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ok this was written quite a while ago but i never got around to posting it so i will now i guess.. its a little outdated though.
hahaha sometimes this funny little town really makes me laugh.
its just stupid things like mike happening to move into a new place which is about 50 metres away from my house on the same street - good old grizzly st. what a small town eh.
and yesterday, i go from not doubting whether or not i had a job, to being told i'd been replaced, to finding out that i really did have a job. ok let me explain. so really this is what happened. i had 8 days off with the way the schedule worked out and i was obviously really stoked about that and didnt visit the shop on any of these days off.. because why would i. im so sick of pizza now. so last night im at hoodoo and i bump into a guy from work and he's like "umm are you not working for aardvark anymore?" im like umm what. *blank confused face* then he's like yeah you're meant to be working tonight.. and im like um no im not. weird. soo i just assumed he was a retard or something and didnt really think too much of it. then today i come home and go into my room and matt's actually out of his room for once (he's one of the managers from aardvark who lives in the house. there's one other guy living here called doug too.) so anyway matt knocks on my door and im like yeah come in and hes like awkwardly asking me "so umm.. a lot of people arent sure if you are still working for aardvarks anymore?" and i just stare back at him, stunned again. what the hell is going on! then he goes on and tells me that some new guy who i've never even met yet told the people at work that we swapped shifts.. so i supposedly missed 3 days of work because that's when he was originally working. and id been staying at mike's place for the last couple of nights so i guess no one had seen me around the house (not that i ever see anyone around the house, mind you) so everyone just assumed id skipped town or something. funny how i had no clue any of this had been going on for the past 3 days.
yeah another funny thing about this house - i have my suspicions that someone may have moved into the room across from mine. its likely because i wouldnt have a clue what goes on in this house and now the bedroom door is closed, which it never was before. who the hell doesn't know who they're living with?! and the guy doug who lives upstairs, i doubt i would even recognise if i walked past him on the street. crazy.
haha another funny thing - me and mike were grocery shopping at safeway the other day and we found this 10 pound (so like 5 kilos) box of frozen chicken breasts for $25. it was like $15 off as well and we worked out there would be about 60 chicken breasts in there! so we couldnt turn down such a bargain and grabbed a humungous box of them. only in banff.
in other news its been snowing all freaking day!!! i dont know how to emphasise how much this truly sucks.. the last week or two has been soooooo nice, like warm enough to wear shorts and a singlet and lie outside and sunbake. ok so it was like 13 degrees but it was so good! and now i look out the window and all i see is snow. white everywhere. absolutely everything covered in a coat of white and it's relentlessly still coming down, showing no signs of stopping. yeah it makes for a pretty sight, but only if im viewing it from afar. so i have to pretty much write off today as a nothing day cos i dont want to leave my house cos its so shitty outside. i cant even longboard around town now. oh yeah i bought a longboard. it's like a skateboard but.. longer - no surprises there. its pretty sweet for getting around but im not so confident on it yet and need to get a good feel for it.
living here makes me really appreciate the really simple things in life. things like having a proper bed like i do back home. a QUEEN bed. a bed that actually has a frame. it doesn't lie on the ground in the corner. yes thats right - it's a real mattress (not a futon, not a piece of plastic foam.. and it's not one of those terrible mattresses that's full of creeky springs and suspicious stains from unknown previous owners. and the sheets are mine. they've always been mine. i bought them, i know who's used them, i know where they've been and i wash my sheets and quilt cover and pillowcases and they're comfortable and cosy. and i have a quilt. not just some random blanket i found along my travels. and my pillows are pure luxury. they mould to my head perfectly. and i have 4 of them! living without a pillow for a couple of weeks was like rock bottom haha. but i eventually went and bought a 10 dollar pillow and have cherised it ever since.
