11 hours ago
2010-08-19
Work is good. I need work or else I go crazy, that's why I have not signed up for compressed weekdays which gives you every 2nd Friday off and get off at 3oclock on the other Friday... nope, I want to work all week long. Maybe Saturdays too... maybe not. I'd like to lay in bed one day till 10am so that's Saturday.
My new position starts on the 30th and I'm shitting a very large brick over it. It's very high responsibility and my boss is extremely productive and works hard. Everyone in the building will be running to me for supplies and to answer every possible question they have. The only problem is they've all worked there much longer then me so it will be a while before I am actually an asset. I will be running reports and checking claims against the crown and doing month end :( and organizing staff meetings for this entire building (over 100 people) at the library, getting various documents translated into French, Mandarin or whatever.. , taking care of the building maintenance, vehicle maintenance, photocopier maintenance....
Yes I'm a little scared.
I have one week of training left and hopefully I absorb it all.
2010-08-14
Okay, first lifestyle change, since getting my iphone, .... ooo apps are amazing. I downloaded an APP called Lose It. Yes, it's for weightloss. I've never been able to stick to a diet type thing EVER. (I'm on day 4 now!!). Since I have my phone on me 24/7... every time I eat I just input that into the APP, for ex. 1 medium nectarine= 60 calories. (There's also something online called 'My Plate' it works good but you should probably be by a computer a lot of your day otherwise you might forget to update stuff. Now I have an idea of what I'm eating. I'm supposed to stay under 1400 calories a day in order to loose 1.5 lbs a week. We'll see how that goes.
Another change: for the first time ever, I bought my own one-piece swimsuit. (My Mom is now throwing a party). I think my job is changing me: I have to speak in a more educated way, dress more mature.... etc. Now I'm realizng that just because you can fit in a bikini, doesn't mean you should be wearing one.
2010-08-11
So we are going to board our friends’ chocolate lab (Rocky’s girlfriend) from this evening until Monday night because they are gone. The dogs are going to have a BLAST together! I might even try teach their dog how to run beside a bike and if it goes well maybe try two of them at the same time.... (sounds like an accident to me). It’s going to be fun anyway. Especially because we just finished digging a 5x5x5 hole in our backyard to fill with drainage rock because we currently have no drainage system for our eves troughs. Right now we put a small plastic fence around it but I’m half expecting Rocky to be sitting at the bottom when I get home.
2010-08-10
A subject to rant about: dogs that poop all the time and rip their bed blanket to shreds. He won’t pee on his bed (because that’s against their nature)... however, he will rip it to pieces and drag it all around the yard.
In spite of that, I am beginning to hollow out a little tiny piece of my heart for him to enter... some day. Maybe when he’s old and senile and cuddly. He keeps me exercising daily, even if it’s only a bike ride for me and a death run for him. I’m trying to get awesome Dutch girl skinny legs like all the Amsterdammenbikergals. It’s also challenging to bike with no hands and hold the leash without swerving excessively while Rocky charges at other dogs... actually he doesn’t do that often any more (since I rode over his foot).
We witnessed a domestic disturbance last week on our daily bike ride. Rocky didn’t really notice but I did, and I blushed (meaning: I was very embarrassed/uncomfortable.) There’s a crappy house/shed on the side of the mountain that I bike beside, the house is buried redneck style under huge trees and must be full of mould inside from all the shade and moisture. As we went by, a man was leaving the house, swearing like a madman, he was walking towards his jeep. A woman was screaming his name DAVE DAVE DAVE DAVE (how ironic) DON’T LEAVE ME IN THIS HOLE!!! ... that’s pretty much the only thing I understood about their screaming match. Then she started whipping glass bottles at him that shattered all over their driveway. I rode away as fast as I could. Someone told me I should have called the police... however, I think it would have blown over by the time the cops would have arrived and I would look like an idiot.
2010-08-05
Hello, I'm the husbandlesswife this week. Isn't it great fun, you ask? Well you see, our truck broke down on Saturday (our 1 year anniversary HOORAY CONGRATULATIONS TO US THANK YOU VERY MUSH MUSH) .... (I'm a little stir crazy right now.) ... anyways: Dave's been working on it every day this week from 6pm till 12pm. Fun for hours right? Yes, maybe for the first couple days. But now it's just getting ridiculous.
So to save myself, I bought a cool new toy with all the latest and greatest:
Yes, it's pretty cool. It has wifi so I can use it in my house or cafe's etc at no cost... Love it.
And yes, (because I know you were wondering): every time I have an emotional need, I go out and waste money AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
2010-07-30
Yes, I have lined up another job starting August 30 (for 6 months or more). The position I'm in now only lasts until November (6 months total). So I'll technically have a job until February at least... the feedback I'm getting is that job will be at least a year with many opportunities to advance...
Score.
Today at work I was learning how to use SharePoint 2007 to modify a webpage/link page for the IT department. The tech guy showed me how to tool around on the Test Site to learn how it worked, he said, "Don't worry, you can't wreck anything on here." However, I managed to delete the entire test Website with it's multiple pages and images and content. Right on! Now I have to wait for headquarters (national :O!! ) to create another test site. Aha.... the tech guys said this proved I was a real IT person now. Apparently they delete a lot of stuff by accident.
2010-07-27
My back hurts like a mother of pearl and the guy beside me is gagging like he has whooping cough. Today was the first day I had a coffee in a long time... so tired... I thought someone was breaking into our house at midnight and our dog started barking... so naturally, I kicked Dave out of bed and a deep sleep to investigate, and I promptly went back to sleep. I'm so nice.
2010-07-21
Well we are nearing our 1 year anniversary, how exciting. Yes, I'm pretty happy about it, not exactly suprised though. Aha.
I've developed a huge interest in Anne Frank history, I really wish I had read her diary just before we went to Holland and visited her house in Amsterdam. It would have made it a little fresher in my mind. Well I'm reading it again now. Yes, I'm reading again. It's been about 5 years since I've read a book. I'm feeling smarter already.
Ho hum. It's a little slow at work. I was told there's some down time during the summer because so many people are on vacation. Fantastic. Well I'm the champion at keeping myself occupied.
There's a lot of things I do not understand over here at my job, first of all they should have a language course to teach new employees how to 'speak' government. Employees have much higher language standards. Just writing an email, for example, takes me twice as long because I have to change it from casual voice to extremely professional, orderly and uptight voice. It's quite a challenge, but a lot of fun for a girl who's passion used to be journalism.
Another thing I don't understand... well I do, it's just a little overwhelming. The amount of trees that are killed because of the neccessity of forms, forms forms and more forms. Yes. Forms. I'm getting quite proficient at scanning forms (with my eyes). Oh, that reminds me, we finally have the swipe card option for our scanner/copier. It allows you to scan a document on the communal scanner/copier and it directly imports to your My Documents. Of course, now you don't have to log into the printer every time, just wave your handy dandy little ID badge and you are good to go.
One skill I am lacking for sure is, the ability to converse with my fellow man in a professional manner. I'm hoping the skill will come to me quickly. Everyone around me speaks professionally and sounds super important and Lulu's saying forbidden words such as: like, just and kinda. How inexcusable!
Well that will be all for today's outrageously boring entry.
Chow.
2010-07-17
Dave was super excited today because the neighbours were having an impromptu motorbike show.
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