Half way there to a week off!

Ahhhh, after a busy day like today I can't wait till Monday night, a week off!!! I was everywhere!!! I am plain tuckered out right now. I am surprised that I have enough energy to type. The nice thing is, is that mom gets to sleep in tomorrow which means I don't have to get out of bed and make coffee for her and I can sleep in an extra half hour, which also means that I am going to have great difficulty getting out of bed Monday morning.

I finished yet another book!

I love having all this time off for myself. In the last month I have finished reading two books, one of which was a doozy, which I started reading when I was Saskatoon wayyyy back in November. I finished reading Shopaholic and Baby last night, I am quite proud of my self because it took me less than a week to read too!Probably becuase Sohpie Kinsella is such a good writer. I get to a point that I think ok I am going to read just one chapter and then go to bed. The other night I had to go to bed before 11 because I had to get up for work the next morning, I read until 1 in the morning because it was so funny and because it was to the point I just wanted to know what was going to happen next.

So now I have started Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin, I also have Something Blue as well. I also want to get Baby Proof as well. No my thoughts haven't turned to a bambino yet!!! I still have another year for my beloved sisters-in-law to lose their bet!!

Max and I are going to Chapters this afternoon so anything is possible. Although I think that he will get more lucky than myself!!

Gotta hand it to Ticketmaster and the Government!!

Yeah yeah sometimes dealing with Ticketmaster isn't nice... like for instance $18.00 for convenience charges on two concert tickets... but it's nice to get a surprise like your concert tickets that were supposed to arrive in May arriving only two weeks after paying for them!!!

Then again it's nice to check you bank balance online and find that you have more money than you thought!!! I got my tax refund directly deposited into my account yesterday. I am pretty surprised about that one too because of the technical difficulties that they had earlier this month with the e-file system. Time to pay off the credit cards!!

Working a double overtime!

This is the part of my job that I enjoy, the fact that I can make even more money than I already do! Right now it's going into savings, because quite frankly I have no idea what to do with it all. I figure it will come in handy for when we finally move into our own house. From what I understand... if you're called in on a overtime shift, they give you a pretty good day too. I could go for a nice quiet day... yesterday was pretty hectic.

I have been asked by many people now if I like where I am. I say yes. I am in a position where I can go somewhere because of my degree. I feel as though I am appreciated. It's not that I don't miss my old job I do. It was somewhere familiar, and I knew everyone. It's a shame that things happen the way that they do sometimes.

Am I the only one!!??

I just found out today that my friend Lanny from overseas in Sweden is now pregnant too! I should be used to this by now anyways... I've always been the late bloomer!!

YAY!!!!!

I just got an e-mail from Amy, one of my closest friends from University, she had a girl!!! YAY!!! I told her the other day when we were chatting on the phone that I wanted to buy for a baby girl so she better have one!!! I now know what I am going to do on my day off!! :)

Whoo hoo three days off!

That is if I don't get called in for some overtime!

Election time??

Possibly! With the results of the Quebec provinical election chances are high that Stephen Harper is going to call an election. Not again!!!

Happy 10 Years Honey!!

It was 10 years ago today that my husband said yes to my proposal to date. I come home today from a very busy, very hectic and slightly stressful 12-hour day at work, and here's my husband with a cute little card.... awwwwwwww!

I think it's pretty cool that we have been together for this long, and now we have our 10-year high school reunion coming up. Awesome!

Chinese food bad for you???

Ah yeah!!! As if we didn't know that already but the food police had to just remind us! But then again I would love to eat ginger beef than three chicken burgers and a coke to McDonalds!

Oh and did you hear that McDonalds uses meal worms as filler in their burgers. Apparently there was a story on W5 a few weeks ago. But honestly you didn't have to tell me that. I was turned off Mickey D's after reading Fast Food Nation and moreso after watching Super Size Me!

How do we deal with homelessness?

I have often thought about this. Recently however it's gained some media attention. There was a thing on Oprah the other day, it was about a homeless guy who was given $100000 and a documentary was made. And just tonight on CBC's The National, Mark Kelley spent 7 days in Montreal homeless. There was also that gentleman who lived in a tent city in Toronto for a year and wrote a book "Down To This".

The question of how to deal with homelessness is not easy. It's complicated by mental illness, substance abuse/ addiction, and finances.

The scary to thing is that alot of us are on the brink of being homeless ourselves. I think that it is even moreso these days where the gap between rich and poor is widening and deepening.

The working homeless is a common thing in Calgary. I have often thought that if they were given the opportunity to get affordable housing whether these individuals would be able to pass that on to someone else. It makes me wonder if it was possible to come up with a program that would give someone who is working but is homeless the opportunity to buy their own housing, one chance to make it. I think that's all that some people need... one chance.