oook so pretty funny reading back over that. two girls did end up moving into the room across from mine and now there's a new guy living upstairs too but i still dont really see anyone around the house. this house isnt even big mind you. pretty exciting things have been happening at the house though. maybe a week or so ago someone cleaned the WHOLE house. omg i nearly died. there were no dirty dishes in the sink - there was nothing even in the kitchen! yeah the cupboards are pretty much bare so yeah the kitchen is pretty much totally empty.. anyway so the house looked good for a day or two then it got messy again. but we got a new bathroom door. i cant remember if i wrote about getting a new toilet as well but we did cos the old one kept overflowing.. yep, gross. so yes now we have a new door and a new toilet. but the bathroom still sucks so i try to avoid being home for long enough to need to use it. oh yeah and the reason we got a new door was cos our old one was missing a huge panel out of it cos it fell out when i pushed it the other day so you could literally fit your head through the middle of the door if you wanted to and see me on the toilet or getting out of the shower. haaa.
work is starting to really piss me off and totally exhaust me. but the money's good so im trying to keep at it. but they keep screwing me over so im starting to get really annoyed. like the other night it was insanely busy because it was may long, which is some long weekend to celebrate the queens birthday or something.. and basically an excuse to get totally shitfaced. so friday saturday and sunday night they needed two drivers and i was scheduled to work thursday friday and saturday night. so i did and saturday was just totally crazy and at the end of the night me and nic, the other driver were out 84 bucks and had to pay for it out of our tips. and the owners seem dumb as shit so i doubt i'll ever see that 42 bucks again. and now they're trying to tell me that my cash out wasnt counted properly and im missing 90 bucks from it.. i count that money like 4 times at least before i put it in the safe. grrr. i dont know what to think. and so anyway i rock up to work the other night and my boss is around and one of the supervisors asks me if i can work on sunday night as well and im like nah i really cant cos its 2 of my closest friends last night in town and shes like oh ok.. then like 2 minutes later dave, the owner, comes up to me and hes like soo you cant work sunday? and im like yeah and told him the reason. and hes like well its expected that when we need you to work, you will work for us. or we will have to get another driver which means less hours for you. diiiick. so im like ok then i guess i have no choice but to work. so luckily i only had to work til about 12am that night then john, another driver came and finished the night for me. i was so ridiculously tired after getting home from work at 5.30 the morning before. its freaking light outside at that time!!! working 4 nights in a row doesnt sound like much at all but they're 12 hour shifts every night and im up at hours im not usually awake for.. and my body's just not used to the sudden sleeping pattern change and stuff. soo i spend most of my days off just catching up on sleep so thats fun. not that i have any friends besides shell and mike to see anymore anyway now that caroline and andrea are gone. they were my buddies in crime. they'd always be up for some drinking or doing something crazy and i hung out with them every day pretty much. so yesterday was pretty exciting when i went in for a tanning session and came out to find shell sitting there waiting for me. we go to the same place but she was in and out while i was in there and saw a pair of green converse shoes sitting on the mat and knew i was in a tanning room. haha only in such a small town could you be sure of something like that. soo me and shell headed off to the cascade mall so shell could get some edo (this really good asian place that whips up some awesome beef teryaki yakisoba in no time at all) yeah i really regret not getting some yesterday come to think of it! hmm might head there for lunch today. anyway im rambling.. so with edo in hand i headed to liquor depot (which is also where mike works now) and picked up a bottle of aussie wine and we headed back to shells. so me shell, adam and sometimes josh (the other guy who lives there who's scared of me a bit) just sat around and talked shit about aussie sayings like "trust" and other things. then mike came over cos it was freezing outside by now and raining heaps and i only had a skirt on so i made him bring me some pants. then we looked at something amusing (cant for the life of me remember what.. this was after that bottle of wine haha) then me and mike headed home.
this entry has just turned insanely long so sorry if anyone's still reading! and now its almost 3pm on thursday and im enjoying my last day off before heading back to work tomorrow for the weekend blurgh. so i guess i'll shower and walk into town and get some food (hopefully edo!) then who knows what i will end up doing!
