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Saturday, January 31, 2004

Suck on it RBC

I went to the local Bank of Montreal and they fixed the everything wrong this Royal Bank transaction has caused me. I got every penny back and I didn't get hit with extra service charges (I would have fought it if I did get extra service charges). I guess any charges would be paid for by the RBC. Good stuff.

It was a bit weird being in the Bank of Montreal in Vegreville. The tellers were asking "you're Dean Welsh's girlfriend?" It was almost like being married to a rock star or something. Not that I mind, it just took me by surprise. And the service was top-notch. Ahh, small towns. I could get used to this!

Posted by Steph at 09:33 MT [ link to this entry ]

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Bloody Rose Likes Clean Goggles

My brother Stanley bought a bunch of candy that come with free toys that are perfect for 1/6 scale dolls.

"I used to have dirty goggles. I would crash into buildings when I was trying to cover the world with fire and death, or walk into walls at the rave. People would think I was high on E, but really, I just couldn't see where I was going! Then I discovered Re-ment Foods Cleansing Agent. Now my goggles are clear and shiny all night long."

Posted by Steph at 02:38 MT [ link to this entry ]

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

RBC Royal Bank = EeeeeeeeeVIL!!

Yes, Banks are evil. Royal Bank is more evil than most, although I hear CIBC is the most evil. I make student loan payments every month and RBC decided "Hey! She doesn't have to pay until February 20th? Why don't we withdraw the money now instead?" Imagine my surprise to find my bank account to be missing $132. Lucky for me I had a fantastic operator that is straightening thing out for me now. It better get straightened out. But I honestly cannot wait to be rid of this Student Loan, which will rid me of doing any more business with the Royal Bank.

If you are having problems with Student Loans, here is a helpful site:
http://www.canadastudentdebt.ca
I haven't gotten to the point where I have to turn to them yet, but I'm pretty close.

Posted by Steph at 16:23 MT [ link to this entry ]

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Meat Cookies

So I've been staying at my mom's house this week and my brother Stanley came home from work and said, "LOOK WHAT I BOUGHT!!"

"MEAT COOKIES!" This one is Beef Steak flavoured.

Here are Roast Meat flavoured and Abolone flavoured.

They look innocent...

I tried one and if you can imagine a biscuit with Beef Bouillon powder in it, then that is what Beef Steak cookies taste like.

Approximately ten minutes after tasting:
If you can imagine lightly sweetened powdered beef bouillon in your teeth, that is the flavour that is still lingering in my mouth. I have to get some milk to wash this down.

Posted by Steph at 03:45 MT [ link to this entry ]

Thursday, January 22, 2004

Poor Mr. Hawking

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13843849&method=full

Some people care about rock stars or movie actors. I guess I care more about scientists. Reports have been trickling in all week about bruises and other, more serious injuries found on Stephen Hawking. They say Hawking won't talk about his abuse, which is a common reaction from victims of abuse. If it is all true, it makes me feel sad.

Posted by Steph at 18:50 MT [ link to this entry ]

Gong Hey Fat Choy!

Happy New Year! Welcome the year of the monkey!

I met up with my friend Robbin yesterday and my brother Stanley and I went shopping with her. It was mostly window shopping for me but I found some incredibly cheap cheap pants a the Le Chateau's factory outlet store. At Toys R Us, Stan bought a bunch of really fun props like the Barbie My Scene Discotheque. After that, Stan and I took a bunch of pictures using the disco. We spent too much time laughing but boy, it was fun. I probably won't post them here. Instead I'll save them for the Cool Girl / Cy Girls site, coming February 2004 (shameless plug)!

I can't wait to see Dean again. He's helping George move from Vancouver to Calgary. He's hoping to be in Edmonton tomorrow. We'll see. They just left Vancouver and I don't know if they have it in them to drive all the way tonight. I imagine they'll break up the trip into two parts.

Back to work for me today. I just got a pile of pages to do.

Posted by Steph at 14:51 MT [ link to this entry ]

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Wow! I Have Visitors!

I see I have a few people have been visiting my blog now. Thanks for coming by!

I've been ultra busy the last two days. I came to Edmonton and will stay the week, I've been flatting like a mad person, I've helped one friend with colouring/flatting issues and another with her ancient SLR camera (over instant messaging! IT WAS HARD!), my computer was wigging out and I fixed it (thanks to Dean for the help), my sister helped me with web site stuff, and I'm at my mom's house having a good time with my brothers.

