I hate credit cards they absolutly kill me at work
there are two main ways that the average person well screw you with thier credit cards
(also I am sensitive to the fact that this makes me sound ungratefull)
1. most common way to screw luke and by extension other servers is to be the guy who takes all the cash at the table and then puts the bill on his credit card and then leaves a crappy tip or no tip essentially stealing the tip money generously left by his friends. this is becoming more and more common.
2. also gaining poularity in a way to screw luke and by extension other servers is to give a bunch of cash and then say "oh and put the rest on this card and then only tip on the credit card part. This is popular amoung the semi-tactfull losers becuase it is concievable that a person would do this by accident
the only reason I bring this up is becuase I applied for a credit card the other day at shoppers drug mart and I cant wait for it to arrive.
the only reason I cant wait for it to arrive is so that I can start playing online poker for real money
I am planning to finance my trip to cuba and my I-pod aquisitionn this way. The only downside to this is if I dont in fact win outragous sums of on-line poker money and do in fact lose all my money as a gambling addict than there is a small chance the goverment would apoint my brother to handle my finances.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Monday, February 14, 2005
Hi Everyone,
I guess I should probably write about valentines day but I am all but freaking sick of talking about valentines day esp since it is in Febuary a month I am currently aggressivly feuding with because it is cold and also making me overdrink (just like that January f*cker).
Yesterday I walked around queen st where I used to live and work and that was cool except I felt a little un-cool as a person. NOT that I was setting any coolness records when I was on Queen st but still there were some people who looked identifiably cooler than me yesterday (by "some people" I mean pretty much everyone except those goth/punk kids). I was going to try to see million dollar baby before some jagoff accidently tells me whatever the shocking twist I keep hearing about is but it was a nice day so I went shopping instead. I also ran into L____ one of our ballerina friends and who was nice enough to go shopping with me for 2 hours without complaining about someone being a jerk once. Oh before I forget
TOP LIKELY SHOCKING TWISTS FROM MILLION DOLLAR BABY
1. she actually auctions her baby off for one million dollars to rich fight promoters who want the baby because it has good boxing genes.- I guess this wouldn't be a shocking twist so much because the title of the film is million dollar baby
2. she doesn't auction off her baby for one million dollars- despite the film's title suggesting that she does
3. The million dollar baby is a monster with guns for hands- she has to box it to save clint eastwood.
4. some people kill the morgan freeman character and then display him outside of thier bar and then clint eastwood finds out and drinks a bunch of delicous whisky and then shoots everyone in a 4 seconds period just like in unforgiven- I am crossing my fingers for this one
5. later on during the oscar's I shockingly dont freak out when somebody says hillary swank gained 25 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks to prepare for this roll.- this is impossible by the way but even it she did gain like 8 pounds I dont see how this is the hieght of the actors craft. Even more annoying is when rene zillwigger gains 25 pounds to play Bridget Jones (using the "temporarily stopped starving herself" technique) and then all the girls in my office are like "oooh I wish I could be an actor and get paid to gain eat tons and gain 25 pounds" and I am like "heh heh yeah, except for the 99.5% of girl actors who would be unemployed if they gained 10 pounds"
For the record what I am trying to say is that crictics and the academy are really impressed when people change thier appearance but I would counter that it is basically a celebraties job to constantly change thier apearance from its natural state so why should I be impressed if they have done this in a slightly different way.
Oh also the best oscar game to play is to give everyone an imaginary gun which they can use to shoot anyone on the screen. The catch is that you only have two or three imaginary bullets. Imagine how stupid you would feel if you went ahead and shot john travolta (it looked like he was going to start dancing) and one of the girls from The View but then you were out of bullets when Tom Cruise started talking about how after the last samari he now lives his life according to the tenants of Samari bushido (in addition, we can assume, to the tenants of scientology) CRAP!
I was actually talking to a friend about this and she suggested that the scientologist might not mind this and could use Bushidotologist Cruise to hunt down and sword-assasinate the enimies of scientology. Like if I was in a bar talking about what a load shit scientology is then the next day Tom Cruise would find me at hart house basketball and cut my head off in front of the other players.
