Hmm. I'm exhausted. Was supposed to go out with some peeps from work tonight but my allergies are deadly so I decided to stay home and sleep instead. Am working on that as I type. Too tired for full sentences. Poland is out. Sad. They did finally won a game AND they managed to score two goals too, all in the same game (last game, against Costa Rica)! I feel so sad now though, wearing all of my Polska stuff around when everyone knows that they're out. Ah well. Like one of the regulars told me, 'Wear it with pride anyways!' He's awesome. Used to play soccer. Sweetness.
Kind of a disappointing week; I have a feeling that it's going to be a long, dry summer. Kind of thought I had something going with the clearance guy at work, but apparently he's into some girl that he knows from high school or something, and she keeps toying with him, so he keeps bringing her up when we talk. Stabbity stab. I hate that. Why do guys flirt with girls when they have no intention of actually persuing said girl? Dumb and hurtful. I just spent almost 1 300$ on books and tuition for the two courses that I'm taking during the summer. Yet another dumb factor.
Time for sleep.
samedi, juin 24, 2006
jeudi, juin 15, 2006
So I'm sitting in the staff room this afternoon on a break when my boss walks in, sits down at the table and asks me how much I make. I tell him, eight dollars an hour. He looks at me very seriously and says that he's giving me an 'agressive raise', because I have such good customer service and I work in two departments now, and I'm a good worker. I was all, sweet! Thanks! He said that he was going to tell me what my new wage was going to be tomorrow, but he stopped by the post office later and told me that I was getting a two dollar raise. Sweetness! So happy! And then the Oilers won! Happiness. (But Polska lost! 1-0! in extra time! against Germany! Incroyable! they're eliminated now...I guess I have to sort through my other ancestries and figure out who i'm cheering for now ;) ) Well, I am fricking exhausted and have to be at work for a quarter to eight (you'd think that they wouldn't schedule me to open after having closed the night before...). Luckily my dad said that I could use his car, so that buys me another fifteen minutes of sleep or so... go Oilers go!
mardi, juin 13, 2006
I am so addicted to buying things on e-bay lately. It's such a sickness. Stupid t on my keyboard doesn't work unless I pummel it. This may be a short post, depending on my level of frustration and the number of t's I need to use...
Good weekend, worked all of it and watched the Oilers win against Carolina, which was good, untill they fell flat on their faces tonight (but the owner wasn't there so we were able to listen to the game for once!). Went to a couple of the Ignatieff events yesterday and managed not to embarrass myself when I thanked him for being at the rally. Sat with a cool guy from McGill University and his dad, as well as an older couple who had driving for two hours to He did an amazing job and people seemed to be really impressed with him, the rally was a success to be sure. Got some coverage of it on the front page of the Journal, but I'm not quite sure about the tone. Sounds pretty neutral, talks a lot about his views on the mission in Afghanistan, but his reasoning is pretty powerful, so maybe it's positive? Who knows. I can never tell.
We also did a fundraiser thing at the Westin, and the president of the U of A was there! I was so flabbergasted! And Ignatieff remembered my name from the rally, which I was happy about. Thought it was so cool. I'm such a political nerd. I love it. Met a bunch of new people and did my networking bit at both events, met the new president of the LPCA (I hate it when I talk to guys and they talk to my chest..it's so obvious that that is what they're looking at, and it's creepy) and talked to the president of the campus club, who apparently wants to get me involved (for no other reason than that Dan Arnold has talked to him about me and they have a lack of members) and apparently he too finds Dan's support of Kennedy to be a bit over the top as far as the "subtle" e-mails and the like. Oh, the awkardness. Apparently he didn't know that I was supporting Ignatieff, so he and George Hodgson have been after me to commit to Kennedy's camp because I was between him and Dion about a month ago. I didn't actually realise that he didn't know until he asked me to come to the Kennedy organisational meeting tomorrow, so I had to be all, uh, well, funny story...
The World Cup soccer stuff has been a-mazing. The first goal that Italy scored against Ghana was fricking amazing. Off of a corner, out to the edge of the eighteen, just a rocket past probably five or six players and into the net. Beee-yootiful.I thought that it was hilarious that the US was beaten by the Czechs. But Poland is going to beat Germany on Wednesday! Mark my words!!! Time for bed; have to be at work tomorrow for a quarter to eight which means a bus at seven. Nighty night.