Last post, I mentioned how I'm looking for a Nikki Cy Girl (aka Harley from the Cool Girl toyline). It is one of the hardest toys I've ever tried to track down, and people know me for tracking down those hard-to-find things. If it was as easy as going to the store and buying one, I would have owned one already!! (jeez, people!) I managed to find a couple of great people from the Men With Dolls Message Boards who are helping me find Nikki. Really friendly people there. I really appreciate it!

Posted by Steph at 00:43 MT [ link to this entry ]

Sunday, January 18, 2004

I Am Sad

Someone please buy me a Cy Girl Nikki dolly to cheer me up.

Posted by Steph at 18:06 MT [ link to this entry ]

Turned My Frown Upside Down

I was kinda having a blah-ish day. Then I saw this headline and it made me laugh.

I like that the headline says he's insisting he has ideas.

Posted by Steph at 01:55 MT [ link to this entry ]

Friday, January 16, 2004

Late Night

I ended up engaging in my first multi-person online chat on AOL Instant Messenger tonight. People involved were other artists from Gutterzombie. It was pretty refreshing to speak to people "live" as opposed to message boarding. Dave spoke of adding a "Chat" feature to Gutterzombie. Great! Now everyone will be chatting instead of working on our books. (Nah, it won't be that bad. We're a bunch of responsible adults. I think).

Been a while since I've posted a picture.
Here are some old custom Barbies I made.

From the comic series The Authority:
(from left to right) The Engineer, Jenny Sparks, Jack Hawksmoor

Other than that, I'm up late flatting a rather complicated page that I should have had further along if I wasn't chatting. I also took time out to check up on any Cool Girl/Cy Girls gaming news updates. They introduced some of the non-player characters in the game. They were quite different from the figure versions. I found it rather surprising.

Posted by Steph at 04:42 MT [ link to this entry ]

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Nothing Interesting To Read Here.

I haven't had enough sleep lately. It seems like the rest of the world wants me to stay awake. Nothing new to report. I've been working quite a bit the last couple of days.

Looks like I'll be in Edmonton for a few days next week. I'll get together with my brother Stanley and take goofy pictures of the Cool Girls for the Cool Girl / Cy Girls website. I think I'm still on schedule for it to be ready by February 1st. Other than that, if anyone wants to get together, send me an e-mail or something and we'll try to hook up.

Posted by Steph at 23:16 MT [ link to this entry ]

Monday, January 12, 2004

Cross Country Skiing

Dean took me cross country skiing today just outside of Vegreville. This was my first time and everyone tells me I did pretty good (even though I fell over often). I really liked it! It was so fun! But now I'm tired and getting really sore because I was probably using muscles I rarely use. It's a good thing I cranked out three pages of work before I left because I doubt I'm up to do anything now.

Posted by Steph at 17:19 MT [ link to this entry ]

Saturday, January 10, 2004

Siiiiick.

I was getting better and now I have this death-headache that's pissing me off. It's so bad, I'm not flatting my comic pages, I'm not tinkering with web stuff (aside from this blog entry) and I'm not playing with my dollies! I'm just laying in bed with my two Listig pillows on my head.

Posted by Steph at 09:20 MT [ link to this entry ]

Friday, January 09, 2004

Pimping my Swingin' Web Space

I've updated my Space Channel 5 fan page recently. There is a Fan Art Gallery (with one *gasp!* one piece of art so far) and I tweaked some of the little links I have to the Space Channel 5 desktop wallpapers. Most of the other sections still aren't up yet, but I'm working on it.

Visit my Swingin' Web Space

Posted by Steph at 04:14 MT [ link to this entry ]

Thursday, January 08, 2004

What I Miss About Edmonton

Looks like Project CG (my new nickname for my Cool Girl website project) is now on hold. After having about a week off, I have pages from two colourists to work on.

I've lived here for about three months and the question people ask me the most seems to be either "What do you think about Vegreville" or "What do you miss about Edmonton". I've thought about it. Aside from the obvious "I miss my family and friends" or Zellers or Ikea, I really miss Edmonton's smoking bylaw. Vegreville is stinky. More specifically, people are allowed to smoke inside most restaurants and in the shopping mall. Yick!

Posted by Steph at 18:29 MT [ link to this entry ]

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Hermit Steph

Wondering where I am or why I'm slow at responding e-mails recently? I got into designing a cool girls / cy girls website and I went from knowing basic html to a bit of javascript and CSS (I found out what I've taught myself is offered as a $300 12 hour course). It's a bit image-heavy, but I think the reason for my cool girl site is images, images, images! I'll post a link when it's ready. I'm really happy with the design so far. I guess that website is my current addiction, so blame the internet for my anti-social behaviour. But other than that, I've been sleeping lots (been a bit under the weather lately). I have nothing exciting to tell other than I bought the G-Force Cy Girl for cheap on eBay.