peace
hahaha sometimes this funny little town really makes me laugh.
its just stupid things like mike happening to move into a new place which is about 50 metres away from my house on the same street - good old grizzly st. what a small town eh.
and yesterday, i go from not doubting whether or not i had a job, to being told i'd been replaced, to finding out that i really did have a job. ok let me explain. so really this is what happened. i had 8 days off with the way the schedule worked out and i was obviously really stoked about that and didnt visit the shop on any of these days off.. because why would i. im so sick of pizza now. so last night im at hoodoo and i bump into a guy from work and he's like "umm are you not working for aardvark anymore?" im like umm what. *blank confused face* then he's like yeah you're meant to be working tonight.. and im like um no im not. weird. soo i just assumed he was a retard or something and didnt really think too much of it. then today i come home and go into my room and matt's actually out of his room for once (he's one of the managers from aardvark who lives in the house. there's one other guy living here called doug too.) so anyway matt knocks on my door and im like yeah come in and hes like awkwardly asking me "so umm.. a lot of people arent sure if you are still working for aardvarks anymore?" and i just stare back at him, stunned again. what the hell is going on! then he goes on and tells me that some new guy who i've never even met yet told the people at work that we swapped shifts.. so i supposedly missed 3 days of work because that's when he was originally working. and id been staying at mike's place for the last couple of nights so i guess no one had seen me around the house (not that i ever see anyone around the house, mind you) so everyone just assumed id skipped town or something. funny how i had no clue any of this had been going on for the past 3 days.
yeah another funny thing about this house - i have my suspicions that someone may have moved into the room across from mine. its likely because i wouldnt have a clue what goes on in this house and now the bedroom door is closed, which it never was before. who the hell doesn't know who they're living with?! and the guy doug who lives upstairs, i doubt i would even recognise if i walked past him on the street. crazy.
haha another funny thing - me and mike were grocery shopping at safeway the other day and we found this 10 pound (so like 5 kilos) box of frozen chicken breasts for $25. it was like $15 off as well and we worked out there would be about 60 chicken breasts in there! so we couldnt turn down such a bargain and grabbed a humungous box of them. only in banff.
in other news its been snowing all freaking day!!! i dont know how to emphasise how much this truly sucks.. the last week or two has been soooooo nice, like warm enough to wear shorts and a singlet and lie outside and sunbake. ok so it was like 13 degrees but it was so good! and now i look out the window and all i see is snow. white everywhere. absolutely everything covered in a coat of white and it's relentlessly still coming down, showing no signs of stopping. yeah it makes for a pretty sight, but only if im viewing it from afar. so i have to pretty much write off today as a nothing day cos i dont want to leave my house cos its so shitty outside. i cant even longboard around town now. oh yeah i bought a longboard. it's like a skateboard but.. longer - no surprises there. its pretty sweet for getting around but im not so confident on it yet and need to get a good feel for it.
living here makes me really appreciate the really simple things in life. things like having a proper bed like i do back home. a QUEEN bed. a bed that actually has a frame. it doesn't lie on the ground in the corner. yes thats right - it's a real mattress (not a futon, not a piece of plastic foam.. and it's not one of those terrible mattresses that's full of creeky springs and suspicious stains from unknown previous owners. and the sheets are mine. they've always been mine. i bought them, i know who's used them, i know where they've been and i wash my sheets and quilt cover and pillowcases and they're comfortable and cosy. and i have a quilt. not just some random blanket i found along my travels. and my pillows are pure luxury. they mould to my head perfectly. and i have 4 of them! living without a pillow for a couple of weeks was like rock bottom haha. but i eventually went and bought a 10 dollar pillow and have cherised it ever since.