OK so I am way off topic. what I was saying is that I didnt feel especially cool shopping on queen st. I was almost compelled to rectify this by purchasing a $60 vintage belt buckle but then I remembered that I have to save money so I can (not) take my (non-existant) girlfriend out for valentines dinner (im working). Actually I liked my current belt buckle better so I passed and also It was kind of annoying that the shop girls were hitting on L___ more than me. Speaking of Annoying, L____ was kind enough to tell me that her Ballarina friend who I though I let go by not calling her becuase I had two much stuff going on actually had let me go because she liked some other dude. I actually met this guy and he is pretty good looking so that is ok plus he has a full length sleeve tatoo which L_____ explained makes a guy 2-3 times hotter. Ben and I are going to get twin sleeve tatoos ASAP I am thinking VIKING theme but ben thinks that might have been co-oped by racists.
The highlights of shopping trips were both in so-called west queen west where I finally got to see the kick ass stores of my friends Jeff who part owns BLACK DOG VIDEO and Kelan who part owns 69 VINTAGE. Please go to thier establishments. The non-plug highlight of my shopping was going back to NEW YORK SUBWAY which is delicous.
in other news Ross Ian Cam and Darcy were in town last night. We went to teds collision were they are re-stocked with delicous giant 50s. dustin was also randomly there and jason came to meet us. We later went to Lounge 88 but that is a little hazy.
In other news i finally got a haircut today. It is ok mabye a little shorter than I wanted. My stylist Shana decribing the 16 hour tatooing process she is currently in the middle of did nothing to solidify my twin sleeve tatoo plan. I also worked out today and ran into erica's mom who is in town for the week. We had a nice talk except for when I talked about how I was working a lot on weekends and then she said "oh yeah I heard about how that was one of the things that was wrong..." and then trailed of leaving the rest of the sentence (with you that is... one of the hundred things) unfinished. I am just kidding Ericas mom is actually very sweet and funny.
Ok so tommorow I am going to serve a bunch of couples where the girl is pissed that she is spending valentines day at a pub. Right now I have to go (all of the usually argumentitive voices in my head have made peace and are currently singing an 8 part harmonious chorus about how it there is only 1 hour remaining before the bars of ontario offer last call for alchoholic beverages to thier patrons.) Happy Valentines Day!!!
I guess I should probably write about valentines day but I am all but freaking sick of talking about valentines day esp since it is in Febuary a month I am currently aggressivly feuding with because it is cold and also making me overdrink (just like that January f*cker).
Yesterday I walked around queen st where I used to live and work and that was cool except I felt a little un-cool as a person. NOT that I was setting any coolness records when I was on Queen st but still there were some people who looked identifiably cooler than me yesterday (by "some people" I mean pretty much everyone except those goth/punk kids). I was going to try to see million dollar baby before some jagoff accidently tells me whatever the shocking twist I keep hearing about is but it was a nice day so I went shopping instead. I also ran into L____ one of our ballerina friends and who was nice enough to go shopping with me for 2 hours without complaining about someone being a jerk once. Oh before I forget
TOP LIKELY SHOCKING TWISTS FROM MILLION DOLLAR BABY
1. she actually auctions her baby off for one million dollars to rich fight promoters who want the baby because it has good boxing genes.- I guess this wouldn't be a shocking twist so much because the title of the film is million dollar baby
2. she doesn't auction off her baby for one million dollars- despite the film's title suggesting that she does
3. The million dollar baby is a monster with guns for hands- she has to box it to save clint eastwood.
4. some people kill the morgan freeman character and then display him outside of thier bar and then clint eastwood finds out and drinks a bunch of delicous whisky and then shoots everyone in a 4 seconds period just like in unforgiven- I am crossing my fingers for this one
5. later on during the oscar's I shockingly dont freak out when somebody says hillary swank gained 25 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks to prepare for this roll.- this is impossible by the way but even it she did gain like 8 pounds I dont see how this is the hieght of the actors craft. Even more annoying is when rene zillwigger gains 25 pounds to play Bridget Jones (using the "temporarily stopped starving herself" technique) and then all the girls in my office are like "oooh I wish I could be an actor and get paid to gain eat tons and gain 25 pounds" and I am like "heh heh yeah, except for the 99.5% of girl actors who would be unemployed if they gained 10 pounds"
For the record what I am trying to say is that crictics and the academy are really impressed when people change thier appearance but I would counter that it is basically a celebraties job to constantly change thier apearance from its natural state so why should I be impressed if they have done this in a slightly different way.