The house has been quiet since we're both up to our ears in web code. Dean's been sucked into working on his PHP code for his Vegreville.net comic (I'm in this week's installment). We haven't spoken to each other very much either. No really, nothing exciting to tell at all.

Posted by Steph at 22:41 MT [ link to this entry ]

Sunday, January 04, 2004

More Cool Stuff

Revenger Girl got a Game Boy Advanced SP for Christmas. Lucky girl!

Image from Yahoo Auctions

My Blog is being overrun with dolls. I think I have to make my Cool Girl / Cy Girls website soon.

Posted by Steph at 14:30 MT [ link to this entry ]

Saturday, January 03, 2004

Crashing Through The Snow. And Trees.

Happy New Years everyone!

Last year for New Years Eve a bunch of us went sledding (on "crazy carpets", those cheap thin plastic sheets which has no generic name that I know of). Has a tradition started? We went again this year. Megan and I went down together on Russell's foam-board thingee (he spent the money on something much thicker and slicker than a crazy carpet).

Megan fell off halfway down the hill but I hung on to the bitter and and crashed all the way through a bush and into a tree. Russell had to pull me out because I was stuck in there pretty good with my legs straight up in the air and slightly disoriented. Hee hee hee!! So fun!! I'd go out and do it again today but it's a whopping -32 degrees right now.

I made a few New Years resolutions.

Keep better contact with friends (I'm so bad at writing people back)
Exercise regularly (I've become less mobile since moving to Vegreville)
Make my Space Channel 5 website fully functional
Make a Cool Girl / Cy Girls site
Own more than two pairs of decent pants (most of the pants I own are five to ten years old)

Posted by Steph at 14:20 MT [ link to this entry ]