I have had people walk up to me and ask for money out on the streets, sometimes I ask them why. Usually when they say it is for food I take them somewhere to get something to eat. It makes me wish that I could do more. I am very lucky to be where I am at. I think it's because I have had alot of chances. I'd like ot be able to give someone theirs!

Can't wait to buy a house!!

With starting my new job and Max setting out soon on the look out for a job for himself, thoughts have turned ot home ownership! We love living here with mom, but we are married now and well living here doesn't really give us the whole benefit of married life. So today with a little time on our hands we went and looked at showhome to get an idea of how much exactly it would cost to build a house. It's not bad but we would have to wait a year... a whole year of payments and no house to live in... hmmp! But we thought ok lets go take a look at Springbrook, wow oh wow! It's really reasonable, lots of houses with character and lots of new ones being built! I can't wait till the summer!! I'm getting excited!

I'm so tired!!

I'm now on days off which is nice!! Working the night shift for me is interesting because I have never worked later than 10 before. Eventhough for the most part I am a self confessed night-owl I find working nights is something of a love hate relationship.

I love working night becuase at my job who wouldn't, it's quiet and nothing rarely happens at all. I hate them because for 3 or 4 days at a time my life gets pushed to the side. Max gets to see me for a total of about three hours if he's lucky. I love them because I am sit around with co-workers and chitchat and not get into trouble for being to conversational. I hate them because when it gets to be around 4 in the morning the radio stations here have a nasty nasty habit of playing commericals for pillowtop mattresses!!! How cruel is that??

But I am especially tired today because I waited around for someone. I got 2 e-mails in the last two days from my supervisior who needs to talk to me about my schedule. So anyways I thought well it's 7:30 he should be here by 8:00, so I waited!! Turns out the guy is sick today!! GRRR!! Oh well!

Now it's too late to go back to bed! But it's never to late to start drinking!! Yummmm vodka!

Baby boom!

I just got an e-mail from one of the girls that I went to University with... she's having a baby!!

That leaves only me.... oh this is going to take a while!

Congrats Renee! Hope you're having a girl!! I wanna buy for a girl!!

At 4:30 this morning I was crying for my pillow!

I am not too sure if working night is actually a good thing for me!! At around 4:30 this morning I would have actually severed a limb in order to feel the comfort of my pillow. I got home this morning and I had a massive headache, such that one of my ears was ringing. Is that normal?? Hope not! I am just up for a bit and I still have a hint of a headache. Oh well 1 down 3 to go and then it's three days off for me!

I seriously have to start using spell check!

I am reading some of these posts and I have become absolutely appalled at how bad my spelling has become. I sincerly apologize!

A new must see show!

It's called The Riches. Now the only problem is that it's on a channel called FX which airs in the states. However I was surfing around this afternoon (instead of sleeping!!) and found a link to the full first episode. It's pretty funny, entertaining and has a bit a drama to it as well. I hope that MSN will put other episodes up as well because I can't wait to see the second episode.

AND now it's off to bed!!

Pledgin purity doesn't work!

Duhhhhh!

I was watching the Today show early early this morning because I am trying to get my clock set for working midnights. Anyways the showed a story twice this morning about these father daughter purity balls that are being held in the states. There was one statistic that had me on the floor laughing, it was so funny that I had to show Max when he got up this morning (thank you Starchoice and TimeShifting!!) Here's the statistic: 88% of those who pleged purity until marriage had premarital sex! Saying and doing are two differing things aren't they!!

But think about it, when I was 15 I didn't want anything to do with my dad. I didn't want to be caught dead with him in public. Plus it was one of those things if he showed any interest in my life whatsoever I would think that he switched his mind altering drugs. So the idea of pledging my purity to my father was not a happening thing. I am statistic anomally. My father was not a emotional part of my life, he was there physically and yes we fought like cats and dogs. But I was not the one to fool around, I left that to the Catholic girls that I went to school with.

The thing is in America there is literally no sex education in the schools. The religious right is making sure that it's the parents who teach their children. Most of the are so frigid that the thought of talking about sex to their children is a definite no go zone. But here's the thing that most parents forget, children are curious creatures. They want to know about the world around them. The will get their information from anywhere!! ANYWHERE!! To them, their friends are experts.

So here's some advice to parents out there who are scared shitless about talking about sex to their children. Which would you rather have, a child who is well-informed (who will then likely inform their friends) and knows risks associated with sexual contact. Or would you like to be young grandparents or worse yet a child who has syphillis or gonorrea, because that stuff is out there and Murphy's Law, shit does happen.