Oh also the best oscar game to play is to give everyone an imaginary gun which they can use to shoot anyone on the screen. The catch is that you only have two or three imaginary bullets. Imagine how stupid you would feel if you went ahead and shot john travolta (it looked like he was going to start dancing) and one of the girls from The View but then you were out of bullets when Tom Cruise started talking about how after the last samari he now lives his life according to the tenants of Samari bushido (in addition, we can assume, to the tenants of scientology) CRAP!
I was actually talking to a friend about this and she suggested that the scientologist might not mind this and could use Bushidotologist Cruise to hunt down and sword-assasinate the enimies of scientology. Like if I was in a bar talking about what a load shit scientology is then the next day Tom Cruise would find me at hart house basketball and cut my head off in front of the other players.
OK so I am way off topic. what I was saying is that I didnt feel especially cool shopping on queen st. I was almost compelled to rectify this by purchasing a $60 vintage belt buckle but then I remembered that I have to save money so I can (not) take my (non-existant) girlfriend out for valentines dinner (im working). Actually I liked my current belt buckle better so I passed and also It was kind of annoying that the shop girls were hitting on L___ more than me. Speaking of Annoying, L____ was kind enough to tell me that her Ballarina friend who I though I let go by not calling her becuase I had two much stuff going on actually had let me go because she liked some other dude. I actually met this guy and he is pretty good looking so that is ok plus he has a full length sleeve tatoo which L_____ explained makes a guy 2-3 times hotter. Ben and I are going to get twin sleeve tatoos ASAP I am thinking VIKING theme but ben thinks that might have been co-oped by racists.
The highlights of shopping trips were both in so-called west queen west where I finally got to see the kick ass stores of my friends Jeff who part owns BLACK DOG VIDEO and Kelan who part owns 69 VINTAGE. Please go to thier establishments. The non-plug highlight of my shopping was going back to NEW YORK SUBWAY which is delicous.
in other news Ross Ian Cam and Darcy were in town last night. We went to teds collision were they are re-stocked with delicous giant 50s. dustin was also randomly there and jason came to meet us. We later went to Lounge 88 but that is a little hazy.
In other news i finally got a haircut today. It is ok mabye a little shorter than I wanted. My stylist Shana decribing the 16 hour tatooing process she is currently in the middle of did nothing to solidify my twin sleeve tatoo plan. I also worked out today and ran into erica's mom who is in town for the week. We had a nice talk except for when I talked about how I was working a lot on weekends and then she said "oh yeah I heard about how that was one of the things that was wrong..." and then trailed of leaving the rest of the sentence (with you that is... one of the hundred things) unfinished. I am just kidding Ericas mom is actually very sweet and funny.
Ok so tommorow I am going to serve a bunch of couples where the girl is pissed that she is spending valentines day at a pub. Right now I have to go (all of the usually argumentitive voices in my head have made peace and are currently singing an 8 part harmonious chorus about how it there is only 1 hour remaining before the bars of ontario offer last call for alchoholic beverages to thier patrons.) Happy Valentines Day!!!
Friday, February 11, 2005
hey everyone
I know i promised more potential barriers to 30 being cool but since several of you pointed out that my last post was more "suicidy" than usual i decided to just drop it
For the record I am not suicidal and in fact looking forward to turning 30 as a new era in my life and am specifically excited about venturing into my thirties with a new sense of. OWWW I AM CHOKING ON THESE WORDS!!!! I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO TURNING 30 NOT AT ALL
30 CAN KISS MY ASS
Im done
one of the things that I was hoping to accomplish some time before I turn 30 is to get my finances in order. Mostly this is just because people who have thier finances in order seem happier somehow but also because the federal and provincial goverement have decided (in conjunction with CIBC) that it is time for me to resume student loan payments. I am dying to be outraged by this but it actually seems pretty fair. This means that I am now faced with the dual burden of making monthly student loan payments and also saving enough money to buy and I-POD and/or go to cuba. Ok so with this in mind lets take a look at my day yesterday and see if we cant find a way to possibly trim a couple of dollars here or there which could then in turn be used to purchase an I-POD. I will call these trimed dollars I-Dollars.
