I'm in Vancouver this week until Thursday so no posts until then. Have a Great Week.

So I'm packing all of my shit and getting ready to leave. I'm sad about leaving the physical place but can't wait to get away from my loser room-mate. All the best with your future as a drunken financial planner. It would be best that you didn't refer people to me for character references. Enough about that.

Today was a typical day at work. The company is going live with a new stock system tomorrow, so the past two days have been spent frantically trying to empty a million dollars worth of stock from the back and getting as much of it out on the floor as possible. That means that I'm rather sore today from all of the heavy lifting. Oh well it's good for the muscles right!

Tomorrow aside from moving I also have to put together a presentation on the product life cycle for work. Not that it's really going to be all that hard but it is aggravating to say the least that I have to get this all done tomorrow and then present it to my Store Manager Friday. Not a huge amount of time. It's a good thing I'm used to this type of thing from school.

Interesting thing about tomorrow. My Pastor has volunteered his services and his truck for at least a couple of hours tomorrow in order to get my bed and chest of drawers moved. Very nice of him. I think this is the first time that a member of the clergy has actually done anything that is remotely helpful for me! So far I don't see any strings attached but you never know...

Tonight I helped Janet move the new bed that she bought into her house. Talk about living simply the girl has slept on a Futon mattress on the floor for the past 9 months. I think that by committing to a bed she is actually planning on staying here in Kelowna for a long time. I know she'll be fine.

Mood: Irritable
Music: As I have packed up my CD's I do not have any music going at the present time.

Wow sorry that I haven't written for so long. Seems like an eternity. This weekend I spent in Vernon with the fam. Had a rather good time. It was nice and relaxing and also allowed me to catch up with both myself and some friends there. Saturday night was my older Uncle's 50th birthday. It was ok, I saw my cousins for the first time in years. They're fine.

So anyways after the party my sister and I went to meet up with some of her friends who were having a grad from the school they go to. I knew my childhood best friends girlfriend was grading from there but I didn't even think about the fact that I would likely run into him. I did. I was uncomfortable. He saw me and came running over and hugged me etc. etc. Then of course after marveling at how different I looked (all weekend I was told how different I looked by just about everyone who saw me, irritated my sister) insisted that I call him. Apparently I had been very bad for not calling him for the past two years. Apparently he doesn't have access to a phone that makes outgoing calls. After I escaped from him we went dancing at Vernon's only club. I felt like I was the oldest one there. Interesting experience none-the-less.

I forgot to mention that I got my hair streaked blonde Saturday morning. I really like it!

Sunday was Father's Day. We had A&W in the park and gave Dad some shirts that I'd bought for him a couple of months ago. Seems that now I work in retail my Sister has officially decided it's going to be my job to buy gifts from us for all occasions. Actually she'd done this years before I started working retail.

It's been extremely hot for the past week now. The temp has been over 30C for about a week now. Already the BC summer forest fires have started with a vengeance. Four water bombers from Ontario have already been sent and there are crews from every Province and even California here already. It's going to be a bad summer for fires. The town of Lilloette (one of my favourite places to spend a day or two) is already on high alert for evacuation.

Enough mindless babble. I've got to go to bed.

Music: Elton John's Greatest Hits (Current song - Daniel)
Mood: Rather happy!

I am in a Madonna mood. I have been blasting both of Madonna's greatest hits CD's in my car for the past couple of days. I love Madonna right now!

I found a place to live! I'll be staying in a house on Kelowna's Westside, right up the hill from Quail's Gate Estate Winery which is my favourite winery. In fact my new back yard is a vineyard! How exciting. A house with a vineyard overlooking the lake as a backyard I'm very happy. The people that I am moving in with are likely around their 40's and are both in school. I think that for the small amount of time that I'll be living there it's gonna work out really well. Oh did I mention that it's cheap...

I just got back from my friend Lisa's. I called Janet to see if she wanted to come over and share a bottle of Sumac Ridge Gwertstraminer with me, that I had just bought, and she said she was going over to Lisa's but that I should come. I went and we had a lovely time. Lisa and her boyfriend Tim (thanks E) make the most amazing food. So anyways I am home now but a little buzzed off the wine.

