hey guys,
I know... it has been like two weeks since I last wrote, I dont even really remember what i was writing about at the time, I supposee I should probably read that but I dont feel like it right now so I will do that next time. So much has happened since I last wrote, it seems a lot longer ago then only 2 weeks. Where to begin. Well, I guess I should start with a little bit of sad news first. Alan's grandmother past away a couple of weeks ago. It was quite peaceful and grandpa was with her when she left. We all loved her, I didnt really know her very well as she was already suffering from alzheimer's when I met her for the first time. It was still sad but sort of a blessing in disguise at the same time. The whole family came for the wake and the funeral. Lacking a better choise of words it was a special experience for me, getting to know Alan's grandma so much better through the stories everyone shared with me and seeing a image of her as a wife as well as a mother, grandmother and friend.
On the home front, my brother and his fianceé have decided to buy a house before they're getting married. They have found a very cute townhome with a pond in their backyard, which they have been bidding on. As far as I know their bid has been accepted and their waiting on finishing up the paperwork for the mortgage so hopefully that will all go through and they'll be able to buy their first home. I am really excited and a little bit freaked out. 4 months ago when I saw them they where living in their new rented appartment, and in about the last three weeks they got engaged, bought a house and more or less planned their wedding... ppfff... crazyness! But exciting crazyness, so I am hoping to hear from them soon.
Speaking of crazyness. I was surfing the internet the other day, look for this website, and in one of the hits that came up I recognized the name of a childhood friend of mine. It was a link to a blog which happened to have her email on it, and since my friends name was pretty rare I decided to email this person. Turns out to be her! I was so excited, and so was she so we have been emailing each other since. It's amazing out 0f all the billions of websites and she happened to pop up. Pretty cool eh?
This past week has been very busy. Monday was my birthday, which was very nice. I first of all had the day off from work, Alan made me breakfast, spent 75% of my day on the phone with people from home, and I puttered around the house In the evening I got kidnapped by the boy and his mom to his parents place and they had made me b-day dinner and had decorated the dining room and everything which was really cool! His parents gave me cake decorating tools which I cant wait to break in! Mrs H is going to teach me how to decorate cakes, and I think I am going to do some practising of my own as well. I also got a 649 ticket (I won $10,- Woohoo!!) and a scratch ticket which I haven't used yet.. I am waiting for a day when I feel really lucky!
Alan got me a book as well as driving lessons, I am a little bit scared bit I know I'll be ok. Now it's just a matter of planning it into the busy calendar. I have decided I want to learn how to drive standard as everyone in europe does so, plus it just seems like it would be a lot more fun and a useful skill to have. I also got a package from my mom and dad with a new t-shirt, a leather belt from my aunt and uncle and brithday cards, all in all it was a succesful day.
Tuesday was alan's soccer game, wednesday we got together with some of the S&B girls as M was leaving for the second half of her trip. I believe she's out in BC now, lucky girl ;-) thursday I got together with a good friend of mine who is going to leave this coming weekend to go do her masters and so I got to meet her new Boyfriend. we went out for thai food... mmmmmmmm.. and did I mention mmm!?!!? friday was our end of season soccer party with both the tuesday and saturday team. It was a really good time.. needless to say our soccer the next morning wasnt as good as it could have been ;-) The rest of saturday and sunday we spent at 'the cottage' aka as alan's parents place minding the cat and this 18 year old guy. long storie shortish.. Mike stayed at this guy's parents place last summer and he had try outs in town so Mr and Mrs H offered for him to stay with us during the weekend. he was fun, in a 'I'm 18 and a manly buff hockey player who doesnt know these older people so I would like to seem cool' kind of way, but a good kid. Well I guess that's sort of in short what's been going on. I'm going to go back to working on my parent's blanket. Talk to y'all later
Monday, August 29, 2005
Thursday, August 11, 2005
'Allo 'Allo?
