-Lost in the woods-
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

   Saturday, July 30  

Night of the living dead. . .

This is going to be fun. Tonight I work my first 12 hour shift at resolve. So not only am I here for a night of hell (Saturdays backshift are always killer), it's even longer than normal. I'm still not entirely sure of why I'm here, as it was someone who called in sick earlier in the day, but I know that someone else also had to work 12 hours, so it's only fair that I should too. Maybe I should call in sick for the days that I asked off for the mag trip that I didn't get. Hmmm. . . nah, I doubt I could pull it off. I just don't call in sick. I'd feel too guilty. I'm jealous of all the toga people, it was so nice out today. Made it next to imposible to sleep, which is the start of how long a night I'm going to have. Because I feel that my greatest challange will be staying awake, I feel the need to keep a running post about the night. We'll see how long this lasts.

9:15

~ Have consumed one large café mocha, and a handful of grapes. It's pretty quiet in here, but that may be because everyone is frozen solid since it's minus a million in here.

11:30

~ Have now finished all grapes. Got really busy for a while, so I swore at the computer monitor. Not loudly, but a lot. Nobody noticed. Not surprised. Took a break, and will aim to do so evey two hours to maintain sanity. Also cracked the new cosmo. M&M's are starting to look tempting.

3:30

~ Dealt with evil loser for a looong time. Totally wreaks the night. Probably will have to deal with more later. I get paid for this. You don't. You're a loser. Gahh. Deep breath. Getting through more cosmo, broke down into the M&M's, corners of vision getting squigly. Not a good sign people.

6:00

~ Have now dealt with evil loser for more than 8 hours. Didn't think it'd be possible. And still, two hours left, and it doesn't look like it's going to let up. Twitch has returned. And just think, I get to come back at midnight tonight and do it all over again. Kinda feeling like life sucks at this point in time. Now it's getting light out. Thats nice. Just reminds me that I have to come back tonight.

   [ posted by T~ @ 7/30/2005 09:09:00 p.m. ] [ ]

Friday, July 29

Full blown summer bust out!
So it's mid summer again, and I'm strongly reminded of last year around this time going to myself: "Self? Yes, question from over here in the back; why is it you choose to have no life at all and work all the time?" And once again I ponder over the responce I need to give this very valid question. I always seem to start off the season desperate for a job to fund my way out of complete debt. This year was no different, and I ended up with a sweet loophole at a job that I didn't expect to be able to survive doing but with minimal shifts. The good ol' confed center bailed me out with wonderful anne filled evenings as always, just to reinforce my hatred of stupid people. Alas, now I work about 55 hours a week again, give or take. Which is lovely for my bank account, I'm not knocking it, but does mean I have no life (not that I had a life, just wishful thinking). I'm enjoying both jobs though, well, as much as one can enjoy work (but they don't suck so that's lucky). Working almost every friday and saturday either until midnight or at midnight on also seems to put a snag in seeing people and festivities, but I'm sure my liver appreciates it.

To help make up for this, put off mowing the lawn yet another day, and jetted off to the north shore with Sarah and Kato in tow. We did some fabulous browsing, and some el-cheapo purchasing. Ate some really good pizza, then came home to head to work at 4. End of day. I don't consider work part of the day, it's kind of like some annexed part of life outside of reality. Always there and needing to be included, but separate from the rest of life. I think it might just be the building. It's like a nice two tiered cave. Even when it's sunny and nice, it feels like it's underground. Might be because they keep it sub zero in here, but at least we're not all sweaty. Gahhhh. Not a pleasant thought.

Well, not much more to update, one of my cousins (*gasp* one of the two!) is coming to visit "aunt pat" this week, but I don't get to see her at all because I work every single evening this week. :( Then on to the weekend, and the marriage of Mo and the Tis! Very exciting, you'd all better be knocking on all the wood you can find for nice weather. But don't jinx it - Knock softly.

   [ posted by T~ @ 7/29/2005 07:08:00 p.m. ] [ ]

Wednesday, July 20

Tonight I had the most sweet, adorable, considerate visitor I may have ever encountered.

