There are a bunch of commercials on, showing Harper in a nice (but expensively furnished) sitting room, in front of a fireplace, talking about family and being all soft and trying to appeal to the middle class female (supposedly) voters.

I’m sorry, but NO.  I can’t really thing of any other word to describe him, but he’s a great big fat douche.

I just … NO.  Even if we get another minority government, please let it be not the Conservatives that get it.  NDP, Green, hell, I’d be happy with a Liberal minority government.  Who cares if Stephane Dion has issues with his english – most people i know have issues with English and it’s their primary language.

Anyway.  Yes.

Work is going.  A new position was applied for.  I have to call the college back to find out what’s going on with my application, since it’s been over a month, and besides that call I received a week after asking about testing.  Nada.  So, I know they’ve received it, that call and the $60 charge went through on my credit card, so… yeah.  I called back earlier this morning and their computer systems were down for about 20 minutes, so I have to call back later.  Should probably wait until the bosses are gone for lunch, but … really. Who cares?

Dragon Boat races were this past weekend – our women’s boat came in 4th out of all the women’s boats, so that’s pretty cool.  It was DAMN cold, and it took me forever to warm up after our final race on Sunday morning.

I’m tired and stressing out about everything and nothing.  It sucks.  I haven’t been sleeping well lately, and I’ve had no energy and it really sucks.  I’m wondering if I should start getting up early and going to the gym before work like my parents do.

I’m making Mom take me out to the driving range sometime before next Thursday, because apparently, work is having a bit of a best ball golf tourney next Thursday afternoon.  Of course, that was the day I was planning on starting my Brownie unit, so I think I might be pushing it back a week, or maybe I’ll just have a short, later-starting meeting that night.  I’m not sure.  I’ll have to talk with Dawn about it.  Our First meeting is never usually the full hour and a half anyway.

Blah. I hate being stressed out.  I want to go back to school – I’m so envious of everyone that’s back there.

That’s awesome.

If you can call Canadians electing a Conservative minority government ‘relatively smoothly’.

As Canadians we sent a message to the Liberals that we don’t want to put up with their bull anymore. We don’t want to put up with their lies and scandals and disrespect for the general public anymore. I understand that. But Stephen Harper is a man that scares me.

There were a lot of things that were called issues flung about, and really, the Conservative’s stance on some of them scares me. They wanted to offer parents $1200 per year for child care. That’s not even $25 per week. Yes, I’m sure that’ll help some people, but I doubt child care costs less than $5/day. I don’t have a child of my own, but considering I know some people who pay their babysitters more than $5/hour, I don’t know if that’ll help at all.

They’re against decriminalizing marijuana. They’re against same sex marriage. There are issues with how they want to play with the taxes, and from what little I know (which is next to nothing), it would mostly be beneficial to the more wealthy of us. They’ve said they want to ‘fix’ our health care system, but haven’t said much of what they want to do to fix it. They want to join The National Missile Defense System one of Bush’s pet projects.

It’s rumoured that they want to send our troops into Iraq – and that’s one thing that really scares me.

My brother is in Canada’s Armed Forces, recently transferred to CFB Shilo into 2PPCLI last fall. So, yeah, I don’t want my brother to go to Iraq. He’s already been to Afghanistan twice. I don’t want him coming home in a body bag. Canada’s armed forces don’t recieve nearly the kind of money that the USArmy does, so their equipment and vehicles are older, outdated almost. So, yeah. I’m very much against the war in Iraq – too many brothers, sisters, children and parents have come home in body bags, or broken beyond repair to justify the invasion of that country.

Hopefully the Conservative government won’t last long. Paul Martin has said he’ll step down from the leadership fo the Canadian Liberal Party, so maybe they’ll get a better leader, and one that will help lead the party (and the country) to better times.

… I’ve been writing this while at work, so it’s not the most linear thinking of writings.

But I think it would be nice to have the NDP get a chance.

But that’s just me.