Good weekend, worked all of it and watched the Oilers win against Carolina, which was good, untill they fell flat on their faces tonight (but the owner wasn't there so we were able to listen to the game for once!). Went to a couple of the Ignatieff events yesterday and managed not to embarrass myself when I thanked him for being at the rally. Sat with a cool guy from McGill University and his dad, as well as an older couple who had driving for two hours to He did an amazing job and people seemed to be really impressed with him, the rally was a success to be sure. Got some coverage of it on the front page of the Journal, but I'm not quite sure about the tone. Sounds pretty neutral, talks a lot about his views on the mission in Afghanistan, but his reasoning is pretty powerful, so maybe it's positive? Who knows. I can never tell.
We also did a fundraiser thing at the Westin, and the president of the U of A was there! I was so flabbergasted! And Ignatieff remembered my name from the rally, which I was happy about. Thought it was so cool. I'm such a political nerd. I love it. Met a bunch of new people and did my networking bit at both events, met the new president of the LPCA (I hate it when I talk to guys and they talk to my chest..it's so obvious that that is what they're looking at, and it's creepy) and talked to the president of the campus club, who apparently wants to get me involved (for no other reason than that Dan Arnold has talked to him about me and they have a lack of members) and apparently he too finds Dan's support of Kennedy to be a bit over the top as far as the "subtle" e-mails and the like. Oh, the awkardness. Apparently he didn't know that I was supporting Ignatieff, so he and George Hodgson have been after me to commit to Kennedy's camp because I was between him and Dion about a month ago. I didn't actually realise that he didn't know until he asked me to come to the Kennedy organisational meeting tomorrow, so I had to be all, uh, well, funny story...
The World Cup soccer stuff has been a-mazing. The first goal that Italy scored against Ghana was fricking amazing. Off of a corner, out to the edge of the eighteen, just a rocket past probably five or six players and into the net. Beee-yootiful.I thought that it was hilarious that the US was beaten by the Czechs. But Poland is going to beat Germany on Wednesday! Mark my words!!! Time for bed; have to be at work tomorrow for a quarter to eight which means a bus at seven. Nighty night.
mardi, juin 06, 2006
Hmm...
+Saturday night was awesome! So much fun. So tired the next day, but it was so worth it. There was something really funny that happened that i was supposed to remember, but I don't actually remember what it was. It'll come to me, I'm sure!
+Started at quarter to eight today as a "fully trained" cashier; it actually went really well, I finally got the lotto machine figured out thanks to Holly. The lady that I was working with was really nice and helpful and told me some of the tricks of the trade. I only screwed up a couple of times, although one of those screw ups was because my training wasn't great because we're so short staffed....ironically, this is why I am now working in the front as well as the post office. When I left, there was one girl who had been fired for not showing up to her shifts, two other workers who had quit and one other one who was probably about to be fired because she didn't show up to her shift tonight. They were looking for a replacement while I was cashing out...be still! They won't see you! I love that I'm getting a ton of hours.
+Mel (our old nighttime clearance guy) came by to visit today because he's back with the old depot! He came by the front and asked me if I got demoted :P. He's the one who came to clear our outlet with Timmies for us. Such a nice guy, so I visited with him and the post office ladies on one of my fifteens. Good times.
+Practise tonight, it was okay for the first half but I sucked out loud for the last half. Don't really want to talk about that...
+Lotsa politics going down. Meetings all weekend, planning for a BBQ. And Oh my. One of the other directors who sort of took me under her wing is trying to set me up with her son, my youth co-chair that I have yet to meet. He's some basketball player at the U of A...at least I know that she thinks I'm worthy, cause the way that she goes on about that boy, you'd think that he was a god or something. I think that it's mostly because I'm a female Polish youth and she's Byelorussian and she thinks that the Slavs and especially women need to stick together.
+I'm going to shamelessly plug my candidate now: If anyone is interested in going to a Liberal rally for Michael Ignatieff, he's going to be in town this weekend and there's going to be an open invitation rally at Snow Valley Ski Club on Sunday, June 11th from 2:00pm-4:00pm. If you come, you may just see yours truly say thank you to Michael in front of everyone. *laughs nervously* They figured that it would be nice to have, what else, but a youth to do it. So yes. Come! You don't have to buy a membership or anything, it's just a chance to come out and see the possible future prime minister of Canada and to shake his hand. 'Course, if you want to buy a membership, you will not be denied! I love these kinds of events. We honestly have every spare minute of Sunday planned for him. It's going to be great.