1:00 pm: GOOD MORNING WORLD Thankyou DANA CRAIG and the staff at TEDS COLLISION for making sure that I am mildly hungover. a big no-thankyou to whoever does the ordering at teds for allowing them to run out of giant 50 bottles.
2:30 pm: i have had a bowl of cereal and an apple and a protien shake and also watched yesterdays NBA highlights. This is partially for entertainment but I also am researching basketball moves to apply to dennis at tonights run.
3:00 pm: i dont know if you are keeping track but the day is well over half done and I have not spent a cent, this is about to change as I spend $2 at the internet cafe checking my email
TALLY: -$2
3:30 PM: At Danas recomendation i am at aunties and uncles on college for brunch. I am apparently the last person in the city to eat here. I eat in restaurants by myself all the time (not just on valentines day) and in fact the lack of distractions from my cheesy eggs is very welcome. My breakfast + juice is $12 plus $5 grat makes Aunties and Uncles a delicous bargain at $17
TALLY: -$19
4:15 PM: Also at Danas recomendation I am at American Apparal on college. it is an understatment to call this store bright and it is kind of a wierd contrast between the sterile store inviroment and thier somewhat creepy/sexy posters (the ones that are also on the back of now mag) The sales person is really enthusiastic and her contemporary is kind of cute so I buy a t-shirt even though it fits a little big. this cost $21 with tax
TALLY: -$40
4:45 PM: I am walking around Kensington Market for the third time this week. My friend Lucia sells me a velour shirt and some sunglasses for $20. Worn in combination these items make me look 8 years older. I hang out there for an hour or so trying to teach Lucia's Japenese friend basketball tricks.
TALLY: -$60
6:30 PM $3 cofee at starbucks because i would hate to be under energized for basketball
Tally: -$63
6:45 PM: Basketball Time
I score a cafiene-fuelled orgy of fast break points but the man I am gaurding really lights it up from behind the line so it is kind of a wash. basketball cost $10
TALLY: -$73
9:30 PM: i walk home from ball so that saves money and also I have cereal and protien shake for dinner to that is more I-money
11:30 PM subway to duke $2 (rounding down from $2.25
TALLY: -$75
11:45 PM: we have a pretty good crowd at the duke I cant stomach beer because I have not fully recovered from basketball and starbucks. I do manage to stomach two delicios pints of tenents at $7 each plus $2 each tips for a total or $18
Tally: -$88
12:50 PM: everone else has a real job so in thier absence i wander across to the bedford to hang out with my buddy rob. The kitchen staff from one of out neighbouring restaurants is pretty coked up even by thier standards. also the paintjob guy from "pimp my ride" is there. (he was also sitting right behind us at the duke but we werent sure if it was him, he spent most of the time talking about how he can kick tons of ass even though he is only 130 pounds) I am feeling a bit better now and manage to squeez in 3 pints of beer at $24 each total
Tally: -$112
HMMMMMM in retrospect what seemed like a pretty benign day was actually kind of expensive. This is not the kind of saving that is going to land me a kick-ass I pod let alone send me to cuba in march. The good news is that we should be able to easily trim some cash from this kind of nothing day in the future. In fact if I had just stayed in bed crying all day like I wanted too I would be half way to a I-Shuffle right now or 1/10th of the way to Cuba (virginia).
Please forward me your financial tips to lukepettigrew@yahoo.ca*#**
*girls "paying me to make out with you" is more of a propasition than a financial tip
#Also I indefinitly refuse to get a real job
**anyone suggesting "drink less" as a financial tip or any variation of can keep thier "captain bring-down" financial tips to themselves
I know i promised more potential barriers to 30 being cool but since several of you pointed out that my last post was more "suicidy" than usual i decided to just drop it
For the record I am not suicidal and in fact looking forward to turning 30 as a new era in my life and am specifically excited about venturing into my thirties with a new sense of. OWWW I AM CHOKING ON THESE WORDS!!!! I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO TURNING 30 NOT AT ALL
30 CAN KISS MY ASS
Im done
one of the things that I was hoping to accomplish some time before I turn 30 is to get my finances in order. Mostly this is just because people who have thier finances in order seem happier somehow but also because the federal and provincial goverement have decided (in conjunction with CIBC) that it is time for me to resume student loan payments. I am dying to be outraged by this but it actually seems pretty fair. This means that I am now faced with the dual burden of making monthly student loan payments and also saving enough money to buy and I-POD and/or go to cuba. Ok so with this in mind lets take a look at my day yesterday and see if we cant find a way to possibly trim a couple of dollars here or there which could then in turn be used to purchase an I-POD. I will call these trimed dollars I-Dollars.