Tomorrow I am going to an Executive meeting for work. All of the Executives are going to be out of the store for training on how to coach properly. It should be an interesting situation, I hope the meeting isn't too boring.

Mood: Reasonably Content
Music: Best of Sade

Wow I got another comment! How exciting someone is actually reading my rants and raves. Hope you enjoy them.

I'm watching the leadership debate right now. You'll hear from me soon.

Feeling rather discouraged right now. Actually its a mixture of discouragement and anger at my own stupidity. For work we have to do a whole bunch of stupid on-line courses that mostly bore and infuriate me. There is one course thought that I have done twice and have not been able to pass. I was convinced it was because it was actually tough but I just talked to Pam and she told me that she had just finished it and got 88% and that she hadn't even paid attention to it. Damn! Makes me so mad. Feel like I'm in school again and everyone is getting better grades than I am only this time I'm actually working at trying to do well.

"Anyone in the room feel like a failure tonight?" (Cut to me waving hand frantically)

Oh the plus side I GOT CHER TICKETS!

Well tomorrow's my day off and I'm going to go and look at a place. It's kind of funny actually how strange the lady that runs the property management company sounds. I originally called her about a place that they had listed that she informed me was already taken. I asked her if she had anything else available and she proceeded to ask me:

How old I was... had I just turned 24 or was I a mature 24?
If I had a job.
If I expected to have overnight guests.
If I could afford to pay the damage deposit and rent.
How long I was planning on staying for.

I seem to have answered all of her questions to her satisfaction because she told me to call back when I could see the place.

So I called her this morning and she agreed to meet me tomorrow at the downtown Safeway by the Coke machine!? When I asked her where the place was she would not tell me aside from a very general location which happens to be two blocks from my current residence, which makes me happy as I love my location. I suspect the whole reason for this woman's weirdness and her request to meet in a highly visible downtown location is because she will pull up in her car see me standing there and then decide if I am worthy of renting an apartment from her. If I am not deemed worthy I am positive she will not show up. Of course she'll meet with me but I'm sure this is her little security measures. Kinda like meeting people from the internet...

Mood: See above
Music: Sarah McLaughlin - Surfacing

Good news and bad news this morning. I GOT CHER TICKETS! The concert sold out in 5 minutes but I managed to get 8 tickets. I can't even describe how big my smile is right now! So on to the bad news. I just talked to the Residential Tenancy Office and because asshole lives here on weekends they have no jurisdiction. Damn, damn double damn. Oh well.

Well I have to go find something to eat and then it's off to work.

Well I'm moving out. Room mate sold the place and didn't feel that it was important to consider me the tenant in the sale. Because of the shitty way that he has treated me throughout this whole thing I'm going to the Residential Tenancy Office and I'm going to see how much I can possibly get out of him for this. The fact that I only have two weeks to find a new place etc means that I'm not to happy.

Other than that fury inducing situation he also had a party here last night. I was assured that it would be over by 12 because I had to work this morning. Needless to say it wasn't. I have finally figured this guy out though. If it doesn't go his way it's not going to. Which explains the ridiculousness of his relationships. I hope he has fun in the personal financial industry. I know I'm going to be extremely vocal about his character to anyone that I know in the Vernon area where he works!

I went to a lady from works house after work today to check out a suite she has in her basement. It's a HUGE studio that is completely new and only ten mins from work. The only issues I have with it are that it is in Westbank which is just far enough away from Kelowna that hanging out with friends could be a pain, cable isn't included because they don't have it in the house, and it's $600 a month which I just think is a little high. It's a good fall back though if nothing else comes up soon.

Now I'm tired. I have to make sure that I get up before 10 tomorrow in order to get tickets for Cher!

Looks like I'm going to go the Cher with my parents! Go figure.

