Kristel's Blog

Seriously. It’s taking up all my free time, and I spend a lot of time during work time on the internet as well (yes, I’m working then… usually.) Shall I prove my point? Or just go into a long story regarding nothing, but ending in something to do with the internet? Yeah, definately the second one. (you really should be expecting this one)

After all this time singing songs from the church hymn book, Voices United & it’s supplement, More Voices (original title, eh?) I thought I’d like my own copy, if only so I can play the songs at home and make my own arrangements that no one will ever play, except maybe myself until I get good at it, and then never again. Anyways, so I thought I’d go through one of our customers. They sell sheet music and books, and religious music for just about every religion, including the united church of canada. My biggest problem doing this? Yes, you guessed it. I *hate* dealing with their sales lady. She doesn’t know what I’m talking about half the time, and doesn’t really make an effort to find something for me. I wanted music by Yiruma. We’re not talking rocket science. I was even willing to buy a book with a few songs in if I had to. She tells me she doesn’t know who he is, but maybe I should try Japan if I want music from there. (she doesn’t know I work for Conrad when she says this…) Anyways, back to the point. When I decided I wanted to buy the two hymn books, I went to their respective websites, looked into the cost, and then asked Conrad if he could ask our customer when he goes. (So a) I don’t have to deal with her and b) I actually like supporting small businesses, and with all the music you can get on the internet… which is *a lot*, all printed music sellers are starting to lose sales) He goes in, he works, he asks. Both books are nearly double their online price, including shipping. I understand their need to mark it up, but I’m not paying $75 for a book, when I can get it for $45 online. So I start with More Voices, order it *online*, proud of myself, and excited that it’s coming, but wondering if it’s weird that I didn’t want to put my church name in, and didn’t. So then I go to order the Voices United hymn book. You can’t order it online. I can: Call, Mail the Order form, Fax or Email the order form but then call with my credit card info (wouldn’t it be pointless at this point to even fill out the form?) or I can go find my nearest church-stuff seller. And outside of the, “wouldn’t it be pointless…” thought, the only thing I can think is, “OMG, no online ordering. How lame is that. We will marry gay & lesbian couples, but we can’t have online ordering?! So annoyed.”

Worked from Conrad’s today. Had six machines to load. Took me all day, what with all those damn Windows Updates to do, on Dad’s remarkably slow internet. I nearly died. It really shouldn’t take 20 minutes to download Adobe Reader. Plus it’s boring when your internet can’t load the next StumbleUpon page fast enough, and then you’re bored with the whole Stumble process.

But good can come from the internet. I was notified of a sale at the Bay last weekend through the wonders of email. It wasn’t the world’s greatest sale, but we did get me set up with a registry so maybe those dishes I like will suddenly appear from Santa now that he knows which ones I want in which pattern. (If you’ve seen my rice bowls & those stripey large mugs, those are the dishes I’m talking about.) What I really needed, and came for though, was a new duvet cover. It’s pretty. And not coming apart at the seams. Picture below. Thinking of making some golden yellow shams though, and maybe little green covers for those little, white, completely useless pillows. But that sounds like work. And like I’d need fabric in those colours. We’ll see what happens with that.

New Bedding

On the topic of fabric, my little quilt has almost all its blocks done. They’re all crooked, and are far from matching the measurements they should, but that’s what rulers and scissors are made for.

What was I talking about? oh yeah, the internet.

I love the internet. Where else could I babble about nothing and at least 2 people will read it by… next week sometime… Oh, and think of all the fun recipes you can try. The blogs you can read. The new programming languages, open source software, and techy jokes that have come thanks to the internet. I tried a whole hour of yoga tonight, for the heck of it, thanks to the internet. (By the way, if you have no flexibility, a slippery fabric carpet, and can’t stop laughing at the weird bearded man, yoga’s not for you.)

…I’m going to bed. It’s been a long day, and surprisingly, an hour of stretching takes a lot out of you. Maybe I’ll come back to the internet tomorrow and tell you more.