1:00 pm: GOOD MORNING WORLD Thankyou DANA CRAIG and the staff at TEDS COLLISION for making sure that I am mildly hungover. a big no-thankyou to whoever does the ordering at teds for allowing them to run out of giant 50 bottles.
2:30 pm: i have had a bowl of cereal and an apple and a protien shake and also watched yesterdays NBA highlights. This is partially for entertainment but I also am researching basketball moves to apply to dennis at tonights run.
3:00 pm: i dont know if you are keeping track but the day is well over half done and I have not spent a cent, this is about to change as I spend $2 at the internet cafe checking my email
TALLY: -$2
3:30 PM: At Danas recomendation i am at aunties and uncles on college for brunch. I am apparently the last person in the city to eat here. I eat in restaurants by myself all the time (not just on valentines day) and in fact the lack of distractions from my cheesy eggs is very welcome. My breakfast + juice is $12 plus $5 grat makes Aunties and Uncles a delicous bargain at $17
TALLY: -$19
4:15 PM: Also at Danas recomendation I am at American Apparal on college. it is an understatment to call this store bright and it is kind of a wierd contrast between the sterile store inviroment and thier somewhat creepy/sexy posters (the ones that are also on the back of now mag) The sales person is really enthusiastic and her contemporary is kind of cute so I buy a t-shirt even though it fits a little big. this cost $21 with tax
TALLY: -$40
4:45 PM: I am walking around Kensington Market for the third time this week. My friend Lucia sells me a velour shirt and some sunglasses for $20. Worn in combination these items make me look 8 years older. I hang out there for an hour or so trying to teach Lucia's Japenese friend basketball tricks.
TALLY: -$60
6:30 PM $3 cofee at starbucks because i would hate to be under energized for basketball
Tally: -$63
6:45 PM: Basketball Time
I score a cafiene-fuelled orgy of fast break points but the man I am gaurding really lights it up from behind the line so it is kind of a wash. basketball cost $10
TALLY: -$73
9:30 PM: i walk home from ball so that saves money and also I have cereal and protien shake for dinner to that is more I-money
11:30 PM subway to duke $2 (rounding down from $2.25
TALLY: -$75
11:45 PM: we have a pretty good crowd at the duke I cant stomach beer because I have not fully recovered from basketball and starbucks. I do manage to stomach two delicios pints of tenents at $7 each plus $2 each tips for a total or $18
Tally: -$88
12:50 PM: everone else has a real job so in thier absence i wander across to the bedford to hang out with my buddy rob. The kitchen staff from one of out neighbouring restaurants is pretty coked up even by thier standards. also the paintjob guy from "pimp my ride" is there. (he was also sitting right behind us at the duke but we werent sure if it was him, he spent most of the time talking about how he can kick tons of ass even though he is only 130 pounds) I am feeling a bit better now and manage to squeez in 3 pints of beer at $24 each total
Tally: -$112
HMMMMMM in retrospect what seemed like a pretty benign day was actually kind of expensive. This is not the kind of saving that is going to land me a kick-ass I pod let alone send me to cuba in march. The good news is that we should be able to easily trim some cash from this kind of nothing day in the future. In fact if I had just stayed in bed crying all day like I wanted too I would be half way to a I-Shuffle right now or 1/10th of the way to Cuba (virginia).
Please forward me your financial tips to lukepettigrew@yahoo.ca*#**
*girls "paying me to make out with you" is more of a propasition than a financial tip
#Also I indefinitly refuse to get a real job
**anyone suggesting "drink less" as a financial tip or any variation of can keep thier "captain bring-down" financial tips to themselves
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