Tonight was the most exciting night in camp. Steak Night! Oh how I love steak night. One of the things I will absolutely miss about this place someday...

Things in the office are fucking insane. The crazy Manager decided to take one of my girls away so now there's just three of us taking care of over 800 people. I can't even describe the feeling on that. I'm really frustrated because of all the insane things that are going on to. Management doesn't seem to want to listen to me and yet they don't bother me either. No support at all. Essentially as long as I keep holding things together they'll leave me alone and let me do my own thing, which I like but there's a point where it's getting to be a little bit much...

Can't wait to get out of here... as usual. Going to Vancouver for a few days this time, hoping to see Matthew and L. Then it's back for Wine Festival! Whooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I talked with our Big Boss today about what he thought I should do about the survey that was sent out. He suggested that I put my first choice down as the Corporate Office in Calgary, then Edmonton, then a camp. He told me that he figured I'd do really well in contracts or estimating which is awesome because I'd been planning on putting those two fields down as my interests anyway. The only downside of the whole thing is that I won't be making the crazy money I'm making in camp if I go to a city. Good thing I've always been here for the experience not the money.

Got a thought provoking e-mail today from the company. Essentially they were asking what our preference was once our current job wrapped up. Do we want to work in the Calgary head office, the Edmonton yard or in another camp situation? Even though I'm sure I'll be on my current site for another couple months I've got to make this decision and get my response back to them by the beginning of next month. Ugh!

It's been an interesting couple of days. My department is being audited and it's finally coming to an end. Essentially everything is good and we're rockin' things. Yesterday the guy doing the audit had me wound right out though because he was asking questions that made no sense and was "giving me advice" on how I should be doing my job. For some reason I was doubting myself and he had me so upset that I was at the point where I was thinking I was going to be fired. So eventually I went to his office, which he shares with our Assistant Business Manager, where I was asking some questions about the audit. The Assistant Business Manager heard what I was asking and his responses and blew-up. She FREAKED on him for "being stupid" then she got up, marched down the hall, me trailing behind, and we went back to my office where we went over the audit. Turns out that his audit didn't understand what we do on a daily basis so I had nothing to worry about.

As I was so stressed out from my day and it was our regular Saturday camp fire night I proceeded to get excessively drunk. First time I've done that with this company. It was exactly what I needed. Today was calm and quiet.

Thursday night my friend M and I bought tickets to an all inclusive in the Dominican Republic for November. I'm really excited as this will be my first Southern trip. Looking forward to November!

So the Tooth Fairy is getting her revenge on me for having a Dentist extract my wisdom teeth and not leaving them for her to collect. Well that Bitch is doing a great job of making me uncomfortable. Up until yesterday everything with the surgery had been fine. Then two days ago the sutures started to dissolve and ever since then I've been fighting the battle of the ever swelling gums. Ouch. I went to the clinic today actually because I was worried that my gums had somehow got an infection. The nurse figured that they weren't infected but wanted me to go to the Dentist tomorrow if possible. Well I don't think that's going to be possible so I'll see how the rest of this week goes and if things aren't better I'm flying home for a Dentist appointment.

After the nasty surprise that was my fat pants fitting I broke out the new running shoes last night and went for a run. Then just for good measure I got up this morning and ran again. Tomorrow morning I'll be doing the same. For some reason there's a number of sick individuals who get up to go running here every morning or so, so I make sure to make plans to meet the next morning so I don't just stay in bed. So we'll see how long I can handle this running thing before my knees or my sanity gives out.

I think I almost had a Britney moment today... I'm so tightly wound and frustrated that while I'm getting a hair-cut I wanted to tell the woman just just gimme a buzz cut. Thank God I just told her to cut it short and spike it! Either way I think that maybe I should have just gone with the buzz cut. Maybe next turnaround.

So feeling yucky I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the nastiness that was surrounding me so I decided to go shopping. $400 plus a hair-cut later I felt better but am thinking that shopping's probably not the best way to make myself feel better. Maybe I should look into this...

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Now playing: Britney Spears - Gimme More
via FoxyTunes

The weather here is phenomenal. That perfect blend of warmth with a crispness to the air. Warm enough for short sleeves but pants are recommended. My favorite time of year.

Early Wednesday morning I had my wisdom teeth taken out. Every time you hear stories about people getting their wisdom teeth out they tend towards the horror genre. I'm happy to say that aside from a little discomfort and puffiness I'm doing fine. Unfortunately/fortunately the only real issue I've had so far is the inability to eat.

That noted I got a nasty surprise this morning when I went through my closet trying to figure out what jeans to take back to work with me. Of the 6 pairs that I tried on only one pair fit! Those of course being a pair that I hadn't worn for years because they were to big. I suppose the good news is that I kept them this time and didn't purge them with the rest of my "fat clothes" when I lost the weight. Now it's time to seriously start working on losing the weight again.

In other news Sister hopped in her car this morning and drove down to Vancouver to attempt to start her new life at the coast. I wish her the best of luck.

Forgot to mention that last night I went to the weekly campfire (a company tradition where everyone goes and gets drunk by a fire). I didn't drink but I certainly did laugh. Lots of very funny people working for this company. I took a friend from another company that I used to work for and she had a great time. As I walked her back to her truck she said "jeeze, I need to get hired with this group". I took that to mean she had a good time.

Why is it that people are always surprised when it rains on Labour Day? While it hasn't started to rain yet there are large black clouds in the sky and the forecast for tomorrow indicates it will in fact rain. Again I ask, why are people surprised? I've always figured that it's God's way of showing his displeasure over organized labour (I'm joking... honest...)!

Anyway today was a fairly interesting day. This morning when we came in we found an e-mail from our Business Manager stating that we (the Business group) were to have lunch with the Vice-President of the company! Now if you don't know what company I work for that probably doesn't sound like a big deal but this was. In the entire company which has 27 or so districts and spans North America there are only two people above this Vice-President. So the fact that we got to have pizza with him in the board room and talk for almost 3 and a half hours was pretty cool. He's often on our site so it was nice to actually have got to know him a little bit. Learning a little bit more about the job we're on, the next ones coming and the future of the company, as well as our place in it, was fairly impressive.

After our meeting I had a quick sit-down with my Manager and discussed the possibility of moving one of my girls on to something else. She's far to intelligent for the job I have her doing and her interest level has dropped significantly. It's become a problem to the point that she's getting sloppy. Manager is going to talk to her on Tuesday about permanently moving to another department and then we'll hire someone new for me. I hope everything works out as intended.

I'm getting ready to head home Tuesday night. As usual I'm not really looking forward to going home all that much and this time even that much less as I've scheduled having my wisdom teeth pulled on Wednesday morning. Then because I figured I won't be doing anything while home this time I've decided to come back up here 3 days early to cover a vacation one of my girls wanted to take. That way I keep telling myself I'll take some extra days in October.

I bought my tickets to wine festival the other night so that is something to look forward to in October. My friend M and I are planning a vacation in November to someplace warm. I'm looking forward to that a lot as I've never been any place tropical. Now we've just got to figure out where we're going. :)