+I'm exhausted, still not sleeping well, to the point where I went out and bought some sleeping pill type things to try and help me sleep through the night. We shall see what transpires. I'm driving the munchkin to school tomorrow so that I can go to get my dad's father's day present framed; it's this poem called High Flight that he really likes that I ordered from ebay, a bit disappointed with it because it's actually ripped on one side, but my mom figures if I get it matted it won't show. Erin is coming back on the ninth of August and I'm excited, although it's going to be a pretty short (and possible tense) visit. See, John put in dibs for her room, and she just found out that someone else is getting is and isn't too impressed about it. Ah well. She'll get over it. Excited for summer school (i'm such the loser) and I finally got my schedule for next year figured out. I hate beartracks.
tah.
+Saturday night was awesome! So much fun. So tired the next day, but it was so worth it. There was something really funny that happened that i was supposed to remember, but I don't actually remember what it was. It'll come to me, I'm sure!
+Started at quarter to eight today as a "fully trained" cashier; it actually went really well, I finally got the lotto machine figured out thanks to Holly. The lady that I was working with was really nice and helpful and told me some of the tricks of the trade. I only screwed up a couple of times, although one of those screw ups was because my training wasn't great because we're so short staffed....ironically, this is why I am now working in the front as well as the post office. When I left, there was one girl who had been fired for not showing up to her shifts, two other workers who had quit and one other one who was probably about to be fired because she didn't show up to her shift tonight. They were looking for a replacement while I was cashing out...be still! They won't see you! I love that I'm getting a ton of hours.
+Mel (our old nighttime clearance guy) came by to visit today because he's back with the old depot! He came by the front and asked me if I got demoted :P. He's the one who came to clear our outlet with Timmies for us. Such a nice guy, so I visited with him and the post office ladies on one of my fifteens. Good times.
+Practise tonight, it was okay for the first half but I sucked out loud for the last half. Don't really want to talk about that...
+Lotsa politics going down. Meetings all weekend, planning for a BBQ. And Oh my. One of the other directors who sort of took me under her wing is trying to set me up with her son, my youth co-chair that I have yet to meet. He's some basketball player at the U of A...at least I know that she thinks I'm worthy, cause the way that she goes on about that boy, you'd think that he was a god or something. I think that it's mostly because I'm a female Polish youth and she's Byelorussian and she thinks that the Slavs and especially women need to stick together.
+I'm going to shamelessly plug my candidate now: If anyone is interested in going to a Liberal rally for Michael Ignatieff, he's going to be in town this weekend and there's going to be an open invitation rally at Snow Valley Ski Club on Sunday, June 11th from 2:00pm-4:00pm. If you come, you may just see yours truly say thank you to Michael in front of everyone. *laughs nervously* They figured that it would be nice to have, what else, but a youth to do it. So yes. Come! You don't have to buy a membership or anything, it's just a chance to come out and see the possible future prime minister of Canada and to shake his hand. 'Course, if you want to buy a membership, you will not be denied! I love these kinds of events. We honestly have every spare minute of Sunday planned for him. It's going to be great.
+I'm exhausted, still not sleeping well, to the point where I went out and bought some sleeping pill type things to try and help me sleep through the night. We shall see what transpires. I'm driving the munchkin to school tomorrow so that I can go to get my dad's father's day present framed; it's this poem called High Flight that he really likes that I ordered from ebay, a bit disappointed with it because it's actually ripped on one side, but my mom figures if I get it matted it won't show. Erin is coming back on the ninth of August and I'm excited, although it's going to be a pretty short (and possible tense) visit. See, John put in dibs for her room, and she just found out that someone else is getting is and isn't too impressed about it. Ah well. She'll get over it. Excited for summer school (i'm such the loser) and I finally got my schedule for next year figured out. I hate beartracks.
tah.
