad. There’s a couple new kinds of Tostitos that came out, so maybe pick up a bag or six next time you go to the store. I tried both and I’d definitely put both of those chips in my mouth.
As for the weight loss, I’m down to 247.6. I was actually down to 247.0, but I gained weight for no apparent reason on Thursday. I had a few slices of pizza for supper last night at my buddy’s house and I’ve decided I’ll earn another cheat meal once I get below 240. I’ve also decided to switch up my look once I hit my goal weight, ditching my glasses (at least sometimes) with contacts and cutting my hair much shorter than it is now. If you knew what I looked like, you’d barely recognize me.
Babe Loosely Related To Finance
Let’s go with the previously mentioned curling babe from PEI, Erin Carmody
Why is it all the ladies I creepily hit on over the internet live so far away?
This isn’t the greatest picture of her, but whatever. What do you people expect for me, quality?
Oh Right, Time For Links
Bank Nerd has an interesting piece on the ways men and women approach investing. I’d argue that women are better than men at investing, along with cooking, cleaning, doing my laundry and having boobs. Why am I single again?
Speaking of girls, this story from the Huffington Post is about a high school wrestler from Iowa who refuses to wrestle a girl. I’d totally wrestle a girl, but only if she was cute. I would pin her and then tickle her, because everyone likes that.
Million Dollar Journey has a post about stock screeners. Finally, a decent one for Canadian stocks! I’ve been looking for one FOREVER.
Evan over at My Journey To Millions has a piece about why he’s taking out life insurance on his infant son. I wrote a post on life insurance for kids a long time ago, where I was against the stance Evan took. I now realize that decision is impossible to make until you do have a child.
Fabulously Broke details the costs of obesity in the United States and Canada. Since I’m still fat, I’ll refrain from making fat jokes.
Boomer and Echo expanded on my post on food inflation to talk about inflation in general and how it won’t be so bad.
Carnivals I Was In
None, but my post on my creepy roommate was featured over at My Tenant From Hell. I bet Rachelle from Landlord Rescue would have some good stories for that site!
Have a good week everyone.
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