I'm sitting here watching President Regeans Funeral on television. I have to admit that its been an incredibly impressive and moving ceremony. The level of American pomp and pagentry actually felt just about right. Surprisingly one of the most quoted speeches of the morning was Brian Mulrony's tribute speech. Not remembering much of it the giest of it was that Canada felt privileged to have been a close neighbour of President Regeans.

What to write about... Well today I went for coffee with my friend Lisa before work. Total spur of the moment thing but very nice none-the-less. Other than that I worked. Dull day.

Today was a good day. I got my apartment cleaned and OH MY GOD CHER IS COMING TO KELOWNA!!!!! I'm SO EXCITED! Yes I'm going to get tickets. If I have to go on my own I'm going to. So far I think my friend Peter may come and I have to talk to my sister to see if she wants to come. So anyways back to my day.

Spent time this afternoon with Janet. Ate our way through Kelowna then went home. I then worked on a course for work (yes on my day off) and now I'm going to bed. Good night!

I have a new friend. Pam the girl that I work with and I get along just famously. Since she knew that I have been really excited about seeing the new Harry Potter movie she asked me if I'd like to go along with her and her sister tonight. This is how I ended up in the theater, myself and four East Indian girls! Go figure. Anyways the movie was ok but I was disappointed at all of the detail missed from the books.

Now an update on my new job. So far I can liken it to trying to take a drink from a fire hose. The amount of information that we are expected to go over and through is just INSANE! As my previous post indicated I have been feeling totally overwhelmed. I'm expecting this feeling to start to fade soon though as it is only the second day and I'm still getting used to it. Thankfully tomorrow is my day off but I am planning on doing a fair bit of work just to keep up and get things done. So much for never going back to school! The only difference, and it's a merciful one at that, is that this time I'm getting paid to be there and do this stuff.

Tomorrow Janet and I are going to do something together. We're not sure what but we really haven't spent any time together lately. Saturday night really doesn't count. Oh did I mention, it seems that I have a new drunken alias. Saturday night I was introducing myself as Andrew the whole time at the bar... Weird. I don't have any idea where this came from at all. So tomorrow Janet and I are going to do our best to do something interesting together.

The rest of this week looks just about as interesting as the first two days of this one have been. Unfortunately that means that I likely won't have a huge amount to write about for the next little while. Maybe tomorrow I'll write about the Federal Leadership debate that I'm planning on watching... Yes maybe... I think it's interesting that Stephen Harper's Conservative Party is now leading in the Polls in Ontario and the panelists are getting excited as hell that he could end up being our next PM. I'm not sure I'd go that far but I do think that poor Paul Martin doesn't have a shot at another Majority Government. Maybe that's a good thing... Maybe! What they HELL am I saying?!

OVERWHELMED!

Whoa do I feel crappy. Needless to say last night I went out with Janet and Jesse last night. Didn't eat enough and definitely drank to much. Stupidly we were mixing Vodka with Coke and because I don't drink caffeine anymore the frigging Coke kept me awake until 4am. Not a pleasant experience... drunk and can't sleep. So this morning I was awakened by Jesse opening my bedroom door. Apparently she didn't know that I left last night and went home so she was panicking because I had 'disappeared'. She called my phone a number of times this morning and when I didn't answer decided that she'd better come over to make sure that I was fine. I was touched but a little confused. Where the hell did she think I would go?

Moving on. Tomorrow is my first day at my new store. I'm really actually very excited about it and am looking forward to meeting all of the staff. I hope that things go well. I'm very happy that I'll be working with another trainee for the next couple of months. I'm going to call her Pam. She's East Indian and is just awesome. We get along really well together and I feel very fortunate that we are the only two trainee's in Canada to be working in the same store. It'll help a lot.

Mood: Anticipatory
Music: None

Well I'm back in K-town. This last week I was in Vancouver fora week of training at the company's regional head office. To be honest the training seemed a little pointless. I learned how to give a presentation, which I've been doing none stop for the past six years of school. I'm actually really looking forward to getting into the store on Monday and actually being able to do some work.

I'm really tired right now though so that's the end of this post for now.

Good Night.