Allo,
Just figured I would drop another line. Alan's cold is finally catching up with me. I havent een feeling to great all day, but I'm still hopeful it won't get worse then this. This weeks work schedule worked out quiet well for me. I worked Monday tuesday had wednesday off worked all day today and have tomorrow of, work saturday, which is to bad, because it means I will have to miss soccer :( but not much you can do. sunday off, and then I work a lot more hours next week. We're starting up for the rush, so store hours are extended aswell. Yesterday I met up with one of my friends I hadnt seen in a while. We had a great time. She came and picked me up and we hung out at her place for the afternoon. We were going to have a swim in the pool, however it started thunderstorming, and we even lost power for an hour.
I also tried registering for my classes yesterday. I am going to be taking 2 courses in the fall and 2 in the winter. I managed to get the classes and labs I wanted for the winter, but I didnt get into one of my lab sections for the fall, the timeslot was closed already, either because it is already full, or the limit of students from my registration time was reached. I really wanted that labsection so I could keep my school days restricted to tuesday and thursday, and I can work the rest of the week. So I tried calling the registrar's office, who of course connected me trhough to someone else, who of course connected me thourgh to someone else and so on.. So I ended up speaking to the lab coordinator who might be able to help me. She wanted me to wait a few days and check the site from time to time to see if people have been switching labs and openings came up. Not very easy when you're working and you dont have acces to a computer.. oh well... If that doesnt work I'll contact her again later next week and she said she would look at it again and might be able to do something about it then.
So I had my first customer yell at me tuesday. One of the products she was purchasing was more expensive then she expected it to be, and it was a different price then the website said.. so at the end of our.. mm.. conversation.. I was told to let the manager know she would never do business with us ever again.. he raised his shoulders and laughed while walking away....
And then there was a customer who had to write an exam today, and needed his textbook during the exam.. He had lost his old copy and so was now buying this one so he could write the exam. If I would mind if he came to bring it back after he was done his exam... uuhhmmm yeah.. sort of.. Does it say library on our door?
we watched 'Allo 'Allo tonight.. for those of you who dont know what it is.. it is hilarious... that's what it is.. it is also and old british television show I used to watch as a kid. It's a persiflage on the 2nd world war. It's situated in a french Cafe, and the cafe owner René accidentily get's caught between the french resitance and the germans.. hilarity ensues... anyway, Alan's happened to get his hands on (aka downloaded) the season... we watched the first two episodes, these arent the est ones, but they're pretty funny anyway. well I guess that's about it for today.. nighthawk over and out
Just figured I would drop another line. Alan's cold is finally catching up with me. I havent een feeling to great all day, but I'm still hopeful it won't get worse then this. This weeks work schedule worked out quiet well for me. I worked Monday tuesday had wednesday off worked all day today and have tomorrow of, work saturday, which is to bad, because it means I will have to miss soccer :( but not much you can do. sunday off, and then I work a lot more hours next week. We're starting up for the rush, so store hours are extended aswell. Yesterday I met up with one of my friends I hadnt seen in a while. We had a great time. She came and picked me up and we hung out at her place for the afternoon. We were going to have a swim in the pool, however it started thunderstorming, and we even lost power for an hour.
I also tried registering for my classes yesterday. I am going to be taking 2 courses in the fall and 2 in the winter. I managed to get the classes and labs I wanted for the winter, but I didnt get into one of my lab sections for the fall, the timeslot was closed already, either because it is already full, or the limit of students from my registration time was reached. I really wanted that labsection so I could keep my school days restricted to tuesday and thursday, and I can work the rest of the week. So I tried calling the registrar's office, who of course connected me trhough to someone else, who of course connected me thourgh to someone else and so on.. So I ended up speaking to the lab coordinator who might be able to help me. She wanted me to wait a few days and check the site from time to time to see if people have been switching labs and openings came up. Not very easy when you're working and you dont have acces to a computer.. oh well... If that doesnt work I'll contact her again later next week and she said she would look at it again and might be able to do something about it then.
So I had my first customer yell at me tuesday. One of the products she was purchasing was more expensive then she expected it to be, and it was a different price then the website said.. so at the end of our.. mm.. conversation.. I was told to let the manager know she would never do business with us ever again.. he raised his shoulders and laughed while walking away....