A young woman came in while she was vacationing here from Korea this evening, and she just blew me away. Normally I'm rather standoffish when it comes to tourists, I try not to put to much stock into them or their rude comments (or at least the really dumb ones). First off, she was so polite and enthusiastic when I welcomed her into the store, I liked her immediately. She seemed absolutely thrilled that I wanted to say hi to her, ask her how she was doing, offer her any help. When I showed her the anne section, she was in heaven. Just in awe of the fact that she had come all the way here from her home, and that there were shelves filled with her heroine. She looked at a video cover, gasped, and told me in very well practiced english how much I looked like the grown up anne on the cover. Me, I don't feel I bear a terribly great resemblance to Meagan Follows, but hey, I took the compliment, blushed and thanked her. Coworker #new comes over at this point to try to figure out why I'm smiling and talking to this young woman. She then turns to both of us and very honestly tells us we must be so happy and lucky to have the opportunity to work here, the happiest place on earth. I'm thinking she's just a little goo goo over the anne musical, but no, she means the Island as a whole. I so appreciate when visitors realize that we're more than anne, potatoes and cavendish. She was in love with the people here, from the people she met at stores, the farmers she saw driving past farms, to the crazy drunk guy playing guitar badly on the corner. She even enjoyed the tourists, as she explained that you could just walk down the street and there were asian people everywhere (it was a big anne night). After she left the store, I just took a second to note that all tourists aren't arrogant, evil, greedy and loud. Some of them like the Island just as much as I do.

   [ posted by T~ @ 7/20/2005 11:10:00 p.m. ] [ ]

Friday, July 8

Feelin the msn love!
Well last night was a bit of a crappy night, got a bit tormented, and I'm sure you all know just how patient and pleasant I can be with no sleep and being annoyed. When I got to work tonight, I got a couple of little notes of encouragement that made me feel a whole lot better, and have set me up for *hopefully* a much better night. It's nice to know that other people go through the exact same troubles, I think it makes you feel more like you just need to suck it up, cause other people have and they're still kicking.
In other news....there is very little other news. I'm working about 45-50 hours a week, mostly evenings and weekends :S. Yeah, I'm just a barrel of fun, I know. Got to hang out with Sarah earlier in the week, and dropped in on Nelly for a while, but that's about the extent of my Social life. I don't work this saturday night, so maybe I'll see people then! Or maybe I'll sleep. Right now, that's a pretty big toss up. Well, back to the world of the computer. Later Gators! *

   [ posted by T~ @ 7/08/2005 02:45:00 p.m. ] [ ]

Sunday, July 3

So apparently the kitty's not a fan of me going out. I come home this evening to find my fishtank filter completely torn apart. Half in the tank, half over the side, the container sitting on top of the lid. I don't even know how she got it apart. All the fish are still there, even the eely one. The mirror is completely covered with water splatters as well. I'm not entirely certain of her motivation. I was only out for 5 or 6 hours. I don't think I came home smelling that bad. I did however have a run in with 2 separate skunks on the walk home. We discussed it, decided that no one was really out to get the other, so we went our separate ways, no blows involved. Now to bed.

   [ posted by T~ @ 7/03/2005 01:25:00 a.m. ] [ ]

Friday, July 1

Happy Canada Day!
I hope everyone has a good day, be you at work all day and night like me (no extra pay, just lucky enough to work it)or sleeping on the couch like some (or me between shifts). Tomorrow will be filled with sleep, which I'm very much looking forward to. Went to Moncton yesterday to get my shop on, went to the mall, old navy, and costco. Simple things keep a simple girl happy. Didn't spend as much as I thought I was going to, so that means I just might be able to make my first monthly loan payment. Hurrayyy! Can't you tell I'm estatic to be starting that up?
Next week I'm off working backshift so I've got two regular double shifts (the ones where I work all day then at the center, sooo much better than working at the center then all night after that) then friday and saturday evening. Who's got a social life? Yeah, not me, that's who! I'm pretty happy I get sundays off though, so I guess I can't complain. Means I spend less money on liquor. I'm sure my liver thanks me. Anyway, I hope everyone has lots of fun tonight, drink a beer for me!

   [ posted by T~ @ 7/01/2005 08:22:00 a.m. ] [ ]