P.S. The fear of god doesn't scare most children!!

They're crazy in Quebec!

Not to dis my own heritage, and not that I can't say much because I don't speak much french (i'm way better at swedish). But I think that they have gone nuts in Quebec. The provinical election has turned into a competition of who can be the most extreme and downright bizarre! I don't think that Quebec should separate infact if anything they should get a little tough love. Most teenage girls need this... Quebec has 25 million of em! It just might do them some good.

I'm getting hit on!!!

I got home from work tonight and decided that I would float on over to statcounter and see what's new! WOW!! Here's a small list of recent visitors!

D.C.
England
S town... Shout out to big Saskie!!
Finland .... one word.... SAUNA!!!
Standford University (I love love love education!! Sociology anyone??)


I think that I have figured out the whole statcounter thing now. At least I hope. I am a cut and paste kind of girl.

By the way thanks for the attention!!

Immigration has fire under their feet!

I just checked the immigration website to see how far away they are from processing the first part of Max's application for immigration. At the rate they are going they are processing a month's worth of applications in about two weeks time. This is absolutely fantastic! We could be moved out by the fall!! Yay!!

What to do, what to do??

I never ever thought that I would be left with this dilemma after graduating university. I hate to even admit this!! I'M BORED!

Oh well. I am sure that I will get over it! Soon!

It's Saturday and I'm up at 7?

I was laying in bed this morning and I was wide awake at 7. What the??? Last year I couldn't possibly imagine such a thought. Now it seems rather natural to rise, and take traquility in some literature, before starting out on the quest for my dream kitchen!!

Whoo hoo! I got Incubus tickets!!

I ended up getting in on a presale thing, the tickets aren't exactly where I want them to be but for $30 what the hell! So does anyone wanna go?? Max isn't really into this kind of music. Although I mean really?? It's some good stuff!

Other intersting visitors!

Jakarta, Indonesia
Georgia, USA
Trinidad and Tobago (ohhh sounds warm!!)
Ireland (I can't wait to go!)
The Univerisity of California Santa Barbara!!
Bejing China
The CIDC???? What the...?
United Kingdom
Dubai (ohhh 7 star hotel!!)
Tunsia
Austrailia... Hello Rachy!!


Thanks for checking me out!!!

Reston, Virginia??

Someone from Reston, Virginia thinks I am interesting... they checked me out for a while 10 minutes and 21 seconds! Cool... thanks for stopping by!

Trying to fill the void

I miss my pillow. I miss how it caresses my head and supports my neck, I need to go to bed!!!

8 days off!

How great is this?? I have worked a total of 9 days and have had 16 off!!! And yet I am bringing home double what I did last year! This doesn't include all sorts of little bonuses here and there. Yes I am working 12 hours a day, and yes it seems like I am never home for 3 or 4 days at a time but when I am off I am off, and work doesn't follow me around.

So what am I going to do with 8 days off?? Well let me see.
Friday:
Gotta phone the bank, I gotta deal with all this cash, and gotta get rid of the debt in order to buy a house.
Gotta go and check out M&M meat shoppe, I am curious to see what they got for stuff that I could take to work
Or I could say to heck with it all and go to Calgary for the day and get a certified copy of my degree and some proper retail therapy... I haven't had a chance to grieve the loss of my beloved dog yet!

Saturday:
Red Deer Home Show
Gotta go and get tickets to see Incubus in May in Calgary, I am so excited!!
Check out M&M Meat Shoppe
Lounge around Chapters for the day with a good travel book in one hand and a cup of Starbucks in the other.

Sunday:
THE day of rest of course!!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday:
Possible overtime shift(s)... double the money

Thursday:
Bowling night!!!

Friday:
SLEEP!

I just don't know what to do with myself!

I have 4 days off and I am lost on what to do with myself!! Don't get me wrong I love the fact that I have 4 days off, I just don't know what I am going to do with all that time off. Before I was going to school fulltime and working almost fulltime. I rarely had a day off where I would get up and simply not know what I was going to do because I had nothing planned!

I would love to be able to volunteer, the only problem is that with me I would have to be consistent with it. I would feel bad if I had to miss a day here and there because I had a work committment. Grrr.

Another thing that I was disappointed in is that I was preparing to leave last night and I got asked if I would like to work an additional 4 hours. I would have loved to but the thing is I am not too sure what all I am entitled to. Would I be entitiled to a meal or would I get paid double time for work that 4 hours?? Those questions were being put forth to me very easily so I gave them up.... oh well I am sure that there will be more to come.