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Saturday, January 31, 2004 Suck on it RBC I went to the local Bank of Montreal and they fixed the everything wrong this Royal Bank transaction has caused me. I got every penny back and I didn't get hit with extra service charges (I would have fought it if I did get extra service charges). I guess any charges would be paid for by the RBC. Good stuff. It was a bit weird being in the Bank of Montreal in Vegreville. The tellers were asking "you're Dean Welsh's girlfriend?" It was almost like being married to a rock star or something. Not that I mind, it just took me by surprise. And the service was top-notch. Ahh, small towns. I could get used to this! Posted by Steph at 09:33 MT [ link to this entry ] Thursday, January 29, 2004 Bloody Rose Likes Clean Goggles My brother Stanley bought a bunch of candy that come with free toys that are perfect for 1/6 scale dolls. "I used to have dirty goggles. I would crash into buildings when I was trying to cover the world with fire and death, or walk into walls at the rave. People would think I was high on E, but really, I just couldn't see where I was going! Then I discovered Re-ment Foods Cleansing Agent. Now my goggles are clear and shiny all night long." Posted by Steph at 02:38 MT [ link to this entry ] Wednesday, January 28, 2004 RBC Royal Bank = EeeeeeeeeVIL!! Yes, Banks are evil. Royal Bank is more evil than most, although I hear CIBC is the most evil. I make student loan payments every month and RBC decided "Hey! She doesn't have to pay until February 20th? Why don't we withdraw the money now instead?" Imagine my surprise to find my bank account to be missing $132. Lucky for me I had a fantastic operator that is straightening thing out for me now. It better get straightened out. But I honestly cannot wait to be rid of this Student Loan, which will rid me of doing any more business with the Royal Bank. If you are having problems with Student Loans, here is a helpful site: http://www.canadastudentdebt.ca I haven't gotten to the point where I have to turn to them yet, but I'm pretty close. Posted by Steph at 16:23 MT [ link to this entry ] Saturday, January 24, 2004 Meat Cookies So I've been staying at my mom's house this week and my brother Stanley came home from work and said, "LOOK WHAT I BOUGHT!!" "MEAT COOKIES!" This one is Beef Steak flavoured. Here are Roast Meat flavoured and Abolone flavoured. They look innocent... I tried one and if you can imagine a biscuit with Beef Bouillon powder in it, then that is what Beef Steak cookies taste like. Approximately ten minutes after tasting: If you can imagine lightly sweetened powdered beef bouillon in your teeth, that is the flavour that is still lingering in my mouth. I have to get some milk to wash this down. Posted by Steph at 03:45 MT [ link to this entry ] Thursday, January 22, 2004 Poor Mr. Hawking http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13843849&method=full Some people care about rock stars or movie actors. I guess I care more about scientists. Reports have been trickling in all week about bruises and other, more serious injuries found on Stephen Hawking. They say Hawking won't talk about his abuse, which is a common reaction from victims of abuse. If it is all true, it makes me feel sad. Posted by Steph at 18:50 MT [ link to this entry ] Gong Hey Fat Choy! Happy New Year! Welcome the year of the monkey! I met up with my friend Robbin yesterday and my brother Stanley and I went shopping with her. It was mostly window shopping for me but I found some incredibly cheap cheap pants a the Le Chateau's factory outlet store. At Toys R Us, Stan bought a bunch of really fun props like the Barbie My Scene Discotheque. After that, Stan and I took a bunch of pictures using the disco. We spent too much time laughing but boy, it was fun. I probably won't post them here. Instead I'll save them for the Cool Girl / Cy Girls site, coming February 2004 (shameless plug)! I can't wait to see Dean again. He's helping George move from Vancouver to Calgary. He's hoping to be in Edmonton tomorrow. We'll see. They just left Vancouver and I don't know if they have it in them to drive all the way tonight. I imagine they'll break up the trip into two parts. Back to work for me today. I just got a pile of pages to do. Posted by Steph at 14:51 MT [ link to this entry ] Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Wow! I Have Visitors! I see I have a few people have been visiting my blog now. Thanks for coming by! I've been ultra busy the last two days. I came to Edmonton and will stay the week, I've been flatting like a mad person, I've helped one friend with colouring/flatting issues and another with her ancient SLR camera (over instant messaging! IT WAS HARD!), my computer was wigging out and I fixed it (thanks to Dean for the help), my sister helped me with web site stuff, and I'm at my mom's house having a good time with my brothers. Last post, I mentioned how I'm looking for a Nikki Cy Girl (aka Harley from the Cool Girl toyline). It is one of the hardest toys I've ever tried to track down, and people know me for tracking down those hard-to-find things. If it was as easy as going to the store and buying one, I would have owned one already!! (jeez, people!) I managed to find a couple of great people from the Men With Dolls Message Boards who are helping me find Nikki. Really friendly people there. I really appreciate it! Posted by Steph at 00:43 MT [ link to this entry ] Sunday, January 18, 2004 I Am Sad Someone please buy me a Cy Girl Nikki dolly to cheer me up. Posted by Steph at 18:06 MT [ link to this entry ] Turned My Frown Upside Down I was kinda having a blah-ish day. Then I saw this headline and it made me laugh. I like that the headline says he's insisting he has ideas. Posted by Steph at 01:55 MT [ link to this entry ] Friday, January 16, 2004 Late Night I ended up engaging in my first multi-person online chat on AOL Instant Messenger tonight. People involved were other artists from Gutterzombie. It was pretty refreshing to speak to people "live" as opposed to message boarding. Dave spoke of adding a "Chat" feature to Gutterzombie. Great! Now everyone will be chatting instead of working on our books. (Nah, it won't be that bad. We're a bunch of responsible adults. I think). Been a while since I've posted a picture. Here are some old custom Barbies I made. From the comic series The Authority: (from left to right) The Engineer, Jenny Sparks, Jack