jeudi, juin 01, 2006
Just got back from a soccer game and man am I pissed. I don't know if anyone has seen me play before, but when people start getting on my case and yelling at me it screws me up and pisses me off. If I had one player, it was the wrong one and I should move over to the next. Few minutes later, what the hell are you doing? Get on (number that I had previously). Fuck. Worry about your own check and let me worry about mine. When you have a perfect fucking game, then maybe I'll listen to what you have to say. For some reason I think that the coach might have a better grasp at what is going on in the game, so maybe we should all listen to him? Apparently not. Grr. Well, Dennis left me on the entire second half and all but three minutes of the first even though he had a sub for me, so maybe I did alright? My parents said that I had a great game, but they're the parents, but then again, my mom doesn't exactly give compliments lightly. I'm just so frustrated. I mean, I had my check,I worked my butt off, my man wasn't the one who scored, so what the hell? Grr. The one thing that I can't stand is that when I get super mad or frustrated I start to cry; thank goodness it didn't hit untill after the game but I think that a couple of the players might've seen when I was walking to my car. Now I prolly look like such a sissy pants.
Anyhow. Starting work in the front store, apparently someone told Chad(assistant manager type guy) that I wanted to work in the front store or that I was looking for more hours (I figure it was probably the owner) so yes. Sweet deal. I actually work a couple of daytime shifts and in the first two weeks of June I have about eighty hours instead of the forty or so I was getting (including time in the post office). Start training on Sunday evening, which I'm a bit nervous for, because I always feel slightly dumb when I don't know how to do something, although I know that I shouldn't, because I've never actually worked on that kind of a till before...ah well. I mean, they have tons of people working front store in these stores all over,so it has to get easier with time, right? Hmm..my nose is sunburned. I'm going to have a sweet-ass tan from this game, if nothing else.
I'm completely looking forward to the weekend; meetings on Saturday and Sunday, and then that shindig at Erika's on Saturday night, should be awesome fun! Oh. Man. I actually sold some Liberal party memberships....to my sister and my brother. Man! Sold a Liberal membership to the guy who's always complaining about the Liberals and the one who actually voted Conservative in the last election. Hilarious. Although I suspect that he's just trying to do me a favour and nothing more. Ah well. I'll takes what I can gets. I have to find a present the sister who's abroad this weekend too, cause it's the last weekend I have off for awhile. Hmm...I can't think of anything else worth mentioning...
Oh! Saw Peter Pan at the Citadel on Sunday night. It was pretty good, but not as great as I was expecting. He didn't do the classic Peter Pan hands on the hips move once in the entire show! The croc, on the other hand, definitely my fave character in all interpretations of Peter Pan, was awesome! Always makes me giggle.
Well, I think that I've calmed down enough to wash off all of this dirt and bug spray. I have mosquito bites like you wouldn't believe. Tah!
Anyhow. Starting work in the front store, apparently someone told Chad(assistant manager type guy) that I wanted to work in the front store or that I was looking for more hours (I figure it was probably the owner) so yes. Sweet deal. I actually work a couple of daytime shifts and in the first two weeks of June I have about eighty hours instead of the forty or so I was getting (including time in the post office). Start training on Sunday evening, which I'm a bit nervous for, because I always feel slightly dumb when I don't know how to do something, although I know that I shouldn't, because I've never actually worked on that kind of a till before...ah well. I mean, they have tons of people working front store in these stores all over,so it has to get easier with time, right? Hmm..my nose is sunburned. I'm going to have a sweet-ass tan from this game, if nothing else.
I'm completely looking forward to the weekend; meetings on Saturday and Sunday, and then that shindig at Erika's on Saturday night, should be awesome fun! Oh. Man. I actually sold some Liberal party memberships....to my sister and my brother. Man! Sold a Liberal membership to the guy who's always complaining about the Liberals and the one who actually voted Conservative in the last election. Hilarious. Although I suspect that he's just trying to do me a favour and nothing more. Ah well. I'll takes what I can gets. I have to find a present the sister who's abroad this weekend too, cause it's the last weekend I have off for awhile. Hmm...I can't think of anything else worth mentioning...
Oh! Saw Peter Pan at the Citadel on Sunday night. It was pretty good, but not as great as I was expecting. He didn't do the classic Peter Pan hands on the hips move once in the entire show! The croc, on the other hand, definitely my fave character in all interpretations of Peter Pan, was awesome! Always makes me giggle.
Well, I think that I've calmed down enough to wash off all of this dirt and bug spray. I have mosquito bites like you wouldn't believe. Tah!
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