oook so pretty funny reading back over that. two girls did end up moving into the room across from mine and now there's a new guy living upstairs too but i still dont really see anyone around the house. this house isnt even big mind you. pretty exciting things have been happening at the house though. maybe a week or so ago someone cleaned the WHOLE house. omg i nearly died. there were no dirty dishes in the sink - there was nothing even in the kitchen! yeah the cupboards are pretty much bare so yeah the kitchen is pretty much totally empty.. anyway so the house looked good for a day or two then it got messy again. but we got a new bathroom door. i cant remember if i wrote about getting a new toilet as well but we did cos the old one kept overflowing.. yep, gross. so yes now we have a new door and a new toilet. but the bathroom still sucks so i try to avoid being home for long enough to need to use it. oh yeah and the reason we got a new door was cos our old one was missing a huge panel out of it cos it fell out when i pushed it the other day so you could literally fit your head through the middle of the door if you wanted to and see me on the toilet or getting out of the shower. haaa.
work is starting to really piss me off and totally exhaust me. but the money's good so im trying to keep at it. but they keep screwing me over so im starting to get really annoyed. like the other night it was insanely busy because it was may long, which is some long weekend to celebrate the queens birthday or something.. and basically an excuse to get totally shitfaced. so friday saturday and sunday night they needed two drivers and i was scheduled to work thursday friday and saturday night. so i did and saturday was just totally crazy and at the end of the night me and nic, the other driver were out 84 bucks and had to pay for it out of our tips. and the owners seem dumb as shit so i doubt i'll ever see that 42 bucks again. and now they're trying to tell me that my cash out wasnt counted properly and im missing 90 bucks from it.. i count that money like 4 times at least before i put it in the safe. grrr. i dont know what to think. and so anyway i rock up to work the other night and my boss is around and one of the supervisors asks me if i can work on sunday night as well and im like nah i really cant cos its 2 of my closest friends last night in town and shes like oh ok.. then like 2 minutes later dave, the owner, comes up to me and hes like soo you cant work sunday? and im like yeah and told him the reason. and hes like well its expected that when we need you to work, you will work for us. or we will have to get another driver which means less hours for you. diiiick. so im like ok then i guess i have no choice but to work. so luckily i only had to work til about 12am that night then john, another driver came and finished the night for me. i was so ridiculously tired after getting home from work at 5.30 the morning before. its freaking light outside at that time!!! working 4 nights in a row doesnt sound like much at all but they're 12 hour shifts every night and im up at hours im not usually awake for.. and my body's just not used to the sudden sleeping pattern change and stuff. soo i spend most of my days off just catching up on sleep so thats fun. not that i have any friends besides shell and mike to see anymore anyway now that caroline and andrea are gone. they were my buddies in crime. they'd always be up for some drinking or doing something crazy and i hung out with them every day pretty much. so yesterday was pretty exciting when i went in for a tanning session and came out to find shell sitting there waiting for me. we go to the same place but she was in and out while i was in there and saw a pair of green converse shoes sitting on the mat and knew i was in a tanning room. haha only in such a small town could you be sure of something like that. soo me and shell headed off to the cascade mall so shell could get some edo (this really good asian place that whips up some awesome beef teryaki yakisoba in no time at all) yeah i really regret not getting some yesterday come to think of it! hmm might head there for lunch today. anyway im rambling.. so with edo in hand i headed to liquor depot (which is also where mike works now) and picked up a bottle of aussie wine and we headed back to shells. so me shell, adam and sometimes josh (the other guy who lives there who's scared of me a bit) just sat around and talked shit about aussie sayings like "trust" and other things. then mike came over cos it was freezing outside by now and raining heaps and i only had a skirt on so i made him bring me some pants. then we looked at something amusing (cant for the life of me remember what.. this was after that bottle of wine haha) then me and mike headed home.
this entry has just turned insanely long so sorry if anyone's still reading! and now its almost 3pm on thursday and im enjoying my last day off before heading back to work tomorrow for the weekend blurgh. so i guess i'll shower and walk into town and get some food (hopefully edo!) then who knows what i will end up doing!
peace