Hawksmoor Other than that, I'm up late flatting a rather complicated page that I should have had further along if I wasn't chatting. I also took time out to check up on any Cool Girl/Cy Girls gaming news updates. They introduced some of the non-player characters in the game. They were quite different from the figure versions. I found it rather surprising. Posted by Steph at 04:42 MT [ link to this entry ] Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Nothing Interesting To Read Here. I haven't had enough sleep lately. It seems like the rest of the world wants me to stay awake. Nothing new to report. I've been working quite a bit the last couple of days. Looks like I'll be in Edmonton for a few days next week. I'll get together with my brother Stanley and take goofy pictures of the Cool Girls for the Cool Girl / Cy Girls website. I think I'm still on schedule for it to be ready by February 1st. Other than that, if anyone wants to get together, send me an e-mail or something and we'll try to hook up. Posted by Steph at 23:16 MT [ link to this entry ] Monday, January 12, 2004 Cross Country Skiing Dean took me cross country skiing today just outside of Vegreville. This was my first time and everyone tells me I did pretty good (even though I fell over often). I really liked it! It was so fun! But now I'm tired and getting really sore because I was probably using muscles I rarely use. It's a good thing I cranked out three pages of work before I left because I doubt I'm up to do anything now. Posted by Steph at 17:19 MT [ link to this entry ] Saturday, January 10, 2004 Siiiiick. I was getting better and now I have this death-headache that's pissing me off. It's so bad, I'm not flatting my comic pages, I'm not tinkering with web stuff (aside from this blog entry) and I'm not playing with my dollies! I'm just laying in bed with my two Listig pillows on my head. Posted by Steph at 09:20 MT [ link to this entry ] Friday, January 09, 2004 Pimping my Swingin' Web Space I've updated my Space Channel 5 fan page recently. There is a Fan Art Gallery (with one gasp! one piece of art so far) and I tweaked some of the little links I have to the Space Channel 5 desktop wallpapers. Most of the other sections still aren't up yet, but I'm working on it. Visit my Swingin' Web Space Posted by Steph at 04:14 MT [ link to this entry ] Thursday, January 08, 2004 What I Miss About Edmonton Looks like Project CG (my new nickname for my Cool Girl website project) is now on hold. After having about a week off, I have pages from two colourists to work on. I've lived here for about three months and the question people ask me the most seems to be either "What do you think about Vegreville" or "What do you miss about Edmonton". I've thought about it. Aside from the obvious "I miss my family and friends" or Zellers or Ikea, I really miss Edmonton's smoking bylaw. Vegreville is stinky. More specifically, people are allowed to smoke inside most restaurants and in the shopping mall. Yick! Posted by Steph at 18:29 MT [ link to this entry ] Tuesday, January 06, 2004 Hermit Steph Wondering where I am or why I'm slow at responding e-mails recently? I got into designing a cool girls / cy girls website and I went from knowing basic html to a bit of javascript and CSS (I found out what I've taught myself is offered as a $300 12 hour course). It's a bit image-heavy, but I think the reason for my cool girl site is images, images, images! I'll post a link when it's ready. I'm really happy with the design so far. I guess that website is my current addiction, so blame the internet for my anti-social behaviour. But other than that, I've been sleeping lots (been a bit under the weather lately). I have nothing exciting to tell other than I bought the G-Force Cy Girl for cheap on eBay. The house has been quiet since we're both up to our ears in web code. Dean's been sucked into working on his PHP code for his Vegreville.net comic (I'm in this week's installment). We haven't spoken to each other very much either. No really, nothing exciting to tell at all. Posted by Steph at 22:41 MT [ link to this entry ] Sunday, January 04, 2004 More Cool Stuff Revenger Girl got a Game Boy Advanced SP for Christmas. Lucky girl! Image from Yahoo Auctions My Blog is being overrun with dolls. I think I have to make my Cool Girl / Cy Girls website soon. Posted by Steph at 14:30 MT [ link to this entry ] Saturday, January 03, 2004 Crashing Through The Snow. And Trees. Happy New Years everyone! Last year for New Years Eve a bunch of us went sledding (on "crazy carpets", those cheap thin plastic sheets which has no generic name that I know of). Has a tradition started? We went again this year. Megan and I went down together on Russell's foam-board thingee (he spent the money on something much thicker and slicker than a crazy carpet). Megan fell off halfway down the hill but I hung on to the bitter and and crashed all the way through a bush and into a tree. Russell had to pull me out because I was stuck in there pretty good with my legs straight up in the air and slightly disoriented. Hee hee hee!! So fun!! I'd go out and do it again today but it's a whopping -32 degrees right now. I made a few New Years resolutions. Keep better contact with friends (I'm so bad at writing people back) Exercise regularly (I've become less mobile since moving to Vegreville) Make my Space Channel 5 website fully functional Make a Cool Girl / Cy Girls site Own more than two pairs of decent pants (most of the pants I own are five to ten years old) Posted by Steph at 14:20 MT [ link to this entry ]	StephCam Main Page About Me Image Gallery Food Stuff The ComicBookGirl.com Network Pulp Arcade video game comics 'zine Swingin' Web Space a space channel 5 fansite Related Sites Dean Welsh.com Vegreville.net Buy Stuff from Plastik Wrap Family Liquid Foundation Chachachan Penguin Warrior Suzette Chan.com Communities Gutterzombie Idolism Blog Roll Boing Boing Can't Afford Film Dave McCaig's Blog Drowning in a Daydream Fanboy Ramapge Gizmodo Gregg Beever.com Heaping Plateful Hulk's Diary Jason Pyle's Thoughts Mizuguchi's Blog Pipedreamer Alley Post-Crisis Procastinating Overachiever Raven Mysterium Steak Jello Superfluous.Banter_v.2.08e Trash Heap Friends' Webpages Electronic Geisha Jawa Force Katheryn's Snuffles Site Laurie Kronenberg Nightshade Corsets Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Archived Blog Entries: July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 RSS Feed me this site!