It's been a long day. Essentially my day went get up really early, work, get on a plane, get off a plane, go for lunch, go home, go shopping, run errands, go for supper with extended family, go home, watch Grey's Anatomy, do this, go to bed. See you in the morning.

The more I experience working up here in the oil patch the more I see how some companies completely take advantage of their employees. What I am about to say is almost complete sacrilidge but I can totally see where some form of Union might be a good idea in some of these companies.

The problem with the current system is that companies like ESS have Unions and that particular Union is SO corrupt that it's common knowledge that the Union President takes bribes to get certain ethnic groups admitted to the Union. That and the fact that the Union workers cleaning the lunch room make upwards of $100,000 a year while the office workers who are doing work that is much more technical and requires skills make around $50,000 just doesn't seem right.

Day in and day out we hear stories about companies that are scrambeling to find decent employees. Well you know what? The decent employees are out there and they want to work they're probably just to damned smart to take the job.

Today was a true Sarah McLaughlin day. You know those days where you're very pleased to sit around, drink mint tea and listen to Sarah. I think it's a combination of being tired and the fact that it's MINUS FUCKING 32C HERE!

Day 31 in here. I can't wait to go home!

I think I'm a little bit hung over today. Could be the three bottles of wine that we drank last night. Happily one of my bosses is in Edmonton and the other is likely in McMurray. So I've been hanging out in my room all day. Actually considering it's my 30th day in here I figure that taking a day off is completely warrented. No one seems to mind so I'm taking advantage of it.

Even up here it seems that the Christmas Season is upon us. I've got all of my Christmas shopping done already this year! Every year I get my shopping done really early but this year I've outdone myself. I've also spent more money than I ever have for Christmas this year. I figure that it's likely the only time that I'll be able to afford to give extravagant gifts so why not.

Lots going on up here. The most exciting / interesting part is that Sister arrived here tonight. I think that in a couple of days after the initial shock wears off she'll be fine. It will take a while though... something about walking into a dinning room with about 900 men in it, who havn't seen a good looking woman in weeks, that seems to have made her a bit antsy.

I was told today that it looks like my new rotation is going to be a 2 & 1. What that means is that I'll work for two weeks straight and get one week off. I think this should be better than the current rotation I'm working which is 21 & 7 but I'm worried about how this will affect my "lifestyle" I'm going to end up spending more money on planes and such than I want to because I'll be home that much more often. Of course I'm toying with the idea of getting a place in Calgary but I'm really, really wanting to avoid that. We'll see how it all comes out in the wash eventually.

Yeah, we ended up watching 'The Muppets' again. Mr. G and I drank a whole 40 of peach Vodka and I think he wants to die right now. I on the other hand am just fine.

WHO WANTS TO GO TO ITALY? I'm seriously dying to scratch the itch from the travel bug. I'm completely serious about this and I'd like to go in January or February. Unfortunately British Airways is having a SUPER WICKED seat sale now and I just can't make use of it. So let me know if we're gonna go to the Eternal City!

Ah, Friday night. The night when the world recovers from the monotany of their weekly life. Even up here at camp many of us try to stay true to the purpose of Friday night. Tonight Mr. G and I are going to get drunk and watch a movie. Happily this is a slight deviation from our regular version of getting drunk and watching 'The Muppets' in that tonight we're going to watch 'Thank you for Smoking' instead of 'The Muppets'. Not that we've lost our love of the Muppets but we only have the first season on DVD and quite honestly the majority of the guest stars in the first season sucked.

This week I have spent much time cobbelling together policy and procedures from every e-mail my Manager has ever sent out. Oddly enough I've found that I really like doing this sort of thing. I think I get some sick sense of pleasure out of creating something that impacts so many people. Maybe I should go into politics...

From the sounds of it Sister has gotten a job with my old company. She'll be working in Housing at one of the camps. Same office I used to work in but the job is pretty standard. She'll do well if she decides to stick with it. I'm fairly excited that she's coming up here because with Mr. G and Anneke leaving I'm going to be terribly lonely. These two have become great friends. We watch Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives together in my room every week. Eat togther, party together, just have fun in general. Things will be different with them gone but life moves on and new people are always moving in. I'm looking forward to the next friends to move into my life.

I started my new job two days ago now and one of the things that I noticed the most was that I seem to be much less stressed out at work. Here I'm pretty much left alone to do what needs to be done. My new Boss told me that he'll supply the equipment I just need to tell him what I need to do the job properly. Far cry from the old company that's still going through people like they cost money or something...

Instead of writing in my blog lately I've taken to watching HBO's 'Six Feet Under'. Six Feet Under is quite an odd show yet I feel myself identifying with one of the main characters 'David' very intensely. That's not to say I like David or even admire him as a character but I do find it uncanny how many of the situations he finds himself in I've been in. The writers for the show have obviously had some pretty serious religious background.

A while back I stepped on the scale in my baggage room and almost died when the nasty red numbers rose up to 180lbs. Now of course this is fully clothed with my pockets full but good Lord is that heavy. Of course at first I blamed the scale and I made the airport order a new one. Well unfortunately when they switched it they didn't tell me so I kept insisting the scale was wrong, as there's NO WAY I should weight that much, and of course the joke was on me. So now I'm blaming my rapid weight gain on all the working out I do... that and the never ending buffet I'm forced to deal with everynight.

Tomorrow I'm officially going to have been here for 21 days and unfortunately because of the way that I left the old company and came into the new one there's not really anyone to step in and take my place when I'm gone. That of course means that I'm going to have to stay for an extended period of time. I'm just hoping that it's not going to be any longer than 2 more weeks as I think I may just lose it before that.

I'm sitting on my bed and I'm trying to quell the anger that is coursing through my body. I don't want this blog to be a constant bitch fest and I think that maybe what it's become in the past while. Of course it is possible that I am just angry in general and this is the only outlet for that anger. There are many things that I want to write about but I'm just to damned lazy to do so. I need a break.