And then there was a customer who had to write an exam today, and needed his textbook during the exam.. He had lost his old copy and so was now buying this one so he could write the exam. If I would mind if he came to bring it back after he was done his exam... uuhhmmm yeah.. sort of.. Does it say library on our door?
we watched 'Allo 'Allo tonight.. for those of you who dont know what it is.. it is hilarious... that's what it is.. it is also and old british television show I used to watch as a kid. It's a persiflage on the 2nd world war. It's situated in a french Cafe, and the cafe owner René accidentily get's caught between the french resitance and the germans.. hilarity ensues... anyway, Alan's happened to get his hands on (aka downloaded) the season... we watched the first two episodes, these arent the est ones, but they're pretty funny anyway. well I guess that's about it for today.. nighthawk over and out
Monday, August 08, 2005
Big news!!!
Hello there,
So it has been a while since I have written a note in my log, so I was hoping to grab your attention with my wonderful title. So now I have it, I'm obivously going to wait with my big news until later on int the email :P
Life has just been the usual same old. Work is work, not very exciting, pretty boring at times by lack of sufficient numbers of customers, but hey, I'm inside so life is good. On friday I biked home from work and found out it only takes 30 minutes to get home (which probably would have been 20 in my biking days) In the mean time Alan had caught a cold that I have been trying to fight off. I havent really felt as poorly as him, but I dont feel my normal self either. I just hope to not get worse! The weekend was nice and relaxing. On saturday night we picked up Alan's parents from the airport from their trip to BC. We went to visit them the next day and saw all their picutres of their travel around, the wedding and relatives. BC really looks beautiful and I cant wait to go see it some day! They also brought us back some gifts, which of course they didnt have to do but were highly appreciated! especially the awesome icecream scoop they got us. We havent tried it out yet... hmm maybe dessert? The handle is a penguin and it looks really cute!
Ok now for the big news... My brother called me to tell me he was back from his trip to Norway, and I guess he had a very succesful trip: He got engaged!!! SO WEIRD, and exciting at the same time. My brother is getting married! I do feel a little sad now that I'm so far away because I'll miss out on all the planning, but I'm going to try to stay in touch a lot and on top of things! There is even speak of me maybe making the wedding cake, depending on a whole bunch of stuff and with a little help from Alan's mom who might share some of her tricks with me :) So we will see, I will keep you updated on all of this I'm sure! For now, alan made really good smelling stirfry and i'm hungry so I'm going to go eat! write you later.. Yay...
So it has been a while since I have written a note in my log, so I was hoping to grab your attention with my wonderful title. So now I have it, I'm obivously going to wait with my big news until later on int the email :P
Life has just been the usual same old. Work is work, not very exciting, pretty boring at times by lack of sufficient numbers of customers, but hey, I'm inside so life is good. On friday I biked home from work and found out it only takes 30 minutes to get home (which probably would have been 20 in my biking days) In the mean time Alan had caught a cold that I have been trying to fight off. I havent really felt as poorly as him, but I dont feel my normal self either. I just hope to not get worse! The weekend was nice and relaxing. On saturday night we picked up Alan's parents from the airport from their trip to BC. We went to visit them the next day and saw all their picutres of their travel around, the wedding and relatives. BC really looks beautiful and I cant wait to go see it some day! They also brought us back some gifts, which of course they didnt have to do but were highly appreciated! especially the awesome icecream scoop they got us. We havent tried it out yet... hmm maybe dessert? The handle is a penguin and it looks really cute!
Ok now for the big news... My brother called me to tell me he was back from his trip to Norway, and I guess he had a very succesful trip: He got engaged!!! SO WEIRD, and exciting at the same time. My brother is getting married! I do feel a little sad now that I'm so far away because I'll miss out on all the planning, but I'm going to try to stay in touch a lot and on top of things! There is even speak of me maybe making the wedding cake, depending on a whole bunch of stuff and with a little help from Alan's mom who might share some of her tricks with me :) So we will see, I will keep you updated on all of this I'm sure! For now, alan made really good smelling stirfry and i'm hungry so I'm going to go eat! write you later.. Yay...
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